One day in January 1959, Jin Juqing, a female worker at the Jiulishan Iron and Steel Plant in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, learned the shocking news: his boyfriend Zhou Rongqing turned out to be Premier Zhou Enlai's nephew!
Jin Juqing
Zhou Rongqing is also an ordinary employee of the Jiulishan Iron and Steel Plant, and Jin Juqing has been in love with him for half a year. But before Zhou Rongqing had never revealed his identity to Jin Juqing, Jin Juqing was surprised and a little angry, so he ran to question Zhou Rongqing: "Why didn't you say earlier that you are Premier Zhou's nephew?" You lie, your parents are farmers, they are too unsuitable, don't talk about it! ”
Zhou Rongqing quickly explained: "What if Premier Zhou is my uncle?" My uncle is my uncle, I am me. My uncle was strict and did not let me talk about my relationship with him. ”
Since Zhou Rongqing is Zhou Enlai's own nephew, how can he be an ordinary employee in the steel factory? This has to start with his background.
Zhou Rongqing's father, Zhou Enpu, Zhou Enlai's own brother, died at the end of 1944, and his mother Wang Lanfang joined the revolution early and was wounded while fighting guerrilla in northeast China. After the founding of New China, Wang Lanfang could not go to work normally due to injury and illness, and in order to reduce the burden of the state, Zhou Enlai said to Wang Lanfang: "You don't want to take the state's salary, I will take care of you in the future." Wang Lanfang followed Zhou Enlai's advice and retired early.
Zhou Enpu
After that, Zhou Enlai took 50 yuan from his salary every month to support Wang Lanfang until Wang Lanfang's death. Zhou Enlai once specially explained to Zhou Rongqing: "This 50 yuan is for your mother, no one should use it, you spend money to earn it yourself." ”
Zhou Rongqing joined the army when he grew up and worked as a propaganda and cultural officer at the Beijing Volunteer Military Hospital. In 1957, Zhou Rongqing transferred from the army, Zhou Enlai encouraged him to go to the grassroots level to learn scientific and cultural knowledge and labor skills, Zhou Rongqing transferred to a health school in Henan as a propaganda and cultural officer, and his mother Wang Lanfang also came to Henan with him.
Soon after, Zhou Rongqing was transferred to Jiulishan Iron and Steel Plant in Jiaozuo City and became an ordinary employee, he always remembered his uncle's requirements for him in the factory, and never revealed his identity to others, so later when Jin Juqing and Zhou Rongqing fell in love, he only knew that he was from Beijing, and did not know that he was Zhou Enlai's nephew.
In Zhou Rongqing's impression, he never bothered local leaders because of personal affairs, and the only exception was that his mother Wang Lanfang was not in good health and wanted to go to Beijing for medical treatment. But at that time, Wang Lanfang was already very ill and could not take the bus, so Zhou Rongqing had to call Zhou Enlai for help, and Zhou Enlai asked the secretary to call the local government and arrange a car to send Wang Lanfang to Xinxiang.
Zhou Enlai
Of course, the secretary did not disclose the relationship between Wang Lanfang and Zhou Enlai to the local government, he only said that Wang Lanfang was an old revolutionary, who was wounded during the war years, and now he wants to go to Beijing to treat his illness and ask the local government for help.
Returning to Zhou Rongqing and Jin Juqing, although Zhou Rongqing kept explaining, Jin Juqing's anger still did not subside, Zhou Rongqing had no choice, so he had to invite his mother, Wang Lanfang explained to Jin Juqing: "Good boy, how can he blow because his uncle is the prime minister!" When we came to Jiaozuo, the prime minister repeatedly explained that he would go his own way, do whatever he could, and not consider himself a relative of the prime minister! ”
Jin Juqing felt that this remark made sense, and after half a year of contact, she felt that Zhou Rongqing was humble, and there was no frame of a high-ranking cadre on his body, so she finally forgave Zhou Rongqing.
On May 10, 1959, Zhou Rongqing and Jin Juqing officially married, and Zhou Enlai and his wife, who were far away in Beijing, were very happy when they learned the happy news and sent them congratulatory letters and gifts. After marriage, Jin Juqing had 2 sons and 1 daughter.
On May 1, 1968, Wang Lanfang suddenly said to Jin Juqing: "Juqing, you accompany me to Beijing, I miss your uncle and seventh mother." ”
Jin Juqing was excited after hearing this, she and Zhou Rongqing have been married for 9 years, and they have never seen their uncles and aunts! Zhou Rongqing couldn't go to Beijing with him because he had something to do, so he found a car to send his mother, wife and children to Xinxiang Railway Station.
Because Wang Lanfang and others arrived late and did not buy a ticket, after getting on the train, Jin Juqing found a piece of cardboard and asked her mother-in-law to sit at the interface of the carriage, she held her 2-year-old youngest son, held her 8-year-old eldest son and 6-year-old daughter, and stood on the train for a day and a night before staying up in Beijing.
On May 6, Wang Lanfang took the family into Zhongnanhai, Deng Yingchao welcomed out early, she took the little son in Jin Juqing's arms, kissed him and said: "What a cute fat boy!" ”
Deng Yingchao and Jin Juqing
Deng Yingchao's kind smile made Jin Juqing relax a lot, and in the subsequent conversation, Deng Yingchao took Jin Juqing's hand and said affectionately: "I am also from Henan, we are still fellow countrymen!" "It turned out that Deng Yingchao was from Guangshan County, Henan Province, so Jin Juqing became the second Henan daughter-in-law in the Zhou family.
At about 12 noon, Zhou Enlai returned, and he said to Jin Juqing enthusiastically: "You are the first working class in our family and the daughter of a peasant, I still have to learn from you!" ”
After hearing this, Jin Juqing said excitedly: "Uncle, I will learn from you!" ”
During the lunch meal, Zhou Enlai asked Jin Juqing: "How old are the children?" What's their name? ”
Jin Juqing said: "The eldest was born on March 29, 1960, just in time for your visit to India, and named it Zhou Zhongyin; The second eldest was born on December 20, 1962, is a girl, when her mother-in-law dreamed of jasmine blooming and named Zhou Xiaoli; The third was born in 1966, and when you visited Vietnam, you took the name Zhou Zhongyue. ”
Zhou Enlai had dinner with his family
Zhou Enlai was happy after hearing this, and he said to Deng Yingchao: "This name is not very good. Deng Yingchao thought for a while and said: "Then change the name of the child, from oldest to youngest, it will be called Zhou Zhiyong, Zhou Zhihong, and Zhou Zhijun." ”
Since then, several children have changed their names according to Deng Yingchao, but after a while, Jin Juqing felt that the name of his daughter "Zhou Zhihong" was a little inappropriate, so he changed it back to "Zhou Xiaoli".
At the end of the 60s, someone saw that Zhou Rongqing was straightforward and wanted to rectify him, so they buttoned him with a hat of "opposing Premier Zhou" and locked him up. After Zhou Rongqing was imprisoned, he still did not say the relationship between him and Zhou Enlai.
Jin Juqing was anxious, and found those people and said, "Old Zhou is Premier Zhou's nephew, how can he oppose the premier?" ”
Those people mocked Jin Juqing and said, "I see that you are a toad who wants to eat swan meat, and you dare to climb Premier Zhou as an uncle!" ”
Jin Juqing had to go home and take out the photo of Zhou Rongqing and Zhou Enlai and his wife, and those people knew that what she said was true, and finally released Zhou Rongqing.
On January 8, 1976, Zhou Rongqing's family was having dinner when they suddenly received a telegram from Deng Yingchao:
When the premier dies, relatives in Beijing attend the funeral, and relatives in other places stay at their respective jobs and do not come to Beijing, this is the prime minister's arrangement.
Jin Juqing cried loudly after reading the telegram, and she was clamoring to go to Beijing to see her uncle for the last time. Zhou Rongqing held the door and said with tears in his eyes: "Since Uncle and Seventh Mother are not allowed to go, then we have to listen to them, so as not to make Seventh Mother angry again." ”
In the end, Zhou Rongqing's family did not go to Beijing, and soon after, Deng Yingchao asked someone to bring them a shirt that Zhou Enlai wore before his death, a pillowcase that he had pillowed during hospitalization, and a pair of underwear, Deng Yingchao also left a message: Uncle is gone, let you see things and think about people, turn grief into strength, and don't do anything sorry for Uncle.
1992 was another sad year for Jinjuqing. On January 15 of that year, Zhou Rongqing unfortunately died of illness at the age of 63; On July 11, Deng Yingchao passed away, and Jin Juqing heard the bad news on the radio, and she took her three children to Beijing to send her seventh mother on the last ride. Soon after, Jin Juqing and other relatives took a warship and scattered the ashes of Qima to Haihe...
The tomb of Zhou Rongqing
After Jinjuqing's three children grew up, only Zhou Zhiyong had a formal job, which was all made by himself, Zhou Zhiyong joined the army in his early years, and after being discharged from the army, he worked in the urban management detachment of Jiaozuo City, worked on the front line for 20 years, and was not promoted to a section-level cadre until 2010. Zhou Zhiyong's brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law are not working, and they rely on small businesses and part-time jobs to make a living, but they never go to the government to make demands under the banner of Zhou Enlai's relatives.
In 1989, Jin Juqing officially retired, and after retirement, in order to subsidize her family, she found a job to take care of bicycles in the municipal government's family home, earning 150 yuan more a month. When the people in the family home heard that Jin Juqing was Zhou Enlai's niece-in-law, they all expressed disbelief: "Premier Zhou's niece-in-law can watch bicycles?" Deceptive, right? She must be impersonating! ”
After hearing this, Jin Juqing smiled and said: "I think there is no shame in watching bicycles, I don't steal or rob, I support myself, and I feel solid in my heart." Besides, I was originally a peasant's child, and because I followed Lao Zhou, I had this uncle who became the prime minister! ”
Jin Juqing in his later years (first from left)
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