Chapter 20: The movement criticizes the turmoil

Dapeng continued to narrate to Yaqin: "The Corps is not a summer resort, and the movement has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. At first, Gu Zhixiang's son "Little Negro", he was only 11 years old, studying in the company's primary school, because he made a mistake when shouting slogans, "Down with **! Defend **!", it was because he shouted backwards and caused a big disaster. The school set up a stage to hold a criticism meeting, tied up a little black child on the stage and bowed his head to confess his guilt, shouted slogans off the stage, criticized on the stage, and the daily criticism and fight will be in full swing.

Teacher Jiang of the school was also tied up and escorted to power, he was not criticized because of his surname Jiang, his father-in-law was a fugitive landlord who came to his house, and the movement made Teacher Jiang "Jiang Fatzi" the object of dictatorship, and he was a class enemy who had infiltrated the ranks of teachers. One of the teachers on the stage of the criticism meeting is a fat man in his thirties, and the other is a thin eleven-year-old student Xiao Heizi, who bowed their heads and pleaded guilty to **, and the school was completely shrouded in the slogans of the criticism meeting.

Under the auspices of Instructor Yang, the workers scrambled to speak, and gradually the group of tongues and swords on the upper line, and then some people stepped forward to kick and beat, more than 150 workers raised their hands in fear, and the instructors and company commanders spoke by name, and the criticism and fighting were carried out until midnight every day, and people's life and work were in extreme tension.

He was in his 50s and a Cantonese man, and he was seen by the instructor because he asked me to write a roster, and since then I have been assigned to be the recorder of the criticism conference. began to criticize the big landlord Tang Yuzhen again, and then found out Zhang Xilin, because he had talked to Tang Yuzhen's girl, and people said that there was collusion between them, plus Gu Zhixiang and the three were not only criticized. Some people went over and told them to bow their heads, hunch their waists, and make dirt planes, their two arms were already shaking behind their backs, and some people kicked and made them slash their hips. Some hung an iron pimple under the brand, and the brand rope was deeply braked in the neck meat, and the sweat flooded the eyes, and even the sweat on the ground was wet.

I get up at night to go to the toilet, of course, I don't have to be afraid of Tang Phoenix anymore. Her father reflected in the east room of the workers' dormitory, Zhang Xilin slept between me and the team leader in the west room, and the instructor deliberately arranged special monitoring for him, and he was not allowed to talk nonsense and report anything to him. As soon as I walked out of the workers' dormitory, there was a howl from the dormitory of the young women's team, which was Tang Fenghuang's struggle in being criticized and beaten.

Patches of leek-like wheat seedlings are now ripe for harvesting, and the wheat grains are tied up twenty meters apart, and they are stacked into hated cross-stacks to prevent the ears of wheat from being watered by the rain. I've never done it before, so I had to secretly learn to work according to the busy appearance of Hua Ziyang recently. The winddryer keeps turning in circles to put down the wheat trip, and the machine operators are too busy to keep up, but I am determined to surpass Hua Ziyang desperately, otherwise those old workers look down on cultural people, and they will also catch your pigtails in the exercise.

Hua Ziyang is a well-known dealer, that is, he is a scholar who bundles wheat waists, he is already in his fifties, and he is farming in the countryside for a living, of course, faster than me, but his legs and feet are not as sharp as mine, and he can't stand me to give him a hundred miles to race and run. The scorching sun on my head, the sweat covering my eyes from time to time and my eyes closed, and the troubles of small bites, mosquitoes, and large blind midges prompted me to speed up my run. When the water deliverer came, I drank it desperately. The instructor came to that station and was stunned, he didn't believe it, for a thin and withered me, I had done two and a half laps more than Hua Ziyang.

From Shanghai, Beijing, the country's major cities came more than 4,000 rural educated youth, assigned to the ninth company of more than 200 people, the company to them divided into two dormitories for men and women, because they come from the south of Qiqihar urban area, especially the school in Fularji, not only close to the brick factory, is less than 30 miles away from the 3962 aviation school division, we can say that the relationship between fellow villagers and classmates, the current 8633 production corps, is also within the jurisdiction of the 39th division. Although my identity is different from that of these fellow classmates, we both grew up with the milk of our hometown, so don't we have a little love for our classmates and hometown?

I was sewing and mending my pants in front of the bed, Instructor Yang carried a flashlight into the dormitory, his original nickname was "Old Cloudy", with anger on his face to see me walking inside, came back to the door and shook me with a flashlight, I was shocked when I hit the flashlight in broad daylight, it was broken, and something was going to happen. The bell rang, and some workers rushed to the dormitory. During the movement, people did not dare to say a word, and waited nervously.

Instructor Li led the cadres to enter the venue one after another, and as soon as they sat down, they shouted "Bring in!" and two educated youth Red Guards escorted Zhang Xilin into the venue. Not to mention the embarrassment of being beaten all over his body, the Red Guards deliberately dragged him by the hair and raised his face, his eyes were high and his throat was swollen, and the blood flowing from his teeth, nose, and eyes covered his whole face, it was daytime, and if he saw his grimace at night, it would really frighten people to death.

Instructor Yang introduced: "Zhang Xilin seduced Tang Fenghuang during the period of introspection, and was caught by the Red Guards by breaking his shoes in the yard warehouse, which is not only a problem of workers' discipline and style, but also a serious problem of class struggle. What is even more serious is that among the workers, I have arranged for some people to supervise Zhang Xilin, and if they find problems, they can report them in a timely manner, and if they do a good job, they should be commended at the meeting, but I also arranged for another person, and he did not know what happened until Zhang Xilin was brought into the meeting hall after the accident? Take Zhang Xilin down and let the instructor speak. ”

The instructor secretly arranged for me to supervise Zhang Xilin, and I was implicated in his mistakes, and the fate of accepting criticism befell me, and I faced the most dangerous test in my life. As long as I stand in front, as long as I stand with Zhang Xilin, as long as I am criticized side by side with Tang Yuzhen and Gu Zhixiang, then my life is over. Those workers who took advantage of the loopholes in the movement, they wanted to link me and Zhang Xilin together, as the instructor said, they were in the same stream, and they wanted to link Tang Yuzhen together, saying that we were a reactionary group, and they would also link Tang Fenghuang's teasing together, saying that I was in the same vein as Zhang Xilin, and the letter to Zhao Aihua was linked together, Gu Zhixiang was not only implicated, but also Zhao Aihua's family was also suffering, and people wanted to send me to the eighteenth layer of hell, which would make me never be able to turn over.

Yaqin, in that particular era, regardless of your position, was completely terrifying in a period that touched the soul. The old head of the regiment who had resisted US aggression and aided Korea unraveled his big hand, and the chairman's quotations in his pocket accidentally fell into the toilet, and he himself didn't know it at all.

However, the quotations were snatched up by the health workers, and they were thrown away for fear of responsibility, so they had to hand them in, and after cleaning, they found that the regiment commander was criticized and beaten, and it was just because he was beaten, and he wanted the Red Guards to torture him to death, especially the old revolution turned into a counter-revolutionary, and the mental pain made him completely collapse, and finally he went to a dead end - hanged himself.

The instructor said: "There will be no criticism meeting today, everyone should be clear that criticism is not the ultimate goal, but through criticism is to educate people and make us grow more in education." Now I declare the work, and within two days I will make every effort to cut off the forty grains of grain in the twelfth land. ”

The instructor hurriedly said: "If there are family members, they must lock the door, and the whole company must be mobilized, no matter what time of day it is at night, it must be completed within one day." Meeting. ”

The next day, the 2,400-meter-long grain field, the servants cut five roots in a group and dried them until the second half of the night. Because the team leader Zuo Zhizhi and Zhang Xilin and I were in a group, on the way back, the group leader Zuo Zhizhi said to me: "Yesterday, Tang Fenghuang brought food to his father, and met Zhang Xilin in the corridor to hand me a note, Zhang Xilin showed me the note and asked me what to do? The note reads: Wear more clothes in the cold, I am going to give you a cloth ticket, let's see you in the courtyard." I said that you not only have to go, but also kneel down for her mother, so I said that Tang Yu was really fighting, you didn't ask questions, and your thing will be done. As soon as Zhang Xilin left, I went to the instructor to report. ”

I asked him, "Why do you have to report when you let him go on a date?"

Zuo Zhizhi said: "This is obedience and exploitation of the enemy, so that we can know what activities the enemy is engaged in. ”

What kind of logic is this, it is purely a product of movement, and I am so angry that I am furious. In the evening, I wrote neatly in the midst of depression, perhaps because of the movement "willing to be widowed and dare to pull the emperor off the horse." It was a challenging accusation, an indictment with the theme of the Zhang Xilin incident, in which three questions were directly raised to the top leadership? That night, it was handed over to the two Red Guards of the Revolutionary Committee and asked them to forward the letter to Instructor Li.

As soon as the assembly bell rang in the morning and all the workers came, Instructor Li, accompanied by all the company commanders and cadres, called out my name: "Zhang Dapeng, what do you mean by the materials you wrote?"

Some workers shouted: "Zhang Dapeng stand up!"

Someone else is shouting, "Hurry up!"

I was faced with an embattled situation from which there was no way out, and what would happen to me if I was accused of being a prisoner of the working workers, army cadres, Red Guards, and rebels on the cusp of the movement?

Yaqin, marriage is a major event in life, I can't live up to your feelings, not only am I 9 years older than you? In the class struggle, I am a working worker, a second labor reform, and I also wear a four-class hat, you have to think clearly that this is a political struggle. I thank you but don't want to drag you down, and wanting to be with me will inevitably affect your life. It's too late to be here, and you'll come back tomorrow when you think about it. ”

Yaqin agreed, she was so helpless and reluctant, because she knew the cruelty of the movement, and she also knew the experience of those people introduced by Dapeng to fight, because she also grew up in the Ninth Company, although three years have passed since the 1968 cultural offensive and martial arts fight, it seems that those past events happened yesterday.

She was so helpless, strolling silently towards her small courtyard. Suddenly, she couldn't help but turn around, and couldn't wait to run over and hug Dapeng tightly, as if she was afraid that people would suddenly disappear and run away. They are like glue and only hugs, and their emotions are full of excitement and blood boiling, silent and speechless, only tears are constantly gushing out, flowing, and flowing .......

During the day, the great world has no place for them, only after nightfall they are fused together like a ghost. Dapeng remorse, self-blame, helpless in the face of this precious feelings, although he has not seen the true face in the sun, but in his heart he deeply feels that she is the most beautiful and kind girl in the world, even if she is a disabled person with missing arms and legs, as long as he can be with her every day, it will be the greatest happiness that God has given him in life.

The reality of marriage is extravagant, in order to cherish Yaqin's love, Dapeng gradually calmed down, he once again advised to win the opinion of the old man, only to win the support of his parents is the real happy marriage of the two, Yaqin seems to understand and promised to fight for the consent of his parents, and they spent the sixth unforgettable night.

Please see Chapter 21: Criticizing Cadres to Promote Marriage.