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被真理唤醒的心(113)

Souls Awakened

写完证词后,我在牢房里静等。等到看守终于来叫我、把我带到一间办公室时,我见墙上的钟已是十一点四十分。

那个做笔录的610处长和劳教局的科长随后走了进来。他们一进来就打开天花板上的大吊扇,那个科长拿出一支烟开始吞云吐雾。

呼呼大吹的风扇和浑浊的烟味马上使我想晕倒。

我赶紧请他们把风扇关掉、停止吸烟。我不能在这样关键的时候晕倒或头脑不清。

那处长不满的嘟哝一句:“你真多要求。”那科长也不满的嘟哝了一句什么。但见我严厉的看着他们,他们照我说的办了。

那处长从公文包里拿出一叠材料对我说:“我已经把你昨天讲的证词用计算机打印出来了。你现在看看,然后在上面签名。”

这时,我从窗口看见劳教所所长正在办公室外面和另一个610处长及劳教局处长热络的聊天,三个人有说有笑。

那所长不时朝办公室里的这俩人雀跃的大喊:“快点!”

那劳教局科长一脸不耐烦的催我:“快点!快点!你真麻烦!”

我问那610处长给我多少时间看这份证词。

“半小时足够了。”

“半小时我看不完。”

“但是我们没时间了,我们要去吃午饭了!”

我直视他的眼睛问他:“那你们为什么来的这么晚?!”

他躲避我的目光,“我们……上午有点事。”

“你们有四个人,一个长长的上午你们都有事?!”

他避开我的眼睛恼怒的说:“我如实记录下了你昨天的证词,你不必仔细看了,大概浏览一下就签名吧,不用担心,相信我!”

“不!”

由于我拒绝让步,那俩人只好决定吃完劳教所所长的招待午宴后再来见我。

他们走之前,我将我的十七页证词交给了他们。(待续)

(英文对照)

I quietly waited in the cell after finishing writing the testimony. When a guard finally came and took me to an office, it was already 11:50a.m.

The taking-notes 610 and one of the Labor Camp Bureau officials came into the office after me. They immediately turned on the ceiling electric fan and began smoking.

The whistling wind and the foul smell of cigarette instantly made me fainting.

I hastened to request them to turn off the fan and stop smoking. I couldn’t faint or not keep a clear head at such a critical moment.

“You are too demanding,” the 610 mumbled angrily; the Labor Camp Bureau official mumbled something unhappy as well. I looked sternly at them. They finally did as I requested.

Then the 610 took out a stack of material from his briefcase, “I’ve printed out the testimony you gave yesterday. Now you take a look at it and sign it.”

At this moment, from the window, I saw the Chatou chief chatting and laughing with the other 610 and Labor Camp Bureau official outside the office.

“Hurry up!” the chief called out to the two men in the office at times.

“Hurry! Hurry! You are too troublesome!” the Labor Camp Bureau official in the office snapped at me.

I asked the 610 in the office, how much time he would give me to read through the printed testimony.

“Half an hour is enough.”

“I can’t read through it in half an hour.”

“But we don’t have time anymore; we have to go to lunch!”

I looked him straight in the eye, “Then why did you come so late?!”

He avoided my eyes, “We… had something to do in the morning.”

“There are four of you. You all had something to do in the long morning?!”

He avoided my eyes and snapped, “I’ve truthfully recorded your testimony, so you don’t need to read it carefully. Just glance through it and sign it. Nothing to worry. Trust me.”

“No!”

Because I refused to give in, the two men had to decide to meet with me again after enjoying the lunch feast the Chatou chief treated them to.

Before they left, I handed them my seventeen pages of testimony.

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