preface
In 1959, Qian Yijian was sent to Chen Yi as a health care doctor. He followed Chen Yi for 2 years, during which Qian Yijian discovered a lot of Chen Yi's "unknown" secret stories.
In 1961, when Chen Yi received Burmese Prime Minister U Nu, he was reluctant to accompany him to the hot springs, what trick did he think of? There is no need to ask for leave, and there is no need to make the other person feel uncomfortable!
Qian Yijian came to Chen Yi's side
In the summer of 1959, Qian Yijian was transferred to the Zhongnanhai Health Care Group. When he came to his new workplace, the leader put him in charge of Chen Yi's health care. He learned from the leaders that Chen Yi, who was vice premier and foreign minister of the State Council, was under 60 years old and in good health.
In Zhongnanhai, people affectionately call him "Mr. Chen", and Qian Yijian is often called "Chief". After working by Chen Yi's side for a while, Qian Yijian found that the chief's work was very busy during the day, holding meetings, foreign affairs activities, etc., and only after returning home at night did he go to the chief's house to examine him. At that time, it was mainly for Chen Yi to measure his blood pressure.
Qian Yijian once said that the chief treats the staff around him very much. During the Spring Festival, the chief always invites secretaries, doctors, nurses, and guards to his home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve or the night before. No matter how busy he is, he will clink glasses with everyone and congratulate everyone on a happy Spring Festival.
At work, Chen Yi requires the people around him to be "meticulous". One year, Qian Yijian accompanied Chen Yi on a visit to Afghanistan. After the visit, Chen Yi convened the delegation for a "summary meeting". At the meeting, Chen Yi harshly criticized the special plane's early arrival at the Kabul airport, which caused the plane to hover in the air without landing.
It turned out that the day before the delegation arrived in Kabul, it stopped in Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The next day, the plane left Tashkent for Kabul. Due to the time difference between Kabul and Tashkent, the staff in charge of the itinerary did not bring this point up. As a result, the plane arrived in the skies over Kabul half an hour ahead of schedule.
Because the leaders of the Afghanistan side who had come to welcome them at the airport had not yet arrived, it was difficult for the plane to land early. In this way, the plane circled in the air several times and landed when the time was up. Qian Yijian recalled that Chen Yi, who had always been kind, lost his temper at the meeting. He pointed out that if the fuel ran out, it would cause an unthinkable accident!
At work, Chen Yi is serious and serious, and after returning home, Chen Yi is very kind. Especially in the presence of elderly parents. Sichuan is Chen Yi's hometown, although he participated in the revolution in his early years and left Sichuan for a long time, when he speaks, the Sichuan accent is quite strong. In 1961, Chen Yi went back to Chengdu to live for a few days, one to rest to eliminate fatigue, and the other to save relatives and visit his old parents.
At that time, Chen Yi was 61 years old, and his parents were both over 80 years old. On this day, Qian Yijian went to visit his parents with Chen Yi. During the conversation, Qian Yijian deliberately went to the next room to rest. In the middle, he heard someone call "Second Brother". "Second brother" is what Chen Yi's younger siblings call him. After more than an hour of cooking, Chen Yi took his parents to the hotel for dinner.
In the car, Chen Yi was a junior after all, and he gave up the back seat to his parents, and he sat on a small chair. Qian Yijian said that although the chief was 61 years old at the time, he still showed the joy and joy of the child when he saw his parents. Qian Yijian once thought that the chief's parents were both long-lived, and the chief's own health was also good, and he would live a long life in the future.
As everyone knows, Chen Yi was only 73 years old when he died. This may be related to the special age, mood depression, and immune dysfunction. As a well-known doctor, Qian Yijian's speculation also has some truth.
Qian Yijian played chess with Mr. Chen and also translated
Chen Yi likes to play chess, and when he arrives in Shanghai, he will invite some Go masters to play against him. In his spare time on weekdays, Chen Yi will play chess with his secretary. For this reason, the two secretaries Du Yi and Shi Guobao went from not knowing how to play at all, and slowly became Go masters, but compared with Chen Yi, their level is still not enough.
When Qian Yijian was studying in Shanghai, he learned Go. Once, he accompanied Chen Yi to Guilin on a business trip, and before resting, Chen Yi suddenly asked him: "Can you play chess?" Qian Yijian said: "I have studied before, but I have not put in the effort to study. Chen Yi smiled and said, "You accompany me in the next game and let you have 5 children." Qian Yijian thought about it for a while and said, "It's not enough, let 9." ”
In this way, after a game, Qian Yijian still lost. At this time, Chen Yi told Qian Yijian how he learned Go.
Chen Yi worked and studied in France as a young man, but was sent back to China by the France government for participating in revolutionary activities. When he returned to China, Chen Yi took an ocean liner, which lasted several months. In order to pass the time, an older comrade thought of playing Go, so he took Chen Yi with him to pick up white and gray stones on the beach when the ship docked at the port, and then drew a chessboard.
Chen Yi's Go was learned from this comrade who was older than him. Since then, Chen Yi has fallen in love with playing Go, and his chess skills are very good.
In addition to being Chen Yi's health care doctor, Qian Yijian sometimes also serves as a translator. In the spring of 1962, Chen Yi led a large government delegation to attend the "Geneva Conference". In the past two months, Qian Yijian not only provided Chen Yi with health care, but also diagnosed and treated diseases for other comrades in the delegation.
One day, an interpreter from the delegation's translation team said to Qian Yijian: "Tomorrow Mr. Chen will meet with a Sweden ambassador who speaks English, and Mr. Chen wants you to be the interpreter." Qian Yijian said: "I am a doctor, can I do it?" The translator told him that this was Mr. Chen's opinion, and said to let Qian Yijian give it a try.
As a result, after the hour-long meeting, Chen Yi summoned Ji Pengfei, Qiao Guanhua and others to discuss the content of the meeting and commented on Qian Yijian's translation. The opinion was that the English translation was okay, but I was not familiar with some diplomatic terms. Later, when Qian Yijian talked about this incident, he was very grateful to the chief for giving him the opportunity to exercise.
It turned out that in order to get close to Qian Yijian's old business, Chen Yi used medical examples in some metaphors. For example, Mr. Chen likened the reactionaries to an inflamed cecum, when in fact it should be an appendix. He said that if he didn't have surgery to cut it off, it wouldn't be peaceful. Chen Yi said this, it is precisely because of surgery that cutting the appendix is Qian Yijian's old business.
Mr. Chen wittily avoided soaking in the hot springs with the Prime Minister of Myanmar
In the spring of 1961, Burmese Prime Minister U Nu visited Yunnan. Wu Nu came to China from the China-Myanmar border, and Chen Yi picked up the plane in Dali, Yunnan. After receiving the person, Chen Yi accompanied Wu Nu to Kunming. At that time, Premier Zhou was in Kunming. There is a hot spring near the hotel in Kunming, and the reception department arranged for Wu Nu to soak in the hot spring, which was originally intended to be accompanied by Mr. Chen.
But Chen Yi came all the way over, and there were still a few activities in Kunming, so he was very upset and didn't want to accompany him. Chen Yi thought of a way to let Qian Yijian take a small portable oxygen cylinder and go to the garden outside the hot spring bath.
Chen Yi told Qian Yijian that when Wu Nu's personal doctor saw him, if he asked him "what are you doing"? Qian Yijian said: "Vice Premier Chen feels uncomfortable and needs to take oxygen." Chen Yi's trick really worked, when Qian Yijian was walking around the garden with an oxygen tank, sure enough, the personal doctor came. When he saw Qian Yijian holding an oxygen tank, he asked him, "What are you doing?" It was the same as Chen Yi expected.
After Qian Yijian went back, he told Chen Yi about it. It turned out that Chen Yi had observed, this personal doctor followed Wu Nu closely, and he would appear wherever Wu Nu was. Qian Yijian thought that Mr. Chen was really good, he didn't want to accompany him to the hot springs, nor did he ask for leave through the protocol officer, but asked him to carry an oxygen cylinder to deliver the news. And it's really clever!
In the second half of 1961, the organization assigned Qian Yijian other work. After that, he ceased to be Mr. Chen's health care doctor. The following year, Qian Yijian was transferred to the internal medicine department of Beijing Hospital. Looking back on the 2 years of working by Mr. Chen's side, he is very admired.
Later, in a special era, someone asked the Military Management Commission to let him expose Chen Yi's problems. Qian Yijian said to the people of the Military Management Commission: "I serve as his health care doctor, and I only know about his illness, his blood pressure, his medication, and other things. ”
References: "Marshal Chen Yi's Health Care Anecdotes", "I Became a Health Care Doctor for Chen Yi"