Author: Qiu Qiu Liu Yunqiu.
In the spring of 70, the cadres of Beijing were sent to various villages where educated youths joined the queue. One day not long after the Beijing cadres arrived in the village, Beijing cadres from several surrounding villages came to Qiuqiu's village, as if something was wrong. Following the educated youth, they received a notice not to go to work that day, and waited for a meeting to be convened at any time. Everyone wondered, what's the matter, such a big commotion?
A Beijing cadre took paper and ink to the cave of the second team of female intellectuals and said to Qiuqiu: Help write a slogan. Qiuqiu's face was puzzled: Write a slogan?What for?To open a private loquat seminary, you need to set up the venue. Qiuqiu cut the paper, spread it out and asked: What to write?Write: To fight for selfish loquat repair!Don't forget the class struggle!Long live the proletariat**......The Beijing cadre said one, Qiuqiu wrote one, and finally he said: Write: Down with Xiao Zhanbin!Qiuqiu raised her head, her eyes widened: Write this?Not suitable, right?Xiao Zhanbin is an educated youth, and he is not a class enemy, how can he be said to be defeated?If you want to write it, you will write it, ask the reason, and you will know in a moment. Qiuqiu had no choice but to write. He asked Qiuqiu to write another one, this time turning the three words of Xiao Zhanbin upside down, and also asked him to draw a cross on the name, Qiuqiu was even more puzzled, remembering that the sign hanging on the chest of the rich and bad in the Cultural Revolution was written like this, and how could Xiao not be the same as them?Seeing that the cadres forcibly asked me to write, I had to write it too. Later, the cadre found a few male intellectuals and asked them to put slogans on the walls of the cave.
The educated youth of the whole village came, as well as the cadres of the team, and the kang was full, and Xiao Zhanbin was also among them. Even the corners of the stove in the kiln are full of people, and the kang is also full of people, most of whom are Beijing cadres. A Beijing cadre made an opening speech first, to the effect that a private loquat monastery would be held in this concentration, so that every educated youth could actively speak, shine a light on the living thoughts in the depths of their souls, and criticize private words in a flash. Speaking of fighting private loquat cults, Qiuqiu has not held many meetings since the Cultural Revolution, but as for making such a big scene?Qiuqiu noticed that a Beijing cadre took out a pen and paper and waited for the record.
Xiao Zhanbin didn't seem to see the slogan on the wall, and was the first to speak. He quoted Marxist-Leninist quotations in many places in his speech, Engels said for a while, Marx said for a while, Qiuqiu thought to himself, this treasured Marxist-Leninist work is really not in vain, and all of it has been applied at this time. Xiao was impassioned when he quoted and discussed, but unexpectedly a Beijing cadre interrupted his speech and said bluntly: Don't talk so much useless, contact yourself and talk specifically about the issue of opposing repair, preventing repair, and preventing capitalist restoration. Qiuqiu saw that the attitude of the Beijing cadres was extremely tough, and she wondered what mistake Xiao Zhanbin had made?When I think of the slogan I wrote before the meeting, my doubts are even greater.
After Xiao Zhanbin was robbed, he was speechless for a while. Another cadre asked bluntly: Just tell me how your classmate in Beijing vented his dissatisfaction with society with you. Xiao Zhanbin was still speechless, paused for a while and said: In 66, our classmates were copied, and our parents were beaten, and then they were sent back to their hometowns, and several of our classmates followed to see them off, and when they saw the repatriation station, most of them were old men and old ladies, some were disabled, and some of them had signs on their chests, and they felt very miserable, so our classmates said, it seems that this day will not change...... The Beijing cadre immediately took over and said: Just say this, the sky will not change, what does it mean?Xiao Zhanbin paused for a long time and said: I understand that it may be to change the social status quo. Cadre: You can be clear, what has changed?Xiao: Actually, I didn't want to be suppressed at that time, and I wanted to go back to the free life before the Cultural Revolution. Another cadre interjected and said that the people who were oppressed in the Cultural Revolution were all the rich and the bad right and the gangsters, ** said, the revolution is a violent action of one class to oppress another class, and if the rich and the bad are free and unsuppressed, what will be the consequences?You have to make it clear!Xiao: Well, that's probably what we often call restoration. Another cadre asked: After listening to what he said about wanting to change the sky, what do you say?Xiao: I didn't say anything, I didn't speak. Cadre: Impossible!You have to be honest!
Thinking about it now, Xiao Zhanbin was in his early 20s at most at that time, and he was a student who had just entered the world. The Beijing cadres sent to this commune happened to be from the grassroots public security department. The so-called Fighting Loquat Sect that day became a veritable interrogation meeting, interrogating one after another, questioning one ring after another, in the process, other educated youths listened stupidly, no one expected this situation, no one interjected, everyone listened and watched all this in front of them, because no one knew in advance the cause and ins and outs of the matter.
The police officers still have experience, some of them are veterans of criminal investigation, and some are experts in interrogation. A cadre said, "Explain and explain, why does your counterrevolutionary classmate dare to tell you anything that is reactionary?"Aren't you afraid that you will denounce it?Xiao replied: We have had a good relationship since we were in school, we have nothing to say, I really didn't want to denounce him, I don't have a high class consciousness...... Another cadre interjected and said: Xiao Zhanbin, be honest!We will never wronged a good person, and we dare to hold this meeting here today to prove that we have quite the material in our hands, and it depends on whether you are honest or not, and your attitude will determine your qualitative ....... Forced back and forth, Xiao Zhanbin finally reluctantly admitted that he also had the idea of changing the sky.
Everyone here was shocked!Qiuqiu couldn't even believe her ears. Since the Cultural Revolution, whether on the radio or in the draft of criticism, we have often heard the phrase "the class enemy is always trying to subvert the proletariat and restore capitalism", but this seems to be a fixed sentence in the draft of criticism
However, this class enemy came as a surprise. No matter how Qiuqiu imagined it, he couldn't connect the class enemy with the Xiao Zhanbin in front of him. The intellectuals were confused, no one intervened from beginning to end, and everyone continued to look blankly at everything in front of them.
After Xiao admitted that he had the idea of changing the sky, he refused to admit anything else, he said: Although I have the idea of restoration, I have not taken action to restore it, I have not spread any reactionary speech, as far as I know, whether it is a characterization or a sentence, no words or actions cannot be punished. After he finished speaking, the venue was silent for a while, and the Beijing cadres seemed to have no words, and the air seemed to be condensed.
At this critical moment, Xiao's classmate and leader of their team, Li Sen, spoke: The great teacher Lenin taught us that the bourgeoisie can turn their ideas of restoration into actions of restoration at any timeThe old high school is amazing!The quotations are so timely and appropriate, and the questions are so poignant. Xiao Zhanbin was embarrassed for a while, he admitted that it was wrong, and it was not right if he didn't admit it, and the atmosphere at the venue was tense again. A Beijing cadre urged: Xiao Zhanbin, you are honest!Answer quickly!
At this time, Xiao has been forced to have no place to hide, and has no choice but to have a showdown: I do have some restoration, I wrote an article **, about a rural woman who was forced to die because of an arranged marriage. A cadre interjected: What is the purpose of writing **?Xiao: I just want people to watch it and arouse dissatisfaction and hatred towards the current society. I also wrote a few lyrics, and let a buddy who learned ** compose a song, and the content of the lyrics also expresses dissatisfaction with society. ......A cadre interjected and said, "Tell me specifically about your desire to be the leader of the country, the matter of educated youth, and the matter of your persuasion of your mother." After hearing this, Xiao continued: I told my buddies about who will be in power after the change, and I said that if the sky has really changed, if you want to be the first and second in command of the country, you will be bored with anything else. My mother often cried sadly after being copied at home, and I once persuaded her to say, you can't cry like this, I hope you will be a strong mother, so that when I have a successful career in the future, I can proudly say to the world that I have a great mother, and she has shown very human strength in the face of adversity. One of my buddies said to me, you are really the next one, your heart is higher than the sky!It's a pity that I'm just an adjutant. ......I believe that educated youths are the backbone of our future restoration and change, and they must be dissatisfied with society when they leave their hometowns, so I am generally good for them. When Qiuqiu heard this, she couldn't help but flash Xiao to privately engrave the official seal for the educated youth and open a fake certificate to assist him in picking up the car, it turned out that Xiao was pretending to be a senior leader!
Now that the floodgates have been opened, there is no point in keeping the stars. Under the powerful offensive of the Beijing cadres, Xiao Zhanbin completely explained all his thoughts and deeds, and after finishing speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief and seemed to feel relaxed. Qiuqiu noticed that in the process of Xiao's confession, the cadres were no longer as pressing step by step as they did at the beginning. A cadre said: Your attitude was quite correct later, and only when you fully confessed your crimes to the party could you win leniency and become a new person. Judging you as a counter-revolutionary is not too much for what you have done!We do not intend to deal with you harshly, but in the future, under the supervision of the masses, you must do a good job of labor reform, change your thinking, and strive to return to the revolutionary track. Another cadre finally said: This is the end of today's meeting, and after the meeting is adjourned, everyone should actively prepare a draft of criticism, and in a few days a criticism meeting will be held to criticize Xiao Zhanbin's reactionary ideas until they are thoroughly criticized and criticized. Xiao Zhanbin, you also have to prepare a speech to talk about everyone's criticism of you. ......
After the meeting, everyone learned that one of Xiao Zhanbin's classmates was assigned to the Beijing factory after graduation. Because of his background, his home was raided, and he was extremely dissatisfied with the Cultural Revolution. He was not cautious in his speech, but he was exposed as a reactionary remarker, and he was branded as a counter-revolutionary, and he is now being detained in Beijing. In the initial stage of investigation and review of the case, the police interrogated him: ......Who did you say that?Xiao's classmate, I don't know if he lacks heart and lungs or wants to make meritorious service to atone for his crimes, he mentioned it many times, I told Xiao Zhanbin about this. As a result, the public security personnel in Beijing traveled thousands of miles to northern Shaanxi to find Xiao from top to bottom to verify the case of his classmate, and this also aroused the suspicion of the cadres in Beijing and Shaanxi: Why did Xiao Zhanbin tell Xiao Zhanbin all the reactionary remarks of the current counterrevolution?Isn't it self-evident who Xiao is?So Xiao also revealed the stuffing, and there was this interrogation.
In the preparatory stage for the future critique meeting, Beijing cadres demanded that every educated youth must speak and participate in the critique. They also specially selected a cadre to be responsible for reviewing the critical drafts of the educated youth. On the day of the review, the educated youths were called into the cave one by one and read the manuscripts they had written to the reviewers. Qiuqiu still remembers the appearance of the cadre who reviewed the manuscript, holding his arms and closing his eyes, listening carefully to the critical draft. He opened his eyes from time to time and wrote down a few strokes in the notebook, and after Qiuqiu finished reading the manuscript, he put forward his opinions one by one according to the content recorded in the notebook, and asked Qiuqiu to change it. and said that he would read it to him again after the correction, and Qiuqiu's manuscript was instructed by him and changed it two or three times until he was satisfied.
Not long after, a criticism meeting was held, but fortunately, the whole village member meeting was never held. The educated youths were arranged in the order of their speeches, reading the drafts one after another, each with serious expressions and fierce words, those criticized drafts that had been reviewed, sounded reasonable, advantageous, and modest, and the level was not low, Xiao Zhanbin was urged by Beijing cadres to keep recording the content of each speech, because after going down, he had to write out his understanding again according to these contents, and he also made self-criticism at this criticism meeting, and I heard that his manuscript had also been reviewed in advance.
A political storm is over, and Xiao Zhanbin's file may add some content, but nothing else has changed. At the meeting, it was decided that Xiao would be reformed through labor under the supervision of the masses. But according to Qiuqiu, Xiao really has nothing to supervise, because he didn't say anything nonsense. Xiao is really a strong man, he has not been slumped since then, and soon there will be talk and laughter again. The educated youth still work, eat and sleep every day, and life has returned to peace.
Looking back now, the people who were unwilling to be suppressed during the Cultural Revolution and tried to change the status quo of society are not only understandable but also admirable. Facts have proved that these people have brains and backbones, and they are not willing to go against the grain and live as promises. Although Xiao is an educated youth and does not have an official position, he is in the front, and he uses his actions to resist. Although in the eyes of later generations, words and deeds are too naïve, and even have the rashness of young people, it is these low-level acts of resistance that represent the people's consciousness of rejecting the Cultural Revolution and condense the people's power to overthrow the Gang of Four.