Chapter 16 The four female athletes and female pioneers of Dadongliu Township

On the first day of my new arrival at the Ming Tombs Reservoir construction site, I had just returned from a tour on the dam. I was taking off my straw hat and preparing to drink water. The sound of talking and laughing in the tent next door caused me to look out from the crack of the tent.Over there are three or four painters, facing the portraits of several young girls.They seemed a little uncomfortable, perhaps shy, and kept looking forward with sullen faces, without moving.The painters raised their heads to look at them for a while, teasing them constantly, and then quickly lowered their heads to paint.When I saw those simple and lovely figures, I couldn't help shouting through the gap: "Smile, don't be so sullen!"

They all looked back and smiled at me for a while, and we seemed to know each other well. After painting the portraits for a while, they all walked through our tent one after another.I casually pulled the big girl with short hair and red and black face, and sat on the floor with me.Someone laughed and said: "These girls are amazing. They are the famous four masters in the top ten teams of migrant workers. During the "March 8" soil picking competition, they competed in both the "Jiulan Group" and the "Seven Sisters". It’s over, you write about them!” The girl smiled, "We only came three today. My name is Wu Fengmin, and this is Zhang Huiru..." Zhang Huiru was standing at the table, but now she moved over with a smile and sat on the chair opposite us.She is a child with big eyes, double eyelids, and double braids, with a lively face.Wu Fengmin pointed to a young woman with half-long hair and neat sideburns and said, "This is Shen Xiuzhen. There is another Liu Zhian who didn't come today and went to Beijing to get medicine for her mother." Shen Xiuzhen shyly said Sit down next to us.

In the vast and boiling battlefield of the Ming Tombs, where everyone is fighting bravely and striving to be the first, it is not easy to get the title of "master"!I had no experience in interviewing, so I didn't know where to ask, so I opened my notebook, picked up a pen and asked, "Tell me about your achievements!" Wu Fengmin smiled: "We are all from Dadongliu Township, Changping District, and are members of the Dongguang Society. Dadongliu Township is more than forty miles away from here, and it is a large plain with a flat river. When the harvest is good, We harvest enough food for three years, but we are flooded almost every year. What should we do? Let’s work hard. At the end of last year, under the climax of the national water conservancy, our young members decided to build a water storage and flood control The "Youth Reservoir" was planned to be completed within one month. At that time, the weather was cold and the river was freezing. The villagers were afraid that we young people would not be able to complete the task, so they said: "Let us build a Sanhe reservoir, young, strong, and old together. Let's go!' Do you think we can promise! We said: 'We can do it!' Even the county party committee didn't believe it, we said: 'Let's do it for you!' We young people mustered up our energy and gritted our teeth and went on doing it Yes. The project started on January 5th, and the weather was as cold as minus 22 degrees. We worked for at least ten to sixteen or seventeen hours a day. There were three days of non-stop work in the middle, which was digging in the water. Quicksand, the foundation for building the water barrier. This quicksand is under two feet of water, and the surface of the water is covered with a layer of ice. When we jumped down, our legs were numb from the cold. Although the shift was every two hours, when we came up, our legs felt numb. They were covered with a layer of ice, frozen like a red stick, and their hands were full of cracks, and five fingers could not be stretched straight! But we don't know where the drive came from, there are 109 men and women pioneers In the end, we dug the 'Youth Reservoir' in one month and three days, and opened another canal! The party committee reported to the central government, and the central government awarded us certificates, award flags, and steel mills. , harvesters and combine seeders..."

Zhang Huiru, with a lively face, couldn't help but interjected next to him: "We heard that the Ming Tombs were building a reservoir, and we were so excited that we couldn't sleep. We wanted to come to participate a long time ago. The party committee refused to agree at first, but now we see us Work well, be motivated, and be convinced. They said: 'Go, let you go if you don't ask! '..." Wu Fengmin went on: "We will come on February 22nd. When we come, let us push the horses—that is, bucket carts. Where have we seen this before! The first four people push it once, and it takes only one day to push it." Nine times, I am so anxious! After seven days, we will be able to push twelve to seventeen times, and at a distance of 1,800 meters. Because we are working side by side with the troops, we vowed to catch up Get on them, beat them. We stay up at night, think of ways, find tricks, go to the construction site an hour earlier, clean the car, oil it, and repair the broken car. When we got in the way, the four of us would lift up the car and move forward, or help other people to shirk. From then on, people love to work with us.

"We also came up with the method of a relay race, that is, two people push a cart, a full cart goes up, and an empty cart gets off, and then change back halfway to push. Later, three people push a full cart up, and one person It is quick and labor-saving to push down the air. The comrades in the army saw it, and they also learned from us! "After pushing the wheel horse for a month, I changed jobs again. It is to provide live materials for the army, pick small earthen baskets, and carry large baskets!" Zhang Huiru interjected again with a smile: "This kind of work is just a joke to us. We are building a 'Youth Reservoir' in the village.

All the time, I have exercised!The big basket can carry five, the basket can carry three, and the small earthen basket can carry four, so let’s say it weighs more than five hundred catties.It was raining and slippery that day. Our team leader was a man. He lifted three steps with us, but couldn't lift it. He laughed and said, "It's really good!" The women in Dadongliu Township are incomparable to anyone else! 'The troops all asked us which construction site to go to next time, and they all liked working with us. On the "March 8th" day, we celebrated our own festival with a labor competition. On the construction site, 18 women's groups competed to pick soil. Within two hours, counting earthworks, we beat the "Jiulan Group" and the "Qiu Lan Group". sisters'……"

Wu Fengmin looked at her and smiled, and continued: "From now on, we will push the handcart. This job is more difficult than anything! When we walk, we can't hold it up, and our feet are full of big blisters. , the car overturned, and it turned over four or five times in the first day! The captain said: "Can you do it? Let's pick the soil instead!" As long as the mind is concentrated and the body shakes with the cart, it will be much easier to push. After a week of persistence, you can push a cart full of dirt, not to mention overturning, and you can run fast! We immediately started a relay Race, so that you can run 24 long-distance uphill dams of 1,800 meters in one day.

The team leader looked at us and smiled, and said, "You guys are just doing live and playing!"Give you a title. 'They thought of the 'Four Great King Kong', and they thought of the Four Great Kings, and the Four Great Kings, which were not suitable. Later, the general headquarters said, let's call it the 'Four Great Kings', and they called it off. "In May, a large group of people from the army came. In order to let them live and eat immediately, we put down the trolley again. We didn't eat or sleep for two days and two nights. We were busy setting up tents for them first. The base is on the stove. The army came here for our happiness for thousands of years. They are the backbone of the reservoir construction army. Without their strong support, we will race against the huge flood in the middle of the last month. Can we survive the race? ?

"After setting up the tent and setting up the stove, we went to the water heating station to manage seven large pots. There is no canopy here, the hot sun is basking on the top, and the fire is burning below, it is hot!Heat is a trivial matter, these pots have no lids, and when the wind blows, the pots are full of sand; moreover, there is no firewood to boil water!Let's get over it on our own. While we went out to collect firewood by ourselves, we made pot covers out of mat tents.Drinking water needs to be hygienic. Every time we pour a pot of water, we clean the pot without any sedimentation. In the morning, we supply hot boiled water, and in the afternoon, we supply cold boiled water. It’s so refreshing to drink!Fifteen days later, several large boilers were added to supply the blower fleet.Fifteen men and women of our Dadongliu Township took down fifteen boilers! "

Speaking of this, Wu Fengmin smiled heartily: "We are doing odd jobs now, digging water channels, demolishing houses, and erecting tents, wherever there is heavy work and urgent work, we will go there. Compared with the male workers, the four of us are always ranked first in the public evaluation every day..." Shen Xiuzhen sat on the side and kept smiling all the time without opening her mouth. Only then did she say: "The three of them are all educated, young, around twenty. I am uneducated, and older than them. I just hold back my energy and compare labor..." At this time, Wu Fengmin and Zhang Huiru both rushed to say: "She is no longer illiterate, and she can read a lot of characters. The eight people from our township are all teachers in private schools, and they are still literacy after working." From here, they are mentioned in a random manner. In his spare time, he also studies, eliminates illiteracy, reads newspapers (Ming Tombs Reservoir Newspaper), and washes and mends clothes for migrant workers in the large and small squadrons.

After work, they lived in the houses of ordinary people in the nearby village. They also helped the landlord clean up the house, painted the roof, and took care of the children... While they were talking lively, someone called them from outside the tent. I stood up and held their hands tightly. Make an appointment with them to come back at night when they are free.This conversation made me very excited and excited. For these people who are as solid, simple and full of strength as the earth, if you don’t drill deeper, you can’t get bigger and richer treasures. And my drilling experience, How superficial it is! In the evening, they really came as promised!Under the tents that were opened on all sides, the moon was shining in the sky, and the cool breeze was blowing everywhere. We were first-timers and second-time acquaintances, and our conversation was smoother and more enthusiastic than in the morning.Shen Xiuzhen, who didn't talk much, talked like a river that night.She was married, had two children, and never went out. This time she finally came out to participate in the construction of the reservoir. Not only did she have to convince her mother-in-law, but sometimes she also had to convince herself!In her own words: "She said she didn't want to have a child, but—how could she not? When I went out, the child had a rash, and I thought: go back... think again, go to socialism, our own ten thousand Happy New Year, everyone worked hard, worked hard, worked hard, and I was discouraged? Once I was cruel, I won’t go back!” Speaking of this, she fanned her short hair in front of her forehead, smiled, and said, "The Reservoir News has published this trivial matter!" She kept talking about how she got married at the age of fifteen, and how she cooked for her husband's landowner grandma's family for several years.The Japanese came, how did she work as an underground women's director in this village for two years, because they mobilized everyone to make shoes for the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese searched out the shoe strips, and many people were beaten to death... At this time, everyone pointed at Zhang Huiru Said: "Didn't her grandma be beaten to death by the Japanese for chasing her donkey! Her grandfather and father were also buried alive by the Japanese!" The atmosphere of the conversation suddenly became heavy, but their talk immediately turned from suffering to new life.With the advent of the Communist Party, everything has changed, especially the life of rural women. They all have a history of participating in agricultural cooperatives for more than five years.In the past, women had to hide a hundred paces away when digging a well for fear of breaking Feng Shui.During the drought prevention in the village, women and men dug 420 wells together, including four "No. 38 wells" 14 to 15 feet deep, all of which were dug by women themselves. They also ram with the men, and have their own ram songs: "Raise it high, put it down suddenly, strive for 458, and move towards water conservancy." "Which slider ① is lifted higher, and which slider wears red flowers."...Because of their strength, the stone ram broke two of them! Ask them where their motivation comes from, and their answers are simple and clear: for a better life in the future, for running towards socialism, if you don’t keep moving forward, you can’t achieve "how fast, save money" The "quick" here, when will socialism arrive!Let’s just say that the dam of the Ming Tombs Reservoir is not where everyone keeps piling up soil. This big, high wall-like thing can be raised up at once... There is also a part of our Chairman Mao here. As for labor, when we saw Chairman Mao, we became more motivated. Let me tell you, how long did we work until we saw that the reservoir can generate electricity and irrigate water before leaving! The scope of the conversation that night was very extensive. When talking about the immediate and distant future of their hometown, they were extremely optimistic and excited, and the prospect was very beautiful and vivid.It's a pity that I am not familiar with their vivid language. Not only did I have no time to write notes, but I also didn't care to write them, and now I can't trace them. I feel that if I don't live with them for a long time, no matter how I describe them, I can't write them well.Although I also saw Liu Zhian, one of the four masters who did not come that day, and the four female pioneers in the "Sharp Knife Team" of Dadongliu Township youth: Shang Xuelan, Guo Fengzhen, Zhao Shulan and Li Ruifang; We talked once, and they were all only 19 years old, younger than the four healthy generals, and they won the title of "female vanguard" earlier than the four healthy generals; their deeds were equally touching, and they inspired thousands of people on the entire construction site. Women's enthusiasm for labor.These four strong generals and four leading soldiers can be said to be the women of Dadongliu Township, and they raised two bright red flags high on the Ming Tombs reservoir construction site! ①Sliding shafts are stone rams. I often think: In today’s China, under the leadership of the party, everyone who has been to the Ming Tombs Reservoir, a communist labor university, has learned the most solid and vivid lessons.The eight brave and industrious young women in Dadongliu Township mentioned in this article are outstanding students who have passed the selection test among the 400,000 students of Labor University. They have displayed amazing strength and wisdom in the arduous struggle !What makes us even more happy is that there are more than these outstanding students, they are just two of the 2,685 advanced groups that have won awards!The construction of the Ming Tombs Reservoir has trained many strong builders for New China!