Chapter 52 Section 52

"The people have won!" This is the announcement on the Tiananmen Gate Tower.But the victory was neither the people nor the party. The party smashed an anti-party group, arrested the widow Jiang Qing less than a month after Mao's death, and the people gathered in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the victory. The party was far from right!Glorious forever!Water is far greater!And the immortal is still Mao Zedong who lay peacefully in the crystal coffin and was admired by the people. As the party's veteran cadres reversed and promoted, some of the cadres he had saved, especially Comrade Wang Qi, were so nostalgic for the old days that he, a small citizen, was also taken back to Beijing.He was on the narrow old street outside the front door, and suddenly ran into Da Li, who had rebelled with him back then. During the military control period, he was quarantined for more than two years and lived in a mental hospital for three or four years before being released.Da Li also recognized him, holding him tightly with a pair of big hands, which were quite strong, looking straight at him, smiling.People in the original agency said that Da Li was crazy and laughed at everyone, and it was true.People bumped into each other on the street, and they were blocked on the narrow sidewalk. Da Li grabbed him and didn't let go, with a simple and honest smile all the time.

Danian was formally arrested in handcuffs. After the former military control committee made a "mistake in the route" and withdrew, the new military representative was quarantined for review, and then the crime was announced at the meeting. Two people died directly in his hands. Lao Liu was the one who tortured a few thugs at night in the basement of the government building, smashed the internal organs with cables in rubber bags, carried them upstairs, and pushed them down through the windows to create a suicide case. on site.Another person who was put to death in the same way was a female overseas Chinese who came back from abroad. She was also electrocuted to extract a confession, and the voltage was lowered with a transformer to force her to confess to the tape recorder that it was sent by Taiwan's secret service agency. Who is the superior, so as to further eliminate those cadres who are dissidents.The former lieutenant colonel involved in the planning was also arrested at the same time.

The husband of Wang Qi, who had been branded as an anti-Party gangster, was reappointed and returned to the Party Central Committee to participate in the trial of the new anti-Party group.Wang Qi has been promoted, but he looks old and kinder.He was also quarantined and inspected during the local military control. He was locked up alone in a small room in the warehouse for more than half a year. A 100-watt light bulb on the roof was always on day and night. The light switch was outside the door. She was asked to write materials over and over again, explaining the situation of the underground student movement in Beiping. She said that her nerves were deranged at that time, and when she closed her eyes, she felt that people were spinning upside down and feet upside down.She said that her situation was considered the best, no corporal punishment, no personal humiliation, probably because she was old, maybe some old comrades of her past were still in important positions in the army, and they took care of her.

Most of the veteran cadres have been reinstated, and a few are as old as the former party secretary Wu Tao. They have to rehabilitate and restore their benefits, such as wages, housing and work arrangements for their children, before retiring.But like Lao Tan, a small deputy section chief outside the party, with a tainted history, has been working in the cadre school, until the cadre school was also cancelled, and returned to the labor camp where the local government once again became a criminal. In the capital, they are not old enough to retire, so they have to wait for the assignment of individual jobs.

Lin was divorced and remarried. Her husband was a newly appointed deputy minister. During the Cultural Revolution, her ex-wife died. He started publishing and became a writer!left that institution.Lin invited him to her new home for dinner, and her remarried husband was there too!Talking about literature with him, he said: "The disaster our party has experienced should really be written about to educate future generations!" Lin accompanied him in the living room, and a nanny was cooking in the kitchen.Lin was also the first to use foreign perfumes, probably the latest fragrance type of Sanel from France, which is a famous brand after all.

He's still in the process of getting a divorce.His wife Qian wrote a letter to the Writers Association to accuse him of reactionary thinking, but there was no evidence.He explained that she was mentally stimulated during the Cultural Revolution and was abnormal, and that it was because he filed for divorce and hated him.After ten years of the "Cultural Revolution", although not as many people are going to get divorced, this phenomenon is commonplace.The court that has just resumed work still has many old complaints that cannot be dealt with in time, and I don't want to create new troubles!He finally got rid of this marriage.He admitted to Qian that he had ruined her youth, not only Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution, but he was also responsible, but this could not make up for the lost youth. Fortunately, the case of Qian's father's "historical counter-revolution plus spies" was also settled, so she also Returned to my father from the countryside.

He had received a letter from Lu in which he said: "Many good trees on the mountain have been cut down, so why is this rotten tree?" , He also said that he would retire here and build a house in the mountains for the elderly. Another year later, he had the opportunity to go on a business trip to the south, and made a special detour to visit the benefactor who had sheltered him.In the county town he first visited, his old classmate Rong still lived in that thatched hut.During this period, it was repaired and knocked once, but the straw roof that had been replaced should be replaced again.Rong also had a son. The family planning in the county is not as strict as in the city, and they are all old acquaintances with different household registrations!Rong has been here for twenty years, and his wife is a local, so after a while, the child's household registration is still granted.Rong is still working as his agricultural technician, and his wife is still selling groceries in the cooperative store in Chengguan. He wants to be transferred to the department store in the small street behind his house so that he can take care of the two children at home. There are not enough gifts for the cadres in charge. , finally failed.Rong talked less and spent a long time facing him in silence.

The shuttle bus from the county town came to the small town, and this kind of rural bus was still the same, and those who got off the bus and those who got on the bus rushed on.The car drove away, and he didn't enter the side street, nor did he go to school. He was afraid that he would be dragged by acquaintances to eat or something. a day or two.He stood on the field and looked around to see if there was anyone he knew who could ask where the house Lu Xian built was now. "Yo—" A young man from the woodware production cooperative recognized him with a cigarette in his mouth, came over and shook hands.They shot targets together in the militia training camp earlier, and they also drank and talked about the mountains and got to know each other quite well. Now they might become a small cadre, and they didn't mean to take him home for dinner. They just said that they would go to the woodworking club later. Sit down.He is just a sojourner here, he is still a stranger when he leaves for tea.

He found out that Lu's new house was in Meixihou Mountain in Shanchong on the other side of the river, and there were still seven or eight miles to go across the river, and he had to walk for a while.Rong told him that the cadres in the county had heard that Lu had gone mad, so they built a thatched hut in the mountains, ate vegetarian alchemy, and practiced the ways of the old and the old, hoping to live forever.Above, at higher levels, those old comrades of Lu who had been reinstated or promoted to high positions all believed that there was no doubt that the revolutionary will had declined. This was what Lu told him after he went to the mountains to see Lu.

"I don't want to get my hands dirty again, it's okay, the purple bamboo garden in the hut, growing vegetables and reading articles, it's not like you are young, I am old, this is how I will explain it in this life." Lu said to him. Of course Lu lived not in a hut, but in an inconspicuous brick house from the outside, which could not be seen unless he climbed the hill behind the coal cloud.Lu received a sum of retirement resettlement funds for veteran cadres, and designed and supervised the work himself, which was built by local farmers.The floor of the house is bluestone slabs, and there is a slate in the bedroom that can be lifted, which is the entrance of a secret passage, leading to the small wood house by the stream, and there is a pine forest on the other side of the stream.Lu finally saved himself, and he still thinks of possible plots at any time. This is also his life experience, right?

Inlaid at the foot of the hall wall is a remnant stele, which was carried by farmers from the ruins of the ruined temple on the top of the mountain. The rebellion, the Daping Heavenly Kingdom also attempted to establish a utopia on the earth, internal strife and massacres led to failure, and then became a monk here.There are many books piled up in the bedroom, including the Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka’s Self-Report and the three-volume Memoirs of General Charles de Gaulle published internally for the reference of high-ranking officials in the party, as well as the thread-bound “Compendium of Materia Medica”. version, as well as ancient poems that have just been republished. "I want to write something, but I have a title, "The Diary of a Man in the Mountain", what a title. I don't know if I can write it," Lu said. He and Lu both laughed. This tacit understanding is the friendship between him and Lu, and it must be the reason why he was protected by Lu in those years. "Go and get some dishes to drink with!" Lu Li is not a vegetarian, so he was taken to the canteen of the coal mine.The electric winch erected under the hill is the exit of the coal well, and there are several rows of workshops.It was time to get off work in the evening, and in the big dining hall built with bamboo sheds, the miners lined up at the window for making vegetables with big bowls, and Lu went to the kitchen.Suddenly a female voice called: "Teacher!" Among the soot-covered men in line, a young woman turned around, and he immediately recognized his student Sun Huirong!She is wearing a peasant woman's gown, but her delicate features have not changed, but her face and body have become rounder, so she is so happy to meet her. "Why are you here?" He couldn't help but shout out in surprise, just as he was about to step forward, Lu came out from the kitchen, pushed his shoulder, and ordered: "Go!" He couldn't help obeying, and because he had been under Lu's protection before, it became a habit. But he still turned his head and glanced at the girl, and the obvious panic, disappointment and humiliation became deeper in those eyes. In the black eyes, the mouth opened slightly, murmured what to say, but didn't say it, still standing in a daze except for the men queuing up to get the bowls, everyone was looking at her. "Don't pay attention to her, this bitch sleeps with everyone, causing knife fights in this mine! Lu whispered beside him.Before he calmed down, he barely followed Lu's footsteps when he heard Lu say: "From the first to the beginning of the month, two more money went to her house, causing the women in the village to scold and make trouble. She's watching the radio station in the mine. Don't get involved with her. You have to talk to her again." If you say a few more words, she will act flirtatiously, and people will think you have been involved too, and you can't get away—" More than half an hour later, Lu put the dishes and chopsticks on the table and poured wine—the cook from the cafeteria came and brought out plates of still hot stir-fried vegetables from a basket with a lid.He had no intention of drinking, and deeply regretted not stopping to talk to Sun Huirong, but what else could he say? You and her are like two worlds, even though your world is also not clean, and it is impossible for her to climb out of this coal pit even if the water is far away.She forgot the distance from you, forgot what happened to her, forgot her status as a prostitute in the eyes of the locals, and even regarded you as a teacher. She didn't ask for help from you, and she probably didn't think about it at all. Changing the situation, the innocence that appeared in an instant, the vague love for that girl, Huan actually got carried away with his mouth, and immediately slapped him in the face. The harm to her made you feel painful, and you will not be able to forgive your weakness for a long time. Lying in Lu's room with a secret passage at night, listening to the gurgling water behind the window and the wind and waves passing through the pine forest.He crossed the river early the next morning, rushed to the town and took an early bus back to the county seat. You took photos of Sun Huirong, you helped her put on make-up and lipstick, and that was when she was performed by the Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team of Students on National Day before she settled down in the production team. Mrs. Ah Qing, the heroine of Jun Zhouxuan, is also stipulated in the syllabus issued by the county education bureau that students must learn to sing in music class, and she has the best voice.Now whether she has a man, or is still working as a prostitute in the coal buns run by the peasant collective, there is no way of knowing.After you left the country, when the authorities seized your apartment in Beijing, these photos, along with your Tongji and manuscripts, were also taken away by the way. Before you left China, another student you taught had graduated from university and was already working. He visited you when he was on a business trip to Beijing.If you ask about Secretary Lu, he said he passed away.How did you die?He could die of illness, he said he heard it. You had a dream later, this town is not like that where houses are next to each other, clustered in a small street and a few alleys, but very desolate, scattered and scattered.The school was on a hill, and the doors and windows were all open and empty.You go to Lu, his house is also like a cottage, there are no other houses around, and there is an iron lock on the door.It was in the afternoon, the setting sun was shining on the "orange yellow earthen wall, you didn't know what to do, you seemed to be asking him to find a way to help you get out of here, you didn't want to die in that empty school all your life. They asked you to guard the place In school, you have to change many homework books endlessly, and you don't have time to look up and think about "your own affairs, and you don't know what to think about."You are standing in front of the earthen wall, looking at the iron lock hanging on the door, and hearing the wind behind you from the rice fields that have been harvested in late autumn, leaving only stubble...