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Lotus Mountain is the ancestral garden of a certain school of Zen Buddhism. Since the two Jin Dynasty, the successive dynasties have been added and repaired, nine caves and eighteen temples in front of the mountain and behind the mountain, three thousand statues, plus the cliff stone carvings, the mural caisson wells, very solemn and gorgeous. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a Japanese monk came to the ancestors and accepted a copy of the Tripitaka, which is a famous classic at home and abroad. A "*****", the Bodhisattva Nirvana, the scriptures cremated. Only three monks' dormitories and one side hall are left in the Banshan Temple. After the tourism industry struck, some people opened a tea station in Banshan Temple, and rented beds for tourists to stay overnight. This man's name is Yinkong, and he was originally a monk. "*****" went down the mountain to be a member for a few years, and now he returns to the temple to sell tea. Most of the income was handed over to the brigade, and rations were received from the brigade after the autumn. From this point of view, it still looks like a member. He also wrote several tablets on the wall of the side hall on red paper: "Amitabha Buddha", "Amitayus Buddha", "Guanyin Bodhisattva", and "Great Trend Bodhisattva". There is an incense burner and a merit box under the tablet. Some people come to burn incense, and some people throw money into the box. (Nowadays, you can't buy Tibetan incense and canaan incense, and you can replace it with rose sanitary incense or even mosquito incense.) Money is a good currency issued by the People's Bank of China. This money is not handed over to the brigade, but is all used by Indo-Kong. From this point of view, he is like a monk. In short, it is a monk or a layman, a bit nonsense. This monk is a little demented, but he doesn't hate it, and the brigade doesn't care about him.

In the midsummer of 1980, on an auspicious day, a Beijing jeep drove from the bottom of the mountain. Two men and two women got out of the car and had to stay in the temple. Yinkong nodded first, then folded his hands and ushered the guests into the monk's dormitory. These four people are: Wu Dacheng, the former propaganda minister of the city of "*****" and now a consultant in the provincial capital; Shao Liangyin, who was an officer under Minister Wu before "*****", is now the director of the city's cultural relics; Wu Dacheng's daughter, Wu Bailing, a journalism student at a university; There is also a female driver of a taxi company whose surname is unknown.

Yinkong Tong Yan has crane hair, six roots are pure, but he is not dull to the illusion of color and emptiness in the red dust. Looking at the young men and women's eyebrows, he concluded that Shao Liangyin was in love with Wu Bailing. It's not about the monks; He offered tea and brought them into their own rooms. Two men lived in the north room, and two parishioners lived in the south room, and he himself returned to the abbot. Although this is a Zen dojo, Yinkong is not Zen, he is not a sect, he can only grow vegetables, collect firewood, sweep the floor, incense, add lamps, and hit chimes. He had incense in the middle of the night, so he went to bed early – he didn't sit in meditation.

student

Of the four people, the host and guest are students.

Wu Bailing has to write a report on his summer homework. Her topic is "The Destruction of Lotus Mountain". On weekdays, I always heard my father sigh for the destruction of Lotus Mountain, and I had the desire to make this sad event public. The event is simple. A world-famous Buddhist cultural resort, after the "***" bewitched by the Red Guards, it has become a barren mountain and a wild mountain! The theme idea is clear, the context of the event is clear, as long as you add some details and increase your perceptual understanding, the article can be written well. In addition, when Shao Liangyin was studying at the provincial party school, he often went to her house to visit his old superiors, Wu Dacheng and his wife had a good impression of this young man, and Bailing himself also looked at Shao Liangyin as smart, handsome, decent and honest. Despite being more than a decade older than her, she was determined to develop a relationship with him. Whether it is for career or love, you need to come to Lotus Mountain.

As soon as Shao Liangyin heard that she was coming, of course she went all out, not only took two days off to guide herself, but also rented a taxi at her own expense. This also shows his decency; Because Wu Dacheng also came, a director of cultural relics wanted to accompany his old superiors to visit and visit, which could have been regarded as official business and used public cars.

In this world, I am afraid that I will never find a more suitable tour guide than Shao Liangyin. ** Before that, he worked as an officer in the Propaganda Department and managed Lianhua Mountain; When the Red Guards came to break the four olds, he and Wu Dacheng stood up to block them and grasp the first-hand materials; In particular, he sincerely wanted to make Wu Bailing satisfied, and he really didn't bother to ask a hundred questions. Therefore, despite the ruins in front of him, he was able to use language art to replicate the prosperous scene of the past; Although the breaking of the four olds has become a sad historical story, he can recreate the eventful years of the year. Wu Bailing heard it sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, as if he had personally experienced the ninth-level storm that year. The day was quite satisfying.

Are there any shortcomings? There are also.

First, when Wu Dacheng heard that his daughter was coming, he aroused his nostalgia, so he also came, which made the two young people feel restrained; The second is the female driver of the taxi, which is not disliked. A woman acts like a man in every move, even with a voice! Talk to her, ignore her; When Shao Liangyin was enthusiastically introducing the destruction process, even Wu Dacheng, who had experienced it herself, could hear it, but she stood far away, looking left and right, with a sneer on the corner of her mouth, and an impatient look; The appearance does not give people a good impression, the sleeves are curled above the elbows, the chest is held high, and the head is held high, which is completely the style of the Red Guards!

driver

Staying in a room at night, the conflict between the two women intensified.

Wu Bailing watched the scene, listened to the introduction, and was so excited that he couldn't sleep, so he sighed while snorting the draft, turned over on the bed, and turned around.

The driver sat up from the bed.

"If you don't sleep, I can't sleep until you toss. You can sit in my car tomorrow and doze off. What should I do? As soon as I dozed off, you all had to fall into the ravine to feed the wolves! ”

"Seeing that Lotus Mountain has been destroyed so badly, can you sleep? Isn't it distressing? ”

"That's because you see too little. Go a few more places and look around, and you won't be like that. Fuss! ”

"You're so calm, I can see it a long time ago, people introduce the situation, and you don't even like to listen to it. You really look like the Red Guards of the past! ”

"What is an elephant, I am! Lotus Mountain has my No. 1 in the old four, and I know better than your Director Shao, I don't like to listen to him! ”

"No wonder! Isn't the position different? ”

"That's right! He put all the shit basins on us Red Guards, and I objected to it in my heart! ”

"When I was a child, I saw the Red Guards, and I didn't need others to detain the basin, and it didn't smell anywhere!"

"I can ignore others when they say this, but you shouldn't. Didn't you study journalism? Do you want to be a journalist in the future? Before you can be a reporter, you must learn to be subjective and arbitrary, listen and believe, which is a bit mysterious! I advise you to listen to both the wise and the others. ”

"Then I'll hear what you have to say!"

This leads to the driver's next words:

Yes, I heard that our Red Guards arrived at the bottom of the mountain, and your father and Shao Liangyin did come by car. Your dad stood at the gate of the mountain, holding the door frame with both hands and shouting, "Stop!" This is the wealth of the motherland, and no one is allowed to destroy it. Unless you kill me first, and step on my corpse! "We all admire that heroism. But if you think about it, if more than 100 of us want to rush hard, can he stop it alone? We all shouted the slogan "Willing to cut your body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse", can his words scare us? We waited at the bottom of the mountain for ten hours and didn't enter the temple, and it wasn't like Shao Liangyin said, we were stopped there by Minister Wu and couldn't rush up. We have another reason. In fact, at this time, a military vehicle drove from the bottom of the mountain, and the car was full of pork and vegetables. The soldiers escorting the car asked us to give way, saying that there were military facilities in the mountain and that they wanted to send them in; This raises a layer of concern. The Great Wall cannot be violated, national defense facilities must not be damaged, and national defense must not be inadvertently undermined. In this way, we suggested that Shao Liangyin be asked to go to the municipal party committee to ask for instructions. We think that if the army has any opinions, it will first inform the city party committee. Shao Liangyin went for four or five hours and didn't come back, and our Red Guards were in a hurry and wanted to rush forward. We persuaded everyone again, and sent three deputies to go to the city party committee with your father to ask for instructions. When I arrived at the municipal party committee building, your father asked the delegates to wait in the reception room, and he went to find the secretary first, but he didn't come out for two hours after entering. We felt cheated, so we went into the building to find the secretary, but the door guard said that the secretary was not there and did not let us in! We asked your father to come out, but the gate guard said that he didn't see Minister Wu come back, and there was nowhere to look for it. At this time, the Red Guards from Beijing, numbering fifty or sixty, were coming to the door. The deputies complained to them about the unreasonable behavior of the leaders of the municipal party committee against us, and they said: "You are asking for it!" How can a revolution be approved? We, the general manager of Beijing, have already kicked out the party committee to make a revolution, aren't we going to break the four old fortresses of Lotus Mountain? Let's go, we'll lead you to do it, and we'll take it with you if something happens! In this way, the three deputies rushed back to Lotus Mountain with dozens of Beijing Red Guards. At the foot of the mountain, the deputies recounted the experience of entering the city, everyone was so angry that they gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and the Beijing Red Guards made another mobilization, and the fire in everyone's hearts was full of energy, and they rushed to the Lotus Mountain at 11 o'clock in the middle of the night.

We started from this point and smashed until the afternoon of the next day. Someone sent a letter saying that Mao ** was going to inspect the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square recently, and as soon as everyone heard it, they decided to go to Beijing to see Mao ** immediately, and they threw the Bodhisattvas away.

More than 200 people, spent sixteen hours in the mountains. Did you do any sabotage? Of course I did; Is there a lot of effort to invest? Not small, of course; But don't forget that these 200 people didn't bring any weapons except for a fanatical excesse. It's just a few sticks and a few rocks from the mountain! There are nine caves and eighteen temples on this mountain, and there are more than 2,000 large and small Bodhisattvas in total! They are all made of iron, cast of brass, carved of stone, and made of clay! Seven or eight feet high, more than a dozen tons in weight! I heard that the Tripitaka sent by the Japanese was more than 2,000 volumes, more than 7,000 copies, and it filled several rooms. Besides, those of us who had not eaten for a day when we entered the mountain, stayed up all night and half a day, and we were all listless. If not, we will not accept flatbreads, fritters, and meat buns sent by the municipal party committee by car! So while we were eating, we warned that we could eat the food sent by the municipal party committee, but we would never ask them to buy it! Think about it, the cultural and material wealth accumulated in this Lotus Mountain for thousands of years, but we can destroy it in sixteen hours? To tell you the truth, we sabotage, but with little effect. It's just that he knocked down a few little bodhisattvas, gouged out the eyes of the four great King Kongs, and painted the Buddha into a flying face. In the way we came down, it would have been much easier to fix it than to destroy it to this extent! Ten percent of today's destruction! We didn't even reach 20% that night! But in the past ten years, when Lotus Mountain is mentioned, the Red Guards have been counted! You should know how much we have been punished for our mistakes! Dropped out of school, unemployed, depressed, and wandering, making myself look down on myself. Heaven and earth conscience, we do these things because we are naïve, ignorant, credulous, superstitious! What about the others? They know everything, but they do it with a clear conscience! In exchange for the cheapness they take away themselves! The power, the position, is still in possession until now, and it will be in force in the future. They actually have the cheekiness to scold the Red Guards! Is this fair? You're studying journalism, and you're going to be a journalist. Then you should do some serious research. Whether you dare to write or not, another matter; Ask if you dare to see it first! Don't you dare to face up to reality!

monk

The driver ran out of gas in his stomach and turned around and snored. Wu Bailing couldn't sleep anymore, it seems that there are some obstacles in the article and love. She was afraid that waking up the driver would annoy her even more, so she quietly sat up, found her shoes with her feet, and slipped out the door.

Outside the house, there is a moonlight, cool as water, the iron horse cornices, antique and melancholy, it is very strange to make life launch a transcendent and sad mood. After standing for a while, I heard movement on the side hall, and looked closely, a few sparks flashed and brightened, and someone seemed to be burning incense. She paced over to see what was going on. Before I entered the door, I heard a vague, gurgling prayer, which turned out to be the Yinkong monk offering night incense.

After the monk finished kowtowing, he got up and saw a woman outside the door, and remembered that when he came, he met Director Shao who was also wandering under the moon. Probably the two made an appointment to fall in love. The monks are compassionate, and quickly bow their heads and go back, leaving convenience for others.

But Wu Bailing stopped him. Because he was wearing a cadre uniform, and his head was not shaved like a new water scoop, and he didn't make Bai Inspiration look different, she blurted out: "Uncle! ”

"Don't dare."

"You still burn incense at night!"

"I'm used to it."

"I haven't changed after ten years of being a member?"

"Changed. As soon as I returned to the temple, my habits changed! ”

"Do you really believe in bodhisattvas?"

"I can't say, but it doesn't seem to be."

"Then why are you praying?"

"I have something in my stomach, don't talk about it, I'm depressed and panicked."

"What?"

"I babble about my sins!"

Wu Bailing didn't know what the monk's sins would be, he wanted to hear it, but he was afraid that the monk would not want to say it, so he took words to guide him. In fact, she thinks she is smart, Yinkong is not afraid to speak, afraid that no one will listen. He talked to the branch secretary of the brigade several times, but before he finished speaking, he asked the branch secretary to blow out, and he told Amitabha Buddha instead.

After he said more than a dozen words, Wu Bailing regretted it. But she didn't want to interrupt him, because she asked someone to say it. She just thought, the clue is so messy, she has to listen to it and figure it out for him to understand, but it's really choking! A monk who has never studied logic, should have recited the Lotus Sutra? Buddhist scriptures also have a beginning and end order, don't they?

Of course, there is a head and tail in the hollow heart. He was afraid that people would be impatient to listen to what he said with a beginning and an end, so he looked for the "most important" joint to talk about, which was inexplicable.

The most important thing is to beat the Bodhisattva. The three caves in the back mountain, Manjushri, Fuxian, Putidharma, and the Eighteen Arhats, all overturned to the ground in one afternoon, stepped on one foot, and smashed into three or five pieces. I shouldn't have knocked down one myself!

Who called the push? "Revolutionary Monk Rebellion Regiment". The head of the regiment was his nephew Chenghai, and after liberation, he was a cadre in the Lianhuashan Buddhist Association. When you are a cadre, you are still a monk. He led sixteen revolutionary monks, holding a big rope and a crowbar to find Yinkong. Chenghai pulled Yinkong outside the entrance of the cave and said sadly:

"Uncle Shi, there is revolution everywhere. The Muslim Red Guards smashed the mosque and dragged the imam through the streets! Qianshan smashed all the bronze statues of the three Buddhas into big copper, and the four King Kong eyeballs were gouged out to hit the slingshot, and the next step was afraid that it would be the turn of the monk. ”

"Amitabha, it's hard to escape the catastrophe!"

"Let's rebel too. The rebels have to take care of the rebels, right? ”

"Didn't the director of the garden bureau say that we have done revolutionary work by protecting the mountains and monasteries? Why rebel? ”

"That's an old saying, not anymore! Now the revolution is about rebellion! ”

"How can this be made?"

"Knock the Bodhisattva to the ground, and step on one more foot!"

"Why don't you smash your own temple in Qianshan, instead of smashing my holes?"

"The cadres of the municipal party committee took stonemasons, blacksmiths, carpenters, and bricklayers to occupy all the six caves and eighteen temples in Qianshan. I saw the bronze Buddha beaten with an iron hammer, the iron Buddha was welded with steam, the bricklayer dismantled the clay sculpture, the stonemason shoveled the stone, and the Tripitaka was torn and sent to the paper mill to make hand paper. There is no place for us to rebel anymore. My Buddha is merciful and didn't let them discover the three caves in the back mountain, leaving us a chance; If we don't rush to rebel again, as soon as they come, we won't have our share. ”

As he was talking, there was a boom, and smoke and dust rose from the entrance of the Fuxian cave. It turned out that the sixteen mages there had already made a move. Fugen, along with his lion, had fallen to pieces.

During the discussion just now, although Yinkong was furious in his heart, he didn't believe that this was what was in front of him. Seeing the fall of the next, he really felt that something was imminent. So his mouth was wooden, his legs were weak, and he wanted to squat on the ground. There was another boom, and Manjushri and his white statue fell. Chenghai looked at his uncle, grabbed him and said, "Anyway, if you want to be defeated, you quickly stretch out your hand and go back to the registration form of the rebel joint command, I will report your name, and you will be regarded as a rebel." This sentence reminded Yinkong, and he opened his hands and shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight, leave the Bodhidharma Patriarch, you can't leave a single statue in this cave!" One of the monks laughed, and in the midst of the laughter they put a rope buckle around Damour's neck. An evil energy came from nowhere, perhaps it was divine power, Yinkong jumped up and grabbed the rope, and shouted in a cracked voice: "Don't pull! I have been worshipping in this cave for thirty years, and it is not your turn to defeat it, I will push it myself. Usually I worship carefully, if you want to push, you should ask me to push it myself, why do you start? In a fit of rage, he climbed up to the seat of Sumeru and turned to Putidharma. Putidharma has been facing the wall for ten years, and he is used to turning his back on life in the future. The statue here also retains its customary posture, so Yinkong has been worshipping for decades, and he has not even seen his holy face. When I turned to the back wall today, I found that this patriarch was as poor and sad as himself, yellow and thin, with a bitter face. As soon as Yinkong approached him, he heard him speak hoarsely: "Yinkong, do you really want to attack me?" For 30 years, we have been with each other day and night, and no one is worthy of anyone. Thou hast incense and dusted me; Because of this, the temple let you fast, and the donor allowed you to turn into a relationship. Today someone else puts a rope around my neck, and that's a different story; Why can't you bear to do it to me? Inkhole, Inkhole......"

The faster Yin Kong's heart beats, the tighter his legs tremble. As soon as their eyes were black, they threw themselves forward, and with a plop, they both fell to the dust.

The monk on the ground first looked at Yinkong's eyes and refused to move, thinking that he didn't dare to do anything and wanted to call him down. shouted, and suddenly saw him and Dharma fall down together, and hurriedly went up to rescue, already unconscious. They carried him into the hermitage, and then came back to pick up the severed limbs of several bodhisattvas and push them down the mountain. After I finished it, I always felt a little uneasy. Chenghai proposed, looked at the sky and burned three incense sticks, and recited a great compassion mantra. The Great Compassion Mantra was originally used to comfort people's souls of the dead, and now it is used to send the Buddha to the end, although it is not very correct, it also proves that there can be accommodation between people, ghosts and gods, and the upper and lower three realms are not always so clearly defined.

Yinkong woke up in the middle of the night, and the revolutionary monks had already made meritorious deeds, and they all went away happily. There was a void in the caves. Yinkong looked at the hole and looked at the hole, and it felt like being alone and suddenly being hit by a rocket to the moon. These Buddha statues seem to others to be mud puppets, but in the eyes of Yin Kong's heart, they are flesh and blood, soul, personality, and feelings. For the first time in thirty years, he felt lonely. For there is no one waiting for him to clean, to worship, and to pray, and no one to listen patiently to his grievances, to his guilt, and to pray. The most embarrassing thing is that from this day on, Bodhidharma's bitter face shook in front of his eyes whenever he had time, and he asked him repeatedly: "Do you really want to attack me?" The tone is not a question, but a lamentation. He sat at the entrance of the cave and cried for half the night, (some people heard that the ghost cry is this tune!) While howling, he counted that he should not deceive his teacher and destroy his ancestors, and he had evil thoughts in his heart, and repaid virtue with resentment. After the counting, my heart is a little happier. In the future, he will not howl, but he will fall into the root of his illness.

However, Indo-Air still benefited from participating in the rebellion. Chenghai reported to the joint headquarters of one of the two major factions in the city, and the "Revolutionary Monk Rebellion Regiment" was recognized by this faction as a revolutionary mass organization. Later, because this faction stood in the right line, it took power with the support of the armed forces, and more than a dozen monks such as Chenghai and Chenghai were exempted from fighting; The other monks went out after the fight, and made them return to the world to fend for themselves, but the members of the rebel group arranged for work. Yinkong felt that this job was obtained by himself in exchange for unrighteous deeds, and he was afraid that after accepting it, Dharma would entangle him even more and refuse to accept it; As a result, he was introduced to the commune as a member. Yin Kongben is a monk who mainly works and is not afraid of work. But he was not used to living in the brigade. Because the young people mocked him for being ignorant and backward, the old people blamed him for not destroying the back mountain by himself. They said that if the monks themselves were not destroyed, the cadres and workers might not be able to find them, and as long as these holes were left, Lotus Mountain could not be regarded as a barren mountain. A few old people even secretly said to him, "Even if we leave a hole, we won't be so empty in our hearts!" Of course, when it came time to tear down the bricks and tiles of the temple house and bring them back to each family to build a pigsty, they refused to pull less than others. This can be known by looking at many pigsty and chicken coops in nearby villages, which are indispensable for glazed tiles and terrazzo bricks. Yinkong lives here, and feels as lonely as living in the mountains, but there is no peace and freedom on the mountains. As soon as the economic policy was loosened, he had to return to the temple to fend for himself. The Lotus City Buddhist Association is about to be restored, but the monks have long been scattered, and most of them do not know where to go. Only a dozen members of the rebel regiment are still in the city, and Chenghai is the most politically minded and capable of organizing among them, and of course he is the director of the preparatory committee. Chenghai actively prepared for the restoration of the temple, and also helped Yinkong return to the temple.

When Yinkong returned to the temple, Putidharma's sad face and mournful voice also returned with him. He burned incense once, made a self-reproach, and Bodhidharma was quiet for a while. There was no way, Yinkong had to get up every night and make incense to blame himself. He is not afraid during the day, the Indian monk probably has other things to do during the day, and he has no time to make trouble with Yinkong.

Putting his head here, Wu Bailing had a bit of a scalp to blow up.

Director

After Yinkong left, Wu Bailing wanted to go back to the house to sleep, but someone walked in step by step outside the temple gate. As soon as she moved, the man called out to her, and it turned out to be Shao Liangyin.

"Where have you been, three watches in the middle of the night?"

"I couldn't sleep, and I was afraid that walking in the courtyard would wake up others, so I sat in an open place outside the temple gate for a while. Why did you come out too? ”

"I'm going back now."

"Why don't we just stay a little longer, shall we talk?"

"It's late at night, can't you do it tomorrow?"

"I want to go to the other side of the mountain early tomorrow morning to do some errands, so I won't go down the mountain with you. I have a few important words to share with you. ”

"Then you say."

"The information I presented during the day was not comprehensive, and there were omissions."

Wu Bailing's heart moved violently, remembering the driver's words. I wanted to ask Shao Liangyin to say it quickly, but I was afraid that he would really prove that what the driver said was good, so I didn't know what to say for a while. Shao Liangyin steadied himself and tried his best to suppress his excitement.

"The Red Guards broke the four olds, but they just made a head of destruction, a very important head; But then there are others! ”

"Who?"

"There were cadres, workers, technicians, and peasants when the houses were demolished."

Wu Bailing asked a little tremblingly, "Did you also participate?" ”

"Yes."

"You're usually going with the crowd, in that situation......"

"No, I'm a leader, I'm an activist. It was my idea to tear up the 7,000 volumes of the scriptures and then burn them, and to turn them into pulp and paper. smashed the bronze Buddha into pieces and sold it for scrap, sold it for a total of 400,000 yuan, and handed it over to the Military Management Commission, which was also me. So later I became a leading member of the cultural group, and from there it evolved into today's director of cultural relics! ”

"You, why are you telling me this?"

"These things, no one has pursued me in the past few years, there are '***' on the top, and there are thousands of people on the bottom, compared to many people and things, I am not worth mentioning." I spoke once, and others just listened casually. Since I assumed the leadership work, I have resolutely acted in accordance with the policy, protected and rescued many cultural relics, and everyone has recognized me as a good cadre who understands business and emancipates my mind. But the two of us should be confessed to each other, I can't hide it from you, I can't deceive! ”

"You're so cruel! You know, what does that mean to me? ”

"I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, that's what I thought. But facts are always facts, and losing you for this is better than being a hypocrite. I heard the driver's scolding, and the scolding was good. I didn't mean to listen to your private conversation, because it was too quiet, your voices were too loud, and I happened to be in the courtyard. Then I hid out. ”

"Maybe you didn't do it voluntarily. Someone has incited you and bewitched you, it must be! Although we don't have a deep relationship, I believe in my own eyes. You're not the kind of person who is willing to do bad things! ”

Shao Liangyin twisted his head to the side, was silent for a while, and said, "I am completely voluntary and active!" ”

"That's not the truth!"

"It's the truth."

"That is, do you really regard all this as the 'four olds', things that hinder the development of the revolution, and do wrong things with good motives?"

"No, as a propaganda officer, I am responsible for cultural relics and understand their value."

Wu Bailing rushed to the top of his head angrily, and asked him angrily, "Then why are you still doing this?" ”

"We are a smashing unit, and my family background is not good, if there is no outstanding performance, I will definitely be asked to go to the frontier to cut the queue and settle down. I live with my mother, who has been suffering from cirrhosis for many years, and I really can't go to the countryside. ”

"You can destroy the country's cultural relics for your private business?"

"I won't go, or if I go, I won't take the lead, others will go, others will take the lead, the result of Lotus Mountain is still destroyed, but I will lose my family and die!"

"According to what you say, it's reasonable to do bad things, and of course you will do it again if you have this chance!"

"If half of the people, no, only a third of the people came out openly against the tide of the time, I would rather die than stand in the crowd. If there is another '*****', everything is the same as last time, it is still the same as the last time, everyone is more loyal than I am still going to do it! ”

"Thank you for your candor and hope we don't meet again."

"I won't see you again."

When Wu Bailing returned to the house, he buried his face under the pillow and cried, trying not to let himself cry.

minister

Inkong is only for tea, not for rice. Wu Dacheng took out the bread and canned luncheon meat he brought and invited the driver to have breakfast together. It takes four hours to walk back from the mountain to Lianhua City, and there is no Dajian station on the way.

Wu Dacheng saw that there was one Shao Liangyin missing, and his daughter and the driver didn't even ask, knowing that something was wrong, not like Shao Liangyin wrote on the note: "I remembered something temporarily, and went to the mountain before dawn." ”

Halfway through the meal, Wu Dacheng couldn't hold it back. Asked her daughter, "Did you talk for a long time last night?" ”

"For a long time."

"Did something fall apart?"

"Good talk."

"What's the content, is it secret?"

"It's completely public!"

She said all Shao Liangyin's original words.

Look at the driver, the muscles on his face haven't moved; Wu Dacheng lowered his eyelids. It wasn't until the meal was finished that Wu Dacheng raised his eyes again and said, "This person is too lenient and strict with himself, so it is not easy to seek truth from facts." ”

Wu Bailing asked, "Who?" ”

"Shao Liangyin."

"What, what he said to me is still a lie?"

"Not all true!"

"What's not true?"

"He said that his participation in the rebellion was voluntary, and that no one encouraged him, which is a lie."

"Really? Who encouraged him? ”

"Me!" Wu Dacheng said quietly, "He secretly ran to me to report, saying that the cadres were colluding with the workers to organize a professional commando team to completely smash the Lotus Mountain——, and he asked me to stop it." I said, I don't believe I can work, whatever! He said, if you don't care, what should I do? I said, you hurry up and participate, the overall situation has been decided, without your participation, Lotus Mountain will also be destroyed, why let go of this opportunity? You know? Opportunity! He still refused to go, and I said to him again: Real life is cruel, and you can't be willful. Now is the time to fight for survival, and survival is the only way to change the situation. ”

Wu Bailing looked at his father, confirmed that what he said was not a lie, and asked, "Why did you come up with such an idea?" ”

"For the sake of himself, lest he be driven out of the country, and his family should be ruined; For work, I planted a seed. At that time, I estimated that all of us old cadres would be ousted from power, and no one would be left. Future leaders of propaganda and cultural relics will inevitably emerge from these rebels. I am familiar with the young people under me, Shao Liangyin will be better as a leader than those who can shout slogans and engage in sports! If he didn't join the rebellion, he would be giving all his opportunities to those people. So I also told him not to sing with the gang even if he went. Rebellion and make a difference, so as not to wade through this troubled water in vain! He listened to me. At that time, I was still being heard! ”

Wu Bailing was so angry that he didn't care about etiquette, and said, "Since there are still people listening to what you say, why don't you come forward to stop this disaster?!" In some places, because the cadres dared to be responsible, they withstood it, and the cultural relics were preserved, and the Fayuan Temple in Wuhan and the West Mountain in Kunming were not all well preserved. It can be seen that there is no hope at all! This Lotus Mountain has been destroyed, and you, the minister, are responsible! ”

Wu Dacheng lowered his eyelids again, and said in a low but clear voice: "Yes, I made a mistake in this incident. At that time, I was angry, angry, and unwilling to be responsible! I have already done the checking, and this time I applied to retire to the second line as a consultant, and I also considered this factor, but I didn't tell you! ”

Wu Bailing didn't want to say anything. She even felt a little pity for her father, and she felt that she was too impatient and rough for Shao Liangyin, and she handled it too hastily.

She looked at the driver dumbfoundedly.

The female driver remained indifferent, with a sneer on her lips.

Wu Dacheng drank tea and went back to his room to clean up his things. Wu Bailing said with a bit of mockery, full of revenge: "Did you hear my father's words? ”

The driver said: "What I said yesterday was not specific to Minister Wu and Director Shao, and I never regarded them as the most heavyweight among those people. However, let me ask you, do you think your father is telling the truth? ”

"Do you still have doubts?"

"He didn't tell you what day he encouraged Shao Liangyin to rebel. I can tell you that this happened on the day we withdrew from the mountains and went to Beijing to connect with each other. On the first day, he swore to defend Lotus Mountain at the gate of the temple, and the next day he made a 180-degree turn, there is always a reason, right? Can you explain it clearly with the words 'spirited and dedicated'? With whom do you want to do things? Why do you want to be pushy? On the first day of the Red Guards, the cadres of the city party committee and the workers of various units were glaring angrily, cursing and scolding, so why did they suddenly and actively organize a professional team to destroy the four old ones overnight to complete the tasks that the Red Guards had not completed? There must be some reason! ”

"You don't have to beat around the bush, just say it!"

"I think they heard some wind, and that wind came from an authority in an authoritative department; This wind thinks that breaking the four olds is a revolutionary action, and that opposing it is counter-revolution! Shocked, they hurriedly expressed their loyalty as a sign of loyalty. And after your father heard this, he refused to stop it anymore, and persuaded his favorite cadres to grasp this straw in order to survive. Isn't that reasonable? ”

The driver still had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and glanced at Bai Ling.

Wu Bailing hated to beat this woman. She's too powerful, too confident, too domineering, but too much like she's on her side. She trembled with anger:

"You maliciously nitpicky! You subjectively speculate and try to look down on others as badly, I don't believe your words! ”

"You believe, I know you believe. Alright, I'm not kidding you. I'll show you something! I heard that you are a reporter, I deliberately brought it to you, but later I saw that in addition to being a reporter, you are also the daughter of Minister Wu and a friend of Director Shao, and you are a child, so I don't want to show you. Now it's up to you to decide. Belief is true, unbelief is false, I don't force you to believe! ”

The driver took out a red diary from his bag and flipped through the folded pages. There are three phone records on it.

Record 1:

Time: 9 o'clock on October 15, 1966

The caller Wu Dacheng and the representative of the Central ** Group ××

Wu: "On behalf of the Lotus Municipal Party Committee, I ask you for instructions, if someone wants to go up to Lotus Mountain to destroy the temple relics, what should we do?" ”

××: "Comrade ** said a long time ago that the revolutionary actions of the Red Guards and rebels can only be supported, not attacked! ”

Record 2:

Time: 10:30 a.m. on October 15, 1966

Caller: Wu Dacheng, the head of Beijing 406

Wu: "Chief, now someone is pulling a team to smash the temple relics in Lotus Mountain, and the municipal party committee has asked me to ask you for instructions on how to deal with it." ”

Chief: "Well, I have to study this before replying to you, and ask the opinion of the Central ** Group?" ”

Wu: "We consulted the Central ** Group, and they said that the revolutionary actions of the Red Guards and rebels can only be supported, not attacked!" ”

Chief: "Then you must resolutely do it, and you can't be ambiguous!" That's right, you can't be angry! Listen to the central **! ”

Record 3:

Time: 12 o'clock on October 15, 1966

Callers: Wu Dacheng, Commander Hong

Wu: "Commander, old chief, I'm Wu Dacheng. The city party committee asked me to ask you for help, and now the Red Guards are going to smash Lotus Mountain, and no one can stop them, but it seems that the troops' words still work. There are national defense facilities there, you say, in order to protect the national defense facilities, it is forbidden to enter the mountain, and Lotus Mountain will be saved! ”

Commander: "Is there such a thing?" Why don't you report to the Central Committee in a hurry? ”

Wu: "I talked about it just now, old chief, no. (He gives a general account of what happened.) ）

Commander: "Well, I see. Yes, the problem is very serious, but we are troops, so it is inconvenient to interfere in local affairs! They can't affect the underground works because they are old on the ground, I can't talk nonsense! Don't be emotional when dealing with problems now, and think of other ways, okay? Talk to the youngsters......"

The driver added: "The time of the call is exactly when the three of us representatives are waiting for your dad in the reception room. You can also understand why your dad is gone! ”

"I don't believe it's true!"

"Believe it or not."

"How did you get this?"

"At that time, even classified documents can be obtained!"

"Did you think it was true at the time?"

"Others say it's fake. It's to whitewash the capitalist roaders. Those who say this think that the head of Beijing and the commander of the army are capitalist roaders. ”

Just as Wu Dacheng came over with a small bag, Wu Bailing hesitated for a moment, but still took the diary to her father: "Dad, tell me, is this true or false?" ”

Wu Dacheng looked at the record, looked at the driver, and smiled. The meaning of this smile was very miserable, and he said in a trilled voice: "Didn't I stand up and stop the Red Guards?" Despite the overwhelming number of Red Guards, I was also bold and fearless. But after these three calls, I collapsed, and I couldn't find support! He took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his forehead, as if sweating, and wiped the corners of his eyes, as if tears were welling up.

finale

The first paragraph of the old appearance of Lotus Mountain is easy to write. The third paragraph is also easy to write. I can't write the middle paragraph. Just choose another topic. "The Destruction of Lotus Mountain" was blown.

Do you want to blow it with Shao Liangyin?

The driver is honking his horn to urge him to get into the car, so let's think while moving forward!