In the late autumn of 2001, on the Nanjing roads, the plane trees on both sides were gradually turning yellow. On such a lazy afternoon, a gray-haired old lady was flipping through a magazine called "Old Photos".

Suddenly her trembling fingers rested on one of the old photos. The woman wearing a cheongsam in the photo seemed to be the mother she had been looking for for more than 50 years. The old woman named Zhu Xiaofeng was stunned and looked at it again and again.

I took this photo many times.

She firmly believes that the woman in the photo is the mother she has always wanted to see but has never been able to do so.

I couldn’t believe that my mother, who was still young at the time, was standing in the military court of the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan in 1950, wearing the floral cheongsam she often wore at home in Shanghai, waiting to be taken to the execution ground.

Zhu Xiaofeng will never forget that 50 years ago, his mother wrote a letter saying that she would return home from Taiwan soon, but it took more than half a century to wait. Why did her mother appear at the military headquarters of the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan 50 years ago?

In court?

What did my mother go through in her last days of life?

Zhu Xiaofeng's thoughts were suddenly pulled back to more than half a century ago.

In the early morning of February 18, 1950, in a small fishing port at the easternmost end of Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, the bustling and lively scene in the past changed. Without the warmth of the sea breeze, it became chilly at this moment. It was already the time of the Lunar New Year.

Fishermen rarely drive boats.

At this time, a slender woman wearing a cheongsam came to the pier, looking for a ship to Shanghai. She was a little anxious. Although this place is only separated from Shanghai by a water, and the boat ride only takes a day at most, but he has been

I didn't get the news, so I searched here 15 times. Because it was early in the morning and there were few people, I only passed a few breakfast stalls here and there along the way. The woman did not slow down because of this.

At this moment, two gunshots suddenly sounded. The woman looking for a boat to cross the sea was Zhu Xiaofeng's mother, named Zhu Feng.

It was she who desperately wanted to take a boat to Shanghai, where her lover and children had been waiting for many years.

Zhu Feng was born in 1905 in a wealthy businessman's family in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province. His father, Zhu Yunshui, was a celebrity in the fishing industry in Zhenhai and Zhoushan. Zhu Feng was the fourth eldest child in the family, and his nickname was Guifeng. Everyone called him the fourth daughter of the Zhu family.

This lady from a noble family received a good education at Ningbo Women's Normal School. She is extremely talented and has beautiful calligraphy.

In 1927, 22-year-old Zhu Feng got married and married to Shenyang and became the wife of Chen Shouqing. Chen Shouqing was nearly 20 years older than Zhu Feng and was a technical engineer at Fengtian Arsenal at the time.

In 1931, Zhu Feng and Chen Shouqing's daughter Zhu Xiaofeng was born. In addition, Zhu Feng's stepmother also took good care of her husband's other children, so the big family lived happily.

However, the good times did not last long. Soon, Chen Shouqing passed away, and Zhu Feng, who suffered the pain of being widowed, returned to his hometown.

At this time, this wealthy daughter with no worries about food and clothing was very depressed inside. She repeated lonely days in her compound every day, until a person walked into her life and changed the trajectory of her life.

In 1937, the war of aggression against China broke out, and Japanese imperialism launched a war. The Anti-Japanese War began in an all-round way. From then on, the southeast coast became the anti-Japanese front line, and the people's mood to defend their homeland was extremely high.

Zhu Xiaoguang was a lonely young man in his early 20s at the time. He also joined the anti-Japanese wave and became the captain of the Zhenhai Anti-Japanese Propaganda Team. Zhu Feng also persuaded Zhu Xiaoguang to join the Zhenhai Anti-Japanese National Savior Movement and participate in mass rescue work.

In this way, Zhu Xiaoguang's youth and cheerfulness led Zhu Feng out of his closed life and devoted himself to the changes of the times.

In the process of working together for the future cause of the motherland, Zhu Feng and Zhu Xiaoguang gradually became a revolutionary couple, and Zhu Xiaoguang became Zhu Feng's second husband.

However, this newly formed family rarely spent time together.

In 1937, Zhu Feng and Zhu Xiaoguang worked together at the Xinzhi Bookstore in Shanghai, which was a propaganda agency run by the party organization. In the following years, they followed the Xinzhi Bookstore in exile, moving to Shanghai, Chongqing and other places, and devoted themselves to the anti-Japanese war.

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However, this also became the beginning of her and her family spending less time together and more time apart.

In 1939, according to organizational arrangements, Zhu Feng was about to go to southern Anhui with her husband Zhu Xiaoguang. Her nine-year-old daughter Zhu Xiaofeng had no one to take care of her, so she was sent to the Taiwan Youth League founded by the patriotic general Zhejiang Jinhua at a young age.

1946 was a special year for this long-separated family, because in this year the mother and daughter spent a rare three months in their lives, a short and happy time, the scene of them eating and living together,

It became a permanent memory in Zhu Xiaofeng's heart.

Wuhan in 1946 is something Zhu Xiaofeng will never forget in her life, because the farewell at that time turned out to be her farewell to her mother. She remembers it very clearly, "My mother sent me to Wuhan Port. I remember it was in a high-rise building.

on the hillside, and then after a while a small boat came. She turned around and hugged me, and my mother and I separated and got on the boat.