Wu Aimao and Wu Aiwu sisters sat in the dark green hard-seat carriage, listening to the melodious dulcimer sound playing "On the Golden Mountain of North (Beijing)", and the tune of the music, the young people in the carriage sang indulgently, and the tiredness on the road and the tiredness of not being able to rest were completely ignored.

The carriage was full of peers of the same age who were also dressed in grass green and holding red treasure books, and the members were different: young people from Jin, Shandong, Henan, and Hebei all sent representatives to participate in this big tandem. And these people have their own talents, some play the dulcimer, some play the accordion, some sing allegro, some say mountain (east) fast books, when the vehicle is about to arrive at the sea (sea), there are a few people who can sing Yue Opera, making the carriage full of Nanyin, which sounds extremely laborious.

The place where Han Yuanchao and the Wu sisters are going to go this time is Shangrao, Jiangxi (west), the purpose is to visit the Shangrao concentration camp and feel the revolutionary spirit of the ancestors who fought bloodily and sacrificed. There is no direct train from Tian (Tianjin) to the destination, and the road has to be reversed, but under the large tandem atmosphere, these things are not difficult for the children at all! It doesn't cost money to get left and right.

Beginning in late July 1966, the Red Guards who traveled all over the country began a great series of revolutions. On September 5, 1966, Mao Gong issued a document to explain in one sentence: In the future, all comrades who enter Beijing under the banner of revolution and go to other revolutionary holy places to preach, study, and learn from the scriptures will not be charged! All expenses are covered by the state treasury!

Since then, the whole country has risen in a large series of cars, meals, and accommodations that do not cost money. Zhou Gong was worried about this, in addition to eating and lodging, tens of millions of children across the country blindly boarded the train, what kind of pressure will this bring to the Ministry of Railways?

But in fact, in addition to eating and lodging, the Red Guards took the train in tandem, and the pressure on the railway was not as great as imagined, because although many people boarded the train to Shao (Mountain), Jing (Gang) Mountain, West (Bai) Slope, and Chong (Qing), there were also many people who completed the journey on foot.

Let's take an example: a group of Red Guards from the four (Sichuan) Daliang Mountain, through countless mountains and forests, walked for two months, before arriving in Beijing (Beijing), on the way, they all the way to the people they met to present "Quotations", and even when a companion suddenly fell ill in the mountains and died, they buried their comrades with stones, endured grief and hunger and continued on the road.

Two Red (Guard) soldiers from Yan (An), the holy land of the revolution, carried the villagers on their backs to give cakes, pots, fried noodles, crossed the Yellow River, climbed over Luliang Mountain, and the people in the old area who had been traumatized by the war, after hearing the words of the two children, filled a bottle full of Luliang Mountain's stream water in a glass bottle, entrusted them to take it to Bei (Beijing), poured it into the Jinshui River, and let the stream accompany the great man and his old man in BJ.

There is also a pair of brothers, who took a train from West (An) to North (Beijing), and debated with the Red (Guard) soldiers in the same car on the way, and the more the two sides talked, the more excited they became, one of them picked up a fruit knife and pierced it through the elder brother's neck! Bring the train to the station, emergency rescue, my brother can no longer speak, write on paper with a pen and communicate with my brother, let him not take care of himself, and go to Beijing (Beijing) - congratulations to the great man, his old man has a long life, it is a really important thing!

From the current point of view, the big tandem is simply a tourism project that does not cost money at all, which seems ridiculous; But in fact, in the 17 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the young people who have grown up in a closed environment and under the education system have been awe-inspiring with their enthusiasm in their hearts and their innocence and loyalty to the revolution.

From Shanghai (sea) to Jiang (west) thousands of miles, before departure, Han Yuanchao and Wu Aimao and other team members discussed, some people think that the purpose of the big tandem has been achieved, and now it is November, should return to the place of departure; Some people also believe that we should continue to walk, because Tianjin and Shanghai are both places where the revolution is in full swing, and on the contrary, it is the old revolutionary base areas such as Jiangxi (Xi) that should be the places where their own revolutionary propaganda team will sow the flame of revolution.

Han Yuanchao and Wu Aimao believed that the split of the propaganda team this time was inevitable, and if there was another one, if they continued to walk, the arduous days were still behind, and it would be good to streamline the situation, so everyone held a meeting, and those who were willing to stay would continue to go south, and those who were willing to go back would be mobilized to go back. Especially the younger ones, such as Wu Aiwu, still let her go back to Tianjin.

Wu Aiwu didn't agree, and yelled with his sister, but he had no choice but to take her on the road with him. This time, they abandoned all modern means of transportation, and moved forward completely on foot, the route was determined a long time ago, although they still encountered mountains and rivers, but the overall route could not be too far from the road, which was to prepare for the fear of encountering emergencies on the road.

Set off at the beginning of November, enter the border of Jiangxi (West) Province in mid-December, Wu Aiwu is the youngest, tired and almost collapsed, but still barely persevered, although she is small, but the fighting spirit is the most tenacious, Wu Aimao persuaded her to go back several times, and finally provoked her sister to be angry, and even did not say a word to her sister for a few days.

On this day, I arrived at Changshan, 90 miles forward is Yushan, 90 miles forward from Yushan is Shangrao, Han Yuanchao plans to complete this road in two days, seeing that victory is in sight, everyone is excited, but at this moment, someone in the team suddenly fell ill: holding the stomach and moaning vigorously, the sweat beads of soybeans dripping straight down! "Then, you stay and see a doctor, and when you get better, you will come to Shangrao to find us." Han Yuanchao said.

"How am I looking for you?"

Han Yuanchao thought for a while, "On the nearest telephone pole at the place where Shangrao is zero, we will post a notice, and you will follow the notice to find us." ”

After settling down with the sick companions, everyone continued on the road, not wanting to walk 40 miles, another boy was sick, this time Han Yuan decided to go: Don't go, let's go back! Wait until everyone's body is sure that there will be no problems, and then move on.

Everyone on the side agreed, but only one Wu Aiwu, with his hands on his hips, said loudly, "Don't think that I can't make a revolution without you big brothers and sisters!" I'm going to keep going. ”

My sister also persuaded her, and others also said it, but she couldn't dispel Wu Aiwu's stubbornness no matter what, and finally Han Yuanchao had to agree, let Wu Aimao follow her sister forward, and take her sick classmates back to Changshan, and after you settle down, you will immediately go to catch up.

"That'...... Where are we going? "Wu Aimao is also a little scared, it's okay to follow the big army, there are only two sisters, if something goes wrong, how to solve it?

"You follow her, and wherever she goes, you follow." Han Yuanchao said, "I'll chase you when I turn around." ”

At noon, the two sisters separated from the large army and marched along the mountain road, Han Yuanchao and the others turned back to Changshan, settled their classmates, got up and went on the road again, and then returned to the place where they broke up just now, the sky was getting dark, the weather in JX was very bad, the slightest winter rain fell, and the hats, clothes, and backpacks were all wet by the rain, "Do you see the two girls?" ”

Whenever he saw a peasant on the road, he would go up to inquire about it, and all he would reply was, "No." The kind one didn't forget to remind him, "Don't go any further, there are leopards in the mountains!" ”

Until more than nine o'clock in the evening, Han Yuanchao really couldn't hold on, his legs were as heavy as lead, his body was cold, and his stomach was hungry. This made Han Yuanchao a little scared, and it was 90 miles to Yushan, but it was estimated that the two sisters still couldn't go that far.

Later, I went to a relatively large village, the village was shrouded in darkness at night, and passed through the village step by step, and suddenly I heard a singing, singing "On the Golden Mountain of North (Beijing)", at first glance I still feel warm in my heart, but I think it is familiar when I distinguish it carefully! Following the sound, there was a family, the door was open, and when I opened it, I saw that there were many peasants, sitting on the ground, watching two girls perform a small chorus. To their left was a blackened table with a horse lamp on it to provide illumination.

Han Yuanchao let out a long breath and walked over slowly, the two sisters hadn't noticed him until he took off his backpack and put it on the table, and the two of them looked back and saw that it was him, 'Wow! All of them cried!

At this time, the peasant realized that the three of them were together, "The performance is very good, but it is too late." Are you resting? The chairman of the village poverty association and the secretary of the party branch arranged accommodation for the three people, and several people were really tired, and they didn't even bother to eat dinner.

Performed in the village for three days, waiting for the companions who followed to arrive, the group continued on the road, on the third day to Shangrao, visited the Shangrao concentration camp, at the beginning lived in the geological team, and later lived in the army, originally everyone still wanted to go forward, but heard that there was a plague in the Jing (Gang) Mountain, so they had to stop in Yongping, and make a revolution in the local area.

There is a 912 geological team in the local area, where Han Yuanchao and others live, a small geological team, also divided into conservatives, workers' Red Guards, and a military propaganda team; When the work is not busy, everyone fights for private repairs, and it is very lively. Later, Wu Aimao proposed that several people each go to a post to work, some to the machine repair workshop, some to the sample workshop, and some to transport with the car, Wu Aimao assigned to the team, moving and lifting every day, tired to death and life, an unexpected gain is: she learned to drive a car.

Not long after New Year's Day, there was an incident in the geological team: there was a night shift worker on duty, who filled a basin of diesel fuel with a basin, and then made a long twist made of cotton thread to come out, lit it to light, but the diesel dripped, and the flames dripped down the oil and fell onto the machine below - the bottom of the machine was full of wooden planks, which were polluted by grease all the year round, and they caught fire! In less than a moment, the flame of the day was ignited, and at night, it looked even more terrifying!

Most of the workers live in the bamboo shed at the bottom of the mountain, the bamboo shed is built in the woods, the scenery is very beautiful, see the red light on the hill protrude, everyone climbed up at the same time, and ran to the mountain with a fire extinguisher, the fire head is the order, Han Yuanchao and a few other boys were so tired that they almost vomited blood, and finally ran to the top of the mountain; And Wu Aimao and other girls were physically exhausted, seeing the fierce fire, they couldn't help themselves, so they were so anxious that they stood halfway up the mountain and cried loudly!

Put out the fire, the sky has gradually brightened, the sweaty body is blown by the mountain wind, and the whole body is cold, Han Yuanchao put down the fire extinguisher that has been emptied, and looked back, the faces of the workers standing next to him are full of oil, and they can't even see their original appearance. He suddenly found that the two factions, which were originally inseparable in normal times, completely forgot the faction they belonged to and the cruelty of the struggle at all when faced with this fire, and it seemed that the sharply opposing class contradictions had completely lost the meaning of its existence at this moment!

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They stayed in Jiangxi (west) until March 24, 1967, when they received the spirit of the notice issued on March 19: the great tandem was stopped. A group of young people dragged their tired bodies, waved goodbye to many workers who had already developed feelings, and stepped on the train back to the north.