In the autumn of 1969, the Vietnamese people's war of liberation against US imperialist aggression was in full swing. At this time, as one of the many intellectual youths who went to the mountains and went to the countryside, I was arranged by the Educated Youth Office to cut the queue in the mountainous area of Daxinganling, and received the highest instructions: the intellectual youth went to the countryside, fought the wind and snow, refined red hearts, fought heaven and earth, and cast iron bones.

Before I knew it, a few months had passed, and the excitement and novelty of entering the mountain had long since disappeared, replaced by the boring life of day after day, and the ravine where I cut into the queue, a place the size of a palm, there were only twenty or thirty households in total, and almost all of the primeval forests within a radius of hundreds of miles were uninhabited.

The people in the tunzi rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, in addition to opening a few acres of barren land in the flat place, planting some daily food rations, the rest of the food is mainly obtained by going into the mountains to hunt, the roe deer, roe deer, hares, pheasants, and fungus in the forest, etc., are all good chewy, and it is not a problem to eat well.

But that winter, the snow in the mountains fell early, the northwest wind suddenly intensified, and the weather suddenly became colder. Because in the autumn of previous years, the people in the mountains had to take advantage of the time when the wild boars and hares were fattening in autumn to hunt a large number of them, dry them and store them in order to survive the cruel and long winter in the Great Khing'an Mountains.

The abnormal climate that has not been encountered in this decade is said to come, the autumn is just halfway through the snow, and then the northwest wind is hoisted, the hunters can not help but be a little confused, have picked up shotguns, bring hunting dogs, rush into the mountains to "catch the winter famine", and God race against time to grab time, go all out to set the fox to shoot rabbits, otherwise it will be later, the mountains will definitely blow the white hair wind that only blows in winter, then nothing can be hit, then the whole tunzi will face a terrible winter famine.

Seeing the hunters in groups into the mountains to hunt, they suddenly came to the interest, and they discussed with me that they planned to go into the mountains with the hunters to fight a few human bears.

My enthusiasm for hunting in the mountains, especially the love of wits and strength such as "set foxes", is no less than a fat man, but I rarely have the opportunity to bring a gun and a dog to have a good time, and I already know that this action will definitely not let us participate. First, because we have been in the mountains for less than half a year, we have already made a lot of trouble, which has caused the old branch secretary to go crazy, and we will not be allowed to do anything wrong. Second, this winter famine is a major event in the tunzi, hunting is a collective action, which requires rich experience, as well as the tacit understanding between hunters, so that the educated youth from the city to join the raw melon and eggs, in case something goes wrong, everyone will go hungry through the harsh winter, no one can afford this responsibility, and must not take such a risk.

We watched each family draw out the sturdy hunters, formed a "winter famine combat team", with a large number of hunting dogs into the mountains, stepping on the snow to the forefront of the hunting, I was really anxious and angry, even if I knew that it was basically no play, I still held a glimmer of hope, and went to find a secretary to be accommodating, even if it was to arrange some rear support work for our educated youth, and then let us stay in the tunzi, we had to suffocate people.

The fat man also emphasized the highest instruction to the branch secretary: "We are all from all over the world, and we have come together for the same purpose, and I sincerely request you on behalf of our five educated youths, please let us plunge into this torrent of revolutionary struggle to catch up with the winter famine no matter what......"

The old branch secretary didn't wait for the fat man to finish speaking, and killed our request with another supreme instruction: "Don't talk to me, what are you talking about?" **Isn't it still ...... that, right...... He also emphasized that he must oppose liberalism and obey the organizational arrangement, this is not all the people in our tunzi go hunting, and the rest are all those women and children, the old, weak, sick and disabled, you look at this snow, in case there is not enough to eat the black blind man who eats the cat winter is also a trouble, I think it is just like this, you young people, leave half of the tunzi, Bayi and Xiaopang, you two, let the swallow take you to the forest farm to watch the field, just replace the old man who knocked on the mountain, I can tell you both, I'm not allowed to know the whole thing these days, right? ”

I saw that as expected, there was no room for reconciliation on the issue of the route, since it was said that this part, I had no choice but to do it, secretly thinking in my heart that I could find an opportunity to set the fox near the forest farm, it was better than carrying out ideological work in the tunzi so boring, so I said goodbye to the other three young people, rolled the cover on my back, and together with the fat man, under the guidance of the swallow, went to the forest farm under the group of mountains to guard the wood.

There are a few families in the tunzi as a point of educated youth, the educated youth who cut the queue are fixed in these households, and the meal is to each family to take turns to partner, catch up with what to eat, Yanzi this girl is me and the fat man's "landlord", she is also an excellent hunter, the secretary arranged for her to take us to take care of the forest farm, but also worried that the forest farm was attacked by wild beasts.

The swallow lost the opportunity to hunt in the mountains, but she didn't complain, because the educated youth is far more knowledgeable than the mountain people, especially me and the fat man, who can know astronomy and geography, and when she is with the educated youth, she can understand the world outside the mountains that she has never left, so she put on her shotgun, and carried some necessary items, and set off with me and the fat man. From Tunzi to the forest farm to turn over a ridge, turn two mountain passes, the distance is very far, along the way the northwest wind blows howling, roll up the ground treetops of the snow foam fluttering and dancing all over the sky, plus the sky is gray even in the daytime, so that people can not tell whether it is snowing all the time, I wrapped my head tightly with a dogskin hat, but the wind still drew my head gradually numb.

But listen to the swallow talk about this kind of weather is nothing at all, the mountains are in the middle of the winter, the snow in the forest will be waist-deep, people in the snow walk through the snow is very difficult, not far will come out of a body of hot sweat, but must not stop, once stop to breathe, by the cold wind through the bones, the sweat of the whole body will immediately become layers of frost, and people who have not spent the winter in the deep mountains will not imagine at all, the most terrifying thing is the "white hair wind" that the people in the mountains talk about, the so-called "white hair wind", That is, the wind is mixed with snow, and the silver-white whirlwind is more powerful than ice knives, and it is not able to withstand the blows on people, so the hunters in the mountains must store food in advance, and when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, they will begin to eat on the hot kang at home.

Walked for almost a day to the forest farm, this forest farm is next to the "Tuanshanzi" infested with people and bears, there is a river passing through this forest and snow source, just separating the mountains from the forest, the vegetation on the Tuanshan is dense, there is no shortage of food, the people and bears on the mountain, light yì will not cross the river to the forest, and the hunters do not dare to provoke the ferocious king of the mountains and forests - the man bear.