Chapter 37 11. Prisoners of War (2)

"Extremely absurd!" Qi Chu said to my uncle, "Please allow your honor to accept the post of counselor, the decision remains unchanged, and the work package will be given to you." Immediately afterwards, my uncle was ordered by the State Council to be transferred to Wuhan to serve as the director and secretary of the party group in charge of the entire Yangtze River Shipping. Before leaving, he was still doing his father's persuasion work.Master He sighed and said, "Okay, okay, you can go now, I'll help you implement the united front policy!" Master He trimmed his gray mustache, noted the style button on the tunic, and walked into the counselor's room with his hands behind his back.

In 1957, the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee held a symposium for democrats in 1957, mobilizing everyone to raise their opinions and help the Communist Party rectify the movement.All the respected old counselors kept silent, but secretly encouraged Mr. He, you have made great contributions to the revolution, and your son is a high-ranking cadre, if you don’t speak up, who would dare to speak up!Master He nodded in agreement, and said loudly at the symposium: "Okay, may I have some advice for the dog?" Director Liu of the United Front Work Department didn't hear clearly, "What, who are you giving advice to?"

Master He replied word by word: "I mean, I have some advice for my son, Comrade He Sheng!" The old counselors at the meeting covered their mouths and laughed. He Ye said: "Comrade He Sheng, as a senior cadre of the party, cannot correctly treat a democrat who wholeheartedly follows the party. It is time to give Comrade He Sheng a slap in the face!" The atmosphere of the meeting suddenly became tense. Holding a teacup, Lord He conducted an objective and impartial analysis of the democrat. He believed that this man had served as the captain of the political police team and the security team of County L. He had indeed made mistakes in history, but he had also used his position to He did one or two things for the Communist Party. Later, under the influence of Comrade He Sheng, he completely changed his position. He resolutely abandoned the old and pursued the new. Frenzied revenge by the Kuomintang.Comrade He Sheng is fully aware of this.However, during the land reform re-examination campaign, Comrade He Sheng knew that all the land in his family had been confiscated by the Kuomintang, his house had been destroyed, and all his belongings had been looted, yet he still wanted to hand him over to the peasant association in his hometown to liquidate him. Didn't you stand on the same ground as the enemy?I have only two words to tell Comrade He Sheng: one is "don't cross the river and tear down the bridge", and the other is "don't forget the well digger when you drink water!"

The meeting recorder was confused and asked, "Who is this democrat you are talking about?" Master He pointed to his nose and said, "It's Comrade He Yushun!" The audience burst into laughter, but Master He didn't laugh. An old counselor asked, "Why are you here to raise your opinion on your son?" Master He replied: "What I'm talking about today is a state matter, not a family matter. If it's a family matter, I'll close the door, pick up a broom and hit the baby's ass!" The venue laughed again, but Master He still didn't laugh.

Qi Chu didn't smile either.When he made a report, he mobilized non-Party people and provincial cadres to speak out, and his face was full of smiles. Later, he didn't know what kind of spirit he learned, and his face lost his smile.After hearing the content of He Ye's speech, he changed his face in shock and said: "This old gentleman is so outstanding, this time he will fall into it again!" Later, he published a report in a prominent position on the front page of the provincial newspaper: "He Yushun Attacks the Party" Crossing the River and Destroying Bridges".It is said that Qi Chu reviewed the manuscript.He hesitated again and again, and deleted the words "He Yushun 'wanted to spank the Communist Party's ass'", saying that it was inappropriate for the party newspaper to copy such terms. This is a political struggle, so don't vulgarize it.

Lord He stretched his neck and put on the hat of "bourgeois rightist".But he had never seen such a hat. He held the hat in his hand, looked at it from side to side, and didn't know what it was. He asked, "I have no property, why did I become a bourgeois rightist again?" Since then, Lord He stopped talking, and while sweeping the floor with a big broom in the CPPCC compound, he delved into Das Kapital.But he couldn't find any capital of his own, and his salary was greatly reduced. He couldn't afford to support his two sons who were going to college, so he divided them among his eldest son and second son, and my uncle and uncle Ming supported them. Sent to Wuhan, supported by my uncle.Master He said: "I don't have any 'surplus value', you can provide some 'capital' to my two little brothers and my white-haired mother!"

My uncle became the object of my father's humor. He shook his hands again and again and said to my uncle Ming: "Look at our dad, look at our stupid dad!" I asked Uncle Ming, was my uncle implicated this time? Uncle Ming said, he was "viciously attacked" by your Lord He, what else could he be implicated in?But he was taken aback for another moment, and said, yes, there is something involved, and it's really involved!Your uncle has a large group of children who are going to school, and life is already tense, and he is given a white-haired old mother and a younger brother who has just entered college to support, and it is difficult to maintain life!Although your third aunt is a department-level cadre, she bought a small hammer, collected old bicycle tires, squatted on the street stalls in Wuhan for a long time, learned the exquisite craftsmanship of nailing shoe soles, and took the responsibility of nailing shoe soles for the whole family. She nailed all the business, even the leather shoes your uncle wore to Beijing for meetings.Your uncle gave her the title of "first-class technician", which is equivalent to the current "Zhenggao"!

My mother was also beaten as a rightist in a girls' high school. Someone urged my mother to say, write to your third sister and third brother-in-law to complain about your grievances, and you have covered them in white terror!Mother said, don't make trouble for them, they can't even take care of their old father!When my mother changed from a high school Chinese teacher to a shepherd, she received a letter from her third aunt asking her to "survive the socialist revolution well", and also sent me medicine for heart disease.But the mother didn't know that it was the medicine bought by San Yi Ding Xie Zhang's spare salary.The mother accepted the medicine and said, "Okay, okay, I want to drive my sheep, and to pass the level of socialism, I really need a strong heart!"

During the "Cultural Revolution", my uncle became a "capitalist roader" in charge of shipping on the Yangtze River. Other "capitalist roaders" paraded the streets, and my uncle enjoyed the treatment of "swimming the river". Accept criticism at the port at one point, and "swim" all the way to the sea.When Lord He heard about it, he showed no signs of panic, but instead studied the "Cultural Revolution" documents carefully, commenting: "Didn't Shengzi say that the assets they managed on the Yangtze River had increased by five or six times? The volume of passengers, cargo, and port throughput It also doubled more than ten times. How can he not be a 'capitalist roader' with such a large amount of fixed capital plus working capital!"

In February 1972, Master He was critically ill.As soon as my uncle was "liberated" and left the "cowshed", he hurried back to Z City to visit his father, but he didn't know if his father had forgiven him, and he still hesitated in front of the door.Master He said: "Son Sheng, come here and ask Daddy to see you!" The uncle stepped forward and called, "Daddy!" Both father and son couldn't help crying.Master He tremblingly took his hand and said, "Shengzi, you have been involved in the revolution for more than forty years, why did you call the revolution 'liberation' once?" Uncle was tearful and speechless.A rib was broken when he "swimmed in the river", and he has been hiding it from Master He.When others whispered about this rib, Master He heard it, but pretended not to know, and asked, "Shengzi, where did you get the one thing I gave you?" Uncle asked, "What?" Master He wept and said, " The rib I gave you, why don't you take good care of it..." Uncle said: "Father, it's grown, it's grown!" Master He cried loudly, "My... fifty-seven Year-old... old son, you have never been afraid of heaven or earth since you were a child... how many times the Kuomintang has arrested you... there is nothing you can do about it...but now...you, a senior cadre...how did you become... change Is it so bearable?... What's the matter... What's the matter?..."

After Grandpa He cried, his whole body twitched and gasped for breath. He Nai cried and said: "He is uncomfortable, he is uncomfortable, let him go, let him go!" With a heavy doubt, Master He died of illness on February 10, 1972, at the age of seventy-four. Uncle asked my Uncle Ming to lock him in a small room, and wept silently but heartily for his father once.He came out of the hut with red and swollen eyes, and the family members were not allowed to mention his ribs again.He said that the party was injured, the people were injured, and the country was injured, not just a rib. Uncle asked: "Ming, when our father was seriously ill, did you explain anything?" Uncle Ming said: "Father is studying "Outline of the History of Social Development"!" "Why are you studying the history of social development again? What did dad say?" Uncle Ming showed a bewildered expression, "Father said, monkeys haven't completely turned into humans yet, so let's continue to change!" In 1979, seven years after He Ye's death, the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee stated: "Compared to the 1957 "Notice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on 'Criteria for Classifying Rightists'", the organization's research believes that Comrade He Yushun is not a rightist. be corrected." In 1980, eight years after He Ye’s death, the provincial government counselor’s office held a memorial service, and the eulogy said: "Comrade He Yushun rest in peace!" 14. The dad locked in the closet Uncle didn't expect that he could still meet his cousin He Shi who escaped mysteriously. It was his son Gou Wa who had abandoned him on the mainland to find He Shi.The reason why Gouwa got the name "Gouwa" is because He Shi was 32 years old when he got a baby boy. Following the habit of treating puppies as pets in his hometown, he kissed his son's bare bottom with a "ba chi" , Said to his wife: "He is called Gou Wa!" Just after Gouwa turned one year old, his father mysteriously disappeared on the eastern Henan plain.The 24-year-old mother started a long wait with Gouwa.Gouwa had no time to store his father's memory. When he was sensible, he realized that he had one less father than other children, but he had one more title than other children: "The little dog of a reactionary officer!" He asked his mother many times about the reactionary father. The officer's whereabouts, the mother said: "It's locked in the cabinet!" The five-year-old Gouwa persistently climbed on the bench and used a firewood stick to tinker with the big lock on the cabinet.Mother had no choice but to open the cabinet, took out a small wooden box, took out a photo and handed it to him, saying, "Find it yourself!" It was a photo of two adults and a baby.He fixed his eyes on the officer in military uniform, with a round face, broad forehead, round nose, a heavy smile on his thick lips, and big bulging eyes staring at him.He pointed and said, "I'm his son of a bitch!" He also found a younger, more beautiful mother dressed like a city person in the photo. She was sitting shoulder to shoulder with the officer, holding her in her arms. with a chubby dog.He was satisfied because he knew he did have a father; he was also surprised because he found that his mother had also been decent, happy, and even sweet.Mother took the photo and locked it in the cabinet again, just like putting away her never-ending yesterday, sighed and said: "Okay, you can't let others know, your father is with us every day!" Cousin Gouwa did not exaggerate to me the hardships he and his mother experienced. He said that he and his mother had not endured too many struggles.For the mother and son who have never enjoyed the glory and wealth of the He family compound and are willing to come back and suffer for the He family, the old folks at Podi seem to show compassion that everyone has. on his head.When Gouwa graduated from junior high school, his father's shadow flickered.The teacher said: "Gouwa, don't apply for high school anymore. You have a father like that. Don't waste your time!" That photo, and a set of green khaki American military uniforms that Gouwa had never seen before.The unexpected capture caused a stir at the bottom of the slope.The Red Guards beat on the gongs, escorted Gouwa and Gouwa's mother through the streets, and swam to the stage in front of the Guandi Temple to hold a meeting and fight. "You have to be honest, where did Gouwa's father go?" Mother Gouwa trembled and said: "I don't know, really! My mother and daughter came back and waited for him, and we waited for him year after year, but we couldn't wait for him! This dead ghost...he left our mother and son alone... ..." Gouwa's mother couldn't help crying. "Say! Why do you keep his reactionary military uniform?" "Nothing, really! In Xuzhou in 1948, I called the People's Liberation Army to search it. The People's Liberation Army dug out this clothes. They only touched the pockets, but found nothing reactionary. They folded them up and left them for me. It’s off. The People’s Liberation Army told me to stay, so I dare to stay. This clothes are always an item, isn’t it? It’s a pity to throw it away, isn’t it? I didn’t have money or cloth tickets that year. I wanted to modify it and ask me to wear it, but If he wears this, won’t it be eye-catching? It’ll be put in the bottom of the box. Really, I’m not talking nonsense!” "Tell me! Why do you keep a photo of a reactionary officer?" "In Xuzhou, this photo was hanging on the wall. The People's Liberation Army looked at it and didn't touch it, so I left it. I thought, when Gouwa becomes sensible and sees that other children have fathers, he I will also ask for a father, I have to give my son an explanation, right? A good father and a bad father are always his father, and the dog is also in the photo, and I am also there. ..." Gouwa's mother couldn't help crying again, "The people of the He family are gone...they are gone...I led Gouwa to be a mother...and a father...It's not easy to live old... " Women from the poor and lower-middle peasants also wavered from their class standpoints and started crying along with Gouwamother. The Red Guards panicked, just bluffing: "Why are you crying? Missing men again, don't you?" Before the "Cultural Revolution", the "Four Cleanups" were carried out, leaving behind a "Poor Peasant Association", referred to as "Poor Association".The director of the Poor Association is Liu Dahan, the long foreman of the He family compound, who drugged his own son to death.He was seventy-eight years old that year, and everyone called him "Old Poor Association".He had been sitting in the corner of the struggle meeting smoking pipes, and at this moment he was banging on the pot, asked for the photo from the Red Guards, looked at it again and again, and said, "It's true, it's a dog. Father. Leave him to me, and he will not be afraid of him jumping out of the photo. Even if this military uniform is confiscated, you keep it as a costume, and it is useful to perform a "model play". You two go back, and you will be called "poor" The Association is in charge." The women responded, "Middle, let us 'Old Poor Association' take care of him!" Liu Dahan reprimanded Gouwa again: "Why don't you leave? You look good standing there, lead your mother to climb back for me!" After the limelight of the mass fight, Liu Dahan returned the photo to Gouwa's mother. Gou Wa said that he and his mother survived like this, and he is very content. But Gouwa said that he and his mother had also been "dishonest". In 1970, before Gouwa’s third uncle passed away, he called Gouwa’s mother and said: “There is one thing that has been buried in my heart for more than 20 years, and I have to tell you today, please promise me first, You have to hold your breath!" Gouwa's mother said: "Uncle, tell me, I'll hold your breath!" The third uncle said: "Then let me tell you, Gouwa's father is still there, he is running away. It’s Taiwan, it’s really gone to Taiwan.” Mother Gouwa gave a “buzz” in her head, and her eyes straightened.The third uncle said again: "When he arrived in Taiwan, he wrote me a letter asking about the whereabouts of your mother and daughter. I wrote back and said that your mother and son are guarding the house at the bottom of the slope. If you don't ask him to remember, you can't." Don't ask him to write again." Gouwa's mother seemed to be stupid, and she stayed for a long time before crying, "Uncle, why didn't you tell me earlier?" The third uncle said: "You were still young at that time, and I I can't stop thinking about you, maybe you can find someone else! Besides, I'm also afraid that if this news gets out, it will cause grievances to your mother and son, and it will also cause trouble to Shengzi. Just because of Shizi You left without saying a word, and your brother Shengzi has been punished. If the superiors know that he has gone to Taiwan, Shengzi's mistake will be even greater!" The third uncle saw that Gouwa's mother kept crying, and said: "Cry more! For a while, cry for a while, it’s better to cry out, don’t tell the tears to drown your heart!” When Gouwa’s mother stopped crying, the third uncle asked: “Gouwa’s mother, how old is the stone this year?” Gouwa’s mother said "It's a tiger, and it's actually fifty-five years old." The third uncle said, "Okay, 'Fifty-five, creeping tiger', he's still in his prime. Don't forget to look for him when Taiwan is liberated. Okay, I'm looking for you, that's all!" When Gouwa's mother came back, her eyes were swollen from crying.Gouwa asked mom what's wrong?Mom said that your uncle is about to miss, but she kept the news of Gou Wa's father from Gou Wa.Until 1975, Gou Wa got married and had children.Fifty-one-year-old Gouwa's mother has completed her responsibilities as a mother. Her eyesight is blurred, her back is hunched, her heart has collapsed, and she has heart and liver problems.She knew that she should go to the He family's old cemetery to rest, and before she left, she smashed the "window paper" through Gou Wa, and said: "Remember, your father is a tiger, and he is sixty this year. He is the head of the colonel, Huangpu." The 11th term of the military academy is not lightly reactionary. But he is on good terms with you, Uncle Sheng! When Taiwan is liberated, as long as Uncle Sheng is around, he will be there. Both of their red collars are in your grandfather’s hands. Hold on! Tell your Uncle Shengzi to look for him in the prisoner camp again, and hand him over to you, and don’t let him run away again!” Gouwa hides this secret deeply in his heart, and looks forward to liberating Taiwan every day.I kept looking forward to it until the winter of 1987, when I heard that there was a KMT veteran in Yangzhuang, surnamed Yang, who had come back from Taiwan to visit his family.Gou Wa hurried to the county by coach, and the United Front Work Department was entertaining the veteran in a restaurant.Gouwa didn't dare to go in and disturb him, so he squatted at the door of the restaurant until the banquet was over. When he spotted an old man in a suit, he ran over and knelt down on the ground, kowtowed, and said with tears, "Uncle Yang, my father Also in Taiwan, I have been separated for 40 years, please help me to find my father!" The veteran hurriedly helped him up, and sighed: "Oh, it is another father who is looking for you! You write down your father and your situation, I will definitely find it for you!" Gouwa handed him the "Father Finding" post written in advance.He unfolded it on the spot and said, "Hey, according to his qualifications, he was at least a lieutenant general when he retired from the army! Eldest nephew, just wait for my reply." Thanks to this veteran surnamed Yang, he found a father for Gou Wa. One month later, Gouwa received the "father's handwritten letter" that called him "Gouwa Wuer" at the beginning.On the word "gouwa".Gou Wa suddenly saw a spot that blurred the handwriting.Father asked Gou Wa to forgive him for abandoning his family and leaving home, but he missed his relatives and ancestral graves in his hometown all the time.Gouwa saw the spots again, and he identified them with the taste buds on his tongue, which were salty tears.He kept seeing the tear stains that crumpled and darkened the paper.The father asked, where is your mother?Where's your Uncle Shengzi?Where's your third uncle?What about your daughter-in-law and your "little dog"? ... 15. Gouwa looks after the house Cousin met cousin in 1990.At that time, my uncle had already left the Yangtze River, which had depended on him for twenty-four years, and was transferred to Beijing as a vice minister. Four years later, he retired as a vice minister. Land minister's apartment to spend his old age in peace. Ever since Gou Wa wrote to report the news that he had found his father in Taiwan and had gone to Hong Kong to meet him, his uncle and third aunt suddenly became young and excitable.From time to time, my uncle leaned against the window and looked into the distance, flashing movies with disorderly edits in his mind: Kaifeng City and Funiu Mountain, Guandi Temple and the red collar, pigeons flying in the sky and tanks running on the ground, Japanese alarm clocks and "Zhongzheng Sword", Among the street lights in Zhengzhou and the stars at the bottom of the slope, a young officer in a green khaki American military uniform walked towards him step by step with an unyielding smile on his face. He is back.But he went back to the bottom of the slope first, weeping for his ancestors in the old grave and his ex-wife who waited for him for twenty-seven years and then at the bottom of a grave for fifteen years, and his only dog ​​and dog. The daughter-in-law and Gouwa, who had never met before, enjoyed ten days of family happiness in the old house of the He family, and found his former regiment headquarters in the newly built buildings in Z City, and went to the cemetery to pay homage I saw the old uncle Yushun in the urn, and met the girl who was "wrapped" by Shengzi and brought under Marx's command.After experiencing too much excitement and sorrow, memories and confessions, silent tears and loud laughter, he left the final suspense to his cousin in Beijing. The two seventy-five-year-olds recognized their brothers in their frosty white hair and fiery eyes.At that time, pigeons were passing by in the clear autumn sky, and the wall clock continued to "tick" to measure history. The clouds on Funiu Mountain brought the sun without annual rings, so that there would be no age-spotted golden chrysanthemums and no wrinkles in the living room. The sweet carnations waft their youthful fragrance.The nurse in white poked her head in from the aisle, looked at the scene where the two elderly people were embracing and crying, her eyes flickered, and she whispered: "Please pay attention to your heart!" My uncle told me that his and his cousin He Shi’s hearts beat impeccably. When they embraced in the Western style, they could feel each other’s heart beating like a ramming machine on a construction site.Then, He Shi had time to introduce his wife who was traveling with him. She was a lively old man who spoke Shanghai Mandarin and looked much younger than her actual age.She looked as if she was happily verifying a family legend she had long been familiar with, and smiled at the momentary neglect she received. However, Uncle's first greeting to He Shi was: "Shizi, why did you run away?" "What's the matter? Shengzi!" He Shi expressed concise surprise in his unchanged accent. "Forty-two years ago, we prepared good wine for you, why did you run away without making a sound?" "Ask yourself!" He Shi said, "Thirty years of the Republic of China... Oh, I mean, in 1941, as a fugitive wanted by our side, why didn't you live in the place I arranged for you? Why did you escape to Shaanxi again?" My uncle and third aunt were stunned for a moment, and finally found a very simple and easy-to-understand answer to a difficult problem that had bothered me for a long time. "The two brothers Nong are so alike!" Mrs. He Shi scolded her husband, "Don't try to be brave. My family has said that my younger brother was severely punished for Nong and broke a rib!" Uncle's smile froze on his face.It should be admitted that during a criticism meeting during the "Cultural Revolution", he broke a rib precisely for the "He Shi's escape" incident recorded in the file.But he is very vigilant and believes that in front of Shizi, one should not talk about an unfortunate rib of the Communists, which is a rib that has never been broken by the Kuomintang. Shi Zi caressed Sheng Zi's ribs, and asked in a low voice, "Sheng Zi, did you leave any sequelae?" "Everything is fine," said my uncle. "It's time for us to have a quick drink!" "But," He Shi said, "I haven't complained to you yet!" That was when the two elder brothers drank "Moutai" with the tolerance of their wives, and the third aunt used her chopsticks to dip a stone into a Peking roast duck with seasoning, When Mrs. Shizi was asking about the cholesterol content of the roast duck, Shizi touched Shengzi's wine glass with a crisp sound, "Shengzi, brother also suffered a great crime for you!" "Don't talk about this matter today!" Shi Zi's wife said. "Talk, talk!" said my uncle. That is a story belonging to an island. After He Shi escaped, he sneaked into Xuzhou to look for his wife and children. Neighbors told him that relatives from their hometown took them away.He began his escape to the south.On the way, he ran into a major officer who escaped from the captive training camp. The major said in surprise: "Your cousin is a high-ranking official of the Communist Party. Didn't he pick you up?" He Shi said, "I can't go, The brothers died and ran away, our teacher killed himself, and I left like this, am I still human?" The major said: "Good job, let's pretend to be businessmen!" He Shi said that he would like to thank the People's Liberation Army for only capturing his weapons, but not his rings and gold bars, so that the two defeated fugitives could still bribe the boss of the boat, sneak across the Yangtze River, travel day and night, and arrive in Fujian. The last warship evacuated by the Kuomintang to Taiwan. When He Shi arrived in Taiwan, he discovered that his identity as a colonel and even as a soldier had not been confirmed.The organizational system of his army, together with all the soldiers, has disappeared forever on the eastern Henan plain.No unit or individual can prove his past.He himself lost any valid documentation of what he "was".Only the majors who fled with him could prove that they were prisoners of war who had escaped from the PLA prison camps.Fortunately, the major serving in the armored corps found General Jiang Weiguo, the former commander of the armored corps, and Jiang Weiguo came forward as a guarantee, making the major the captain of the maritime anti-smuggling team. team members. The third aunt complained and said: "This is called 'crossing the sea and demolishing bridges', I have wronged you so much!" He Shi said, "Compared to those who died, I am much better!" The third aunt and uncle whispered: "Listen to this, how much like our comrades!" As soon as He Shi became an anti-smuggling team member, he was taken care of by the spies in a timely manner.The incident happened at a dinner party, and the anti-smuggling captain held up a glass of champagne and said: "Be quiet, brothers, I want to toast to Brother He Shi! Do you know that Brother He Shi's cousin is a provincial important member of the Communist Party?" , after he was captured, his cousin came forward to protect him, but he did not forget the kindness of Principal Jiang's cultivation, left his beloved wife and son, disregarded his personal life and death, and ran back to serve the party and the country. Brother He Shi should be a role model for our soldiers and a model of life! Brothers, please raise your glass, let’s toast to Brother He Shi!" Everyone crowded over to clink glasses with him, and He Shi hurriedly poured out the glass He lifted it up and said, "Ashamed, ashamed!" At that time, a "major case of bandit spies" had just occurred in Chiang Kai-shek's "Ministry of National Defense", and a group of "bandit spies" headed by a lieutenant general and deputy chief of staff had been executed.There is a lot of jitters on the island of Taiwan.When everyone toasted He Shi, He Shi saw a pair of eyes changing shape behind the glass, reflecting the light of cat's eyes.He didn't care about it at the time, but a few days later, he was dragged into a car by the special agents on the charge of "suspicion of espionage", and pulled into the deep mountains and old forests, where a months-long secret interrogation began in a small building covered with black curtains. The "spy suspicion" occurred between He Shi's departure from the prison camp and the time when he met the major on the way to escape—only two days, what happened to He Shi?The interrogator and the interrogated went around from different angles.He Shi talked about everything that could be stored in his memory during the past two days, and an innocent little stone talked about it at least three times.It was a very ordinary small stone. He kicked this small stone away on the way to K city, and the eastern Henan plain with a radius of more than one thousand li was covered with endless soil. Only Mangdang Mountain in Yongcheng County had Stone.This stone reminded him that he had already arrived in Yongcheng, which was the junction of the three provinces of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu. It was the time when he had to escape and it was the most suitable time to escape... The agent said, don't talk about the stone, talk about your cousin. I ran away without reaching City K, why did I meet my cousin?He also said that he met a rabbit, yes, it was a hare lying in the rye, it looked around with its ears open, and saw him running away desperately, the rabbit tried to lead him away, the rabbit became his guidepost.Generally speaking, there is no danger to people where rabbits dare to run... Don't talk about rabbits, talk about your cousin! I didn't see my cousin.I was sleeping in a stack of straw, and my neck was itchy, it was an ant... He Shi and the agent pulled it over and over like a big saw.Agents didn't use a punishment device, they just kept him from sleeping.The agents took turns sleeping, all refreshed and in high spirits.He Shi was drowsy and fell straight forward.The agent generously provided him with American Camel cigarettes and coffee that was said to come from Cuba. Three more times he recounted the pleasure caused by the ants on his neck crawling down his spine.When ants come out of their holes, generally speaking, the ground should be thawed, which is good for... The agent said again, say your cousin! ... The big saw cut down from the top of the head, and the saw teeth calmly, one by one, and endlessly tore at the nerves. All the nerve endings were vibrating and flowing with solid sawdust.Shengzi stepped on the sawdust and walked towards him step by step.After talking about stones, rabbits, and ants, it seems that only the cousin is left.No, the cousin must be turned away. He smoked half a pack of Camel cigarettes one after another, and then began to take off his clothes one by one without making a sound, leaving only a pair of shorts to hide his shame.He stood naked, showing agents his scars all over his body like a bodybuilding show, sometimes from the front, sometimes from the side, and sometimes from the back.There were dozens of scars of various shapes and sizes, some of them looked like purple-black shiny bronze mirrors, some of them looked like crooked mouths stitched together by a bad tailor with thick stitches, and some of them looked like scars. It looks like a vortex hole that has never recovered after being drilled through, and there are strange and magnificent patterns composed of dots and flaky scars, like celestial maidens scattering flowers, like stars twinkling in the sky.He opened his arms, looked at the agent provocatively, and said, "Is this beautiful flower bone in my body bitten by a dog?" Feet, shaking a red mirror on the calf bone, "This is the commemoration of the 'Battle of Xu Bang', fortunately, it can still make me run back like a 'bandit spy'!" He pointed at himself "There is only one shot left here, let's do it, guys! Stand at attention, load the gun, aim and shoot!...Haha, my revolution has succeeded! Hahahaha..." He felt dizzy and suddenly fell in the interrogation room. When he woke up, the stars were winking at him from the leaves.He found himself lying in a subtropical hardwood forest with his clothes piled on him.But he lost his gold Parker pen, the only thing of value to him. When he walked to the edge of the woods, he was convinced that the review of him was over, but he also lost his job, lost his team registration and household registration of the anti-smuggling team.The captain of the anti-smuggling team who took him as a "model" saw him, and said, "Please take care!" as if seeing a leper, and hurried away.He began to learn not to live very excitedly and impassionedly for his Principal Jiang, but to stand on the street and practice singing for selling something called "black tea cake", using a singing voice close to that of "black head". , with a grin-like smile to win over the fleeing customers. Uncle and third aunt couldn't figure out what "black tea cake" was, but they could imagine a 34-year-old colonel standing on the street, straightening the back of a soldier who had suffered a gunshot wound, and using a voice accustomed to shouting passwords. Children hawking "tea cakes" or any other "tea cakes" appearance. "You shouldn't have shown proof to the prisoner-of-war training camp." The third aunt was blaming the uncle. "No, that's our obligation to Shizi," said the uncle. In the years they lived through, the cause and effect of things were often messed up. He Shi finally lost the possibility of selling "black tea cakes".The street stalls selling "black tea cakes" were kicked away by the police boots cleaning up the city.He decided to end himself in a more succinct way than police boots destroying "tea cake".Walking in the bay on an empty stomach, he saw a reef whose height and shape were more satisfactory.He climbed onto the rock, dissatisfied with the way he was crawling, straightened up again, jumped off the rock, rolled over, and plunged headfirst into the water. "You shouldn't!" said my uncle. "It's not in your character." "Yes." He Shi said, "The fishermen helped me correct my mistakes." The fishermen caught him as a big fish, put him on a large rock in the shape of a saddle, made him lie down out of the shape of the saddle, squeezed his stomach, and forced him to vomit the salty sea water and a little bit of bitter bile. Absolutely no food residue.A group of alumni of the Whampoa Military Academy found his name and photo in the "Whampoa Military Academy Classmates", wept for him, ran and shouted for him, and the shouts moved heaven and earth.His status as a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy was recognized, and he was able to enjoy the treatment of a second lieutenant when he was assigned after graduation. Then he went through the discharge procedures and became a veteran with a second lieutenant pension. Uncle Ming's youngest daughter, who works in the People's Armed Police Force, came to visit his uncle who came back from Taiwan. The uncle stared at his little niece's epaulettes, his eyes lit up, "Ah, you are also a second lieutenant, and you are of the same class as your uncle!" The uncle had just received the allowance of a retired second lieutenant, and felt compassion for a widow with a young child in her arms who lived on the street.The widow's husband was also a soldier who had retreated to an isolated island, and died of illness in prison for some unknown crime.He Shi used the retired second lieutenant's allowance to take on the responsibility of helping the poor.This widow is the wife who accompanied He Shi back to the mainland to visit relatives. "I am content, I am very content!" He Shi comforted his long-lost relatives, "Think about it afterwards, I was not loyal to Lao Jiang and the 'Dangguo'!" He touched his cousin with his shoulder, " I have harbored important criminals from the Communist bandits! We are still alive, and we have met each other, so I am very content!" He took out a gold ring from his bag and gave it to my third aunt. The third aunt said: "This is the second gold ring you gave me!" "And what about the first gold ring?" "That was in 1941. I put it on my belt, and it later became our revolutionary fund." "Ah, no wonder I lost the battle!" Everyone laughed heartily, but also bitterly. In the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep, my cousin and cousin quietly appeared in the living room.There is only one floor lamp to accompany the two old people, reading the history on their faces with soft light. “石子，你为我受苦了！” “你为我受苦了，胜子！” 在长久的沉默之后，胜子说：“我梦见咱爷了？” 石子说：“我去坟上看了，咱爷在黄土底下还攥着咱俩的红项圈哩！” 一九九七年三月，贺石病逝于台北，终年八十二岁。 贺石临终前，在病榻上给我姨父打电话说：“胜子，关爷派周仓来叫我了，我要先走一步了。”姨父说：“你说过还要回来哩，怎能走了呢？你要给周仓说说，你还不到跟他走的时候。”贺石说：“周仓说，他就是带我回去哩！” 我没有见过贺石大伯。二十一世纪的第一个春天，我去看望姨父时，才得知贺石大伯已成古人。姨父问我，你知道台湾新党的F先生吗？我说知道，常在报纸和电视新闻里看到他，一个长得很帅气的中年人，是反对“台独”，坚持“一个中国”的。姨父说，他就是贺石抚养成人的养子，曾留学美国，拿到了两个学位，当过蒋经国的秘书，眼下，正为两岸的统一奔忙，很有出息。 我到坡底镇看望了狗娃夫妻和留在他们身边的一个女儿。狗娃表弟也有五十多岁了，两鬓已经斑白。他领我去看了关爷庙，那里仍是镇上的小学。正是放学时候，我们进了大殿。阳光从雕花的窗棂里斜射进来，把扑朔迷离的光斑和一根根老柱子的阴影印在地上。大殿里静悄悄、空荡荡的，好像仍旧是聚会的地方。地上铺着清朝乾隆年间的方砖，却留着一大块没有铺砖的黑土地面。狗娃表弟说，那是当年关爷站的地方，大殿小修过几次，怕关爷回来找不到地方，就留着这块黑土，让关爷回来时落脚。 出了关爷庙向东，在村边小河岸上，有狗娃表弟的长长一绺“责任田”。麦苗绿茵茵的，长得很旺。他在地头拔了一株野草说，这草小名“毛毛狗”，大名野麦穗，活得可泼皮了。我问他，草都有个大名，你咋没个大名？他说，我爹回来时，我也问过。我爹说，你就叫狗娃，贺家的人都走完了，留着你这个狗娃看家。