One day in 2010, a daughter went to the farm to visit her 78-year-old father, who was dirty and busy shoveling cow dung, and couldn't help but burst into tears and ask the old man loudly: "Why are you suffering when you live in a big house in Beijing and come here to suffer?" The old father smiled and said to his daughter: "Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, go back to the mountains to set up a cattle farm, others seem to be bitter, but for me to suffer is to enjoy happiness." You see, I'm in better health than I was in Beijing. Don't worry about me, it's all right. As he spoke, he showed his parched "muscles."
The old man's name was Li Lianqing, and the old man's daughter was named Li Yan. Li Lianqing gave up his treatment at the rank of deputy military in Beijing, gave up his comfortable life in Beijing, and returned to his hometown to start a business with painstaking efforts, just because he wanted to take advantage of his own ability to move and "serve the people wholeheartedly, and to live up to his status as Chairman Mao's former guard and to live up to Chairman Mao's experience of passing on his words and deeds.
In February 1932, Li Lianqing was born in Helu Village, Lubu Town, Gaoyao City, Guangdong Province. Helu Village is remote, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were bandits running rampant, so the wind of learning martial arts prevailed, Li Lianqing from childhood with his friends in the same village, learned martial arts to practice boxing, until the age of 18, the boxing technique was completed, became a famous local "boxing king". Everyone thought that Li Lianqing would practice martial arts and teach boxing at home, or go out to break in. No one expected that Li Lianqing's going out to break in was to sign up for the army!
The decision surprised the whole village, Li Lianqing, who lost his father at the age of 11, was the only adult man in the family, and he did not even consult his mother when he made the decision to sign up for the army. In the autumn of 1951, Li Qingtou picked up his bags and left his hometown without looking back. Years later, Li Lianqing recalled: "The country has needs, and even the difficulties at home must be overcome." Listening to my words, my mother did not say a word. After a few days, after completing the registration procedures, I picked up my baggage and went to the Zhaoqing Military Sub-district to report. No matter how long it takes, Li Lianqing has no regrets about his decision.
In 1957, Li Lianqing was selected into the Central Guard Corps as a guard for party and state leaders because of his outstanding performance in the army and excellent military skills. Li Lianqing summed up his experience as a central guard and said: "First, I am not afraid of suffering, and second, I am not afraid of death." Practice that treading water (one of the practical swimming postures), eat breakfast and go into the water, and when you come up, you will have lunch. The important tasks arranged by Chairman Mao require that no notes should be taken, but only with the brain, so as to prevent the leakage of central secrets. "Li Lianqing's ability to do so has paid great hard work. At that time, Li Lianqing was equivalent to what people called the "King of Soldiers".
Before becoming a soldier, Li Lianqing was a rural baby, herding cattle all day long to practice martial arts, and he went to school for two years, and his education level was not high. In order to keep up with the needs of work and to keep up with the trend of the times, Chairman Mao invited teachers to the guard regiment to teach them to learn cultural knowledge, and instructed Li Lianqing and others to learn cultural knowledge well so that they could better serve the country. Because of the Cantonese accent problem, Li Lianqing's Chinese Pinyin class has become a difficult problem: "Dial, slope, touch, Buddha." It's so hard that I have a headache when I think about it now. In order to keep up with the progress of his classmates, Li Lianqing often ran to the side of the road alone to practice hard.
While li lianqing was a guard, he participated in the study class and soon got a high Chinese certificate. This made Li Lianqing happy, and he was also a cultural person. In order to understand the real development of the grass-roots rural areas, Chairman Mao asked the guards to write a research report when they returned to their hometowns to visit their relatives. Members of the guard corps have twice a year the opportunity to return home to visit their relatives, and every time they return to their hometowns to visit their relatives, Chairman Mao will ask them to write a research report. At the same time as visiting relatives, he returned to his hometown to investigate and investigate, and saw the situation in the countryside with his own eyes. "Without investigation, there is no right to speak," this is Li Lianqing's "quotations from Chairman Mao" that are still fresh in his memory.
Although the guard regiment has two family leaves every year, due to the special work and the needs of the guard work, when his mother died of serious illness, Li Lianqing could not go home once. Unsuspecting villagers accused him behind his back, saying that he was unfilial and had no conscience. The pain of losing his mother and not being able to rush back, for Li Lianqing, was not tearing his heart and lungs, how heavy the blow was. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to complete, and under the principle of "the country is greater than everything, and the safety of the chairman is greater than all", those guilt and thoughts can only be turned into silent tears that dare to be released without fear until they hide in the bed.
Nineteen years later, Chairman Mao died, and at the age of 44, Li Lianqing began to serve as the head of marshal Ye Jianying's guard and continued to work as a guard for the central leaders. In 1986, at the age of 54, Li Lianqing was transferred to the Guangzhou Liaison Bureau of the General Political Department. Why didn't you continue to work on security protection? It should be the reason for getting older. After all, the fist is afraid of being young and strong, and it is not suitable for this work. In 1997, Li Lianqing retired, enjoyed the treatment of deputy military rank, and lived with his family in Beijing, without returning to his hometown.
In the Spring Festival of 2008, Li Yuanqing invited his childhood friend Chen Riming to Beijing to play and reminisce. When reminiscing about the past, the elderly Chen Riming shook his head at the backwardness of his hometown: there were only more than 400 people in Helu Village, the annual income of the village collective was less than 3,000 yuan, and the villagers were lazy and gambling became a common practice. After Li Lianqing listened, his heart turned upside down, his family was living a good life, what about the villagers? How come their days are still so hard. Li Lianqing did not rush to take action, but wanted to investigate the field and think about how to do something practical for his hometown.
Li Lianqing told his wife and children his thoughts, the whole family is difficult to understand, almost 80 years old, why are you still tossing these? Take some money to help, personally run a trip more "dangerous". Li Lianqing explained: "I left Helu Village as an adult, I didn't do anything for my hometown, and now my life is better, and I haven't left anything for my hometown people." I always feel that my hometown is calling for me, and the villagers need me. Returning to my hometown and benefiting the villagers, so that I have no regrets. ”
After the National Day in 2008, Li Lianqing took all his savings with him, carried "family's worries and uneasiness", and embarked on the road back to his hometown alone. After returning to his hometown, Li Lianqing's mood was both excited and sad: the situation in Helu Village was worse than that described by old friends, 97 households, less than a hundred people in the village, all of them were old people, women and children; the village mouth was piled up with garbage and no one cleaned up, and the originally clean river ditches were sewage; the roads in the village could not be walked when it rained.
Li Lianqing did not take action immediately, but wrote a "research report" in his heart, thinking about how he should change and solve these problems. What is the problem of the withering of the hometown? Li Lianqing's first move in changing his hometown was to adjust the village's ration fields that the village cadres were reluctant to move in the past. When Li Lianqing first adjusted the land, most of the villagers were not happy, and even said ugly words. Li Lianqing was not angry, let alone left, but worked diligently and earnestly, and gave Helu Village an earth-shaking "redecoating".
Under the efforts of Li Lianqing and the villagers for several years, Helu Village has completely changed: the village road has become a smooth and wide cement road in all directions; the village wine hall has been replaced with green bricks and green tiles and solid and thick roof beams, and there is a basketball court in front of the wine hall to provide a place for children to practice martial arts; the lotus pond has reappeared, ten miles of incense, and a row of banyan trees to shield the wind and rain. Helu Village became a "Sanitary Village of Guangdong Province" and a "Civilized Village of Guangdong Province", for which Li Lianqing spent his life savings and owed more than 100,000 foreign debts. In Helu Village, Li Lianqing repaired his ancestral house and donated it to the villagers as a "village library".
The village chief of Helu Village said: "After Lian Qinggong returned, the village was renewed, and the villagers also increased their income, and the fish pond alone increased the per capita annual income of the whole village by tens of thousands of yuan." These things are seen in the eyes and remembered in their hearts, and they are sincerely grateful and admired for Li Lianqing. After the appearance of the village was changed, Li Lianqing set his sights on developing the village's collective economy and increasing the income of the villagers.
In 2010, Li Lianqing and his grandson borrowed 1 million yuan to establish Yunfu Xingyao Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd., which mainly raises beef cattle. Because of this incident, Li Lianqing got a kind nickname "Commander Niu". Many people can't understand, why did Li Lianqing start a livestock company with such a long payback period? In fact, Li Lianqing has his own ideas, the livestock company has a long return cycle, but it can maximize the use of land, drive the income growth of villagers and promote local economic development.
Li Lianqing once confided in reporters: "Chairman Mao warned party members and cadres to serve the people, and I worked around Chairman Mao for more than ten years, and under the influence of his elderly family, I regarded serving the people as my lifelong pursuit. As an old party member, I still have a little energy to repay the people. Either way, I'm going to stick with it. The size of the cattle farm later developed to a very large, but Li Lianqing has always disliked being called his boss, he often said: "I am not the boss, or a worker, to help the villagers do something." ”
At the Second Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairman Mao said: "People always need a little spirit to live. "As an ordinary worker, Li Lianqing does the farm affairs that he can do; for example, three meals a day on the farm; for example, getting up at 5 o'clock to inspect the barn; such as finally leaving the cattle farm. Li Lianqing was very stingy with himself, but he was very generous to the public welfare undertakings and the difficulties of the masses.
Li Lianqing's deeds are like a continuation of the spirit of Chairman Mao in the past. He emerged from the mountain peasants in his youth and returned to the mountain peasants in his later years. Li Lianqing smiled and said to those who thanked him: "I am the son of a farmer. I came back not to honor my ancestors, nor to enjoy the fresh air, but to do something for the villagers in my lifetime. "China's prosperity and strength are inseparable from people like Li Lianqing."
Li Lianqing's deeds are not exactly the living examples of "getting rich first and getting rich later"?