Chapter 48 Bi Ruxie, the author of "The Nine Waves", "slipped through the net"

In January 1974, Zhao Yifan's Art Salon was confiscated by the Public Security Bureau.A large amount of underground literary materials were confiscated as "counter-revolutionary literature and art" materials.Zhao Yifan was designated as the first criminal of the "Fourth International" anti-Party group, and the other dozen people were arrested and imprisoned as the main members of the group.The Beijing underground world is already under the strict surveillance and control of the Jiang Qing Group.The underground art salons in Beijing disintegrated one after another, and the underground art entered a low ebb.

In the autumn of 1974, Yao Wenyuan ordered a nationwide sweep of underground literature.Thus, from south to north, a siege began.Public security bureaus in various places were ordered to confiscate the manuscripts.Various agencies, factories, and schools in Beijing conveyed the spirit of the central government, requiring everyone to hand over manuscripts and expose each other.During this siege, many "active counter-revolutionaries" and "using novels to oppose the party" were found out.Some of the arrested elements were criticized by the masses, some were isolated for review, and some were detained and imprisoned, and their ties were extensive.For a while, there was a lot of panic, and everyone was in danger.

The results of the search: the number and variety of underground manuscripts copied out were beyond people's expectations.At that time, news spread to the small circle of educated youths in the army that there were dozens of manuscripts of literary works copied in just one district of Beijing. Among the banned books are the pornographic novel "Girl's Heart" and the critical realism novel "The Nine Waves".Afterwards, someone met Bi Ruxie, the author of "The Nine Waves", and asked him what his fate was during the 1974 cultural encirclement and suppression campaign.Bi Ruxie said that he felt that the rumors were tight at the time, and he asked to track down the author of "The Nine Waves". He hastily changed his name to "Bi Lei".Bi Lei hid at home and had relatives in the public security department, so he was lucky enough to escape the catastrophe.