Chapter 23 four times in distress

I have been in danger four times in my life. The first time was in 1968. I can’t remember how many months. At that time, the Red Guards in the middle school had been divided into many factions. There are often some "party battles" between them.I myself belong to the Happy School, and I basically don't participate in those activities, at most I just join in the fun.At this time, two students came to our class, one named Xi Jinping and the other named Liu Weiping. five middle school.Xi Jinping is the son of Xi Zhongxun, and his father was a well-known "gangster" at the time.Liu Weiping was the son of General Liu Zhen, and his father was also persecuted by Lin Biao because he had a feud with Lin Biao.At that time, no matter what activities were held, at the beginning of the ceremony, it was necessary to respect the longevity of Chairman Mao and the health of Vice Chairman Lin.When respecting Chairman Mao, Liu Weiping shouted along, but when respecting Vice Chairman Lin, he did not shout. He thought Lin Biao was a villain, which was "rebellious" at the time. No one dared to do this, so everyone thought he was too "stupid".And my father is also a "gangster". It may be for this reason that we became good friends. The last letter of our three names is Ping, so people call us "Sanping".We were the most "black" in the class in Chairman Mao's former residence in 2010. At that time, people in the class looked down on us and dared not touch us. We also looked down on them, but we had a lot of contact with the old Red Guards outside the school. It is the relationship between Xi Jinping and Liu Weiping.

Under the influence of the two of them, my feelings obviously turned to the old Red Guards. One day, a news came out that some landlords, wealthy, rebels, and bad elements from the No. 38 Middle School had gathered to rebel, and they called on the old Red Guards from each school to go and debate with them.The three of us really went there according to the agreed time. When we got there, we saw that there were so many old Red Guards from each school, there were hundreds of them.We locked our bicycles and followed into the school. The playground was full of our people, and we didn't see a single so-called landlord, rich, counter-revolutionary, or bad element.

While we were enjoying ourselves, suddenly, the door of the auditorium opened wide, and hundreds of people rushed out shouting and holding sticks, beating everyone they saw.Although we had more people than them, we were not prepared, organized, and commanded. Under their organized and prepared "surprise attack", we suddenly became a mob. The three of us turned around and ran towards the locked car. Xi Jinping and I moved quickly and escaped, while Liu Weiping ran a step slower and almost suffered a concussion.Before we even met with them, we were immediately scattered by them.Later, I talked about this matter with Xi Jinping, who has become the deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee. They both felt that if they hadn't run fast, there would be no drama now. We can be said to be friends in need.

The second distress was in Shangshan Yunshui Cave, also in 1968.At that time, Bai Keming, the elder brother of our school Bai Kegang, brought some classmates from Harbin. He was a student of Harbin Military Engineering College. Shangfangshan Yunshui Cave is now a tourist attraction, but it was not open at that time, and even cars were not accessible.We got off the train from Zhoukoudian and walked more than 50 miles along a ravine before reaching the entrance of the cave.I remember very clearly that it was autumn at that time, and the wild fruits all over the mountain were ripe, including crabapple, sorbet, wild jujube, and some others that I couldn’t name. We were very happy while picking and eating, especially for the Those of us who grew up in the city had an extraordinary excitement when we first came into contact with nature.

At noon we ate at the top of a reform-through-labor brigade on the mountain. The correctional cadres of the reform-through-labor brigade heard that we were going to Yunshui Cave, so they told us that a few troops could be hidden in the cave during war preparations. From Zhangjiakou, hundreds of kilometers away, two foreign expeditions went in but failed to come out. Just a few days ago, two from Beijing University of Technology died, etc. He said it very wickedly, meaning to scare We, did not expect this to stimulate our curiosity even more.Seeing that we insisted on going, he warned us not to speak loudly in the cave, otherwise a landslide would occur if there was resonance, and advised us not to go in after six or seven caves.We left the labor reform brigade and came to a nunnery. The entrance of the cave was just behind a statue of a god in the nunnery, which was a bit like a dark passage in a movie.We stayed overnight in the nunnery and went into the cave the next morning.

It was very dark in the cave, and the big torch with five batteries we brought didn't work. Fortunately, we brought a horse lantern. I don't know who has the foresight.After passing through several holes, I saw that the ground was full of skeletons and bones of dead people. It was a terrifying scene.We also heard the sound of water below, but we couldn't see it with a flashlight. Later, we heard that it was an underground river, and it would be over if it fell, and the body could not be found.Now that I think about it, I am a little scared. I was still young at that time, but I found it very exciting and exciting.As I was walking, I suddenly found that I had lost contact with other people. I used a flashlight to shoot out, and the light seemed to disappear into a black hole in the universe. I couldn’t see anything. I also seemed to be in the universe, surrounded by darkness.I think this is over, I don't know the way back at all, there are countless caves and forks here, like a ecstasy, and I can only starve to death in the end, I am a little scared when I think about it.At this moment, Bai Keming came to me with a lantern, and saved me from a catastrophe.Later, Bai Keming became the deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department. I saw him and asked him if he remembered saving me in Yunshui Cave. He said he didn't remember clearly, and I said you were my savior.He smiled.

The third time was to Northeast Shanhe Farm.On Sunday holiday, we six educated youths from Beijing went to Nenjiang County to play.It was winter and the weather was extremely cold.We went there by car, and sitting in the car was very difficult, and it could freeze people to death, so they refused to let you take a ride, and asked grandpa to sue grandma.It's hard to say that a woman is easy to match, and she is allowed to sit in the cab.When we arrived at the county seat, we lived in the farm's office.I heard there was a good movie, but I can't remember the exact movie, so we went to the cinema to buy tickets.At that time, in addition to "model plays" or "model plays", it was rare to have a good movie, so many people came to see it, and they had to queue up.There is an iron railing at the ticket gate, and we stand inside the row.

At this time, a group of local hooligans came and deliberately provoked trouble.We educated youths in Beijing are all wearing "military overcoats" issued by Uniform. They say they are "military overcoats", but they are actually fake.Probably they saw that we were educated youths in Beijing and didn't know our details, so they didn't dare to challenge us.There was a local educated youth in front of us, who was alone again, and they went to him, deliberately finding fault, provoking disputes, and finally being so vicious that they spit in his face.We have never seen such a scene, and we don't want to cause trouble in this unfamiliar place, and we all pretended not to see it like turtles.But things happened right in front of our eyes, and we couldn't pretend it was over. In the end, one of us couldn't stand it anymore, so we accused them of bullying people like this.This is terrible, like stabbing a hornet's nest. They took advantage of the large number of people and beat us up.This is no ordinary fight, a bit like a brawl between gangsters.They originally wanted to teach us educated youths in Beijing a lesson, so that we could listen to them in the future, so they were very ruthless, and my cotton hat was blown off in an instant.At first we just dodged and resisted, but then we couldn’t stand it any longer and became impatient. There happened to be a pile of coal next to us. We picked up a big coal and smashed it at any time. I also threw a couple of They smashed them down on the spot and lay them down several times.

They didn't expect us to really work hard, and they were dumbfounded.At that moment, the police arrived after hearing the news and took us to the police station.As soon as we told the situation, the police released us, and they knew it was a gang of hooligans.After leaving the police station, we were quite proud. After walking not far, we suddenly found that there were more and more people following us.We felt something was wrong and we ran away, while they were chasing us.I was really running all the way, and I couldn't care about my heart disease. I had never run so fast.Those people came with knives and sticks, and they wanted to take revenge on us. If they caught up with them, they would beat them to death or half to death. The bloodiness of Northeast people is well-known throughout the country.

We ran back to the office in one breath, but those people still did not give up and surrounded the office. We picked up the shovel in the house, ready for the last fight.It went on like this until night.Later, the ending was terrible. Seeing that they couldn’t get over it, they just went back and couldn’t face it, so they sent representatives in to negotiate with us. They thought that we Beijing educated youths were kind, and we were a man. Don’t mess with anyone in the future. Let’s go to Nenjiang Come on, they don't care, and we don't want to interfere in their affairs, which is the so-called "the road is open to the sky, and one person and one half".We also wished for the same, and immediately shook hands with them.

It was even worse the fourth time, in 1994, when I went to Wuhan to participate in a competition.Aside from the competition, a vice-governor of Hubei Province invited some of us to play bridge on a mountain.After playing cards, the deputy governor left first, and we stayed and played karaoke for a while, and we didn't go down the mountain until very late.We were in a "Chinese Bullet", and I dozed off in the co-pilot's seat as soon as I got in the car.I am especially able to sleep in the car, even if it is a ten-minute journey in the city, I can also take a nap.It may have been the wheat harvest season at that time, and there was a lot of wheat drying on the road. When a car passed over it, the straw was rolled into the wheels of the car, and after a period of friction, it actually caught.When they saw the fire, they screamed and quickly jumped out of the car.I didn't hear it, and I was still alone in the car staring.When they woke me up, I saw a high flame in front of me, like a fire dragon jumping back and forth.I was really terrified at the time. With such a big fire, the car was in danger of exploding at any time.I pushed the door next to it, but it couldn't be opened, so I had to climb back from the back of the chair. The "bullet" was still small, so it took a lot of effort to climb out from the back door.Fortunately, the car did not explode and the fire was quickly extinguished.Afterwards, I jokingly said to them, why did you leave me alone in the car at the critical moment?They said they thought I had come out, and rushed to put out the fire, only to find out later that I was still in the car.This is a bit scary to say.