Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 266 Class

   "Let's go." Boyne left the window, and under the leadership of Lynn, Verac and Keating came to the door of the room where Winston lived in the opposite building.

   There is only one door away from the precious advanced thoughts, and the heavy breathing of several people can be clearly heard.

   "Dong dong dong." Lynn knocked on the door.

   There was an inquiry in Pruman, and Lynn naturally responded in Pruman. Not long after, the door opened ten centimeters, and a blond, bearded, and scrawny man looked at the four people in front of the door vigilantly. While asking something, he put his hand in front of the door, ready to close it at any time.

  Lin En saw the other party's vigilance, and did not do anything that aroused the other party's violent reaction. He stood patiently at the door, and told them their origins and the purpose of meeting Winston in Pruman as short as possible.

  After the two communicated at the door for a few minutes, Winston opened the door completely suspiciously, allowing the four of them to enter the dark room.

   "He said he believed us." Lynn said to the three behind him.

   "So easy to believe us?" Boin asked in surprise. It stands to reason that Winston was very cautious in being able to escape safely while writing articles criticizing the government.

"He said that if we were members of the government, we wouldn't stand at the door and knock so politely, but would definitely break in and take him away. The most important thing is that he knows equality will come." Lynn listened to Wen Si Without a word, the three of them sat on the dilapidated sofa.

  Winston looked very calm, and did not panic in the face of the sudden visit by Boyne and others, and poured a glass of water for all four of them.

   "Thank you." Keating thanked him in the few Pruman languages ​​he knew.

  Verak and Boyin made the same sound as if they were cats and dogs to express their gratitude.

   Then Winston chatted with Lynn, who was the only one who could speak Pruman, and Lynn pointed at Boyne, Veraker, and Keating one by one, as if introducing to Winston.

   The three people who could not communicate directly saw Lynn pointing at themselves, and all smiled and nodded to Winston.

  Verak took advantage of Lynn and the others to communicate, and first took a closer look at Winston. He didn't know if it was his own psychological suggestion, but he always felt that Winston had an inexplicable, more learned temperament than Keating's. Although he looked emaciated and vicissitudes of life, none of the physical torture could erase the brilliance in this young man's eyes and his calm expression.

  Winston lived in a very poor room, only slightly better than when Verac was in the slums. This is nothing to Verak, but it is rare and valuable for someone like Winston to persist for so long in an environment with a huge gap.

   "Lynn, ask him what he knows about the Equal Society." Boyne instructed Lynn.

  Lynn asked Winston as Boyne said.

  Sitting across from the four of them, Winston, who was calm but excited, went to the side and took out a thing in Pruman from a thick stack of newspapers and showed it to everyone.

"It's the Internationale." Lynn explained, "Winston said that he saw the Internationale published in the newspaper, but the signature of the Internationale was the Equality Society, so he knew that there must be stronger like-minded organizations doing it elsewhere. fighting."

  Winston waited for Lynn to finish translating, and then said something.

  Lin En suddenly showed a surprised expression, and after repeatedly confirming with Winston, he said to Boyne: "President, Mr. Winston can speak Welland!"

  Byne, like Keating, went to study in Wellland, so apart from his mother tongue, he is best at Welland. Welllandic and Dunmanian are basically the same, and both Keating and Verak, who were born in Dunman and have studied Dunmanian hard, can also understand Welllandic.

  In this way, they saved Lynn the trouble of translating.

   "Do you know Welland?" Boin immediately asked happily in Welland.

   "Yes." Winston's voice was magnetic, and his tone seemed to be surprised that Boyne could also speak Welland, "So you can too."

   "We all know it." Verak grinned, lamenting the importance of mastering a foreign language, and secretly determined to learn Bash.

   Keating smiled and gave a "huh".

   Winston was surprised and said: "Aren't you from Brexi? Why can you speak Welland?"

   "I used to study in Welland. Comrade Keating is from Dunman, and he also came to study in Wellland. Comrade Verak has learned Dunman, so he can understand it." Boyne explained.

  Lin En, who was originally a translator, could not speak Welland or Dunman, so he became the only one in the room who was in a daze from a bridge of communication.

  After being able to communicate directly, the atmosphere became more lively. Willak asked: "How can you speak Welland? We did a brief understanding of you before we came, and we didn't find that you have any experience in learning foreign languages."

Winston explained: "Learning Welland only started four or five months ago. At that time, I thought about going to a more enlightened and developed place in Welland to find people with the same aspirations. Even if I couldn't find them, It’s not like hiding in Pluman, so I learned Welland by myself. Then I found out about your existence when I bought a newspaper recently, and I changed my mind temporarily and wanted to go to Bresey, but unfortunately I have no money to go again. I went to buy books and study, so I can only linger on like this..."

  Four or five months ago, Winston didn’t know how long he had been on the run, and the Equality Society hadn’t found him at that time, so it was normal that he couldn’t find out that he could speak Wellandish.

To Verak's secret admiration, he learned Dunman earlier than Winston, with the help of Keating, and stayed in Dunman for two months to practice speaking, but he found that self-study and learning time were not as long as his Winston was no worse than him in the use of foreign languages.

   "We came here this time to take you to Brecy." Hearing that Winston said that he had plans to go to Brecy, Boyin, who had been thinking for a long time about how to get him there, was overjoyed.

"This is the best news I've heard in this period of time." Winston, who had been fighting alone for too long, was so excited that his eyes were a little wet. He quickly diverted his attention, picked up the newspaper and said to several people, "I didn't expect After the Internationale I wrote has been lost for so long, it can be reappeared through your efforts and let more people hear it."

  Winston was living in poverty, unable to pay the electricity bill, and kept pulling the curtains because of caution, so the room was dim, and Boyne, Verack, Keating and others couldn't see the contents clearly.

  After realizing this, he apologized, put down the newspaper and walked quickly to the window, grabbed the curtain, but dared not pull it open.

   "Pull it away, Mr. Winston." Boyne sat on the sofa and looked at the hesitant Winston, "With us here, it's safe."

   "...Okay." Winston took a deep breath and drew the curtains aside, the sunlight came in and brightened the room.

   Winston, who was bathed in the light again, looked at the light, a little moved, he turned back to his seat, and looked at the four people from the Brescia Council who stretched out their hands to pull him out of the trough.

"By the way." Boyne handed Winston the specially prepared "Equality" and "Women's Declaration" in Pruman, "These are some works created by our Equality Society, all translated into Pruman. That's it, you can take a look."

"I've heard about it a long time ago." Winston took the two books solemnly with both hands. "At first I saw some related content in the newspapers. Later, the government banned all works related to yours. I have no connections. There’s no way to go any further.”

   "There are some things in it that we think are outdated compared with your writings, but there are still some things that have unshakable value." Boyne said.

Winston first flipped through the catalogs of the two books, and got a glimpse of the titles of the chapters in the catalog: "It can be seen that the content in these works is consistent with my ideas, such as the in-depth exploration of equality and inequality in The Equality Theory. , such as the emphasis on women's rights in the Women's Declaration, these are extremely important things, and they are also the basis for overturning and reshaping all of this."

  Boin, Veraker, and Keating all listened carefully to Winston's comments.

   "Do you also think that all this needs to be changed and subverted?" Boyne asked impatiently.

"Yes." Winston said, "I have read a lot of books on philosophy before, because I think philosophy is the best way to deconstruct the world and understand the world. Later, I discovered that there are too many things that should not be done in this world. , when trying to find answers with philosophy, I realized that philosophers just interpret the world in different ways, and the problem is to change the world.”

   "That's right." Verak nodded.

Winston paused: "I would like to know more about your Equality Association, your development history, your pursuit, and your recent events that shocked the world, such as the attack on Bresci's government and the abolition of Dunman's new conscription law. How exactly is it done?"

Boyne said: "Our Equality Association has been established for more than two years. At the beginning, Comrade Francis led the workers to march and protest, forcing the government to issue the first decree on the working hours of workers, which was the first time for the workers. Rights and Interests. Later, Comrade Francis led us to do more and more of the same things. The interests of the government and vested interests were impacted. They began to arrest us and stigmatize us, saying that we were a rebel organization and a chaotic party. Not long after, Comrade Francis was assassinated in a demonstration and protested, and unfortunately died. Comrade Chris, who was a good friend of Comrade Francis at the university, stood up. He took over the important task of Comrade Francis and continued to lead us to fight against the government and fight for the people. Wrote half a treatise on equality while exploring the future of our world, of ours, in pursuit of more rights."

  "Half a book?" Winston picked up "Equality" again, and turned to the last page, where, at the request of Boyne, left the title of Chris's last unfinished chapter: How We Change.

"Yes." Boin omitted the relatively insignificant and troublesome matter of Verac pretending to be Chris, "After writing half of it, Comrade Chris doesn't know how to change the world, so the Equal Council The development stagnated and it was difficult to grow. He was severely damaged by the infiltration of the government, and he also sacrificed... Later, Comrade Verac joined in. Under Comrade Morais's proposition and his promotion, we gave up the peace talks with the government and let The government gave up the illusion of interests, decided to go to arms, and through a resolute struggle to regain the rights that the people deserve.”

  Verak sighed inwardly.

"We first increased our investment and sent comrades to more than ten cities at home and abroad to establish sub-stations of the Equality Association. We not only searched for people with lofty ideals, but also awakened more people. We wanted to make the oppressed people all over the world feel better. Unite and fight a thorough battle, get rid of the old and welcome the new. Then Comrade Keating joined in. He helped us perfect some theories of equality. We prepared to attack Bresci in the twists and turns. In this way, the government tries to let the oppressed people all over the world see that our oppressors are not invincible, and in this way, they set up torches in the dark, so that those with lofty ideals all over the world will come closer to us. "

  Going upstream, not only did not avoid self-protection under the suppression of the government, but also fought hard with the idea of ​​setting an example for people all over the world.

   Such boldness and vision inspired Winston.

"It was during that time that we accidentally discovered the Internationale translated into Bresci. After investigation, it was confirmed that it came from the Pruman Empire a few years ago. This shows that in Pruman, there are more people than we thought. For any advanced organization or individual, we started to set up a sub-station in Pluman, looking for the author of the Internationale—that is, you.” Boyne continued, “Then, we successfully attacked the Bressi government building, realizing our and gradually turned the confrontation with vested interests from covert to positive. Then, after a few months, the sub-station we established in Pluman took shape, and they finally found you, so I, and Veraker and Keating, who were appointed to perform tasks in Dunman, came to meet you together. I hope to learn more advanced theories and ideas from you, and I hope you can join us to make up for our shortcomings and work together. Work hard to create a new world."

   "You have done more, more ambitious, and more difficult than I imagined." Winston said.

  After the news of the Equality Council's attack on Bresi's government spread, the newspapers all said that it was a failed attack by the rebel organization.

  In fact, this move is a great move to set up a torch and be a pioneer.

  Now the whole world can do and dare to set up a torch, let the oppressed see the light, and let those powerful and powerful who wish to kill them all know that they exist, only the Equality Society.

  Byne then told Winston in detail about the pursuit of the Equal Society and the two major incidents that occurred in Blessie and Dunman.

After listening carefully, Winston said, "I can't find any faults in your plan for the attack on the Brexi government building, and the final development is also perfect. But what you did in Dunman, I think it brings more impact. It’s just a fluke, but if there is a slightest emergency, Dunman’s new conscription law may be difficult to abolish, and this is the situation that will not solve the problem fundamentally.”

  Villac and Keating, as the main framers of the plan to abolish the new conscription law, both realized that the plan was insecure.

This matter developed so smoothly that they felt unreal and felt that there must be something strange in it. The Dunman government must be plotting something bigger. This shows that their plan is not impeccable, otherwise they will not have this kind of mentality .

"The first thing to mention here is related to what Mr. Boyne described at the beginning." Winston expressed his opinion, "Mr. Boyne said, your opponent is the government, the powerful, and those with vested interests." , I think there is a better word that can accurately cover them, and it is also an important concept to analyze everything—class.”

  (end of this chapter)