Chapter 33 Section 33

The first thing he saw was a mimeographed leaflet. Mao received rebel leaders from five universities in Beijing in the Great Hall of the People and said "Now is the time for you young generals to make mistakes." The tone is like the emperor's generals saying that it is time for you to rest. The young general who made great contributions to clearing out the old comrades in the revolution for the supreme commander is worthy of being a student. The leader, immediately understanding what this meant, wept on the spot.The old man lit the fire of the Cultural Revolution with a big-character poster from Peking University, and then personally wiped out the mass movement he had mobilized from the university campus. Tens of thousands of workers, under the command of Mao's security forces, marched into the Tsinghua University campus.

That afternoon, he rushed to hear the news and witnessed soldiers leading workers to occupy the last stronghold of Jinggangshan Corps, the earliest college student rebels, facing the lonely building of the stadium.The worker propaganda team with red armbands sat on the ground, one by one, circle after circle, surrounding the building and the playground far away.In the afterglow of the setting sun, two huge banners with red cloth and black characters were hung from the windows on the top floor: "Plum blossoms in the snow are undefeated, Jinggangshan people dare to go to the guillotine!" Each word is bigger than a window, and the cloth several stories high flutters in the wind.A team of dozens of soldiers and workers passed through the open space in front of the building and went up the steps of the main entrance.After the meeting, he finally entered the isolated building where the water and electricity supply was cut off. He was mixed in with tens of thousands of workers and the crowd watching silently, and he could hear the two big banners crackling and shaking in the wind. .

Nearly an hour later, the big red spoke on the right first fell off from the hanging upper end, and floated down leisurely. Just as it landed on the steps in front of the building, the other upper end also fell off.Shouts of long live erupted from the crowd, and the loudspeakers and gongs and drums of the workers' propaganda team blared loudly.Those students who had shouted the same slogans during the rebellion now marched out like surrendered prisoners of war with a white flag and hands raised.When more workers entered the building, they pulled out several heavy machine guns and a flat-firing gun with a small caliber. It was unknown if there were any shells.

It was an easy occupation, although some students threw a homemade grenade in the dark when the worker propaganda team entered the campus, injuring several workers, probably out of desperation, the great leader they defended was exhausted. Just abandoned it. The child will stamp his feet and cry when he finds out that he has been cheated by an adult, that's all. He also understood that the chaos should end, had a premonition that there would be no better fate, and immediately left Beibei again in the name of investigation. "go back!" When he was passing through Shanghai to visit his cousin, this was the first warning he said.

"Where are you going back?" He asked, and then he talked about his father's problem, the so-called unsolvable unsolved case of gun possession, even if you have a home, you can't go back! " Hearing this, his cousin coughed, took a small medicine bottle with a nozzle, and sprayed it down his throat. "Go back to your agency and do your business!" "All the agencies are paralyzed, and there is no business to do, so they come out in the name of investigation." "Investigate what?" "Isn't it censoring cadres? Investigating the history of some veteran cadres, I found that it's not the case—"

"What do you know? It's not fun, you're not a child, don't lose your head, you don't know how to lose it!" His cousin was about to cough again, and took the medicine bottle and smacked his throat again. "I can't read the book, I have nothing to do." "Observe, don't you know how to observe?" said his uncle, "I'm just an observer now. I don't stay behind closed doors. I don't participate in any faction. I just watch the performances on and off the stage." "But I have to go to work! Unlike your cousin, you can still recuperate at home," he said.

"It's alright to keep silent, right?" His cousin asked him back, "The mouth grows out of your own head!" "Uncle Biao, you have been recuperating at home for a long time, how did you know that when the sports come, everyone has to express their opinions and get involved!" Of course his old revolutionary cousin didn't know, so he sighed: "This troubled world, if it passes by, you can still hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and go to the temple as a monk..." Only then did he utter a heartfelt truth, which was also the first time his cousin talked about politics with him, and he stopped treating him like a child, saying:

"I'm also taking advantage of my illness to hide from the wind. If it wasn't for the anti-rightist movement in the party after the Great Leap Forward, I stepped aside until now, and I have been ignoring world affairs for seven or eight years, and I can still linger on." His cousin also mentioned that a certain senior member of his old superior party had a life-and-death relationship during the war. Before the Cultural Revolution broke out, he came to see him and sent the guards outside. Something has happened, and we may never see each other again.Before leaving, he left behind a brocade and satin quilt, which he said was a farewell memorial.

"Tell your dad that no one can save anyone, so take care of yourself," These were the last words his cousin sent him to the door.Not long after that, his cousin, who was not considered old, caught a cold and was admitted to the military hospital for an injection.Unexpectedly, a few hours later, it was pushed into the Daping room.The revolutionary hero whose old superior lost his personal freedom also died in the military hospital a year later. This was what he read many years later from a eulogy for his rehabilitation.They certainly didn't expect that during the revolution, they themselves were helplessly waiting to die, helpless.At the end of their lives, they don't regret it?Of course he has no way of knowing.

So, what are you rebelling against?Also go into this meat grinder to make pies, or add some seasoning? Now, when you look back, you have to ask yourself. But he said that due to the situation, he could not stand on the sidelines. He already understood that he was just a pawn in the movement, and he was struggling without fighting for the commander, just for survival. So, can you choose another way of living? For example, just be a obedient citizen, go with the flow, let alone tomorrow, change with the political climate, say what others want to listen, and submit to power when you see it——you ask.

He said that it is more difficult, more laborious than rebellion, and requires more thought, and has to grasp the ever-changing weather anytime and anywhere, but how can God's mood and thoughts be accurately grasped?Xiaomin's father was not like this, he swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills at the end, just like his old revolutionary cousin's fate.And the reason why he rebelled did not have a clear purpose, just like a mantis arm blocking a car, it was only out of survival instinct. Well, you're probably a born rebel.Or born with rebellious one. No, he said that he was gentle by nature, just like his father, but young, full-blooded, and unsophisticated, but his father's old ways could not be followed, and he didn't know where the way out? Won't you run away? Where are you going?He asked you back.He can't escape this huge country, and he can't do without the beehive-shaped office building where he gets his salary to eat, his urban resident registration and the monthly food stamp *28 catties*, and oil stamp *1 catty*, And sugar tickets *half a catty*, and meat tickets *one catty*, and cloth tickets issued once a year *20 feet*, and industrial rolls *2. 05*, as well as his citizenship, are allotted by his hive.Where can his worker bee fly away from the hive?He said he had no choice but to be "only the bees that inhabit this hive, and since the hive is insane, they should attack each other and flop around," he admitted. This random thumping can save lives?You ask. But it's already thumping, he realized it back then, it's not a bug anymore, he smiled wryly. A laughing bug, somewhat weird, you look closely at him. The strange thing is the world, not the worms that live in this brood, said the worm.