On September 9, 1976, the great people's leader Chairman Mao passed away.
For the people, it was Chairman Mao who died of respect and admiration, but for Li Min, it was her father who died. After the death of her father, for Li Min, only her mother He Zizhen was left to let her worry about her stomach.
Before 1984, He Zizhen was hemiplegic and bedridden due to physical reasons, and at this time, he most needed the company of his daughter Li Min.
But when he needed to serve the soup medicine, Li Min was not by his mother's side?
So what are the four reasons why Li Min can't serve her mother?
Knowing that her mother was critically ill, why did Li Min almost make an old mistake?
Li Min, He Zizhen
Today's Brief History Archive will talk to you about this touching story.
Four reasons caused Li Min to be unable to stay with her mother
In fact, in the world, what daughter does not want to stay with her mother?
However, before 1984, Li Min did have to suffer, she really had no way to stay in Shanghai, especially long-term residence to take care of her mother, for four reasons:
First, the son goes to college, the daughter goes to primary school, and needs her care;
Second, Kong Linghua is not in good health, stomach diseases often occur, and he is always hospitalized;
Third, his own physical condition is not good, and he really can't take care of his mother;
Fourth, her life is not rich, and the travel expenses to see her mother are also a heavy burden for her.
Whenever she thinks of this, Li Min is always very sad, she is worried about her mother, but she really can't take care of her mother, her husband Kong Linghua looks at his wife every time sad, and always blames herself:
Li Min, Kong Linghua
"I'm dragging you down."
Kong Linghua was also very guilty, if his health was better, he could take care of the young children in the family, and he would not let Li Min have time to take care of his mother.
Li Min couldn't take care of so much, and now she had to take care of her body before she could take care of her family and mother.
However, Li Min soon found that his body was getting worse and worse, first his heart was often uncomfortable, then his lymph nodes were swollen, and then his arms were so painful that he could not lift them.
Slowly, Li Min began to have a nervous breakdown again, did not sleep well and ate well, and the originally rich body collapsed at once, and Li Min also laughed at himself and was really a little self-conscious.
Even if the illness is painful, but life is really difficult, Li Min and Kong Linghua are living on salaries, and the cost of the two children's schooling almost runs out of their wages.
Kong Linghua, Li Min
Although her mother's medical expenses are reimbursed by the public, her mother's personal expenses are not small, and Li Min is not embarrassed to open her mouth to her mother.
In order to save money, Li Min cooked cabbage every meal in winter, ate one meal, did not finish eating, and then ate the second and third meals...
Before eating, Li Min is reluctant to pour it out, the next hot meal is hot and then eat, adults can still, but the young Dongmei can not stand it, Li Min can only buy some cucumbers and tomatoes to deal with the cheap sale of Dongmei supplement nutrition.
One winter, a relative came to see Li Min and found that in such cold weather, Li Min was actually wearing not a pure sweater, but an acrylic weave.
Even so, the cuffs and edges of the clothes are also tattered, Li Min explained:
"I have good clothes, I usually don't want to wear them, and I keep them when I go out or come to wear them."
Li Min, Chairman Mao
Indeed, every year on chairman Mao's birthday, Li Min would wear the best clothes, and at the end of the day, Li Min would fold them up and collect them until the next year.
Therefore, it is not difficult to see that Li Min's life is really difficult, and it is no wonder that Li Min cannot stay by her mother's side to take care of her.
The central government sent Li Min 8,000 yuan in cash
Seeing Li Min's simple life, I believe everyone will have questions:
Didn't Chairman Mao leave a legacy for Li Min?
In fact, it can be said that Chairman Mao can be said to be rich, or he can be said to have nothing!
Chairman Mao, like ordinary people, has a fixed monthly salary, and the rest of the income is also used to spend on the expenses of the Party's activities.
Chairman Mao
Moreover, Chairman Mao's personal life is also very simple, and even the subsidy for food is only available to Chairman Mao when the person in charge of the Central Office makes a note.
Later, when Chairman Mao died, everyone naturally never mentioned the issue of Chairman Mao's legacy.
It was not until 1981 that the CPC Central Committee sent someone to find Li Min, learn more about Li Min's life and requirements, and see what help Li Min needed.
When Li Min heard these words, tears burst out of her eyes in an instant, and when Li Min left Zhongnanhai in 1961, Chairman Mao had given her a monthly subsidy of 60 yuan for living expenses.
Later, Li Min had a job, a salary, and immediately took the initiative to apply to stop receiving this money, and for so many years, Li Min has been relying on her own salary to raise her children.
Chairman Mao, Li Min
Now hearing the help brought by his father, Li Min can no longer hold back tears, not only for the warm heart of the comrades in the central office, but also for missing his father.
Then Li Min said to the comrades of the CPC Central Committee:
"I don't have any luxury, if possible, I just want the one that my father gave me."
Soon after, Li Min received 8,000 yuan in cash from the CENTRAL BANK OFFICE, in addition to a color TV and a refrigerator.
In addition to Li Min, He Zizhen also received 20,000 yuan in cash sent by the CPC Central Committee, and Li Min did not use the 8,000 yuan after learning about it, nor did he let his family use it.
After Li Min had money, the first thing she worried about was her mother's body, Li Min said:
"My mother is sick, I don't know when to use the money, I can't keep the money in trouble with the public, this money is left for my mother to use when she is in urgent need."
He Zizhen
Although He Zizhen did not use this money later, Li Min's filial piety made everyone see it.
Li Min heard that He Zizhen was critically ill and ill
On April 15, 1984, Li Min was lying in bed and fell ill, and she has been restless lately, resulting in an early loss of body.
At this moment, the CPC Central Committee office suddenly called Li Min, and the phone told him:
He Zizhen was critically ill and had prepared a plane ticket to Shanghai, asking Li Min's family to go to Shanghai immediately.
Li Min was stunned when she heard it, she couldn't calm down for a long time, she didn't know how she got up and Kong Linghua packed her luggage.
Soon, the car that picked up Li Min's family came, and Kong Linghua put his luggage in the car and helped Li Min into the car.
Li Min, Chairman Mao, Kong Linghua
Soon after getting on the bus, Li Min's old problem was suddenly committed, and all of a sudden his whole body became bloodless, his face began to turn pale, and he was constantly gasping for breath.
It turned out that Li Min had a panic problem for a long time, and this time when he heard the news that his mother was critically ill, he instantly hooked up the old problem again, and Li Min could only cover his chest with his hands to calm himself down.
Kong Linghua saw that his wife was ill and hurriedly called Dongmei over to comfort him, and Dongmei also cried and said:
"My grandma will be fine."
Slowly, Li Min was able to stabilize, and his face returned to blood color.
Everyone arrived at the airport, and soon the plane arrived in Shanghai, and a car was already waiting for Li Min's family, sending them directly to Shanghai Huadong Hospital.
He Zizhen, Li Min
Under the introduction of the doctor, Li Mincai learned that her mother had intermittently increased her body temperature in early April, and she had used a lot of drugs or not lowered her body temperature.
Then, under the leadership of the doctor, Li Min's family came to her mother's ward.
He Zizhen looked at his daughter's family and opened her lips with difficulty and said:
"Hello guys."
Li Min leaned down and gently asked her mother:
"Mom, how are you?" We'll see you coming. ”
He Zizhen tried to squeeze out a smile, and then looked at the doctor who treated her with her eyes, Li Min knew that her mother was introducing herself to the doctor who treated her!
Hermione
At this time, He Minxue's family also arrived from Fujian, and his daughter He Xiaoping, who lived in Shanghai, learned that his aunt He Zizhen was seriously ill and hurriedly notified his father to come to visit.
He Minxue has experience in the end, and immediately suggested that the hospital use Angong Niuhuang Pill for his sister after rushing to Shanghai, which is the best medicine for critically ill patients to reduce fever.
But after all, the Angong Niuhuang Pill was worth a lot, and He Minxue also thought of this layer, so he said to Li Min and the doctors present:
"If the hospital thinks the drug is too expensive to use, I will pay for it."
The hospital quickly denied that as long as it could treat He Zizhen, it was absolutely not afraid to spend money, so the hospital quickly used this medicine for He Zizhen.
Sure enough, He Zizhen's body temperature dropped!
He Zizhen, He Yi
Li Min only then relaxed her heart and left the ward to let her mother rest well.
The CPC Central Committee asked Deng Xiaoping on how to place He Zizhen in the aftermath
In the next few days, Li Min took her family to visit He Zizhen every day.
After He Zizhen's fever subsided, her consciousness also cleared up a lot, and she also introduced her daughter and son-in-law and little granddaughter to the doctors and nurses who came to check the room.
In order to supplement Dongmei's nutrition, He Zizhen also begged the nurse to bring Dongmei some delicious food and let Dongmei taste it.
He Zizhen's spiritual head made everyone, including Li Min, including the doctor, think that He Zizhen would slowly get better step by step, but no one could imagine that this was actually He Zizhen's return to the light.
On the night of April 18, He Zizhen's condition suddenly worsened, his body temperature suddenly rose twice in a short period of time, and the person quickly fell into a coma.
He Zizhen took a group photo
The doctors rushed to rescue and used various methods to wake up He Zizhen, and Li Min and Kong Linghua received the news and waited outside the ward all night.
Unfortunately, by the afternoon of April 19, He Zizhen still showed no signs of getting better, his heart beat weaker and weaker, and the electrocardiogram began to show it.
He Zizhen is dead!
Li Min burst into tears in an instant, knelt down beside her mother's bed and refused to leave her mother for half a step, and the relatives present also said goodbye to He Zizhen's body with tears.
At this time, a small car drove into Huadong Hospital, only to see a person get off the car and quickly rush to He Zizhen's side, it turned out that this person was Chen Guodong, the first secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee at that time.
Chen Guodong came not only to bid farewell to He Zizhen's body, but also to handle He Zizhen's aftermath.
Deng Xiaoping
What to do with He Zizhen's aftermath and where the ashes are buried, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee cannot settle these matters, and then the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee asked the CPC Central Committee, which in turn asked Deng Xiaoping.
Deng Xiaoping pondered for a moment and said:
"The leaders of our central government will send wreaths, and He Zizhen's ashes will be placed in one room."
As we all know, one room is the place where the ashes of the central leading comrades are stored in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, and Deng Xiaoping ordered He Zizhen's ashes to be placed in one room, which directly set the specifications of He Zizhen's funeral.
On April 25, the farewell ceremony of The remains of Comrade He Zizhen was held in the hall of the Shanghai Longhua Revolutionary Cemetery.
Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, Deng Yingchao, Nie Rongzhen, Yang Dezhi, Song Renqian, Yang Shangkun, Cai Chang, Kang Keqing, Chen Guodong, Zeng Zhi, Liu Ying, Kong Congzhou...
Deng Yingchao
These people came to send wreaths one after another to represent the memorial of He Zizhen's death, and after the local governments learned about it, they also came to send wreaths to represent the feelings of mourning.
In the afternoon, He Zizhen's body was cremated, and the central authorities specially sent a special plane to send He Zizhen's ashes, as well as Li Min and Kong Linghua's family, back to Beijing.
Li Min then escorted the ashes and placed them in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
He Zizhen left Li Min with three boxes of inheritance
From He Zizhen's critical illness, death, and farewell ceremony to the placement of his ashes, Li Min was really exhausted.
However, what makes Li Min most sad is because her mother did not leave any last words before she died, for which Li Min expressed remorse more than once:
"I saw that my mother had a fever, my mood was better, I thought my mother had passed the dangerous period, I didn't seize the time to ask my mother what else to say, I didn't expect the condition to suddenly change, my mother was in a coma, I couldn't say anything, I regretted it!"
Li Min, Kong Dongmei
In fact, how can this be blamed on Li Min?
Although He Zizhen did not leave any last words to Li Min, the instructions before his death were enough to express everything He Zizhen wanted to express.
There is also the problem of relics, among He Zizhen's relics, the most valuable is the large color TV and portable tape recorder left behind, but these two things, Li Min donated to the hospital.
In addition, all of He Zizhen's relics were left with only three boxes, and all the things were inside.
Of course, there was nothing valuable in these three boxes, half of them were He Zizhen's clothes, and there was a set of tweed uniforms, which were the best clothes.
In addition to clothes, there are also political books issued by the unit, letters and photos, and the rest is the invoice for the daily necessities purchased by the old cadres of the municipal party committee after He Zizhen was semi-paralyzed.
He Zizhen left his daughter with only 3,000 yuan in cash, but this 3,000 yuan, Li Min has not been useful, Li Min hopes, when the brother and sister are reunited one day, this money will also be given to them.
What a kind Li Min!
It can be seen that the most important legacy left by He Zizhen to Li Min is the spiritual level, and Li Min's treatment of people and personality are not all deeply influenced by her mother?
All this is because of He Zizhen's strict requirements for Li Min, who recalled that her mother had asked her to carefully read her father's books, especially the four volumes of The Selected Works of Mao Zedong, which must be read all over again.
He Zizhen said to her daughter:
"The Selected Works of Mao Zedong is a historical summary of the Chinese revolution, which contains a lot of revolutionary principles, Marxist-Leninist ideas, and if you study it, you will improve your political progress a step."
Unfortunately, Li Min was still young at that time, and he did not finish reading these four Xiongwen until later, but his mother's request still allowed Li Min to learn a lot of knowledge.
Now that her father and mother have passed away, Li Min has no one in the world to worry about.
In order to miss her parents, Li Min put a huge portrait of her mother He Zizhen on the cabinet on the east wall, and he Zizhen in the photo was white-haired and smiling so comfortably and kindly.
On the west wall, Li Min hangs a picture of his father Mao Zedong in Yan'an, showing Chairman Mao with his collar open and a smile on his face.
All this is as beautiful as looking at each other and laughing.
Li min
It seems that Li Min can harvest a lot of warmth in his heart.
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