Chapter 10 struggle in prison

Before dawn on February 2, 1930 (the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar), Wei Fenglou, the Kuomintang Sanyuan garrison, dispatched troops urgently and surrounded Ganluchi Village, where Huang Ziwen's family was located. Machine guns and small steel cannons were aimed at Huang Ziwen's courtyard. Huang Ziwen was awakened by a violent knocking on the door. As soon as he opened the courtyard door, he was tied up by soldiers swarming up.Then, his elder brother Huang Zixiang was arrested, and the Huang brothers were imprisoned in the county prison on the charge of "organizing disaster victims to disturb social order".In the evening of the next day, Wei Fenglou personally interrogated him.Huang Ziwen was brought into the interrogation room. After Wei Fenglou's questions were refuted by Ziwen one by one, he became angry, stripped Ziwen's clothes, and burned his back with a red-hot iron.The iron sizzled against the meat, and the smell of burning was tangy.Beads of sweat rolled on Huang Ziwen's forehead. He gritted his teeth tightly and stared angrily without uttering a word.The executioner with the branding iron in his hand was stunned and flinched from Huang Ziwen's heroic demeanor.The enemy's interrogation ended in failure, so Ziwen had to be dragged back to prison.

On the third day, the enemy interrogated Huang Ziwen and Huang Zixiang several times, but no "crimes" were committed. A few days later, Wei Fenglou suddenly sent Huang Zixiang to his living room, telling Zixiang that if he wanted to redeem Huang Ziwen, he would give two thousand silver dollars to make military uniforms for the troops.Huang Zixiang sneered and said: "What are you doing, just because of this, why didn't you say it earlier? My younger brother is a young student. He can't understand the rich people's bloody behavior and the poor people starving to death on the road. Do something chivalrous." I have been in the Kuomintang army for many years, and I have been a regimental deputy, am I also a Communist Party?" Wei Fenglou's face turned white and red when he was told.

Since the Huang brothers were imprisoned, Tang Yuhuai and Sun Pingzhang, the heads of the Sanyuan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, have been looking for ways to ask people to inquire about the news and rescue them.The general public came to their homes in twos and threes to comfort Ziwen's mother and his wife Li Shengyun, who had been married for less than half a year, and jointly signed a bond requesting Huang Ziwen's release.While comforting her daughter-in-law, Huang Ziwen's mother asked someone to sell the land and dug out the five hundred silver dollars accumulated over the years from the ground to prepare for the rescue of her son.The second sister Huang Xiaxian also made a special trip home from other places to save her younger brother.

After Huang Zixiang returned home, as soon as he told about Wei Fenglou taking the opportunity to extort money and property, his mother said, "Quickly find the money and save the person, the person is important!..." The next day, Zixiang started raising money to save his younger brother.As soon as the news spread, many poor peasants also looked for relatives and friends. You have a silver dollar, and I will send a few copper coins to Huang Ziwen's house.After a few days of twists and turns, I finally got together 800 silver dollars and 500 sets of military uniforms and sent them to Wei Fenglou to rescue Ziwen.

After Huang Ziwen was rescued and returned home, the news quickly spread throughout Wuzi District.For several days in a row, his house was full of people coming and going like a wedding.The yard is often overcrowded.Looking at Ziwen's thin face, Xi Haosheng said with tears in his eyes: "Second brother, you have suffered...." Ziwen laughed and said, "As long as I don't die, the revolution will go to the end!" Someone pointed to the burns on Huang Ziwen's body and asked, "Can you bear the enemy's burning?" "The redder the enemy burns the soldering iron, the less you need to be afraid, because the last nerve is burned, and you don't feel any pain!"

Everyone was moved by Huang Ziwen's humorous and optimistic revolutionary spirit, tears welled up in their eyes, and they loved and admired him even more.