In 1949, Chairman Mao moved to Shuangqing Villa in Xiangshan, Beijing. It was not convenient to go from Xiangshan to the city for a meeting, but in order not to disturb the masses, Chairman Mao still lived here for several months.

Because of the barren life, Jiaojiao unfortunately got a serious illness, had a high fever and was shocked. The school thought the child had passed away, so she sent it to the morgue. He Zizhen had a big fight with the school before taking Jiaojiao back. Finally, under He Zizhen's careful care, Jiaojiao miraculously woke up.

However, He Zizhen was regarded as mentally ill by the school. She was forced to be sent to a mad asylum and received cruel treatment. Only Jiaojiao knew about all this.

Until 1947, Comrade Wang Jiaxiang took his wife to the Soviet Union for treatment. When he learned that He Zizhen had been imprisoned in a madhouse, he went to visit her in person. Wang Jiaxiang asked, "Then what are you going to do next?" He Zizhen said firmly: "I want to return to China."

immediately asked Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao finally called back and said: Agree.

That's it. He Zizhen stayed in the Soviet Union for 10 years and finally embarked on the road back to China. She took her daughter Jiaojiao from Moscow to Harbin.

At this time, Chairman Mao was commanding the three major battles of . He was busy with all kinds of things and had no time to write a letter to He Zizhen, but he was always concerned about his daughter. That day, He Yi came to Xibaipo to visit Chairman Mao and told him this exciting news.

Chairman Mao smiled and said, "Jiaojiao has already sent me a letter."

It turns out that Jiaojiao, who just returned to China, had a question. She didn't believe that Chairman Mao was her father. Although Mao Anying once told her that "Chairman Mao is our father", He Zizhen also admitted it, Jiaojiao still didn't believe it: "I am a primary school student. How could Chairman Mao, the leader of the Communist Party, be my father? "

So after Jiaojiao returned to China, she immediately wrote a letter to Chairman Mao, which said:

Dear Chairman Mao, they all said you are my father, are you my father? Please write a letter to me quickly.

Chairman Mao told He Yi that Jiaojiao has lived in the Soviet Union for nearly 7 years, and I don’t know what it has become. You should send her here quickly.

Then Chairman Mao replied to Jiaojiao:

Jiaojiao, I am your father. When you were living in the Soviet Union, we did not meet. Dad miss you very much, come to Dad quickly.

When He Yi was leaving, Chairman Mao added another sentence after the letter: I have asked Aunt He Yi to pick you up.

But this is the critical period of the War of Liberation. Jiaojiao has not come to Chairman Mao until a year later, the situation in the country stabilized, and He Zizhen decided to send Jiaojiao to Beijing.

that day, Chairman Mao was having a meeting, and the guard came over and whispered in Chairman Mao's ear: "Chairman, Jiaojiao has been sent here. "Chairman Mao, who looked serious, immediately became chatting and laughing.

Photo | In 1950, Zhu De (first left first) met the children of the Soviet International Nursing Home who returned to China in Zhongnanhai (Li Min is the fourth on the right, and Zhu Min is the fifth on the right)

Just after the meeting, Chairman Mao walked towards the hall. Deng Yingchao and others who rushed over and rushed over had already surrounded Jiaojiao. Chairman Mao came over and didn't care about greeting them, and pulled Jiaojiao by his side: "Dad misses you so much, let dad see it. ”

Deng Yingchao smiled and said, “Jiaojiao, this is your father, Chairman Mao, hurry up, call him dad. "Jiaojiao called her father in Chinese that was not fluent, and Chairman Mao was so happy: "Hey, my foreign baby." "

Everyone present laughed. Jiaojiao is less than 13 years old now, but she is very tall, even surpassing Deng Yingchao. She is still wearing foreign clothes, and the ponytail on her head is made of He Zizhen.

He is very tall, wearing a gray Zhongshan suit , and wearing a pair of flat black cloth shoes on his feet. It is very ordinary and does not look strict at all. I have been looking for my father in my memory in my memory in front of me, and he looks so familiar.

Before Deng Yingchao, Kang Keqing and others have seen enough, Chairman Mao pulled Jiaojiao home. He walked while instructing the guards: "Go and call Vice Chairman Zhou and others. "

was still in a meeting at that time, and Chairman Mao said mysteriously: "Today I will show you a foreign treasure. " Zhou Enlai and others were puzzled. Where did Chairman Mao get the foreign treasure?

turned around and saw that it was Jiaojiao. Liu Shaoqi and Zhu De and others recognized it. Jiaojiao was less than 4 years old when she left, and now they are so tall.

"My Jiaojiao grew up in a foreign country. Do you think this is my foreign treasure? "Chairman Mao said happily, and then introduced all the uncles to Jiaojiao.

"Come on, take a photo." "The photographer has been ready for a long time. This is the first time Jiaojiao took photos with her father since she returned to China. She still remembers the scene that day.

Before the founding of New China , He Zizhen went to South . Considering that she was worried about Jiaojiao, Chairman Mao wrote to He Zizhen: "Jiaojiao is very good for me, please rest assured. ”

At this point, Jiaojiao finally returned to her father's side. Chairman Mao not only sent Jiaojiao to elementary school, but also gave her a new name. Chairman Mao said: "Jiaojiao is your nickname, Dad gives you another big name. "

Finally, Chairman Mao took the word "min" from the Analects of Confucius, "a gentleman is slow in speaking but quick in acting" as Jiaojiao's name, and his surname is Li, the same as her sister Li Ne.

married to Shenyang, Chairman Mao felt relieved

Because Li Min went to elementary school in the Soviet Union, he went to junior high school after two years in Beijing. Chairman Mao has been reading a lot of books since he was a child. He personally tutored Li Min, and Li Min's grades have always been very good.

Chairman Mao has a habit. He often sleeps during the day and works at night, so Jiaojiao rarely sees her father, but Chairman Mao urges Li Min to study every weekend.

Chairman Mao said: "You can not eat food for a day, but you cannot not read books for a day." So Li Min developed the habit of loving reading since she was a child. Chairman Mao made a long list of books for her, and the most conspicuous ones were the four masterpieces. It was precisely because of her excellent grades that Li Min was finally admitted to Beijing Normal University . At that time, Li Min already had a favorite.

Actually, as early as in high school, Chairman Mao asked from Dr. Wang, who was guarding Li Min, that Li Min was in love at school. Chairman Mao was worried and asked her: "What is your boyfriend Xiao Kong's family doing? Who is his father?"

Li Min only falls in love, how can he care about other people's family? So she didn't know, Chairman Mao seemed very angry: "You don't even know the situation of other people's family, how can you fall in love?"

Li Min, who was criticized, then went to ask her boyfriend Kong Linghua. It turned out that Kong Linghua's father was founding lieutenant general Kong Congzhou. After learning about it, Chairman Mao smiled and said, "It turns out it is Kong Congzhou. I am familiar, I am familiar. "

" So, do you agree to our marriage?"

"It's not okay if I agree alone, you have to ask your mother."

Li Min then took her boyfriend to Nanchang to meet He Zizhen. He Zizhen smiled and said, "Your father agrees, I agree too."

After the Lushan Conference in 1959, Chairman Mao ignored the dust and started to arrange his daughter's marriage as soon as he returned to Beijing, and personally hosted it and accompanied the guests to drink.

Kong Congzhou also attended that day. He happened to be from Shenyang to Beijing for a meeting. Chairman Mao held up his wine glass and said: "I hope their two children are good and I hope they are happy." Kong Congzhou knew that Chairman Mao was not good at drinking, but Chairman Mao was in a good mood, so he drank several more glasses.

As the saying goes, Chairman Mao is also an ordinary father who tastes the bitterness of his daughter's marriage and how could he not sigh?

That day, Chairman Mao raised his wine glass and said to Li Min, "I hope you cherish each other." Kong Linghua nodded heavily.

After getting married, Li Min has been living in the front yard of Juxiang Bookstore . In 1962, Li Min gave birth to a boy doll. This was the first time Chairman Mao became a grandfather. Not to mention how happy he even named his grandson himself.

Getting married and starting a business, and it’s not good to live in Zhongnanhai . Li Min knew this truth. After discussing with her husband, she decided to move out of Zhongnanhai and start her own life in a civil alley in Beijing.

Chairman Mao was reluctant to leave after learning about it. He said: "Jiaojiao, come and see your father."

After giving birth to a baby, Li Min's life became trivial, and there were countless big and big things every day, but time was like water. In the blink of an eye, it took more than ten years, and Chairman Mao also reached his old age.

1974 When Chairman Mao celebrated his birthday, Li Min and her husband went there. She found that her father was really old. Over the years, she rarely visited her father, and a sense of apology suddenly surged in her heart.

Two years later, when Li Min went to Zhongnanhai to visit her father again, Chairman Mao was already in danger. He was lying on the hospital bed and was sometimes awake and sometimes unconscious.

Chairman Mao saw Jiaojiao coming, and took her hand and said slightly: "You are here, Jiaoba, why don't you come to see me often?"

One sentence made Li Min cry. It was difficult for her to enter Zhongnanhai since her entry and exit certificate was confiscated. She couldn't say anything about her hardship, but in order not to hurt her father's heart, she just held her father's hand and dared not let go.

On September 9, 1976, the General Office of the Central Committee called Li Min and asked her to go to Zhongnanhai immediately. Li Min thought that her father was seriously ill and hurried to visit her. Unexpectedly, when she came to her father's bedroom, she saw her father who was sleeping forever.

At that moment, her eyes were dizzy, and she could no longer control her tears when she threw herself on her father, and she talked endlessly like a river. At that moment, her mind was full of the way her father once accompanied her.

After Li Min kept a guard for her father, she rushed from Beijing to Shanghai before she could wipe her tears, because she had been worried about her mother He Zizhen, for fear that He Zizhen would not be able to withstand the news.

After Chairman Mao’s death, Li Min did not get out of the haze of losing her father for a long time. She set up a mourning hall at home, and the first thing she did every day was to mourn her father.

Picture | Li Min's later years

Someone asked her, what was your life like after Chairman Mao's death? She said that my father's departure had a big blow to me. I often went to my bedroom during my lifetime. I saw books my father had read before and things my father had used before, and I was very sad.

Someone asked her how she felt when she was born in the Leader’s House?

She said that as Chairman Mao’s daughter, I will always be just one of ordinary people, both in the past and in the future, but I will be proud of it because my father left me with precious spiritual wealth.

From then on September 9 and December 26 every year, Li Min would go to Chairman Mao’s Memorial Hall to pay tribute to Chairman Mao’s remains. Every time she went there, she would cry. Now she was old, and she would tell her descendants that she would never forget Chairman Mao, because Chairman Mao was not only a great leader, but also a great father!