1922, at Yang Kaihui's house at Qingshuitang, html, Liu Shaoqi, a young man who returned from the Soviet Union, met Mao Zedong and He Baozhen there. At that time, He Baozhen was a student and organizer of Hengyang No. 3 Women's Normal School. She was expelled for opposing warlords and temporarily lived in the homes of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui.
Under Yang Kaihui's introduction, Liu Shaoqi and He Baozhen met. After
, Liu Shaoqi went to Anyuan to work.
The second year, He Baozhen also went to Anyuan to serve as a teacher at the third child school of the road mine.
There, Liu Shaoqi and He Baozhen have a lot of contact, love each other, and develop love.
Half a year later, the two officially got married amid the cheers of the victory of the Anyuan strike.
1927, He Baozhen gave birth to a daughter in Wuhan, who is Liu Aiqin.
was born in a chaotic world and was destined to be displaced.
Shortly after Liu Aiqin was born, a terrible terror situation occurred. Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai. As revolutionary leaders, Liu Shaoqi and He Baozhen were in a very dangerous situation, so they had to go underground to carry out revolutionary work.
For this reason, Liu Aiqin, who was just a few months old, had to entrust a local working couple in Wuhan to take care of and raise them.
However, this farewell was the eternal parting between Liu Aiqin and her mother He Baozhen, and the separation between her father Liu Shaoqi was also eleven years long.
In 1933, Liao Chengzhi, secretary of the Chinese Seaman Party League, was arrested, and He Baozhen ran around and made every effort to rescue him. One day, he was followed by plainclothes spies and was finally arrested and imprisoned in Shanghai Longhua Prison.
Later, He Baozhen was escorted to the Nanjing Gendarmerie Command for cruel interrogation, but He Baozhen was indomitable and did not reveal her identity. The enemy had no choice but to sentence him to 15 years in prison and was imprisoned in Nanjing Model Prison.
However, later, due to the rebellion of a Mutual Academic member, He Baozhen's identity was exposed.
The enemy began to torture confessions, but He Baozhen refused to surrender when she died. In anger, the enemy gave her two choices, either to live or die, to choose by herself. He Baozhen's answer was very straightforward:
"Expression, no; it's so deadly, please."
So, at Yuhuatai, He Baozhen was killed.
That year, He Baozhen was 32 years old.
For Liu Aiqin, the image and deeds of her biological mother were mostly learned from Meng Shuaiqi's mother and others.
It is said that children without mothers are miserable. In that turbulent era, Liu Aiqin's childhood was even more miserable.
Originally, the worker couple entrusted by their parents to treat Liu Aiqin very well, but when they were seven or eight years old, the shadow of misfortune fell to this family. Due to social unrest, the adoptive father lost his job first, and then the adoptive mother fell ill frequently. Originally, he had no income after losing his job, and was sick and medical treatment, and he was financially struggling, which soon made this poor family even worse and unable to maintain it.
The family's financial situation collapsed to midnight. In desperation, in order to survive, the adoptive parents had to sell Liu Aiqin, who was young to a rickshaw driver's home to be a child bride. The child bride in the old era was a way out for the poor to survive, but nothing more than just a meal.
A penny can force a hero to death, and a single bite of food can force a poor person to death.
However, this family is not as good as at the adoptive parents' home for Liu Aiqin.
When she was a child bride, her mother-in-law treated her as a bought slave. She has no food and no clothing, and she has to do a lot of hard and tiring work, and even has to be beaten and scolded. When recalling this period, Liu Aiqin said:
"I fell into the sea of suffering all of a sudden!"
However, the disaster never came singularly. Shortly after I arrived in this family, my mother-in-law gave birth to a son (the "husband" of Liu Aiqin, who was a child bride at the time), unfortunately died of smallpox when she was over one year old.
The mother-in-law was extremely sad and angry, thinking that Liu Aiqin was a nemesis and killed her son and held a grudge against her.
From then on, Liu Aiqin became a thorn in her eyes, and she had to beat her to relieve the pain of losing her son every day.What's even more terrible is that in addition to beating, she also had to punish Liu Aiqin in various ways, such as asking her to kneel in the cold wind in winter, and once she knelt for a long time, her legs and feet were broken and frostbite.
The injury of flesh is not counted, and once it almost killed him. That day, when she was going to the well to fetch water, the thin Liu Aiqin fainted due to cold and hunger and fell into the well. Fortunately, someone passed by. Seeing this scene, he hurriedly rescued Liu Aiqin.
However, at a young age, she can no longer bear the torture of this kind of life. At first, she was hoping that her adoptive parents would take her back every day, but she didn't wait. Finally, she even had the idea of despair, and pinched her neck to commit suicide.
About four years, in the terrible nightmare, finally passed.
One day, her adoptive mother whom she had been thinking about day and night finally appeared and brought a young man.
As soon as we met, Liu Aiqin hugged her adoptive mother and cried.
adoptive mother said, "Don't cry, I'll pick you up."
After hearing this, the evil mother-in-law immediately stopped her and refused to leave.
The young man around her foster mother gave her evil mother-in-law some money before she let her go.
Because of the heavy suffering, Liu Aiqin was worried that her adoptive mother would sell her elsewhere.
adoptive mother had to tell the truth, saying that she was just her nanny and that she would send her to her biological father this time.
Then, Liu Aiqin was sent to the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army.
There, she met Xia Zhixu's mother.
Xia Zhixu's mother told Liu Aiqin that her father was in Yan'an and that her mother had sacrificed for the revolutionary cause.
Soon after, the comrades from the office took the train to Xi'an.
lived in Xi'an for more than 20 days, where she received careful care from Xiong Tianjing's mother and all her physical injuries were healed.
Then, Liu Aiqin and several other revolutionary children were sent to Yan'an together.
When Liu Aiqin recalled this, she remembered that day very clearly - it was at the end of May and early June 1938.
From birth to now, she has not seen her biological parents for 11 years. This experience was originally normal in the revolutionary era, but for a child, there is still a special psychological gap.
In addition, on the day she arrived in Yan'an, her father Liu Shaoqi happened to be out of work because she was busy with work.
She can only wait, that kind of waiting, there is a kind of loss accompanied by anxiety.
However, she was not disappointed this time, because not long after, someone told her that her father was here.
When she heard this, she was very excited and ran out.
Liu Shaoqi saw a child running towards her, and guessed that it was his daughter, so he ran over quickly.
However, when Liu Aiqin ran to the front and looked at each other, she stopped talking.
Liu Aiqin recalled:
"(At that time) there was a man next to him saying, this is your father, call him dad. (But) I didn't call him dad, I'm not used to it."
Liu Shaoqi then hugged her hand kindly, hugged her again, and asked kindly how old he was.
She was very nervous and held it in for a long time before she said three words: "I don't know."
Everyone laughed. Originally, the adults' smiles were not malicious.
But Liu Aiqin, who suffered hardships at a young age, felt very aggrieved and burst into tears.
Liu Shaoqi felt very distressed when he saw his daughter crying, and hurriedly comforted him:
"You have suffered, Dad knows, it's good to come home..."
Liu Shaoqi's attitude made Liu Aiqin feel particularly warm, and there was a warm current in his heart. He was no longer afraid of the future. He felt very down-to-earth, a kind of unprecedented peace of mind.
Liu Shaoqi liked this daughter very much, so he gave her a nickname called "Ai Er".
Then, Liu Shaoqi saw that Liu Aiqin was over eleven years old and it was time to go to school for education.
felt that it was not enough to call her nickname in school, and she still needed to have a scientific name, so she gave her a scientific name: Aegean.
has his own name and can still go to school. Liu Aiqin is very excited and happy. Because, she had no chance to go to school before.
At that time, I went to school at the foot of the Baota Mountain by the river in Yan'an. Because the revolutionary conditions were relatively difficult, the students used all the notebooks they used were solved by themselves. Liu Aiqin couldn't do it, so Liu Shaoqi taught her to make a notebook, cut the paper into pieces, and then sew it with needle and thread.
In addition to being able to go to school, she also felt the warmth of her family. At that time, not only did he have a father, but his brother Yunbin.
But this kind of life has changed again after only more than a year.
At the end of August 1939, due to work needs, Liu Shaoqi wanted to go to Central Plains Bureau .
But, what should I do with two children?
After thinking, Liu Shaoqi decided to let his two children continue to receive a good education at the age of school, so he would contribute to the country in the future, so he planned to send his two children to the Soviet Union to study.
happened to be true. At that time, Zhou Enlai had to go to the Soviet Union for treatment due to an arm injury. Liu Aiqin and Liu Yunbin were taken to the Soviet Union by Zhou Enlai.
However, Liu Aiqin never expected that this time she would say goodbye to her father for 10 years.
It was not until June 1949, on the eve of the founding of New China, that Liu Shaoqi visited Suzhou for 55 days. This time, Liu Aiqin met her dear father ten years later.
However, Liu Aiqin who left at that time was just a teenage girl, but at this time Liu Aiqin was already a twenties girl.
Over the past decade, there have been many changes and many things have happened.
Among these things, the most important thing is that Liu Aiqin is in love and gets married.
That was in 1946. Through hard study, Liu Aiqin was admitted to the Department of Economics of the Moscow Communications College. It was during this study that Liu Aiqin met and fell in love with Fernando from the Radio Department of the College. Fernando is the nephew of Ibaluli, General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party.
1948, Liu Aiqin and Fernando, who had been in love for two years, entered the palace of marriage.
At that time, Liu Aiqin told her brother Liu Yunbin about this, but she was opposed by her brother because her brother thought she would still return to China in the future. However, Liu Aiqin believes that after getting married, the two of them can return to China together. Later, when Liu Aiqin recalled this, she said:
"I thoughts were very simple at that time, but from now on, it was too simple."
and others, when Liu Shaoqi visited Su in 1949, the father and daughter met again after a long separation. They were very happy and had a very good relationship.
Liu Aiqin dared not tell her father that she was married, so she thought about talking about it again and again.
However, it still couldn't hide it later. Because Liu Aiqin always stayed with her father Liu Shaoqi for a while before leaving, and then Liu Shaoqi couldn't see her daughter, so she was very anxious and sent someone to find her. As a result, the matter could not be hidden, so Liu Yunbin had to tell his father that his sister was married.
result, this made me a little unhappy. Soon, Liu Shaoqi returned to China and brought Liu Aiqin back to China.
Regarding this matter, Liu Aiqin later said in an interview with reporters:
"My father's career is too difficult... I don't blame my father, I blame myself for not considering it carefully......" After returning to China, Liu Aiqin met Wang Guangmei's mother.
But when we first met, Wang Guangmei was only six years older than Liu Aiqin because of the small difference in age. In addition, because of unfamiliarity, this unfamiliarity includes factors such as relationship, age, and foreign experience. Therefore, Liu Aiqin did not take the initiative to say hello to Wang Guangmei's mother.
Wang Guangmei didn't care either, and took the initiative to say hello to Liu Aiqin and was very friendly and enthusiastic to her.
Because Liu Aiqin is not familiar with Chinese life, Wang Guangmei helped her buy shoes and clothes, and taught her daily life habits, including eating, sleeping, bathing, etc.
But there is one thing that Liu Aiqin remembers deeply, which makes her father very angry.
That is in the Soviet Union, if such a mother-daughter relationship occurs, they usually call each other's names.
Therefore, Liu Aiqin has never called Wang Guangmei mother.
However, under the traditional Chinese ethics, it is not possible. There is a respect for elders and order in the family. It is the mother that is the mother, and you cannot call her name directly.
Liu Shaoqi said to her, "You can't do this."
Wang Guangmei persuaded: "It doesn't matter, I'll get used to it after a long time."
However, their relationship changed dramatically in the late 1970s.
After ten years of hardship, my father left.
However, a lot of things happened in the past ten years. In Liu Aiqin's original words, it is:
"In······, I saw how many wives and children were separated and their families were destroyed. When my father was persecuted and attacked, Guangmei's mother had never wavered or betrayed my father. She was so loyal to my father. Guangmei's mother squatted. 12 years in prison…………”
This incident touched Liu Aiqin so much, so in early 1979, after Wang Guangmei was released from prison, she wrote to Liu Aiqin saying that she had home again, hoping that she would have time to come back to see her.
Liu Aiqin felt particularly moved and warm, and she lost her father, but Guangmei’s mother was still there, and her home was still there.
Liu Aiqin rushed back immediately. This time, as soon as she met, she opened her mouth and called Wang Guangmei: Mom.
This is the first time she called Wang Guangmei: Mom .
Then, Liu Aiqin expressed her heart to Guangmei's mother and sincerely apologized for her past ignorance.
From then on, Liu Aiqin went to see Wang Guangmei's mother when she had time. If she didn't have time, she called to ask about her well-being. Liu Aiqin said that although they were mother-daughter relationships, they were as close as sisters and could talk about everything.
When Wang Guangmei was 80 years old, it was Liu Aiqin who personally summoned the whole family to celebrate her mother's birthday (before being influenced by Liu Shaoqi , She never had her birthday, but Liu Aiqin thinks that 80 years old is of great significance, so she must celebrate it). However, because Wang Guangmei's birthday is September 26, and the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in 2000 are very close, so Liu Aiqin said to her mother: Let's not celebrate the 80th birthday, but to make the family reunion on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
One of them is happy for more than twenty and happy.
Six years later, Wang Guangmei passed away.
Liu Aiqin spent her old age in her endless memories of her parents.
