Text/Xiaofan Emotions
This article is based on the original work and may be different from the TV series.
After Zhou Bingyi's death, Dongmei quickly remarried. Her approach has made many people unhappy.
What a good person Zhou Bingyi was. He worked hard for the people. Unfortunately, he suffered from stomach cancer and died early. As a wife, Hao Dongmei actually remarried soon after Bingyi's death, which is a bit unreasonable.
But Dongmei’s remarriage was actually specifically explained by Bingyi before his death.
Zhou Bingyi left three last words before his death.
First: Let Zhou Rong and Bingkun treat Cai Xiaoguang and Zheng Juan kindly.
The greatest luck in this life for our three children, my father and my mother, is that they are all married to good men and good women. This is the love between husband and wife second only to the kindness of parents. You two should be grateful to Xiaoguang and Zheng Juan in the future.
Second: After his death, he will not buy a cemetery. If someone attacks you, don't defend yourself or complain.
After I die, I don’t need to buy a cemetery, just put my ashes in my parents’ tomb. If someone talks about me or attacks me, never defend me or complain.
The third one is to let Dongmei remarry.
Many people don't understand why Zhou Bingyi did this, and Dongmei really remarried after his death.
In fact, the truth about Bingyi asking Dongmei to remarry is hidden in Dongmei’s mother’s last words and his second last words.
If you understand the specialness of these "two last words", you will understand why he must let Dongmei remarry.
1 Dongmei’s mother’s careful cultivation and advice for Zhou Bingyi made Zhou Bingyi remember it in his heart
In the original work, Zhou Bingyi’s step-by-step rise from his official career to his subsequent rise are inseparable from Dongmei’s mother.
At first he was a top student at Peking University . After getting married, he lived in Dongmei's house. He would chat with Dongmei's mother and enjoy the daily life when he had nothing to do.
But in fact, his real career was due to Dongmei's mother's recommendation to the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department.
Dongmei’s mother has a high voice and prestige in the provincial party committee, so she naturally does not dare to neglect her recommendation organization. So Zhou Bingyi was transferred to the arsenal as party committee secretary.
Zhou Bingyi lived up to his mother-in-law's trust. He traveled across the ocean to the Soviet Union to buy used warships and successfully saved the arsenal.
When he first went to the arsenal, the workers went on strike, and he tried to mediate the situation. He wanted to buy coal for the old workers to keep warm, but he had no money and nowhere to buy it. Because the coal supply at that time was subject to quotas.
When he was in the most difficult time, it was Dongmei's mother who used her pension money to help him, and also used Dongmei's father's relationship with his comrades to help him buy high-quality coal.
This allowed Zhou Bingyi to gain a foothold in the military factory and begin the drastic reforms that followed.
It was precisely because of his outstanding performance in military factory that he was quickly transferred to the mayor and was re-elected for several terms.
Without Dongmei’s mother’s recommendation, he would not have gone to the military factory. Without her help, he wouldn't have been able to do so well, let alone rise so quickly.
Although Zhou Bingyi is very capable, Dongmei's mother's influence does help him a lot. Zhou Bengyi knew this very well. And he is a grateful man. He has always remembered his mother-in-law's help to him.
Especially the mercy shown to him in the Alia incident was something he would never forget.
2 Dongmei’s mother’s tolerance for the Olia incident was a great kindness to Zhou Bingyi.
In the TV series, it was only said that Zhou Bingyi hugged Olia when he was drunk. Photographed by reporters, Dongmei's mother questioned him with a newspaper, and finally warned him, "Don't misfire after cleaning the gun!"
In the original work, Zhou Bingyi and Olia had a deep kiss in public.
For a man with a wife to have a deep kiss with a woman in public, it is not something that can be explained away by being drunk.
From the side, the fact that he can behave like that with a foreign woman really shows that he has betrayed his wife.
There were photos and detailed descriptions in the newspaper, and Zhou Bingyi had no way to defend himself. And that photo says it all.
What kind of person is Dongmei’s mother? She is a smart girl who was praised by the generals at the age of nineteen, and is an old revolutionary warrior who has experienced a lot. When she saw the newspaper, she knew what was going on.
But how did she deal with that matter?
She called Zhou Bingyi to the room and first said the matter in a sharp tone. A stern warning was given. Finally, he asked Zhou Bingyi to show her all future contact documents with Olia. In this way, if Dongmei asks in the future, she will cover for Bingyi.
More importantly, if someone uses this to attack Zhou Bingyi, she can be his witness.
Dongmei’s mother not only warned her son-in-law, but also prevented him from rekindling his old relationship with Olia in the future, and also provided valuable advice on Zhou Bingyi’s career.
Of course, in the final analysis, she did this for Dongmei. She clearly saw how her daughter loved Bingyi wholeheartedly, and she knew Bingyi's character better, so she decided to give him a chance. If she had made any move at that time, Zhou Bingyi's political career would have been in jeopardy.
This old revolutionary, faced with her son-in-law's betrayal of her daughter, she chose a method of dealing with the least harm to her daughter.
And her kindness towards Zhou Bingyi was also fully demonstrated in this incident. Zhou Bingyi is a smart man, and he naturally knows that it is a great kindness for his mother-in-law to show mercy to him. Since then, he has never had a similar conflict with Dongmei.
3 Before her death, Dongmei's mother gave up her old face to save Bingkun, which was another kind of fulfillment for the Zhou family.
Before her death, Dongmei's mother asked the organization department to release Bingkun early.
At that time, she knew that her time was running out. When faced with the leader who came to visit her, she said this:
" My husband and I don’t dare to think that we have made any contribution to the party and the people. There is always hard work, right? My husband was always loyal to the party until the day he was persecuted by party insiders, right? I have never complained about my husband being persecuted to death, right? I only have one daughter and one son-in-law. My son-in-law basically doesn’t rely on me to force him to make continuous progress in politics, right? My daughter, a party member, has never caused trouble for the party, right? I know I can't pass this hurdle. Do people like me have the qualifications to propose a completely unqualified person to the organization? What about personal requirements?
She euphemistically explained that she and her husband were both people who had made contributions to the country. Her last wish before she died was not for herself or her daughter, but to plead for mercy for her son-in-law Zhou Bingyi's brother Bingkun.
Next, she elaborates on why she wants to plead for Byung-kun.
"If it hadn't been for the "Cultural Revolution", she wouldn't have become an in-law with an ordinary worker's family, or a worker's family with phototypes. But now that the only daughter is married to someone else's son, the relationship is quite deep. No matter how regretful the mother is, she cannot forcefully break them up. I'm afraid that my in-laws will often beg me for annoying things like this. She had never visited her in-laws' home, and she had never seen her parents-in-law before they were alive. As for her son-in-law's younger brother, she has never seen him either. Now that she was about to die, she suddenly wanted to do her best as a relative. Prove that you still have a human touch. "
She is a principled old party member. Because she is afraid that the Zhou family will ask her to do something, she has not visited the Zhou family for many years. Now that her life is coming to an end, she feels ashamed of the Zhou family, so she wants to do something for the Zhou family.
Why does she want to work for the Zhou family? The ultimate goal is for her daughter Dongmei. Parents love their children for a long time. Dongmei's mother does all this for Bingkun on the surface and for Dongmei on the inside. In fact, her real purpose is to warm the heart of her son-in-law Zhou Bingyi.
Bingyi is the eldest son of Zhou, and he takes his family very seriously. Dongmei's mother knew this, so she saved Bingkun just to give Bingyi a heavy favor. And behind this favor is her entrustment to her biological daughter. The old man has good intentions for Dongmei. And Bingyi also knew the underlying reason behind what she did.
That is to let him treat Dongmei well. Let Dongmei have a happy second half of her life.And this is also the truth behind Bingyi's last words asking Dongmei to remarry.
4 Bingyi asked Dongmei to remarry as an explanation to the old lady and to protect his wife.
Zhou Bingyi has always been grateful to his mother-in-law.
In the decades of marriage between him and Dongmei, except for Olia, there has never been any scandal.
And his kindness to Dongmei is obvious to everyone.
His kindness to his wife, in addition to their good relationship as husband and wife, the things the old lady did should also play a certain preventive role in his heart.
Many people did not understand why he wanted Dongmei to remarry after his death. In fact, what Zhou Bingyi did was to express his gratitude to his mother-in-law and to protect Dongmei.
First, before her death, the mother-in-law prayed for Bingkun’s love for the next year, so that their Zhou family could reunite one year in advance. Zhou Bingyi knew how great this kindness was.
The old lady wanted to be strong in her life. She never asked the organization for her own affairs, but she begged for Bingkun at the last moment of her life. She just wanted Bingyi to owe this favor so that she could treat her only daughter well.
Bingyi knew what the old lady was thinking, and he tried his best to do it.
And before he died, he specifically asked Dongmei to remarry. In fact, he had several considerations.
1 Dongmei has no relatives, and Dongmei has no children. After his death, Dongmei will live alone and helpless.
Although Zhou Rong and Bingkun would visit this sister-in-law for his sake, every family has their own affairs, and it is difficult for them to relieve Dongmei's loneliness and loneliness.
2 In the original work, Dongmei in the later period had a bad temper and often cursed. In the past, Dongmei was a lady. After experiencing the great changes in her life, Dongmei had changed a lot. Zhou Bingyi had to accommodate Dongmei in his later years to prevent her from losing her temper for no reason.
In fact, from today's perspective, Dongmei at that time may have had a mild personality disorder and bipolar disorder. The wise Bingyi was afraid that Dongmei's condition would worsen after his death. He felt that having someone to accompany Dongmei would make her better.
3The third reason is related to the second last words he left.
He specifically told Bingkun and Zhou Rong that if someone talks about or attacks him, they should not defend themselves, let alone fight against them.
Why did he say that?
Zhou Bingyi's career has been ups and downs throughout his life, and he will be attacked by others every time. Human nature is like this. When you are in a high position, you will have many friends. When you are in a low position, you will have many villains.
When Zhou Bingyi was transferred from the military factory to become mayor, people cheered for him. After he was demoted, people chased him, scolded him, and even threw rotten eggs into his house.
During that time, Dongmei had to be followed whenever she went out.
Bingyi has seen through all this a long time ago. He knows that after his death, he will be subject to another wave of attacks. By then, Dongmei's situation was dire.
Therefore, when he asked Dongmei to remarry, it was an expression of his entrustment to his mother-in-law, and it was also an expression of love and care for his wife who had been with him for half his life.
In the final analysis, Dongmei’s mother and Bingyi are both the same kind of people. Dongmei's mother did not visit her in-laws for twenty years because she was afraid that the Zhou family would ask her to do something. But before she left, she used her and her husband's lifetime contributions to buy Bingkun's freedom for one year.
Bingyi seems to have made no contribution to the Zhou family, but he always keeps in mind his old father's last words. Although he can retire safely in Beijing, he asked to be transferred back to Jichun one year before his retirement in order to fulfill his old father's last wish and let every neighbor in Guangzipian live in a new house.
He did it.
He and Dongmei's mother are both old revolutionaries and party members who are willing to sacrifice themselves for others. Although Bingyi never participated in the war, wasn't everything he did later just fighting again and again in peaceful times?
They are all the pillars of our society.
Their contributions should always be remembered by us.
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