The place where the Lushan People's Commune smelted steel is on the side of the mountain one kilometer away from the commune's location.

It was originally the Lushan militia training ground and shooting range, and now it has become the steel smelting yard and headquarters of the Lushan People's Commune.

There are four steel-making furnaces, one reverberatory furnace, two cupolas, and a small converter built on the spacious open space.

The headquarters has several temporary houses, and the walls of the houses are written in white ash with the slogan: "Work hard, strive for the top, and build socialism as quickly and as quickly as possible!"

In the open compound of the headquarters, scrap steel was scattered in piles on the ground, and people were using clumsy tools such as sledgehammers to break down large chunks of scrap metal.

Coal and coke are piled up in a corner of the clearing, and people are constantly transporting them in carts.

The most colorful thing is that the clearing is surrounded by bright red flags, which are fluttering in the wind.

As soon as he and Li Zi came to the place where the steel was smelting, they saw the flames piercing through the cupola furnace from a distance, which was very spectacular and eye-opening.

The reverberatory oven looked like a loaf of bread; The two cuphols are one and a half meters in diameter and about four meters in height; The small converter is not large, and it is made of a large iron barrel.

The steel ingots produced here are neatly arranged in stacks, and there are several representative pieces of good steel and good iron tied with red silk on the top of the stacks.

This place was visited last year when the yaks handed in scrap steel for the production team, but they didn't pay attention to more details at that time.

The large steel-making site does not refuse the entry of the members of the society, and it is easy for Yakzi and Li Gang to see the scrap steel that has been handed over.

The scrap steel had ploughshares, pots and pans, steel bars, wires, horseshoes, shovels...... In addition to these common ones, Yakzi and Li Gang also saw a lot of scrap steel that was not in the production team, they couldn't see what it was, and asked the workers on the scene, but they didn't know, guessing that it was an object in the city.

Yakzi and Li Gang carefully distinguished, thinking of the mine from the waste road spikes, railroad tracks, pipes and scrapped radiators. When I think of the mine, I think of Xi'an County, which is not Xi'an, Shaanxi, but because of the Xi'an coal mine, where there may be something that Yakzi and Li Gang are looking for.

Go to the mine, and pay attention to the turrets and underground fortifications mentioned by Liu Zhishu of the brigade, as well as the old bridge piers on the Erdao River mentioned by Old Man Gao.

Yakzi and Li Gang made up their minds, did not stop for a moment, and embarked on the road to the mine.

More than 50 kilometers of road, walking until midnight, it is best to catch a carriage with feet.

Yakzi and Li Gang walked on the road for nearly half an hour, the weather was very warm, walking covered in sweat, the two of them talked and laughed, they could inadvertently appreciate the bright spring light of nature, it was rare to have such an opportunity, and they were in a comfortable mood.

Passing by a Jian'an town, which is more prosperous than Lushan Commune, the two slowed down and began to pay attention to the shops and buildings in the town.

There is a main street in Jian'an Town, which is flanked by shops, schools, and several two-story buildings, including supply and marketing cooperatives, town offices and people's commune canteens.

Jian'an Town is a distribution center for agricultural and sideline products, with pickle factories, oil mills, wood factories, slaughterhouses, grain depots and sand turning plants.

There are a lot of people coming and going in the town, and the occasional rubber-wheeled carriage passing by on the road.

Yakzi and Li Gang paid attention to the carriages out of the town, and there were indeed them, but most of them were fully loaded, some loaded with a cart full of earthen baskets, and some were carrying grain and oil to the city, so they couldn't sit at all.

Yakzi and Li Gang came out of Jian'an Town, and a short walk away is the Erdao River that the old man Gao said. He and Li Gang found the four old bridge piers.

If you don't look at it, you will be deflated immediately when you see it. I saw that there were a few steel bars exposed on each old pier, not to mention that the piers could not be smashed, and even if they were smashed, it seemed that they could not get much steel.

You can't come in vain, just follow the clear water of the two rivers, wash your face and hair, cool and cool.

Continue on the road, and walked more than ten miles, good people and good lives, followed by an empty carriage, the car owner waved to the car owner (coachman), the car owner restrained the horse, asked where they went, did not say a word, let them get into the car.

This carriage was to deliver rice and noodles to the Jian'an Supply Grain Station and return to the county seat of Liaodong. Although it is not to go to Xi'an, but by the way, Yakzi and Li Gang can walk 20 miles less.

The owner of the car is an old handlebar type who is fifty years old, and when he heard about the intention of Yakzi and Li Gang to go to Xi'an Coal City, he directly poured cold water on them: "Isn't this nonsense?" In these years, steel is the outline, don't talk about you, no matter how big the official is, you have to call the ancestors when you see the steel, how can there be waste left for you, don't daydream, where to rest where it is cool, don't be blind and light the lamp in vain, it's useless. ”

Li Gang was discouraged when he heard this, but he didn't refute it, and said lightly: "The two of us just used an excuse to go to the city for a walk." ”

I thought I could prevaricate the ridicule of the car boss, but I didn't expect the car boss to get serious: "You guys are the people's commune thinking, ideological desertion is a big problem, young people, if you want to get down to business, you have to have the commune collective in your mind, and you can't go crooked." The car boss said unhappily, "If I knew that you were so enlightened, I wouldn't pull you up." ”

Yakzi hurriedly explained that no matter how round it was, it was getting darker and rounder, but fortunately, the car owner didn't get them out of the car.

When he arrived at the county seat, it was past noon, and in order to thank the car boss, he gave him two hard-boiled eggs, and the car boss smiled.

Except for a few bicycles on the road, they didn't see the carriage for a while, but there was a car behind them, and they honked their horns from afar, and then swept past them frantically.

In addition to being shrouded in the dust rolled up, Yakzi and Li Gang didn't even look carefully at the car.

The two of them were walking and chewing the pancakes stalled by Xiaomei's mother Xiaomei's mother, this pancake was really delicious, Li Gang would enjoy the food even more, and ran to the roadside to pick up the brain melon and wild garlic, peel off the bud, and roll it in pancakes to eat. The small kettle brought by Xiaomei played a role in smoothing the food at the critical moment.

As the sun set, I don't know how far away it is from Xi'an, the two of them walked a little weakly, and suddenly the sound of the train whistle came from a distance. Gang and Li Gang were shocked, and the place where there was a train was probably not too far from the city.

There is a fork in front of you, there are no road signs, which direction to run? The two of them were in a bit of a rut. He decided to run in the direction of the train horn just now.

Walking and walking, the two climbed over a hill, crossed a winding mountain road, and saw a railway in front of them. Turret? And more than one.

Gang and Li Gang quickened their pace and walked towards the place full of hope.

The eye is very close in front of you, but you are actually far away.

It took the two of them half an hour from seeing to approaching, and the sun was impatient, and they didn't wait for them, leaving only a red sunset. The sunset shone over the wilderness, ducks flew by in pairs, and the occasional sudden squeal of a male pheasant could be heard.

Finally, it was close, and in front of me was a turret, not a bunker.

Whatever it is, just have rebar.

However, he noticed that there were signs standing around the turret, which read: Historical relics, destruction will be severely punished.

It's over, this turret has been explicitly ordered to be protected, not allowed to be demolished casually, it seems that the road to smash the bunker and dismantle the turret has been blocked, so I can only think of another way.

At this time, both Yakzi and Li Gang found that smoke was coming out of the gun hole of the turret, what was going on? Someone?

Yakzi and Li Gang approached cautiously, and there was indeed movement in the turret, and a smell of roast mutton was smelled a few meters away.

Approaching again, there were several men's unbridled laughter inside, especially from the upper floor of the turret, and there was a woman's extremely dissolute cry......

More things are better than less things, this is a place of right and wrong, Mu Zi was ready to leave with Li Gang in a hurry, but Mu Zi thought again, since he came, he had to figure out what it was, if it was a bad person doing bad things, there was no reason not to report it.

Considering the risk, he asked Li Gang to run away and hide the pocket, and he went to pick up two wooden sticks, one for each person.

The two approached the broken door of the turret, which was lit by fire, and the turret smelled of roast sheep.

It is estimated that it is a few sheep thieves, and a woman who got it from nowhere, is happy here, and is simply a bandit.

Knowing the situation inside, he didn't want to cause trouble, so he gave Li Gang a look and wanted to walk away, but he was discovered by the people inside.

Someone inside shouted, "Who?" What are you doing here? ”

"Don't do anything, pass by." He replied.

When he saw that there were four angry men in the turret, he guessed that they were not good people, especially the kind of screams of women upstairs, which continued at the moment......

He regretted a little, why was he so impulsive, pig brain, and he didn't want to think about it and broke in.

At this time, the four men in the turret surrounded Yakzi and Li Gang.

"Ah, brethren, do you hear me? Passing by, running to us passing by? Fresh or not? A man raised a sharp knife at the scumbag.

"You're here to die, aren't you?" The man said viciously, "You know what we're doing, right? Now that you have seen it, do you still want to leave if you don't keep your mouth shut? ”

"We just want to find a place to sleep, and I don't know what you're doing here." The man was very vigilant with a wooden stick in his hand, and he did not feel fearful when the matter had come to this.

"Why are you blind? A big live sheep roasting on the fire, can't you see? The man almost growled.

"Keep your mouth clean, don't be so special with us," Li Gang said with raised eyebrows, "I can't tell the difference between opening and closing my mouth, who are you scaring with the dice?" Lao Tzu asked if you have ever interspersed with someone? Don't mind pretending to be a big clove of garlic in front of Lao Tzu. ”

He knew that Li Gang was fighting hard against hard, and the rivers and lakes have always been soft and afraid of hard, hard and horizontal, and horizontal and afraid of dying.

"Ligature, it's all pheasant stuffy drills, you know how to make a bucket of flowers, put away your scoop, don't hang these cubs." He spoke the same code words as the beard he heard when he was a child.