Chapter 2 Primer

Deep in Zhong Yuemin's memory, what happened in the winter of 1968 is very clear. He was almost involved in a murder case that winter, and he still has lingering fears when he thinks about it. 1968 was a tumultuous year. The background in Zhong Yuemin’s memory was red. At that time, the streets and alleys in Beijing were covered with red paint, with quotations from Chairman Mao written all over them. Red flags, red quotation books, red sleeves Zhang... In short, red became the main color at that time, and even everyone's heart was full of red hope. Zhong Yuemin still hasn't clarified why, one day in 1968, he and his companions, including the children in the Beijing government compound and military compound, suddenly seemed to be possessed by evil spirits, with a surge of adrenaline, a kind of The mixture of youthful passion and evil was like a bomb exploding in the bodies of these teenagers. Against the red background, a fierce red shock wave suddenly appeared, spreading around with violent force. Surprisingly, this wave The red shock wave actually affected their lives...

Many years later, Zhong Yuemin discovered that 1968 AD was an eventful year. Many major events took place in the world in this year. The earth was dangerously inflated and agitated like a balloon filled with hydrogen, and a small Mars can cause an explosion... In the spring of this year, the big brother of the Soviet Union finally got annoyed by the little brother Czechoslovakia.So a large number of Soviet airborne troops and armored troops, under the guidance of Brezhnev's "Limited Sovereignty Theory", marched straight to occupy the Czech Republic.The whole world was shocked, followed by a public outcry.

In March, the black American leader Martin Luther King Jr. who always said "I have a dream..." was assassinated. The whole world was shocked again, the international public opinion was in an uproar, and the United States almost caused riots.Martin Luther King Jr. has been recorded in the annals of history as a celebrity, and his extremely humane speeches and his thick and magnetic baritone have since become swan songs. In May of this year, romantic French youths also made trouble. The cause turned out to be a word from the Minister of Youth and Sports, François Misofort. The ribbon was cut in the swimming pool. It happened that Danny Cohn-Bundy, a German student in the Department of Sociology, was also a troublemaker like Zhong Yuemin. problem?Mr. Minister's answer is very unpleasant. To use our Chinese saying, it is called standing and talking without back pain.He suggested that Cohen Bundy could jump into the water to defeat the fire when he was horny.The minister's suggestion was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and the students started making trouble.

In May of this year, the students in Paris finally rose up for a revolution. They attacked those in power and demanded the destruction of the "old order".The Latin Quarter in Paris became a forum for ancient Greece for a while, and everyone was protesting, and the objects of protest were diverse, ranging from academic discipline and class differences to the Vietnam War. On May 3, the police cleared the University of Paris, prompting a more violent reaction in the Latin Quarter. Many places were spontaneously taken over by the masses, workers occupied factories, radical doctors occupied medical associations, actors closed theaters, and even some clergymen declared their "revolution".The dedicated police filled the Latin Quarter with the smell of tear gas. President de Gaulle finally couldn't bear it anymore. He walked out of the Elysee Palace through the back door and went to his hometown of Colombe.The news stunned the students, who believed that the "revolution" was about to succeed.

The world was stunned by May in Paris, and almost the whole Western world was excited.For the French, almost all of them can be regarded as old revolutionaries. Their revolutionary tradition can be traced back to at least 1789, when the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille like a booing The dynasty was destroyed, they are the pioneers of the revolution. At this time, the college students in Paris were building barricades in full swing along the road that the Chinese Red Guards walked, holding high the portrait of Mao Zedong and the flag of the Paris Commune, rushing to fight on the street, ambitious to do it again on the European continent." Sweeping all demons and monsters."Even the clergy who eat God's food wanted to rebel, and the great philosopher Mr. Sartre followed suit. The world is really messed up.

However, there is always an end to everything in the world. On May 30, President de Gaulle returned to Paris and gave a speech on the radio. He called on the people to love their country.Mr. President simply told the people that if this trouble continues, everyone should be mentally prepared for the coming material deprivation.This big truth is more effective than any unpredictable and profound theories. If the revolution has been going on for a long time and there is nothing to eat, then the revolution will be meaningless.What's more, most ordinary people are tired of the hustle and bustle on the street, so they responded to Mr. President's call and brought home a group of children who continued to mess around in the barricades, and the "May Storm" in Paris was officially over. curtain.

As an adult, Zhong Yuemin finally understood. No wonder he was bewitched back then, and no one was idle when he dared to love. The students in Paris are not fuel-efficient lamps. The brothers should send liaison officers to connect with the buddies in Paris. Once the East and the West join forces, the world revolution may succeed.However, the slogans chanted by the students in Beijing and those in Paris at the same time are quite different. The slogans in Beijing are a bit more violent, either to fry someone or to smash someone's head.There is a sense of romance over there: Not for bread, but for roses...

Make love, don't fight... Listen, it's really fucking enjoyable to carry out the revolution while you're having fun. However, Zhong Yuemin in 1968 knew nothing about what happened in France, he just found a new way of life, and lived happily.When the students in Paris returned home from the barricades, Zhong Yuemin and his gang had just appeared.