Dear Mom and Dad, after reading

一

On the last day of the last century, I finally realized my conscience. After my official duties were over, I bought a ticket from Beijing to Kunming to see my mother.

After I bought the ticket, I didn’t call her. I knew that once I called her, she would be busy all afternoon. No matter how late she arrived, she would make me something I liked to eat when I was a child. It wasn't until the plane took off that I told her not to tell anyone else or ask for a car to pick her up. I would take a taxi home by myself, just to spend time with her.

In the past few years, I visited my mother every year, but as soon as I got off the plane, I was picked up by the office. They said that this customer is very important and I want to meet her. That customer is very important and I want to have a meal with them. , was so busy that when I got on the plane, I went home to pick up my luggage and said goodbye to my parents in a hurry. My mother looked forward to the stars, the moon, and daily life, but she failed again and again.

Two

On an ordinary morning, my mother came out of the vegetable market, carrying two small bags of vegetables, and was hit by a car and was seriously injured. I was in Iran, and the plane had to make multiple transfers before I could come back. I had to wait 6.5 hours to transfer in Bahrain, which was really torturous. There was also a thunderstorm in Bahrain, and the plane was delayed for two hours. I arrived in Bangkok 10 minutes late, so I didn't make it in time. I didn’t get to Kunming until late at night when I got on the plane back to Kunming.

When I returned to Kunming, I knew that my mother was dying. Her head was completely damaged. Her heartbeat and breathing at that time were all maintained by drugs and machines. The reason why she didn’t tell me on the phone was I'm afraid something will happen to me during the trip. I saw my mother lying peacefully on the hospital bed without saying a word, without having to worry or worry, as if she had never had such a rest in her life.

I really regret not calling my mother in Iran. Because in the past, no matter when I called her at home or abroad, she would always nag: "You are on a business trip again", "Feifei, your body is not as good as mine", "Feifei, you have more wrinkles than my mother." ", "Fei Fei, you can't walk as well as me, you are so sick at such a young age", "Fei Fei, diabetes will get worse faster if you attend too many parties, and your heart is not good"...

I thought the conditions in Iran were so bad. When I called, my mother nagged her again. Anyway, we met in a few days and there was no fight. This is the biggest regret in my life. If I really hit her and delayed her going out for a minute or two, maybe my mother would have escaped this disaster. This feeling of regret is really indescribable.

I took one last look at my mother, and she suddenly passed away.

三

In 1995, my father bought a bottle of plastic-wrapped soft drink from a street stall in Kunming. After drinking it, he suffered from diarrhea and died of systemic failure.

My father, Ren Moxun, has devoted his life to his duties and can be said to be a rural educator. My mother, Cheng Yuanzhao, is an extremely ordinary gardener who has accompanied my father to live with poor children in impoverished mountainous areas all his life.

My father wore a cotton-padded coat from the land reform team and entered the ethnic minority mountainous areas of Guizhou with the People's Liberation Army's bandit suppression unit to prepare for the construction of an ethnic middle school. After diving in for decades, many of the students he trained became senior cadres of the party and the country, and some were school-level leaders of central colleges and universities, but his father was still in such a humble position.

Four

When I was a teenager living with my parents, what impressed me most was the difficult period of three years of natural disasters. I still remember it vividly when I think about it today.

There are seven of us brothers and sisters, plus nine of our parents. She relies solely on her parents' meager salary to live on, with no other source of income. Life is already very difficult. Children are growing up day by day, their clothes are getting shorter and shorter, and they all have to go to school, which costs a lot of money. Each person has to pay 2-3 yuan in tuition every semester. Worry every time. I often see my mother borrowing money from people everywhere at the end of the month to survive the famine, and she often visits several places but may not be able to borrow it.

I didn’t wear a shirt until I graduated high school. Some classmates saw that it was a very hot day and I was still wearing a thick coat, so they asked me to ask my mother for a shirt. I didn't dare because I knew I couldn't do it. When I was in college, my mother gave me two shirts at a time. I really wanted to cry, because now that I had shirts, it would be even harder for my younger siblings.

At that time, 2-3 people in my family shared one quilt, and the worn quilt was covered with straw.

It was even more difficult for me to take away a quilt when I went to college, because at that time cloth stamps and cotton stamps were still controlled. At least one year, each person was only issued 0.5 meters of cloth stamps. There were no quilts, so my mother picked up a few tattered quilts discarded by graduating students, sewed them, washed them, and stayed with me through five years of college life in Chongqing.

At that time, our family implemented a strict distribution system for each meal, a rationing system that controlled everyone's desires and ensured that everyone could survive. If this were not the case, there would always be one or two younger siblings who would not survive today. I can truly understand what it means to live.

When I was about to take the college entrance examination in my third year of high school, I sometimes reviewed my homework at home. I was so hungry that I couldn’t bear it anymore. I mixed rice bran with vegetables and baked it to eat. My father touched me a few times, and he felt distressed. In fact, my family was so poor at that time that we didn’t even have a lockable cabinet. The food was packed in earthen jars, and I didn’t dare to just grab a handful.

Three months before the college entrance examination, my mother often gave me a small tortilla in the morning, asking me to review my homework in peace. The small tortilla contributed a lot to my ability to enter college. If this were not the case, maybe I would not be able to join a company like Huawei, and there would just be one more expert pig farmer in the society, or one more skilled craftsman on the street. This little tortilla came from the mouths of my parents and younger siblings, and I have no way to repay them.

"Remember knowledge is power. If others don't learn, you must learn and don't follow the crowd." "In the future, if you have the ability, you must help your brothers and sisters." With this kind of trust, I was able to I went through Fan Yingchuan's advanced mathematics problem set from beginning to end twice and learned logic and philosophy. I also taught myself three foreign languages, and at that time I was able to read college textbooks. However, because I was not a language genius, and I did not need them when I was serving in the army, I wasted more than 20 years and completely forgot about them.

When I wore my father’s leather shoes, I didn’t realize that my father was working hard in the mud and water, and was cold and damp. He needed shoes even more. Looking back now, I feel that I was too selfish.

Looking back at the history I have gone through, the only thing I feel guilty about is that I was sorry for my parents. I didn’t take care of them when I didn’t have the conditions, and I didn’t take care of them when I had the conditions.

Dad, Mom, I call you thousands of times, but I can’t call you back.

The dead have passed away, but the living have to move forward.

Liu Chuanzhi’s thoughts after reading: If you want to be rich, you must know why you are poor

Lenovo Holdings Chairman Liu Chuanzhi

I was reading an article on my mobile phone written by Ren Zhengfei in memory of him. My parents’ article, but another thing came to mind. It was September 2013, and I received an invitation.

I really had something to do that day, but out of my heartfelt admiration and respect for Lao Ren, I tried my best to squeeze out other things and spent an hour and a half driving to the venue.

Lao Ren is indeed very proud. That day was the "school motto seminar" of Duyun No. 1 Middle School in Guizhou, and many leaders and well-known entrepreneurs were invited. He looked very happy to see me coming. I am also happy because among corporate workers, we all belong to the rare "old guys" category. We know each other relatively well, but we rarely meet, so we hold hands tightly and do not want to let go.

It turns out that Duyun No. 1 Middle School is Ren Zhengfei’s alma mater. His father served as the principal here for three years. He has been engaged in education all his life and has devoted all his efforts for more than 50 years. When the current school leader introduced the history of the school and introduced the deeds of Lao Ren’s father, Mr. Ren Moxun, I paid attention to Ren Zhengfei. I thought he had heard such content countless times, but he still listened so attentively, so Emotional!

At the moment I am reading the article he wrote in memory of his parents. I read this article carefully because it deeply aroused my ***. He and I were born in the same year, and our birth backgrounds are somewhat different, but the political hardships and tests faced by the previous generation were almost the same.

Ren Zhengfei said that his father still worked diligently and hard under the pressure of this test, setting an example for him to work hard at Huawei later, and the example of his father's generation is still there. It left a deep mark on him. My father is also my role model.

What impressed me most was that under strong political pressure, he was able to set an example with his actions as he taught me before - to be an upright person. Integrity, this is such a common word, but in the face of special tests, this word exceeds the critical weight.

In the first year of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, I saw with my own eyes that my father was expelled from the party for refusing to frame his comrades in the face of threats. The atmosphere was tense and frightening. This was deeply imprinted in my mind, and my father taught me by example how to be a human being and what integrity means!

In the thirty years since Lenovo has grown to today, it has gone through countless risks, especially in the early days when there were certain policy risks. I consider myself a person who dares to take on responsibilities, and Lenovo has borne the fruits of victory. At that time, I also thought that I was a person who was willing to give up profits, which may have a certain impact on Lenovo's development to today. Like Ren Zhengfei, we can lead by example and put corporate interests ahead of personal interests. Tracing back to the roots, it is our parents who laid the foundation for us on how to behave.

When I read that Ren Zhengfei’s mother died in an accident, my heart suddenly tightened. I can imagine what kind of heartbreaking feeling it was for him!

Ren Zhengfei talked about his senior year in high school (it should also be my senior year in high school, which was the most difficult year of 1961). His mother often stuffed him with a small tortilla in the morning. Being able to get into college, the contribution of the little corn cake is huge. This little corn cake was picked out from the mouths of my parents and younger siblings. I can't repay them.

I believe that the vast majority of friends born in the 80s and 90s cannot read the feeling of tortillas, because they do not understand what hunger is. In 1961, I was a senior high school student in Beijing No. 25 Middle School. We middle school students were exposed to the sun at 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning, so we enjoyed the highest treatment, 32 kilograms of grain, half a kilogram of oil, and half a kilogram of meat a month. Do you know what half a pound of oil a month means?

When the cabbage was cooked in a pot, a few drops of oil were poured in from the mouth of the oil bottle along with the chopsticks, causing oil to float in the pot. After a month, half a kilogram of oil was used up. Do you know what it means to be hungry? That is to use up all the fat on your body, and then use up your muscles. One night, I was so hungry that I couldn't bear it anymore. I remembered that there was a box of Chinese medicine called Lingqiao Jiedu Pills in the drawer, so I took two pills. A few hours later, the drug took effect, causing cramps and heartache, and a splitting headache.

Only those who have been hungry know what corn cakes are from the mouths of parents, siblings. Ren Zhengfei misses his mother. Why don't I miss my mother and think of my mother's love for me in the most difficult years. My parents have passed away, and I am also the eldest child like Lao Ren. I will always remember my parents’ kindness and kindness. I have four siblings and we will always love each other.

I was thinking, after reading Lao Ren’s article, what made me pick up the pen and say the above paragraph? Who do I want to tell it to?

Tell Lao Ren? Let him know that I am his soulmate? Tell it to my relatives, friends, classmates, and colleagues? Let us cherish today's life more?

It seems so, but it’s not. I understand that what I want to say most is to those young, young, and even children, so that they can listen to it when they grow up.

I have always warned myself not to become a nagging old man. And I guess children don’t like to hear these words.

A few days ago, I watched a movie called "The Return". It was about an era and things I had witnessed with my own eyes. After the movie was finished, I burst into tears.

I asked several young people if they had seen this movie, and they all said no. One person said to me: Do people always have to look forward? What’s the point of always saying those old words about being miserable? ! They like to watch movies that are glamorous, rich, and willful. That is their pursuit.

They don’t like to watch “The Return” and they don’t like to listen to my nagging, but I still can’t help but want to tell them, for what?

Because not long ago our nation was very miserable, miserable, and useless. If you want to live a prosperous and glorious life in the future, you must understand why you were poor, why you suffered, and why you were bullied in the past.

You have to understand history, and you have to learn lessons from it. We are already one of the few people who have seen the end of that period of history. It is our responsibility to restore the true history as much as possible. No matter what nationality you are, the blood flowing in the veins of you and your descendants is Chinese. This is an unchangeable fact!

I cannot be said to be a noble person, let alone a pure person. But I strive to be a person who repays kindness, a person who understands integrity and strives for self-improvement. I hope that in a few decades, today's young people can make China prosperous and strong through pursuit, unity, and strength, and let themselves live a bright and prosperous life.