One day in September 1945, FengZhen, Inner Mongolia. He Long, who was then the commander of the Jinsuining District, talked to the clerical staff officer of the headquarters of the 120th Division, and the content of the discussion was not a matter of official affairs, but a lifelong event of the staff officers.
He Long (March 22, 1896 – June 9, 1969)
This clerical staff officer was named Zhao Liping. A native of Dingxian County, Hebei Province, because her father was the old eighth road, Zhao, like her eldest brother and second brother, had followed her father and brother to make a revolution very early. Finally, in 1941, when Zhao Liping was 15 years old, he joined the Communist Party of China.
Later, she followed the large army to walk more than 3,000 miles to Yan'an to resist the university, and one day in 1944, Zhao Liping was called out by the instructor. At that time, Zhao's Seventh Branch of Kang University had two brigades. Zhao was from the second detachment, and the instructor asked her to meet a large group of male comrades. Several gay men sat on the ground when Zhao appeared in front of everyone. One of the men, after taking one look at her, took the lead and left the venue.
Afterwards, the instructor asked Zhao Liping, "Little Zhao, how do you see that person?" She replied, "Last time that person?" ”
That person was Zhu Qi, the only son of Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, who had four marriages, and his second wife was Xiao Jufang, who gave birth to a son for Zhu De in 1919, and was unfortunately killed by red diarrhea less than a hundred days later. Because Zhu De was running for the revolutionary cause and was afraid of affecting his family, his son asked Zhu De's successor wife Chen Yuzhen to take him. Since 1922, Zhu De has not returned to his hometown of Sichuan Shazhou. His family and Zhu were scattered.
Xiao Jufang (1885 – June 24, 1919)
It was not until May 1938 that Zhou Enlai brought a "stranger" to Zhu De, after Commander-in-Chief Zhu asked Zhou Enlai, who was stationed at the office of the Eighth Route Army in Chongqing, for help, hoping that he would inquire about the whereabouts of his family for himself.
Now when Judd saw the young man in front of him, the first thing he did was to make him sit down, and then he pulled his head over and caressed his right ear. After a while, Judd said excitedly, "Yes, it is my son, it is my son." It turned out that Commander-in-Chief Zhu's son had a slender birthmark between his right ear, like a "bolt horse pillar". Therefore, he named his son "Baozhu".
Although Zhu Qi was the only son of Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, he did not enjoy the privilege after meeting his father. They were arranged to do things at the grassroots level. In 1943, Zhu Qi participated in a battle in Wanshan County, Shanxi, and unfortunately suffered a right leg injury and fell into the "first class" disability. So he was transferred back to Yan'an and worked at the Seventh Branch of the Kang University.
Zhu Qi (September 1916 – June 10, 1974)
When Zhu Qi was 24 years old, his son's lifelong event made Zhu De's current wife, Kang Keqing, very worried. Kang and Zhu were married for more than ten years and had no children. Kang has always regarded Zhu Qi as his own son, so she asked Peng Shaohui, the principal of kang da, to help find one. After three generations of investigation, the name of the girls' class leader entered the shortlist of Principal Peng.
The first time they met, Zhu Qi fell in love with the beautiful woman in front of him at first sight. Principal Peng, who was a matchmaker, was anxious to ask Zhao Liping's opinion. The first time they met, Zhao actually didn't pay much attention to Zhu Qi. Peng saw that she was a little hesitant, so he said that Zhu Qi was the son of Commander-in-Chief Zhu... When Zhao heard this, he pushed back that he was only 18 years old and too young.
The parties did not agree, and the leaders did not rudder. After Zhao Liping graduated from kangda university, he was assigned to the seventh branch school and became a subordinate of Zhu Qi, mainly responsible for statistics, zhao Liping had to report to Zhu Qi, and met almost every day. Once, Zhu Qi said, "How about the two of us, did the organization talk to you?" Zhao said, "Your family officials are too big, our family is the common people, no." Receiving this reply, Zhu Qi did not ask any more questions.
In the autumn of 1945, Zhao Liping and Zhu Qi's unit was leaving Yan'an for Jinchaji, and before leaving, Zhu Qi invited Zhao Liping to visit his home, explaining that it was his mother Kang Keqing who wanted to talk to her.
Zhao Liping hesitated and asked her friend's opinion, who told her: "If you agree to fall in love with Zhu Qi, go to see you, if you don't agree, don't go." ”
Hearing this, Zhao Liping was even more embarrassed, and she thought to herself: "If you go to see the commander-in-chief with Zhu Qi, then it means that you agree to fall in love with Zhu Qi, if you don't go it is disrespectful to the old revolutionaries. ”
In his later years, Zhu De and Zhu Qi were married
After some consideration, Zhao Liping proposed a condition to Zhu Qi, that is, to take a few female friends with him, but Zhu Qi refused, Zhao Liping's stubbornness also came up, the conversation between the two was not happy, and after Zhu Qi returned home, he was sullen and unhappy to tell Zhao Liping's "ruthlessness".
Kang Keqing knows Zhao Liping's mood very well, because she was also born in a peasant family, and she also had many concerns when she married Zhu De at the age of 16, because of this matter, Kang Keqing had a little more inexplicable good feelings for this girl who had not met.
At that time, the 120th Division was the unit under the jurisdiction of He Long. The matter of Zhu Qi and Zhao Liping naturally reached his ears. Marshal He Long and Commander-in-Chief Zhu had known each other as early as 1927, and they had a very good personal relationship. Hearing about the son of the old comrade-in-arms, He Long planned to help Mr. Zhu.
He Long talked to Zhao Liping, and when he saw Zhao Qi arrive, he directly asked Zhao Liping when he would marry Zhu Qi, and as soon as this word came out, Zhao Liping was confused, she had never considered the marriage with Zhu Qi.
Zhu Qi and his wife with Zhu De
Looking at the confused girl in front of him, He Long then asked her age, and when Zhao Liping said that he was twenty years old, He Long pretended to be surprised: "Twenty, all twenty, still small wow?" ”
Zhao Liping did not dare to say a word, she knew that she could not escape seeing Boss Zhu no matter what.
Subsequently, He Long directly asked Zhao Liping: "How about getting married next week?" Zhao Liping fiddled with his braids for a long time before he said, "Since it is a matter decided by the organization, then I will do it." He Long still did not forgive, and replied: "Little devil, make it clear, if you don't agree, there is no way to do it." ”
Ten years later, in 1955, He Long went to Tianjin for a meeting, and invited Zhu Qi and Zhao Liping to meet at the hotel, at this time Zhu Qi and Zhao Liping had already had four children. He Long looked at Zhao Liping, who had a happy face, smiled and scraped her nose, and said, "If you don't get married at that time, you won't have these children." ”
In 1974, Zhao Liping was hit by her first blow in the 28 years she had been married into the Zhu family.
That day, when Zhao Liping dragged his tired body home from the unit, he found that her husband Zhu Qi had a heart attack and lay unconscious on the bed, and Zhao Liping quickly sent her husband to the hospital.
During the period when her husband was critically ill, Zhao Liping did not dare to tell Zhu De the news of his serious illness, because Zhu De was 88 years old at this time, and he could not withstand this stimulation.
Zhao Liping, who had suffered a double blow of spirit and body, quietly called Kang Keqing with tears and explained Zhu Qi's physical condition.
Kang Keqing was also very sad, and she called many times to inquire about Zhu Qi's condition, and also visited Tianjin twice. The mother-in-law's concern gave Zhao Liping great comfort, and after Zhu Qi's death, Zhao Liping held a simple memorial service for her husband without Zhu De. Later, Zhao Liping took the children to Beijing, and Kang Keqing greeted them at the door of the house, where she advised Zhao Liping to mourn and told Zhu De not to tell him about it.
Zhao Liping also held back tears, instructing the children not to let their grandfather know the news of his father's death, and then, she forcibly endured the grief and went into the living room, although she did not show any emotion, but the black veil on the children's arms was still exposed.
Zhu De was in tears when he learned of the news of his son's death, but he tried his best to suppress the pain, comforted his daughter-in-law to be strong, and to educate his children well, if he encountered difficulties, he must tell him, listening to Zhu De's words, Zhao Liping wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and vowed to face life strongly.
In the year of her husband's death, Zhao Liping was only 48 years old, and many well-meaning people advised her to find another wife, but she shook her head and refused, the only son of the Zhu family died, if she left again, then what a blow to her in-laws.
For more than a decade after her life, Zhao Liping worked alone in Tianjin, and it was not until she left in 1988 that she returned to Beijing to live with her mother-in-law.
On July 1, 1976, Zhao Liping had just returned to the office after the meeting, she heard a rapid telephone ringing, she picked up the phone, and immediately heard that it was the voice of Zhu Lao's secretary, the secretary told her that Zhu Laozong was hospitalized, Zhao Liping was anxious, and immediately rushed to Beijing with the child.
In a hospital room in Beijing, Zhao Liping saw his father-in-law lying on the hospital bed, Zhu De slowly greeted Zhao Liping and the children, his voice was very weak, Zhao Liping cried out at once, and now Zhu De and what she saw two months ago were almost like two people.
She couldn't believe how quickly her father-in-law's condition had deteriorated, just a few days ago, she had heard on the radio that Judd had received the Prime Minister of Australia, when his health was fine, how could it have deteriorated so quickly in just 5 days?
In the following time, Zhao Liping and all of Zhu De's relatives were guarding the ward, but Mr. Zhu, a prominent figure, never got rid of the intrusion of the god of death.
On the afternoon of July 6, 1976, Zhu De died at the age of 90, and his last words to his family were: Revolution to the end.