In December 1967, an unprecedented cold wave swept across this city, which has always been regarded as the gateway to the emperor.
The land of China was experiencing unprecedented catastrophe.
The storm of the Cultural Revolution reached its peak this year, and even spread to Hong Kong.
The rising trend of traveling to the mountains and countryside has caused panic among people everywhere.
Compared with rural areas, urban life is still quite superior.
Monthly food and oil are somewhat guaranteed.
Although it is not enough to eat, it is much better than the sweet potato noodles in the countryside.
After the famine in 1959 and 1961, it spread across the country.
The three years of natural disasters, also known as "famine" among the people, have left a deep imprint on people's minds.
As the secretary of the school's revolutionary committee, Zhang Guozhong has been looking sad recently because the revolutionary committee gave him a very unreliable task, which is to write an article criticizing feudal superstition.
Zhang Guozhong is a technical secondary school teacher.
He used to go to this school.
Later, because of his good grades, he stayed in school to become a teacher.
Don’t underestimate technical secondary schools.
In those days, it was much more difficult to get into a technical secondary school than it is to get into Tsinghua University now.
Before the Cultural Revolution, the entrance examination was Those who did not go to technical secondary schools went to high schools.
This was the case until the middle period of reform and opening up.
The graduates of technical secondary schools at that time were definitely considered to be genuine intellectuals.
For Zhang Guozhong, who had nearly perfect scores in Chinese when he graduated, a critical article was just a matter of chance.
From the principal secretary to the famous World War II general, as long as Zhang Guozhong wrote it, he would definitely become an incurable scum.
But I really couldn't write about the late Qing Dynasty edition of Maoshan Illustrations copied from the school party committee secretary's house.
What was written in the book were all methods on how to subjugate demons and catch ghosts, as well as diagrams similar to martial arts, some plant artifacts that I had never heard of, and some inexplicable things, as well as these things that were extremely weird.
What makes Zhang Guozhong even more confused about the method of use is that it describes how to solve some symptoms of human body that appear to be sick, but the methods are very bizarre, such as using soil under the eaves, drinking sesame oil soaked with ancient copper coins, and the like, which are completely irrelevant.
Writing critical articles must be well-founded.
This is also a requirement of the Revolutionary Committee.
If you say something is bad, you must explain the causes and consequences, where it is bad, why it is bad, what harm it has brought to the masses, and what kind of harm it has brought.
Things are not bad and so on.
If it were a criticism of myths and legends such as Liaozhai, it would be easier to write, but the book in front of me seems to be harmless to people.
At most, what is written in this book is false and deceptive, but deception and poison are two completely different things.
It’s a concept that won’t be successful if it’s written as deception.
The only requirement of the Revolutionary Committee is to describe this kind of thing.
It has become a major cancer that has poisoned the Chinese nation for five thousand years, but in Zhang Guozhong's view, this statement is impossible to talk about.
The book does not mention using living people to sacrifice or kill people and set fires.
If you drink the water, will this harm the Chinese nation for five thousand years?
Thinking of this, Zhang Guozhong was at a loss what to do.
Two weeks have passed, and Zhang Guozhong has been looking through this Maoshan Illustrated Chronicle, hoping to find some flaws in it.
However, the content in the book seems to be irrelevant, but in actual reading, it is interlocking and impeccable.
At this time, Zhang Guozhong's grandfather came down from the attic tremblingly, "My child, everything written in that book is true.
If you don't believe it, find someone to try."
"You proletarian traitor, I have nothing to do with you.
Don’t let relationships interfere with my revolutionary work.”
Ever since his grandfather was labeled a traitor, Zhang Guozhong's family has been no different from the ancient ministers whose homes were ransacked.
First, his father was criticized in the factory and then expelled.
Then he was blocked from joining the league, and the windows of his home were also smashed by outsiders.
In the end, with tears in their eyes, the whole family signed a document with Grandpa to sever ties and draw a clear line, and finally managed to settle the matter.
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From then on, Zhang Guozhong's grandfather could only live alone in an attic with air leakage from all sides.
Although the family felt distressed, there was nothing they could do about it.
The Zhang family and several neighbors lived together in a wooden western-style building on the Italian leased land.
Their every move made the neighbors They were all watching.
Except for secretly stuffing Grandpa a cotton mattress in the middle of the night, anyone who made the slightest gesture of intimacy during the day would be in danger of being reported by the neighbors.
Grandpa smiled and limped downstairs while holding on to the wall.
However, Grandpa’s words gave Zhang Guozhong a big wake-up call, “Yes, I will find someone with the same symptoms as described in the book, and use the words in the book to Try this method, if it doesn’t work, then won’t this set of things be self-defeating?”
To be honest, at this time, Zhang Guozhong still didn’t believe the unbelievable contents in the book at all.
However, the symptoms described in the book are really hard to find.
With the letter of introduction from the Revolutionary Committee, Zhang Guozhong visited hundreds of households in a week, but found no similar situation.
Just when Zhang Guozhong was about to give up his search for a needle in a haystack and find another way, a piece of news reached Zhang Guozhong's ears. .
That morning, Xiao Liu from the Revolutionary Committee went to Zhang Guozhong's house and told Zhang Guozhong that Wei Laoer, the school party secretary, was dead.
Anyone who was criticized would have his honorific title removed and given a nickname.
When criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius, he would be given a nickname.
Master Kong has been given the nickname Kong Laoer, let alone this unknown person.
He is no longer the secretary of the Communist Party of China.
He committed suicide out of fear of crime.
His wife is crazy, but she is very sane.
She just talks nonsense from time to time, and all she talks about is what happened when Wei Laoer was young.
The Revolutionary Committee thinks that his wife wants to give Wei a The second son recanted his confession and asked Zhang Guozhong to interrogate Wei Lao Er and his wife, and then write a statement of criticism.
This news moved Zhang Guozhong, because the symptoms of Wei Lao's second daughter-in-law seemed to be very consistent with some of the symptoms described in Maoshan Illustrations.
"As long as I try the methods in the book and it doesn't work, then there will be an argument."
After thinking about it, Zhang Guozhong put the vinegar bottle at home in his bag, put on pen and paper and the grapefruit leaves he had found in advance, and set off with Xiao Liu.
When he arrived at Mr.
Wei's house, Zhang Guozhong couldn't help but feel sad.
To be honest, Secretary Wei was very kind and knowledgeable during his lifetime.
He could do anything at music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Zhang Guozhong had admired Secretary Wei for a long time, but at this time, Secretary Wei's family was like a ruined temple that had not had any incense for decades.
There was no difference, everywhere was a mess after smashing, smashing and looting.
Only Secretary Wei’s wife was lying on the bed alone, drooling and talking nonsense.
Beside the bed, stood a few young students with serious faces. and teachers.
Zhang Guozhong found Zhang Po's newspaper and sat directly on the ground, carefully observing Secretary Wei's wife and listening carefully to every word she said.
"How could I be a traitor?
I joined the party at the age of 38.
When Tianjin was liberated, I was the captain of the school picket team.
I also arrested spies and made meritorious deeds.
It is all on my file.
What you are saying is all false accusations."
When he said these words , Secretary Wei’s wife’s eyes were dull but her tone was fierce, and the whole room was filled with a strange atmosphere.
"Do you think he is really mentally ill, or is he pretending to be ill and trying to excuse Wei Laoer?
The record of catching spies he mentioned is indeed true.
It's really strange.
Wei Laoer never mentioned this before his death, and even Principal Chen didn't even know there was such a thing."
Xiao Liu secretly muttered to Zhang Guozhong.
"Shh, don't talk, listen to what else she wants to say":