Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 422 - 0422: About Lu Jiang2_1

Chapter 422: Chapter 0422: About Lu Jiang2_1

Lu Jiang (1932-1997), General...

Sixty-five years old!

Sixty-five years old!

Seeing Lu Jiang’s birth-death year and hometown, Feng Qingxue felt a sharp pain in her heart, almost running out of breath. It took her a long time to react. With one hand pressing on the book page and the other covering her mouth, she let the tears flow down her face. She could not believe that her husband had only lived for sixty-five years, sixty-five years!

She could confirm that this Lu Jiang was her husband. The birth year matched. There couldn’t be another person with the same name and surname, born in the same year, and also a soldier. There weren’t that many coincidences.

Although in the sixties and seventies, living to be over sixty was considered a ripe old age, times were moving forward and he had lived into the nineties!

When Wang Xinsheng lived to be ninety-five, he, as a younger generation, only lived to be sixty-five!

"How could it be? How could it be?" He was so strong, so mighty, so good at fighting, how could he have only lived to be sixty-five?

Feng Qingxue hurriedly read on. His family record only mentioned that his father was Lu Zhiyuan and his nephews were Lu Tianjun and Lu Tianzhi, but there was no mention of his wife or children. He had dedicated his entire life to his country and the army.

Regarding his death, the book recorded that twenty-four bullet fragments were found in his ashes.

The cause of his death was these lethal bullet fragments.

During the sixties and seventies, medical standards were not advanced. Some bullet fragments that had entered his chest and abdomen couldn’t be removed after he was wounded on the battlefield. By the time medical science had developed, the bullet fragments had migrated to crucial parts of his body. The doctors had discussed many solutions but dared not operate on him because some bullet fragments were too close to his heart. Any surgical movement could mean life or death.

Because the bullet fragments continued to migrate, there were fragments in his chest and abdomen as well as in his legs. Moreover, they were all in critical joint and artery locations. Coupled with the numerous hidden injuries he suffered from innumerable battles, he could no longer stand by himself at the age of sixty and had to rely on a wheelchair.

The hero who had lived his entire life in the army spent his last five years in a wheelchair and, in the end, died from his wounds.

The bullet fragments tore through his heart. The rescue attempts were unsuccessful, and his death was declared.

Feng Qingxue wept as she read through it. Sentence by sentence, she wished to engrave it in her heart. Through her tear-blurred vision, she read further about the records related to Father Lu.

Lu Zhiyuan (1908-2009), also known as Ning Zhi, a red landlord and father of General Lu Jiang...

The details of the resources Lu Zhiyuan donated for the resistance were recorded in detail. As a scholar from a landholding family, he never exploited the working people and was usually generous and benevolent. His experiences of getting his property confiscated and going through labor reform were only quickly mentioned. The record stated that he was rehabilitated in 1980 and had some of his confiscated property returned according to government policies. He also received compensation of one hundred thousand yuan. Since part of his property had been handed over to the national construction, and some of it had disappeared without a trace, the government could not compensate with original items and could only express their sincerity in cash.

The text emphasized his details about forming a brotherhood with Wang Xinsheng and Cheng Baoguo. It praised his great benevolence and righteousness, as he donated so much gold to Wang Xinsheng and Cheng Baoguo, contributing to the national cause and nurturing a battle-hardened general for the country.

Staring at Lu Zhiyuan’s birth-death year intensified Feng Qingxue’s sorrow.

How tragically painful it is for a white-haired man to send off a black-haired man!

He sent off his parents, his wife, his eldest son and daughter-in-law, and, just when he thought he had weathered all the hardship, he saw off his younger son who had been fighting bravely on the front lines. Nothing can surpass such despair in life.