On October 1, 1966, it was the National Day of the 17th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Chairman Mao's daughter Li Na and Lin Biao's daughter Lin Doudou and others climbed the Tiananmen Gate Tower to spend the National Day with Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou and other national leaders. At that time, Lin Doudou was the deputy editor-in-chief of the Air Force Daily, and she was very powerful and very popular.
Lin Doudou is Marshal Lin Biao's second daughter and the only daughter of Lin Biao and Ye Qun. At the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1944, Lin Doudou was born in Yan'an. The reason why she was named Doudou is said to be because Lin Biao especially likes to eat fried soybeans .
After adulthood, Lin Doudou studied at Tsinghua University and Peking University , and entered the Air Force after graduation. In the following years, Lin Doudou has been working in the Air Force Daily and has written several articles. On July 13, 1968, the newsletter she wrote, "Three Visits to the Ninth Factory", was even praised by Chairman Mao at a meeting.
Lin Shuai's identity as his biological daughter, Chairman Mao's praise, and the quality of the article itself was indeed very high. For a time, Lin Doudou was famous all over the world. However, with the outbreak of the 9/13 incident in 1971, Lin Doudou's treatment fell from the sky to the ground.
At the beginning, Lin Doudou was regarded as a hero, because before the 913 incident, Lin Doudou discovered something abnormal and exposed the matter.
However, immediately afterwards, Lin Doudou was locked up by the task force and his treatment began to plummet. During this period, due to the very bad conditions, her body was also greatly damaged. At the worst, Lin Doudou lost 6 teeth in her mouth, half of her hair, and her weight was only more than 70 kilograms.
The days of being detained seem to be endless, and the treatment is getting worse and worse, and even life is in danger. Forced by helplessness, Lin Doudou wrote a letter to Chairman Mao, requesting an interview. After receiving the letter, Chairman Mao gave her letter to Zhou Enlai.
In August 1972, Premier Zhou had a collective talk with Lin Doudou and others at the Great Hall of the People in . This conversation really changed Lin Doudou's bad situation and she was allowed to return to the Air Force. Of course, even after returning to the Air Force, Lin Doudou still had special task force guards.
In 1974, Lin Doudou's treatment became worse again. She even chose to commit suicide, but fortunately she was rescued in time. In despair, she wrote to Chairman Mao again. This time, Chairman Mao personally gave an instruction: to lift the custody of Lin Liheng and allow her to interact with Zhang Qinglin. She is different from her best friends.
It was with Chairman Mao’s handwritten instructions that Lin Liheng, that is, Lin Doudou, was finally released from custody. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee finally decided to send her to the farm to work, and at the same time, Zhang Qinglin was also transferred to the Air Force. At that time, Lin Doudou and Zhang Qinglin were located at the 43rd Division of Kaifeng Airborne Army Farm, and Lin Doudou's pseudonym Zhang Ping.
Who is Zhang Qinglin? Why can Chairman Mao personally mention it? Because, he is Lin Doudou's boyfriend. This man, who did not have a prominent family background, was originally an excellent military doctor in the army. He established a romantic relationship with Lin Doudou in August 1971.
However, he never expected that the September 13th incident broke out in just one month. However, after learning that his girlfriend's treatment had plummeted, he did not choose to leave. Instead, after serious and profound thinking, he decided to continue to maintain his relationship with Lin Doudou and continue to accompany her.
However, due to the special circumstances, even accompanying him is very difficult. It was not until Chairman Mao personally gave instructions that he could continue to be with Lin Doudou. In the same year as Chairman Mao’s instructions, the Air Force Organization Department approved the marriage of Lin Doudou and Zhang Qinglin.
In October 1975, Lin Doudou was allowed to transfer to the business, so she left the Air Force. At that time, the decision to transfer the job was: to restore the real name of the party, arrange certain leadership positions, and work boldly.
However, Lin Doudou's identity is really too sensitive. Where should she arrange to work after she transfers to a job? After several weighings, the troops chose three places: Zhengzhou, Henan, Kaifeng, Henan, and Xiaogan, Hubei.
. Deng Xiaoping, who is in charge of the central work, finally chose Zhengzhou, which has the most convenient transportation and the largest scale for Lin Doudou.After transferring to Zhengzhou, Lin Doudou was arranged to enter the automobile factory and served as deputy director of the automobile factory revolutionary committee. The level of this position is the deputy battalion level. Before the transfer, Lin Doudou was at the deputy division level. Of course, even so, Lin Doudou was already very satisfied.
However, such a peaceful day still failed to last long. By May 1976, since the transfer arrangement was determined by Deng Xiaoping, with Deng Xiaoping's third ups and downs, Lin Doudou also became the affected fish.
Her position as deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee was deprived of her position as a worker and was directly transferred to the workshop. This took 10 years.
It was not until 1988 that Lin Doudou finally returned to Beijing after reform and opening up . This time, she was transferred to the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and became a historical researcher, but she still did not use her real name, but a pseudonym Luman.
While working in the Academy of Social Sciences, Lin Doudou is still diligent in his work and has made great achievements in his work. For example, in 1989, she participated in the launch of an institution called " Chinese Modern Culture Society ". This institution also has a professional committee for corporate culture and a professional committee for oral history.
In 2002, 58-year-old Lin Doudou finally retired and ended her extraordinary and bumpy working career.
It is worth mentioning that after retirement, one night in February 2002, she suddenly received a call from a leader in her hometown , Huanggang City. The leader told her on the phone: A company in the city is planning to open a restaurant in Beijing and wants to hire her as chairman and general manager.
Although Lin Doudou's life was quite bumpy, she had worked as a reporter, an editor, a man, a worker, and even a farm and raising pigs, it has never been related to doing business. So, after hearing this invitation, Lin Doudou was very surprised, but she still politely refused.
However, unexpectedly, a month later, in early March, the two leaders of the Huanggang City Company who invited her actually went to Beijing in person, found Lin Doudou, and sent the invitation sincerely again. After hearing the invitation, Lin Doudou still did not agree:
cannot do it, opening a restaurant is not a trivial matter, and I don’t understand it either. Once the business is not done well, it will not only lose all its money, but also have to be in debt. That would be too sorry for the fellow villagers of Huanggang .
However, this company did not give up on it. Three days later, they came to the door again and explained: We understand your difficulties very much. However, you also know that there are no resources and specialties in Huanggang. The people live on rice and straw. They are very poor, so we want to come out and help.
It was this explanation that ultimately touched Lin Doudou's intention to contribute to the development of his hometown. She agreed to the invitation and prepared to serve as chairman and general manager of the Huanghe Restaurant to be opened in Beijing.
In fact, the important reason why this company in Huanggang City repeatedly invited Lin Doudou to serve as the chairman of the restaurant is that it wants to take advantage of Lin Doudou's celebrity effect.
So, after Lin Doudou agreed, they were going to give her a high salary. However, Lin Doudou, whose original purpose was not to make money, refused. Finally, after the two parties agreed, Lin Doudou's monthly salary was set at 2,000 yuan per month.
Although he has never done business, nor has he opened a restaurant, Lin Doudou still tried his best after taking over this position. She first solicited opinions widely and determined the restaurant's grade - medium and low-end.
Later, he went to great lengths to investigate in various streets in Beijing and chose a restaurant with a 2,100 square meter location on Chongwenmen Xingfu Street.
After selecting the position and determining the level, Lin Doudou started a busier work. She personally recruited waiters and chefs, trained them, and even hired senior etiquette teachers. In mid-May 2002, after hard preparation, Huanghe Restaurant finally officially opened.
became famous for his first shot. Lin Doudou, who is not good at talking, even makes more than a dozen calls every night to invite friends and acquaintances to support her.Accurate positioning, suitable price, good environment, good dishes, and Lin Doudou's celebrity effect, Huang He's restaurant became a hit as soon as it opened, and its business was quite good.
However, as time goes by, new problems gradually become exposed. Although Lin Doudou is the chairman and general manager, she is essentially still a senior worker. In addition, as a woman in her 60s, Lin Doudou is too soft-hearted and is a little accommodating to personnel management.
And these waiters, some even the children of local leaders, are very arrogant and have no mentality of serving as service staff at all, and even have many disputes with customers.
In this way, the popular Huanghe Restaurant became a bad reputation, and people gradually became impressed by the poor quality of restaurant service, and the business of Huanghe Restaurant was not as good as when it opened.
At the end of 2005, Huanghe Restaurant suffered losses for the first time due to word of mouth. After discovering this situation, Lin Doudou believed that if the continued development continues, investors will inevitably lose more, so he took the initiative to close the hotel and no longer serves as the hotel chairman and general manager.
Investors finally agreed to Lin Doudou's suggestion. In 2005, the hotel that Lin Doudou had been operating for more than three years quietly closed.
Since then, Lin Doudou has been living in seclusion and will only show up when participating in some charity activities or commemorative activities. For example, in 2014, Lin Doudou attended the symposium on the descendants of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army East Route Army at at Beijing Wanshou Hotel , and made a speech at the meeting and put forward the suggestion of "fully respecting historical facts and stepping up the exploration and sorting of historical events."
After going through twists and turns and ups and downs, Marshal Lin Biao's youngest daughter Lin Doudou finally lived a peaceful life without interruption in her later years.
