The mention of the pickets of the fourth middle school (in Beijing) draws back memories to more than 50 years ago.
I was just 14 years old in 1967 and was a minor. At that time, the General Administration and the National Defense Science Committee were afraid that we would not go to school and become bad, so they sent staff to take care of the children, and I guess the General Administration and the National Defense Science Committee were not working at that time, and they were also dedicated to the “Cultural Revolution”, so they could spare staff to take care of the children.
At that time, the Xicheng pickets had already passed the “brilliant period” and started to enter the “declining period”. Wang Nanli was called “one of the four most beautiful men in Beijing” by the Xicheng picket team. In fact, I think it’s just like that, with a lot of “freckles” on his face, I don’t know what the beauty is.
He also bragged to us that: the Xicheng pickets would have a lot of power, the power of the Public Security Bureau. We were also young at that time, do not know what the right means, may be the meaning of the cattle pen.
The courthouse control of children’s court Uncle Li and the National Defense Science Commission Uncle Wang, in order to make the children honest, listen to them, first whole children head. Liu Xiaodong, son of Liu Xiyuan, deputy director of the General Administration, he was a high school student, very strong, 130 pounds, he gently grabbed up. A body of tendon meat, but also like boxing, the children in the hospital admire him.
Uncle Li and Uncle Wang’s way of subduing Liu Xiaodong was to give him a room on the first floor of the first unit of the sixth building, one of their seven houses, stapled on the window as a simple cell, and also afraid that Liu Xiaodong ran away, handcuffed him.
The food was sent by Liu Xiaodong’s sister, three meals a day, without interruption, and he was locked up for a month before being released. The “Cultural Revolution” was a time of lawlessness, when any organization could imprison people at will, and punishments could be set up at will, and trees could be lit up and beaten at will. These people were not guiltlessly imprisoning and beating people, but they were also feeling weak inside.
One night, a soldier from the canteen who was guarding Liu Xiaodong, came out of the house and said, “I’m not doing this job anymore, what if I let him beat me to death? For fear of being killed, he slept in the courtyard where there was a light.
After locking Liu Xiaodong up for a month, he felt that he was honest and released him.
Then started to screw us kids.
I remember that day, Uncle Li and Uncle Wang called me to the office, with Uncle Li presiding over the trial. At that time, we called Uncle Li as Mi Swish, and Uncle Wang as Wang Swish, because Uncle Li was from Fujian and spoke with an accent that called Uncle Li as Mi Swish. So we called them “Mi Swish” and “Wang Swish”, even in person.
Mi whoosh first gave me a downward spiral, with a pair of handcuffs, to the table a slap, said, honestly explain your “linkage” behavior. Otherwise, you will be locked up. I was so scared that I had never been locked up in handcuffs before. Immediately explained his “crimes”, one is to visit the “Xidan pigeon incident”. Later said I participated in the “linkage” of the Xidan pigeon incident, is also considered a “linkage” elements. In fact, that day we were purely watching the fun.
That day, I and Wang Nanfu and other people went to Guanganmen General Administration Propaganda Department dormitory students to play, home passing Xidan, saw a group of people copying pigeons, did not take advantage of the loss back, to the Xidan intersection to recruit people, out of curiosity, we followed to go. The location is in the hutong on the roadside opposite the National Palace of Culture.
To be on the safe side, a few of our bikes were placed at the end, and the front end backwards, if the fleeing time, the first wave ran. After a brief look, there were about 100 people. Inside were the brother of classmate Li Xiaodong, Hei Zi, and the brother of classmate Liu Wu Yi, Liu Wu Zero, who seemed to be a son of the Beijing military compound.
We put the bikes away and followed the crowd into the courtyard and saw a quadrangle. I didn’t pay much attention to anything else, but I saw that the mother and son were very brave, and the old lady was holding a honeycomb coal and smashing it hard into the crowd. Her son took a kitchen knife to the crowd waving, as long as someone close, non-death that is injured, therefore, no one dared to approach, the more than 100 people, or the mother and son two no way, had to return to the Xidan intersection to move soldiers.
Not long after the gathering of people have five or six hundred people, the Chang’an Street is basically blocked. The flow of bicycles swarmed to that house. Due to the large number of people, many people were outside the courtyard. This time the mother and son ran, fortunately, if not, so many people, a mouthful of spittle also to drown.
The second thing to account for is that will be playful, like to fight chickens, in the old site of Yuexiu Park, we call the grove, a pine forest, the surrounding households, during the day, put their own chickens in the woods to let them forage for their own food.
I saw a group of half-grown chicks and thought that the chicks had a future and could become fighting chickens when they grew up. So, a little rooster was caught, and sure enough, the little rooster grew up to be the second best little rooster in my seventh building.
It was a matter of “linkage” in the eyes of the whoosh of rice.
Later, there was a cartoon inside the gate of the compound, a man sitting on the back of a bicycle, holding a chicken in his hand and drooling from his mouth. After I confessed two of my “linkage” crimes, I revealed two more bad things that “linkage” had done.
One was that Wang Nanli said that the power of the “Western Movement” was so great that it was equivalent to the power of the Public Security Bureau, and he applauded the “Western Movement” as a reactionary organization.
Because the confession of their two “linkage”, (in fact, what is “linkage” I heard for the first time) in order not to put on handcuffs, in order not to squat whoosh prison, began to talk nonsense.
The second thing that was revealed was that in the morning of the Xidan pigeon incident, Wang Mao point and several people were seen chasing after a beautiful girl in the place close to the Xidan intersection, and they said that this was the “patroness”.
From then on, Mi Swish also knew about “patting granny”, and with his Fujian accent, he said it was called “matching pigeons”. I was able to get two pieces of information to expose the “linkage” and was finally spared the fate of being handcuffed and imprisoned.
I also read the first check in the children’s meeting of the whole hospital, to pass. From then on, I never dared to go out into the wild again, and made a semiconductor radio at home.
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