You are gone, but when the begonia flowers bloom, there are often people who love flowers to see the flowers.
Before the flowers fall from the tree, everyone admires the flowers while remembering you and missing you, as if you are still among us.
You leave this compound, leave them, leave us, you will not come again.
Where have you been?
——" From the Begonia Flower of the West Flower Hall"
In 1976, Premier Zhou left the world forever because of bladder cancer, and his last love words to his lover Deng Yingchao were: "I have been an unswerving materialist all my life, only you, I hope to have an afterlife." ”
His life's achievements are beyond his reach, and he resolutely chooses cremation at the time of his death, and raises his ashes to the spring wind, unwilling to occupy an inch of land.
But it also made Deng Yingchao, who was in the place of extremely bitter thoughts, not even a wooden box that could hold sadness!
After Zhou Enlai left, because he had to take on arduous work and take care of her husband's various posthumous affairs, Deng Yingchao was rarely sad in front of people, and even Zhou Enlai's name was rarely mentioned.
But this did not prevent Deng Yingchao's heart from raining with thoughts every moment, causing her heart and liver to be eroded and rotted...
In 1997, Deng Yingchao's posthumous work "Memories from the Begonia Flowers of the West Flower Hall" was published, and everyone understood that this article, which was created in 1988, carried how Deng Yingchao's indescribable thoughts and pains were...
Every spring rain, every begonia, and even every drop of autumn rain in front of the window reflects the mood of a wife who misses her deceased husband!
Today, as one of the thousands of people who miss Premier Zhou, he can only restore his spirited and angry image through the written descriptions recorded and the various legends left by Premier Zhou.
Among them, Zhou Enlai's various diplomatic clouds and on-the-spot reactions that make people shoot the case are the most enjoyable things.
The diplomatic story about Zhou Enlai and his wife Deng Yingchao really exists in history, and the people present were fiercely shown by Zhou Enlai!
At that time, at a Chinese and foreign banquet, a foreign guest saw Zhou Enlai talking and laughing in the middle of the scene, and the reception and hospitality were not leaky, and his heart itched to make Premier Zhou also ugly, and it was best to fall into the altar of diplomatic genius from then on.
Therefore, the guest asked: "Premier Zhou, have you ever seen the most beautiful woman in the world?" ”
It is not actually polite to discuss a woman's appearance publicly on such a formal occasion, but the guest is sure that he has more say in this regard.
He comes from the West, has seen countless Hollywood beauties, as for the old-fashioned and stubborn Zhou Enlai, he has long heard that he is not close to women and does not spread gossip, so it is impossible to know the name of the world's first beautiful woman!
The foreign guest's sudden remarks did make Zhou Enlai stunned, but what he couldn't figure out was why this person asked such irrelevant questions, no nutrition and no grace.
Fortunately, however, Premier Zhou, with his rich diplomatic experience in the past, quickly recognized the other party's bad taste, and he thought about it a little, and then it seemed that Mao Zedong opened up the performance: "Of course I have seen it!" ”
When the other party heard this answer, he could not suppress the joy in his heart, thinking that he would soon see Zhou Enlai ugly, and he quickly continued to ask: "Really?" Who is it? Where are the people? ”
The foreign guests rushed forward, thinking about waiting for Zhou Enlai to say the name, he immediately proposed the name of a Hollywood female star, and pressed Zhou Enlai hard, it is best to demean a few words that he has not seen the world, it must be very interesting and powerful.
"The most beautiful woman in the world is my wife, and she is in my house right now."
Zhou Enlai was not afraid of the guest's endless pursuit, and he replied generously that Deng Yingchao was the most beautiful woman in the world, not only did not offend anyone, but also showed the demeanor and decency of a man.
The foreign guest was not dead hearted, he laughed heartily, with some sarcasm in his tone: "Madame Zun is the most beautiful woman in the world?" I've never heard of that. ”
"Yes, in the eyes of a lover, my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world, otherwise I would not have married her."
In three words and two words, Zhou Enlai not only blocked the foreign guests who deliberately looked for stubble into silence, but also naturally exaggerated a wave of beloved people, killing two birds with one stone!
Compared with this guest who casually commented on the woman's appearance, this Premier Zhou who put his wife on the tip of his heart anytime and anywhere undoubtedly won the unanimous praise of the audience and became the ideal of the woman who most wanted to marry!
In the early 1950s, when Premier Zhou set up a banquet in Zhongnanhai to entertain foreign dignitaries, he almost fell into a diplomatic crisis because of a dish.
Because there are many Chinese cauliflowers, many wind systems, and all kinds of colors and aromas, all visiting foreign guests are full of praise for China's local dishes.
In order to entertain the distinguished guests, Premier Zhou specially instructed the cooks in Zhongnanhai to carry forward the essence of Chinese cuisine and not to be stingy with any housekeeping skills.
At the dinner table, one exquisite dish after another was served, and the guests looked at it and ate it happily.
The main dish was almost eaten, and the cook served a very local ethnic soup dish, in which the stewed winter shoots, mushrooms, horseshoes and red cabbage were carefully carved into a vivid national totem.
For such a dish, several guests were very interested in picking up a spoon and preparing to enjoy it, but just as they put a piece of winter shoots into a bowl, the reverse pattern of winter shoots was the symbol of Faxis!
Obviously, such an unexpected situation was unexpected by several guests, who were shocked and did not know whether to continue to move this bowl of soup, and turned their heads to turn their doubtful eyes to Premier Zhou.
Zhou Enlai did not expect such an episode to occur, but as the host, he could not shout the cook up at this time to confront and hold accountable, thinking for a moment, Zhou Enlai, who came up with a way to deal with it, calmly explained:
"Don't look outside, this is not the symbol of Faxis, you all don't know, this pattern in our Country is a national tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years, and the sound is pronounced "ten thousand", which means a long life and is our good wishes to our guests. ”
"Moreover, even if it is a Faxis pattern, it does not get in the way, we all eat it with a spoon, which is the so-called elimination of Faxis!"
After Zhou Enlai's explanation and humorous solution, the tense emotions of the guests present also relaxed, and finally under the free and vivid enjoyment of everyone, a large bowl of soup was also drunk.
This other diplomatic anecdote also happened at the dinner table, dating back to 1957.
That year, the Soviet Union specially sent a powerful person to visit China, and in order to show his attention, Premier Zhou accompanied him throughout the whole process and enthusiastically led this guest to visit Hangzhou.
When I went to Hangzhou, I understood the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, and naturally I also had to taste the local jade plate delicacies.
Enjoying the fun all the way, when it came to the meal point hungry, Premier Zhou deliberately set a place in the "Louwailou" hotel outside the West Lake, ready to entertain distinguished guests.
Louwailou Hotel was already a century-old restaurant at that time, and it was famous for both taste and word of mouth, so Premier Zhou was very relieved to set the dining place here.
During the meal, everything looked the same, and Soviet officials also said that it was fragrant and evocative.
However, only Premier Zhou knows that today's meal is not "simple".
It turned out that when eating sweet and sour balls, Premier Zhou accidentally chewed a foreign body! In order to avoid making the guests suspicious, Premier Zhou did not show a strange look on his face, but calmly spit it on a paper towel.
However, Premier Zhou spread out the paper towel and found that this hard object was not a persimmon or a bone, but a piece of metal!
Eating metal objects on the diplomatic route was no small matter, but fortunately Soviet officials did not find anything unusual, nor did the same happen, otherwise it is uncertain how things would have developed.
After the meal, Premier Zhou specially instructed the secretary to investigate the ins and outs of the metal objects well, and if there is concealment, it will be severely punished.
The kitchens in the outer building were shocked into a cold sweat when they learned of this matter, after all, if there were really any uncontrollable consequences of this matter, it was something they could not afford!
In order to prove their innocence, the managers of the outer building checked and inspected the dishes, cleaning, mounds, and the chef before and after, but still did not come to a conclusion and had no clue.
In this way, the case can only be handled by the police in Hangzhou, who through the detection and analysis of the metal object, affirmatively said that this thing does not look like it will appear in the kitchen, nor is it high-tech.
Just when the case entered a dead end, Premier Zhou slapped his head and thought of a key clue, that is, his own teeth!
He touched his dentures, went to the dentistry to find a doctor to check it out, and found that the unknown metal object really fell from his dentures!
The case of metal objects that mistakenly entered the dish was finally revealed, and Premier Zhou realized that because of his own bad pool, all the employees of the building were panicked, and in order to compensate the staff of the building, Premier Zhou personally went to Hangzhou again.
He not only came to the back kitchen to apologize personally, but also set up a banquet at the hotel outside the building at his own expense and invited these chefs to dinner.
From the perspective of the before and after of this matter, in fact, Premier Zhou did not do anything wrong, and as a diplomat, it is reasonable that he will see the end of the matter for the sake of the friendship between the two countries.
On the contrary, he realized that he had misunderstood the chef and personally apologized, and the lack of leadership made him gain the admiration of the chefs in the outer building!
In premier Zhou's life and seventy-eight years, the legendary deeds left behind cannot be explained in two words.
In these immortal stories, we read the wisdom, fun and profound righteousness, feel the personal charm of Premier Zhou, and miss the warmth of Premier Zhou like a spring breeze.
Guotai Min'an, the prosperity is unprecedented, the begonia flowers, quietly flowing...