In the summer of 1981, the weather was very hot, and Zeng Zixia, a party member who lived at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was suddenly called out and said that someone was looking for her. Zeng Zixia didn't think much of it at that time, but thought it might be a visit from a friend or something, so she ran out to meet her.
However, when Zeng Zixia arrived at the place, she found that among the people who came to him, in addition to a few cadre-like people, there was also an old man dressed in patched clothes, dry and thin.
For this lean old man, Zeng Zixia actually had a strange sense of familiarity, she felt as if she had seen it somewhere, but she couldn't say where it was. So she began to look the old man up and down, thoughtfully recalling her former network.
Huang Maocai
The old man seemed to see that Zeng Zixia did not recognize himself, so he quickly said, "Sister, you don't know me?" I am Huang Maocai, the guardian of the slag cave. ”
Zeng Zixia looked at the person in front of her for a moment and immediately remembered that this was not Huang Maocai, the young man who delivered the letter to himself when he was in prison in the slag cave!
Thinking of this, Zeng Zixia hurriedly welcomed Huang Maocai to her home, and when she arrived home, she began to cook for Huang Maocai, chatting while doing it.
The content of the chat roughly means: "This is thirty years apart, you and I are old, now we can't recognize it, you come back, are you coming to see your sister, or is there something?" ”
And Huang Maocai said hesitantly, "Sister, now I really need your help..."
It turned out that the old man Huang Maocai had come from afar this time to ask Zeng Zixia, who had been imprisoned in the slag cave, to write himself a material, and the content of the material was that he was not the murderer of Sister Jiang, but not only was he not, he was also a meritorious minister who helped the Communist Party members in the slag cave to deliver letters and intelligence.
It turned out that he wanted to rehabilitate himself.
First, he became a scum cave guard
Huang Maocai was born into a poor peasant family in Gongrong County, Sichuan.
Although his family conditions were not very good, his parents attached great importance to education very rarely, so they always saved money and used money to support him to finish junior high school, which was not easy in the chaotic world at that time.
In fact, with this academic qualification, as long as he returns to his hometown and opens a private school in the countryside as a private school, there is still no problem in teaching and eating.
Only at this time, when he returned to his hometown, it was already 1942, which was the most tragic period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Sichuan, as a large rear, has always been one of the most important supply places for the Nationalist army.
At that time, Huang Maocai was in the seventeen or eighteen-year-old age, full of vigor, and if he returned to his hometown, he would certainly be one of the most "favorite" Zhuangding choices of the Kuomintang reactionaries. And most of the Zhuang Ding captured by the Kuomintang at that time were dead for the rest of their lives, so how could Huang Maocai's parents bear to push their son onto the battlefield and send him to death?
The Kuomintang caught Zhuang Ding
So Huang Maocai's family broke his heart in order for his son to get rid of being caught.
However, although the family was poor, Huang Mu still had some way out, so she found Liu Chongwei, the young master of the local landlord's family, and begged him to find an errand for her son that could avoid being "caught by Zhuang Ding".
This Liu Chongwei was Huang Maocai's hometown, and he was also the deputy director of the second division of the Chuankang Appeasement Office and the captain of the communication team, and this little favor was almost a show of hands for him, so for the sake of his fellow villagers, Liu Chongwei simply brought Huang Maocai into his secret service to work together.
At first, Huang Maocai only worked with Liu Chongwei, but later Liu Chongwei found that Huang Maocai had some cultural standards and could write a good hand, which was quite scarce in his own department at that time, so he promoted him to become a second lieutenant clerk.
However, in 1947, the Chuankang Appeasement Office was withdrawn and the personnel were merged into the Second Office of the Southwest Governor's Office of Chongqing, and Huang Maocai officially became the secret guard of the Zha di Dong.
In the slag cave prison, there are a total of five prison administrators, and Huang Maocai, as one of the managers, is mainly responsible for the release and collection of the "prisoners", so many times he can have some close communication with these "prisoners".
Slag Cave Prison
But in the process of communicating with them, he found that these people were not a bunch of murderous murderers who did not blink, as the Kuomintang reactionaries had propagated, but were all a bunch of insightful, idealistic, amiable intellectuals and progressives.
July 1948.
The hole was sent to an important prisoner, she was very thin, her eye sockets were deep, her face was very pale, it was obvious that she had been greatly tortured, and her body was still in a state of extreme weakness.
At that time, it happened to be Huang Maocai on duty that day, and when he saw such a person who was hanged, beaten, strangled, nailed, irrigated, and burned to the point that there was no place without injury, he already knew that this person was not simple, after all, he was not an important person, and would not be tortured like this.
However, when he received the ticket, he was still surprised, and it turned out that this person was the famous Jiang Zhujun (Jiang Jie in Hongyan's novel). Huang Maocai had long heard of this female Communist Party member who had always preferred to die unyieldingly, and he had long admired her fearless spirit of treating death as a homecoming.
He really wanted to get to know Sister Jiang.
So when I filled out the form, I saw that she was also filling in The Sichuan Zigong, so I jokingly said to Sister Jiang: "I also met the hometown people here!" However, seeing that Sister Jiang looked at herself with contempt, he didn't say anything more, after all, he also knew that people of his identity had not been very well received by others.
Sister Jiang
However, before leaving, he still whispered to Sister Jiang: "If you have any requirements, or if you want to buy something, tell me." This time made Sister Jiang very confused, after all, such a warm-hearted guard is still uncommon.
In the daily exchanges with Huang Maocai later, Jiang Jie and Zeng Zixia, who were also imprisoned, felt that Huang Maocai was not a bad person, and that he came here to work, mostly for a bite of food and a livelihood, and that he came from a poor family, so he thought he was an object that could be fought for.
Therefore, in daily life, they began to plot against Huang Maocai.
Later, after propaganda and meticulous preaching, Huang Maocai was finally touched by the hot pillows of these people, and he was determined to help Sister Jiang, Zeng Zixia and others to fight with them for the revolutionary cause.
Second, repeatedly build qigong
What exactly can that little guard do?
In fact, he can not only help the prison to pass on intelligence and letters to the outside world, but also pass on the information of the outside world to the prison.
Here, don't think that Huang Maocai passed on an intelligence, the letter did not have any credit, in fact, the credit can be great. After all, sometimes the information in prison can not only save the lives of many comrades, but also help the revolutionaries in prison to understand the new trends of the situation.
April 16, 1948.
Ran Yizhi, then deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Working Committee and head of the organization department, was arrested by the Kuomintang. On the day of his arrest, he defected to the enemy, and then the Kuomintang reactionaries quickly captured Liu Guoding, the secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, based on his confession.
It was the rebellion of these two people who held important positions and controlled the entire Chongqing underground party list that put the entire Chongqing underground party organization in a very passive state. At that time, how to pass on the news of the rebellion of these two people became the most important thing.
At this time, Huang Maocai had already been successfully rebelled by Sister Jiang, so Huang Maocai became the key figure in the success or failure of the matter.
After Huang Maocai took the letters written by Jiang Jie and others, he immediately sent the letters to Kuang Suhua, a medical student at Chongqing University, who immediately reported the intelligence to the organization, and then the party organization quickly arranged for the exposed underground party workers to be transferred.
It was precisely because Huang Mao sent out the intelligence in a timely manner that he saved a large number of Communists.
Not only that, but at the request of the comrades in prison, Huang Maocai often went to Chongqing to buy publications such as the "Ta Kung Pao" and used them to read to Sister Jiang and others in prison. It was precisely these news publications that let Jiang Jie and others in prison know that the People's Liberation Army won the victory in the three major battles, the founding of New China, and the campaign to liberate the Great Southwest.
This information greatly boosted the fighting spirit of Jiang Jie and other prisoners, and even Huang Maocai took advantage of his position to release them in violation of the law to celebrate the victory of the three major battles.
According to statistics, during the period from May 1948 to November 1949, when Huang Maocai was sent home, he sent out as many as 30 letters to people in prison -- and Sister Jiang's "Letter to Peng Yun" written to her son Peng Yun on August 27, 1948 was also taken out by Huang Maocai and sent to Tan Zhu'an of the Xinmin Newspaper, and this letter is still displayed in The Memorial Hall of Sister Jiang!
I have to say that it is not great that a Kuomintang guard, a small ordinary person with no name, can do this for our party, after all, it is extremely dangerous for him to do this "job."
-- You know, at that time, the Kuomintang was in the stage of total defeat and retreat, so the authorities' suppression of the Communists had basically reached the point of madness, as long as it was people who were linked to the Communists, even if there was only a slight connection, they would dig up the ground to find out that they were in capital punishment, and killing a person and setting a fire was even more casual.
Therefore, if they found out that Huang Maocai had defected to the enemy, killing such a small person as him would basically not think too much. Therefore, Huang Maocai chose to help the people in the slag cave at this time, which was tantamount to walking on the tip of the knife.
Moreover, Huang Maocai took such a big risk at this time, but he could not exchange it for a little substantial benefit, the only benefit was the blue sweater that Jiang Jie, Zeng Zixia and other female communist comrades in prison knitted for him in order to thank him!
It's just that there is no impermeable wall in this world after all.
Soon, Huang Maocai's actions were detected by the caretaker director of the slag cave, the group leader Xu Guilin and others. However, the two considered that Huang Mao was his subordinate, and if he poked this matter up, he would inevitably have joint and several responsibilities, so they decided to suppress this matter, only to expel Huang Mao.
As a result, Huang Maocai was told that he had to leave the cave on November 20, 1949.
A few days before he was about to leave the cave, he already knew that Sister Jiang and Li Qinglin had been secretly executed by the Kuomintang reactionaries, so when he was about to leave, he also went to say goodbye to the Communists in prison and informed Him of the murder of Sister Jiang and Li Qinglin.
The revolutionary volunteers in prison heard that Huang Maocai said that Jiang Jie and Li Qinglin had been secretly executed, and now Huang Maocai was about to be forced to leave, so they decided to let Huang Maocai send them the last letter.
The letter, written by Hu Qifen, consisted of two main contents: first, that the Kuomintang reactionaries had begun to carry out secret massacres of comrades in prison and requested that the organization try to rescue them; second, that the organization arrange a job and take care of Huang Maocai (Mr. Lan).
Because the letter was very urgent, Huang Maocai immediately delivered the letter to Kuang Suhua.
However, at that time, Kuang Suhua read the first item and learned that the situation in the prison was already extremely severe, so he did not care to arrange work for Huang Maocai, so he sent the letter to Liu Kang, the head of the underground party in Chongqing District.
Huang Maocai finally took the blue sweater clothes that Sister Jiang had knitted for herself back to his hometown, after all, this was the only thought that Sister Jiang had left for him.
On his way home, at five o'clock in the afternoon of November 27, 1949, all the Communists imprisoned in the slag cave were killed by the Kuomintang authorities, including the young radish head.
Three or thirty years of injustice have been washed away
After returning to his hometown of Zigongrong County, Huang Maocai, because he had read books, became a private teacher in his hometown after liberation, and his life seemed to be getting better soon.
But one day in the spring of 1951, while giving lessons to the children, he was suddenly tied up with rope by a group of people who broke in and was escorted to the township office for interrogation.
Before he could understand what was going on, several armed militiamen came in the afternoon and pulled him into the bureau. After arriving at the bureau, he was interrogated overnight and forced to confess to the crime of killing Sister Jiang.
For this sudden crime, Huang Maocai had not done it, and he would certainly not admit it, and at that time he also explained clearly how he was moved by Sister Jiang and others, how he helped Sister Jiang and others deliver letters, and when he left the slag hole.
However, the case-handling personnel were influenced by stereotypical thinking and did not believe that he was such a kind Kuomintang caretaker, and even more did not believe that he had so much merit and was still a small teacher in this broken place, so they did not believe Huang Maocai's explanation.
In order to defend himself, Huang Maocai asked the office staff to go to Chongqing to verify it, but the office staff had already determined that they had no intention of changing their minds.
In the face of the framing, Huang Mao knew that he had no choice but to temporarily admit that he had participated in the massacre of Zha Di Dong on November 27, against his will, and that he was also a spy left by the Kuomintang reactionaries to wait for the opportunity.
But in the matter of killing Sister Jiang, Huang Maocai still insisted that he was not involved.
In the end, Huang Maocai was sentenced to death for "fault", but later considering that Huang Maocai was born poor, he went to the slag cave just to eat a mixed meal, and did not have his own subjective consciousness, just accepted orders to do things, so he still won an indefinite period.
In this way, Huang Mao began his career as a labor reformer, and later, because of his good performance, he was released from prison in 1964, and was imprisoned for a total of 13 years in vain.
It's just that his release from prison this time is actually not a good thing, because people of his "identity" are doomed to be spurned by others later.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, Huang Maocai, who had experienced nearly thirty years of ups and downs, grew old, and at the same time, he was glad that he had finally survived, and one day he was sitting there listening to the radio, and he suddenly became excited when he listened.
-- Because the radio is broadcasting the policy of redressing unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee
Thinking about the suffering he had suffered in the past thirty years, he burst into tears, as if his grievances of the past thirty years had finally been vented.
Thinking of this, he immediately asked someone to write a few rehabilitation materials for himself, and then handed them to the relevant competent departments in the county, but these materials were like mud and stones into the sea, and there was not even a little echo.
It wasn't until May 1981 that he unexpectedly received a letter from the Chongqing Martyrs' Cemetery Memorial Hall.
The letter read in detail: "When the cemetery was sorting out the information, it was found that the zhazidong escapee personnel repeatedly mentioned Huang Maocai, the guard of the zhazidong, saying that Huang Maocai was a secret worker, sent them a number of letters of intelligence and letters, and built a communication channel between the zhadiandong and the party organizations outside the prison. ”
The letter, which was also signed by Lu Guang, director of the Chongqing Martyrs' Cemetery Memorial Hall, wrote it. After receiving this letter, Huang Maocai smiled, and he was laughing that he had finally survived to the dawn before dawn.
So after borrowing enough money for the road, Huang Mao set off for Chongqing, and after arriving at the Chongqing Martyrs' Cemetery Memorial Hall, Mr. Lu Guangte personally received him and checked the contents of the letter one by one, and finally confirmed that all the merits that Huang Maocai had made were true.
After small talk, the old curator asked Huang Maocai what he had done in the past thirty years, which did not matter, as soon as he asked Huang Maocai, he immediately poured beans in a bamboo tube, said non-stop, and poured out his heartache and pain.
When he heard that Huang Maocai wanted the Martyrs' Cemetery Memorial To rehabilitate himself, Lu Guangte was a little embarrassed.
He said: "We don't have the right to be rehabilitated, but there is a way to let the comrades who escaped from danger write you a proof material, and Zeng Zixia just happens to be in Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, only these people who have witnessed it have proved to you, then your rehabilitation will be hopeful." ”
Chongqing Martyrs Cemetery
Later, with the help of the Chongqing Martyrs Cemetery Memorial Hall, Huang Maocai found Zeng Zixia.
Zeng Zixia heard about Huang Maocai's intentions, and after learning about the days he had lived in the past thirty years, she wiped her tears, then picked up a pen and wrote the material, and said: "Not only did I write, I also let other escapees help write together, but please be rehabilitated as soon as possible."
After that, all the escapees who could be contacted wrote a detailed document for Huang Maocai, and could prove that he had passed information and letters to the prison personnel during his tenure as a guard in Zha Di Dong, and had left his post before 11.27.
Finally, the information was handed over to the United Front Work Department of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee.
After checking the information in detail to confirm that it was correct, the United Front Work Department sent the information to the Rong County Public Prosecutor's Law, requiring them to verify it immediately, and after verifying that it was correct, Huang Maocai was rehabilitated.
On April 12, 1982, Huang Maocai, who had waited for thirty years, finally waited for the court's acquittal, the most important line on which read: "... The original judgment of this court was revoked and Huang Maocai was acquitted."
Thirty years of grievances finally snowed, and at this time, Huang Maocai couldn't help but cry: "Oh my God, decades of unjust cases have finally been cleared." ”
This exclamation can be said to be a mixture of feelings, after all, how many thirty years can we have in our lives! Fortunately, now that the truth has come out, the sins he has suffered over the years and the suffering he has experienced are worth it.
From the previous Kuomintang agent to the current revolutionary hero, this identity reversal can be said to be quite huge, so at that time, Huang Maocai's deeds also triggered a strong local reaction, and Huang Maocai also became a great hero that the local population has always been talking about.
Nowadays, Huang Maocai and his wife have settled in their hometown rong county, and he rarely appears in the public eye, usually reading newspapers at home, or watching TV, in short, enjoying his old age very much.
And for all the things that have happened, after experiencing so much, he has already let go. Therefore, when the reporter interviewed Huang Maocai's views on the past, he also seemed very relaxed: "The grievances of decades are no longer calculated, but only to restore the original face of history." ”
Justice, though sometimes late, is never absent, isn't it?