Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Six

Every day at dusk, Wu Keqin, head of the Cultural Revolution at Beiqing University, patrolled the campus as usual.She has worked in Beiqing University for more than ten years, and until today, she has the best feeling for Beiqing University.When she inspected the campus under the guard of a group of entourages, she experienced the feeling of being in charge of her own family, and she had new feelings for every plant and tree here.She is now a national figure, and she never shows up on the crowded campus during the day, but always curls up in the school’s Cultural Revolution Office or some other secret lair to direct her subordinates; she travels in low clothes in the early morning when the land is sparsely populated when.

The campus was still shrouded in the darkness before dawn, the big-character poster area was lit, and there were only a few people.With her hands behind her back, she walked while looking at the big-character posters and big slogans on both sides.Ma Shengli and a group of people followed her to protect her, including Wu Keqin's guards and her assistants.Wu Keqin had a very good feeling taking this group of young, promising and energetic college students to inspect the campus.They surrounded her tall and big, they obeyed her, they exuded the unique smell of young men, and their footsteps showed their youth and robustness;

Under her instruction, Ma Shengli sent someone to turn off all the electric lights on the big-character posters, leaving only the street lamps to shine on. The initial brightness of the dawn floated desertedly on the empty corridor between the big-character posters. Wu Keqin felt that his footsteps were simple, and his cloth-soled shoes stepped on the concrete road without any sound of weight. She walked slowly, but always felt her own weight.The footsteps of a group of people around her explained her existence.Wherever she went, the group of people followed.When she stopped, the group stopped.She turns, and the group turns.Her will is everything.

Looking at the straight road leading to the South School Gate, she stopped with her hands behind her back. The road really seemed to flow out of her chest.She casually pointed to the shredded large-print newspapers left on the road, and someone immediately explained to her: "The gangsters who clean up the campus will come to clean up in a while." She nodded.Touring the big-character poster area, she realized the meaning of the word "leader".Mao Zedong inspected the whole country, and she inspected Beiqing University.Small but complete. The big-character posters vividly showed the trend of the Cultural Revolution at Beiqing University and even the whole of China.Tour here once a day, you can grasp the heat of class struggle.Now, the contents of the big-character posters of Beiqing University are all over the world: there are speeches by the head of the Central Committee; there are dynamics of the Cultural Revolution in various parts of the country; There are critiques of gangsters, reactionary academic authorities, historical counter-revolutionaries and current counter-revolutions; there are criticisms of working groups that have been withdrawn and brought back; there are various political fables and political doggerel; there are all kinds of them.

However, there is a very prominent theme, that is, the "opposition" and "protection" of the Cultural Revolution and Wu Keqin. Wu Keqin stopped in front of a big slogan: "Kick the Cultural Revolution out of the school, start a revolution yourself", signed "Hushanxing Combat Team". Wu Keqin asked: "Which group of people are they on the trip to Hushan?" Immediately someone asked and answered: "It's from the Department of Chemistry, a total of forty people." Ma Shengli said: "The core person is Zhang Mingshan, a third-grade student." Wu Keqin said: "Take out his file, and in addition, conduct a comprehensive investigation of his situation. Good people can be educated when they make mistakes, and bad people can never be punished." Don’t slip through the net.” She saw another big-character poster: “Wu Keqin is the biggest obstacle to the in-depth development of the Cultural Revolution Movement,” signed “Jinggangshan Combat Team.”Wu Keqin tapped his finger, "Find out their backgrounds." There was another big-character poster titled "Take down Wu Keqin, and Beiqing University can really become chaotic", and it was signed "Jingqifen Combat Team".Before Wu Keqin opened his mouth, someone said: "This is from the Department of Mathematics and Forces. We have basically grasped the situation and are still investigating." Another prominent slogan: "The school's Cultural Revolution is a new working group", signed by "Red Flag Flying Combat Team".

Wu Keqin asked: "Is this Hongqi Piao newly established?" Immediately someone nearby said: "It was established just yesterday, and we are also looking into their situation." Another big-character poster appeared in front of my eyes, with the title: "Wu Keqin's rules and regulations can be stopped."This big-character poster adopts the form of cartoons, with a total of more than ten pages, and each page is a cartoon, focusing on criticizing Wu Keqin's rules and regulations.The first one is "I'm the only one on the left", which depicts Wu Keqin with a belly like a big ball and a thumbs up to flaunt himself.The second one is "to oppose Wu Keqin is counter-revolutionary", and the painting shows Wu Keqin speaking hoarsely with spittle splashing.The third one is "Lao Tzu is always correct". It depicts Wu Keqin with his butt pouted and a tail up in the air, which becomes a flagpole with a broken flag floating above it.Wu Keqin stood in front of this big-character poster, squinting his eyes, with a very ugly expression on his face.The inscription of the comic is "Bound Canglong Combat Team". She sneered and asked, "How many people are in this combat team?" Ma Shengli said, "It seems to be just one person." It’s easy to deal with.” Ma Shengli said, “We should hurry up and arrest him within a few days.” Wu Keqin scanned the ten pages of cartoons from the beginning, and said, “I’m not always correct; but, now Those who oppose me are counter-revolutionaries, and this is indeed true." She turned and walked forward with her hands behind her back, and a group of people immediately rushed up.Ma Shengli followed her and said, "We'll cover up this big-character poster in a while." Wu Keqin said, "What are you doing covering it? Am I afraid that they will scold me? Can I still be considered a leftist if I scold you? Many acts of injustice You must kill yourself." As she walked, she said, "It's almost dawn, why haven't the ghosts and monsters started cleaning the campus yet? Where are they locked up?" Ma Shengli said, "It's divided into two parts, the first batch of people They were locked in the dangerous goods warehouse of the original school-run factory, and the second group of people built a cowshed and locked them in the cowshed." "Which one is the closest?" Wu Keqin stopped and asked.

Ma Shengli said, "The bullpen is near." Wu Keqin said, "Go and see." Beiqing University's camp for detaining ghosts and monsters has arrived.This is a place surrounded by mat tents.The gate was two wooden fence gates. Wu Keqin saw it from a distance and asked, "Aren't you afraid they will run away with such a low gate?" Ma Shengli said, "Who dares to run? Just thinking about it will scare you to death." A few college students and workers wearing red armbands were waiting there. When they saw Wu Keqin and Ma Shengli, they immediately ran over and reported, "Assemble and set off immediately." Wu Keqin looked at the twilight sky and waved his hands. Meaning that there is no rush, Ma Shengli said from the side: "We have to take a look."

The wooden fence gate was pulled open staggeringly, and the gateposts were two logs buried in the mud.A log every few meters, nailed with straw mats, becomes an unbreakable wall that reflects the dictatorship of the proletariat.As soon as you enter this special yard, you will see rows of temporary sheds.The asbestos tile roof of the shed is high at the front and low at the back. One side is sloped. The side next to the door is as high as a person, and the other side is as high as half a person. There are reed mat walls on all sides.There are a total of ten rows, and each row is tens of meters long.Looking into the shed, there are some people moving around in a hurry.Ma Shengli introduced: "The first seven rows are for men, and the last three rows are for women. There are fifty people in each row of houses, and there are nearly five hundred people in total." Wu Keqin asked: "These houses are connected to each other. Is it?" Ma Shengli said, "It works."

Standing at the door, Wu Keqin gradually got used to the darkness in the shed. He could clearly see that there were floor beds next to each other in the shed, and some washbasins and tooth jars reflected light in the darkness.She looked at the roof, touched the asbestos tiles that went down the slope, and thought that these ghosts and snakes would lie on the bed as soon as they entered the door, and the height of half a person would be enough, so she asked: "Is there a light here? "Ma Shengli said: "Yes." As he spoke, he turned on the light.The tens of meters long shed was dimly illuminated by three or four 20-watt light bulbs.

Looking there, it seems far-reaching and infinite, and the various mattresses and sheets on the ground remind you of their different owners.There was a suffocating and unpleasant smell in the shed. She looked back and saw that there were three doors open in the tens of meters long shed. This one, the middle one, and the top one were faintly visible.As a person who has lived in the teaching team for many years, she couldn't help but have some good associations; however, she immediately wiped out her associations with one sentence: "This condition is quite good." Ma Shengli said: "Yes. Basically Not much rain."

She walked out of the shed, and the team started to form a mess outside.The distance between the sheds was only two or three meters. The ghosts and snakes stood in front of their own sheds one by one. Each team had its own captain. When Wu Keqin and Ma Shengli appeared, all All ghosts and monsters tremblingly speeded up the queue.Here are some professors and cadres over the age of 40 or 50, wriggling tremblingly, unable to stand out in an orderly manner.The captain of the team in front of him was a professor in the biology department. Wu Keqin knew him, and his name was Dong Yuanming.He has a tall and tall figure, high hairline, and looks quite imposing. When Wu Keqin saw him, he lowered his eyes slightly, and the other party's eyes flickered.There was a fate between them that they could only understand. Wu Keqin was almost determined to divorce her husband and marry him.However, when Dong Yuanming became a rightist in 1957, there was no possibility at all.Dong Yuanming, as the captain of a team of monsters and monsters, was shouting the password loudly.Wu Keqin walked out of the courtyard, stopped in the open space outside, and swept away all non-political associations in the thought process of blowing the fallen leaves.She is now the leader of the Cultural Revolution at Beiqing University. Five hundred people came out in ten teams one by one, and lined up in the rough open space outside the courtyard.Seeing Luo Jin, the former party secretary of the school who was already bald, was also in the queue, she deeply felt that the world had turned into clouds and rain, and that the world had undergone incredible changes.This dense group of people, white-haired, black-haired, bald, wearing glasses, men and women, used to be in charge of this highest institution of learning and enjoyed a high reputation at home and abroad; now, their fate is in their own hands.Ma Shengli came over to ask for instructions, "Are you giving them a lecture?" Wu Keqin waved his hand and said, "No."The main content of the lecture was to criticize the two people who violated the labor reform discipline yesterday.One is the former head of the Department of Physics, an old man with pale hair and a stooped back. He had an affair with his family yesterday.There is another one, a former female professor in the Chinese Department, with a pair of black eyes protruding from Yuanyuan's face, and she also had an affair with her family.The two men were called out of the queue and stood at the front bent at ninety degrees.The college students lecturing announced: Now, everyone will first clean the poster area and dozens of temporary toilets built to receive visitors from all over the country; when they come back for breakfast, they will criticize these two people.Each team prepares a critique speech. In front of the queue stood a pile of large brooms, shovels, and dozens of dung buckets and scoops.The ghosts and ghosts walked over in order and picked up their tools.Still lined up, set off to complete the first lesson in the morning.Wu Keqin stood on a prefabricated concrete slab and watched these people pass by at an appropriate height. She thought of the prison camps in the World War.As these people moved before her eyes, she felt that the movement here reflected a kind of order, a kind of authority.This order and authority are all the more dignified by the silence.When those old men and women staggered past her with big brooms, shovels, dung buckets, and dung spoons, she decided not to visit this place in the future.This is not a place where she should appear in person, nor should she witness it with her own eyes. Mao Zedong presumably would not do such a thing, he only needs to make instructions on the document to reflect the power of life and death.The sense of authority at this moment may be too naked, so it didn't bring her a very comfortable feeling. When an old gray-haired professor walked past her, he coughed and turned his head to spit at Wu Keqin's feet.This caused a very strong reaction in Wu Keqin's heart, and the voice sounded like he was spitting on her.The other party suddenly realized her existence, raised an old suffering face, and looked up at her in horror. That expression made Wu Keqin sure that the phlegm was definitely not aimed at her.However, this still couldn't drive away the unhappiness in her heart.This is, of course, a needless unhappiness.She turned her head and asked Ma Shengli who was standing beside him: "Where is Li Haoran from the philosophy department?" Ma Shengli said, "He committed suicide a long time ago and reported it to you." Wu Keqin asked: "Where is his wife, is she called Ru Zhen?" Ma Shengli asked and answered: "She is still at home." Wu Keqin looked at Ma Shengli suspiciously, and Ma Shengli explained: "Some people who are not in good health and the problem is not serious, go home to stay at night and participate in the daytime." Labor and acceptance of criticism." Wu Keqin showed a sardonic smile: "So, they are a group of day students." Ma Shengli responded with a smile: "Yes." At this moment, he saw something and raised his hand: "That's not Ru Zhen ?” Wu Keqin followed the direction of his finger and saw Ruzhen walking over with a swollen face with striking yin and yang hair, followed by a very slender girl with a round face. Wu Keqin asked: "Is it her daughter?" Ma Shengli replied: "Yes, her name is Li Daiyu. Every morning, she accompanied her mother and came to pick her up in the evening." Wu Keqin asked: "Why?" Ma Shengli replied carefully: " I'm afraid she'll faint on the road." Ru Zhen picked up a big broom from the pile of brooms, carried it on her shoulders, walked past Wu Keqin and Ma Shengli, and looked at them dumbfoundedly. Then, ignorantly, he followed the people in front like a big-headed doll.Li Daiyu watched from a distance, with a cowardly look on her face that wanted to follow but did not dare to follow. The ghosts and monsters disappeared before her eyes, Wu Keqin waved her hand and said, "Let's go." The crowd followed as nimbly as her tail.At this moment, she understood what it means to "be too big to lose"; when the people who follow her are not sensitive, the power begins to die.When walking past Ruzhen's daughter Li Daiyu, Wu Keqin stopped deliberately, and asked kindly, "Are you Ruzhen's daughter?" .""What is your name?" Wu Keqin asked.Li Daiyu replied: "Li Daiyu." "Which school?" Wu Keqin asked again.Li Daiyu replied: "Beiqing Middle School." Wu Keqin asked: "Can you treat the Cultural Revolution correctly?" Li Daiyu nodded.Wu Keqin said: "You have to draw a clear line with your family." Li Daiyu nodded again.Ma Shengli looked at Li Daiyu and said, "You must remember these words." Li Daiyu raised her eyes slightly and nodded. Wu Keqin glanced at Li Daiyu again, turned around and left. After walking dozens of steps, she sighed and said to Ma Shengli: "This Li Daiyu looks a bit like my daughter." Ma Shengli nodded quickly: "Yes." alike.Wu Keqin turned his head to look at Li Daiyu who was standing on the side of the road in the distance, sighed, and walked forward, thinking of the old professor who spat at her just now.Although she was sure it wasn't intentional, she still felt like being spat on, and it lingered for a long time.