Chapter 11 9

In the past two days, the Jiefang Daily has been in chaos and panic.Lan Yiqun, the president of the newspaper, was reported for corruption and detained.The newspaper has also officially announced that he "has inextricably linked with the landlord class... embezzled 220 million yuan of public funds, speculated in partnership with businessmen, and accepted gifts worth more than 10 million yuan from his subordinates." The Three Antis Movement has reached a fever pitch, and whistleblowing letters are piling up like a mountain.The Committee for Increasing Production and Savings—that is, the Headquarters of the Three Antis—dispatched a group of cadres from various agencies to review materials.Liu Quan once participated in the study of the Three Antis, and was also transferred.The organization tried to use young cadres like him to work on the front line of the Three Antis, nominally saying that they were "politically clean and of good character, but they often fluctuated in their thinking and their positions were not firm enough, so they could be on the front line of the Three Antis." Give it a test and exercise.” In fact, it is because they are newcomers, and they don’t have a deep relationship with various aspects, so they are less partial.The whistleblowing letters they inspected all reported the crimes of cadres above the director of the department.

One day Liu Quan opened a letter to report Mayor Chen Yi, signed "a loyal party member".The letter said that in 1946, Chen Yi led the East China Field Army reorganized from the New Fourth Army and was trapped in the mountainous area of ​​central and southern Shandong.Yan'an sent people to send a large amount of fake French currency to provide them with necessities in the Kuomintang-ruled areas.Chen Yi sent cadres disguised as businessmen to sneak into Qingdao, Jinan, to buy medicine for the wounded.But only half of the money was used to buy medical equipment and medicines, and the rest was bought for fur coats, eiderdown quilts, leather boots, and leather gloves.In addition, a lot of canned food was bought to give the wounded soldiers "nutritious meals".But the "loyal party member" said: "I was seriously injured at that time, and I slept in a tent without a quilt. I heard that there were these foods, but I didn't see them. Later I found that they were all piled up in Chen In the Commander’s headquarters, when we exited Shandong Zhongnan, it was completely gone.”

He also accused Chen Yi of repeatedly delaying military planes, disobeying loyal advice, losing soldiers, and letting the enemy go.The blind attack on Kinmen Island in 1949 was another disastrous failure.The wording was very serious. After reading it, Liu Quan didn't know how to deal with it, so he took it immediately and asked his superiors for instructions. The leader of their group is not an outsider, but Comrade Cui Ping of the East China Branch of the Anti-Aid Association.Liu Quan had little contact with Cui Ping in the past, but he only knew that he had a lot of airs.Nowadays, many senior cadres wear suits, but he is not good enough to wear a suit in terms of his status, so he always wears a well-tailored and well-pressed black wool people's suit, which further accentuates his long, fair and smooth face. big mouth.It's just that he always has an unpleasant pimple look on his face.There were also people who talked behind his back, saying that his unhappiness might be because of a lover like Lai Xiuying, but how he fell in love with her is still a mystery.

Liu Quan delivered the letter to his office. He was holding a bloodstone stamp, carefully picking the red mud in the stamp with a toothpick.Liu Quan remembered that when he first came last year, people like Zhao Chu and Cuiping were still simple and used wooden stamps, but now everyone has a lot of exquisite jade and ivory stamps, all of which are gifts from others.Although they don't manage finances, they inevitably come into contact with some businessmen, and hope that they will "show" them.As usual, the lighter gifts for cadres are always American fountain pens and watches, but later, some people racked their brains and gave them stone-carved seals, which are elegant and generous, and do not leave traces of bribery.Therefore, it has become a fashion of the moment, and the cadres all pay attention to this way.

"Comrade Cui," Liu Quan said, "I would like to ask Comrade Cui to read this letter. I wonder if it should be filed." Cui Ping frowned and took the stack of letter paper.However, after reading only two lines, his impatient look disappeared immediately, and he hurriedly turned to the last page to see who had signed it.Then quickly closed the page again, as if afraid of being seen. "Let me handle this material," he said to Liu Quan, raising his head. Liu Quan was about to leave when Cui Ping suddenly called "Comrade Liu".He smiled at Liu Quan, "During the three-anti-campaign campaign, we must especially emphasize organization. The information you have handled must be kept absolutely confidential except for disclosure to me."

"I know," Liu Quan said. Cui Ping slightly nodded to him, indicating that he could go. When Liu Quan came out, he couldn't help but have various speculations.Judging from the tone of the whistleblower letter, he knew such details about the inside story of the army, and the person who wrote it was at least a cadre above the battalion level.He once heard that Cui Ping and Zhao Chu used to be Chen Yi's subordinates.Looking at Cui Ping's nervous look just now, it may not be that the letter "reversely" landed on Chen Yi's head because the letter was too bold.He seemed to be afraid of the person who wrote the letter. ──Could it be written by Zhao Chu?The crooked handwriting seems to have been pretentious, but to put it bluntly, it does resemble Zhao Chu's handwriting.

Chen Yi's status would never be shaken by this, Liu Quan thought, unless this letter happened to be caught by his political opponents and used wisely.However, judging from recent trends, although the Three Antis Movement appears to be vigorous and vigorous, the general senior cadres are still rarely affected.Rao Shushi, chairman of the East China Military and Political Committee, and Liu Xiao, director of the People's Supervisory Committee, who preside over the Three Antis, have already been convicted for going too far.Eager to seek credit, they dismissed a large number of senior leading cadres within the party, "weakening the party's fighting strength."This time, the "Three Anti Work Cadres Conference" was held, and the two of them were not seen on the rostrum, but two other unfamiliar faces.Since then, he has not been seen elsewhere, and has been missing since then.Everyone secretly thought it was strange, but gradually heard that Jao Shushi had been transferred to the Beijing Institute of Marxism-Leninism to study, and Liu Xiao had also been dismissed from his part-time job as "Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Committee for Increasing Production and Savings" and was no longer in charge of the Three Antis.

It is a bit dangerous for this informer to strike a stone with a pebble.Finally, this letter fell into Cui Ping's hands.Just now Cui Ping specifically asked him to keep it a secret, perhaps because he wanted to destroy the letter. That night Liu Quan came back to the dormitory, but there was an unexpected thing waiting for him.Zhang Li has been released.This is yet another evidence of the government's lenient policy towards "our own people".At this point, the Communist Party seems to have retained the old-fashioned gang style.As for party members, they always boasted when they "rebelled", but they were punished lightly afterwards.Before that, Zhang Li was locked up and treated like a tiger. For twelve nights in a row, the party group held review meetings every night.At first he also complained, but finally confessed bitterly, "After arriving in Shanghai, there was a qualitative change in his thinking." In addition to having an affair with Goshen, he often went to the dance hall for a period to "criticize the corruption of the bourgeoisie." life" and was finally seduced by a dancing girl.His source of income was kickbacks from printing houses and paper merchants, but such opportunities were rare, so the amount of corruption was not large.The party branch made his confession public, and declared: "Under the education of the Communist Party, he finally saved him." At the same time, because of his thorough confession, he was promoted to a higher level, saying: "We must practice Test him."

Zhang Li was a blessing in disguise, and this time he came back to the dormitory, it can be regarded as a glorious return, but he lost a lot of weight.Liu Quan expressed his condolences to him, and felt embarrassed, because now he knew that Zhang Li had known the secret between him and Geshan.What happened to Zhang Li this time was mainly due to Ge Shan's harming him, so that both crimes were committed.Seeing that Liu Quan is still safe and "at large", Ge Shan is obviously protecting him and using others to do the surgery.Don't Zhang Li hate him? Zhang Li's attitude seemed calm, as if nothing had happened.Liu Quan said to himself: "Communists really don't care about the relationship between men and women." But after all, he has known Zhang Li for quite a long time, and he knows from other aspects that he is by no means a large number of people.

The two slept in the same room that night, Liu Quan always felt very uneasy, fell asleep with great difficulty, and woke up again before dawn, so he woke up very early that day.I also came out early, and the gate of the Production Increase and Conservation Committee had not been opened yet, so I had to wander in the streets.It was a cold and rainy morning, there was no one on the road, only one or two maids came back from buying vegetables, with big green vegetables leaning on the baskets, the leaves of which were covered with ice flowers.Occasionally, a bell rang, and a tricycle slid past quietly. The driver wore an orange and butter cloth cloak like a coir raincoat.There was no door nearby to shelter from the rain, so Liu Quan raised the collar of his raincoat, walked along the black-painted bamboo fence, and then walked back.

A car was parked in front of the Production Increase and Conservation Committee. Just now I saw the driver lying on the front seat with his legs curled up and sleeping, but now he sat up, opened the car door, exhaled a mouthful of phlegm from his throat, and spit it on the street. . "Morning, Comrade Liu!" The man greeted him with a yawn.Liu Quan recognized him as Cui Ping's driver, nodded and smiled at him and said, "I came early today, and the door hasn't opened yet." "Get in the car and sit for a while──It's raining." "No need," Liu Quan said, but the driver had already opened the rear door for him, so he stepped in.The air inside was very turbid, with a breath of deep sleep. "I didn't go back last night. I had no choice but to deal with it all night in the car. My neck was sore from sleep." The driver yawned again, and rubbed his back against the cotton uniform twice instead of scratching it. "Why didn't you go back?" The driver slightly raised his face in the direction of the office, probably referring to Cui Ping. "I've been working overnight, and I'm still upstairs at the moment." Liu Quan thought that the owner of the car might come out at any time, and he was very reluctant to be found sitting in his car. "I'll go over there to buy a pack of cigarettes." He opened the car door. "I also have to buy something to eat. Cough, hard work!" The driver turned around and said to him with a smile, "Being a driver and a job, working for the mayor may not be like us eating big cakes. I went to Mayor Chen’s house yesterday, and he was really rich—I heard the servant scolding the staff of Yanyun Building: “The roast duck is brought in every day, and the duck is getting thinner every day, and it has no taste at all!” He pushed the door open. He jumped out of the car, locked the door, and walked to the pancake stand at the corner of the road. Liu Quan stood on the sidewalk, but was stunned.Did Cui Ping go to Chen Yi's place yesterday?Is it related to that whistleblower letter?Logically, this letter is of great importance, and should be handled by the superior, and the superior is Chen Yi—he is the commander-in-chief of the Three Antis.but…… Liu Quan walked slowly along the bamboo fence again.This letter must not have been written by Zhao Chu, otherwise, would Cui Ping and a good friend like him betray him?Just as I was thinking of this, I suddenly heard a car horn beeping, and when I turned around, I saw a worker in the office standing beside the car and frantically pressing the horn. The driver had already rushed over from the corner of the road. Stuff it in your mouth.At the same time, Cui Ping came out of the gate in a gust of wind. Probably because he hadn't slept all night, his face was pale, his eyes were full of red hair, his beard had not been shaved in time, and his cheeks were green with stubble. It's a look of murderous intent.Liu Quan was staring at him in a daze, the car had already driven away with a whine. "Go to Mayor Chen," Cui Ping said harshly to the driver, and he leaned heavily on the rear mat. The rain glistened on the car windows.The inside of the car is still full of the thick smell of sleep, and the oily smell of cold fried dough sticks is added. The letter was delivered yesterday, and in Chen Yi's hands, Zhao Chu was dead anyway.Writing another report to report him would not count as adding insult to injury.Stones cannot harm dead bodies.Cui Ping told himself that this was just like using a dead body as a cover on a battlefield. The report, written overnight, was thick and packed in his pocket. He could feel the pocket pressing against his hip bone, and the place was numb. Zhao Chu's crimes listed in the report are not entirely correct.Only he sent his subordinate People's Liberation Army to smuggle and sell drugs, that's true, but who hasn't done this?Zhao Chu is still the most timid one. He has lived in the army for a long time, and he is not good at adapting to the current environment. He is not very good at extorting bribes and cheating.However, Chen Yi once said in his lecture on the Three Antis: "As long as the report is 5% correct, it will be fine." The report also mentioned the past friendship between him and Zhao Chu, saying: "In the past, he did not hesitate to risk his life to rescue each other. The most important thing.” But even though they denied the past, they still described in detail how they saved each other’s lives time and time again.Because the deeper their relationship, of course, the greater his sacrifice.Although he has no parents or brothers to report against in the Three Antis, at least he can sacrifice such a confidant as the most noble dedication. This will probably always be able to stabilize the difficulties of the Three Antis, he thought, and it can be upgraded. Of course his purpose is not here.It was really a last resort to send the letter of denouncing Chen Yi to Chen Yi yesterday.He originally wanted to hide it, but how could he hide it? When it was leaked out one by one, everyone knew his friendship with Zhao Chu. Of course, they were accomplices, and they were bound to die together. He is not afraid of death, he told himself.It is glorious to fall on the battlefield, but to fall in the Three Antis campaign is to deny the entire revolutionary history of oneself. Contradictoryly, he wished he could save Zhao Chu again on the line of fire, clearly knowing his intentions. The rain-wiping needle on the front glass of the car kept sweeping back and forth, and the sound of "Gai—Ge—Ge—Ge—" sounded.His thoughts also followed suit.Zhao Chu kept this informant letter from him all the time, probably out of good intentions.Afraid that he would be implicated, he got into trouble and prepared to "do everything in his life".Oh, the fool!Cui Ping is actually one year younger than him, but he always feels that he is older than him, and sometimes he feels that he has bullied him.At that time in Yan'an, he loved a woman. Of course, Cui Ping was more clever in courtship. One day when he asked her out for a walk, he kissed her, and he felt very guilty in his heart, thinking it was an act of treason.It was so silly back then. He smiled, self-deprecatingly, with a slight sense of wistfulness. "Government—Government—Government—Government---" The rain-wiping needle kept sweeping over and over, but it seemed that it would never wipe away the vertical and horizontal tear stains on the glass.If anyone was crying, it was a boy who had been dead for many years. When he arrived at Chen Yi's residence, Cui Ping sat in the reception room and waited until one or two o'clock in the afternoon before seeing Chen Yi.But Chen was very affectionate to him and kept him for dinner. He ate the roast duck from Yanyun Tower.He came out of Chen's mansion, sat in the car, felt his cheeks were very rough, remembered that he hadn't shaved in the morning, so he ordered the driver to go to the hairdresser, shaved his head and face calmly, and then returned to the Production Increase and Conservation Committee. "A Comrade Zhou Yubao came here just now," the office worker reported to him, "He said he had something urgent to see Comrade Cui. I have been waiting for a long time. I just left." It turned out that things had already started, and it was really fast. When he went back that night, Lai Xiuying rushed to tell him the news of Zhao Chu's arrest as soon as she saw him, and told him that Zhou Yubao had gone out to ask for help.Cui Ping didn't want to talk to her too much, he just said that he was tired. He had a meeting all night yesterday and didn't go to sleep. Today he was going to bed early.Just about to undress and go to bed, Zhou Yubao rushed in hastily, shouting, "Comrade Cui is back! I'm so anxious! I can't find you!" Cui Ping sat slumped on the edge of the bed, pressed a palm on his eyes, and slowly wiped them tiredly. "What's going on?" He asked, "I just heard that too." He has always disliked Zhou Yubao.Maybe because she was too brave.Perhaps because of her strong feminine air, a man who does not love her has a slight antipathy towards her.No matter why he didn't like her, it was true that she was always hostile to him.But today, as soon as she saw him, she immediately burst into tears, choking so hard that she couldn't speak. "Don't worry, it's useless," Lai Xiuying said next to him, "Let Cui Ping try to find out tomorrow. He had a meeting last night and stayed up all night. Now let him rest──" "Don't worry, don't worry," Cui Ping also comforted her: "As long as someone makes a report, no matter whether there is evidence or not, they should be arrested first and beat like a tiger. Otherwise, it is undemocratic and afraid of reducing the enthusiasm of the public to report. Don't you know? , This is a principle of the Three Antis.” Yu Bao sobbed for a while, and finally said: "Before I left, I didn't say anything, just told me to find you to find a solution." When Cui Ping heard this, it was as if a needle had been stabbed in his heart, and his face twitched involuntarily.He lowered his head, wearily put one hand on his forehead, and wiped across his eyes. "Which side are they coming from?" he asked. "It's people from the Public Security Bureau who cooperated with the People's Liberation Army." "Do you know where you are betting now?" "I've been running outside for a day, but I haven't found out yet." Cui Ping became a little worried. "Who did you go to?" "Comrade Zeng of the People's Supervisory Committee, you didn't know each other when you were in Yan'an, and old Fei from the Ministry of Public Security is also an acquaintance." Cui Ping became anxious. "I advise you to stop running around here and there," he said with a frown, "At this time, everyone has their own concerns, and it is a violation of discipline to ask casually like this, and it will hinder him instead." When Yu Bao heard this, he couldn't help feeling angry, thinking that he himself was not enthusiastic about helping, but he was not allowed to ask others for help.She sneered and said, "Yes! You said it. Everyone has their own concerns, and they may not be willing to help. So Zhao Chu is a fool—for friends, even his wife and children even risk their own lives. Ken threw it away, I think it's not worth it for him!" Cui Ping still frowned and said: "This is not the time to complain, you should calm down, stand firm, and wait for the government to deal with everything. The government is the most wise and will never punish a person wrongly. To believe in the government is to believe in Own." Yubao heard that his tone was becoming more and more wrong, she suspected that he must have heard some rumors, knowing that Zhao Chu's crime was very serious, no wonder he was so indifferent, tried his best to avoid suspicion, and hid far away. "Comrade Cui," she said in a trembling voice suddenly, "if even you...even you don't care about his affairs, what hope is there?" A child fell to his death, I'll show you to death!" "What are you talking about?" Cui Ping stood up impatiently. "The master is being wronged!" Lai Xiuying said, "Come on, Cui Ping didn't go to sleep after a meeting all night yesterday, and he came back today after he was busy at this time, and he didn't let him rest. You can't force him to death right now use." "Comrade Zhou, calm down," Cui Ping pressed her shoulders and pushed her out of the room. "Don't be so nervous, tomorrow we will slowly figure out a way." Yu Bao originally wanted to hurt him a few words, but now is not the time to offend anyone, and it would be bad if he got into a fight with him, so he had to take this opportunity to step down, go back to his room, cry a lot, and stayed up all night. Eye.Go out early the next morning and run around to rescue.Relying on their long revolutionary history and their acquaintance with many people, although no one would welcome anyone to visit during the Three Antis period, especially those who had gone wrong; but after all, they are old comrades for many years. "Love", Yubao ran for several days, and found out some news.I heard that Zhao Chu was reported for corruption, the case is serious, and now he is being held in Tilanqiao Prison, and his family members are absolutely not allowed to visit him, or send him clothes and quilts.Yubao called for grievances everywhere, tried her best to ensure that there was no corruption for him, and showed her housekeeping skills like a rural woman, crying and rolling all over the place. Even the ministers and bureau chiefs she knew couldn't restrain her.The director of the party branch visited her twice, urging her to calmly reflect and collect information to help report her lover.Instead, she seized this opportunity and tried her best to clean up for him.Both sides talked with their tongues and lips burning, but to no avail. Yubao ran outside like crazy all day long.Zhao Chu was arrested last Wednesday, and on the next Tuesday, she hit a few snags and came back disheartened. As soon as she got home, the orderly came up to her and told her: "The police station came and said that they had been shot this morning. Tell the family members to collect the corpse, and there are some relics, ask to bring them back.” The weather was fine that day, with warm sunlight coming in from the window at the stairway, a laborer rode on the window to clean the glass, and the gray rag gave off a damp smell.Yu Bao was walking on the stairs, and could clearly hear the tram running outside and the school bell.The world was still going on as usual, and she hated it all. She hated the nanny standing in the doorway with her baby in her arms, watching blankly.In the past two days, the nanny has been isolated just like her, and everyone stays far away from her.Yu Bao ran into the room, closed the door with a bang, fell on the bed and cried loudly.But to her, the cry seemed extremely weak and distant, like a heavy door padded with thick fleece, a door between life and death.He couldn't hear her. The afternoon sun shone on the silent piano, and also on the two phones, one black and one white.No one has called for a long time, and in the sunlight you can see that the smooth phone is covered with a layer of dust. The silent phone call also added to the weight on her heart.Her sobbing gradually died down.But she grabbed the sheets and beat the bed, as if she was beating on the thick velvet cushioned door of life and death. "The heinous corrupt criminal Zhao Chu who resisted the Three Antis was executed by shooting the day before yesterday." Liu Quan saw this shocking line of text in the newspaper, and hurriedly read it again, and there was a more detailed record: "Zhao was accused of corruption and waste, condoning the law and discipline, and smuggling and tax evasion. He has a bad style of work, is disorganized, disrespects discipline, resists the leadership, and refuses to confess. He has been expelled from the party, arrested and brought to justice, and executed in the early morning of the day before yesterday.” Liu Quan thought to himself, the so-called "refusing to confess" is just that sentence.Regardless of whether he confessed or not, anyway, when he was about to be sentenced to death, the hat of "refusing to confess" was put on his head.Liu Quan calculated that it was less than a week since he opened the letter of denouncing Chen Yi and Zhao Chu executed him.Chen Yi is really tricky.Liu Quan thought that he was Zhao Chu's subordinate, and Zhou Yubao relied on her as the boss's wife, and always sent him to do this and that. People thought he was their confidant, which really made him feel a little terrified. After dinner that day, the worker in the dormitory suddenly called him and said, "A lesbian is looking for you." Liu Quan thought it was Huang Juan.She said she would come to see him today if she was free.But when he walked into the reception room and took a look, he never imagined that it was Zhou Yubao.The more afraid of being implicated, the more he will be cast on him.Yu Bao had never been to the dormitory of their lower-level cadres, so it was strange to be seen by everyone. "Hey, Comrade Zhou, please sit down." He felt embarrassed and didn't know how to express his condolences about Zhao Chu's death. Zhou Yubao probably knew that it was difficult for him to speak, so before he could open his mouth, he smiled and asked, "Have you eaten yet? I have something to trouble you with, can I do it?" "As long as I can do it──" "I wrote a self-review, and the party branch plans to send it to the News Daily. But you know my level—" She smiled at him, "The writing is really shameful, I want you to give it to me edit a bit." "You're too polite, what can I do," Liu Quan said with a smile. "You're being polite, I'll take it as looking down on me and refusing to help." Suddenly her eyes turned red, implying that the world is cold. Liu Quan couldn't let her think that he was also that kind of snob, so he had to take the manuscript and read it. She is really talented.The headline is very eye-catching, "The traitor Zhao Chu poisoned me".Zhou Yubao's name was signed on it.Although the content is sometimes not very smooth, it is concise and to the point, and she can use the vocabulary of the Communist Party flexibly. "Leave it here and change it slowly, I'll get it later," Yu Bao said. "It will be fine soon, there is nothing to change," Liu Quan said hastily.He was really afraid of her coming again. He slightly corrected two places, and read it again from the beginning, but he felt a lot of emotions in his heart.The article said: "I was born in a middle peasant family. When I was twelve years old, the Communist Party liberated my hometown, Cangshang Village, Ye County, Shandong. Comrades at work mobilized us to join the Youth League, and I was very happy in the Youth League. Active and hardworking, I was allowed to join the party when I was fifteen. Since then, I have been engaged in public work. I met the traitor Zhao Chu. At that time, I thought that although he was born in the petty bourgeoisie, he had a clean history. He went to Yan'an to participate in the revolution when he was a university student, and shed blood for the revolution.We are politically close, and we can help each other at work, so we bonded. After the overall victory, we were transferred to Shanghai to work together. We were assigned a beautiful and comfortable room with a refrigerator, an electric stove, and an exquisite piano.Our two children have babysitters and beautiful toys.I often dress them in beautiful children's clothes and take them to the movies with the traitor Zhao Chu in a car.I gradually developed a hedonic outlook and embarked on a path of corruption. The Three Antis Movement has begun.A traitor to the people and a traitor to the country, Zhao Chu was accused of corruption and betrayal of the revolution, but I was not good at politics and was always deceived by him, convinced that he was innocent.After he was arrested, I ran around, appealing and defending him.The organization repeatedly tried to win me over and mobilized me to help report him, but I was still obsessed and stood by him.I pleaded and cried out to all parties.Until the end, I still dreamed that the government would definitely forgive him. It wasn't until I heard the news that the traitor Zhao Chu had been executed that I suddenly came to my senses and came to my senses.Because I know that the people's government will never kill a person by mistake.His execution is the ironclad proof of his crime. I now understand that I made the worst mistake of all, consciously siding with the corrupt.I am grateful to the people's government for liberating me from the influence of traitor Zhao Chu's poisoning and anesthesia, correcting and educating me in time so that I can serve the people better in the future. " What Liu Quan found most strange was why she immediately woke up when she heard the news of his death.She seems to be emphasizing this point, and it feels very real when she says it.She suddenly quieted down, neither crying nor fussing, maybe it was just because he was dead.He was dead, but she was still alive, and so young. She sat on the other side of the table, crossed her arms, propped her elbows on the table, and stared silently forward. Her handsome dark face was facing the light, her eyelids were rubbed red, like Rouge. Liu Quan immediately condemned himself for not thinking like this.Writing such a text is nothing more than routine.This is also a new kind of tyranny created under the CCP’s rule. The family members of the murdered are required to write a confession, scolding the deceased, and praising his executioner. ".Yu Bao kept calling "the traitor Zhao Chu" just because she was thinking about the safety of herself and her children. From the Communist Party's point of view, with her background, she not only has the noble qualities of a peasant, but also has no contact with other cultures except for party education. She should be the purest and most ideal party member. However, the environment After getting a little more comfortable, it immediately "degenerates". Liu Quan thinks this kind of view is a bit ridiculous.From a more realistic point of view, she is just a simple professional woman, which is equivalent to a country girl who was cultivated by a missionary with money, found a good job for her, married happily, gave birth to two children, and enjoyed a good life. A small middle-class family lives in a big city, but unfortunately encounters market fluctuations, causing her family to be ruined.Liu Quan's sympathy for her is also based on this point of view. She took the manuscript and read it again, and after thanking him again, she still sat still and lowered her head to remove the lint that came out of the cloth hole of her cotton uniform. "I'm going to be transferred to the Yangshupu Public Security Bureau to work," she said. He knew that the treatment must be very bad. "Are you ready to take the child with you?" She shook her head. "There's no one to take care of them there, and I can't leave them alone. I'm going to ask someone to send them to the countryside and hand them over to their grandmother." "It's good, you can work with peace of mind." Besides, he couldn't think of anything to comfort her. The tiny studs of batting on her cotton uniform seemed to last forever. "My level of education is too low. Please introduce a few books to me. I hope I can make some progress." Liu Quan coughed slightly. "I don't know any new books that have been published recently. I've always been so busy that I haven't read a book for a long time." There was a moment of silence.Then she stood up and showed her usual bright smile, but her eyes were red and her throat was a little rusty, which added a sense of desolation. "I'm leaving. Come and see me when you have time. I heard that you are improving very fast. I really have to learn from you." She reached out to hold his hand, and Liu Quan suddenly remembered the expression on her and Zhao Chu's solemn practice of shaking hands. At this moment, he felt miserable and funny. "You must come to Yangshupu to see me when you have time," she urged again.There was a look in her Liu Hei eyes that he didn't want to see, and he didn't want to admit it when he saw it. After she left, he thought to himself, when people used to say, "Human feelings are as thin as paper", they still referred to ordinary relatives and friends. He thought of Cui Ping from Yubao.In this world now, even the most intimate relationship is like a layer of paper, which can be worn through with a pinch.He was very depressed, and he was looking forward to Huang Juan's arrival.He had to see her to be quiet. He was sitting upstairs reading the newspaper and waiting for her.Suddenly I heard someone calling "Comrade Liu." Looking back, it was a public security policeman.Smiling and standing under the light. "Are you Liu Quan?" The man asked again, but the smile on his face had already faded away. "Yes." Liu Quan put down the newspaper and stood up. The policeman walked into the room, followed by two policemen, two PLA armed with guns. "Please go to the Public Security Bureau to talk." This is probably always the case when such things happen to me.He felt as if he was in a dream. "Why? What did I do?" "Let's go! You'll know when you get there." "Is this arresting me?" "Let's go!" They pushed him out.Many faces were crowded on the stairs, looking down blankly.Zhang Li must be included.Many reasons for being convicted flashed through Liu Quan's mind like lightning.Mainly he still remembered Zhang Li's grudge against him. He hoped that when he walked out of the gate, he would meet Huang Juan so that he could see her.At the same time, he was afraid that she would come over at this time and see his embarrassed look. Less than five minutes after the arresting truck drove away, Huang Juan arrived, and the onlookers crowded on the stairs hadn't dispersed yet.She realized that there was something unusual about the air in their dormitory. "Is Comrade Liu at home?" she asked. "Hey, Comrade Huang, when did you come to the south?" Zhang Li was obviously very surprised when he saw her. "Do you still know me?" He smiled and walked downstairs. "We did land reform together." "We know each other," Huang Juan said with a smile.The fact is that she often heard Liu Quan mention him, and he was detained in isolation for self-reflection. She also knew that he had already been released. "Are you looking for Liu Quan?" Zhang Li frowned and said in a low voice, "Just now someone from the Public Security Bureau came, and I also went to talk, but I don't know why." Huang Juan suddenly turned pale. "Didn't say why?" She said nah na. "I just don't know! Do you have any clues?" He stared at her. "You know Liu Quan very well, right? You were very close during the land reform, didn't you? I didn't even know that." He had a strange smile on his face, filled with surprise, jealousy and pleasure that couldn't be concealed. Huang Juan did not forget how he used his power to attack her at that time.Of course he gloated that Liu Quan was arrested.It is useless to ask more questions with such people.Zhao Chu, the person in charge of Liu Quan's own unit, was in trouble and was shot. Besides, there was no one to ask. He had been a liaison officer in Jiefang Daily for a long time, so he should go to Jiefang Daily to inquire. She walked in such a hurry, as if she was afraid of getting involved. When she rushed to the Jiefang Daily, she only knew Geshan among their staff, and she met at the local product exhibition that day, and it was just a quick meeting, but she and Liu Quan seemed to be very close friends and veteran cadres, so there must be a connection Wider, maybe even helpful.Knowing that it is extremely unpopular to go looking for someone at this time, because it is too late for everyone to avoid suspicion, but I can't take care of this much. She found Ge Shan and told her about Liu Quan's arrest.Gesan was also stunned, and immediately stood up, put on gloves, and put on a scarf. "I'm going back too, let's go together," she said. Huang Juan also understood what she meant, because it was inconvenient to speak in the newspaper office.The two walked out together. It was after ten o'clock at night, but there is no night market in Shanghai now.尤其是在这中区，都是些商店与营业的大厦，一到了晚上，完全一片死寂。若干年来这些房屋都是些钩心斗角的商战的堡垒，然而也只限于日间，夜里是毫无人烟，成为一座废弃的古城。在那淡淡的月光里，只看见那些高楼上一只只黑洞洞的窗户；回教堂风味的白粉雕空门楼下，一重重的铁栅栏封闭着里面广大的黑暗。 她们沿着旧南京路走着，寒风凛洌，路上一个人也没有。但是在电线杆的黑影里发现一个女人，穿著件绒线衫，牵着个五六岁的小孩站在那里。现在这些秘密营业的妓女大都带着个孩子作为烟幕。 「要是跟赵楚的事有关，这事情就麻烦了，」戈珊低声说。 「不过刘荃决不会贪污的，」黄绢焦急地说：「我可以替他担保，他的事我全知道，他什么话都对我说的。」 戈珊听了这话特别刺耳，就像是在她面前炫示他们的亲密。「哦，他的事你全知道，」戈珊想。「我们的事你就不知道！」她一时气愤，差一点要立刻替他揭穿那秘密，叫这女人且慢得意。但是再一想，这样做似乎迹近无聊。结果还是忍下了这口气，只冷冷地说了声：「现在这时候，谁还能替谁担保，自己先不知道自己有没有问题。」 黄绢听她这口吻彷佛是拒绝帮忙的意思，刚才看她很热心的样子，怎么忽然变了态度，也不知道自己什么地方说错了话，把人家得罪了。「我不知道，可是我实在不知道怎么办好，一个人也不认识，也没处去打听。」她说到这里，嗓子已经硬了起来，别过头去擦眼泪。「无论如何要请戈同志给想想办法。」 戈珊半晌没作声。然后她说：「要不然，你试试看，去找申凯夫。他虽然是搞文化宣传的，跟政保处的关系很深。」 「不知道见得着他见不着。」 「要不，我先打个电话去试试，给你约一个时候。」 「那真是……费心了，」黄绢十分感激地说：「你跟他熟不熟？」 「也谈不上熟，认是认识的。」黄绢踌躇了一下，自己觉得是得寸进尺，但是终于鼓起了勇气说：「要是你能够陪我去一趟，那更好了。」 「我才犯不着呢，」戈珊心里想。「刘荃是你的私有财产，我凭什么要去钻头觅缝救他？将来让他知道我跟黄绢这样双双地『联袂』四出求救，倒让他笑话，想着我就这样痴心！」她嘴里只说：「我想你还是一个人去的好。我们报社的社长给撤职查办了，这两天我们这些同事们大家都得谨慎着点，那儿也不便去。」 她掏出一本记事簿来撕下一页，在路灯下写出申凯夫办公处的地址，交给黄绢。黄绢再三向她道谢，想紧紧地握住她的手。但是她正忙着把记事簿归还原处，自来水笔也仍旧插到口袋上，就根本没理会人家伸出来的那只手。而且随即大声唤着「三轮车！三轮车！」马路对面有一辆三轮车，被她喊了过来，她跳上车去，略向黄绢点了点头，就这样走了。 黄绢虽然觉得她这人有点奇怪，一方面很肯热心帮忙，却又是这样冷淡得近于憎恶的神气。但是她积有一年多的工作经验，也曾经接触到许多老干部，一切都见怪不怪了。在北京流行着这样的话：「五个老干部，倒有两个是疯子，两个是肺病患者。」她想到这里，如果不是现在心情这样沉重，几乎要微笑。 戈珊很费了点事，和申凯夫通了个电话，居然替黄绢约了个时间去见他。她觉得她已经仁至义尽了。再要为刘荃的事操心，她也未免太傻了。 但是有一天她见到一个公安局的朋友，又忍不住向他打听刘荃的事，据这人说：大概不碍事。有人检举刘荃是赵楚的心腹，有两件贪污的事都是由他经手的。不过检举人对于赵楚的罪状根本也不清楚，指控刘荃与他合作，也提不出具体的证据。不过因为涉及赵楚，上头余怒未息，所以郑重其事地抓了来。 戈珊听了这话，方才放下心来，也就把这件事撩在脑后了。 有一天她夜里从报馆回家来，看见有一个黑影缩成一团坐在那露天楼梯上。起初她以为是她的一个爱人在那里等她。三反还没有结束，大家实在是应当小心一点。她很不高兴，皱着眉问了声，「谁？」 那人没有立刻答应，却慢慢扶着铁阑干站起身来。「戈同志，是我。」是黄绢的声音，她似乎在啜泣着。 「啊，真想不到，这样晚了你会来找我。」 戈珊从容地走上楼梯，拿出钥匙来开门。她向自己微笑着，心里想：「申凯夫侮辱她了？这样半夜三更跑了来向原介绍人哭诉。」 黄绢跟在她后面走了进去。「你等了我多久了？冻僵了吧？请坐请坐。」 「戈同志！」黄绢大概哭得时间太长了，虽然停止了，仍旧抑制不住一阵阵轻微的抽噎。「刘荃完了，」她说。 "what?" 「这时候说不定已经鎗毙了。」她脸上现出奇异的微笑。 「你哪儿听来的这些话？」 黄绢无精打彩地说：「今天见到了申凯夫。」 「你今天才去找他吗？」戈珊气愤地说。 「去过好几次了。」 「回回他都接见？喝，我的面子倒真不小！」戈珊突然狂笑了起来。「怎么──他怎么说？」 「他很热心，答应去调查一下，叫我再去听回音。去过两次，今天忽然说得到了消息，已经内定了要处死刑。」 「怎么我前两天还听见说不要紧的──奇怪不奇怪？」戈珊才点上了一支香烟，又心神不属地在桌上揿灭了它，而且揿了又揿。 「你听见谁说的？」黄绢突然兴奋起来。「靠得住吗？」 「靠是靠得住的，不过事情可能起了变化。」戈珊向空中凝视着，忽然把她那红嘴唇微微向上一掀，做出一种原始的残酷的神气。「大概老申去说过什么话了。他要干掉个把人还不容易。」 「他为什么──」黄绢惊惶地问：「他顶多不帮忙，为什么反而──」 「还不是你得罪了他。」 「我没有，没有，」她发急地辩白着：「他也始终很客气，第一次见面的时候他有点家长作风，问了许多话，也问起我和刘荃认识的经过──」此外还问了许多与刘荃完全无关的话，她认为他是旁敲侧击，要明了她的思想状况。他还问起她的年纪，他说他对年轻人最感到关切。她又想她临走的时候，他把手臂圈在她肩上，送她到房门口，替她拉开门钮，那亲热而随便的态度很像一个欧化的医生对待女病人。其实这也不算什么，但是这些话她都不愿意告诉戈珊。尤其是第二次她去见他，临走的时候他和她握手刚巧电话铃响了，他用另一只手拿起电话来听，一直握着她的手不放，就像忘记了似的。她回想到他那苍白浮肿的侧面，鸦翅似地斜掠下来的黑油油的鬓发，眼角下垂的黑框眼镜。他的手是胖墩墩的，一个温暖潮湿而气闷的陷阱。她整个的人都透不过气来了。但是她竭力忍耐着，最后虽然挣脱了手走了，仍旧是妩媚地笑着走了的，在她已经算十分委曲求全了。这一类的事她遇见的次数实在多了，已经养成了自卫的能力，从来没肯像这样让步。 「如果我得罪了他，」她突然说：「那就是上次，他说他或者可以介绍一位李同志和我见面，李同志是直接负责这一类的案件的，可以约他一块儿吃饭，让他当场问我些话，了解情况。」 「唔。」戈珊又点上了一支烟吸着，仰着脸瞇着眼睛望着那烟雾。「你没去？」她可以猜想到申凯去请吃饭一定是在一个僻静地点的公寓里，他占有好几处这样的房子，随时可以去休息，地址向不公开的。把黄绢约了去吃饭，那位李同志当然不会出现──如果实有其人的话。 「我跟他打听李同志办公处的地址，让我到他办公处去见他，我觉得那样比较好，」黄绢烦恼地用极低微的声音说：「他──他也许是有点不高兴，说李同志很忙，得要先问过他。」 「这还不明白么？」戈珊纵声笑了起来。「你一直跟他不即不离的，到了要紧关头又这样弩扭，当然他认为症结是在刘荃身上，只要刘荃活着一天，总不能称心。」 黄绢半天说不出话来。「不会的，」她终于执拗地说：「在这三反的时候，凭他是谁，总得有点顾忌──」 「所以他不能有太露骨的表示。偏碰见你这人，会一点都不觉得──我真不相信！」 黄绢苍白着脸坐在那里，眼睛呆呆地向前面直视着。她哭得连嘴唇都红肿起来了。戈珊看了一眼，心里想凭她这副相貌，也不见得是什么绝色，老申倒真为她着了迷，这样小题大作起来。当然申凯夫喜欢年轻的女孩子是出了名的。戈珊介绍她去见他，本来也就是这意思：「一石杀二鸟，」牺牲了这女孩子，又救了刘荃。没想到弄巧成拙，反而害了刘荃的性命。她一方面对自己生气，看见那黄绢，更觉得可气，终于把满腔怨愤都移植到她身上。 「也许他不过是恐吓，」黄绢低声说，像是自言自语。 「这样一件小事，他不会失信的，」戈珊冷冷地说。 黄绢啜泣起来了。「我是真没有想到……」 「不管你是真没想到，假没想到，反正是你害死了刘荃，」戈珊吐出了一口烟，轻松地说，心里也感到了某种满足。