At the end of the 60s, the families of some cadres were organized in various branches to set up sideline teams. The business items include small shopping departments (such as dried rice shops, hotels), pig raising, sugarcane planting, fruits, winemaking, etc. Later, more than a dozen workers were transferred, totaling more than 20 people. The former captain was removed from his post because of the damage to the public and private interests, so he sent me to be the captain.

The female party member's name is Qu Chang'e (Hunan people), although she has no culture, she is very capable, works in a hurry, and has a manly energy. She is responsible for the political and ideological work of the whole team and pig raising, and I take care of the whole situation. I discussed with her the division of labor, arranged the personnel and persons in charge of each special operation group, formulated the work system and job responsibilities, and then "opened".

The sideline team was set up for a variety of operations, in addition to raising pigs and making wine, and later raising ducks, growing fodder, sugarcane, etc. These are profitable, especially winemaking. There was only one worker in the winemaking, and with me, the two of us spent all day and night in the winemaking room, and with the utmost effort, the wine produced was of good quality and sold well. In the first year, I didn't make any money raising ducks, and only recouped the capital. The main reason is that the ducklings did not get vaccinated after they bought it, and many died before and after.

Later, the boss said that "the policy of doing side jobs in different fields is not allowed", and the side business team was abolished after more than a year. Then I was transferred to the farm school as the principal.

Zhang Pingsheng is the eldest son of my third brother Zhang Xuexi, and he is a hard-working child in his life.

In September 1948, his parents sent him back to Wenshan County from Yao County, and just after the full moon, his father returned to the reactionary General Fu's unit in Beijing. In 1950, Zhang Pingsheng was already two years old, and his mother thought that her husband had gone to the island province, and the family could not be reunited, so she went back to her mother's house in Yao County to remarry someone else, and was raised by my mother for the rest of her life. In August 1957, my mother went to the third brother of the island province, and he was raised by the third aunt. The third aunt was in the countryside, there were many people, and there was a shortage of food, so in 1961, the younger brother and his wife came to the frontier and brought their lives with them, when he was thirteen years old.

Since then, my husband and I have taken on the responsibility of raising him for the rest of his life, and we arranged for him to go to school, graduated from the farm primary school, and sent him to Mengna County Middle School to study in junior high school. At that time, the middle school was almost part-time work and study, and almost two out of three years were labor, and there was not enough to eat (25 catties of grain per person per month). Eating "red pot dishes" (dishes without oil) for dinner, lack of nutrition, physical development is affected, and admissions often give him some money to buy some delicious food in the restaurant.

Every time he returned to the farm, although there was nothing to eat, but the meal was full, when he returned to school, he brought him a bag of pickles (these pickles were the leftovers of his aunt's canteen - cabbage stalks, peeled and dried, and pickled with peppers and fennel, which tasted crunchy and delicious), sometimes he went to the rice shop to buy some meat offal, fried them and brought them back to school, and sometimes he added dried tilapia with tempeh and mixed with lard, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, salt, and chili powder, which was also a first-class delicacy after steaming.

The hard school life gradually made me feel tired of it. In the past, when he got home, he always had endless road news, or happily teased his sister and brother, but now when he gets home, he sleeps and says little. Although we try to make him eat as well as possible in life and persuade him to study with peace of mind, he may not be interested in learning, and he hates school life more and more, and does not want to go to school.

One day, he suddenly proposed to his aunt that he should come back to participate in the production team and not go to school! We thought it was just talking, but we didn't care, and verbally persuaded him to study hard. One day, he really carried back all the daily necessities such as quilts and said that he was determined not to go to school!

I was very angry when I saw it, and I lost my temper and cursed. My wife talked to him a few more times later, but he just didn't go to school. The admissions repeatedly and patiently taught him, but he just couldn't listen.

Pingsheng is a bit stubborn, so he still refuses to go to school. The enrollment was so anxious that he shed tears, almost begging him to be "master", and only then did he carry the bedding and return to school. I went to the school a few times and found his homeroom teacher, Mr. Yang, to understand the situation and ask him to take care of him. Later, Mr. Yang took his life until he graduated from junior high school.

In the autumn of 1964, when the local government wanted to recruit new teachers, they were recruited from the farm, and my comrade-in-arms Meng Yichang (who had been transferred to work in the Mengna General Labor Union) recommended him to apply for a teaching job. After passing the exam, Pingsheng was admitted, and he was assigned to Mengban Township Central Primary School, which is only 20 kilometers away from the border, as a child king. In 1965, when Jingshi Normal recruited students (mainly ethnic minorities, but also recruited Han nationality), Meng Yichang introduced that he wanted to take the exam in his life, and I sent several letters asking him to take the exam, but he did not reply.

At that time, my nephew was more than 60 kilometers away from the place where I worked, there was no road, people could only walk, it took ten hours to get there, the road was primeval forest, there were often fierce beasts, and the people came to the county seat from Mengban Township, and they had to carry shotguns to be safe. I'm also too busy to see him. He usually comes back to visit us every summer vacation, and the family can only be reunited during the summer and winter vacations.

In August 1966, we didn't see him come back for vacation in the summer, and we missed him very much. Once I met Lao Yang, the former head teacher of Pingsheng (who had been transferred to the Yao District Central Primary School), in the county seat, and he told me that Zhang Pingsheng had married Mengban, so he did not dare to come back.

I was shocked when I heard this, how did I get married? It's really angry that such a big thing is hidden from us! I scolded repeatedly: "It's not a thing! ......Perhaps he knew that we would oppose and be scolded, and he did not dare to come back to see us for more than a year, until June 1967, when the teachers of the county were concentrated in the county primary school for theoretical study, and he did not see him.

At that time, there was no road from where I lived to Mengban Primary School, where I worked, and I had to walk more than 60 kilometers over the mountains and mountains, and the traffic was really inconvenient. Because he is too far away from us, it takes a day or two to reach it when he comes back, and he has to go through the vast primeval forest when he comes back alone, and there are often tigers, leopards, black bears, wild elephants, and poisonous snakes along the way, which is very unsafe, so we also advise him to come back together.

Working in such a remote school all his life, his usual life is too monotonous, he has no relatives, he hangs from each other, he thinks about his life experience, and he ...... in tears. Later, his father-in-law and mother-in-law (Dai nationality) saw that he was smart and honest, could teach in the classroom, could go down to the river to catch fish, could go up the mountain to hunt, could be literate and martial, and was a good young man, so he arranged a marriage and married his daughter to him. The Dai people are simple and simple, and their hearts are about kindness.

Since we are willing to do so, and now that we have completed the boat, what else can we say? I can only wish them happiness and happiness. His lover was his student, named Yikan, a pure Dai person. Since then, our Wenshan Zhang family has the first ethnic minority, which has become a good story of Han and Dai intermarriage in the history of the Zhang family.

After 1968, Pingsheng taught in Mengban and Mampa Primary School, Mampa is more than 40 kilometers away from Yongchun Farm, I often take Xiaoyun and Xiaochun to play with him during the summer vacation, he and Yikan also often come back, every time I come back, I buy a lot of horse and donkey tendons, game meat, chickens and ducks, dried fish, bacon, etc., to improve our lives, we also give money according to the price, these things, at that time money could not buy ah.

Therefore, he is considerate that there are four younger siblings at home who want to eat meat, and there is nothing to buy on the street, so he would rather endure hardships and work hard by himself, and carry forty or fifty pounds of non-staple food from the mountains of more than 40 kilometers away.

In 1977, when the farm recruited a large number of workers, I recruited all four members of the family into Yongchun Farm, and Pingsheng was assigned to teach with us in the Wufenchang (formerly Yongchun Farm) school, and his wife Yikan was assigned to the school logistics class and became a regular national worker.