Chapter 11: Bear the Burden of Humiliation

"When I went to the Tacheng Military Sub-district to issue a certificate, the head of the Tacheng Military Sub-district, considering the terrible words of the people, suggested that I leave the rural area that humiliated me and work in the county seat, and was ready to place me in the county town to work and live, but I did not agree, because I was anxious to prove to the villagers that I was innocent and that I was worthy of the country and the people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Therefore, I rejected the advice of the heads of the military sub-districts and resolutely returned to Kongzhuang Village, the Cisheng Commune where I was born and raised.

My wife and family complained that I should not refuse the kindness of the military division, because it was much better to be a worker than a farmer, and once I became a worker and worked in the county, I would be free from the toil and poverty of farming for generations. But my family's complaints didn't make me regret it. I think everyone else is afraid of being a farmer, so I'm not afraid. What's wrong with being a farmer? Isn't it just harder and poorer? But I'm not even afraid of death, am I still afraid of poverty?

I began to work with my head down, although I had injuries on my body, and I would feel faint pain when it was cloudy and cold, but I did what I did in the heavy and tiring work of the production team. Whenever I feel bitter and tired, I think back to the scene when I was wounded in battle, and I think of the grief of those comrades who were with me who died in the world. As a result, no matter how hard and tiring the work is, it doesn't feel like anything anymore.

I was the first to start doing business in the village, it was still the seventies, **** was not over, and business was called the 'tail of capitalism', 'speculation', and it was to be arrested and criticized. But the people in the village knew that I was a disabled soldier and didn't care about me. I have sold aluminum pots, carried the burden through the streets and alleys, footprints all over the city and countryside, and walked dozens of kilometers a day, but, at that time, people were poor, buy an aluminum pot, tinkering can be used for one or two decades, so, my business is not good, running for a day, I can't make much money.

I started selling cattle and horses. Cattle and horses are the means of cultivation and transportation of rural people, which are collectively owned by the production team, and private individuals generally do not have cattle and horses. Each production team also has someone to manage the cattle and horses, so this kind of business is even more difficult to do. It didn't take long for me to do it anymore. Then, I started to raise fish again, but I didn't know much about fish farming, I just thought that fish farming could make money, so I had the courage to do it. As a result, I still didn't make any money. I also burned bricks, but at that time people were still very poor, a dilapidated house could live for decades, and even young people got married and few people built new houses. Therefore, not many people want the bricks I burned. At that time, the market was not yet open, and the state practiced socialist public ownership, and private individuals were not allowed to engage in business and trading, and even if you did business secretly, business would not be good. Because the market hits private business hard. Therefore, after working blindly, I am still empty-handed.

Once, when my wife was sick, the hospital grabbed a few pairs of Chinese medicines, but there was no medicine jar for boiling Chinese medicine at home. I went to the grocery store on the commune street, saw a medicine jar, and asked for a yuan, but I only had a few dimes on me. I had no choice but to go back to the village and borrow money. It was a really sad time, I was worried all day, but I couldn't think of anything to do. In the end, I didn't do anything and honestly returned to the production team to earn my share. You can't get rich on this kind of day, but you can't starve to death. As long as people can get by, our family can also get by.

"When I returned home, away from the barracks and troops, away from the battlefield and my comrades-in-arms, although I "never said anything about things in the army, I was sad when I said it", but the past often surfaced in my dreams. I think about those dead comrades-in-arms the most, among which Yin Qingqi and Li Lianxiang are the two people I miss the most. I have the best relationship with them, and we are inseparable almost every day. Every time I think of them, I can't help but cry, for this reason, I also made up a few sentences: 'Liujiu went to Tacheng and served as a soldier for the country; In the battle of Tielek, I was outnumbered and heavily armed; Bullets rained down, and artillery bombardment. When I mentioned my friends who died, tears welled up. ’

It wasn't until the early nineties of the last century that my family's situation began to improve. At that time, I set up a stall in Wenzhou to sell chili peppers, and the business was not bad. In the beginning, I could only sell more than 10 catties or dozens of catties a day. But I have a good brain and am good at observation, and I found that most of the people who come to buy chili peppers are from Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan, and these people are very numerous in Wenzhou, and the market and potential of the chili business are also very large. Therefore, I considered that Zhecheng County, Henan Province is a pepper producing area, and the peppers grown are of good quality and cheap, so I mobilized the people in my hometown to vigorously plant peppers, and I purchased all the peppers planted. To this end, I brought my two sons and two daughters to Wenzhou, rented a large constant temperature cold storage, and started the wholesale and sales business of chili peppers.

The most important thing to do business is reputation, and the guarantee of credibility is quality. In order to ensure the quality and quality of chili peppers, I have to personally inspect and purchase chili peppers every season, and I am often so busy that I can't even take care of eating, drink a few sips of cold water when I am thirsty, eat instant noodles when I am hungry, and never let others do it for me. Once, I had a high fever and hung up a needle. My family asked me to rest, but I was not at ease with others, so I broke a branch, tied the needle bottle to the branch and clamped it with my arm, and continued to buy it while infusion.

Now, I have almost covered all the chili pepper markets in Wenzhou, and the chili peppers in my hometown Zhecheng are far from meeting my needs, so I have bought chili peppers from other parts of Henan, as well as Anhui, Shandong and Shanxi provinces. More than 1,000 tons of chili peppers are purchased and sold every year. In order to improve economic efficiency, I also formed a 7 fleet of chili peppers with my 4 children, with a monthly income of more than 80,000 yuan and an annual income of 1 million yuan.

I am happy about the success of my business, but what makes me even more excited is that last year I received a call from the Tacheng Military Sub-district asking me to help them find the families of the nine martyrs who died in the Battle of Tirekti. Because I have been in a bad situation over the years, and later I was busy with business, so I had almost no contact with the families of my fallen comrades-in-arms, and this time I had the opportunity to go to their homes, first, to express the care of the Tacheng Military Division to the martyrs' families, and second, to visit the martyrs' homes. I rode an electric car to get up early and return late, running in no black and white for three days, but these martyrs were only sixteen or seventeen years old when they died, there were no descendants, and relatives and neighbors had little impression of them.

What I didn't play even more was that last year the Central Military Commission promulgated a document to subsidize the combatants, and the approval form did not include Tielekti fighting, and I could not receive state subsidies, and many comrades-in-arms came to me and told me to run for this matter. Because the people in the county know me well. I took the documents to the county party committee and the county government, reasoned with the county leaders, and won over the conditions for the fighters to enjoy the subsidy, and after enjoying this subsidy and treatment, no one suspected that I was a traitor.

When I returned to my hometown a few years ago, I met a fellow villager who had returned from Tacheng on the street, and he told me that according to the Sino-Kazakh border survey agreement, the territory occupied by the Soviet army and designated as the "disputed zone" of Tierekti had been assigned to the Chinese side. Thirty-four years after the Battle of Tierekti, Chinese border guards began to patrol the already undisputed Chinese territory again.

He also told me that in the last year 8. On the 13th day, Wang Guoyi, commander of the Tacheng Military Division, together with Fan Junlin, the successor of the martyr Fan Jinzhong, the old company commander, and all the commanders and fighters of the Tielekti Frontier Station, carried out the unveiling ceremony of the monument to the martyrs of Tielekti Zhongyong Mountain. That Zhongyong Mountain is the nameless highland where China and the Soviet Union fought fiercely.

When I heard the news, I burst into tears of joy and couldn't sleep at night, and I felt that our blood had not been shed in vain. ”