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One day in August 1953, Ms. Deng Yingchao held a letter and "breaks" into Premier Zhou's residence in Zhongnanhai .
Just as she crossed the threshold, Deng Yingchao saw Premier Zhou who was lying on the desk and working. Then, she quickly walked forward and placed the letter in her hand on the document the Prime Minister was reading.
was interrupted by the work at hand, and the focused Premier Zhou noticed Deng Yingchao's arrival. He took the letter casually, and before he could open it and read it, the Prime Minister looked up at Deng Yingchao with a smile, "Yingchao, why are you so anxious? What's going on with this letter?"
Premier Zhou asked a question, but Ms. Deng Yingchao kept it indifferently and just said to the Prime Minister, "You see it yourself."
"You..." Deng Yingchao kept it indifferently, and Premier Zhou had to open the envelope by himself with a smile. When he looked closely, he found that he was actually a rare smile. I saw him get up and said hurriedly to Ms. Deng Yingchao:
"My 'ex-wife' in Hong Kong has arrived. Yingchao, you want to see her with me, she saved half of my life."
Prime Minister's "ex-wife"
1953 On an afternoon near dusk, on that day, the weather in Zhongnanhai was clear and the autumn wind was refreshing.
After waiting for the invitation from Premier Zhou and his wife to her, Ms. Fan Guixia, who was dressed in plain clothes and ordinary appearance, followed the guards all the way to Premier Zhou's residence, the West Flower Hall. And when she saw that familiar face came out to greet her, the lady was inevitably excited after all - they hadn't seen her for 26 years.
Fan Guixia
Time went back to mid-October 26 years ago in 1927, and it was also an afternoon close to dusk.
A car was parked outside a bungalow in Hong Kong. Fan Guixia, who was still very young at the time, sat in the car wearing a cheongsam. Before getting off the car, she looked around without leaving a trace. After confirming that the basic safety was confirmed, she got off the car carefully and greeted a strong man.
This strong man is named Yang Shihun . He was the head of the party organization in Chaoshan District, Guangdong at that time. Of course, whether you have heard of it or not, the name of this person is not important in comparison, because more importantly, the man behind his back at that time was the "dying" Premier Zhou.
Yang Shihun
Why did Premier Zhou appear in Hong Kong? Why are they "dying"?
It turned out that after the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, Premier Zhou suffered from severe malaria while following the army south. Not only was he suffering from high fever, he also fell into a coma for a while.
With this as the background, in order to allow Premier Zhou to receive proper treatment, under the escort of Ye Ting, Nie Rongzhen and others, Yang Shihun, the head of the party organization in Chaoshan, Guangdong, has finally sent Premier Zhou to Hong Kong after two days and one night of drifting at sea.
After arriving in Hong Kong, Premier Zhou's physical condition was still bad. Not only did he not reduce his fever, he was still in a semi-coma. Therefore, in order to better take care of Premier Zhou, Yang Shihun contacted the Guangdong Party Committee in Hong Kong and asked the other party to send a nurse, or "comrade trained by nurses."
It was also after this that Fan Guixia, a comrade who came from a doctor family and had also learned nursing knowledge at the Guangdong Women's Rescue Association, was named Premier Zhou's "Madam" by the party organization and went to Hong Kong to take care of the seriously ill Zhou Enlai.
And this is why Premier Zhou, says Fan Guixia is her "ex-wife".
National hatred and family hatred
Fan Guixia was born in Fogang County, Guangdong Province in 1905. Her father is a well-known local doctor with a considerable income. Because of this, this person's childhood life was relaxed and happy, and he was also influenced by some medical and pharmacology.
After graduating from the Affiliated Normal School of Sun Yat-sen University, Fan Guixia entered a local textile factory and became a textile female worker. However, the capitalists of the textile factory do not regard workers as human beings. Although Fan Guixia is a young woman, she finally accepted advanced ideas in college.
Just like that, she transformed into a textile factory, and became an activist in the workers' movement.
made a name for himself in the textile factory. The party organization who heard the news specially found this representative of the spontaneous worker movement among the people. Fan Guixia, who was in her early 20s, understood the principles of revolution under the guidance of the Party.
Since then, she has participated in the Guangdong local New Student Society, the Guangdong Women's Liberation Association, and the Communist Youth League of the Party organization. He was also absorbed as a formal party member by the Guangdong Party organization because of his rapid ideological progress and excellent theoretical knowledge.
However, there has never been a smooth revolution in days...
1927, the Kuomintang reactionaries launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Guangdong and arrested Communist Party members on a large scale. Fan Guixia was surrounded by the Kuomintang military and police one night due to the betrayal of the traitors in the organization.
The only luck is that after the military and police broke into the Fan family, Fan Guixia, who lived on the second floor of the small building, took advantage of the delay of the military and police in the courtyard and hurriedly climbed out of the balcony on the roof and hid behind the chimney of the neighbor's house. was not discovered by the military and police who searched later because it was dark.
However, although Fan Guixia was lucky enough to escape the arrest of the military and police, the problem is that when the military and police found out that they had lost, in order to hand in the office, they "torted" Fan Guixia's family in the courtyard to "force confessions" to the arrested one.
After the rude threats and beatings of the military and police, Fan Guixia's father Fan Xinyi, who was a doctor, was beaten to vomit blood, but even so, he did not reveal the news about his daughter and insisted that he did not know.
and forced to confess to the end, the military and police who had nothing to gain were naturally angry and beaten Fan Guixia's family, and then left. Fan Guixia's father Fan Xinyi was beaten to death by the military and police's anger until he was seriously injured and unconscious.
The military and police left, and Fan Guixia, who was hiding behind the chimney, dared to slip down from the roof. When she saw her father lying in a pool of blood, big tears immediately rolled out from her eyes, but at this moment, her fainted father opened his eyes like a rebirth.
He said: "Xia Gu! Run! They will come to catch you later!"
After saying that, the father thrust his body and passed away with hatred. After
, although Fan Guixia felt endless anger and reluctance in her heart, she could only leave her own home as her father told her, and finally arrived in Hong Kong.
Disguised couple
came to Hong Kong to contact the Shang Party organization. With the consent of Shen Baotong, Secretary-General of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Secretariat, Fan Guixia stayed in the Provincial Party Committee Secretariat to be responsible for the liaison work.
Fan Guixia
Waiting until Premier Zhou came to Hong Kong for rest and treatment due to malaria. She knew medical knowledge and was sent by Shen Baotong to Premier Zhou to take care of Premier Zhou's condition.
At that time, in order to conceal his identity, under the arrangement of the party organization, Premier Zhou was given a wealthy business character design of "Master Li". With this arrangement, Fan Guixia was arranged as the "Grandma Li" by Shen Baotong.
Speaking of which, Fan Guixia was still a 22-year-old yellow girl at that time, so even though she knew that she was just pretending to be a couple, she couldn't help but blush when she heard this.
However, this was a task given to her by the party organization. Although she was shy on her face, she still agreed to the task without saying a word. So, she and Yang Shihun escorted Premier Zhou together.
Finally, after coming to the villa arranged by the organization for them, Fan Guixia, who was nervous all the way, finally had time to look at this "serious ill".
In her eyes, the "Grand Young Master Li" was wearing a felt hat, sunglasses, and a long gown. However, when she looked at the person's face carefully, Fan Guixia's expression changed from curiosity to shock:
Isn't this Zhou Enlai that everyone admires? It turns out that I want to play a couple with Zhou Enlai?
After learning about Premier Zhou's identity, Fan Guixia naturally took ten thousand cautions and took care of Premier Zhou wholeheartedly in accordance with the doctor's instructions and her own nursing knowledge.
For the next three days and three nights, because there was no thermometer, Fan Guixia endured her sleepiness and touched Premier Zhou's forehead with her hands every hour to judge whether the Prime Minister's body temperature had dropped. In addition, as for feeding the chairman with a spoon, he was even more careful.
Three days later, perhaps Fan Guixia played a role in the meticulous care of Premier Zhou. Premier Zhou, who had been in a coma, finally woke up to , and Fan Guixia and Yang Shihun, who had been with him, were also ecstatic.
Hearing the cheers, Premier Zhou immediately asked alertly: "Where is this place?"
Then, Fan Guixia came up with a smile on her face, and she whispered to the patient who had just woken up and entered the security state: "This is Hong Kong."
Hearing the answer, Premier Zhou looked at the young man in front of him and continued to ask: "What are you?"
Fan Guixia replied: "My name is Fan Guixia, and it was sent by Comrade Shen Baotong of the Guangdong Party Committee, and Comrade Yang Shihun of the Chaoshan Party Organization is also here."
Hearing the two familiar names of Shen Baotong and Yang Shihun, Premier Zhou realized that he was probably in a safe environment. At this time, Yang Shihun on the side also rushed up and shouted: "Brother, you are awake!"
Zhou Enlai smiled when he saw Yang Shihun, but Yang Shihun was extremely excited. He turned around and grabbed Fan Guixia, dancing happily.
Living Together
After waking up from a coma, Fan Guixia still acted as Premier Zhou’s nurse for the next period of time. It was also under Fan Guixia's meticulous care that Premier's health recovered was really slow in Zhou.
However, despite his good health, the party organization decided to temporarily stop Premier Zhou's work within the party so that he could rest assuredly.
That's it. Premier Zhou, who had just recovered from a serious illness, could only read books and read newspapers every day. Compared to his busy work before, it was quite idle. Under such boredom, Premier Zhou will naturally miss his wife Deng Yingchao and other comrades.
That day, Fan Guixia came to take care of Premier Zhou's daily life as usual. Premier Zhou could not hide his longing for his wife, so he asked her: "Little girl, do you have any man you like?"
was asked so bluntly by the Prime Minister. Fan Guixia was embarrassed for a moment, but she confessed to the "Grand Master Li" that she had a boyfriend named Pan Yaofang, a student of the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and participated in the siege of Chen Jiongming and Northern Expedition .
Speaking of this, the shyness on Fan Guixia's face turned into sadness. It turned out that after returning from the Northern Expedition, the party organization arranged for Pan Yaofang to go to Guangning to train the peasant army. As a result, after the Kuomintang launched a counter-revolutionary coup, their lovers lost contact with each other, so she often worried about whether Pan Yaofang had sacrificed...
Premier Zhou sighed helplessly when he heard this story and comforted her Said:
"As long as he loves you, he will definitely come back to find you in the future, just like I must go to find my wife Yingchao..." After
, more than ten days later, the party organization in Guangdong held a meeting to study the specific deployment of Guangzhou Uprising , because the meeting venue was in Hong Kong, and Premier Zhou, who had recovered from his health, insisted on participating.
After analyzing, the party organization agreed to Premier Zhou’s idea of attending the meeting. In order to take care of this "stubborn ghost" who had just recovered from a serious illness, Fan Guixia had to go out with the Prime Minister for the first time as "Mrs. Li".
Since then, in the following consecutive meetings for several days, Fan Guixia has been accompanying Premier Zhou to attend the meeting with this identity, and the relationship between the two has become closer and closer, and is like a brother and sister.
A month passed in a flash. Under Fan Guixia's care, Premier Zhou's health finally recovered basically, and the party organization also decided to ask him to go to Shanghai as soon as possible to participate in the enlarged meeting of the Party Central Committee under the background of the failure of the " Revolution ".
So, the two people who have been together day and night for more than a month finally arrived at the day they parted with the Prime Minister.
Before leaving, standing at the dock, Premier Zhou extended his warm hands to Fan Guixia and Shi Hun who came to see him off. He said: "Thank you all these days."
shook hands, and Premier Zhou did not forget to specifically remind these two comrades. He said: "Although the current revolution is not good, you must persist in fighting while paying attention to your safety, and must believe that victory will come!"
After saying that, in the reluctance of the two, the future great man stepped onto the ship to Shanghai in full spirit, while Fan Guixia stood on the dock, listening to the whistle and watching the ship leaving until Premier Zhou's figure disappeared from his vision.
Epilogue:
After returning to Shanghai, Premier Zhou finally met Deng Yingchao whom he missed deeply. While the two expressed their feelings, the Prime Minister also described her experience in Hong Kong to her and asked her if she knew Fan Guixia.
Deng Yingchao told the Prime Minister:
"Of course I remember Xiao Fan. When I was in Guangdong, I met her in Women's Rescue Club . This time, thanks to her taking care of you in Hong Kong, I hope I can see her again in the future. I will thank her very much."
Deng Yingchao (left), with Fan Guixia (right)
At this point, I believe that when I said this, whether it was Deng Yingchao or Zhou Enlai, they would not have expected that such words would come true in 27 years.
In the West Flower Hall in August 1953, there were three people, two "couples" and four dishes, and they were just smiling and laughing at the dinner table. After learning that Fan Guixia had married her boyfriend Pan Yaofang and gave birth to a child, Premier Zhou also smiled and said:
"When I was in Hong Kong, I told you that if he loved you, he would definitely find you... Life was so fast. I didn't expect that you, a little girl, have become a grandmother now."
Then, he looked at Fan Guixia's deep gaze, and seemed to have returned to that stormy revolutionary years.
