During the Spring Festival in 1962, Chairman Mao transferred several guards away. He said to the guard leader Li Yinqiao:
"Yinqiao, you and me have grown up for so many years. But you are always like this. There is no way to follow me? What do you do if I die?"
Although Li Yinqiao had been mentally prepared for a long time, his tears were still spinning in his eyes indiscreetly, and he couldn't speak.
Chairman Mao said again: "I can't bear to leave you either. My family and I don’t see much in a year. You guys are closer than my child..."
Li Yinqiao couldn’t help it anymore, woooo To cry. He and Chairman Mao stayed together for 15 years, and he was not a relative but was better than a relative. He was really reluctant to leave.
"After you leave, I will no longer appoint a captain of the guard! After I die, you will see me on the grave once a year..." Chairman Mao's words made people burst into tears.
It is said that meeting between people is fate, and knowing each other is blessing. Chairman Mao cherished Li Yinqiao as he did to his own children, caring about everything from marriage to childbirth. Li Yinqiao accompanies and takes care of Chairman Mao like a family member. They have been together for 15 years, and this relationship has already surpassed the relationship between the superior and the subordinate, sincere and deep.
From the relationship between Li Yinqiao and Chairman Mao, we have even witnessed the noble feelings and great sentiments of a generation of great men.
Chairman Mao: We must have someone compromised.
On August 19, 1947, Li Yinqiao came to protect Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao looked at him a little familiar, and asked him: What is your name?
This is Chairman Mao’s unique way of opening. When someone answers his name and reports his hometown, Chairman Mao opens the chatbox and tells many historical figures and interesting things in this place. The knowledgeable Chairman Mao soon Just chat with people.
Li Yinqiao replied: My name is Li Yinqiao, Li is Muzili, silver is gold and silver, and the bridge is a bridge across the river.
The two started chatting, and when they talked about Li Yinqiao's mother, Chairman Mao immediately guessed: I guess your mother believes in Buddhism.
Li Yinqiao was very surprised. He forgot his identity and asked whether he was big or small. Oh? Does your mother also believe in Buddhism?
Chairman Mao laughed after hearing this. He said: Yes, she also believes in Buddhism. When I was young, she and I went to the temple to burn incense.
Chairman Mao asked him again: How? Would you like to come to work with me?
Li Yinqiao muttered and said: I don't want to.
Chairman Mao is very strange, is there anyone who is unwilling to be his guard?
But Chairman Mao was very generous. He said: "Yinqiao, I am very happy that you can tell the truth. I like people who tell the truth, but you have to tell me, why don't you want to come?"
Li Yinqiao Said: I joined the army for 38 years and have always been a correspondent. I only fought a few battles in my youth. I want to fight in the field troops.
Chairman Mao said to Li Yinqiao: This understanding, 38 years, it is more than enough to be the head of the regiment, and being a guard is a bit wronged. What else is there besides this reason, for example, you first go to Zhou Enlai to be a guard, and you don't want to come to me to be a guard.
Li Yinqiao was shocked when he heard it. He even said that he was wronged, saying that when he was in the 358 brigade, he especially wanted to see the chairman. But the main reason is that the chairman is nostalgic.
Chairman Mao immediately asked Li Yinqiao: "Who told you that I am old-fashioned?"
Li Yinqiao went out, he said: Don't worry about this, anyway, I know you are old-fashioned!
He started to talk: The chairman is too old to ride the white horse, and he still refuses to change the horse; the one that is well-dressed has feelings when he gets started, and he is reluctant to replace it with a new one; Use Sun Zhenguo to carry the luggage.
He digs into his heart and said: If I follow you for a long time, we have feelings, will you let me go? I won’t be able to go to the field army again!
Chairman Mao laughed out loud when he was "scrapped".He can only say: "Little devil."
The chairman said again: I called you to come. We must make a personal compromise, right?
Li Yinqiao lowered his head and mumbled: "Then I can only compromise."
The story of a cigarette
It turned out that Chairman Mao had already noticed Li Yinqiao, because of a trivial matter. It made the chairman admire the young man in front of him from his heart.
That was March 1947, in order to fight against the Hu Zongnan troops, Chairman Mao made a strategic shift. The Kuomintang pursued it all the way to the Yellow River.
On the banks of the Yellow River Hankou and Jialu River, howling bullets hit head-on, a river in front, intercepted by the enemy, and tens of thousands of chasing soldiers behind...
Zhou Enlai is in a hurry, Ren Bi is in a hurry, only Chairman Mao is not in a hurry.
The enemy is now, the great man is strategizing. Suddenly, "Smoke!" Chairman Mao said, he wanted cigarettes.
The person next to him hurriedly struck a match for the chairman, but the river was wet and could not be lit.
Suddenly a little soldier walked out behind Zhou Enlai. He had quick eyes and quick hands. He took the match and lit the fire with a "chap", then quickly covered the flame with his hands carefully, handed it up steadily, and lit the smoke for Chairman Mao.
This little warrior is Li Yinqiao. He shows the characteristics of an excellent guard: good at capturing information from leaders and agile. Chairman Mao glanced at him appreciatively.
There was the previous scene. The chairman called for Li Yinqiao. Their meeting was really lively, loving and interesting.
"With a single white hair, it is worth winning three battles."
Li Yinqiao came to Chairman Mao at the time when the Yan'an defense war fought the hardest.Had no permanent residence, marching almost every day.
Chairman Mao is either on horseback, or on the side of the pots and kangs of the fellow villagers, but his heart is in various battlefields across the country, working day and night to command every battle.
We arrived at Xibaipo in May 1948. At this time, we entered a decisive battle. The People's Army was invincible in more than four months and wiped out more than one million enemy troops. Victory is imminent.
In order to completely defeat the enemy, every decision is critical, and Chairman Mao has devoted all his energy to it.
He often stays in the office for a few days without coming out. In this "highest command center," he drafts and issues dozens or dozens of combat orders every day to direct all battlefields to defeat the enemy.
Chairman Mao, who used to seldom rest, now rarely closes his eyes.
Li Yinqiao cares about the health of the chairman. He is very anxious and wants to pull him out to relax and relax.
Later, he thought of a way. When he saw Chairman Mao idle a little while reviewing the documents, he walked forward to help him sit on a cane chair. Chairman Mao continued to read the documents, and he stood behind and grate for him.
Chairman Mao liked this very much. He said with appreciation: "Yinqiao, you solved a problem for me. The grate is a good massage, which can promote blood circulation and relieve fatigue."
Li Yinqiao is very happy, Continue to grate for him, but regret it every time.
Because he was grateful for Chairman Mao once, Mao Zedong felt a little more energetic, so he continued to work and cancel his sleep.
Chairman Mao, who was originally full of black hair and in good health, grew white hair. Li Yinqiao saw it and was shocked: "Chairman, you have gray hair!"
He saw Chairman Mao move his eyebrows and said, "Pull it off!"
Chairman Mao looked at the gray hair, he was optimistic Said: "A white hair, won the three battles, it is worth it."
Chairman Mao’s working hours,It has to be calculated in "weeks"
Li Yinqiao feels bad about Chairman Mao, but he can't help him. The military career is hard, and Chairman Mao often stays up late to work.
To calculate the working hours of Chairman Mao, you have to use "weeks" to calculate. A guard calculated that in 168 hours a week, Chairman Mao slept less than 27 hours, and his other time was reading, except for work.
Li Yinqiao was afraid that Chairman Mao would be damaged, so he tried his best to help Chairman Mao rest, relax and refresh himself.
The guards want to deceive Chairman Mao to take a longer break, and often fail to "success". Chairman Mao will always go back to work every second.
is an exception when it snows. Chairman Mao loves snow the most in his life, and he will forget his love when he sees it. After that snowfall, the chairman came out to rest, and Li Yinqiao extended ten minutes.
The time is up, he reminded, "Chairman, the time is up."
Chairman Mao knew that Li Yinqiao often "handled" on time, this time he still said like that, "Yinqiao, why is there something wrong with your watch!"
But the same thing, this time is different. He said, "But I think today's time is too short."
Li Yinqiao knew that Chairman Mao "wasted" time in this way, and that there is too little in his life.
Put on Chairman Mao's clothes
Chairman Mao's life is very frugal and simple, everyone knows that he hardly buys new clothes.
In the founding ceremony of the country in 1949, the country was renewed. For the sake of the new atmosphere of the new China, Chairman Mao finally agreed to make a new suit.
After the founding ceremony, Chairman Mao never wore that suit again.
When Jiang Qing was packing up for Chairman Mao, she saw the suit. She asked Chairman Mao: Are you still wearing this suit? Give it to the guard if you don't wear it.
Chairman Mao agreed, Jiang Qing called Li Yinqiao,She said: Yinqiao, if the chairman wears his clothes, I will give it to you.
Li Yinqiao took the dress, and he took it to his wife and said to change the dress. Chairman Mao is tall and the dress is a bit bigger.
His wife, Han Guixin, said quickly that he couldn't make any changes. The chairman's clothes were dragon robes.
Li Yinqiao did not agree. He felt that Chairman Mao had always said that he was a servant of the people and he would not be so feudal.
At the insistence of Li Yinqiao, the clothes were reduced and he put them on. Chairman Mao saw Li Yinqiao wearing this suit and said he was very energetic.
The clothes are worn on Li Yinqiao, warm in my heart. But he felt guilty. Chairman Mao gave himself the new clothes, but he was still wearing patches.
Even Chairman Mao’s socks have patches. When he talked with the guests, he would subconsciously lift his legs, and his socks would be exposed. When the meeting was over, Li Yinqiao sneaked into Chairman Mao's ear and said: "Chairman, can you stop your legs."
"Well? What happened to my legs?" Chairman Mao asked puzzled.
Li Yinqiao said: "You can't show off your ugliness."
Chairman Mao glanced at Li Yinqiao and laughed.
Later, when I met with foreign guests, Chairman Mao still wore patched socks, but remembered Li Yinqiao’s words, he should try his best not to stretch his legs.
Chairman Mao cleverly acted as a matchmaker to facilitate the marriage
Li Yinqiao and his wife Han Guixin came to Chairman Mao in the same year.
Han Guixin teaches Chairman Mao's daughter Li Ne to read and read, and helps to sew clothes.
Han Guixin repaired Chairman Mao's clothes and found that they were too old to be repaired. She called Li Yinqiao to persuade Chairman Mao.
Han Guixin told Chairman Mao that the clothes were too torn and needed to be replaced. Chairman Mao smiled and said, you still have to work hard to make up for it.
Han Guixin still insisted,Chairman Mao only said indifferently: Just keep warm, the whole country has not yet been liberated, and the people's lives are still very difficult, so don't pay attention to these.
Han Guixin was a little unwilling and was about to leave, but Chairman Mao suddenly stopped her.
Chairman Mao looked at Li Yinqiao and Han Guixin, and stood up.
He asked Li Yinqiao, are you 21 years old this year? I asked Han Guixin again, are you 19 years old?
Without waiting for them to answer, Chairman Mao said that the age difference is not too big, and you two should help each other more usually.
Han Guixin blushed. She thought, Li Yinqiao must have blushed too.
The chairman is a careful person. He has long seen that Li Yinqiao is interesting to Han Guixin. But the smart Li Yinqiao became stupid in front of love.
Chairman Mao encouraged him to be bolder many times, but Li Yinqiao just didn't dare to confess.
At this time, it happened that Li Yinqiao wrote a letter from home, telling him about a marriage. Li Yinqiao had Han Guixin in his heart, and he didn't know what to do. He reported to Chairman Mao and asked for an idea.
Chairman Mao laughed after reading the letter and said:
"You have to use your brain when you are in love. Take this opportunity to ask Xiao Han with the letter, she is more literate, this is not just for you. Please write back."
Li Yinqiao immediately understood, and took the letter to Han Guixin's house.
After Han Guixin read the letter, there seemed to be a rabbit pounding in her heart.
At this time, Li Yinqiao was on the contrary, he asked tentatively on the side, then I will reply and reject it, right?
Han Guixin dared not look at Li Yinqiao shyly. She sat quietly and replied in a low voice: "Then push it away."
is done! The window paper finally pierced.
It was Chairman Mao's advice that contributed to this marriage.
In the winter of 1948, Li Yinqiao and Han Guixin got married happily.
Interesting facts about Li Yinqiao and Chairman Mao
shortly after marriage,Li Yinqiao's son was born, and a family of three accompanied Chairman Mao. The quiet Zhongnanhai became vibrant.
Li Yinqiao was still on the side of the small road leading to Juxiang Bookstore in Zhongnanhai, full of sunflowers and vegetables. The flowers fragrant all the way. Chairman Mao likes to walk that way.
In order to amuse the chairman, Li Yinqiao also raised two Guangdong monkeys in the vegetable field. The monkeys are usually kept in iron cages.
One day, Chairman Mao was passing by. He heard a child crying, he hurried over to look, and found a monkey standing at the door of the toilet with a child crying inside.
It turned out that the monkey suddenly ran out of the cage and scared Li Yinqiao's son into the toilet to cry.
When Li Yinqiao ran over, he saw Chairman Mao standing there smiling. The little monkey was not afraid of him at all, and jumped on the shoulders of the chairman. One person, one monkey, forming an interesting picture.
Li Yinqiao took his son out, and when the child saw the monkey, he hid in fear, causing the chairman to laugh.
Li Yinqiao is not only a guardian next to the chairman, but also a "pistachio". He always tries to make the chairman relax during heavy work.
Once, Chairman Mao asked him: "Yinqiao, I heard that you and Xiao Han also like poems."
Li Yinqiao said embarrassedly: Xiao Han and I do like your poems, but we can't write them.
Chairman Mao smiled and said: Young people should write more new poems and praise the beautiful new China!
Li Yinqiao chuckled and said that he actually wrote a song. He said:
"I am a worker, peasant, soldier,
revolutionary pioneer,
the upper frontier, down the ocean,
rushing through the desert, climbing the peak,
..."
Li Yinqiao treats himself like a "present treasure" I recite the limelight poems with great emotion and emotion. After reading it, I felt very quiet around me. I looked back at Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao suddenly burst into laughter, put down the cigarette in his hand, clapped his hands and said: Good poems, good poems!
Li Yinqiao saw Chairman Mao smile,Touched his head and said, "My wife helped me write this."
Chairman Mao patted his shoulder and said, it is good to dare to write, and you will need to practice more in the future.
Li Yinqiao has blossomed. He thinks it doesn't matter whether the poem is written well or not, but the important thing is that the chairman laughed again today.
Goodbye to Chairman Mao, he cried into tears
Li Yinqiao is always happy to be with Chairman Mao. But happy days always pass too fast.
Fifteen years have passed in a flash, and the day of parting will soon come.
One day in 1962, when Han Guixin had just returned to Zhongnanhai from school, someone came and said that the chairman was waiting for them.
Li Yinqiao and Han Guixin hurried over. The chairman was already standing at the door waiting for them. He took Li Yinqiao's hand and asked if the child was also here.
Li Yinqiao pointed to Han Guixin and the two children who followed. Chairman Mao said a few good things one after another.
After they entered the house, Li Yinqiao saw that the photographer was waiting with the camera. It turned out that Chairman Mao wanted to take a photo with them as a parting memorial.
After Chairman Mao took a group photo with their family, he smiled and took another photo with Li Yinqiao alone.
Before leaving, Chairman Mao took out 800 yuan from his contribution fee and gave it to Li Yinqiao, hoping that he could start a new life in a new place.
Although he and the chairman had discussed this difference many times in advance, when this moment really came, Li Yinqiao still couldn't hold back, and immediately burst into tears. Chairman Mao's eyes are also moist.
Li Yinqiao knew that Chairman Mao only let him leave for his own future.
After all, Li Yinqiao has been in existence for a long time. Although the position of the chief guard is high, but the position is low, Chairman Mao wanted him to exercise in other positions, so he reluctantly transferred him.
When he was parting, Chairman Mao specially asked him: You are only in your thirties this year. After you go down, you must be a human being with your tail between you. You must unite and learn more from the comrades around you.
After leaving Zhongnanhai, Li Yinqiao went to work in Tianjin. He always remembered Chairman Mao's words "being a man with his tail sandwiched", he was low-key, worked diligently, and never talked to others even if he was wronged.
In 1970, Chairman Mao went to Tianjin to inspect work and asked about the situation of Li Yinqiao, a person close to him in the past few years. Then I learned that Li Yinqiao had been transferred from the Public Security Bureau to the Fourth National Cotton Factory for some special reasons, and his life was difficult.
Chairman Mao said angrily, "Fuck, what does those things have to do with him? I understand Li Yinqiao, liberate him, and give him a job!"
Even though Li Yinqiao is no longer his own chief of guard, Chairman Mao always cares about him. Hold him.
On September 9, 1976, the news of Chairman Mao's death came. Li Yinqiao cried loudly when he heard the news, and the whole family cried together.
He rushed to Beijing immediately that night, and on the train, he cried all the way.
After returning to Beijing, he stood in front of Chairman Mao's body for a long time and did not want to leave.
Li Yinqiao has been with Chairman Mao for 15 years. However, at the last moment of Chairman Mao's death, he was not able to accompany him. This has become the biggest regret of his life.
Since then, Li Yinqiao and his wife Han Guixin will go to the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall on September 9th and December 26th every year (Chairman Mao’s birthday) to take a look at his elderly home.
On September 22, 2009, Li Yinqiao died of illness.
At the end of his life, Li Yinqiao didn’t know any of his relatives. He just took his nephew’s hand and said repeatedly: "I'm going to Zhongnanhai to see Chairman Mao..."
Li Yinqiao joined the army at the age of 11, 20 Coming to Chairman Mao at the age of five years is the reason that the chairman taught him to work, live and behave. For him, the chairman is a good teacher and a loving father.
The 15 years of studying and living with Chairman Mao are the happiest days in his life.
Being able to become Chairman Mao's guardian is the proudest thing in his life.
References in this article:
Li Yinqiao: "Fifteen Years with Mao Zedong"
"Mao Zedong's Red Guard"
Author of this article: Yun Danfengqing
Responsible editor: Liu Ye 叨strong .
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