At this time, we were told by our superiors to pack our backpacks and immediately walk across the bridge to the south bank. At this time, I heard the sapper comrades shouting: "Learn from Big Brother, salute Big Brother!" "Thank you for your help!"

As we walked forward, we waved our hands and said, "Learn from the sapper brother and salute the sapper brother!" ”

In the distance, a long freight train was parked, and the head of the military academy commanded the major teams to get on the carriage in an orderly manner, and a loud song immediately sounded in the carriage, and everyone can take the train again! Not to mention how happy it is.

One can rest on the train, and the other is to avoid walking hundreds of miles, although the seat is a little crowded, but the heart is still very satisfied. The train is speeding south, and those who sit at the door can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the southern country, and those who sit in the carriage have to sleep.

Arrived in Suicheng on the evening of 17 February. The train stopped at the freight station, and it was pitch black all around, and there was only dim lighting on the platform, which seemed deserted. Under the guidance of the guide, we temporarily rested in the square outside the station, and stayed that night in an empty warehouse nearby, but there was a pig farm nearby, and from time to time the smell of pig manure wafted from time to time, so that everyone did not sleep well.

We finally came to the largest city in the south - Suicheng, everyone was very excited, it was really a little fresh, strange, and they all wanted to go into the city to see, but the strict discipline made everyone dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool, and only comforted themselves with the spirit of Ah Q.

Suicheng, where the troops gathered, really "surrounded" Yangcheng. Suicheng is the largest international metropolis in the south, connected to Xiangcheng and Aocheng, with relatively prosperous economy and culture, and is also an important strategic location, and an important transit point for reactionary troops fleeing to the island.

Suicheng is a city with a glorious tradition, in 1840 Lin Daren launched the Humen tobacco movement and many modern Suicheng uprisings, showing the indomitable fighting spirit of our nation for more than 100 years. On October 14, 1949, Suicheng was liberated, and this majestic and beautiful city finally returned to the hands of the people, and since then it has rejuvenated and vigorous, and she will forever sweep away all the reactionary colors of colonialism that have been humiliated.

On 8 November, thousands of people from the military army crossed the river from Shashi to Shiweitang and boarded the train to Foshi. Our unit was stationed in a certain village in Diejiao Township, where we lived for a month and a half, focusing on rectifying our thinking, studying the materialist outlook on history, and further establishing a correct outlook on life and values.

The area of Foshi is not large, but merchants gather, it is one of the four famous commercial towns in ancient times, and the commodity economy is developed. Since the invasion of the British and French colonialists, the city has also been colonized, from the construction of houses to advertising signs, from food culture to business sense, it is permeated with the imprint of colonialism, which at the time seemed to be a national disgrace.

Diejiao Township is located in the Great Plain of the Great River Delta, where a flat river, the water network is vertical and horizontal, and the water and land transportation is developed, which is a typical fish and rice water town. Most of the villagers use the boat as their main means of transportation, as if they are in a paradise water town. When the tide rises, the ditches are full of water, and it is very convenient for small boats to come and go, so there are very few people here who carry them on their backs.

Agricultural products are very abundant, especially fruits, dazzling, unseen, unheard of, see really mouthwatering, we bought a lot at once, feast, very happy, the instructor said: "Eat too much and be careful of hurting your stomach." But at this time, no one wanted to listen to him, and when he returned to the army, he did have diarrhea, and some even went to the hospital, which is really the opposite.

In addition to planting rice (three crops a year), the peasants also grow mulberry and silkworms, textiles, fruits, fish, pigs, and pearls, and have a lot of income, and almost all of the villagers have two-story and three-story small buildings. When the villagers came back from the fields, they first went to the river to wash the dirt, took off their labor clothes and hung them in the side houses, and then went to take a bath and change their clothes.

Women love to dress up, perm their hair, put on lipstick, draw their eyebrows, rub fat and powder, wear gold and silver, all of them are bright, and they don't look like peasants at all. Indoor and outdoor, are clean, and the courtyard is dotted with bonsai flowers and plants, giving people a fresh, quiet and poetic feeling. The villagers used toilets to fill and cover their urine, and the next day a boat of manure came to collect it and transport it to the urinal where it was fermented in the fields.

Our class was arranged to a courtyard house, and we saw a three-story blue brick and cement building, tall and spacious, which looked particularly spacious. We lived in the hall, the floor was pasted with patterned tiles, it was still hot at that time, sleeping on this porcelain plate, clean and cool, it was really a high-class enjoyment. According to the old tradition of the army, after settling down, with the consent of the landlord, immediately cleaned, inside and out, to carry out a "revolution", here every hall is enshrined in the statue of Marshal Zhao Gong (that is, Zhao Gongming), the incense burner is constantly fireworks, very pious. We scrubbed the furniture and other furniture, but the statue of Zhao Gongming was dusty and did not let us wipe it, showing the villagers' awe of Zhao Gongming.

The hostess of the landlord was a little worried and suspicious about us at first, but then she was happy and relieved, and finally she grinned, showed her big gold teeth, and raised the eldest mother and son: "Big tenant, top quack!" ”。 The general cleaning took two days, and it was not until the brigade's democracy movement department went to each company, platoon, and squad to pass the inspection.

We stayed at the landlord's house for a month and a half, and the landlord has a deep understanding of the army, no longer fears and doubts, and is happy all day long. In Guangzhou, women cannot be called "old cousins", in their eyes it is a derogatory term, that is, the meaning of old prostitutes, can only be called sister-in-law, aunt.

The eldest lady was very enthusiastic about us, and took the initiative to bring us hot water bottles, cups, and iron buckets, and brought fruits, but we didn't move at all, and returned to Zhao. She didn't understand what we were doing, and we couldn't tell her clearly for a while, and the language of both sides was not very clear, let alone clear.

The eldest mother's family has three boys and two girls, one grandson, the girls are all married, the boys have grown up, and the family has a lot of income. Her little grandson is chubby, with a small white tooth, more than three years old, and his small mouth can speak well and attract people. The child likes to sleep on the floor with us the most, so that the rollers are playing, and the aunt is relieved to be familiar.

Sometimes we carry the little fat man outside to play, sometimes we go to a meeting, and the child is waiting for us at the door. When we have time, we also work with the parents of the eldest mother to promote the policy of the army. There are toilets, vegetable gardens, and orchards in the yard of the eldest mother, and no one has been there except for the vegetable garden and orchard that I have been cleaning once last time. When we first came, the eldest lady was not at ease with us, and went to the orchard every day to count whether the oranges, pineapples, papayas, bananas, etc. were lost, and the small door was locked. Sometimes she brought us some fruit to eat, but after a few days, the fruit was still left there untouched.

However, there was still a violation of discipline:

The "yin and yang man" in our class - He Huimin, because he ate too much fruit, did not listen to the instructor's warning of "hurting the stomach", diarrhea, ran to the toilet in the orchard from time to time, and picked a tangerine when he came back, and was found by the little fat man, and told our pockmark squad leader, the squad leader was very angry when he heard it, in the past, there had been a matter of stealing the fruits of the masses and being severely criticized, and now there was the same kind of thing, immediately reported to the team department, the instructor immediately reported to the team, the brigade quickly sent someone to investigate, and after understanding the situation is true, good guy, A congress of soldiers of the whole brigade was immediately convened, and the eldest mother and her three sons were invited to participate.