The youngest son who was almost sent away
When Chen Xiaolu was 62 years old, he recalled an old incident - he was almost sent away by his mother when he was born.
Chen Xiaolu was the youngest son of Marshal Chen Yi, and before the victory of the War of Resistance, Chen Yi and his wife had already given birth to two sons, and when they had their third child, both husband and wife were looking forward to having a daughter.
Therefore, when Chen Xiaolu was born, Chen Yi's wife was very unhappy when she saw that she was a son again, so she wrapped Chen Xiaolu in a sheet and put it at the door.
At that time, the assistant in charge of the family work of the military department came to visit, and before he entered the door, he saw Chen Xiaolu at the door, so he asked: "How did this child put the door?" ”
Chen Yi's wife said very unhappily, "I don't want this child, who of you wants to hold." ”
The assistant quickly carried the child back to the house and counted Chen Yi's wife down, so that Chen Xiaolu was not sent away.
At that time, the war was tight, and Chen Yi, as the commander of the Shandong Field Army, was looking forward to the smooth progress of the war, coupled with the meaning of Confucius's sentence "Climb mounting Mount Taishan and Xiao Lu", so there was the name Chen Xiaolu.
Photo: Chen Xiaolu
Chen Xiaolu suffered a lot with Chen Yi and his wife, because Chen Yi often ran in front of the battle line, so he could only take his wife and children to the east and west, and the young Chen Xiaolu also had to be displaced.
At that time, people couldn't even eat enough, and Chen Yi was simple and accustomed, so Chen Xiaolu, as the youngest child, had almost no new clothes to wear.
He wore the old clothes left over from his two brothers, and every day he took the bus to school, and it was impossible to see that he was the son of a marshal.
At this time, Chen Xiaolu, who was still in elementary school, did not know what his father's "rank of marshal" was, and instead of enjoying any privileges, he lived a more simple life than his classmates.
However, the words "Tiger Father Has No Dog" are half true, and little Chen Xiaolu has already inherited many fine traditions from his father.
He insisted on going to bed early and getting up early every day, and maintained respect for everyone around him, because his father often taught him: "Be hard and simple, serve the people, respect the teacher, you are a cadre's child, you must take the lead." ”
His father's teachings ran through Chen Xiaolu's life, so when his classmates were wearing white shirts and small leather shoes to school, he never compared himself with his classmates, and always wore an old knit shirt all year round.
This knit shirt was worn almost until high school, when Chen Xiaolu was still drinking goat's milk, but his body was particularly thin, because he drank goat's milk until he was 20 years old, so he also had a milk name called "little lamb".
In 1966, Chen Xiaolu was already a senior high school student at Beijing No. 8 Middle School, and Chen Yi and his wife had high hopes for this young son, naturally hoping that he could continue his studies after taking the college entrance examination and show his grand plans in the future.
Unfortunately, however, the much-watched college entrance examination was forced to cancel this year.
Many adults know that after the cancellation of the college entrance examination, they sigh, after all, it is a time to spend efforts for children to read until now, which is the turning point in life.
However, Chen Xiaolu was very happy, after all, he was still a teenager, and after knowing that the college entrance examination was canceled, he and his classmates cheered happily in the classroom and threw books on the roof.
Until later, after Chen Xiaolu was more than half a hundred years old, he couldn't help but laugh when he recalled this incident again.
In fact, throughout Chen Xiaolu's life, the days before high school were already the most carefree days in his life, and the real hard days were the life of the army after leaving the campus.
Pictured: Chen Yi's family
It costs only 16 dollars in two years
After entering the army, Chen Xiaolu really experienced what is called hardship.
This unit is a rice production base, where there are no people within a 50-mile radius, and because there is no drinking water that meets the standard, they drink groundwater with a very high alkali content.
This kind of water is bitter and astringent, and drinking too much will also damage the kidneys, but Chen Xiaolu still forced himself to swallow it forcibly, because here, all the comrades-in-arms drank the same water, and others could drink it.
In Chen Xiaolu's body, he could not see the arrogance and superiority of the high-ranking cadres, he followed his comrades-in-arms to work in the fields, and he took the initiative to do those hard and tiring tasks.
He was often so tired that he couldn't get up straight, and it was difficult to sleep at night and even turn over, but despite this, he never cried out a bitter tiredness.
During the two years of His time in the army, although Chen Xiaolu was not organized, he was still industrious and hardworking, and was continuously rated as a "Five Good Soldier" for two years.
At that time, the unorganized soldier had no allowance and rations, and the money he spent was 100 yuan when he came out of the house, and the old military uniform he wore had been patched and washed.
Despite this, he had only spent 16 yuan in two years, and the comrades in the company saw that Chen Xiaolu was really unbearable, so they reacted to his superiors.
Later, the director of the Political Department knew how hard Chen Xiaolu had been, so he specifically talked to Chen Xiaolu: "Our work is not meticulous, we have not considered the problem comprehensively, and the regiment will give you a subsidy of 200 yuan in the future." ”
Chen Xiaolu's economy was slightly more generous, and the regiment also specially issued him a new set of military uniforms.
Chen Xiaolu's good performance in the army was seen by the superior leaders, and in 1970, he successfully joined the Communist Party and was officially approved to join the army.
In 1971, Chen Yi met Chen Xilian on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square, at this time Chen Xilian was the leader of Chen Xiaolu's troops, and since Chen Xiaolu left home to go to the army last time, Chen Yi had not seen his son for 3 years.
So Chen Yi asked Chen Xilian if he could see Chen Xiaolu, and Chen Xilian hurriedly made arrangements after learning about this, and at this time, Chen Xiaolu, who was in the army, also missed his family to the extreme.
In the past two years, Chen Xiaolu can only learn some news about his father sporadically from the newspaper, but in the past six months, there has been no report on his father in the newspaper, so his heart is worried about his father every day.
Pictured: Mr. and Mrs. Chen Yi and Chen Xiaolu
At this time, Chen Xiaolu did not know that his father had already checked for rectal cancer years ago, and when Chen Xiaolu returned home to see his parents, his tears almost fell.
After only three years of not seeing, his father has aged a lot, Xu is the result of surgery, his father's figure is emaciated and painful, and his mother carries his father out to meet him, this scene makes his eyes can't stop red.
Father's movement has been much slower, compared to the previous capable look, at this moment, the father's back is already stooped, the father smiled and joked with Chen Xiaolu: "Yo, our instructor is finally back!" ”
Chen Xiaolu patted his clothes, showed his father that he was still a military uniform with two pockets, and asked his father doubtfully: "I didn't mention it, you see, it's still two pockets." ”
After saying that, the whole family laughed loudly, but laughing and laughing, Chen Xiaolu's mother hugged him and cried, at this moment the whole family was reunited for three years, and in these three years, the couple knew that their son must have suffered a lot in the army.
At this moment, Chen Xiaolu was even more grief-stricken, this time he took a leave of absence to go home to visit his relatives, in fact, he knew in his heart that there was not much time left for his father, and perhaps this time to accompany his father was already his father's last years.
On January 6, 1972, when Marshal Chen Yi was dying, he was still thinking about something in his heart, and at this moment, Chen Yi had no strength to open his eyes.
Chen Yi's wife called out to him over and over again next to him, until he heard the voice of his younger son, Chen Yi opened his eyes, and after seeing his younger son, he seemed to finally have no regrets.
Chen Yi died in Beijing, Chairman Mao personally attended his memorial service, and Chen Yi's family was deeply devastated.
Pictured: Mr. and Mrs. Chen Yi
In Search of the "Body of Freedom"
After marshal Chen Yi's death, because he was deeply shocked and once depressed, Su Yu and his wife were particularly worried about Chen Xiaolu, so they often called him to his home as a guest.
Over time, Su Yu and his wife had a very deep affection for Chen Xiaolu and always treated him as their own son, at this time Su Yu's daughter Su Huining was no stranger to Chen Xiaolu, and when he was a child, Su Huining's second brother often played with Chen Xiaolu.
The two young people are similar in age, and they have a little friendship since childhood, and it is also under the intentional or unintentional matchmaking of Su Yu and his wife that the two began to have different psychology.
After a period of contact, they both felt like-minded, and slowly, the relationship between the two sides went further, so they naturally married.
The life of the two after marriage was very solid, and Chen Xiaolu, in order to stay with his wife, also deliberately submitted an application to the army for transfer to Beijing.
Su Huining remained in the army to engage in research work, and Chen Xiaolu also worked in the Second Department of the General Staff.
Pictured: Su Yu's family and Chen Xiaolu
In 1981, coinciding with the spring breeze of reform, Chen Xiaolu was sent to England as a military attaché, and not only could he not stay with his wife, but even their sons could not take care of him.
Chen Xiaolu left for 4 years, and after returning to China, Chen Xiaolu was already the director of the Social Bureau, and over the years, Chen Xiaolu's series of behaviors have been seen by many leading cadres, and the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission once found Chen Xiaolu to talk.
Vice Chairman Mingli asked him if he was uncomfortable and whether he needed to change jobs, but Chen Xiaolu knew the good intentions of the vice chairman, and he politely refused, because Chen Xiaolu often said a sentence: "People are self-aware!" ”
After this, everyone must have thought that Chen Xiaolu's next career was smooth and the future could be expected, but Chen Xiaolu's road was very shocking, and just after his successive promotions, he suddenly turned around and chose to go to the sea to do business.
This is an idea that suddenly came to Chen Xiaolu after seeing his father, who had worked hard for the country all his life, and that he himself had also walked into the comfort circle of the system.
He wanted to follow his heart's call, to find a "free body" and try another life.
Abandoning the system to do business means that he has no stable job, no special benefits, and even his status will be much worse than before, but Chen Xiaolu has already made up his mind.
In 1991, Chen Xiaolu went to the sea for the first time and dabbled in many fields in the business circle, at that time people thought that Chen Xiaolu must have tasted a lot of sweetness at the beginning of his business, but the truth was just the opposite.
At the beginning, Chen Xiaolu couldn't even get the 100,000 yuan of the business, so he borrowed some money from a friend and opened a fund company with his friends.
The two have been up and down for a few years, and they have only earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in total, which looks like a lot, but after the dividends of the two people are over, they remove the investment and remove the borrowed money, and there is almost nothing left.
However, later Chen Xiaolu admitted frankly: "Although the first few years were difficult and bitter, this experience was a wealth in my life. ”
Subsequently, Chen Xiaolu established several companies and also founded a standard international investment management company, and he slowly made a sum of money, and even became the "richest man" in the eyes of others.
In his later years, Chen Xiaolu was not in good health, so he decided to give up his business and instead travel with his wife and friends to enjoy life.
Pictured: Chen Xiaolu and Su Huining
On February 28, Chen Xiaolu died of myocardial infarction and ineffective rescue, and his legendary life came to an end.
Throughout Chen Xiaolu's life, perhaps his achievements cannot be compared with his father, but his father's teaching to him has affected his life, he is open-minded, does not pursue fame and fortune, and obeys his inner thoughts.