Before his death, Chairman Mao gave an explanation to his life secretary, Zhang Yufeng, and Zhang Yufeng tearfully agreed and promised him that he would carry out it for a lifetime.
Later, Zhang Yufeng did this, and she was also recorded in the annals of the republic. What exactly did the chairman explain to her that year? Why did Zhang Yufeng have to spend his whole life executing it? We like the attention and look down.
Because the chairman did not go out much in his later years, if he wanted to understand his later life, he must understand from the people around him, then he must mention zhang Yufeng, the chairman's life secretary.
When she came to work with the chairman, he was already seventy-seven years old. In the eyes of outsiders, Zhang Yufeng is just a secretary, but in private, she can even debate and confront Chairman Mao over some issues.
Because of this, Zhang Yufeng gained the trust of the chairman, who also handed over the key to the private safe to her.
At this time, the chairman's physical condition is not as good as before, especially the legs are very difficult to walk, in Zhang Yufeng's description, when the chairman participated in Chen Yi's memorial service, he wanted to step on the car door steps many times, but he could not go up.
Others may not know, but Zhang Yufeng saw this scene and quickly helped the chairman to sit in the car.
In his later years, the chairman was full of illness, and thanks to Zhang Yufeng's care, the chairman was able to fight these hardships during this difficult time.
Although Zhang Yufeng is the life secretary of the chairman, the way the two get along is more like a father and daughter, without too much restraint and concern.
At that time, there was also a nurse named Meng Jinyun next to the chairman, who often came to check on the chairman's body. Occasionally, before she entered the bedroom, she heard the chairman shout angrily, you roll for me, I didn't expect it, Zhang Yufeng also unceremoniously replied, roll on!
The chairman's temperament is stubborn, his temper is relatively hot, and Zhang Yufeng, as a northeastern girl, does not hesitate to let go, and the two people often have a situation of mixing mouths.
It is precisely because of this that the two are like a father and daughter, because no matter how many contradictions there are, it will not affect the relationship between the two, even if there are many quarrels, Zhang Yufeng has never thought of leaving, she is still the chairman's most trusted person in his later years.
The chairman likes to read, this is his lifelong hobby, we often say that live to learn from old age, not many people do this, but the chairman has practiced this sentence with his life.
After the end of the civil war, there was no one to stop the chairman from reading, but a new trouble appeared, as the chairman's age increased year by year, his vision dropped rapidly, and for an old man who had relied on his eyes to see throughout his life, visual impairment was the most unacceptable thing for him.
Chairman Mao once said that it is possible to go a day without eating, to sleep without sleeping, and to not to read a book for a day. It was with this strong perseverance that the chairman struggled for a long time with the declining physical fitness.
Unexpectedly, bigger trouble arose, and the chairman was found to have cataracts. The chairman of the year was already eighty-one years old, and it was indeed a trouble to suffer from this disease at this age.
In that year, Changsha discovered the ancient tomb of Mawangdui of the Western Han Dynasty, unearthed a large number of precious cultural relics, and even books from the Western Han Dynasty. The Chairman was very excited when he found out, and immediately asked that the words in the book be sorted out and sent to his residence.
But in the face of the dense font, the chairman could not see clearly, which made him very frustrated. As the condition progressed, the chairman's eyes were close to blindness, and his attending doctor did not dare to easily start treatment.
At that time, cataracts were no longer too complex and difficult diseases, and medical technology had mature therapies.
However, Chairman Mao's age is too old, surgery has certain risks, an elderly person's surgery is even more risky, and if you want to do cataract removal surgery, you need to wait for the disease to mature before you can perform surgery.
During this time, Zhang Yufeng became the eyes of the chairman, she read to the chairman every day, the chairman sometimes spoke vaguely, the translator could not hear clearly, she repeated it to the translator.
But this is not a long-term thing, after many studies, the medical team decided to treat the chairman, but they gave up the traditional surgery, but took a less traumatic, safer needle pulling method, the expert who proposed this therapy is Tang Youzhi.
Before the plane landed, Tang Youzhi did not know who he was going to treat, and when he learned that it was Chairman Mao, he was very excited, but after seeing Chairman Mao, he felt very sad, because his old man looked haggard, and he was completely unlike the tough Chairman Mao on the radio. It can be seen that the pain of illness has brought torment to the chairman.
After the meeting, in order to ease their nervous emotions, the chairman also made a small joke to let everyone relax instantly. After a brief understanding, Chairman Mao began to discuss the disease and treatment with the doctors.
Tang Youzhi is full of confidence in his medical skills, he has personally treated more than 6,000 patients, including Prince Binnu of Cambodia, when he treated Prince Binnu, it was the most difficult operation Tang Youzhi had ever performed, because Prince Binnu always shook his head, and the frequency of shaking his head when he was nervous would accelerate, which added a lot of difficulties to Tang Youzhi, but he still succeeded.
But what Tang Yuzhi needed to face this time was not nervousness, but the chairman's unwillingness to do surgery.
Although this year, because the blind chairman's life has been greatly affected, he has always been reluctant to accept surgery, even if Zhang Yufeng persuades every day, he still never mentions the operation, only accepts conservative treatment methods.
On his deathbed, the chairman explained one thing to his life secretary, Zhang Yufeng, and Zhang Yufeng tearfully agreed. In his later years, the chairman suffered from cataracts, but the chairman resisted the operation, because he did not want to affect the work, but the illness could not always drag, Tang Youzhi was found again, this time, he came to do the chairman's ideological work, before seeing the chairman, including Zhang Yufeng and other staff are very worried, because the chairman has never believed the doctor's words very much.
After Tang Youzhi saw the chairman, he said two poems, the box hollow burning cassia pills and the golden needle a day of emptiness, these two sentences translated is that your condition is already very serious, just taking medicine is useless, you have to use gold needles for surgery.
After hearing these two poems, the chairman laughed and immediately agreed to tang Youzhi's operation on himself. With the chairman's consent, Tang Youzhi seized the time to make serious preoperative preparations.
After everything was ready, Tang Yuzhi came to the chairman's room, and the chairman at that time was lying on the bed, and it was rare to get a good night's sleep.
Subsequently, with the support of Zhang Yufeng, the chairman came to the operating room, which was transformed from the chairman's study, and after disinfection, the chairman underwent surgery here.
At eleven o'clock that night, the operation was about to begin, although Tang Youzhi was experienced, but the person lying on the hospital bed was the chairman, he still involuntarily tensed up, in order to ease his emotions, the chairman let Zhang Yufeng play the tape of "Man Jiang Hong" in the operating room, and under the rhythm of the music, the chairman completed the operation.
The whole operation was only four minutes, and before the chairman could return to his senses, Tang Yuzhi wrapped his left eye and the operation was completed.
During the whole process, the chairman's ECG monitoring did not fluctuate at all, which showed his composure.
After a day, the chairman can remove the gauze, but Tang Yuzhi knows the personality of the chairman, and once the eyes are good, they will definitely be busy dealing with the work and aggravating the fatigue of the eyes, so Tang Yuzhi told Zhang Yufeng that the gauze must be removed after three days.
After three difficult days had finally passed, Zhang Yufeng removed the gauze for the chairman, and the chairman finally saw the staff he was familiar with and called out their names one by one, and the chairman cried excitedly, because he had not seen the world for more than a year.
As Tang Youzhi said, the chairman immediately threw himself into the work again, and in order to prevent his eyes from being infected by contact with bacteria, Zhang Yufeng prepared three pairs of glasses for the chairman.
Because when the chairman was lying on the bed reading a book, he lay on his left side for a while and on the right side for a while, so Zhang Yufeng prepared three pairs of special glasses for him under the advice of the doctor, one without left leg, one without right leg, and one pair was normal, which could be used for him to sit on a stool and read a book.
The old man's sleep is originally less, like the chairman who needs high-intensity mental work every day will sleep less, even if he takes drugs, he still can't sleep for a long time, which Zhang Yufeng has a deep understanding, for his elderly, sleep is a big problem.
Chairman Mao paid great attention to exercising, but in his later years, his whole body was sick, so he could not continue exercising, and could only twist his head when he was tired, move his neck, and stretch his hands again.
He has heart disease, bronchitis, puffiness in his legs and so on. Later, everyone mobilized him to quit smoking, and he no longer read books, but lay loosely on the bed, leaning on a high pillow.
In 1975, the chairman ushered in his 82nd birthday, and he specially invited several comrades who had worked around him before, as well as his daughter and Zhang Yufeng, and several people celebrated his birthday in the chairman's room.
Even for birthdays, the chairman did not let them prepare too many meals, only a few more dishes than usual, and a bowl of longevity noodles.
The chairman's longevity noodles were all rolled out by Tian Shubin, but this time he just put the noodles into the pot, but an accident happened, the noodles were actually all broken, turned into a section by section, none of them were complete, all the masters present were shocked, especially Master Tian said with tears that he had never encountered such a thing in his life.
The chairman had a short meal time and was already waiting to eat shou noodles, Master Tian was very anxious, it was too late to re-roll out, he could only cook a bowl of noodles and give it to the chairman.
Perhaps the chairman noticed the strange appearance of the noodles, but he did not say it, and he ate very happily at this birthday meal and drank fathead fish soup.
On this birthday, Kim Il Sung sent the Chairman the Big Apple of North Korea to congratulate him. The chairman was naturally very happy to see the gift from his old friend, he looked at the red and big apple, and said to Zhang Yufeng, this apple left two, the other you eat it, he is always thinking about others.
In addition to apples, Kim Il Sung also sent a bottle of precious ginseng wine to the chairman, the Korean ginseng in the control of disease, relieve fatigue has a good effect, but the chairman does not drink a mouthful, in addition to not good at drinking, but also because the country at this time is in a difficult period, has always been diligent and thrifty Chairman, want to leave these ginseng to those who need more.
In this way, this bottle of ginseng wine was placed in the chairman's book room for several years, no matter how people persuaded, the chairman did not stick to a drop, and finally, the ginseng wine became a cultural relic.
The chairman never ate the taste of the mountains and the sea, and in his eyes, those things were not as nutritious as wild vegetables, and there was one more thing that was unbelievable.
Who would have thought that the only time in the chairman's life that the supplement he had eaten was glucose in a plastic bag or a glucose block in a small iron box.
This is also because of the doctor's advice, for the sake of his body, he is willing to carry a small box of glucose sugar cubes. It was already a luxury tonic for him.
Even the generous gifts sent by the indonesian overseas Chinese representatives, the whole thirty kilograms of bird's nest, the chairman did not even look at it, let alone taste it, he directly asked Zhang Yufeng to send the bird's nest to the Great Hall of the People as a reception for foreign guests.
In 1976, it was destined to be an extraordinary year, and the chairman was still suffering from illness. When the New Year came, Zhang Yufeng made a lot of dishes that he loved to eat for the chairman, but the chairman only ate a few bites occasionally, and there was no New Year's happiness on his face.
Not long after, the chairman said that I was full, and I went back to my room early to rest. Zhang Yufeng knew that the chairman's pain was not only the loneliness of his old age, but also the death of Premier Zhou.
In just a few short months, the chairman sent away Premier Zhou and Commander-in-Chief Zhu, and at this time, he was no longer a revolutionary leader who looked at the world, but a lonely old man who lost his best friend in his old age.
The grief of losing two of his best friends shattered him, and he was physically tortured to the point of anguish.
Since then, the chairman has often cried in the room, but he did not expect that on July 28 of this year, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Tangshan, the mainland, which caused great losses to the country, and countless people lost their homes in this disaster.
The chairman has not yet come out of the pain ahead, and has watched the land he loves suffer again, and the year 1976 seems to have made the world cry and let him cry.
In the last of this time, the chairman could only rely on nasogastric tubes to eat, but he still did not survive.
On September 9, the chairman was still checking the documents in the case of rescue, and as time passed little by little, his body finally could not bear it, and in the last few minutes, the chairman called Zhang Yufeng to his side and asked her to visit him every year.
Zhang Yufeng tearfully agreed that on this day, the great Chairman Mao passed away and left the cause and country he loved most. Until the last moment of his life, the chairman's heart still contains every person and every scenery in this Chinese land, and in the hearts of each of us, he will never be forgotten. Zhang Yufeng remembered the chairman's last instructions and visited him every year.