On July 29, 1986, Deng Jiaxian died of heavy bleeding at the age of 62.
Before his death, he asked his wife Xu Luxi: "In 30 years, will people remember me?" ”
In fact, whether it is 30 years or longer, the name Deng Jiaxian is destined to go on forever in history.
Because of him, China successfully designed atomic and hydrogen bombs, thus smashing the monopoly of nuclear weapons by hegemonic countries, and China has since stood up!
For this success, Deng Jiaxian, who could have easily lived his life, chose to hide his name for more than 30 years. It can be said that he devoted everything, including his life, to the development of nuclear weapons.
Cold window hard reading, do not forget the original intention
In 1924, Deng Jiaxian fell to the ground at a shuxiang mendi home in Huaining County, Anhui Province. His father, Deng Yijing, was a famous Chinese doctor of literature and a famous aesthetician.
As soon as Deng Jiaxian was born, his father had high hopes for this infant boy, hoping that he could make a big difference.
When Deng Jiaxian was 6 years old, the three warlords of Jiang, Feng, and Yan became more and more fierce, and the smoke of gunfire filled the air, and the domestic turmoil was unbearable.
At the age of 7, Japan launched the "September 18 Incident" in the northeast and began a war of aggression against China.
Six years later, Japan intensified its occupation of China, kicking off the prelude to the nationwide invasion of China.
Under the internal and external troubles, Deng told his son with a heavy heart: "Only by learning theory can we save the country, and we should not learn literature!" ”
This sentence may be controversial now, but it is true for China at that time, when China's science and technology were backward, and backwardness was to be beaten.
Deng Jiaxian (first from right) with his siblings
Deng Jiaxian witnessed the destruction of the country by the war, and even secretly participated in the anti-Japanese movement during his studies.
At the age of 17, Deng Jiaxian was admitted to the Physics Department of Southwest Union University with excellent results, but he did not expect that this move not only changed his fate, but also changed the development process of China's nuclear weapons.
When he was in school at Southwest United University, Deng Jiaxian could not eat enough at all, the food conditions were very poor, and sand and rice often coexisted in the rice bowl.
Even if it is such a meal, it must be eaten as soon as possible, otherwise it will be coveted by other students.
When Deng Jiaxian's physics department was doing experiments, Tsinghua University brought more than 200 boxes of experimental instruments, and in order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, they could only be buried under the village twenty or thirty miles away from the school.
That is to say, Deng Jiaxian and his classmates had to run to dig up the instruments twenty or thirty miles away every time, and when they were finished, they had to carry them back and continue to bury them, which consumed a lot of physical strength and energy.
The harsh conditions did not extinguish Deng Jiaxian's love for physics, nor did it change his determination to serve the country loyally through knowledge.
In college, he not only desperately studied physics, but also had an interest in English, which was ridiculed by his classmates: "What is the use of learning the language of foreign devils?" ”
However, Deng Jiaxian had his own plan, and he had long planned that he would go abroad to study in the future, and only in this way could he better serve the motherland.
After graduating from college, Deng Jiaxian went to purdue University in the United States to study, at that time he was full of vitality, his classmates ate, drank and played everywhere, and let themselves go, while Deng Jiaxian spent all his energy on learning.
He stayed either in the lab or in the library, and Purdue University in the United States awarded him the title of "the most hard-working student in history.".
It was this kind of hard study that allowed the course that originally took three years to complete was shortened by Deng Jia to 10 months a year, and he successfully obtained a doctorate.
This year, Deng Jiaxian was only 26 years old, and everyone admired him as "Dr. Doll". After graduation, Deng Jia was first retained by classmates and teachers in the United States.
However, the favorable conditions did not retain Deng Jiaxian's body and mind, and he resolutely returned to the embrace of the motherland and was ready to fight for the motherland for life.
(Deng Jiaxian returned to China)
At that time, china already had many outstanding scientific and technological talents, such as Qian Xuesen, who was known as the "father of China's science system" by the world.
The United States is afraid of Qian Xuesen, and they would rather shoot Qian Xuesen than release Qian Xuesen back to China, because they think Qian Xuesen can top 5 divisions.
What the Americans did not expect was that Deng Jiaxian's strength was also not to be underestimated, better than thousands of troops, and he successfully designed atomic and hydrogen bombs, which shocked the US leader Johnson at the time.
(Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian)
Devoted to nuclear construction, 28 years apart
In 1958, eight years after the founding of New China, Deng Jiaxian was 34 years old at this time, and Xu Luxi's wife entered the marriage hall for 5 years, and his life was stable and happy.
Everything is the appearance of the quiet years, Deng Jiaxian occasionally took the manuscript fee, and also took the children to the street to eat, drink and buy toys.
(Deng Jiaxian and his wife and children)
But on an ordinary day, he suddenly said to his wife: "Xixi, because of the job transfer, I have to leave tomorrow." ”
His wife, Xu Luxi, hurriedly asked, "Where to go?" How long to go? ”
(Deng Jiaxian and Xu Luxi)
Deng Jiaxian shook his head and replied helplessly, "Can't say." ”
No matter how hard Xu Luxi pleaded, Deng Jiaxian shook his head in response.
In the end, Xu Luxi compromised, and she only asked Deng Jia to leave a mailbox number to contact, but Deng Jiaxian also refused.
Xu Luxi is only 30 years old, his daughter Dian dian is 4 years old, his son PingPing is 2 years old, and the child is still in an ignorant age and needs the joint care of his parents.
Xu Luxi was still imagining a good life with Deng Jiaxian in the future, and Deng Jiaxian was going to an unknown place and did not know the return date.
Xu Luxi understood that Deng Jiaxian had something more important than his life, and only when this thing was completed, he would feel that he had completed the mission of life and would feel that his life was worthwhile.
As a wife she must support her husband. Therefore, Xu Luxi desperately held back his tears, and even though he was reluctant to do anything, he still helped her husband pack up his luggage.
But no one ever thought that this difference was actually 28 years.
In the past 28 years, the affectionate couple has only met a few times.
No one knows how Xu Luxi has survived these 28 years, and only she herself knows the bitterness.
She herself is a doctor, teaching and educating people in the anatomy department, serving as a professor and other positions, usually busy without touching the ground, and when she returns home, she has to take care of her two children, and even her aging father-in-law.
In addition to being tired, there is also mental tiredness.
People around her often pointed fingers at Xu Luxi, thinking that she and Deng Jiaxian divorced, or that Deng Jiaxian had transferred her affection and not to love, abandoned his wife and children, and fled away from other women.
For the hardships of life and the gossip of the outside world, Xu Luxi silently endured, she did not know what job her husband was engaged in.
But with her ingenuity, she deduced that Deng Jiaxian must have been working hard for Scientific Research in China, and she believed that her husband was the one who did great things and would make a splash.
Compared with his wife's hardships, Deng Jiaxian's heart is more bitter, he not only has to endure loneliness, but also endures the pain of not being understood, but also spends a long 28 years in the heavily guarded compound and the desert Gobi.
At that time, the work was carried out in absolute secrecy, which meant that Deng Jiaxian could not be reported, had to live a life of no one, and was not even allowed to publish any papers.
However, for the sake of the country's scientific research cause, Deng Jiaxian had no complaints or regrets.
Two bullets of the Founder, boiled until the oil ran out
In October 1964, China's first atomic bomb was successfully exploded, and Deng Jiaxian was indispensable.
After the atomic bomb broke out, Deng Jiaxian personally led the staff to the explosion site to sample to determine the final result.
Before he could enjoy the joy of success, he studied hydrogen bombs with Yu Min and others.
After the successful explosion of the atomic bomb, Deng Jiaxian and his team used 2 years and 8 months to successfully make a hydrogen bomb, creating the fastest speed in history.
Such results were exchanged for Deng Jiaxian's three shifts a day, and he often sighed: "Oh, one sun is not enough!"
But there were successes and failures, and an experimental accident made Deng Jiaxian change from a living tiger to a person who was sick.
Once, during the aerial bomb test, the parachute was not opened, and the atomic bomb fell to the ground and broke.
The staff conducted a carpet search, but none was found.
Deng Jiaxian, as the person in charge, was in a hurry, and he and some of the staff drove to find it themselves.
When found, he stopped the others from getting out of the car: "You're still young, don't go." I went to see what was wrong. ”
Alone, he ran to the fragment of the atomic bomb, carefully picking it up and examining the problem carefully.
Although he wore protective clothing, he was exposed to severe nuclear radiation.
(Deng Jiaxian and Zhao Jingpu, deputy director of the Second Machine Department)
Sure enough, after the inspection, when he wanted to walk back into the car, his steps began to be heavy, and he gasped heavily, and he realized that his life was passing at an accelerated pace.
But he happily reported to the other staff that he was safe.
This peace does not refer to himself, but to the people of the whole country.
After returning to Beijing, the leaders strongly asked him to go to the hospital for a physical examination, but Deng Jia first chose to delay, first because the cost of the physical examination was expensive, and secondly because the physical examination required time and energy, but he did not want to waste the slightest time.
It was not until his health deteriorated that he went to the hospital for a physical examination at the strong request of everyone, and the results were not optimistic, he was detected to contain radioactive substances in his urine and his liver was damaged.
However, Deng Jiaxian did not think so, and he continued to participate in the nuclear test and continued to work in Lop Nur .
Unexpectedly, after returning to Beijing, he fell ill, and it turned out that he unfortunately suffered from rectal cancer, and it was already advanced.
When he was admitted to the hospital, his wife Xu Luxi had a chance to take a good look at him.
After the decay and spread of radioactive plutonium, it tormented Deng Jiaxian day and night, causing Deng Jiaxian to sigh unceasingly: "I knew that this day would come, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly."
Xu Luxi was distressed by him, and constantly instructed the doctor to inject painkillers, hoping to alleviate his pain, and often whispered to soothe him, hoping to distract Deng Jiaxian's perception of pain.
During this period of taking care of Deng Jiaxian, Xu Luxi also obviously became old, which made Deng Jiaxian feel guilty: "Xixi, I'm sorry to come back to you in this way." ”
But even if the cancer cells metastasize and chemotherapy is needed, Deng Jiaxian still can't let go of his work.
Xu Luxi knew Deng Jiaxian, and she wanted to stop Deng Jiaxian from working so hard, but she also knew that if she didn't let Deng Jiaxian work, it would hurt 1,000 times more than the physical pain he had endured.
In January 1986, Deng Jiaxian had been told by the hospital that he could not undergo chemotherapy, which meant that he had to wait for death.
Although his life entered a countdown state, Deng Jiaxian was relieved, because he thought that he could finally go home to recuperate, and he could compete with life for time and spend more time on scientific research.
Deng Jiaxian decided to use the way of overdrafting his body to compete with life for time, and Xu Luxi witnessed her husband maliciously overdrawing his body for scientific research, and could only secretly wipe his tears.
On July 29, 1986, Deng Jiaxian was bleeding heavily, and the doctors struggled to rescue him, and Deng Jiaxian reluctantly bid farewell to this world at the age of 62.
As he lay dying, he said to his wife, "If there is an afterlife, I will stay in China and continue to engage in nuclear business." ”
It can be said that Deng Jia first survived for China's nuclear weapons until the oil ran out and died without regrets.
The lifting of the ban on Deng Jiaxian's name and his death caused a huge sensation in China, and it was only at this time that the world truly knew the hero of the two-bomb founding father.
After Deng Jia first became famous, many reporters came to the door to interview Xu Luxi.
When they saw that Deng Jiaxian's family living environment was so dilapidated, they were shocked.
In order to package Deng Jiaxian, they proposed to use Deng Jiaxian's photo to synthesize it into a luxuriously decorated mansion, so as to meet Deng Jiaxian's value.
But Xu Luxi did not hesitate to refuse, she knew that Deng Jiaxian's life was not for fame, not for profit, only focused on the spiritual world, not on material enjoyment. If you put him in the mansion, it will be a great insult to him.
Many people are very curious, Deng Jia first participated in nuclear construction, how much bonus did he get?
In fact, it was only 20 yuan, when the state issued a total bonus of 10,000 yuan to the entire scientific research group, which was divided into 10 yuan, 5 yuan and 3 yuan according to the level, and Deng Jia was the highest level of bonus - 20 yuan.
(Deng Jiaxian and Yang Zhenning)
Taking fame and fortune lightly and valuing the country is Deng Jiaxian's great righteousness of the country.
He does not ask for returns, he has the country in mind, he has never forgotten his original intentions all his life, he has hills and valleys in his chest, and he has devoted himself to the most dangerous and important national construction with the simplest feelings of home and country.
This spiritual force is endless and still inspires countless Chinese!!!
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The author | a vanadium
Editor-in-charge | Muyang
Typography | Li Yike
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