A. The Romance of the Bus Station

Love, this is a word that every young person yearns for very much. My earliest exposure to the relationship between men and women can be traced back to a novel I read before I joined the army. In the chapter "Bai Ru's Heart", the love story of Bai Ru, the "little white dove" known as "a little red in the green bush", and the male protagonist Shao Jianbo once made me blush and couldn't sleep at night. Later, it was Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Romeo and Juliet, and the great poet Pushkin of the former Soviet Union who died in a duel for his girlfriend......

I really took action on my own, starting with a nurse I knew when I was hospitalized in an army hospital: At that time, after I got the admission letter, I was admitted to the infectious disease department of the hospital in order to find out the problem of my high jaundice index. At that time, there was a nurse in Corey who had just graduated from the Jinan Military Medical School. She is not tall, but she looks very "exquisite", and with a well-fitting military uniform, she also looks very moving. In particular, her cheerful and lively personality and considerate work attitude towards patients are very popular with young people. Because her family is from Pingyuan County, I started up with her and often consulted her about some medical issues. It is said that the troops "crushed people to death at the level of officers and majors." At that time, I was a soldier, she was an officer, and she was not like other female cadres who were bullish and domineering, but polite and answered all questions. Especially when I was about to be hospitalized in the General Hospital of the Military Region, because I was not familiar with my life, she took the initiative to recommend her classmate Chen Shuhua to help me a lot. At that time, I thought to myself, we are Texan villagers, living customs, and she was also admitted to college from the countryside, we belong to the family; In addition, our regiment is stationed in her hometown of Pingyuan County, and it is possible that she will be transferred to our regiment's medical team in the future, or I will be transferred to Texas. Because there are fewer female cadres in the army, scarcity is expensive, and so are people. Therefore, many local young people and male officers in the army are proud to find a female officer. With this idea, I am afraid that when I graduate, people will be "famous". After entering the school, I made a special call to Sun Xiangang of our regimental health team and asked him to go to the hospital to explain the matter to the woman. What I didn't expect was that he had already been "famous" for a long time, and he was also a cadre of the army. Knowing this, although there are some regrets, but there is no way to do it, who let us not do it earlier.

After graduating from the army school, I returned to the artillery regiment of a division. Officially appointed as the platoon commander of the police communication company, administrative level 23, salary of 58 yuan. Subsequently, it was converted to the Public Information Unit as a regular public information officer. After years of hard work, I finally achieved a "positive result", and the matter of love can be put on the agenda. However, the barracks are a few kilometers away from the plain county, let alone looking for a partner, even if you usually see a young girl, it is very rare.

After serving as a press officer in the regiment, the work standards are different from those used to be reporters. When I was a reporter, I published a "tofu block" in the newspaper, a newsletter, etc., as long as there was a signature, it was considered a manuscript; It's not enough to be a press officer, you have to publish articles that are not headlines, they have to be in important positions, and they have to be larger. As a newly appointed information officer, the pressure on me can be imagined.

Faith, like the sun, is full of light and hope. After more than two months of promotion, I worked hard to publish a news item on the front page of the "Guardian Daily", and I was praised by the regiment leaders.

Here are some excerpts:

At eight o'clock, the proposal was heard, and the decision was made at nine o'clock

Yu Jinyuan, a college student, was changed from artillery platoon commander to repair platoon commander

The head of the regiment and the political commissar said: We should also pay attention to efficiency in the use of talents

January 5th. Yu Jinyuan, the platoon commander of the first company of a certain artillery regiment, happily came to the regiment's repair company to report for duty and served as the repair platoon commander. People say that the regiment leaders are highly efficient. The political commissar of the regiment commander said: We should also pay attention to efficiency in the use of qualified personnel.

Yu Jinyuan studied mechanical design and repair for four years in the mechanical department of Laiyang Agricultural College. After graduating, he voluntarily enrolled in the Jinan Army School, and was assigned to the first howitzer company as a platoon commander a few years ago. Although he was enthusiastic and energetic, he did not have much success in his work because he did not understand the artillery business. For this reason, he has repeatedly asked the leader whether he can change a job that is in line with his major, but he has not paid enough attention to it. At the end of last year, regiment commander Wei Maoxiang and political commissar Han Linyi came to the company to learn about the situation and Yu Jinyuan gave a report in person. The head and political commissar of the regiment felt that "student officials" like Yu Jinyuan were placed in the wrong position and could not give full play to their strengths, and they should be provided with a world to display their talents. Political Commissar Han immediately found other members of the party committee to solicit their opinions, and personally went to the relevant departments to make a final decision: Let Yu Jinyuan serve as the commander of the repair platoon in the repair company. It only took an hour to do this.

Editor's post: It is commendable to cherish talents

It took only an hour before and after a certain regiment to change the appointment of a "student officer" and enable him to do the work of his professional counterpart, which can be described as highly efficient.

Everything must pay attention to efficiency, and the use of talents must not be delayed. A few years ago, under the interference and sabotage of the ultra-left line, some people who had learned and excelled suffered injustice, and by the time the policy was implemented and their professional counterparts were met, they had already turned from young people with gray hair. It has wasted the youth of talented people and delayed the revolutionary cause, and the lesson is profound.

This kind of historical tragedy will naturally not be repeated. However, the phenomenon of delaying qualified personnel because of the bureaucratic style of procrastination is not uncommon in some units. The day is difficult to come again, and the golden year will not come again. Talent cannot afford to delay. Each and every one of our comrades, especially those who are leaders, must foster this concept: We must not let talented people be delayed in our own hands. What else can we learn from this? Comrades may wish to share their views.

(Originally published in the front page of the "Qianwei Daily" of the Jinan Military Region on January 6, 1985)

At our time, it was "popular" for press officers in various units to go to the newspaper office to study. It's called learning, but it's actually doing chores for editors. But this has many advantages: first of all, "the first month is the first to be near the water", and you can publish a lot of manuscripts; Secondly, after three months of study, the editors in each editorial office got to know each other, and in the future, they will be able to take care of the manuscripts they write when they return to the unit. I told the head of the propaganda unit, Mr. Li, about my idea, and after getting his permission, I went to the "Guardian" of the military region to contact me about studying. However, because the "Qianwei Daily" was full of students, I had no choice but to contact the local "Shandong Youth Daily" to study. It was not allowed to go to a local newspaper to study according to the regulations of the army, but Chief Li still made an exception and agreed.

When I was packing my bags and preparing to go to Jinan to study at the Shandong Youth Daily the next day, my father came to see me in the army. After I told my father that I was going to Jinan to study, my father said that he was going to Wucheng County to visit an old comrade-in-arms surnamed Tao, and that he would change buses here to come and see me. I went to the cafeteria to get a few dishes, and after lunch with my father, I sent him to the Pingyuan County bus station to get on the bus to Wucheng. As I watched my father's car go away and was about to return, a slender and graceful female officer walked into the bus station with her luggage. This person has his head up, his eyes are not squinting, and he looks very domineering. In a small remote county town, a beautiful female officer, but a "rare animal", attracted everyone's attention at once. I passed her, but she didn't look at me. After walking a long way, I turned around again and watched her get into the car to Xiajin County.

It was this side of the fate that led to a tragic love story. After arriving at Shandong Youth Daily, my work was mainly to edit the manuscripts that should be published, or to go out for interviews when I was invited. Because I didn't have the pressure of submitting a manuscript in the unit, I felt very relaxed, mainly because my "heart" was relaxed. At this moment, in my free time, I thought again of the female officer who had impressed me at the plain bus station. I gave full play to the advantages of being engaged in journalistic work for many years, and based on the number of trains she got off the train and the direction she took by car, I quickly found out that she was a nurse named Ayu (pseudonym) in the internal medicine department of a certain army hospital, and she also graduated from the Jinan Military Medical School. At that time, she was a well-known "school flower" in school, and when she was in school, she was pursued by many children of military cadres, and her home was in Xiajin County, which belongs to our Texas region.

After the situation was completely clarified, I wrote a letter to her in the name of my fellow countryman, tactfully explaining that I had not found a partner because of the late mention. Less than seven days after the letter was sent, I received a reply in which she said that she was happy to know a fellow journalist and that she also loved writing. When I learned from the letter that she had no partner for various reasons, I was very excited and felt that there was still hope for me. So, I quickly wrote back to her. In my letter, I said that it was God's love and fate for me to know her. After going back and forth, the two of us young people who had never known each other fell in love with each other about the Hongyan Biography. Each letter is thick, and of course, transcribed famous quotes and love poems are indispensable. Through constant correspondence, I found that she had good writing skills, read a lot, and had a great vocabulary. I feel that I, a person who often chews words, has met a soulmate, which is really God's love for me.

During my studies at Shandong Youth Daily, as an intern reporter, I interviewed Wei Huili, the heroine of the first Peasant Games in Shandong Province and the Hong Kong movie "Jing Chang". Seeing my constant newspaper articles, she felt a lot of admiration for me.

This interview with film actress Wei Huili is my first interview since I started working in journalism.

Here are some excerpts:

From "Little Cui" to "Yan Po Xi"

——Interview with Wei Huili, the heroine of the Hong Kong movie "Essence Change".

Wei Huili, the fox fairy "Xiaocui" in the Hong Kong movie "Jing Chang", since she broke into the film industry by chance, she has successfully played several beautiful and kind female images in TV series such as "Journey to the West", "Wei Zheng" and "Fangcao Tianya". Recently, she swept away the gentle and virtuous style, and in the TV series "Song Jiang", she played the watery Yang Hua and the unruly dissolute woman "Yan Poxi".

Wei Huili is 30 years old this year, she is of medium height, slender and delicate, with a smooth forehead like marble, a straight nose, and a pair of big eyes. She talks straightforwardly and wittily, and is really as cute as the fox fairy "Xiaocui" in the movie "Jing Chang".

She originally sang Peking Opera and had a strong interest in the art of Peking Opera. When she was a child, she was particularly fond of rapping. In 1964, she was admitted to the Shandong Opera School and received strict formal training. After graduating in 1970, he was assigned to the Shandong Peking Opera Troupe, and successively played roles in "Picking Up Jade Shop", "Red Lantern", "Plain Battle" and other plays, which were loved by the audience. Wei Huili is particularly competitive in her career, and never dares to be mediocre in art. She feels that as an actor, if she is artistically unknown, it is the biggest embarrassment. In the first few years, someone asserted: "Wei Huili can act in modern dramas, but I am afraid that it is not possible to act in traditional dramas." When these words reached Wei Huili's ears, she didn't say anything, and she could hold back a lot of strength in her heart. At that time, the girls in the troupe got married one by one. The fourth floor of the troupe's dormitory was empty, and she had a large room to herself. She locked herself in her room and practiced from morning to night. From her figure to her expression, from her words to her singing, she pondered carefully and was meticulous. The hard work pays off, and in the Shandong Youth Opera Performance, she performed "Spring Grass Breaking into the Hall". It was unanimously voted and awarded the first prize for the Danjiao performance.

Today's Wei Huili, with her perseverance in art, has not only made certain achievements in Peking Opera, but also has begun to show her edge on the silver screen. In the movie "Jing Chang", she vividly and vividly expressed the beautiful and simple feelings of the fox fairy "Xiaocui" who is attached to human life, loves Yuanfeng, and is unwilling to return to the lonely sky with her mother, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong in one fell swoop. Later, she successively played the roles of "Miss Gao", "Zheng Shuyu", "Wang Chaoyun" and other roles in several TV series, which were also recognized by the audience and affirmed by experts.

Wei Huili has a quiet personality and an elegant and simple performance style. A famous film director once said that Wei Huili's temperament is suitable for playing the tragic traditional Chinese image of "good wife and good mother".

However, what is surprising is that in March this year, Zhang Xinjian and Liu Ziyun, directors of the Shandong Provincial Television Art Troupe, after repeated deliberations, finally selected Wei Huili to play the role of the Diao woman "Yan Poxi" in the TV series "Song Jiang". The role of "Yan Poxi" is far from Wei Huili's own life experience, personality and temperament, and the roles she has played in the past. She felt very unfamiliar and was afraid that she would lose her performance. But after much consideration, she bravely accepted the role. She said: "As an actor, you should try all kinds of roles, you should open up more scenes, the more unfamiliar roles you are, the more difficult it is to grasp, the more you need to redouble your efforts, so as to promote your acting skills to make great progress." ”

"Ask how the canal is as clear as it is? For there is a source of living water. In order to accurately grasp the tone and special "taste" of "Yan Po Xi" in the individual characters. She first read the original "Water Margin" over and over again. She can recite some important characters and character descriptions in the original book. She also found many long and short stories about frivolous and dissolute women from the library, read them day and night, and excerpted some of them to help her deepen her understanding. It is not easy for the virtuous and quiet Wei Huili to perform the cunning, vicious, and uninhibited nature of "Yan Poxi". Only after accurately understanding the character's personality and grasping the relationship between the character's internal emotions and external actions can the actor successfully shape the character image and tug at the audience's heartstrings. After getting the script, Wei Huili read it repeatedly and carefully savored every line. In daily life, she also figured out the image and actions of "Yan Po Xi" everywhere, deliberately swayed when she walked, and even when eating, talking, and sleeping, she often reminded herself to appear as a "Diao Woman". For this reason, she was also criticized by some people who don't know the inside story!

No pain, no gain. Now, the filming of the first episode of the TV series "Song Jiang" "Killing Yan Po in Anger" has been completed, and Wei Huili is anxiously waiting for the audience's evaluation!

People who don't know Wei Huili may think that fate is particularly kind to her. But who knows what she sacrificed? For the sake of her artistic career, she worked hard, ran around, and at the age of thirty, she insisted on not having children. Her husband, Yuan Zhenlin, also works in the Provincial Peking Opera Troupe. He understands her and supports her. For this, Wei Huili often feels guilty. She said: "I am also a woman with a lot of feelings, and whenever I see those young parents teasing their beloved children, screaming and laughing with joy, I am very envious, how I want to be a good wife and mother!" However, for the sake of my career, I can't ...... now," she said, and her big beautiful eyes were covered with a layer of crystal tears. But soon, she raised her head and smiled again. She said: "When I'm busy, I can't take care of it, no, I'm going to Xi'an to participate in the filming of a TV series, only when I'm busy with my career, I feel fulfilled and happy." ”

(Originally published in Shandong "Happiness" magazine, No. 8, 1985)

As the correspondence continued, so did the relationship between the two of us. In this case, letters alone cannot satisfy our emotional needs. What to do? At this time, I thought of the No. 5 Guest House of the Military Region next to the Shandong Youth Daily, which is directly under the Military Region, and I may be able to call her there. In this way, I asked her about the time of her night shift, and after making an appointment, I went to the 5th school on a weekend night to call their department. It's the first time we've heard each other's voices.

I racked my brains to further impress her. Suddenly, I was reminded of the "love of writing" she had said in the letter, so when I interviewed Li Jinhong, the singer who won the Shandong Young Singer TV Grand Prix, I signed her name on the article I wrote, and after the newspaper was published, it was sent to her quickly.

Here are some excerpts:

Xinsong hates not to be a thousand feet

——Visiting the Provincial Young Singer TV Grand Prix award-winning female singer Li Jinhong

She, like a white, innocent little swan, jumped lightly on the stage; She held the microphone in her hand, and the song "Mother's Kiss" made the theater thunderous applause and cheers. She is an ordinary coal miner at the Laiwu Iron and Steel Plant. In the Shandong Young Singer TV Grand Prix, it was the youngest award-winning singer Li Jinhong.

Li Jinhong has a slender figure, white skin, a smooth forehead covered with agate-like beautiful hair, and a pair of bright and shining eyes revealing a smile, looking very innocent and lively. She was born in an ordinary family, her father was a mechanical cadre in a steel factory, and her mother was a housewife. Li Jinhong has loved music since she was a child, and has a naturally good voice, and after she just learned to speak, she followed her mother to hum nursery rhymes. After going to school, due to her overly loving nature of music, she quickly learned to read and use music, and her singing voice floated everywhere at home, school, and on the way to and from school. Every time the school holds a theatrical performance, Li Jinhong sings generously for the teachers and students, and is a well-known "lark" in the nearby ten miles and eight townships. After entering junior high school, Li Jinhong was already obsessed with singing, as long as she heard the songs sung by Zhu Fengbo, Li Guyi, Cheng Fangyuan, Cheng Lin, etc., she would turn on the radio and sing while listening. Singing has become an indispensable partner in her life.

In 1984, after graduating from junior high school, Li Jinhong was assigned to work as a coal worker in a steel factory, and the heavy manual labor did not make her give up the pursuit of lofty ideals. In the past, she sang only imitation, did not know the pronunciation method and performance skills, under the enthusiastic guidance of Teacher Yin, she worked harder, insisted on getting up early and going to bed late every day to practice her voice, and correct the incorrect pronunciation method. On her calendar, there are never Sundays and holidays.

No pain, no gain. Li Jinhong, an idealistic and stubborn girl, has laid a good foundation in vocal knowledge and performance skills after more than a year of hard work. During this period, she also wrote letters to many young and middle-aged singers and singers, asking for guidance and help, and then, accumulating the strengths of hundreds of schools and making up for their shortcomings, she gradually explored a unique performance style, which was very appreciated by the audience and experts. In this Young Singer TV Grand Prix, she sang two songs, "Bring This Umbrella" and "Mother's Kiss", with a sweet voice, clear words, and sincere feelings. Experts commented on Li Jinhong and said: "Although she is not so mature, she has a positive path, a good voice, a unique performance style, a beautiful stage image, and a very promising future." ”

(Originally published in the fourth edition of Shandong Workers' Daily on August 5, 1985)

After Ayu received the newspaper, she quickly replied to me. Although in the letter she blamed me for signing her name to the article without her consent, it can be seen from the letter that she is still very happy.

It is said that "young men and women in love are mentally retarded". I don't think it's true. The two of us had not yet sat down together and said a word, and even before she had seen me (I had seen her at the station), she had absurdly "made a private life", and at the end of my studies at the newspaper, I asked the leader for leave and took the train to the hospital to see her, and decided to discuss the marriage together.

After the train arrived at Yanzhou Station, I deliberately got off the train late, and through the window, I saw her standing on the platform looking around, anxiously waiting. To be honest, if I hadn't been wearing a military uniform, she wouldn't have recognized me anyway.

She took me to the dormitory where she lived. In her dormitory, there was a female nurse knitting a sweater. The nurse said lukewarmly, here it is, please take a seat. At this time, it was time for dinner, so she went to the cafeteria to eat. When the nurse saw her gone, she said to me, "You just see that she is beautiful, do you know her?" Her boyfriend is a marquee......

At that time, although I was surprised to hear this, I didn't think much about it, thinking that maybe they didn't get along well, maybe it was jealousy. Because this female nurse is obviously not as beautiful as her.

After dinner in her dormitory, I was afraid of disturbing the others too much, so I went with her to the guest house to register for a room. Since it was the first time I was sitting alone with a beautiful girl, I felt very inhibited and nervous. When it was almost 10 o'clock at night, she said that she had to go back to the dormitory before 10 o'clock, otherwise she was afraid that it would not affect her. When she left, we decided to go to Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, tomorrow.

After she left, due to the fatigue of the day's ride, I simply washed up and lay down. But I can't sleep, is it excited? Is it exciting? Is it joy? It seems to have both. My mind was racing, and I imagined the sensation in the small village after bringing her back home.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a sudden knock on the door, and I hurriedly got up and turned on the light to see a letter slipping through the crack in the door. When I opened the door, I saw that there was no one around. I thought to myself, now that it's so close, what can't I say to my face, and still use this form? But when I opened the letter and looked at it, my head exploded with a "boom", and my brain went blank. This is an anonymous letter. The letter records in detail her relationship with multiple boyfriends at school and after being assigned to the hospital, the degree of progress, the reasons for the breakup, and so on. The letter uses a lot of obscene language to slander and slander it. I was kept in the dark, and after reading this letter, her image in my mind changed from the "holy goddess" in the past to the embodiment of filth.

At this time, I felt angry and amused by her remarks about being a lady when she went back to the dormitory at night. This is my first love. I hadn't even touched a girl's hand in the past, but I didn't expect her to have such a rich experience. Sleepless and miserable tonight! Is it really a "red face and trouble"?

During the day, we still visited the Confucian Mansion, the Confucian Temple, and the Confucian Forest as originally planned. Because she had already taken a leave of absence, otherwise it would have made her ugly. During the tour, the more I looked at her, the more awkward I became, and the more I looked at her, the more uncomfortable I became. Although I tried my best to hide it, she still saw my emotions and asked me what was wrong? I said I didn't sleep well last night.

After touring the places of interest, we return to the guest house. I told her that I had locked the manuscript in a drawer because of the hurry, and that the newspaper office was waiting for it to be distributed, and that I had to go back immediately. As I said that, I packed my luggage, and she saw that I had made a decision, and it was useless to say anything more, but it felt too sudden, and tears couldn't help but flow down her face, and her face was full of question marks. The original plan to visit relatives together has not been arranged yet! How do you say just go? I could see her doubts. I said, I'll talk about it when I get back!

I wouldn't let her drop me off, but she insisted on taking me to the train station. Along the way, we were silent, she kept crying, and my heart was like a knife.

After getting in the car, I waved goodbye to her, and when I saw her red and swollen eyes, tears flowing down her face, and trembling arms, my nose was sore, and I quickly turned my head, tears gushed out......

Along the way, I blamed myself. Why should I cause so much pain to others? If I don't take the initiative to pursue others, what does it matter to me what they do?

The legendary love affair has dealt me a heavy blow. I didn't get involved in love in the past, I always thought that the relationship between men and women was simple, pure, and without any pollution, I was so naïve, too retarded, and I should always think that beautiful women were harassed everywhere. It's like a beautiful flower that always attracts bees and butterflies.

I want to love, but I can't love. I can't deceive my heart, and this is probably the most painful. A few days after returning to the newspaper, I did not write to her and struggled with pain every day.

A few days later, I received a letter from her. The letter said: "You were suddenly leaving that day, and I thought something might have happened. After you left, I was waiting in pain, suffering in pain, and I didn't want to wait any longer. I'm not as good as you say in your letter, but I'm not as bad as others say. I am a person who is very bumpy in love, and I originally wanted to know you as another favor from God, but I didn't expect it to be a heavier punishment. In a string of misfortunes, I learned to be strong, and I think I'll get through it. The regenerative power of the heart is very strong, and a few stabs are nothing more than a few drops of blood......"

After reading this letter, I found a place where no one was there and cried to relieve my depression and sadness. I think it's time to give up, because I can't understand her past, and finding her is unlikely to bring her happiness, and it may be even more harmful. Rather than this, let her find her own happiness!

I wrote her a high-sounding reply letter with deep apologies for the hurt I had done her. Since then, she has never heard from her again.

Deep wounds in the soul are difficult to heal. Since then, I have been depressed, depressed, and often make mistakes at work. It is often said that "the family is everyone's safe haven". In this case, my studies at the newspaper office have also ended, and I am afraid to bring this mental state to the unit. So, after I reported to the head of the propaganda unit, Mr. Li, I went home for vacation.

When I got home, I used the more than 300 yuan I usually saved to buy a 12-inch black-and-white TV for my family. This was already very advanced in the countryside at that time. Seeing the whole family sitting happily around watching TV warmed my heart. This is the first time I have done a "big thing" for my family after I have been in the army for 6 years.

At home, my parents were most concerned about my marriage, so they asked me, isn't so-and-so from the military hospital coming back with you? Why did you come back alone? My parents' words struck me in the sore spot. In order not to worry the old man, I forced a smile and said that she couldn't leave because she was busy with the work of the army, so wait for the next time!

Autumn and October are the harvest seasons. At this time in the countryside, in addition to harvesting corn, it is necessary to prepare for wheat planting, and it is a busy scene everywhere. In order to alleviate the trauma caused by the loss of love, I focused on the most tiring work – carrying fertilizer into the fields on a wheelbarrow. Trip after trip, the young man and I worked hard, but I didn't expect that at the end of the day, not only did my back hurt my back and legs, but also five or six blood blisters on my two feet. When my mother saw it, she was very distressed, and the next day she said that she wouldn't let me do anything. I didn't admit defeat since I was a child, so I was willing to give up and limped to finish transporting the fertilizer. The villagers praised me when they saw that I was a cadre in the army and was willing to work so hard at home.

The half-month vacation passed quickly, and I packed up again and returned to the army. Although I have been at home for a long time, my body is obviously much stronger than before.

Soon after arriving at the unit, news suddenly came from the higher-ups: The unit was to be streamlined and reorganized, and our regiment was to be merged with a certain artillery regiment, and the barracks were to be set up in Xuecheng. Under such circumstances, people's minds are suddenly confused, some are transferred, some are transferred to different jobs, and some are preparing to work in the new units after the reorganization. I panicked unprepared, what should I do? Just when I was worried about my way out, Wang Qihui, the director of the division's propaganda section, called me and asked me if I wanted to go to the new artillery regiment? Or would you rather go to the Division's Propaganda Section? "People go to high places, and water flows to low places". Of course, I'm willing to go to the propaganda department.

During the period of streamlining and reorganization, special affairs were arranged, and in this way, I soon received an order from the division.

B. "Encounters" on the train

In a certain artillery regiment, I bid farewell to the leaders and comrades-in-arms and stepped on the train from Pingyuan County to Weifang.

The train is racing. In the noisy carriage, I sat in the window seat and closed my eyes and recuperated, my heart surging and my thoughts full of thoughts. Weifang, a city that I am both familiar with and familiar with. As soon as I became a soldier, I was in Jingzhi Town, Anqiu County, which belongs to Weifang, and then I was transferred to the Weifang Army Teaching Brigade; From Weifang, I carried out the "strategic transfer" in a gray way and went south to Xuzhou; from Xuzhou to Qingdao in the east; From Qingdao, he "killed" his hometown in the northwest plain county of Shandong; I have made a leap from a soldier to an officer in the northwest of Shandong, and today I want to return to the location of a certain division in Weifang.

Life is full of uncertainties, and I don't know where I'm going to go in the future. But I firmly believe in my choice. Just as I was thinking about it, the train stopped with a few "clangs". It turned out to be Jinan Station.

Jinan, the provincial capital, is no longer a stranger to me. I went to military school here, and I studied here at the Shandong Youth Daily for a few months. The Daming Lake, Jinniu Park, Hero Mountain and Thousand Buddha Mountain and other places of interest here, such as "lotus flowers on all sides and willows on three sides, a city with mountains and half a city lake", have left my footprints.

My mind is still flying. Suddenly, the voice of the female conductor "check the ticket, check the ticket" interrupted my thoughts. At this time, I began to look for tickets. I remember checking in at the station, because it was very crowded, I was carrying my luggage in both hands, so I took the opportunity to put the ticket in the pocket under my jacket. However, I searched all my pockets but couldn't find the ticket. At this time, the female conductor, who had been waiting impatiently, stared at me with strange eyes. Sweating profusely, I wish I could get into a crack in the ground. I'm embarrassed to say, I'm sorry, I can't find my ticket. The female conductor looked at the military uniform I was wearing and said, let's go, follow me to car 8 to make up for a ticket. At this time, I suddenly thought that when I was looking for the ticket just now, the wallet seemed to be gone, and I was extremely embarrassed at this time, and I was even more panicked, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping down. I said, the wallet is gone. After listening to my words, the female conductor said, then take out your military ID and let me take a look. I rummaged through it again, and to my surprise, I couldn't find my military ID either. At this time, the female conductor's words were not good, "Look at you in military uniform, you look like a dog, you are a liar, right?" At this time, the people watching the excitement next to him took the opportunity to coax and said: "You said that you are a soldier, what proof do you use?" It must be a liar and send him to the Public Security Bureau. Looking at the strange eyes of the people around me, I wanted to cry without tears and speechless. At this time, the female conductor may have thought that I was really a liar and said, let's go, carry my luggage and follow me to the police! "Wait!" Say it's too late, then it's too fast. At this time, a female officer stood out of nowhere, and saw her push away the onlookers and walk to the female conductor: "I'm his girlfriend, and we had a little trouble when we got on the train, maybe he lost the ticket in the tugging." The money clip is with me. Let's go, I'll go with you to make up for his ticket. Looking at this beautiful female officer, I was stunned.

After a while, she came back with the replacement ticket and said, "Here you go, don't lose it now." "I didn't know what to say after taking the ticket, but this time she not only helped me, but also maintained the image of a soldier. My "Thank you!" As soon as the two words came out, tears of emotion flowed down.

It didn't take long for someone to get out of the car and she was sitting across from me. She said: "I really can't stand it, how can I bully people like this? I said, "I really am ......" and she said, "Needless to say, I know, I believe in you!" "At this point, I removed my bag from the luggage rack above and wanted to take out the newspaper clippings of my article and show it to her to prove that I was indeed a soldier. Unexpectedly, as soon as I took out the newspaper clippings, my military ID card also fell out. We both laughed in amazement at the sight of it.

It turned out that the leaders and colleagues of the propaganda unit saw me off last night, and I drank too much alcohol during the hospitality, so when I packed my luggage in the morning, I put my military ID card and newspaper clippings together in a daze. But the tickets and wallets may have been stolen during the crowding of the bus.

My identity was proven, and I was able to talk to her with confidence. Because we were both young soldiers, and besides, she helped me in my time of crisis, so there was a little more enthusiasm and trust in the conversation. It turned out that her name was Sun Zhulan, and she went to the General Hospital of the Military Region to see her classmates, and this was a return to the unit, an army hospital stationed in Zhoucun. We had a great chat along the way, and we both left each other's phone numbers and mailing addresses when she got off the bus.

Her presence made waves swell again in the depths of my soul, which was as calm as water. But this time there is less impulsiveness, less recklessness, and more maturity and stability. After we exchanged a few letters, I felt that we could talk very well, but I was careful to talk about work, study, and life, and never mentioned the word "feelings".

After knowing each other for a while, when deciding whether to confide in her or not, I found the relevant leaders of her unit through my connections and inquired about her situation in detail. When I learned that she was in a relationship with an Air Force pilot, I felt that I was inferior in all respects, so I quickly walked away, so I avoided the harm caused to each other.

C. The first time I went to Beijing

I have three regiments under a certain division and two directly subordinate units, and the task of reporting is very heavy. I, a press officer who had only served in the regiment for a few months, felt very pressured when I came to the division to take on this important task. There is no other way, I believe that hard work can make up for the shortcomings, only hard work.

Soon after I arrived in the division, I went to a certain regiment with the political commissar of the division Lei Qi to conduct research work. During the day, I listened to the reports of the regiment leaders with Political Commissar Lei, and at night, I worked with Officer Wang, who was in charge of news in the regiment, to seriously study the clues of the report, often staying up all night. Towards the end of the investigation and investigation, we wrote a targeted draft on "How to Report the Situation to the New Leaders," which was soon published on the front page of the Military Region's "Qianwei Bao." We also added an edit, which was praised by the division leaders.

Here are some excerpts:

Talking about "cutting six generals" and "going to the wheat city", a certain regiment reported its work and sought truth from facts

In early November, when reporting to the regiment commander at a higher level on the situation of advanced and typical vehicles in the past, the party committee of a certain tank regiment of the unit insisted on seeking truth from facts, one is one, and the other is two, and does not cover up the "ugly" and does not protect the "short." The leader praised the party committee of this regiment and said: "You dare to tell the truth, tell the truth, and are not afraid of 'showing up and being ugly.' This kind of work style is very worthy of encouragement." ”

The higher-level leaders came to the regiment to inspect the work and wanted to learn about the situation of some advanced companies in the regiment. According to normal practice, when a higher-level leader has just taken up his post and is going down to this unit for the first time, he should talk more about his achievements and less about problems when he reports, so as to leave a good impression on the new leader. However, the regimental party committee did not do this. They held that only when the leaders at higher levels come to inspect the work can they give concrete guidance to the troops, and they should not cover up the "ugliness" and protect the "shortcomings" in order to leave a good impression on the leaders, thus affecting the building of the troops. As a result, the leaders of the regiment made sure that Ding is Ding and Mao is Mao, and in the process of reporting to the chief, they reported both good news and bad news. The communications company of this regiment is an old model of the military region, and has been commended by the military region and the Shandong Provincial Government in the joint construction activities of the military and the people, and has been appraised by the military region as an advanced company for the joint construction of the military and the people, the study of science and culture, and the cultivation of military and civilian personnel for both military and civilian purposes for three consecutive years. When reporting on the situation of the company, in addition to talking about the progress of the company over the past few years, the regimental leaders talked about the problems existing in the communications company with great importance: The unity of the party branch of the company is not good, and there is a gap between the cadres; Individual cadres do not have high requirements for work standards, and they have problems such as sticking to their old roots.

When talking about the Ninth Company of the old typical tank company of the military region, the regimental party committee gave a detailed report to the leaders at a higher level on the reasons why this company suddenly fell from the advanced ranks last year. The Ninth Company was awarded the glorious title of "Hard-Headed Six-Company Company" by the Military Region, and there have been no accidents for 27 consecutive years and no political accidents for 36 years. Last year, however, due to the weak sense of responsibility of the company cadres, one tank engine was frozen and damaged, resulting in serious accidents of responsibility, and the signs of other accidents were also continuous. For this reason, this old model for many years is named Sun Mountain.

After listening to their reports, the leaders at higher levels affirmed their practice of reporting both good news and bad news. Instead of judging the merits of the reports, the leaders went down to the grassroots level to find out the situation, study improvement measures, and give specific guidance, so that the two companies soon had a new atmosphere.

Editor's post: Leave a realistic "first impression"

The first time he reported to the new leaders after the reorganization, he talked about many things about "going to the wheat city," and the party committee of a certain regiment was indeed bold and knowledgeable.

People are very attentive to "first impressions". If a unit can give a new superior leader a "first impression" without the slightest shortcoming, it is naturally good, but that is unrealistic. The work of a unit has not only the achievements of "cutting six generals", but also the shortcomings of "walking in the wheat city", but the degree is different. If the report only selects the good ones, promotes the "strengths" and avoids the "shortcomings", or even makes false statements and superficial articles, it will leave another "first impression": not seeking truth from facts.

After the streamlining and reorganization, leaders at all levels have stepped up investigation and study to understand the situation of the troops, so that they can better familiarize themselves with and grasp the troops. As a subordinate level, we should seek truth from facts when making a report, one is one, and the other is two, and it will be very beneficial to report on the real situation of the troops who "cut off the six generals" and to guide the work of the troops. At the same time, it is necessary to objectively report the achievements and existing problems, so that in the future work, there will be more "six generals" and "going to the wheat city" to be avoided.

(Originally published in the front page of the "Qianwei Daily" of Jinan Military Region on December 1, 1985)

The year 1985, which is about to pass, has made a strong mark in the history of our army. In the same year, the chairman of the Central Military Commission announced that the number of personnel in the Chinese army would be reduced by 1 million. As soon as the news came out, the world was shocked. It was during this streamlining and reorganization that my army was dismantled, and a certain division to which I belonged at that time was again placed under the jurisdiction of a certain army.

As a division-level information officer, the newspaper's task is mainly to serve as the "Jiefangjun Bao" at the central level. With so many units in the whole army, there are only four pages in the newspaper, and the competition is particularly strong. In order to open up the situation as soon as possible, Jiang Zhongyu, section chief of the Propaganda Section, attached great importance to this and asked me to prepare a batch of drafts and send them to the military newspaper.

After the Spring Festival in 1986, I stepped on the train to Beijing for the first time.

At that time, Chen Lusheng, a classmate of the news team of my Jinan Continental School, was studying at the military newspaper. With his help, I quickly got the manuscript into the hands of the editor in charge. Then, with excitement, I came to the long-awaited Tiananmen Square and visited the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and the Forbidden City.

During my stay in Beijing, I also visited the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Grand View Garden and other places of interest. It was the first time since I joined the army that I relaxed and was surrounded by the flow of people in the metropolis to enjoy the beautiful scenery and natural scenery.

During the whole tour in Beijing, the most shocking thing for me was the Great Wall. She stretches and undulates on the lofty mountains and desert Gobi in the northern region of our country, like a majestic sculpture, a magnificent picture, a magnificent movement, with an incomparable beauty, presented in front of the world.

The brilliant history of human civilization is shining brightly. Boyfriends and girlfriends of different colors, with their own visions, walked towards the Great Wall and admired the Great Wall. From Dandong Hushan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west, the ancient Great Wall has experienced a long period of wind and rain erosion and war trauma.

Looking up at the Great Wall, the towering beacon tower seems to still be rising with the wolf smoke of the border village, the dilapidated wall still echoes the roar of the artillery fire in the past, the wild grass swaying in the wind, the shabby clothes of the soldiers defending the city are fluttering, and the field outside the city that the soldiers rammed with sweat still echoes the shouts and laughter of the people of all ethnic groups in the border pass in ancient times.

Walking into the Great Wall, we feel her nobility, strength, indomitable and majestic; Feel her enthusiasm, bravery, passion, and tragedy.

Walking into the Great Wall, we feel the profound heritage of the Great Wall culture of the Chinese nation, and feel the essence and loyal soul of the national spirit advocated by the Great Wall culture.

The Great Wall, she is the symbol of the Chinese nation, pride, pride! I spent 3 days in Beijing, and then drove west to the ancient city of Xi'an. In Xi'an, at the request of the editor of the magazine "Contemporary Youth," I revised my manuscript of Wang Hongyi, a liuqin player of the avant-garde song and dance troupe of the Jinan Military Region, and then toured the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Terracotta Warriors, and climbed Mount Hua, which is known as "the first mountain in the world of strange dangers."

The reportage I wrote for Wang Hongyi was published in magazines in other provinces and cities for the first time after it was renovated in Xi'an.

D. The article was published in the People's Daily

Soon after returning from Xi'an, he soon ushered in the biennial spring "Weifang International Kite Festival". In the first "Weifang International Kite Festival" in 1982, as a soldier audience organized by the military teaching brigade, I witnessed the international kite festival with the participation of dozens of countries at home and abroad. Four years have passed, and I have been transferred back to Weifang, this time as a journalist of the army, I was invited to participate in the third "Weifang International Kite Festival". But the military training brigade where I was originally located has long been abolished. If I don't transfer, what will happen to me? I guess only God knows. At the 3rd "Weifang International Kite Festival", the "Peace Kite" made by 23 Weifang soldiers on behalf of our unit on the front line of Laoshan soared in the blue sky, attracting the attention and praise of more than 30,000 Chinese and foreign audiences.

"Peace is most cherished by the defenders of peace". After participating in the "Weifang International Kite Festival", I wrote a manuscript on this theme and quickly sent it to the newspaper. What I didn't expect was that it would be published on the first page of the People's Daily. This is my first time in the People's Daily:

"Peace Kite"

At the 3rd Weifang International Kite Festival, four "doves of peace" carried giant kites marked with a map of the motherland, military portraits and military merit medals, soaring in the blue sky, attracting the attention of more than 30,000 spectators. This is Tang Guozhi, a soldier stationed in Weifang City, who was commissioned by 23 Weifang soldiers in the "Mao's Ear Hole" on the Laoshan frontline. Peace is most cherished by the defenders of peace. When they learned that the International Kite Festival was held in their hometown on April 1, in order to express their wishes, they jointly wrote a letter to Tang Guozhi, an amateur art worker of the Weifang Garrison, entrusting him to make a kite that the soldiers yearn for peace and dedicated it to this International Kite Festival.

After Tang Guozhi received the letter, he consulted the information overnight and conceived the design. He dismantled his bamboo chair and door curtain as materials, and bought oil paint, brushes, and silk for more than 50 miles. After more than a dozen days and nights, Tang Guozhi finally set up this giant kite before the International Invitational Tournament, allowing the kite symbolizing peace to fly into the blue sky. This kite won a special award in this international kite invitational competition, fulfilling the wish of the frontline comrades.

(Originally published in People's Daily, April 19, 1986)

In May 1986, at the invitation of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, the world-famous Master Hai Deng went to Jinan to serve as the chief instructor of the martial arts training team of the whole army's scouts. When the news came, the young people of our agency were very excited and excited. At that time, I thought to myself, it would be great if I could meet Master Hai Lantern with my own eyes, or learn a few martial arts from him.

I didn't expect good things to happen to me. The all-army reconnaissance and martial arts training team was sponsored by the General Staff Headquarters and entrusted to the Intelligence Department of the Jinan Military Region. Li Zhiwen, director of the Military Region's Intelligence Department, was the captain of the Army's reconnaissance and martial arts training team, who was transferred from our division's guard company to the Military Region's Intelligence Department. At that time, he called the division leaders and asked them to recommend a cadre engaged in journalistic work to help the martial arts training team, who was responsible for publicizing the situation and editing the internal circulation of the "Scout Wushu" newspaper.

The Divisional Publicity Section has two information officers, one responsible for photo journalism; The other is in charge of text journalism. I was in charge of the written news at Corey, so it was only natural that something good would happen to me.

After receiving the notice to report to the all-army reconnaissance and martial arts training team, I quickly rushed to the training team at the shooting range of the military region with admiration and admiration for Master Hai Deng.

In the training team, I interviewed the famous Master Hai Deng and his apprentice, Fan Yinglian, the head coach of the all-army martial arts training team, and the articles I wrote were published in the "People's Liberation Army Daily", "Qianwei Daily", "Jinan Daily" and other newspapers, which aroused repercussions.

On the training ground, whenever I saw more than 150 students from all over the army, learning Shaolin kung fu such as Plum Blossom Pile Jingquan and Iron Cloth Shirt Arhat Gong from Master Hai Deng and his apprentice Fan Yinglian, we, the logistics support personnel, were itching and thinking, how good it would be if we could also learn a few tricks from Master Hai Deng!

Unexpectedly, although he was famous, but the approachable and amiable Master Hai Deng understood our thoughts, he organized us into a class with the cooking class, and enthusiastically taught us Shaolin Kung Fu in his spare time.

While learning Shaolin Kung Fu one move at a time, I did not forget my duty. I wrote a manuscript of Master Hai Deng's enthusiastic teaching of Shaolin martial arts to our logistics support personnel, which once again appeared on the front page of the People's Daily, and attracted the attention of readers at home and abroad:

Sea Lantern Mage and Cook

On the morning of June 6, the young men of the cooking class of the whole army's scout martial arts training team, after preparing meals, lined up neatly, and Master Hai Deng came to teach them martial arts on time.

In mid-May, at the invitation of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, Master Hai Deng came to Jinan to serve as the chief instructor of the all-army scouts' martial arts training, which made the scouts participating in the training more powerful. On the training ground, they worked extra every move. Look at the joy of the scouts, the young men in the cooking class are itching, and they want to learn a few tricks from the sea lantern mage! Master Hai Deng understood their feelings very well, and said: "Although the cooks are logistics personnel, they are also soldiers, protecting the family and defending the country, punishing the evil and promoting the good, and you must have the ability to do it at critical moments. So, despite the age of eighty-six, Master Hai Deng took the initiative to use the free time of the cooks to organize them to practice martial arts. When the cook Li Youde learned the plum blossom pile jingquan, his progress was slow. Master Hai Deng was kind and persuasive, patiently counseled, and repeatedly explained, and made demonstrations, and finally made Xiao Li catch up. At present, these young men have basically mastered kung fu such as plum blossom pile jingquan. The next step for Master Hai Lantern is to teach them Shaolin Kung Fu.

(Originally published in People's Daily, June 20, 1986)

On the morning of 5 July, the Jinan Military Region shooting range was crowded with people and colorful flags fluttering. Under the careful guidance of the 86-year-old Master Hai Deng and the senior apprentice Fan Yinglian, the martial arts training of the whole army scouts was successfully concluded. Under the watchful eye of the General Staff Headquarters and relevant leaders of the military region, more than 150 students reported and performed the 11 Shaolin martial arts they had learned.

Master Hai Lantern also performed on the spot. His seemingly weak body was beaten by the high-level disciple Fan Yinglian with a three-section stick, like a copper plate, without the slightest damage. The audience was conquered by his rare "Golden Bell Jar Gong", and burst into exclamations and applause from time to time. After the performance, the relevant departments of the General Staff Department and the Military Region presented plaques of thanks to Master Hai Deng and his senior disciples.

The all-army scout martial arts training has ended, and we have successfully completed the task of propaganda and reporting. During this period, we edited and published 5 issues of the newspaper "Scouting Martial Arts"; He has published 16 articles in various newspapers and periodicals. Among them, my colleague Li Jiqun and I wrote a long newsletter "Interesting Stories of Master Hai Deng", which was reprinted by many newspapers and magazines at home and abroad, and caused great repercussions.

Here are some excerpts:

Fun Facts about the Sea Lantern Mage

The legendary Sea Lantern Mage, with Shaolin stunts, is famous all over the world. In December 85, he arrived in New York with the Chinese film delegation with his apprentice Fan Yinglian to attend the first screening ceremony of the large-scale documentary "Shaolin Sea Lantern Master" in the United States. Everywhere he went, the local people organized a grand welcome, and people rushed to witness the abundance of the mage, and there were thousands of empty alleys. In May this year, Master Hai Deng was invited by the General Staff to come to Jinan, the spring city, to serve as the chief instructor of the martial arts training of the whole army's scouts.

The United States is in the ring

On December 20, 1985, Master Hai Deng arrived in the United States to attend the premiere of the documentary "Master Shaolin Sea Lantern".

As soon as Hai Deng got off the plane, he was surrounded by a group of overseas Chinese and media waiting at the airport in the morning. They secretly proposed: "Master, it is rumored abroad that the authentic Shaolin martial arts are no longer in China, and now that your old man is here, you must show your real kung fu and let foreigners see what is the authentic martial arts of Shaolin...... Hai Deng was moved by the patriotic enthusiasm of overseas Chinese, and he said to his disciple Fan Yinglian: "Shaolin authenticity, it must be me." We should take this opportunity to put on a show to set the record straight. "Yes, Master, we should show our Shaolin skills and win glory for the country." Fan Yinglian replied with emotion. So they decided to perform in the United States to boost the prestige of China.

On the evening of December 29, San Francisco, USA, was cold and windy, with rain and snow. But the front of the Chinatown New Sound Theater is crowded with people, and it is very lively. Fan Yinglian, a senior apprentice of Hai Deng, successively performed Shaolin single knife and row fighting skills on stage, winning the audience's carnival. While the audience was excited, they felt that it was not enough, and strongly demanded that the sea lantern mage also show his skills. At the repeated request of overseas Chinese and American friends, Master Hai Lantern was very enthusiastic and personally appeared on the stage to perform: bare-handed. Before going on the field, Master Hai Lantern repeatedly instructed Fan Yinglian, "You have to fight hard." Sure enough, after the fight began, I saw Fan Yinglian's three-section stick whirring in the wind, raining straight down on the mage. Unexpectedly, when he was coming to the momentum, he only heard a "bang", and the last section of the three-section stick was blocked by the mage and broke into two sections. These three sticks were originally borrowed from the New York Chinatown Dragon Boxing Association, and they were naturally high-quality weapons of the finest miscellaneous wood. So, after the performance, the mage offered to compensate for the loss, but Huang Zhiren of the Longxing Boxing Association said in a grateful tone: "The mage is extremely powerful, and those three sticks are the best souvenirs you left us, which we regard as priceless treasures and have treasured them!" ”

The "Living Buddha" descended from the sky

On May 13 this year, Venerable Hai Deng, known as the "Living Buddha", arrived in Jinan by plane and was cordially met and warmly welcomed by the head of the unit. Local newspapers and radio stations reported it, and the news spread, causing quite a stir in Jinan. When Master Hai Deng and his disciple Li Xingyou appeared in Daming Lake Park in Quancheng, they were recognized by a tourist, and he shouted in surprise: "Look, the living Buddha in the movie is here." Hearing the news, the people around hulala surrounded them, vying to witness the arrival of the "living immortals". Seeing that the Sea Lantern Master was full of energy, his eyes were shining, and he walked so vigorously, some people actually wondered, "Is this the Sea Lantern Master?" How is it younger than in the movie, not at all like an eighty-year-old man. When everyone confirmed that the master in front of them was Hai Deng, the people in the park with cameras quietly pointed their lenses at the mage. There were a few male and female college students with school emblems on their chests, pestering the master to take a group photo, but the master was not good at taking photos with people, and even more abided by the temple rules of not having contact with women, and politely rejected everyone's request, but everyone still refused to leave. Li Xingyou saw that his master was tightly surrounded and blocked the way, and he was so anxious that he scratched his head. Fortunately, a middle-aged scholar stepped forward and said to the onlookers: "Even if you are lucky to be able to meet the Master here today, you should not be too embarrassed by the Master and mislead his old man's journey." This persuasion made people flash a way. Just as the Master walked forward, a young man, eager to come, stood in front of Master Hai Deng, bowed reverently and said, "Please take me as an apprentice, I want to learn Shaolin martial arts." Master Hai Lantern hurriedly asked, "Why do young people want to learn martial arts?" The young man told the mage what he had come to do. It turned out that the young man was a factory purchaser, and in order not to be bullied by others on a business trip, he wanted to learn some martial arts in order to deal with others. After hearing this, the mage replied, "Now that the country is peaceful and there is a national law, it is ...... to work hard."

Shocking fellow travelers

In May, Mount Tai is crowded with tourists. On the way to the top of Mount Tai, the young girls and boys, although they all had a crutch in their hands, were also tired and panting, and moved their legs in three steps. At this time, an old man dressed in a King Kong shirt walked up from behind the crowd, and he actually walked briskly, took the lead, passed the tourists one by one, and gradually moved away...... People watched in amazement as the old man ascended the Zhongtian Gate like a trot, and then they also came to their senses and chased after the old man curiously.

People don't know that the old man is the sea lantern mage who came to visit Mount Tai. I saw the sea lantern cross the Bixia Temple and go straight to the top of the Jade Emperor, and even the entourage sent by the army was surprised, the eighty-six-year-old sea lantern mage actually climbed to the top so easily. Standing on the top of the mountain, as far as the eye can see, the mountain is covered with fog, like a white gauze belt, floating and swimming. Rolling mountains and lush forests form a sea of green. Seeing the beautiful scenery in front of him, Master Hai Lantern was full of emotion, and said in a poem:

Walking all over the Central Plains, he is not afraid of the blue sky.

Why did you come back to thank you? Seventy years for writing the Boxing Sutra.

It took a long time for the tourists behind to catch up with them sweating profusely. When everyone knew that the old man in front of them was the sea lantern, they all gathered around and said in amazement: "If you really live up to your name, you can climb to the top of the pole without a cane, and beat the young man." At this time, Li Xingyou, an apprentice of Hai Deng, introduced: "Although the master is old, his body is very strong, his memory is also very good, and he can still recite more than 3,000 ancient poems. When I was in the United States, the old man also traveled to the 'universe'! ”

On January 4 this year, when visiting New York Disneyland, the sea lantern mage who visited the United States found that the park has a thrilling and famous game "Traveling in Space". Since this game is played at high altitude and high speed, the US government has clearly stipulated that the elderly over the age of 55 and patients suffering from heart disease and high blood pressure are not allowed to participate. For this mysterious and adventurous game, the mage, despite his old age, decided to give it a try with great interest. He was in good spirits and walked to the door of the playground with solid steps, but the goalkeeper did not realize that it was an old man of eighty or ninety years old, and let the mage "mix" in. When Jin Jingyi, the head of the Chinese film delegation, spotted him, the aircraft had already started rapidly. At this time, the Sea Lantern Mage closed his eyes slightly, folded his hands in front of his chest, and took a deep breath calmly. With the roar of the motor, the aircraft quickly sent people into "space". The sky is deep, the moon is high, and the stars are shining. Everything here is terrifying. The unpredictable flying machine sometimes hovers in the clouds, sometimes flies in the fog, and sometimes emits bursts of piercing strange screams, which are terrifying, and have the feeling of being on the edge of the abyss in the middle of the night. All this can be seen clearly below, and the head of Jin is so anxious that he shouts: If the mage has three longs and two shorts, how can I explain it! When the onlookers learned that there was an 86-year-old man among the people who "traveled in space," they all opened their eyes wide and looked up at the flying machine in "space" for a long time.

Forty-five minutes passed, and the aircraft returned to the ground. When people saw the Sea Lantern Mage in full spirit, appearing at the hatch door as if nothing had happened, they cheered and flocked to him, asking him how he felt about "traveling in space". The mage smiled: "All the Shaolin Qigong, safe and sound." A middle-aged American took the mage's hand and said excitedly, "Great, Chinese qigong." ”

This time, Master Hai Lantern climbed Mount Tai, and he still felt relaxed and untired. Seeing that although Master Hai Deng was old, he was deaf and energetic, and an old man of about sixty years old walked up to Master and asked softly, "Master, is there any secret to strengthening your body and prolonging your life?" Hai Deng turned his eyes to look at the chubby old man beside him, and replied casually: "The fragrance is decadent and ambitious, the color and sound are old, it is easy to be a soldier from afar, and it is difficult to be embarrassed if it is near." ”

Sea lantern in the barracks

Master Hai Lantern served as the chief instructor of the martial arts training of the scouts of the whole army and came to the unit. Considering that the master was old and had come from afar, the leader of the training team specially prepared a comfortable and fluffy brown mat bed for him. After his apprentice Li Xingyou saw it, he said with a smile: "The old man has never been bedridden for 60 years, and he has never covered a quilt or worn cotton clothes. "Helplessly, the team had to let people move two sofas for the mage to rest and practice. He still meditates from 12 o'clock to 3 a.m. every night, and then gets out of bed to practice.

Master Hai Deng lived a very frugal life, and every time he ate, he only ate one of the four or five dishes served by the civil servants, and let the civil servants bring the others back and share them with others. He can eat a steamed bun and drink a bowl of porridge at every meal, and even the rice residues left in the bowl after the meal, he also rinses and drinks them all with boiling water. Sometimes, he still wraps the leftover pickles in paper and saves them for the next meal. When the civil servant asked him why he was so frugal, the master kindly said, "Waste is a sin, and thrift is a virtue." ”

In order to adjust the taste of the Sea Lantern Mage, the leaders of the army bought bananas and milk powder from the street and gave them to the mage. And he gave it to the warriors around him. Everyone was embarrassed to eat and sent it back to the master, who explained, "The old man has never been in the habit of eating snacks. ”

With Master Hai Lantern as the general guide, the scouts who participated in the training were like tigers. On the training ground, they were all enthusiastically waving fists and dancing sticks, which made those handymen very greedy. All of them are gearing up to learn martial arts, but they all have jobs to do. Seeing that these comrades were working very hard every day and that their interest in martial arts was still so high, the master used his rest time after meals every day to teach more than 20 handymen in the team to practice martial arts. So that the boys quickly mastered the plum blossom pile essence fist and the eight magic hammer. Seeing the progress of the students, Master Hai Deng happily composed a poem:

Hearing that the frontier is blowing the dust of war, I also want to appear as a general.

Qingping grinds cold and shining, and the grand wish is more than the rising sun.

The kingdom swore not to change, and the heroes of the Central Plains would not sink.

King Kong is angry and drives away the strong, looking forward to the rivers and mountains.

(Originally published in Nanjing, Jiangsu, "Merry Generation", No. 12, 1986)

E. Commander Yan introduced me to the object

A few days after returning from the all-army scout martial arts training team, the political department of our division received a letter of consultation from the Shandong Provincial Military Region. It turned out that the regiment when I first joined the army had an officer Wen Maolin (currently deputy director of the Political Department of a certain group army), a native of Hunan, who was later transferred to the military organization department. After our army was abolished in the streamlining and reorganization, he was transferred to the Organization Department of the Shandong Provincial Military Region. Once, when he came to our division to do business, he saw me and asked me, "Do you want to be transferred to the Shandong Provincial Military Region?" I said, "Yes! Jinan is the provincial capital, and besides, it is very close to my hometown. "After saying this, I actually didn't pay attention to it at all, because it is very difficult to move across the army. I really didn't expect this to be done a few months later. When the organization asked for my opinion, I expressed my willingness to go to the provincial military district "with a clear banner." The leaders of the division's political department felt that I had done a good job here, and promoted me to the post of deputy company a year and a half ahead of schedule. In this way, it didn't take much effort, and in early August 1986, I was successfully transferred to the Direct Work Department of the Shandong Provincial Military Region Headquarters as a propaganda officer.

One day, I chatted with Du Wanfeng, an officer in charge of the soldiers' examination, and overheard him say that in the past two days, I have received six notices of female soldiers being admitted to the military academy, all of which are from the directly subordinate units. After hearing the news, I felt that it was very newsworthy. Why are so many soldiers admitted to military schools in their company? Moreover, they are all female warriors? So, I called for an interview. Therefore, I wrote a manuscript overnight and sent it to the newspaper office, and soon after, the Military Region's "Qianwei Bao" on 27 August and the "Jiefangjun Bao" on 19 September were both published in important positions. I was also praised by the leaders and colleagues of the department for this.

The Shandong Provincial Military Region belongs to the regular military organs, and compared with the grassroots level, there are relatively few young cadres, especially even fewer cadres who have not yet found a target. After I was transferred to the Provincial Military Region, I was introduced to many people, including those from the Provincial Museum, the Provincial Water Conservancy Department, the Qianfoshan Hospital, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and a pair of twin sisters who worked in the Provincial Youth League Committee. At that time, my dream was to find a soldier, but if I didn't meet him, it would be difficult for me to introduce people, so most of these people had only met once. This one from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, because her family is in the provincial military district, her father was a department leader of the Political Department, and she herself has been a soldier in the Air Force for 4 years, so she has met several times. I generally feel that this person has a good family and personal conditions, but I regret that I am not an officer in the army, so I have to endure the pain of parting my love.

One day, Director Jiao Xifang called me to his office and asked me if I was talking to someone. I said, I haven't taken care of it when I first came to the new unit. Director Jiao said to me that Commander Yan Zhuo of the Provincial Military Region (later promoted to Commander of the Nanjing Military Region) would like to introduce you to a person who is also the child of your old chief, and is now working as a nurse in a hospital in the Military Region. Hearing this, of course, I was very happy in my heart, Commander Yan was able to introduce me to the subject, indicating that I had left a good impression on the chief after I was transferred. However, after half a month, there was no movement in this matter. Later, I learned that Commander Yan asked Director Jiao to check my file and found that I did not have a university diploma, so the matter was closed. In the past, I thought that as long as I did it, everything would be fine, but I didn't expect that the diploma was so important!

Not long after this incident, Li Yulian, a fellow villager who was a district captain at the military medical school of the military region, introduced me to a nurse from a hospital in the military region, whose home was in Texas. After listening to the situation, I felt that it was okay: first, the cadres of the army were in line with my thoughts at that time; The second is that his home is a fellow villager in Dezhou City. In the future, whether you work in Jinan or go back to Texas, there is no problem. After the first meeting, both sides felt that the conditions were good in all aspects. But after meeting a few more times later, the girl said that she didn't agree to anything, and it was really uncomfortable to be dumped.

I don't understand love when I'm in love. I was depressed to the extreme, and I once again tasted the bitter fruit of broken love. The Shandong Provincial Military Region Command is directly under the management of the units directly under the command, and because there is no full-time information officer, the propaganda officer I am appointed does everything. The commander of the guard company visited his home, and I went to act as the company commander for a month. When I was very depressed due to the loss of love, Director Jiao asked me to go to the acting instructor of the maintenance team at the foot of Qianfo Mountain. It is true that you can get training by going to the next substitute job, but the conditions are more difficult than those of the agency, and the life is not as comfortable as that of the agency. As the saying goes: "Leading a soldier is like leading a tiger", a company has more than 100 people, and there can be no problems. In the hectic life, my mood is even more depressed, and my spirit is so depressed that I am about to collapse.

One day, heavy rain fell from the sky. I felt that the opportunity to vent my emotions had come, so I walked outside without any rain gear, let the rain water, and walked unhurriedly towards Thousand Buddha Mountain. As I walked, I recited Mao Zedong's "Qinyuan Spring Snow":

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow.

Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless;

Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging.

Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly public test.

It must be a sunny day, and look at the red makeup, which is extraordinarily demonic.

There are so many delicate rivers and mountains, leading countless heroes to bend their waists.

Regret the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, slightly lose the literary style;

Tang Zong and Song Zu are slightly less coquettish.

A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle.

The past, the number of romantic figures, but also look at the present. ”

This move of mine has caused many people to be puzzled. Someone said, "This man is sick!" Others said, "This man must have been stimulated and has a mental problem." I paid no attention to this, and continued to read aloud as if no one was around.

After climbing the Thousand Buddha Mountain, the rain is still falling. I didn't stop, I walked back unhurriedly. At this time, I began to recite Gorky's essay "The Petrel":

"On the vast sea, the wind gathers dark clouds. Between the clouds and the sea, the petrel flies proudly like black lightning......

One moment its wings touched the waves, the next it soared into the sky like an arrow, and it cried,—— and in the brave cry of the bird, the dark clouds heard joy.

In this shout, there is a longing for the storm! In the midst of this shout, the clouds felt the power of anger, the flame of passion, and the confidence of victory. …… Storm! The storm is coming! This is the brave petrel, flying proudly among the lightning and on the roaring sea. This is the cry of the prophet of victory: - let the storm come harder......"

My astonishing move surprised the soldiers of the maintenance team. When I walked back to my accommodation, the correspondent saw that I was covered in rain and said incomprehensibly, "Instructor, what's wrong with you?" I said, "It's okay, I just want to have fun!" ”

This action really made my heart happy, but there was something wrong with my body, and I had a high fever for several days. Everyone asked me to go to the hospital, but I said I wouldn't go anywhere.

After a few days of fluid infusion, the body basically recovered. I also figured out the problem: you can't be too pushy on anything, including marital issues. It turned out that I was bent on finding a beautiful female soldier, but all female soldiers who can be soldiers and can be promoted are generally from superior families, and besides, there are many children of high-ranking cadres. I was born in a rural area and had many sisters in my family, so I didn't have any advantage for "them". Besides, a woman's beauty will gradually disappear with the passage of time; When female soldiers are young, they wear military uniforms very eye-catching and energetic, but most of them don't work long, and when they get older, they have to face changing jobs. It's better to be realistic, let everything go naturally, which is what people often call "fate".

The "burden" is removed, and the spirit is relaxed. That's when I received a letter from home. The letter said that your eldest sister is married, and your second brother has reached the age of daughter-in-law. But I couldn't book it for a while. His parents were very anxious when they saw that they were as old as him and had married their daughters-in-law. There was no way, the parents decided to spend all their money to build a good house, maybe that would be easier to say about the daughter-in-law. Otherwise, if he can't solve it, your third and fourth brothers will be in trouble when they see them grow up. The letter concluded by saying that the family was still short of money and stones to lay the foundation.

Reading the letter from home, my heart is sour. As the eldest in the family, although he was promoted, he still did not bring glory and wealth to the family. It's time for me to do something for my family. So, after discussing with Captain Huang Zuhai of the maintenance team, I took advantage of the "great liberation" of the troops to buy two truckloads of stones in the Jinan quarry, and went home with the borrowed 300 yuan.

My parents were very happy to see that I brought a few soldiers to bring stones and money back for the family, and felt that they had finally not let outsiders see the jokes, and they fought for the family. But when I saw the third brother Zu Gang and the second sister Qianqian, who had dropped out of school to do farm work at home before they grew up, tears couldn't stop flowing, and my heart was full of guilt and self-blame!

At the end of this year, I sent my third brother Zugang to the Jinan Military Division as a soldier.

Towards the end of the acting instructor of the maintenance team, one day I went to the city to run errands, and I happened to meet the girl from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China who had met several times at Qinglong Bridge. She told me that she was going to Shandong Bank School and gave me contact information for the future. In this way, we broke the "kite" and then connected it again.

Rabindranath Tagore said, love; is an alias for understanding. I still remember the famous female writer Zhang Ailing once said that the greatest happiness in life is to find that the person you love happens to love you.