Chapter 1: Before the Boundary River

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The sky was very blue, and there were a few white clouds floating in the sky, and the white flowers were a little scorching.

Beneath the sky is a barren field, and on the abandoned land, large expanses of green artemisia grass sway like waves, and in the meantime, a "simple" road no more than five meters wide leads straight into the distance.

On the road, there is a surge of people.

Groups of young people, dressed in army-green uniforms with mud stains and leader's badges on their chests, rushed forward holding hands.

Their faces were excited and frightened, and many of them were still clutching a wooden stick tightly in their hands, looking feverishly ahead, and their mouths were emitting sharp and high-pitched slogans.

"Make up your mind, not be afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory-"

In the barren grass on the side of the road, a handsome young man with slightly dark skin who was also wearing a green military uniform was lying on the ground, his thick black eyelashes suddenly flashed, and his eyes flickered a few times before he slowly opened.

"Where am I? Is this the road to Yellow Springs? ”

Song Qiong's face was confused.

The sharp pain of the moment before death had disappeared, only the head was swollen and groggy, and the body had a sense of alienation after a long sleep. It is only after the eyes have adapted to the intense light that they gradually see the world around them clearly.

In my ears, there was a familiar slogan, far and near, high and low.

Life is like a continuous reincarnation, in the depths of his memory, there seems to be such a scene, when he reached the peak of his career through hard work, he didn't expect to see this scene again after death.

"Song Qiong, wake up, hurry, drink some water, we have to catch up."

A young man with a stocky figure, a dark face, and particularly bright eyes appeared in front of Song Qiong and held a glass salt water bottle full of water to his mouth.

"Zhao Guoqing?"

Song Qiong shouted, his eyes suddenly widening.

"Hey, it's so loud, it's full of energy, it seems that it's okay, let's catch up later, it's not far from the boundary river, after crossing the boundary river, the opposite side is Lun Harbor, and the dawn is just around the corner-"

"Boundary River? Len Harbor? ”

Before Zhao Guoqing finished speaking, Song Qiong's face had changed dramatically in shock. He hurriedly got up from the ground, because his legs and feet were numb, and he almost fell back headlong, but fortunately, Zhao Guoqing was quick and reached out to support him.

"Hey, hey, what are you kid yelling at......"

Song Qiong could no longer hear Zhao Guoqing's voice, in front of him, the surging crowd, the gray national defense highway in the distance, the black barbed wire, the red border post, the white boundary river, and even the high-rise buildings in the distance, were all extremely familiar.

Although decades have passed since this scene, it is still unforgettable in his heart.

The Great Escape from Hong Kong -

In the sixties and seventies of the last century, with the advantages of a free port, London Port gradually developed into a world-class financial and shipping center, with a prosperous economy and society; At the same time, the economy of the interior is relatively backward, and the income of peasants working only a few cents a day, and they can't even fill their stomachs.

However, the road to smuggling is not a smooth one.

On the border, high barbed wire fences were erected, and border guards and militiamen patrolled back and forth with wolfdogs, and once discovered, they were arrested and then sent back.

If you break in, you may even be shot.

In order to avoid the border guards, the port escapees often crossed mountains and mountains at night and swam across the sea to the opposite shore. On the way to escape from Hong Kong, countless people drowned.

Song Qiong was sixteen or seventeen years old at the time, and he was cutting in line in the countryside, and he had fled Hong Kong many times.

When they escaped from Hong Kong for the first time, they were discovered by wolf dogs, and Song Qiong was bitten and locked in a cell for more than ten days, and then escorted back to the commune where the queue was cut.

The second time they escaped from the port, they launched from Lingang Bay in the middle of the night, tied a salt water bottle as a lifebuoy, swam in the middle of the night, swam until they were exhausted, only to see the light, and when they happily climbed ashore, found someone to ask, only to know that it was still Lingang, and they swam back.

The third time, it happened to coincide with the "five. About 60,000 or 70,000 people rushed to the Boundary River on the same day.

However, they were expelled by the border guards and militia who were waiting for them along the boundary river, and there was not a single one in ten who were able to escape.

Song Qiong and Zhao Guoqing were no exception, Zhao Guoqing was also hit by a stray bullet by the boundary river, the bullet passed through the left chest, if it weren't for his unusual body, his heart grew on the right side, and he almost died.

In order to take care of Zhao Guoqing, Song Qiong decisively gave up fleeing Hong Kong and was caught by the militia together, and the militia saw that Zhao Guoqing was injured in the chest, so they did not continue to embarrass them and let them go directly.

As a result, they smuggled with injuries again, and ran into the militia who had arrested them again, and the militia recognized them, deliberately turned a blind eye, and let Zhao Guoqing cross the boundary river, but drove Song Qiong away.

Song Qiong was stimulated, and he made a temporary decision and chose to cross Lingang Bay, but he unexpectedly succeeded.

Thinking of these past events, Song Qiong couldn't help but be a little confused.

Is this Huangquan Road, or is it Escape Harbor Road?

If this is Huangquan Road, why is the scene so familiar; If this is the way to escape...... More than 30 years have passed since this scene, how can it be repeated?

Could it be that going back in time, he is back in that special era?

"See, they are running to the other side of happiness, we have to work harder, we can't be left behind." Zhao Guoqing helped Song Qiong, looked fascinated, and said with emotion like a poet.

Song Qiong turned his head and looked at Zhao Guoqing carefully, his face was still green, his eyebrows were thick, his eyes were bright...... Exactly what it looks like in memory.

Zhao Guoqing is four years older than Song Qiong, and he went to the countryside a few years earlier to join the queue, and the history of fleeing Hong Kong is also earlier, and he has had more than a dozen experiences of escaping Hong Kong.

Zhao Guoqing is four years older than Song Qiong, and he went to the countryside a few years earlier to join the queue, and the history of fleeing Hong Kong is also earlier, and he has had more than a dozen experiences of escaping Hong Kong.

This time, he couldn't escape either, and even almost died.

"Brother Guoqing, now, when is it?" Song Qiong grabbed Zhao Guoqing's arm, and his voice trembled slightly: "I, I mean, what year is this?" ”

"Seventy-nine years." Zhao Guoqing was startled, broke away from his arm, and reached out to press on Song Qiong's head.

"What's wrong with you, you don't have a fever, do you?"

Song Qiong subconsciously leaned back: "I'm fine." ”

Song Qiong stared at Zhao Guoqing, carefully looked at this "lifelong" best friend, turned his head to look around, took a few deep breaths of "fresh" air, and then pinched the flesh on his cheek, twisted it violently, grinned in pain, and let out a burst of laughter.

Everything is very real, he is not dreaming.

It seems that he has really been reborn back to the road of escaping Hong Kong in seventy-nine years, with his good partner in front of him, the crowd fleeing from Hong Kong in front of him, and the boundary river and the border guards waiting for him in front of him.

"Hey, what are you laughing at, let's go quickly, there is the boundary river in front, don't be preempted by others." Zhao Guoqing saw Song Qiong laughing, a little inexplicable.

Song Qiong suddenly shook, quickly stopped laughing, and said loudly: "Can't go-"

He remembered that in his previous life, when they were about to arrive at the Jiehe, they clashed with several educated youths from the next team, and in the pushing, he once fell to the ground and fell unconscious, although he was fine, they snatched his bag.

At this time, it should be that he had just woken up after falling unconscious, and the location was not far from the boundary river.

If history had not changed, they would have continued to rush to the Jiehe River, where they would soon encounter the crowd expelled by the border guards, and tens of thousands of people who had fled Hong Kong were suddenly in chaos, and countless people were injured, maimed, and killed by falling and trampling.

Zhao Guoqing was in the chaos, hit by a stray bullet, and almost died.

Although he survived in the end, Song Qiong couldn't guarantee that after he crossed back, the stray bullet that didn't have a long eye would hit Zhao Guoqing's left chest, and what if it was slightly biased to the right side of the heart, or even hit the head, or other vital points?

That injury also damaged Zhao Guoqing's lung lobes, leaving a lifelong incurable disease, every rainy day, chest tightness and panting, difficulty breathing, several times almost died.

If all lives are in danger, what great achievements can we talk about?

Anyway, the front is dangerous, they can't go. Even if you want to escape Hong Kong, you can go again next time.

What's more, in Song Qiong's view, the mainland is about to reform and open up, and there will also be many opportunities, and they no longer need to go to London and Hong Kong.

In addition, thinking of the few educated youths in the long queue next door, Song Qiong also remembered something more important, his eyes couldn't help narrowing slightly, and a cold light shot out.

After the chaos, only a handful of people continued to storm the Boundary River, or chose to swim across the bay. Others were temporarily detained by the army, most of them had no choice but to return, while others wandered around the neighborhood in desperation.

The few educated youths in the brigade next door are like this.

In the process of wandering, they met two young girls who had been separated from their companions, and they actually had the surname Dafa and intended to rape, one of the women surnamed Ge Ganglie, when there was no escape, she hit her head with a stone and died on the spot, and the other girl was ravaged and committed suicide soon after.

This tragedy originally had nothing to do with Song Qiong.

However, among these people, some of them carried a bag that was snatched from Song Qiong, which not only contained some tools prepared by Song Qiong, but also a book of notes.

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, Song Qiong's bag was thrown at the scene.

In addition, among the few educated youths in the long queue, there is also a person whose name is "National Day", and someone shouted his name at that time.

The grandfather of the fierce suicidal girl was an old revolutionary, who was branded as a rightist during the great turmoil, and was rehabilitated soon after, and held an important position in the Central Committee. The girl's brother went down to the Guangdong Naval Region to serve as an officer and began to investigate the cause of his sister's death, and the only clues and the suicide note left by another suicide girl all pointed to Song Qiong and Zhao Guoqing.

In order to find out Song Qiong and avenge his sister, the young school official used various means to bring great harm to the family of Song Qiong's adoptive parents.

Although he did not use particularly drastic measures, his adoptive father died of depression after a few months due to mental and physical damage, and his adoptive mother, who was very affectionate with the couple, soon followed.

At that time, Song Qiong was already in Lungang, displaced, precarious, and unable to contact his family.

More than ten years later, when he returned to the mainland, several brothers and sisters refused to forgive him for the harm he brought to his parents, and he had to face the blow given by the Chen family and Zhao Jingcheng.

If it weren't for the fact that the old man of the Zhao family, Huwei, still existed, and the Li family of Lungang represented by Zhao Guoqing supported him, he might not have had a chance to rise at all.

Thinking of the past, thinking of the adoptive father and adoptive mother who raised him with hard work, Song Qiong couldn't help but tremble, and tears appeared in his eyes.

In this life, he can't let this happen again.

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