Associate Professor, Wuxi University: Ax Frame (17)
The arrangement was settled, and the "dog" lay on the bed and fell asleep. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the Red Guards who "discovered their conscience" seem to be more elaborate than "dogs" in life, and they asked for hot water, washed up in the public bathroom, and then returned to their rooms to prepare for rest. The Red Guards in the other two rooms, after removing the white signs on the backs of the stinky old nine, did not loosen their ties, smoked and chatted for a while, and then fell asleep one after another. It's hard to think about tomorrow's death penalty for those five stinky old nines, and they can't sleep anyway......
If this matter continues in a normal way, there may be two results: First, the Red Guards who "discovered their conscience" will deliberately play a flaw in the middle of the night to make these stinky old nine people flee quickly. 2. Although the Red Guards who "discovered their conscience" had the intention to let go of these stinky old nines, they had lost the confidence to continue to live and were waiting for the death penalty to come tomorrow. In any case, this was a very normal thing in those days. But things have developed here, and there has been an unprecedented reversal......
Ma Tingbu and Feng Zhen were tied up in a room, Ma Tingbu hung his head and said: "Teacher Feng, we have been teaching and educating people for half a lifetime, I can't imagine that it will end like this......" Feng Zhen also drooped his head, and said listlessly: "Accept your fate, accept your fate......"
"Teacher Feng, I have heard that people who are criticized and die will die a miserable death, and they will have no dignity at all, kneeling, humiliated, and being scolded...... Can you stand any of this? Ma Tingbu said:
"If that's the case, it's better to die now!" Feng Zhen said without a match:
It was Feng Zhen's words that made Ma Tingbu have a new idea, "Yes, sooner or later, you will die, why not die happily now?" "The courage of the dying is very great, people are dying, what is there to worry about? Ma Tingbu began to talk to Feng Zhen passively about how to die, "Teacher Feng...... What do you think is an easier way to die? Ma Tingbu asked:
Feng Zhen hesitated for a moment and said, "I think it should be that I took sleeping pills, and it was easiest to die in the past." ”
"Sleeping pills...... It's a bit unrealistic...... What else? While thinking about a reliable way to die, Ma Tingbu looked around the dim surroundings, wondering what props could help his suicide reduce the pain.
Feng Zhen shook his head and said, "It's nothing...... If you have to have a happy one, you can only hang yourself, as soon as you hang up, kick your legs, and you will be gone. When Feng Zhen said this, Ma Tingbu's eyes swept to the armed belt that the Red Guards took off their pants. Can this armed belt provide the greatest convenience for one's hanging?
Ma Tingbu tapped his elbow twice, and said to him, "How?" Dare to hang yourself together? Feng Zhen looked in the direction of Ma Tingbunu's mouth, saw that it was a pair of pants, and then understood what Ma Tingbu meant, and he sighed lightly and said, "It's all up to this, this ...... What's not to dare to do here? Ma Tingbu saw that Feng Zhen agreed, so he nodded and asked, "I don't know what Teacher Zhao, Teacher Gao, and Teacher Wu next door say?" Feng Zhen smiled bitterly and said: "It's not simple, can't you get in touch with the Morse code through the wall?" When Ma Tingbu heard this, he felt that this was a good note, but he didn't dare to knock it now, for fear of waking up the Red Guards who had just fallen asleep, so he made up his mind and said, "After a while, I will come to contact the next door." (Editor's note: In the early days of liberation, due to the need to be ready for war at all times, the average faculty and staff knew the Morse code.) What I never expected was that the skills used to defend the family and the country would be used here as a communication tool for suicide. )
Feng Zhen and Ma Tingbu waited quietly for half an hour, the four Red Guards in the room were already snoring, and the two slowly moved towards the wall, and Ma Tingbu knocked on the Morse code on the wall with his knuckles......
At first, the other party did not move, but after Ma Tingbu knocked a few times in succession, there was finally a response from there. The general conversation is as follows:
"Tomorrow the death penalty will be humiliated, and now we will commit suicide together."
"Yes, how?"
"Armed bands of the Red Guards, hanging!"
"Where to hang yourself?"
"On the lintel of the entrance door!"
After the two sides communicated, they went their separate ways. You must not think that the Red Guards really have the characteristics of "soldiers," have high vigilance, and have strong combat capability. They are just a bunch of students who don't learn and don't know how to learn, and in today's words, they are pure ruffians. Now, the five stinky old nine have been communicating for a long time, and none of the seven Red Guards have noticed. The next step is to steal the Red Guards' belts, which should be even bigger, right? But the Red Guards still slept like dead pigs, unresponsive.
Some readers may ask: In this case, isn't it easy for the five stinky old nine to escape? So what else is it to commit suicide? This question is not wrong in any era, but it does not apply to the ********** period. Where can you go where the household registration management system is? One more point: it involves the family. If you confess your guilt in a "justifiable manner", the family can still live and work normally, and if you abscond in fear of sin, you will have ...... Your family doesn't want to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives. In that era when political identity was far more important than innocence, no one dared to abscond "in the face of the world's condemnation". (Author's note: I once remembered that there was a movie "Going Home" starring Chen Daoming that was written about absconding during the **** period.) )
These five stinky old nine seem to have gone very smoothly on the road to suicide, and easily got the armed belt to be used for hanging, but when they opened the door, they encountered some trouble: the door of the room in the guest house is basically in disrepair, and the door is open and closed, which will attract the sound of "crunching". If the door can't be opened, don't think about hanging yourself on the lintel, and all the suicide plans will be in vain.
Just when the five stinky old nine didn't know what to do, the person who "promoted good things" appeared, and he was the Red Guard who "found his conscience". He lay in the room of the "dog", thinking about how to give these five stinky old nine a chance to be released. Seeing that the night has arrived, everyone is almost asleep, go and open the door by yourself, won't the five stinky old nine take the opportunity to escape?