Chapter 14 Chapter fifty-six

At dawn, Shen Li and Lu Xiaolong got off the train at Xushui Station in Hebei.As soon as they got off the train, the two hesitated. I saw a group of peasants with guns rushing to the station, as if they were chasing someone, and then I saw them tearing up the big slogans on the train station that read "Down with Yang Chengwu, Yu Lijin, Fu Chongbi" and "Smash the Right Deviation Wind".After these big slogans were torn down, they used a brush dipped in ink to write a new big slogan on the wall: "Down with the anti-military faction."Yang Chengwu is the acting chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army, Yu Lijin is the political commissar of the Air Force, and Fu Chongbi is the commander of the Beijing Garrison. The three of them have just been defeated in Beijing, but they did not expect to spread to a small county like Xushui.Lu Xiaolong observed the little station where the morning breeze was cold, and said to Shen Li: "Shall we go to Baiyangdian?" Shen Li said: "You tell me." Lu Xiaolong said: "If I come alone, I will go. "Shen Li said: "Then go." Lu Xiaolong said: "With you, I always dare not take risks." Shen Li said: "What are you afraid of?" Lu Xiaolong said: "Are you really not afraid? Shen Li said, "I'm a little scared."

The peasants with guns walked away yelling, and the small station returned to calm.The field in early spring exuded a cold and silent atmosphere. After the group of people left, not only could there be no tense atmosphere in the air, but a remote tranquility.There were not many people in the deserted station, and the few black slogans on the yellow wall looked very weak and hung there, like historical relics from a long time ago.The north-south direction of the railway stretches far, and the two sides of the railway track are mostly bare yellow land after winter, and sparse villages can be seen in the morning fog.Lu Xiaolong said: "Go out of the station first and have a look. If there is no danger, then go to Baiyangdian as planned. If the situation is not right, let's go back to Beijing immediately." The two of them left the station. An empty pack of Haihe brand cigarettes rolled by like a small gray-blue windmill.After they walked forward and backward for a while, the real Hebei countryside unfolded in front of them.The ordinary dirt road went straight and curved through the fields, the winter wheat was just beginning to turn green like clusters of withered yellow weeds, and two or three villages were floating in the faint smoke beside the road.Lu Xiaolong looked at the honest rural scene far and near, and said, "It's probably all right, let's go."

Lu Xiaolong's move this time is to go to Baiyangdian to conduct some social investigations, and he wants to make a new pioneering work during the stage of the resumption of classes and revolution.As soon as she heard that he was going to Baiyangdian, Shen Li wanted to follow, but Lu Xiaolong hesitated and hesitated, but agreed.After the false alarm at the station just now, seeing the fields in the countryside getting wider and wider, Lu Xiaolong seemed more and more at ease. It seemed that the situation here was still stable.From here to Baiyangdian, you have to pass through the county seat of Anxin County, and walk forty or fifty miles. As you walk, the sun rises higher and the morning fog disperses.They chatted and watched along the way, and occasionally trotted hand in hand for a while, opening their arms to breathe the air mixed with the smell of vegetation and cow and horse dung on the road.Shen Li was a little excited, she deliberately ran to the wheat field by the side of the road, and lightly stepped on the dirt with her feet.The ground had already thawed, supporting the weight of her pedals one after another like a soft spring bed. Hearing Lu Xiaolong said that the wheat field was not afraid of stepping on it at this time, she stepped back and forth on the soft wheat field for a while, and then looked left and right Looking at the deserted fields, he opened his arms and hugged Lu Xiaolong like a game for a while.Lu Xiaolong also lifted her up happily, and Shen Li hugged his neck with a giggle, and said, "Can you hug me?" At this time, she was afraid that she would grow too tall.

Lu Xiaolong was afraid that he would not be able to show the physique of a man enough, so he hugged her for a few more laps as much as possible, until Shen Li was dizzy and screamed, then he stabilized his breathing and put Shen Li down without panting.Shen Li lay on his shoulder in a daze for a while, smiled again, kissed him lightly, stood up and brushed her hair back, and the two jumped out of the wheat field hand in hand, onto the road, and continued toward As they walked forward, they expected that Baiyangdian's criss-cross waterways and open lake scenery would soon be displayed in front of them.

Lu Xiaolong went to Baiyangdian in the summer vacation of high school, and he had already described the scene of the village surrounded by water and going out to rock the boat to Shen Li. They are both very excited to stay together for a few days.Lu Xiaolong talked about Baiyangdian's boat shaking method with great interest. Shen Li said: "I know how to row a boat. I have rowed in Beihai Park and the Summer Palace." Row backward; there are many boats in Baiyangdian, the oars are big and long, people have to stand, cross the oars, hold the left oar with the right hand, and hold the right oar with the left hand, put all the weight of the body on the oars, push and push You need to paddle fast, steady and effortless, you won’t be able to learn it in a few days.” Shen Li said, “Then let’s paddle each other.” Lu Xiaolong said: "It's not impossible, but it's hard to cooperate well." Shen Li smiled and said, "Then you paddle alone, and it's better for me to sit on the bow and watch the scenery." After walking tens of miles in one breath, at dusk, I came to Anxin County.

The city of Anxin County has long been guarded by armed forces. There are many sandbags piled up outside the city gate, and barbed wire fences are pulled over.Rural militiamen with rifles stood in front of one after another.Before they could react, they slammed into it.Hearing that he was a student from Beijing and was going to Baiyangdian through Anxin County, the other party immediately became suspicious and asked Lu Xiaolong why he was going to Baiyangdian? Lu Xiaolong said: "Go conduct social surveys on the educational revolution." This aggravated the suspicion of the militiamen, and a thin black face wearing an old military cap with protruding teeth like yellow corn kernels scolded involuntarily: " They must be sending letters." Then, he took them into a small room, searched them all over, and Lu Xiaolong's canvas bag was also searched inside and out. In addition to pens and notebooks, there were also Several leaflets, which they caught from the leaflets flying all over the sky distributed by several propaganda vehicles before boarding the train at the Beijing station in the middle of the night, are now unfolded on the table and examined one by one. They are all leaflets for the downfall of Yang Chengwu, Yu Lijin, and Fu Chongbi .Da Huangya read the leaflet line by line with his fingers, and immediately said to the left and right: "Detain these two people and send them to the headquarters. They must be colluding with counter-revolutionaries." After being escorted for a long and not short way, they entered a very fortified courtyard surrounded by brick walls and barbed wire.It was completely dark, and the two were subjected to a more advanced round of interrogation. The people who interrogated them were like small cadres in the county or the commune. , encircling them in the middle.Lu Xiaolong was afraid that Shen Li would be frightened, so he protected her behind him.

In the process of responding to the interrogation, Lu Xiaolong probably understood the political situation here.This area belongs to the Baoding area, and there are two factions, one is supported by the Hebei Provincial Military Region, and the other is supported by the Field Army.Anxin County is now controlled by a faction of the Hebei Provincial Military Region; while the Baiyangdian countryside is controlled by a faction of the Field Army.He and Shen Li were going to Baiyangdian with leaflets, and they were undoubtedly regarded as enemies by the faction of the provincial military region.At this time, Lu Xiaolong had to mobilize all his political wisdom: he had to convince the other party that he was a student from Beijing who came to the countryside to conduct social surveys on the educational revolution, and he had to convince the other party that he had just arrived in Xushui this morning and had never been involved in Hebei Province. The two factions struggle; however, all justifications are hardly effective.He had no choice but to tell his real name, and the detainees had also heard of the name "Lu Xiaolong", but this only deepened their suspicions, they did not believe that this unattractive man was Lu Xiaolong at all.Under the dim electric light, the whole room interrogated menacingly for a long time, but no results were obtained.At this time, someone came in to report an emergency. A middle-aged man in a military overcoat with a face as black as an iron ingot stared at them sharply, and waved, "Lock these two people up first." A man with a gun pushed them out of the door, walked through the open space in the middle of the yard, came to a row of tall houses, pushed open the big iron gate, and drove them in.Then he threw them a tattered cotton door curtain and a straw mat, and closed the big iron door with a bang, and put a big iron lock on the outside.

The two fell into the darkness, they groped for each other, hugged each other tightly, and stood motionless, waiting for their eyes to adjust to the darkness in front of them.Lu Xiaolong let Shen Li lean on his body, face to face, rubbing against each other slightly, giving Shen Li some comfort in the dangerous situation.After a while, the turbid darkness precipitated a difference before their eyes. They gradually saw a wide gap on the big iron gate, from which they could see the black and blue night sky, and a dim yellow light in the yard slanted from Light came in through the crack of the door.As their eyes got more and more used to the darkness, they finally saw that it looked like an empty warehouse, filled with the smell of gasoline and diesel.Lu Xiaolong let go of Shen Li, groping around to inspect.

The dark space gradually settled more and more clearly. This place is probably an oil depot, and five or six oil tanks for transporting oil by train are parked in the tall warehouse.Lu Xiaolong lay down on the tin cans one after another and tapped lightly, and said to Shen Li: "They are all empty oil tanks, only one seems to have oil." Shen Li asked: "How do you know?" Lu Xiaolong said: "There is oil in the tank." Listening to the sound is dull." They groped around the oil depot hand in hand, and then saw the whole picture of the oil depot, three sides were walls, no windows, one side was six or seven big iron gates, each iron gate was like Just like the first iron gate, there was a wide gap on it, allowing the starlight outside to penetrate.They went back to the first door they had come in, and there was enough space for two more oil cans.They picked up the door curtain straw mats on the ground, spread the straw mats on the ground in the corner and sat down, looking at the dark roof, four walls and the dark big hall through the starlight and light coming in through the gaps in the iron gate. oil tank.Shen Li said: "I remembered the hunger strike of your anti-working group the year before last." Lu Xiaolong said: "I also remembered. The warehouse where I was closed at that time was not so big, and there was no oil tank, but it felt a bit similar."

Lu Xiaolong suddenly remembered something, and he said, "I'll try to see if I can climb out of this iron door. The gap on the top is much wider than the gap in the warehouse where I was closed last time." He walked over, groping for the cold iron door, There were some slanted iron skeletons on the door, and he groped to find a place to climb.In order not to make any noise, he used a lot of force to control his movements, and he climbed up softly and silently like a monkey, and finally climbed onto the iron gate.The distance between the iron gate and the concrete door frame above is as high as one head, and barely able people can get out.He looked at the scene in the yard and knew that it was pointless to drill out.There are fences on all sides of the yard, barbed wire fences on the fence, and street lamps at the four corners of the fence. People with guns walk around in the yard from time to time. Outside the fence is a dark field, and there are sparse lights of the village in the distance.

Two men in cotton coats walked to the door of the warehouse with guns on their shoulders. Lu Xiaolong was too frightened to move for fear of making a noise. Only one person lit a match with a sound of "cha", and two people lit a cigarette at the same time with the same match.The light of the matches brightly illuminated their faces. One was an old man with high cheekbones and a bulbous nose wearing a ragged cotton cap, and the other was taller, a middle-aged man with sword eyebrows and black face who was on fire when he lowered his head. Everyone's eyes were shining brightly in the firelight.The match went out, and the two red cigarette butts illuminated the two faces one by one.They chatted, walked towards the fence on the other side of the yard, stopped at the corner, opened their cotton coats and began to urinate, and the sound of urinating could be heard from afar.It seems that they are wearing the kind of farmhouse trousers with big crotch. From the back, they can see that they take off their trousers to pee, then pull up their trousers after urinating, and then fold the fat waistbands in half from left to right to tie the waistbands.Lu Xiaolong quickly slid down, more than halfway down, squatted down and jumped down lightly, sat down on the straw mat, and said: "If I was alone, I might have escaped like this." Shen Li leaned her head against him Said on his shoulder: "Then run away quickly." Lu Xiaolong said: "What kind of words are that, I won't run away if I have you." Shen Li said: "I can run away too." Lu Xiaolong said: "Where I am Can I leave you here alone? Besides, it’s okay if you don’t run away, but if you run away and someone finds out, you’ll really be shot.” ​​Then the two sat down quietly. Lu Xiaolong touched the ground, it was cement, and the wall, it was brick.He asked Shen Li to stand up, pulled the straw mat so that it was half against the wall, and then sat comfortably next to Shen Li on the straw mat, and put the oily torn cotton door curtain on their legs.Shen Li said: "Dirty to death." Lu Xiaolong said: "Dirty is not dead, don't freeze to death." Shen Li felt a little cold at this moment, she wrapped her jacket tightly, and leaned closer to Lu Xiaolong Come on, look up at the dark roof, then look at the dark oil tanks and the wide cracks on the iron doors, and say: "Fortunately, it's not winter." Lu Xiaolong said: "It's okay It’s not summer, and if you don’t die from the heat in summer, you will also be bitten to death by mosquitoes.” The two of them floated like a dream in a dark warehouse far away from Beijing, surrounded by the vast North China Plain.It must have been windy, and I heard the whistling of people. The cold wind blew in through the wide cracks in the iron gate, swept away some of the smell of gasoline, and brought in some of the smell of spring farmland.Shen Li said: "I seem to smell the water smell of Baiyangdian Lake." Lu Xiaolong kissed her hair, and said: "It seems that you are quite romantic, I don't know whether you are dead or alive!" Shen Li raised her face slightly, Said: "Why am I romantic? When they interrogated us, I was terribly afraid." As she spoke, she shuddered all over. Lu Xiaolong hugged her tightly and said, "What are you afraid of?" Shen Li said: "I'm afraid they will shoot us to death." Lu Xiaolong asked: "What are you afraid of?" Shen Li said: "I'm afraid they will torture you." Lu Xiaolong smiled and said: "It's useless to torture again. I’m telling the truth.” Shen Li buried her face in Lu Xiaolong’s chest and said, “I let you play the role of a hero again.” Lu Xiaolong said, “When did I play the role of a hero? "Shen Li said: "You were a hero when you took me to Shanghai for a series of friends." She thoughtfully grabbed Lu Xiaolong's shoulder and stroked it lightly as she spoke.Lu Xiaolong said: "When a man and a woman are together, a man should be brave. Actually, I am also afraid, but with you, I can't be too bearish." Shen Li said in a trance: "I think you're okay." Lu Xiaolong said: "If a man and a woman meet a wolf on the road, and the man leaves the woman and runs away, who are they? It's the basic rules of life." Shen Li said: "What is a rule? You're using a wrong word, who set the rules for you?" Lu Xiaolong said: "Let's say I set it myself." Shen Li turned her body, laying on Lu Xiaolong's chest more comfortably, hooked his shoulders with her hands, and asked absent-mindedly, "Why do you want to beat Yang Yufu?" Lu Xiaolong said: " Didn’t I already tell you when I was in Beijing.” On their way to the train station, they saw placards all over the street saying “Down with Yang Chengwu, Yu Lijin, Fu Chongbi” and “Smash the Rightist Trend of Overturning Cases”.Shen Li rubbed her head against his chest, and said, "I still don't quite understand." Lu Xiaolong said, "She's a smart girl, why doesn't she have any political vision?" Shen Li said, "I don't want to." Lu Xiaolong said: "Then why do you ask me?" Shen Li said: "I hope you have it." Lu Xiaolong said: "I am doing revolution, are you watching revolution?" Shen Li hooked Lu Xiaolong's head off, Kissed his chin lightly, and said: "Yes, I think this is good." She shook Lu Xiaolong's shoulder and said, "You haven't told me yet." Lu Xiaolong said: "Down with Yang Yufu." It’s to fight back against the trend of overturning verdicts by the right.” Shen Li asked: "Why is Yang Yufu a rightist overturning the verdict?" Lu Xiaolong said: "One is that these people were a little rightist during the Cultural Revolution. In addition, Yang Chengwu was the acting chief of the general staff, Yu Lijin was the political commissar of the Air Force, and Fu Chongbi was the director of the Beijing Garrison. Commander, these three people with military power have conflicts with Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, Qiu Huizuo, and Li Zuopeng, and after weighing the results, it is decided that these three people will be defeated." Shen Li asked again: "What is the rightist overturning the verdict?" Lu Xiaolong said: "The main reason is to overturn the verdict of "February Adverse Current" last year. A while ago, big-character posters and big slogans appeared in many places in Beijing." Shen Li asked: " Is it Lin Biao's attitude to defeat Yang Yufu?" Lu Xiaolong said: "Of course." Shen Li asked: "What about Chairman Mao?" Lu Xiaolong said: "Of course it is also Chairman Mao's attitude. Received at the Great Hall of the People on March 24 Army cadres, after Lin Biao’s speech announcing the downfall of Yang Yufu, Chairman Mao also appeared.” Shen Li thought for a while, then asked: “Then what is your attitude?” Lu Xiaolong said: “Of course we must closely follow Chairman Mao’s strategy. Deployed." Shen Li said: "Then you just support the defeat of Yang Yufu?" Lu Xiaolong said: "But I don't want to participate, I have a good impression of Fu Chongbi." Shen Li asked: "Oh?" Lu Xiaolong said : "We have held several meetings together, and I am quite familiar with the heads of the Beijing Garrison." Shen Li grabbed Lu Xiaolong's shoulder with her hand, caressed it absently, and after a while, she said: "You are quite tenacious." Lu Xiaolong asked: "Why are you so tenacious?" Distant things, looked at Lu Xiaolong, said: "Always try hard to find something to do, unyielding." Lu Xiaolong hugged Shen Li's body up again, hugged her, and fell into his own memories. The Cultural Revolution was in its third year, and as a middle school student, he couldn't find anything good to do.The result of calling Jiang Qing last year made him decide to go to Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi to work for a while, but in the end, when these provinces established the revolutionary committees of the new regime, he was no longer needed as a Red Guard in the capital. , he could only return to Beijing in disappointment.This time, he thought of doing some social survey on the educational revolution in the rural areas of Baiyangdian. During the Spring Festival, he attended a reception in the banquet hall of the Great Hall of the People.Seeing Jiang Qing appearing on the chief table from a long distance, his mood fluctuated in a complicated way for a while.Seeing Jiang Qing talking and laughing and toasting frequently from a distance, his gaze was always drawn, especially when he saw Jiang Qing talking kindly to a teenage boy at the same table, Lu Xiaolong especially felt that this kind concern was also true. He deserves it. During the interview in the Anhui hall in early 1967, the scene of Jiang Qing making an exception and letting him sit next to her resurfaced with warmth.During the reception, he always hesitated whether he should go to Jiang Qing and say a few words.Lu Xiaolong finally made up his mind when he saw Jiang Qing's expression when he was talking with the people at the same table, as if he wanted to retreat early.He looked at the noisy banquet hall, not many people paid attention to him, so he picked up his wine glass, walked across several tables and came to Jiang Qing's side. Jiang Qing saw a person standing aside holding a wine glass, maybe he thought it was a waiter, so he continued talking to the people on the table without looking up.Lu Xiaolong stood beside her with a wine glass for a long time, until other people at the table began to pay attention to him in surprise, a young man in casual clothes but with a military look came over and stood in front of Lu Xiaolong calmly, Gently pushed him away with his hands, and asked: "What's the matter with you?" Lu Xiaolong's face became hot in embarrassment, and he said with a slight stutter: "I want to toast Comrade Jiang Qing." The young man Possession whispered something to Jiang Qing, and Jiang Qing turned his head. At that moment, she might not have recognized Lu Xiaolong, and her eyes were puzzled.The tall young man with military temperament said very politely and responsibly: "The chief is busy now, please go back first." Lu Xiaolong felt that his face and neck were hot, seeing Jiang Qing's His gaze was about to turn back again, and he had no choice but to step forward and say, "Comrade Jiang Qing, I am Lu Xiaolong." Only then did Jiang Qing recognize him, showing a happy smile.The young male blocking the car looked around and took half a step back.Lu Xiaolong raised his glass to Jiang Qing, and Jiang Qing lightly touched him with his glass, and asked, "Are you all engaged in an educational revolution?" Lu Xiaolong could only nod his head and say, "Yes." Jiang Qing put the clinked glass of wine to his lips for a symbolic sip, and said to Lu Xiaolong, "Keep working hard and make new achievements." Then he put him aside , and continued to chat and laugh with a table of people. Lu Xiaolong stood there in a dilemma, he was still waiting to have a few more words with Jiang Qing, but Jiang Qing never turned his head.Lu Xiaolong noticed that the young man standing behind Jiang Qing was still looking at him quietly. He and the young man looked at each other, and the other man lowered his eyes slightly, still facing Lu Xiaolong squarely.Lu Xiaolong plucked up his courage again and said, "Comrade Jiang Qing, then I'm leaving." Jiang Qing hurriedly turned around and nodded to him while talking and laughing. Facing the lively atmosphere of the banquet hall, he returned to his seat.This time, he made a real vow: never contact Jiang Qing again; never call her again.For the next few days, he was overwhelmed by this sense of humiliation.Beiqing Middle School has been deserted, most of the students no longer come to the school, the doors and windows of the classrooms are almost all broken, and the dormitory building is also stinky and empty. He is not willing to hang around in the deserted school. He thought of Mao The chairman said that "intellectuals must be integrated with workers and peasants", and he thought of going to Baiyangdian to do a social survey of the educational revolution. The Red Guards had long been abandoned by the whole society, and he wanted to find new glory. Shen Li felt what he was thinking, looked up at him in the dark, and asked: "What are you thinking?" Lu Xiaolong replied truthfully: "I thought of Jiang Qing just now." Shen Li asked: "Have you thought of Chairman Mao?" Xiaolong didn't speak.The two were silent in the dark. After a while, Lu Xiaolong said: "I think of my father." Shen Li asked: "Why?" Lu Xiaolong said: "I don't know." The field roared loudly, the wind blew into the oil depot through the wide gap on the iron gate, and the swirling swirl of cold air swished down from the wall behind, like countless icy snakes swimming past them. .Shen Li said: "I'm really sleepy." Lu Xiaolong said: "Sleep when you're sleepy." Shen Li said: "I'm cold." Lu Xiaolong said: "Get up first, I'll fix the bed." Shen Li Puchi laughed, and said, "Where's the bed?" Lu Xiaolong spread the straw mat on the ground, rolled up one end a little bit to use it as a pillow, then pulled Shen Li to lie down on the straw mat, and put the torn cotton The curtain was drawn over him.The door curtain wasn't wide enough, and in order to keep it as warm as possible, the two hugged each other tightly sideways.Shen Li said: "Following your revolution is really hard." Lu Xiaolong said: "Then are you still willing to follow my revolution?" Shen Li said: "I am willing to watch your revolution." The two hugged each other so closely, Lu Xiaolong felt an impulse in his body.Being imprisoned in this empty and cold oil depot, with an unpredictable fate, and having this kind of dizzy thoughts made him feel as strange as a dream. He pressed his body against Shen Li while kissing her.Shen Li said: "Don't be in a hurry." She straightened her hair and smoothed the straw mat she was resting on. Just now some grass stalks were stunned, scratching their faces, and then kissed Lu Xiaolong's face After a while, I asked: "What are you thinking about now?" Lu Xiaolong said: "I didn't think about anything." Shen Li asked: "Now I want you to make a wish, what wish do you have?" Lu Xiaolong said: "I want to Breastfeeding." Shen Li shamed him with her hand, and said, "What is this?" Lu Xiaolong reached into Shen Li's jacket, lifted the sweater and woolen vest, and touched her skin through the cotton sweater. breast.When he wanted to put his hand inside the cotton sweater, Shen Li said, "It's better to put another layer of clothes, your hands are too cold, besides, it's not hygienic here." Lu Xiaolong had no choice but to touch Shen Li's flexible breasts through the cotton sweater, and at the same time hugged Shen Li more impulsively, holding Shen Li's tongue in his mouth and sucking for a long time.After a while, Shen Li avoided him and said, "You really want to breastfeed?" Lu Xiaolong buried his head on Shen Li's chest, and pushed her breast through the clothes, Shen Li gently stroked his head, Ask: "What were you like when you were young? When will you show me your childhood photos?" After a while, Lu Xiaolong calmed down, pulled Shen Li's clothes tightly, and wrapped the cotton curtain even tighter. On the two of them, she hugged Shen Li and stuck to herself, and fell asleep listening to the cold wind howling in the field. At dawn the next day, the two woke up from the cold, and then they heard the sound of the iron door being opened, and they turned over and sat up.The big iron gate was pushed open rumblingly, and a beam of light shone in, making it almost impossible to keep your eyes open.Several men with guns stood in the light and ordered them to follow.The two stood up and patted the straw stuck to their bodies, and picked off the grass clippings stuck to each other's hair. Shen Li put on the old plain mirror with a yellow frame, straightened her clothes, and followed the visitor out of the warehouse.They came to yesterday's row of houses again, and seemed to have entered yesterday's house again.There were people sitting in the room, some standing, some with guns on their backs, and some with their guns against the wall. Yesterday's interrogation continued.The presiding judge was a middle-aged man in a military overcoat. He had high cheekbones, a dark red face, and an old military cap. People called him "Minister Zhang."Lu Xiaolong guessed that this might be a cadre from the county armed forces department or the commune armed forces department.Minister Zhang's first sentence was: "I made you think about it all night, have you thought it over? What are you here for?" Before Lu Xiaolong opened his mouth, he saw a few people rushing in from outside, leaning close to Minister Zhang's ear After whispering a few words, Minister Zhang immediately rolled his eyes alertly, and went out with a few people. After a while, the remaining six or seven people in the house also went out one after another, and they heard the sound of hurried running in the yard. The two stayed in the house, and the yard seemed to be more hectic. The door opened, and two farmers with guns came in behind Minister Zhang.Minister Zhang asked: "Are you going to deliver letters to them and engage in counter-revolutionary collusion?" Said impatiently: "Don't bother with them, let's leave one shot here." Then, he pulled the bolt of the gun and loaded the bullet.Minister Zhang thought for a moment, reached out his hand to stop it, picked up some papers and a ballpoint pen on the table and said to Lu Xiaolong: "I will give you an hour to write down your situation in detail, and I will send someone to pick it up later." With that said, he winked at the two people behind him, closed the door and left in a hurry.There was another burst of footsteps and yelling, and after a while, the yard became quiet. Lu Xiaolong and Shen Li looked at each other, and Lu Xiaolong said: "Let's write some materials for them honestly." He sat down at the table, took a pen and paper to think about it, and wrote the first line " About our situation", he looked up at Shen Li, who was also looking at him, and Lu Xiaolong showed a thoughtful expression.Shen Li said: "Do you know how to write it?" Lu Xiaolong frowned slightly and thought for a while, then listened to the voices outside, the yard was very quiet.He said: "I think it's a bit strange." Shen Li suddenly seemed to feel some danger, looked at him with some horror, and asked: "What's wrong?" Lu Xiaolong put down his pen, stood up and said, "I'll go out and have a look first." Shen Li said: "They won't let you go out." Lu Xiaolong searched with his eyes, saw a big porcelain bowl on the table, said: "I just said I want some water to drink." He picked up the bowl and opened the door After leaving the room, there was no one in the courtyard.He looked at the row of houses one by one, but there was no one there, only some tables, chairs, benches and wooden beds scattered with bedding scattered here and there.He walked to the middle of the courtyard and saw clearly that the place where the sun rises is the east, and the gate is on the north, which seems to be closed. His row of houses is next to the gate, and there is another row of houses to the south, and the big oil depot is on the west side of the courtyard. , he decided to take a look at the row of bungalows to the south. There are more than a dozen houses in this row of houses in the south, all of which are empty and open, and there is no one there.Only then did he discover that there was a layer of sandbags piled up on the south wall, probably to reinforce the wall during battles. In many places, steps were piled up with sandbags so that people could stand on them and look out and shoot.Strangely, there was no one here either.He came to the wall again, stepped on the steps of the sandbags and looked out of the wall. Immediately there were several gunshots, and the bullets flew over his head.He jumped down immediately, and more bullets came from the south.He turned around and looked at the yard. There were bunkers at all four corners. There were more and more gunshots from the south, but there was no return fire in the yard.He suddenly thought, has the courtyard been evacuated?At this time, the bullets from the south whizzed down on him, and he immediately crawled to the northwest corner, and looked inside the bunker. There was no one in the black hole, only the light from four or five gun holes penetrated outside.He crawled across the open ground, ran back to the room where he was being interrogated, grabbed Shen Li who was hiding in the corner, and said, "Go quickly." Shen Li said, "What's the matter?" They will call." Shen Li said: "Then what are you afraid of?" Lu Xiaolong said: "That faction will think that we support this faction, and it will not be wrong to beat you to death?" Lu Xiaolong saw that his canvas schoolbag was still on the window sill, so he took it over, Shen Li also picked up a few leaflets on the window sill, Lu Xiaolong said: "I don't want this, it will only cause trouble for us. "The two ran to the gate in a hurry, the iron gate was ajar, opened the door and came out, and ran quickly. It was getting farther and farther away from the oil depot, and there was a village in front of it. Lu Xiaolong and Shen Li slowed down and walked through the village pretending not to be in a hurry.The village was empty, and no one was met.As soon as they passed the village, they avoided Anxin County and ran towards Xushui Station on the small road in the countryside.