Wake up（246）

 

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The next night, Mr. Zhang, the dean of the school at that time, brought three students to Han Er's mother's house. Teacher Zhang said with a smile: "Do you still know these students from back then? They came to visit you specially."

Han Erniang was very happy. She saw the three classmates in front of her, and called out their names one by one: Qian Xiaojuan, Sun Yulan, and Li Aiwen.

When the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, and the Central Cultural Revolution Group issued a notice to decide to "resume classes to cause a revolution" in universities, middle schools, and primary schools across the country, the schools did not actually resume classes, but only resumed for a short period of time and then suspended classes. But these three studious girls have been pestering Han Erniang secretly, asking Han Erniang to secretly tutor them in comprehensive knowledge. It wasn't until the end of the Cultural Revolution that Han Erniang knew that these three studious girls were pestering her. It was the idea of the director of academic affairs, Mr. Zhang. Teacher Zhang does not want outstanding children to lose the opportunity to learn knowledge.

After seeing Han Erniang, Qian Xiaojuan said happily: "Mr. Han, I have been playing like crazy for more than a year since the class was suspended in 1966 to make a revolution. In October 1967, classes were resumed to make a revolution. As for me, I started from the fifth grade of elementary school. Skip to the first day of junior high school. At that time, a lot of glass in the school had been smashed by the children nearby, and the wind was blowing. I remember that on the first day of school, the students, under your leadership, first used newspapers to paste the windows.

Sun Yulan said: It's very fresh to go to school again. The first unlucky people in the Cultural Revolution were middle school teachers. Those who hadn’t been beaten were rare, and those who hadn’t been beaten to death were all beaten. Teachers couldn’t help shivering when they saw their students. Resume classes? How to reply? Who listens to whom? Our school was better, it was the first time for teachers and students to meet each other, so Teacher Han didn't shiver when he saw us, but you spoke very kindly, and the dignity of teachers was gone. This is the Cultural Revolution, which finally put the teacher-student relationship upside down for thousands of years. So no one paid much attention to the teacher, the school is just another place to play, come if you are happy, leave if you are not happy, no need to ask anyone.

Li Aiwen said: At that time, the first class every day was "reading every day", and I only studied Chairman Mao's works. This is "unshakable", and it is true. It is a matter of attitude towards Chairman Mao, not fear of the teacher. It's easy to read it every day. The students didn’t listen carefully to what the teacher was talking about. They thought it’s better to go home and play poker or games, so they immediately packed their schoolbags. Some students didn’t even bring their schoolbags, which made it easier. They stood up and asked: are you going or not? are you going or not? don't go? Then I will go alone.

What the three students said the most was "early request for instructions and late report".

Li Aiwen said: It is ridiculous to think about it now. The education at that time wanted to train us to be atheists, but at the same time, we had to "ask for instructions early and report later" every day. I remember that not long after I entered school, the school arranged to go to the countryside to study agriculture. Every morning when we get up together and do nothing, we have to gather together for an "early report"; before going to bed at night, we can't fall asleep on our own, and we have to gather for an "evening report". According to the requirements, each of our students must hold a copy of "Mao Zedong Quotations" written by Lin Biao in the red plastic cover sooner or later, and a teacher or student cadre will lead the call, and the group will follow the leader and shout in unison: "I wish you all the best!" The great leader, the great mentor, the great helmsman, and the great commander Chairman Mao live forever! Longevity!! I wish Deputy Commander Lin good health! Health forever!!" The teacher read a sentence, and we read a sentence along with it, rhythmically as we read Shaking the "Red Book" in his hand. This is the famous "early request for instructions and late report", a ceremony in which the whole people prayed to the leader at that time.

Sun Yulan said: Originally, this did not surprise us, because the whole country has done it, and adults have done it, so what do we teenagers do? But at that time, there was a very serious physics teacher in our opinion. Every time he led us to shout slogans, we sometimes hated him.

Qian Xiaojuan interjected that the physics teacher was Zhao Longsheng, who was in his forties and was in his prime. It may be that he has studied hard for many years and wears a pair of thick glasses with high myopia. In the minds of our ignorant and fearless classmates, he is a teacher with great scientific knowledge. But he is always busy leading us to do "early request for instructions and late report". We can't talk back to him or scold him for this reason. I remember that the first physics knowledge class he gave us was about "The Principle of Leverage". He said it very seriously, but his accent made us want to laugh. A few male students who were not so law-abiding started to make small movements and talked in a hurry. Finally, there was a naughty male classmate who didn't even remember the teacher's last name, so in a hurry he called the physics teacher "Teacher Lever". Finally, everyone followed his example and called the teacher "Lever". And spread it among classmates. The physics teacher doesn't seem to mind this name, what he cares about is whether everyone studies hard.

Sun Yulan asked Erniang Han: "Mr. Han, do you still have contact with Zhao Longsheng?" Erniang Han shook her head and said, "No."

Teacher Zhang, the director of academic affairs, interjected: "Mr. Zhao Longsheng was in contact with me, but when the new crown epidemic broke out, he was not sent to the hospital for treatment due to illness and died at home."

Everyone was silent.

Teacher Zhang said: "In fact, Teacher Zhao Longsheng is a lover of literature and art. He joined the People's Liberation Army and was a literature and art propagandist in the army. After retiring, he became a teacher in a school in Beijing. He organized the school to participate in the "11th" Tiananmen Square The arrangement work of the students in the square group. This is a political task and it is very important. He started preparations more than a month in advance. The first step is to select people, usually mischievous, at that time called "anarchism is particularly serious" can not go, the family People from bad backgrounds were not allowed to go. There were nearly 500 students in the school at that time, and there were always dozens of people who couldn’t go. The second step was to train the team. We had to train everyone to be very obedient, saying that one is one and two is two. You also need to practice endurance: resistance to the sun, fatigue, standing, thirst, urinating, and boredom, these are the qualities that must be possessed by the Tiananmen Square group on the "October". Two or three weeks before the "October" Flowers are made of paper, with bamboo handles, which can be opened and stacked. Usually there are two handfuls of red and yellow, and some people have green ones. The big slogan on the square is that hundreds of thousands of students hold It is made up of flowers. There are painted numbers on the ground of the square, one for each person. On that day, everyone will stand on their own number. The raising of flowers is directed by signal flags, and dozens of light poles on the square are flagpoles. A small colored flag is raised and stops at a distance of one meter from the top for 30 seconds. Teacher Zhao Longsheng will call out "Hurry up, the blue flag is raised, the blue flag", and then immediately say "The blue flag raises the red flower", or shout " The red flag holds the yellow flower", and the students quickly held up the flower when they saw the small flag rising one more time. Whoever raises the wrong flag is a political issue, so no one dares to be wrong.

Teacher Zhang said: "Mr. Zhao Longsheng was transferred to our school by chance. That was when the central government decided to "resume classes and start a revolution" in universities, middle schools and primary schools across the country. The original physics teacher in our school was killed in the early days of the Cultural Revolution. The superior They arranged for Mr. Zhao Longsheng to be transferred to our school to fill this vacancy. However, classes did not really resume at that time. Therefore, the school arranged for him to be in charge of the organization of the school's "early request for instructions and late report". You still remember the school's "loyalty dance" Dance” activities? This is also his job.

Sun Yulan said: I remembered. I am the worst dancer in my life, and I am even ashamed to express my feelings with my body. But after the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, there was an upsurge in the school to dance the loyalty dance. As a class leader, I could not openly resist the loyalty dance. Under the pursuit of some female students who are good at dancing and love to dance, I couldn't escape, so I could only "forced to dance" copingly. I decided to come up with a delaying tactic. It looked like I was learning to dance, but I didn't really learn. But it can't let people find out that it's a fake study, and actively show a clumsy look. Teacher Zhao Longsheng taught me to lift my legs and extend my hands, so I lifted my legs, but I forgot to extend my arms on purpose. He reminded me that I stretched my arms, but I put my feet down intentionally. The enthusiastic teacher Zhao Longsheng had nothing to do with me, he could only complain repeatedly that he had never seen such a stupid person. As for me, I kept admitting I was stupid, plus self-mockery, and my appearance was very sincere. In the end, the teacher Zhao Longsheng who taught me to dance gave up the plan to ask me to continue learning to dance Zhongzi dance.

Sun Yulan smiled and said: To be honest, my hands and feet are stupid, but not to this extent, but dancing is really not what I want to learn. More importantly, these dances of allegiance are nothing more than holding the heart on the chest with both hands, dedicated to the sun in the sky, and the sun is the great leader Mao Zedong. It looks completely unaesthetic, and I feel uncomfortable from the inside out. Afterwards, although I was often ridiculed by some female classmates, I didn't feel embarrassed at all, and I was still proud of myself, because my goal of not dancing the loyalty dance was achieved, and I only got a reputation for being dull, avoiding making a fool of myself in public, and It is the best result if it is not considered to be a problem with political attitudes.

That night, Teacher Zhang, the school's academic director, and three students, Qian Xiaojuan, Sun Yulan, and Li Aiwen, chatted a lot at Teacher Han Erniang's house.

Han Erniang fell back into the memories of the Cultural Revolution, but the memories of "resuming classes and making revolution" couldn't make her happy.