CHAPTER XLVII

"Fatty, do you know this Ye County too?"

"Yes, that's what I saw in the diary that my old man wrote when he was a Red Guard. I remember telling you. ”

"You don't care if you tell me or not, tell me what's going on. ”

I urged the fat man a few times, because compared to Senior Chen, a special person who has lived in the ghost village for four years, I prefer to believe the words of the fat man who has been friends for many years.

The fat man was not ambiguous, and immediately slowly said what he knew......

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The fat man Shi Dalong's father, Lao Shi, was born in Jinan, Shandong Province on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the sixties and seventies, when the "four olds were broken", Lao Shi was in the prime of his youth, and he joined the Red Guard organization without hesitation.

At the beginning, Lao Shi followed a large group of people every day shouting the slogan "Rebellion is not guilty, revolution is justified", wandering back and forth in the streets and alleys of Jinan, doing the work of posting big-character posters everywhere. Later, because of his "excellent performance" at work, Lao Shi was exceptionally promoted to the professional "four old" team.

At this time, Lao Shi's work was not as simple as pasting big-character posters, but holding a shovel and a hammer and pickaxe, smashing and burning all the things that were defined as old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.

If you want to say that the old history has smashed and burned things, it is something that people today dare not think of.

There used to be an ancient bookstore in old Jinan, which is now the site of Jinan Xinhua Bookstore, where all the books are bought and sold, and some calligraphy and paintings are also exhibited by the way. Like the handwriting of the famous Song Dynasty female lyricist Li Qingzhao, the rubbings of all the famous works of the Southern Song Dynasty lyricist Xin Qiji, who was as famous as Su Shi, the paintings of the famous general Qin Qiong in the early Tang Dynasty who fought on the battlefield, and the only book of 300 people who rebelled with him that year, as well as the medical books written by Bian Que, the most legendary famous doctor of the Warring States Period. These things are the treasures of the antique bookstore.

However, during the period when the four olds were broken, all the things in the bookstore were burned by the old history.

Jinan's Daming Lake is well known, but few people know that there was a temple in Daming Lake, called "Arctic Temple". It is a Taoist temple built on a high platform on the northwest side of Daming Lake. According to legend, this temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty and rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty. In the center of the main hall of the temple there is a 5-meter-high statue of Zhenwu. Zhenwu was originally known as Xuanwu, and it was called the god of the four directions in ancient mythology together with the green dragon, the white tiger and the red bird, and Xuanwu was the god of the north. On the Xuanwu statue, there is a plaque of "Extreme Heavenly Pivot", below which there are statues of the golden boy, the jade girl and the four generals of fire, turtle, water and snake, as well as 6 statues of gods on the east and west sides.

All the statues in the temple are natural in shape. Lifelike. It can be said that it is the product of the peak of Chinese clay carving technology in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. But these clay Buddha statues are long gone.

Those people in the old history flocked to the Arctic Temple in a swarm back then.

Gate, smash!

Plaque, smash!

Brick wall. Push over!

Buddha. Push over!

The statue of the real martial arts, the statue of the golden boy and the jade girl, the statue of the four generals of the fire turtle and the water snake. The seven pinnacle products in the history of craftsmanship all rolled down from the high platform and fell into Daming Lake. Everything hidden inside the Buddha statue was thrown out. The silk brocade with the words "Jinan Road, Dayuan Kingdom" written on it, and the gold-rimmed bronze mirror used as the fetal heart of the statue, were scattered all over the ground, and then a fire was burned.

Jinan is known as the spring city, because since ancient times, the whole city of Jinan is densely covered with spring water, and it is possible to step on a spring when you walk a few steps at the most exaggerated time. Springs are a product of nature, and they have existed since ancient times, and no one can destroy them. Lao Shi, those people were not stupid enough to go to Jinan, all the springs in Jinan were blocked, but they did one thing, and they forcibly created an extra spring for Jinan.

There used to be a place called "West Buddha Valley" in the west of Jinan, and the "Buddha Yu Temple" in the Sui Dynasty was established here. The north side of Foyu is a deep valley, the valley is full of ancient trees, and legend has it that there are many thousand-year-old trees. And high up on the west side of the valley there is a huge rock sticking outward, shaped like an eaves.

Legend has it that at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan revolted from the plains, led his troops to attack Jinan Mansion, and when he passed by Xifoyu, he suddenly encountered a downpour. This rain came very strangely, Li Yuan asked the warlock in the army to calculate the hexagram, and calculated that it was the Sui army guard in Jinan who invited people from outside the party to cast spells to ask for rain, trying to use the flood caused by the torrential rain to resist Li Yuan's troops. If Li Yuan didn't want to die here, then he had to lead his troops out of Xifoyu as quickly as possible.

However, the heavy rain made it difficult for the infantry to march, not to mention that the army still carried a large amount of heavy supplies. Seeing that the Li Yuan uprising had just begun, it was about to be stillborn by this heavy rain, and the Tang Dynasty would cease to exist. At this moment, a hundred monks came out of the Buddha Temple on the other side of the valley.

These hundred eminent monks guided Li Yuan's troops to the eaves of the boulder, and then all the monks lined up, forming a protective circle on the periphery of the troops. Hundreds of eminent monks sat cross-legged in the wind and rain, chanting Buddhist scriptures for a day and a night, and the entire valley was flooded, but Li Yuan's troops were calm here. The boulder eaves shielded them from the wind and rain, and the monk protectors kept them out from the floods.

The next day, the sky cleared, and the hundred monks passed away on the spot, leaving only a word for Li Yuan.

"The Buddha said that time needs a peaceful and prosperous world. ”

After Li Yuan buried a hundred monks, he led his troops directly into Jinan Mansion, and the Sui army guards in Jinan Mansion at that time thought that Li Yuan's troops had already been lost in Xifoyu, so they had no defense. As a result, Li Yuan attacked him unprepared and took Jinan Mansion in one fell swoop, which made a good start for the later establishment of the Tang Dynasty.

It can be said that Li Yuan's success is inseparable from the help of those hundred eminent monks, which is one of the reasons why the kings of the Tang Dynasty strongly supported Buddhism. It was also during the Tang Dynasty that Buddhism reached its peak in China.

The founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan took his descendants back to Xifoyu, thanked the monks for their help at the same time, he ordered people to follow the mountain between the cliffs of Xifoyu, according to the appearance of the hundred monks who helped him back then, carved out 100 Buddha statues. The Buddha statue was cast, Li Yuan rebuilt the Foyu Temple, and issued a decree to the world, and the Foyu Temple will remain forever.

But the sentence of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty "will last forever". It's not as good as bullshit when it's broken. Lao Shi's gang rushed here to drive away all the monks of Foyu Temple, and then smashed all the hundred Buddha statues with a hammer.

One hundred Buddha statues, the shortest of which is more than two meters high, and the tallest of which is nearly ten meters high and soars into the sky, and it will be a huge project to smash them all. But Lao Shi's gang insisted on completing this work, and the process of completing it was more difficult. Because from the time they started smashing the first Buddha statue, it rained heavily. As long as they smashed, it rained for as long as they poured. A large amount of stagnant water collects to form a natural reservoir.

After all the work of breaking the four old things was done, Lao Shidang helped the people go. All they left behind was rubble. There is also a newly formed spring on the cliff wall at the west end of the eaves of the stone platform. The water flow of that spring is not large, but there are water droplets seeping out all the time, and over the years, the seeping water droplets condense into a clear pool. It is called "Ruizhu Spring". Some people say that this spring water is the teardrop of hatred of those Buddha statues.

The matter of Xifoyu is over. As the commander of the operation, Lao Shi was commended by the superior organization of the Red Guards. His status has risen from a member of the "Broken Four Olds" to a "critic". ”

Criticism. In short, all those who are defined as sabotaging socialist construction must accept the criticism of the old history.

The form of criticism is to drag these people to the city square, put on the sign of the reactionary class, stand on high stools, and repent of the mistakes they have made.

At the beginning of taking over this work, Lao Shi did his best to do it.

Gradually, however, the scope of criticism expanded, and the families of many reactionary elements were dragged out to criticize and fight, and Lao Shi could not stand this phenomenon anymore.

He and the rest of the organization quarreled endlessly over who was to criticize whom, and the conflict became more and more serious.

One day, after those people dragged a six-year-old child to the criticism stage, the conflict broke out completely.

Lao Shi rushed to the stage in front of everyone to save the child, which immediately aroused the displeasure of the rest of the Red Guard organization. Some people scolded Lao Shi, saying that he had been assimilated by the rich and the bad right, and he must also be arrested for criticism. Someone spoke for Lao Shi and asked him to send the kid back to the criticism platform. There are also people who seize this and target Lao Shi from the head, throw a stick in front of him, and ask him to punish the descendants of the reactionary class element with a stick, and only by doing so will he be forgiven for his mistakes.

There were so many people present, but none of them said that they had let the child go.

After joining the Red Guard organization for so many years, Lao Shi had doubts about the organization for the first time in his heart, he looked at the stick in front of him and the child in his arms, and said a word at that time.

"I, Shi Weiguo, am a member of the Communist Party, and Communist Party members only fight against the class enemy, and do not go against the masses. This kid is not a class enemy, and I can't criticize him. You are all masses, and I cannot go against your will. If I have to make a choice now, I want to accept your criticism on behalf of this child!"

After saying this, Lao Shi turned around and walked up to the criticism platform, bringing the wooden sign that the child was wearing just now.

The matter of the day was settled in this way, but after that day, Lao Shi never went to participate in the criticism activity again.

This negative attitude of his caused dissatisfaction from his superiors, and it was not long before Lao Shi was demoted and relegated to a member of the Four Olds, who preferred this kind of work to fight against the real feudal old culture rather than critics.

He returned to the old team with great interest, but as soon as he returned, he received a serious task.

Their small detachment was going to the Guizhou region, uniting with the Red Guards there, and going to several special places together to sweep away the remnants of feudalism and bring new culture to the masses there.

More than a dozen of them got into the car and traveled all the way to the designated area, only to find that the outstanding Red Guard detachments of the "four olds" from all over the country had gathered here.

It turned out that on the Guizhou side, there were many ethnic minorities, the feudal remnants were serious, and the local Red Guards were insufficient, so they asked for support from the whole country.

Under the unified command of the superior leadership, everyone was divided into four directions to sweep up.

Under the leadership of the guide, this team of Lao Shi has "passed the test" all the way and has achieved remarkable results. But when they came to a place, the guide who led the way did not go any further.

When the revolutionary work was in full swing, how could they say that it would stop, and the old historians grabbed the guide, criticized him for not cooperating with the revolutionary work, and gave the green light to the idea of feudalism.

The guide was full of grievances, and almost cried and told them that there was a place called Ye County in front of them, which was a ghost town, and no one could enter it.

It's okay not to say this, but when you say it, it just pokes at the sore spot of these Red Guards. What they are here for, is to completely overturn all kinds of ghost towns and ghost villages, and let these bewildering remnants of feudalism show their true colors and be exposed to the world.

So they completely ignored the guide's plea, and walked more than ten miles of dirt road to the county seat of Yexian County.

When they saw the antique shop fronts all over the street and the architectural decorations full of the color of ancient feudal society, it was like seeing a little bee pounce on the nectar, and almost in the blink of an eye, the whole street was plastered with dilapidated propaganda slogans.

After the slogan was posted, it was time for the word of mouth.

The Red Guards had their own set of propaganda methods, first shouting along the streets to call all the local residents out of their homes, then performing in the open field in the middle of the county town so that all the people gathered could feel the strong impact of the new culture on them, finally making passionate speeches to attract more young people to join the ranks of breaking the four olds, and finally issuing a warning to make sure that the stable reactionaries were openly criticizing them.

This set of processes is invincible, allowing them to "purify" countless feudal areas, but in this Ye County, they are in trouble.

When shouting along the street, they didn't call out a single person, and the whole street looked quite lively, but it was all Red Guards, and there were no local residents coming out at all.

The Red Guards, who encountered this situation for the first time, were annoyed at the time, and went door to door smashing doors, and some of them were so grumpy that they directly kicked open the doors of other people's houses.

After some tossing, when everyone gathered again, they all said that there was a situation at all, that is, there were no people living in this city at all.

The entire Ye County is empty.

They didn't know what was going on, so they took the thought that had brought them and asked them what was going on.

The guide refused to say anything at first, but was finally forced to promise to tell them the truth.

But if you want to know the truth, there is another premise, that is, everyone must go to the stone monument on the streets of Yexian County, kneel down respectfully and kowtow three times.

You know, how could the Red Guards do such a thing.

The two sides argued, and before they knew it, it was night.

(To be continued.) )