Chapter 52 Chapter 94

On the evening of April 5, 1976, more than 100,000 angry and riotous crowds gathered in Tiananmen Square.Huang Hai was running around in the crowd like a wild wolf whose hair was burned by flames. His eyes were bloodshot, and the veins on his forehead were bulging. He wished there was no target for him to attack and burn. April 4th is the Ching Ming Festival. Nearly two million people mourned Zhou Enlai gathered in Tiananmen Square. Tens of thousands of wreaths piled up around the monument like a mountain of flowers, turning the entire square into a sea of ​​flowers.Huang Hai had a crazy day in the crowd of Tiananmen Square yesterday. He stood on the high platform of the monument and recited his poems to the surging crowd below.Inspired by the emotions of millions of people, he bit violently like a beast breaking free from its chain.

Last night, when the crowds in Anmen Square thinned out, he and a group of people who were still hanging around the monument were arrested by heavily armed soldiers and police, and taken to Zhongshan Park for interrogation before being released in the middle of the night.Early this morning, they came to Tiananmen Square again. To their anger, the endless wreaths that filled the entire square around the monument yesterday were swept away, leaving the square empty.When they and the crowds who came to Tiananmen successively gathered towards the Heroes Monument in the center of the square, the monument had already been cordoned off by hundreds of heavily armed soldiers.They chanted the slogan "Return my wreath" loudly. From then on, the conflicts in the square gradually heated up.As more people gathered in Tiananmen Square from all directions, more and more heavily armed soldiers and policemen, as well as workers' militias, appeared in front of them.Hundreds of thousands of riotous crowds swarmed Tiananmen Square, carrying wreaths and storming the cordon to the monument.Clashes broke out between the wreath-delivering crowd and the soldiers, police, and workers’ militia who blocked the monument. Many people were arrested on the spot. Amidst the slogans of “Return my wreath”, the chants of “Return my comrades in arms” rang out again. Slogans.Angry crowds surrounded a three-story small gray building on the south side of Tiananmen Square. This was the joint headquarters of the garrison area, the Public Security Bureau, and the Workers' Militia, and it was commanding the sweep and blockade of Tiananmen Square.

The crowd set fire to the cars parked in front of the building, and set fire to the small building.Huang Hai first lit the straw in the small gray building. When the fire was raging, he and a large group of people rushed into the small gray building, took out all the tables, chairs, benches, radios, books and newspapers and threw them on the fire. He flitted around the flames like a moth.The flames rushed from the first floor to the second floor, and then to the third floor. Billows of smoke came out of the windows on the second and third floors, and the heads of the headquarters hiding on the third floor were seen crawling out of the windows behind the building. , Running away like a lost dog, he howled like a wild wolf, venting the rage in his heart.The entire small gray building was burned into a huge torch, and the thick smoke rushed into the sky, like the long hair of a wizard who burned himself in the fire, flying vertically upwards.

From time to time, one or two speakers with the same tone as the official appeared in the crowd, and they were immediately besieged by angry crowds.A young man who claimed to be a student of workers, peasants and soldiers of Beiqing University preached loudly in the crowd: "The central government will soon declare that Zhou Enlai is the biggest capitalist roader." He was immediately beaten to death like raindrops of fists.Huang Hai rushed over and grabbed the young man, knocked him down in front of the monument, and made him bow his head to the wreath to confess his guilt.Angry crowds pounce on anyone who disagrees with them.

Several people spoke critically of Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, and fled into the Great Hall of the People under the siege of the masses.Hundreds of thousands of people rushed towards the Great Hall of the People like a tidal wave. Workers' militiamen armed with sticks and heavily armed military police blocked the steps in front of the Great Hall of the People one by one.Huang Hai rushed forward in the crowd like a mad cow, no matter whether it was a wall of people holding hands or a menacing stick to resist him.When the conflict reached a stalemate, there was a negotiation, demanding "give me back my wreath, give me back my comrades in arms".The negotiations failed, and the crowd in the square fell into hysterical commotion again.

In the evening, Tiananmen Square seemed to be tired from being trampled by the riotous crowd. However, at 6:30, the atmosphere suddenly changed. All the loudspeakers in the square were suddenly turned on at the same time, and began to broadcast Beijing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Wu De's speak.The crowd in the square pricked up their ears and heard Wu De say: "Comrades! In recent days, just as we are studying the important instructions of the great leader Chairman Mao, countering the Rightist trend of overturning verdicts, and grasping the revolution to promote production, a very small number of people with ulterior motives The bad guys take advantage of Ching Ming Festival to intentionally create political incidents, pointing the spearhead directly at Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee in an attempt to reverse the revisionist line of criticizing the unrepentant capitalist-roaders and counter the general direction of the Rightist overthrow. We must recognize this The reactionary nature of this political incident, expose their conspiracy and tricks, raise the vigilance of the revolution, and don’t be fooled.” Hearing this, Huang Hai and thousands of people in the square raised their arms and shouted: “Fart, fart, fart.” The shout Overwhelming the speech over the broadcast speakers, the crowd rioted even more furiously.I heard Wu De's last speech: "Today, there are bad people in Tiananmen Square sabotaging and disrupting counter-revolutionary sabotage activities. The revolutionary masses should leave the square immediately and don't be deceived by them." Wu De's speech was repeated on the radio over and over again. playing.

It was just after get off work, and instead of reducing the number of people in Tiananmen Square, they gathered more and more.The lights on the square had already been turned on, and more and more dense crowds roamed around the monument, sometimes flocking to the Great Hall of the People, sometimes flocking back around the monument, and the square was as hot as summer.Wu De's speech played on the radio speakers became a numb sound background, and hundreds of thousands of people squirmed aimlessly in the square.The flow of people passing by Chang'an Avenue and Tiananmen Square is still converging towards the square. However, after the wreaths piled up in the square were swept away yesterday, it is difficult for people to form an atmosphere of mourning, and all the people floating here are violent.Some people, like Huang Hai, kept waving their arms in the crowd and giving provocative speeches; Around each speaker, stand on tiptoe and listen; there are also many young people running left and right, agitating for a new craze.

It was eight o'clock, and news came from the square that many workers' militiamen with sticks had gathered in Zhongshan Park near Tiananmen Square, the Labor People's Cultural Palace, and the No. 28 Middle School. Transported by truck to Tiananmen Square.The angry crowd became even angrier, but the timid began to retreat gradually.It was getting darker, and the crowd in the square seemed thinner, and there were probably tens of thousands of people floating around the square.Huang Hai was tired of shouting and his voice was hoarse. He was stumbling around in the crowd like a bald wolf whose fur had been burned off.

I met Tian Xiaoli head-on, "Huang Hai, I heard your speech just now." Tian Xiaoli said enthusiastically.Huang Hai shook his round head, adjusted his glasses, and said to Tian Xiaoli in a hoarse voice: "Why aren't you wearing a military uniform?" The short hair is very energetic, and the delicate melon-seeded face is shining brightly. She said to Huang Hai: "I heard that the garrison has transferred several battalions of troops here, and the workers' militia from the capital have transferred 70,000 to 80,000 people. Maybe they will suppress it tonight. "Huang Haihong said with eyes wide open: "If you want to suppress it, go ahead and suppress it. I will go all out. I was arrested once last night." Tian Xiaoli followed him.Huang Hai said: "Don't stay here, leave now." Tian Xiaoli said: "I'm not afraid, I want to take another look." The two were talking and walking in the crowd when they met Shen Li and Shen Xia holding hands Walk among dense crowds.Shen Li recognized Huang Hai at once, and called: "Huang Hai." Huang Hai and Tian Xiaoli stopped, and Shen Li smiled at Tian Xiaoli.Shen Li said: "We heard you give a speech just now." Huang Hai scratched the back of his neck and said in a hoarse voice: "I have already made my voice hoarse, and I can't speak anymore." Shen Li looked at the crowd in the square and said: " Why are there so many wreaths gone from the square yesterday?" Huang Hai said, "They cleared them up last night." Shen Li said, "We also came yesterday."

The crowd in the square broke out again. It seemed that someone had said something provocative, saying, "It is a counter-revolutionary act to oppose the instructions of the central government."In several other crowded places, there were still people ascending to give speeches.It was getting darker and darker, and the atmosphere in the square showed a disturbing disturbance.Shen Li asked: "Did you arrest people last night?" Huang Hai said: "Yes, we were arrested in the middle of the night last night. You retreat now, maybe you will arrest people later." Shen Xia and Shen Li exchanged After looking at it, Shen Xia said: "Then let's go." Shen Li said: "It's okay, just stay for a while." Huang Hai suddenly remembered, and asked: "Is Lu Xiaolong in Xuzhou Railway Bureau now?"

Shen Li said: "Yes." Huang Hai asked again: "Do you have his address?" Shen Li and Shen Xia looked at each other, and said hesitantly: "I want to go back and look for it." Huang Hai waved his hand, pointed to the square and said : "He should come here." At this time, there was a violent commotion around the monument again, and people in the square flocked there. Huang Hai said to Shen Li: "There may be an accident tonight, you should go back earlier." Shen Li nodded slightly.Huang Hai took Tian Xiaoli and ran towards the monument together. Hundreds of workers sent a huge wreath made of iron, four meters high, and leaned against the monument. A burly worker stood on a high platform and waved his fists to give a fierce speech. The crowd cheered on him. Cheers.Huang Hai also stood on the high platform of the monument. Someone in the crowd below recognized the hero who had given a speech in the square for a day and cheered and applauded him.His voice was so hoarse that he could only use gestures to strengthen his voice, but the audience also roughly understood what he was saying through gestures and applauded warmly.Someone raised his arms and shouted: "Good job!" Huang Hai suddenly heard someone calling him from behind, and when he looked back, it was Mina. He called out in a voice so hoarse that he could barely speak: "Mr. Mi".Mina handed him a bottle of soda very affectionately, and said, "Here, I see that your voice is hoarse." Huang Hai took it, bit off the cap of the soda bottle with his teeth, raised his neck and drank it all in one gulp, She wiped her mouth and said, "This throat is like burning." Mina said, "I heard your speech in the square yesterday, and I heard that they arrested people last night, right?" Huang Hai nodded and said: "We were arrested last night, and we were interrogated all night before we were released." Mina said, "I saw several students from our Beiqing Middle School yesterday." Huang Hai pointed to Tian Xiaoli and said, "Isn't this a ?" Mina looked at Tian Xiaoli and said, "There are many more." Tian Xiaoli called out "Teacher Mi" a little bit embarrassedly, and she had personally shaved the "yin and yang heads" of these teachers ten years ago.Mina asked again: "Is Lu Xiaolong in Beijing?" Huang Hai said: "No, I heard that he is in Xuzhou Railway Bureau." Mina said again: "If he was in Beijing, he might have come here long ago." Someone called "Huang Hai" again, and it was Song Fa who squeezed over. His eyes were still dark under the thick eyebrows, but he looked much older. He was wearing work clothes, exuding a laborious air of working for a living.He said with a serious expression: "Tonight, there will be a crackdown. Only a thousand workers' militiamen from our factory have come, and at least 50,000 to 60,000 workers' militiamen have been mobilized from all over Beijing. I heard that Zhongshan Park and the Working People's Cultural Palace are already full. The workers' militia. Huang Hai, you withdraw first, you have big goals." Huang Hai shook his round head and said, "I won't leave, I will fight this time." Song Fa said to Mina and Tian Xiaoli: "Huang Hai was targeted yesterday, and today the target is even bigger." He then said to Huang Hai, "I have been here for the past two days, and I have listened to your speech." Huang Hai said, "I can't run away anyway. No matter how big a crime is, you should withdraw quickly." Tian Xiaoli raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said, "It's past nine o'clock." Song Fa looked down at the crowd in the square, and it was much thinner than before. Most people are leaving.Song Fa said: "Mr. Mi, you go first." Mina said: "I will go with you." At this time, the atmosphere in the square suddenly became serious. In addition to Wu De's speech, the "Three Great Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" was played on the loudspeaker.Huang Hai and the others looked around at the surrounding situation, feeling that an ominous omen was looming. Suddenly all the lights in the square went out, the surroundings were pitch black, and the atmosphere was terrifying.Huang Hai said: "Quick retreat, they are going to attack." Holding Tian Xiaoli with one hand and Mina with the other, he ran down from the high platform of the monument.The crowd around the monument also felt that the situation was not good, and they fled in all directions towards East and West Chang'an Avenue.In the chaos, Huang Hai felt that the situation was not right, so he stood still, and he wanted to judge the surrounding situation.Looking north, the Tiananmen Gate Tower is still illuminated by lights, and East and West Chang'an Avenue are also illuminated; looking west, the Great Hall of the People is also illuminated by lights; looking east, the History Museum is also illuminated; looking south , there are also lights in the direction of Qianmen Street; only the square is surrounded by lights on all sides in darkness.In the darkness, there was the faint sound of ferocious footsteps rushing towards the monument, and then, all the lights in the square were turned on again, brighter than ever before, and brightly lit.Crowds of policemen suddenly appeared around the monument wielding belts and clubs, and the crowd gathered around the monument began to flee in all directions.A policeman grabbed Tian Xiaoli, and Huang Hai rushed over madly, bumping his head into the policeman's back hard, knocking the policeman staggering, and almost fell to the ground.Huang Hai grabbed Tian Xiaoli and ran away. They ran towards Zhongshan Park in the northwest corner of the square, and the workers' militiamen surrounded them with sticks.Huang Hai pulled Tian Xiaoli back and ran towards the Working People's Cultural Palace in the northeast corner of the square. Tens of thousands of workers' militias also appeared there. When they were stopped, they were knocked down with sticks and fell to the ground one after another.Huang Hai pulled Tian Xiaoli to turn around and ran towards the south of the square. Hundreds of policemen surrounding the monument were arresting the crowd with handcuffs. They bypassed the monument and ran towards the southeast corner of the square, but a row of heavily armed soldiers appeared in front of them. surrounded.They turned around and ran towards the southwest corner, where the surrounding army also appeared.When they returned, they found that the square was surrounded in all directions. After thinking about it, they decided to rush out from the workers' militia in the north. Might be able to rush through.They rushed north again, and the formerly neat ranks of workers' militias were disorganized in the process of chasing and beating the fleeing crowd. They avoided the sticks and fled frantically among the ranks of workers' militias.Suddenly, seeing Mina who fled with them just now was grabbed by several workers' militiamen, Huang Hai put Tian Xiaoli down, turned around and rushed over, and knocked down a worker who was twisting Mina's arms while the workers' militiamen were not paying attention. The militia, took Mina and ran outside.Seeing that the encirclement circle of workers' militiamen rushed past, another denser team of workers' militiamen surrounded them with sticks in their hands from the gate of Zhongshan Park in front. come over.Huang Hai looked back at the chaotic Tiananmen Square, only to step back.The workers' militia team in front of them surrounded like iron barrels, without any gaps to pass through, and they retreated step by step.The belts of the police and the sticks of the workers' militia were flying around the monument. They looked left and right at the shrinking encirclement, then turned their heads and rushed due west. The workers' militiamen were on the north and the army was on the south. Just passing through the gap, another soldier appeared head-on, ordering them to return to the monument.They turned around and ran again, but another group of workers' militiamen with sticks blocked their way.A burly guy pointed at Mina and said, "Catch this counter-revolutionary." A group of workers' militiamen charged at Mina with sticks, and Mina turned and fled.The burly guy held up a thick wooden stick to intercept him and hit Mina in the chest. Mina screamed and fell to the ground. The guy raised the stick and hit Mina hard. Hearing another scream from Mina on his back, he lay there motionless. Huang Hai recognized this burly guy as Ma Shengli. He rushed forward, snatched Ma Shengli's stick, swung towards Ma Shengli, and hit Ma Shengli on the shoulder.Ma Shengli twisted his neck and let out a cry.A few workers' militia came up and besieged Huang Hai with sticks. Huang Hai turned around and pulled Tian Xiaoli and ran towards the monument.The encirclement became smaller and smaller, and the rioters who failed to escape from the square were all surrounded by the monument.Huang Hai dragged Tian Xiaoli back and forth in the chaos, not knowing where to break out, and finally, they could only stand still.A few policemen wearing big-brimmed hats swung their belts and rushed up. Huang Hai blocked Tian Xiaoli behind him. The belt and stick fell on his head, shoulders and body, and another round of punches and kicks hit Tian Xiaoli at the corners of his nose and mouth. Blood flowed out.He staggered to protect Tian Xiaoli and retreated to the monument, thinking that the army might not be as brutal as the police, so he retreated to the south of the encirclement.The soldiers in the garrison here approached one by one, Huang Hai pulled Tian Xiaoli and rushed towards him, pointed at Tian Xiaoli with his hoarse voice and shouted: "She is also a soldier, let her go." Forward relentlessly.Huang Hai wanted to yell, but a group of workers' militiamen with sticks ran over within the encirclement of the soldiers, beating the crowd who were trying to break out.Huang Hai was knocked to the ground with a stick, and Tian Xiaoli stretched out his hand to pull him, but he was also knocked to the ground with a stick, and more people were knocked to the ground with sticks.One of Huang Hai's arms was broken, he stood up with force, and pulled Tian Xiaoli up again, the sticks came more intensively, they were knocked down to the ground again, and they crawled back to the steps of the monument. Tens of thousands of workers' militiamen, policemen and soldiers with sticks in their hands surrounded all the people who hadn't fled around the monument.Huang Hai and Tian Xiaoli no longer had the strength to stand up. They stepped back and climbed up the steps of the monument. The workers' militiamen and police who couldn't see their faces poked their chests with sticks and kicked their bodies.One of Huang Hai's eyes was covered with blood, he couldn't see anything, and his glasses had already been knocked off. In his blurred vision, he never forgot to take care of Tian Xiaoli beside him. Ma Shengli appeared in front of them. He pointed a thick wooden stick directly at Huang Hai's face, like a cannon aimed at him.Ma Shengli's face was ferocious and huge, and he said, "Where can you counter-revolutionaries go?" Then, the wooden stick hit Huang Hai's mouth, like a hammer slamming down.Huang Hai's eyes were full of golden light, and the explosion-like pain made him feel like he had lost his mouth and jaw. Then, amidst the swelling pain that was almost numb, he knew that his upper and lower front teeth had all been knocked out, like a bunch of loose screws. The mouth was full, the upper and lower lips were broken, the chin seemed to have fallen off, and the numbness and swelling of the cheeks made him feel like a big hippopotamus.Ma Shengli raised the stick again and hit Huang Hai's knee with one blow.As if his leg had been cut off with a knife, Huang Hai heard the sound of his kneecap being smashed, and suddenly passed out from the pain.In a coma, he heard Tian Xiaoli screaming beside him.He opened his eyes and saw Tian Xiaoli struggling and wriggling on the steps like a severely injured earthworm.Huang Hai rolled towards her, and stretched out his only unbroken arm to protect Tian Xiaoli.Ma Shengli smiled grimly again and swung the stick down, hitting Tian Xiaoli's buttocks, and heard the sound of Tian Xiaoli's bones being broken. Tian Xiaoli stretched his neck in pain and twisted his whole body convulsively.Huang Hai raised his arm and pointed at Ma Shengli, his mouth could no longer speak.Ma Shengli stared at him coldly, sticks were flying around the monument like lush grass, and the dense screams gradually turned into moans.Huang Hai also pointed at Ma Shengli. Ma Shengli squinted at him for a while, then raised his big stick again.A rainbow-like lightning flashed before Huang Hai's eyes, his eyes darkened, his head sank, and he passed out. After an unknown amount of time, he gradually became aware of a hand touching his face.He opened the one eye that still had sight in a bloody mess, and saw Tian Xiaoli's face right in front of him. Because of the close distance, the face looked big, and the eyes also looked big, like a close-up that filled the screen.He gradually saw clearly that they were lying in an empty and large black room, and there were some people lying around moaning. A piece of moonlight came in from one window, shining on him and Tian Xiaoli quite favorably. Only then did Huang Hai realize that Tian Xiaoli's body was tightly attached to himself, he struggled and asked in a weak voice, "Where is this locking us up?" Tian Xiaoli shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just Wake up." Huang Hai turned his body again and knew that many places were damaged, his left arm was broken, his right leg was broken, his mouth was broken, and several internal organs must have been broken , Pain and numbness filled the chest and abdominal cavity, there must be a mess inside, all kinds of fluids and blood were mixed together.He felt that the parts of his body that his heart could reach were very limited, and it beat there reluctantly.He looked at Tian Xiaoli and asked, "Where have you been broken?" Tian Xiaoli said, "I don't know, I think I'm going to die soon." Huang Hai said, "I might be, but you won't be." Tian Xiaoli gently touched Huang Haihao's bloody face with his hand, and said, "I think of the time we committed suicide ten years ago." Huang Hai blurred his vision and said, "I didn't die that time, but this time I'm really going to die." Tian Xiaoli said, "It seems that I'm destined to die with you." Huang Hai said, "Is my current appearance particularly ugly? "Tian Xiaoli looked at his bloody mouth and the blinded eye, shook his head and said, "No, you're pretty." Huang Hai stretched out his arms and gently hugged Tian Xiaoli's body, and said, "You're so dead!" It's worth it." Tian Xiaoli said: "Why is it worth it?" Huang Hai said: "I'm with you." Tian Xiaoli gently pressed Huang Hai's bloody eye that was blinded by the beating with his hand, and said: "I didn't expect that I got it Get it, and I'll get it with you in the end." Huang Hai closed his eyes, floated around in a daze for a while, opened his eyes again, looked at Tian Xiaoli's delicate face illuminated by the moonlight, and said, "Don't you regret it?" Tian Xiaoli looked at him with very clear eyes and said, "I don't regret it." Huang Hai narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you sleepy? I'm very sleepy now." Tian Xiaoli said, "I'm also very sleepy." Huang Hai said, "Then let's sleep for a while Bar." Tian Xiaoli said: "Will you wake up after falling asleep?" Huang Hai said: "I can wake up." Tian Xiaoli said: "Then let's sleep with our arms around each other for a while." The two fell asleep with their arms around each other.After drifting in the dark tunnel for a long time, Huang Hai woke up vaguely again, feeling that he was floating in the water with his arms around a small boat, and a cold oar was stuck to his face.He also vaguely had a dream, a big fish was swimming with him, the big fish was very beautiful, and fell asleep while swimming in his arms, the body of the big fish was lubricated and cold.When Yu's dream disappeared in the rippling water, he felt a cold hand on his face, and he remembered that he fell asleep with Tian Xiaoli in his arms.He opened his blurry eyes, and saw Tian Xiaoli was lying quietly in his arms, so quiet and cold.He went to take the hand that was on his face, but found that the hand was not only cold, but the arm was already a little stiff.He struggled to prop up his body, patted Tian Xiaoli's cold face with his hands, and called her in a hoarse and weak voice, but Tian Xiaoli didn't respond.He shook her body vigorously, but that body had already lost its life, let it shake without any response.When he pushed hard, the body would lie flat obediently. The sky outside the window was already a light blue dawn, and the cold and clear light shone in like a huge eye, and the empty room was still dark.Dozens of people were lying on the wet muddy ground. It was not known whether they were asleep or could not wake up. He bent down again with difficulty, patted Tian Xiaoli's cold face and called out to her.Finally realizing that she would not wake up, he turned her body on his side again, lay down himself, still hugging her face to face.He put her cold hand on his face again, then wrapped his arms around her shoulders as tightly as he could, and fell asleep again.This time, he never woke up again.