preface
Deng Zihui was one of the main founders and outstanding leaders of the revolutionary base areas and Soviet regions in western Fujian, as well as an outstanding leader in agricultural work in New China, and was praised as an expert in agricultural and rural work within the party.
But today, we will not talk about Deng Zihui's achievements and deeds, but about his family affairs -
In the 1950s, the story of Deng Zihui and Lin Boqu exchanging sons was once rumored to be a beautiful talk in Zhongnanhai. What's going on here?
Deng Zihui and the child took a group photo in Wuhan, and the person standing on the left in the back row was Su Sheng
Today's observation of history, we will understand the touching story of two generations of life parting from death, twists and turns.
Son of the Red Army
Deng Zihui had been married three times, Deng Yisheng and Deng Fangmei, born of Cao Quandi, and Deng Ruisheng, born of Huang Xiuxiang; Chen Lansheng had 7 children, but only 6 were raised, namely Deng Huaisheng, Deng Husheng (who died in the war in 1944), Deng Hansheng, Deng Jiansheng, Deng Xiaolian, Deng Xiaoyan, and Deng Xiaolan.
Cao Quandi
Deng Ruisheng, the child born to Deng Zihui's second wife, was named "Lin Bingsu" from elementary school to university, and was the son of Lin Baiqu, who later changed his name to Deng Ruisheng and became Deng Zihui's son, which is really an interesting joke made by history.
In 1934, before the Red Army began the Long March, the Party Central Committee decided to keep the children in order not to affect the actions of the large troops. Deng Zihui's lover Huang Xiuxiang had just given birth to a son, and he was raised by Lin Boqu's wife, Fan Lechun.
Fan Lechun also has a baby boy who was just born half a month ago. Fan Lechun wrapped up the two babies and rode a war horse from Ruijin to Huichang in the middle of the night, found his cousins Fan Meihong and Guo Fazai, and entrusted them to raise the child to adulthood. Later, Huang Xiuxiang died heroically, Fan Lechun also died of lung disease, and the whereabouts of his two sons were unknown...
Deng Ruisheng and Lin Susheng
Fan Meihong and his wife could not support two babies waiting to be fed, and out of desperation, the adoptive mother had to give one of the children to be raised. The two children, one big and one small, one strong and one weak, the adoptive mother loved the weak life, kept him by her side, and named him Fan Yide. The eldest child was given to Lai Zhaozhi and Mangu, who had no children and no daughters, and was named Lai Pingya.
When Lai Pingya was 5 years old, he went up the mountain to herd sheep and broke a leg, and his adoptive parents were so anxious that they tried to cure their son's illness. In the end, the leg injury was cured, but it was a little lame to walk.
At the age of nine, his adoptive parents led Fan Yide to the academy. At that time, he also remembered. At that time, the tuition fee was a load of millet, and the adoptive father did rice noodle business on weekdays, got up early every day, greedily, sold along the street, and worked tirelessly to support the family, and a load of millet was the family's ration for half a year.
"This boy is smart, we smash pots and sell iron to provide for his schooling!" Although his adoptive mother was illiterate, the whole family spent a lot of money to send him to school for education.
Child labor for work
At the age of 11, his adoptive father died of illness, and the burden of the family's life fell on the shoulders of his adoptive mother. The pillar was broken, the financial resources were cut off, the adoptive mother was really unable to provide him with schooling, and Fan Yide cut off his studies. But he always had to find a way out for the child, so later, the adoptive mother entrusted Someone to send Fan Yide to a shoe factory to learn art. At the age of 11, he has been working as a child labourer ever since.
"It was hard to be a child laborer." Deng Ruisheng recalled: "Every morning I got up at 5 o'clock, got up and first poured a urinal for the lady boss, brushed the toilet, and then went up the mountain to fetch water, from morning to night. I was thin and thin, and it was very difficult to carry a load of water, and once, I was tired and hungry, and I fainted and rolled down from the mountain, and I fell with a blue nose and swollen face. At that time, there were many child laborers and sleeping in bunk beds. In winter, several people covered a bed of broken quilts, and they could not sleep; In the summer, mosquitoes attack in droves, biting into large bags. After a few years of child labor, a few years of chores, and no one learned a craft. ”
It was not until the day of the liberation of Huichang that her adoptive mother told Fan Yide: "You are the son of the Red Army." ”
Chen Lan and Deng Zihui
Misidentification of parents
In August of the lunar calendar in 1949, 15-year-old Fan Yide and Lai Pingya were sent to Wuhan.
Deng Zihui and Chen Lan warmly welcomed the two children into the living room. Deng Ziwei looked at it carefully and asked, "Which of these two children is surnamed Deng?" ”
Fan Meihong's nephew pointed with his finger and said, "Chief, this Lai Pingya is your son, and Fan Yide is the son of Chief Lin Boqu." ”
That evening, Deng Zihui telegraphed Lin Boqu, member of the Politburo and secretary general of the Central People's Government, saying that he had found Fan Lechun's son who remained in Huichang. When Lin Boqu heard this news, he was greatly pleased.
At that time, Chen Lan realized that Fan Yide looked similar to Elder Deng and proposed to test the blood type first to find out the truth. However, Deng Zihui, a selfless Communist, out of a broad mind, did not want to give Lai Pingya, who had a disabled leg, to Lin Boqu, so he dissuaded Chen Lan. He renamed Lai Pingya Deng Susheng and has since treated him as his own son.
Deng Zihui
In 1950, Van Wasid was sent to Beijing. Lin Boqu and his wife Zhu Ming saw that Yide looked very capable, and their hearts were quite happy, and they immediately renamed their son "Lin Bingsu".
Deng Ruisheng has a deep memory of those days: "In the spring of 1950, I was sent to Beijing, and just after entering the house, Elder Lin touched my stomach with pity and said that this child suffered. I was small, malnourished, 15 years old, and looked like a preschooler. This is your father, uncle guard pointed to Elder Lin and introduced himself to me. Dad, I cried timidly, and Elder Lin took me in his arms and said emotionally, Child, it is not that Dad does not love you, it is that you are not born at the right time. It was the war years, and Dad couldn't take care of you, but Dad never forgot you..."
Lin Boqu said: "More than ten years ago, Elder Deng wrote to me and said that as soon as Jiangxi is liberated, we will find our son. Now that you're back, you've fulfilled Daddy's first wish, and your second wish is to send you to school. ”
However, at that time, Deng Ruisheng did not want to go to school, but only wanted to go to work quickly. Because he felt that he was 15 years old, he had only attended primary school for three years in the past, and then he was embarrassed to go to primary school. But Lin Boqu's attitude was very resolute: "No, now that the revolution has triumphed, how can socialism be built without culture?" ”
In the end, Deng Ruisheng made a request, saying that it was okay to go to school, but if he wanted to go to junior high school, he would go to junior high school. Later, considering that Beijing is a big city and the quality of education is high, he was afraid that Deng Ruisheng would not be able to keep up with the middle school directly, so he let him start from the sixth grade of primary school.
Limber Canal
On the day he went to report to school, the uncle of the guard told the principal that this was the chief's child, delayed, and now that he was older, he wanted to go to the sixth grade. The principal said, let's take the exam, and then came up with a few arithmetic problems. But the teacher's question Deng Ruisheng handed in the white paper, the principal had to say, the sixth grade is the graduating class, this student's foundation is too poor, first from the 5th grade to transfer it, with two years to make up for the class.
The principal finally gave two years of face. At that time, Deng Ruisheng was the oldest student in the class, from the day of admission, he vowed to study hard, but it backfired, and the next year he took the junior high school examination, Deng Ruisheng's name fell to Sun Shan. The principal talked to him and said that although you failed the exam, considering your special situation, you can go to the junior high school to try out. So in 3 years of middle school, Deng Ruisheng has been a trial student.
"After graduating from high school, I suddenly had a strong desire to become a soldier. Elder Lin was very democratic, and at that time he sought out Xiao Jinguang, the commander of the Navy. Uncle Xiao said, some of our junior high school students here are high-level talents, and after Graduating from Bingsu University, they will come to me here as a soldier. After graduating from college, I remembered Uncle Xiao's promise that year, but at that time, Elder Lin had passed away, and I went to find Elder Deng. Elder Deng asked me, are you a party member after graduating from college? I said yes a long time ago. He said that if you are a party member, you must obey the party's arrangements. I had nothing to say and accepted the organization's arrangement. ”
Limber Canal
Swap sons
Fast forward to January 1953, Deng Zihui was transferred to the Central Rural Work Department, and later vice premier of the State Council. The family lived in Zhongnanhai. At this time, Deng Susheng and Lin Bingsu met again. Every day when they returned from school, they both went to the canteen of the central leaders to eat.
With the passage of time, the uncles, uncles, and aunts of Zhongnanhai were familiar with this pair of baseball boys who remained in Huichang by the Red Army. But it was still Deng Yingchao, Kang Keqing, and Li Bozhao's careful hearts, and as soon as they saw Lin Boqu's wife, Zhu Ming, they smiled and said, "Alas, it is probably Huichang who has made a mistake!" You see that the longer Bing Su grows, the more he resembles Elder Deng, and the longer Su Sheng grows, the more he resembles Fan Lechun..."
Later, the General Office of the Central Committee sent someone to Huichang to find Lin Bingsu's adoptive mother Guo Fazai to investigate. It turned out that in order to comfort the heroic spirit of her cousin Fan Lechun, the adoptive mother at that time said that Fan Yide, whom she had raised, was Lin Boqu's son. Now, after the inspiration and guidance of the investigators, she finally told the truth: Lin Bingsu was the son of Deng Zihui, and Deng Susheng was the son of Lin Boqu.
Deng Zihui
On the first day of the first lunar month in 1954, the capital was immersed in the festive atmosphere, and in a peaceful and quiet courtyard, two regular customers, one old and one young, came.
"Elder Deng, I've paid you a New Year's greeting."
"Elder Lin, please sit in the house!"
The two elderly men walked into the living room hand in hand and beckoned their sons to sit on the sofa next to them.
"You're all 20 years old, grow up!" Lin Boqu looked at the two young people around him and said to himself, "Today to explain the historical situation to you, Lin Bingsu you should be surnamed Deng, Deng Susheng, you should be surnamed Lin." ”
Maybe the news came too suddenly, maybe it happened so strangely that the two young men looked at each other and were at a loss.
Deng Zihui
Deng Zihui said: "Today to make it clear to you is our responsibility and wish as parents. Now that you are grown up and have the freedom of choice, I have discussed with Elder Lin, what do you love by your surname, what your name is just a symbol, as far as revolutionaries are concerned, our responsibility is to train you to be the successors of the revolutionary cause, we do not want you to raise you when you are old, but there is no inheritance left to you, you are the descendants of the Party, you are the descendants of the Red Army, you must study hard and become useful to the revolution. ”
Later, Deng Susheng changed his name to Lin Susheng, and in 1962, Lin Bingsu changed his name to Deng Ruisheng. Deng Ruisheng returned to the Deng family and soon developed a deep love for Deng Zihui's father and Chen Lan's mother.
After several years of hard study, Lin Susheng graduated from the Law Department of Beijing University of Political Science and Law, and Deng Ruisheng graduated from the Department of Physics of Beijing Normal University. At this time, they did not forget the instructions of their adoptive mother, Aunt Fazai and Aunt Man: "You are a piece of meat in Auntie's heart, and you will come back soon after college." ”
When they asked to leave Beijing after completing their studies, Deng Zihui and Chen Lan sincerely told them: "It is a good thing that you are willing to return to the old areas, we are the proletariat, and what we eat, live and use is the public and the people." We have no property for you to inherit, and we will stand in the world in the future, and we can only rely on ourselves..."
Chen Lan and Deng Zihui
Later, Lin Susheng returned to work at the Ganzhou Intermediate People's Court, married Liu Famei, a farmer in Huichang, and the couple lived with their adoptive parents, Lai Zhaozhi and his wife, taking care of them to spend their old age happily. Lin Susheng worked in the grass-roots post for thirty years, and he never used the name of his father, Lin Boqu, to find a relationship and go through the door, until after retirement, he returned to Beijing to live.
Deng Ruisheng married his xueyou Gao Songxiu and was assigned to work in Hunan Xiangtan Xiazhi Electrical Machinery Factory, he worked as an operation engineer, his wife was a middle school physics teacher, the husband and wife loved each other, the whole family was harmonious, and often went to Huichang to visit Fa Tsai's aunt, making the elderly old man happy in his old age.
In 1972 and 1973, his father Deng Zihui and his adoptive mother Guo Fazai died of illness. In the 1970s, conditions were limited, and due to his long-term work in the motor factory, the X-rays ingested by Deng Ruisheng caused great damage to his body and affected his hematopoietic function, but he never complained.
After Deng Ruisheng retired, the pension was lower than that of the low-income households in Beijing, but he never complained, but rough tea and light food, thrifty food. In the face of reporters' inquiries, he always smiled: "Compared to my mother who died at the age of 24, compared to those martyrs who sacrificed like my mother, my life is already very good..."