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延河之恋
刘白羽1916年出生于北京的一个封建没落的大家庭。抗日战争爆发后，他历尽了千辛万苦到达革命圣地延安，得到毛泽东主席、周恩来副主席的接见，从此开始了他真正的革命生涯。
刘白羽进了边区文协。也就是在文协工作的这些日子里，刘白羽的心被丘比特之箭射中了。
有一次在边区文协的大窑洞里开会，刘白羽负责会务，他正张罗着会务，看见一个身穿灰色制服的青年女兵进来，很纯朴很大方的样子。他眼睛一亮，主动上去打招呼，开会时便坐在一起，彼此说了许多话，如同老朋友一样，散会后竟然觉得还有许多话要说，但只好分手，刘白羽把她送到坪场上，看着她走下盘山路，向延安城方向走去，心里充满着从未有过的幸福。
她就是汪琦，当时正在延安的一个支部工作，同是火热的青春，同是忘我的激情。
尔后刘白羽与汪琦又见过几次面，每次都感觉那么新鲜和温暖。刘白羽知道他是爱上汪琦了。汪琦也无法掩饰对刘白羽的喜欢，但彼此只是心照不宣，尚未来得及表白，却面临着离别。
组织上批准了刘白羽到敌后去打仗的请求，而且不日出发。这本来是满足了刘白羽的愿望。但他不忍心让汪琦遭受这种痛苦，于是只好把爱情压在心底，不去向她表白。心有灵犀的汪琦觉察到了感情的波动，她以送同事为由，到兵站为刘白羽送行，默默地握手，殷殷地告别，相顾无言，惟有爱意盈怀……
然而事有凑巧，到达太行山之后，组织上决定让刘白羽和当时在太行山上负贵宣传工作的陈荒煤一起为朱德总司令写传记。刘白羽没去成前线，对朱德总司令进行了一段时间的采访之后，中央让他回延安去写，于是刘白羽在经过几个月的阔别之后又回到延安，回到延河边上。
回到延安后，刘白羽先到丁玲处，不想却在那里见到了汪琦，惊喜与激动一同涌上心头，相互间的一颦一笑，心灵深处都随之激动，但在公众场合却羞于表达，一向对感情洞察秋毫的丁玲当时竟未发觉这两个年轻人火热的情感。还未来得及细说离别之情，丁玲、艾思奇和汪琦就要到鲁迅艺术学院去参加一个晚会。刘白羽想让汪琦留下来，可又不好说出口，只好让她去了，而汪琦那天晚上并未去参加晚会，而是孤独地一个人回到宿舍，心中无限惆怅，却又无法表达。
偶然的相遇与痛苦的离别使这两个热血青年感到爱情的力量，他们无法再掩饰了。
当时汪琦住大砭沟，刘白羽住在杨家岭，中间正好隔着延河，刘白羽几乎每天都到汪琦那里去。他们两人面对清澈的延河水，有说不完的话。直到几年后，蔡畅还跟他们开玩笑说：“我和(李)富春天天站在杨家岭山头上看着你们俩，你送她一遭，她又送你一回，亲密得真像一对亲兄妹。”
很快，刘白羽与汪琦结婚了，结婚那天晚上很热闹，当时在延安的众多文人学士几乎全到了。丁玲、艾思奇、柯仲平等人显得活泼而又年轻，吴玉章还讲了话。在一片欢声笑语之后，刘白羽和汪琦在众人的簇拥下深情地吻了对方，这一吻记下了他们两人的甜蜜爱情，也开始了他们50多年的伉俪旅程。
爱在征程
又是春天，寒意尚未褪尽，当时任中央军委副主席的周恩来派人通知刘白羽到他那里去一趟。周副主席略表寒暄后说：“我今天找你来是想跟你商量一件事，中央想调你去重庆工作，与何其芳同志一起去，介绍延安文艺座谈会上的讲话，介绍整风运动，然后你就留在《新华日报》工作。”
去重庆工作不成问题，只是要与汪琦分别，有点舍不得。刘白羽犹豫再三，还是向组织上提出能否与汪琦同去重庆。周副主席当即批评了刘白羽，但人情味十足的周副主席仍安排汪琦来给他送行。到重庆后，刘白羽很快就把离愁别绪抛到脑后。
刘白羽经常收到汪琦的来信和托人捎来的包裹，后来才知道那都是周副主席有意安排的。
在《新华日报》工作以后，刘白羽一个最亲密的同事是后来成为著名革命史学家的胡绳。有一次胡绳告诉刘白羽说红岩那边打电话来让他去一趟。红岩，当时是重庆的红色根据地。刘白羽绕道急行至红岩，径直走到私交甚密的荣高棠屋里。荣高棠后来主掌中国体坛帅印，威望殊高。荣高棠一见到刘白羽诡秘地一笑，指着隔壁说：“你看那是谁?”话音未落，汪琦从门里走出来，脸红扑扑的，脚步轻盈。刘白羽惊喜异常，要不是荣高棠在场，他肯定会把汪琦抱起来。接着林默涵、韦明、周而复也出现了。原来是南方局批准再从延安调几个人过来。周副主席和邓颖超一直牵挂着两地分居的刘白羽和汪琦，于是就派汪琦也来做《新华日报》的记者。尔后的几年时间，刘白羽与汪琦的爱情从延河转移到嘉陵江边。
在重庆最激动人心的事情还是毛泽东、周恩来与王若飞等中共高级领导人亲自到重庆与蒋介石进行和平谈判。刘白羽与汪琦当时都是《新华日报》的主要记者，他们参加了几乎所有的重大和谈活动，包括到机场迎送毛主席等许多感人的场面。汪琦很能干，当时没有汽车，她就凭两条腿在重庆城里跑来跑去地采访，发表了大量新闻和通讯。
重庆谈判不久，毛主席亲自点将，让刘白羽到北平军调处执行部去做记者，刘白羽只好再与汪琦在重庆分别。送刘白羽去机场的时候，汪琦一直眼泪汪汪的。
刘白羽在北平并没有停留多久，就根据部队的安排去了东北，然后根据组织安排取道北平去延安写一本介绍东北革命武装力量的著作，其时汪琦已随《新华日报》搬到了上海。在延安完成初稿后，刘白羽就快马加鞭赶到上海与汪琦团聚。在上海，刘白羽整改好他从延安带来的书稿，就是那本在当时引起巨大轰动的《环行东北》，这其中也有汪琦的功劳，她帮助刘白羽抄稿、校对，在生活上照顾丈夫……
完成《环行东北》时间不长，刘白羽和汪琦接到周恩来副主席的命令开赴南京。周副主席当时住在梅园新村。刘白羽和汪琦到达梅园接受周副主席亲口指示：“白羽，我考虑你有两个地方可以去，或者到香港去继续做文化界的统战工作，或者到解放区去。”
在当时的情况下有一些人想方设法到香港去躲避战争，可刘白羽一听周副主席的话，毫不犹豫地说：“我回解放区去。”
周副主席欣慰地笑了。刘白羽已不是延安时期的刘白羽，他更加成熟了，成为了一个真正的革命者。几天之后，刘白羽与汪琦一同飞往北平，见到叶剑英同志，转达了周副主席的意见，接着即赴东北三省，在那里度过了他们一生中最难忘的一段时光。
战争与爱情
到达哈尔滨后，刘白羽做了新华社随军记者，汪琦到《东北日报》做记者，虽然当时新华社与东北日报社一起办公，但由于经常外出采访，刘白羽与汪琦在一起的时间很少。汪琦常跑北线，有一段时间就住在佳木斯，而刘白羽则随作战部队四处奔波。刚到东北不久，刘白羽在一次骑马时被马掀翻，重重地摔到地上。那时刘白羽身上背着一台康泰可斯牌照相机，正好卡在他的腰间，伤势很重，只好躺上担架。当时汪琦远在佳木斯，无法照料刘白羽，他只好靠部队的简单治疗，自己与伤痛作斗争。经过一段时间的休养，刘白羽能下床了，部队安排他到佳木斯继续治疗。刘白羽坐马车冒着严寒来到佳木斯，汪琦外出采访了，刘白羽就到汪琦屋里倒头睡下。汪琦回来，一见刘白羽，惊喜地问：“你怎么回来了?”看见又黑又瘦的她，刘白羽心疼地握着她冰冷的手。当他们热烈拥抱在一起的时候，刘白羽突然“哎哟”一声，原来汪琦用劲过大，弄疼了他的伤口。
刘白羽没在佳木斯住多久就又和汪琦分手了。在东北的那几年，他俩不知有多少次在哈尔滨的霁虹桥上分别，那种离情别绪有时是非常折磨人的，因为每一次分手都可能是永别，尤其是刘白羽，因为要到战场上去直接采访，随时面对死亡……
的确，刘白羽的采访像作战一样，以战壕为阵地，写出了不少真实的新闻稿件。他在采访之余还写了好几篇非常优秀的小说，像他的代表作《无敌三勇士》《政治委员》等都是写于那个战火纷飞的年代，都是在《东北日报》上以整版的篇幅发表的，这其中当然有汪琦的心血，是她用爱情的甘甜支持着刘白羽那支文采飞扬的豪情之笔。
在战争年代，通信是非常困难的。接到信时往往迟于写信人的落款时间几个月之多。有一次刘白羽满怀欣喜地拆开一封汪琦的信，一看是几个月前写的，信的内容告诉他汪琦怀孕了，自己快要做爸爸了。刘白羽推算了一下时间，汪琦快要生产了，而这时刘白羽还远在四平，他决定马上回哈尔滨，汪琦需要他。刘白羽历尽周折，赶到哈尔滨《东北日报》一问，果然汪琦已经临产住进了医院。刘白羽踏过霁虹桥，来到医院产房门口，这时孩子已经诞生，刘白羽看到的是汪琦脸上那种母亲的微笑，她缓缓地说：“生得很顺利。”刘白羽感到愧疚和责任，他抱着他们的孩子滨滨，看了又看，这是他和汪琦8年的爱情结晶啊！
解放战争结束的时候，刘白羽另有任务要到北平工作，汪琦也从《东北日报》调到《人民日报》新闻部，继续做记者。朝鲜战争爆发后，刘白羽被派到前线去做随军记者，发回了大量报道中朝人民军队抗击侵略者的消息。
岁月无情
新中国成立后的几年时间里，刘白羽与汪琦都在北京工作，算是过了几年的安稳日子，但很快一场突如其来的灾难临头了。
他们的爱子滨滨从哈尔滨呱呱坠地，一直跟随着汪琦，聪明伶俐，给夫妻俩带来无穷的欢乐。一天，刘白羽突然接到滨滨寄宿的小学打来的电话，说滨滨病了，让家长赶紧去学校。刘白羽赶到学校，一摸滨滨的脸，烧得烫人，送往医院一检查：猩红热。经过紧张治疗，才脱离了危险。然而这只是灾难的序曲。有一天他们突然发现滨滨又在发烧，到医院一检查，医生说是风湿性心脏病，当时阜外医院的著名心脏病专家黄宛告诉刘白羽：“这孩子得的是风湿性心脏病，已经到了晚期……能活到20岁就不错了，现在要绝对卧床休息。”滨滨在病床上一躺就是几年，刘白羽和汪琦想尽了办法，但当时实在是无计可施。刘白羽由于经常熬夜写作，患了严重的神经官能症。然而就是在这种情况下，他发表了那篇著名的散文《长江三日》，后来被收进中学语文课本，一直沿用到现在，至少有几代人从中领略到了祖国山河的壮美和人民不屈的精神，可是读者哪里知道刘白羽那时家庭的不幸以及他个人的疾病呢？
命运是无情的，滨滨的病终于没能治好，这个可爱的小生命离刘白羽和汪琦而去了……
终于，刘白羽的病好转了，汪琦也被繁忙的工作占去了所有的时间，暂时忘却了失子的悲哀。然而不久“文革”开始了，他们的生活也随着民族的命运被卷进一场浩劫之中。
汪琦在《人民日报》先是做普通记者，后来担任领导工作，历任新闻部副主任、主任。这样一位资深记者却被陈伯达等人认为是反对江青的现行反革命，声讨、批斗之后发配到干校去劳动改造。倔强的汪琦从未向江青反革命集团低过头，为此她吃尽苦头，在干校里甚至要去干连男同志都甚感吃力的活。这时的刘白羽已经自身难保，更谈不上保护汪琦了，他被关到地安门附近的一个干校里，一关就是7年，与汪琦音讯隔绝，彼此都不知是死是活，只能在心里暗暗地祷念对方平安。后来还是在周总理的关怀下他们才得以见面……
刘白羽长期做部队的文化工作，直到上世纪80年代初才退下来，汪琦也干到很晚才退休。但他们没有休息。汪琦协助刘白羽制定了一个最后10年的写作计划：第一部是朱德同志的传记《大海》，第二部是刘白羽的自传，第三部是刘白羽根据他在朝鲜战场上的经历写成的一部长篇小说。其中第二部就是《心灵的历程》，在1995年9月，与邓小平的女儿毛毛的《我的父亲邓小平》在全国名人传记评选中同时名列前茅。但是，万万没想到正在刘白羽写着这部书的时候，1994年2月8日，汪琦因为心肌梗塞告别人世，没能看到这部书问世。当时刘白羽几乎无法承受那种失去爱侣的悲哀，一度因为对汪琦的思念而放弃了写作。□
Romance of Writer and His Wife
By Zhang Senfeng
Liu Baiyu (1916-2005) was born in Beijing into a big family that went down in the world. The 20-year-old man established himself as a writer in 1936 when he published a short story that exposed the seamy sides of the old-time military and when his first collection of six short stories was compiled by Ba Jin and published. In 1938, a year after the Chinese Resistant War against Japanese Aggression broke out in full strength, the writer came to Yan’an, the central revolutionary base of the Communists. He met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, prominent revolutionary leaders, thus marking the beginning of his career as a revolutionary.
The young writer was assigned to work for the literary association of the revolutionary base. Then one day he met Wang Qi at a meeting of the literary association. He was dazzled by the young woman dressed in the gray army uniform. It was love at first sight. They sat together for the meeting and then they chatted for a long while afterwards. A few years later they got married. The wedding was attended by a lot of prominent literary figures in the literary circles in Yan’an. During these years, Liu Baiyu further established himself as a journalist. He wrote feature stories as well as short stories and reportages on the revolutionaries.
In the spring of 1944, Liu Baiyu was assigned to work in Chongqing, then the China’s war-time capital. He was most reluctant to leave his wife behind, but he went to Chongqing anyway. He was assigned to report to the communists and other people concerned in Chongqing the key cultural and political events in Yan’an. After the assignment was done, he worked as a journalist for Xinhua Daily, a newspaper run by the Communists made possible by the united front against Japanese invaders. One day, Liu received a call. He was asked to come over immediately to Red Rock, where the Communists delegation was headquartered. To his big surprise, he saw his wife Wang Qi, who had just arrived from Yan’an to join the staff of Xinhua Daily, thanks to the care and arrangement of Zhou Enlai.
On August 28, 1945, Mao Zedong came to Chongqing to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek for a peaceful new China. Liu and Wang covered the negotiation closely and reported all the important events and activities. After the Chongqing negotiation, Mao Zedong instructed Liu to work as a journalist in Beiping at the cease-fire committee headed by General George Marshall. Liu went to Beiping alone.
He stayed in Beiping only for a short while. He went to the Northeast and then went back to Yan’an to write a book about the Communist-led military force in the Northeast. With the first draft completed, Liu came to Shanghai to join his wife, who had moved with Xinhua Daily to Shanghai. Liu Baiyu finalized his manuscript in Shanghai with the aid of his wife. The book, “My Travel through Northeast”, caused a sensation across China.
Shortly after the completion of the book, the couple was summoned to Nanjing by Zhou Enlai, who headed the Communist mission in the capital of China. Zhou gave Liu Baiyu two alternatives: go to Hong Kong to work with cultural and literary people there or go back to the one of the liberated areas under the control of the Communists. Without hesitation, Liu chose to join the Communists.
A few days later the couple flew to Beiping and met Ye Jianying, who headed the Communists at the cease-fire mission, and related Zhou’s instruction. Then the couple went directly to the Northeast, where the People’s Liberation Army grew rapidly. The couple arrived at Ha’erbin, a central city in Northeast, where the husband worked as a Xinhua News Agency journalist embedded with the PLA whereas the wife worked for Northeast Daily. Though the two news organizations worked in the same office building, the couple had separate jobs and separate assignments. Liu traveled to the battle front frequently whereas Wang traveled extensively, too. But the two still managed to get together and work together. During the war years in the Northeast, Liu covered the war extensively and found time to write short stories, which often appeared in full pages of Northeast Daily.
During these years, letters between the two often took months to travel and reach the recipients. Liu Baiyu one day received a letter, learning that his wife was pregnant and he would soon be a father. The letter was dated a few months earlier. He counted the time and concluded that his wife was about to labor. So he hurried back to Ha’erbin only to find that Wang had been in the hospital. By the time he finally reached the hospital, the baby son had been born.
When the Liberation War was about to end successfully, Liu was transferred to work in Beijing and his wife Wang Qi came to Beijing to work as a journalist for People’s Daily. After the Korean War broke out, Liu Baiyu went to the battle front again as a military journalist.
In the first few years in Beijing, the couple at last lived in peace and enjoyed life. However, their first son became ill. The junior was struck down with scarlet fever and then with rheumatic heart disease. The boy died young.
In 1961, Liu Baiyu published his famous essay “Three Days on the Yangtze River”. The whole nation was fascinated by his poetic description of the country’s greatest river. It has been in a middle school textbook for decades.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the couple was persecuted. Liu Baiyu was imprisoned for seven years. Shortly after the ten-year tumult, Liu and his wife retired. Wang Qi helped the husband make a ten-year plan. He was to write three books: a biography of Zhu De (1886-1976), an autobiography, and a novel based on his war experience in Korea. Wang Qi did not live to see the publication of her husband’s autography. She passed away on February 8, 1994. Liu Baiyu passed in 2005 at the age of 89. □
刘白羽1916年出生于北京的一个封建没落的大家庭。抗日战争爆发后，他历尽了千辛万苦到达革命圣地延安，得到毛泽东主席、周恩来副主席的接见，从此开始了他真正的革命生涯。
刘白羽进了边区文协。也就是在文协工作的这些日子里，刘白羽的心被丘比特之箭射中了。
有一次在边区文协的大窑洞里开会，刘白羽负责会务，他正张罗着会务，看见一个身穿灰色制服的青年女兵进来，很纯朴很大方的样子。他眼睛一亮，主动上去打招呼，开会时便坐在一起，彼此说了许多话，如同老朋友一样，散会后竟然觉得还有许多话要说，但只好分手，刘白羽把她送到坪场上，看着她走下盘山路，向延安城方向走去，心里充满着从未有过的幸福。
她就是汪琦，当时正在延安的一个支部工作，同是火热的青春，同是忘我的激情。
尔后刘白羽与汪琦又见过几次面，每次都感觉那么新鲜和温暖。刘白羽知道他是爱上汪琦了。汪琦也无法掩饰对刘白羽的喜欢，但彼此只是心照不宣，尚未来得及表白，却面临着离别。
组织上批准了刘白羽到敌后去打仗的请求，而且不日出发。这本来是满足了刘白羽的愿望。但他不忍心让汪琦遭受这种痛苦，于是只好把爱情压在心底，不去向她表白。心有灵犀的汪琦觉察到了感情的波动，她以送同事为由，到兵站为刘白羽送行，默默地握手，殷殷地告别，相顾无言，惟有爱意盈怀……
然而事有凑巧，到达太行山之后，组织上决定让刘白羽和当时在太行山上负贵宣传工作的陈荒煤一起为朱德总司令写传记。刘白羽没去成前线，对朱德总司令进行了一段时间的采访之后，中央让他回延安去写，于是刘白羽在经过几个月的阔别之后又回到延安，回到延河边上。
回到延安后，刘白羽先到丁玲处，不想却在那里见到了汪琦，惊喜与激动一同涌上心头，相互间的一颦一笑，心灵深处都随之激动，但在公众场合却羞于表达，一向对感情洞察秋毫的丁玲当时竟未发觉这两个年轻人火热的情感。还未来得及细说离别之情，丁玲、艾思奇和汪琦就要到鲁迅艺术学院去参加一个晚会。刘白羽想让汪琦留下来，可又不好说出口，只好让她去了，而汪琦那天晚上并未去参加晚会，而是孤独地一个人回到宿舍，心中无限惆怅，却又无法表达。
偶然的相遇与痛苦的离别使这两个热血青年感到爱情的力量，他们无法再掩饰了。
当时汪琦住大砭沟，刘白羽住在杨家岭，中间正好隔着延河，刘白羽几乎每天都到汪琦那里去。他们两人面对清澈的延河水，有说不完的话。直到几年后，蔡畅还跟他们开玩笑说：“我和(李)富春天天站在杨家岭山头上看着你们俩，你送她一遭，她又送你一回，亲密得真像一对亲兄妹。”
很快，刘白羽与汪琦结婚了，结婚那天晚上很热闹，当时在延安的众多文人学士几乎全到了。丁玲、艾思奇、柯仲平等人显得活泼而又年轻，吴玉章还讲了话。在一片欢声笑语之后，刘白羽和汪琦在众人的簇拥下深情地吻了对方，这一吻记下了他们两人的甜蜜爱情，也开始了他们50多年的伉俪旅程。
爱在征程
又是春天，寒意尚未褪尽，当时任中央军委副主席的周恩来派人通知刘白羽到他那里去一趟。周副主席略表寒暄后说：“我今天找你来是想跟你商量一件事，中央想调你去重庆工作，与何其芳同志一起去，介绍延安文艺座谈会上的讲话，介绍整风运动，然后你就留在《新华日报》工作。”
去重庆工作不成问题，只是要与汪琦分别，有点舍不得。刘白羽犹豫再三，还是向组织上提出能否与汪琦同去重庆。周副主席当即批评了刘白羽，但人情味十足的周副主席仍安排汪琦来给他送行。到重庆后，刘白羽很快就把离愁别绪抛到脑后。
刘白羽经常收到汪琦的来信和托人捎来的包裹，后来才知道那都是周副主席有意安排的。
在《新华日报》工作以后，刘白羽一个最亲密的同事是后来成为著名革命史学家的胡绳。有一次胡绳告诉刘白羽说红岩那边打电话来让他去一趟。红岩，当时是重庆的红色根据地。刘白羽绕道急行至红岩，径直走到私交甚密的荣高棠屋里。荣高棠后来主掌中国体坛帅印，威望殊高。荣高棠一见到刘白羽诡秘地一笑，指着隔壁说：“你看那是谁?”话音未落，汪琦从门里走出来，脸红扑扑的，脚步轻盈。刘白羽惊喜异常，要不是荣高棠在场，他肯定会把汪琦抱起来。接着林默涵、韦明、周而复也出现了。原来是南方局批准再从延安调几个人过来。周副主席和邓颖超一直牵挂着两地分居的刘白羽和汪琦，于是就派汪琦也来做《新华日报》的记者。尔后的几年时间，刘白羽与汪琦的爱情从延河转移到嘉陵江边。
在重庆最激动人心的事情还是毛泽东、周恩来与王若飞等中共高级领导人亲自到重庆与蒋介石进行和平谈判。刘白羽与汪琦当时都是《新华日报》的主要记者，他们参加了几乎所有的重大和谈活动，包括到机场迎送毛主席等许多感人的场面。汪琦很能干，当时没有汽车，她就凭两条腿在重庆城里跑来跑去地采访，发表了大量新闻和通讯。
重庆谈判不久，毛主席亲自点将，让刘白羽到北平军调处执行部去做记者，刘白羽只好再与汪琦在重庆分别。送刘白羽去机场的时候，汪琦一直眼泪汪汪的。
刘白羽在北平并没有停留多久，就根据部队的安排去了东北，然后根据组织安排取道北平去延安写一本介绍东北革命武装力量的著作，其时汪琦已随《新华日报》搬到了上海。在延安完成初稿后，刘白羽就快马加鞭赶到上海与汪琦团聚。在上海，刘白羽整改好他从延安带来的书稿，就是那本在当时引起巨大轰动的《环行东北》，这其中也有汪琦的功劳，她帮助刘白羽抄稿、校对，在生活上照顾丈夫……
完成《环行东北》时间不长，刘白羽和汪琦接到周恩来副主席的命令开赴南京。周副主席当时住在梅园新村。刘白羽和汪琦到达梅园接受周副主席亲口指示：“白羽，我考虑你有两个地方可以去，或者到香港去继续做文化界的统战工作，或者到解放区去。”
在当时的情况下有一些人想方设法到香港去躲避战争，可刘白羽一听周副主席的话，毫不犹豫地说：“我回解放区去。”
周副主席欣慰地笑了。刘白羽已不是延安时期的刘白羽，他更加成熟了，成为了一个真正的革命者。几天之后，刘白羽与汪琦一同飞往北平，见到叶剑英同志，转达了周副主席的意见，接着即赴东北三省，在那里度过了他们一生中最难忘的一段时光。
战争与爱情
到达哈尔滨后，刘白羽做了新华社随军记者，汪琦到《东北日报》做记者，虽然当时新华社与东北日报社一起办公，但由于经常外出采访，刘白羽与汪琦在一起的时间很少。汪琦常跑北线，有一段时间就住在佳木斯，而刘白羽则随作战部队四处奔波。刚到东北不久，刘白羽在一次骑马时被马掀翻，重重地摔到地上。那时刘白羽身上背着一台康泰可斯牌照相机，正好卡在他的腰间，伤势很重，只好躺上担架。当时汪琦远在佳木斯，无法照料刘白羽，他只好靠部队的简单治疗，自己与伤痛作斗争。经过一段时间的休养，刘白羽能下床了，部队安排他到佳木斯继续治疗。刘白羽坐马车冒着严寒来到佳木斯，汪琦外出采访了，刘白羽就到汪琦屋里倒头睡下。汪琦回来，一见刘白羽，惊喜地问：“你怎么回来了?”看见又黑又瘦的她，刘白羽心疼地握着她冰冷的手。当他们热烈拥抱在一起的时候，刘白羽突然“哎哟”一声，原来汪琦用劲过大，弄疼了他的伤口。
刘白羽没在佳木斯住多久就又和汪琦分手了。在东北的那几年，他俩不知有多少次在哈尔滨的霁虹桥上分别，那种离情别绪有时是非常折磨人的，因为每一次分手都可能是永别，尤其是刘白羽，因为要到战场上去直接采访，随时面对死亡……
的确，刘白羽的采访像作战一样，以战壕为阵地，写出了不少真实的新闻稿件。他在采访之余还写了好几篇非常优秀的小说，像他的代表作《无敌三勇士》《政治委员》等都是写于那个战火纷飞的年代，都是在《东北日报》上以整版的篇幅发表的，这其中当然有汪琦的心血，是她用爱情的甘甜支持着刘白羽那支文采飞扬的豪情之笔。
在战争年代，通信是非常困难的。接到信时往往迟于写信人的落款时间几个月之多。有一次刘白羽满怀欣喜地拆开一封汪琦的信，一看是几个月前写的，信的内容告诉他汪琦怀孕了，自己快要做爸爸了。刘白羽推算了一下时间，汪琦快要生产了，而这时刘白羽还远在四平，他决定马上回哈尔滨，汪琦需要他。刘白羽历尽周折，赶到哈尔滨《东北日报》一问，果然汪琦已经临产住进了医院。刘白羽踏过霁虹桥，来到医院产房门口，这时孩子已经诞生，刘白羽看到的是汪琦脸上那种母亲的微笑，她缓缓地说：“生得很顺利。”刘白羽感到愧疚和责任，他抱着他们的孩子滨滨，看了又看，这是他和汪琦8年的爱情结晶啊！
解放战争结束的时候，刘白羽另有任务要到北平工作，汪琦也从《东北日报》调到《人民日报》新闻部，继续做记者。朝鲜战争爆发后，刘白羽被派到前线去做随军记者，发回了大量报道中朝人民军队抗击侵略者的消息。
岁月无情
新中国成立后的几年时间里，刘白羽与汪琦都在北京工作，算是过了几年的安稳日子，但很快一场突如其来的灾难临头了。
他们的爱子滨滨从哈尔滨呱呱坠地，一直跟随着汪琦，聪明伶俐，给夫妻俩带来无穷的欢乐。一天，刘白羽突然接到滨滨寄宿的小学打来的电话，说滨滨病了，让家长赶紧去学校。刘白羽赶到学校，一摸滨滨的脸，烧得烫人，送往医院一检查：猩红热。经过紧张治疗，才脱离了危险。然而这只是灾难的序曲。有一天他们突然发现滨滨又在发烧，到医院一检查，医生说是风湿性心脏病，当时阜外医院的著名心脏病专家黄宛告诉刘白羽：“这孩子得的是风湿性心脏病，已经到了晚期……能活到20岁就不错了，现在要绝对卧床休息。”滨滨在病床上一躺就是几年，刘白羽和汪琦想尽了办法，但当时实在是无计可施。刘白羽由于经常熬夜写作，患了严重的神经官能症。然而就是在这种情况下，他发表了那篇著名的散文《长江三日》，后来被收进中学语文课本，一直沿用到现在，至少有几代人从中领略到了祖国山河的壮美和人民不屈的精神，可是读者哪里知道刘白羽那时家庭的不幸以及他个人的疾病呢？
命运是无情的，滨滨的病终于没能治好，这个可爱的小生命离刘白羽和汪琦而去了……
终于，刘白羽的病好转了，汪琦也被繁忙的工作占去了所有的时间，暂时忘却了失子的悲哀。然而不久“文革”开始了，他们的生活也随着民族的命运被卷进一场浩劫之中。
汪琦在《人民日报》先是做普通记者，后来担任领导工作，历任新闻部副主任、主任。这样一位资深记者却被陈伯达等人认为是反对江青的现行反革命，声讨、批斗之后发配到干校去劳动改造。倔强的汪琦从未向江青反革命集团低过头，为此她吃尽苦头，在干校里甚至要去干连男同志都甚感吃力的活。这时的刘白羽已经自身难保，更谈不上保护汪琦了，他被关到地安门附近的一个干校里，一关就是7年，与汪琦音讯隔绝，彼此都不知是死是活，只能在心里暗暗地祷念对方平安。后来还是在周总理的关怀下他们才得以见面……
刘白羽长期做部队的文化工作，直到上世纪80年代初才退下来，汪琦也干到很晚才退休。但他们没有休息。汪琦协助刘白羽制定了一个最后10年的写作计划：第一部是朱德同志的传记《大海》，第二部是刘白羽的自传，第三部是刘白羽根据他在朝鲜战场上的经历写成的一部长篇小说。其中第二部就是《心灵的历程》，在1995年9月，与邓小平的女儿毛毛的《我的父亲邓小平》在全国名人传记评选中同时名列前茅。但是，万万没想到正在刘白羽写着这部书的时候，1994年2月8日，汪琦因为心肌梗塞告别人世，没能看到这部书问世。当时刘白羽几乎无法承受那种失去爱侣的悲哀，一度因为对汪琦的思念而放弃了写作。□
Romance of Writer and His Wife
By Zhang Senfeng
Liu Baiyu (1916-2005) was born in Beijing into a big family that went down in the world. The 20-year-old man established himself as a writer in 1936 when he published a short story that exposed the seamy sides of the old-time military and when his first collection of six short stories was compiled by Ba Jin and published. In 1938, a year after the Chinese Resistant War against Japanese Aggression broke out in full strength, the writer came to Yan’an, the central revolutionary base of the Communists. He met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, prominent revolutionary leaders, thus marking the beginning of his career as a revolutionary.
The young writer was assigned to work for the literary association of the revolutionary base. Then one day he met Wang Qi at a meeting of the literary association. He was dazzled by the young woman dressed in the gray army uniform. It was love at first sight. They sat together for the meeting and then they chatted for a long while afterwards. A few years later they got married. The wedding was attended by a lot of prominent literary figures in the literary circles in Yan’an. During these years, Liu Baiyu further established himself as a journalist. He wrote feature stories as well as short stories and reportages on the revolutionaries.
In the spring of 1944, Liu Baiyu was assigned to work in Chongqing, then the China’s war-time capital. He was most reluctant to leave his wife behind, but he went to Chongqing anyway. He was assigned to report to the communists and other people concerned in Chongqing the key cultural and political events in Yan’an. After the assignment was done, he worked as a journalist for Xinhua Daily, a newspaper run by the Communists made possible by the united front against Japanese invaders. One day, Liu received a call. He was asked to come over immediately to Red Rock, where the Communists delegation was headquartered. To his big surprise, he saw his wife Wang Qi, who had just arrived from Yan’an to join the staff of Xinhua Daily, thanks to the care and arrangement of Zhou Enlai.
On August 28, 1945, Mao Zedong came to Chongqing to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek for a peaceful new China. Liu and Wang covered the negotiation closely and reported all the important events and activities. After the Chongqing negotiation, Mao Zedong instructed Liu to work as a journalist in Beiping at the cease-fire committee headed by General George Marshall. Liu went to Beiping alone.
He stayed in Beiping only for a short while. He went to the Northeast and then went back to Yan’an to write a book about the Communist-led military force in the Northeast. With the first draft completed, Liu came to Shanghai to join his wife, who had moved with Xinhua Daily to Shanghai. Liu Baiyu finalized his manuscript in Shanghai with the aid of his wife. The book, “My Travel through Northeast”, caused a sensation across China.
Shortly after the completion of the book, the couple was summoned to Nanjing by Zhou Enlai, who headed the Communist mission in the capital of China. Zhou gave Liu Baiyu two alternatives: go to Hong Kong to work with cultural and literary people there or go back to the one of the liberated areas under the control of the Communists. Without hesitation, Liu chose to join the Communists.
A few days later the couple flew to Beiping and met Ye Jianying, who headed the Communists at the cease-fire mission, and related Zhou’s instruction. Then the couple went directly to the Northeast, where the People’s Liberation Army grew rapidly. The couple arrived at Ha’erbin, a central city in Northeast, where the husband worked as a Xinhua News Agency journalist embedded with the PLA whereas the wife worked for Northeast Daily. Though the two news organizations worked in the same office building, the couple had separate jobs and separate assignments. Liu traveled to the battle front frequently whereas Wang traveled extensively, too. But the two still managed to get together and work together. During the war years in the Northeast, Liu covered the war extensively and found time to write short stories, which often appeared in full pages of Northeast Daily.
During these years, letters between the two often took months to travel and reach the recipients. Liu Baiyu one day received a letter, learning that his wife was pregnant and he would soon be a father. The letter was dated a few months earlier. He counted the time and concluded that his wife was about to labor. So he hurried back to Ha’erbin only to find that Wang had been in the hospital. By the time he finally reached the hospital, the baby son had been born.
When the Liberation War was about to end successfully, Liu was transferred to work in Beijing and his wife Wang Qi came to Beijing to work as a journalist for People’s Daily. After the Korean War broke out, Liu Baiyu went to the battle front again as a military journalist.
In the first few years in Beijing, the couple at last lived in peace and enjoyed life. However, their first son became ill. The junior was struck down with scarlet fever and then with rheumatic heart disease. The boy died young.
In 1961, Liu Baiyu published his famous essay “Three Days on the Yangtze River”. The whole nation was fascinated by his poetic description of the country’s greatest river. It has been in a middle school textbook for decades.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the couple was persecuted. Liu Baiyu was imprisoned for seven years. Shortly after the ten-year tumult, Liu and his wife retired. Wang Qi helped the husband make a ten-year plan. He was to write three books: a biography of Zhu De (1886-1976), an autobiography, and a novel based on his war experience in Korea. Wang Qi did not live to see the publication of her husband’s autography. She passed away on February 8, 1994. Liu Baiyu passed in 2005 at the age of 89. □