Chapter 11 Chapter 11 The first lady is hard to serve

In the process of serving as Chairman Mao's guards, when was the most difficult time?Li Yinqiao, the head of the guard, thought for a moment and said, "When Jiang Qing is in the middle, things will be difficult to handle." Jiang Qing is the wife of Mao Zedong. Although this actor from Greater Shanghai married Mao Zedong, a considerable number of veteran soldiers and generals who followed Mao Zedong in the South and North Wars and made outstanding contributions to the revolution, including several central leaders, initially It is not in favor of it, but after all, she achieved her goal and replaced He Zizhen as Mao Zedong's third and last wife.

"As for Jiang Qing's situation, as I have seen her for fifteen years, I know her quite well." Li Yinqiao, as a witness of history, told us many things between him, Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong, and the guards. .The following are the things that made Mao Zedong contradictory, painful, irritable and angry during those years that we recorded truthfully.It is Li Yinqiao's narration based on his personal experience, so let's still use the first person to write the article. The first time I met Jiang Qing was in the cave dwelling in Yan'an.On this day, I was ordered to be transferred to Zhou Enlai's side as a guard. At that time, I had not yet worked with Mao Zedong.The cave where Zhou Enlai lived in Yan'an was very close to the cave where Mao Zedong lived.As a new guard, I just met Zhou Enlai and Sister Deng, and when I finished talking and started to do what my guard should do, a shrill female voice came from outside the door. "Vice Chairman Zhou and Sister Deng are at home?" As soon as the words were finished, a young woman who looked pretty to me at the time came in hurriedly outside the door. I think she was only in her thirties at the most.

"Oh, it's Comrade Jiang Qing, come quickly!" Zhou Enlai looked very enthusiastic, and moved a stool for the guests to sit down. Sister Deng, who was busy with her needlework, quickly put down her work and said to the visitor with a smile on her face, "Are you going to invite us to watch your rehearsal again?" Before the ass called Jiang Qing settled down, he immediately stepped forward and took Sister Deng's arm, shaking it and said, "Sister Deng, what else do you think I'm looking for you! But, I want to tell you that tonight is A special show."

"What special program?" Zhou Enlai and Sister Deng asked very interestingly. At this moment, I put a bowl of tea in front of the visitor and said, "Chairman, please use tea." The female "chief" took a look at me. , without saying thank you or nodding, looked very proud and hurriedly answered Zhou Enlai and Sister Deng: "It is our Xiao Na who is going to come on stage to perform a piece of "Empty City Strategies." "Okay, okay, Li Na is going to take the stage, we must go." Zhou Enlai became emotional when he heard it.Sister Deng on the side was also amused: "This kid is smart, she must be acting like a normal person, she moves like your mother, and sings like the chairman."

The female "chief" bid farewell to Zhou Enlai and Sister Deng triumphantly upon hearing her master's praise. Before she left, I heard her say to Zhou Enlai and Sister Deng: "You little devils are new here, right? Clever." Naturally, I soon found out that her name was Jiang Qing, and she was the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong.To be honest, at that time I admired Mao Zedong's eyesight very much. After all, Mao Zedong was a hundred times better than others in finding a wife.Because there were very few women in Yan'an at that time, Jiang Qing, who came from a big city and was born as an actor, usually paid great attention to and knew how to dress herself up, so she naturally looked very good.However, as the saying goes: A person cannot be judged by his appearance. Later, after getting in touch with Jiang Qing more, he discovered that her temperament, moral character, and conduct were far worse than her appearance. understand.Not to mention me, even Mao Zedong himself had never expected Jiang Qing's internal and external understanding.Later, Mao Zedong said this to me more than once: "The marriage with Jiang Qing was hasty, and it didn't work out well. It was a political burden." What's the big deal, besides, I'm the chairman, so getting married and getting divorced is never a problem, so let's stay together, I feel uncomfortable..." This was Mao Zedong's attitude towards Jiang Qing in the 1940s and 1950s.

People change in the course of history.Jiang Qing is no exception, and is a prominent typical figure.But she wasn't a badass to begin with as one might think.If that is the case, I think it is impossible for such a great figure as Mao Zedong to marry her without realizing it at the time.We know that when the Red Army arrived in Yan'an, the conditions were very difficult, but Mao Zedong was still called a "bandit" and "bandit leader" outside.As a Jiang Qing who lives in a big city and does not know how many times better than Yan'an, it is not easy to go to Yan'an with a fiery heart.Especially in the Yan'an period when a considerable number of people deserted because they couldn't bear the hardships in Yan'an, Jiang Qing still stayed.This should also be affirmed.

Later, when I became the head of the guard next to Mao Zedong, I had a more detailed and profound understanding of Jiang Qing.At that time, because Mao Zedong did not allow her to participate in politics, she basically had nothing to do.The task given to her by the central government was to take care of Mao Zedong's life. Since the job of our guard team was to take care of Mao Zedong's daily necessities of life, Jiang Qing was in charge of the work of our guard team.Objectively speaking, Jiang Qing was still very concerned and responsible for Mao Zedong at that time.At that time, she was also able to get close to everyone, cut hair for us staff, taught some scientific knowledge, and taught needlework.When he moved to northern Shaanxi, the wives and children of other leaders had crossed the Yellow River, but Jiang Qing still stayed behind with Mao Zedong and comrades in the column directly under the Central Committee and suffered a lot of hardships every day.On the marching road, she always seemed very active, and often gave us soldiers and the wounded and sick a little entertainment to encourage them, which made the dull marching team laugh constantly.In order to relax Mao Zedong's nerves during the night, she would often turn on the phonograph she brought from Shanghai and play a few pieces of Beijing opera, such as "Empty City Strategies", and Mao Zedong was also willing to sing a few times.At that time, Jiang Qing's skin was fair, and she always wore the unique dress of actors and big-city women, so there were always some beautiful young girls around her, asking her to help comb her hair and sew clothes, and Jiang Qing was still the same. Happy to do these things.But as time went by, I gradually felt that she had a lot of problems, the most prominent one was her aggressiveness, she always wanted to show herself in front of others, one of Zhou Enlai's hand was disabled when Jiang Qing was competing with Zhou Enlai on horseback. As a result, when Zhou Enlai was unprepared, the fierce horse pouted its buttocks and broke Zhou Enlai's arm. Although he had been treated many times, he still failed to heal, and finally became disabled.Because Jiang Qing always puts her status as Mrs. Mao Zedong above others, and she has never changed the bourgeois thinking and style she brought before she came to Yan'an, so she can't get along with any comrades outside. , and never got along well with Mao Zedong at home.

After Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing got married, due to the vast differences in their living habits and their thoughts and feelings towards the revolution, the people, and comrades, the two never got along well together.The two began to live uncoordinated, to often quarreled, and later separated, and their relationship broke down.During this process, Mao Zedong also made efforts many times, and criticized Jiang Qing more than once, but Jiang Qing's nature was hard to change, and it never worked.Maybe it's related to the age difference, maybe it's different living habits, anyway, I think their married life has never been very coordinated.When Jiang Qing was in a bad mood, he quarreled with Mao Zedong and vented his anger on the staff around him.And Mao Zedong sometimes became irritable and irritable, but he was good at suppressing the unhappiness between husband and wife deep in his heart, and devoted all his energy to work and study, which made me feel how lonely Mao Zedong's personal life was. ,pain.Some of our guards are young and don't know much about it. After entering the city, I, the head of the guard, also got married and understood the affairs between husband and wife, so I feel Mao Zedong's misfortune even more.

In 1953, when I became the deputy head of the guard, Mao Zedong took my hand and said: "Yinqiao, you are an official now and you are not on duty, but I still hope that you will be on duty once or twice a week, so that we can Let's chat together, otherwise I get bored sometimes." I said: "Chairman, I will definitely act according to your opinion." Therefore, even though I later became the head of the guard, I always insisted on doing two shifts a week for the old man. During the shift, the old man often pulled me to the bedside , patted the back of my hand, sighed and said: "Yinqiao, sometimes I feel that it is easy to be the chairman, but it is difficult to be a person... We spend our whole day in fighting wars and building the country, but Jiang Qing doesn't understand , I often get into trouble with me, she is more and more unable to give me a little spiritual happiness and relaxation."

What can I say after hearing these words?I understand the pain in Mao Zedong's heart, but I can't relieve him.As time goes by, sometimes I feel that Mao Zedong, as the leader of the people, has made great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. One thought or one sentence of his can turn the world around, but he failed to obtain a long-term, stable and happy family in his life.When I got home and I sometimes talked about these things with my lover, my lover Han Guixin, who was an aunt to Mao Zedong’s family, always said this: “Jiang Qing, I’ve been by her side for several years, and I know her very well. We are all women, women I know women best. And I think Jiang Qing’s biggest problem is that she can’t understand and tolerate others. She can’t stand anything that doesn’t go her way.” I think my wife’s words are reasonable.Because of Jiang Qing's problems, she couldn't get along with the comrades around her and her husband Mao Zedong.

The first time I saw Mao Zedong arguing with Jiang Qing was because of such a thing. At that time, Han Guixin and I were not in a relationship yet. Xiao Hanfu was assigned by the organization to work as an aunt in Mao Zedong's house. She was mainly responsible for taking care of Li Na and doing some needlework for Mao Zedong's house.When Xiao Han first arrived, Jiang Qing was very enthusiastic, busy digging out her favorite Lenin suit, red leather shoes and other things from the box and giving them to Xiao Han.Like all women, Jiang Qing's approach to lesbians of the same sex was a bit too cordial at first, and Xiao Han felt that Jiang Qing, the wife of a chief executive, was so vulgar.Because Jiang Qing kept saying, "Auntie, it's good if you come here. Li Na has lived a hard life with us since she was a child. You should take care of her!" At first glance, it seems that Jiang Qing is trying to use this kind of small favor in exchange for other people's hearts. Sure enough, within a few days, Xiao Han mended a piece of clothing for Mao Zedong and sent it to Mao Zedong's room.Jiang Qing rushed over as soon as he saw it, looked left and right, and said with a mocking expression on his face: "Oh, Auntie Xiaohan, look at how thick your stitches are." Xiaohan also participated in the revolution since childhood. I haven't done this kind of work, and my face immediately turns red. It stands to reason that if you are an insider, you shouldn't say such things in person.Jiang Qing was not the case. Not only did she disregard other people's self-esteem, but she took the clothes even more seriously and walked up to Mao Zedong, as if intending to show other people's scars, and said to Mao Zedong repeatedly: "Chairman, look quickly, Auntie's needlework is really good." It’s level enough! It’s so thick that a cow can drill through it!” Listening to other people's ugliness in public, let alone a young girl, even a young man like us can't bear it.Xiao Han who was standing aside immediately bowed his head and remained silent, with tears in his eyes. Mao Zedong was reading documents and had no intention of meddling in such matters, but when he raised his eyelids and saw the shamed aunt, he immediately became angry with Jiang Qing, "What do you want to do? Are you stupid! You just can't change your bourgeois personality. Doctrine, I think Auntie makes up for it very well." The same thing, how different is the treatment of Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing!In fact, to be fair, Xiao Han's needlework was not very good, but Mao Zedong's words were humane, while Jiang Qing always wanted to belittle others and elevate himself.Even an ordinary worker like aunt, she behaved like this, one can imagine how big she is.It's just such a small matter, the couple is so different, can you say that there are no conflicts between the husband and wife, and the relationship is not broken?I think it is inevitable, because of the two of them, one is the leader of the people of the proletariat, and the other is a person with serious bourgeois individualism in their minds, so the two will never be harmonious in terms of lifestyle, thoughts and feelings, and class positions and come together.Later facts also proved this point. "I don't want to talk about the differences and differences between Jiang Qing and Mao Zedong's husband and wife here. I mainly want to talk about the contradictions between Jiang Qing and our guards, and because we are caught in the middle, we cannot serve Mao Zedong better." Li Yinqiao made a special explanation on this. Under normal circumstances, our guard class generally consists of four to six people, divided into a regular shift and a deputy shift, and Mao Zedong is on duty.The main shift cannot leave for 24 hours, and the deputy shift is to take care of Jiang Qing and coordinate some matters of Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing's family. Obviously, the role of the deputy shift is also to ensure that Mao Zedong can have a stable home, so as to better ensure that he can host Heavy work for the chair. But Jiang Qing didn't think so. She already had a female nurse to take care of her life, but this actress after entering Beijing began to slowly swell her problems.People gradually become squeamish.It feels like she is deliberately putting on airs of "the chairman's wife".Her room was also equipped with an electric bell like that in Mao Zedong's house, and the guards would do all the big and small things that she could or couldn't do. To tell the truth, although we guards are very conscious, and most of them are serving people, but after all, we are all young men with blood, and we are extremely disgusted with Jiang Qing's actions, and dare not speak out.On the other hand, it is aimed at Mao Zedong's face.We all knew that Jiang Qing and Mao Zedong couldn’t get along. If Jiang Qing were to blame Jiang Qing in front of Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong would definitely quarrel with Jiang Qing. A quarrel would definitely affect Mao Zedong’s mood, so we can bear it as long as Jiang Qing manipulates us. I couldn't bear it, so I had to secretly scold her behind her back. Jiang Qing's use of our guards always shows her noble status that she thinks is beyond reproach.At the same time, she seems to be pursuing an aristocratic desire for enjoyment that a master orders a servant.And we have to be absolutely required to do what she wants.We often compare Mao Zedong with her, and the more we feel that Jiang Qing is not worthy of our respect, and she really has no reason to ask us to do that.We serve Mao Zedong because he is the chairman of the country and the party, and he has a lot of things to do every day, so it is difficult to have a moment of leisure every day. If it is not for our service and a little bit of coercive dissuasion, Mao Zedong's body and mind may not be able to last for a long time Health, what kind of loss will it bring to the Chinese revolution and the interests of the entire Chinese people?Therefore, no matter what we do to serve the old man, we should do it, and it will not be too much. It is precisely that Mao Zedong himself is very strict with himself, and his life style is extremely simple, and he forgets everything about himself. It makes us guards feel the responsibility on our shoulders, and feel that if we do not serve well, we are not only sorry for Mao Zedong, but also a crime against the people.Jiang Qing’s situation was different. At that time, she basically had no work to do, except to play here and there all day long. Besides, she was young, ate well, slept well, so logically she didn’t need it at all. Others serve her.But Jiang Qing is different. She regards our service to her as a matter of course, so it is also a matter of course for her to order us.Serving Mao Zedong was originally our duty, and Mao Zedong's request was extremely simple.Jiang Qing is not in this regard.Although we gave her the sub-class, this sub-class is often not as easy as the regular class. For example, every morning when our guards go to Jiang Qing's place, we must first ask: "Comrade Jiang Qing, how did you rest tonight?"We have to bring her breakfast to her bed.Her bed is specially made and can be rolled up and down. Just shake the handle at the end of the bed to put her in a sitting position.At this time, bring her the utensils for washing her face and rinsing her mouth.After finishing, put the same special small table on the bed, and Jiang Qing can easily put the food into his mouth by raising his head. Jiang Qing is in good health and is a veritable "gourmet". He is very particular about eating. There are many famous chefs in Zhongnanhai, but only one chef named Miao Bingfu can cook for Jiang Qing.In contrast, Mao Zedong was extremely casual, and he could deal with spicy and stinky tofu.The relationship between their husband and wife is not harmonious, and eating may be one reason.The contradiction of sleeping is even more prominent.Jiang Qing has always lived a very regular life. She wakes up on time in the morning and goes to bed on time at night. She is punctual when it comes to work and exercise.Mao Zedong was different, so one of the two had to go to bed, the other was at work, the other got up, and the other had to go to bed again. It was difficult to sleep together. Jiang Qing was very annoyed by this, but Mao Zedong's living habits were unchangeable.This makes the ambivalence between their husband and wife more likely to intensify.How to dilute this "intensification"?Old fights are never a thing.The method Mao Zedong adopted was to pay little attention to it and ignore it.Although Jiang Qing often troubled Mao Zedong, she was still afraid that Mao Zedong would get angry.However, we, the guards caught in the middle, became Jiang Qing's punching bag. Let's talk about what happened to guard Li Liancheng first. Xiao Li is from Dalian. He is very thoughtful and has his own opinions on what to do. He usually doesn't talk much.After I became the deputy head of the guard, because I was Wang Dongxing and the head of the guard for a while, I was in charge of the main leadership tasks of the guard.Whoever is on duty and vice shift is arranged by me.All the guards would rather be Mao Zedong's regular shift than Jiang Qing's deputy, because Jiang Qing is not easy to serve, so if you can hide from her, just hide.However, he had to be worthy of this subclass.Xiao Li is not willing to talk about his worries and grievances, so probably because of this, I think it would be better for him to be on duty with Jiang Qing, at least he won't make Jiang Qing angry like other outspoken guards, that's it, Xiao Li Jiang Qing had more shifts, but things didn't develop as I imagined. Even Xiao Li, a good comrade who didn't want to express his grievances in his mouth and actions, was met with Jiang Qing's most unreasonable actions. The reprimand continued until Li Liancheng left and Mao Zedong came forward to speak. That was 1959.I remember that we accompanied Mao Zedong back to Beijing from other places, because there was an important meeting waiting for his old man.Jiang Qing stayed in Guangzhou, so I sent Xiao Li to follow her, which made Xiao Li suffer a lot. For some reason, Jiang Qing had a very bad temper during this time.The day before, Xiao Li walked into Jiang Qing's room as usual, and just a few steps into the door, Jiang Qing suddenly yelled: "Get out! Take off your shoes and come in again!" Little Li didn't know where he had offended Jiang Qing, so he hurriedly withdrew and took off his shoes, and turned back with his bare feet.Only then did he hear Jiang Qing muttering: "You don't know how to walk, please keep your voice down, I'm tired of you walking like horseshoes beating drums!" Xiao Li was puzzled: the carpet is so thick, how could there be such a loud noise when I entered the door just now!Xiao Li was very angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything. At this point, when he entered Jiang Qing's house, he had to move slowly with bare feet. "Ding Ling—!" The electric bell rang again, and Xiao Li ran over, quickly took off his shoes, and went in. Inside, Jiang Qing was combing his hair carelessly. "Comrade Jiang Qing, here I come." Li Liancheng reported in a low voice. "Well, is it cold outside?" Jiang Qing asked with a snort without even moving. "Not cold, Comrade Jiang Qing." After hearing this, Jiang Qing said in a pompous manner: "Okay, I'm going out for a walk, you can arrange it." Upon hearing this, Xiao Li hurriedly turned around to inform the relevant departments.Because the guards are only responsible for personal security work.The security tasks on the periphery are arranged by the local public security department.After everything was arranged properly, Xiao Li went up to guide Jiang Qing again, in order to win her favor.Unexpectedly, not only did Xiao Li not hear a word of praise, but another thunderbolt sounded in his head: "Li Liancheng, it's so cold that you can't say it's cold, why are you at ease?" how can that be possible?Xiao Li touched the sweat on his forehead, feeling puzzled, but he still thought that maybe Jiang Qing was unwell, so he tried his best and said, "I'll get you another dress right away. The sun is very sunny today , Comrade Jiang Qing, it is good for you to be more active." "Benefits? Hmph, you're trying to make me catch a cold, aren't you?" Jiang Qing stared at a pair of big eyes, flung his sleeves and turned back into the room. Xiao Li was stunned for a while, feeling extremely sad: I wanted to make her better, but her... tears filled her eyes, and she almost didn't fall out. "Xiao Li, hurry up! Jiang Qing is going to play poker!" After a while, a nurse came to call Li Liancheng.Xiao Li got up immediately. He understood that playing poker with Jiang Qing was a special task that had to be done for the guards and nurses, although there was no specific requirement.In order to prevent Jiang Qing from interfering with Mao Zedong, even a minister like Luo Ruiqing had to play poker with Jiang Qing, let alone us guards. But playing poker with Jiang Qing is not an easy task.If you are serious and let her lose, you will have no good fruit to eat, and if you keep on deliberately losing to her, you will have no good fruit to eat.It is not an easy task to let Jiang Qing win without letting her see that she is deliberately trying to win her.Jiang Qing is also a veteran in the poker field. In order to play poker, several of our guards have turned against her. This time it was Li Liancheng's bad luck. He and Jiang Qing fought against each other.Naturally, it’s time to level up again—Jiang Qing is very interested in leveling up, and every time she hits an A, she always screams triumphantly, “Oh—I’m sitting on the throne again!” After decades, sometimes I wondered: Was Jiang Qing's desire to become a "Queen" related to his desire to win in poker at that time?Hey, just talk nonsense, don't take it seriously. There is no doubt that Jiang Qing is leading the way again.Xiao Li saw that Jiang Qing was about to win again in two more fights, and it was impossible to win too quickly.At this time, Xiao Li winked at the nurses and asked them to be serious.As a result, Li Liancheng made two "mistakes", and the opponent pulled back two rounds.There was a bit of competition in the poker field, Jiang Qing showed a nervous smile of a winner on Jiang Qing's face. This kind of "nervous smile" means "let you snort twice when you are about to die, and when you want to take a third breath --hey-hey".Our little Li understood Jiang Qing's smiling face as: "It's nothing special, and if you win again, it won't prevent me from sitting on the throne again."Xiao Li understood it this way, so when he played the cards, he made another "mistake"-"hang"!He threw out a main card, hoping that Jiang Qing could get another mockery of failure. "What are you hanging for? You have to hang my old lady to be happy?" Jiang Qing's big eyes immediately stood up. "Oh, it's troublesome!" Xiao Li almost exclaimed.But it was a foregone conclusion, it was inconvenient to take back the thrown cards, so he hurriedly apologized: "I... I thought this would be beneficial to you!" "What a fool! You deliberately want to be a traitor! Yes, a traitor!" Jiang Qing's anger came out of nowhere, and his words were like machine guns. Xiao Li, who was so painstaking, couldn't take it anymore, and muttered softly: "Why are you so serious, losing cards is not losing the house or the land..." "What, you little Li Liancheng also wants to turn against you?" Jiang Qing heard this, and threw the cards on the table angrily, "Get out of here! Get out! I don't want you!" Xiao Li felt aggrieved, but he couldn't say "get out, just get out".He put on his shoes and was about to go out when Jiang Qing yelled again: "Don't go, stand outside the door for me, I will punish you for standing!" "Bang!" A door slammed behind Xiao Li, and Jiang Qing acted prestige. Just stand there, Xiao Li thought that Jiang Qing was annoyed for a while, and he would be fine later, so he stood at attention in the corridor in an orderly manner. Ten minutes, twenty minutes...he secretly leaned against the closed door a few times, thinking that it was time for Jiang Qing to come out and "liberate" him!However, the door never opened.Xiao Li's heart became cold, as cold as ice. "Doctor Xu, go and persuade Xiao Li. Just now, he played cards with Jiang Qing, which made Jiang Qing angry. He punished him to stand. He really stood there. It's been almost an hour. Go and persuade him." The female nurse was nervous. Come to see doctor Xu Tao. Xu Tao came over. He was the oldest comrade among the staff who stayed with Jiang Qing, so he came to persuade Xiao Li, "Hey, don't be so serious. She has already gone to bed. You should go too! Doesn't she often talk about politics? Is it equal?" Xiao Li is usually the most submissive, but today is not so strong, no matter how Dr. Xu persuades him, he just refuses to leave. "Are you afraid that she will cause trouble if you leave without saying a word? Then I will watch for you. When she gets up, I will call you again." Dr. Xu said kindly. Xiao Li pursed his lips tightly and shook his head resolutely. "You!" Dr. Xu had no choice but to go out and call Comrade Su Hanhua, director of the Provincial Public Security Department. Although Su was the director, he didn't dare to offend Jiang Qing, so he had to persuade Xiao Li first to let him confess to Jiang Qing. mistake. "Listen to me, go, admit your mistake and it's over." Xiao Li bit his lip with his teeth, and said: "I'm right. I've given my heart and soul... She treats me like this..." He cried, sobbing silently, and he could only see the pain in his heart from a pair of strong heaving shoulders. The sky is wronged. No one spoke, only sighs remained in the corridor. That night, Xiao Li hung up a long-distance call from Guangzhou.As soon as I heard this, I hurriedly reported the situation to Mao Zedong. "Hmph, no matter how good a comrade is, she won't be able to get along with her." Mao Zedong angrily threw the document in his hand on the table.After a while, he let out a long sigh, and said to me: "Xiao Li is suffering on my behalf. Tell him not to be angry, and for my sake, let Xiao Li come back immediately and stop serving Jiang Qing. She stays far away, let's see what prestige she still plays!" That night, Li Liancheng boarded the return train. Jiang Qing is really not to be trifled with.Mao Zedong often didn't want to be with her, because they were husband and wife, and sometimes he couldn't do too much in order to save face, so Mao Zedong chose to stay away from you. What else can you do?Mao Zedong is the chairman, so he can do this, but our guards can't do it. Sometimes we can't hide from Jiang Qing if we want to hide. One day, Jiang Qing was going out, so I sent Tian Yunyu, her favorite among the guards, to accompany her.Jiang Qing always brings a few necessary items when going out: coat, glasses, scarf, and cushions for riding in the car.Oda had just taken over and was in a hurry. He couldn't find the mat. He turned around and saw that Jiang Qing had already gotten into the car. "Where's the cushion?" Jiang Qing asked. When Oda heard that it was broken, he jumped out of the car and ran to the house to look for it, but he still couldn't find it. He had no choice but to go back to the car empty-handed. Jiang Qing was furious: "Little bastard, what are you eating? No, don't go!" After I heard about it, I hurried over to Jiang Qing and said, "Comrade Jiang Qing, don't be angry, I'll go with you!" Jiang Qing then gave up.The car drove away quickly, and through the glass window, I saw Xiao Tian, ​​who was always laughing and laughing in front of Jiang Qing, standing there with tears in his eyes... Looking at Oda, I felt sad for a while, and at the same time, it reminded me of a more unforgettable past than this: ... That was 1952. Probably because of the harmonious relationship between Mao Zedong and me, under normal circumstances, Jiang Qing is also more enthusiastic towards me. When playing poker, as long as I am around, she will always arrange for me to play against her.This time it was playing cards at the "Xin Liusuo" on Wanshou Road, Beijing. The "New Six Institutes" are the six small buildings built by the Central Committee for Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Ren Bishi, the five members of the Standing Committee of the Party Central Committee in the early days of liberation.Each of them has a building, and our staff lives in a building.From 1952 to 1959, Mao Zedong often lived here during these eight years, and then stopped. This day Jiang Qing had nothing to do as usual, so he dragged me to play cards.As soon as I sat down, I noticed Jiang Qing's complexion was not good.What's the matter?I pondered it uneasily, but to no avail.The more you miss the point, the more you think about it, the worse the cards in your hand will be played.Like Li Liancheng, I made two wrong cards in a row. Just as I was about to repent, Jiang Qing threw the cards hard in front of me, with a frighteningly loud voice. You: Why do you say I’m hiding from the wind? Ah? I’ll let you make it clear today!” Jiang Qing's sudden anger frightened the nurses and guards who were playing and watching the cards, and they didn't know what was going on.But it was me who was most nervous.At that time, when I heard this, my face turned red: Oh no, how did she know that I said this? It turned out that at this time, the whole country was launching the "Three Antis" and "Five Antis" movements according to the unified deployment of Mao Zedong and the Party Central Committee, because Jiang Qing knew that there were some inexplicable things in history, and he always disliked this kind of investigation of the history of the three generations of his ancestors. Rectification movement.No, when the "Three Antis" and "Five Antis" campaigns started, she avoided them by cursing, neither participating in studies nor organizing activities.The confidential secretary Xu Yefu asked me one day: "Why did Jiang Qing leave as soon as the movement came?" I said casually: "She is hiding from the wind." This is a casual remark, how did it reach Jiang Qing's ears, I secretly complained. "Hmph, little bastard, you...what on earth do you want to do?" Jiang Qing was panting heavily, walking around the card table, as if feeling out of breath, she ran to the yard and turned around angrily. I was so panicked that I didn't know what to do, and I couldn't explain clearly, so I had to follow her buttocks around. This time Jiang Qing was out of breath, with tears in her eyes: "Why do you say I'm hiding from the wind? Tell me! You're dumb!" Her finger touched the tip of my nose. I had no choice but to stammer and tell her that Secretary Xu said it casually when he asked me. "Hmph, you are heartless. I have been protecting you politically, but you slandered me instead." Tears flowed from Jiang Qing's eyes. I was even more frightened. "No, I didn't slander the chief..." "No?" Jiang Qing snorted, "That's all I heard, how many others didn't I hear? Tell me, what do you say about me?" I kept saying no, absolutely nothing. "Okay, let me ask you, why do you want to provoke my relationship with Li Min?" Jiang Qing somehow raised this question. Li Min was the child of Mao Zedong and He Zizhen. After the founding of New China, Li Min and her mother, After suffering all kinds of hardships and returning to the motherland, Mao Zedong took Li Min to his side.Jiang Qing has always been extremely sensitive to Li Min's issues. I did not and did not dare to insert a word on these issues of right and wrong, but Jiang Qing brought up this issue, which made me feel the seriousness of the issue. "You don't want to say it?" Jiang Qing asked me angrily with her hands on her hips, "Then I ask you, why didn't you pick her up when I asked you to send a car to pick her up?" I remembered that it was Jiang Qing who asked me to go to school to pick up Li Min on weekends to take care of his feelings, but after I went, Li Min said that there was something to do in school and he didn't want to go home, so I had no choice but to go back up.I don't want Jiang Qing to think that I have done something in the middle.well! "Comrade Jiang Qing, I went to pick him up, but Li Min refused to come back." I said. Jiang Qing couldn't believe my words, spit and said, "It's because you provoked me to do this! Li Yinqiao, Li Yinqiao, you have your own family now, you know that it's not easy for me to be a stepmother, but where does it hurt? Just stab the knife wherever you want, and you still don't admit it!" This was a clear injustice, and I said, "I will never admit this!" Jiang Qing jumped up angrily when he saw me stiffen up: "You don't admit it, and you still provoke my relationship with the chairman, don't you admit it?" God, I'm out of words now.Because of the matter of eating braised pork, and because of Mao Zedong's repeated questioning, I had to tell the grievance that Jiang Qing asked me to do that.For this reason, Mao Zedong got angry with Jiang Qing, and they had dinner separately because of this.Can Jiang Qing not be jealous of me? It's all over.I know what Jiang Qing thinks of me as the chief guard. I had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to see Mao Zedong and call him an old man to "judgment".It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and he was about to get up.After I said to Jiang Qing, "The chairman is getting up soon, I have to take care of him", I walked to Mao Zedong's residence. "Chairman, Jiang Qing and I have quarreled." Mao Zedong was leaning on the bed rail to read the newspaper, I reported in a low voice. "Why are you arguing with her?" Mao Zedong asked disapprovingly. I said, "It wasn't me who quarreled with her, it was she who quarreled with me." "Then why?" I just told the whole process.Mao Zedong stopped reading the newspaper now, and after thinking about it, he said: "It seems that I have to talk to Jiang Qing, you go and ask her to come in." Returning to the yard, I saw Jiang Qing spinning around.我说：“江青同志，主席请你去一下。” 江青一听更火了：“你真行啊！”显然，她以为我是“恶人先告状”。 我心里忐忑不安，在值班室静候毛泽东夫妻对我们“发落”。“丁零零……”电话响了，我知道是毛泽东在喊我，便蹦起身就往里走。 毛泽东见我进了门，吐了口烟，说：“看来你得写检查，光靠我帮忙还行不通呀！” “这……”我的右手搓着后脑勺，发愁道：“主席，您说怎么写呀？” “你怎么说的就怎么写吆。” “我是说过她躲风，可绝对没有诬蔑她的意思。” “那你就写话说过，但绝没有诬蔑的意思。” “她说我挑拨她跟李敏的关系，我没有。” “那就写没有。” 怕我写不好，毛泽东又随手拿了一张纸，用手指当笔在纸上画着：“这样，开头要写我们两个人的名字，写主席，江青同志。然后另起一行。躲风的话说了，承认，要检查说得不对。要道歉对不起。再写个但是……”说到这，毛泽东朝我挤挤眼，“在但是后面多做点文章。话是说了，但没有政治诬蔑的意思，至于挑拨，根本没有。去接李敏了，她不肯回来。交代的事办了，只是没办成，以后争取办成，检查写完后先交我看看。” "yes." 看得出，毛泽东是站在我这一边的。虽然现在他要当中立的法官，但明显是要为我“作弊”。我踏实了，心头万分感激毛泽东。于是，这份检查按毛泽东的意思写得特别认真。 “嗯，可以。”毛泽东看后点点头，把检查放在床头柜上，然后说：“检查交了，问题还没有解决。你暂时得到中南海躲躲。” "hide?" 毛泽东笑了，说：“只好委屈你先躲躲风了。” 于是，我从新六所“躲”进了中南海。 这一“躲”就是十来天。心想，这事还真难，毛泽东出面了到现在还没解决，看来复杂呢！我心里不免又担心起来。 正在我犯愁时，毛泽东的值班室打来了电话，让我马上到新六所。 “银桥，问题解决了！”毛泽东一见到我，就笑嘻嘻地说。仿佛为自己解决了一件大难事。“江青这两天病了，住在北京医院。你带点东西去医院看看她。明白意思吗？” 我还能不明白？毛泽东在给我充好人呢！我一阵高兴：“明白。” 毛泽东摆摆手，“先不要忙，在你房间里等着，等机会成熟了再去。” 我不知道这是什么意思，莫名其妙地在房间里等候。不过，我想有毛泽东亲自安排，一切都会如情如愿。 “丁零零……”大约十几分钟后，我接到了一个电话，是北京医院的一名护士打来的，说是江青要烟和一些水果，让我送去。 我赶忙出万寿路，搭上公共汽车直奔北京医院。一进病房，见没人，正在疑惑时，只听卫生间里有水声，我便知道江青在里面。果然，不一会儿，江青擦着手从里边出来。一见我便微笑着跟我握手。 “你来啦？” “来啦。” “快坐！快坐！”看到江青这般热情，我这一二十天中吊起来的心总算落到了原位。后来才知道，江青如此转变，全在毛泽东多次为我“用计”。就是刚才接到北京医院打来的电话，也是毛泽东一手安排的。 我在房间等候时，毛泽东给江青打了个电话说：“你心胸不要总是那么狭窄吗，银桥一听说你病了，很着急，买了东西要去看你。你要主动么，要有胸怀么。”就是在这种“催化”下，江青才让护士给我打来电话。而我要给江青“买”的东西，也都是毛泽东为我专门准备好的。 这场非同小可的矛盾，终于由毛泽东给轻轻松松化解了。从医院回到毛泽东身边，我如实将见到江青的情况向他作了汇报。毛泽东很高兴，又随手把我的那份“检查”递给我：“拿去吧，自己保存起来。” 我真的把这份“检查”保存了起来。因为看到它，就会使我想到毛泽东爱护我们卫士的一片深情厚谊，然而，没想到日后因我保存的这份检查，在“文化大革命”中被造反派抄家时拿走了，成了我一贯反对毛泽东和江青的“铁证”了。为此使我蒙受了严酷的政治迫害，这是后话，且不多说。 关于江青，毛泽东生前对她有过很多评论，而且不知多少次严厉批评过她。六十年代初期之前，江青对毛泽东的批评教育总的来说还是惧怕的。毛泽东晚年后，由于身体健康等原因，加上江青自认为登上了“党和国家领导人”之列，所以，对毛泽东的批评教育采取了当面一套，背后一套的阳奉阴违。“文化大革命”开始，江青由“文化旗手”到“四人帮”的头目，身份也不单纯是“毛泽东夫人”了，政治局委员的头衔使得她到处可以出头露面。这期间，毛泽东对她的批评，也显公开化，除了写私人信件外，多数把这种批评形式公之于领导干部之间。譬如公开在领导人的会议上，批示给政治局委员们传阅等。六十年代初期之前，因为江青基本没有什么官职，毛泽东与她之间的不合大多仅限于夫妻之间。正因为这是夫妻两人之间的各方面的不合情趣，使得毛泽东日常生活、精神生活都很痛苦与烦躁，毛泽东是感情豪放的人，但作为一名党和国家的领袖，他又不得不把夫妻之间的不协调深深地埋在心底。 我是毛泽东的贴身卫士、卫士长，老人家对我视为能交流内心感情的人。所以，许多不能在外人面前说的事，他却常常在床榻前、躺椅上、散步聊天中对我谈。 毛泽东和我聊得很多很广，大到中国革命世界革命，小到他与我的家庭生活个人感情。其中有他从内心发自对江青的不满和为江青担忧的话占了不少。 他发过这样的哀叹：“江青是我的老婆，要是我身边的工作人员早把她赶走了！” 他有过这样的后悔：“早知道她这个人是这个样，当初就不会跟她结婚。” 他做过这样的断定：“江青是个是非窝子。刀子嘴会伤人。我死后，人家得把她整死。” 这些都是五十年代讲的话，那时江青还没有在政治舞台上活跃，但毛泽东对她却早有评判。 从毛泽东说的话和他在江青面前处理的事看，我有这样一个总体印象：毛泽东对江青有许多看法，甚至有时是愤愤的看法，但他没有办法——当然凭他能扭转乾坤的伟力，什么事都并不构成对他的妨碍，但惟独对江青，他不能那样做。因为那是他妻子——尽管是一个无法同杨开慧那样贤惠、相爱的妻子相提并论。 五十年代后期开始，毛泽东实际上已同江青很少在一起生活了。他烦她。江青在他身边带来的不是快乐和轻松，而是喋喋不休的政治唠叨和争吵。毛泽东一生为政，但对江青那样“关心”政治却感到反感。他不愿意妻子介入他的政治世界。直到1956年，经周恩来一再提议，政治局常委们开会一致同意后，江青才有了她政治生涯中第一个正式的重要职务：毛泽东的五大秘书之一，其余四个是陈伯达、胡乔木、叶子龙和田家英。 那天常委会还是晚上开的，直到天亮时才形成决议。会议期间我一直站在毛泽东身后，开始他是一直反对江青做秘书的提议，后来其他常委一再解释、劝导，天也快亮了，看得出毛泽东也感到有些疲倦了，这时才表示少数服从多数。东方发白了，他的生物钟提醒他：该睡觉去了。 江青就是在这样的情况下，迈入了一个政治生涯的重要转折。 尽管如此，毛泽东并没有改变对江青的印象，历史和现实不允许他改变他跟江青的夫妻关系，可是他依然采取“远远离开”的做法。因为江青夹在中间难办的情况，不仅对我们卫士是这样，对毛泽东来说也是这样，这举一例—— 自延安开始，为了让毛泽东能休息和散散心，我们身边的工作人员总算把毛泽东的“舞兴”培养了起来。于是，新中国成立后，在中南海有了著名的“周末舞会”。那时，只要没有什么重要会议和活动，中央的一些领导同志除彭德怀外，都会到舞场上翩翩起舞，毛泽东也经常参加。在舞场上，他们这些革命老同志，一反平常的严肃，个个十分活跃，他们特别愿意在这种场合与小青年们热闹，越热闹越高兴。在舞场上，气氛特别好，没有上下级关系，没有男女老少之分，都很随便。 王光美等领导同志的夫人们也是舞场上的积极分子，她们的到来，更使舞场充满热烈优雅的情调。惟有一位来了，就会“大煞风景”。她就是江青。 每当舞会上突然出现毛泽东时，舞场上会呈现一片难有的活跃、轻松、奔放气氛。那时年轻女同志都希望能同毛泽东跳上一阵。可是当人们发现毛泽东身后跟着一个江青时，欢快的舞会一下变得莫名其妙的拘谨。舞伴们不论男女都有些紧张。平常的逗笑声、取乐声会一扫而光。大家心里很明白是怎么回事，毛泽东当然也明白，可碰到这种情况，他明显有些不自在。尽管他会用他那特有的幽默来调动气氛，但是达不到理想的效果。为此，毛泽东背后里总对我们卫士发牢骚：“江青这个人走到哪里哪里就扫兴。” 这种情况是不该出现的。因为舞会本来就该让大家轻松愉快，特别是毛泽东能到舞场对大家、对毛泽东本人更是希望有这种轻松愉快的气氛，如果适得其反就不好了。 How to do it?看来谁都不会也很难提出什么办法。那些赫赫有名的领导人是不便提出什么想法的，那些来参加舞会的一般同志更是不可能提什么。毛泽东本人则更难处理他带来的夫人江青了。冷落江青是不行的，老让她跟毛泽东也是不行的，因为毛泽东很喜欢与年轻人一起热闹。那么有哪位男士包括毛泽东之外的领导人、普通人敢主动去邀请江青呢？显然极少和难得了。What to do?几次舞会后，我一直在家琢磨这件事，最后结论是：看来要靠我们卫士了。因为我们卫士一则全是男士，二则都是毛泽东身边的人，三则都是毛泽东、江青辈分下的“毛孩子”，四则平时也负有照顾江青的职责。果然这个办法得到了毛泽东的赞赏——当然不能让江青感到我们是有意这样具有“任务”感地去做的。 从那时起，我偷偷向卫士们吩咐了这样的任务，在毛泽东和江青都去参加舞会时，我们要积极热情地邀请江青跳舞，既不能冷落她，又不能让她太多纠缠毛泽东。 一般情况下，毛泽东和江青一起参加舞会时，第一曲舞毛泽东会主动和江青跳，那时我们应该怎样掌握这个“度”呢？能告诉你们一个秘密：毛泽东与我们配合得极好，只要他不想再和江青跳时，他会暗中给我们卫士使个眼色。卫士们看到毛泽东的眼色，就会马上“行动”，这样既“解放”了毛泽东，又使虚荣心十足的江青感到自己永远是舞场上不可忽视的主角。 然而，江青，毕竟是个难对付的角色。她会在舞场上突然出现怪论、怪调，以致整个舞场又会陷入一种极不协调的气氛。记得1957年我们在杭州时就出现过这种情况。 那天，浙江省委为毛泽东在大华饭店举行舞会，因为江青也在，所以晚上毛泽东和江青及我们几个卫士便一起到了舞场。 舞场上，除了浙江省委、省政府的一些领导同志外，大多数是杭州市的几个文艺单位的姑娘和小伙子们。毛泽东一到舞场就显得非常高兴，连声说：“跳么，好好热闹热闹。” 活泼的姑娘们正要拥向毛泽东的一瞬间，她们看到了一身庄严、华贵的江青，戛然止步。原是叽叽喳喳的一片欢笑声，顿时姑娘们胆怯地退到两边，变成了有节奏的、而实际上是死板得很沉闷的鼓掌声。 人家都感到很干巴，毛泽东更是这样感觉。到舞场里来，他是想作为一名普通人进来的，可是现在却又不得不继续当他的领袖、主席。 惟独江青觉得正常。乐曲一起，她面带庄严、从容优雅地将手搭在毛泽东的肩上，进入了舞池。她的舞姿确实很不错，但明显地缺少热情。看得出，毛泽东跟她跳得有些别扭。 一曲完毕，在第二乐曲再起时，我见毛泽东朝我们卫士这边“发讯号”了，于是，便轻轻捅了一下田云玉。小田是个活泼机灵且长得蛮帅的小伙子，深得毛泽东、江青喜欢。小田走到江青面前很热情、礼貌地邀请江青。江青朝毛泽东娇嗔地看了一眼：又是你的卫士挡驾了，这意思很明白，毛泽东善意地微笑了一下。于是，江青和小田成了一对舞伴，于是毛泽东又被“解放”了，到了群众中。 我坐在一旁觉得有一种完成任务后的轻松感。 突然，优美、奔放的舞场上响起一阵尖叫。“停停停，太刺耳了！太刺耳了！” 谁在这么咋呼？我一惊，全场上的所有跳舞者也都一惊。我目光第一个任务是寻觅毛泽东。看到了，毛泽东朝发出声音的那个地方瞅了一眼，马上皱起了眉头。我马上明白了，准是江青干的。果然，只见远离乐队的江青双手捂着耳朵，很恼怒地朝着乐队在唠叨着：“你们声音不会小一点点，这么刺耳！” 乐队指挥十分惊慌地重新换了个曲子。不知是紧张的原因还是什么其他原因，竟换了个更奔放刺耳的曲子。 “哎哟，吵死了！你们成心哪！”江青捂着耳朵直冲乐队走过去，“换换！马上换！” 当乐曲重新奏起时，舞场上完全是一片小心翼翼的、压抑的气氛。无论是毛泽东还是省委负责同志的一再鼓动大家要“活泼”“热闹”起来，可始终不得如愿。 回住处的路上，毛泽东没有同江青坐在一辆车上。他老人家一声不吭，我知道他是在生江青的气。直到临睡觉时，他才冲我说了一句：“下次跳舞，要么江青不去，要么我不去！” I didn't say anything.心里想着，这事我们没有办法，您老人家同样没有办法。多少事，只要江青夹在中间就搞不好，难道您老人家不清楚？