Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 855

Although there were twists and turns in the negotiation this time, it went smoothly on the whole. The superior was very satisfied with getting the oil refining equipment under such favorable conditions. Gao Yuanying completed the task very well this time.

When returning to China, Gao Yuanying personally took Qian Ruzhang to Shanghai.

Gao Yuanying has more experience than Li Hong who negotiated with Qian Xiaobao at the beginning. Li Hong was born in the old society and grew up in the new society, with simple thinking.And Gao Yuanying is a cadre who grew up from the war years and is very experienced in doing things.

On the way to Shanghai, she often chatted with Qian Ruzhang, and the first thing she had to do was to get vaccinated.

"Countless revolutionary martyrs sacrificed their lives and shed their blood in exchange for the liberation of the people and the establishment of a new China. However, the imperialism headed by the United States is not dead, and it imposes an economic blockade on China. We also want to make friends with all countries in the world. Doing business, but someone refuses to allow it!" Gao Yuanying said.

"That's right, that's why my father always scolds the ghosts of the United States at home!" Qian Ruzhang echoed.

"Your father is our sincere good friend and has helped us a lot these years. Although we have made great achievements in construction over the years, there is still a big gap between us and developed countries in the world, especially in terms of people's living standards. "Gao Yuanying continued.

This is the main point of what she said. She hopes that Qian Ruzhang will be prepared for a hard life in advance.

A group of people arrived in Shanghai, and then led by the comrades in charge of reception in Shanghai to rush to Chongming Island by boat.

When Gao Yuanying first set foot on Chongming Island, she said in admiration, "It's not bad, it's like a paradise!"

"We have already made arrangements after receiving instructions from our superiors. Comrade Xiaoqian will provide food and non-staple food rations according to the standards for heavy physical workers. Every month, [-] catties of grain, one catty of oil, and one catty of pork! There are also cloth tickets and other supplies!" Shanghai comrades said.

After hearing these words, Gao Yuanying could only smile wryly at the big fat Qian Ruzhang. It seemed that the comrades in Shanghai didn't fully know Qian Ruzhang's details.Of course, even if they knew the details of Qian Ruzhang, the supply guarantee could only be like this.

Zhang Zhangxing was the only one in the school at Qianjin Farm, and all the teachers and students in the school had gone to do voluntary labor.Chongming Island is actually a large sand dune formed by the accumulation of sediment brought by the Yangtze River. According to the natural law, it should be constantly moving. In order to prevent the sand dune from moving, the embankment must be continuously strengthened. Therefore, the main project of school volunteer work is to strengthen the embankment.

Today I stayed at school because Zhang Lixing had a reception task.

Zhang Lixing received Gao Yuanying and his party on the school playground.

He was a little dumbfounded looking at the fat Qian Ruzhang, and there was no sign of Qian Xiaobao in this fat man. At the age of 15, he weighed over [-] kilos. You may not be able to find such a fat man in Shanghai now!

"Ms. Zhang, let's go and see where you live." Gao Yuanying said with a smile.

Zhang Lixing lives very close to the school, one of a row of single-storey brick dormitory-like houses is Zhang Lixing's residence.

"When I knew he was coming, I separated the kitchen for my daughter, and the two of us lived in the big room." Zhang Lixing said with a smile.

Originally, the combined kitchen and bedroom were only about a dozen square meters, so Zhang Lixing could only fit a small bed one meter wide in the newly separated section of the kitchen.There wasn't much room left in the bedroom except for a big bed.

Even so, the comrades in charge of the reception in Shanghai laughed and said: "Chongming Island is wider than SH City, and a family of seven or eight people may live in such a big place in the city!"

At this time, Qian Ruzhang's eyes were straightened. If calculated according to this population density, wouldn't their villa have to accommodate hundreds of people!
Qian Ruzhang is not completely ignorant, he still knows the basic geographical location.He now has an urge to jump into the sea from Chongming Island and swim northeast to Japan to fight with Chairman Takashima!
Before leaving, Gao Yuanying patted Qian Ruzhang on the shoulder and said, "Comrade Xiaoqian, gold is forged in fire, don't let your father down!"

When only Zhang Lixing and Qian Ruzhang were left in the room, Zhang Lixing looked at his good friend's son and asked, "Is your father doing well now?"

"Of course he's better now, but before he left, he told me about your situation. You should be around fifty now, why are you so old?" Qian Ruzhang asked openly.

Hearing Qian Ruzhang's words, Zhang Lixing smiled awkwardly and did not answer.

At this time, Qian Ruzhang suddenly opened the bag he was carrying and said, "My father also brought you a little gift."

He took out a three-inch photo and a Parker pen from a notebook.

In fact, Qian Xiaobao's original idea was to ask Qian Ruzhang to bring a TV to Zhang Lixing, but Gao Yuanying stopped him.

Although there are TV stations in Shanghai now, the TV reception on Chongming Island will definitely not be good, and ordinary people still don’t have TVs in their homes.
Zhang Lixing looked at Qian Xiaobao in the photo, looking heroic, not much changed from when he broke up in [-].He was originally six or seven years older than Qian Xiaobao, but now it seemed like two generations.

Feeling emotional for a while, Zhang Lixing pulled out the box under the bed and said: "The clothes you brought are put in the box, and I have prepared the bedding for you."

Looking at the two or three shabby clothes in the box, these should be all the clothes in Zhang Li's house.

Zhang Lixing went out and started washing rice for cooking. Today he specially bought two taels of meat for frying a meat dish at night.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, a little girl walked into the yard with a big soil basket. She put the soil basket in the corner and looked up through the window to see the big fat man sitting on the bed in the bedroom in surprise.

Zhang Lixing said with a smile while washing the vegetables: "Zhaoxia, come in, your brother is here!"

Qian Ruzhang looked up at the girl, her slightly scorched hair was combed into two braids, and the elbows of her clothes and the knees of her trousers were patched.

He looked at this thin girl who looked like bean sprouts and didn't know what to say.

Qian Ruzhang took out his last private product from his bag, a piece of chocolate wrapped in tinfoil, handed it to the girl and said, "Here you are!"

The little girl took the chocolate timidly but didn't know how to eat it.

Qian Ruzhang took the chocolate and peeled off a corner of the tinfoil again and handed it to the little girl.

The girl ran out with the chocolate and delivered it to Zhang Lixing's mouth.

"I won't eat it, you should eat it." Zhang Lixing said.

Zhang Lixing did not get married until he was in his 30s after liberation. At that time, it was fashionable to marry a revolutionary cadre in Shanghai, so it was not difficult for Zhang Lixing to get married. But in [-], he divorced again, and soon his parents died one after another. The next father and daughter two people.

Over the years, Zhang Lixing has been transferred from the municipal government to work as a teacher on Chongming Island. The father and daughter depend on each other for life. He has changed from a bookworm to a diligent and thrifty housekeeper.

Zhaoxia only took one bite of chocolate and stopped eating it. She has never eaten such a delicious thing. She wants to save a little bit every day and enjoy it slowly.

Zhang Zhangxing put the small table in the small yard, and three people sat around the table on small benches.

Qian Ruzhang looked at the pieces of meat inside the green vegetables and said, "I will return to HK in a few days and ask my father to send you some more money!"

"Do you want to go back in a few days? They said that you will live here for a few years. It has been arranged for you to go to school here." Zhang Lixing said wonderingly.

Qian Ruzhang put down the bowl, he had no appetite looking at the green vegetables at first, but now he doesn't want to eat at all.

Immortal, capable of doing anything, yet cheating on his son!

At night, Zhang Lixing and Qian Ruzhang were lying on the same bed.Because Qian Ruzhang was too fat, the bed seemed very crowded.

Qian Ruzhang stared at the ceiling with burning eyes.

"Your father has a reason for doing this. He must want you to work hard and exercise. He will pick you up in a year or so. During this time, you have to behave well and not let him down." Zhang Lixing said comfortingly.

Qian Ruzhang didn't speak, he scolded Qian Xiaobao a thousand times in his heart!

This is not to hand over the family business to him, is it because he has no good intentions to get rid of him?

Except for my sister in the whole family, this old thing is not pleasing to anyone.

When he got up the next day, Zhang Lixing added water to the leftovers from the night and boiled them to make porridge.Qian Ruzhang barely drank half a bowl.

Zhang Lixing personally took Qian Ruzhang into the middle school office.

All the teachers had already arrived before self-study.

Zhang Lixing said to a young female teacher: "Teacher Qu, he is the classmate Qian Ruzhang who was told by his superiors. I will hand him over to you now."

The female teacher looked at Qian Ruzhang and was stunned. She had never taught such a big student who was like a hill.

Teacher Qu lowered his head and opened the drawer, took out a stack of textbooks and handed them to Qian Ruzhang, "Learning culture is important, but you must strengthen your ideological study, so that you can become a popular and professional revolutionary pillar!"

Teacher Qu stood up and took Qian Ruzhang out, Zhang Lixing patted him on the shoulder as farewell and left in a hurry.

He is just a primary school teacher now and has to go back to school immediately.

When Mr. Qu pushed open the door of the classroom, the sound of reading "One is not afraid of hardship, the other is not afraid..." in the classroom stopped, and more than 30 children all looked at the door.

Teacher Qu pulled Qian Ruzhang to the front of the blackboard and said, "Students, we have a new student in our class today. In the future, you should help him, encourage him, and let him feel the warmth of spring, okay?"

"Okay!" All the children replied in unison.

Qian Ruzhang had never experienced this before, he didn't know what to do like a fool.

Teacher Qu took him straight to the last row and asked him to sit in an empty seat.

All the students in the class looked back curiously, at his fat body and his clothes, pants and shoes without a single patch.

Some children didn't go to school until they were nine or ten years old, and because of the squatting grades, there were several children in the class who were older than Qian Ruzhang, but among them Qian Ruzhang was as majestic as an elephant!
Qian Ruzhang was not used to others looking at him like this, so he hurriedly lowered his head to look at the textbook in his hand.

In addition to textbooks such as mathematics and Chinese, there are actually two books on basic agricultural knowledge and basic industrial knowledge!

There was inter-class exercises between the two classes, and Qian Ruzhang finished it in a daze.

When school was over, Teacher Qu said: "In the afternoon, all the students bring their tools and go to the embankment to participate in voluntary labor!"

It seems that such things happen often, so there is no need to elaborate at all, and all the students understand.

At noon, Qian Ruzhang went back to Zhang Lixing's house and talked about it. Zhang Lixing said with a smile, "I've prepared the tools for you. There are two earthen baskets at home. Take one for Zhaoxia and one for you."

After eating, Qian Ruzhang gathered at the school with his earthen basket, and at [-]:[-] p.m., all the students of the school lined up to the embankment according to their classes.

Teacher Qu followed the class for a while and said, "Wang Qianjin, start singing!"

A thin and thin classmate walking in the middle of the line shouted: "Sunset Xishan Hongxiafei, get ready to sing!"

"Sunset Xishan Hongxiafei,

Soldiers hit the target and bring the battalion back
......"

More than 30 students sang together tacitly, and after a while, all classes in Qianjin Middle School sang different revolutionary songs.

Qian Ruzhang was not familiar with this song at all, he hummed along with the rhythm with his mouth open.

"Misaula, flying all over the sky, Ying Caixia..." He sang along intermittently.

When the students arrived at the construction site, many people had already started working.

Some students used shovels to shovel soil into the baskets, and Qian Ruzhang and the others carried the soil baskets to the embankment.

Among these students, Qian Ruzhang is tall and strong, but this does not mean that he is the most capable.

He hadn't worked at all since he was a child, so he was already sweating profusely after a while.

With both hands Qian Ruzhang struggled to move the soil basket up the embankment bit by bit, he really couldn't do it anymore.

Suddenly a hand stretched out to hold the basket, Qian Ruzhang turned his head and saw the thin body of the man named Wang Qianjin.

It was much faster for two people to carry the baskets. After pouring the soil on the embankment, Wang Qianjin trotted down the embankment to load the soil, carrying his own baskets, without waiting for Qian Ruzhang.

In this way, every time Wang Qianjin quickly poured out the soil in his basket and then came back to help Qian Ruzhang carry the basket.

The voluntary labor lasted until after four o'clock in the afternoon, and all the students of Qianjin Middle School lined up and returned to school for labor summary.

Teacher Qu stood in front of the classroom and praised Wang Jinjin and his hardworking classmates, and then criticized Qian Ruzhang and others.

The young teacher Qu said emotionally: "Students, each of us will be tired, but when we think of the revolutionary martyrs who charged on the battlefield, don't we feel full of energy?"

Except for Qian Ruzhang, all the students shouted in unison: "Yes!"

Zhang Lixing Zhaoxia and Qian Ruzhang returned home almost at the same time, because they both participated in voluntary labor.

Tonight, Qian Ruzhang had a big appetite and ate three bowls of rice. In the end, he just poured the vegetable soup into the bowl and ate everything.

Although he ate a lot, there was no oil and water, so Qian Ruzhang slept until midnight and was hungry again.He quietly got up and went to the kitchen to look for food. The sound of pots and pans woke up Zhaoxia who was sleeping next to the kitchen.

"Brother, there is still half of my chocolate left, you can eat it." Zhaoxia said.

In the dark night, Qian Ruzhang's face was as hot as fire.

"I'm not hungry anymore." Qian Ruzhang replied.

From then on, Zhang Lixing would do more every night, but Qian Ruzhang never got up no matter how hungry he was.

(End of this chapter)