Wake up（123）

 

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In the dark night, it seems that boundless thick ink is smeared heavily on the sky, the moon is faint, and there is not even the faint light of the stars. The night is like a thick inkstone, so deep that it cannot be melted. The whole earth seemed to have fallen asleep.

But the elderly He Jiafu, who is already in his nineties, suffers from insomnia. Insomnia and dreaminess are often caused by mental stress, excessive thinking, distress and worry, preoccupation, and fantasy. Dreams are a normal physiological phenomenon, and insomnia and dreaminess are closely related to the short period of deep sleep, insufficient sleep depth, and poor sleep quality. The old man He Jiafu naturally understood these principles.

Insomnia has always been a problem that plagues many people, and patients with insomnia will also be accompanied by phenomena such as dreaminess.

Light sleep is easy to dream. He Jiafu felt that he didn't sleep well, and he seemed to be asleep all night. When he closed his eyes, it was a dream, and he woke up when there was any movement. At three o'clock in the morning, he couldn't fall asleep after waking up, so he had to stare until dawn.

Anyone with insomnia knows that the most painful time is when they can't sleep. He Jiafu lay on the bed unable to sleep, tossing and turning thinking about some messy past events, his heart could no longer calm down.

Xiang Qichun always appears in He Jiafu's sleepy dreams. Xiang Qichun's pen name is Xiang dissatisfaction. It was a young man that He Jiafu and Chai Jianhua met by chance when they were wandering in their youth. The young man was once a primary school principal, but he turned out to be a rightist.

The young man told Chai Jianhua and He Jiafu: "I am 24 years old. I come from a small land management family. I am a student. I have graduated from junior high school. I am from Tianmen Township. I used to be the principal of Tianmen Primary School. I participated in education in 1951 and entered the school in 1954. Now I have been expelled from public office and labeled as a rightist. I am so angry that my eyes are burning and my heart is torn. The reason is that I foolishly confessed to the organization and handed over my life. Apart from dissatisfaction, what else do I have? "

Xiang disaffected that several of his relatives and friends with similar personalities have become "rightists". Xiang dissatisfaction has almost abandoned the ideals he pursued in the past, but he still believes that hope never abandons the weak. As long as there is life there is hope. His greatest hope now is to survive strong.

He Jiafu saw this young man again in his dream, and at the same time he fell into the political vicious circle of that era again.

Lying on the bed, He Jiafu turned on his mobile phone and searched for information about "rightists". He saw an article "Si Jicai's Oral Statement: My Memory of Jiabiangou" published in the 351st issue of "Phoenix Weekly". Si Jicai was born in Shandong in 1928. He went to Yan'an in 1943 and joined the Eighth Route Army. He joined the Party in 1944. In 1956, he served as the head of the Propaganda Section of the 10th Division of the Fourth Army of the People's Liberation Army. In 1957, he served as the head of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Lanzhou Northwest Engineering Bureau. During the rectification movement, he served as the director of the rectification movement office, but soon he himself was labeled as a rightist and sent to Jiabiangou Farm for labor reform. Fortunately, one of his subordinates, Xue Zhanyun, was a correctional officer on the farm and took good care of him, so he survived. He had done publicity on the farm, and he could find time to keep a diary, write down what he knew, and write down some little-known things in the past.

According to Si Jicai's dictation, the author Li Ling narrated a story of "Qian Ying rescued 600 rightists who survived Jiabiangou and Qian Ying's death".

He Jiafu lay on the bed and read the story carefully:

Jiabiangou Farm is located about 30 kilometers northeast of Jiuquan County, Gansu Province. In the 1950s and 1960s, it used to be a place for rightists to undergo reform through labor. Jiabiangou Farm sent about 3,500 rightists back and forth. When winter clothes were distributed in November 1958, the specific number was 3,136. Many people committed suicide before that. The overall survival of Jiabiangou Farm was insufficient. 600 people.

Because Si Jicai was a leading cadre, the farm leaders made him the captain of the labor reform team. Although he became the captain, he did not hurt his fellows, and even argued with the farm guards when he encountered injustice. More trustworthy, willing to report problems to him.

At this time, more than a thousand rightists from the Jiabiangou headquarters had been transferred to Mingshui Township, Gaotai County. The original plan was to open a new farm in Mingshui. More than 1,000 rightists worked hard here for more than half a month, but the plan to open a new farm was cancelled, probably because various conditions were not ripe. The rightists who came here died in large numbers due to long-term hunger and heavy farm work. The farm leaders had no choice but to stop rightist labor. After the rightists ate the mush made of leaves and vegetable leaves provided by the cafeteria every day, they could only curl up in their nests in the severe cold of minus 10 degrees. Those with a little strength went outside to dig some wild vegetables and rub some grass seeds, and some boiled the captured lizards to satisfy their hunger, but most of them didn't even have the strength to squeeze the grass seeds, so they could only die, dying.

One day, the rightist Li Tianqing reported to the team leader Si Jicai: Everyone was so hungry that they had no energy left, but the rightist Wei Changhai and the other three sent by the Lanzhou Railway Bureau had ruddy complexions and moved quickly. Li Tianqing also saw that Wei Changhai and others had cooked something to eat, and when they saw Li Tianqing approaching, they quickly hid themselves. Li Tianqing felt that these people were acting suspiciously, so he asked Captain Si Jicai to investigate, and Si Jicai agreed.

A few days later, Si Jicai approached Li Tianqing and said, "Old Li, your suspicion is really right, those guys really didn't do good things." I asked him what the investigation had found, and he told me to go and see with him.

I followed him to the mouth of Shanshuigou. Outside the Shanshuigou is a vast sandy beach, with sandbags rising abruptly from peak to peak. There are many grave mounds scattered on the slope of the sandbag. The corpses of rightists who died after we arrived in Mingshui were buried here, and the burial team organized by the farm did it. The work of burying the corpse was not done well, that is, digging a shallow pit, dragging the corpse in, and covering it with a thin layer of sand. Because the strong wind blew away the sand, some corpses were exposed, and the cloth strips and hair fluttered in the cold wind. I asked, what did you ask me to see inside? Si Jicai didn't answer, but led me a few steps forward in the grave, pointed to a completely exposed corpse and said, take a look at the quilt. I know the procedure of burying the corpses: all the corpses are wrapped in their own quilts, the neck, waist and legs are tied with hemp ropes, and they are pulled here by horse-drawn carts for burial. The corpse in front of him seemed to have been moved, and the ropes around his neck and waist were cut by a sharp weapon. I lifted the loosely covered quilt and found that the buttons of the deceased's cotton coat were also unbuttoned. When I opened the front of my clothes, I couldn't help but groaned, and was shocked: there was a long vertical gash on the chest of the deceased. Can you see clearly, this is not for dogs, is it? Si Jicai asked. I said, unlike what a dog eats, the wounds that a dog eats are not so neat. Speaking of this, I suddenly understood what Si Jicai meant, my scalp went numb, and I asked in horror, "Old Si, you mean..., I didn't dare to say the following words." Si Jicai took two steps back. Si Jicai said, what are you afraid of? Why are you afraid of him? He took a step closer, bent down, pulled the opening with both hands, and said, look, look here. I looked down from between his hands, and there was a big empty hole in his chest. Si Jicai said again, did you see clearly? I said I saw it clearly, and he let go. He pulled the skirt of the deceased to cover the gap, pulled the quilt over to cover it, tied the rope, and planed a few times to cover the corpse with the sand next to it. Then, like washing his hands, he grabbed a handful of sand and rubbed his hands. Then he cursed: These bastards have no humanity at all! What do you think they cook? What they cook is the internal organs, the heart, liver and lungs of people. These dead people have no flesh on their bodies. Long-term hunger and fatigue have consumed the flesh on their bodies, leaving only dry bones in their arms and legs. Without food, they came up with the idea of disembowelling them! I didn't speak, I haven't shaken off the shock yet, my scalp is still numb. I reported the situation to Si Jicai a few days ago, I just thought their whereabouts were suspicious and strange, but I didn't expect them to do such a thing at all.

Si Jicai showed me another corpse, which had also been stabbed. I also looked through a cardboard sign tied to the corpse. The cardboard was hung up by the burial team, so that the family members of the deceased would find the body for easy identification in the future. The sign has the name written on it and is numbered. So far 30 years have passed. But I still clearly remember that person's name, his name is Wang Yiwu. Wang Yiwu turned out to be a doctor at Tianzhu County Hospital. He was labeled as a rightist, but he did not suffer too much during the labor reform period, because after he came to Jiabiangou, the leader asked him to work as a doctor in the clinic. Because of his new right-wing remarks in the medical office—he said that so many people died in Jiabiangou due to lack of nutrition and starvation—therefore, before we moved to Mingshui, we were dismissed as doctors and dismissed from the team reform through labor. He died a few days ago. Due to a sudden cold, he did not work for a long time, and the flesh on his body was not exhausted when he died. Not doing it like other people do. Also because of this, the flesh of his buttocks was cut off with a knife, and there were two holes in that part, and the flesh of his calf was also removed, revealing the white bones.

Later, Si Jicai separately talked to Wei Changhai and several people alone, even coaxing and intimidating them, they all admitted, Wei Changhai and others cried bitterly and expressed that they would change their past. Everyone knew that they dug out the hearts, livers, and lungs of dead people and cooked them. They all expressed righteous indignation and scolded them for their moral loss. But when discussing how to deal with it, some people said that the death penalty should be imposed, and some people said that it should be sentenced, but some people raised different opinions: What crime did Wei Changhai commit? Did he kill someone? Did he rob? A professor of history surnamed Zhang quoted scriptures and said: "The ancients learned etiquette when they had enough granaries, and those who were able to govern when the people were insufficient have never heard of it since ancient times...".

Captain Zhao, the farm guard, knew about this, so he brought several people to tie up Wei Changhai's five flowers tightly, beat him severely, and locked him up. Li Tianqing knew that if the bandages were tied tightly for a long time and the blood vessels were blocked, people would die. He felt that he was the first to report and felt uneasy, so he yelled twice in Diwozi, begging everyone to intercede with Captain Zhao and release Wei Changhai, but no one answered. He went to ask Professor Zhang again, but Professor Zhang just rolled his eyelids and did not move. Li Tianqing understood: After long-term fatigue and hunger, they were used to seeing their partners in the same den fall to death one by one, and the corpses were carried out one by one. They didn't even know if they could get out of the open water alive. People's sympathy is gone, they don't care about other people's business. So Li Tianqing found Si Jicai, and went with him to ask Captain Ma to untie Wei Changhai and release him.

Not long after, Qian Ying came here.

Si Jicai wrote in his "My Memory of Jiabiangou" that we were able to come back from Jiabiangou alive thanks to Qian Ying at that time.

Qian Ying is the prototype of Han Ying in "Honghu Red Guard". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1954, Qian Ying became the first Minister and Party Secretary of the Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China. She insisted on the truth, did not avoid risks, and rehabilitated and screened many wrong cases that were designated as "iron cases". Qian Ying has a catchphrase: "Don't be afraid of ghosts!" We all regard her as a lifesaver.

It was purely by accident that Qian Ying discovered the prisoners at Jiabiangou Farm. Gansu Province has always kept the situation of Jiabiangou Farm and other labor camps where rightists were detained in absolute secrecy. At that time, Qian Ying went to inspect the Zhangye area in Gansu to check the disaster situation, and was going to Gaotai County. In those days, she checked village by village, and found that some people in the village had all died. It is only now known that more than 1.4 million people in Gansu starved to death during the three-year disaster. There were snowflakes in the sky that day, and the driver got lost while driving. Qian Ying, a guard, and a cadre from the Zhangye area were sitting in the car. There were 4 people in total. They suddenly noticed smoke wafting from the ditch in front of them, so they drove to the place where there was smoke. When I got to the edge of the ditch, I saw that there were two to three hundred corpses scattered all over the bottom of the ditch, and these corpses were stacked on top of each other. Qian Ying's guard shouted loudly from above the ditch: "What kind of unit are you here? Why are there so many dead people?" A guard nearby said, "I don't know, you can ask the director." When Qian Ying and the others When we continued to walk into the ditch, the farm sentinel shouted: "You can't go down!" I (Si Jicai claimed) and Guan Jinwen (another rightist) heard the shout and hurried out, because our cave was directly facing the ditch. Qian Ying them. At this time, I saw Liu Zhenyu (the farm guard) walking towards Qian Ying and the others, yelling as he walked, "Arrest these people to me."

The old lady Qian Ying went up to meet her, and picked up Liu Zhenyu with a walking stick.

Qian Ying's guard pulled out his gun and said to Liu Zhenyu, "Do you know who this is? This is Qian Ying."

When Liu Zhenyu heard that it was Qian Ying, she panicked. Guan Jinwen shouted loudly at this moment: "Sister Qian, save me quickly, save me quickly!" Qian Ying glanced at Guan Jinwen, and then said, "Who is this?" Brocade.

Qian Ying asked Guan Jinwen to lead him to check the caves and nests, and found that there were still many people lying there. Qian Ying asked Liu Zhenyu, how many people are there? Liu Zhenyu said, there are still five or six hundred people, and five wagons are needed. (Actually, there are not five or six hundred people here in Mingshui, only more than two hundred people left). Qian Ying immediately called the Jiuquan area to order all the buses there, and announced that all the people would be released the next day, so that they could save lives as soon as possible.

Then she followed Liu Zhenyu into his room and felt that the bottom of his butt was soft, so she asked people to check and found 28 blankets in Liu Zhenyu's room, and more than 200 watches of various kinds were found in his box. Dozens of blankets were also found in the room (Note: These should have been ripped off from the dead rightists by the guards at the farm).

However, after Qian Ying left, Mingshui and Jiabiangou conducted another review and study, and it took almost a month before the prisoner was released.

Si Jicai said at the end of the article: "The anti-rightist movement has brought disasters to countless families across the country. There is no end to it...".

"Looking at history now, "On the Coalition Government" seems to be an expedient measure at that time, mainly for the purpose of seizing power. However, after seizing power, the power was too concentrated and copied the Soviet Union, but it eventually led to this world. tragedy."

A lonely bed, a deserted night. When He Jiafu saw this, he turned off his phone. People from a foreign land, strange faces, lonely shadows, and sentimental sorrow. He mourns the dead rightists. Leaving only a walking dead body, even if it is full of scars, he still has to leave a small space for himself deep in his heart. On this sad night, he tastes this dry, painful and cruel history alone.

He Jiafu got up in his clothes and stood in front of the window.

The memory of the dark night cannot be forgotten in the crazy time. He Jiafu raised his head, the loneliness of the palace in the sky and the misery of the world in the long night made him feel mixed.

He Jiafu turned on the phone again, and continued to read the article written by the author Li Ling based on Si Jicai's dictation:

  "Don't be afraid of ghosts!" is Qian Ying's common catchphrase. As the deputy secretary of the Central Supervisory Committee, she is not afraid of power, despises flattery, does not care about personal gains and losses, and does not follow the wind.

During the Great Leap Forward, more than 37 million people starved to death in China. In the spring of 1962, at the meeting of 7,000 people, Mao Zedong, who launched the Great Leap Forward Movement, made an understatement of self-criticism, then left Beijing and went out for inspection. He pushed the mess to Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yun and others to clean up. Liu Shaoqi and the others conscientiously implemented the policy of "adjustment, consolidation, enrichment, and improvement." After more than half a year, the situation improved slightly. In the autumn of 1962, at the Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong proposed that "class struggle should be discussed every year, every month, and every day." Lao Mao also vigorously criticized the so-called "dark wind, single-handed style, and reversal of the verdict." Under such circumstances, Qian Ying and the comrades of the Central Supervisory Committee analyzed the national situation and believed that there are indeed some people who unreasonably reversed the case, but only a small number, mainly because those who should be rehabilitated have not been rehabilitated.

  In Anhui Province, during the Great Leap Forward period, Zeng Xisheng, the first secretary of the CPC Provincial Committee, forced the order to blow the "five winds", which severely damaged agricultural productivity and starved millions of people to death. At that time, Li Shinong, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, raised dissenting opinions, but was labeled as a rightist. Zhang Kaifan, another secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Vice Governor, disbanded collective canteens for advocating opening warehouses to relieve the hungry, and returned the houses and private plots of farmers confiscated during the communist winds. Farmers open the market, so they were named and criticized by Mao Zedong as "speculators who infiltrated the Communist Party." Regarding such "iron cases", Qian Ying and comrades from the CCP Supervisory Committee also boldly rehabilitated them. They also rehabilitated many unjust cases of the rightists. However, these righteous acts of theirs were said to be serious crimes during the Cultural Revolution. The "Gang of Four" abolished the Central Supervisory Committee solemnly elected by the Central Committee under the pretext that Qian Ying and the Central Supervisory Committee had violated Mao Zedong's highest instructions, and there was a strong wind of overturning the verdict. All except the secretary were brutally persecuted, and eight of them were persecuted to death or died wrongfully. Qian Ying, deputy secretary of the Central Supervisory Committee, was also persecuted and passed away on July 26, 1973.

On December 16, 1980, "People's Daily" published "Comrade Qian Ying, an Upright and Selfless Communist Party Member" written by Wang Congwu, Yuan Renyuan, Guo Shushen, and Shuai Mengqi, which also recorded these things.

In a commentary written by Xinhua News Agency on May 30, 1947, Mao Zedong spoke highly of the student movement in Chiang Kai-shek's district, saying that the student movement was great and just, and called it the "second phase of the People's War of Liberation". front".

Qian Ying is one of the outstanding leaders of the second front. Before the founding of New China, she successively served as the organization minister of the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shanghai Bureau. Under her leadership, the CCP’s underground organizations in Jiang’s districts launched many student-centered mass movements: the December 1 Movement, the Movement to Protest U.S. Army Atrocities, the Movement Against Hunger and the Civil War, the Movement Against the United States and Supporting Japan, etc. These movements are surging, and more and more people are participating, counting hundreds of thousands or millions of people; the class of participants is becoming wider and wider, students, workers, citizens, businessmen, bourgeoisie, and democratic parties have all been involved. . These campaigns fully exposed the reactionaries' crimes of collusion between officials and businessmen, collecting people's property, embezzlement and corruption, etc., which left the reactionaries in the greatest isolation. During these mass movements, Qian Ying played an outstanding leading role, and the reactionaries hated her deeply. Many times Pat spies chased her down and paid a lot of money to buy her head, but all failed. However, during the Cultural Revolution after liberation, she was slandered as a "traitor" and a "secret agent", and was brutally persecuted and died on July 26, 1973.

Seeing these reports, He Jiafu felt that the air seemed to be stagnant. He waited for the wind, but it didn't come.

What the enemy failed to do before liberation, the "our own people" have done after liberation. Qian Ying has vindicated a large number of unjust cases. In 1960, Qian Ying rescued 600 rightists who survived Jiabiangou. They survived, but Qian Ying herself was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, but no one could rescue her.

she died. but alive. At least He Jiafu will not forget this Qian Ying, and he also believes that more people will not forget her.