Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

On the third day after our cattle died, that is, on May 1, 1970, an astonishing incident occurred in the commune: more than 300 people were poisoned by food. The common symptoms of these people were: fever, vomiting, and diarrhea.The poisoned people are basically commune cadres, employees who eat state treasury food, and their family members.This incident first alarmed the County Revolutionary Committee, then the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, and it is said that the Central Committee was also alarmed.Doctors from the county hospital came by ambulance, and doctors from the province came by train. There was no doctor from the central government, but a helicopter was sent to deliver urgently needed medicines.The small commune hospital couldn't accommodate so many patients, so the middle school was closed, the desks were made into beds, and the classrooms were used as wards.It happened that the 6037 unit of the People's Liberation Army was training in our area, and the doctors of the unit also went all out to rescue.According to the patient, the level of doctors in the People's Liberation Army is really high. Those little female soldiers who give injections are accurate in every vein and never need a second injection.The doctors in our commune hospital pierce the veins, one injection, no blood return, another injection, no return of blood, one injection after another, the patient has to prick the patient's hand with blood, and he sweats in a hurry, before the blind cat can come across Dead rat.

At that time, I didn't expect it to be food poisoning. Since Pangu created the world and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors until now, we haven't heard that food can be poisoned.When the commune revolutionary committee reported to the county revolutionary committee, it was said that class enemies had poisoned the well or poisoned the flour.This is probably what the county revolutionary committee reported to the provincial revolutionary committee.So it was very tense and mysterious in the beginning.The main energy of the leaders is to solve the case, and to save lives.According to analysis, the poisoner may be a spy sent by the Taiwan Kuomintang, or a hidden class enemy.Immediately, someone reported to the temporarily formed headquarters that they saw three red flares at night, and others found a radio station thrown away by the enemy.The people in the headquarters were all temporarily transferred from the county and other communes. The leaders of our commune were all poisoned, and their condition was very serious.So the loudspeakers kept broadcasting, so that the poor and lower-middle peasants in various villages should be vigilant and prevent the sabotage activities of class enemies.In each village, all the "four types of elements" were locked up and guarded together, and armed militiamen followed them even when they defecated.At the same time, all villages began to investigate and line up to let the "four types of elements" confess their crimes. These unjust ghosts were beaten to death and complained endlessly.The People's Liberation Army also actively cooperated and sealed off the commune's residence. At every intersection, there were handsome and mighty soldiers standing guard with guns, and motorcycle soldiers patrolled at night.Once when they patrolled our village, it opened the eyes of us country bumpkins.None of us has seen anything that can run so fast.First, I saw a row of lights coming from the west. Before I could see clearly, the ear-shattering motorcycle came to my side. I just wanted to take a closer look, but before I had time, they had already disappeared.It's really a flash of lightning, and it goes away without a trace.

After a few days of tossing, neither the spies nor the hidden class enemies were found.Most of the patients also recovered and were discharged.Under the guidance of the provincial health and epidemic prevention department, the county health and epidemic prevention department finally found the food that poisoned more than 300 people. This kind of bacteria is still alive and kicking at a high temperature of 3,000 degrees. If it is boiled in a pot, it will not die after three years of cooking. Once salmonella was found, class warfare became an accident of liability.Two cadres from the salmonella poisoning incident investigation team of the Commune Revolutionary Committee came to our village to investigate. They called me, Uncle Du, and Uncle Ma to the brigade headquarters. One asked questions, and the other took notes.I didn't open my mouth even if I killed him. When I was in a hurry, I opened my mouth and pretended to cry.Uncle Du also pretended to be confused.So everything was left to Uncle Ma to say.Uncle Ma first said that Comrade Dong deliberately cut off a large blood vessel during the operation on the double spine, and then said that he delayed giving the injection to the double spine. He and Director Sun of the commune had planned to kill our double spine. , fuck our double ridges to death, they eat beef and celebrate "May 1st".Who knew God opened his eyes, said Uncle Ma.

We don't know how the investigators report back, but we know the final outcome of this major matter. In the end, all the responsibilities were borne by Uncle Du's fourth son-in-law, Song Wulun, the leader of the commune's slaughter team. It was he who disobeyed Director Sun and sold the poisoned beef to the leaders at all levels of the commune and employees of the government agencies. led to this tragic event.Although Song Wulun himself was also poisoned by eating beef and was a seriously ill patient, he was still punished by being dismissed from the position of team leader and staying in the party for a year for probation.

Under the brilliance of the invincible Mao Zedong Thought, with the selfless help of the People's Liberation Army, under the correct leadership of the revolutionary committees at the provincial, prefectural, county, and commune levels, and with the joint efforts of all medical staff, 308 poisoned Of those, only one person died (of a heart attack), which was a great victory for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.If this happened in the evil old society, there are 308 people, I am afraid that none of them will survive. Although one of us died, it means that none of us died. He died of a heart attack.

The person who died of a heart attack was Uncle Du's eldest son-in-law Zhang Wukui who cooked in the commune cafeteria. People in our village say that he died of eating beef.