February 18, 1992, it was the Lantern Festival. At around 8 o'clock that evening, people shopping in the No. 1 Department Store on Nanjing Road, Shanghai stopped to rush to buy, gathered together, waving their hands and looking particularly excited.
"Comrade Xiaoping! Comrade Xiaoping! Hello Comrade Xiaoping!"
It turns out that the center of the gathering of everyone was Comrade Deng Xiaoping, who had not appeared for a long time.
Accompanied by Wu Bangguo, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and others, Comrade Deng Xiaoping walked leisurely in the mall with a smile.
Deng Xiaoping, who originally wanted to be unwilling to be discovered by the masses, also made a special request when entering the mall, not to make a statement, nor to clear the market. This time he mainly wanted to enjoy the joy of shopping, which was also his long-lost wish.
Who knew that even under the cover, the people around him could easily see through Comrade Deng Xiaoping's disguise and were recognized on the spot.
As the people around him gathered more and more, Comrade Deng Xiaoping had to stop and wave to the masses: "Hello you! Happy Lantern Festival!"
The masses had already been in a panic when they could see Comrade Deng Xiaoping with their own eyes. When they saw Comrade Xiaoping waved his blessings at him, what was more, they left tears of excitement on the spot.
Then, surrounded by the masses, followed the store manager, Comrade Deng Xiaoping and others, and walked slowly towards the elevator entrance on the third floor. Just as everyone was raising their feet to get on the elevator, Comrade Deng Xiaoping suddenly opened his mouth, pointed to the cultural supplies counter not far from his right, and said, "The products over there look pretty good."
As a result, everyone walked over.
When Deng Xiaoping came to the counter, he looked at the neatly arranged stationery inside. The salesperson next to him excitedly introduced the goods in front of him. The detailed introduction was not difficult to see her excitement.
"Buy some!" Seeing this, the daughter who was following behind came forward and said.
Hearing this, Comrade Deng Xiaoping stretched out his hand, picked up a pencil, and said, "Pencils are for the children to study hard. This eraser is for the children to understand that if they are wrong, they must be corrected."
Then, the salesperson quickly took four colorful "Zhonghua Brand" pencils and four red erasers from the counter (at that time, the quality of "Zhonghua Brand" was the best), trembling hands, put the stationery he took out into a plastic bag, and handed it to Comrade Deng Xiaoping in front of him.
"Thank you!" Comrade Deng Xiaoping was very happy after taking the bag. Just as he was about to pay from his pocket, he suddenly stopped moving.
At that time, the daughter next to her reached out and handed over 10 yuan. It turned out that Comrade Deng Xiaoping did not bring the money.
In response to this, Comrade Deng Xiaoping took out his hand in his pocket awkwardly and said with a smile: "I haven't spent money in person for decades!"
1. "Formal farewell to my political career"
In fact, since participating in the revolution, Comrade Deng Xiaoping has not touched money for many years. In his impression, money is still "money". Even this time I can only do it after retirement.
November 13, 1989, in the Fujian Hall of the Great Hall of the People, Comrade Deng Xiaoping was talking to foreign guests as usual, but this reception had a particularly different meaning. The foreign guests received on this day will be the last group of Comrade Deng Xiaoping.
After the talks, Comrade Deng Xiaoping slowly stood up and shook hands and took photos with the foreign guests present. After the series of photos of
was completed, Comrade Deng Xiaoping raised his hands and said that he had something to say. The officials in the hall who learned in advance that Comrade Xiaoping would announce his retirement could not help but feel sad when they saw this.
"The delegation we met this time will be the last delegation to meet officially in my life. I want to take this opportunity to officially bid farewell to my political career!" Comrade Deng Xiaoping announced loudly under the witness of all the foreign guests and many reporters present.
The record of this moment may be the highlight of all the journalists present. In front of them, they personally witnessed Comrade Deng Xiaoping bid farewell to his more than 60 years of political career.
Amid the sound of the reporter's shutter, Comrade Deng Xiaoping continued, "Since I have retreated, I really retreated. In the future, I will never represent the collective or the party, let alone meet guests as a national leader. I want to achieve a 100% true retirement!"
Just as the reporters wanted to ask questions about this sentence, Comrade Deng Xiaoping continued to add, "Of course, if there is a friend coming to China later, if I don't see you, it may be impolite, then I will visit the guests and go to the place where the guests live. The content of the conversation will never involve any political nature. I will never interfere, any leader of the party, politics, or military!" After
, Comrade Deng Xiaoping made some suggestions and highly recognized the new central leadership group. At the end, he also emphasized again: "I feel very relieved with this leadership team, and please rest assured!"
Just in the living room, when Comrade Deng Xiaoping announced such a major event, there were already a wave of excited reporters waiting outside the hall.
After the foreign guests in the reception room left one after another, the reporters outside the hall rushed into the reception room. The "click" sounds one after another made Comrade Deng Xiaoping laugh.
"Don't you say you want to take a photo with me? You'll line up and come one by one, don't take a photo for me!"
As soon as these words came out, the reporters were instantly in anger, rushing to be in the front, "I'll come, I'll come..."
"Everyone comes one by one, everyone has a chance to take a photo!" Seeing this, the daughter who was waiting beside her spoke up to maintain the situation.
Surrounded by everyone, Comrade Deng Xiaoping came to the photo screen signaled by the reporters and started to make "posed objects".
When the photo was taken for most of the time, Deng Xiaoping refused when his daughter asked if she wanted to take a break. He said this: "This photo is much easier than meeting foreign guests!"
, just like that, after receiving the last batch of foreign guests, accepting interviews from reporters and taking photos, Comrade Deng Xiaoping completely bid farewell to his job and started his retirement life.
2. The road of well-off and well-off yarn
Compared with the life of the first 60 years, life after retirement is simply enjoyment, time is abundant and family is accompanied by. Since retirement, Comrade Deng Xiaoping's life happiness index has shown a straight upward trend.
In addition to the shopping mall mentioned at the beginning, Comrade Deng Xiaoping finally had time to take a good look at the Beijing City that has lived for decades.
In 1993, in the fifth year of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's retirement, accompanied by Zhang Baifa, executive vice mayor of Beijing, Comrade Deng Xiaoping began a journey around Beijing.
It is worth mentioning that Deputy Mayor Zhang is an old acquaintance of Comrade Deng Xiaoping. Therefore, Comrade Deng Xiaoping has even started looking forward to this inspection of Beijing a month ago.
That day, when Comrade Deng Xiaoping could see a figure clearly from afar, he recognized that the person in front was Zhang Baifa, so Comrade Deng Xiaoping shouted hello from a distance.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping, who was 89 years old at this time, seemed to have disappeared when he saw his old friend. At that moment, the sun shone on him. Suddenly, the two old men who waved each other seemed to have returned to their youth.
"I haven't seen you for a few years, how are you in good health?"
Zhang Baifa, the first second he heard Comrade Xiaoping's voice, quickly waved his hand and went up to him. As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked Comrade Xiaoping's physical condition. Because the accompanying doctor behind Comrade Xiaoping is really hard to ignore. If Comrade Xiaoping's body is hurt by inspecting Beijing, it is really not worth it.
Seeing Zhang Baifa's gaze and looked at the doctor behind him, Comrade Deng Xiaoping understood the meaning of his friend's words, and immediately said: "Okay! Don't listen to them scare you!"
Unexpectedly, his friend Zhang Baifa not only didn't buy it, but also walked over to the accompanying doctor and asked Comrade Xiaoping about his physical condition and precautions.
It turned out that before Comrade Xiaoping set off, the accompanying doctor explained that the activity should not exceed one hour, but Comrade Xiaoping felt that it could not disappoint everyone's fun because of his own body, and also asked the accompanying doctor not to tell his physical condition.
After learning about this situation, Zhang Baifa sighed helplessly, and said nothing. He just walked to Comrade Xiaoping silently and whispered: "You can't be tired of yourself, you still have to rest assured to your body."
Then, the two of them got into the sightseeing bus that they had prepared long ago.
The vehicle started, and the buildings outside the window gradually appeared in the sight of the two. Deng Xiaoping, who had not seen the appearance of Beijing for a long time, stared out the window, was very happy. He didn't see a tall building, and would ask what building it was and what it was for.
"Beijing has changed, and I don't know it anymore!" Looking at the prosperity outside the window, Deng Xiaoping in the car couldn't help but sigh.
When the car arrived at Airport Expressway , Deng Xiaoping couldn't sit still and asked to get off the car and take a look. But the wind outside was not weak at that time, and his body probably couldn't help it. No one in the car agreed to get off the car, so he had to give up.
In order not to wipe out Comrade Xiaoping's interest, Zhang Baifa proposed to go to Siyuan Bridge to take a look.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping's eyes were completely attracted by the magnificent building in front of him. Seeing this, Zhang Baifa couldn't help it and wanted to open the door and get off the car with Comrade Xiaoping, but the two of them got up and got out of the car was stopped by the doctor who accompanied him: "Mayor Zhang, let's take a look in the car."
The doctors accompanying him spoke, but Zhang Baifa had no choice but to "be obedient."
Comrade Deng Xiaoping sighed unsurprisingly and shook his head helplessly.
Just as the atmosphere began to decline, Comrade Deng Xiaoping spoke out, and he pointed to the wide highway and asked excitedly: "Is this road not to reach a well-off level?"
"It completely surpasses a well-off!" Zhang Baifa replied firmly. Deng Xiaoping was very satisfied with the answer of
. Then, he pointed to the jacket on his body and asked, "What about the clothes I am on?"
Zhang Baifa laughed and replied, "You are wearing a good brand, but it is real, and it must be more than it!"
The two of them instantly mobilized the atmosphere in the car, and everyone laughed.
Time flies very quickly, and the inspection is over. Zhang Baifa accompanied Deng Xiaoping back to his residence.
3. Death in regret
On the way back, Deng Xiaoping said reluctantly: "I, for so many years, I have been thinking about going out for a walk and stroll, but my body can't keep up!"
How could Zhang Baifa not understand the regrets in his friend's heart? He replied: "Wait for the next spring, I will take you to World Park to see, and then go to Beijing West Station to see. By 1997, we will take the train together and take a walk to Hong Kong and take a look!"
Comrade Xiaoping of course wants to go to Hong Kong to see in person, and watch the implementation of " One Country, Two Systems " with his own eyes. Unfortunately, Comrade Xiaoping still couldn't wait for that day.
1997 New Year's Day, on the occasion of family reunion, Comrade Deng Xiaoping was lying under the bed of the 301 Hospital.
That day, snow was flying all over Beijing, and the road was filled with the joy of celebrating the festival, but the 301 Hospital was shrouded in a heavy atmosphere.
htmlOn February 19, Comrade Xiaoping's condition worsened again. He was unable to breathe independently and fell into a coma for a while. At 9:08 that night, Comrade Xiaoping, who could only maintain his breathing with a machine, completely passed away after repeated rescue efforts failed.At this time, there are only four months left before Hong Kong returns to . He has devoted himself to China, but he finally failed to wait for the moment when Hong Kong returns. Comrade Xiaoping said: "I am the son of the Chinese people, and I love the motherland and the people with deep affection." His patriotism is simple and direct, and he used his life to prove it.
