Chapter 53: That Winter
In the winter of 1984, a railway traffic accident occurred in the section of Xiaoguan Village, Haolan Township, Hongs County, Hedong Province, which shocked China and the rest of the world.
The sudden car accident caused 324 casualties, including 106 deaths, 47 serious injuries and 171 minor injuries. Some of the dead and wounded were stacked in the broken carriages, and some were thrown on the strands, men and women, old people and children, in a terrible way.
It was later found out that the cause of the accident was the excessive fatigue of the driver, the negligence of the wrenchman, and the failure of the railway supervisors to do their job.
Years later, all trains passing through here would spontaneously whistle to mourn the dead.
In the aftermath of the crash, the leadership "habitually" demanded secrecy, and all internal information and information were not allowed to be disseminated, except for a safety review article written by an internally circulated railway newspaper in February of the following year, no domestic media reported on it.
However, several large foreign newspapers obtained some information about the accident by some means, and quickly reported it, and then quickly spread it in the West, causing a huge shock in the international community.
As a result, foreigners know about the railway accident in China's Xiaoguancun, but few people in China know about it.
At that time, the media was not as developed as it is now, and its communication capacity was limited, and it was only because of the huge impact of these accidents that it was impossible to completely "shut up", which was known to some people.
Guan Xiaojun didn't know about this matter at first, but when he chatted with Guan Yunshan many years later, when he heard Guan Yunshan inadvertently talk about this, he learned that there had been such a major casualty accident in the history of China's railway transportation.
And why did Guan Yunshan know?
That's because Guan Yunshan is the actual witness and participant of this accident!
Because Xiaoguan Village was close to the scene of the incident, and the police manpower for rescue at that time was extremely insufficient, and there were not enough vehicles to pull the injured to the hospital, so the nearby villagers were all arrested, and Guan Yunshan had a tractor, so the car was also temporarily requisitioned and became an ambulance.
Guan Yunshan was still indignant when he talked about this incident many years later, "Fuck, the wounded man worked for a day and a night, dyeing all the car buckets red, and in the end there was not even a good one! No one cared about a mouthful of water, and many people were hungry for a whole day! My car ran out of gas, no one cared, and I had to pay for it at my own expense!"
Guan Yunshan, who was drunk at the time, said to Guan Xiaojun with a cigarette in his mouth: "There was such a big accident and so many people died, in fact, I also want to bring a few more people to the hospital." Everyone wants to save a few more people! But the people in the local government are too fucking fucking! They force you to do that, and in the end they don't even give you saliva! The support troops at that time also fucked up, and they actually got lost! They arrived at the scene a day late! On such a cold day, not to mention that the injured can't stand it, even the good people would have frozen to death a long time ago!"
He said to Guan Xiaojun in a daze: "It's miserable! It's really miserable! It's really corpses all over the field! The three carriages were all smashed! A few more were knocked off, and people's arms and legs fell all over the ground......
When Guan Xiaojun knew about this incident, he was middle-aged, and he had also searched for this matter on the Internet curiously, at that time decades had passed since this incident, and the government had no longer covered it up, so some old people on the Internet wrote sporadic articles to mourn the deceased, and felt sorry for those unfortunate people who died in the winter when the Chinese New Year was about to be celebrated.
At this time in his previous life, he didn't follow his father to Xiaoguan Village as a guest, so he didn't personally witness the accident, so he only listened to Guan Yunshan, and he couldn't really feel the atmosphere at that time.
Therefore, this time he followed his grandfather and father to visit here, and he never thought of this incident in his mind, until the loud noise in the distance made his mind flash like lightning, and he instantly remembered this big accident.
If he guessed correctly, the loud bang just now should be the sound of a train colliding.
The movement was so loud that the floor of the room they were in shook slightly, and dirt fell from the walls.
Guan Yunshan was so startled by this movement that he suddenly got up from the bed, hugged Guan Xiaojun and ran out of the house barefoot, shouting as he ran, "Earthquake!
During this time, the news of the imminent earthquake has been circulating on the Hedong Plain, which makes people panic, so Guan Yunshan also built a big shack in the yard to let the family sleep in the shack.
But it was too cold to sleep in the shack in winter, and after the family slept in it for three or four days, they couldn't hold it anymore and went back to the house, but their spirits were tense all the time.
Now hearing this loud noise, Guan Yunshan's first reaction was an earthquake!
When he rushed from the house to the yard with Guan Xiaojun in his arms, he found that the ground was no longer shaking, and then he came to his senses and felt a little nervous.
At this time, the people in the other houses also ran out of the house wet, and almost everyone shouted, "Earthquake, earthquake, earth dragon turned over!"
It can be seen that they and Guan Yunshan's reactions are similar!
"Dad, let's go back to the house, it's too cold!"
Guan Xiaojun was wearing a thin autumn coat, and was carried to the courtyard by Guan Yunshan on a winter night, and was blown by the cold wind, and his whole body was cold, as if he had been cut by a knife, which was really unbearable.
Guan Hongda also ran out of the house at this time, panting and said, "What's the matter, what's the matter?
He was a person who had experienced the Tangshan earthquake, and after running out of the house, he already knew that this was not an earthquake, but something else.
Guan Yunshan said: "I thought it was an earthquake, such a loud noise!"
Guan Hongda said: "It's not an earthquake! An earthquake is not this movement!"
When he said this, his body trembled and said, "Let's all go back to the house, maybe somewhere is the mountain!"
There was a humane in the courtyard: "There is a voice, you ...... listen"
Guan Hongda said: "What to listen to, go back to the house first, and say, everyone is freezing to death this day...... Hey, what's going on?"
In the middle of the night, it was silent, and in the sound of dogs barking all over the village, a faint cry could be heard from afar.
Guan Hongda's body trembled, and he turned his head to look in the direction of the nearby train track, "My mother, no!"
Guan Yunshan asked, "What's wrong?"
Guan Hongda stomped his feet and said, "This is a big deal! Don't crash!"
He ordered loudly: "Hurry up, go back and get dressed, Yunshan, you quickly put Xiaojun into the house, don't freeze the child!"
After Guan Yunshan put Guan Xiaojun on the bed, he lit a kerosene lamp, quickly put on his clothes, and said to Guan Xiaojun: "Xiaojun, go to sleep, sleep quickly, it's nothing to do with you!"
After Guan Xiaojun lay down in the quilt, Guan Yunshan walked to the courtyard, and the rest of the dozen or so people also dressed and stood in front of Guan Hongda.
Guan Hongda ordered: "Yunshan, you go and shout to your Uncle Hongkui and them to get up, and you can see if you can find a shovel or pickaxe in the yard." ”
He shuddered as he commanded everyone: "Don't really have a big incident, right?"