One day, several people came to contract the project, but they were all organized by individuals. If they were allowed to do it, it would violate the regulations that private contractors were not allowed at that time. The factory director negotiated the labor cost with them, and the two sides secretly decided on the construction plan. The red brick material is produced and supplied by our youth, and construction will begin as soon as we get the cement.
More than 100 educated youths saw the hope that they could produce more red bricks and earn more money after completion. Organize male and female educated youth to dig the foundation day and night in three classes. The foundation of the chimney must be 40m high and10m deep. In March in the northeast, the frozen soil is two meters thick, and the male educated youth turns to pick the soil and the female educated youth carries it. In deep places, put scaffolding on your shoulders to raise your hand. The contracted masters build walls, and we work as coolies, picking bricks with mud, which is very lively. After months of hard work, the big chimney has been erected. The main smoke exhaust passage of brick kiln was also built in half, and the leaders killed pigs to cheer for our educated youth.
I don't know why it was the big chimney or someone secretly reported it. Suddenly, two jeeps came one morning, and several people got off and went to the office. Later, they called the contractor, and later found several contractors. They were taken away together, and everyone who followed them ran away.
Later, I learned that this was a black contractor at that time and there was no approval from any relevant department. This broke the rest of the technical work, and no one did it. We educated youths are all under the age of 20.
The director immediately reported to the commune, and the secretary of the commune mobilized everyone to find a way. Finally, it was decided that our educated youth would form a bricklayer's class, and under the guidance of the master, we would study while constructing, and then go to the factory to find the technical strength of our parents to measure and draw on the spot. After months of hard work, the brick kiln was finally built before winter.
The day when the brick kiln was lit, it was very lively. On the 40-meter-high chimney, the words "Great achievements have been made in a vast world" are written. We killed several more pigs to celebrate dinner, and we ate meat and drank happily. Someone suggested singing the song "We young people have a fiery heart". I still remember it so clearly today. Sweet and sour.
The most unforgettable thing is that it is ridiculous to think of it. After we stayed, we went for a walk in the field and took green wheat seedlings as leeks. Jianguo also picked one and put it in his mouth. He also said it was tasteless. We thought we'd wrap jiaozi after cutting. It's ridiculous in retrospect. I really know nothing about nature and vast fields. Deeply understand the wisdom of the chairman and the necessity of going to the countryside to exercise.
I am an educated youth in Hunan, and I have been back to the city for 42 years. The most unforgettable thing is being a substitute teacher.
One day in mid-August, 1972, the headmaster of Yangjiawan Central School in Jinbin Commune, Chenxi County, Hunan Province found my home and asked me to teach physical chemistry in middle school, which made me very confused. I haven't participated in teacher training, how can I be found out? He explained that it was recommended by the district middle school leaders. I admit that I got good grades at school, and the teacher likes to impress me. I thought teaching was better than doing farm work, so I agreed at once.
On September 1, the school officially started, and the teacher arrived a few days in advance to prepare for class. I teach junior high school seniors. There is only one class in township middle schools, with about 40 students, both male and female. The older one is my age (19), and the younger one 14. At that time, during the Cultural Revolution, the class was very noisy, and the classroom discipline was even more chaotic when I saw a child teacher in class.
I have my own method, teaching by presenting myself, and linking the benefits of learning with practice. For example, when I was studying physics, I taught my classmates to install daily lighting circuits, so I could repair the electrical switches and lamp holders at home when I got home. Make a small horn with enameled wire and magnet, and you can listen to songs. Students are energetic and eager to learn in class.
In teaching, I found that the only girl who failed to repeat the grade was withdrawn and inferior. She doesn't have any stationery at all. When doing exercises, she borrowed them from her deskmate. I bought her a ruler, a triangle and compasses to encourage her to study hard.
At the end of 1972, the whole class took the county unified examination, and 85% of the students were admitted to County No.1 Middle School. She thanked me very much.
That year, I was 19 years old and she was 16 years old. She is like a blooming camellia.
Five years later, because of work, we met. She has changed a lot. She is slim and beautiful, and her whole body smells of youth.
Because we know each other, we are very close, and we are all old enough to fall in love. Usually they flirt with each other and naturally become lovers.
At the end of 1978, the educated youth began to return to the city. I hired people to work in the city, and she came back to the city with me after eight years. Although we encounter many difficulties, our hearts are always closely linked. After years of hard work, we got married in May 1983.
That year, I was 30 years old and she was 27 years old. She is a blooming camellia, fragrant and bright, and the stamen contains delicious sweet juice.
I worked in a youth center for a year and a half. Because of a certain policy, I am not an intellectual youth, but a small collective youth who has participated in agricultural production and labor.
My youth point is located between two forest farms, more than 20 miles away from our farm and another forest farm 10. Although it was not far from home, due to strict discipline at that time, there were no special circumstances that prevented me from going home.
At that time, the life of Youth Spot was very difficult, with heavy work and poor food, but we didn't complain at all. Youth spots with less than 20 people are full of laughter every day.
Until that day, the quiet life of youth was completely broken by me and one of my classmates.
I remember that day, we were weeding in the radish field. Every time I walk next to this male classmate, he will vomit a "bah" and then say "It's wicked to rob my bank (meaning to rob his girlfriend)". At first, I didn't care. After he scolded me several times, I stopped and asked him, "Who the fuck are you cursing?" Let's be clear. " He told me straight out. That female classmate borrowed some books from me in the past few days, but we really didn't talk about anything else except a few books. I was very angry when I thought about it. Without thinking, I said, "Did she promise to be your girlfriend? What you said today really robbed me. What can you do to me? " He listened to my words and reached out and punched me. I just held it in my hand. Then I rushed up and punched and kicked him with blood all over my face. At this time, the captain came and grabbed me and said, "Well, forget it, don't make a fuss." Just then, the young squad leader and militia captain came with a bumper harvest of 50. The classmate who was knocked down by me saw the monitor coming and said to the monitor, "Master, Wang started hitting me." At that time, Master X and the militia captain had finished drinking. It was a slap in the face when he grabbed my coat collar and waved. I was very angry at that time and was slapped by the foreman. My anger flared up. I grabbed the foreman's hair and punched him in the face, and then he sat down on the ground. Then he shouted to the militia captain sitting on the bumper harvest 50: "militia captain, this boy dares to hit me, tie him up quickly." The militia still considered that our two families were related by blood, and our captain whispered to me behind him, "Run, don't come back tonight, once you are taken back to the ground, you will definitely be cleaned up." After listening to the captain's words, I ran away, almost in one breath, and returned to the youth spot the next morning. Only when I returned to the youth point did I know that the militia captain returned to the forest farm that night, and my classmates who fought with me followed him. Last August, our classmates got together, and the classmates who fought with me said to me, "X, you are really cruel. You really dare to fight. " I smiled and said to him, "I don't want to talk about the past. If you feel wronged, I'll let you beat me out. " We smiled at each other, but then we remembered the female classmate, who had left this noisy world.
The most unforgettable thing about going to the countryside is the first Spring Festival in the Corps.
1In May, 970, we came to the 43rd Regiment of the 5th Division of Inner Mongolia Production and Construction Corps from Tianjin. At the end of 1970, we ushered in the first Spring Festival after arriving in the Corps, and also the first Spring Festival we spent outside after leaving home, the Spring Festival of a big family and an unforgettable Spring Festival.
Our regiment is located in Xilin Gol prairie, with a vast territory, few people and inconvenient transportation. Because it was the first Spring Festival, the regiment and the company attached great importance to it. Afraid that the soldiers would be homesick, they tried their best to make a good meal and send people to Chifeng, thousands of miles away, to buy new year's goods early.
At that time, our food standard was 15.6 yuan, which was higher than that of the field army by 0.4 yuan. The food standard is 45 kg, 40% flour and rice. To tell the truth, the food in our company is still very good.
On New Year's Eve, in our hometown of Tianjin, we will have a rich New Year's Eve dinner, which can also be called a reunion dinner. At that time, all the soldiers in active service were stationed in Tianjin, and most of the soldiers in the company were from Tianjin, so everything was carried out in accordance with the habits of our hometown.
At noon that day, the soldiers lined up and came to the canteen early. After everyone arrived, the chef began to serve. I saw plates of dishes served like magic, and the richness was far beyond our imagination, and everyone was dumbfounded. A class has a big round table, and everyone stands around it. There are more than a dozen dishes at each table, and all kinds of chicken, duck and fish are available. It can be seen that Lian Li "took great pains" for this New Year's Eve dinner.
At that time, our country was still in a difficult period, and the living standards of the people throughout the country were not too high. Even in a big city like Tianjin, people's lives are still arranged according to the standard of "saving and making revolution". The standard of Chinese New Year is nothing more than cooking fish, stewing meat and wrapping jiaozi. To say that chicken, duck and fish are all ready, the average family still can't do it, which gives me the feeling that the table is richer than at home.
When all the dishes were served, even the leaders gave a New Year message first. I can't remember exactly what I said. I just wish you a happy new year, but everyone's attention is not here. They have moved to that table of delicious food. They listened to the leader's speech, and their eyes swept around the dinner table like radar. Even the leaders have already seen everyone's thoughts. Fortunately, the speech was not too long. With the sound of "dinner", everyone's chopsticks went to the target they had already aimed at.
Nothing is more enjoyable than a hearty meal. After all, "food is the most important thing for the people". Eating well is basic, and eating well is enjoyment. The soldiers ate a lot, ate a lot and laughed heartily. Let's hold a bowl to celebrate the first Spring Festival of our Corps!
"I miss my family more during the festive season". New Year's Eve is the hardest night for everyone, and homesickness is certain. Lian Li arranged a New Year's Eve dinner for each class, and each class made an exception and sent a bottle of white wine, including the girls' class. This was our first wine tasting.
I was a military doctor in the company at that time, and I had dinner with the girls in Class Four. The monitor of Class Four is my classmate. Because she is nearly one meter tall, we all call her "big guy".
When the food hit the dormitory, we laid a piece of plastic cloth on the kang, and everyone sat together and drank to the fullest. This time it's all girls, and everyone has no scruples. Because of Chinese New Year and homesickness, we usually open the lid of liquor and pour it one by one. The wine was spicy, and it choked us at the first bite, and then everyone let go. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. On the grassland, be bold and generous.
To borrow a sentence from my comrade-in-arms: "With the old bowl of wine of the Corps, we can overcome any difficulties". Let's drink and sing, and have a good time. Drinking and drinking, I sang a song, I don't know who made it up, which is widely circulated among soldiers and misses my hometown. The lyrics are to the effect that:
"I miss my hometown here for many years.
Looking at it again and again, it's just a vast grassland.
Looking back on the past, I dreamed of a generation and shed tears.
Dear mom, you look forward to and think about this as much as your son.
When can I go back to my lovely hometown,
Quiet night, cold wind, bright moon everywhere. "
This song is full of nostalgia. Think about our first New Year's Eve when we were seventeen or eighteen, on this sparsely populated and snowy grassland, far away from home and relatives. Everyone burst into tears and soon a bottle of wine bottomed out.
The fourth monitor drinks the most. She is an extrovert. She usually likes to talk and laugh, and is generous, so she is also the most open-minded. She really drinks in a big bowl and eats a lot of meat. Seeing her excessive excitement, we thought she had had enough, but she insisted on another bottle, and then another bottle came, which completely made her drink too much. Actually, I know she's homesick. We all miss our relatives in our hometown. I've heard that "it's more worrying to drown your sorrows by drinking" may be this mentality.
After drinking too much, the fourth monitor couldn't stay in the room. She ran around with half a bottle of wine in her hand. We can't stop her. We must help her when she falls. Drinking too much is really scary. Later, I don't know who followed her. Anyway, she later went to the regimental headquarters, and the director of the regimental political department held a special meeting to criticize us, and she became famous.
On the first day of the second day of junior high school in jiaozi, everything was carried out according to the customs of my hometown. On the first day, it was time to eat jiaozi, but it was very troublesome to pack jiaozi in the Corps. How can so many people package jiaozi? Who will?
After discussion, the company leaders finally decided that the cookhouse squad would make stuffing, and each class would take things to the canteen to get stuffing and noodles, and then be assigned to each class to make their own bags, and then go to the cookhouse squad to cook. This is really a good way to brainstorm. Everyone eats jiaozi's buns, and the class that is fast will cook and eat first.
So each class took the pot with stuffing and went back to each class to make noodles. There is no panel in every class, so we take off our own box cover and take turns using it. In that hard environment, people can think of any way to survive.
Bao Jiaozi has no problem with girls. She did it at home, and she was a mistress. Moreover, the quality of jiaozi in girls' classes is quite high. Jiaozi is not only small, stuffed and tightly packed, but also does not like to break when cooked, and it is also fast. So the girl class is the first to eat jiaozi.
The boys' class dare not compliment. Big jiaozi and small jiaozi have thick skin and thin skin. In a word, they put the stuffing in, earn their own living, and it tastes delicious.
Fishing for noodles on the second day of the second year has given the cookhouse squad a difficult problem. When the noodles are rolled halfway, they can't be rolled. The canteen is too cold and frozen. It can be seen how cold it is in winter in Xilin Gol prairie in Inner Mongolia. Even indoors, the temperature is below zero. No wonder our chefs have frostbite on their hands, and when they stretch out, they are as red as five little carrots. It's really hard for them. There are dozens of people in the whole company, so how much suffering it takes to eat noodles. Now I really want to say "hard work!" Our chef. "
This is the first Spring Festival we spent in the Corps, a lively and homesick Spring Festival, a spring festival for a collective family, and a Spring Festival that I will never forget.
The captain rang the bell and told me to go to work.
I am the third educated youth. In the three years of educated youth life, one of my most unforgettable things is that when I first arrived at the production team, I once went to fetch water from a well. Like a local farmer, I came to the well with two buckets on my shoulders. I managed to pump the water up and walk back on my shoulder. Unexpectedly, I didn't walk a few steps. Because of the rain, I twisted my bucket like a silver ring in the Henan opera Chaoyanggou. At this time, a group of villagers surrounded me, and a kind villager wanted to help me up. But I am like a child, wiping my tears and refusing to help me, and I have never been able to get up. As for how I finally came back, it has been more than 50 years, and I can't remember it clearly, but I will never forget the scene where the villagers helped me to draw water and wrestle and cry.
1972 went to the countryside, 1974 enlisted. I and another militia cadre are in charge of political examination. I went to my father's office to check his file. On the first page, I said there was no political problem. On the second page, I said I was missing a brother. I stamped it with the first page of the instruction manual. Nobody saw the second page. In this way, he joined the army in February 65438 +74, took the college entrance examination in 77, and was admitted to Fudan. This is the most unforgettable and thrilling event in the history of my educated youth. Later, my father told me that the elder brother who took many turns really disappeared, maybe he was buried in the barren hills, or he became a millionaire in Taiwan Province Province. The problem is that the disappearance is unknown, and joining the army and joining the party will definitely be greatly affected. I was lucky to get away with my political exam. Thanks to the times, thanks to the organization, thanks to Comrade Xiaoping!
The most unforgettable thing is daily life. Draw water in a deep well with a pulley, cook with water in a cauldron, and light with kerosene lamps at night. The hard conditions and environment in the countryside and my first social experience are still in my mind and will never be forgotten.
My most unforgettable thing was shoveling corn fields that year. At five o'clock in the morning, the ground lined up in turn. At the call of the captain, about 50 people in the village took part in the shovel work. It was a big fight, and it was the last time, and then it was burned. Somehow, I shoveled quickly that day, and the corn stalks were quickly blocked. It was hard to do, but everyone didn't fall behind and rushed to the farm. The captain said to go home for dinner and start work at eight o'clock. We went back to the educated youth point for dinner. Before we finished eating, we heard the captain shouting loudly in the village camp, and they all went back to the cornfield to shovel the autumn grain. So more than 50 people stood in their original positions on the runway like athletes. What does the captain say to eat in autumn? Shovel all the corn seedlings, the most serious ones are seventeen or twenty-three. At this time, everyone began to line up. One row of female students is seventeen, and the next row is twenty-three. It's me. The captain said that everyone picked up shovels from beginning to end. All fifty people picked up the seedlings and carried them to the fields. I think it is really old. My heart is uneven. The reason was that the shovel was blocked immediately, and the blocked old farmer said that I didn't hate him either, which was my bad luck. I wouldn't be so ugly if I hadn't carefully shoveled the bean sprouts off the corn stalk. Somehow I'm in a particularly good mood and I'm not flustered at all. The female classmate went to her father's factory in Qinghai province soon and died of lung cancer last year.