In addition to being responsible for the storage of materials in the field department, Zou was also sent to a team as an inspector to grasp the daily progress and measure the area of wasteland. In November 1959, we had our first child, Xiaoying. Talking about this child's coming into the world, I have to make up for it.

When I was still living in Chengzi Village, I was working in the cooking class with a big belly, and suddenly had a severe stomach pain in the middle of the night one day later - I was about to give birth. I was in a hurry, invited two workers, carried a lantern to help her rush to the Mengxi Health Center, to the health center to walk four miles, across two small rivers, the river is not wide but the water is deep, I carried her across the river, not half of the way, she was already sweating profusely, I said: "Be stronger, be stronger." ”

A big belly is not easy to back, and afraid of pressing the fetus, she walked by herself, then the blood flowed down the thigh, half of the child's head has been exposed, I panicked, and the two workers carried her away with both hands, she was so painful that her face turned pale, sweated profusely, gritted her teeth, endured the severe pain, and whispered: "Ouch, it hurts." ”。 We hurried to the health center, and as soon as we lay down on the delivery bed, the baby was successfully delivered, and the mother and daughter were safe, God blessed. It was November 15, 1959.

At that time, the conditions were extremely poor, and Dr. Li (he graduated from medical university, so he was placed here) skillfully disinfected, stopped bleeding, and washed and bandaged the child. He did all this work alone, and there was not even a nurse around him, which shows that Dr. Li is an all-round doctor. The child was born safely, and I am very happy with the admissions! If she hadn't been strong and confident, she might have miscarried halfway through. Everyone said that this child has a great life, and he will be blessed!

After several days of discussion about the name of the child, I said, "You and I should each have a name." I said, "The child was born in Mengxi, Nanzhao Province, and his scientific name is Xiaolun." She nodded and smiled. The child is delicate and strong, more than full-term, so he is also quite fat, with a small face very similar to his mother, a straight nose, a big head, and a small circle of hair on the top of his head, which is cute.

At that time, there was an extreme shortage of materials, and there was no food such as glucose and milk powder on the market, and the child was hungry and screaming. Fortunately, Puzhi's lover Li Qiongxian gave some brown sugar, mixed some brown sugar water, no bottle, and sent it to the small mouth with a small spoon, maybe hungry, let's suck it in one bite at a time, I opened my eyes and watched this little guy eat water, I really felt strange.

The child drank more than a dozen spoonfuls in one go, his mouth was open one by one, his tongue was licked one by one, and he seemed to have an unfinished aftertaste, and slowly fell asleep with his little eyes closed. Later, I went on a business trip to Mengna County, and found an acquaintance to approve a small packet of glucose and a feeding bottle, but I did not get milk powder, but I was still very happy, and when I returned home, I used brown sugar and glucose together for the child to eat. In this way, the child also grows up day by day.

I'm a father, and I'm happy on my face and happy in my heart. Enrollment is poor due to lack of nutrition. There is a restaurant next to the field, some pork, buns, rice noodles, bait for sale, usually do not dare to go, for fear that people will say "cadres are specialized". Li Qiongxian is a middle-aged woman with a lot of experience, she told me that every day to buy some pig's feet, pork ribs stewed soup for Xiao Zhou to drink, can increase milk, there is better chicken, so that the adult body can recover quickly, the child also grows well, buy some for the mother to eat, everyone can understand, rest assured.

After that, I did the same, and the enrollment really recovered quite well. At the end of her fifty-six days of maternity leave, she went to work in the first team. Feed the children to go to work in the morning, come back at noon to feed, in the afternoon until the evening when they come back from work to have milk, in the morning, noon hours children can only eat sugar water.

Xiaoying sleeps when she is full, cries when she is urgent, sleeps when she runs out of urine, and has to eat when she wakes up, it's really evil! There is no nursery in the field, only I have a child, and it just so happens that the wife of the horse farm manager is fine, so I asked her to take it. Since then, the two of us have become good friends.

"There are unpredictable circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck." One day in February 1960, the enrollment team went to work, and took a Hunan worker to measure the area of the dam, there were many workers cutting trees on the hillside, and one worker was cutting down a tree more than 20 meters high, and the big tree was about to fall and did not shout: "Is there anyone under the hillside?" ”

The towering tree clattered down from the mountain, saying that it was too late, it was fast, seeing that the branch was about to hit the female worker, the enrollment pushed her violently, but she couldn't dodge, and was knocked to the ground by the branch in an instant, the female worker was saved, she climbed to see the current situation, and shouted: "Save people!" The tree knocks down people, save people! ……”

When the workers heard the noise, they rushed to see Zou Xue bleeding from her mouth and unconscious. A worker named Gu Bangwan, without saying a word, ran to the field with Zou on his back, the horse farm director and Secretary Xu saw that the person did not wake up, the blood continued to flow, and he hurriedly called someone to send the health center for first aid, and the doctor Li was busy for a while and said: "Quick! Rush to Mona County Hospital. ”

At that time, there were no cars on the farm, and we finally waited for a shuttle bus by the road leading to Menna County, but there were too many people on the bus to squeeze in, so I was so anxious that I stomped my feet. Fortunately, a military jeep passed by, and when he saw this, he immediately stopped, helped the person into the car, and was escorted by Dr. Li.

Seeing this situation, he told the driver to buy time quickly and steadily, and it was important to save people. Looking at the unconscious admissions, my tears flowed down, I hugged the head of the admissions, afraid that the car bumps and concussion brain aggravated the condition, Dr. Li held the infusion bottle high, the blood in the admissions' mouth was still flowing, my eyes were closed, I was anxious, and I was in great pain. When I arrived in Mengna County, the chief got off the bus at the stationing station on the side of the road and asked the driver to take him directly to the county hospital three kilometers away.

The person was quickly admitted to the hospital for first aid, the doctor checked the blood test, the pulse was measured, he was busy for a while, the enrollment did not feel at all, her heartbeat accelerated, she took injections, took some medicine (it was pry open the mouth and poured down), the person still did not wake up, and after dark, the blood in the mouth did not stop, and the person was unconscious. My heart went up and down, and it was very painful.

The doctor said, "The danger period has not passed, so observe for a few days." "I really didn't expect such a thing to happen, and it would be so unexpected. The child was just a few months old, and the adult constitution had not yet recovered, so I secretly wept in case there were three long and two short...... I don't dare to think about it.

For several days, she did not eat, drink, or move, and remained unconscious. Time passes day by day, and it is really like a year! On the eighth day, she slowly opened a pair of godless eyes, staring at it in a daze, and suddenly, as if she saw me clearly, as if she understood everything that was happening in front of her, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

I stroked her face, stroked her cute pigtails, gently called her, and kissed her face sadly. She reached out to me, and I held her petite hand tightly, kissing, and she slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep again.

From time to time, I asked the doctor: What is her condition? …… After consultation, the doctor put forward a "suggestion to quickly transfer to the city hospital". At that time, there was no telephone in the farm department, so I hung up the phone to the superiors in Mengxi District and asked them to tell the farm. The head of the horse farm said: "It is up to the doctors in the hospital to decide, and it is time to transfer." "I immediately went to the accounting office of Mengna General Field to borrow money, went through the transfer procedures, and took the enrollment to take the shuttle bus to Sishi.