Shen Silent Oral History: The sea breeze at the "May Seven" cadre school was very cold, very cold

In 1968, before I went to the cadre school, the workers' propaganda team and the rebels told us all to go to Chongming to work, and we were working on a small island next to Chongming Island, and we went by boat. When we got there, the team leader first asked us to open our luggage and check it. Someone brought a fruit knife, which was confiscated, and Yuyama brought Zhang Chongming's map, and the rebels said that he was preparing to flee to Taiwan. Someone brought a toothpick and said he was preparing to commit suicide...... It's really what the rebels say, inexplicable!

Then, there was the hard work, and the labor propaganda team also participated in the labor, and we were also told to eat the bitter rice of remembrance. The rice was cooked by the peasants with rotten leaves, brown rice, corn, etc., and it tasted very bad, and the rebels of the Labor Propaganda Brigade also ate it together. After eating, ask us to talk about our feelings. One of them also said it was delicious. When the rebels heard this, they told him to eat another bowl.

At this time, I was worried about my daughter's work assignment. Before I went down, my eldest daughter, Wang Man, had graduated from junior high school and was assigned a job. At this time, according to the distribution policy, she can enter the factory. I asked her to enter the factory, and she decided to go to Dafeng Farm in Suda. I asked her why she did it. She said: "I have two younger sisters, and if I go to the factory, my sisters will have to go to the countryside when it is their turn, and it doesn't matter if I suffer a little." Dafeng is a labor camp, and the conditions are a little worse than other places. "I understand that the eldest daughter is there to take care of two younger sisters. I feel relieved that my eldest daughter has grown up and can share the worries of our parents.

After a period of time, according to the regulations of the city, all the staff of Shanghai Film Studio went to Fengxian Cadre School. The factory sent an advance team to build a house first. When I arrived at the cadre school, the sharp knife company had already built a house, a large room, mud walls, reed roofs, everyone slept in the bunk beds, and my partner was Sang Arc, I slept on the top bunk, and he slept on the bottom bunk. There was wind blowing in from above, and it was cold. This large room can accommodate about 20 people in total. I have to go to the toilet across the river, and I walk through it with a flashlight at night. We go home once a month, usually on Saturday afternoon, and have Sunday off. Then, I went back to school on Monday morning. The lower cadre school is for all the people in the factory to go together, and the labor propaganda team leads the team, mainly to participate in agricultural labor and participate in the "fight and correction". We are "cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods" who are going to accept labor reform and strive for reform to solve problems as soon as possible.

When we arrived at the dry school, it was a cold day, and we had to go down to the river to dig up the river mud to accumulate fertilizer. I went to the bottom of the river barefoot and grabbed a shovel with both hands to dig up the mud, but I couldn't throw the mud to the shore with little strength, and all the mud I threw up rolled down. When the emperor saw this, he said to me on the shore, "I'll come down, you go up!" Your strength is small, and the river mud can't be thrown on the shore. With that, he slid down to the bottom of the river with his jumping belt.

Sure enough, Uncle Zhong had great strength and threw a spade of river mud onto the riverbank. On the shore, I loaded the river mud into a dustpan and carried it to the fields. Because the road is slippery and easy to fall, I still can't pick up two mud from the Kei River. I saw that Sang Arc couldn't pick up two mud from the Kei River, so I carried it to the field with him. At this time, the rebel surnamed Shi saw it, so he came over and added a shovel of mud to the dustpan we carried, and once he added a stone to our dustpan. To this day, I have never forgotten his fierce face and red eyes. He came from Shandong in the 50s, and after hearing about the "Cultural Revolution" he went to United States.

Later, the house was built, and each company lived separately, and I lived in one room in the third company art group. There are two people in it who are very good with me, one is Uncle Zhong, who is the head of the room. The other is Zheng Min, who is also an actor. There was also a man who was a pretentious man who often wore a military coat, and once threatened to take charge of the literature department in the factory. He also said to us, "How can you people do literature? "He sang model operas and learned to play the huqin. I said to him, "You can't! "

When he was in school, Wang Danfeng cooked in the kitchen. She couldn't cook, and she suffered from high blood pressure, so she stopped cooking. Xie Jin also worked with us.

When we worked in school, the monthly grain was only 22 catties, which was not enough to eat, and the labor intensity was high, so we could only buy one or two for breakfast, two taels for lunch, one or two for dinner, and one or two to buy steamed buns. The people around me couldn't stand it, and said that we people were: "The clothes are torn, the labor is hard, the belly is hungry, and the work is big." "In the summer, when it was hot and sweating a lot, I saw someone selling watermelons, we wanted to buy them, but we had no money, so we had to discuss with the person, give us first, and then make up the money for this melon when we buy melons next time. After the man agreed, we split the watermelon by hand and ate it. The next day, when we went again, the watermelon seller didn't come because he knew we didn't have any money.

One day, I was working at school, and suddenly received a notice from the sub-district office where my home was located, saying that my daughter was going to Fengtai, Anhui Province to join the queue, and parents could take a day off. When I went to ask for leave, the captain of the Gongxuan team said, "What does your daughter have to do with going to the queue?" "It's not human! I ignored him and took leave to go home to help my daughter prepare.

The second daughter was going to Anhui to cut the queue, and she suddenly had a stomachache at noon that day. She had a stomachache after eating well, and I immediately sent her to the doctor. Doctors said she was nervous. Yes, she's about to leave home, how can she not be nervous. According to the distribution policy of the previous year, those who went to the countryside to work in the countryside could stay in Shanghai and work in the factories below. The second daughter Wang Cheng and the third daughter Wang Qing are both junior high school students in the class of 69, and the policy has changed when the graduation assignment is completed. The second daughter knew that it was hard to cut the queue, but for the sake of her sister, she chose to settle in Anhui so that her sister could go to Heilongjiang Junken Farm. The two younger daughters both went to the countryside, but unfortunately my eldest daughter wasted one in vain and stayed on the Jiangjun Reclamation Farm. Both younger daughters went to the countryside, but unfortunately my eldest daughter wasted an opportunity to stay and work in Shanghai. The doctor couldn't see anything wrong, so I advised my second daughter not to go to Anhui. She said, "How can I not go?" "She didn't dare not go. I had to accompany her back to school, pack her bags, and take her to Taopu train station to get on the train. Taopu is quite far from downtown Shanghai. After we put her on the train, she picked her up at the train station. Taopu is quite far from downtown Shanghai. After we put her on the train, she didn't come out of the carriage or to the window to say goodbye to me, and I knew she didn't dare to come to see us, and she would cry when she saw her.

After seeing off our daughter, my wife and I were walking out of the station when we met Mr. and Mrs. Ma Guoliang, who were already in the studio. When asked, they also came to send their son to Fengtai, Anhui Province, and it turned out that his son and my daughter were in the same county and the same commune. Asked him about the past few years. He said: "Because it was Ma Sicong's escape, it implicated us. Ma Sicong, the former president of the Central Conservatory of Music, is his wife's elder brother. After Ma Sicong fled Hong Kong and United States, the couple were implicated and detained for interrogation. My son is learning cello, so I had to go down and join the queue.

He also told me that at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", the "ghosts and snakes" of the American film studio knelt at the gate of the factory every morning to welcome the revolutionary masses to work. There was a "capitalist roader" named Xu Bingduo, who welcomed us back from Hong Kong as a leading cadre at the beginning of liberation. Every day at lunchtime, the rebels ordered him to stand by the rice bucket, and every revolutionary who went to serve the meal could slap him, and the good people would rather not come to eat than beat him. He was very good, but unfortunately he was killed in the end. Ma Guoliang and I were kicked out of Hong Kong together, branded as rightists together, took off their "hats" together, worked together on farms, and suffered the same catastrophe during the "Cultural Revolution". Now I send my daughter to join the queue, and he sends his son to farm...... As we talked, we couldn't help but hug our heads and cry.

Next, my youngest daughter Wang Qing went to Heilongjiang Farm, and I asked for leave again. The captain of the Gongxuan team said: "Why is Shen Silent so annoying! I said, "What's wrong with me?" "To be honest, I can't help it, I go to the Nenjiang Military Reclamation Farm in Heilongjiang, close to the Soviet Union, the salary is there, but it is only a few yuan, which cannot solve the problem. The Jiangneng Jiang Military Reclamation Farm is close to the Soviet Union, and the salary is there, but it is only a few yuan, which cannot solve the problem. It's cold there, so I have to have two more quilts, no way, my wife went to my second sister's house and carried the quilt to the train station. My youngest daughter was only 16 years old at the time, and we were reluctant to let her go that far. When I was in school, I was often sad in my heart, the family was scattered in Tiannan and Haibei, the eldest daughter was in Jiangsu, the second daughter was in Anhui, and the younger daughter was in Heilongjiang, and I was in Fengxian School, and my wife was at home, it was really divided!

In the cadre school, we can deal with it just by labor, but we are really tormented by engaging in "fighting and correcting". I was criticized because I had been to Hong Kong. I held a criticism meeting for several days in a row, and asked me to explain who I met in Hong Kong? I write explanations every day, writing about the directors and actors I have encountered, but I don't dare to write about the directors and actors I have encountered. Then the main thing is to explain which movie scripts have been written. Unexpectedly, at this time, the famous director Gu Zhi committed suicide.

Originally, because he was fat and had high blood pressure, he didn't use it to do school, so he stayed at home. But suddenly one day, the rebels escorted him to the cadre school and ordered him to kneel down to accept criticism. The propaganda team asked him if he was attacking the proletarian headquarters? He denied it. The labor propaganda team took out a report letter, saying that it was written by his wife. The content is that Gu and Hong Tuo, Donner and Lan Ping, Zhao Dan and Ye Luqian held a group wedding in Hangzhou Liuhe Tower. The current wife is Gu Zhi's second wife, and Gu Zhizhi once told her about the incident back then, and she actually reported this matter to the labor propaganda team. On the same day, after a criticism meeting, Gu Er had been escorted to sleep in our dormitory, and there was no sound all night.

The next day, before breakfast, I saw him sitting on a bamboo chair in a daze, thinking about his thoughts. I went over and called him: "Lao Gu has breakfast." He bowed his head and said, "Please." "I'll go to the cafeteria for breakfast. After a while, I heard someone shouting loudly and saying, "Gu has committed suicide!" We hurriedly put down our rice bowls and rushed to see that he had hanged himself with a plastic rope twisted into a circle. I saw him lying on the ground, and the doctor came to treat him, but unfortunately he was already dead. I was stunned. I was talking to him just now, and in the blink of an eye, he hanged himself, and he was separated from us.

Gu was fine, but it was because his wife exposed him for attacking Jiang Qing that it led to such a tragedy! So why did his wife do this? It is said that his wife Hongxing went out of the wall and was already aware of it. In order to get rid of Gu, she exposed him and sent him to school, which ended in his life.

Gu had already died, and the Workers' Propaganda Team thought that it was suicide in fear of crime, and that it was a counter-revolutionary, and they went to raid their home. After the end of the "Cultural Revolution", Gu Er had been rehabilitated Zhaoxue, and his wife had the cheekiness to attend Gu's memorial service, and was scolded by Zhao Dan on the spot and rolled out of the venue.

[Shen Jing, formerly known as Wang Chonggang, a native of Fenghua, Zhejiang, was born in Shanghai in September 1924 and studied at the Department of Western Literature of Fudan University in Shanghai. He has published more than 40 short stories in magazines such as "Novel Monthly", "Vientiane", "Spring and Autumn" and "Violet", and published a collection of novels "Fishing for the Golden Seal", "Two Generations", "Salt Farm" and "Red Forest". In 1946, he edited magazines such as "Happiness", and in 1948, he founded the Human Book House. Shen Jing got acquainted with many writers such as Ke Ling and Zhang Ailing, who were active in the Shanghai literary scene at that time, and was also familiar with Ruan Lingyu, Zhou Xuan, Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, Ha and other Shanghai Tang figures, and published biographical literature "A Generation of Movie Star Ruan Lingyu" and "A Generation of Movie Star Zhou Xuan" and biographical novels about Huang Jinrong and Hartung "Tycoon" and "Taipan", and is an expert in writing old Shanghai characters. Famous writer, screenwriter of Shanghai Film Studio, winner of the title of "Outstanding Film Artist", librarian of Shanghai Museum of Culture and History. He died in Shanghai in May 2016 at the age of 92. 】