Chapter 15 Chapter 3 Deep in the Streets and Alleys (1969)

A new style of vulgarity After the "Four Cleanups" movement ended, Furong Town changed from a "black den of capitalism" into a "battle fortress of socialism".The profound changes are first reflected in the "street appearance" of the narrow Qingshiban Street.The pavements on both sides of the street were originally blackened wooden boards of the same color, but now they are less than two meters above the ground, and they are all painted white with lime water, with vermilion borders.Every two pavements are slogans imitating Song Dynasty: "Prosper without destroying capital", "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture", "Defend the achievements of the 'Four Cleans'", "Revolution plus desperation, desperation for revolution".There are several "Long Live" at the end of the street, echoing each other from a distance.There are couplets of the same size and typeface posted on the door of each house: "Take the Dazhai Road" and "Hold the Dazhai Red Flag".Therefore, the entire Qingshiban Street has become a slogan street and a couplet street with red letters on a white background, so that every household is uniform.In the past, whenever the weather was fine, long bamboo poles were built above the street shops to dry clothes.

The shirts and skirts are red, green and green, and they are flying like ten thousand national flags. It is also a bit of scenery in this town. Now the street appearance is cleaned up and banned.During festivals, or when the superiors come to inspect, or the brothers’ communes come to learn scriptures, each family prepares a colorful flag and inserts it obliquely on the attic facing the street. It hangs down when there is no wind and flutters when there is wind, creating a kind of movement. A victorious, fruitful atmosphere.There is also a rule that no family in the town is allowed to keep dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits, or bees. This is called the "five nos" to keep the streets clean and safe, but each household can keep three hens.There is no specific regulation on the purpose of raising these three hens. It can be used as a "chicken butt bank" to exchange for a few salt and oil money, and so that the superior cadres can have two poached eggs when they go to the countryside to eat pies in the town.It is strictly forbidden to set up stalls on the street to sell, and the stalls are changed from business to agriculture, so as to put an end to small businesses.

The above is the revolutionization of street appearance.Even more profound is the politicization of the relationship between people.The town has formulated a "security and security system", registering visitors, asking for leave when going out, and checking the night by the basic militia at night.And there are three "reporting and exposing boxes" on the street, in the middle of the street, and at the end of the street. Anyone can put in the reporting and exposing materials.Those who do not report the knowledge are guilty of the same crime as the bad guys.Those who report meritorious service will be recorded in the "resident file" and given certain spiritual and material rewards. The "reporting and exposing box" is regularly unlocked and locked by special personnel.After the establishment of the reporting and exposing system, the effect is very obvious. Every day when it gets dark, every shop closes the door early, goes to bed, saves lamp oil, and the whole town is quiet.Even in broad daylight, the neighbors in the neighborhood no longer visit each other, lest misfortunes come out of their mouths, they are reported, and troubles arise.In the past, the neighbors liked to give each other food and paid attention to popularity and affection. Now they criticize the bourgeois theory of human nature and human affection, so they have to prick up their conscious ears and open their sharp eyes to be alert to the troubles of the neighbors.It was originally "I am for everyone, and everyone is for me".Now it is "everyone defends me, I defend everyone".

Plus, the town is now divided into class lines.After countless back-to-back and face-to-face conferences, middle meetings, small meetings and various forms of political queuing, everyone has come to understand: the status of farm laborers is better than that of poor peasants, the status of poor peasants is better than that of lower-middle peasants, the status of lower-middle peasants is better than that of middle peasants, and that of middle peasants. The status is better than that of the rich middle peasants, and so on, the third class and the nine ranks.Neighbors in the neighborhood quarrel, they must first evaluate the other party's class, and their own status.Only the dolls in their teens don't know what's good or bad, and they don't want to submit.But after several lessons from bruised nose and forehead, he stopped acting rashly beyond his parents' social level.At a young age, I knew how to sigh: "Oh, bad luck! I was born in a wealthy middle peasant family. As soon as I opened my mouth, people said that my old man was engaged in capitalism and wanted to emulate the landlords and rich peasants!" "Aren't you satisfied? Look at those The sons and daughters of the wealthy land have been puppies since they were young, shrunk like a tortoise's head!" "The ancestors did evil, and the children and grandchildren deserve it!" "Oh, it's good that my old man is a poor and lower-middle peasant. !...'You know? There are still quite a few differences among the poor and lower-middle peasants. The political history is not clear, the social relations are not mixed, and the history of five generations and three generations can stand up to investigation..."

As for "the truth about the history of cadres revealed", it is even more interesting.The working group during the movement had a rule that every cadre should open his heart to the party organization and the revolutionary masses in his unit and "pass the socialism test".For example, it turned out that everyone respected the director of the town tax office, he was an old comrade who had fought guerrillas.But when he talked, he revealed that he was born in a bureaucratic landlord family. Before joining the guerrillas, he had committed adultery with a maid in the family. He is a bad guy, honest and honest, and he is an old hand at playing with women! Next time he wants to press for some tax, I will call him a bloody sprinkler first! For example, the director of the town supply and Marketing Cooperative cried and cried at the complaint meeting. Although he was born in poverty, The ancestors worked as long-term workers for generations, but they forgot their origins. At the beginning of Liberation, they asked a capitalist lady to be their wife. They failed to keep their true qualities as poor people. Family and social relations became complicated. Even if you want to get a divorce, you can't get away from it... Ah, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative is not a good person. The son-in-law of a capitalist still manages the stores in our town! Another example is the accountant of the township credit society. At a heart-to-heart meeting, he said that although he was born as an urban poor, he was arrested as a young man before liberation and served as a puppet soldier for three years.So the people in the town gave him a wild name: Puppet Accountant... and so on.Someone in the town made up a ballad and sang: "The cadres talk to each other and peel off the skin. There are not many good things. The live peasants control the landlords to death, and the live farmers control me and you!"

The fair period in Furong Town has also changed, from Wutian Fair to Weekly Fair, which is convenient for workers in the town and nearby factories and mines to arrange their lives on Sundays.As for how this Sunday came about, whether it meets the requirements of revolutionization, because the town used to only believe in Buddhist scriptures and did not know that there was a "Bible", so no one investigated it.On the contrary, some people think that Sunday is common all over the world, and the adoption of this day will benefit the world in the future.A fair security committee was specially set up in the town, and Wang Qiushe, who joined the party from the "Si Qing" and served as the party secretary of the town's brigade, was also the director.Taking Hu Yuyin, a new rich farmer who made a fortune selling rice and tofu, as a dark example, the fair security committee carried out publicity and education, and closely watched the troubles of capitalism.There are ten security officers wearing yellow armbands under the fair security committee. They are responsible for cracking down on speculation, confiscating agricultural and sideline products, mountain products and aquatic products sold at high prices by private individuals, and confiscating the first, second, and third types of unified purchase and marketing materials that are not allowed to be listed by the state.As a result, in the office of the Fair Security Committee, every fair has to be piled up with confiscated and confiscated items, such as fresh mushrooms, live fish, stone frogs, animal meat and the like.Such things cannot be handed over to the national treasury to increase the total income of the national economy.In the beginning, it did rot and stink a little, which was quite a waste.Later, I gradually realized a method: all the prohibited materials seized and confiscated will be dealt with as inferior and defective products at a reduced price.This kills three birds with one stone: avoiding waste; the Fair Security Committee has a little income to fund activities; every member wearing a yellow armband, after running and quarreling in the fair, distributes fresh mountain products and aquatic products to improve their lives.In the past, I still had some money for straw sandals when I was a villager.Of course, Director Wang Qiushe did not forget that every fair sent some of the collected materials to the commune cafeteria to improve the life of Secretary Li Guoxiang.Later, the polder management committee changed its name to "militia squad", with higher prestige and greater power.Capitalist floating fish, small producers who sell mountain products and aquatic products, when they see a militia unit, they are like mice seeing a cat. total dictatorship".But the members of the militia squad sometimes don’t wear the yellow armbands on their arms, but put them in their pockets for private visits. Once they have stolen goods, they take out the yellow armbands and flash them in front of your eyes: Haha, no matter how cunning the fox is No matter how concealed capitalism is, it cannot escape the eyes of hunters, and no matter how concealed it is, capitalism cannot escape the palm of the squad! After the "prohibited items" are seized and confiscated, the owners generally dare not make a sound, and if they resist, they will detain them and call to inform your production The army sent militiamen to pick them up... Over time, some mountain people with low awareness and backward thinking secretly yelled a nickname: "The public raises bandits".

There is another small revolutionary measure in Furong Town worth mentioning. Qin Shutian, a rightist who punishes the iron hat, and Hu Yuyin, a widow of a new rich farmer, clean the Qingshiban Street every morning, before the revolutionary masses get up. Yet history is grim.History is not a little girl who can be dressed up.In contemporary Chinese history, there are often surprises and surprises, and sometimes they even make jokes about contemporary figures. Furong Town was listed as a model of the county's township revolutionization, and Li Guoxiang became a "political model of active learning and application".Soon, because the revolution needed young and promising female pioneers, she was promoted to be a member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and secretary of the commune.In order to consolidate the achievements of the "Four Cleanups", she still lives in the high walls of the supply and marketing cooperative in Furong Town most of the time.

But within half a year, her buttocks hadn't warmed up in the chairs of the county standing committee member and commune secretary, and a more rapid and violent movement came like a flood.Li Guoxiang was panicked for a few days, but immediately stood at the forefront of this new big movement, leading the movement proactively.First of all, in Furong Town, a few "little Deng Tuo", including the director of the tax office, were caught, and the "little Deng Tuo" and five types of elements were linked together, and several times of "big ghosts and snake spirits fought" around the whole town brigade.But she still didn't hold the rudder of the movement in the commune and town, and some people still jumped out to make trouble, rebel, and paste her big-character posters.She found out that the director of the supply and marketing cooperative and the accountant of the credit society were "black backgrounds", and immediately organized Wang Qiushe and other revolutionary cadres and the masses to fight back, and caught several "false leftists and real rightists".Life-and-death class struggle in full swing, whoever hesitates a little, who is merciful, deserves to be knocked to the ground and stepped on 10,000 feet.However, the young Red Guard generals, who were in cahoots all over the country and fanned the flames, suddenly appeared in Furong Town like a heavenly soldier.It's really lawless. Relying on the support of the head of the central government, they kicked out the party committee and started a revolution, turning the small Furong town upside down.The slogan is "Rightists don't stink, leftists don't stink".They even conducted a surprise search on Li Guoxiang.If you don't search, you're done. A search made the young generals dumbfounded and blushed.On the bed of the unmarried female secretary, there are several unspeakable things that men use.Then the young generals were filled with anger, hung a pair of broken shoes around Li Guoxiang's neck, and paraded through the streets to show the public!

Those who hung up the black cards and paraded along the streets with Li Guoxiang that day included the five black categories in the whole town.When the five types of elements in the town discovered that Li Guoxiang had also joined their ranks of ghosts and monsters, those drooping granite heads, those pair of sneaky eyes staring at the bluestone slabs under their feet, ghosts knew they were thinking about something. What, what kind of expressions are shown.Only Tie Mao Rightist Qin Shutian turned his head and glanced at Li Guoxiang.Looking at each other, they immediately caught sparks.Qin Shutian's gaze was full of ridicule and sarcasm; Li Guoxiang's gaze back was a sharp sword with a cold light.In just two seconds, Qin Shutian retracted his gaze, turned around and continued walking forward.The real class enemies, the rightists, retreated, because the red guards' copper-headed cowhide belts roared towards them.Li Guoxiang is so sad, besides the black brand, there is also a pair of broken shoes hanging around her neck...

"Young Red Guards, comrades-in-arms, comrades! There must be a misunderstanding." She argued and explained to the Red Guards time and time again, "How could I get involved with their five types of elements, ghosts and monsters? I have never been a Rightists. In 1957, I worked on a special case in the County Commercial Bureau to catch rightists. In 1959, I participated in the county party committee’s anti-rightist movement. In 1964 and 1965, I was the leader of the working group. Rich peasants, fighting old rightists... I have been a leftist since I participated in revolutionary work, a real leftist! So young generals, comrades in arms, comrades, you must have misunderstood me, it is the new leftists who arrested the old leftists..."

"Haha! Damn her, broken shoes! Shameless! What kind of leftists are you still talking about? We criticize counter-revolutionary revisionists, and the new leftists arrested you old leftists? Vicious slander, crazy counterattack!" The Red Guards were reckless, swollen-headed, spoke a northern accent, and whipped Li Guoxiang, a self-proclaimed "true leftist," with a cowhide belt, unable to speak for a while and unable to defend himself. What kind of year was that? The year when all truth, goodness and beauty, fake, evil and ugliness, right and wrong, red and black were all upside-down and bizarre. .Justice endures humiliation, and lives by stealth, factionalism emerges as the times require, and the wind and fire are rampant. At this time, a stone arch bridge was being erected on the Furong River, and Furong Town was about to open to cars.The five types of elements, ghosts and monsters were sent to the construction site of the arch bridge as volunteers, carrying stones and sifting sand.A lunch is served on the construction site.Li Guoxiang refused to share the iron sieve with Hu Yuyin, a new rich farmer, to sieve sand, and even less willing to share a shoulder pole with Qin Shutian, an old rightist, to carry rocks.She would rather grit her teeth and go it alone, with scaffolding on her back.She always pays attention to her status, even among the bad guys and the niggers, she is a classy person.One day I will clarify my political divisions, left and right factions. According to regulations, lunch is three taels per person, which is the quota for ghosts and monsters.The sun is strong, the labor intensity is high, and the sweat flows a lot. How about adding a spoonful of chili, eggplant or boiled pumpkin to three or two meters? You can’t be lazy in the afternoon work, and the niggers have asked for extra food.Only Hu Yuyin has always had a small appetite, and three or two meters is enough.Li Guoxiang seldom participated in physical labor in the past, but now his appetite has increased sharply with the workload, and he still feels hungry after eating three or two meters.The young Red Guard general who supervised their labor came up with a way to punish these dregs of society: extra meals are allowed, but they must dance a "black ghost dance" from the entrance of the cafeteria shed to the window of the cafeteria, about fifteen meters away, and put The basic movements and postures of the "Black Ghost Dance" were explained. "Qin Shutian! Before becoming a rightist, you were a music teacher in a state middle school and a choreographer in a song and dance troupe. Now, it's up to you to demonstrate to your peers." Qin Shutian, the iron hat rightist, got the order from the young generals and immediately stood at the door of the work shed.He never hesitated to perform such acts, and displayed an initiative that was at once amusing and repulsive.He asked again the basic movements and essentials of the "Black Ghost Dance", and meditated in his heart for a while, then jumped up without looking at everyone.But I saw him: holding the rice bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other, shaking his hands crossed back and forth, half squatting with his knees open, jumping forward with his feet left and right, and yelling in sync with the rhythm of his hands and feet. : "Ghosts and snake gods add rice bowls, ghosts and snake gods add rice bowls, ghosts and snake gods add rice bowls..." This made the young Red Guards very happy, clapping their hands and applauding loudly.The onlookers couldn't help laughing. "Dianzi Qin, do it again!", "Dianzi Qin, if you dance three times a day, it will be considered as a transformation, and I will take off your hat!" The five types of elements frightened Qin Duzi's "dance" into a fool.Some had blue faces, as if they had just crawled out of a cemetery; others lowered their heads and turned around, fearing that they would be called out by young generals or the revolutionary masses, and danced the "black ghost dance" like Madman Qin.But no one panicked, let alone cried.These guys are the stones in the latrine, hard and smelly, and they are used to all kinds of insults.How did they know that there is still the word "shame" in the world! The chef in the cafeteria didn't smile, but stared dumbfounded.Ah, the "Cultural Revolution", there were red treasure books, quotation songs, reading the "Three Old Articles" every day, destroying the "Four Olds", beating Bodhisattvas, destroying temples, ransacking homes, and this "black ghost dance"... this Is it new culture? This is new ideas, new customs, new habits? The master probably has not yet hardened his heart, and his thinking has not been "very proletarian". When he was chopping rice into Qin Shutian's bowl, his hands were shaking Shaking, tears in eyes. On this day, Li Guoxiang was really hungry.She waited for the climax of laughter between the young Red Guard general and the revolutionary masses to pass, then took the empty rice bowl and walked straight to the window. "She seems to want to use this behavior to show that she is different from the real rightists and black five categories. But the young Red Guards will not let her go, and they will put her in the ranks of ghosts and monsters: "Stop! Where are you going?" "You old shoe! Back—turn, goal door, go forward!', A female Red Guard was waving a wide belt in her hand, and forced her from behind.She was afraid of being beaten, so she quickly retreated to the door, with a few smiles on her face: "Little general, comrade, comrade! I, I am full, no more food!" "Ghosts are 'comrades', 'comrades-in-arms' with you! Are you full? Are you full? Why were you so majestic just now? Who did you demonstrate to? Who did you challenge? Extra meal, we will order you, from this door, to that window, follow the example of Qin Youpai, and dance a "black ghost dance" for everyone to see!" "Yes! Let her 'comrade-in-arms' jump! Let her 'comrade-in-arms' dance!" "Look at her oval face, water snake waist, long hands and feet, and a slender figure, she is suitable for dancing!" "If she doesn't jump, tell her to climb, even a short climb is fine!" The young Red Guards yelled.I don't know why, these little adventurers from other places, these playful and mischievous "flying centipedes", especially look down on this woman and hate this woman. "Young general, comrades, comrades, I really can't dance, I have never danced... Don't get angry, don't use the belt, I will crawl, I will crawl, crawl under the window..." With bitter tears in his eyes, Li Guoxiang climbed down, using both hands and feet like a dog. Turning continuously to the left, things go to their opposite.Those who take pleasure in pruning others are later punished themselves.Buddhists call it "karma" and "cycle change". When the County Revolutionary Committee was established at the end of 1968, the issue of Li Guoxiang's political affiliation was finally clarified, and she resumed her usual identity as a revolutionary leftist, and was combined as a member of the Standing Committee of the County Revolutionary Committee and director of the Commune Revolutionary Committee.She shouldn't have complained or complained.She herself pointed out at the mobilization meetings of previous political movements: In the early stage of the movement, when the broad masses are just mobilized, it is inevitable that they will go too far. The problem lies in how to control and guide them.You can't blow cold wind or pour cold water.What's more, this is an "unprecedented" "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", and it is inevitable that there will be small deviations such as "leftists fight leftists, and good people fight good people".