1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

The movies "The Garland under the Mountain" and "The Horse Herder" were released almost at the same time at the end of September, on the eve of the National Day. Cheng Xuemin, who had been silent for a whole summer vacation, was once again at the center of public discussion.

In particular, The Wreath at the Foot of the Mountain mainly tells the story of the ninth company stationed at the border.

Among them, Zhao Mengsheng, an officer of the Propaganda Department of a certain PLA unit and the son of a high-ranking official, wanted to be transferred back to the city, especially before the war broke out in the south. Relying on the relationship of his mother Wu Shuang, he was temporarily transferred to the ninth company of a certain unit as deputy instructor with the purpose of indirect transfer. To put it bluntly, he went to the grassroots to gild himself so that there would be a shining point in his file after returning to the city.

The ninth company commander Liang Sanxi had been allowed to go home to visit his family as his wife Yuxiu was about to give birth. However, Zhao Mengsheng was restless and was busy all day long dealing with the transfer issue.

Company commander Liang Sanxi was worried about the work in the company and kept postponing the date of his departure to go home to visit his family. Platoon leader Jin Kailai was very angry about this and bought a train ticket for the company commander and urged him to set off.

However, the ninth company received an order to go to the front line, and Liang Sanxi lost the opportunity to visit his relatives. At the same time, Zhao Mengsheng, the son of a high-ranking official, finally received an order to return to the city, and the entire company of soldiers was shocked.

The company commander Liang Sanxi severely reprimanded Zhao Mengsheng for this shameful act of deserting the battlefield. All the soldiers in the company also called him a cowardly deserter. Under pressure from public opinion, Zhao Mengsheng gritted his teeth and chose to go to the front line.

Zhao Mengsheng's mother Wu Shuang, regardless of the urgency of the military situation, used the special telephone of the front line and asked Commander Lei to transfer Zhao Mengsheng away from the front line. She was immediately strongly condemned and even scolded by Lei.

The 9th Company was responsible for the infiltration mission. In the fierce battle, one comrade after another sacrificed their lives for the country. Commander Lei’s only son "Little BJ" died because of a stink bomb that failed to detonate.

Jin Kailai fought bravely and in his attempt to provide "combat power" to his hungry and thirsty comrades, he accidentally stepped on a landmine and died heroically.

When the battle was nearing its end, Liang Sanxi sacrificed himself to protect Zhao Mengsheng. Zhao Mengsheng was tested in the baptism of blood and fire.

After the war, when he was clearing out his comrades' belongings, he was shocked to find a bill for 620 yuan left by Liang Sanxi asking the family to return it.

The families of the martyrs came to the base one after another. Liang Sanxi's mother and Yuxiu used the pension and the money from selling pigs to pay off the debt that Sanxi had borrowed from his comrades due to family difficulties.

This noble action moved the hearts of his mother Wu Shuang, Commander Lei, Zhao Mengsheng and the soldiers. At the time of departure, Zhao Mengsheng and his comrades, with tears in their eyes, lined up to salute the martyr's family, completing the transformation from a high-ranking official's son who only wanted to return to the city to a brave soldier who stayed in the frontier with full of passion to defend his country.

“Well written!”

The PLA Literature and Art magazine has been fully distributed and put on the shelves today. Yanda University does not need my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo to rush to give her "The Wreath under the Mountain" from her mother to her classmates. The Yanda students who got up early have already bought the latest issue of the PLA Literature and Art magazine from the book stalls and newsstands.

Huang Beijia, who usually likes to read magazines, has already bought a latest magazine. He was really fascinated by it hiding in the dormitory, clapping his hands in admiration from time to time.

"Bejia, you're really in the dormitory? Jiayou and I have been looking for you for a long time!? Hurry up and go to class, you skipped the previous two classes!"

"Also, what's good to write? You've got a new article published, so why are you so sleepless that you even skip class?"

Cha Jianying, who was in a hurry to find Huang Beijia, found the dormitory and discovered that Huang Beijia was actually in the dormitory. He couldn't help but shout out in a hurry.

Hearing Huang Beijia's sudden applause, he scolded with a smile in annoyance.

Huang Beijia was like this in the past. When he came across a good article he liked, he would work day and night like he does now. But he had never thought about doing it like today, even skipping classes?
Previously, Feng Jiayou and her husband published "The Shepherd", "Director Qiao's Taking Office" and "Parental Love", etc., which are all classics and excellent works, but I have never seen Huang Beijia be so obsessed with them!
So I was curious about which famous author published this masterpiece that made these famous talented ladies from the Chinese Department of Yan University so obsessed with it.

"Ah? This... is already past ten o'clock? I, I, I... I've been watching for almost four hours?" Huang Beijia was awakened from his concentrated state by Cha Jianying's shouting. He looked at the time again and saw that it was already past ten o'clock. He immediately lost his composure and started to yell.

"What? You've been reading it for more than four hours? Who published this article?" Cha Jianying was dumbfounded. Who published this article that made Huang Beijia so fascinated that he read it for more than four hours?
That means Huang Beijia started watching it at six in the morning when she got up and went out for a run.

"Whose else could it be?! It belonged to Jiayou and her husband! They just bought it this morning and it was published in the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art!" Huang Beijia exclaimed for a moment, but quickly changed his sitting position and continued to read.

"Really? Jiayou's wife published an article again? This time it was published in the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Magazine. No wonder the People's Literature and Beijing Literature and Art Magazine that I follow and his mother-in-law's October have no new articles published. They were secretly published here!"

When Cha Jianying heard that it was another article published by Feng Jiayou's lover Cheng Xuemin, he thought to himself that it was no wonder.

But then he muttered, "Just now, Jiayou and I came to see you, but she didn't tell me that her Cheng Xuemin published another article!"

"By the way, Beijia, how is the new article? What is it about? I heard that her lover wrote a love article, could it be this?"

"No wonder you even skipped Mr. Huang's class!"

Cha Jianying, Huang Beijia and Feng Jiayou are three talented ladies in the Chinese Department. They are good sisters who can talk about anything. When Feng Jiayou's husband writes an article about love, he will definitely share it with these two good sisters as soon as possible.

Moreover, Feng Jiayou boasted that this love story was about her and her lover Cheng Xuemin, which made both Cha Jianying and Huang Beijia very curious about what it was about.

But I couldn't get anything out of Feng Jiayou's mouth.

Now, could it be that their love story has been published that made Huang Beijia so devoted that she even forgot to go to class?

But Cha Jianying wants to come back, this is not right!
If this is really the love story between Feng Jiayou and her lover, why was it published in the PLA literature and art magazine?

Publishing a love story in a military newspaper or magazine is simply ridiculous.

"What? How could the story of Jiayou and her lover be published here?" Huang Beijia denied it without even looking up, and then added, "It's a war story, and it should be about what happened when her lover went south in the first half of the year."

"Ah? It's about the war in the south? No wonder it was published in the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art!" Cha Jianying suddenly realized what was going on. He then directly reached out to grab the magazine from Huang Beijia's hand and read it, saying, "Let me see it quickly, let me see it quickly!"

"Don't worry, I'm almost done. Wait till I finish, okay?"

"Jianying, don't snatch it! If you snatch it again, I will be angry with you, okay?" Okay!

The two of them were scrambling to watch it together and they both forgot about time. It took at least another five or six hours.

Fortunately, there was a long break during the lunch break at noon, and the students had finished their lunch and returned to their dormitories, which woke them up.

But it also triggered a chain reaction, and other students also started to watch it.

This is why people don't pay much attention to the PLA literature and art, and didn't notice that they published a new journal today, which also published Cheng Xuemin's new work.

Otherwise it wouldn't be like today, where several people took turns discovering a copy of "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" and rushed to read it.

But this situation also broke out during the lunch break, with word of mouth spreading from one person to another, and everyone rushed to the newsstands inside and outside the school, vying to buy today's "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art".

At Yanying Studio, Liang Xiaosheng, who, like Huang Beijia, worked day and night and spent a whole morning reading "The Garland under the Mountain", had already picked up his pen and began to rush to write reviews and submit them to People's Literature, striving to be the first reviewer.

Liang Xiaosheng wrote this: After reading his good friend Cheng Xuemin's "The Wreath under the Mountain", I was overwhelmed with emotion and could not calm down for a long time, so I picked up the pen to write down my own thoughts:

Through the description of a front-line company in the counterattack in the south, the novel focuses on the grassroots commanders and ordinary people in the army. It vividly depicts the life of the army and the war, and creates images of Liang Sanxi, Jin Kailai, Aunt Liang, Han Yuxiu, etc. It is shocking and heart-wrenching, and exaggerates the theme of "Even though he is in a low position, he has not forgotten his worries about the country."

In the real picture presented by Cheng Xuemin, Cheng Xuemin consciously combines military life with social life, reveals the real contradictions and historical pains of the troops, and fully demonstrates the patriotism, heroism and historical roots of contemporary soldiers, which is shocking.

At the same time, the work's praise of the people's broad and profound emotions touches the heart and brings tears to people's eyes. The portrayal of the leaders and soldiers' clear-cut likes and dislikes is tragic and fierce, which makes people awe-inspiring.

In short, this is a bloody battle, this is the harsh and rough real life. Under Cheng Xuemin's oil painting-like brushstrokes, we see solemn life, sacred feelings, noble sentiments, and immortal souls!

Cheng Xuemin said it well in his novel: "The most magnificent gems and the most dazzling colors in the world are all gathered under these towering green mountains."

"The Garland under the Mountain" is refreshing to us because it completely breaks the standard of works prepared according to a conflict-free program. It depicts the life of the troops in a highly realistic way, or even in an unsparing and severe spirit, suggesting the spiritual journey of people before and after the war, and the sharp contradictions in the life of the troops.

And through the division and struggle between two realms, two sentiments, and two pursuits, it passionately praises the lofty revolutionary heroic character and the profound and tenacious noble sentiments of the working people.

The work depicts a series of amiable and respectable heroes, from soldiers, commanders to leaders. Some characters are not given much ink, only a few strokes, but they leave us with a deep and unforgettable impression.

The most fundamental thing should be that the author is highly familiar with and understands the characters he writes about and strives to describe life truthfully with a strict attitude.

Just as Cheng Xuemin expressed in his work, he hoped that this simple story would be closer and closer to the actual life of the troops.

Cheng Xuemin has succeeded in doing this, and as a result the entire work infects us with its authentic charm full of life.

Cheng Xuemin writes heroes who are flesh and blood, have their own personality traits and rich and complex emotions, rather than "perfect people" who are just shells and lifeless.

It describes people according to the real logic of the inevitability and contingency of specific life itself, rather than illustrating people according to some abstract principles or some facial expressions. Therefore, we are almost immediately introduced into the company life described by Cheng Xuemin, and quickly communicate with the characters' emotions, deeply attracted and excited by their fate...

In October magazine, editor-in-chief Liu Xinwu also wrote:

"Before us, the faces of the heroes are as clear as reliefs. The characters become clearer and richer as the war progresses step by step. At the same time, with full passion, a series of distinctive and touching characters are created.

Among them was the company commander Liang Sanxi, a Shandong man from the mountainous area, a heroic company commander who "joined the army despite having sorghum flowers on his head". Like most farm boys, he was hardworking, honest and kind. With his "skinny camel" body, he shouldered the work of the company and the economic pressure caused by the rural bankruptcy in the past ten years.

He is "sincere", "humble" and "tolerant". He loves his company so much, is loyal to his duties, and regards the interests of the motherland above everything else.

In mid-February, Liang Sanxi's leave application was approved. He packed his luggage several times to return to Yimeng Mountain, but put it off several times.

He should have visited his family and reunited with his wife long ago, but faced with his indecisive and absent-minded instructor, he resolutely and consciously stopped mentioning the matter.

He was generous and even considerate to his comrades, but when he learned that Zhao Mengsheng had received a transfer order on the eve of the battle, he burst into a rage: "Get out! Get out of here right now!"

The honest Liang Sanxi suddenly turned into Jin Kailai, cursing him: "Grandma! You can take the transfer order with the red seal and get out, and I can ask the organization to send another instructor! But, you need to raise an army for a thousand days and use it for a moment! Soldier, you must know that you are wearing a military uniform! Now, you are at a crossroads. If you take a step forward, it's fine, but if you take a step back, what are you? There are many words, think about it yourself! Think about it yourself!"

He was thinking of his gray-haired mother in the mountain village and his wife who was about to give birth. However, he shouldered the trust of the motherland and the people. In the fierce war of self-defense and counterattack, he led the way and sacrificed heroically, but left behind a blood-stained debt...

The mother and wife followed the martyr's will, used the pension to pay off their debts, and refused all gifts. Their noble sentiments are awe-inspiring...

Li Qingquan from Yenching Literature, Lu Yao and Jia Aoping from Yanhe Literature, Li Xiaolin from Harvest in Shanghai, Chen Shumin from Yenching University...

After reading "The Wreath under the Mountain" in today's PLA Literature and Art, everyone picked up their pens and wanted to write something to express their empathy and resonance with the article.

Cheng Xuemin, who is secluded at home concentrating on making fishing bait, is currently unaware of all this!

"The Garland under the Mountain" continued to ferment during his retreat and writing, and even led to the popularity of his movie "The Horse Herder".

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