The newsboy revealed that the old man died, **Surprised: Why hide it from me?
**During his hospitalization, he still insisted on reading the newspaper and established a deep friendship with the newsboy who delivered the newspaper. Once, ** asked the newsboy if he knew a grandfather who was particularly fond of drinking in the warehouse, and after learning that the old man had died of malaria, ** was very shocked and forcibly discharged from the hospital despite the obstruction of the hospital.
After returning home, ** asked Deng Yingchao why he didn't tell him the news. In this regard, Tong Xiaopeng, who has followed *** for nearly 40 years, recalled that ** reacted very strongly to the death of the old man in the warehouse, and Deng Yingchao did not tell him the news.
Zhou Yineng: Half a life of poverty and half a life of wandering, ** commented that he is "he is not very capable, kind and honest, but he has never done anything bad in his life, and he has covered me".
He is a native of Huai'an, Jiangsu, once renamed Zhou Shaogang, talented and dedicated to his career, but no one appreciated him in his life. Although he has a degree and rank, he has not received an iron job from the government, and many people think that his degree and rank were bought.
In order to glorify his ancestors, he participated in the imperial examination again, and returned to his hometown of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province after showing his talent in the examination, wanting to be a master under his relatives, but because of his loyal nature, he could not adapt to officialdom and was forced to lose his job.
Zhou Yineng is the grandfather of ***, and his family had to go out to work after his grandfather died. He worked as a staff member, a private school teacher, and wrote papers, etc., and his life was poor, but his family was harmonious.
Thanks to his efforts, the family is barely making ends meet. However, the good times did not last long, and in the tenth year of his marriage to his wife Wan, Wan died of illness. Zhou Yineng was very guilty that he didn't see his wife for the last time, and promised his mother-in-law that after bringing his wife Wan's coffin back to Huai'an, he would definitely be buried well.
However, the mother-in-law proposed harsh burial conditions. In desperation, Zhou Yineng had no choice but to sell two rooms to bury his wife. However, the money was quickly spent, and the burial conditions proposed by the Wan family were still not met.
Finally, after negotiation between the two parties, Wan's coffin was temporarily placed in a temple. It wasn't until 28 years later that Wan was laid to rest. Wan and Zhou Yineng gave birth to three sons, ** is the eldest son, it is said that in order to be happy, he passed on to his seriously ill uncle Zhou Yigan, the second son Zhou Enpu, and the third son Zhou Enshou was only two years old when Wan died.
Due to his unstable job and meager salary, Zhou Yineng was even more unable to support his family after his wife's death. As the eldest son in the family, ** was forced to take on the responsibility of taking care of his two younger brothers at an early age.
At the age of 12, he was taken to the Northeast by his uncle Zhou Yigeng to live with his father. At that time, Zhou Yi was able to serve as an errand in Tieling County, Liaoning, and the same situation he encountered when he was a master in Shaoxing before, the officialdom was dark and rotten, so it didn't take long for him to be unable to adapt to the working environment and resigned from the errand again.
Under the introduction of a friend, he gave Peng Guangxin as a staff member, this person was a Taoist platform (generally a positive four products) before he went into hiding, he could do this job, but the salary was too low to pay the tuition of ***.
Since his father could not afford to pay the tuition, ** wrote to his uncle Zhou Yigeng, hoping to get his uncle's support. Zhou Yigeng, who was deeply influenced by Confucianism, attached great importance to education, and after learning that he couldn't go to school because he had no money, he found Zhou Yineng and proposed that he should study for him.
Although Zhou Yigeng was not particularly wealthy at that time, he only served as a section chief in Heilongjiang, but he cared for his nephew. In 1913, ** graduated from Shenyang Dongguan Model School, Zhou Yigeng happened to be transferred to Tianjin to be responsible for salt transportation and official banking, so he took *** to Tianjin, ** and was also admitted to Nankai University.
In addition, Zhou Yigeng had three wives, two of whom were in the northeast, but he never had children, so he took special care of his nephews. Although Zhou Yigeng took good care of ***, he did not forget his father, who is still working in the Northeast.
On Chinese New Year's Eve 1916, ** wrote an essay expressing his longing for his father. The following year, he took advantage of the school holidays to return to China to visit his father, and found that his father was not doing well.
Originally, it was planned that Zhou Yineng would be transferred to work in the Jingzhao Yin Office, but when he arrived there, he was ostracized by his colleagues and superiors, did not receive any protection, and was dismissed soon after.
After a brief reunion with his father in Beijing, Zhou Yineng separated from each other. Zhou Yineng specifically recorded his farewell to his father in his diary, and the words were full of thoughts for his father.
Zhou Yineng began to study and stand on his own in 1890, and after 32 years of hard work, he finally had a stable life in 1922. With the help of Zhou Yigeng, he worked in the Qiqihar Tobacco and Alcohol Affairs Bureau, and his salary was much higher than before.
However, after the outbreak of the "918" incident, Zhou Yigeng lost his job again and lived in Jilin, Tianjin and other places. After learning that his son *** was leading the struggle against the CCP's underground party in Shanghai, he decided to go to Shanghai.
Under the escort of the organization, he successfully arrived in Shanghai, where he lived under the same roof with his son for more than ten years. His son's outstanding performance made him proud and became his dependence.
However, in 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Counter-Revolution" coup d'état, and published newspapers arresting Li Dazhao, ** and others, and their lives fell into turmoil again.
After Zhou Yineng saw the news from the newspaper, he felt that the situation was in danger, so he proposed to his son to join the organization and give full play to his residual heat. Given his unrevealed identity and advanced age, the organization decided that he would not attract the attention of Kuomintang agents, so he was put in charge of some secret liaison missions.
At that time, Shanghai was under the rule of the Kuomintang's "White Terror", and Zhou Yi could understand that Shanghai was not a long-term place, so he decided to leave and defect to Zhou Yigeng.
Zhou Yigeng introduced him to a county in Hebei Province as a mailman. In 1933, after receiving the news of Zhou Yigeng's death, Zhou Yineng resolutely resigned and returned to Tianjin to take care of his brother's funeral.
During the funeral, a friend of Zhou Yigeng offered him a stable and well-paid job in Anhui. Finally, Zhou Yi was able to live a life with a stable job and a good income.
After saving some money, he decided to fulfill the promise he made 28 years ago and return to Huai'an to bury his wife in the ancestral grave of the Zhou family outside the east gate of Huai'an.
The long-held wish has finally come true, and he should have started a new life, but he has fallen into a state of uncertainty again. Zhou Yineng came to Shanghai again and lived under the financial support of the Zhou family and relatives.
It was not until 1937 that our party established the Eighth Route Army Office in Hankou, and Zhou Yineng was taken from Shanghai to live in Wuhan with the help of his wife.
Lao She once wrote an article describing the scene when he learned that his father had arrived in Wuhan. At that time, ** was presiding over the Anti-Japanese War Literature and Art Symposium, and he was about to end his speech, he said: "My old father arrived in Hankou at ten o'clock tonight, and I will pick him up, I hope you will understand." ”
Then, based on what happened to him and his father, he emphasized: "Life and death depend on the atrocities of the enemy. He encouraged everyone to be brave and resilient in the face of the enemy's destruction, saying: "The separation of life and death strengthens our unity even more." ”
Soon after, Deng Yingchao's mother, Yang Zhende, also came to Wuhan.
After the Battle of Wuhan, Zhou Yineng and Yang Zhende moved to Changsha, Guilin, Guiyang and other places with their troops. Despite their age, they are still actively contributing.
As Deng Yingchao's mother, Yang Zhende has always fully supported her daughter's career, and while she used her own medical practice to cover for her daughter, she also took the initiative to undertake the rescue work during the transfer of the team.
Zhou Yineng is responsible for helping out, he will go with everyone to help them when they encounter refugees, and will also tell stories and jokes to relieve everyone's distress. After arriving in Chongqing, Zhou Yineng was arranged to take care of the warehouse and clean the yard due to his age, and he got along well with everyone and never made a mistake in his work.
However, Zhou Yi can somewhat control himself in life, in the words of ***, "he likes to drink too much". It's okay to have a drink once in a while, but once you're happy, you get out of control and need someone to help you back.
Tell him that drinking alcohol is not good for his health and will delay other people's work. Although Zhou Yi has worked in officialdom for many years and is very well-behaved, when his son reminds him that drinking alcohol may affect the work of others, he realizes the seriousness of the problem and begins to control the amount of alcohol.
However, due to the accumulation of old illnesses over the years, he was eventually hospitalized and died with his father on July 10, 1942.
The news of Mr. Zhou's death, as Zhou Yineng's son, has the right to know. However, since *** had just undergone surgery and his body was still very weak, everyone was worried that this would adversely affect his postoperative recovery.
Dong Biwu and Deng Yingchao therefore convened the comrades of the Southern Bureau to discuss whether to tell the truth. After discussion, they unanimously decided not to tell *** for the time being, so as not to cause him too much irritation.
The issue of the old gentleman's placement was also discussed at the meeting, and we temporarily parked his coffin in the bomb shelter in Hongyan. In order not to be discovered, Tong Xiaopeng and Wu Kejian still went to the hospital to visit him and report to work as usual.
Dong Biwu reminded Tong Xiaopeng that if the prime minister asked about the old man's condition, he would reply, "The condition has improved, please rest assured." Looking back on the past, Tong Xiaopeng revealed his nervousness when he recalled, "The prime minister is a very meticulous person, Wu Kejian and I have worked with him for many years, he is too familiar with us, and we pretended to work hard in front of him in those days, encouraging each other, for fear of revealing flaws." ”
Every time we see the Prime Minister, we feel mentally stressed and physically and mentally exhausted. Sometimes, the prime minister would ask us why we were sweating profusely, and we would always blame the hot weather in Chongqing.
Because Deng Yingchao was busy with work and could not visit the prime minister in the hospital frequently, ** wrote a letter to Tong Xiaopeng, who forwarded it to Deng Yingchao. In the July 6 letter, ** wrote: "I ask you to discuss with your father if he is willing to invite someone to eat noodles on the 28th. ”
"Eating noodles" here refers to ***'s father's birthday, but since he was still hospitalized that day, he could not celebrate his father in person. Know that his father was very superstitious and only celebrated on his birthday.
Therefore, he hoped that Deng Yingchao could help him ask his father's opinion. **The "twenty-eighth" mentioned is Zhou Yineng's 68th birthday, which is 69 years old according to the imaginary age.
According to Huai'an's custom, "do nine not ten", so the original 69th birthday is counted as the 70th birthday according to custom. Therefore, I hope that Deng Yingchao can ask her father's wishes.
However, ** did not foresee that the father would not be able to celebrate his 68th birthday. In a conversation with Tong Xiaopeng and others on July 10, ** found that they seemed to be hiding something about him.
When Dong Biwu didn't come to visit him, Tong Xiaopeng made up a reason for a long time, saying that there was no accident in the Southern Bureau, but in fact it may be because he was busy with other things.
** found that Tong Xiaopeng was hiding the truth, and the person next to him came out to try to round the field, saying that some things may not be convenient to say. Not believing their words, he suspected that something was wrong at home.
Before he came to the hospital, he had asked Dong Biwu and others to help take care of his parents, because they were not in good health. After ***'s "interrogation", Tong Xiaopeng finally admitted the fact that his father had a cold and fever.
**In the letter to Deng Yingchao, he mentioned his father's physical condition, especially the problem of his advanced age and his excessive penchant for drinking. This letter shows ***'s deep care for his father.
After Deng Yingchao received the letter, he handed it over to Dong Biwu and others. They unanimously decided to wait until *** was discharged from the hospital to tell him about his father's death. However, when Tong Xiaopeng and Wu Kejian visited the hospital again on July 12, they learned that their father's physical condition was gradually improving.
In a letter to Deng Yingchao, he thanked her for taking care of her. However, at this moment, the newsboy came in to send "Xinhua**" to ***, and the two chatted a few words, and the newsboy accidentally leaked the news, only to know that his father had died two days ago.
After Mr. Zhou's death, Mr. and Mrs., Dong Biwu, Qin Bangxian and other comrades of the Southern Bureau made a brief memorial ceremony for the old man, and buried Mr. Zhou's coffin in the cemetery of the Eighth Route Army Office in Xiaolongkan, Chongqing.
Sixteen years after Mr. Zhou's death, his cemetery has changed. **Considering that China has a large number of people and little land, the policy of "returning farmland to farmland" is proposed. ** took the lead in responding to the policy and sent Tong Xiaopeng, who was then the director of the Prime Minister's Office, to Chongqing to return the grave to farming.
More than a dozen coffins of Yang Zhende and others, who were once buried with Mr. Zhou in the Hongyan cemetery, were all cremated, the ashes were put into jars, buried next to the original cemetery, five trees were planted, and a tombstone was erected, which was engraved with the basic information of the deceased, and the original cemetery was all handed over to Shapingba Park for use.
Although his father's body has been buried, *** still feels extremely sad, tears burst out of his eyes, and he stepped forward to kneel and bow down to express his last respect for his father. The comrades present were very moved, but they were also worried about his physical condition.
However, ** firmly stated that he would hold a wake for his father and accompany him for the last night. His tenacity and affection are deeply admired.
In 1984, Tong Xiaopeng and the old comrades who had worked in the Southern Bureau came to Chongqing again, and with the consent of the relevant departments of Chongqing Municipality and the permission of Deng Yingchao, they took out the 14 urns and buried them on the hillside of the Hongyan Memorial Hall, which is now the "Hongyan Cemetery".
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, because of his busy government affairs, he did not have the opportunity to go to his father's grave every year to worship, so he put his father's ** in his wallet, and whenever he missed his father, he would take it out to see.
Zhou Bingde recalled in an interview that she had seen the "portrait of my father" written by *** herself, hanging behind **. This shows the deep filial piety of *** to his father.
Looking back on Zhou Yineng's life, he has always adhered to integrity, constantly struggled, and looked for new possibilities for life, this spirit deeply influenced the lofty ideal of "studying for the rise of China" when he was young, and he was honest and honest all his life, until his death, only 5709 remained in his name80 yuan.
His family, including his ancestor Zhou Dunyi, a physicist of the Song Dynasty, has inherited the excellent quality of the Zhou family, that is, "out of the mud without staining, clear ripples without demons".