Chapter 247: The Age of Madness 4
A friend in the book review area asked, my father and Wang Sihe saved the girl, why did the girl report them. This may be difficult for our contemporaries to accept, but it is easy for those in that environment to understand. At that time, between father and son, between husband and wife, between brothers and sisters of the same mother, as long as you said something that should not be said, you might be denounced by your relatives around you, and everyone was in danger. It is said that the divorce rate at that time was the highest, and it was not uncommon for husbands and wives to become enemies, fathers and sons to break up, and brothers to kill each other.
In a university in our city, the students in the school were divided into two factions, just because of one sentence, the two sides started a fierce debate, and in the end the debate was fruitless, and there was a fight between the two factions that night, and in the scuffle, a boy poked into the heart of one of the other parties with a red tassel gun. After the war, the boy said triumphantly, I stabbed one of them to death, and when I returned home, it turned out that he had stabbed his own sister to death.
Having said that, in the heart of the girl who denounced my father at that time, she probably thought that the two people who insulted him belonged to the internal contradictions of the class, and my father and Wang Sihe beat people with sticks, which was tantamount to destroying the "Black Five" elements of socialism, because they were beating the Red Guards. Between personal "interests" and overall "interests", the girl chose to safeguard the overall "interests". Just like the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the fight was fierce, the Japanese came, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party joined hands to fight the Japanese, and when the Japanese were beaten away, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party freed up their hands and continued to pinch. This may be a bit of a misnomer, but that's what it means, and I think you'll be able to understand it.
Straight to the point. After my father ran out of the alley, he didn't dare to drill into the alley, and he didn't dare to run along the road, and finally they bypassed the old house from the left side, and continued to run, I don't know how long they ran, looking at the torches behind them were getting farther and farther away, and in front of them, there was a ditch, the ditch was quite wide, but there was very little water in it, although it was late autumn at this time, but there was a foul smell in the ditch, as if it was a stinky ditch. My father found a stone next to the ditch and tried it, the mud was very deep in it, the two of them did not dare to cross the river, and continued to walk along the ditch to the right, in their memory, the railway station was on their right, as long as they kept to the right, they would definitely find the railway station.
Walking along the ditch for two or three miles, a small bridge appeared in front of it, which was the old-fashioned stone arch bridge, and there was an arch hole under the bridge. At this time, the night was already deep, and it was quiet in all directions, and the two people walked sleepily, and there was no torch around them, and the two people got into the arch bridge hole to rest their feet, resting, and the two people actually fell asleep.
Unbeknownst to them, however, they were asleep here, and a quarter of the city of Beijing was in chaos. It was also on this night that the first skirmish took place between the 27th faction and the 818th faction, and the two sides dispatched hundreds of people to fight in a group fight, scolding each other at each other's capitalist roaders and royalists, claiming that they were rebels. At that time, the "rebels" represented the side of justice, and the "revolution is not guilty, and the rebellion is justified." ”
Maybe because it was in the capital, under the nose of **, neither side dared to make a big deal about it, nor did they dare to make it public. It is said that there were many people with blue noses and swollen faces at that time, and there was almost no bleeding from their heads, and the most seriously injured were the two goods who were beaten by my father and they were directly sent to the hospital, saying that they accidentally fell from the roof and fell.
However, this matter may still be known to the people in the central government, and then, **The little wife** put forward the slogan of "Cultural Attack and Military Guard" when meeting with the representatives of the Red Guards, implying that these Red Guard enemies are by your side, if you don't fight others, others will beat you, and it is said that weapons and equipment were distributed to some Red Guards. Si Chen, the chaos in the world, the Cultural Revolution, has a direct relationship with **, the who blows the wind on the pillow.
From the moment of the fight, the Red Guards' struggle goals and class enemies gradually changed their nature, from criticizing the landlords, rich peasants, bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, to open and covert struggles between factions, and later, even machine guns, artillery, tanks, and vehicles were used, which was simply another civil war.
Of course, my father and Wang Sihe could never have imagined that their personal feud could eventually turn into a melee between factions across the country, or perhaps it was not the fuse lit by my father and Wang Sihe, but the inevitable result of the Red Guards after they developed to a certain extent.
The next day, before dawn, my father and Wang Sihe woke up one after another, and the first thing they saw was fear, one was that they were afraid that the two goods would kill them yesterday, and the other was that they were afraid that they would be caught at this time. Of course, being scared does not mean regretting, my father and Wang Sihe did not regret because of the embarrassment at this time, they still feel that it is very worthwhile to fight those two goods.
The two of them climbed out of the bridge and looked, but there was no one around, so they relaxed a little, rubbed their eyes, and continued to walk along the ditch.
I don't know how far I went, but it was bright and my father climbed out of the ditch and looked, there were stone roads nearby, not big, and some buildings in the distance, which looked similar to the ones before, and they were strange. My father discussed with Wang Sihe, it is not a problem to walk along the ditch all the time, so it is better to go to the front and find someone to ask.
So the two of them left the ditch and walked into the building, and my father found that it was far less prosperous than ** there, and it was not even as good as the courtyard house where they were before, and my father simply thought that this might be the suburbs of Beijing.
Entering the "suburbs", there were a lot fewer big-character posters and propaganda slogans on the wall, which showed that they were far away from those Red Guards, and the two of them became more and more at ease.
After walking a short distance along the road, there was a smell of fragrance, and I saw a small stall on the side of the road not far in front of me, and when I got closer, there was a small sign next to the stall, and the sign said "fire" for two cents a piece, and my father bought ten for two cents, and the seller of fire burned ten of them wrapped them in two packs of coarse straw paper that wrapped snacks and handed them to my father.
My father and Wang Sihe gobbled up the fire and asked for the next way. The man who sold the fire was about 40 years old, and he was a very nice person, and he told my father the location of the train station in great detail. Only then did my father know that the place where they were located was called Sanlihe, and the railway station was in the southwest direction of them, and they had to walk about seven or eight miles.
After eating enough to burn the fire, he asked for a bowl of water with the seller of the fire, and after the two of them drank it separately, they went on the road.
After walking for three or four miles, I found that the buildings on both sides of the road looked a little familiar. At this time, there were people on the road who came over to pass them one after another, and these people were not very old, many of them wore red armbands, and it seemed that they had just come from the train to go in the direction of **. My father and Wang Sihe felt a little more relaxed, and finally found the previous way back.
I continued to walk against the flow of people, and after walking for about five or six miles, the train station appeared in front of me.
The two of them were so excited that they could finally leave this hellish place. No one in the ticket hall sells tickets, through the ticket hall is the platform, two people came to the platform and were dumbfounded, Wang Sihe asked my father, "Brother, there are so many trains, which one is going home?" ”
My father thought for a moment and said, "Those who go south are going home, and as long as we see a car going south, we will get on it." ”
As soon as my father's voice fell, Wang Sihe pulled my father, my father looked at it, Wang Sihe's face became ugly at this time, Wang Sihe motioned to my father to look at the left side of the platform, my father turned his head to look, and his face suddenly changed color.
I saw that the girl in the woods yesterday was walking around the platform, and her eyes glanced at the people coming and going around her. Not only this girl, but also the first woman and the second woman who beat my grandmother around her, and the third male is also there, and the third male is also accompanied by three or four people, and one of the three or four people is still from our village.
What are they doing on the platform? You don't have to think about it to know.
Seeing that the group of people was about to turn around to him and Wang Sihe, my father hurriedly pulled Wang Sihe, and the two of them lowered their heads, turned around and got off the platform, walked through the ticket hall, and returned to the road in front of the train station.
Squatting on the side of the road, Wang Sihe asked my father, "Brother, what should we do now?" ”
My father thought for a moment and said, "It looks like you can't take the train, or ...... Let's go back. ”
Wang Sihe's face became bitter when he heard this. My father said, "If you walk along the train track, you will definitely be able to walk home, and if you can meet a slow train on the way, we will pick it up." Wang Sihe nodded.
The two men walked some distance along the road towards the south, bypassed the railway station, and walked along the southbound railway.
However, to my surprise, there were not only two of them walking along the train track, there were also many people on both sides of the train track, each carrying a large bag, looking like a dusty man, but none of them were on the same road as my father, all of them came from the opposite side. Some of them asked my father about it, is it almost **? My father and I said, yes, it's almost there. And asked, **Is it in**? My father nodded and said, yes, **waiting**. When those people heard this, they were all excited.
After walking along the railway for about two or three hours, they saw another train station, which my father remembers very well, Yongdingmen. They could have taken the train home from Yongdingmen, but they didn't do so and continued along the railroad because they had planned to see a slow train coming up halfway.
Young people are sometimes like this, persistent and ridiculous, obviously there is a straight road, but they have to take a detour.
However, they walked down this way, and it was shocking!