Chapter 13 3. Come and go

One night in early July 1955, on the platform of Wuxi Railway Station, under dim lights, Chen Ming sent Ding Ling to the train bound for Beijing.She returned to Beijing to attend the second session of the first National People's Congress, which opened on July 5.Chen Ming continued to stay in Wuxi, went to a fishery supply and marketing cooperative to experience life, and waited for Ding Ling to finish the meeting before returning to Wuxi. The main agenda of the second session of the first National People's Congress is to consider and approve the first five-year plan.During the discussion, Ding Ling said in poetic language: "In front of the great life, in front of Marxism-Leninism, in front of the party leadership, in front of the great first five-year plan, I seem to be growing and flying , I want to speak, I want to sing, I want to write. There is a voice in my heart, and I have to shout: I want to work! I want to devote myself to the construction of the motherland, to this struggle. When the five-year plan is successfully completed and the new life is unfolding, I can feel that there is a little bit of strength that belongs to me, and when I feel this way, I will feel happier!" She said Full of passion, full of hope for the future of the country and our own future.

But her happy mood was quickly replaced by a complex and tense mood. On July 16, Ding Ling listened to the work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The report stated that "because it has been discovered" that Pan Hannian and Hu Feng "had evidence of counter-revolutionary activities", the Standing Committee "has approved their arrest and trial successively." ".The next day, the national news media published the report.The news shocked her again, more shocking, to be precise.Pan Hannian was different from Hu Feng. He was a veteran senior leader of the CCP and had a deep and familiar relationship with the upper echelons. Ding Ling had known him well in the 1930s. In May 1930 in Shanghai, he mobilized Ding Ling and Hu Yepin to join the left Later, Ding Ling said: "We happily decided our life in just over an hour." In October 1936, Ding Ling fled Shanghai and arrived in Xi'an, where she lived in a small hotel and received Pan Hannian was also appointed by the party organization to meet with her.After the liberation of the whole country, Pan Hannian held the important position of deputy mayor of Shanghai. Would such a person who has been trained by the party for many years and has been tested and reused be a "counter-revolutionary"?She couldn't believe it, but she couldn't believe it. This was the decision of Chairman Mao of the Party Central Committee!Shocked, she deeply felt sorry for this veteran communist.It was too complicated, and she felt that her brain was not enough, and she couldn't keep up with the rapidly changing situation.

On July 19, Ding Ling wrote to Chen Ming, who was staying in Wuxi, saying: "Zhou came to my house for dinner. We talked very well and learned a lot. I heard some amazing news in Liu's office. It's been a long time since I came home. Some people feel that there are too many things in their minds, and they can’t hold them. On the 18th and yesterday, I participated in the central group meeting at home (referring to the Writers Association). Alas! Many things are unexpected. I heard that your family (referring to The Script Creation Institute of the Cultural and Film Bureau) is also very restless, with many things going on. It is true that there has been an upsurge here, and it is more tense than in four or three years (according to the censors in the Yan'an rectification movement), but with experience, you will not be impatient Yes. I probably won’t be too busy. I plan to read the commentary three times (the pamphlet has been printed recently, and I need one by hand) to write an article. Otherwise, the days will slip away. Missionary publications will be collected. How many copies did you take to Wuxi? Jiufen, please go home and check and tell me. The letter has been received for five days. If you need to reply urgently, return it. After you enter the city, you can go to see Bao and Fang (all of them are leading comrades of the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee) , ask them to tell you something they can tell you. Zhou said that he was hesitant and asked me to come back, but he always had to attend the conference, and he probably didn’t have to attend after the conference. But I don’t know what happened then?”

"Zhou" in the letter is Zhou Yang, Party Secretary of the Chinese Writers Association, and "Liu" is Liu Baiyu, Deputy Party Secretary of the Chinese Writers Association. This is a very important letter with very important information in it.We can not only clearly see Ding Ling's shocked, bewildered, helpless, and at a loss mentality, but also figure out the strategies and tactics of the main leaders of the party group of the Chinese Writers Association at that time against Ding Ling. At least half a month before Zhou Yang went to Ding Ling's house for dinner, that is, at the beginning of July, the party group of the Chinese Writers Association had already begun to investigate and sort out Ding Ling's materials.

The naive Ding Ling, who had just finished singing the draft of the "First Five-Year Plan" in poetic language, did not realize that there was a gun pointed at her in the dark, and the sight had already locked her firmly.She also dreamed of going back to Wuxi as soon as possible to write her novel that was not going well and was doomed to die.How did she know that she couldn't go when she came, and the bad luck began from then on.