Chapter 277 Humen "Death"

On April 4, the Spring Fair opened.

After the performance, the art troupe is not allowed to stay in Guangzhou. After resting in Chancheng, they will rush to the train station and board the train back north.

Wang Yuanchao expressed his desire to go to Humen to pay his respects and see if he could get any inspiration.

As everyone knows, Director Wang is about to embark on his creative journey again.

At this time, he was the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Railway Art Troupe, the head of the song and dance troupe, and the creator of excellent works such as "Love My China", "I Love the Red City Gate of the Capital", and "Heavenly Road".

Therefore, the comrades of the Yangcheng Railway Bureau were quite cooperative with his creative requirements. They contacted a civilian ship and agreed to head to the Humen Fort ruins in Zhujiangkou, more than 17 kilometers away, at noon on the 60th.

Because two days later, a large group of the art troupe will also go to Yangcheng Railway Station to board the return train.

At noon, Wang Yuanchao arrived at the dock as agreed. The comrades arranged on the civilian ships and the railway had been waiting here. They were still very polite to leaders of this level.

Going downstream, we arrived near the ruins of Humen Fort around three o'clock in the afternoon.

The comrades on the railway and the captain of the ship were all good at speaking and helped to introduce:

The one located at the foot of the mountain and facing the river is called Weiyuan Fort;
The ones built on the mountain are called Jingyuan Fort, Nanshanding Fort, and Zhenyuan Fort.

The two islands in the middle are called Shanghengdang Island and Xiahengdang Island. There are Upper and Lower Hengdang Forts built on the islands respectively. It is the ancient battlefield where the national hero Lin Zexu laid the "Iron Chain to Block the River" and "Golden Lock and Bronze Gate" to resist the invasion of foreign invaders.

There are still many cultural relics sites on the island, including the gunpowder depot, training room, artillery alley, Humen Tax Office, and artillery fort.

Ten miles further downstream is the place where Lin Zexu destroyed opium in Humen.

Wang Yuanchao chose this place with great effort, not really to reminisce about the past, but was moved by the enthusiastic explanations of the railway comrades and the captain of the ship, and could not help but pat the side of the ship and said:
"Foreign ships will never dare to come again! Because our backbone has stood up!"

So Wang Yuanchao took out paper and pen and began to write.

No one dared to come forward to watch, but they saw Director Wang writing furiously. After writing for a while, he put away the paper and pen. It seemed that he must have had some inspiration just now.

The civilian ship circled around the Shajiao Fort where opium was being destroyed, but as it was getting late, the captain suggested returning.

Wang Yuanchao looked at his watch and said:
"Come closer and take a look!"

The captain had to move closer.

Anyway, he has watched it so often that he is numb to it and still can't figure out what it means.

The time was almost up, Wang Yuanchao said:

"Let's go back!"

Thanks to the recent Canton Fair, the river is much busier than usual with the coming and going of ships.

A passenger ship was coming towards us, and the captain introduced:
"It is said that he came from Hong Kong."

Wang Yuanchao said in his heart:

Of course I know, I came here with this boat, and I have been dawdling here for a long time just waiting for it!
Wang Yuanchao said:

"Can you take a closer look?"

The captain was troubled by the leader's strange ideas and had to explain:

"Our boat is small and we could easily be sucked in if we get close. It's not safe."

Wang Yuanchao said:

"No need to get so close, you maintain a safe distance."

The captain looked at the comrade in charge of railway liaison again.

The railway comrade was stared at by Wang Yuanchao's burning gaze and said:

"Just follow your leader's instructions and move closer."

The captain said helplessly:
"Their big ships are coming down from upstream, and we are a small ship. Hey... leaders, please take your seats. I will move to the middle of the channel."

All the railway comrades sat down obediently, but Wang Yuanchao refused and insisted on standing in the wind.

The civilian boat was going upstream. Wang Yuanchao was about to get back and sit down, but he slipped and fell into the river...

The comrades on the railway were stunned. Before they could react, the captain of the boat had already jumped into the water with a splash.

However, in the face of Wang Yuanchao, who was planning to escape, the captain's efforts were doomed to be in vain.

Other boats nearby also came to rescue, but were unable to save the man.

The captain climbed onto the boat wet and almost fainted.

The comrades on the railway were extremely anxious. They couldn’t imagine how they would explain themselves when they returned.

……

The only relic was Director Wang’s backpack, which should contain his notebook and pencil. They watched him put them in, and they didn’t dare to touch the other things, so they decided to go back and hand them in.

……

The Yangcheng Railway Bureau was shocked when it received the news.

How, how did you fall into the water?
It is understood that Director Wang Yuanchao has been traveling outside for several years. Logically, no accidents would happen, but something happened. Why did an accident happen in Yangcheng?
And in full view of everyone!

However, apart from the civilian ship used for communication and the accompanying staff, outsiders do not know their identities.

The issue now is not how to hold people accountable, but how to give feedback to the art troupe.

As for wanting to press it, you can't do it.

Director Wang came from Chancheng with the performance team of the art troupe. After saying goodbye to everyone at the train station, he went to the dock.

Everyone in the art troupe knew his itinerary and it couldn't be kept secret.

I looked through Director Wang's posthumous notes again. They were rather messy, with many erasures, and they were basically just records or reflections, a simple creation notebook.

That is, on the day I fell into the water, I still wrote a few verses of lyrics. It should be lyrics. There were a lot of words in total, and I carefully considered a few lines of lyrics. It seemed that I was in high spirits.

Maybe he was just in high spirits, and then the joy turned into sorrow.

Finally, after studying the relics for a long time, Yangcheng specially arranged for a deputy director to lead a team to the Railway Art Troupe headquarters in the capital to report the bad news.

It's really not something that can be explained clearly over the phone or telegram.

……

When the news reached the art troupe, Director Jin and Director Liu were both leading their team on tour outside.

It was Hu Yansheng who received him.

As a result, the comrades from the Yangcheng Railway Bureau brought this devastating news!
They have only been separated for a few days!
Hu Yansheng tried to dial the number several times but failed because his hands were shaking so badly.

But apart from reporting this news to the two directors herself, she couldn't delegate it to anyone else.

When Jin Guangjie received Hu Yansheng's call, he was wondering what was going on, but when he heard about this, he was immediately furious?

"What? You said Director Wang is gone?"

He seemed to realize that he had lost his composure and couldn't help but cover the microphone. Fortunately, when he answered the phone, the people around him consciously went out. He lowered his voice and said:
"what is going on?"

Hu Yansheng quickly repeated what Comrade Yang Cheng had said, and Jin Guangjie stamped his feet after hearing it:

"Hey!! Tell Director Liu, I'll be right back!"

After hanging up the phone, Jin Guangjie felt a little depressed. What a good guy Wang Yuanchao is. He just arranged two relatives to work in the unit. They made great contributions to the unit and to him, Jin Guangjie personally.

Not only is she a master of creation, she is also exceptionally insightful in guiding the direction of the art troupe's efforts (three classic dramas: The White-Haired Girl, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, and The Red Lantern).

He is not arrogant because of his talent. He looks for creative materials outside every day. He is a little protective of his children occasionally, but he is not at all affected by Jin Guangjie's power.

Where can I find such a talented person who is not obsessed with utilitarianism?
He hadn't even used the moves he had planned to use to restrain the young man, and he was gone!

He couldn't help but think of the first time he interviewed this young man, everyone was talking about that high written test score of 98!

Things are different and people are different.

Gone!

Fell into the river.

So many people didn't get it, hey...

Does God envy talented people?
When will the next talent appear?

He immediately asked someone to clean up as he had to go back to arrange work first.

Liu Ying felt very complicated when she received a call from Hu Yansheng.

At the beginning, he really admired Wang Yuanchao. Although Wang Yuanchao had some tricks later and he had drawn circles and cursed for a period of time, he also received a lot of advice from others. Moreover, as long as he did not touch or provoke him, Comrade Wang Yuanchao was still easy to talk to.

Hu Yansheng said that he had already informed the director and he had to go back quickly. Does this involve a power reshuffle in the group?
……

The staff who stayed behind in the group had no idea what had happened. They only knew that after people from Yangcheng came, the atmosphere in the group suddenly became depressing.

On the third day, the two directors left the touring team and returned one after another.

Everyone felt that the situation was indeed not good.

Comrades from Yangcheng came over again to explain the situation and expressed their condolences and apologies.

From Comrade Wang Yuanchao’s belongings, we can see that it was indeed an accident. He wrote a few verses of lyrics with rare eloquence, which are the most eye-catching chapters in the entire notebook.

Too much joy brings sorrow...

However, these chapters are incomplete and have no accompanying music scores, so they cannot be considered finished works.

No wonder they do that.

A clay pot is bound to break when it is removed from a well, and a general is bound to die in battle.

Traveling through mountains and rivers all year round, ah...

The deputy director of Yangcheng left. What he said was sincere and the evidence was solid, and he successfully completed the task assigned by the bureau.

It’s really not the fault of the Yangcheng Railway Bureau.

Now the art troupe needs to study the next work.

If one corner of the power triangle is broken, one must be promoted up rather than transferred in from outside.

The good thing about the Revolutionary Committee is that each entity has great autonomy.

Hu Yansheng naturally became the deputy director and continued to be in charge of the work of the song and dance troupe.

Now the art troupe has two sub-troupes, the song and dance troupe and the drama troupe, and Liu Ying is in charge of the drama troupe. Liu Ying was promoted to the first deputy director, and became a new target that Director Jin needed to guard against.

Guo Feng, Wang Yuanchao's right-hand man, was directly recruited by Director Jin, and the workers' picket team and the militia platoon were incorporated into Director Jin's command; Wu Lanfang, rather awkwardly, was thrown back into the Personnel Department as the second-in-command, which was considered worthy of Wang Yuanchao's influence.

The rest is easy. Just go to Comrade Wang Yuanchao’s home to report the death.

These days, everything is kept simple. It is impossible to have a grand celebration, even burning paper is not allowed.

At most, keep the sadness in your heart and turn grief into strength.

At this point, Director Jin didn't want to show up anymore, so he let the new deputy chief of the Personnel Department, Wu Lanfang, take care of it.

(End of this chapter)