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investigate me. He went to a number of cities where I

had relatives in order to investigate me. He even

went to my hometown.

I was born in Qingdao, a beautiful and famous

city in the Shandong province. He went to the public

security bureau to consult them. The leaders in the

security bureau were all overthrown and put into

prison. Some dubious person had occupied the leader

post. He talked to them about me. They told him that

I might be the nephew of an old man they knew. The

old man was a famous capitalist in the city before

Liberation (before 1949, when the Communist Party

of China occupied the whole country of China). The

old man had the same surname as me. He went to

him with two guards and ordered him to admit that

he was my uncle. At that time, the old man was

behind bars. He was tortured cruelly and was covered

all over with cuts and bruises. He was not even

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