On the eighth day of the lunar month, heavy snow fell on the stone bridge.

This day is the traditional "Laba Festival", but this is nothing special for the farmers of Shiqiao, and few people can even name the festival.

But the eighth day of the lunar month in 1983 has a special significance for the people of Shiqiao. The Shiqiao Hydropower Station built by Misato was completed, and from today, they have their own hydropower station, so they don't have to worry about power outages at any time.

Accompanied by Yang Zejin, director of the Water Resources Bureau, in recent days, he has been visiting the old Red Army at Chahe and Shiqiao, and the day before yesterday he came to the newly completed hydropower station to prepare for the completion of the project. Township Chief Luo of Shiqiao waited at the power station in advance and obeyed the dispatch.

The office buildings and dormitory buildings of the hydropower station are very magnificently repaired. When the temporary director of the hydropower station was repairing the dormitory, he specially renovated several suites, with new beds, new bedding and new furniture, as well as new black-and-white televisions and honeycomb coal stoves, which looked even sharper than the small hotels in the city. When the deputy county magistrate and the top boss Director Yang arrived, they must have lived in such a suite.

Deputy county magistrate Zhang inspected the dam, units, office area, dormitory area and sports activity area of the power station, and was very satisfied and praised Director Yang. In particular, the staff basketball game organized yesterday afternoon allowed this basketball-loving leader to show his skills and beat the students who had just graduated from school and were assigned to them. Director Yang praised Stationmaster Wu again.

The temporary person in charge of the hydropower station is called Wu Xianfa, who has built the hydropower station in Wujiangdu for several years and also knows some knowledge of hydropower. When I heard that my hometown was repairing a power station, I ran back, and I don't know what he had to do with it, anyway, he has been in charge here since the new construction of the power station. It is said that this time, the county magistrate Zhang held the letter of appointment in his hand, and he was sure of the position of the head of the hydropower station.

As for the employees of the power station, it is mainly composed of three parts: first, the five graduates assigned by the hydropower technical school, who have the status of workers; the second is that there are two related households like Shufen's cousin Shuhua, who have changed to the status of workers; Third, some villagers in the nearby demolition villages, but they must require a junior high school diploma or above, and know certain skills, and ten people were identified through the guò examination and temporarily hired to work at the hydropower station.

Before Director Yang came, he had a telephone conversation with the person in charge of Sanxiang and asked each township to organize at least 300 people to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the hydropower station. The time is set at 10 a.m. on the eighth day of the lunar month.

In addition to Linmu Township, the villagers of the other two townships are still full of expectations for this ribbon-cutting ceremony. Because the hydropower station not only solves the problem of electricity consumption, but the government is also satisfied with the compensation for land occupation and the resettlement of villagers. Only the villagers near the river in Linmu Township complained, watching the upstream villagers get the compensation, and the big river that originally led to the town has become a stream, not to mention the boats, and even a fish can't grow up!

Nie Renhao was full of anger and scolded in the courtyard of the Linmu Township Government. It's not that he doesn't have a long-term vision, but the electricity that comes out can be like the river that irrigates the land and feeds people and animals? He worked hard for the villagers, and finally calmed down the feelings of the peasants, which is damn good, when he organized the recruitment exam, he didn't even get a notice from Linmu Township! Don't talk about this, just because the big-bellied leader is coming, the weather is below zero degrees Celsius, where are these farmers going to stand in the dam? Who the fuck wants to go! It's better to have a heavy snowfall, seal the road for him, and freeze the river, so that he can generate electricity! Send the fuck away!

When he opened the door this morning, he was stunned by the white expanse in front of him, and he had no intention of admiring the beautiful scenery covered in silver, so he hurried from the village to the township government. Secretary Nie never expected that his words would become a prophecy.

He didn't inform the village to participate in any ceremony, and the original plan was to organize the cadres in the township to make up for it, and if he wanted to criticize him, he would stand up to it. Who knew that the heavy snow really came to himself, and there was no end to it, a large piece of goose feathers drilled into his neck, and he shivered with cold.

The leaders of Chahe Township and Shiqiao Township were also dumbfounded. The ice on the river can't drive a motorized boat at all, and if you walk, you can't even see the road clearly! They hurriedly shook the phone to the hydropower station, and the answer they got was: "The ribbon-cutting ceremony has been postponed to two o'clock in the afternoon, and there is no need to be absent!" "Leader Zhang's opinion is that the warm current should not be blocked because of the heavy snow, which lights up thousands of households in Sanxiang.

"Momfuck!" Nie Renhao entered the office, heard the report of the township chief, and scolded his mother again. While baking a fire by the honeycomb stove, he asked the clerk to notify the cadres in the township to hold a meeting.

Between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, the borrowed electric current was delivered to Sango for the last time. The same message was transmitted on the radio in each village: "Important Notice...... IMPORTANT NOTICE! Under the wise leadership of the county party committee and county government, the Shiqiao Hydropower Station was officially completed, and the power transmission began at two o'clock in the afternoon, and there will be no power outages in the future except for special circumstances! ”

Misato suddenly boiled. But this boiling was only temporary, and they still got into the bed, and the conditions were slightly better around the firewood and talking. The tweeter continued to broadcast: "The ribbon-cutting ceremony originally scheduled for 10 o'clock this morning will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. ”

The brigade that didn't get it was secretly glad that the brigade that was ordered was scolded!

The Shufen sisters saw such a heavy snow for the first time, regardless of Yang Zejin's roar, they mustered up the courage to carry the wind cage to the dam to build a snowman, but they didn't expect that the white snowflakes were not friendly, and Shufei's little hands that were already frostbitten were frozen. They hurried back to the eaves, watched the white elves fly, covered the bleeding wounds with the cobwebs on the wall, and then put their hands on the charcoal fire, and when they were warm, they made a second attempt.

If it weren't for the announcement, they would have almost forgotten to go to the hydropower station. They were going to leave for the hydropower station, not because the second uncle informed their family that someone must go to the ceremony, but because the second uncle's daughter, Sister Shuhua, invited them kindly.

Yang Zegui poked his head out of the broken window again and saw his two daughters playing wildly in the snow. "Do you two have to be disobedient? Get back to the bunk! ”

"Oh!" Despite the response in the mouth, there is no action! The two children wrapped themselves in padded jackets and continued to build snowmen. Hey, the so-called padded jacket is just an old cotton that has been used for many years and inlaid into two rags, which does not play a role in keeping warm at all. However, this does not affect the child's happiness.

"Where's your brother?" Yang Zegui came out of the house, he really couldn't bear the child getting wet and getting his clothes frozen, and when he came out, he found that Fushun was not in the snow at all.

"Gone to the mud ditch?" Shufen raised her head and saw her father, who was a little angry, and quickly pulled Shufei up and walked towards the hall.

"Where?" Yang Zegui couldn't believe it, and went to the silkworm room to take a look.

"Muddy ditch!" Shufen, who was shivering from the cold, put her hand on the wind cage, "What he told you a few days ago, he went back to burn paper for his father!" ”

Yang Zegui sighed: "Oh, yes, it's the eighth day of the lunar month today, hey, Brother Leslie Lau has been away for the tenth year!" ”

"You two don't want to go to the dam! Go to the shop, don't go to the power station if it snows in the afternoon! ”

"Didn't you just tell you to go?"

"Regardless of him, which one will go in the heavy snow! I guess no one went, and your second uncle didn't come to shout in the morning. After Yang Zegui finished speaking, he went into the house with a cane, and the ice and snow were simply freezing.

Sisters, look at me, I look at you, and run to the snow again.

Fushun walked and tested the way with his feet. The biting cold wind seemed to tear his face apart, and he could barely hear anything except the whirring wind and the sound of the radio just now. There was not a single pedestrian on the road, and the occasional hare sprang out of him frightened him to the point of falling; The snow eagle perched on the tree and rushed in the other direction, shaking off the snow from the tree and making the cloak rattle.

In such a difficult weather, it is indeed ironic to rush to the road. Fushun, who wore a cloak and a robe, carried a stick like an adoptive father, and moved with difficulty. A roasted sweet potato hidden in his padded jacket had lost its temperature, so he simply took it out and swallowed it into his stomach with the skin, dispelling his hunger, and seemed to be a little warmer, and he hurried to hurry again.

By the time we got to the muddy ditch, it was already afternoon. He didn't set foot in his childhood yard again, and deliberately avoided the eyes of the eldest uncle and the third uncle. In front of the three graves, the soaking wet child still knelt and kowtowed, the paper money was wet again and again, and he polished the match again and again and lit it. Weeds were overgrown again, but he was so cold that he almost fainted. So I plan to take care of it again in the spring.

After all, it was the county leaders who cut the ribbon in person, and as long as the cadres of Sanxiang were at home, they all walked to the power station in advance. The secretary and the township chief also went to the county magistrate's dormitory on the second floor to pay a visit, smiling and talking with a smile on their faces, and arranging for people to quickly gather the peasants from various townships.

Nie Renhao didn't go upstairs, and walked around the embankment alone. The snowflakes were still crumbling down in large flakes, but the river was not too thick with ice. It seems that those units that have been tested are going to be on time this afternoon.

Along the way, he was thinking about a question, the waterway on this river was broken, why not open a land route from the flat place by this river? As long as the villagers agree, even if it is to drive a livestock to the farm? It's better than this narrow mountain road! Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh again, can this dam still stump people?

After shuddering, he hurried to the second floor of the dormitory, although he was unhappy with the leader in his heart, he couldn't drag down Lin Mu Township because of this, right?

At 1:50 a.m., the peasants who came from Sanxiang were still sparse, and most of them, except for activists from a few villages close to here, were hiding at home and reluctant to come out! Hey, no wonder they don't have consciousness, on such a cold day, the cadres in the township can still have a military coat and boots, but what about these mud legs? I didn't have thick clothes or proper shoes, and I heard that I had to stand in the dam when I got to the power station! In these years, if you go and don't earn work, it's better to sleep at home.

Shufen insisted on going all the way to the power station with the second uncle. Her mother also buried a charcoal lump under the wind cage for him, for fear that the child would freeze.

I don't know whether County Magistrate Zhang chose the time or has a strong sense of time, although the number of people who came was less than one-tenth of the original plan, at two o'clock, he still braved the wind and snow to stand next to the rostrum set up yesterday, signaling Yang Zejin to preside over the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The salute roared, the sound shook the sky, the snowflakes and fireworks bloomed in the sky at the same time, and the wind and the sound of the cannon whistled overhead.

After an enthusiastic speech, Shuhua, the "etiquette" wearing a red cotton jacket, served scissors with a tray, and after a "click", the salute rang out again, accompanied by the rumbling sound of the generator, and the six street lamps on the side of the basketball court lit up at the same time, shining on the flying snowflakes......

The cadres of the township government wore big cotton jackets, and the village cadres also wore big cotton hats. Those peasants who "watched the excitement", half of their shoes and trouser legs were all wet, standing in the cold wind and shivering, and occasionally a few who couldn't stand it had already sneaked home.

Shufen stood at the front, looking at her beautiful cousin and the mighty seventh uncle, her pride mixed with a little sadness.

And at the end of the crowd, He Pan stood on tiptoe and saw the innocent girl at the front, so pure, so charming, so beautiful, just like this jumping elf, white and flawless, even if it melted at the fingertips, it was also crystal clear......