When he found Mr. Fang, he was sitting at the gate and soaking in the sun. Mr. Fang's eyebrows were all white. He was at least eighty years old. His long eyebrows were kind and kind, giving people a feeling of being approachable.
Dayan and I stepped forward to greet him respectfully. I said, "Hello, Father Fang, we are reporters from the newspaper and want to interview you."
Father Fang squinted at us. He didn't know if his eyes were bad, or he felt comfortable in the sun. He asked, "What's the interview?"
"We are going to write a report about the Cultural Revolution and want to know about Shouling Village."
Father Fang said "Oh", then slowly took out the pipe and pot and filled it with shredded tobacco, and said, "If you want to know, just ask."
With a big smile on his face, he said, "Master, do you live a long time this year?"
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After a simple conversation, I know that Father Fang is called Fang Changshan. He is 84 years old this year and has no children. His wife passed away three years ago. Now he lives alone and depends on government subsidies every month. When he was young, he was a militia platoon leader. , And played the devil for two days.
In fact, these are not what we want to understand, but in order to play the role of a "journalist" well, we must go through a process.
After understanding the basic situation of Father Fang, I turned the topic to Shouling Village and said: "Father, I heard that there is a dead man's cave in the west of Shouling Village. There are many dead people's bones in it. Can you tell us about it."
Father Fang vomited a mouthful of choking smoke and said, "The dead man’s cave was dug out during the Cultural Revolution. At that time, people were all mad as if they were beaten up with blood, and only a bunch of lunatics would dig out one. That kind of hole comes."
"Is that hole big?"
"Very big, very big. Small mouth and big belly. It looks like a gourd inside. The gourd is full of dead people."
"Have you been in?"
** Occurring from 1966 to 1976, after ten years of social turmoil, it is also known as ten years of catastrophe. Father Fang is eighty-four years old this year. He was at the same age as the fire between 1966 and 1976. He must have experienced it personally, and he might even participate in that sport personally.
"No, I can't get out if I go in."
I asked: "Then how do you know that the Dead Man's Cave is like a gourd?"
"I also heard what other people say, that place is evil. There are always many rumors about evil.
, So I don’t know where the saying that the dead man’s hole is like a gourd comes from. "
"Who dug out that hole?"
"It was dug out by the Red Guards."
Big eyes said: "Master, then you can tell us about the Red Guards."
Father Fang raised his head slightly, squinted at the clouds in the sky, as if reminiscing about the distant past. Big Eye and I were afraid to interrupt his thoughts and did not dare to say anything. After a long while, Father Fang began to talk about himself. experience:
It happened in the spring of 1968, on a foggy morning, Father Fang carried a hoe to the ground as usual, preparing to sow hope for the next year.
Seven or eight large green trucks drove from the direction of the county seat. The cars were full of people. The people were male and female, and they were all young students, with red cloth strips tied to their arms. They claim to be the fighters of the chair and the vanguard of the revolution.
When the truck stopped, the people on the truck were pouring down like a tide. They were holding shovels, pickaxes, hammers... etc. tools for digging through the mountains.
After a leader had finished preaching the Quotations of Mao Zhu Xi, hundreds of people swarmed into a ravine outside the Fetus Canal, and started the revolutionary cause in full swing.
They stayed for more than ten days. During this period, several villagers in Shouling Village were curious and wanted to see what the group of students were doing. They were arrested. They used pickaxes on the spot on the grounds that KMT agents tried to spy on state secrets. Smashed his head.
In the middle of the night more than ten days later, there was a sudden thunderous cheering from the ravine. The next morning the group of students sat in a truck and drove towards the county seat, leaving only a few guards.
At that time, everyone still didn't know what happened in the ravine, because before someone was beaten to death as a spy, no one dared to watch it anymore.
About a week later, in the evening, a big truck drove up. The car was covered with green canvas, and I didn't know what was in it. Taking advantage of the night, the group of students moved the things in the car into the ravine.
From then on, every two or three days, there will be a truck driving in the dark to move the contents of the truck into the ravine. This situation continued until the summer before it stopped.
A torrential rain lasted three days and three nights, and the sky and the earth were vast, but in the ravines there was nothing but the sound of rain.
, And there are shocking shouts, screams, cheers... A battle of hundreds of people is being staged.
Of course, the old man fighting with hundreds of people in the field hadn't seen it, but the heart-piercing screams from the ravine were really heard.
After raining on a sunny morning, in addition to the smell of blood in the damp air, there was also the stench of rotting corpses.
At this time, the villagers near the ravine could not bear their curiosity. They went to the ravine in droves to see what had happened, only to see that the ravine was full of corpses lying all over, as if they were lying down in the fields during harvest The number of millet is uncountable.
The villagers immediately reported that the army drove into the ravine in the afternoon and found a burrow while cleaning the corpse. The burrow was filled with highly decayed bodies. The corpses in the burrow could not be cleaned, and those who participated in the battle were thrown into the hole Inside, and then buried.
It was just then that people knew that the group of students who looked like students had dug a huge hole in the ravine, and then transported trucks and trucks of corpses and threw them into the hole.
In that battle, the hostile faction of the student soldiers discovered the secrets of the ravine, and then attacked on the rainy night. The corpses in the cave are all people who died in vain during the movement.
These news are of course blocked. As for where the corpses came from and who were those who participated in the fighting, no one knows, and no one dares to inquire, because in that era, it was the theft of state secrets. May be executed at any time.
After the old man finished speaking, he immediately took a long sigh, as if he had experienced the whole incident again.
I gave Old Man Fang a cigarette and asked, "Are the corpses that were transported to death? I heard that many people were killed during the Cultural Revolution, and they were parading almost everywhere with big pointed hats. Anyone who sees them just shouts two slogans and hits them when they go up, and there is no need to pay for their lives if they are killed.
"In those days, too many people died, those who were killed, those who were starved to death, and those who were persecuted to death. Many things are unimaginable. The big girl to be married can sleep with someone just to eat a bite. You almost do it every day I can hear the news of someone dying... That kind of day is unimaginable for your generation." Father Fang murmured.
I froze for a while, and sighed in my heart, it is really unfortunate to live in that era.
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