Chapter 4 1970--1972

I don't know what kind of purpose it is—anyway, those purposes are great. The central government sent a female reporter down to collect and write typical examples.When we arrived in the province, the director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee introduced that there was Li Furong down there, who was very nice.The reporter has a lot of background and has seen a lot of world. After reading some materials about Li Furong, he didn't think it was particularly shocking.What really moved her was the compassion of women. Li Furong is brilliant in society, but her family life is unsatisfactory.After she transferred to the county, she brought her husband, who was a temporary worker at the moving company in the town, with her, and turned him into a state cadre.But the man doesn't know whether he is angry at her for "broken shoes" or because he is inferior to his wife.Li Furong didn't know whether she was guilty or virtuous, every time a man got angry, she would close the door, grit her teeth, and let him vent without saying a word.Sometimes it is inevitable to be bumped into by other cadres who come to report to her.Some honest cadres, such as Hu Yuelan, who succeeded Li Furong as the mayor of the small town, often brought such embarrassing matters to the meeting out of righteous indignation, so that the whole county knew that her parents and officials were being bullied under one person. But can't help.When explaining the situation to the reporter, Hu Yuelan was still filled with righteous indignation like she was at the meeting, and gesticulated to explain in detail how Li Furong's man pulled off the county party secretary's hair one by one, and beat the county party secretary until his mouth was full of blood. "Such a man is simply a counter-revolutionary!" Hu Yuelan said bitterly.

"It's a fascist!" The reporter's already fair and tender face turned pale, his eyes were tearful, and his emotions were even more agitated than Hu Yuelan's. Hu Yuelan is well-known for her "two hundred and five", her emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy are often out of her mouth, and she can throw the big things behind her head when she turns around.The reporter was really emotional.She grew up in a wealthy family of officials in the capital, and such atrocities in family life were unheard of.She even made a special trip to observe Li Furong's man from the sidelines.It was a small, bearded man like a cactus that sickened her.

The report about Li Furong written by the reporter later poured her greatest passion into it.Following the format of a famous report on the Volunteer Army in the 1950s, she called Li Furong "the new cutest person." At the provincial party congress in the year when the provincial party committee system was restored, Li Furong, the new cutest person, was elected as a member of the provincial party committee.The meeting is of the highest standard, and the arrangement of food and accommodation is also of the highest standard.After becoming a model and secretary of the county party committee, Li Furong went to the provincial capital for meetings and even went to Beijing, but she stayed in simple guest houses. This time she stayed in the only hotel in the provincial capital.The hotel was designed and built by the Soviets in the 1950s. The inside is tall and large, and the emptiness makes people look small.However, this style is no different from houses in county towns, towns, or even in the countryside.The difference is that I don't know why there is a decal on the wall.The ground was slippery, so a thick carpet was laid to make people feel at ease.The soft one is actually more worrying and heart-wrenching—such a good thing—Li Furong heard that it was made of wool.The windows are frighteningly large, and the entire wall is empty (why not build them with bricks? The windows in the country are all very small, try not to expose the white space). The ground is heavy, and it takes some strength to lift it up.On the other side of the velvet cloth there are shiny gold threads.Li Furong couldn't figure it out, why bother?And that wall of window panes.Is glass cheaper than brick in the city?The bed is designed not to allow you to fall asleep safely, turning it over and over is full of embarrassment. When you sleep, it looks like a buffalo fell into a muddy pond.The most frightening thing is the bathroom.The toilet is even finer and whiter than the rice bowl in the county party committee cafeteria, how can I have the heart to waste it with feces and urine!Of course, there is something that Li Furong thinks can be criticized: the shape of the bathtub is not good, it is no different from a pig-killing basin.The bath water was even worse, with two switches, the water coming out of one made her whole body tremble with ice, and the water coming out of the other scalded a layer of skin on her chest.But she is a shrewd person, knowing that this is not a problem with the hotel, but because she has not found a convenient way, so she forbears it and keeps silent.For the next few days, you don't need a bathtub.I thought to myself, no wonder the rebels closed down the hotel when the Cultural Revolution started.If you have fallen into such a comfortable place, you will have to cultivate if you don’t cultivate.Now the seal has been lifted and it is used by them because revisionism has been overthrown and workers, peasants and soldiers are allowed to occupy it.Thinking in this way also has a sense of mission and pride.When the reporter interviewed, Li Furong repeatedly said that we, Li Bawan, were so poor that the eggs beat the bench loudly, and people outside sang "If there is a girl, don't marry Li Bawan, and if you marry, you have to turn around." We never dreamed that one day we would live Such a house, such a meal, such a toilet.It is really a grass before, but now it has become a treasure.The reporter asked her what she knew about the provincial party congress, but she just choked up: the government thinks highly of it, and my heart hurts... and so on.It is inconvenient for the reporter to ask questions, so I will post the original text.Several newspapers and broadcasts published it, and the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee (that is, the director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee) read it and said to her: "Don't just be moved, you are no longer an ordinary person, and you must elevate your simple class feelings to the level of line struggle. "The secretary of the provincial party committee said with a serious expression, "The struggle between the two classes, the two roads, and the two lines is far from over, and it has even become sharper and more intense. Some people even oppose Chairman Mao as the country's chairman."

"There will be such a thing?" Li Furong couldn't believe it. "If you really want to, what will you do?" "I'm fighting him hard." "That's not the way." "Then I will listen to you. I will do whatever you say." Li Furong was really serious this time.She couldn't imagine such a thing at all. Then there was the letter from Li Furong to the Party Central Committee, which had a great influence.On behalf of the vast number of poor and lower-middle peasants and rural grassroots cadres and party members, she called for the establishment of a national chairman.Whoever opposes Chairman Mao and Vice Chairman Lin will smash their dog's head!

After a year and a half, the content of this letter was attached to an internal document and published as part of an organized anti-Party conspiracy, and it became one of the criminal materials for criticism.In the past year, the world has turned upside down, and Li Furong has become the leader of the reactionary line, following closely the representative of the correct line that the secretary of the provincial party committee once swore to defend.At the previous meeting held by the provincial party committee, there was already an open confrontation.The secretary of the provincial party committee, who has always said one thing, was reprimanded.The "commissioner" took the lead. He pointed at the secretary of the provincial party committee and scolded his mother, and from time to time he slapped the conference table with "bang bang".

Li Furong was overwhelmed with fright, it was the first time she had seen the secretary of the provincial party committee look so sullen. Facing the aggressive "commissioner", the secretary of the provincial party committee said hoarsely, "Don't be so excited, are we discussing in a comradely way—" "No, it's a class struggle between us!" The "commissioner" replied firmly.At this time, he did not have any position in the provincial party committee, and he attended the meeting as a non-voting participant.Even so, the current secretary of the Provincial Party Committee can only lower his head that has always been held high.

Li Furong thought for the first time: the number one leader is not always reliable.Before that, she thought wholeheartedly that as long as she followed the main leader in everything, there would be no mistakes.Previously, making her a "model", being a "leader" or that "leader", being a "committee" or a "representative" was just a kind of honor, a way for her to stand in front of many people. It's a matter of face.As long as she does things in a down-to-earth manner, the honor will increase and her face will become more and more glamorous.Of course, she doesn't just do things for these things. People always know good and bad, and they always know how to be grateful. "Gratitude" is naturally not to be grateful to individuals, but to be grateful to the party and the government.That's why she appointed the director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee when the "commissioner" disagreed with the director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee.Because the director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee is more representative than the "commissioner".Now things seem to be a bit more complicated. It is not enough to just do things in a down-to-earth manner, and it is not enough to just know how to be grateful.Which one do you listen to?Which one?There are no rules.If you hear or follow wrongly, there will be trouble and even danger.

For the first time, Li Furong encountered a huge difficulty.The difficulty was that everyone said she was wrong, and she admitted it, but she didn't know where she was wrong.After that document came out, there were rumors that she would be removed from the posts of provincial party committee member and county party secretary.She became especially popular because of the provincial party secretary and the report that said she was the "new cutest person."The secretary of the provincial party committee and the father of the reporter who wrote the report are both figures on the counter-revolutionary "thief ship".Whether or not Li Furong was on the "thief ship" is not a problem.

Li Furong waited in panic with his wife and wife in the county for a few days, but the rumor did not become a fact.