Chapter 51 Chapter 93

On January 8, 1976, Zhou Enlai passed away. On the morning of January 11, Beiqing University still held a ten-thousand-thousand meeting to "counter the right-leaning trend of overturning verdicts" as originally planned.As soon as the meeting was over, Ma Sheng wore the red armband of the picket on his arm, and strode across the campus with his arms swung.In the cold winter of January, Beiqing University seemed to rejuvenate its revolutionary youth. The campus was full of big-character posters with the slogan "Fight against the rightist trend of overturning the verdict", and the criticism was directed at the "capitalist roader who has refused to repent so far." "Deng Xiaoping.The sudden change in the political situation brought a fighting atmosphere to Beiqing University, and also brought vitality to Ma Shengli.

The crowd at the end of the meeting was noisy, talking about topics that had nothing to do with the meeting. Ma Shengli walked through the crowd like a wolf dog, catching another new trend of class struggle.He never looked left or right, but he paid great attention to the high and low discussions around him. The cold northwest wind blew around the campus, and the big-character newspapers that were not tightly pasted were buzzing, and people were discussing something that had nothing to do with the big-character posters. matter.When he came to the office of the school party committee, Wang Lun was still in military uniform, sitting very burly on the sofa in the spacious office. As secretary of the party committee of Beiqing University, he is now leading the source of new upsurges of the national Cultural Revolution movement. .Wang Lun came and went and surrounded all kinds of people, listening to him assign work one by one.

As soon as Ma Shengli pushed the door, Wang Lun noticed him. However, Wang Lun continued to be busy talking to people around him, pointing to the documents for him.People came to him in turn like a revolving lantern, bent down to report the situation, he stretched his legs fat and stretched, and gave instructions in a few words.Some people leaned over him to ask for more rounds, so he waved his hand in the air and said, "I have already explained the principles, and you can handle the details yourself." His fat hands fell on the sofa again, knocking on the springs. Boom boom.When the obedient requester continued to lean over there before asking clearly, he said impatiently: "It's not just about you, there are other things, go." When he bent down and retreated, someone had already hit him again.Wang Lun leaned back on the sofa, with his arms outstretched, and with his broad face upturned, he frowned at a new reporter, listened for a while, and then gave instructions in a few words.When the other party bowed his waist and asked for further understanding, he waved his hand in the air as usual, and then his hand fell heavily on the spring-filled sofa, which was regarded as the completion of the instruction.

Ma Shengli stood behind the crowd and waited patiently. The old people gradually left, and the new people surrounded him again. The office door kept opening and closing, and the people coming in and out were all in a hurry.Ma Shengli carefully sat down on a chair. Finally, when there were few people, Wang Lun beckoned to him, and he walked over. Wang Lun dismissed the three or four people around him asking for instructions, and after a glance, it was empty. He said to Ma Shengli who was standing in front of him, "What did you do in the early days of the Cultural Revolution?" Ma Shengli's nerves tensed up when he heard the tone of the question.He asked: "Secretary Wang, what are you asking specifically?"

Wang Lun propped up his tall and fat body with both hands, and sat on his back more comfortably on the sofa. Then he looked at Ma Shengli blankly and said, "You don't know?" Ma Shengli replied with trepidation, "I don't know." Wang Lun turned his eyes, picked up the newspaper beside him, read it twice, put it down again, and said impatiently: "Did you go to Beiqing Middle School to beat people when the Cultural Revolution started?" Ma Shengli knew the reason immediately. He had long heard that Mina and other teachers from Beiqing Middle School proposed to investigate the murderer who killed Jia Kun, so he took out the statement he had prepared.He said: "In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, students at Beiqing Middle School fought against a rogue male teacher named Jia Kun. The students probably beat him. I happened to pass by my alma mater and took a look. The middle school students called him Jia Kun. Kun’s rogue teacher paraded to the Sun Moon Temple Park to criticize the struggle. I helped them maintain order. Later, because of the heavy rain, people all ran away. Before they ran away, Jia Kun was fine, but later I heard that he died in the fountain That’s right. The middle school student definitely couldn’t kill anyone with those few blows, so he probably committed suicide by lying in the water of the fountain.”

Ma Shengli finished speaking carefully. Wang Lun had already spread out a newspaper and browsed it casually.Wang Lun flipped through several newspapers one after another, raised his eyes to look at Ma Shengli, and said, "You have to clarify this matter yourself, no one can help you." Ma Shengli said submissively, "I know very well." Wang Lun He seemed to be thinking about other things, flipping through one newspaper after another carelessly, and asked casually, "What kind of hooliganism is that teacher?" Do it." Wang Lun looked up at Ma Shengli in a little surprise, shook his head snortingly, closed the newspaper spread in his hand and put it aside, picked up a new newspaper, and scanned it hastily without raising his head. Said to Ma Shengli: "For this matter, you have to be mentally prepared yourself. Only you are responsible for your own affairs, and we cannot take responsibility for you." Ma Shengli bent down and smiled and said: "I know that." While waving his hand in the air, Ma Shengli seized the opportunity and said, "Recently, Beiqing University has an important new trend of class struggle." Wang Lun put the newspaper by his side, stretched his legs more comfortably, and slid his whole body down , almost lying on the big sofa.He asked impatiently: "What's the new trend?" He opened his arms and yawned.Ma Shengli reported immediately: "Many people in the school are dissatisfied with the current campaign of 'countering the right-leaning and overturning verdicts. Said: "As soon as the meeting ended today, the defense team members reported to me that many people said that this criticism meeting raped public opinion."

Wang Lun watched Ma Shengli carefully, and Ma Shengli continued, "They said that the whole country is now mourning the death of the Prime Minister, and holding such a meeting is against the will of the people." Wang Lun immediately swung his fat palm and patted the The newspaper said viciously: "We must move against their hearts. The general direction of the revolution now is to criticize the right-leaning style of overturning verdicts. No one wants to use the dead to overwhelm the living." Ma Shengli saw that although Wang Lun was angry, he did not pay enough attention to it. His report immediately concreted the situation.

He said: "I just listened carefully to various discussions among the people who left the meeting, and now there is a specific trend." Wang Lun looked straight at Ma Shengli and asked, "What trend?" Ma Shengli said, "Today is the last day. To bid farewell to Premier Zhou’s body, it may be sent to Babaoshan for cremation in the afternoon, and I heard that many government agencies and universities in Beijing will go to Chang’an Street to deliver the hearse.” "Oh?" Wang Lun really paid attention this time.Ma Shengli paused for a moment. What he said was entirely out of his own estimation. However, he believed in his keen sense of smell like a dog, so he continued to report: "There are many people going to Beiqing University." "Yes." ?"

Wang Lun paid more attention. He sat up on the sofa, frowned and thought for a while, then raised his head to look at Ma Shengli, and asked, "Is the situation reliable?" Knowing that his judgment was 60% to 70% sure, he said desperately: "Absolutely reliable. I have also investigated the situation of several universities around me in the past two days, and exchanged information with the defense and defense of each school. This afternoon there will definitely be a situation where the hearse is being delivered between the lanes." The room was silent for a while, Wang Lun was thinking, and Ma Shengli was nervous about the information he had imagined.Wang Lun touched his mouth with his hand, rolled his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "I am going to issue a notice that all teachers and students in the school are not allowed to go." Ma Shengli said, "This is inappropriate. It is not illegal to send a hearse, and you cannot publicly object to it." , and as soon as you send out the notice, people who didn’t know it will know instead, which is equivalent to publicizing for them.” Wang Lun frowned and thought for a while, then asked: “What plan do you have?” Ma Shengli said: “I have already We have made some arrangements and are planning to organize some people to follow the scene and investigate and count who participated in this activity in our school? When they are exposed more fully, we can use these activities as issues of right-leaning reversal of verdicts to launch a big criticism. "Wang Lun stood up and walked to his desk. While dialing the phone, he said to Ma Shengli: "Then you can arrange this action. If possible, do a little investigation not only on Beiqing University, but also on similar developments in other universities. Report to me immediately." Ma Shengli nodded and exited the office respectfully, he closed the door, and heard Wang Lun's loud and respectful voice inside: "Comrade Jiang Qing, I am Xiao Wang, I have an urgent report to the central government Just a moment..." Ma Shengli strode away when he heard footsteps coming from the stairs.Now he was worried that not many people would see Zhou Enlai's hearse off in the afternoon.

As soon as he walked to the campus, he strengthened his judgment again. When he met people passing by in twos and threes, the words "Premier Zhou" were mixed in their words, and it was said that the farewell ceremony to Zhou Enlai's body was held this afternoon. After that, the body will be sent to Babaoshan by Beijing Hospital for cremation.When he walked to the entrance of the big cafeteria, this feeling became even stronger. Noisy people walked in with empty lunch boxes, almost all talking about Zhou Enlai's hearse going to Babaoshan in the afternoon.He knew that he had made the right bet this time. He must keep up with the revolutionary situation. If he wants not to be abandoned by the revolution, he must always be a useful person to the revolution. Now he needs to take immediate action.He first called dozens of joint defense team members together for an emergency meeting, and assigned a task to everyone: to investigate all the people who sent the hearse to Beiqing University in the afternoon.The defense team looked at each other and said in a hurry: "This is too difficult. We don't know so many people in the school. When we arrive at the scene, we may not be able to recognize a few." Ma Shengli said: "How many people do you know?" Just memorize a few." A fat boy with a round head suggested: "I should find out some of you who used to manage monsters and snakes. They know almost all the teachers in the school." Ma Shengli thought about it. The students had already been assigned away, but there were still some school workers. Fortunately, he knew them all well, so he immediately sent someone to find them all.

Thirty or forty workers sat in front of them. In the past, they all followed Ma Shengli in the Cultural Revolution. In the past two years, those who had fired boilers started to burn boilers again, and those who were running factories at the school went to run factories at the school. All of them were disgraced. , adding a piece of age.Ma Shengli entrusted them with new revolutionary tasks, and they were confused and unfamiliar, but also excited about being reused again.A worker who worked as a fitter in a factory run by the school pursed his lips and said, "We will do whatever we are asked to do." His voice seemed dull and dull.The others also watched Ma Shengli helplessly, unable to adapt to their new appointment under the revolutionary situation, and then rubbed their hands to discuss what to do.Ma Shengli said: "Half of the teachers in this school used to be ghosts and snake spirits. These ghosts and snake spirits are especially likely to go this afternoon. You remember that one is the other." Someone scratched his head and said: "After so many years, some people may look familiar. If you know which department you belong to, you may not be able to remember the name." Ma Shengli said: "If you can't remember the name and face, you can remember which department you belong to, and you can remember as many as you like." Another person said: "Students today We don’t even know each other.” Ma Shengli said, “You don’t have to worry about it, I’ll make other arrangements.” The group immediately discussed and divided into several groups temporarily, and elected a group leader. I went home to push the cart, and if I don’t have a car, I tried to borrow a car, because riding a bicycle is convenient for activities.They asked, "When are you going to leave?" Ma Shengli said, "Let's go now." This group of people was sent away, and the joint defense team was also sent away. Ma Shengli recruited a few workers, peasants and soldiers students he was familiar with. Students, he assigned tasks to a group of male and female students with "tasks assigned by the school party committee".His words were very clear: "Secretary Wang said that we must be vigilant against class enemies who use the dead to overwhelm the living, and we must be vigilant against all forms of right-leaning ideological trends." A group of young people took the task and decided to distribute it in the campus now, follow Learn about the crowds going to Chang'an Street, and some are going to make observation records at the school gate, and finally ride on Chang'an Street to do on-site investigation.Ma Shengli felt that it was getting late, so he called Li Daiyu, who worked in the financial office of Beiqing University, and the two met on the cold and windy campus. Li Daiyu was assigned to work in the finance office of Beiqing University after her father's case was rehabilitated at the end of last year, and rushed over when she received a call.She asked: "What's the matter?" Ma Shengli said: "Hurry up and find a bicycle, and ride along to Tiananmen Square and Chang'an Avenue." Li Daiyu asked suspiciously: "What are you doing?" Ma Shengli said: "There may be many people in the afternoon. People go to Chang'an Avenue to deliver the hearse." Li Daiyu asked: "Shall we go too?" Ma Shengli said: "We are not going to deliver the hearse, but to register those who deliver the hearse." Li Daiyu said: "Everyone mourns Premier Zhou, This is not against the law." Ma Shengli said: "This is a political struggle." Li Daiyu said: "I don't want to go." Ma Shengli shook his fists and said to Li Daiyu: "If you don't go, you have to go." Li Daiyu didn't speak. Ma Shengli said: "These people don't want to drink, but they are dissatisfied with countering the Rightist movement to overturn the verdict." Holding his sleeves, he said, "What's the use of me going?" Ma Shengli said, "You have been in Beiqing University for so many years, and you know a lot of people. Write down the name of anyone you see, and take a branch with you." Bring a pen and a notebook." Li Daiyu said, "It's so far away, I can't ride a bicycle." Ma Shengli said, "It's broad daylight, I can't take you with a bicycle, so just put in the effort and ride over." Li Daiyu said: "Chang'an Street is so long, where are we going?" Ma Shengli said, "Let's look along the way." Li Daiyu went looking for a bicycle, and Ma Shengli was still organizing forces. Meeting Jiang Xiaocai head-on, with a pair of glasses on his slender face, Ma Shengli met him and said, "What are you going to do in such a hurry?" Take a look at Chang'an Avenue, the Prime Minister's hearse may be going to Babaoshan in the afternoon." Ma Shengli heard that this was not the man he was investigating, but the object of investigation. He asked: "Who is there?" Jiang Xiaocai said: "There are quite a lot of people going." Ma Shengli pretended to be very casual and said: "Are there many people going to your philosophy department?" Jiang Xiaocai said: "Except for two or three The one who is too old to walk, almost all go." Ma Shengli said casually again: "The teachers must all go, and the students go less." Jiang Xiaocai said: "Students in the philosophy department are almost the same. All go." As he spoke, Jiang Xiaocai waved his hand and said, "I'm leaving." Ma Shengli watched as Jiang Xiaocai hurried towards a group of people, who were talking and running towards the school gate.It seems that they did not go one by one, but in groups. My report to Wang Lun today was really prescient.Thinking of this, he felt that his task was easy to complete, as long as he asked acquaintances from each department to understand, the situation was almost mastered.Thinking of Wang Lun's phone call to Jiang Qing after listening to his report, he couldn't help feeling that he had done a good job.It was already noon, and he didn't have time to eat, but he couldn't care less, he rode on a bicycle and left the school gate. It is the coldest season in Beijing, the sky is covered with cloudy clouds, the cold wind cuts the face, the road is dingy, pedestrians wrapped in coats and shrinking their heads are swarming like groups of kangaroos, the streets are covered with dry roadside The branches were scratched beyond recognition.He rode wildly for a while, overtaking group after group of riders. Looking at their appearance, he suspected that these people were all going to Chang'an Street to deliver the hearse.Thinking of the fact that so many people are coming together for one thing, and some people are against it, human society is really a society of fighting back and forth.He rode past the zoo, made another turn and went straight south, and rode to Muxidi in one breath, and Chang'an Avenue was in front of him.It was already afternoon, and what shocked and excited him was that both sides of Chang'an Avenue were full of people, many of whom had small snow-white paper flowers pinned to their chests.Looking west, there are solemn crowds standing on both sides of the street leading to Babao Mountain. The cold wind blows sand and sweeps the street. The crowd wrapped in cotton coats avoids the sweeping wind and sand. There is no end to people.Turning my head and looking east, I saw Tiananmen Square in the distance. There were also people standing on both sides of the street. In the cold wind, many people huddled their heads in the collars of their cotton coats and turned their feet backwards. It seemed that they had been standing for a long time. up. Ma Shengli thought about it, and decided to ride in the direction of Tiananmen Square. The hearse would start from the Beijing Hospital on Wangfujing Street, and he wanted to start from the source.When he rode all the way, he scanned the crowd on the side of the road and found that it was impractical to find someone from Beiqing University here.Looking at the endless stream of people on both sides of the road, he knew that his task had been overfulfilled.He rode past Fuxingmen, Xidan Telegraph Building, Tiananmen Square, and arrived at Wangfujing Street, where the crowds were even denser. Once you turn a corner, you will arrive at Beijing Hospital.The entrance of the hospital was already full of people, the cold wind was swirling above people's heads, and a few white papers were flying in the wind. People were waiting silently in the cold wind, occasionally looking towards the hospital gate, and when there was no movement, they went to the hospital again. Bumping my feet against the cold. Ma Shengli got out of the car and looked around the crowd, not knowing what to do next.After being confused for a while, he finally thought of his mission. He asked a middle-aged man wearing a woolen cap next to him: "Which unit do you belong to?" The other party glanced at him and said: "Chinese Academy of Sciences." Asked: "Are there many people here?" The other party put his hands in the pockets of the cotton coat and replied, "Quite a few." Ma Shengli asked again: "Is there half?" He glanced at him and said, "Who still counts this?" Ma Shengli smiled and nodded, pushing the cart around the crowd.After walking for a while, he stopped the car again and asked an old lady with gray hair who looked like an intellectual: "When will the hearse come out?" The other party shook his head: "I don't know, anyway, I came out today to go to Babaoshan." Ma Shengli asked again: "Which unit are you from?" The old lady replied: "I'm from the instrument factory." Ma Shengli pretended to be surprised and said: "You are in the eastern suburbs, it's quite far away." The old lady said: "You have to come even if you are far away. The hundredth place." Ma Shengli nodded, he knew that the real investigation had begun, and now he was not just investigating Beiqing University, but wanted to investigate the situation in Beijing: which units had the most people coming?How many people came?He's going to make a report.It's a pity to send this report to Wang Lun. We should find a way to send it directly to Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao. His palms were sweating from excitement while holding the handlebar.Pushing the cart around like this, he would strike up a conversation and ask the people around him from time to time. After asking, he nodded and continued to push the cart. After a while, he had already memorized more than a dozen units in his head.He found a secluded corner and took out a small book, made a simple record, stuffed the book in his pocket, and pushed the cart into the crowd to investigate.In order not to arouse suspicion, if he has asked someone, he will move away enough distance and never appear in the same person's field of vision repeatedly. The cart walked another way through the crowd, and he stopped in front of a fat man.He seemed very unintentional and said: "There are really a lot of people here today." The other party didn't even look at him, and hummed.He accosted again and asked, "Which unit are you from?" The other party turned his fat square face, rolled his thick lips and said, "Beiqing University." Ma Shengli was surprised, and asked casually, "Which department?" What?" The other party said angrily: "Why are you asking this?" Then he looked at Ma Shengli and said, "Aren't you from Beiqing University?" Ma Shengli was embarrassed, and the other party said: "Aren't you from the security department of Beiqing University? Are you here to investigate the underworld?" At this time, a middle-aged intellectual wearing a woolen hat appeared behind Ma Shengli and said, "I was a little bit to him just now." Doubt, ask here and there in the crowd, this is for black material." The fat man with a square face pointed at Ma Shengli and said, "His name is Ma Shengli. He is our Beiqing University thug and Wang Lun's dog leg." Ten or twenty people from the crowd rushed up and grabbed Ma Shengli. Someone raised his fist behind and shouted: "Beat this spy dog!" Pushing the cart and arching desperately, fists rained down on the back of his head and back, and a few punches landed heavily on his face, making him dizzy and his eyes glowing golden. At this time, someone shouted in the distance: "Come out." The arms and legs of Ma Shengli stopped suddenly, and people turned their heads to look at the hospital door.Ma Shengli took the opportunity to push the cart and escape like a big boar bitten by a pack of wolves.Squeezing out of the dense crowd, he rode on his bike and swished for one or two hundred meters.Turning his head, he looked towards the entrance of the hospital through the dense crowd. The hearse did not come out, and it was another false alarm. The crowd who had been waiting for a long time must have had such a false alarm more than once. After escaping from the danger zone, Ma Shengli started the investigation in a more natural way than before.He stopped every few tens of meters, chatted with someone who looked like a state cadre or an intellectual, and got a piece of information.He ignored those ignorant citizens, old men and old ladies.Along the way, the situation of more than a dozen units was recorded in his notebook. It was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and the hazy weather was getting darker. He suddenly found a few people from the Beiqing University's joint defense team riding there, looking around. He stopped them and instructed: "Don't recognize Beiqing The face of the university." Those people pointed to Chang'an Avenue with relief and said, "There are so many people who can't be recognized." He gave them a new investigation task, just like him, to see what institutions, factories, mines, and schools have been established. Groups of people come.Pointing to them, he said: "Ordinary citizens should ignore them. They should investigate state cadres, intellectuals and students, especially those who form gangs." He repeated one or two examples of his investigation method just now, and then Said: "Investigate ten or eight, and you should quickly find a place to write it down in a small notebook. To distance yourself, some people are here, some go to Tiananmen Square, some go to Xidan, some go to Fuxingmen, and some go to Osmanthus fragrans. There are still people going west to the Military Museum and Babaoshan. The people on both sides of the road in different areas must be different. Most of the agencies and units are waiting on the side of the road. We must pay attention to the whole Beijing today. Do a comprehensive investigation of the situation in the street." Five or six people nodded their heads repeatedly, and he instructed: "When you meet our people, let them do the same." Ma Shengli was very satisfied. The Ministry of Public Security probably didn't even think of doing today's comprehensive investigation. He had to hurry up and produce a very important internal report.It is a pity that this report is directly handed over to Wang Lun. He can do two reports on the situation, one on Beiqing University to Wang Lun, and one on the whole of Beijing to Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao.Thinking of this, he was very excited, rode on the bike and ran for a while, then stopped the bike and pushed on the side of the road.Seeing a suitable subject of investigation, he stopped for a while and struck up a conversation.He found that as long as he expresses the same condolences as the other party, he can gain trust, and the conversation is easy to speculate. If necessary, he can also express his dissatisfaction with the current movement, which will be more effective.When encountering groups of people, he especially needs to investigate, but this kind of investigation must be particularly cautious, because it is often more dangerous for a group of people to pay attention to you, and there will always be one or two people who are particularly vigilant in a group. He has enough cunning, his burly body and huge face are very similar to workers in a steel factory, and he is so stupid that it is not easy to attract suspicion. When he investigated all the way to Tiananmen Square, it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was even darker, the cold wind blew across Chang'an Avenue, and the dense crowd stood dumbfounded.At this time, the hearse came from behind, Ma Shengli supported the car and stopped on the side of the road, and the people who delivered the hearse also raised their faces. There were yellow and black banners hanging around the hearse, covered with big white flowers, and it drove over solemnly, followed by a long convoy, followed by a crowd of cyclists, and he also got on the car and followed frantically .The hearse convoy did not drive very fast, and Ma Shengli followed closely at a frantic speed.When the convoy passed Xidan and arrived at Fuxingmen, all the bicycles following along the way were basically abandoned, only Ma Shengli and a few people leaning over and riding fast like cyclists were still following closely.The hearse passed Muxidi, the Military Museum, and headed west.It was almost dark, and someone in the crowd threw away the paper flowers.Ma Shengli rode like a wild beast, he was the tail of the hearse, and he wanted to follow it to the end.He saw people on both sides of the road take off their hats to salute the hearse one by one, saw someone crying loudly, saw someone beating their chest and feet, and collapsed in the arms of others, and he followed the hearse at a crazy speed to Babaoshan Cemetery main entrance. It was completely dark, and there was a huge crowd of people at the gate. Some people asked to take another look at Premier Zhou, and some proposed to keep the body of the Premier Zhou from cremation. Amid the commotion, there were cries.The hearse stayed at the door for a while before slowly driving in.People rushed in, and Ma Shengli pushed the cart to follow, and the crowd inside the gate was turbulent.At another gate, all the crowds who came in were stopped, the crowd gathered there, some people were crying, and Ma Shengli pushed the cart all the way to the front.When he was blocked by a line of soldiers, he pushed his bicycle forward like crazy, and a few arms in military uniform stopped him.He put down the car, beat his chest and cried loudly, shouting frantically: "I want to see Premier Zhou. I must follow to the end."