Go to the county for the first time

In the early winter of 1977, at that time, I was less than 12 years old. I was in the fourth grade of Puwangchi Entry in Puwang, Tancheng County as the squad leader.

On a winter morning, the class teacher Xie Guangrong suddenly announced a major news that he wanted some students to sell grass to the county, and announced the list of 10 people. The first of which was me, in order, the deputy class leader Tian Zhonghua, the labor member Li Zaihao, and there was still some, and there was still some, and there was still a good job. Liu Bowen waited for a few male classmates about 2 years older than me, and when we let us go home for breakfast, tell the adults at home, gathered in the classroom after dinner, and took the next day to the city to eat to eat the city the next day. The pancakes set off in the middle of the night.

The dried grass to go to the county town this time is the result of our third grade. At that time, the young teacher Xie Guangrong asked the students to use the spare time to cut the grass in the field and sell money for class fees after drying. I was a good hand to cut grass, but Teacher Xie asked me to be responsible for weighing and recorded the weight of the grass from each classmate. Because I study well, I am a class cadre, and the teacher trusted me in particular. The students who were diligent and frugal were very active. They cut a lot of grass. After repeated drying, they piled up a lot of stacks on campus. However, no one was purchased by dried grass. At that time, the production team's cattle had enough wheat grass and bean straws, and stacked on the rigid field. Dry grass can only be sold to people who raise donkeys at home and have insufficient reserves.

Now that the teacher wants to take us to the county, we are all very excited, because no classmates have been to the county seat of more than 20 miles. The scope of our activities is mainly the fields of home, school, and village. Occasionally go to the commune station to watch open -air movies and rush, or go to a nearby village to watch movies or walk relatives. Essence

From the production team near the school, Teacher Xie borrowed two tablet cars. We installed the car that afternoon. The haystack was almost 2 meters high in the car. slide. After going home for dinner, we quickly ran to the classroom and waited. At that time, the school was not powered on, and the light in the classroom was dim. Ten classmates snuggled in the classroom, talked and laughed, and looked forward to setting off earlier. In order to activate the atmosphere, Liu Bowen imitated the drum book he heard from the market, and hummed loudly: "The people who read the book are worn hard, and the lights are read" The Five Classics ". Running! "The tune is very desolate, and the last word of each singing must be pulled very long. The long and desolate tail sounds are filled with the entire classroom.

At about 4 am, Mr. Xie came to the classroom and led us to the county. The two tablet cars marched one after the other, and the big man Li Zaihao and Liu Bowen were responsible for pulling the car. The left and right sides of each car are helped each of them, and the teacher was commanded in the left front of the rear car. The south of the school is close to Highway 307. This defense highway connecting Xuzhou to Lianyungang was later changed to 310 National Highway. Starting from the east gate of the school, after the highway, the east three miles entered the north -south Yixin Highway (Shandong Yidu to Xinyi, Jiangsu, and a section of National Highway 205). Teacher Xie said that there were 20 miles from the intersection of the two highways. We walked north, Qimingxing was particularly dazzling in the black night sky. From time to time, there were groups of geese flying south. The sound of "Ga, Ga" came from the air, and it seemed to remind people to pay attention to their neat formations.

When the distance was about half of the county, a small village appeared on the west side of the highway, with several rows of cottage houses and a black tile house. Teacher Xie told us that the village was called Yantun, and a local celebrity had lived in the tile house. When he was fighting in martial arts a few years ago, he was killed by the organ and hung on the tree to show the public. Many years later, I heard my mother said that this person should be called Sun Kaixiang. He is a member of the Benquid "Big Union" during the Cultural Revolution of Tancheng County. In the martial arts fighting in 1968, Sun Kaixiang and others were in Lianwu Village, Honghua Commune under Maling Mountain. The rebels were surrounded by "August 18", and a fierce gun battle occurred on both sides. The rebels won, and the 18 corpses of the other party were pulled to the county town and hung on the tree for 3 days.

When it was dawn, there was the music of "Oriental Red", which was the first broadcast of the county's cable radio station. Every morning in the future, we will hear the same music, and the female middle voice that the broadcaster is familiar with: "Tancheng County Broadcasting Station, now starts the first broadcast. "News and Newspaper Abstract" program ... ". Going forward, seeing a high chimney in the eyes of the eyes rushed to the eyes. Teacher Xie said that it was the chimney of the county winery and immediately went to the county. More than twenty minutes later, we arrived at the east gate of the winery. In the ditch on the east side of the highway, many people are fishing. That is the remaining residue after the winery uses sorghum and dried melon. It exudes the scent of wine and is a good pig feed.

At about 7 o'clock, we went to the west side of the Fourth People's Hotel in the State -owned Fourth People's Hotel in Tancheng County, and stopped the grass car. This is the market for grass. Although the journey took three hours, everyone didn't feel tired. There are many people on the street, bustling, but only one of us selling dried grass. On the east side of the straw car, there is a stall selling tofu, a small wooden table, and several small benches scattered around. Teacher Xie asked the tofu to cut a large piece of tofu. It was more than two pounds. After cutting with a knife, put it in a plate, put two tablespoons of free chili sauce, and told us to roll in pancakes. Before the grass was sold, he ate hot tofu that had just been out of the pan, which made us feel particularly surprising. I clearly remember that the tofu is very smooth and tender, and there are a lot of pulp. It is much better than the family made and bought in the village. It should be the legendary paste tofu. It is said that this kind of tofu is sold dark, and the knife is scratched. , Also exuding pulp. Teacher Xie did not eat together. After watching us, he said that he looked at the car and sold grass, so that the students were 5 people and 1 group. They went to the city to take a good stroll and told us not to lose it.

We walked west along the streets of grass, reaching a large crossroads, and walking north, there seemed to be the main street in the north and south of the county. After walking for more than 300 meters, we went to the county's non -staple food store. The store was in Luxi, the main entrance was east, and the crowd was crowded in front of the door. We hurried to see the fun. It turned out that a young man was showing the public, with a card hanging on his chest. It was cut with a hard paper with cigarettes or match boxes. The black brush "beating Zhang Jiyou" was written on it. He held the soundtrack speaker and told him loudly: "My name is Zhang Jiyou, I am 17 years old. I went to the city gate to watch a movie with a few buddies a few days ago. . After a 3 -day study class, I realized that it was wrong to hit people casually. I must resolutely correct it in the future! "A middle -aged man like a cadre next to him, wearing a blue liberation, wearing a red sleeve chapter on his left arm, loudly loudly, loudly louder Renovation: "Say it again!" The two of them kept repeating the above plots, attracting waves of crowd to watch.

After Yiyi reluctant to leave Zhang Jiyou, we came to the northwest side of the Dingzhong intersection, the highest building in the county -Tancheng County Department Store. There are three floors in the building. The first floor mainly operates tobacco, alcohol, tea, and daily department stores; on the second floor is cloth and clothing, shoes and hats; on the third floor is a stylistic supplies and various balls. We stayed in front of the counter every section, mainly full of eyes, and everyone didn't have a penny in their pockets.

On the second floor, I met Aunt Fan Wen. She was very beautiful. Before I was a salesperson in our commune supply and marketing cooperatives, she was the backbone of the Mao Zedong ideological and literary propaganda team. I saw her sitting in a glass hut that was much taller than the counter. On the operating table in front of her, several iron wires connected to each cloth counter respectively. After the counter salesperson was sold, the dual couplet and collected the filled in and received the filled out. Money, clamp it with a metal clip, and slide along the wire, she leaves a piece of couplet and money, clamped the other union order and retrieved change, and then threw it along the wire to attract Come to watch a lot of customers, it is estimated that more people are watching a beautiful Aunt Fan Wen.

After we walked around the department store, it was noon to return to the place where the grass was selling. Beside the grass car, I was looking forward to someone coming to buy grass. In the meantime, there was only one person. When I asked the price, we answered 2 cents a pound. He didn't pay for it, and he left his legs. It was disappointing. At about 2 o'clock, Mr. Xie said that it seems that it is not easy to sell, let's pull it back. It can be seen that his mood is very bad. But because this is the first county journey, we are very happy, although pulling the two cars of grass back is also very difficult.

The first time I went to the county, 45 years ago. Time is like an arrow. From a little young man, in a blink of an eye to the age of the second line. Life is like a dream. Among the small partners who went to the county, the main force of the two cars, Liu Bowen and Li Zai, and left the world very early. Classmate Liu Bowen was a good friend in my 5th grade. In the early spring of 1978, I took me to the county for the second time. His father is a barefoot doctor who understands Chinese medicine. He can judge the symptoms of infants and children by observing the pulse and observation of the tongue coating. Medicine surpasses the doctor of the commune hospital and occasionally earn a little money at home. Liu Bowen had two sisters and two sisters. The family loved him particularly and gave him a dollar to let him go to the county with me. I had no money at the time. After the two arrived at the county, we went to the county people's photo studio, took a 2 -inch photo half -figure photo, and went to the fourth -state hotel restaurant that did not go in when selling grass. With the encouragement of the salesperson, I bought 5 cents and just got out of the out of the case. The pot of the pot was full. We originally wanted to buy 2 bowls of paddrops with a hodgepodge. The result was 3 cents. Of course, the most benefit of me.

After graduating from elementary school, I went to the commune station to study in junior high school. Studying was obviously tense, and I was less and less connected with Liu Bowen and other elementary school students. Soon after he graduated from junior high school, he got married and inherited his father's career. He was a rural doctor. I attended his wedding. After that, we never contacted again. One year of college winter vacation, the family said that Liu Bowen had forgotten the cover at night in the clinic by the highway. At night, the heating stove of coal burning was forgotten. The gas poisoning had occurred. After graduating from junior high school in a good junior high school, Li went to Jianping County, Liaoning for several years. After the resumption, he grew up as a member of the village branch, the village director and the branch secretary. Unfortunately, he got liver cancer. During the serious illness, I commissioned my father to go to the county. The hospital visited him, and his bad news soon came. The early death of the two of them gave me some thoughts on my life, and I realized how important peace and health are. In 45 years, my school location, from the villages, towns and towns, to the county and provincial capitals, and completed the study process from elementary school to university. The work unit has also been transferred from the local city power bureau to the provincial capital and the capital, drifting away from his hometown, and the 17th anniversary of working in Beijing in a blink of an eye. Due to official duties, he has also visited international metropolises such as New York, Tokyo, Moscow and London. But the first time I went to the county seat and what I saw and heard, compared to the first time I went to the provincial capital, to Beijing, and abroad, it made me unforgettable! I often think of Liu Bowen, who sings the scene of a big drum book in the late night classroom. In his mind, Zhang Jiyou, who is often hanging on his chest, often appears, and the monologue of self -reflection over and over again.

In 45 years, our country has developed rapidly and continues to move towards the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and people's travel methods and living standards have undergone tremendous changes. From Beijing to Linyi, Shandong, there are direct planes and high -speed rail. For more than 3 hours, you can return to his hometown of Tancheng, which is basically equivalent to the time when walking to the county. After working all the way, my personal growth and family construction have also achieved good results. The level of family living has long reached a well -off, far exceeding the dream of eating custody grains and paying wages on a monthly basis.

However, the tofu taste of the first time I went to the county made me always unforgettable, and I did not know when the wild goose flying from the south, when did I make a "quack" cry from the winter sky, and the group flew across my hometown?

Author: Hou Pei built a native of Shandong, Shandong. He was born in front of the Third Village in front of Zhecheng, Shandong in 1966. He was admitted to the Shandong Institute of Economics in 1984. He was a graduate student in Shandong University and a professor -level senior accountant. He is currently the general manager of China Electric Power Finance Co., Ltd.

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