Chapter 57: Greeting the Condolence Group
After various examinations such as consultation, instrument examination, and radiographing in Sishi Hospital (there were no electrocardiogram, B-ultrasound, CT and other instruments at that time), the diagnosis concluded that there was a brain trauma, a back injury, a small amount of bleeding from internal organs, but no damage to the skull, and the cranial nerve was strongly stimulated by fright, resulting in a cranial nerve coma, and it was recommended to be hospitalized for observation. I asked if there was any damage to the brain, and the doctor said, "There is no damage to the brain." "I was relieved.
She was relieved that her baby daughter, who was born only a few months ago, was anxious to be discharged from the hospital, and decided to go home to recuperate with the consent of the doctor. Ask the doctor to prescribe some milk powder, glucose and Chinese and Western medicines, and then ask the doctor to do a comprehensive examination, think that we can be discharged, and tell us to rest well, pay attention to nutrition, and not do heavy work for the time being.
Decades later, she often had back pains, especially when it was cloudy and rainy. That's what was left at that time.
We will never forget the care and love of leaders at all levels for admissions, and we will always be grateful to countless well-wishers for their help.
The child was carefully cared for by the wife of the horse farm manager, and she looked very cute, and when she smiled, the two small dimples brought out her delicacy even more. After returning from enrollment, I rested for more than half a month, and I played with the little guy when I had nothing to do. She is a person with strong self-esteem, and she tries to work hard and support herself as much as she can.
I have a lot of things to do, such as reporting and making accounts, and I have to make up for all the things in the house. In my spare time, I took the little one to the grass in the field, and took a family portrait, which recorded the happy and beautiful moment at that time.
In the early summer of 1961, Hunan Province sent a condolence group to Mengbalaxi to express condolences to the workers who came to Hunan Branch. We were instructed to immediately make all kinds of preparations for the reception, to have the higher authorities purchase non-staple food for us materially, to publicize it vigorously and with great fanfare, and to greet the arrival of the condolence group with practical actions. The leaders of the field made meticulous research and arrangements, the propaganda work was in charge by Secretary Xu, the reception work was in charge of the horse farm, and the specific work was handed over to me and a few comrades.
We set up a huge large colored plaque across the highway on the highway, and the huge portrait of the leader was hung high, with colorful flags inserted on the colored plaque, and on both sides were imitation Song style golden couplets:
Thank you for the condolences that your relatives have brought to your hometown
He promised the party to use his sky-high energy and vowed to build the frontier into a paradise
The banner reads: Warm welcome to the condolence group
The couplet of the condolence group from Menna to Jingshi is:
A thousand words do not forget the kindness of the party
The sons and daughters of Sanxiang will always win glory for the motherland
The banner reads: I wish your loved ones a safe journey
The plaques are spectacularly tied, not only brightly coloured, but also magnificent, with pillars full of flowers and evergreen branches, which would be charming at night if decorated with lanterns.
In order to prepare these two couplets, I spent a lot of brains, and I drafted several couplets, and after repeated deliberation by the leaders of the field, I finally selected these two couplets.
In front of the gate to enter the field, there are also colored plaques, which are decorated with red cloth, covered with evergreen branches and various colored flowers, and four red pompom lanterns are hung, and the couplets on both sides are:
Greet your loved ones with passion
The sons and daughters of the frontier are loyal to the party
The banner reads: Revolution Forever
The font is a large golden font with a square head, with a large red cloth, which has a deep meaning. It took me a few days to cut and paste these words. After the secretary personally inspected it, he thought he was satisfied, and waited for his relatives to come.
Around the end of May, the condolence group went from Jingshi Farm to Mengna Farm and passed by Mengxi Farm. All the staff of our Mengxi Farm and the local township superiors, as well as hundreds of Dai people, welcome them.
The Dai brothers sang and danced, beat their unique elephant foot drums and cymbals, and warmly welcomed the condolence group. We prepared a lot of colorful flowers and threw them at our relatives in the car, and everyone applauded and cheered enthusiastically. After the leader got into the car, he shook hands with everyone, and then the gongs and drums rang out in unison, the firecrackers shook the sky, and the cheers and slogans converged into a lively and cheerful symphony. The condolence group rested for a while, and immediately galloped to the Mengna Farm Department. The condolence group will first go to the general site of Mengna to express condolences before officially coming to me to offer condolences.
A few days later, the condolence group officially came to our site to express condolences with the love of the people of Xiangjiang. The condolence group held a symposium for border personnel and distributed condolences to them. The field department held a grand reception, and invited the secretary of the local township party committee, the head of the township, and the leaders of the botanical garden to accompany them. The condolence group presented pennants to the local superiors and presented condolences to the venue, and the atmosphere was very warm.
The condolence group also took a lot of photos of the life and work of the workers in Hunan as a commemoration, and in the afternoon, more than 10 people from the condolence group left Mengxi to gather in Jingshi. The condolence group brought the most cordial care and warmth to the farm, gave the greatest encouragement to the frontier soldiers and workers, and strengthened the will of the frontier sons and daughters to take root in the frontier.
The conflict between the farm and the botanical garden has become increasingly intense as the area of deforestation on the farm has further expanded.
The botanical garden was built on an alluvial flat land on the side of the Luosuo River in Mengxi, and there was this botanical garden before the liberation. The botanical garden is mainly to protect the primeval forest of Mengbalaxi, research and develop the rich animal and plant resources of Mengbalaxi, especially to protect Mengxi, the only existing primeval forest in China. There are many experts and scholars engaged in scientific research there, and developed medicinal plants and precious tree species (such as dragon incense, etc.) that are urgently needed by the country, and it is a provincial first-class protection unit.
There is a movie "The Evergreen Tree of Life", which tells the story of Cai Xitao, a scientist working in the Mengxi Botanical Garden, and his scientific researchers who research and develop animal and plant resources for the motherland. The Botanical Garden cherishes this treasure very much, and the farm has to cut down their beloved treasure - the primeval forest for the sake of the country to grow rubber, and the contradiction is irreconcilable.
Don't look at the machetes used by workers as primitive tools, but the stakes are high. Since the condolence group visited the majority of workers, it has stimulated the enthusiasm of the sky-high revolution, and in half a month, it has greatly broken through the original cutting index, whether it is suitable for planting rubber forests or not suitable for planting rubber forests, they are all "brushed out". Seeing this, the comrades of the botanical garden were anxious like a fire, their hearts were like knives, and they were anxious to report to the provincial superiors, and finally the provincial people's superiors issued an order to the Nanzhao Provincial Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation to "notify Mengxi Farm to move out immediately."
At that time, Secretary Wang of Mengna County (who was also transferred from the army) came to Mengxi Farm to convey the spirit and announced that all Mengxi Farm would move to Mengyuan to open up a new world, leaving only some people to guard the seedlings.
The Mengyuan branch was built in a mountain col, where the mountains are steep, a bit like a sandwich ditch. Open, low, hilly land is scarce, and a road runs through the col along which the farm's production teams are located. Because there are only about 400 employees in the field, the mountains and forests that can be expanded here are narrow, so only five production teams have been built. Later, some cadres were transferred from other fields, so I asked to join the company, and I was not an accountant, and when I got approval, I became the captain of the second team.
This company has more than 100 people, divided into four platoons, and the secretary of the company is a native of Hunan Branch, a peasant, tall and large, and full of vitality. The chief of affairs was a soldier, and the whole team was from the same township and village in Hunan Province, and only me and the deputy branch secretary were "foreign" households.
After the establishment of the new field, the wasteland was immediately opened. My team is located in a canyon with mountains on both sides, backed by the road, and there are many large rocks on all sides, so you can climb the slope when you go out, and there are few mountains that can be cultivated for rubber planting. If you grow miscellaneous grains, you can also take grain from the cracks in the stones.