Chapter 33 postscript

The author is adding new editions of this book, and exciting and thought-provoking news keep coming.This book has a new chapter in the story between Ye Fei and Hu Lian, the two most important frontline generals in the Taiwan Strait. According to Xiamen.com on February 13, 2009 and subsequent Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and other reports: Ye Fei and Hu Lian, old rivals who fought several times in battles such as the Kinmen Artillery Battle, must meet each other in heaven on the night of February 12. Lol, they may never have imagined that the two daughters would embrace each other with joy on the front line of the artillery battle in Xiamen, but this scene must be what they most want to see. In 1958, during the "8.23 artillery battle", Ye Fei's daughter Ye Xiaonan was 16 years old, and Hu Lian's daughter Hu Zhijie was 9 years old. Last night after 51 years, the sixty-year-old women shook hands for the first time in their lives, and sighed: "We have been friends for many years!"

The two "behind-the-scenes heroes" who arranged this meeting: one is Kinmen County Mayor Li Zhufeng, and the other is Xiamen City Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wu Mingzhe.When County Mayor Li received Hu Zhijie, who had lived in the United States for a long time, to visit Kinmen, he dialed Director Wu's cell phone in Xiamen.It hit it off. Hu Zhijie gave Ye Xiaonan a bottle of Kinmen sorghum wine as a meeting gift.The moment Ye Xiaonan took the wine, she saw Hu Lian's face printed on the wine box, and her father's old rival was staring at her majestically and without anger.This bottle of wine is specially brewed by Jinmen Winery in memory of Hu Lian.Hu Lian spent an important time in Kinmen. At that time, in addition to being in charge of the military, he also led the people of Kinmen to build the Kinmen sorghum winery and the main road.

The meeting gift Ye Xiaonan gave Hu Zhijie was also ingenious. It was a model of Gulangyu piano with Xiamen characteristics.His father, Ye Fei, served as the first political commissar of the Fuzhou Military Region and other important positions. When the two sides of the Taiwan Strait confronted each other, he visited Xiamen many times to inspect the front line. Director of Xiamen Municipal Planning Commission, Deputy Director of Management Committee of Haicang Taiwanese Investment Zone.Hu Zhijie couldn't put it down to the "piano" given by Ye Xiaonan, and said, "This is Gulangyu Island on the sea!"

When Ye Fei was critically ill in 1999, he told his daughter: "My ancestral home is Nan'an, and I will be buried in Xiamen after my death." Ye Fei's last wish was to be buried in Xiamen forever.Ye Xiaonan agreed, and she weighed her father's heavy feelings for the other side of the strait.The greatest wish of my father in his later years was the peaceful reunification of the motherland. In Xiamen, he could hear the footsteps of peace most closely.Hu Lian left 22 years earlier than Ye Fei. In 1977, Hu Lian died of illness.When he was critically ill, he also confessed to his children, and after his death, his ashes were scattered in the sea around Kinmen.Only in Kinmen can Hu Lian, whose ancestral home is from Shaanxi, be able to look at his hometown at the closest distance.

These two rivals, who had fought countless times to the death, had no agreement on what to do after death, but they both chose the place closest to each other to rest in peace, such a tacit understanding even their children marveled at it. Brothers who have gone through all kinds of disasters, meet each other with a smile to wipe away grievances and hatred, the handshake of the people has become commonplace, but will the handshake of the high-level people be far away?