Chapter 65 "Capable female general" Pu Xixiu seeks perfection

When Luo Longji fell into the firepower net of "big criticism", Pu Xixiu, a "capable female general", also became a striking target. Pu Xixiu, known as "Second Sister Pu".Her father, Pu Youwu, was born in Jiading County, Jiangsu Province (now part of Shanghai).Since Pu Youwu later worked for the Ministry of Communications of the Beiyang Government in Beijing, it was convenient for his family to go north in 1917①. Pu Youwu married his wife Huang, and they had three daughters and one son: Pu Jiexiu, Pu Xixiu, Pu Anxiu, and Pu Tongxiu.Pu Xixiu was ranked second, so she was called "Second Sister Pu".

The three Pu sisters took different paths in life: Pu Jiexiu, the eldest sister of Pu, studied in Germany and embarked on the road of chemical research.Her husband Du Chunyan is also a chemist. Pu Xixiu, the second sister of Pu, started to learn Danqing, then learned Chinese, and embarked on the road of journalists.She first married Yuan Ziying, a middle school teacher, and had a son and a daughter.She divorced Yuan in 1947. Pu Anxiu, the third sister of Pu, joined the CCP and embarked on the red road.She met Peng Dehuai in Yan'an and they got married. The younger brother Pu Tongxiu also came to Yan'an and embarked on the red road.

Pu Xixiu became a reporter for Chongqing Xinmin Daily in 1939.She has a sense of justice and sharp writing skills, and has become a famous leftist female reporter in Chongqing. A small incident fully demonstrated Pu Xixiu's keenness, wit and bravery: On December 8, 1941, the Japanese army attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor and bombed Hong Kong at the same time.Immediately, a large number of "high-class Chinese" rushed to buy air tickets and fled to the rear of Chongqing.Pu Xixiu was interviewing at Chongqing Airport and saw Song Ailing, Kong Xiangxi's wife, stepping off the plane gracefully, holding a dog in her hand, followed by a group of dogs.However, she also noticed that Wang Yunwu, who had already "leaved the field" at that time, was looking at the plane eagerly at the corner of the airport, and never picked up his wife.Therefore, Pu Xixiu sent two messages that Song Ailing's dog got on the plane and that Wang Yunwu's wife did not get on the plane.When it was submitted for trial, the two pieces of information belonged to each other, and the prosecutor did not pay attention.When the two pieces of news appeared in the newspaper together, the mountain city of Chongqing immediately became a sensation!

Pu Xixiu joined the China Democratic League in Chongqing.She is very familiar with Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao.Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao once said to her: "You are our relative."① It was also in Chongqing that Pu Xixiu met Luo Longji.That was in early 1946, when the Political Consultative Conference was held in Chongqing.Pu Xixiu set up an ambition to interview thirty-eight representatives of the CPPCC during the twenty-two-day meeting, and write an exclusive interview for each CPPCC representative.It should be noted that these thirty-eight people are all party and government dignitaries, celebrities, and busy people. Some of them are not easy to see, and some are unwilling to talk about them.But she could say it and do it.Not only Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Wang Ruofei, Ye Jianying, Wu Yuzhang, Lu Dingyi, and Deng Yingchao of the Communist Party were interviewed, but also Sun Ke, Wu Tiecheng, Chen Bulei, Chen Lifu, Zhang Lisheng, Wang Shijie, Shao Lizi, Zhang Qun of the Kuomintang, and Guo Moruo were also interviewed. , Shen Junru, Huang Yanpei, Zhang Bojun... When she interviewed the CPPCC representative Luo Longji, she met him for the first time.Unexpectedly, the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and they fell in love with each other..."

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in April 1946, Pu Xixiu moved to Nanjing with the "Xin Min Bao" agency. Pu Xixiu kept reporting on the bloody case of the Nanjing government suppressing students.Late at night on November 16, 1948, when she was writing "The Last Struggle of the Nanjing Government", Kuomintang agents arrested her and put her in prison. It was not until Li Zongren, acting president of the Nanjing government, appealed to the CCP for peace, that the political prisoners were forced to be released, and Pu Xixiu was released. In this regard, Fei Xiaotong once made the following recollections:

She is a brave and strong person.We once visited Nanjing together.This was her battlefield, the most timely and fierce dagger thrown at the Kuomintang reactionaries.Therefore, she did not escape the bad luck of being imprisoned.We once went together to visit the remaining prison.She once told me in detail how in the middle of the night she heard her comrade-in-arms being brought up for interrogation.She told me these heroic stories by name, but unfortunately I can’t recall them today. I only remember that she was one of the very few who were rescued just before the Kuomintang reactionaries massacred the revolutionary martyrs before the liberation of Nanjing.She has withstood the threat of torture from the reactionaries, she has withstood gossip in the society, and she has also withstood the trumped-up charges when dark clouds overwhelmed the city.She is not a weak woman.Only kind people are truly strong people. ①

In June 1949, Pu Xixiu, Luo Longji and others traveled from Shanghai to Peiping to attend the first Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. On October 1, 1949, on the Tiananmen Gate, Zhou Enlai introduced Pu Xixiu to Mao Zedong.Mao Zedong was very familiar with Pu Xixiu's name, and immediately said: "You are the reporter in the classroom."② At the invitation of Xu Zhucheng, Pu Xixiu served as the director of the Beijing office of Wen Wei Po.The office is located in Chaoyang Hutong, west exit of Dengshikou, Beijing. What a coincidence, after Luo Longji arrived in Beijing, he first rented a room at the Beijing Hotel, and was later arranged by Zhou Enlai to live in No. 12, a hutong called "Naizifu" on Wangfujing Street.It is just a stone's throw away from the Beijing office of Wen Wei Po.

Luo Longji's residence is a large courtyard, divided into front yard and back yard, surrounded by verandas, carved beams and painted buildings, with extraordinary momentum.This place was originally the palace of the Qing Dynasty, and later became the private residence of Jiang Menglin, a member of the Kuomintang.Luo Longji has no wife and no children, and lives alone in such a big house.The Government Affairs Council equipped Luo Longji with two guards, a driver, a cook, a secretary, and a nurse.However, most of these staff, except the guards, come to work during the day and go home at night.

At this time, Pu Xixiu was already divorced and living alone in the Beijing office of Wen Wei Po. Pu Xixiu and Luo Longji got along very well when they were in Chongqing. At this time, they got along so closely that they even lived together openly.They even went in and out together in many public places.The two of them are both social celebrities, so they are naturally very eye-catching, and rumors attack them.However, they never took these rumors seriously.Luo Longji made no secrets, calling Pu Xixiu his "closest friend in ten years". Since the launch of the "Anti-Rightist Movement", Luo Longji and Pu Xixiu have been condemned together, and "Wen Wei Po's Bourgeois Direction Should Be Criticized" written by Mao Zedong linked Luo Longji and Pu Xixiu together and became the so-called "Luo Longji-- ——Pu Xixiu——Wen Wei Po editorial department” “Such a rightist system of the Democratic League.”

On July 1, 1957, when Mao Zedong's "Wen Wei Po's Bourgeois Direction Should Be Criticized" was published, Pu Xixiu was severely criticized.The next day, Wen Wei Po published the following report: "Pu Xixiu is still obsessed with his obsession and refuses to explain why the staff of our newspaper's Beijing office gathered yesterday to express great anger" The report called Pu Xixiu a "rightist" and Luo Longji a "rightist ambition". The content of the report can be clearly seen from the following subheadings: Luo Longji called Pu Xixiu two days ago, wanting to make an offensive and defensive alliance with her;

When the People's Daily began to fight back against the fallacies of the rightists, Pu Xixiu actually defended Chu Anping; Pu Xixiu didn't want my newspaper to publish leftist speeches at all, but insisted on making this newspaper a forum for rightists' anti-Party speeches; Pu Xixiu wanted to cover for Chu Anping, because she was connected with Chu Anping, Zhang Bojun, and Luo Longji; Luo Longji tried his best to raise Pu Xixiu's political status so as to achieve the conspiracy of manipulating Wen Wei Po; Why does Pu Xixiu have many things to "confront" Luo Longji; Pu Xixiu rejected the party leadership, and the Beijing office has never established a party organization; Pu Xixiu deliberately expanded the influence of Luo Longji's clique among intellectuals during his interview work; The first draft of "Peking University Democracy Wall" was written according to Pu Xixiu's instruction and Luo Longji's instruction; It was caused by Xu Zhucheng's erroneous arguments that Wen Wei Po went to the bourgeois side. Faced with such a censure, Pu Xixiu once resisted.she says: "Luo Longji is wholeheartedly helping the party to rectify the movement, and he has no malice at all." Pu Xixiu defended Luo Longji on the spot at the enlarged symposium of the Democratic League Central Committee.she says: "I have had a relationship with Luo Longji for ten years, but Wen Wei Po has nothing to do with Luo Longji. Wen Wei Po only invited Luo Longji to his house once." She also said: "Some people say that "Wen Wei Po" is related to Luo Longji, which is not true. "Wen Wei Po" is completely a people's newspaper, which has received unlimited care and help from the party. The editorial policy after the resumption of publication in October last year is also entirely in the CCP With the help of the Central Propaganda Department, it was formulated by soliciting opinions from all parties. As for why our newspaper has taken a bourgeois direction in a short period of time, our newspaper is undergoing in-depth inspections and has been corrected. This is my First point to state." After all, Mao Zedong's "Wen Wei Po's bourgeois direction should be criticized" published in the name of the People's Daily editorial has incomparable political power.Pu Xixiu, a "capable female general", is in trouble.Zhang Bojun retreated step by step, and she also had to retreat step by step. On July 3, under strong pressure, Pu Xixiu handed over some letters from Luo Longji to her at the meeting of the Democratic League Central Committee's rectification group.The report at the time read: Pu Xixiu read some letters to her from Luo Longji at the meeting, in which Luo Longji revealed his distaste for the socialist collective life: On April 25 this year, Luo wrote to Pu: " In a collective society, all this passivity makes life really boring."In the letter on May 31, 1954, he said: "Life has been mechanized, only positive, without creativity. This is my biggest shortcoming. Life cannot compete with the sun and the moon, and death must die with the sun and the moon. , it's so pitiful."... Pu Xixiu was forced to hand over these private letters written by Luo Longji to her, which shows that the tactics used by the "anti-rightists" are similar to those of "anti-Hu Feng" - when they "anti-Hu Feng", they used private correspondence Letters as "evidence". At that time, Pu Xixiu said that Luo Longji had sent her a lot of letters, but "can't find them for a while." She will continue to search and hand them over to the Democratic League Central Rectification Team. Pu Xixiu finally found out the many letters that Luo Longji had written to her.These were originally private communications, but now they have become "political shells". When criticizing Luo Longji's letters to Pu Xixiu, a little joke was made. In a letter to Pu Xixiu, Luo Longji had a "shocking" sentence: "Don't think that you can't force the palace without guns and ammunition. The complex situation can change endlessly. If you read history, you will know that Wang Mang won the throne without spending a single soldier. When the momentum of disintegration is complete, the chaos With one call, the world responds everywhere." As a result, Luo Longji was "criticized", saying that he "wanted to be Wang Mang" and, together with Zhang Bojun, imitated the "Hungarian incident". In fact, it was a letter Luo Longji wrote to Pu Xixiu before liberation. That paragraph was aimed at his support for Li Zongren's election for vice president. How could it be related to the "Hungarian incident" and the "Zhangluo Alliance"! ? Pu Xixiu said that she wanted to "draw a clear line" with Luo Longji, and she made this statement: "I want the Communist Party, they don't want the Communist Party, I want to take the road of socialism, and they want to take the road of capitalism, so what do they have in common? Therefore, I must draw a line with Zhang Bojun, Luo Longji, Chu Anping and other rightists. , take a stand and go into the fight. This fight is a test for me and I believe I can get through it." Pu Xixiu explained her relationship with Luo Longji: After liberation in 1949, I asked to apply to join the party, but Luo Longji strongly disagreed.He said to a friend of mine: "How can people from two parties sleep in one bed." Because after we met, we had a desire to get married, although we haven't married yet. During Jiefang's dealings with him over the past few years, my mood was often caught in extreme contradictions.Sometimes it goes to the left, sometimes it goes to the right.I am grateful to the Party for its care and love for me. When I was slightly to the right, it was able to pull me back in time. In the past eight years, I have always started from kind wishes for Luo Longji, hoping that he will improve and that he will move closer to the party.But he likes to listen to those on the right around him.They all seemed to be full of grievances and wanted to vent to him.I said, why can't you reject these friends.He said: What can they do if they want to come to me, and at the same time help these friends move forward.I don't know how much he really helped them.The only good thing I did to him was to advise him not to associate with Zhou Jingwen any more. He had such a strong bourgeois conceited mood that he forgot the party and had conflicts with the party leadership.The most striking example: He used to boast to me that he had drafted a certain manifesto and that he had written a certain manifesto.He meant as if no comrade in the party could write such a good manifesto.In fact, what manifesto could he have written were it not for the leadership of the party, the intentions of the party? After he published his speech on the rehabilitative committee in the United Front Work Department, he once told me complacently that he did not know how many letters he had received in support of him.He never thought about the people who supported him. I think the people who supported him were those who opposed the Communist Party.He has never considered issues from the standpoint of the 600 million people. He is trapped in the small circle of right-wing intellectuals. No matter how smart he is, how can he serve the people?This will inevitably lead to the road of anti-Party and anti-socialism. I know very little about the internal affairs of the Democratic League Central Committee.Over the past few years, he and Zhang Bojun have had nothing to do with each other, and now whether they have colluded with each other for their respective ambitions, he has to fully explain himself. Pu Xixiu said she wanted to "draw a clear line and join the fight". On July 13, "Wen Wei Po" published a report on Pu Xixiu's speech at the Seventh Expanded Rectification Symposium of the Democratic League Central Committee on July 12, with the following title: "Pu Xixiu Uses Ten Years of Personal Experience to Prove the Criminal Activities of the Zhangluo Alliance" Pu Xixiu exposed: "Luo Longji said that he wanted to 'be a socialist official and live a bourgeois life.'" Pu Xixiu exposed Ye Duyi, the "liaison officer" of the "Zhangluo Alliance".The report said: Pu Xixiu used her personal experience to confirm the conspiracy of Zhang Bojun and Luo Longji.She said the Zhangluo coalition began to form during the second national congress last year.Ye Duyi is the liaison officer of the Zhangluo Alliance.After the Zhang Dongsun incident, Ye Duyi was relatively estranged from Luo Longji for a period of time.But since the Zhang Luo Alliance, Ye Duyi often ran under Luo Longji's door.Later, Luo Longji nominated Ye Duyi as the deputy secretary-general of the CPPCC, and Ye Duyi redoubled his efforts to please the Zhangluo Alliance. Last year, Pu Xixiu was in Beidaihe for a week, and she saw that many things in the Zhangluo Alliance were carried out through Ye Duyi, the liaison officer.At that time, Ye Duyi came to see Luo Longji the most, and Luo Longji's more than 150 opinions on the Democratic League were also conveyed by Ye Duyi to Zhang Bojun.Ye Duyi was the one who planned Luo Longji's conspiracy and interviewed people. Under heavy pressure, Pu Xixiu said these words against her will, her heart was extremely heavy. Later, in the article "Commemorating the Female General of Wen Wei Po", Fei Xiaotong said that "Second Sister Pu can be wronged and compensated" and "the grievances she has suffered in her life are heavy." Although Pu Xixiu had to "reveal" Luo Longji due to political pressure, it was the heaviest blow to Luo Longji.Because Pu Xixiu is Luo Longji's "closest friend for ten years" after all, how could her series of "reveals" not chill Luo Longji's heart! Although Luo Longji had a close friendship with Pu Xixiu for ten years, he could never forgive her again.From then on, Luo Longji broke up with Pu Xixiu and never paid attention to her again. Luo Longji's younger brother Luo Zhaolin once gave the author a batch of Luo Longji's unpublished posthumous manuscripts, including a letter from Luo Longji to Guo Moruo.The date of this letter is not marked, but from the opening sentence of the letter "I read the speech that Mr. Sister gave at the symposium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on September 18", it can be roughly inferred that it was after September 18, 1957 Letter written shortly.In the letter, Luo Longji wrote about Pu Xixiu: Now in the rectification seminars, the distance between the exposure and the facts is getting farther and farther, and right and wrong are becoming more and more confused.Let me give a very small and ridiculous example.Pu Xixiu revealed that "Luo Longji was raised by a landlord and widow, and he is a landlord."In fact, my late father passed away in 1924, I have already studied in the United States, and my 80-year-old concubine is still alive and well in Beijing today.My home was never zoned as landowners.However, this was exposed by Pu Xixiu, who would not believe it.Not to mention Pu Xixiu, the things others exposed were even more bizarre.I became a ferocious and cruel demon who deserved death.People talk about gold, accumulate ruins and burn bones, in such a situation, it is sincerely said that "today I want to carve myself, and I want to use my words to decorate myself, which is not beneficial to the vulgar and unbelievers, and is enough to humiliate the ears".I can only listen to it. "If you want to die, then it's not fixed", I believe it. I firmly believe in the Communist Party, and I believe that the Party is ultimately true and false. It can be seen that Luo Longji's words are full of pain - Pu Xixiu's "reveal" made him feel like a knife!