Chapter 7 Backyard Fire

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On that day, the light snow falling in the sky turned into heavy snow, covering up the speckled blood stains in front of the Prime Minister's Office. With the death of two students and a military policeman, the atmosphere in Beijing became tense, most of the people closed their doors, and many parents who were afraid of things pulled their children home, and some even moved roughly.

Because it was the impulsive students who first snatched the guns of the military police, which caused the bloodshed, many people condemned the recklessness of the students. In the end, various schools in Beijing still held various mourning activities, and the Beijing Municipal Government held a "national memorial meeting". The remaining students were on the streets, knowing that they couldn't make a fuss, and gradually dispersed to participate in various mourning activities.

Song Xiaofei convened an emergency meeting, which was attended by Prime Minister Sheng Xuanhuai, Speaker of the National Assembly Rong Hong, Secretary General of the Presidential Office Nguyen Trung Shu, Army Chief Duan Qirui, Justice General Liang Qichao, Finance Minister Xi Jiadong, and Education Minister Yan Fu. Lu Xun, deputy director of the Ministry of Education, was also invited to attend the meeting.

Sheng Xuanhuai usually has a bad relationship with Duan Qirui, because few of Duan Qirui's relatives and friends are officials and make a fortune, and the Shengshi family, including eight sons and eight daughters, are also officials and businessmen. The people often compare the two of them, respecting Duan Qirui and derogating Sheng Xuanhuai. Xu Shuzheng failed to prevent the tragedy in front of the Prime Minister's Office this time, and Xu Shuzheng was too arrogant and unsightly, at that time in China, except for the president and Duan Qirui, no third person could be looked at by him. Such people tend to offend easily. Sheng Xuanhuai also didn't like it. Moreover, Xu Shuzheng went to the Duan Mansion, and he also saw him wherever he went, and he didn't need the number room to communicate on his behalf. And he went straight in. Duan Qirui met with outsiders in the outer living room, while Xu Shuzheng could walk into the inner living room all the way and meet Duan, the relationship between the two was indeed unusual. Sheng Xuanhuai then stood up again and said: "Xu Shuzheng was recommended by Duan Qirui, and as the army chief and commander of the Beijing garrison, he still underestimated the situation in Beijing. Disaster to the country and the people, everywhere. Expellation for the same crime is recommended. ”

Duan Qirui was very frustrated at this time, and said that he was willing to take all the responsibilities and automatically resigned from all positions and retired to Tianjin. He also asked "everyone not to start a political dispute lightly because of what I see" and to put the overall situation first.

Song Xiaofei did not express his position, but ordered the Beijing Local Procuratorate to investigate the matter, and after a thorough investigation of the victims, inspectors, and witnesses, the results were discussed: "If it is related to a crime committed by a soldier." Heard by court-martial in accordance with the Army Trial Regulations and the Army Criminal Regulations. The perpetrators are found out and tried in accordance with the law, so as to enforce law and discipline. ”

At this time, Lu Xun stood up and said: "Colleagues, there is a sentence that I don't know if I should say or not......

Before Lu Xun could finish his words, Ruan Zhongshu, secretary general of the Presidential Office, interrupted him with a black face and reproached him: "This time, young people took to the streets to make a scene. It has a lot to do with your articles and remarks that flaunt freedom and democracy. You should review first. ”

Lu Xun shook his head and said: "Many people say that freedom and openness are a dangerous thing; We've got to throw it away. Mind and speech are open. China's stability and stability are about to be undermined, so it is necessary to control speech. This statement is specious, but in fact it is the result of no deep thought. In today's China, where the people's wisdom is greatly opened up and education is popularized, the practice of blocking news and controlling speech not only fails to achieve the goal of stability and stability, but is also receiving bad counterproductive effects. Otherwise, it's the same as now: they refuse to believe whatever the government says, and whatever the government says is true, they assume it's false. Because of their extreme distrust of propaganda and reporting, their anti-indoctrination and anti-propaganda psychology has reached the point of overkill. If, on the one hand, we encourage students to strive for the truth, freedom and democracy, and on the other hand, we use all kinds of means to prevent students from acquiring certain knowledge, this kind of cover-up approach not only exposes the hypocrisy of the rulers and educators, but is even more ridiculous, it will not work at all! Thinking is a tool for the pursuit of truth, and once a student has acquired this tool, it is impossible for us to say to him: You go to the university, but don't touch politics. If we insist on not letting our students get to the bottom of politics, the only way is to not teach them the principles and methods of pursuing the truth at all, and not to give them the tool to 'think' about digging into the rootsβ€”but in this case, what education are we talking about? What is the future of the Chinese nation? In a truly healthy democracy, there is no room for 'unwarranted' fear. We need to replace fear with reason and the courage to face the facts. Now is the time to reflect on our system! ”

Rong Hong said: "I agree with Vice President Zhou's view. The Creator created equal individuals and endowed them with a number of inalienable rights, including the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The men and women I saw on the streets of the United States had faces that were not being bullied. The current Chinese are not a bully face and arrogant; It's a bullied face, submissive. In this society, the anger is too heavy and violent. In my lifetime, I want to see what the self-confidence, unbullied Chinese face looks like on the faces of Chinese people who have votes! ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Now that our Ba'ath Party has nearly 20 million members, for such a big party, a society like China with weak democratic experience, it is better to grasp intra-party democracy first, and the presidential office has drawn up a preliminary plan." I think this step is insurmountable. Sooner or later, the people's government will be returned to the people, but the time is not ripe, and I am afraid that the time is not ripe to promote the building of a society under the rule of law and intra-party democracy. ”

Most of the people present agreed with Song Xiaofei's opinion. Song Xiaofei revealed the next step of the reform plan: "Back then, we went step by step, from military politics to training and then to almost constitutional government, it took almost 20 years, and we couldn't be too anxious. At that time, the main demands of the students were anti-corruption and high housing prices, which will be the next key work of our party. ”

After the meeting, Duan Qirui returned to Duan's mansion, although Song Xiaofei did not accept his resignation, he was still depressed. That night, Duan Qirui couldn't sleep, so he got up and went for a walk in the yard alone.

At this time, a bewitching woman walked in outside the door. When Duan Qirui recognized the woman with heavy makeup, Duan Qirui was stunned as if he had seen a female ghost, he didn't expect that the one who was dressed like a singer was his third aunt Liu, and she came back in the middle of the night! followed by his son Duan Hongye, and the two of them held hands from afar!

Previously, under the control of Zhang Peiyu, four concubines entered the door. Duan Qirui was not the kind of little man who was drunk and lying under the pomegranate skirt of his wife and concubine, and he was even more impatient with the management of his wife and concubine, and he never asked about trivial matters in the inner house, and he married Zhang Peiyu to manage it.

Zhang Peixin is very virtuous, she understands her husband's temperament, but she handles all the trivial things that can be covered by herself, so as not to upset her husband. Aunt Liu and Aunt Liu were both bought by Zhang Peiyu for three hundred oceans, young and quite beautiful. They dress up every day, like to buy things on the streets, visit the theater garden, and make teahouses.

Aunt Liu San and Duan Hongye were also frightened when they saw Duan Qirui. Duan Hongye understood Duan Qirui's temper and knew that there was a lot of good luck waiting for him, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed to admit his mistake, and explained to Duan Qirui softly: "Father, I ......" Duan Hongye has been fostered in a relative's house since he was a child, and he only returned to his father when he was a teenager, lacking maternal love and fatherly love.

Due to the lack of good education, the level of education is also not high. Even Song Xiaofei persuaded Duan Qirui to arrange a position for his son, but Duan Qirui sternly refused, he believed that his children should be like everyone else, rely on themselves, start from the bottom, and not engage in privileges. As a result, his son was also depressed. He is often idle at home, so he chatted with Aunt Liu.

Seeing the relationship between Aunt Liu and her son, Duan Qirui, who has always been grumpy, was really sad, and his nose was crooked, Duan Qirui looked at the third aunt's too bright eyes, slapped the third aunt's face, and scolded loudly: "Shameless thing!" ”

Aunt Liu gave birth to a pair of twin brothers to Duan Qirui at this time, and she was the hero of the Duan family, and she did not suffer any grievances on weekdays. At this time, he was slapped and cried, and soon Zhang Peixuan and other wives and concubines also got up in the middle of the night to see what was happening.

Duan Qirui pointed to Aunt Liu San, and calmly said to his wife Zhang Peixuan: "You will send her back to her parents' house immediately tomorrow!" ”

With Duan Qirui's temper, Zhang Peiyu was worried that something big would happen. Now seeing Duan Qirui so calm, he is also relieved.

Aunt Liu was crying and refusing to leave, hugging Zhang Peixuan's thighs and crying: "Madame save me, save me." ”

Zhang Peiyu was a little unbearable, and helped Aunt Liu Santai into the house to rest. Aunt Liu grabbed Zhang Peiyu's wrist and whispered, "Madam, you must help me this time." Otherwise, I will shake out the things about you and the old lady smoking, as well as the affairs of the fourth aunt, and make the Duan Mansion restless. ”

It turned out that Mrs. Zhang Peirui had no children, and she was very depressed, and sometimes she smoked a big cigarette face-to-face with Duan Qirui behind her back, and they also hired a special old mother to serve and light cigarettes on the side. And Duan Qirui hates others smoking the most.

Zhang Peiyu estimated that no matter what happened this time, Duan Qirui would not forgive Aunt Liu Santai. In any mansion, ** is not tolerated. After thinking about it, she felt that she couldn't hide Duan Qirui's smoking in the end. So, that night, she ran to Duan Qirui's room by herself and confessed to her husband: There was a fire in the backyard of Duan's house!

Duan Qirui was taken aback, he didn't expect his backyard to be so smoky, very sad, a series of blows made Duan Qirui disheartened, and gradually returned to Buddhism, seeking enlightenment. Later, he heard Zhang Peixin say that Fourth Aunt Liu had a crush before she got married, and now she still has a tryst with her lover, so he instructed Mrs. Zhang to marry her daughter like a daughter, and fulfilled the marriage between the fourth aunt and the person she liked. (To be continued......)