Guang'an County, Sichuan is the hometown of ***, in the autumn of 1919, only 15-year-old *** set off for France to work and study, he returned to China to join the revolution, but never returned to his hometown, even in his later years did not return to his hometown, many people can not understand why he did not return to his hometown?
According to genealogical records, the Deng family was originally from Luling County, Ji'an Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, and moved to Guang'an in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.
In 1919, ** was admitted to the preparatory school for studying in France in Chongqing, when it cost about 300 oceans to go to France, the Deng family couldn't afford so much travel expenses, or ***'s uncle Dan Yixing sold his land to make up the travel expenses, ** called him "uncle", that is, the youngest brother of Deng's mother.
In the spring of 1927, ** was sent back to China by the organization, and since then he has been busy with revolutionary work and has no time to return to his hometown, until after the establishment of New China, in February 1950, ** served as the political commissar of the Southwest Military Region, led the land reform and construction work in the southwest region, and temporarily lived in Chongqing.
Even though he is very close to his hometown, he is still busy with work, and he can't take care of returning to his hometown, and he heard that *** has become a big official, and he is in Chongqing, and happily took ***'s stepmother Xia Bogen to Chongqing to find him, ** felt a little surprised after receiving the report from the guard.
Since he was in a meeting, he asked the guards to help arrange his uncle and stepmother to the guest house, and he was busy until the evening before he went to see his uncle and stepmother. * hurriedly made amends, and shouted "Uncle!" ”。
Then the uncle and nephew talked about the past, ** couldn't help but moisten their eyes, and after a while, Dan Yixing remembered Xia Bogen on the side, and Dan Yixing told Xia Bogen about his hard work at home for many years, ** Holding Xia Bogen's hand and shouting "Xia Mom".
Dan Yixing lived in Chongqing for a few days and still returned to his hometown to farm, ** left his stepmother Xia Bogen by his side to take care of, under the care of *** couple, Xia Bogen lived to be 101 years old, but *** has never returned to his hometown, only let his daughter go back to his hometown to visit his uncle Dan Yixing.
In February 1986, the ** family spent the Spring Festival in Chengdu, he sent someone to take his uncle Dan Yixing to Chengdu to get together, when the secretary of Guang'an County and others also went to Chongqing, the county invited *** back to his hometown Guang'an to see, this is the second time his hometown invited *** to return to his hometown, but *** still declined.
In June 1988, there was a lantern festival in Beihai Park in Beijing, ** took his little grandson to see the lanterns together, and a reporter from Guang'an interviewed him and asked: "After so many years, haven't you thought about going home to see?" * shook his head and said two words: "I'm afraid." ”
**'s daughter Deng Rong also told the reason why *** did not return to her hometown in the book "My Father", worried that she would stir up the people and harass the locality. After his death, General Zhang Baozhong, his former security secretary, revealed the inside story of not returning to his hometown when talking to reporters.
According to General Zhang Baozhong, there are two reasons for not returning to his hometown, one is that he is busy with work and can't take care of returning to his hometown, and the other is that he doesn't want to cause trouble to his hometown.