Commander Zhang lives in courtyard 24 Fuxing Road in Beijing.
At six o'clock in the morning, I got on the bus, turned a few buses, and didn't find the number twenty-four until after nine o'clock. No signs are hung on the gates. There were two soldiers standing at the door, one to the left and one to the right. As I walked in, one of them gave a military salute and asked, "Do you know what this place is?" I said, "You know, isn't this where Commander Zhang lives?" The soldier said, "Okay, please register." ”
Commander Zhang lived in courtyard 14. Seven questions and eight questions to find. Commander Zhang's wife Yan Bo said, after waiting for you all morning, why did you come at this time. As soon as I looked at my watch, it was ten o'clock. Commander Zhang was still sitting in the living room. We went in and sat for a while, Commander Zhang smiled and said: "Today is a little late, I have pleurisy, inhalation is a little painful, in the afternoon about an old Chinese medicine doctor to see, tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, how?" I said, "Okay." ”
This is a very kind skinny old man, and it is difficult to associate with the founding general who galloped on the battlefield.
Secretary Sun Jimin sent us out of the gate.
I'm really embarrassed and regret that I didn't find a hotel nearby yesterday. In order to arrive on time tomorrow, the Xiqu Academy Guest House cannot go back, and must find a hotel nearby to stay.
At six o'clock the next day I waited at the door, waited until half past seven, and knocked on the door at eight o'clock. Secretary Sun said to me: "I have lived with Commander Zhang for more than thirty years, he does not like to publicize himself, you said to write a biography he did not agree. I said, "In that case, let's talk." Secretary Sun said, "Well, Commander Zhang is ill, don't exceed half an hour." "Secretary Sun introduced me into the living room.
Commander Zhang's bare head was wearing a top cover the size of a small dish made of camel wool, which could just protect the heart of the brain. Although he is very thin, his eyes are still full of energy. The face is covered with age spots. Put some hemp paper on the table. Yan Bo said while cleaning up the table that Commander Zhang wrote big characters every day with our Yukou window paper. You see, she pointed to the stacks of written paper on top of the bookcase and said, "That's so much this year!"
Commander Zhang looked at me with very kind eyes and asked, "What do you want me to say?" I said, "I've interviewed Gao Changzhi, Gao Long, and Jia County's redness, and I already know a lot, and I want to know things I don't know now." ”
Commander Zhang was silent for a while and said, The revolution is done by everyone, you should not highlight me when you write, and do not just write about Jia County, northern Shaanxi has sacrificed so many comrades, if you want to write, you should write everyone into it.
In the process of Commander Zhang's speech, Yan Bo also kept interjecting, because they had lived together for more than forty years, and there were many things she knew. From eight o'clock to eleven and a half o'clock. Secretary Sun and Yan Bo constantly urged the old man to rest, but Elder Zhang just didn't listen, and when it came to emotions, the old tears were like rain, and they couldn't cry. It was time to eat lunch, and under Yan Bo's repeated urging, Elder Zhang left the living room. Yan Bo turned on the TV and said there was a video for me to see.
This is a feature film made by the relevant central departments for Zhang Dazhi. At the beginning of the film, it is said that in order to seek the complete liberation of the Chinese people, the Communist Party of China has produced countless courageous and insightful revolutionary heroes in the protracted and arduous revolutionary war, and has created a large number of revolutionary generals who are in the limelight. Comrade Zhang Dazhi, a member of the Central Advisory Committee and an old revolutionary man who is now in his prime, is one of the members of this general's genealogy.
At the end of the film, the voice also said that the old Ji Futuo was determined to be in a thousand miles; the martyr was in his twilight years and had a strong heart. Although Comrade Zhang Dazhi is old and has accumulated illness through hard work, he still studies tirelessly and works with all his heart. He was very concerned about the reform, construction and development of the motherland.
This film records the life of the elderly Zhang Dazhi.
After watching the video meal. During the meal, Elder Zhang asked about Baiyun Mountain, about the Guozhen Library, asked Ren Banghou, asked the leaders of the county party committee and government, and asked about the living conditions of the people. He said that the purpose of the revolution was to hope that the common people would live a good life. What else is there? Without. He also said that he still wanted to go back to his hometown, that is, the house of the county guest house was too far from the toilet, and he had to go up and down so many steps to go to the toilet at night.
Every day, Zhang Lao had to drink a small glass of shochu at lunch. The cup is not big, just the kind of small beaker used in the hospital. I asked what kind of wine was drunk? Yan Bo said, Xi Feng. I said Moutai wouldn't be better? Yan Bo said that he could not afford to drink, Lao Zhang was five hundred a month, she was three hundred a month, and the two people combined were eight hundred. It sounds like a lot, the cost is big, every Sunday, the children come, the grandchildren also come, and no one does not open the fire to pay for food. There is also electricity, room rate, very tight. Elder Zhang said, look at what you are talking about, no matter how tight it is, it is still tighter than the people? The wife stopped talking.
I suddenly remembered the question, Commander Zhang attacked the cow camel village, in the rain of guns and bullets, rushed to the front, is it really as Bin Er said that there are stars, have not been injured? Commander Zhang said that after the negative, he stretched out his neck and pointed with his finger, right here, the bullet swept away. I asked if there were any scars left? He said, no. After a few days it will be fine. I looked closely, and sure enough, there were no scars left. It's so dangerous!
After the meal, Yan Bo said to his wife that it was time to rest. Yan Bo said like a child. But Elder Zhang still refused to rest, and he came to the living room again, and actually lifted his legs on the chair like an old farmer with bare feet and opened the conversation box again. He said that one year when he returned to the store, the people wanted to talk to me, but the people with me just wouldn't let me. Very annoying. On the door, there was a sentry pressed on the side of the head. I said to them that we were born into death to fight the world for the people, and the world was laid down, but we were afraid that the people would come. Don't follow me like a meaty tail. I am the son of the common people, and they can't eat me! When Elder Zhang said this, I suddenly remembered two things about the folklore of Elder Zhang. The first thing is that one year Zhang Dazhi visited his home and invited the whole village to dinner. Zhang Dazhi arranged for the elderly to sit at the table one by one, ready to sit with them and eat, while eating and reminiscing about the past. Just after moving the chopsticks, his old wife came. Let them all go to the courtyard to eat. I asked if there was such a thing? Commander Zhang smiled and said, Yes. He said that my mother was actually well-intentioned. She said that these people are all suffering people, sitting with you, eating little by little with chopsticks, can you eat enough? One person gives a sea bowl, and he eats it in the courtyard, and once he eats it, he will let them eat enough. The second is that Zhang Dazhi went to the stone kiln to see the concubines, and people thought that Zhang Dazhi looked at the concubines, and the gifts must not be light, and only two hanging noodles were put in the end. After leaving, the people in the village all laughed and said, so big officials visited the concubines and gave two noodles! How can you get your hands on it? I asked if there was such a thing? Elder Zhang said, "There are also." He said: "Our Communist Party officials are not like the officials of the past." One man attains the Word, and the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven. I am still an ordinary person, wearing a soldier's costume is a commander, taking off this skin is a common man. I didn't go home and spend the state's money. Although I am a big official, I do not touch the light of the public family. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Qin Dan who did Zhizhou in our prefecture, and he was still able to do it, "only drink a scoop of water from the Lu river, and do not covet the people's half-literary money", let alone us Communists? Is this a principle, contrary to this principle or a Communist Party member? Is chairman Mao's statement completely thorough?
Yan Bo urged him again, laughing and saying, "His money, there are many holes to be filled, and whoever has difficulties and illness under his old subordinates will not be able to sleep, either to send this point or to which one." When the newspaper reads that there has been a disaster there, it is also necessary to read it. In 1960, he donated 2500 yuan to his hometown, playing generously. Therefore, people think that he does not know how much money he has. In fact, he was very magnetic, and a pair of leather shoes had been worn for twenty years and he was reluctant to throw them away. The old two argued endlessly, and finally Secretary Sun forced Elder Zhang to rest. I looked at the table below, at 3:30 p.m.
Secretary Sun sent me out of the gate again. Secretary Sun said: "Commander Zhang generally does not accept interviews. Because you came from your hometown, Commander Zhang promised to meet him. He was sick, and the doctor said to give him a good rest, especially not to get excited. I had expected you to meet for no more than half an hour at most, but who knew that he was so interested and talked so much today. ”
I think maybe he feels old and sick, and there are not many opportunities to talk to the people in his hometown, so it is difficult to catch a fellow countryman, and his words are also good! I can't wait to pour out all the words in my stomach. When I was parting, I clasped Secretary Sun's hand tightly and said, Take good care of our old commander!
Somehow, when I said this, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
Less than two years later, on May 28, 1992, I saw an unfortunate report in the Yulin Newspaper. Commander Zhang, who said we were, passed away in Beijing at 14:52 on January 15, 1992. The headline of the report is: The general has been cold all his life, and the heroic soul has returned to the homeland. The burial ceremony of General Zhang Dazhi's ashes was held in Yulin. I read the report with tears in my eyes. On May 25, the grass and trees in the Yulin Forest were filled with mourning, and the green mountains wept. Comrade Zhang Dazhi, an outstanding son of the people of northern Shaanxi, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a tried-and-tested communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary, and an outstanding military figure of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, returned to his hometown and was buried in this thick loess land where he once gave birth to him. Fulfilled his last wish to bury his ashes in Yulin...
The general was born in northern Shaanxi, sent in northern Shaanxi, buried in northern Shaanxi, and the soul of the soul returned to northern Shaanxi, and future generations will sacrifice to northern Shaanxi!
(Transferred from Yanyi Hall, Jia County)