Of course, we were not the only ones who were persecuted in that era, for example, my grandfather's house in Xicun, the paper man was also beaten into a cow ghost and snake god, and my grandfather, my grandmother, and my uncle were all criticized. My uncle was a few years older than my father and went to school much earlier than my father, and he was already in high school during the Cultural Revolution, and when the Cultural Revolution began, the school was closed and he returned home.

At that time, he was already learning the trade of paper making from my grandfather while going to school. Of course, it's not that I want to say that my grandfather is not, it's just a paper-binding person's craft, and he also pays attention to passing on men and not women, and the two of them are stunned that they didn't teach my mother.

However, as soon as the Cultural Revolution came up, my grandfather's family of four was not criticized. According to my mother, they beat people very hard in that village, and there were two people who forced people to hang themselves and two who threw themselves into wells. When I wrote about the old locust tree, I didn't say that there was a seventy-year-old man in their village who stabbed to death an eighty-year-old man, just that eighty-year-old man, their village counted him as ruthless, and beat people to death, like this kind of person, God can make him live to be eighty years old, probably telling him to wait to be stabbed, and after the seventy-year-old man stabbed this old man, he went to prison to enjoy his old age, and the state has raised him until the end of his life.

At that time, my uncle couldn't open his eyes, resulting in a decrease in eyesight, my grandmother's left leg was a problem, the worst was my grandfather, who vomited blood in a big mouth, and then fell into an internal disease, and on a rainy day, he had chest tightness and occasional hiccups, and my grandfather died when I was less than two years old.

In their village, the luckiest one is Chen Blind, at that time Chen Blind was also beaten into a cow ghost and snake god, but Chen Blind, this old guy is sleek and sophisticated, and others have not beaten him, he himself recruited: "I'm sorry for the country, I'm sorry for the party, I'm sorry for the people, I'm sorry for the old and young masters of the whole village, I confess, I deserve to die, I deserve to be blind, blind in this life, and blind in the next life......"

When those people heard this, their hearts were relieved, and they said that Chen Blind had behaved well, and only broke Chen Blind's bamboo pole, which was called "Cut off the tail of the cow, ghost, snake, and god."

At that time, the Red Guards seemed to have split into factions, each fighting its own battle. There are roughly three or four well-known factions in our place. "Twenty-seven faction" and "eighty-one-eight", these two factions are the oldest and most powerful, and there seems to be a "big coalition" and "414" or something, these two factions are smaller.

The "Erqi faction", whose real name is "Erqi Commune", is the largest rebel in our Henan Province; "August 18" may be from Beijing, but its influence in the whole country is the greatest, since August 18, 1966, this day was the first time to meet Red Guards in Beijing.

The only difference between these factions was the red armband on his arm, which was probably called a red armband at the time. The 27th faction has the "27 Red Guards" on the arms, and the 818 "818 Red Guards". The three characters "Red Guard" are larger and centered, and the name of the faction is smaller and top.

The people who beat my grandmother were the Red Guards of the "Erqi faction".

In early September, after Beijing met with the Red Guards for the second time, the Central Committee issued a circular to support representatives of revolutionary students from all over the country to visit the "Cultural Revolution" in Beijing, and also to support Beijing students to go to various parts of the country to provide revolutionary assistance.

As soon as this circular was issued, the Red Guards were pushed to the fullest, and college students, middle school students, and even elementary school students across the country began to go north and south, east and west.

The Red Guards who beat my grandmother took most of the young people in the village with them before leaving, saying that they were going to Beijing to meet *, accept *'s review, and each of them put on a red armband and took a "red treasure book" and left the house full of excitement.

They just left, of course my father was not reconciled, called Wang Sihe, and followed all the way.

We are now called Fengquan District, in the past called North Railway Station District, why was it called this name in the past, because we used to have a railway station here, the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, the past train did not know to reach that place in Beijing, now all the way to Beijing West.

The Red Guards were in the train station, and my father and Wang Sihe followed them into another train.

Inside the carriage, it was a sea of people, all of them were young people in a big series, and the kind of fanaticism on everyone's face could not be described in any words, and the ghosts and gods had to retreat when they saw it, even the woman in the red dress next to my grandmother was so frightened that she dreamed of my grandmother in the middle of the night, saying that she would hide in the mountains and see her again in the future. The magical old locust tree, after the Cultural Revolution came, began to pretend to be dead, and it was pretended to be ten years old, which shows how terrifying the ghosts and gods were at that time.

On the train to Beijing, my father and Wang Sihe were crammed into the corner between the two carriages, and if you want to talk to others, you have to say * quotations first, for example, if someone says: "Confident in life for 200 years," you have to quickly say: "It will be water hitting 3,000 miles!" "If three people are present, this one says, 'It's going to rain', and the other says, 'My mother is going to get married.......'

If you can't get up, then you're in trouble, and it's possible to throw you off the train.

My father and Wang Sihe basically didn't talk on the train, and even when they did, they muttered quietly to the third person. However, there were many people in the car, most of them were young people, and no one paid attention to them.

At that time, they were all slow trains, hard-seated green cars, and coal-burning steam locomotives. My father and Wang Sihe took a train ride for two days and three nights to get to Beijing. When they left the house, the two of them each had a few nests with them, and they had already finished eating when they got out of the car. The two of them still had five cents on them, which was already a lot, and my grandmother had to work hard for ten days to earn five cents.

The place where the train arrived at the station, it was not prosperous, and it was a little desolate, my father got dizzy as soon as he got off the train, and he didn't know where it was, and he couldn't even tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, but fortunately, all the people on this train came down, and they all went to one place, my father didn't know where it was, someone knew, follow it, and he was not afraid.

The crowd was crowded and crowded, and the ground where they were stepped on rumbled as if a large flock of sheep had been released.

My father and Wang Sihe walked forward with the crowd in a daze, looking for the goods of the "Erqi faction" in the crowd as they walked, and it didn't take much effort to find them for them, because there were too many people, it was difficult to do it, and quietly followed behind them.

After walking a short distance, a large shed appeared in front of me, and the heat was rising inside, which was a temporary group specially opened for the Red Guards, similar to the nature of the porridge factory in the past, where these people could eat and drink as they pleased.

After eating, we walked forward, walking, and my father noticed that something was wrong, and the crowd was divided, because there were people from Beijing who came to pick up the station, and the people who picked up the station were all from various factions, and the crowd quickly diverged and divided into several groups, and the people who picked up the station led them, and each found their own team.

My father and Wang Sihe followed the "Erqi faction" and continued to move forward. On the road, the more you walk, the more you look like that, there are buildings and shops on both sides of the road, and cars and bicycles appear on the road, just like an old Beijing flavor. At that time, although it was said that it was a depression and many shops were closed, it was definitely much more prosperous than our dilapidated mountain village......

I don't know how far I went, but it got dark, and the people of the Erqi faction walked through the streets and alleys and settled in a courtyard in the alley. My father and the two of them didn't dare to go in, it wasn't from their faction, and they would have to be beaten if they went in, so the two of them found a corner next to the courtyard and catted all night.

The next day, I found a place to have breakfast, and followed these people to the * square.

In my father's words, at that time, the square was full of people, crowded with people, and they couldn't see the edge at a glance, everyone held the "red treasure book" in their hands, shouting slogans, singing, and marching under the city tower, and the slogan shouted: The revolution is not guilty, the rebellion is justified, and the song is: The east is red, the sun is rising, and China has a ......

Perhaps because the number of people was still not large enough, they failed to attract the attention of the central leaders, and these people tossed around in the square for three days without being able to see the great leader*.

In the past three days, my father and his wife were also forced to blend in the crowd, holding "red treasure books", shouting slogans and singing songs with them, but they did not forget what they were doing all the way to Beijing, and they were always thinking about those goods.

On the evening of the fourth day, my father and the two of them finally got their chance. At that time, there were five people in our village who beat my grandmother, three men and two girls, and my father still remembers their names, but I will not write their real names here, after all, those are all in the past, and it is not interesting to write them, and they are not necessarily alive now. There are three men, let's call them male one, male two, male three, and female one, female one, female two.

It was getting dark, just after dinner, and my father and the two cats went to the corner next to the courtyard, which was in a very good location, as long as a dozen people came out of the courtyard, they could hear the sound, and they could see who came out of the courtyard.

Those goods, it is estimated that they also came to Beijing for the first time, it is estimated that they are tired and crooked in the courtyard, the first male and the second male and a girl walked out together, this girl is not the two who beat my grandmother, this my father does not know. After they came out, they walked in the other direction of the alley, and when my father and Wang Sihe found out about them, they quietly followed.

Where exactly is the location of the courtyard house where they are in Beijing, my father can't say clearly, because it was very chaotic at that time, there were slogans posted everywhere, and some iconic and characteristic things were also smashed and burned by these losers, and this place is quite far away.

My father remembers that after leaving the alley, he went to the right, and it was a big road, and the road could be fifty or sixty meters long, and a small road appeared on the left, and the man turned around and went onto the path. I don't know how far I walked along the path, but when it was dark, I saw a small forest in front of me, and the three of them talked and walked into the woods.

My father and I looked around, and there was no one around, and I didn't know what these people were doing in the woods, so they followed cautiously.

After entering the woods, he didn't go far when he heard the woman in front of him shout, "What are you two doing?" ”

My father and Wang Sihe were suddenly startled, and said in their hearts, did they find out?

(Thanks to the crown of "dd" tip!) ）