Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 856
Within half a month, Qian Ruzhang lost more than 120 catties in weight. Two months later, his weight was only [-] catties.

Although I am much thinner, my body is flexible, and I am able to do much more when I am doing voluntary labor.

Looking at Qian Ruzhang's thin face, Zhang Lixing said, "Now you are more and more like your father."

Qian Ruzhang was not happy when he heard Zhang Lixing's words. It has been two months, and it seems that he will not be able to return to HK in a long time. Chongming Island, which can only eat a catty of meat, how ruthless this old guy is!
During National Day and Sunday, you can rest for three days. Zhang Lixing happily took out two yuan and handed it to Qian Ruzhang: "Tomorrow, you can take Zhaoxia to the city and have a good day!"

Qian Ruzhang hadn't been to the city since he came to Shanghai. He had heard Xiao Hong and Xiao Lin Xun tell him about Harbin and Shanghai when he was a child, and this time he could finally go and see for himself.

In the morning, neither of them was in the mood to eat. Anyway, with two dollars, they could go to the city to buy delicious food.

With two yuan in his pocket, Qian Ruzhang looks like a rich man.

After the two of them arrived at the Shanghai pier by boat, Qian Ruzhang originally planned to go to the Bund, but Zhao Xiafei pulled him in one direction.

Qian Ruzhang took out his money and bought two butter popsicles for six cents, and the two of them ate while walking.

But when Zhaoxia walked to the door of a department store, she hesitated to go in.

"What are you afraid of? Tell me what you want to buy!" Qian Ruzhang said.He took Zhaoxia into the department store.

Entering the store, Zhaoxia hid behind Qian Ruzhang and looked at the counter selling radios.

The radio was a big-ticket commodity, and there were very few people watching in front of the counter. Qian Ruzhang saw the salesperson standing behind the counter at a glance.

The saleswoman looks to be about 30 years old, and the clothes are well cut, which brings out her graceful figure and good face.

Zhaoxia also knew how much money she had in her pocket, but it was not enough to buy a radio. Qian Ruzhang asked in bewilderment, "Do you know her?"

Zhaoxia didn't answer, she walked up to the woman timidly and whispered "Mom!"

The woman looked up at the thin Zhaoxia and was stunned for a second, then said in a low but clear voice, "Get lost!"

Zhaoxia turned around and ran out of the store, Qian Ruzhang followed behind in a daze.

After catching up with Zhaoxia, no matter what Qian Ruzhang asked, Zhaoxia didn't say anything except crying.

There was no other way, Qian Ruzhang took Zhaoxia to buy two deep-fried dough sticks with ten cents and two taels of food coupons, each of them had one, and after eating deep-fried dough sticks, Zhaoxia gradually stopped crying.

"I'll take you to another place. Our original house was huge." Zhaoxia said.

Zhaoxia took Qian Ruzhang all the way to an alley in Xingrenli, and stood outside the gate of a Shikumen.

What Qian Ruzhang didn't know was that this was the place where Xiao Hong and Xiao Lin Xun lived. He also lived here when he was just born. This was the house his father Qian Xiaobao bought with thirteen gold bars.

When Qian Xiaobao finally left in [-], he handed over the house to Zhang Lixing, and now there are five families living here.

Then the two ran to the park and the zoo to play, and did not return home until it was getting dark.

Embarrassed, Qian Ruzhang took out the remaining [-] cents and gave it to Zhang Lixing.

"Uncle, how much money do you have a month?" Qian Ruzhang asked.

"More than 30." Zhang Lixing replied awkwardly.

It turned out that when he was working in the municipal government, his rank was relatively high because he participated in the revolution before liberation. He was more than 80 a month, but now he is only more than 30.

"Today Zhaoxia ran into a store and called a woman Mom." Qian Ruzhang continued.

Zhang Lixing's face darkened suddenly, and he didn't say a word.

After dinner in the evening, Zhang Lixing said to Qian Ruzhang seriously: "Now the country emphasizes part-time work and part-study in education, so many people relax their cultural studies. From now on, I will supervise you and Zhaoxia to study every night, no matter how busy you are during the day. Tired, can't sleep before nine o'clock in the evening!"

In the following three years, Qian Ruzhang lived in Zhang Lixing's house on Chongming Island from junior high school to high school, and Qian Xiaobao never even showed up, let alone picked him up to return to HK.

In the past three years, comrades from Shanghai Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation came to the house once a year and sent 500 yuan to Zhang Lixing, which was Qian Ruzhang's living expenses here.

One day, Wang Qianjin, who was thin and thin, found Qian Ruzhang.He and Qian Ruzhang studied together from junior high school to high school, and are now good friends.

"Ruzhang, I have signed up, and I decided to respond to the call to exercise myself in the vast world!" Wang Qianjin said excitedly.

"Are you going to go to the mountains and the countryside? Where are you going?" Qian Ruzhang asked.

"I don't know, I will go wherever the party asks me to go, and I will go wherever it is difficult!" Wang Jinjin replied.

Qian Ruzhang went home and told Zhang Lixing everything about it.

"It seems that your father is determined to keep you here. I judge that going to the mountains and going to the countryside should be common. You'd better write the application immediately and strive for a good attitude." Zhang Lixing said.

Qian Ruzhang has spent more than three years with Zhang Lixing day and night, and the time they have been together is longer than Qian Xiaobao. The two have already developed a father-son relationship.

"Okay, I'll write it now!" Qian Ruzhang said.

One month later, with gongs, drums and colorful flags fluttering in front of Shanghai Railway Station, more than 1000 educated youths with big red flowers on their chests took their luggage and set foot on the train going north.

Zhang Lixing asked for leave on purpose and took Zhaoxia to see Qian Ruzhang off.

"Pay attention to your health, write to me immediately if you need anything, I'll buy it and send it to you!" Zhang Lixing instructed through the car window.

All the windows were crowded with people, and the hands inside and outside the windows were tightly held together.

The train shook for a while and then started slowly. The people who came to see him off under the window still refused to let go, and they followed the train and began to trot.

Several girls in the carriage burst into tears.Several weak-willed male students also cried.

Infected by them, Qian Ruzhang put his upper body out of the car window and waved his hands vigorously to bid farewell to Zhang Lixing and Zhaoxia who were still trotting after the train!
Qian Ruzhang took the train for several days and was finally pulled by a truck to the Corps company station.He was dumbfounded looking at the endless crop fields and the adobe houses where he lived.

Zhang Lixing was very happy when he heard that Qian Ruzhang was going to the Northeast. He felt that going to the Northeast was better than going to other places. The more important reason was that he was also Qian Xiaobao’s hometown there, so Qian Ruzhang should go and see it!

"Ruzhang, this is really a vast world!" Wang Qianjin said excitedly.

Since Qian Ruzhang met him, Wang Jinjin has always been a good student who strives for progress, studies hard and works hard.

In the evening, a dozen young intellectuals who came here from all over the world began to lie on the kang and talk about the mountains after introducing themselves.

"The weather is not cold now, so why do we still burn the kang?" Zhao Jianguo, the class leader from the capital, asked.

The dozen or so people in their room are the comrades in the fourth company of the [-] Regiment of the [-]th Division of HLJ Agricultural Reclamation.And Zhao Jianguo is the monitor of this class.

Liang Xiangdong, who came from Harbin, is a Northeast native who naturally knows the reason.

"Even in summer, the kang should be burned frequently, otherwise there will be moisture." Liang Xiangdong explained.

Wang Yuanchao from Jiangsu suddenly asked: "Qian Ruzhang, I heard that you came back from overseas to participate in the construction of the motherland. Tell us what foreign countries are like!"

Wang Jinjin, who was lying on the kang, suddenly coughed twice.

He was warning Qian Ruzhang. When he was in Chongming Island, the teacher repeatedly talked to Qian Ruzhang and told him not to promote the capitalist way of life overseas!

Everyone in the room was interested in Wang Yuanchao's question, so everyone in the room was silently waiting for Qian Ruzhang's answer.

Now that Qian Ruzhang is not around Zhang Lixing and has no restraint, he starts smoking.He knew how to smoke when he was in HK, and he smoked cigars.Now he rolled the tobacco leaves into a big tube with newspaper and was smoking it beautifully.

Hearing Wang Yuanchao's question, Qian Ruzhang replied: "In foreign countries, the poor and the rich are rich, the rich are drunk and drunk, and the poor are sleeping on the streets!"

Everyone in the room nodded frequently, it was exactly as they had imagined.

Dong Nanxia, ​​who is also from the capital, showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.His father was a senior cadre in the capital. Dong Nanxia once watched an internal movie in the small auditorium of the government office. He was shocked by the foreign way of life.

But judging from Qian Ruzhang's answer just now, this kid is very cunning.

The raindrops hit the thatched roof with a swishing sound, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and it didn't stop for several hours.

"Assemble! Assembly!"

Shouts came from outside.

Everyone in the room got up and hurriedly put on clothes.

The company commander and instructor were already drenched in the rain.

"All squads gather and rush to the embankment to plug the gap!" The company commander shouted.

Most of the Corps' cultivated land is waterlogged and low-lying land, which is cultivated land formed after reclamation and pumping.Now the wheat has been harvested, and other crops are still in the field. If the flood floods into the cultivated land, all the crops will be destroyed.

Hundreds of people walked several kilometers through the mud in the heavy rain before reaching the breach site.Only then did Qian Ruzhang realize that his shoes had been lost.

But now I can't take care of these, and all the people immediately put into work to dig the soil to plug the gap.

A truck came with a load of cement, and the educated youths hurriedly unloaded the cement and threw the cement bags into the six or seven meter wide gap in the fast-flowing water.

Wang Qianjin suddenly jumped into the gap and shouted, "Throw down the cement and I'll set it up!"

It was much better for someone to pile cement on the bottom than to throw it directly on top. Everyone threw the cement at Wang Qianjin's side one after another.

While Wang Jinjin had to resist the impact of the water flow, he also had to place the heavy cement that had been soaked in water, which was very difficult.

"Go forward, be careful!" Qian Ruzhang shouted.

"Speed ​​up! Speed ​​up!"

Several leaders on the dam urged.

If thousands of acres of land are flooded, the loss of millions of catties of grain is by no means a small problem!

Hearing the shouting, everyone quickened their movements and forgot about Wang Jinjin below!

Bags of cement were thrown down!

After Qian Ruzhang dropped a bag of cement, he was hit by someone behind him and almost fell into the gap.He slipped and fell to the ground.

Seeing the gap gradually closing, Qian Ruzhang jumped down suddenly and frantically scraped away the cement!

"Who is that, what are you going to do?" the instructor asked from above.

If the gap is opened, the flood will flow in again. What kind of behavior is this?It is simply a new trend of the bourgeoisie!

"Qian Ruzhang, what are you doing?" squad leader Zhao Jianguo shouted.

"Wang Qianjin is buried below!" Qian Ruzhang yelled as he pawed at the cement.

Everyone stopped and stared blankly.

A few people had this thought in their minds: "If the gap is blocked like this, millions of catties of grain in thousands of acres of arable land will be preserved, and a hero who sacrificed himself for the sake of the collective will be born. Merit!"

But if Qian Ruzhang opened the gap, the food might be lost, and everything would be over.

Qian Ruzhang below didn't think of this at all. He seemed to be crazy. After a while, his hands were bleeding, and some fingernails had already fallen off.

After opening more than 30 cement bags, Qian Ruzhang finally found Wang Jinjin, who was already unconscious. He lifted Wang Jinjin's body up, and the people above hurriedly lay down on the ground and pulled Wang Jinjin up.

"Take the truck to the hospital immediately!" the company commander shouted.

Closing the gap started again, but fortunately the gap was finally blocked, and thousands of acres of land flooded only the lowest hundreds of acres of land.

All the people lay directly on the mud as if their bones had been removed.

A few days later, news came that Wang Jinjin had been sent to Peide's Normal Hospital due to thoracic hemorrhage, and his life was finally saved.

Harvesting corn, harvesting rice, harvesting potatoes, harvesting cabbage, autumn harvest has been busy for more than two months.Qian Ruzhang has been participating in various labors since he returned to the mainland, and he has been tempered for a long time.

In the first year of Chinese New Year, all the educated youths did not go home according to regulations, and in the second winter all the educated youths wrote a leave report to go home for the New Year.

Many people write about themselves as miserable, their parents are bedridden, and their brothers and sisters are helpless, but how can these be hidden from the discerning organization?
In the end, only a few people's reports of returning home for the New Year were approved.

The report of Qian Ruzhang’s four people in his class was approved. The class monitors Zhao Jianguo, Dong Nanxia, ​​Qian Ruzhang and Liang Xiangdong were allowed to go home for the New Year. Since Liang Xiangdong’s family is from Harbin, the instructor ordered him to stay at home for only fifteen days. .

The closer it is to go home, the more burning in my heart.Qian Ruzhang wanted to prepare something for Zhang Lixing and Zhaoxia, but there was nothing.I only have the 30 yuan I have accumulated for more than a year.

You can't carry a pine tree back to Shanghai, can you?
Two days before the date, squad leader Zhao Jianguo quietly found Qian Ruzhang.

"Ruzhang, I think you are the best friend this year! I planned an important action the night before departure, and there are already people who want to participate. Do you want to do it?" Zhao Jianguo asked.

"What action?" Qian Ruzhang asked.

Zhao Jianguo put his arms around Qian Ruzhang's shoulders and said in a low voice: "How can I go home this time without a meeting ceremony? I have been fighting against the sky and the earth for more than a year in the vast world, and there is no result in the battle. Go back and let the family and neighbors see it." What a shame."

"Squad leader, you don't need to say anything, just give me a gun!" Qian Ruzhang said.

"I have been observing for a long time. The company commander's house is relatively remote. The vegetable cellar is in the yard. There must be good things in it. Do you want to do it?" Zhao Jianguo asked with bright eyes.

"Do it! I, Qian Ruzhang, will never back down on the road of revolution!" Qian Ruzhang replied firmly.

Zhao Jianguo held Qian Ruzhang's hands tightly and said, "Ruzhang, I knew you were a good comrade who bravely shouldered the burden of revolution!"

(End of this chapter)