Chapter 20 7. Missing is passed on in the blood, and the search for relatives extends from generation to generation

As long as there is a stone, the fire will not be extinguished.The soul searches for a place of residence and relatives in the blood travel, instinctively from generation to generation. Decentralization - admission to Xiamen University - graduation assignment.In the blink of an eye, more than 20 years later, Ye Ping's eldest son, Lai Zhangsheng, has become a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences of the Southern Institute of Metallurgy. One day in September 1987.As usual, Lai Zhangsheng came to the reference room of the department to study. Suddenly, an article came into view. It was the article "Memories of the Martyr Tang Yizhen" published by Lu Dingyi in the book "Wind Show Red Flag".After reading the entire article in one breath, the sincerity in the article "bang" ignited the fire in Lai Zhang Sheng Jiuyun's heart. He couldn't restrain his excitement, and immediately asked for a pen to write a letter to Lu Dingyi.The letter reads:

"...Two days ago, Comrade Huang Yuxiang in the reference room of our department gave me a copy of "Wind Showing the Red Flag" excitedly. I read your article "Memories of the Martyr Tang Yizhen" from the collection of memoirs... the article talks about The situation of you and Martyr Tang Yizhen's two children, knowing that your daughter Ye Ping is still missing, reminds me of my mother's life experience in the countryside. My mother is also a child left by the Red Army before the Long March, and I still don't know who she was. Who are the parents. But judging from the name, age, place and time of foster care, my mother and your lost daughter Ye Ping are probably the same person..." What does a letter, a light letter mean!Decades of misty thoughts, finally handed over again.The flame of hope, which was clearly extinguished, rose here again.

Beijing.As soon as Lu Dingyi returned from the northeast, he just brushed off the travel dust, and then he went to his desk to open a pile of letters that had accumulated backlog. He read them one by one.His eyes suddenly brightened: Ah, Ye Ping!Lu Dingyi's heart skipped a beat.After continuing to read, I learned that Lai Zhangsheng's mother is the same person as the "Yipin" mentioned in Lai Puen's letter from the former Tieshanlong Tungsten Mine, and now lives in the Shangku Group of Kuxin Village, Hefeng Township, Yudu County, Jiangxi Province. Could it be that the investigation in 1956 was negligent?

Lu Dingyi immediately invited Tang Yihui, the eighth sister of his wife Tang Yizhen, to discuss it. The 74-year-old Tang Yihui spent her whole life worrying about not being able to find her sister's flesh and blood.She will never forget the price the family paid for this, she will always remember: facing Ye Ping's portrait, her mother reluctantly passed away. "I can't pass by again! That year, you asked me to verify that photo, and I said it didn't look like it. If the person in this photo is really Ye Ping, I must have missed a word by decades." Tears flowed down her wrinkled face.In the big family of the Tang family, she is now the only old man left, remembering a group of ghosts, she said: "If you don't see Ye Ping, you will die with peace!" After the consensus was reached, Lu Dingyi immediately asked the Jiangxi Provincial Government to investigate on his behalf. .At the same time, he forwarded the letter from Ganzhou to Changting, Fujian, and told his son Lu Fanjiading to cooperate with the Jiangxi provincial government to investigate and verify.

The provincial, prefectural, county, and township joint investigation team and Lu Fan's family were scheduled to arrive at Shangku Village on November 1. This is a series of normative, rigorous and careful reviews: Although both Lai Wansen and Hua Zaonu have passed away, after investigations by various parties, a lot of materials have been obtained, confirming that the name, age, and appearance of the subject of the investigation are consistent with Ye Ping. The village called "Yeping" "Yaping", since childhood.But her husband, Lai Puen, guessed from the homonym, and wrote "Yeping" as "Yipin".Later, when she got her household registration, her adoptive parents named her "Zhang Laidi", which means "the daughter brought by Zhang Dewan", as a token of commemoration.

Lu Fanjiading also captured a subtle but crucial plot in the conversation between investigators and her. "How did you call Zhang Dewan back then?" "Listen to my adoptive mother, I called him 'Mom'". "Mom!" Lu Fanjiading almost jumped up: Ah, I remembered, didn't my father say that Ye Ping was given to the gay man she called "good mother"?Only the father knew about this situation, and she actually called a man "Mom"! "Zhang Dewan is a gay man, why do you call him 'Mom'"? "I don't know." "'Don't know' is right, Ye Ping was only 3 years old at that time, what can he know? Apart from me, there is no one else in the world who knows. 'Mom' is also right, She even forgot the word 'good' in 'good mother'." - This is the analysis made by Mr. Lu after listening to the report.

After leaving Shangku Village, the investigation team came to Xin'an (now Yunlou Township) in Ji'an County.That Zhang Dewan had passed away a few years ago.Through Zhang Dewan's nephew Zhang Yongji, the investigation team learned that his uncle Zhang Dewan had indeed worked in the medical department of the Red Army.Before his death, Zhang Dewan told his family: Hefeng, Yudu County, he took care of the girl of a comrade-in-arms. Zhang Dewan deserves to be called a "good mother". A few years before his death, he went to Hefeng secretly to visit the girl on the pretext of selling fish fry in other places...

Later, Mr. Lu recalled: "Zhang Dewan is a 'good mother.' Ping is very good. The child is young and cannot be called other names except 'father and mother', so Yizhen asked the child to call Zhang a 'good mother'". The investigation is over.While waiting for his father Lu Dingyi to make a decision, Lu Fanjiading learned that Ye Ping suffered from insomnia due to the investigation. He was obviously heartbroken and told Lai Puen tactfully: "Comrade Lai, take good care of your wife and tell her not to think too much about it." Already." Lai Puen nodded silently, looking at the investigator who had not revealed his identity, he remembered the words of his youngest daughter Lai Huizhu: "Father, there is a man among those people who looks like mother, he is Who?" Soon, the Jiangxi Provincial Government and the Public Security Bureau came to the final conclusion: investigation and verification showed that Zhang Laidi (Yiping, Yipin) was Comrade Lu Dingyi's lost daughter Ye Ping 53 years ago!At this time, Ye Ping, who was 3 years old at the time, was nearly 60 years old.