In the first paragraph of my article “Miscellaneous Memories of ‘Revolutionary Songs'”, I told an anecdote about my childhood when I was ten years old and made my first political mistake in my Life because of a revolutionary song, while this article describes the story of a difficult friend of mine who got into trouble for singing a revolutionary song. Although both stories originated from revolutionary songs, they are distinctly different in nature: I made a mistake because I sang it wrongly, but he was unlucky because he sang it wrongly – to be precise, he sang a song with inappropriate content on an inappropriate day.
The song that brought him misfortune was called “Dazhai Yaxi”, which was very popular in the 1970s and must still be remembered by ladies and gentlemen over 50 today.
In 1976, I was in the Nanjing No. 4 Machine Tool Factory (Jiangsu Province’s 11th Labor Reform Team) as a convicted counterrevolutionary, and the song “Dazhai Yaxi” was played every day on the radio in the prison. I’ve been a fool for a long Time, and although this song was played every day, I never understood its lyrics, but I only knew that the word “Yaxi” means good in the old language of Xinjiang, and this “Yaxi” and “Dazhai The word “Yaxi” and “Dazhai” are spelled out, so it goes without saying that it is a glorification of how good Dazhai is and how I hope it will never collapse in a thousand years.
Although I didn’t understand the lyrics, I was extremely disgusted with the song, especially its tune. I don’t know why, but the first time I heard it, it reminded me of the Tibetan lamas sitting next to the dead to overtake the dead when howling, and then listened carefully, and found that the popular “little widow to the grave” around Jiangnan also has a few similarities.
After all, personal feelings can not replace the feelings of others, the other prisoners do not seem to be so “sensitive” as me. Not only did they not hate this “Dazhai Yaxi”, many of them also took it as a casual joke and would hum a few lines from time to time. Especially the line “Yaxi ah ah Yaxi”, has actually become a popular “golden song” that some people hang on the mouth, rather like some fashionable young people love to hum “sister you sit on the bow, brother I walk on the shore ” as well.
Among those who love to hum “Yaxi”, the victim mentioned at the beginning of this article is one of them.
My friend Dai, like me, was sentenced to ten years for “cerebral infection”. The main crime was “consistent reactionary thinking, repeatedly spreading reactionary remarks and vicious attacks on the Great Leader; listening to enemy stations for a long time and spreading reactionary propaganda from enemy stations everywhere. Old Dai and I were assigned to the same squadron soon after we arrived at the labor camp, and later we were in the same group, and we were in the same “window” for seven or eight years. He used to work in a machine factory in Nanjing and had a good skill in boring machines, and was considered a top expert in our automobile branch. In the labor camp, “active counterrevolutionaries” are lower than criminal offenders who commit murder, arson, rape, fraud, and theft, so seeing that Old Dai was often praised, it was inevitable that the criminal offenders were red-faced.
Many people say that most of us “current counterrevolutionaries” are smart and active, but they just won’t keep to themselves, and this may not be unreasonable, my difficult friend Lao Dai belongs to this category. The old Dai not only has excellent boring skills, but also has two other skills, one is repairing clocks and watches, and the other is acupuncture. The inmates are not allowed to wear watches, so his watch repair skills are useless, but the acupuncture skills can often be useful, when you encounter toothache, stomach pain, bruises and injuries to find him, a needle down in less than ten minutes to ensure that the Huo however healing. I often had toothaches at that time, and I always asked him for help.
When God created man, probably the same as the socialist countries to the people to implement the plan to supply goods by ticket, the good always have to take some of the weak, old Dai case is no exception. In addition to these strengths of intelligence and versatility, he also had a number of weaknesses, the most important of which was his love of “Xing” (declension, pronounced as “letter” in Nanjing. The common interpretation of “Xing” is that in case of happy things can not be calm, can not hold down the inner excitement and thus the surface emotions out of control meaning). But whenever there are some happy things, such as a correctional cadres because of the “style of life” problem was punished, a labor reform activists because of the collusion lost and criticized, then the old Dai absolutely inevitably have to “Xing” a while.
Speaking of this “Xing”, Lao Dai’s original conviction of “vicious attacks on the Great Leader” was his hard “Xing” out – – – – -The “vicious attack on the Great Leader” was the one that he had to “make”.
On December 26, 1968, which was the birthday of his little niece, Lao Dai went out early in the morning to buy noodles, but after riding his bike for two hours, he couldn’t get one. Upon inquiring, it turned out that today was also the birthday of the Great Leader, and people lined up to buy noodles at grain stations and vegetable market outlets early in the morning, and all of them were sold out in less than an hour. The old Dai had to return in vain, who knew that there was no way out, and it so happened that when he arrived Home, a noodle distribution point nearby suddenly arrived temporarily! The first time I saw such a good thing, old Dai defiantly squeezed forward to buy a few pounds at once whistling back home with gusto. Shortly after, suddenly two neighbors old lady to visit the door, see old Dai home table has a large spread of noodles, quickly asked him where to buy? Old Dai replied not far in front of the corner, the old mother said only from there to come, as soon as people snapped up to buy an empty. The disappointed old lady complimented Lao Dai in passing, saying he really had a way to buy so much at once. Once heard someone praise the old Dai inevitably increased, and even said not easy not easy, how how to turn more than two hours to buy the source of the passage Ben Ben said once, think think feel not enough, followed by a paragraph of improvisation: “Chinese people really fucking evil, which day usually can not eat this inverted head of noodles? Each and every one of them has to squeeze in today to catch up with the fashion, also do not know what kind of hilarity. This is good, noodles are harder to buy than Gold bars, what a fucking world!” He said this side of the pain, the two old ladies in the neighborhood committee happens to be a member of the “small foot detection team”, this secret detective just out of the Dai Family, the next foot into the neighborhood committee. Half an hour later, the old Dai “vicious attack on the Great Leader Mao × ×, vicious attack on the revolutionary masses spontaneously commemorate the birthday of the Great Leader, the good revolutionary situation of socialism stigmatized as ‘what the hell world'” and other crimes by the neighborhood committee The “Revolutionary Mass Dictatorship Group” recorded the crimes, which later became ironclad evidence of Lao Dai’s “vicious attacks”.
Old Dai is not tall, a thin face square and decent, but strange is born with a big mouth, and once said to the head of the mouth grin extra large, the corner of the mouth from time to time will be a bunch of white foam. Large mouth, love to talk, and love to “Xing”, so the other two difficult friends Cao Zhiping and Mr. Chen Zhiqiong gave him a very apt nickname – Toad.
Soon after I met Dai, I could see that he had this problem, so I often reminded him to pay more attention to it, so as not to “Xing” out of trouble. Admitted his feelings but also listened to the advice, a few years at least did not have any major problems. Then again, from 1970 to 1975, China did not happen anything worthy of our counter-revolutionary happiness, even if Lao Dai wanted to “Xing” but also difficult to have the opportunity.
Speaking of opportunities, on September 9, 1976, Lao Dai really ushered in a heavenly opportunity for great prosperity.
On September 9 at about 3 p.m., I came out of the toilet through the door of the general dispatch room, I do not know who’s semiconductor is playing a lament, I listened to it could not help but be moved: the first half of this year has gone two important people, this time I do not know which one is rushing to Marx to report to? Then the central radio broadcaster read: “The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China to the whole party, the whole army, the whole nation …… “Hearing this long list of “head”, followed by “to the whole party and the whole army of the people of all nationalities”, I could not help but feel a wild jump in my heart, could not be …… At the time of the brain flying, the following immediately read out: “…… sick after many careful treatment, but finally due to the deterioration of the disease, medical treatment failed, died in Beijing on September 9, 1976 at 00:10.”
As soon as I heard this great news from the sky, I didn’t have the heart to wait for the following content, now I urgently need to find a place to calm down, so I quickly walked towards my workplace. My design room is outside the three posts, the environment is secluded, only three people in the same room, the relationship with each other is very good.
As soon as the old Mo in the same room saw me enter, he immediately shook the old semiconductor in his hand and greeted me excitedly: “Good news, good news, old Fang, did you hear the radio?”
I smiled and nodded my head.
Seeing that I already know, the old Mo more energetic: “The old B-raised go, the old B-raised go, Glau ala come out of the head of the day is coming! Happy to kill people, happy to kill people!” Said after laughing loudly, the body like dancing the word “loyal” twisted up ……
Old Mo is a native of Shanghai, formerly a research institute technician, in 1959 when decentralized farms, because the hunger can not eat to steal the public three rabbits sentenced to two years of “re-Education through labor”, after the expiration of the period and was forced to stay in the factory “employment”, before and after the labor camp has been in 17 years. According to the original intention of the correctional cadres, in order to supervise me and my apprentice Sun, specially arranged for him, the “second reform through labor” and we two prisoners in together, but who knows that soon after meeting with us and become good friends. This guy is usually quite cautious on the surface, I can not imagine that today is so uncharacteristic, this really should be “people are happy when the spirit of refreshment” that old saying.
Not long after I sat down, someone suddenly came to inform all prisoners to gather urgently. According to the practice of the reform team, there must be a big event to give us reform prisoners “on the strength”, but I did not expect this time to come so quickly. When I ran to the open space in front of the big workshop, all the prisoners had lined up in formation, all the brigade and squadron correctional cadres were also personally present at the scene, the brigade x instructor stood in front of the team with a look of sorrow and was preparing to give a lecture. After walking into the line I glanced at the left rear of the row of old Dai, he is also staring at me, the face is clearly covered with the uncontrollable excitement. I hurriedly made a wink, he skimmed his mouth and made a face.
We are a stammering son of x instructor, poor eloquence but also love to lecture, usually not a lot of embarrassment. Today, the atmosphere is probably different, did not dare to make a statement, just stammered according to the prepared speech read a pass. The first half of the eulogy was copied from the radio, and the rest was to the effect that from now on all reformed prisoners are under “strict control” and are only allowed to follow rules and regulations and are not allowed to talk and move around, especially to guard against a few bad guys who take advantage of the opportunity of the revolutionary people to mourn the unfortunate death of the Great Leader to wreak havoc, and once these bad guys are found, there will be a crackdown on one, there will be Once these bad guys are found, one will fight against one, one pair will fight against one, and one pair will fight against one, and how many will fight against how many. Finally, the x-teaching stammering announced a long list of “no”: no recreational activities, no laughing and joking, no singing and humming, no loud noises, no mingling, no Food and drink to each other, no ……
After the stuttering instructor read another brigade cadres added two points, one is that all reform prisoners are not allowed to wear black armbands, wear small white flowers to engage in any mourning activities, the second is not allowed to mourn in the name of howling and crying. Special emphasis was placed on “the day of grief of the revolutionary masses is the time when counter-revolutionaries gloat”, requiring everyone to strengthen mutual supervision, once found someone gloating, must be reported immediately, otherwise treated as an accomplice.
The spell was really effective, the whole prison room that night quiet with the morgue almost, everyone like a dead mother and father like crying face, even farting are lame three points, afraid to get involved in the “gloating” suspicion. We “now against” is particularly careful, each other face to face greetings do not dare to play, at most squeeze down the eyes, skimming the mouth that the heart should not. I remember I did not dare to smother my head with a sheet until after I got into bed under the mosquito net.
The next morning shortly after work, I was in the workshop to check the operation of a grinding machine, suddenly heard two loud coughs, looked up, only to see the old Dai towards me. I heard two loud coughs, and when I looked up, I saw old Dai walking toward me. Looking at his smug look and frantic pace, I thought, “This kid seems to be having a seizure, and it’s likely to be an acute seizure.
As expected, just to the side he dragged me to the grinder behind the hidden place.
“Old Fang ah! The old B finally buckle up! My goodness, after so many years finally let us Ba Ba to it! God’s eyes! God’s eyes!” Before I could stand still, that big mouth with white foam was like a machine gun muzzle spewing a series of exclamation marks at me.
The workshop was a crowded place, and I dared not speak up when I saw his madness, so I asked him to leave, and told him to go back to his post immediately, don’t wander around, don’t talk to people, don’t look for trouble, in a word, don’t get sick at such times!
“I’ve got numbers, I’ve got numbers, I’m leaving right now.” After I so a robbery, he finally did not continue to play down, before turning around to think and said with a smile: “I am really lame to find you rave two sentences, last night I was excited most of the night did not close my eyes, think I can not wait to get up and laugh a good …… “Saying that and some can’t help it, a leg like four little swan dance step left and right swing up. Seeing the strength again, I hurriedly a palm will push him away.
Looking at his back my heart surged through a burst of ominous, this time the labor activists are staring at us one by one these counter-revolutionary, make a bad toad may want to accident.
Just after four o’clock in the afternoon suddenly announced that the collection of work. In the past, always delay until 5:30 before the end of the day, today so early to close the work, what must have happened. We lined up one by one with fear and trepidation.
After the roll call, the gloomy-faced instructor began to lecture. He first affirmed that most of the squadron inmates in the first day of “strict control” performance is okay, basically can comply with the series of “no” announced yesterday x instructor, many inmates also wrote a thought report overnight, the great leader x x x x’s unfortunate death deeply Grief, said that we must turn grief into strength, further deepen the confession of guilt and obey the law, and work hard to produce labor, and mourn the great leader with practical reform actions, some also wrote a letter of determination, promising to change the past to speed up the pace of ideological reform, some promise to sweat hard to complete this month’s production tasks ahead of schedule, and so on and so forth.
I listened to all these words. They will not praise us for some and so early to close the work! And look at his frosty face, there must be a good show behind.
As expected, the next turn of phrase, said that although most prisoners can comply with government decrees, but there are a very small number of reactionary stance of counter-revolutionary elements are extremely dishonest! This kind of people out of the dark psychology of the unspeakable, gloating over the death of the great leader, openly defy the “strict control” during the ban, smiling at people, walking and jumping, more bad is even recklessly whistling and humming everywhere, disturbing the reformation of the bad environment, the impact is very bad!
Here, the instructor scanned the crowd and pinned his gaze on the old Dai’s face: “In this very few people, Dai × × is the most prominent one!”
Then the instructor raised the notebook in his hand: “Since the morning we have received many reports, and the contents of the reports were verified, now let everyone see what the counter-revolutionary Dai × × did after the death of the great leader Mao × × ×!
After saying that, he flipped through his notebook and read.
“At 8:00 a.m. × × × × in front of the toilet, while tying his pants, whistling the tune of the Indian Nisini folk song ‘Ouch Mama'”
“At 8:× × a.m., I went to the tool room to get the head of the knife, and hummed ‘Yakshi Yakshi’ as I walked along.
“At 9:00 a.m., I was working on the metal boring machine, humming ‘Yaxi Yaxi Yaxi’ over and over again.”
“At the sink in the morning, while washing his hands and humming ‘Yaxi Yaxi Yaxi'”
“2:00 p.m. × × × at the inspection table, one foot on the toolbox, while shaking and whistling ‘Dazhai Yaxi'”
“2:00 p.m. × × minutes to the tool room to return tools, lying in the tool room small window whistling ‘Dazhai Yaxi’, tool room Wu × × × told him not to whistle, he said ‘what the hell do you care ah? “
“…………”
Because of the age, I can not remember the total number of articles, only remember that the instructor read each one, my heart will thump.
To be honest, our instructor is not a person who is looking for trouble, and not much biased listening, just half a day more than received so many reports, and time, place, circumstances and so specific, I am afraid that I have to believe. Now the obvious problem is: the great man just left the front foot, the old Dai foot singing, and more damaging is what song not to sing in favor of this “Yaxi”, this is not a “heartless” gloating and what is? Toad ah toad, you kid this time is to hit the gun!
The more I thought about it, the more worried I was for old Dai, so the instructor’s next vicious reprimand did not listen to much, until the end of the announcement of his decision: from tonight, Dai × × in the group to receive criticism.
I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard it!
In the labor squad, group criticism was as common as three meals a day, and only minor matters were resolved in group meetings. According to historical experience, when Old Dai broke such a taboo, he should at least be criticized and struggled by the General Assembly, and then put in shackles and confinement, and finally, it depends on luck whether the sentence will be increased or not. I’ve always stood up for the Party and the government, and I’ve never been retarded when it comes to such big issues!
But this time I made a rare “empirical” mistake!
Within two days I learned from the “old factory” that on the same day that Dai was “gloating”, an emergency notice came down from above: During the mourning period of the Great Leader, all kinds of exposing, criticizing, and struggling activities should be suspended, except for a very few class enemies with significant ongoing activities that should be suppressed immediately. The regular activities such as struggle were suspended. I guess there are such “gloating” as Lao Dai, I’m afraid the country is not a few, can not let these guys interfere with the revolutionary mourning. About because of this, Lao Dai is a temporary escape.
The result was that Lao Dai was only criticized for three nights in this group, and the way of criticism was not intense, neither touching the flesh, let alone the soul.
Old Dai, of course, was not yet so “happy” that he didn’t know how to live or die, and he finally lived in peace for a while. He is not a stupid person, it is inevitable that the incident after the fear. He understands that his problem is not three nights of group criticism will be able to solve, late mother beat children, sooner or later a meal. Old Dai was very worried about this for many days.
I don’t know if God has eyes or fate, who expected the return of the Longevity less than a month, suddenly a shocking palace coup in China and abroad, overnight the wise leader Chairman Hua sat on the dragon’s chair, husband’s bones are not cold Queen Jiang with a few minions and we became prisoners.
China has always been a dynasty, a minister, the court this change, from the capital ministers to local vassals and then to the following levels of the size of the head, this large class of “public servants” is the primary consideration is their own heads on the veil, of course, the labor department is no exception! As the saying goes, “one mind has no two uses”, since the main focus is on how to keep the position under the “new situation”, other things can only be set aside, so the daily care for our reform prisoners has been greatly reduced, and more than a month ago x teach announced the The “strict control” decision and the long list of “no-no’s” announced by the teacher a month or so ago were forgotten at an early date. In the months that followed, our reform team lived a relatively quiet life, and the matter of old Dai was not mentioned again.
In 1977, with the downfall of the new powerbrokers who made their fortune from the Cultural Revolution, the old cadres of the former Cultural Revolution began to eat good, and the original young instructor of our squadron was transferred away, and a new instructor with white hair surnamed Z came. This Z instructor before the Cultural Revolution has been the brigade instructor, “implement the policy” after the official should be rehabilitated or promoted to another level, but a monk temple really can not be stuffed, had to condescend to a lower level into our instructor. When he first came we estimated from his head of white hair age at least sixty, later learned that he just passed fifty, came to a few days behind each of them called him Z white head.
The same as all the old cadres are eager to find the feeling of power after the resurgence, Z white head once in office to a new official three fires. During that time, the top has not been laid out what new campaign, he carefully reviewed the original instructor left behind prisoner materials, a glance at the old Dai “gloating” event years ago, decided to cook this bowl of cold rice first, so the old Dai became the object of the first Z white head of fire.
The idea is certain, Z white head immediately set up a special solution to the old Dai problem of learning class.
The use of criminal whole political prisoners is always the good tradition of the reform team, the old cadres are certainly familiar with this, so three criminal was Z handpicked as the old Dai learning class “help learning” members. Their task was to jointly help Old Dai “raise awareness”, the main content of this “awareness” is “thoroughly confess the substance of the problem”, “dig deeper The main content of this “awareness-raising” is to “thoroughly confess the substantive problems” and “dig deeper into the reactionary ideological roots of gloating”. In order to prevent Lao Dai from getting away with it, Z specially took care to make Lao Dai “correct his attitude” first. The term “correct attitude” has a very rich connotation in the reform team, and its essential ingredient is a strong “policy attack” pressure, and all kinds of “necessary means”. This is something that no one who has been in prison in the 1970s knows.
Out of old cadres’ prudence, considering that in case something happens to facilitate the shifting of responsibility, Z certainly did not forget to warn the three “help learn” hitmen that they must “pay due attention to the policy, pay due attention to the impact.” The implication is that you can do what you want to do, as long as you don’t kill people.
The location of the study class was chosen in the prison room of the large value star office, the room about ten square feet, both compact and does not affect the exercise of their skills. In order to avoid the night “study” when the noise is too loud alarm others, but also special sealing performance of the doors and windows to add.
The study class concentrated learning time from 7:00 p.m., after our routine learning, they then close the door for the night, until the fighters themselves exhausted. The next day they can enjoy the night shift to make up for a morning off, and old Dai to work with us early in the morning.
After the set-up, the class called “Dazhai Yaxi” officially opened on January 19, 1977, and so began Lao Dai’s nightmare. The reason why I can report the opening date so accurately, not because I have a good memory, but old Dai at that time about the study class secretly recorded in a small book, rehabilitated when released from prison and brought out this “change of day account” and has been treasured to this day, not long ago when I visited he deliberately found out.
Regarding the various tortures that Lao Dai endured during the 24-day study course, I will not go into detail here in order to avoid the mental stimulation of friends reading this article. Here is just a glimpse of the two hours of “face-to-face thinking” that Lao Dai underwent every night.
Because the evening 7 to 9 pm study class and other prisoners study time overlap, in order to avoid “interference” with others, these two hours deliberately not arranged “interactive” study, but by the old Dai alone to consider the problem, the fighters this beautiful name “Facing the wall to think over”. The “face of the wall” is not the usual imaginary face to the wall to meditate on the problem, “face of the wall” person first feet from the root of the wall back a foot-long distance, and then the body Bi straight forward, until the head of the wall. There is also a special rule: the whole body torso is not allowed to have any bend, must be like a door stick leaning against the wall as well! The other three sit aside to supervise, once found that the posture is not standard, immediately with a special small wooden stick to hit the deformed parts.
According to this head on the wall posture slanting, anyone is difficult to adhere to half an hour. Old Dai inevitably every night to “deformation” several times, each “deformation” is a beating stick. Afterwards, Dai showed me his most bendable knee, which was purple and black, swollen like a black steamed bun during the “three years of natural disasters”!
China has always been one of the most colorful countries in terms of human rights, and even if I don’t go into detail about the rich content of those “studies”, I think anyone who has experienced the Cultural Revolution will understand what happened in the study classes back then. For young people who did not go through the Cultural Revolution, if they look at the reports of frequent deaths in public security police stations and “hide and seek” in detention centers, they must have enough wisdom to imagine what it was like back then. More than thirty years later, the main character of this article, Lao Dai, condensed the feelings of that study class into one sentence: “That was the most flesh and soul touching days of my life!”
At that time, a prisoner named “Xiao Dong” secretly told me that the bunk he slept in was only one wall away from the class, and he often put his ear to the wall at night to eavesdrop on the movement next door, and every time he could faintly hear Lao Dai’s screams. “Xiao Dong” said that the sound was miserable and terrible, and it was often difficult to sleep for a long time after listening to it.
One day in the study class, a Cheng technically have something to ask me, I set some close after asking him old Dai after learning “whether the attitude has some change?” The kid said with a grunt: “Day mother, this guy is really stubborn! He said that he sang ‘Yaxi’ because his sister in Jiangxi had just given birth to a fat son, so he hummed a few lines because he was happy, but in fact, deep down he was very sad about the death of the great leader Mao × ×.”
When I tried to inquire what they were going to do next, the boy said, “Now it’s really a bit of a problem, we should use all the methods used, but this guy just bites the bullet and does not admit to gloating! We went to ask the instructor, but the instructor did not make a sound.”
I listened to the heart both for the old Dai good, but at the same time worried about whether he can still hold on.
As the saying goes, “man’s plan is not as good as God’s plan”, and within two days there was a dramatic and significant turn of events.
This night we are studying, suddenly from the study class room came a loud scream like a pig, the sound not only alarmed our squadron the entire prison, even next to our brick and mortar two squadron many prisoners have also from the window bars in the head out to check, there are several prisoners in coaxing shouting “and beaten hello, and beaten hello”! Our squadron is notorious for using prisoners to beat up prisoners, and the surrounding squadrons all knew about it.
I heard the shout and immediately understood that it was Lao Dai, immediately rushed to the study class, followed by several team leaders also followed. I saw the door of the small room half open, old Dai is lying on his back on the floor, two hands tightly gouge the door frame, a fighter riding on old Dai is using a dirty rag to cover old Dai’s mouth, next to two guys while kicking him, while constantly vicious curses: “I told you to be dishonest! I told you to be dishonest! ……” I came closer to take a look, old Dai half of the face are swollen, mouth and nose out of the blood in that desperate pale face is particularly eye-catching, I almost did not recognize this all-too-familiar face.
At that moment I only felt my whole body blood rushed to the brain, ears buzzing, immediately shouted “Stop!” Zhang Rugo, who came with me, pulled my lapel at the back and reminded me not to be overly impulsive. At that moment, which I still care about other, went forward to pick up the old Dai asked him what was going on?
“I …… I …… I pulled …… diarrhea today, just …… just now I really can’t …… hold back, but he …… them hard …… hard not …… let …… me go to the toilet …… also …… said I played …… tricks ……” poor old Dai The poor old Dai, one side of a big mouth gasping for air, one side intermittently complained of suffering.
When I picked him up to stand, suddenly a foul smell in the hut diffused, then I noticed that the old Dai’s trouser leg tube is flowing down the yellow mucus – because of the inability to hold it plus the fierce struggle, the old Dai’s large bubble of thin shit all in the crotch!
Two of the team leaders who came with me immediately pointed out that this was too much and asked the fighters to “pay attention to the impact, not too much.”
The fighters did not expect us to step in and mind our own business, and carried out the background with a disdainful face: “Z instructor repeatedly instructed that the first thing to do with this guy is to fix his attitude, which can let him want to poop on the poop, want to piss on the piss?” The leader of the class, Huynh × ×, waved his hand out: “Go, go, go, this is our study class, don’t worry about it.
The arrogance of this guy angered me, and I immediately pointed at him and cursed: “Bullshit! You’re fucking fighting the red flag against the red flag! When did the instructor say that no one is allowed to urinate or defecate? You are deliberately stirring up trouble, deliberately creating scandals, deliberately scandalizing the Party’s labor reform policy, so as to discredit the government and thus achieve your ulterior motives!” There is no better way to deal with these guys than to slash them with a crooked axe, and after seven years of reform through labor, I was already familiar with this routine.
The three guys looked at me, the usual “good old boy” actually jumped out today, a little caught off guard. After a little reprieve, the surnamed Wait sneered and said: “OK OK OK, count you will say, count you high level, now you can go, we have to continue to learn.” While speaking, he wrenched the door and pushed us out. Once he saw how he shooed us away, I slammed the door with my shoulder against the wall with a “ping”: “No! This can not end today, I will immediately report to the cadres. If you guys dare to do this again, you’ll have to take the blame if something happens!”
Several other team leaders have long been uncomfortable with the vicious behavior of these fighters, usually just dare not speak, tonight, I saw me jump out and they are serious, immediately echoed my opinion, told me to report, they are responsible for watching the scene.
Then I hurried out of the prison room to the prison compound iron gate to the sentry loudly reported that our squadron has a major situation, please our squadron cadres quickly to deal with. The soldier who was standing guard saw a prisoner come to the gate at night and shouted a report, so he was a little nervous, and after staring at me, he grabbed the telegraph while pointing his gun at me.
Five minutes later x officer hurried over. He just stepped through the iron gate, I immediately gave him a brief report of what had just happened, focusing on the study class to Dai × × beat the shit out of his pants, Dai’s screams alarmed several squadrons next door, causing a very bad impact. I said that when we went to stop them, they repeatedly claimed that the instructor told them to do so. I’ve been in the reform team for seven years, and I’ve never seen a government cadre touch a finger of a prisoner, nor have I ever heard of a government cadre instructing a prisoner to beat a prisoner, but Huynh × × and others are obviously maliciously attacking the Party’s reform policy and maliciously slandering government cadres ……
In the labor reform team can never be honest, in order to “preemptively” sue the opponent, the necessary “adding oil and vinegar” categorically indispensable. I can clearly see the x officer frowning more and more tightly, his face covered with dark clouds. Then he took me back to the prison room.
As soon as I saw the x officer came, several guys in the study class immediately greeted me, x ignored them directly into the small room, I went back to the group to continue to study. Afterwards, I heard that x the guys had a hard bear, the surname wait also received two kicks.
That night the study class did not “learn” to go on, after the next study I saw old Dai poorly squatting next to the tap water to wash his pants, I launched the same group of brothers each donated a bottle of boiling water, so that the old Dai painful bath.
The next day just a short while after work, suddenly someone informed me to go upstairs office, said Z instructor looking for me.
I thought I was in trouble for what happened last night. The × officer last night is only a temporary disposal, the final how to be decided by the instructor, Z is likely to blame me for meddling and ask for a crime. I am known to have a good relationship with the old interceptor, and it is not impossible to place a charge of “counter-revolutionary harboring a counter-revolutionary” on my behalf.
I didn’t expect anything to happen.
When Z saw me, he simply asked me what had happened last night, and not only did he not blame me, but he smiled and praised me, saying that my report at the gate last night was “necessary and timely. What I didn’t expect was the announcement of a decision: “From today, Dai × × will be transferred to your group 8, and will receive help in criticism in your group.” We were told to “thoroughly criticize his reactionary ideas, carefully monitor his every word and deed, and don’t let him go around talking nonsense!”
After listening to his instructions, I stared at his head full of white hair for half a day: how could this old man think of transferring old Dai to our group? The two group leaders, Zhang Rugao and I, were counter-revolutionaries ourselves (to add a little introduction: Mr. Zhang Rugao was the victim of a famous unjust case in Suzhou during the Cultural Revolution and was rehabilitated in 1978. At that time, he and I were both leaders of group 8, he was in charge of production and I was in charge of study), and now we were given Lao Dai, a counter-revolutionary who was the focus of criticism, so could it be that we were suspected of collusion between Lao Dai and me, and we were deliberately put together to set up a fishing line so that we would be “completely exposed” so that we could be “caught in a net”? to catch us in a net”? For this kind of experienced white head senior, have to be wary of him to this trick!
The first thing I did was to praise my years of “transformation performance”, and then smiled and said: “It’s not meaningful to transfer Dai × × to your group. This guy thinks he has a set of technical, general people are not in his eyes, listen to the reflection that he quite convinced you, I think the transfer of your 8 group it, but you must put him under good control.”
See Z said so, I hastened to say that I must do according to the instructions of the instructor, must be “severe criticism and fierce fighting” to the old Dai, he “control of the submissive”.
Later I learned that in the old Dai “study class” at the same time, the clamp group of a “speculation” crime surnamed Liu prisoners because they do not admit their guilt and always complain, was also run “study class” In the process of “learning”, he was struck through the eardrum and became deaf. Liu’s deafness was stabbed out when his family came to see him, and Liu happened to have a relative in the provincial political and legal mouth, and that relative found out about it and sought out our reform team through his connections, and chased him to the head of Z Whitehead. Finally, although the officials did not do anything to Z, but Z must have been under some pressure. At this point it happened that the old Dai was beaten to shit in his pants, Z certainly do not want to get into any more trouble, so the old Dai’s special study class was disbanded for no apparent reason.
The three guys who acted as fighters also did not end up well, on the day that Lao Dai transferred my group, Z white head at once to the study class two fighters of the group leader position to jerk off, the charge is “false decree”, “to the government face”.
Later with Z white head contact time, found that Z is not that kind of bent on the people to the death of the whole heart of the ruthless generation. Although he rectified the old Dai, after all, only “new officials on three fires” to show people, did not adhere to his own words must “dig out Dai × × gloating reactionary ideological roots” can not. In fact, if you really want to “dig” deeper, on the basis of the old Dai in the great leader’s pigtail when singing “Yaxi”, up a report plus a three-year two-year sentence is not uncommon. I was impressed by two other things about our white head instructor: one is that a prisoner stole public copper and sold it to the surrounding farmers, according to the law should be reported to increase the sentence, but Z white head always pressed not to report, just a few fights; and then in his more than a year in power, never to any prisoner handcuffed and shackled, which is a very rare thing in the reform team.
Another thing is more interesting –
One night in 1978 I was working late in the workshop when an automatic machine suddenly broke down, for which I rushed upstairs to report. On the stairs I heard someone singing Beijing opera in the office, but upstairs to see the office door closed, I looked in through the window, only to see Z white head is pacing back and forth across the Beijing opera steps, holding a few peanuts in his left hand, the right hand fist to the mouth, mouth while singing. I listened to the Ma Lianliang’s “Search and rescue the orphan” in Chen Ying that sings: “Mother, not (ah) must be too strong ……”! Because the mind is too preoccupied, I knocked a lot before he opened the door. I complimented him when I was leaving after the report: “The instructor’s voice is really good, and I thought I was singing in the semiconductor from afar.” He probably deceived me do not know the Beijing opera, said fervently “this” take the Weihu Mountain “is not really good to sing, how can not sing Yang Zirong kind of taste.” I almost laughed out loud at that.
In the eight model plays rampant in the era, the public prosecution and law old seniors actually still have a fondness for this “feudalism” old play, it is really hard for him. Although these old public prosecutors and law seniors also belong to the dictatorship machine “screws”, but compared to the ultra-leftist young strong faction to more humane, here to spend some ink to speak a few words of justice for them.
After receiving the instructions of the Z white head, I then discussed with Zhang Rugo how to criticize the old Dai when studying at night, and talked about it and jointly remembered the Wuxi guy Zhu Jimao of the same group.
This old Zhu turning technology is very good, in the fifties is the eighth grade turning technician, is about to break the military Marriage sentenced to two years, after the completion of the sentence to stay in Nanjing tiger bridge prison employment. “During the Cultural Revolution, he viciously slandered Comrade Jiang Qing, the “cultural flag bearer”, as a “rotten and filthy person”. “As a result, he became an “active counter-revolutionary” like us, and was sentenced to ten years. This old Zhu is not highly educated but very eloquent, especially good at “remembering the bitterness and sweetness”, obviously a trivial daily routine, by his words, he can immediately bring the contrast between the old and new society to the “liberation” before he was an apprentice in Shanghai stall those The old stories of the old days when he was an apprentice in Shanghai before the “liberation”. Talking about the “old society” in the labor camp was often considered as “promoting the bourgeoisie’s decadent lifestyle”, but this guy was well liked because of his great skills and good people, and the cadres had a good impression of him, so no one cared about him. The “reminiscence of bitterness and sweetness” fetish. He has been a treasure of our group, whenever ordered to criticize who, as long as he is in never worry about the cold, sometimes he can even pack a few nights, others want to speak are unable to interject.
I transferred Lao Dai to my group and accept the criticism of the matter told Lao Zhu, please he once again to play a good “leading role”, and try to “comprehensive some”, “rich some”. The old Zhu listened to the understanding, smiled and assured me: “You do not worry about it, old Dai’s matter is wrapped in my body!”
That night’s group critique meeting old Zhu really lived up to expectations. I briefly conveyed Z white head on the profound criticism of the old Dai instructions, the old Zhu immediately after the first gun.
The first was a three-minute “on line”, from Lao Dai’s reactionary ideas led to the sharpness, complexity and necessity of the class struggle, from the class struggle led to the contrast between the old and new society, from the contrast between the old and new led to the tragic oppression and exploitation of the working class before the “liberation”. The contrast between the old and the new leads to the tragic situation of the oppressed and exploited working class before the “liberation. At this point, his “theme” is formally cut to the chase.
He recalls in detail the “inhumane treatment” he suffered as an apprentice in Shanghai before the “liberation”, saying that his bosses consistently and cruelly exploited his labor, and that he had to work more than ten hours a day. After a day’s work, he had to wait for him to go to a prostitute at night, and he was forced to sit in front of the brothel until late at night. He could not stand the loneliness and quietly followed inside to see what the boss was doing, only to hear the boss shouting in the room, there are women ouch ouch ouch desperately screaming, there are many times inside more than one female ……. The boss is so, the boss’s wife is not something, never the old Zhu as a person. The main basis for this is not to look at people is to take a bath for her to play the bath water, to wait for her to undress, but also to help her back rub. As a result of watching the boss’s white body every day, even her bottom few hairs are remembered clearly, and so on and so forth ……. In the process of vividly describing these details in detail, the old Zhu from time to time also inserted some wonderful analog movements and sound effects, including the boss’s wife back rub when the creaking sound, the boss’s wife bare ass stretched lazy attitude ……
In this way, a few nights in a row by the old Zhu alone, the whole group listened to each and every one of them as if intoxicated, not too happy, even our protagonist Lao Dai a moment to forget their identity, the same as others laughing back and forth.
Years later when I talked about this anecdote, there were often people who did not believe that there was such a thing in the Communist prisons during the Cultural Revolution and wondered if I was making up “black humor” again. This is really wrong to me. The good thing is that all the brothers and sisters in the same group are alive today, and I think as long as I mention the “Dazhai Yaxi” study class and Lao Zhu’s “boss lady bath”, I’m sure they can all tell that funny story with great interest.
In fact, at that time, our group also has two labor reform activists, they must have “views” on this kind of criticism farce, but because of the two counter-revolutionary group leader cover, no one wants to sing a counter-key to do evil, might as well be happy to listen to the hilarity with it. Another important point is that by 1977, the political climate in China had changed subtly, and Zhang Rugao and I would not have had the guts to do so in the days when the Great Leader was still “long-lived”.
Soon it was the Chinese New Year. The labor reform team before the festival, as usual, to engage in some big hard work to meet the holiday and other activities, our 8 groups are some production technology backbone, production is busy, most people have to work overtime at night, the most four or five evening to participate in the study, this to the old Dai’s criticism of the invisible existence of the real, but not concluded. After the Spring Festival, I compiled a record of the group’s criticism of Lao Dai and gave it to the instructor. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the market. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. But you must strengthen the supervision of him, once you find any anti-reformation words and actions, must immediately report.” I hurriedly said yes.
In this way, Lao Dai’s “Dazhai Yaxi” fiasco finally came to an end. A high-altitude thrill, finally finally stumbled and crawled soft landing.
In the winter of 1978, the case of Lao Dai was reviewed and determined to be an unjust case and was completely rehabilitated. Thirty years we have maintained a good friendship, his “Dazhai Yaxi” story, has been me and other difficult friends of the classic “paragraph”, we meet as long as a total talk about the year, “Dazhai Yaxi “certainly is the traditional “story” can not get around.
Now the old Dai has long retired. In order to play a “residual heat”, he set up a watch repair stall in Nanjing Jiankang Road, Jiankang District, next to the street entrance, due to excellent technology, low fees, but also good faith to customers, business has been good for many years. Earlier years when the stall, the local city management had to “occupy the road to operate” as the name of his roll, when the old Dai to a few big caps to report their own home painfully that fallen history, especially after telling the “Dazhai Yaxi” story, from then on no one to find him trouble.
This article is published before the old Dai special care: all go to repair the watch when you can mention “Dazhai Yaxi”, all half price charges. In this right for the old friend for two sentences of advertising.
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