One day more than ten years after Chairman Mao’s death, a man and a woman stood in front of the hospital bed, looking at the old man on the bed with respectful faces, waiting for the old man to explain something.

One day more than ten years after Chairman Mao’s death, a man and a woman stood in front of the hospital bed, looking at the old man on the bed with respectful faces, waiting for the old man to explain something. This is the old man's two children. The doctor and nurse were all sent out in advance. While rubbing the pocket watch with He Yi's photo, the old man quietly looked at the scene outside the window. The whole room seemed extremely quiet.

Suddenly, the old man spoke: "You can change your surname from He to 'Mao'."

Mao? ! The child was shocked and stunned. When he changed his surname to Mao, did he no longer deliberately conceal his identity? Looking at the expressions of the two, the old man seemed to have guessed what they were thinking, so he nodded and began to look out the window quietly...

As we all know, He Yi is Chairman Mao's younger siblings and his wife and sister. Why did the old man look at He Yi’s photo and ask his children to change their surname back to Mao?

Mao Zetan's death

All this will start from 1934.

In October 1934, the main force of the Red Army withdrew from the central base and carried out the Long March after . After considering it, He Yi and Mao Zeqian decided to stay in the base area to insist on guerrilla struggle.

December, because He Yi was pregnant and was about to give birth, the organization arranged her to Ganzhou for underground work. Mao Zetan, as the commander of the Independent Division, led the Red Army guerrillas to the Jiangxi border.

Before leaving, Mao Zetan personally sent He Yi to Ganzhou by water. Although He Yi and Mao Zeqian both knew that every separation on the revolutionary road could be a separation of life and death, they did not expect that such separation of life and death would come so quickly.

On the afternoon of April 25, 1935, the independent division led by Mao Zetan was disbanded in Ruijin County.

Mao Zetan made a quick decision to integrate the soldiers around him into several small guerrillas, giving full play to his mobility and flexibility, and fighting and retreating along the way.

A few hours later, Mao Zetan led his team into a deep mountain called "Red Forest". Before dark, they found a village called "Huangtiankeng" on the mountain.

The long battle made Mao Zeqin's team exhausted. After entering Huangtiankeng Village, Mao Zeqin and his group found several fellow villagers to stay. I thought that they were secretly doing all the way and the enemy could not find it in a short time. When the day dawned, the group would leave immediately.

But unexpectedly, when it was just dawn, there were bursts of footsteps outside the house. The alert Mao Zetan quickly woke up his comrades. Because he was still retreating, all the soldiers were fully armed even when they were resting. Therefore, everyone was ready for battle in a short time.

But it was still too late, and the enemy had already surrounded the village. After quickly detecting the surroundings, Mao Zetan decided to lead the team to break through the back mountain of Huangtiankeng Village. The mountains there are steep and the enemy has not arranged too many people to guard there, which is a weak point suitable for breakthrough.

Under the cover of the house, Mao Zetan led his men to approach the back mountain step by step. The enemy noticed the traces of Mao Zetan and others and quickly began to pursue Mao Zetan and others.

In a rain of bullets, two comrades behind Mao Zetan were shot and killed, and several comrades were injured. At the same time, they are getting closer and closer to the back mountain.

When they were about to reach the back mountain, the enemy understood their intentions and gradually narrowed the battle circle.

This won’t work! If no one protects everyone, everyone will be destroyed. Mao Zeqian frowned and thought while observing the battle situation.

Suddenly, he saw a raised hill in the other direction of the back mountain. This small hill is a very suitable sniper point, and it can also attract the enemy's attention well and exchange the possibility of survival for the remaining comrades. Mao Zetan has already thought about the candidate to cover his comrades.

So Mao Zetan shouted immediately, everyone obeyed the order! Don't stop! Run quickly to the back mountain forest, avoid the enemy's pursuit and return to the main team as quickly as possible!

After hearing the order, the soldiers immediately accelerated to run back mountain.

, while Mao Zeqian deliberately lags behind a few steps. After confirming that no one notices him, he immediately climbs the hillside.

then began to shoot in the direction of the enemy to cover the evacuation of the team.The sudden change caught the enemy off guard. After a while, the enemy commander was roaring, they were divided into two teams. One team continued to chase the guerrilla soldiers, while the other team advanced to the small hillside, intending to capture Mao Zetan, the division commander alive.

Under Mao Zetan's cover, the team successfully broke out of the enemy's encirclement. At this moment, they suddenly found that the teacher was gone. After thinking of the sudden decrease in enemy troops, everyone understood that this was the division commander who sacrificed his life for them.

Mao Zeqian's side, he killed one enemy after another through his terrain advantage, and completely made the enemies under the hillside red. The enemy rushed forward one after another. After being shot several times, Mao Zetan finally couldn't hold on and fell to Huangtiankeng Village forever.

and He Yi didn't get news of her husband's death until May.

It was one night in May. He Yi is organizing a meeting for the guerrillas to use urgently for drug supplies.

If there is no accident, this batch of medicines will be delivered by He Yi, who has been produced. She will soon be able to meet her long-lost husband. The excited He Yi even thought about the daily necessities and things she would like to say before the meeting, but the accidents were always so sudden.

The meeting was just halfway through, and the door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and the traffic officer Wang Xianxuan and another comrade broke into the venue sweating profusely. Looking at the two people who suddenly appeared, He Yi's heart suddenly began to beat violently. She felt that these two people were coming to find her!

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the venue, Wang Xianxuan turned his eyes at He Yi who was standing on the stage. Another comrade seemed to know that this was the person he was looking for, so he gasped and looked in the direction of He Yi.

He Yi's bad guess flashed through his heart and asked tentatively: "Yes..." Before he finished speaking, his throat suddenly felt dry and painful. He Yi continued to ask after taking a deep breath, "Is there something wrong with Zetan?"

Wang Xianxuan didn't expect He Yi to guess so quickly. He nodded heavily, and then said sadly: "According to the news sent by Comrade Chen Yi in front, Commander Mao... died in the battle."

He Yi seemed to have suddenly lost all his perceptions, and what Wang Xianxuan said was constantly repeated in her mind.

Slowly, He Yi walked out of the conference room and walked back to the room in a daze. Until she saw the clothes sewn for Mao Zeqian in the room and the son who had never seen her father in her infancy, she rushed over and hugged the child, and knelt down to the ground with exhaustion.

But this emotion only stayed on He Yi for one night because she knew that she had more important things to do.

In the following years, He Yi presided over the underground party work in Ganzhou. Through hard work, He Yi has enabled the Party’s underground work to develop well. By the summer of 1936, He Yi had developed more than 140 underground party members in the local area and established five party district committees.

The busy work made He Yi unable to take care of her children. Therefore, after several twists and turns, He Yi sent her son Mao Anying Village in Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province to the He Tiaoyuan family, who had the same surname as her, to raise the child, and changed the name to He Lucheng.

Later, He Lucheng lived with "grandfather" He Diaoyuan. He Diaoyuan's family background was good in the local area. In addition, He Yi would send money and supplies from time to time. He Lucheng did not have to worry about food and clothing in his childhood, and he even started reading in the village.

After Ganzhou, He Yi traveled to and from Nanchang , Ji'an , Guangzhou, Shaoguan and other places to do underground work. Unfortunately, in June 1940, He Yi, who had been paid attention to by the enemy for a long time, was arrested by the enemy in Shaoguan. In order to strictly observe the party's secrets and protect more party members from harm, He Yi immediately decided to swallow the money and commit suicide after being arrested.

However, the swallowing of gold did not hurt her life, but the subsequent torture and a series of complications caused by the sagging of the stomach after swallowing of gold made her very tortured. It was not until Zhou Enlai came forward to negotiate that He Yi dragged his sick bones' fragmented body back into the party.

1949, after the founding of New China, He Yi accepted the organizational arrangement and was transferred to Jiangxi, and served as the Minister of the Organization Department of the Ji'an Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China. After making preliminary arrangements in Jiangxi, He Yi quickly went to Huating Village, Yongxin County to find the long-lost child He Lucheng.

Mother and son reunite

It was one afternoon in August, and He Lucheng had just entered the third year of junior high school. As usual, He Lucheng walked back to the village after school, but unlike usual, as soon as He Lucheng entered the village, he saw that Aunt He, who was next door, seemed to have been waiting for a long time, so he hurriedly walked towards He Lucheng, and while approaching, Lucheng, you are back, go, go back soon, guests are here for your house.

Looking at Aunt He who was so excited, He Lucheng was very confused. Because of "grandfather" He Diaoyuan, there were guests at home, but he never saw this aunt so excited.

saw He Lucheng's doubts. Aunt He first smiled awkwardly, and then explained: The guests who came here this time were different. They were driving a big car. I can't tell that Lucheng, your family has such a powerful and powerful friend.

In that era, there were relatively few cars. Most people can't afford it. Although my grandfather knows many people, none of them can drive a car. Who will this be?

Thinking of this, He Lucheng accelerated his pace of going home. When he arrived at the door of his house, He Lucheng saw the car parked at the door first.

A moment of contemplation, He Lucheng walked into the house. The first thing that caught my eye was a woman in Lenin suit, sitting next to her grandparents with her shoulders and backs, saying something to them.

And the moment he saw He Lucheng, the woman immediately stood up and stared at He Lucheng directly, as if she was about to move forward, but she tried hard to restrain her steps and turned to look at He Tiaoyuan on the side.

He Tiaoyuan looked at the grandson who came back, then looked at the very friendly woman beside him, and waved to He Tiaoyuan: Lu Cheng, come here, this is your mother.

Her Lucheng was stunned. Is this his mother? His mother he hadn't met for more than ten years? !

That’s right, this woman in Lenin is He Yi!

Looking at his son who was stunned by the side, He Yi finally couldn't control himself, tears burst out from her eyes, and she ran over and hugged He Lucheng. At this point, the mother and son, who had been separated for fifteen years, finally met again.

I thought life would be lived in a perfect way, but I didn’t know that it would not be true. One day after three months of reuniting with his son, He Yi found out that his long-lost beloved son Mao Anyong, Mao, whom his sister He Zizhen had lost for a long time, might be in Ji'an. So she quickly took He Lucheng and all the entourage to Ji'an.

How could it be that when I was about to arrive in Ji'an, the car suddenly overturned from a wooden bridge. The cab was deformed instantly, and He Yi, who was responsible for driving, died on the spot. He Lucheng was seriously injured and had a serious fracture in his left leg.

That day was extremely dark for He Lucheng. He originally followed his mother to find his own cousin. Unexpectedly, a car accident made He Lucheng and his mother, who had been thinking about for more than ten years, separate each other forever.

ending

After that, He Lucheng came to his uncle He Minxue.

Under the raising of He Minxue, He Lucheng studied hard and relied on his own efforts to get into the Shanghai Jiaotong University Electrical Chemistry major, and then entered the Fifth Institute of the Ministry of National Defense. In 1961, He Lucheng became China's first batch of missile engineers, making outstanding contributions to the development of my country's missile weapons industry.

It is worth mentioning that He Lucheng has always concealed his life experience and has never told others that he is Chairman Mao and his nephew. Later, after He Lucheng's identity was exposed, his friends around him joked: "He Lucheng is really cowardly. If you have such a big sign, you won't take advantage of it. You will make yourself the same as our ordinary people."

He Lucheng said seriously after hearing this: "This is not cowardly, it is my ideal. My father is my father, I am me, I shouldn't take advantage of it."

"He" has been following He Lucheng for many years. Lu commemorates Yuelu Mountain , and Cheng contains the meaning of "the revolutionary cause must be successful". It is hoped that the word "cheng" finally came true. New China was founded. After the reform and opening up, the new China was no longer the country that could be bullied by the great powers at will.

So, after 1995, He Lucheng in his later years changed his children back to the surname "Mao" to commemorate his father and uncle, while he continued to follow his mother's surname to commemorate the heroes of the He family.