Chapter 32 10. Southwest

After writing all the materials, Ding Ling was relieved and full of confidence in correcting the wrong case. In early September, she resumed writing in the Summer Palace, and at the same time, she asked the party committee of the Central Propaganda Department to publish articles in newspapers and periodicals. Zhang Fengzhu told the author in May 2002: In the summer of 1956, before and after the "Eighth National Congress" of the party, the overall atmosphere was relatively relaxed. The committee member planned to visit Ding Ling in the Summer Palace and asked me to go with him, but I didn't go.Soon, I received a letter from Ding Ling, in which she said, I know you were also a little frightened by my matter, and things will eventually become clear.When I received this letter, I immediately went to see her in the Summer Palace. Ding Ling was in a good mood, and she told me that she was writing a novel.

Xu Gang said that after hearing the news that Ding and Chen's anti-party issues were to be screened, Kang Zhuo also brought red dates, a specialty of Hebei, to see Ding Ling.Xu Gang’s view of Kang Zhuo is: strong organizational skills, he was actually the top leader of the specific leaders during his work in the Institute of Literature. When Hu Qiaomu proposed to close the Institute of Literature in 1953, Kang Zhuo had the biggest opinion, and he gave it in the name of Ding Ling. Liu Shaoqi wrote a letter requesting that it continue. The whole situation has changed, and public opinion has begun to lean towards Ding Ling and sympathize with Ding Ling.The underdogs will win!

At this time, there was a Sichuan opera "Wangniang Beach" from Sichuan that came to Beijing to perform. After seeing it, Chen Ming thought it was very good, and suggested to Beijing Film Studio that it should be adapted into a movie script.At this time, Chen Ming had been transferred from the Film Script Creation Institute under the Cultural and Film Bureau to work in the Beijing Film Studio.Chen Ming's opinion was approved. In order to adapt "Wangniang Beach", he will go on a business trip to Sichuan.Ding Ling hopes to be able to walk with him, so as to convey the heavy and depressed mood of the past year.She made a request to the party committee of the Central Propaganda Department.

The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China agreed to the two requests of publishing works and going to Sichuan after consultation with China. In the October issue of "People's Literature" published on October 8, the first eight sections of Ding Ling's "In the Severely Cold Days" were published, with about 50,000 words.The editor's note added after the title of the article said: ""In the Frost Days" is a novel that has not yet been finalized, and the first eight sections are published here. What this novel describes is that during the War of Liberation, the Kuomintang army invaded the After the liberation of the area, the sharp and complicated struggles unfolded in the rural areas of the Sanggan River area. Comrade Ding Ling, the author of the novel, hopes that readers will provide her with comments after reading, so that she can refer to these opinions to revise and continue writing the novel.”

This is an appearance in front of readers across the country: Ding Ling is still "comrade".After the novel was published, I received many letters, including some writers, such as Li Qiao and Luo Ting from Yunnan, who were happy for Ding Ling to "appear" again. Before Ding Ling left, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee called the Propaganda Departments of Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provincial party committees to arrange a reception, and told them that Ding Ling's "anti-Party" issue was being re-examined, and now she is still the vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and a member of the Communist Party. .Liu Baiyu told Li Xin: You are Ding Ling's contact person. Ding Ling will report to you wherever she goes, keep track of her whereabouts at any time, and call her back immediately after the investigation and conclusion are made.

On September 15, Ding Ling boarded the train going south with Chen Ming.Accompanied by Beijing Film Studio's screenwriter Lin Yi, director Li Enjie, and editor Zhao Huishen.Ding Ling wrote in her diary on this day: "There is nothing to do in the car, nothing to talk about, and nothing to see outside the window. I remember that when I went to Hunan with Boxia in the spring of 1954, my mood was very clear, like a bird returning to the mountain. Joy; now everything is lost! Now we are on the same road, the same car, the same scenery, the same people, and everything is so unnatural. In the morning read "Cloud Emissary" and in the afternoon.", is a Sichuan veteran The first of three consecutive novels written by the writer Li Jieren in the 1930s, the other two are "Before the Storm" and "The Big Wave", which describe the vast life of Sichuan in the 20 years from the Sino-Japanese War to the 1911 Revolution. ethnic style.After Li Jieren was liberated, he served as the vice mayor of Chengdu and the vice chairman of Sichuan Writers Association.

The next day, Ding Ling finished reading it on the train, and she had a good impression: "This book makes people read it. If you want to read it, you can't let it go." Gentleness really makes people forget their worries.” At around 4:00 in the afternoon, they arrived in Hankou, and the secretary-general of the Hubei Provincial Writers Association Han came to pick them up and arranged them to stay in the Deming Hotel. He explained to Ding Ling that Yu Heiding had gone to study.Yu Heiding, the chairman of the Provincial Writers Association, criticized Ding Ling in his speech at the communication meeting of the Central Propaganda Department in December 1955, and he may have apologized.Having dinner at "Chunminglou", Ding Ling's impression was that "the place is bad and the food is bad".The next morning they went shopping. After lunch, writer Luo Wen's lover Wang Shuyun and others came. Luo Wen was also a cadre in Yan'an. He came to Wuhan in 1949 and edited "Yangtze River Literature and Art".They accompanied Ding Ling to visit the Yangtze River Bridge. During the conversation, Ding Ling recommended it to them and was full of praise.Yu Heiding called in the afternoon, explaining that he would cross the river to see them the day after tomorrow.Dinner was at "Guanqiangtai" on Dongting Road. When she and Chen Ming came to Wuhan two years ago, she and Chen Ming ate Western food here. They had a good impression. This time they revisited, they still had a very comfortable meal.After dinner, they went to the Yangtze River Bridge to see the night view.In the morning of the next day, I went to visit the zoo and went to the Sino-Soviet Friendship Exhibition Hall to visit the Wuhan Commodity Exhibition.In the evening, I watched the Chu opera "The Tale of Fragrant Tea".

The 19th was the Mid-Autumn Festival. They went to "Zhongnanchun" for dinner together. Ding Ling ate a crab and drank a little more wine. She came out of the restaurant feeling uncomfortable. Later, she developed a fever and went to the hospital for emergency treatment. The doctor said it was enteritis.The next day, she slept groggyly in the hotel all day and took anti-inflammatory drugs, and she felt better at night. At 6 o'clock the next morning, a group of people boarded the "Jiangming" steamer and went up the river to Chongqing. The ship "People" sailed for three full days and docked at Chaotianmen Wharf in Chongqing on the afternoon of the 26th. After staying in Chongqing for two nights, they went to Chengdu by car.

Chang Sumin, vice chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Sha Ting, chairman of the Provincial Writers Association, came to see her. She and Sha Ting are old acquaintances. They met in the early 1930s when they were in the Shanghai Left Federation, and later met in Yan'an. Sha Ting taught at Luyi , served as acting director of the Department of Literature.Her cousin Wu Ling, then editor-in-chief of Sichuan Daily, also came to see her, invited her to eat fish, and invited Sha Ting and his wife to accompany her.Ding Ling also visited Mr. Wang Boshan, who was the father of Ding Ling's best girlfriend Wang Jianhong when she was a student. He hadn't seen each other for 27 or 8 years.Wang Jianhong brought Ding Ling from his hometown in Changde to Shanghai in 1922, and they went to Shanghai University together. Later, he became Qu Qiubai's lover, and died of lung disease in 1924.Mr. Wang is eighty years old, his beard and hair are white, but he is still in good health. He goes out to the clinic every day and is very happy to see Ding Ling. Said to invite Ding Ling to dinner.

Later, Ding Ling and Chen Ming went to Chongqing and visited Zengjiayan Eighth Route Army Office, Hongyan Village and other revolutionary memorial sites.Zeng Ke, the head of the Chongqing Writers Association, was also Ding Ling's old comrade-in-arms in Yan'an, and enthusiastically accompanied them to the South and North Hot Springs for a few days.Zeng Ke later recalled: "Along the way, she was still open-minded. She never talked about the so-called anti-Party group, let alone showed dissatisfaction. She was still so enthusiastic about local literary and artistic creation." Zeng Ke's lover, Army writer Ke Gang went to Kangzang Highway for interviews, crossed Erlang Mountain with the construction troops, and arrived at Queer Mountain, which is more than 5,000 meters above sea level. He wrote the novel "Golden Bridge". Some very knowledgeable opinions.

They went from Chongqing to Yunnan, where they were received by Vice Governor Zhang Chong, and from Yunnan to Guangxi. In November, in Nanning, Ding Ling received a notice from the Chinese Writers Association asking her to hurry back to Beijing. Li Xin told her on the phone: Your review conclusion will be made soon!