In Baishitun, if you ask Jia Cuiling, few people know. If you ask Jilin's family, you know that she is my uncle's nephew and daughter-in-law.

Cui Ling's nickname is Da Nier. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, I went to work in the production team, and there were several eldest and second girls in a team, and the captain said: "It's all called this, I can't record your work, so let's give you a name." ”

In 1958, Cuiling was eighteen years old, married into the Jiang family in Baishitun, caught up with ***, and ate a big pot of rice.

In 1959, Baishitun Jiang came to transport people to go to Guozhuang to dig the river. Cui Ling walked more than 30 miles with her luggage on her back before arriving at Guozhuang. The production team had a mill, there was no food, the mill was not needed, and several of their women slept in the mill, spreading grass on the ground and laying quilts on the grass.

I was tired of digging rivers, and I was given two meals a day, two bowls of gruel and a handful of sugar residue for one meal. The sugar residue is the beet residue, and this sugar residue has ash residue in it, and it squeaks when you eat it in your mouth.

After digging the river in Guozhuang for half a month, she couldn't dig it anymore, so Cuiling packed up the bed and said, "I'll go home." ”

The women asked, "What should we do if we don't eat when we go home?" We're not done yet. ”

Cui Ling said: "I can't do it anymore, you can do it here." If you don't give me food, I dig grass roots, dig grass roots and eat them. ”

Seeing that Cui Ling was gone, the women also followed back to Baishitun.

The captain asked what was going on, and asked them to still work on the team, give them food, and give them some gruel every day.

Once, Cui Ling went to cut down the forest and willow lumps for the canteen fire. After digging for a while, two long worms came out, and she was so frightened that she ran out with a snort.

Lai Cheng asked: "Sixth aunt, what did you see?" ”

Cui Ling said, "Long worms." ”

Lai Cheng hurriedly ran over to see, he grabbed the two long worms, took them to the bottom of the pot in the cafeteria, and burned them to eat.

At that time, it was said that the long worm was poisonous, and no one dared to eat it, and if it wasn't for the hunger, they wouldn't dare to eat it. In Baishitun, I don't know who made up a slip: "It is said that it will become a Tao, and it will become a long worm if you are hungry." That time I went to Guozhuang to dig the river, and some people made up a slip: "Is it fragrant to eat, I remembered to go to Guozhuang." ”

During the years of starvation, the women who were so hungry that Baishitun did not menstruate. By 1962, the vegetables and chaff could be eaten, and Baishitun added more than 50 children a year, and Cuiling's eldest son was added in October of that year.

Don't starve anymore, the two of them discussed how to live a good life. Jilin first went to the northeast, to the Tongbei Forestry Bureau of Heilongjiang Province to find my third brother Jiang Shiyan, the Forestry Bureau did not want people, he went to the northeast of Hailun County, and settled in the Liu Guolu Brigade. At that time, many production teams were short of people to work, and they were given food when they arrived.

Jilin sent a letter asking Cui Ling to go with the child. Cui Ling doesn't know a big word, she has never been far away, and she has never taken a train, so she is bold. She took the child and carried the burden to Zhangsui first, took a car from Zhangsui to Jining, took a train from Jining for three days and two nights, went to Harbin East Railway Station Sankeshu, and then took an overnight train from Sankeshu to Tongbei.

After getting off the train at five o'clock in the morning, it was dark, and Cui Ling was waiting for dawn in the box office (note: waiting room) with her child in her arms. At the box office, she met a giant wild fellow, and the fellow asked her where she was going, and she said that she was going to the Six Horse Rack, and they said that the Six Horse Frame was not far away, three miles away.

Cui Ling said: "I don't know the southeast and northwest, you can give me pointers." ”

With the guidance of her fellow countrymen, Cui Ling walked in the dark with the child on her back. I just got off the train, and I was cold. After walking three miles, I walked out of a sweat, and the sky was not yet bright.

Walking to the first house on the side of the road, she knocked on the door and asked, "Where does Jiang Shiyan's family live?" ”

When she shouted, she shouted the dog first, and there were dogs in every house here, and they barked vigorously.

I patted more than a dozen doors before I found my third brother's house.

The third brother had already gotten up and was about to go to the station to pick up their mother and son.

After staying at my third brother's house for a day, Cuiling went to Helen to join Jilin.

They lived in the oil mill team of the Liu Guolu Brigade for a few months, and the people there were very good to them, but they didn't want to stay, and the water there was not good.

The oil mill team was under the root of the mountain, and the water they picked up was clear and bright. Leave it overnight, and a layer of red sticky foam will float in the water tank, like rust. It is said that eating water here is not very old, and young women are cured with osteoarthritis.

It's not easy to recruit people there, so you don't call them away when you come.

The two discussed: We came out to escape for our lives, how can we get here to die?

I didn't want anything from the pots and pans I had just purchased, and the family of three stole away with a cover on their backs.

Cui Ling has a cousin who settled in the Nehe County in the Nenan Commune, and they defected to the Nehe River and wanted to settle there. They were all from Shandong, and they couldn't settle down there, so they lived in other people's homes for more than 50 days.

My cousin said, "My family has a lot of food, so I don't have to worry about eating." ”

No matter how good people are, they always live in other people's homes, and it is not a long way.

Hearing that the Erkeqian Commune in the northwest of the Nehe River was easy to settle down, they took a car to Erkeqian.

It was April of the lunar calendar in 1963, and it was very windy that day, Cui Ling said to Jilin: "The two of us are black-eyed here, we don't know each other, you see if you can find some work to do, I will take the child and ask for food first." ”

Cui Ling asked for lunch all day and asked for something to eat. She wanted to order more, and walked to Beidagang with the child in her arms. Two cyclists came down from the post, and they rode to her and stopped, and one of them spoke in a Shandong accent and asked, "Where do you come from?" ”

Cui Ling said: "Shandong. ”

"Can you be a man?"

"Why can't you do it? People in their twenties can do anything. ”

The man said, "Don't ask for food, you are so thin, don't let the wind blow away for you." You go to the front Tunzi to find Captain Wang, and ask him to arrange a place for you to stay, the fifth team will not leave the sixth team, and the sixth team will not leave the first team, so you will stay in my cultural brigade. My name is Jiang Zhende, you tell Captain Wang, it was Jiang Zhende who asked you to find him. ”

The man next to him said: "This is the Jiang branch secretary of our brigade, you go quickly, we have to go to the commune for a meeting." ”

Cui Ling found Captain Wang's house, and the captain's daughter-in-law said, "You don't need to say anything, Jiang Zhishu called just now." ”

Captain Wang arranged them in the second team and helped them borrow a house to live in, but there was still nothing at home. Thanks to the people in the second team, everything is lent to them. At that time, potatoes were being planted, and several families sent them potatoes to plant potatoes.

Jilin and Cuiling are both real, they are not lazy in their work, and everyone in the team likes them. There is a surname Zhang who starts with the beginning, and he says that his family is ga, and his sister-in-law took Cui Ling's hand and said: "His sister-in-law, as long as I can use the things at home, you can take them as you like." ”

In the spring of the second year, Jiang Zhende came to Jilin and asked, "Do you build a house?" ”

Jilin said: "I don't have money, I can't afford to build a house. ”

Jiang Zhende said: "It's okay, I'll help you." ”

He gave Jilin a lumber grant.

At that time, a purlin in the black market cost thirteen yuan, and the wood approved by Jiang Zhishu was only two yuan per purlin.

There was a vacant lot full of wild grass, and Jilin wanted to build a house there, but the team said: "There was a basket of toads dug up in that place, and no one knew what else was underneath, so they didn't dare to build a house there." ”

Cui Ling said: "What are we afraid of when we flee the famine? Not so much. ”

Many people came to build the house, and the mud walls were built, and the two houses were built in a week. Burn the kang dry, and then move.

In the winter of 1964, Cui Ling was working, and her little finger was pierced with a needle nose, and her finger was inflamed and swollen.

A neighbor said, "If you smash the unicorn pimple, and reconcile it with the spittle you smoke on, and then paste it on your fingers, this is called fighting poison with poison." ”

The unicorn is like a garlic pimple, and after using this method, the fingers are not good, and even the arms are swollen, and the swelling is bright and slippery, which is very scary.

Everyone said, "Let's go to the hospital." ”

Jilin went to the brigade to borrow money, and the team lent him twenty yuan.

They went to the Nehe County People's Hospital, and after seeing the doctor, the doctor said that they would be hospitalized. To go through the hospitalization procedures, they asked for a deposit of 200 yuan.

Jilin said: "This is the twenty yuan lent to me by the captain, I have to keep ten yuan for dinner, I will give you a deposit of ten yuan first, and I will send you the rest of the money." ”

People disagree.

Jilin was literate, and he pointed to the words on the wall of the hospital and said, "Isn't that Chairman Mao's quotation?" Chairman Mao taught us to save the dead and help the wounded, and practice revolutionary humanitarianism. My family's illness is late, and if I delay it any longer, my arm will have to be sawed off, are you saving lives? ”

Chairman Mao's quotations worked, and they let Cuiling be admitted to the hospital.

Jilin returned to the brigade and the captain borrowed money. The captain said: "It's okay to be admitted to the hospital, when will the disease be cured, and when will we be discharged." If the hospital asks you for money, you push it to the brigade. If the hospital asked me for money, I would say, 'He's got two huts, you can take his house.' 'Who dare?' ”

Cui Ling used medicine in the hospital, her arm slowly became less swollen, and after the swelling of her finger subsided, a section of her little finger was removed.

The second son is only ten months old, and the two sons are always crying at home. Jilin wanted to burn the house to hot spots, so he stuffed all the unburned firewood into the kang hole and went to work in the production team.

When I came home after work, there was no crying of children, and there was a smell of smoke in the house. Look at it again, the two children on the kang are choked to death.

Jilin didn't know what to do, so hurry up and find the doctor of the production team.

The doctor said, "The child is fine, I'll do the two." If there are pears at home, you can pour pear water on your children. Another way is to put the child in the tuyere and let the wind blow. ”

At that time, in November, how could anyone sell pears? Jilin ran home and put the two children in the tuyere, and after a while of the wind, both children came back to life.

Cuiling lives in the hospital, she has no money to buy vegetables, just buy two steamed buns, drink some boiling water, and the hospital manager asks her for money.

Someone gave her an idea and told her to find a "social education".

She didn't know what "social education" was for, so when people asked her to find it, she would look for it. There were two girls in the house, and she told her about the difficulties. Just in time for the lunch start, the two daughters bought two steamed buns and a dish for Cuiling. After Cuiling finished eating, they took out money and food stamps from their pockets, and gave Cuiling a total of 30 yuan and 30 catties of food stamps.

Cui Ling knew that the money was someone's salary, and the food stamps were people's rations, so she didn't want it, and they forced it on her. When she returned to the hospital, the more she thought about it, the more unhappy she became, the money and food stamps did not move at all, and she went to a "social education" before being discharged from the hospital, and returned it to others, and the two daughters were happy.

Cui Ling stayed in the hospital for a month, and when she was ready, she wanted to be discharged, but the people in the hospital said, "You can't be discharged, you haven't paid yet." ”

Jilin went to the captain, and the captain said, "I'll give you a letter of introduction." ”

Jilin took the letter of introduction to the hospital leader and said, "I don't want to take advantage of the country, I really don't have money." If I earn money in the future, I will definitely pay back the hospitalization money. ”

The leader looked at the letter of introduction and said: "Our hospital has no correspondence with your brigade, and your letter of introduction is useless." ”

Jilin took the letter of introduction in his hand and tore it up, shredded it and threw it into the paper basket.

They said, "Don't tear it!" ”

"Don't you say it's useless? What do you want it for? Jilin said, "You have also read the letter of introduction, my family's illness has also been cured, and I am grateful to the People's Hospital." I also have two children in my family, one is two and a half years old, and the other is less than a lifetime (note: birthday, a lifetime is one year old), you have to stay, leave me alone. ”

didn't take a penny again, and they let Cuiling be discharged from the hospital.

Both of them can do it, and the days are getting better and better. The front and back gardens are big, and they grow tobacco leaves, and the money for selling tobacco leaves is more than 100 yuan, and a big fat pig is sold on the top. On the side of the production team, a laborer costs one dollar a working day, and everything is used to get by.

In 1969, there was a war on Zhenbao Island, and the old people in the family were worried about it. In three or five days, I wrote to them, urging them to go back, saying that they couldn't sleep every night.

There is no way, Cui Ling takes the child back to her hometown first, and after cleaning up the autumn, Jilin will go back.

Six years ago, Cui Ling came with a child. Six years later, she took her four children back, leading a seven-year-old, a five-year-old, a six-month-old, a two-birthday one, and a big bag with two small quilts.

The captain drove the carriage and asked Cui Ling, "Are you still here?" ”

Cui Ling said, "Come! She knew in her heart that she couldn't come.

Jilin took a carriage to send the five Niang'er to the Nehe River, from the Nehe River to Qiqihar, and went back. Cuiling led the child to take a train from Qiqihar to Shenyang, from Shenyang to Yanzhou, from Yanzhou to Jining, from Jining to Zhangsui by car, hired a car in Zhangsu, spent two yuan, walked twelve miles, and then arrived at Baishitun.

At that time, there was no express train, and the train tickets were all passes, and you bought a ticket from Nehe to Jining, and you could take the train to Guanli. Every bus is crowded, it is not easy to get on the bus, you have to sign every time you change the car, and you have to queue up for a long time. When she met a new person, Cuiling also helped people buy tickets and sign. Others say that Cui Ling can, she is really capable.

In September 2014, Jiang Shumei returned to Baishitun to "load the goods". The first on the left is Jia Cuiling. Photo by Ai Ling.

In September 2014, Jiang Shumei took a group photo with Jia Cuiling (middle) and Jiang Jilin (right). Photo by Ai Ling.

Cui Ling came back from the Northeast and never went back, and Jilin went back to find a job to do. Both of them said: "The people in Heilongjiang are good, but they haven't stayed enough." ”