On December 26, 1963, this day was Chairman Mao's 70th birthday, and the chairman, who had never advocated a birthday, rarely prepared a family banquet at the Juxiang Bookstore and invited four friends.
These four people are Zhang Shizhao, Cheng Qian, Wang Jifan, and Ye Gongqi.
Considering that several people are over 80 years old and have some difficulties in moving, the chairman specifically explained when sending out the invitation that he could bring a family member with him, of which Zhang Shizhao was carrying his adopted daughter Zhang Hanzhi.
At the banquet, several elderly people talked about the past and the future, the chairman was also a rare happiness, the chairman asked about the situation of several friends and children, when he heard that Zhang Hanzhi taught English at the Beijing Foreign Chinese College, his eyes immediately lit up.
It turned out that Chairman Mao had long realized that mastering English was very important for handling state affairs, and in the early years, Link of xinhua News Agency had served as his English teacher when he was a secretary next to the chairman.
In 1961, Link was transferred to another job, and Chairman Mao had been looking for another English teacher, when he heard that his old friend's daughter happened to be an English teacher, so he moved the idea of visiting the teacher.
Chairman Mao called Zhang Hanzhi to his side and asked, "Listening to your father, you have a very high level of English, can you be my English teacher?" ”
Hearing the chairman say that he wanted to be his own student, Zhang Hanzhi immediately widened his eyes, knowing that Chairman Mao could be said to be the faith of the people of the whole country at that time, and who dared to accept such a student.
Zhang Hanzhiteng stood up, shook his head like a rattle, and said nervously: "No, no, Chairman, how can I be your teacher at this level?" ”
Chairman Mao smiled slightly and said, "Don't be modest, I know my English level, it's far worse than you, you come to be my teacher, don't think I'm stupid as a student." ”
In this way, Zhang Hanzhi had the honor of becoming Chairman Mao's English teacher, and this experience became the most unforgettable memory of her life. And the end of her first marriage also has some connection with Chairman Mao.
It is said that Zhang Hanzhi's birth was not regarded as a happy event by her parents, zhang Hanzhi's mother was called Tan Xueqing, and she was also a famous beauty in Shanghai Beach that year.
Since Tan Xueqing's job is a sales clerk at the Counter of the Kang KeLing Fountain Pen Monopoly Of Yong'an Company, people who know her call her Kang Ke Ling Xi Shi.
Talking about Xueqing, in the strict sense of the word, is not a woman who keeps to herself, because she has a remarkable appearance since she was a child and is highly praised, she has developed a proud and arrogant temperament after adulthood.
In her heart, she talked about Xueqing's future man must not be a generalist, and later, a man named Chen Du broke into the world of Xueqing.
This Chen Du himself had no ability, but his father was a high-powered warlord Chen Tiaoyuan, young and golden, and Chen Du, who had a prominent family, was Tan Xueqing's ideal husband.
A woman who covets vanity and a lustful man just hit it off and lived a life without the name of husband and wife but with the reality of husband and wife.
Not long after, Tan Xueqing found out that she was pregnant with Chen Du's child.
Tan Xueqing was overjoyed, she felt that this child was her chance to marry into the rich, so Tan Xueqing showed cards with Chen Du and asked Chen Du to give her a name.
And Chen Du's reply to her was that it was no problem to marry into the Chen family, but it could only be small.
How could Xueqing, who was so proud as Talking, be willing to be a concubine and seek perfection? Therefore, he had a lot of trouble with Chen Du, and in desperation, Chen Du invited Zhang Shizhao, a well-known lawyer in Shanghai Beach at that time, to mediate.
We don't know what kind of agreement the two sides finally reached, but Chen Du, the child in Tan Xueqing's belly, does not want to raise him, and the selfish Tan Xueqing is even more unwilling to live with this burden.
The final result was to give the child to Zhang Shizhao to raise, and this child was later Zhang Hanzhi.
After Zhang Hanzhi arrived at the Zhang family, Zhang Shizhao was not bad to her, but as a hot lawyer at that time, Zhang Shizhao was very busy every day, so Zhang Hanzhi spent most of his time with this adoptive father's aunt.
But how many stepmothers in the world will be sincere to their children? Although Zhang Shizhao's aunt did not say that she was either beaten or scolded Zhang Hanzhi, she was far from loving.
It can be said that Zhang Hanzhi's childhood was very unpleasant, although she was well educated in eating and wearing, but she grew up in an environment that lacked the love of her parents.
A girl grows up in this environment every minute there is a possibility of blackening, but Zhang Hanzhi does not, even after experiencing the big wind and rain, she has grown all the way and become a beautiful, kind, cheerful woman.
The young Zhang Hanzhi was particularly fond of acting, and she dreamed of becoming a real actor after completing her studies, but her desire was soon erased by her adoptive father Zhang Shizhao.
At that time, acting was not a noble profession, as a celebrity on the beach, how could Zhang Shizhao allow his daughter to embark on this road, even if it was only an adopted daughter.
The actor could not do it, and Zhang Hanzhi, like most children, was forced by Zhang Shizhao to study hard.
In 1949, Zhang Hanzhi was in her third year of junior high school at Beijing Beiman Middle School, and it was during this time that she met her first husband, Hong Junyan.
This year, Zhang Hanzhi had just turned 14 years old, and once a college student from a foreign country held a dance party in a Western restaurant in Beijing, and it happened that Zhang Hanzhi was staying at the home of Hong Junyan's classmate Zhu Wenyu.
Hearing the news of the dance, Zhang Hanzhi, who had been outgoing since childhood, begged Zhu Wenyu to take him forward.
Zhu and Zhang have a very good relationship, Zhu Wenyu is really not good to refuse, can only take Zhang Hanzhi as a dance partner to the Western restaurant, the first sight of Zhang Hanzhi, Hong Junyan was attracted by this little girl dressed in red qipao.
It was just that Zhang Hanzhi was too young at that time, and Hong Junyan was embarrassed to take the initiative to open his mouth, and what he didn't know was that he also left a good impression on Zhang Hanzhi's heart at this dance.
Since then, Zhang Hanzhi can often appear in the activities organized by Hong Junyan's class, and everyone naturally has no opinion on such a young and beautiful beauty, and Zhang Hanzhi and Hong Junyan have developed into lovers.
As for the parents of both sides of the two people's interaction, Zhang Shizhao and Hong Junyan's cousin are already familiar with each other, and the Hong family's family lineage is not worse than his Zhang family, so the parents of the two families can be said to be happy to see their affairs come true.
Eight years later, Zhang Hanzhi graduated from university, and Hong Junyan was already teaching at Yenching University, and the two entered the palace of marriage in 1957.
Zhang Hanzhi and Hong Junyan are definitely talented women, complement each other, after marriage their lives are very happy, and in 1961 gave birth to their daughter Hong Huang, the family of three is full of sweetness.
However, later Hong Junyan's life changed drastically, became embarrassed, and then fell into the quagmire of extramarital affairs. According to Zhang Hanzhi's recollection, in order not to make her daughter sad, she has always adopted a forbearing attitude towards Hong Junyan's derailment.
Once, after a meeting, Chairman Mao took the initiative to talk to her and criticized her for not showing up and not being able to liberate herself, after which Zhang Hanzhi made up his mind to go through divorce procedures with Hong Junyan, which also led to Zhang Hanzhi's divorce by decree.
However, this claim has not been confirmed, but Zhang Hanzhi mentioned it in his own book.
In Hong Junyan's book, the end of his love with Zhang Han is another story.
In this story, Zhang Hanzhi is the one who sees different thoughts, and as for the two statements, it is the benevolent who sees the wise and the wise.
Zhang Hanzhi in this period has entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his work is very outstanding, coupled with his own high appearance, together with Wang Hairong, Tang Wensheng, Qi Zonghua and Luo Xu, he is known as the "five golden flowers in the diplomatic world".
Her boss was Qiao Guanhua, the famous foreign minister at the time.
Born in 1913 in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, Qiao Guanhua went to Germany for further study and received a doctorate in philosophy.
After returning to China, he continued to engage in journalism, joining the Communist Party of China in 1939 and going to Chongqing's Xinhua Daily in the autumn of 1942 to host the International Column until the victory of the War of Resistance.
While working in Chongqing, Qiao Guanhua met Zhou Enlai, and both admired each other's talents, and soon became friends, and under the introduction of Zhou Enlai, Qiao Guanhua met his first wife, Gong Peng.
Gong Peng is Qiao Guanhua's colleague, they have too much intersection in their work, and gradually Qiao Guanhua is attracted to this beautiful and intellectual lady, and Gong Peng is also fascinated by Qiao Guanhua's talent.
In 1943, Qiao Guanhua suddenly had a intestinal perforation, or Gong Peng first found Qiao Guanhua curled up on the bed, she hurriedly found a doctor she knew, Li Hao, and sent Qiao Guanhua to the hospital together.
In the days when Qiao Guanhua was hospitalized, Gong Peng has been taking care of him in the hospital, during this time together day and night, the feelings of the two have become more and more intimate, Qiao Guanhua recovered and asked Gong Peng to go to the home of his friend Feng Yidai, coincidentally, Feng Yidai's wife Anna is Gong Peng's classmate.
In the process of getting along, the attentive Feng Yidai couple keenly discovered the extraordinary relationship between Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng.
After the two left, Anna said to Feng Yidai: "You see if Guanhua and Gong Peng are born as a couple, in my opinion, they also have some meaning for each other, so let's help them." ”
In this way, with the help of Feng Yidai and his wife, Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng broke through the last layer of window paper and formally established the relationship.
When Chairman Mao heard about this incident, he laughed and said, "Born beautiful double flying swallow, thousands of miles of marriage are involved in revolution." ”
In the autumn of 1943, in this harvest season, their love finally blossomed, and the two joined hands in life under the blessing of colleagues and friends.
After the founding of New China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China attached great importance to foreign affairs, and in November 1949, the inaugural meeting of the New China Foreign Ministry was held, and Qiao Guanhua was appointed as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, thus standing on the diplomatic stage of New China.
Gong Peng also works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and both of them are very busy at work, the difference is that Gong Peng has to take care of Qiao Guanhua's life while working hard.
Although she herself was a woman who demanded progress, Gong Peng was willing to give up her position as assistant minister for her husband's sake and recommended Qiao Guanhua to the organization.
Later, due to various reasons, Gong Peng felt exhausted, and her health situation was not optimistic.
Qiao Guanhua saw all this in his eyes, how he hoped that he could bear the suffering instead of his wife, and let his wife and children live happily and worry-free for a lifetime, but unfortunately, qiao Guanhua at this time was already powerless, and could only watch Gong Peng weaken day by day.
In March 1970, Gong Peng fainted, and Qiao Guanhua rushed her to the 301 Hospital, but because the doctors rescued her in a not timely manner, after the operation, Gong Peng persisted in the hospital bed for a few months, or left a chicken feather.
Qiao Guanhua handled his wife's affairs with a sad mood, and for a long time in the future, Qiao Guanhua washed his face with tears, his mood was unusually low, and the death of his lover brought a huge blow to this big man who had once been in the diplomatic world.
Less than 60 years old, it is reasonable to say that it is the year of the fight, but he is full of vicissitudes and melancholy, and even if someone sees him behind his back and sees his slightly rickety body, the waddling pace will definitely think that this is an old man with a broken candle.
According to his friend Fu Hao, he once received a phone call from Qiao Guanhua, in which Qiao Guanhua cried lonely and complained about the pain of losing his lover.
Zhang Hanzhi broke into Qiao Guanhua's life during this time, and her appearance was like a ray of sunshine in the darkness, bringing a beautiful color to Qiao Guanhua's dark world.
Originally, according to Zhang Hanzhi's level, there were not many opportunities to meet with Qiao Guanhua, but once she attended a United Nations meeting with Qiao Guanhua, there was a conversation record that needed to be reviewed by Qiao Guanhua, and it was Zhang Hanzhi who gave this conversation record to Qiao Guanhua.
Entering Qiao Guanhua's room, Zhang Hanzhi was surprised, zhang Hanzhi had also seen Qiao Guanhua before, at that time he was full of vigor and elegant temperament, and at this time, Qiao Guanhua's face was lonely like an old man with a broken candle.
Zhang Hanzhi could not reunite the Qiao Guanhua in her memory with the man in front of her, looking at the sad man in front of her, she evoked Zhang Hanzhi's sadness, and even made her have a feeling that she was also a fallen person in the end of the world.
At this time, Zhang Hanzhi had not divorced Hong Junyan, and naturally would not have further development with Qiao Guanhua, but this did not prevent the two from becoming confidants.
Since the first conversation, the two have a feeling of seeing each other and hating each other, and Zhang Hanzhi does not dare to get too close to Qiao Guanhua, first, because of his marriage in name only; second, because the difference between his status and Qiao Guanhua is too large.
She was worried that if she took the initiative to get close to Qiao Guanhua, someone would say behind her back that she coveted Qiao's power and said that she had ulterior motives, so she could only hide her feelings bitterly.
Until Zhang Hanzhi's divorce, Qiao Guanhua found her, this time Qiao Guanhua finally plucked up the courage to embrace Zhang Hanzhi deeply into his arms, and Zhang Hanzhi also decided not to escape and completely accept this hard-won love.
Qiao Guanhua looked at the Biren with tears in his arms and said excitedly: "Let's not think too much, no matter how many difficulties there are in front of me, I will accompany you to face it." Listening to the lover's affectionate confession, Zhang Han muttered heavily.
This pair of men and women with vast differences in age and status are determined to come together, and there are blessings and more opponents, especially Qiao Guanhua's children, who react most violently to their father's desire to marry a woman who is not much older than them.
Because of this incident, the children quarreled with Qiao Guanhua, and Qiao Guanhua, who has always loved his descendants, was particularly tough this time, and finally preferred to drive his children out of the house and break off relations with them to marry Zhang Hanzhi.
At the end of 1973, Qiao Guanhua and Zhang Hanzhi married in a wave of doubts, and after marriage, Qiao Guanhua loved Zhang Han to the extreme, and any good things would be handed over to Zhang Hanzhi at the first time.
Every time Zhang Hanzhi returned from a meeting, the nanny would just serve a bowl of iced mung bean soup, which Qiao Guanhua asked the nanny to prepare in advance, a bowl of mung bean soup full of love, washing away all the fatigue of Zhang Hanzhi.
Qiao Guanhua also personally planted Zhang Hanzhi's favorite pear tree in the yard, and every spring, the tree was full of white flowers, and he would pull Zhang Hanzhi to enjoy the flowers under the tree and talk.
In 1983, Qiao Guanhua's old illness recurred and he had to be admitted to the hospital, and Zhang Hanzhi was wearing a clothes that accompanied him all day.
She did not want to leave her lover for a moment, even if Qiao Guanhua entered the treatment room, Zhang Hanzhi would also guard him, but no matter how much Qiao Guanhua was reluctant to his wife, in the end he still failed to overcome the disease.
On the occasion of his death, Qiao Guanhua tightly held Zhang Hanzhi's hand and whispered, "When you pray to the next year, can we be buried together?" ”
However, before Zhang Hanzhi could answer, Qiao Guanhua closed his eyes forever.
At this time, Zhang Hanzhi was only 48 years old, and after Qiao Guanhua's death, Zhang Hanzhi lived a semi-reclusive life at No. 51 Shijia Hutong.
In front of her friends, she is still the cheerful and lively Zhang Hanzhi, but every time in the middle of the night, she will look at the photos of Qiao Guanhua in the room and recall the bits and pieces of the two people who have been together.
In the 25 years since Qiao Guanhua's death, Zhang Hanzhi has been living alone, living in simplicity, and has not started a new relationship, she has spent most of her time writing books, 4 of which are in memory of Qiao Guanhua.
In 2008, Zhang Hanzhi was seriously ill, lying on the hospital bed, everything in the past flashed in front of his eyes like a movie, and finally the camera froze on Qiao Guanhua's smiling face full of pampering.
In the last days, Zhang Hanzhi made a decision to bury his ashes with his adoptive father Zhang Shizhao.
For this decision, the family members are very surprised, is this not against Qiao Guanhua's last wishes?
It wasn't until many years later that her daughter understood her mother.
Zhang Hanzhi did this because he did not want to disturb Qiao Guanhua's tranquility, so that their love would end in this life, and if there was an afterlife, they would grow freely and be happy each other.