Chapter 58 15. Wang Zhen said: I will be responsible for your problems to the end!

Ding Ling was assigned to the livestock team of Tangyuan Farm to raise chickens.She quickly cheered up from the depression, and her goal was to be a new person, to be a clean and ordinary laborer.She didn't dare to have higher expectations. In 1959, the central government issued instructions to remove the hat of rightists in batches. In July, Zhang Xi, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Writers Association, went to Tangyuan Farm to learn about Ding Ling's transformation. On August 20, he wrote a report to the Party Committee of the Writers Association, saying: "On the surface, this person seems to be doing whatever he is called to do, but he can also do whatever he wants in labor. Picking up soil, picking out chicken manure, cutting chicken vegetables, etc. are heavy jobs, but this person is not simple. Her old ways are still intact, and it is relatively difficult to expect a fundamental change in her thinking and standpoint. On September 17, in a report to the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the party group of the Chinese Writers Association listed Ding Ling as the last in the third category of "basically or completely dissatisfied with being classified as rightists".

Guo Xiaochuan said: "In those few years, every year on the eve of National Day, a small number of rightists had to be removed. Beforehand, Zhang Xi, the deputy secretary-general of the Writers Association, went to find out about Ding Ling's situation. When she came back, she reflected that her performance was not good, but The Party Committee of Tangyuan Farm came back with a document, advocating removing Ding Ling’s rightist hat. Therefore, the Party Group of the Writers’ Association held discussions, and everyone disagreed. So we wrote a report to the Central Propaganda Department. A few days later, Liu Baiyu conveyed It is said that it was Zhang Ziyi's "instructions" to re-discuss the party group of the Writers Association, thinking that it was wrong not to remove Ding Ling as a rightist. In this way, the Party group of the Writers Association agreed to remove Ding Ling's rightist hat. After that, they wrote a report, and soon It was approved by the central government and did not agree to remove Ding Ling's rightist label."

Tangyuan Farm proposed to take off Ding Ling's hat, which is to carry out Wang Zhen's instructions.From 1960 to 1962, Wang Zhen instructed the Hejiang Land Reclamation Bureau to report to Tangyuan Farm for three consecutive years, asking them to write a report and apply for decapitation of Ding Ling and Chen Ming.Ning Wencheng, secretary of the Tangyuan Farm Party Committee who drafted the report, said: I was ordered to write many reports on "Ding Ling's performance", once every six months on average.Most of the employees' views on Ding Ling are: facing adversity but having no complaints against the party, suffering hardships but strengthening their faith. In December 1960, Wang Zhen recalled Ding Ling and Chen Ming back to Beijing.He was hospitalized in Xiehe Hospital and took Ding Ling and Chen Ming to see Shao Quanlin who was also hospitalized there.Shao Quanlin understood what Wang Zhen meant, and said to Wang Zhen in front of Ding Ling: Ding Ling eradicated illiteracy on the farm and won the red flag for the animal husbandry team.

But Wang Zhen's efforts failed. In the winter of 1961, Feng Xuefeng took off his rightist hat, and Chen Ming also took off his hat. On March 3, 1962, Ding Ling wrote to Liu Baiyu that she would stand the test: "I don't have any opinions. Although I have experienced some sadness, when I think about my personal progress, I am still far from the party's expectations for me. It is impossible to compare the crimes. It is against the wishes of the party and comrades to feel inferior because many people have solved the problem and taken off their hats.” There was no news of Ding Ling taking off her hat, but her back disease developed. When she was in Beijing, she only had hyperosteogeny in three vertebrae. In 1961, when she took X-rays in Jiamusi, she had developed hyperosteogeny in her entire spine. Her waist and arms often suffered severe pain. Can't sleep.This is due to excessive labor, she is an old lady after all. In September 1963, Ding Ling wrote in her ideological report to Zhou Yang and Shao Quanlin: "I have a request. I hope that the party will correct past mistakes based on its consistent performance over the past five years since I arrived at the farm in 1958. I will take off my rightist hat and allow me to return to the ranks of the revolution... I promise the party: I will never make mistakes again, and I will wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly listen to the party. If you want to, obey the leadership, be a subduing tool of the party, work hard for the revolution and for the proletariat, and fight to the end.” It was almost a humble begging. In October, when Ding Ling and Chen Ming returned to Beijing, Yan Wenjing told Chen Ming about Ding Ling's removal of her rightist hat. The farm, the party group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation, and the Party group of the Writers Association all agreed to remove Ding Ling's rightist hat. The Central Propaganda Department also nodded. When you get to the top—don’t ask what it is—the national balance, put Ding Ling on hold.They went to visit Wang Zhen again, and Wang Zhen said to Ding Ling twice: "I will be responsible for your problem to the end!"

On September 4, 1964, Ding Ling wrote to Zhou Yang and Shao Quanlin again, hoping to remove the rightist hat. On December 29, I wrote to Shao Quanlin, Liu Baiyu, and Yan Wenjing again, "I can't stop asking the party to consider taking off my rightist hat and approving my Come back to the ranks of the people." From 1959 to 1964, the central government took off the hat of rightists in five batches, but there was no Ding Ling. For Ding Ling, who joined the party in 1932, it was so difficult to be an ordinary citizen and an innocent worker!