Chapter 23 Section 10 From Guilin to Huaiyuan

Soon, the situation became more turbulent. Refugees from Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Hunan all flocked to Guilin, and all accommodation available was full. The teachers and students of Zhongshan Middle School, the boys live in the Qixingyan cave, and the girls live in the temporary hut.During this period, my father first went to Sichuan to find a school building, and with the help of the local government, he found a Jingning Temple next to Ziliujing in central Sichuan, which could accommodate students to attend classes. Then set foot on the road of escape, but the road became more and more difficult.The teachers and students detained in Guilin formed three teams and set out on foot from Guilin to Liuzhou, Guangxi, and then to Huaiyuan, a well-connected town in Yishan County, Guizhou.After seeing the situation clearly, go to Chongqing.

In Guilin, my father was assisted by the local command to borrow three military trucks to load the school's basic equipment, while my mother took the family to Liuzhou by coach. Uncle took me to sit on the luggage cart, on top of the luggage cage piled to the limit.We have to tie the body with a rope.So as not to be knocked off the car at any time.I remember being "honoured" that they allowed me to ride in the luggage cart instead of the passenger van with the babies.Since my life and death in Hankou, I have had to grow into an adult. I lived in Liuzhou for a few days. The new head of the armored corps stationed here was a graduate of the eighth batch of Huangpu Northeast. They sent my family and the last batch of teachers’ family members (most of them had been sent to Sichuan) to live in Huaiyuan Town.

My mother went to the road in front of the town every day to wait for the walking team from Zhongshan Middle School. My brother also walked with the school team.After traveling for seven hundred and sixty miles and twenty-seven days, the first student appeared.When my mother saw Dong Xiumin (the only son of his father's friend Dong Qizheng) carrying luggage, rags and sandals, approaching her and calling her "Aunt Qi", she couldn't help crying. Among those hundreds of children in their teens, their khaki school uniforms hadn’t been washed for many days, and they hadn’t slept in a bed since they left Xiangxiang, they walked along the road unkempt and disheveled. Among them, she couldn’t recognize her son... …

In that era of suffering, he was bullied by aliens and fled for his life in the flames of war.I had the opportunity to see the magnificence of China's mountains and rivers.Passing through the Yellow River Iron Bridge from Jinpu, from Nanjing to Wuhu, from Wuhu to the Yangtze River to Hankou, from Hankou to Changsha, to Xiangtan and Xiangxiang, you can see the rich land and culture in the paradise of Yongfeng Town.After leaving Xiangxiang with great reluctance, I saw the real Xiangjiang River on the gilded Xianggui Road, crossed the Xiangjiang River to Zhuzhou, Hengyang, walked south, and passed Chenzhou (no wonder I read Qin Shaoyou's "Taking Sha in Nankai Middle School"). line): "Chenjiang is fortunate to have circumvented Chenshan, for whom did she shed Xiaoxiang?", every time I think of it, tears still fill my eyes).I can almost say that I have straddled the territory of Hunan. I recently read that Mao Zedong advocated the independence of Hunan in 1920. It was not all arrogance in that closed era.After traveling from Hunan to Guilin, Guangxi, the fleeing crowd headed for Guizhou on the rugged mountain roads. There were natural dangers everywhere, and they couldn't even see the way back.

Huaiyuan is a beautiful place. Like Yongfeng Town in Xiangxiang, it shines brightly in my memory.There was a river in Huaiyuan that I thought was the clearest river in the world at that time (a tributary of the Yijiang River), which flowed through the mouth of the town. There was a beautiful pavilion there. Small flat-bottomed boats cross the river.What the ferry brought was the vivid world outside. Sun Yat-sen Middle School lived in Huaiyuan for nearly three months and officially resumed classes.