denounce traitors and "swan song for the ages".

The years of long incarceration were lonely.

Loneliness is more cruel to the weak-willed than to kill.

Although Ye Ting is much freer than other prisoners, and can herd sheep, raise chickens, grow vegetables, and study within the confinement area, he cannot eliminate his thoughts, worries, and worries about his relatives and the commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army who are in prison.

What made Ye Ting feel guilty and heartbroken all the time was that in Shangrao, there were still many commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army who had fought side by side with him and got along day and night. The high-ranking cadres alone include Li Zifang, director of the Organization Department of the Military Department, Lin Zhifu, director of the Enemy Engineering Department, Zhang Zhengkun, commander of the Third Column, Feng Dafei, deputy commander of the Second Column, Huang Cheng, director of the Military Secretariat, and Chen Zigu, secretary of the Military Secretariat.

Oh, Chen Zigu! As soon as Ye Ting thought of Chen Zigu, his heart became more and more uneasy.

When he heard that Chiang Kai-shek deliberately withheld the military expenses of the New Fourth Army, so that the athletes of the New Fourth Army could not even solve the problem of warm clothes, with the consent of the party organization, he traveled thousands of miles to Thailand to sell the inheritance left by his grandfather, and brought back all the 200,000 yuan belonging to him and donated it to the New Fourth Army, which was equivalent to the military expenses that the Kuomintang authorities had actually allocated to the New Fourth Army for nearly two years. Ye Ting once commended Chen Zigu in the "Anti-Japanese War Daily" of the military department, and was ready to give him a gold medal.

However, an outstanding patriotic young returned overseas Chinese like Chen Zigu was also brutally handcuffed and shackled by the Kuomintang, thrown into prison, and subjected to severe torture and all kinds of **, living a dark and inhuman life.

Ye Ting is hard to sleep!

Therefore, Ye Ting, whether he met Gu Zhutong and Chen Cheng or Chiang Kai-shek, was filled with great guilt, and repeatedly earnestly demanded that he be executed and that all the other commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army who were imprisoned be released unconditionally. But he felt remorseful. On this day, the guards informed Ye Ting that there was a New Fourth Army member named Zhao Lingbo who wanted to see him.

"Zhao Lingbo!" When Ye Ting heard this name, his two sword eyebrows shrugged up, straight into his sideburns, and his eyes widened: "What is he doing here?!" "The sound is like stepping on it**.

"I—How do I know!" The guard was furious when he saw Ye Ting, and he was so frightened that his legs went straight back.

This Zhao Lingbo was originally the chief of staff of the military department, and in the past, he behaved like a "grass on the wall" in the relationship between Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, swaying from side to side, and seeing the wind and steering the rudder. Ye Ting hates this kind of "chameleon" style of goods. If it was in accordance with Ye Ting's principle of employing people, Zhao Lingbo would have been transferred out of the staff office, a crucial department, a long time ago, but because the human rights of cadre deployment were in Xiang Ying's hands, Ye Ting's ideas were in vain. This time, when the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui moved north, Xiang Ying transferred Zhao Lingbo to a column as deputy commander, and after being captured, he could not withstand the coercion and temptation of the enemy, betrayed the revolution, became a shameless traitor, and became a political instructor in a concentration camp where the commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army and other political prisoners were imprisoned.

When Ye Ting was in elementary school, when the teacher told him the story of the national hero Yue Fei who was framed by Qin Hui, he also told him that there was a scholar surnamed Qin who visited the Yue Wang Temple and Yue Wang Tomb on the shore of the West Lake in Hangzhou, and wrote a couplet angrily in front of Qin Hui's kneeling statue: "People are young from the Song Dynasty to the name Juniper, and I am ashamed to be surnamed Qin in front of the grave", expressing his disdain for traitors, thus deeply hating traitors, traitors, traitors and other national scum in his young heart. Today, I can't imagine that there is a traitor under his subordinates, how can he not be angry?! "Call him in!" Ye Ting shouted.

Zhao Lingbo, who deliberately wore a New Fourth Army uniform, walked into Ye Ting's room quickly, with a look of urgency on his face: "Commander, you, how are you?" That demeanor seemed to be very worried about Ye Ting.

"Where are you from?" Although Ye Ting suppressed the anger in his stomach, he still made people feel that the air rushing out of his throat was solid and full of impact.

"I—I'm being held in the next room, and I've begged the guards again and again to let me see you." Although Zhao Lingbo's lies can be said to be reasonable, but the thief must be weak-hearted, he didn't dare to look directly at Ye Ting's gaze, for fear that Ye Ting would see the cowardice in his eyes, and a layer of cold sweat appeared on his head.

"You're being held next door to me, how can I get in and out without finding out, huh?" Ye Ting said in his heart that you Zhao Lingbo was really smart but was mistaken by cleverness, why don't you want to think about me Ye Ting can go for a walk in the yard, if you are imprisoned next door to me, I just can't find you, you also found me earlier, find a way to contact me, and repeatedly beg the guards? You, you don't think about it in advance, can you justify yourself?

"I, I'm ......" Zhao Lingbo saw that his horse's feet were exposed, and his mouth immediately felt like half of his tongue had been cut, and he couldn't say a complete sentence with a whining voice, his face turned pale, and he cried with a sad face, as if he was dead.

"What are you, me, me, mine? Tell me the truth, who sent you as a lobbyist? Ye Ting was furious, and the green tendons on his head jumped straight up.

"I, I'm ......" Zhao Lingbo couldn't help but his upper and lower lips began to tremble, and his legs also began to tremble, as if a stick was about to split his head and smash his head.

"Zhao Lingbo, I already knew that you had betrayed the revolution because of greed for life and fear of death, and became a shameless traitor, not only to be spurned by the world, but also to be nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever, you get out of me! I don't want to see you for a minute! Roll ——! Because Ye Ting was too angry, he stepped forward and raised his palm to give Zhao Lingbo a few loud slaps.

Zhao Lingbo, who was beaten to the point of starry, fled while holding his cheeks that were burning with fire, and said with a sad face: "Commander, I know that I have no backbone, and I have disgraced you and the New Fourth Army, but if I have the slightest place to live with the commander, I will ......be destroyed."

Ye Ting roared again, and his voice sounded like thunder: "You shut up for me!" What do you mean that there is no place for me? Do you want to pin the sins of the Southern Anhui Incident on the head of the Communist Party and on the New Fourth Army, which has suffered unjustly injustice, and the enemy will only open up to you and give you back a political instructor? If you betray the revolution and the New Fourth Army, you will betray me Ye Ting! If I had a gun on me, I'd shoot you, stinking scum! Get out, get out of here! Ye Ting said, picked up the teapot beside him, and smashed it at Zhao Lingbo with a "whoosh", and his extremely resentful expression seemed to tear Zhao Lingbo to pieces.

Zhao Lingbo was so frightened that he stumbled out of the door, and because he forgot to lift his feet in a panic, he immediately tripped over the threshold and fell to the ground headfirst like a toppled earthen wall, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and a green bag the size of a pine flower egg bulged out of his head.

"Shameless! Shameless! Shameless! After Ye Ting smashed Zhao Lingbo out with a teapot, he scolded three shameless people at the door with great indignation. A discerning person will immediately see that the first shameless is to scold Zhao Lingbo, the second is to scold Chen Cheng and Gu Zhutong, and the third is to scold Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng were so poor that they couldn't persuade Ye Ting to surrender, but they asked a clown like Zhao Lingbo to persuade him to surrender again, wouldn't it be shameless to come home?

Soon after, Ye Ting was again imprisoned in the notorious "Sino-US Cooperation Institute".

The "Sino-US Cooperation Institute" is located at the foot of Geyue Mountain in Shapingba, Chongqing. It was a joint secret service of US imperialism and the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the Chinese revolutionary movement, and a concentration camp for the massacre of communists and progressives. There are more than 20 dark and terrifying prisons in the concentration camp, and the "Baiyun Pavilion" and the "Dregs Cave" are two of the largest caves. This concentration camp was surrounded by mountains on both sides of the barrier, surrounded by high walls, surrounded by dense power grids, and outside the walls there were guard towers and pillboxes at every commanding height, and inside the guard towers and pillboxes were soldiers of the Kuomintang troops who were on strict guard 24 hours a day with loaded guns and ammunition, like iron buckets, and those who were imprisoned here were "isolated from the world" and it was difficult to go out and plant their wings.

Ye Ting was imprisoned in the "White Mansion". "White Mansion" was originally the Xiangshan villa of the Sichuan warlord Baiju, so it was named. After the "White Mansion" was transformed into a prison, there were 20 male and female prisons, one of which was a torture room in the dungeon where the sun did not shine all year round. The secret services tortured the imprisoned revolutionaries with all kinds of cruel and inhumane criminal laws all day long, and there was a storm of gloom and terror.

Ye Ting knew that this was another escalation of Chiang Kai-shek's torture of him.

"It seems that Lao Jiang is going to carry out a life sentence on me!" Ye Ting concluded like this, and held the idea of "hiding in prison for a long time", "preserving his true feelings" and "ending his last years", and really "going to sit through the prison"!

On this day, Ye Ting got up in the morning to finish his exercises, took a cold bath, finished breakfast, and just picked up the newspaper, when he suddenly saw several spies bring in two people. When he fixed his eyes, it turned out to be his wife Li Xiuwen and his eight-year-old daughter Meimei.

"Xiyi!" "Daddy!" Li Xiuwen and Meimei shouted at the same time and threw themselves into Ye Ting's arms.

"Xiuwen! Eyebrows! Ye Ting was pleasantly surprised to hold his beloved wife and daughter tightly in his arms, and the tide of excitement rushed to his throat. He felt his nose sore, and tears full of bitterness were about to burst out of his eyes. However, when he was alert to the expression of several secret agents staring at him outside the door, he immediately suppressed his excitement and did not let the tears flow.

Li Xiuwen saw that Ye Ting, who was heroic in the past, looked haggard today, with a long beard hanging down his chest, like an old man, and couldn't help but feel sad from his heart, his heart was like a knife, and he cried bitterly.

Ye Ting immediately felt that there was fraud in it, and hurriedly persuaded his wife and raised his eyebrows not to cry, and asked eagerly: "Xiuwen, how did you come to Chongqing, and how did you come to this forbidden place for visiting, huh?" ”

Seeing Ye Ting's surprise, Li Xiuwen hurriedly held back his sadness, wiped his tears, and told Ye Ting: "I heard that you were detained in Chongqing, so I took my eyebrows and set off from Macao, passing through **, Guilin, Dushan, and Guiyang, and traveled for more than a month before coming to Chongqing. When I was in Guilin, Li Jishen took good care of our mother and daughter, and even wrote a letter in my own handwriting, asking me to hand it over to Dai Li. After a few more days, Dai Lian accompanied us here. ”

"Ren Chao (Li Jishen) is in good health?" Ye Ting knew that Li Jishen, who responded to the unanimous anti-Japanese call of the Communist Party of China after the War of Resistance Against Japan, had completely broken with Chiang Kai-shek and set up a mobilization and propaganda committee for the Anti-Japanese War in Guangxi.

"It's fine." Li Xiuwen chin a little.

"Have you seen Zhou Enlai and Guo Moruo in Chongqing?" Ye Ting asked more eagerly.

"Nope." Li Xiuwen replied.

"Why?" Ye Ting was stunned.

"I took Meimei to the Eighth Route Army Office in Hongyan Village and the 'Zhou Mansion' at No. 50 Zengjiayan several times, but I was stopped by Dai Li's spies and not allowed to enter!" Li Xiuwen said indignantly.

"Dai Li's consent for you to come and see me, what did he say?" Ye Ting asked vigilantly.

"He said let me persuade you." Li Xiuwen said.

"What did he tell you to persuade me?" Ye Ting's eyes widened.

"It's not the one they are used to, let me advise you not to go to the dark in an alley, those who know the times are handsome, life is short, and it is a hundred years in the blink of an eye, why bother to break up your wife and stay alone behind bars? Isn't this a martyr's sacrifice for the Communist Party? He said that as long as you write a letter of repentance to Chiang Kai-shek, you will immediately soar. ”

"Shameless!" Ye Ting gritted his teeth and scolded.

"I tell them, you are not guilty, and whatever repentance you write, it should be written by the person who harmed you!" Li Xiuwen's voice was loud.

"Xiuwen, my good wife!" Ye Ting saw that Li Xiuwen understood the righteousness so well, and he loved and hated clearly, and gratefully took his wife in his arms again.

"I know that this is their attempt to use the love of husband and wife, father and daughter to wear down your will." Li Xiuwen broke away from Ye Ting strongly, and proudly told her husband.

"You're right." Ye Ting looked at his beloved wife who had been separated for two years, and felt that Li Xiuwen had been raising children in Macao alone in the past two years, and he had to worry about his safety day and night, his cheeks were obviously thin, and his heart was sour again. He originally wanted to say more words of gratitude for her, but he felt that it would be superfluous to say more emotionally in front of his like-minded wife who shared weal and woe, and he could only turn his love for his virtuous wife into hatred for Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li, and repay his understanding and support for his wife with a firmer belief in the struggle against the enemy.

This night, the stars are bright and the moon is bright, the breeze is gentle, the insects are singing, and the plants and trees are fragrant. Ye Ting and Li Xiuwen talked all night, including Ye Ting's expectations for his children, his entrustment to his wife, his judgment on the current situation, and his hopes for a better future. Li Xiuwen replied with "uh-huh", and let her husband pour out the words that had been held in his chest for two whole years.

Two days later, according to the report of the secret service, Dai Li, seeing that Li Xiuwen's arrival had no gain, he notified Li Xiuwen and Meimei to leave.

At parting, Ye Ting, with hatred for the enemy and expectations for the revolution, wrote a poem with a pen:

The door for people to enter and exit was locked, the hole for the dog to crawl was open, and a voice barked;

- Climb out, give you freedom!

I longed for freedom, but I also knew that the human body could not crawl out of a dog's hole!

I can only hope that the day will be when the fire in the ground will rush and burn this living coffin with me, and I should have eternal life in fire and blood.

Six-sided layman

Ye Ting's poem showing his iron bones and brilliant integrity is the "Song of Righteousness" in the 40s of the 20th century!

This is a noble revolutionary's magnificent "Man Jianghong"!

Guo Moruo looked at the poem that Ye Ting asked his wife Li Xiuwen to bring out from prison and give it to him, and said excitedly: "...... There is infinite passion burning here, but it also radiates clear light, which is the real poetry. …… His poems are written with life and blood, and his poems are himself. ”

Ye Ting's song "Swan Song for the Ages" has erected an immortal revolutionary monument in the historical corridor of 5,000 years of Chinese culture.