Chapter 50 7. Mother and child

Jiang Zulin left Beijing on July 20, and was specially arranged by Minister Huang Jing of the First Ministry of Machinery to go to Shanghai to visit the submarine construction plant, the frigate construction plant and the design room and other confidential units.During the past half month, he had a very pleasant time. Apart from visiting, he also visited the grave of his father Hu Yepin, and went to Hangzhou for a two-day tour with his friend He Yi from the Yan'an period.Before leaving for Beijing, he sent a telegram to his mother. When the train pulled into the Beijing platform, he saw his mother standing under the dim light.

As soon as he got in the car, Zu Lin started chattering enthusiastically, eager to tell his mother how full of feelings he was full of.But my mother said very little and was not in high spirits, as if she had something on her mind.Zu Lin thought worriedly: Did something happen again? Back home, Jiang Zulin walked into the living room with his mother and Uncle Chen Ming.Mom said: "Zu Lin! Let me tell you, my problem has been repeated again and again. These days, I have a meeting to fight me every day." Ding Ling introduced the situation of the enlarged meeting of the party group these days, and then told Zu Lin: "A few days ago I wrote a letter to Xiao Lingzi (that is, Li Lingyuan) and sent it to Moscow. I did not clearly state in the letter that my current However, it hinted at my future destiny and prepared her mentally. I also euphemistically expressed my hope for her. She is a pure girl. Based on what I know about her, I think she is not The General Assembly changed its relationship with you because of my problems." She suppressed her feelings and warned her son: "You are a member of the Communist Party, you should believe in the Party and stand with the Party. You should realize that your mother is against the Party." After a while, he said again: "I think you should go back to the Soviet Union ahead of schedule, go back to school!"

Zu Lin was in great pain. He never thought that things would be like this, and that the Party group of the Writers Association would treat his mother like this.He didn't want to leave his mother when she was in the most pain, and he didn't feel relieved about her, so he said, "School starts on September 1st, I'll stay with you for half a month and stay until the 20th." However, he couldn't avoid his mother's matter, he couldn't stay out of it. On August 5, the enlarged meeting of the party group was adjourned for one day, and Ding Ling was at home preparing to check the materials for her speech.In the afternoon, the General Party Branch of the Writers Association went to talk to Jiang Zulin.When he left home, his mother told him, "You have to be mentally prepared. There are big-character posters exposing and criticizing me all over the building." Zu Lin nodded.When he walked into the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building, he saw big-character posters plastered on the walls around the entrance hall, the corridor on the right, and the walls on both sides of the stairs, most of which were criticizing the "anti-Party element" Ding Ling. Worried about my mother's situation.

The ones talking to him were Li Xin, Secretary of the General Party Branch of the Writers Association, and Hu Haizhu, Deputy Secretary.They wanted him to stand on the Party's side and expose Ding Ling's anti-Party words and deeds.They asked Zu Lin: When Ai Qing invited Ding Ling and others to have a dinner at the Beijing Hotel in late June, someone said, "We are Pedofi Club here." Who said that?Jiang Zulin carefully recalled the scene that day and said that when he was present, he never heard anyone say such a thing. When Zu Lin returned home, Ding Ling asked about the conversation, and then said, you should go back to school early. If you stay here, you will only be drawn into the movement of the Writers Association and will not help me. Don't worry, I will Will not commit suicide.Zulin agreed.When he bought the ticket in the Soviet Union, he booked the return train ticket to leave Beijing on August 21. The next morning, he went to the international travel agency near Qianmen and changed the departure date to August 11.

On the afternoon of August 6, the 12th meeting of the expanded party group of the Writers Association.Back home after the meeting, Ding Ling was physically and mentally exhausted. She said she had a headache and wanted to take a rest, so she lay down on the bed.She told Zu Lin: Liu Baiyu asked him to talk at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. On the morning of August 7, Jiang Zulin came to Liu Baiyu's office as scheduled.Also talking with him was Cui Yi, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Propaganda Department.Zu Lin knew Liu Baiyu when he was in Yan'an. When they met, Liu Baiyu shook hands with him "slightly enthusiastically". Then he talked to Zu Lin about Ding Ling's history in Nanjing, saying that Ding Ling not only made mistakes against the party, but also Moreover, there have been acts of surrender and defection in history. I hope Zu Lin will be consistent with the party on this issue.It was the first time Zu Lin heard these contents, and he was both shocked and puzzled.He couldn't help but trust the party, but he also couldn't help trusting his beloved mother. This 27-year-old young man had never experienced such complicated problems, and he was in great pain.When he got home, he saw the "People's Daily" that day, and the headline on the front page was: "Major progress in the anti-rightist struggle in the literary and art circles to break through Ding Ling and Chen Qixia's anti-Party clique"!During lunch, he shed tears at the dinner table, which was the first time he had shed tears since returning to China.

Ding Ling was flustered. She could bear her own pain, but she blamed herself deeply for the pain she caused her son.She asked about the content of Liu Baiyu's conversation, and also told her son about her history in Nanjing. She said: "We are mother and son, you can trust your mother, you can trust your mother, an old Communist Party member. You are also a Communist Party member. In the evening, Ding Ling talked with Zu Lin about returning to the Soviet Union as soon as possible. She asked Zu Lin to go back by plane. She said that in three or four days, she would see today's "People's Daily" in Moscow. ", I am very worried about Zu Hui, she doesn't know anything about the situation, what should I do if I say something that is inconsistent with the party, at least it will affect her conversion as a probationary party member.Zulin agreed.

The next morning, Xia Gengqi went to the savings office to withdraw the money according to Ding Ling's arrangement, and bought Zu Lin a plane ticket on the 11th. The price of this ticket was 800 yuan. On the afternoon of August 9, Hu Haizhu, deputy secretary of the General Party Branch of the Writers Association, called Jiang Zulin again to have a conversation, and asked Zulin to continue to think about it after returning to the Soviet Union, and to send the exposing materials to the Writers Association, or through the embassy to the Writers Association.Since Hu Haizhu was going to speak at the conference, this talk only lasted about ten minutes.

On the evening of the 10th, Zu Lin began to pack his luggage.Sitting on his bed, Ding Ling sighed and said, "Lin'er, I'm sorry for making you suffer!" She told her son that he must listen to the party. The party now thinks that his mother is against the party, so you should do the same know.My question is just like this, you should study hard and live well. As a mother, Ding Ling hoped that her son would believe in herself and love herself; as a party cadre, she hoped that her son would believe in the party and the organization.She is afraid of losing her son, and she is even more afraid that her son will make political mistakes because of "losing his position".In the past two years, Ding Ling has been tossing and dying, and she doesn't care much, but her children are innocent, and their lives and careers have just begun!

The next day was Sunday. In the early morning, Ding Ling got dressed when she heard Zu Lin's movements. She almost didn't sleep all night.Zu Lin went to have breakfast, and Ding Ling sat alone on the sofa in the living room, suddenly feeling like parting from life and death. She wondered whether or when she would see her son again.Never had she mourned so strongly at parting.Zu Lin came to say goodbye to her, and she watched Zu Lin get into the car, and watched the car disappear at the entrance of the alley.Ding Ling broke down in tears and shouted: Son, my son!