The telegram sat in Chen Bei's trouser pocket for twelve hours, soaked with sweat and blurred, and finally about to leave the country, Chen Bei forced his excitement and patiently handled everything.

First of all, the family property, over the years thrifty savings of 400 yuan, in the name of Ma Chunhua deposited in the People's Bank of China, must be taken out, when withdrawing the money took some twists and turns, because the deposit is a five-year fixed, half a year is due, in vain Lang fee a large amount of interest, the bank staff persuaded for a long time, Chen Bei still insisted on taking out all of them, he took the family's household registration book and his own work card, and finally took out this huge amount of money.

In addition to some coarse benzene furniture at home, the only valuable thing is a domestic radio, and there are some tickets, such as grain stamps, cloth stamps, chemical fiber stamps, soybean oil stamps, tofu stamps, and match stamps, all of which were given to Liu Yuan.

"Chen Bei, what are you doing here? But what's the matter? Liu Yuan was very puzzled with this pile of bills, food, clothing and housing were inseparable from these bills, and they were all given away, and the Chen family couldn't even eat.

Chen Bei said vaguely: "If you want to move, these are all tickets for Jiangbei, and they don't work in the provincial capital." ”

"In this case, then I'll take it." Liu Yuan accepted these tickets, but she still felt that something was wrong in her heart.

"Let's eat together, burn red taro porridge." Liu Yuan said.

"No, I'll go to the factory to find spring flowers." Chen Bei waved his hand and left, leaving a large canvas travel bag at Liu Yuan's house for the time being.

……

Ma Chunhua has been attending the study class for a week, and every day, in addition to studying Mao Xuan and the People's Daily, they are exposing and reporting each other, and the study class is controlled by the rebels and led by the military management group, and the students are not allowed to go home without permission, and they are not allowed to meet relatives and friends without approval.

The trainees are basically the people in power in Chenguang Factory, and there are also some rightists, such as Zhang Guangyin, but this time the rightists are all tied up, and the main object of the struggle is the people in power.

Lao Yu, the secretary of the party committee in the factory, is a 38-style cadre, who has lived for most of his life and has never suffered such humiliation, and the rebels have beaten and scolded him, and he has been denied food at every turn, and he has slapped him in front of everyone.

"Chunhua, I can't stand it." Several times during meals, Lao Yu quietly complained to Ma Chunhua.

"Secretary Yu, hold on, the sky will dawn." Ma Chunhua always encouraged him.

One morning, when the roll call was not there, the guards found him hanging from the head of his bed.

Old Yu committed suicide in fear of crime, and his crime was added to the first degree, and he was severely criticized, and the body was taken to the crematorium and burned without letting the family members take a last look.

Although the guards were not strict, no one escaped, because there was no way to run, even if they went home, they could arrest people back, and if they went to other places, they could starve to death without a letter of introduction, no household registration, no national food stamps.

Lao Yu just died, and there was another big incident in the study class, Zhang Guangyin was careless when he wiped the plaster statue of Chairman Mao, and he actually smashed the plaster statue!

This is a heinous crime! The plaster fragments all over the ground are ironclad evidence, Zhang Guangyin, a rightist who viciously cursed the great leader Chairman Mao, in a vain attempt to smash the red sun into pieces.

Zhang Guangyin was beaten up and handed over to the working group for punishment, and the military representative Zhang Company Commander had the power of life and death, and after arriving at the Chenguang Factory, he had not opened his beard, he groaned slightly, and signed to sentence Zhang Guangyin to ten years of labor reform, accused of conspiracy to assassinate the great leader.

When dealing with Zhang Guangyin, Ma Chunhua was writing appeal materials, and suddenly saw a person appear at the window, it was her husband Chen Bei.

"Why are you here?" Ma Chunhua hurriedly looked around.

"I'll pick you up." Chen Bei climbed in.

"This is a study class, don't mess around, something big will happen!" Ma Chunhua cares about her husband, even if she is unlucky, if her husband is locked up again, there will be no one to take care of the children.

"Come with me, let's go as a family." Chen Bei didn't say a word, and helped Ma Chunhua pack up her things.

"I'm not leaving! To go, you go. Ma Chunhua's temper came up, and the eight cows couldn't pull it.

Chen Bei raised his hand and slapped it, with a crisp sound.

Ma Chunhua was shocked, Chen Bei beat her for the first time since she got married.

"If you don't leave, do you want to wait here for death!" Chen Bei grabbed the things on the table and glanced at them, and fell in front of Ma Chunhua, "You write this material for eggs, can you send it out!" Follow me to the provincial capital, go to Beijing, and appeal to whoever you want. ”

"Okay, I'll go with you." Ma Chunhua made a decision immediately, not for herself, but for Secretary Yu.

Ma Chunhua and Chen Bei took the opportunity to slip away from the back door, did not dare to go through the door, and went directly from the factory production area to the side door and went straight to Liu Yuan's house.

Unfortunately, my son was not there, so I asked Liu Yuan, saying that I was going out with my classmates.

Chen Bei didn't say a word, borrowed a bicycle and went out to find his son.

"Sit down, Secretary Ma, the study class is over?" Liu Yuan was busy pouring water for Ma Chunhua.

Ma Chunhua said: "Your old Zhang ...... Something went wrong. ”

Liu Yuan froze, and her hand holding the teacup trembled slightly.

"Lao Zhang smashed the statue of the chairman and is going to be sent to labor reform." Ma Chunhua Road. "How so?" Liu Yuan's tears burst out of her eyes, it was a flying disaster, a thunderbolt from the sky, her husband was wrongly beaten as a rightist since he was beaten for five or seven years, and he lived one after another, carefully walking on thin ice, for fear of saying and doing wrong, but he didn't expect that something went wrong, Zhang Guangyin was sentenced to labor reform, how can this family be maintained.

Liu Yuan felt that the world was spinning and fainted to the ground, Ma Chunhua hurriedly stepped forward to pinch the person, stroked her chest, and finally saved her, Liu Yuan cried: "Secretary Ma, you have to help us." ”

Ma Chunhua said: "I will do my best." But he secretly said in his heart, it's okay to say that he was forced to die, Zhang Guangyin smashed the chairman like this, and this is an outright current ***, even if the lawsuit reaches the central government, it will be versatile.

Chen Bei rode a bicycle all the way outside, shouting all the way, the sun was dripping under the summer sun, the asphalt roads were melted, and he couldn't see his son when he looked all over the high soil slopes, and suddenly he had an idea, and every summer vacation, he would take his son to the river to swim!

He immediately went to the riverside, and sure enough, he found his son, Chen Guangzheng and Liu Yuan's two children swimming together, and quickly called them ashore, put on their clothes and go home.

When I got home, it was already evening, Liu Yuan was cleaning up with tears on her face, Ma Chunhua was cooking in the kitchen, and the child saw that her mother was crying, so she hurriedly asked what was wrong.

"Your father was sentenced to a labor camp and was going to a salt lake farm, and your mother packed his clothes and bedding." Liu Yuan wiped a handful of tears and said calmly.

The two children burst into tears.

In the kitchen, Ma Chunhua also quietly wiped her tears.

The meal was set on the table, and no one was in the mood to eat, Chen Bei picked up the chopsticks and said, "Eat!" No matter how hard it is, you can't go hungry. ”

The children also picked up their rice bowls and barely ate, and Ma Chunhua and Liu Yuan ate very little.

After eating, Chen Bei said: "Liu Yuan, we are leaving, you take care." ”

Liu Yuan said: "Be careful on the road, have a good journey." ”

Chen Bei lifted the luggage, Ma Chunhua also took her son's hand, Liu Yuan sent them out, her silhouette was so thin under the street lamp.

Suddenly, Chen Bei put down his bag, walked over, took out four hundred yuan and stuffed it into Liu Yuan's hand: "Take it, it's useful." ”

"I can't ask for it." Liu Yuan hurriedly pushed out.

"If you want to take it, I won't need the money." Chen Bei forcibly stuffed the money to Liu Yuan, turned around and left.

"Goodbye, Grandma." Chen Guang waved his hand.

Liu Yuan also waved her hand: "Goodbye." "Watching their family of three leave.

……

"Where?" Ma Chunhua asked.

"I bought a train ticket for the night." Chen Beidao.

The three of them walked to the Beitai Railway Station, and the train to the provincial capital departed at 11 o'clock at night, and there were already hundreds of people waiting at the entrance of the station, and there were crowds of people everywhere.

The seats in the waiting hall of the railway station are still in the thirties, they have long been in disrepair, there are many people and few seats, they can only stand, Chen Bei keeps smoking, impatient, and in another hour it will be July 16.

Suddenly, there was a commotion at the door of the waiting hall, and a team of heavily armed soldiers came in to check the tickets, shining flashlights on the faces of passengers, probably searching for someone.

Ma Chunhua said in a low voice: "Probably came to me, you hide, I'll deal with it." ”

Chen Beidao: "The girls' house is behind, I will lead them away, and you take your son to go first." ”

Ma Chunhua said: "They are looking for me, what are you fooling in." ”

While arguing, the soldiers had already caught the man they were going to arrest, pulled an elderly traveler wearing glasses out of the crowd, and escorted him away.

"It seems to be Maiping." Ma Chunhua Road.

"Mai Ping is a capitalist roader." Chen Bei breathed a sigh of relief and said.

The waiting hall regained its calm, and after waiting for a while, a staff member wearing a blue railway uniform and a diamond-shaped armband tied to his arm came over, holding an iron horn and shouting: "Comrades passengers, pay attention, modesty makes people progress, pride makes people lag behind, and the 4587 train to the provincial capital is delayed." ”

The passengers were noisy, and someone shouted: "If you want to fight for private repairs, when will you be able to depart, give a punctual time." ”

The staff said: "The world is afraid of the word serious, the *** staff is the most serious, not on time, wait, when will it come, when will it open." After saying that, he walked away and went into the duty room to read the newspaper and drink tea.

Chen Beikang turned around, but there was nothing to be done, the long-distance bus did not run at night, the ship did not open, and the time was slower than taking the train, only waiting, waiting, waiting, every second seemed like a year, how could the second hand of the watch go so slowly.

Ma Chunhua was not in a hurry, she found a corner to put down her luggage, while her son slept with his travel bag on his pillow, took out the tea jar from the bag and took a cup of hot water, drank it slowly, and gradually his eyelids began to fight......

As soon as he opened his eyes, it was already dawn, and he was wearing his husband's short-sleeved shirt, Chen Bei was still walking around with his bare back, his eyes were red, it seemed that he hadn't slept all night, but his son slept sweetly.

The station staff finally walked out again, holding an iron horn and said: "Comrade passengers, learn from Comrade Lei Feng and report a good news to everyone, 4587 times are entering the station, and the ticket can be cut in another twenty minutes." ”

The passengers who were lying in the entire hall immediately got up and began to line up, Ma Chunhua also woke up his son, picked up his bag, and suddenly a group of people came in outside, it was the people from the military management team of Chenguang Factory, they also found Ma Chunhua, pointed here and shouted: "Stop, don't go!" ”

Chen Bei picked up his son by the waist and shouted angrily: "Go!" "Take Ma Chunhua and run away.

Rushed to the gate of the railway station, a Beijing jeep was suddenly starting, the driver seat was sitting in the rebels in the factory, Chen Bei pulled him down, opened the rear door and sent his son in, Ma Chunhua moved fast enough, and got on the car from the other side.

Chen Bei jumped into the driver's seat, stepped on the clutch gear and stepped on the accelerator to release the clutch, and the action was fast in one go, and the 212 jeep rushed out like an arrow from the string, and when the people of the military management team chased it out, they could only see the tail smoke of the car.