Zhang Weiping's arrival in the Fangmagou Brigade can be said to be like a fish in water, and the sky is high and the earth is wide.

Fangmagou is my father's hometown, from here my father joined the Anti-Japanese Federation at the age of thirteen, embarked on the road of revolution, and finally died nine lives, and now he has become a senior cadre of the party and the army. The people of Fangmagou are proud, and in the small mountain village, there is a deputy commander of the military region, and they attribute all this to the feng shui of Fangmagou. It's just that the girls and young men are looking for a lot of light, and the girls in other villages are very willing to marry to Fangmagou, because there was once a deputy commander of the military region here.

Zhang Weiping's grandfather and grandmother are still buried on the mountain of Fangmagou, and the grandfather and grandmother gave birth to a son like Zhang Weiping's father; Now, Zhang Weiping has come to Fangmagou to cut the queue again, and the love and respect of the villagers in Fangmagou for Zhang Weiping's father soon transferred to Zhang Weiping.

In the first year of Zhang Weiping's arrival in the Fangmagou Brigade, he successfully became the commander of the militia company. In the eyes of the villagers, this position can only be held by Zhang Weiping. Not only because he is the child of the deputy commander, but more importantly, Zhang Weiping looks like a militia company commander no matter how he looks. Zhang Weiping wears authentic military uniforms all year round, straight, bright and capable. His mouth is full of some major international and domestic events, from the hegemony of the United States and the Soviet Union to the Vietnam War in full swing, he is full of words. The villagers know something ignorantly, but they have never heard him speak so vividly and concretely.

The former militia company commander was Erzhuzi, and he also wore a set of imitation military uniforms, but that military uniform was worn on Erzhuzi, and no matter how you look at it, it looks like it was stolen. Erzhuzi also has a four-year-old son, and he holds the snotty son in his arms every day, so that his son's snot rubs all over his front and back. Erzhu led the militia in training, and sometimes took out the gun from the ammunition depot, and the gun was like a burning stick in Erzhuzi's hand. Putting such an armed force in the hands of the second pillar, the villagers are not at ease.

As soon as Zhang Weiping came to Fangmagou, the temperament and brilliance exuded by him overwhelmed the two pillars. Under the enthusiastic appeal of the villagers, Li Zhishu talked to Erzhuzi once. The branch secretary said: Erzhuzi, look at you, why do you look like a company commander? Don't do it, let Zhang Weiping do it.

The second pillar stiffened his neck and said, "Then what should I do?"

Li Zhishu looked at the snot marks on Erzhu's body and said: I think you should go home and pick up the child.

Erzhuzi went home and picked up the child. Zhang Weiping became the militia company commander of the Fangmagou Brigade as expected. After Zhang Weiping became the commander of the militia company, he was really different. He first made it mandatory for all militiamen to wear uniforms and train three nights a week.

Zhang Weiping organized more than 100 militiamen, and everyone carried a steel gun on their shoulders, and the steel gun was wiped clean by the militia at Zhang Weiping's request. Zhang Weiping trained the militia in one way or another, and he was really familiar with the training, and there was military training every day in the compound of the military region. When he was a child, he imitated the training of soldiers with some children, and he was already familiar with everything about soldiers. Therefore, when Zhang Weiping trained the militia, he followed all the requirements of the troops. In a short period of time, more than 100 people have been able to walk out of a very neat pace. Not only that, Zhang Weiping also taught the militia to shout those loud slogans. For example: "one, two, three, four—" and "be vigilant and defend the motherland; Keep your eyes open and get ready for war" and so on. These loud slogans spread extraordinarily far in the quiet night of Fangmagou.

The villagers lay on the kang and slept soundly unprecedentedly. Because there are militia guards, they are reassured.

Zhang Weiping's small test brought earth-shaking changes to the militia company, and also added a lot of scenery to the spare time life of Fangmagou. Since Zhang Weiping became the commander of the militia company, he required the militiamen to carry their guns with them every day when they went to work in the fields. The militiamen had hoes in one hand and steel guns in the other. When they were working, the militiamen put their guns together, and the steel guns were wiped and smeared with a layer of gun oil, and so many guns were put together, shining in the sun. Zhang Weiping looked at the guns, and then at the militiamen who were working hard, and he felt a sense of accomplishment, and he inspected the guns and labor of the militia with his hands behind his back.

Zhang Weiping organized the militia to shoot targets twice a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn. Before shooting targets, according to the regulations of the higher authorities, the militiamen were to take 10 days off duty and train for eight days. This is the festival of the militia, and it is also the festival of adults and children in Fangmagou.

The day of target shooting finally came, and the shooting range was set up on the back hill of Fangmagou, and outside the cordon, there were men and women standing in Fangmagou, who were as excited as the New Year. The sound of gunfire was so pleasant and crisp. No matter how many rings are hit, the onlookers will cheer for a while. Since Zhang Weiping became the commander of the militia company, people have seen everything pleasing to the eye, and in the past, the two pillars also organized the militia to shoot targets every year, and there were many onlookers at that time, but the gunshots at that time were not as loud and brittle as they are now.

In the summer of one year, after Zhang Weiping had been the commander of a militia company for two years, it suddenly rained heavily for several days, and the old river channel west of Fangmagou suddenly flooded. From time to time, some farming tools, or stacks of firewood from villagers, floated down the murky water, and they went down the river. During the days of heavy rain, Zhang Weiping organized militia to guard the embankment of the old river day and night, and if the river overflowed the river and rushed to the village, they would fire the alarm. In those days, the work of the militia was hard, but also exciting.

That day, Zhang Weiping led the militiamen to patrol the river embankment, and suddenly, they saw a cow washed down by the water. This is a newborn calf, the calf itself is a little watery, but its strength is not enough to compete with the surging flood, so it can only go with the flow.

The moment Zhang Weiping saw the calf, he didn't seem to think much about it, threw the gun aside, and jumped into the water. He quickly hugged the calf, but the current was so strong that he and the calf could not get ashore for a while, and went down with the floodwater. The militia on the shore ran down the embankment, shouting and firing alarms from the shore. For a while, the whole village came out, not only the whole village but also the neighboring villagers flocked to the river embankment, and they witnessed Zhang Weiping's demeanor of saving the calf. All the way downstream, the river is getting wider, the current is not so fast, the people on the shore threw the rope into the water, Zhang Weiping tied the rope to the calf's body, pulled the calf's tail himself, and went ashore with the help of people.

When Zhang Weiping did all this, it was completely subconscious, and when he threw himself into the flood, he had already put life and death out of the way, but when he got to the water, he began to feel afraid, but it was too late, and he could only help the calf in the same boat. After coming ashore, due to exertion and fright, he fell down at once, and when he fell, he said like a hero in a movie: Is the cow still alive?

Zhang Weiping's glorious deeds of heroically saving cattle spread at once, first in the commune, and finally in the county, the provincial newspaper also sent reporters, and the article praising Zhang Weiping was soon published in the provincial newspaper.

The secretary of the county party committee has said that such intellectual young people are the successors we can cultivate.

Soon, Zhang Weiping became the *** director of the Fangmagou Brigade. He had just turned nineteen that year.

Zhang Weiping's seed germinated and was unearthed, and he found suitable soil for himself in Fangmagou. People also say that Fangmagou is a treasure land of feng shui, first a general, and then a hero, this hero is just nineteen years old. Next, there was a bigger news, Liu Shuanglin, a young man from this village, was honorably promoted after serving as a soldier for four years and became a platoon commander in the army.

In that year, the happy events of Fangmagou were one after another, and people more verified that Fangmagou produced talents. said. In the autumn of that year, there were three girls from other villages who were like flowers and jades and married to the Fangmagou Brigade with joy and joy, they broke the feudal system, did not ask the man for a penny of dowry, and took their dowry, drove the carriage to Fangmagou to settle down.

In Zhang Weiping's eyes, the life of the people of Fangmagou is prosperous and very meaningful. When he was the commander of the militia company, he only thought about building the militia company of the Fangmagou Brigade into an iron army. Now that he is the director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Fangmagou Brigade, he is thinking not only about the militia company, but also about the livelihood and revolutionary enthusiasm of the entire Fangmagou people.

Nineteen-year-old Zhang Weiping often frowned in his later life, holding "Yingchun" brand cigarettes in his hand. He smoked as he pondered.

The office of the brigade is a red brick house, there is a brigade office, and there is a health center, and a hand-cranked telephone is connected to the commune, and the latest instructions of the commune are conveyed through this telephone. The telephone line is exposed, and the telephone signal is seriously depleted in the wind and rain in nature, and the caller shouts at the microphone, but the voice heard on the phone is like a mosquito. The communication between Fangmagou and the outside world is not smooth.

In order to change this situation, Zhang Weiping set up a megaphone at the brigade headquarters, and then connected a few loudspeakers, and any latest instructions of the brigade could be conveyed through the loudspeakers, and the sound was more than ten times louder than a person's loud shout. When Zhang Weiping was looking for a broadcaster, he fell in love with Li Yaling, the daughter of Li Zhishu.

Li Yaling, who is the same age as Zhang Weiping, studied in the commune health center for half a year after graduating from high school, and is now a barefoot doctor in the Fangmagou brigade. Villagers with headaches and brain fever often visit the brigade health center, leaving five cents for Li Yaling to get an injection or prescribe some aspirin or something, which is the biggest advantage of rural cooperative medical care.

Li Yaling was born very healthy, and she also has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a thick and black braid is like Li Tiemei. Since Zhang Weiping became the director of the brigade, he began to pay attention to Li Yaling's arrival.

Li Yaling is now under his leadership, and the entire Fangmagou Brigade is under his leadership, and he is convinced of this. He talked to Li Yaling about the idea of letting Li Yaling be a barefoot doctor and a broadcaster at the same time, and Li Yaling obeyed unconditionally. Since then, Zhang Weiping began his first love in Fangmagou.