Wake up（68）

 

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When Chai Jianhua was in Hong Kong, he got some news about Xinyang. Chai Jianhua informed He Jiafu of this information through domestic friends. What frightened He Jiafu was that these messages basically conveyed the story of cannibalism in the Xinyang incident.

This is how life goes on while remembering, never really staying. The pace of time is silent, it passes away inadvertently. Some people, some things, will become more unforgettable as the years go by.

The Xinyang incident has grown old with the passage of time, and time flies so fast that those who have experienced it are at a loss, and can only stare in a daze at the declassified or unsealable information. He Jiafu tried his best to recall the past days, but the memory capacity is limited, no matter how hard he recalled, he couldn't remember a trace. The torrent of time has swept away the youth and the years, leaving only a scarred body deeply imprinted by the years and a vicissitudes of life.

The time is clear and shallow, and the years flow. The information that Chai Jianhua told He Jiafu made He Jiafu hear the murmurs and crying of the famine period again. Especially those tragic stories about cannibalism are even more frustrating.

Li Shiping's family in Xinyang, Henan Province clashed with a man named Wang Zhenyu who was fighting for the corpse of a new grave. In the black light, Wang Zhenyu fell to the ground and died. Li Shiping was beaten to death.

Shi Hanbing, a well-known financial writer, was originally from southern Henan. He recorded his mother's experience in the Great Famine. The mother said: "No one in the village will tell the dead. Some eat the dead directly, and some share an extra bowl of thin soup without telling it... There is a woman who survived by eating her dead granddaughter. , she ate 7 people."

"The two-year-old sister died, and the family was starving... A relative came to the house and persuaded her to eat her. She was skinny and there was nothing to eat, so she just took out the liver and so on. 6 people in my family starved to death, and more than 100 people in the whole village starved to death.”

In Xinyang, Henan, some eat dead people, some eat people who are dying of starvation, some parents eat their children, older brothers eat younger brothers, and older sisters eat younger sisters. The two production teams in Gushi County ate more than 200 corpses. After He Quande and his wife were found eating human flesh in Fengyang Commune, Yongcheng City, Henan Province, the commune secretary instructed the commune president and the Minister of Armed Forces to lure them to the commune and poison them to death with arsenic. According to Li Suli's investigation, Lei Qianxiu, who worked in Yuji, Shangcheng County, rushed home when he heard that his whole family was dead.

A blind fortune-teller from the Shangshiqiao brigade was killed and eaten at the east hill of Shangshiqiao because he was fat. Wang Liukai, a retired teacher in the shopping mall, recalled: He had a cousin surnamed Huang who went to find food from his elder brother who was away. The elder brother waited for two days without seeing him. Later, he was found dead on the bank of the Guanhe River to the west of Shangshiqiao. The body, buttocks and thighs were cut off. At that time, the shopping mall was dark and no one dared to walk. When two people walked, no one dared to go ahead, because the people behind might kill the people in front at any time to satisfy their hunger.

According to Li Suli’s records, the old man He Pailan, He Pailan, He Zhuang, Huangbei, Yongcheng County, Henan, said: There were 287 people in our village at that time, 152 people died, and 135 people remained. He Yuchao of our village has three sons, killing two of them. Killed the second and third, and wanted to kill the boss, but the boss ran away. He wanted to kill and eat his mother again, but his mother ran to my house and said that her son wanted to kill me. Later, I don't know where his mother went. In Shuangchunpu, Shangcheng County, a carpenter named Hu Mingxin went to the ancient city to find his cousin. In the middle of the night, he was killed by his cousin and nephew and made bacon.

The next day the team leader found that there was meat in their house, so he reported that they had killed a cow, but it turned out that it was not beef but human flesh. Chen Dengchang from Xiangdian Commune in Xixian County strangled his 6-year-old daughter to death and boiled it for food. He also ate the body of a 2-year-old boy in the team. After being arrested, he was sentenced to 20 years and died in prison.

Zhang Shufan, the former deputy secretary of the Xinyang Prefectural Party Committee and commissioner of the administrative office, recalled that a 14-year-old girl in Wulidian Village, Xinyang, whose parents starved to death, could not endure the torture of hunger, so she killed her 4-5-year-old brother and cooked them. up. The case was reported to Zhang Shufan. After a fierce ideological struggle, he still approved the arrest of the girl. He said that if he was caught and locked up, he would have to eat in prison to see if he could survive, otherwise he would only die.

According to a 1961 investigation by the Henan Shangcheng County Party Committee, the cadres of the Gaohushan Brigade of the Hedian Commune in the county often eat more than they want. One day, the canteen accountant Huang Shengnian and his wife stole fried oil buns and were caught by the son of Du Chuanjin, a member of the poor peasant commune. Immediately, the child was tied up, covered his mouth and put into a basket. In the middle of the night, he fell into the pond and drowned. Wu Changlong, the production leader of the former Shankan Brigade of Shangshiqiao Commune, was eating steamed buns in the cafeteria when he was seen by the 6-year-old daughter of commune member Liu Baoshan. die.

The footsteps of time are silent, it passes inadvertently, spring and autumn come, time is in a hurry, shorter than dreams, faster than flowers wither. The flowering period is one year, but the life is only one life. But the ruthless Old Man Time is like a gust of cold wind, blowing away the freshness of everything.

What frightens He Jiafu is that the cannibalism information provided by Chai Jianhua is basically true, and the stories of cannibalism that have been covered up for more than half a century have come and gone.

Time is passing and never stops. The years are so fair, never give people a second more, on the contrary, they will not give anyone a second less. Everyone will experience the most important transition in life due to the passage of time. But the fingers are wide, and the time is too thin, and some hidden stories will slip through the fingers. For example, it is clearly a man-made disaster caused by the "anti-concealment of property", but it is said to be the suffering caused by three years of natural disasters. Using "natural disasters" to cover up the heinous crime of man-made famine and planting it on God is equivalent to bringing unjust, false and wrong cases from the ground to the sky.

Chai Jianhua left Xinyang for Hong Kong during the three-year natural disaster. Not long after Chai Jianhua left, He Jiafu was expelled from the village by the local government because he was a disabled homeless man with missing legs. can survive.