Lao Qin yesterday wrote an article entitled "Deng Shaochang: Deng Xiaoping's Father, Chivalrous, Extraordinary Insight, Killed in the Wild at the Age of 50", which mentioned that Deng Xiaoping crossed the ocean in September 1919 to work and study in France, and has never returned to his hometown in Guang'an, Sichuan. His loving mother, Tan Shi, died of illness in 1926, when she was only 40 years old.
Deng Xiaoping's father, Deng Shaochang, was only 40 years old at the time and "avoided disasters" in Chongqing. Later, after being introduced, he remarried the ship's daughter Shabergen.
Shabergen was a miserable and desolate woman.
Her mother died young, and she has been dependent on her father since she was a child.
The father and daughter live on a boat, live by fishing, and life is very difficult.
Born in 1899, Shabbogen was only five years older than Deng Xiaoping and married a shipwright at the age of 15.
No one expected that this boatman would have a short life and die of illness at a young age.
In this way, Shabergen became a little widow, living a difficult life and living a very difficult life.
Fortunately, with the help of well-wishers, she met Deng Shaochang and re-established a family.
After marriage, she gave birth to three daughters, Deng Xianfu, Deng Xianrong and Deng Xianqun.
It seems that it will be bittersweet, and the days will get better and better every day.
In 1936, her husband Deng Shaochang was poisoned by gangsters on the way back to Guang'an from Chongqing, and he died with hatred.
Shabbogen was not knocked down by life, she stood up strongly, and pulled her three daughters to grow up with painstaking efforts.
The three daughters of Sherbergen are not simple.
The eldest daughter, Deng Xianfu, and the second daughter, Deng Xianrong, both participated in the revolution in 1947, and even Deng Xianfu participated in the armed uprising in Huayingshan in the summer of 1948.
After the uprising was thwarted, Deng Xianfu led some of the guerrillas to his home to hide.
In order to rescue these guerrillas, Shabbogen was once arrested and imprisoned, and tortured by the reactionaries.
It was also during that time that Deng Xianrong was bedridden due to overwork and eventually died early.
Deng Xianfu applied for the Southwest Military and Political University in 1950 and worked in the government after graduating from university.
The most remarkable of the three sisters, Deng Xianqun, was admitted to the Beijing Experimental Middle School in 1953, admitted to the Harbin Military Engineering College from Beijing, and has been doing research work at the military academy, being awarded the rank of colonel in 1988, and promoted to the rank of major general five years later. Her husband, Akira Kurizen, was deputy chief of staff of the Second Artillery Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in July 1993.
Then again, in the second half of 1949, Deng Xiaoping and Liu Bocheng led Liu Deng's army and the Eighteenth Corps under he long's command to march in two ways, successfully liberating Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, and Xikang.
Subsequently, Deng Xiaoping was appointed first secretary of the Southwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairman of the Southwest Military and Political Committee, and political commissar of the Southwest Military Region.
Deng Xiaoping's uncle Tan Yixing was born in 1900, only 4 years older than Deng Xiaoping, and had a good friendship with Deng Xiaoping since childhood, and had a deep affection.
In the spring of 1950, when he heard that Deng Xiaoping was in charge of the southwest, he asked Deng Xiaoping's stepmother, Xia Bogen, to go to Chongqing with him.
The uncle and nephew have been separated for more than 30 years, and they have been reunited for a long time, so naturally there are endless words.
They fondly reminisced about the past, and unconsciously snubbed Shabogen, who was sitting nearby.
In fact, Deng Xiaoping did not know that he had such a stepmother.
Fortunately, Deng Xiaoping's wife Zhuo Lin returned, saw Xia Bogen sitting very restrainedly, and came over to bring tea and water, and warmly welcomed.
At this time, Tan Yixing remembered Xia Bogen, and he raised his hand to hit his mouth repeatedly, saying, "Damn, damn, forget the important things." ”
After slapping his mouth, he introduced himself to Deng Xiaoping in a straight face: "This is your stepmother Xia Bogen, over the years, it has been really difficult for her, and you Deng family rely on her alone to handle it inside and out..."
Shabogen was embarrassed to hear Tan Yixing praising himself, and interrupted, "Uncle, don't you say it." ”
She turned her head to Deng Xiaoping and said, "When I heard that you had returned, I just wanted to come and see you, and I had no other meaning." ”
When Deng Xiaoping heard his uncle's words, he seriously examined this rural woman who was only a few years older than himself, and said categorically: "Mother Xia, since you have come, stay here, we will live together, and we will give you a pension in the future!" ”
When Shabergen heard the three words "Mother Xia", his body trembled a little, and his eyes immediately turned red.
Deng Xiaoping and Zhuo Lin had five children, the eldest daughter Deng Lin was born in 1941, the eldest son Deng Pufang was born in 1943, the second daughter Deng Nan was born in 1947, and the third daughter Deng Rong was born in January 1950. The second son, Deng Tianfang, was born in 1952.
After Sherbergen stayed, Deng Xiaoping and Zhuo Lin taught the children to call Xia Bogen "Grandma.".
The children called "grandma" affectionately, and Deng Xiaoping and Zhuo Lin also called Xia Bogen "grandma" along with the children, and the whole family was happy and intimate.
In 1952, Deng Xiaoping transferred to the central government and moved his family to Beijing. Shabergen asked with some uneasiness, "Will I go too?" Zhuo Lin grabbed her hand and said, "Of course, we are a family, we can't be separated, we are together everywhere." ”
Deng Xiaoping later went to Jiangxi to work, and he specifically asked Wang Dongxing for instructions, asking to bring his stepmother with him.
He said to Zhuo Lin: "The three of us support each other, and none of us can survive without one." ”
Deng Xiaoping returned to Beijing to work again, the third generation of the Deng family has grown up, Xia Bogen continued to help bring the fourth generation, in terms of title, she was called "Lao Zu" by the fourth generation, and Deng Xiaoping and Zhuo Lin also followed the children to call Xia Bogen "Lao Zu".
That is to say, Deng Xiaoping used a total of three titles for Xia Bogen: Xia Mother, Grandmother, and Lao Zu, one title is more respectful than the other, and family affection is integrated into the bones.
Deng Xiaoping died in February 1997, and Xia Bogen was 98 years old, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and did not recognize people, but she still felt that something was wrong, refusing to eat or drink water.
Zhuo Lin had to take her to the hospital for careful care.
The old man lived a very long life, and died in the spring of 2001 at the age of 102.