About ten miles north of Leping County, there is a big town - Zhangjiaqiao Town. There are more than 3,000 families in the town. is called Zhangjiaqiao, not the surname of the people in the town is Zhang. The town has a population of tens of thousands, and perhaps a quarter of them have the surname Zhang.

In the early years, there were only a dozen families in Zhangjiaqiao, all surnamed Zhang, so they were called Zhang's family. So why do you add the word "bridge"? It turned out that the location of the village was special. Zhang's house is about ten miles away from the city, and then north is the mountain, which is sparsely populated. The village is located between the mountains and the county seat. From the county seat to the mountains, you must pass through Zhangjia Village. Those who enter the city from the mountainous area in the north must also pass through Zhangjia Village. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a talent in Zhangjia Village, named Zhang Zhenqing. But Xiucai went to Beijing to catch the exam, and was blocked when registering, it turned out that people in the mountains did not know their names and committed taboos, "Qingfeng is illiterate, why bother flipping books." "Whether you are true or not, you will be cleared home. Zhang Zhenqing had no hope of fame, so he had to go home and teach. also changed his name to Zhang Zhenming. You can't clear the word, but the word is always clear. Who knows, it won't work. Committed the ban on "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty". Fortunately, the emperor was far away, and no one cared about him, so he was able to run the school with peace of mind.

At that time, most of the schools were private schools. His original intention was to make it easier for the children in the village to read (he was studying in other places). I didn't expect the school to become more and more prosperous. In the northern mountains, families who have a little ability to study send their children to Zhangjia Village. Occasionally, there are a few students from the city who come to visit. The times are advancing, the population is increasing, and the personnel of Zhangjia Village are complicated. The trees are big and the forests are big, and there are all kinds of birds. Zhangjiacun is no longer just surnamed Zhang. Zhang Zhenming became the village boss, not only teaching and educating people, but also encouraging the villagers to develop forestry, animal husbandry, and employment. Zhangjia Village has developed, Zhangjia Village has expanded, and Zhangjia Village has become a bridge connecting the mountainous area with the county seat.

So at the suggestion of Zhang Zhenming, Zhangjiacun was renamed Zhangjiaqiao.

This was a long time ago

In July 1960, a bridge was built in Zhangjiaqiao.

40 kilometers away from the county seat, there is a mountain, where the water source is abundant, in which the shape of the mountain can be used to build a large reservoir, after the approval of the relevant departments, mobilize the strength of the whole county - the strength of the number of people is great, and a large reservoir was quickly built. The use of water from the reservoir can irrigate the vast paddy fields of Xialeping, the main canal is very wide, to cross the canal must build a bridge, the bridge is in the east of Zhangjia Village, and the water flows from the north through Zhangjia Village and then flows into Xialeping in the south. The bridge was named after the name of Zhangjia Village: Zhangjiaqiao, which is a new saying.

The development of Zhangjiaqiao into a town has gone through several generations.

Zhang Ping'an's family is in Zhangjiaqiao Town, and he is the seventh generation of Zhang Zhenming's descendants. Except for a showman, the ancestor has never had any celebrities. However, the population has developed a lot, and there are hundreds of descendants of Zhang Zhenming alone. What is the use of having more people, if there are more people who eat, they will only be poor, and if they want to have a profit, they can be rich; Well, on the contrary, the more people there are, the poorer they are.

Zhang Ping'an's family is relatively good. His father, Zhang Yifu, was a cooper – a branch of carpenters, specializing in barrel making. Buckets, urine buckets, foot basins, rice buckets (large steamed rice bottles), hanging buckets (large bottles for hanging sake), etc., are all made by coopers. Zhang Yifu's craftsmanship is exquisite, well-known, and he is a skilled craftsman. He had two daughters and a son. The eldest and second are daughters. The third is Zhang Ping'an. It is the son of the ancestor Jide who gave birth to two daughters. Your daughter is a loser, and she is not qualified to study, unless you have money in your family. Zhang Yifu is quite enlightened. The eldest and the second have let them study for a few years. I graduated from elementary school, graduated from junior high school, and after entering the technical secondary school, I came out one after another. Use all the funds on the junior. Zhang Ping'an graduated from high school in July 1963 and was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of East China Normal University in Shanghai. It's not simple, it's no less than the ancestor Zhang Zhenming, and the Zhang family has another talent.

Zhang Ping'an is going to Shanghai, and his family has invested a lot of money in him, so he has to say it! Do something good before you go. He took the initiative to buy coal for his family, took advantage of the good weather, made lotus root coal, and stored it for his mother's use, so as not to keep his father busy. My father worked hard all day long.

There is a coal mine in the mountains in the north, more than 20 miles away from Zhangjiaqiao Town. There is a coal shop in the town, but the price is expensive, and coal tickets are required. It's not as cheap as coal in the mine, and you don't need coal tickets. Zhang Ping'an thought, anyway, go to the mine to see the eldest sister and nephew. I hurried on the road early in the morning. It took an hour or two to walk to the mine. When I arrived at my sister's house, General Tie guarded the door - no one! Zhang Ping'an estimated that his brother-in-law went to the mine, his sister went to work (the mine service team), and his nephew went to kindergarten. I didn't see anyone, anyway, I didn't come to visit the pro-Wei. He went to the coal store to buy more than 1,000 catties of loose coal (free supply, the quality should be poor, anyway, when with coal, the mud can't be put more, and the yellow peat can't be burned, Zhang Ping'an's family bought it). The fifteen dollars I brought with me were all used. It's not just right, but the coal shop doesn't make change, but uses coal as a price to find money, and pays how much coal you pay for how much coal. I usually have change on my body, but that day I went to buy coal and changed into clean clothes. Generally, when buying coal, you should change into labor clothes, didn't Zhang Ping'an want to go to his sister's house to have a look? So I changed my clothes, and my clothes were changed, but my pockets didn't contain any money. If you don't have money in your pocket, you can find the money, so I have to say "I'll give it next time".

The coal was bought, but I was still thinking about the little girl's words: "Big brother, you go, it doesn't matter." "Although two cups of tea are nothing, when I think of my recklessness, it is really a bit overbearing! People still call him big brother! Could it be that the eldest brother bullied the little sister like this? Zhang Ping'an is not such a person.