On October 27, 1962, ***, who had worked in Zhongnanhai Fengze Garden for a whole day, walked to the window and looked up at the window, as if waiting for something.
After a while, Kong Linghua walked quickly into the *** office and told *** the news that Li Min had given birth successfully and that the mother and child were safe
** couldn't hide the excitement in his heart anymore, and hurriedly asked the secretary to accompany Kong Linghua to visit the mother and son in the hospital, while he sat alone in the office chair, looking at the heavy and complicated documents in front of him, and recalled the bits and pieces with his daughter.
On July 11, 1936, the party, government and military leadership led by ** had just been transferred from Wayaobao to Baoan (now Zhidan County), and God gave *** a big gift, that is, the only daughter left in the ten-year marriage between *** and He Zizhen - Jiaojiao.
Due to the extremely difficult conditions at that time, ** and He Zizhen lived in a simple cave. Under the encirclement and suppression of the enemy, there is often a shortage of materials in the base area, and Jiaojiao was born in such an environment, and her physique is very delicate.
At that time, **'s wife Deng Yingchao rushed to congratulate her birthday, hugged the newborn Jiaojiao in her arms and said:"What a poor petite baby! ”
The other people present also called "Jiaojiao", * when he heard it, he also felt that Jiaojiao was a good name, and he couldn't help but think of a sentence in "Xijing Miscellaneous", "Wen Junjiao is good, his eyebrows are like looking at distant mountains, and his face is as pure as hibiscus", and then decided to take Jiaojiao as his daughter's name.
Because of the emotional conflict between *** and He Zizhen, not long after Jiaojiao was born, her mother He Zizhen went to the Soviet Union.
At that time, under the encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was in danger. Therefore, for the sake of my daughter Jiaojiao and the future of our party, I can only hand over my daughter to others to take care of.
Before the age of 3, Jiaojiao had been tossing and turning in kindergartens or villagers' homes almost all the time, without any care from her family, and she hardly saw her parents.
In 1939, He Zizhen was happy to have a son Liao Wa in the Soviet Union, but unfortunately, Liao Wa died unexpectedly only 10 months after he was born, which also made He Zizhen heartbroken and suffered a great blow.
The arrival of her daughter alleviated He Zizhen's pain of losing her son to a certain extent, and Jiaojiao later told reporters that she had spent a very happy time in the Soviet Union.
In that land, Jiaojiao felt the company of her family, her mother's care for her, and the careful care of her two elder brothers, Mao Anying and Mao Anqing, all made Jiaojiao unforgettable.
Later, there was a crack in the relationship between He Zizhen and ***, although her mother seemed to be very strict and harsh, but she still loved her daughter deeply in her heart.
During the period when Jiaojiao suffered from pneumonia, due to the underdeveloped medical level in the Soviet Union and Jiaojiao's own thin physique, the doctor issued a critical illness notice to He Zizhen several times.
But He Zizhen did not give up on his beloved child, and under He Zizhen's meticulous care, Jiaojiao miraculously survived pneumonia and finally survived.
But the good times did not last long, due to the war, Jiaojiao was forced to separate from her mother and brother, and lived in an international children's home, until she returned to China a few years later, she did not see her mother.
In 1947, the mother and daughter were finally reunited, and He Zizhen returned to China with Jiaojiao and temporarily settled in Harbin.
Jiaojiao, who studied and grew up in the Soviet Union, received Marxist ideological education since he was a child, and in his studies, he learned the story of the leader of the Communist Party of China.
But Jiaojiao's mother, He Zizhen, did not mention his father to Jiaojiao, until one day, his brother Mao Anqing told his sister that *** was their father in a chat with Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao couldn't wait to find her mother to confirm, and after receiving her mother's affirmative answer, Jiaojiao's heart was also very happy, and since then, she often took her father's photo, and looked at it all day, and many times, she still couldn't believe that her father was such a great person.
Half a year later, at the suggestion of her aunt He Yi, Jiaojiao plucked up the courage to write a letter to *** in Russian, asking about her life experience. ** After receiving his daughter's letter, he also immediately replied, expressing his desire to reunite with his daughter.
In this way, in May 1949, Jiaojiao and her brother Mao Anqing reunited with their father *** who had been separated for 8 years in the Shuangqing Villa in Xiangshan, Beiping.
Because Jiaojiao grew up in the Soviet Union since childhood, she is familiar with Russian, but she knows nothing about Chinese. So *** will often proudly say to people:"I have a foreign baby in my family who can speak foreign languages! ”。
When I was in middle school, considering that a nickname like Jiaojiao was not suitable for the growth of children, I thought of a sentence in the Analects "Liren".'A gentleman wants to be quick to say what he says and quick to do'. ”
** Said kindly: "Jiaojiao, your name is Min, how about taking a Li Min?" ”
Li min? But my father's surname is Mao, and my brothers are also surnamed Mao, so why am I surnamed Li? Li Min asked puzzled.
** Carefully explained that he took the pen name "Li Desheng" when he was in Yan'an, and he liked the name "Li Desheng" very much, so he wanted his daughter to follow the surname of this name.
For Li Min, the time spent by his father's side was happy and short. Since returning home from the Soviet Union, he has been very unkind to see Li Min, and in the face of the contradictions between his wife ** and his daughter Li Min, ** has also taken great pains.
Li Min's early experience in the Soviet Union made her have great feelings for her biological mother He Zizhen, so after meeting **, Li Minlian didn't want to call her mother. For this reason, ** did many ideological work back and forth between the two, but it did not have the slightest effect.
Later, the surname of his daughter was Li instead of Mao, and there was also *** good intentions to adjust the relationship between the two.
Li Min's younger sister, Li Ne, although she was younger than her, took her name earlier. Considering that **'s name is Li Yunhe, my sister has her mother's surname. Therefore, *** thinks that choosing the name Li Min can also make ** accept Li Min's daughter to a certain extent.
Li Min studied very well in middle school, not only quickly adapted to the learning environment in China, but also was admitted to the Department of Chemistry of Beijing Normal University with excellent results. During her time at Beijing Normal University, Li Mei would visit her mother He Zizhen, who was recuperating in Shanghai, during the holidays.
At the same time, while in school, Li Min met his first love in the class, Kong Linghua, who was also a student cadre. Kong Linghua is very handsome, has excellent grades, and is a student union cadre of the school, and the two soon liked each other, so they fell in love.
**Although he is busy with work on weekdays, he has always been concerned about his daughter's marriage, and when he noticed that Li Min might have a boyfriend, ** was also a little sad, but thinking that his daughter had grown up, he did not plan to stop the relationship between the two.
One day after dinner, ** went out for a walk with his daughter, and during the conversation on the road, the father and daughter also talked about the person they were talking to.
** told Li Min that he was not opposed to his daughter falling in love, after all, it is a new society and pays attention to the freedom of marriage, but as a father, the chairman still asked about the other party's family situation. And Li Min met Kong Linghua in school, so the two never mentioned the family situation of both parties.
For the sake of his daughter, ** earnestly advised Li Min that before talking about the object, he should at least ask about the family situation of the family, and Li Min also felt that his father's words were very reasonable.
Later, Li Min immediately inquired about Kong Linghua's family situation, and after learning that Kong Linghua's father was Kong Congzhou, the deputy commander of the artillery, he didn't ask too much about it.
In July 1958, Li Min took Kong Linghua to see *** in Zhongnanhai and happily looked at his son-in-law, very satisfied.
Later, Li Min also mentioned his relationship with Kong Linghua in his correspondence with his mother He Zizhen, and He Zizhen also expressed support for her daughter's conversation partner and encouraged Li Min to boldly pursue true love.
A year later, after attending the Lushan Conference, ** hurried back to Beijing, because on August 29, he was going to preside over the wedding of his daughter Li Min and son-in-law Kong Linghua in Zhongnanhai.
At the wedding, ** first drew up a list of participants in the wedding, including Li Min's comrades-in-arms who were by his side when he was born, Cai Chang, Deng Yingchao, Wang Jifan, Cao Yiou, Wang Hairong and Kong Linghua's parents Kong Congzhou and his wife, as well as some Li Min's classmates, invited everyone to dinner in the Fengze Garden Summer Hall.
At the wedding, ***, who doesn't drink much on weekdays, toasted with the guests, and took a photo with everyone at the end to commemorate it, and after everyone left, ** left tears for the first time and said to the guards around him:"My little Jiaojiao is finally married."
After marriage, Li Min and Kong Linghua continued to study in the university, Kong Linghua studied at Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, while Li Min studied in the Department of Chemistry of Beijing Normal University.
On October 27, 1962, in Fengze Park in Zhongnanhai, ** said to Kong Linghua happily after learning that Li Min had successfully produced and that he was going to be his grandfather"Okay, I became my grandfather at the age of seventy, which can be regarded as an official promotion. ”
But at that time, due to his busy work, ** did not go to visit his daughter as soon as possible, and it was not until Li Min recovered and was discharged from the hospital and returned to Zhongnanhai that ** went to visit his daughter and grandson.
Li Min, who saw his father, was very happy, and said to *** with a smile: "Dad, why are you here, I was going to take the child to you?" ”
The chairman, who met his grandson for the first time, also responded with great pleasure"Why do you always ask you to come to me, now as a grandfather, I should also come over to see my little grandson!" ”
** I love my beloved grandson very much, hold him in my arms, and ask Li Min with concern: "What are you going to name my precious grandson?" ”
Hearing this, Li Min looked up at Kong Linghua, the two looked at each other and smiled, Li Min said: "I haven't thought about it yet, Dad, as the head of the family, think of a name for your precious grandson."
The matter of choosing the name itself is a matter for the two of you, so how can it be decided by one of my grandfathers? By the way, what good ideas did his grandfather have? *Said seriously.
Kong Linghua then said, "My father said that it is up to his grandfather to choose the name, and our whole family agrees with you coming up with this name." ”
Hearing his daughter and son-in-law say this, ** no longer shirked, but choosing a name is a big deal and can't be decided easily, so he went outside the house and lit a cigarette and thought quietly.
Children are the hope of the future and the inheritors of the Chinese revolution.
In the smoke, I suddenly thought of a gunshot on November 7, 1917, and it was this gunshot that brought great Marxism-Leninism to ** and even the world, and also brought a glimmer of hope to China, which has undergone decades of change.
The revolutionaries who went forward and succeeded continued to carry on the flame spread by Marx and Lenin. Suddenly, ** suddenly had a flash of inspiration:"In my opinion, Lenin's Ning character is very good, and the October Revolution is coming soon, and the October Revolution brought us Marxism-Leninism with the sound of a cannon. In the future, if the child inherits the revolutionary cause of Marxism-Leninism, I think it will be called "Jining"!
After hearing the name "Ji Ning", Li Mei and his wife applauded again and again, and after that, the name of the first grandson of ** was also decided.
After winning his grandson, he loved him very much, and often walked in Zhongnanhai with Kong Jining. In Li Min's Huiyi book "My Childhood and the Leader's Father", he once talked about *** After work, he likes to go to his grandson on the way, and his favorite thing is the child, just like the old man now, they are all intergenerational relatives.
All of this was seen by **, she didn't want to see Li Min's family, and Li Min also noticed this, in order not to cause trouble to her father, Li Min took the initiative to ask to move out of Zhongnanhai.
**After several attempts to persuade each other to no avail, he discussed a compromise plan with Li Min, and Li Min and his wife moved out of Fengze Garden and lived in a house near Zhongnanhai.
Later, Li Min and Kong Linghua considered that they had grown up and should go out to exercise, so they persuaded *** to leave Zhongnanhai again and start their ordinary life in a house in Terracotta Hutong.
After moving out of Zhongnanhai, Li Min and his wife's documents for entering and leaving Zhongnanhai were **, and for a period of time after that, due to some special reasons, it became more and more difficult for Li Min and *** to meet.
In the years between his serious illness and his death, Li Min only met his father three times. The last time we met was a few days before *** was critically ill and died, after Li Min learned the news that the chairman was seriously ill, he no longer ignored any obstruction, rushed to the chairman's side, and lay on the side of ***'s bed with tears in his eyes.
**Holding his daughter's hand by the bed, he asked:"Jiaojiao, my good daughter, why don't you come to see me? ”Facing her father's inquiry, Li Min burst into tears, even if she had a thousand grievances, she didn't want to confide in anything, she just wanted to make her father's illness better.
A week later, the founding leader of the People's Republic of China*** passed away, and the staff of the **General Office found Li Min and took her into Zhongnanhai. After learning the news of his father's death, Li Min immediately cried bitterly.
After the death of ***, Li Mei often taught her son Kong Jining to follow his grandfather's example. Educated by his family environment, Kong Jining aspired to become a soldier. Later, he entered the Nanjing Institute of International Relations of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and later worked in the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, realizing his dream of being a soldier.