On the eighth night, Yaqin sat on the rocker and waited, and when she saw Dapeng, she happily said: "To tell you a good news, my mother said about us, and my uncle didn't say anything, that is, he didn't object." Now even my sister knows about us, and the whole family is happy to agree and accept you, the key is whether the house problem can be solved. ”

Seeing Yaqin's joy, Dapeng felt very relieved, and he couldn't wait to talk about his last past.

"I was the most injured of the beaten workers, and the physical, mental, and spiritual pain prompted me to go on a hunger strike for two days. The instructor came to visit with a few company commanders, who at first explained and comforted me, and then asked me to sit up and walk on the ground. I gritted my teeth and put on my shoes, and just as I was about to straighten my back, I sat there again in pain like a pinprick in pain. Instructor Yang asked people to bring water to wash the blood stains on my face personally, and instructed the canteen to cook a sick meal for me.

Some workers came to visit and comfort, Liu Xueyou said that he was sent to the nearby Hongqi Commune countryside to cut the queue, Zhang Xilin brought me Wo egg noodles from the canteen, and thanked me for saving his life, he and Tang Yuzhen's family have been decentralized, and they have all gone to the rural area of Laha to cut the queue and be with Tang Fenghuang. They introduced that half of the workers were decentralized, and the remaining workers were going to the water conservancy team to repair the dam, and you were appointed as the team leader in the nomination, all of which was a decision made by the leaders of the company and the regiment headquarters after studying, and Zhang Xilin and I were separated from each other.

The next day, I rushed to the regiment headquarters in a luggage cart, only me and the injured Li Da took the car, and the rest walked to the regiment headquarters to report. We gathered and stayed in the large factory of the flour mill at the regiment headquarters, and Ding Fengyang, who was led by work, held a meeting for us: First of all, we announced that we were a water conservancy squadron that had been established temporarily, and announced the list of each group read below,...。

I was the leader of the third group, but Zuo Zhizhi became the leader of the fourth group, so angry that I wrote Hua Ziyang first when I wrote the list, that is, the old worker I used to compete with when I was bundling wheat, and wrote my name at the end with emotion. The next day, I went to work in the reservoir, and at noon I met acquaintances in the second squadron chatting, and there was a worker in the opposite shop who had just bought steamed buns and soup to eat and drink, and the workers on the second floor took off their shoes and fell into the soup, and the two people on the shop quarreled.

The door of the corridor was suddenly kicked open, and the two Red Guards who came in opened their mouths and scolded, without asking if they were going up the ladder without asking for anything, he wanted to pull the one on the top bunk down. I got up and walked out without them paying attention, and the Red Guards called out to me, "You stand." When he came down, he was not tall and asked, "Where did you come from?" and I said casually: "Qiqihar." ”

He probably also came from the countryside in Qiqiharfu District, and when he was stunned, I hurriedly left the land of right and wrong.

In the evening, the captain of the team came to talk to me, and he asked me why I wrote the team leader's name at the end? I explained the situation in the Ninth Company, and also told me everything that happened at noon. He introduced me to me as a reward for Zuo Zhizhi, and I was not angry, and I was resolutely not the team leader. This year, the Corps has transferred more than 700 workers to select 26 elite soldiers to set up an assault group, and the party committee has decided to let me be the leader of the assault team in the first squadron to drive the whole team to resolutely complete the task.

Two days later, we moved from the regimental headquarters to the water conservancy team and re-assembled a 26-man assault group for me, and your uncle Yaqin was also a member of our group at that time. In order to take care of Hua Ziyang's face, let him be named deputy leader in the fourth group. Captain Cai and Director Wang Yu, commander-in-chief of the water conservancy team, organized a mobilization meeting: the three squadrons each sent two cadres, the first and second squadrons were responsible for the earthwork construction of the dam, the third squadron was responsible for the flood diversion project, the workers of the first squadron were mainly Zhang Dapeng of the assault group, and the workers of the second squadron were mainly Xie Peigang,...。

Xie Peigang is a well-known old cow in the Ninth Company, and he eats eight steamed buns at a time, so how can I compare with him with my small arms and legs? I am a cultured person in the ranks of workers, but I can't let them look down on me, what if I am put in the category of Zuo Zhizhi?

At night, I led the assault team to work at night, drilling holes 1,000 meters away from the dam and firing artillery to blast through the frozen layer to extract soil. In one night, not only did the four-meter pit be blown up, but the slope passage was also repaired. The next day, we had a half-day rest, repaired the road leading to the dam in the afternoon, opened three tunnels with artillery for three nights in a row, and built a kilometer road leading to the dam during the day.

We were divided into 8 square cars and a variety of tools, I organized the only class meeting in the evening: eight cars are divided into 8 groups, each group of three people is free to combine, two people pull the car and one person prepares the soil to load the car, because the dam is far away can not come back at the same time, the hole is 8 people collectively loaded, the remaining two people are responsible for pulling the slope and drawing the road to count the number of trips, put a blackboard at the entrance of the cave with 8 car numbers, pull out a car according to the number to draw the right road. The task is mainly based on my No. 4 car, and we must ensure that people do not stop.

In the first two days, there were some nests at the entrance of the cave, a car could only complete two orthography and ten carries, with the widening of the land hole, a car could complete fifteen trips a day, and then eighteen trips, and finally increased to the task of twenty cars per car per day, that is, the daily journey of pulling the car should run 80 miles.

For the safety of work, soil columns must be left in the burrow every 4 meters to support the pressure of more than one meter of frozen layer on the head. I and Chen Dawei, Li Fukuan a car group, began me and Chen Dawei pull the car, we both wore myopia glasses, the hole is above zero steam, and out of the hole is more than minus 30 degrees, glasses hanging frost can not be seen simply do not wear, as long as my team leader led 26 people are working hard.

Chen Dawei, who is five years older than me, is a native of Beijing and a student at Tsinghua University, and was sentenced to work at Xingkai Lake at the end of three years of reeducation for stealing an old bicycle outside the bath. I sympathized with and took care of her, and only pulled the car with me for more than ten days, and then changed jobs with Li Fukuan because of his myopia, and took care of him to load the car in the cave.

Yaqin, in our assault group, only your uncle is from the Ninth Company, he is very hard and does not buy vegetables to eat, just eats steamed buns with big pickles, because he always causes trouble for me because of his family. Every day to complete the task he asked me for leave to go home, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to complete 20 times he went home, the sun is still high and the shutdown has too much impact, I had to complete 22 trips, then he also went home at 4 o'clock. Since the leadership meeting raised the issue of workers going home, I had no choice but to set an example to improve the task, trying to suppress the phenomenon of going home with work, and your uncle would go home no matter how late he was.

I went to eat at dawn in the morning, and let others bring steamed buns to eat at noon and continue to pull the cart. I didn't stop working at night, so I created a miracle of 32 trips, my No. 4 car hung a small red flag, and others had to complete it according to my trips, and finally stopped the phenomenon of workers going home, which is the limit of strong physical labor.

In the morning, I want to eat three big steamed buns of 4 taels, let others bring 4 steamed buns to eat at noon, and in the evening, I have to eat more than 130 catties of grain every month. At more than minus 30 degrees, I only wore autumn clothes and pants, and the sweat had already stained the back clothes with a thick layer of white alkali.

There are more than 4,000 educated youths from all over the country who come to the Corps and are distributed in various companies, but there are only more than 10,000 employed workers here, as if they are two camps, how can they receive the re-education of the poor and middle peasants? From the regiment headquarters to the company cadres, they stir their brains to arrange odd jobs for them, or take out a piece of land for their platoon and company commanders to lead them? A ridge two or three kilometers long stretches as far as the eye can see. Having never done agricultural work at all, they will face strange and difficult tests.

Not only are I and these educated youths of the same age, but some of them even came from their alma mater in the same city, and they are also facing strangeness and difficulties, but I have integrated myself with the workers, and I will try my best to surpass them and become the exemplary leaders of these workers.

Whether it is a knowledgeable youth, whether it is true or not, although we are not on the starting line, the task of dam construction that has not been completed in three years is in front of us, and the fruits of a winter's labor are finally washed away by a peach blossom water in the spring and all the earth dams are washed away, and the loss of labor and money is neither big nor small, but the political impact is difficult to explain to the 39th Division headquarters. I secretly made up my mind to set an example among the more than 700 workers, and almost tied my life to the reservoir and dam project.

See Chapter 24: Educated Youth Coerced to Escape.