Chapter 10 Group photo of Mao Zedong and Puyi

I once saw a rare and interesting photo at the home of Mr. Puyi in Beijing. Chairman Mao Zedong stood shoulder to shoulder with him, a head above him, both of them laughing.What a laugh, laughing like a child.I glanced at it twice, and couldn't help laughing out loud, so I asked Puyi: Why are you so happy?What was the conversation just seconds before the photo was taken?Was it a joke?He smiled without saying a word. This master who combines the real emperor (Xuantong) and the fake emperor (the puppet Manchukuo) is still somewhat diplomatic, and he is probably afraid that I will leak the secret.

It was a black-and-white enlarged full-body photo in a black-rimmed frame.It is more than one foot long and four inches wide. The photo seems narrower, but it gives me a lot of room for memory. At the end of 1956, when Puyi was still a war criminal, I rushed from Beijing to Fushun, and stayed with him for many days in the War Criminals Management Office for the sake of my duties.Getting along day and night, talking for a few hours on average every day, I always feel that he is like you and me, and there is no trace of the emperor.He does have a sense of humor, though, which I like. More than two years after that visit, he was pardoned, and when he returned to Beijing, we sometimes chatted.About a year or two later, I met him again on the viewing platform of Tiananmen Square on the National Day in 1960. I noticed that he was wearing a newly made gray people's uniform. What's more special is that he even had a collar The disciplinary buckles are carefully buckled.After all, I thought, he was a serious and serious man.

Therefore, seeing this photo around 1963 could not but arouse my curiosity.Why on earth were they both so happy?I remember asking repeatedly at that time, and Puyi seemed to have finally leaked a word: Chairman Mao told him that when you were Emperor Xuantong, I was under your control.Then came the slight click of the shutter. Presumably the photos are still kept in the hands of Mrs. Li Shuxian Puyi. (1979)