Usually, Wang Hongju goes home for dinner after class, and after dinner, the couple takes their son Han Ming to the river for a walk. That night, Lin Meijiao reheated the meal several times and didn't see her husband come home for dinner, and Wang Hongju didn't come home until the early hours of the morning. Lin Meijiao asked him why he came home so late, and Wang Hongju said lightly: "Gillian, I have been in a meeting after school today, and I just broke up." ”

Lin Meijiao reheated the meal and put it in front of Wang Hongju, who said with a gloomy face that he didn't have the heart to eat.

Lin Meijiao gently sat next to Wang Hongju and asked softly, "Hongju, I see that you are preoccupied, what makes you unhappy?" ”

"Gillian, you go to sleep first. I want to sit quietly by myself for a while. ”

"Okay, the meal is just hot, you hurry up and eat it." After Lin Meijiao finished instructing, she went into the back room to sleep.

After his wife left, Wang Hongju sat alone at the dining table, he did not eat, but frowned and smoked one cigarette after another.

Wang Hongju sat at the dining table for nearly an hour, neither eating nor going to sleep, and Lin Meijiao, who was sleeping in the back room, did not sleep soundly, she gently came to Wang Hongju in her pajamas and sat down next to her. Wang Hongju glanced at his wife affectionately, and reached out to hold her tightly in his arms.

Lin Meijiao snuggled in her husband's arms and asked, "Hongju, I can see that you are in a bad mood today, have you encountered something unkind?" Her eyes looked hesitant.

"Meijiao, now the whole country is carrying out a campaign to make a big noise, so that people from all walks of life can put forward opinions to the party and the government. Today, after school, the party committee of the school organized all party members to hold a democratic life meeting, and the main leaders of the county education bureau attended the meeting as observers. ”

"Li Qiming must be here. You're sure to give him advice! ”

"Yes, criticism and self-criticism are the concrete embodiment of democratic life within the party, and now they are advocating loud and loud, and I think every party member should actively participate in it. At the meeting, I asked Comrade Li Qiming some pointed questions for him to answer. But who knew that Li Qiming did not accept my point of view, and this meeting almost became a debate meeting between the two of us. ”

"You just didn't open the door, what did you say to Li Qiming?"

"I said that he was always proud of his coarseness, did not respect knowledge, did not respect intellectuals, was a layman who did not understand education, and he should improve his cultural accomplishment. Change attitudes towards intellectuals. Otherwise, he would not be fit to lead in the field of education. ”

"Ouch! What you're saying is harsh. People can love to listen to it! ”

"I'm telling the truth, he doesn't care if he likes to listen to me or not! Carrying out national construction in peacetime is not as simple as carrying a gun and killing people in a bloody battle during the war years, and leading cadres who have come from the war years must take the initiative to do a good job in changing their own roles. Since Li Qiming has become the director of the county education bureau, he should strengthen his own cultural literacy and respect intellectuals. Work hard to learn the business from a layman to an insider. This is what makes a competent Secretary for Education. But when he heard me say that, he was furious. Accuse me, a bourgeois intellectual, of insulting cadres of workers' and peasants' origins. You give a review, where did I say it wrong? Besides, can he, Li Qiming, represent all the workers and peasants? ”

"Hongju. You're right. But you can give advice to Director Li in private, why should he not come to the stage in front of everyone? ”

"Everyone should speak freely at the democratic meeting! If you have an opinion on the table, there is no need to hide it. If there is a change in the opinions of others, there will be encouragement, what is there that he can't get off the stage? Wang Hong stretched out his hands in confusion.

Lin Meijiao didn't want to argue with him anymore, so she said: "You can't change your outspoken character!" I can't do anything about you. Okay, you still have classes tomorrow, hurry up and go to bed and rest! ”

It was already the dead of night outside the window, and Wang Hongju, who was lying on the bed, could not fall asleep at all, and the scene of the debate with Li Qiming just now kept appearing in front of him: At the meeting, Wang Hongju pointed out that Li Qiming was a layman who did not understand education, and many of his views and statements did not conform to the laws of teaching. Li Qiming did not accept the opinions with an open mind, but slapped the table and questioned Wang Hongju in a loud voice: "You are a highly educated intellectual, with a belly of culture, and you can speak a few words of foreign language. I'm a big boss, and I only learned some words after participating in the revolution, but why can I be the director of education and you, an expert, can't? Do you want to know what this is for? ”

Wang Hongju wanted to know what Lu Dao was for, so he asked rhetorically: "What is it for?" ”

"The reason why you are capable but not promoted and used organizationally is because you bourgeois intellectuals and the party are not of the same mind!" Li Qiming pointed at Wang Hongju with his finger and said word by word.

A party member is not of the same mind as the party! As soon as Li Qiming said this, everyone present felt the seriousness of the problem, and everyone was in an uproar.

Wang Hongju stood up angrily and confessed himself: "Director Li, you are insulting me by saying this!" I, Wang Hongju, have given myself unreservedly to the party and the organization since the day I joined the revolution, and I have always been strict with myself with the standards of party members, and I love the party as a son loves his mother, and no one can doubt my pure heart! ”

At the meeting, Li Qiming and Wang Hongju debated with each other.

The scene of the democratic meeting just now made Wang Hongju more and more upset the more he thought about it, and he couldn't lie down, so he got out of bed and walked out of the bedroom lightly. Wang Hongju came to the desk, turned on the lamp, took out pen and ink, and after a little thought, he brushed and wrote a big-character poster.

The next day, a big-character poster written by Wang Hongju was posted in the school's big-character poster column. The headline of the big-character poster read: Please respect knowledge and intellectuals. The content is to the effect that the philosopher Bacon, who is known as the originator of English materialism, once said that knowledge is power. Knowledge is the result of the long-term accumulation of human civilization, and culture and education are the foundation of social progress. The power of knowledge is infinite, and intellectuals do not belong to the category of the bourgeoisie but are an indispensable and important force in socialist construction. Intellectuals, like the broad masses of workers and peasants, are the builders of a new society, and the difference between them is only that the social division of labor is different, and the intellectuals who work mentally and the workers and peasants who work manually are both great proletarian laborers in New China, and intellectuals should not be the objects of transformation by the masses of workers and peasants at the legal level. He also put forward the view that education is a science and should be carried out by people who know how to educate, and if it is a layman who leads an insider, then a layman should act in accordance with the laws of education and become an expert who understands business as soon as possible.

As soon as this big-character poster was posted, it caused a great sensation on campus, and some teachers and students quickly posted big-character posters that clearly supported Wang Hongju's views, and many teachers and students who opposed Wang Hongju's views posted big-character posters criticizing his views. For several days, people with two views of the two views have been arguing endlessly, and big-character posters have been plastered all over the campus.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and this situation was absolutely not expected when Wang Hongju wrote the big-character poster.

After Lin Nanhui read Wang Hongju's big-character poster, he found Wang Hongju and criticized him fiercely, and he said to Wang Hongju: "What is that big-character poster you wrote?" The masses of workers and peasants are the proletariat, so how can you intellectuals become the proletariat and the working people? If you talk nonsense again, be careful that you will be rectified in the future! ”

"I have no room in my house and no land, and I rely on teaching to earn wages to support my family, how can I not be considered a proletariat? Teaching is also a form of labor, and besides, this job is not easy at all, so why should educators not be considered laborers? Wang Hongju refuted with reason and made Lin Nanhui speechless.

"Okay, I can't fight you, let's not talk about it for now." Lin Nanhui said to Wang Hongju mysteriously: "I heard that someone copied down your big-character poster word for word and handed it to Li Qiming." Everyone who understands knows that your big-character poster is aimed at him, and that person is not easy to mess with. Be careful! ”

Lin Meijiao, who was listening to the side, said worriedly: "Hongju, the tone of the newspaper's reports on Daming Dafang these days has changed a little from the beginning, and some articles have pointed out that some people have attacked the party and opposed the party's revolutionary line by using Damingdafang, saying that this is a right-leaning trend of thought, and we must resolutely counterattack this right-leaning trend of thought. I advise you to teach in a down-to-earth manner in the future, don't participate in any more loud and loud things, our life is very peaceful, don't get yourself into trouble! ”

Wang Hongju comforted Lin Meijiao and said: "Gillian, I just wrote a big-character poster to express my views and said what I think I should say." Don't worry, I won't get in trouble! ”

"Yes, I also think that the recent rumors are wrong, not that the loud and loud debates are big-character posters, and anyone can express their opinions freely, but now the debate has changed its taste, and people with different views are like engaging in struggle, and they also buckle people's hats indiscriminately, and big hats are flying all over the sky!" Lin Nanhui thinks that Lin Meijiao's words are right, and he also wants Wang Hongju to be cautious in his words and deeds.

Wang Hongju nodded thoughtfully. (To be continued......)