Chapter 28 Chapter Six

When he stepped into the industrial office building, there was a steaming and vigorous revolutionary atmosphere.He Lide, a capitalist roader and great spy, was brought back, and he was ruined; the current secretary of the county party committee, Wang Yihu, is not a "tiger" as his name suggests, but he is as timid as a rabbit, and he fled to hide somewhere. , The county party committee compound next to it lost its head and was already in a paralyzed state.The power of the entire county is about to be transferred to the industrial office building - the headquarters of the "Gratso Union", and the last shock is short.

People in the corridor are bustling, shoulder to shoulder, and the urine in the toilet urinal flows out from under the door, making funny squeaking noises under people's feet.The building smelled of urine, gas, and bad tobacco.The cinders from the heating furnace were piled up at the base of the wall, and big slogans and big-character posters were plastered on the wall.The big-character posters are turning up the history of You Xiaozhou again, calling him "the remnant of the Lushan Anti-Party Clique" and "the brother of Peng Dehuai's black general Zhou Xiaozhou"—"otherwise, why is he called You Xiaozhou?"

You Xiaozhou was rehabilitated at the end of 1961 and shed the label of "right opportunist". He first worked in water conservancy in the southern mountainous area for several years, and in early 1966 he was transferred to his county as the deputy secretary of the county party committee.But at that time, he always felt ashamed when he saw You Xiaozhou. "How is it? Old Wei," while You Xiaozhou always greeted him affectionately, "I heard that you are doing well! It was not easy to achieve such achievements in 1960. At that time, I read that , I was so happy for you that I didn't fall asleep at night."

"It's not bad..." He could only stammer and mutter. Can he tell You Xiaozhou what he did?There is a human life involved here, although all those arrested in the "doubles" movement in 1960 were screened in 1961, and those who were sentenced to life like One-eyed Hao San were also sentenced to "hand over to the masses for control." Labor", but Hao San will never come back. If Hao San can come back to "control labor", what a hero he will be, and how much the people in Zhuangzi will respect him. Is it still a problem to marry a wife? ? ... But Hao San never came back.

"How are the children?" "The dolls are all fine." "Let them study hard. Without culture, socialism cannot be built." You Xiaozhou can only care about him from this aspect.Because the deputy secretary of the county party committee still has a big tail, the county party committee only divides his work into education that has little to do with the national economy and the people's livelihood—this really echoed what Wei Tiangui said in five or nine years. At that time, they were squatting at the door of the office of the county party committee compound. After saying these words, both of them fell silent.Facing the big-character posters denouncing the "Sanjia Village" at that time, You Xiaozhou frowned again, full of worry.Did You Xiaozhou predict the future fate of the country and himself at that time?

Sure enough, the revolutionary masses followed the vine and found You Xiaozhou again... He looked left and right in the corridor, but no one answered him. Every room was crowded with people, some were singing quotation songs, some were arguing loudly: "He should be caught too! If not him, who else?" "Revolution is not a dinner party!" "Haha! How well written!"... Suddenly, a young man of seventeen or eighteen rushed out of a room at the end of the corridor, lifted a bamboo thermos with red letters on it, and slammed it on the concrete floor: "Bang!" The vibration was like a grenade exploding. the whole building.

"Dinner is ready! Dinner is ready!" It turns out that this is the signal for dinner, so at least three thermos bottles must be smashed a day!When he saw it, he didn't even want to eat.Glancing back, the two student dolls who were following him had probably reassured him and no longer acted as his tail.He was about to sneak out of the gate, but Wu Shangrong greeted him excitedly. "Ha! I've been waiting for you for a long time." Wu Shangrong took his arm and looked around. "Come on, come with me, let's find a secluded place and have a good talk. Hey, Xiao Su, take two bowls of rice to the printing room and order more food."

Wu Shangrong led him, pushed aside the crowd, and walked through a winding corridor to a small room with no windows and a sloping ceiling at the bottom of the stairs.Wu Shangrong turned on the light casually.The bulb is red. "Sit down," Wu Shangrong pulled a chair and said with a smile, "it's safe here, no one will disturb us. Let's talk while eating." The young man named Xiao Su brought two big bowls of rice.The rice was covered with large pieces of fat mutton that was emitting oil, and he was not polite, he picked up his chopsticks and ate it with his head down.

"Old Wei, you are the people's representative of the county and a member of the provincial poverty association, but you are not in power, don't be afraid, I won't punish you." Wu Shangrong tapped the bowl with his chopsticks and said, "But you have to You need to be self-conscious and start a revolution. You know that Ho Lide has produced the most material in the past ten years, so why not get up and expose it? Chairman Mao said: Representatives of the bourgeoisie who have sneaked into the party and the government are a group of counter-revolutionary revisionists Molecules, once the time is right, they will seize power and make us workers and peasants suffer twice and suffer twice..."

The mutton is really fragrant!The cooks in the county canteen are excellent!His lazy woman's stewed meat is only sprinkled with a handful of salt, and no pepper is added. It's disgusting before you eat it.It was rare for him to eat such a good dish, and he pulled the top of the bowl of rice upside down. Wu Shangrong took the bowl, poked his head out and asked someone to fill another bowl. "What's the matter?" Wu Shangrong's eyes seemed to be on fire under the red light, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "I've been talking for a long time, what do you think?"

"Don't worry about what I think." He finished the second bowl of rice, pushed the bowl away, and wiped his greasy lips with two palms alternately. "I ask you, what do you want me to do?" "At the moment, there is nothing you need to do." Wu Shangrong happily twisted on the bench, "I want you to stand by our side." "Why are you standing?" "Then, just sign our county's "Revolutionary Rebellion Joint Statement"." "Oh--" In fact, when eating, his mouth did not stop, nor did his mind stop.He felt that what Wu Shangrong said didn't seem to come from the mouth of this rough mechanic.Wu Shangrong also has a square face, big cheeks, and piercing eyes. He looks a bit like He Lide.However, when Holliday said the words written in books and notebooks, they seemed natural, dignified, and able to calm people down, but in Wu Shangrong's mouth, these words seemed to be cut and pasted from books and newspapers.You'd better take your pliers, it's not like learning! Now the county party committee is paralyzed, and the leaders are locked up—such as He Lide, who ran away—Jia Wang Yihu, and those who stopped working stopped working—such as You Xiaozhou.He has to decide his actions according to the data calculated by his own brain computer.At this moment, the first data output by the computer in his brain is: this group of people are rabbit tails - they can't grow.There are some problems with the background history of this group of people, but they insist on the background history of cadres such as He Lide and You Xiaozhou.They don't make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, but use their own shortcomings to attack others' weaknesses; they oppose Holliday's rectification of people-it is true that Holliday made mistakes in "doubles" and "social education", but they just said that He Lide "Right", as if he didn't think that he was punishing people enough, as if they were announcing that they were more ruthless than Hu Lide when they were on stage.Heh heh, at least he has participated in the revolution for more than 20 years, what are you thinking?When the tide recedes, put your own fist in your own mouth, Gawa, you won't be able to swallow it and you won't be able to spit it out! Besides, you oppose He Lide, but you also oppose You Xiaozhou. I know that these two people are not the same type of cadres.You count walnuts and dates together, you don’t even have the sharpness of vision, you are still “rebellious”, you are still “revolutionary”, go back and hug your baby! However, taking other people's hands is short, and eating other people's mouth is short.After eating two bowls of delicious mutton and rice, I always feel sorry for not giving them anything.He originally thought that Wu Shangrong had high demands on him, but when he heard that just signing his name would not damage a single hair of his hair, he immediately felt relieved. "Just sign it? All right. But, I don't know how to write." He still wanted to keep a hand. "Hey, as long as you express your opinion, we will add the name for you." "Then you can add it!" He went back to Zhuangzi with peace of mind. "Signature statement" is a political term for the rise of the Cultural Revolution.It is a pity that he has not heard it from the mouths of big dramas and storytellers in the past, and there is no such education in party lectures and situation reports, thus ignoring the importance of this matter.He paid Wu Shangrong a sentence as a meal, which caused a series of troubles. One winter, notices, flyers, and orders from the "League of Leatherworkers"—from the first to the ninety-ninth—flew towards Weijiaqiao like snowflakes.He hid on Zhuangzi and played tricks, dragging on.Forced to have no other choice, I occasionally send a few private teachers to agree - anyway, the school is on winter vacation, and these little intellectuals have also tasted the endless joy of fighting with others. The "Revolutionary Alliance" gave him the title of "Deputy Commander of the County's Revolutionary Rebel Joint Headquarters", but he never took up the post. Spring is coming.The strong wind pouring down from the west mountain rolled up the fine sand and yellow dust and blew it all over the sky for a while.After the wind passed, the dust filled the air and lingered for a long time, forming a special climate phenomenon in this area - "soil storm".Then, the temperature rose suddenly, the "soil storm" dissipated, everything recovered, the air was clean, and the fields opened up.Last year, there was a heavy snowfall here, when the fields started to emerge from the remnant snow.The dark-brown land is also like a river beach. Wisps of swaying water vapor evaporate under the noon sun, making the houses and trees in the distance sway like reflections in the water.The spring breeze blows from the Weihu Lake in the south, bringing the smell of humus and the aroma of damp soil.Their plain areas are different from the mountainous areas. It is not a good thing to have too much moisture in the season of planting wheat.Water accumulated in the low-lying fields, and horse-drawn seeders could not get in, let alone tractors, so a single set of animals could only be used to sow with wooden columbine.Raising columbine and planting seeds is a technical job. Since the introduction of seeders, there are not many people who can do it.He gathered all the old farmers of the whole brigade to form a sowing team. On this day, he was leading more than a dozen old farmers back and forth in the low-lying land on the river beach to plant seeds. A boy and a half of the family led them to the river beach. "Oh, Secretary Wei, let me find it easier!" The liaison officer put his bicycle on the field ridge and walked towards him through the mud. "Hey, hello!" He looked at the feet of the visitor, and was not polite to the contact person, "Don't step on the columbine marks, the seeds are fucking making you step into the mud!" "Ah, yes, yes..." The liaison officer made a big circle and came to him from the field ridge. "Here, this is an order from the headquarters. This time, you must go!" He opened it and it read: highest order You must care about national affairs and carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the end! Order (Xiangezi No. 100) Recently, the province's joint revolutionary and rebel headquarters distributed a batch of red books to our county.This is the greatest care and encouragement of the proletarian headquarters headed by the great leader Chairman Mao to the more than 100,000 revolutionary people in our county.Our headquarters is scheduled to hold a meeting to welcome the Red Book at the Revolutionary Square in the county seat at 9:00 a.m. on March 1. All the revolutionary masses in your unit must attend as one.Do not miss this order, do not make mistakes! Although he did not go to school, he has been literate for more than ten years after liberation.After reading the half-understood "order" and verifying the big bright red seal below, he clapped his hands together, kneaded them into balls, stuffed them into his trouser pockets, raised his whip, and the green mule started walking again. . "Hey, is your brigade going or not? Don't be like usual..." The liaison officer looked like a primary school teacher, thin and short, and hurriedly followed him up and down on the field ridge. "I just remember Chairman Mao's words: 'Now is the time for spring plowing'!" He said without turning his head. "Hey, hey, what does this mean? Secretary Wei..." The liaison officer stopped in surprise. "What do you mean?" He stopped the mule, turned around, and whipped the primary school teacher. "Red treasure books, every family has two or three sets; there are also quotation books, stacked on the windowsill. Want more? Can you tear them off one by one and eat them as pancakes? You go back and tell Wu Shangrong , my Weijiaqiao brigade will not go!" With a sound of "drive", he opened the columbine again. The liaison officer stared at his back with his eyeballs puffed out on the field ridge, just like watching a spaceman descending from a flying saucer. On March 1st, all the revolutionary masses belonging to the "League of Leather Manufacturers" participated in the meeting of ten thousand people to welcome the Red Book, but the Weijiaqiao Brigade was absent. Therefore, he suddenly changed from the deputy head of the "League of Leather Manufacturers" to The target of public criticism.The revolution square in the county seat was posted overnight with big-character posters attacking him, saying that he was the county's "Dongbatian", "the most vicious three-anti element", "Liu Shaoqi's hardcore royalist", "the province's No. No. 1 capitalist-roader's black labor model", "Ho Lide's running dog"... "Bear!" He was very happy when he heard it. He felt that it was an honor for him to be listed with the President of the State, the Marshal of the Republic, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, the Secretary of the Prefectural Party Committee, and You Xiaozhou.At the same time, eight or nine years of experience told him that negative characters are more shocking than positive ones.In the past, he was a positive figure and a role model, but under the surface of people's respect, he concealed jealousy and suspicion. However, when he became a negative figure, except for the "yellow-haired ghost" bad-eyed woman, people would fear and admire him , under the superficial contempt, there is real respect and trust hidden. He frowns in front of others and looks wronged, but he is happy in his heart. But he was not happy for long. The political officer who had already been promoted to the deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the county party committee sneaked up to his door one evening. After more than a year of suffering, the political officer was much older, and in order to hide from others, he wore a worn work uniform furtively. He suddenly didn't recognize that this was the deputy head of the United Front Work Department who often met in the county. "What are you talking about? Old Wei, you don't recognize me?" The political officer lifted the hat that was pressed on his brow, revealing his prematurely bald forehead. From the treacherous demeanor of the political officer, he could see that there must be something important to find him.He led the political officer to the brigade headquarters and sat down. "Oh," the political officer looked around the office and sighed, "It's not what it used to be, remember when I led You Xiaozhou..." "Tell me, what's the matter?" He sternly interrupted the political officer's nostalgia for the past.In this messy time, he didn't want others to mention You Xiaozhou, which seemed to represent a good time in his life; this kind of mentality was similar to his reluctance to be mentioned about his dead beloved child in a lonely old age. similar. "Do you know? 'The Revolutionary Alliance' is printing your big-character poster." The political officer lit a cigarette and said with a sideways glance at him. "I know!" He squinted, with a sneer on his face, and shook his head nonchalantly, "Do they dare to go up to the Weijia Bridge to grab me? It's no wonder I don't break their dog legs!" "That's right, they don't dare to go to Weijiaqiao to arrest you, but do you dare to go to the county?" The political officer deserved to be the deputy head of the United Front Work Department. "You can't stay in Weijiaqiao for the rest of your life. They are now imitating the 'January Storm' and seizing the power of the county committee. In the future, they will provide loans, distribute agricultural machinery and fertilizers, send generals to purchase grain, and ask for migrant workers. Garmash's, a little for you The shoes are a little tighter, so you can’t take half a step. Don’t forget that your Weijiaqiao brigade used to cross the commune and directly linked up with the county. Now, you can eat your rotten fruit!” His heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself: "This guy sees farther than me!" He raised his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at the political officer who was sipping hot tea and smoking a cigarette with a confident attitude.He saw that the political officer came with a plan that not only rescued the county cadres but also benefited him. At this moment, he must be hoping that he would be shocked when he heard these words: "Oh! What should I do? Hurry up and think of a way for me!" Then, in the posture of Avalokitesvara to save the suffering, he calmly came up with a plan... So, he frowned, looked calm, and still sat on the old grand master's chair with ease. The two stalemate in silence for a while, and the deputy head of the United Front Work Department finally bowed down, put down the tea mug, and mysteriously took out an unsealed letter from his pocket. "Secretary Wang gave it to you. Here are all the tricks in your bag. Think about it carefully. During the 'Siqing' period, it was not Secretary Wang. It would be strange if you were not classified as a third-category cadre. Secretary Wang treated you well." "Bah!" He secretly scolded his mother in his heart. In fact, during the "Siqing" period, Wang Yihu in the county was afraid that his achievements would be too high, and his tail would not be lost. He might not want to get some materials from him, beat him once or twice, and once led the social education work team to the Weijiaqiao brigade twice. , when this group of people came, they were suspicious and suspicious, and there seemed to be "horse pigtails" hiding behind doors with daggers everywhere. The poor and low-middle peasants did not dare to live, and they all crowded in the two broken adobe houses left by One-eyed Hao San. .All the commune members on the Zhuangzi scolded: "Let these guys gnaw on the rope with the cold! Whoever among us wants to say something bad about Tiangui will never even think about staying in this brigade!" The mother-in-law did not dare to tell the truth.More than a dozen staff members took notebooks and wandered around and around. "Back to back"—this is a creepy word in the "Four Cleansing"—had countless small meetings, but he failed to catch any suspicious materials.All the cadres of the nearby communes and teams fell, and he became the only remaining treasure.In fact, the "black fields" of their Weijiaqiao brigade accounted for one-seventh of the arable land area of ​​the whole brigade.The greatest education given to him by this socialist education movement is to make him truly realize that "the masses are a fortress of iron and steel." People who are lucky must have their hateful things, lucky people have their own reasons for being lucky... There was a piece of scribbled letter paper inside the envelope, and he could only recognize the printed or printed imitation Song characters, and he couldn't even read half of the written letter.He stuffed the letter into the envelope again and threw it in front of the political officer. "I don't read it. Tell me." The political officer looked at him helplessly, thought for a while, smiled understandingly at him, and put the letter back in his pocket. "Hey, it's like this: Their seizure of power is actually a counter-revolutionary action, which is different from the Shanghai workers supported by Chairman Mao. You didn't think twice, and you were on the wrong team, but you were successful in fighting back. Let me tell you a top secret: they After seizing power, another faction was split inside, called "Red Leather Manufacturing", all of them were revolutionary cadres, five types of red, and there were no Garmash bastards. In fact, it was Baozhan Provincial Committee, Secretary He and According to Secretary Wang, "Red Leather Manufacturing" decided to hold an anti-seizure on Sunday—April 22nd. You don't need to make too much effort, just gather 200 young and strong members in the communes and brigades near you, Calling up the banner of the 'Peasant Red Guards', we went to the county that day to make a charge, which proves that we have the support of the poor and lower-middle peasants in our fight against the seizure of power..." Suddenly, a mixture of desire for leadership and ambition injected into his veins like an injection.He was floating and excited as if drunk.At the meeting to criticize He Lide that day, he once thought like this: "Fuck off, get rid of the fucking official", it is better than you to ask me, a farmer who has not gone to school, to compose lyrics. !But these people can also be "turned upside down and generous".Since it is so easy to turn the world upside down, why can't I, Wei Tiangui, give it a try? At that time, this rebellious man developed the courage to fight against the "rebels".Now, as the political officer urged him: "The task of history is historically on your shoulders." He rolled his sleeves and decided to do it. Early the next morning, he went to other brigades in this commune and several brigades in Luoqu Commune to gather people.At this moment, he didn't forget You Xiaozhou's words: "Protect your fellow countrymen." He told those commune and team cadres who hadn't fallen yet to say a hundred more, and lied that Wang Yihu wanted three hundred, and he himself The brigade will contribute one hundred, and the remaining two hundred will be contributed by other brigades.Sure enough, after he became a villain, his appeal became even stronger. In the afternoon, the brigades sent people to report to him the number of people they recognized.There were thousands of people who were willing to support him in his fight against seizing power. He selected 200 strong young Gazi out of more than 1,000 people, and the Weijiaqiao brigade single-handedly produced only one of them.In the early morning of April 23, he led two hundred troops and marched towards the county seat in a murderous manner. "Hey, listen," he rode on a big green mule, brandished the red tasseled gun used by the militia for martial arts training, and delivered a farewell speech to the captain and members of the Weijiaqiao Brigade, "The wheat is going to drip. Spread evenly. 'The army moves forward, and the production grows by an inch.' An inch is not enough, but a foot must be grown! Otherwise, the whole country is now fighting, and the country will have no food!" "You can go at ease, we are on the team." "Tiangui, go to the provincial capital and become the provincial chairman, and I will lead the horse and drop the stirrup for you!" "You have to take the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, just like our Master Guan!"... "Bear!" He choked the big green mule that kept moving its hooves. "I don't want to be Guan Yunchang who left Maicheng, I want to be Zhao Zilong, the faithful savior!" Wearing a white apron from the processing room, Han Yumei was among the crowd seeing him off.His gaze came into contact with her pair of big black sparkling eyes, and in an instant, as if Han Yumei had turned off the switch she was controlling, a surge of electricity whipped him violently.He let go of the rein energetically, shrugged his shoulders, and clamped his legs. The big green mule spread its hooves and ran towards Zhuangzi's head like a bolt of lightning, joining the team waiting for him. In 1967, China went crazy, so did he!