Chapter 4 October 1, 037

In reality, his name is Yu Shouye, and he is a teacher at a school in Lucheng. However, he has another identity—code name 037, which is the code name given to him by the Central Bureau of Statistics.When Lucheng was just liberated, the army was in chaos, and he did not receive instructions on special tasks, as if he had been forgotten by the Central Unification Bureau. Except for the letter of appointment in black and white and with a big red seal, there was nothing related to the Central Unification Bureau. evidence.In a trance, he felt that everything that happened was a dream, so unreal, and also had a sense of absurdity.In order to let himself out of such a dream, in the dead of night, he pried open the bricks on the ground, took out the letter of commission, looked at it over and over again by the light of the flashlight, and even pinched his thigh fiercely with his hands, only to realize that All this is true.So, dry-mouthed and heart-beating, he hid the letter of commission deep under the floor tiles, and then there was nothing left but anxious anticipation.

The first time he received the mission was in one night. That night was like any night I've ever experienced. There was a wind outside, rustling the trees.Later, he heard footsteps stop in front of the door, and then there was a soft "beep", and something came in through the crack of the door and fell to the ground. He tiptoed down, pushed open the door gently, and poked his head out under the moonlight, but found nothing, only the sound of the wind and the silver glow all over the ground outside the door.He doubted his hearing just now, thinking it was an illusion, when he closed the door, he found the envelope on the ground.He picked up the envelope, and his heart jumped into a ball "pounding".Under the flashlight, he saw the contents of the letter clearly. The letter was written in lowercase letters, and the contents were as follows:

037. Be sure to arrive at Beijing Qianmen Dashilan Hotel before October 1st.After the specific tasks arrived in Beijing, someone arranged them. There was no signature or time in the letter, but there was still a scent of ink.His hands were shaking and his heart was beating.As a special agent code-named 037, this is the first time he has received such a special mission.He was lonely, and at this moment he felt for the first time that he was not alone. It turned out that there were people who shouldered the same special mission as him, fighting side by side with him.At this moment, he had a sense of sanctity and mission.

He turned off the flashlight, crumpled up the ink-smelling letter, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed hard, and finally swallowed it hard.At this time, there was a layer of tears on his face. The current time is mid-September 1949, and he is about to go to Beijing to perform a special mission.At that time, people were talking about the founding ceremony of New China. The solemn October 1, 1949 is no longer a secret.The Communist Party knows it, the Kuomintang knows it, and the common people know it too. He is going to Beijing, first of all he has to go to President Liu to ask for leave.Of course, he can never say that he is going to Beijing. What would he do there on such a sensitive day?When he found President Liu, Liu Xiwen was reading the newspaper. It was the famous article-carrying out the revolution to the end.The headline was bright red. When Principal Liu saw him coming in, he put down the newspaper, smiled at him, and asked with concern: "Teacher Xiao, what's the matter?"

He said: I am going to visit a friend and would like to ask for a few days off. Principal Liu Xiwen looked very embarrassed, adjusted his glasses, scratched his head again and said: Teacher Yu, you will not come back, right? President Liu's seemingly unintentional words made his heart "pound" again. He is a teacher at this time, why didn't he come back?During this time, the school was very unstable. Some teachers went to visit relatives and friends, and some found other jobs. The newly liberated Lucheng had many opportunities.Come and go, the school is very unstable. Principal Liu Xiwen smiled when he saw his embarrassment. He took a sip of tea and said, "It's very important to see friends. I still hope you go back to school as soon as possible. The students and I are waiting for you."

After the principal finished speaking, he gave him a meaningful look.His heart calmed down, and he said to the generous principal Liu Xiwen: That's natural, Lucheng is my home. He thought of the commission again, which clearly stated that he was the major general commissioner of Lucheng.For this, he must hold on here and fight on. That day, the headmaster also offered him a letter of introduction, which was equivalent to a road sign with the school's seal on it.With the letter of introduction, he is a reliable person.He put away the letter of introduction and said to the principal: Thank you, principal.

The principal said behind him: Teacher Yu, come back early. The principal's voice and appearance seemed to be that of a parent, and he was like a child.There was a touch in his heart. Yu Shouye set off.This is his first special mission as 037, and anxiety is naturally indispensable.He took a car first, then a train, and finally arrived in Beijing before October 1st.He stood on the streets of Beijing, facing a strange city and strange people, not knowing where he was going for a while.The mysterious letter did not give him a specific mission, only let Lai rush to Beijing.He is already in Beijing now, and according to the request in the letter, he should go to the Dashilan Hotel.

A tricycle parked in front of him, and the man pulling the cart greeted him enthusiastically: Sir, are you staying at the hotel or visiting relatives? Yu Shouye, who was not familiar with the terrain, could only get on a tricycle, and the man who was pulling the cart said: Then stay in a hotel. He said the name of the hotel, and the man pulling the cart yelled: "Let's go!" He was taken to the small hotel at the front door and stayed.He is waiting for a task. The note was slipped under the door in the middle of the night. He found the note the next morning. The handwriting on the note was the same as what he saw at school, and it was also written in lower case.The note said, let him be at the southeast corner of Tiananmen Square on October 1st, and play by ear.

What is playing by ear?He doesn't know what will happen on October 1st, what is his mission?He couldn't figure out how to play it by ear.Since someone ordered this, he could only play by ear. This time, he was not anxious or apprehensive, maybe the environment had changed.He calmly tore the note to pieces, then raised his hand and threw it out the window. He was looking forward to the day of October 1st, when a miracle would happen. On October 1st, which was the day that was later featured by the National People's Congress, Yu Shouye, like the citizens of Beijing, came to the southeast corner of Tiananmen Square early in the morning.There were countless strangers gathered there, and people's faces were full of joy and encouragement, some of them were looking forward with their arms folded just to see something new.

In front is the famous Tiananmen Gate Tower, which is full of red flags.He tried to find familiar figures in the crowd, and looked at them one after another, but he was greatly disappointed.Most of the people around were ordinary citizens who spoke Beijing dialect. They discussed together and looked forward to that historical moment. When the great man Mao Zedong shouted to the world in Hunan Mandarin: The founding of the People's Republic of China - when the voice was transmitted to all directions of the square through loudspeakers, the whole square reached a climax. Tears, shouting over and over again: Long live New China——

037 is waiting, his task is to play by ear.At this moment in history, he still has not forgotten his mission, but throughout, he has not seen opportunity; without opportunity, there will be no action. When the CCP leadership collectively appeared on the Tiananmen Rostrum, there was wind-like applause in the square. At that moment, he thought that the opportunity had come.He imagined that there would be earth-shattering explosions on the Tiananmen Gate at this time, or that a few accurate shells would fly from nowhere and land in the crowd.At this time, he will jump out, maybe his own people will be ambushed in the crowd, and a gunshot will kill New China in the cradle of life.But none of this happened. What he saw was a sea of ​​joy and bright smiling faces in the crowd. After some time, the crowd dispersed.When the lights came on, he stood alone in Tiananmen Square, asking himself over and over again: Where is the chance?Without opportunity, one cannot act. He waited very late before returning to the Dashilan Hotel in dismay.After that, he didn't leave the hotel for three days, and no one gave him a new mission.Next step, he doesn't know where to go? Three days later, 037, who had nowhere to go, returned to Lucheng.Back at school, he was in business again. When he returned to school, he received a shocking news. The principal, Liu Xiwen, was arrested in Beijing. Liu Xiwen was a Kuomintang agent who wanted to cause trouble at the celebration of the founding of the People's Republic of China, but was arrested by the police on the spot. Yu Shouye learned the news the day after he returned to school.For a moment, he was a little dazed. Could it be that the two notes he received were all sent by Principal Liu?Will Principal Liu confess himself?A series of questions broke into his brain together, and he stood there in a daze for a moment. A colleague asked: Teacher Yu, what's wrong with you? After asking three times in a row, he finally came to his senses, and said with a pale face: I'm fine, I'm just a little tired. Then he sat at his desk, thinking over and over in his heart: I'm done, I've been exposed. After thinking about it over and over again, he thought again: Who will save me, I am 037, who will save me. In those days, he was like sleepwalking, in school, but he didn't know where his soul drifted. He began to have nightmares, dreaming that he was captured by men in uniforms, waking up again and again, and it turned out to be dreams.He lay on the bed like a fish about to dry up.