Chapter 30 8. With the stars thin and the moon bright, Chen Yi took up his pen and wrote the first sad poem in his life——"Xingcheng Hotel"

In the world, the vicissitudes of life are full of wonders. There are too many sentimental stories about So Far Away. Lai Yueming could not have predicted that Chen Yi was not only still alive, but also stayed in southern Jiangxi not far away, commanding the remaining Red Army troops to carry out arduous guerrilla warfare. On July 7, 1937, the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" broke out, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party announced cooperation. On July 11, the White Army was forced to stop its campaign against the guerrillas.Immediately afterwards, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Instructions on the Work of Guerrilla Areas in the South", and reached an agreement with the Kuomintang to send the Red Army guerrillas in more than a dozen areas on the borders of the eight provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hubei, Henan, and Anhui. , adapted into the New Fourth Army.

Comrade Chen Yi, who had gone through hardships, was ordered to lead the guerrillas to leave the base area of ​​Youshan and form the New Fourth Army in the south to fight against the Japanese invaders going south. When leaving Youshan, Chen Yi sent people to Xingguo several times to look for his beloved wife Lai Yueming. The local people rumored that Lai Yueming committed suicide by jumping into a well because of the white terror and could not bear the persecution by the White Army. Chen Yi said to the guerrilla leaders Yang Shangkui and Wei Xiuying sadly: "You must find ways to find Lai Yueming again. No matter what, you have to see people in life, and dead bodies in death!"

On October 3, 1937, Chen Yi went to Nanchang for negotiations. He passed by Xingguo on his way to Nanchang, stayed for one day, and stayed overnight at Xingguo Hotel. This hotel is the secret contact point of the underground party, and the owner of the hotel, Mei Chunfang, is an underground party worker. Boss Mei knew Chen Yi and Lai Yueming very well, and specially arranged him in the room where he used to live. Hearing that Chen Yi came to rejuvenate the country, people rushed to tell the news, and many lost revolutionaries came to report the situation and look for organizations.Chen Yi specially called Wan Xiang, Zeng Zizhen and others to ask about Lai Yueming's whereabouts. They all said that Lai Yueming might have died.The cries flowed like a stream, and the atmosphere of misery filled the hotel until nightfall.

After washing his hands and face, the cry was still in his ears, and he recalled Lai Yueming again.Touching the scene, Chen Yi suddenly remembered that he and Lai Yueming lived in this house when they came to Xingguo to inspect work. Chen Yi opened the window, the moon was shining like water, and Gu Bai's tall body was shaking, as if telling an ancient story... Like a dreamy wind, it whizzed away and disappeared for a moment. "Yueming, where are you?!"—Chen Yi cried out in pain. There was no response.His cries were swallowed by the boundless night. I looked around in a daze.Chen Yi tossed and turned, unable to sleep all night.

In the middle of the night, when the stars were thin and the moon was bright, shining brightly on the window lattice, Chen Yi stood up and picked up the pen, dipped it in thick ink, and wrote the first sad poem in his life-Qijue "Xingcheng Hotel" and "Xingcheng Hotel" Xingguo Travel Night": In October 1937, the night of the Xingcheng Brigade was even more desolate, and the moon was shining through the torn paper window. I was left with the hardships of the war, and Amon was ashamed of his old friend.