Chapter 56 "The Chains of Blood", "The Party of Plum Blossoms", "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes"

In the winter of 1970, in the Xiaoxingan Mountains of the Great Northern Wilderness, the educated youth and old workers of the 29th Company of the 15th Regiment of the Northeast Corps quietly invited a Harbin educated youth to comment on the storytelling "Huang Yinggu".When this person is invited, one must respectfully pass cigarettes and tea before speaking.When it comes to the dangerous moment, the educated youths in the tent hold their breath and concentrate.After listening to it for six nights in a row, I was full of energy when I went to the mountains to cut trees during the day, so I felt the infinite charm of storytelling art.The educated youth in Harbin, who is a storyteller, is also regarded as a master by everyone.In fact, he has worshiped his master, and he has already added a lot of fuel to the original novel.

In 1969, there was a Wang Si in Nanxiao Street, Dongcheng, Beijing who could also lecture on storytelling.The reviewers, talking and commenting, sometimes pretend to be characters in the story, and sometimes jump out to comment as an outsider.Wang Si's storytelling is not only vivid, but also the wonderful comments in the comments are breath-taking.It was 1969, and the students of No. 72 Middle School who hadn’t gone to the countryside often went to look for Wang Si in groups. They were very respectful.Wang Si will talk, talking and commenting all the way, without repetition. Wang Si also compiled a storytelling about the events of the "Cultural Revolution", which is briefly summarized as follows: In the winter of 1955, there was a burst of firecrackers at the coal shop in Ganmian Hutong (that is, in Nanxiao Street), and a public-private partnership was established, and the hero was born amidst the sound of firecrackers .Entering the "Cultural Revolution", the protagonist is 11 years old. He was born as a small business owner and pretends to be a worker to start a revolution and make a big connection.In the series, they pick up trains all the way to "eat big wheels" (steal railway supplies), "fork fight" with people, and "slap wife", sometimes they suffer losses, sometimes they take advantage.And the story also involves upper-level political struggles.

Wang Si said that the wonderful thing about Pingshu is that it also sings, and there will be songs when there is a paragraph.Like "Qiu Shui Yi Ren", "Seventy-Five Days", (with new words).Wang Si uses a male protagonist as the thread to connect many people and things. The story often diverges and goes far away.Therefore, some jokes can never be finished.When Wang Si sang, everyone was very respectful, because his voice was magnetic, and any song had a special taste in his mouth. There is a long story surrounding "Seventy-Five Days", which talks about the experience of stealing, gang fights and imprisonment:

It has been 75 days since I left my relatives and came to this cell. I took a look and saw that there was only an iron door and iron window in front of me. Memories of the past are like fluff, Tears flowed in rows, dear mother, You and I are the same, Looking forward to the night and thinking—— "Seventy-Five Days" Speaking of the story of "shooting the mother-in-law", Wang Si sang "The Wandering Man" Wind, wind, keep blowing, Blowing my tears into ice, The girl who loves me has a change of heart, married a rich man, Betrayed me ungratefully. Because I am a homeless person.

The song lingers repeatedly on the line "just because I'm a homeless person".Behind the "farce" that the protagonist of the story sees along the way, there are all such bloody and tearful stories.Wang Si is really a genius of storytelling. At that time, stories about "Chains of Blood" were still circulating in Beijing.The young writer Shi Tiesheng later made a vivid description of this in his book.It is now transcribed as follows: It was a very popular song among the educated youth back then.There is a beautiful legend about this song. All the chains lock me, they can't lock the song I sing to your heart, the song is full of blood and tears, fly with the wheel with you, fly with the wheel with you...

It is said that there are a few educated young men who jump in the queue, old high school students, who can be called "players". The meaning of "player" probably means suave and uninhibited.Maybe life didn't give them a good look.They don't have much money in their pockets, but with a good body, they have almost traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers in the country. Sometimes they rely on carts, sometimes they walk, and they can always find a place to sleep at night.One day they wanted to see the sea, so they went to Beidaihe.There they met a little girl.The little girl came from Beijing and wanted to find out where her father was being held, an old comrade-in-arms of her father, but she couldn't find it and ran out of money.

Life is like sailing against the current, and the memory is engraved in my heart, in my heart, red like fire, do you remember my young partner?remember? It was also winter in Beidaihe, but they still jumped into the sea for a swim.On the beach in the distance, stood the bewildered little girl. "It seems that that girl is not vulgar," they said. That day, they ran into the little girl again in the restaurant. "Hey, what do you want to eat?" One of them spoke to her. "I'm not hungry, I'm just thirsty," said the little girl. "Come and eat with us." "I don't, I have plums." "Huamei?" Several young men laughed: "Can Huamei be eaten?"

The words in the bag, the wine in the plum bowl, I can’t forget my little friend by the sea...you are like a sister and I am like a brother, the fire of friendship is ignited in my heart... They got acquainted with her and got to know each other.They spent several days at the seaside with her.When climbing the mountain, they took turns supporting her.While swimming, she sat on the bank and showed them the clothes.She said that her brother also went to jump in line, if her brother was here, he would dare to jump into such cold water to swim.She ate the rice they bought, and they ate her plums. "Why do you bring so many plums?" "My father loves plums the most, and me." "Speaking Chinese, why are you with me?" "My father and me. You don't understand this?"" I thought your father loved Huamei and you the most." The little girl couldn't stop laughing. "I said, is your mother so relieved?" "No. Mom won't let me come, and my mother said that Uncle Zhang might not see me." The boys stopped laughing, and their mouths stopped wriggling, as if eating Huamei tasted different.They were silent for a while, looking at the gray sails on the sea. "You should have listened to your mother," one of them said. "No, Uncle Zhang was very kind to me when I was young?" "Did you go to him again today?" "He still hasn't come back." "He won't come back. Listen to me, it's true." "No! He's really not at home." "Why doesn't his family let you in?" "Only Uncle Zhang knows me, no one else knows me. Don't you believe that?"...

The road of life, the snowflakes are broken, I shed tears secretly after hearing your experience, the tears soaked my clothes, I only hate seeing each other late... It is said that one of them fell deeply in love with the little girl and just had to wait for her to grow up.He wrote the lyrics and someone else composed the music. They broke up with her.They went back to where they had cut the line and bought her a ticket back to Beijing, the first time they had paid for a ticket in a serious way. During the "Cultural Revolution", the most widely circulated stories were "The Plum Blossom Party" and "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes".

The story of "The Plum Blossom Party" tells the story of five famous ladies, including Wang Guangmei (who was framed, of course) and Guo Dejie (Mrs. Li Zongren, who was also framed), who are hidden US "strategic agents".This story is absurd and not worth refuting.It is not surprising that this kind of story happened in the era when "class struggle was the key link". The story routine is still that a handsome young man breaks into the enemy's interior and dances with the lady of the enemy's senior general in a luxurious place.Then one night, sneaked into the enemy's secret room and used the key to open the safe, and then someone broke in from outside.The difference is that this story highlights a picture of a plum blossom hanging on the wall, as well as a large metal plum blossom that was found when the safe was opened.In the first half of the story, the enemy from outside broke in suddenly, and our enemy workers slipped away through the discovered secret channel mechanism.

The second half of the story begins with Li Zongren and Guo Dejie returning from overseas in 1965. Guo Dejie found many Kuomintang spies on Tiananmen Square.Then Guo Dejie was assassinated, and our former enemy workers continued to crack down on the "Plum Blossom Party" and met the former enemy general's daughter unexpectedly, and finally wiped out the enemy agents. The above is just one version, because this kind of story is just a way of telling it, and you can add something or go something.The author has learned about it with several friends. Interestingly, none of them have heard the complete story, at most only half of it.This story is often told by a person who is the most eloquent, and he can't finish it for several nights.Because storytellers often make up things out of their mouths and make things out of things.Sometimes, even other stories, such as "Embroidered Shoes", are inserted into it. The story of "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes" was very popular during the "Cultural Revolution", and several film and television dramas after the "Cultural Revolution" (such as the movie "The Fog") also drew essence from it.Its key detail: a pair of embroidered shoes peeking out from under a drapery at the top of a dark staircase. At the same time, horror stories such as "Green Corpse" (an enemy agent radio station was found in the hospital morgue), (a female worker who lost her speech due to intimidation, and was induced by a female nurse to point out the murderer) and other horror stories.These stories did not have specific political connotations, but in the era of the "Cultural Revolution" when culture and entertainment were extremely scarce, they were widely spread across the country like a gust of wind.For example, "Green Corpse" has been circulated in Beijing, the 27th Army in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, the 86th Hospital in Dangtu, Anhui, the 11th Surveying and Mapping Brigade in Tangshan, Nanjing, and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.