Chapter 15 7. Spring in winter (1)

At the end of 1948 and the beginning of 1949, it was a severe winter.Most of the students in Jigao came from various counties in Hebei. Due to the war, they could not go back to their hometown for winter vacation. The provincial education department organized a "winter camp".Chu Xichun, the governor of the Kuomintang, also visited the school.In order to welcome the liberation, I did not go home during the winter vacation, and lived in a student dormitory that was like an icehouse.It was so cold at night that I even pressed the tables, chairs and benches onto the bedding.Then the students developed to the middle of the night and smashed the tables and chairs to light the fire.The food has reached an unbearable level.I understand, if there is no oil and water, just boiled radish and cabbage in plain water with a little salt, the vegetables will taste quite bitter.I got a little pocket money from my family, so I went to the sales office of the old Deshun dairy farm near Di'anmen to drink a bowl of milk, what a sweet milk, but I didn't drink it again after drinking it this time money.The authorities issued "Golden Dollar Coupons" and set a price limit, and no price increases were allowed. Within a few days, Lao Deshun simply closed down.

The end of a regime and a social system is more like farce, comedy and absurd drama.Prices rose several times a day, renting a house was priced by bags of foreign noodles instead of money, students surrounded the city party headquarters, and changed the word "Kuomintang" into "Scraping the People's Party", and the newspaper actually published a list of dignitaries He said that it was an insult to the Kuomintang.It’s fine if we don’t do it this way, it really makes us happy to do it this way.At the so-called "National Assembly," Chiang was "elected" as the "big president," and a Jiangsu newspaper headlined that Jiang was elected as the "little president." The follow-up report said that since the "victim" (Jiang) did not sue, the court There are no plans to address this matter.A newspaper that was losing too much money simply issued an account saying that several commanders of the Communist Party had been captured. No one believed it when it was sold, but people’s psychology is to listen to what it is saying even if it is a rumor, so A lot of extras were sold out.So the "authorities" punished the newspaper by suspending publication for three days on the charge of spreading false news. People analyzed that it had finally made a fortune after suspending the newspaper for three days.In a city along the Yangtze River, it is said that the wives of KMT officials danced with US military officers, the power went out halfway, and then a rape case occurred.At the same time, it was widely rumored that there was a woman named Yang Mei in Sichuan who did not need to eat since she was born, so medical experts organized follow-up investigations, and published Yang Mei's physical examination results, including gynecological examination results, in the newspaper. Food residues were found in the anus, which proves that it is impossible for people not to eat.Then the newspapers sarcastically said that a major achievement of contemporary Chinese scientific research is to prove that people must eat.

As the People's Liberation Army won a complete victory in the Liaoshen Campaign, entered the pass and surrounded Ping and Tianjin, the opposing side knew that the situation was over and it was in depression.Among the students, the children of the rich and the poor posted notices in desperation, calling on the students to participate in the "Pingjin Defense War" and desperately struggling, but very few responded.However, the school's original Central Union spy organization "Twilight Drum Club" posted some strange words that were half whining, half barking, and half convulsing, propagating how bad the Communist Party is, and threatening to eliminate "bandit spies."

Reading revolutionary books during self-study at night, I was seen by a student who signed up to join the above-mentioned "vanguard team". He said gloomyly: "Xiao Wang Meng, Xiao Wang Meng, don't look at you, hum... I remained silent. As the situation of the peaceful liberation of Peking became increasingly clear, the activities of underground organizations became bolder.Since a boiler worker in our school is a party member, our activities are based in the boiler room. Although we have not formally communicated, members of another much larger parallel branch in the second and third grades of Ji Gao have already fought side by side with us. .We prepared a large number of slogan promotional materials, and in the name of the "Morning Bell Club" (challenging the evening drum club) student association, they posted overwhelmingly all over the school in one night.The school's original left-behind team of the government has been paralyzed and does not play any role.The collapse of a regime turned out to be so vulnerable, destructive, exaggerated, more like children's play than a serious struggle.

In mid-January 1949, a few days before the formal entry ceremony of the People's Liberation Army, some advance troops entered the city, passing through the Di'anmen area.The People's Liberation Army wore gray padded jackets, simple and tidy, and energetic.The teachers and students of our school crowded at the school gate to watch. "Ours, ours!" I thought to myself. At this time, I saw a left-behind employee from the Provincial Department of Education, so I leaned over and asked, "What do you think?" He gave a strange laugh, but repeated: "How do I feel? How do I feel?" His voice was shrill and miserable, and he couldn't laugh or cry.

I think his subtext was "Who am I? How can I feel?" Why would I ask him such a question that was never meant to be?I can't think of a motive either.There may be curiosity, but it is more likely to have the pleasure of a winner.Mischief and playing with mice under their paws is not just a hobby for cats. Then, in the name of the Students' Federation, a large number of publicity and celebration activities on campus and on the street were carried out.Write all kinds of slogans casually.There are not only "hit Nanjing to capture XX alive", but also "hit Hong Kong", "hit the United States", "hit the United Kingdom"... There are also limited-targeted sayings: "It's morning bell. Times, let Mu Gu go to hell."

But the street propaganda was very lively, with drums and gongs blaring, I put on a disguise, found a cat fur coat from somewhere, and wore it backwards.Everyone first twisted Yangko without a teacher, then played big gongs and drums, and then we gave speeches to the onlookers.I believe that dancing, like singing, belongs to the revolution and belongs to the Communist Party. During the Kuomintang period, only rich wives and unscrupulous women danced ballroom dances, but the Communist Party launched the whole people to dance. How touching!Once I talked about what liberation is. I said that the people were originally bound. Now, the Communist Party has untied the ropes from the people. The people were imprisoned by the reactionaries. Now we have released them. This is liberation!The audience applauded my words and shouted get well.I experienced the risks and joys of agitating directly to the unorganized rabble in the square.One speech is enthusiastically successful, another speech with the same content may be ineffective, and another speech may be fired from the stage.This uncertainty is also one of the charms of revolution.