Chapter 48 Ma Mingfang soothes and cries for martyrs

Ma Mingfang, who was in Cell No. 7, was originally the secretary of the Northwest Bureau and the Northeast Bureau. He and Meng Yongqian were taken to Shifangyuan successively. After Liu Shaoqi was accused of being China's Khrushchev and the number one capitalist roader, Ma Mingfang and Meng Yongqian were punished even more fiercely.In particular, Ma Mingfang, who was tossed so that he was neither human nor ghost, and would not die or speak all day long, made many cadres and soldiers feel compassion.Therefore, they often discuss in private that whether they suspect traitors, revisionism, anti-Party, anti-Maoist, anti-socialism, opposition to the "Cultural Revolution", or opposition to the "Cultural Revolution" of the central government, in short, before the central government officially notifies them, they will carry out large-scale activities. Extorting confessions by torture, cruel insults, and beatings are in no way in line with the party's consistent policy and Chairman Mao's teachings. This is inhumane.Even if the central government defines their gender, doing so is wrong and not Marxist-Leninist.However, why are wrong, non-Marxist-Leninist behaviors popular and rampant throughout the country?

No one can find a convincing answer.Therefore, many people's hearts are inevitably covered with a vague shadow. I haven't studied for a few years since I was a child, probably because I am very ignorant, which makes me very curious about everything. If I don't understand what I am curious about, I feel uncomfortable and have restless sleep and food.I remember listening to the "foreign opera box" in a leather workshop in the village when I was a child. There were people singing in it, the sound of gongs and drums, and "foreigners laughing loudly". How can it hold so many people and so many things?How small are the people in there to fit in?And what about gongs and drums?where?

I asked the adults and none of them explained it to me.I resolved to see clearly.One day, when no one was around, I used a screwdriver and pliers to open a mysterious "foreign box", just like disassembling it.It turned out that there was no one inside, no gongs and drums, only a pile of old screws and screws, and they were so old that they were rusty.After I said "that's how it is", I was even more surprised, "Why are so many dead things screaming so loudly?" I opened the broken box, but it was very difficult to put it in. I was afraid of being beaten, and I was afraid that I would lose money. The broken parts were covered, and Sa Yazi ran away.

From then on, I also knew that human beings have such a great ability to make dead things speak. My bad nature of being curious about everything since I was a child was brought to the army without anyone noticing, and the bad nature did not change. So, one day I finally got to the root of Ma Mingfang. It was almost Chinese New Year, and on a Sunday afternoon after eating steamed stuffed buns stuffed with white radish, I came to Ma Mingfang's cell by taking the opportunity of a sentry check.I walked around the room twice like a normal person, and then checked whether Ma Mingfang had any signs of suicide like a normal person.After doing all this, he suddenly asked:

"You are a person in power taking the capitalist road, a revisionist, and a traitor suspected of betraying revolutionary comrades. Tell the truth, do you admit it?" Although I am an instructor, after all, I am only in my 20s. In fact, my mind is still very simple. I am really confident that he will tell me what is in his heart. In the past, Ma Mingfang was not very talkative. After being fought and beaten, he just stayed in the cell blankly, and he didn't complain or curse like Peng Dehuai and Huang Kecheng.This time when he heard my words, he seemed to think of something, and he slowly talked about his life experience, his experience, and the comrades who died while doing underground work with him.

He looked very sad, as if he was slowly remembering.After a while, he sighed and said slowly: "In 27 years, the Kuomintang betrayed the revolution, implemented white terror, and killed Communists everywhere. They would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go..." He stopped here for a long time.I can't help thinking, are we also making troubles here and not letting one go?Otherwise, why did so many people come in? I said, "What were you doing then?" Ma Mingfang said: "I am also as old as you. In 1933, I was in northern Shaanxi and acted as the secretary of the special committee. Around late July, we held an enlarged meeting of the special committee. I remember Bi Weizhou, Wang Zhaoqing, and Chang Xue attended the meeting." Gong, Cui Fengyun, Ma Wenrui and others; later, Chang Xuegong rebelled. At the meeting, it was decided to expand the armed forces, establish three detachments, develop guerrilla areas, and fight against white terror. After the meeting, members of the Special Committee and other comrades went to various places to convey the spirit of the meeting. Bi Weizhou and others passed by Zhenchuan Fort, and stayed at the house of Cui Mingdao, secretary of the district party committee at night. Unexpectedly, a spy sneaked into the party and lived in the same courtyard with a party member named Gao Qingen. Leading the enemy army to arrest Wang Shouyi, Gao Qingen, Bi Weizhou, Wang Zhaoqing, Cui Mingdao, and Gao Luxiao successively. The enemy interrogated the six of them in surprise, tortured them, threatened and lured them, but none of them gave in. Later, they used a soldering iron to burn them, pressed them with a stick, and poured peppers on them. Water, kneeling fire and iron rods, the enemy exhausted torture, the six of them remained steadfast and unyielding, and did not reveal any secrets. The enemy had no choice but to kill them on August 3, 1933. When they were dying, they shouted: Long live the Communist Party! Down with the Kuomintang reactionaries! The enemy threw their bodies into the river, and the river was stained red with blood. They died heroically. I seldom think of them before, but now they are squatting in a small dark room, but their faces often appear Yingying, when I think of them, I feel very sad, and I always feel that I have not done a good job and I am sorry for them."

When Ma Mingfang said this, he couldn't help crying. The old man in his 60s cried like a child and said, "But I might as well die! They died heroically, and I am not afraid of death or being wronged. But what is death?" He was afraid that I might not understand, so he said: "They were punished by the Kuomintang. Whose punishment is mine? I am a traitor, and I deserve a thousand cuts. I am not a traitor, and the central government knows it well, and it has already made an investigation and concluded that Ma Wenrui and the others are all Anyone in the know can testify..."

I thought to myself: Where are you going to find Ma Wenrui?What's the use of finding it, Ma Wenrui can't protect himself! "I was not caught by the enemy that time. The enemy captured Wang Zhaoqing and other comrades. After that, they arrested me, Ma Wenrui, Chang Xuegong and others everywhere. That day we were cleaning up documents at a house surnamed Jiang, and the enemy sneaked in. We escaped from the village because of Mother Jiang, who was on guard at the gate, calling the police. As the secretary of the special committee, I am responsible for the deaths of the six martyrs. We did not prevent adultery enough, and another traitor appeared... ..."

Looking at his long beard, haggard sallow face and sunken eyes, I tried to comfort him weakly: "You have to think about it. Look at Kong Yuan and Rong Gaotang. No matter how hard they fight, they persist in living and tidy themselves up. Isn't there an old saying in China: keep the green mountains... as long as they are not traitors..." He asked like heaven, and also asked himself: "But, I just died in such a vague way? If I don't die, I can't live, and if I die, I can't be reconciled. I don't think that life and death will be difficult in the end. It's better to die in the battlefield!"

I'm trying to figure it out, but I'm getting more and more confused.The confused question marks became clearer: aren't policies and strategies the life of the party?The torture of the six martyrs mentioned by Ma Mingfang can be said to be even worse than that suffered by Ma Mingfang. The former is the Kuomintang who punished the Communist Party, and the latter is who is punishing whom?What about revolutionary humanism?Isn’t Chairman Mao’s words worth ten thousand words?Why can't we stop this fascist phenomenon that most people feel sad about? I don't know where the root cause is. This question mark is like a thousand pounds of soil, pressing down on the heavy heart of a detainee company instructor.

Walking out of Ma Mingfang's cell, I couldn't help but think of He Long's words. That day, while He Long was watching "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People", he seemed to be talking to himself, and at the same time speaking to a sentinel: "It's not right! Isn't there no good people in Hongdong County? It would be great if we followed what the book said. A Marxist doesn't even understand that it is wrong to doubt everything and to overthrow everything? If the revolution continues like this, what will the Party do? What will the people do?" He Long said to himself, which is also a bit like "asking the sky", asking the sky and the earth, but he can't find an answer. I couldn't help thinking that Deng Jie was forced to say that he had been promoted to the Emperor of Japan because of betraying the Communist Party, so if Ma Mingfang was forced to continue like this, he might also be forced to claim that he had met Hitler out of nothing! Surrounding Deng Jie and Ma Mingfang being brutally tortured, soldier Liu Guixian and Song Genli, nicknamed Xiao Zhuge, also had an "underground debate". Song Genli said: "If I hadn't done it, I wouldn't tell if I was beaten to death; I would rather let him be beaten to death than commit suicide! Suicide is a sign of weakness." Liu Guixian said: "Not necessarily, I will cut your ears first. Speaking of it, like Deng Jie, you will be pulled into a fat toad; try it, I will also treat you comprehensively like Deng Jie and Ma Mingfang who were punished by the task force and the rebels, and then you have to say what you are told, you If you don’t follow suit, my Liu Guixian’s surname is Song. To say that suicide is a sign of weakness, Lu Xun once said: “You take suicide so easily? You also try suicide once?” So easily committing suicide by jumping off a building? It’s not a matter of softness, it’s an insult that people can’t stand.” Song Genli said: "According to what you said, how do you explain the unyielding martyrs who died in the enemy's prison in the past?" Liu Guixian said: "The past is the past. It was facing the Kuomintang, Japanese devils, and fascists without regrets; now it is facing the Communist Party and Chairman Mao. How do you equate the Kuomintang fascists with the Communist Party? According to you, What about glory? What about wisdom? Right? What about greatness? What about policy? Who stole it?!" The debate between the two was caught by me and the old company commander, who stopped us with cursing, and the old company commander said: "No farting!" I also said: "Did you hear that, the company commander said, you are not allowed to fart, you have to warm your stomach when you catch a cold!" Yes, the old company commander is enough to love soldiers like a son. If such "fart" is released and spread, it will be difficult to take it back. In this kind of age, if you want to be a counter-revolutionary, anti-party, and anti-Mao Molecules, only a few words are more than enough. The two became sober after being scolded, and each saluted the old company commander and ran away. The old company commander took off his glasses, wiped them and said to me: "You instructor, it's time to reaffirm the discipline in class, that is: no farting! 'No farting' is Chairman Mao's instruction, otherwise, we two will be sorry for these things Class brothers, they are easy to climb high and ladders, but they can't explain when they fall..." I said, "Yes, I also had a hunch that it was very dangerous. I heard that our company was going to be replaced, but later I heard that it was for training, and later I heard that we and even the entire central security force were ineffective." We'll just have to wait and see, resigning ourselves to fate.