The eight-year educated youth period from 1970 to Hainan Corps is an unforgettable memory for me and other partners in the process of growing up. In the ups and downs of that long river of youth, there are lush confusion, decadent despair, stumbling, honing thinking and drifting with the flow; Although there are no stormy waves in the sea, there are also many splashes on the river stones; Don't say you don't regret it, you can't be ungrateful; Don't forget the lost first love, let alone the humble suffering. Some of the most precious youth we started as teenagers drifted away in this river, but we couldn't find it or get it back. What we carved with blood and tears is just a melody of helplessness, simplicity, confusion, sadness and will!
Shenzhen guiren
Finally tired and paralyzed!
Because I sprained my waist in the high jump in junior high school, I ate "training bark and boiling water to white wine" at home for a year, and it seemed better before I went to the countryside. After arriving at the engineering company of the Sixth Division and the Fourth Regiment, I hammered for ten hours every day. In less than half a year, I suddenly got "lumbar muscle strain". I can only sit for about 20 minutes. I can only lie down most of the day, but I can't sleep when I turn over at night. The Sixth Division was stationed in Tunchang, the hinterland of Hainan, and the Fourth Regiment was in Tunchang. The project is connected to the central ravine within the scope of the Fourth Regiment. It's generally two hours' journey from the group hospital, so you can't take a bus for low back pain. "So finished? ! "I'm only 17 and a half years old. How could I? I died in a big flood. How could I! ?
Thanks to the project company, Li Xiuying, the wife of company commander Qian Defu, turned out to be a regular military doctor who was good at acupuncture. Not long ago, she worked as a doctor in the company infirmary with her husband. I have no choice but to be ignorant and fearless. I bravely treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor-every night, she carefully gives me acupuncture points on both sides of my waist with 10 cm long silver, twisting back and forth, and the numbness is unbearable. After half an hour, I felt sweaty. In addition, she deeply stabbed a 15 cm long buried needle in the back of my head and neck. It took 3 or 5 days to twist it out and then stab it. Just like this, I haven't taken any medicine. After a month, I can sit for a long time and sleep with almost no pain. In the next few months, with her careful treatment and the concern of company cadres, squad leaders and everyone, the disease not only recovered, but also did not recur. It has been 50 years now.
I was not idle during the treatment of injuries, especially after I was able to stand up a little. I took the initiative to help the company copy critical articles on the wall newspaper and blackboard newspaper, learn political reading documents and newspapers, and take the initiative to teach everyone to sing revolutionary songs or revolutionary model operas in the morning light after "asking for instructions" and in the dim electric light after "reporting late". At that time, I was so simple and eager to do everything well. I knew I would work hard sincerely to be the "screw" of the revolution, learn from the old military workers and show the elegance of the educated youth.
Thank you, Dr. Li Xiuying. He is the first noble person I met in a strange society. I walked thousands of miles and lived alone on an island! Fortunately, during my eight years of work, most of the people I met were good people like Dr. Li Xiuying. At that time, the loyalty and kindness of middle-aged military workers and their families were the warmth and light of human nature in the darkness of youth, which lit up the footsteps in my lonely time and made me learn to temper myself calmly and grow bravely in painful days.
(7) Ignorance and Eating Skills
197 1 June, I was unexpectedly recommended by the engineering company to participate in the advanced commendation meeting of the educated youth of the whole group. What impressed me most was not honor, but the ignorance of educated youth and the technical level of "grabbing" rice for me in two or three days.
On the afternoon of the first day of the meeting, all delegates should fill out a form, such as the name, place of origin and family background of "landlord, rich peasant" or "worker, poor peasant". Seeing the date of birth, I boldly asked an educated youth in Beijing whether to fill in the "old calendar" or "new calendar". He doesn't seem to understand. He looked at me strangely and contemptuously and asked, "What old calendar? You don't know when you were born? " And then he ignored me. I am also confused, because I occasionally "enjoy" a boiled egg at home for my birthday since I was a child, but I always only know the "old calendar" that my mother said, but I don't know the date of the new calendar. Finally, I was no longer ashamed to ask people, so I took my first holiday with Zhang, Chen Yun, Huang Meizhi and Xu Liangfen to take photos in Nankun Photo Studio as a souvenir, and made a birthday diary of165438+1October 20, which is still today.
Ignorance of filling in the date of birth didn't affect my special happiness at all-the most gratifying thing about the senior meeting was that I had a spoonful of pork or beef for every meal. At the beginning of that night, I was quite gentle and filled a pot of food myself. But when I wanted to add some food after eating, I found it was gone. At the same time, I see that most people, especially the educated youth, have already entered the slow process of the second pot of dishes with relish. In the evening, I talked with the educated youth in the same room about "not having enough to eat". He taught me how to eat enough, how to "drain" in the soup bucket, how not to fill the first pot of rice too full, how to eat fast, how to fill the second pot, and then enjoy it slowly.
Fortunately, it was clear for a time, and I really had a good time in the next few days! Moreover, the improvement of "skills" in eating this time determines that I will have dinner during the "production conference" or collective festivals in the next eight years, and I will never leave any regrets. Everyone can eat and live, but it takes a lot of survival skills to get close to the "happiness legend".
Zhang Tieming, male, was born on1June 1989 1953+0 1 day in Xiexi River, Guangdong. 1970+0/kloc-0 went to the countryside in June, and spent 8 years in Hainan Sixth Division and Fourth Regiment. June 1978+0 was admitted to the Education Department of South China Normal University.
The above full text and the author's brief introduction at the end of the article were originally published in the book "Entering the Educated Youth Age" edited by Cai Chuande, published on June 20 15, pp. 229-243. Later edited by Li Zhuquan, Hainan Educated Youth-Selected Historical Materials (Volume V), published by Nanfang Publishing House on February 20 17, pp. 245-254. There are supplementary amendments this time.