On December 3, 2009, an ordinary winter day in Beijing, Liu Pingping, who had been in a coma for 12 years, was weakening his vital signs little by little.
Despite the continuous advancement of medical technology, no one can stop the occurrence of such things as life, old age, illness and death. Liu Pingping's family sat around her, staring at the 60-year-old man for the last time so seriously and reluctantly.
When the ECG on the monitoring device gradually became a straight line, both the doctor and the family gradually understood the fact that she left. It's about the end of a woman who has been sleeping for 12 years and the final destination of her ups and downs in her life.
Her name is Liu Pingping, also known as Wang Qing. She is Liu Shaoqi's third daughter.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="453" > about fatherly love</h1>
On August 21, 1948, in a humble canteen in Xibaipo, 27-year-old Wang Guangmei married his hero, Liu Shaoqi.
Wang Guangmei
Don't look at Wang Guangmei is only 27 years old, but she is like the sentence written by Zhang Ailing, "Become famous early." When Wang Guangmei was in elementary and middle school, he was particularly strong in science and was one of the top children known as the "Three Kings of Mathematics" at that time. Even in the library in the Netherlands, there is Wang Guangmei's academic transcript, which reads four big words "Queen of Mathematics".
Because of her love for this country, Wang Guangmei gave up the opportunity to study in the United States and came to Xibaipo. It was also here that she met the love of her life, Liu Shaoqi.
Liu Shaoqi Wang Guangmei and his wife
After the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee in 1949, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China set off from Xibaipo to Beiping to prepare for the establishment of a new China. Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou jokingly called this trip to Beiping "to Beijing to catch the examination." And Wang Guangmei and Liu Shaoqi are also in the big team entering Beijing.
At that time, Wang Guangmei was already pregnant with Liujia, which was her and Liu Shaoqi's first child. Although Wang Guangmei and Liu Shaoqi did not know whether their first child was a boy or a girl at that time, they had already agreed that in order to commemorate the peaceful liberation of Peiping by the People's Liberation Army, the child would be called Pingping.
On May 13, 1949, a cute little girl came into this world. She is Liu Shaoqi's third daughter, Liu Pingping, who has been looking forward to by her parents. Compared with her brothers and sisters, Liu Pingping recalls her childhood, she has always felt that she is happy and beautiful.
Because of Liu Shaoqi's identity, from the time Liu Pingping remembered, she remembered that the family lived in Zhongnanhai. There was not only their family, but also a special and special number of uncles and uncles. Whenever young Liu Pingping went out to play and met them, the uncles and uncles would always stop and hurry to tease this cute little girl.
After the founding of New China, Liu Shaoqi's work was extremely busy, but his care for children was not less at all. But Liu Shaoqi is a person who has both principles and care.
After Liu Pingping went to elementary school, he was as smart and thoughtful as a little adult. When the teacher occasionally asked some rare questions in class, Liu Pingping would also raise his hand high, and then stand up and say in a crisp voice: "Teacher, I have an idea, but I don't know whether to say it or not." ”
Wait until the teacher nods and says, "You say." Liu Pingping would answer. And every time Liu Pingping answered, it was very reasonable and well-founded, and even sometimes it could make the teacher's eyes light up. The teacher understood that this must be because Liu Shaoqi and Wang Guangmei played a role in Liu Pingping's teaching at home.
Liu Pingping and his father's mother and sister
Liu Shaoqi not only taught his daughter very seriously, but also loved her very much. One year the school held a New Year's party, and the teachers and children rehearsed various programs. Liu Pingping has a lively personality and looks very cute, like a flower butterfly, following the teacher, carefully rehearsing the program, and even taking the classmates to practice the classical Chinese dance taught to her by her mother Wang Guangmei.
The day before the party began, Liu Pingping's homeroom teacher, Mr. Guan, looked at the empty classroom and always felt that something was missing. Teacher Guan suggested to the students whether they could bring some window flower things from home to decorate the classroom. Liu Pingping stood up very distractedly and proposed to the teacher: "Teacher, I can bring the Christmas tree ornaments that my father brought back from the Soviet Union." Dad said we were just Christmas, so these things weren't used at home. ”
Hearing this, Teacher Guan was very shocked, the Economic situation in China at that time was not good, like this imported goods from the Soviet Union, can also be given as a gift to Liu Shaoqi, it must be very precious. Therefore, Teacher Guan only joked when Liu Pingping made a joke and did not pay attention to it.
But no one expected that Liu Pingping would really bring this precious gift the next day. Teacher Guan carefully opened the box brought by Liu Pingping, which contained a set of exquisite and chic Christmas lights. Even though Teacher Guan is an adult, he still can't help but "wow" out with the children next to him.
Teacher Guan was a little shocked and asked Liu Pingping: "Pingping, when you take these things out, your parents agree, right?" ”
Liu Pingping looked up proudly: "Of course! Dad said, good things are to be shared with classmates! As soon as I said that, he asked my brother and sister to wrap it up for me. ”
Such a valuable and rare thing, Liu Shaoqi can very calmly give this lighting to his daughter, which also shows how much he loves his children.
But pampering is pampering, every time Liu Pingping makes some small mistake, he always can't escape the eyes of his father Liu Shaoqi. Although Liu Shaoqi travels a lot, whenever he returns to Beijing, Liu Shaoqi always has to play with Liu Pingping and talk about his heart, even if it is a big truth, it is also replaced by a way that his daughter can understand and communicate carefully.
Liu Shaoqi Wang Guangmei was with the child
During the three years of natural disasters, Liu Shaoqi was well aware of the difficulties of the country and the people, and he responded to the call of the state to start from himself and his family to save food and resources.
Liu Pingping was still in elementary school at the time, but he was already living in school. When she came home for the weekend, Liu Shao strangely called her daughter to her study: "Pingping, we will not make new clothes in the future, will we wear the clothes of our brothers and sisters?" Meat is also eaten less, and we can't waste food! ”
Although Liu Pingping has always listened to her father's words, this time she still can't help asking: "Why?" ”
Liu Shaoqi took his daughter into his arms and gently stroked her head: "Because our country is suffering from disasters." The grain in the peasant uncle's field was too small, and many people were hungry. If we don't save a little, more people will go hungry. ”
Liu Pingping seemed to understand and nodded, but from this week on, the nutrition that Liu Pingping could bring back to school was a small bag of fried soybeans, and it took half a day to bite open in his mouth. And she never wore any new clothes again, she picked up her brothers and sisters to wear leftovers, not only patches and patches, but even many clothes were somewhat short, even the legs of her pants were hanging.
Even so, Liu Pingping is still lively like a little magpie, enlivening the atmosphere among the classmates, and when he encounters which classmate can no longer bring food at home, Liu Pingping will carefully take out a handful of cooked soybeans from his cloth bag and unwind with the classmates.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="632" > gentle memories of Zhongnanhai</h1>
As the "Little Princess of Zhongnanhai", Liu Pingping's daily life is no different from that of ordinary people. If there is some change, it is probably that she grew up under the influence of the great people of that generation since she was a child.
When he was young, Liu Pingping was like a Fuwa, loved by everyone. Every time Peng Zhen, who was the mayor of Beijing at that time, saw Liu Pingping, he would always smile and nod Liu Pingping's forehead to tease her: "When you go home, you have to tell your parents that you want to change your name to Jingjing!" ”
Liu Pingping poked his head every time and said, "I don't want me not." ”
At this time, Peng Zhen always laughed more loudly: "Your ping is the ping that enters Beiping, and now Beiping has been changed to Beijing, so why don't you call it Jingjing?" Liu Pingping was speechless when asked, and could only hide aside.
Chairman Mao, in particular, likes to tease children the most, and every time he sees Liu Pingping, he always has to make a word shape of his finger and say that this is "Pingping". The children in Zhongnanhai know that Chairman Mao likes to swim, so everyone always wants to swim with Chairman Mao. Liu Pingping also followed, and those scenes were printed in his mind, and he could never forget them for a lifetime.
Chairman Mao swimming with the children
Chairman Mao always swam very fast, and Liu Pingping was young, and he could only catch up with the chairman and was hit by the waves of the chairman. Whenever this time came, Liu Pingping always couldn't help but giggle, causing the chairman to look back at her.
Perhaps because of this kind of courage and perseverance of "not catching up, we must also catch up", Chairman Mao was always extra close to Liu Pingping. Even when taking the children to watch Peking Opera, Chairman Mao would let Liu Ping sit closer to him.
Once, Chairman Mao took a few children to watch the Peking opera "Iron Bow Edge", which had many scenes of martial arts, and the children always seemed particularly excited and engaged. Liu Pingping was the same, holding his head with his small hand, and his eyes were wide open to look at the stage, as if he did not want to miss a shot.
Guan Sushuang's martial arts image
During the martial arts, the character played by the lead actor Guan Sushuang kicked his gun to the other side. Seeing this scene, Liu Pingping couldn't help but take a deep breath, even his head left his hand, and said with a look of disbelief: "How can you give weapons to the enemy?" ”
When Chairman Mao next to him heard this, he looked down with interest at Liu Pingping, who looked at him with a confused face, and the chairman did not explain the reason, but only quipped: "There is a view of class struggle." In the future, we can be a female premier of China! ”
Hearing these words, Liu Pingping's face immediately turned red. The little girl silently thought in her heart: "Prime Minister? What kind of prime minister? A prime minister like my dearest Uncle Chou? Then I can't do it. ”
To say that in the whole Zhongnanhai, Liu Pingping's favorite elder is Premier Zhou. He was like an example, standing tall in Liu Pingping's heart. Premier Zhou and Sister Deng are also very fond of children, they will also invite children from all over the family to play at home when they have free time, Liu Pingping's favorite is Deng Mother's fried meatballs, which can eat several in one go.
Sometimes Premier Zhou would play table tennis and make games with these little dolls, which was Liu Pingping's most joyful time. Liu Pingping always remembers that in the afternoon of 1963, Premier Zhou suddenly called Liu Pingping to take his younger siblings to play table tennis with him.
Zhou Enlai played table tennis with the children
They played in the courtyard of the West Flower Hall all afternoon. Liu Pingping was still wondering at that time, did Uncle Zhou not have to work this afternoon? Later, a long time after the incident, Liu Pingping learned that Premier Zhou learned from the intelligence department that day that Chairman Liu Shaoqi, who was visiting Cambodia that day, was facing a long-planned murder that day.
Visit Liu Shaoqi of Cambodia
Premier Zhou, fearing that the enemy would attack Liu Shaoqi's young children, immediately stopped all the work in his hands and brought the children to his side, just in case. Because all the work was carried out in a timely manner, Liu Shaoqi was safe and sound. After the telegram arrived, Premier Zhou asked the guards to escort the children home.
When Liu Pingping left with his younger siblings, Premier Zhou kept holding her hand and sending them to the gate. Also at the gate, Premier Zhou squatted down, looked directly at Liu Pingping, and said in a serious tone: "Love your father well!" ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="637" > memories of difficult years</h1>
At that time, Liu Pingping still did not understand how many difficulties and twists there would be in the future, waiting for this little girl who was not yet an adult to walk through one by one.
In the era when all the young people vigorously went to the mountains and went to the countryside, Liu Pingping, like other young people, became a young man. She was assigned to the Military Horse Farm of the Logistics Department of the Jinan Military Region at the mouth of the Yellow River, known as the "Northern Wilderness". It was also there that Liu Pingping achieved the fastest growth.
In those years, Liu Pingping was like disappearing for her former classmates, and no one knew her news. Knowing the class reunion in 1972, everyone met her.
Even when we first met, there were still many students who were not sure whether the person in front of them was their former classmate. At that time, she was so thin that she didn't even have a trace of flesh on her face. Once dark and shiny hair, now dried up like a handful of straw, tied behind by a black rubber band, not even a small braid can be braided.
However, it was in such a situation that Liu Pingping resolutely stepped on the train to the Beidahuang Army Horse Farm.
Liu Pingping during the Beidahuang Army Horse Farm period
Wang Wen was a classmate of Liu Pingping's students, and she always remembered that it was a winter night, and the winter in Beijing was always exceptionally cold, and there was a very cold wind outside. At that time, she was crouching downstairs at her house to fry medicine for her mother, when suddenly there was a soft knock at the door.
Wang Wen pulled the door open a slit, and was a little surprised to see that it was Liu Pingping standing outside the door. But Wang Wen still quickly pulled Liu Pingping into the house and let her stand by the stove to keep warm.
Looking at the girl in front of him whose hair was messy by the wind and her face was tanned under the dim light, Wang Wen always couldn't believe that this was the cute and lively Liu Pingping. Wang Wen poured a cup of hot water and stuffed it into Liu Pingping's hand, at which point Liu Pingping struggled to speak: "Wen Wen, I only returned to Beijing because of something." Now we have to rush back to the military horse farm in Shandong overnight. But I don't have any money, and my family doesn't know where to look. Can you lend me 15 bucks for a train ticket? I'll leave you an IOU and I'll pay it back! ”
Wang Wen knew that she was not the closest to the train station in her classmates, and she did not know how the girl who had once shined in front of her had walked here with a large bag of luggage in the middle of the night in Beijing.
Thinking of this, Wang Wen's eyes were a little red, "Probably remembering the handful of fried soybeans that PingPing handed me back then?" ”
She thought silently in her heart.
Looking at Wang Wenjiu without opening his mouth, Liu Pingping looked a little cramped. She wanted to say something, but she didn't know what she could say. Liu Pingping swallowed the hot water and said, "If it is not convenient..."
Wang Wen's thoughts were suddenly pulled back by these seven words, and she quickly turned her head and ran upstairs to find her father in the study. Wang Wen shouted as he ran: "Convenient, I will go and get it." ”
After listening to Wang Wen's description, the father upstairs didn't say much, just turned his head and pulled out a 50 yuan from the cabinet, and when he handed it over, he carefully said to his daughter: "You talk with Pingping, you don't have to write an IOU, and you don't have to pay it back!" It's okay to ask her to find a way to get some food for herself. ”
Liu Pingping was originally unwilling to take more, but it was Wang Wenhao who said evil things before he stuffed it into Liu Pingping's hands. Wang Wen turned out the flashlight at home, illuminating her way forward for Liu Pingping with difficulty.
The Zhiqing of the Northern Wilderness
Watching the little girl walking with her luggage on her back in the cold wind of Beijing, Wang Wen dropped a tear on her hand, and she gently wiped her tears, only to recall that Liu Pingping's hands had a lot of cocoons, grinding her tears down.
That night, Wang Wen couldn't sleep well. As soon as she closed her eyes, she could remember Liu Pingping curled up in a corner of the train car alone with his luggage. She didn't dare to think about how Liu Pingping had survived the days of loneliness, hardship, and even a person who didn't even speak over the years.
Beidahuang Army Horse Farm
Wang Wen later went to ask his father's colleagues working at Union Hospital, hoping that they could give Liu Pingping a way to open a certificate of illness so that this girl, who was in a fancy year like herself, could return to Beijing from the military horse farm. However, Wang Wen ran away for a long time, and in the end he still ended up without any problems.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="642" > to be a progressive youth</h1>
In those years at the military horse farm, Liu Pingping still remembers his father's teachings to himself and the letters his father wrote to himself. It's just that those letters can't be brought out, they can only be printed by Liu Pingping in her own mind, and when the night is quiet, she will recall her father's words in her mind over and over again.
Liu Shaoqi once wrote a letter on Liu Pingping's 14th birthday, and the content of this letter has always been printed in Liu Pingping's mind:
"We hope that you will be determined to be a progressive, revolutionary youth, with lofty communist ideals, with an ordinary and great communist spirit of Lei Feng, and can truly continue to undertake the revolutionary cause of the revolutionary predecessors." ...... Of course, there will be many difficulties in doing so, hardships, losses, grievances, and even sacrifices; but as long as you are truly determined to dedicate yourself to the great cause of communism, to build our country into a rich and strong socialist country, and to truly care about the cause of liberation of the people of the whole world, any difficulty can be overcome. ”
These words seem to be the driving force for Liu Pingping's hard work in the military horse farm in those years. Even in the dead of night, she put the flashlight into the bed, secretly studied and read in the narrow world of the bed.
It was in such a harsh environment that Liu Pingping not only completed his high school studies, but also completed his college courses. It's so tough, you can imagine.
But it was also in such a hard struggle that in the first year after the resumption of the college entrance examination, Liu Pingping was admitted to the university with his younger brothers and sisters, becoming the first batch of college students after the reform and opening up.
Liu Pingping, who became a new generation of college students, may be because of her experience in picking pickles in the military horse farm, which made her extremely interested in food research in the motherland, and later after arriving at the Food Research Institute, she was determined to make her own contribution to the food industry of New China.
In 1980, Liu Pingping, who worked hard and continued to struggle, was given the opportunity to go to the United States for further study. At that time, it was extremely difficult to study in the United States, and without the support of my family, it was difficult to live a better life in the United States. Despite knowing this, Liu Pingping went to a foreign country with hope.
Liu Pingping
Before leaving, Liu Pingping changed his name to Wang Qing and hid his identity. She rejected all the preferential treatment and care that might be enjoyed in the future because of her status.
Therefore, in those years in New York, Liu Pingping could only live in a very poor basement, where the sun did not shine in once.
In those years, among Liu Pingping's classmates, several of them studied abroad. In New York, they were very excited when they learned that Liu Pingping was also in New York, perhaps because of the longing for their hometown when they were in a foreign country, they invariably went to look for Liu Pingping.
When they walked into Liu Pingping's basement, everyone was dumbfounded. What a humble house it was, except for a mountain of books and a bed, a ball of yarn scattered all over the place.
Liu Pingping, who saw her classmates, was very excited, and she happily bought vegetables and cooked, and worked for half a day to entertain her classmates. After the meal, everyone sat on the floor of Liu Pingping's room and chatted, and at this time, everyone knew that so many balls of yarn were actually because Liu Pingping chose to work as a sweater for the sweater shop owner to earn his living expenses.
In the six years in the United States, Liu Pingping tried countless ways to work to make money, but he never thought of using his identity to make a little money.
Despite his difficult life, Liu Pingping got four degrees in the United States. These include a Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Science in Nutrition, a Master of Science in Nutrition Education and a Doctorate degree.
Even Professor Cassel, Liu Pingping's supervisor when he was a doctoral student at Columbia University, learned after reading the newspaper that his Chinese student Wang Qing was Liu Pingping, the daughter of Liu Shaoqi.
After learning the news, Professor Cassel couldn't help but make a phone call to Liu Pingping, who had already returned to China: "I understand now why you are so determined to return to your motherland." That's the homeland your parents used to work so hard for. ”
Liu Pingping, who returned to his homeland, continued to do his work at the Beijing Food Research Institute. At that time, the old Aunt Zhao in the family was always very distressed about Liu Pingping: "Pingping became the latest person to return from our family." Generally, you can't come back until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and it is also common to come back at eleven or twelve o'clock. Even when she gave birth, she was looking for someone in the hospital to talk about work. After giving birth, I took a month off and then continued to work. ”
It is also in Liu Pingping's efforts that in 1987, the first soybean milk production line in Beijing was put into production, and bags of fresh and concentrated soy milk became sought-after goods as soon as they were listed. At the same time, Liu Pingping's thesis was successfully passed in the United States, becoming the first thesis supervised by the supervisor to realize both theory and practice.
However, perhaps it is precisely because of such high-intensity work that Liu Pingping's physical condition is not very good. One day in 1998, because of the intensive work of several days, Liu Pingping suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma.
Although the family around him immediately sent Liu Pingping to the hospital, liu Pingping missed the best rescue time due to the traffic conditions and medical conditions at that time. Even if the doctor tried his best, he only saved Liu Pingping's life, but he could not change the fact that Liu Pingping had become a vegetative person.
For the sake of his sister's recovery and daily life, his younger brother Liu Yuanyuan took his sister to his home and took care of her personally. The younger sister Liu Tingting also went to accompany her sister while taking care of Liu Pingping's son.
It was under the careful care of his family that Liu Pingping, who had been in a coma for 12 years, quietly left this world in December 2009, in the winter of Beijing.
In Liu Pingping's memory, his father was busy, and after the changes in his life, this girl who had followed her father's example all her life never had the opportunity to ask: "Father, am I the kind of progressive, revolutionary youth you once wrote in your letter?" But perhaps the times have already answered the answer instead of Liu Shaoqi.