Preface
Mao Zemin's wife is called Wang Shulan, and the two are generally old.
Wang Shulan married Mao Zemin at the age of 17. Later, after Wang Shulan was arrested by the Kuomintang army, she was locked in a prison cell.
She was also imprisoned by many progressives, members of the Communist Party.
In prison, a lady surnamed Luo handed over her 8-year-old child to Wang Shulan to raise. Because this Ms. Luo had already realized at that time that she could sacrifice at any time.
Wang Shulan did not refuse, she readily promised Ms. Luo that she would raise the child well.
Wang Shulan adopted the child, and soon after, Mao Zemin, who was far away in Xinjiang, learned about it. He once asked someone from Xinjiang to give gifts to his adopted son.
Mao Zemin and his adopted son Mao Huachu
After Ms. Luo's heroic sacrifice, the child followed Wang Shulan, and Wang Shulan changed the child's surname to "Mao Huachu".
After the second KMT-CCP cooperation, Chairman Mao and Mao Zemin both wrote to the children of Shaoshan, hoping that they would study and work in Yan'an.
In the summer of 1938, on the eve of Mao Huachu's trip to Yan'an, one dinner, Wang Shulan jokingly said to Mao Huachu: "Huachu, after you arrive in Yan'an, I know that you will shout when you see your uncle." But your dad hasn't met yet, do you dare to call him?"
Mao Huachu knew that his adoptive mother was afraid that he would arrive in Yan'an, and he didn't dare to call his adoptive father when he saw him.
Mao Huachu said: "You are my mother, I call your mother, of course you have to call your father when you see it!"
After hearing this, Wang Shulan smiled happily.
When Mao Huachu set off for Yan'an on the day he left, when Wang Shulan saw him off, she repeatedly advised: "Huachu, when you see your uncle and father in Yan'an, you must call it!"
Mao Huachu nodded again and again, thinking that his mother really regarded him as a child.
But after arriving in Yan'an, Mao Huachu learned that his adoptive father had gone to Xinjiang to work.
Although Mao Zemin is far away in Xinjiang, he has always cared for his children in Yan'an. At that time, Mao Zemin and Wang Shulan's daughter Mao Yuanzhi, who was also Mao Huachu's sister, also went to Yan'an.
In the winter of 1939, Mao Shunyi was entrusted by Chairman Mao to come to the Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission in Ansai, where Mao Huachu was located.
He told Mao Huachu that the third uncle (Chairman Mao) asked him to tell the fourth uncle (Mao Zemin) and told Mao Zemin that whether it was his own children or the children of martyrs, they should take care of them the same.
Soon after, Mao Zemin sent a pair of sons and daughters from Xinjiang to make cotton clothes.
Although Mao Huachu had never met his adoptive father, this love was engraved in his heart.
Mao Huachu listened to his adoptive mother Wang Shulan talk about his adoptive father's past
In his spare time, Mao Hua sometimes asked about his adoptive father's past. Although Wang Shulan is uneducated, she is very talkative.
When Mao Zemin was 14 years old, his elder brother Chairman Mao left home to study at Dongshan Senior Primary School in Xiangxiang, and later went to Changsha to study in middle school.
In this case, Mao Zemin dropped out of school and helped his father at home.
Wang Shulan said: "Your father has loved to help his parents work since he was a child, and his body is strong and strong, and he has inexhaustible strength. When he went up the mountain to chop wood, others picked 80 catties, and he picked 100 catties. In the winter leisure, he cooperated with others to extract oil, and he could push the big stone mill that only two people could push. ”
Wang Shulan said that Mao Zemin is not only capable, but also very charitable and kind. This was mostly learned from his mother.
Wang Shulan told her adopted son Mao Huachu two stories about Mao Zemin and his mother.
One is "return the fish". On this day, the careful Mao Zemin found fish scales on the edge of his fish pond, and by feeling, he thought that someone had stolen the fish in the fish pond while it was dark.
So, at night, Mao Zemin squatted in the dark and waited patiently.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the fish thief came again, Mao Zemin did not make a noise, and when the man returned after catching the fish, Mao Zemin quietly followed him to his house and brought the fish back.
After returning home, I didn't expect that my mother Wen Qimei not only did not praise him, but criticized: "People come to catch fish and eat because their families are too poor, just take two fish, how can you still chase them back!"
Mao Zemin has loved to listen to his mother since he was a child, and he turned around to send the fish back. At this time, his mother stopped him and asked him to bring some salty salt. Wen Qimei considered that poor families often don't even have salt, and they can't pickle fish without salt.
The other is to "return the ears of rice". One day, Mao Zemin saw someone pinching ears of rice in his family's rice field from a distance. Mao Zemin immediately ran over and snatched it up, and took the pinched ears of rice home.
When he returned home, his mother criticized him again. Wen Qimei said to Mao Zemin: "If people are not so poor that they don't have rice to cook, how can they do such a thing?"
In this way, Mao Zemin sent the ears of rice back.
From his mother, Mao Zemin learned to sympathize with the poor. When Mao Zemin grew up and was in charge of the household, he often helped the poor.
If it is said that when he was a teenager, his mother had the greatest influence on Mao Zemin, then when he became an adult, it was his brother Chairman Mao who had the greatest influence on Mao Zemin.
Mao Huachu learned about the relationship between his adoptive father and his uncle Chairman Mao from the mouths of the two mothers
Mao Huachu grew up in Shaoshan, and after participating in revolutionary work in 1938, he moved to the north and south, where he was received by Chairman Mao many times and got to know many revolutionary predecessors.
From the words of the old-timers, Mao Huachu learned that his adoptive father was a rare economic management talent in the party. He holds financial power, but he never seeks personal gain.
Mao Hua first thought that when he was a child, he and Mao Chuxiong, the son of Uncle Mao Zetan, went to school in the Mao ancestral hall. One day, when he came home from the abacus class, his adoptive mother said to him affectionately: "Your father Zemin is the best at abacus, and he can plan the abacus with both hands." You have to be as skilled as him to learn abacus. ”
After arriving in Yan'an, Mao Huachu went to visit his other mother, Qian Xijun, who was also the second wife of his adoptive father Mao Zemin.
Qian Xijun also educated Mao Huachu with Mao Zemin's words and deeds. She said: "Your father respects Chairman Mao the most, listens to Chairman Mao's words, supports Chairman Mao's work, as long as it is a task assigned by the party and Chairman Mao, no matter how difficult it is, he will find a way to complete it!"
Although Mao Zemin has handled tens of millions of dollars in his hands, he has always adhered to principles and is spotless.
According to the memories of the old comrade:
"In 1933, when Mao Zemin was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee, Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Caucus in Fujian and Jiangxi Province, one day, Gu Zuolin, Xiao Jinguang, and Shao Shiping went to Lichuan County to inspect the work. At that time, Fang Zhichun, secretary of the Lichuan Central County Party Committee, considered that everyone was very happy not long after the victory of the fourth anti-'encirclement and suppression', so he improved the food. ”
Although a meal only cost five or six dimes more than usual, when reporting the bill, Mao Zemin insisted on deducting Fang Zhichun's food expenses.
Mao Zemin is strict with others, and of course, he is even stricter with himself. It is said that he has been the director of the department in Xinjiang for more than 4 years, but his bag is still empty, and all his luggage is only an old suitcase and a rattan bag.
The vast majority of Mao Zemin's monthly salary was paid to the party dues or given to other comrades to solve difficulties.
After Mao Hua learned about his adoptive father's personality, he felt very nostalgic.
He once said: "How can such a good father not let me miss it forever! The cause for which you and countless revolutionary martyrs have dedicated their lives is developing vigorously along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and will surely continue to win brilliant victories!"
Reference: "Financial Leader, Two Sleeves Breeze"