Chapter 9 Chapter 8 The Image and Story of the Builder

A building is often a book. Standing in front of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, through the surface of the building, we can see a series of images and stories of the builders. I heard that Huai'an is going to build a memorial hall for Zhou Enlai, and many construction units came to ask for it. The Jiangsu Provincial Construction Engineering Company was close to the water and took the lead, and undertook the construction task of the memorial hall. The company's headquarters is in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.Usually, many people are reluctant to go to other places, especially remote places for construction, but this time, all the employees of the company are scrambling. There were several applications, and some people even beat their chests and sighed because they couldn't get the chance to come to Huai'an.

All this is because of the love for Zhou Enlai. Jin Shan hurried back from the construction site of the Palace Hotel in the Hawaiian Islands.He came back with only one purpose, which was to participate in the construction of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall. In the United States, the monthly remuneration of 250 US dollars is certainly a temptation for him who is not yet rich, but in comparison, the construction of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall has a greater attraction. Jin Shanqu counted. Since joining the provincial construction company in 1979, he has participated in nine major construction projects, and the next project will be the tenth.Ten, in our Chinese mind, is a very auspicious and beautiful number, it symbolizes perfection.Jinshan is very happy to place this beautiful figure on the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall.

Jinshan is a decorator.In foreign countries, he has just mastered the new technology of plastic spraying.At present, there are very few people in the whole company who have mastered this new technology.Jin Shan knew that not only did he want to go to the construction site of the memorial hall, but the construction site of the memorial hall also needed him very much. However, Jinshan is not without a little worry about going to the memorial site.During his more than a year in the United States, his wife, who was a temporary worker in a garment factory in Nanjing, lived alone with their young children.Don't want his wife to say too much, Jinshan can fully imagine his wife's hard work and hard work all day long.She has been looking forward to her early return from abroad.Now, he is back, but he is going to another place soon, can his wife agree?

Jinshan underestimated his wife.When he uneasily expressed his thoughts, his wife acted extremely understanding.The wife said: "You go. You don't have to worry about family affairs. Premier Zhou gave everything for the people, not even leaving his ashes. You must build his memorial hall. Don't be sorry for future generations. I'm sorry for the Prime Minister. .” That afternoon, Jinshan and his wife paid their respects to the Meiyuan New Village Memorial Hall with their children.Early the next morning, Jinshan rushed to Huai'an full of energy and without worries. night.Yixin Road, Jiangning County.

Fang Daosheng and Wang Mei walked one after the other.For a long time, they did not speak, only the monotonous and heavy footsteps sounded disturbingly. Fang Daosheng is a construction worker in Jiangsu Provincial Construction Engineering Company, and Wang Mei is a librarian in a library in Jiangning County.Fang Daosheng, who was working at the construction site of the 613 Factory in Jiangning County, often went to the library to borrow books, and the two met and developed a relationship.Just when they were lingering in love and were glued to each other, Fang Daosheng suddenly received an order from the company, asking him to work as a construction worker at the construction site of Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall.Fang Daosheng was ecstatic.When he told Wang Mei the news, Wang Mei was also very happy at first, but soon, her happiness was replaced by the upcoming parting and sadness.

When he reached a crossroad, Fang Daosheng stopped, and Wang Mei also stopped. Wang Mei raised her eyes, looking at Fang Daosheng so tenderly and sadly. "Daosheng, let me ask you for the last time, for me, can you not go to Huai'an?" Fang Daosheng shook his head again and said, "No." Wang Mei said, "You don't love me!" Fang Daosheng was stunned. Wang Mei sobbed. Fang Daosheng's eyes were also red.He said apologetically to Wang Mei: "Wang Mei, no matter what you think of me, and no matter what our relationship will be in the future, Huai'an, I must go!..."

Yang Bingfeng's house was very lively.The sons and daughters and the third generation who were separated to live have all returned.Yang Bingfeng was going to the construction site of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall in Huai'an the next day, and the whole family specially organized a banquet to see him off. During the banquet, the children and grandchildren toasted Yang Bingfeng frequently, and Yang Bingfeng kept toasting and drinking.His face became more rosy, and his expression became more excited. Yang Bingfeng is over 60 years old, with a prosperous life, straightforward temperament, and a carefree state of mind, making him look very healthy, and his voice is loud and powerful.In January 1990, he formally completed the retirement procedures and left the provincial construction company.After returning home, he was unwilling to be idle, and opened a clothing store in the name of his wife. The business was very prosperous and his life was very comfortable.He has worked as a steel bar stakeout worker for many years, and he is very skilled in technology.The nearby construction units heard that he had retired, and they all came to their door and offered him a high salary of 400 to 600 yuan per month to hire him as a technical guide.At this moment, the construction of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall started, and the company leader sent him a message, hoping that he could come to the construction site.As soon as Lao Yang heard that the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall was being built, he immediately resigned his employment, temporarily closed the store, and readily agreed to go to the memorial hall construction site.After the sons and daughters knew his decision, they were also very supportive, and they rushed to take their mother home to relieve their father's worries.

Yang Bingfeng was already slightly drunk, but he still spoke very clearly. "In my lifetime, I can participate in the construction of the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall. For the people, he has worked hard all his life. He was frugal during his lifetime, and he had no inheritance after death, even no descendants. He is also so approachable. As a dignified prime minister, he has no airs of being an official. When the Xingtai earthquake happened, the prime minister went to condolences to the victims. The victims handed him a bowl of water, and he drank it clean, regardless of whether it was dirty or not. This is what it means to share weal and woe with the people, and this is the real communist. When I go to Huai’an this time, I must build a good memorial hall Yes. Now some cadres should use Premier Zhou as a mirror to check themselves!"

Yang Bingfeng hugged the little grandson sitting next to him into his arms.He asked his little grandson, "I'll go to Huai'an to build Grandpa Zhou's memorial hall, okay?" The little grandson said childishly, "Okay." He asked the little grandson again: "What do you want me to bring you when I come back?" The little grandson said, "I want you to take a picture of the memorial, it's so big!" He pointed to the wall calendar. The family couldn't help laughing. On March 5, 1990, the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall officially started construction.

On this day, the weather was fine and the spring breeze was warm.The willow trees in the high place have already burst into patches of light yellow, and the lakeside in the low place is also showing a little bit of new green. Workers from the Liyang County Construction and Installation Company in Jiangsu Province, who are in charge of piling, happily stepped onto the memorial peninsula.They want to be on Premier Zhou's birthday.Lay a solid foundation for the building of the memorial. The spring breeze cracks the stone.The soil on the surface of the memorial peninsula is a kind of grayish white, and there are many criss-crossing holes.Workers strode across it.Gradually, the soil under the feet began to become soft.Suddenly, the person walking in the front uttered a scream, and saw that his body was tilted, and one leg sank into the soil immediately, followed by the other leg sank.In a moment, on the ground, only half of the body and two struggling arms remained.

After all, the peninsula was taken from the local soil and piled up with wet mud.After one winter, even though a layer of hard calluses had formed on the surface, the bottom was still like a swamp, and people could not stand at all. However, the 22-meter-long concrete piles have been prefabricated long ago, and a large number of construction workers have also arrived at the construction site, so the construction period cannot be delayed. There is no choice but to face the difficulties.The worker who finally climbed out of the swamp and turned into a clay figurine waved his hand: "It's nothing, I just want to experience the feeling of the Prime Minister leading the Red Army across the grass!" The piling adopts the static pressure pile.The pile driver weighs 150 tons.To drive piles, the pile driver must be transported to the site.But even people couldn't leave the scene, so how could such a heavy thing be transported in? The captain spit into the palm of his hand, then rubbed his hands vigorously.He said: "The Prime Minister's generation overthrew the three mountains, I don't believe it, can't we even transport a pile driver?" "Demolition!" The captain gave an order, and the workers started together.They dismantled the pile driver, broke it into pieces, and moved them in one by one. However, even this cannot completely solve the problem.The main parts of the pile driver are still very heavy, and it is still very difficult to transport them.The workers spread wooden sticks and boards on the swamp, and dozens of people pushed, pulled, lifted, and carried them together, trying to make the pile driver move forward inch by inch.Sometimes, the sinking is too deep and it is impossible to lift it, so the pile driver is jacked up again with a jack.Everyone fell down and got up, and became a standard mud monkey.In this way, with a lot of hard work, they insisted on transporting the pile driver to the site. The time required to drive a pile is extremely limited, usually only ten minutes.However, after driving a pile, it takes five, six or even ten hours to move the pile driver. Ten minutes is short and easy for the workers.Ten hours is so difficult and long. A total of 275 piles were drilled in the main hall and the auxiliary hall.The piling took a full three months.During this period, the workers did not know how much sweat they put in!At the end of piling, the workers threw away an average of three pairs of trousers.The trousers were already soiled and torn from being stuck in the mud for a long time. The Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall is different from other general buildings. Zhou Enlai is a great and perfect man in the eyes of hundreds of millions of people.His memorial should be as complete as his character and personality. During construction, every builder dare not have the slightest negligence.They are strict, serious, and put all their energy, all their emotions, and all their sincerity! Yang Bingfeng returned from the spacious and comfortable residence in Hai'an's hometown to the low, dark and damp work shed.After all, he had been away for a while. On the first day of his arrival, he couldn't sleep at all in the first half of the night. The musty, sour, stinky and other indescribable smells in the shed mixed together and pierced his nose.He hastily took out the toilet water and sprayed it in the shed, who would have thought that the smell in the shed would become even weirder.The small iron bed was also too narrow, and it creaked as soon as I turned over.But by the middle of the night, he was soundly asleep.On the one hand, he regained the feeling of the past, on the other hand, he thought that he would have to work tomorrow! Yang Bingfeng's task on the construction site is to be responsible for project quality inspection.He is well aware of his responsibility.Because any flaws in the memorial hall will bring displeasure to future admirers, and at the same time, it will also affect the reputation of the builder himself. Therefore, he must strictly check it.His eyes are bigger than copper bells all day long.He has a straightforward temper and is full of anger. Once he finds a problem, his loud voice will light up immediately, and then, with a tiger's face, he stands aside and watches the workers go back to work without blinking.When the worker has finished the work and passed the acceptance inspection, he will have to teach him a lesson: "Be careful in the future!" In order to ensure the quality of the project, the workers also strive for perfection.They took the initiative to propose that the entire wall should be constructed according to the standard of two percentage points higher than the specified requirements.After a 9-square-meter bottom wall was built, Yang Bingfeng checked it and found that it was only one and a half percentage points higher.As soon as he told the situation, the workers unequivocally pulled down this section of the wall and rebuilt it immediately. Li Changlai is the head of the carpentry team at the construction site.He is forty-four years old, from Shaobo, Jiangdu.That day, as soon as the leader told him to come to the construction site of the memorial hall, he suddenly jumped up from the stool and ran out.The leader followed behind and shouted: "Hey, Lao Li, what do you say?" Li Changlai seemed to suddenly wake up, stopped, turned his head and smiled honestly, and said, "Okay, okay!" The leader also laughed.This honest man, he was so excited. When he came to the construction site of the memorial hall, Li Changlai worked with the workers during the day, and at night he lay down in the shed alone, studying the drawings carefully.As a team leader, only by familiarizing yourself with the drawings and thoroughly understanding the drawings can you better direct the work of the whole team.His education level was low, and some drawings seemed difficult, so he took the initiative to ask the team leader and construction workers for advice.During the construction of the first floor of the memorial hall, due to continuous rain, the tower crane could not be installed in time.If the tower crane is installed before construction, it will certainly affect the progress of the project.Captain Li Longgen was in a panic, his eyes were red, and he kept moving around the house, wanting to curse.At this time, Li Changlai broke into the house wet all over, wearing indistinct and ripped clothes and a pair of cracked shoes.He swallowed the rainwater flowing down his face and into his mouth, and then said to Li Longgen: "There is no need to wait, the project can continue." After that, he turned around and left.Li Longgen blinked inexplicably.A moment later, he rushed out the door.Turning a corner and looking at the construction site, he was stunned.On the construction site, Li Changlai and the carpentry team were uploading steel mold pipes and other materials from the ground to the seven-meter-high frame in the rain.Li Longgen knew that the pile of steel materials weighed dozens of tons in total! This scalper!Li Longgen smiled, smiled and smiled, but tears flowed out uncontrollably. After receiving the company's transfer order, Fang Daosheng resolutely left Jiangning, left his lover in love, and came to the construction site of Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall in Huai'an. Fang Daosheng is only twenty-six years old, and it has only been two years since he graduated from Nanjing Institute of Architecture and Engineering.For a project as big as the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, it is reasonable to say that at least three to four construction workers should be equipped, but the company leader put the heavy burden on his shoulders alone. Faced with the attention and trust of the leader, he didn't say anything else, but silently relieved this burden.There are thousands of large and small drawings used in the construction of the entire memorial hall, which together weigh nearly a hundred catties.If you have to look through the drawings every time you find a piece of data, it is not only inconvenient, but also time-consuming.In order to improve work efficiency and ensure no mistakes, he hid in the office alone at night and memorized data after finishing his work during the day. "Associative memory method", "harmonic memory method"...almost all memory methods have been used by him.Perhaps it was because of his high level of excitement and concentration. In the past, he didn't think his memory was so good, but after arriving at the memorial hall, his mind suddenly became very bright. remember.For a while, he was so fascinated by reciting, he even recited it in his dreams, and even recited it aloud.Several times, I woke up the people who lived with me.In this way, he memorized all the more than 20,000 data on the drawings. Because he is the only construction worker on the construction site, all the points have to be determined by him, and all the lines have to be placed by him. If he does not move others, construction cannot be carried out. Therefore, he has become the busiest one on the construction site.Usually, he seldom walks steadily, but always trots. In less than a year, he has worn out several pairs of Jiefang shoes and sneakers.He only sleeps four or five hours a day, but he is not sleepy at all, but he eats a lot.The bowl he used for eating was a big and deep enamel bowl, which looked scary.He is also very good at eating meat. If he doesn't eat meat for a day, he will feel empty in his stomach, and no matter how much he eats, it won't help.One night, working overtime, an iron nail pierced the sole of the foot.The next day, he went to work as usual with a limp.There was a boil on his leg, and the leader forced him to go to the hospital for treatment.The five yuan surgery fee was paid, but he was afraid of delaying the work on the construction site, so he ran back in a jolt.When he arrived at the construction site, the boil burst and the pus flowed out. He rinsed it with tap water, tied it with a cloth, carried the locator, and got busy again. The four pillars are important parts of the main hall.Each pillar is fifteen meters high, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and it takes four people to hug the bottom.The hipped roof weighing more than 1,300 tons is mainly supported by these four pillars. Qi Kang is most worried about these four pillars.He said many times: If you can build these four pillars according to the requirements, I will feel relieved about the construction of the memorial hall. Fang Daosheng kept Qi Kang's words firmly in his heart. Fang Daosheng paid special attention when casting the four pillars.Careful and cautious when positioning, careful and careful when reviewing. After the four pillars were cast, someone told Fang Daosheng, who was taking a shower, that two of the pillars were in the wrong position, with a deviation of at least 1 meter from left to right.Hearing this, Fang Daosheng was terrified, he didn't take a bath, and he didn't care about watching the live broadcast of the Asian Games opening ceremony on TV. He ran to the construction site with his upper body naked and wet underpants, carrying the equipment on his shoulders.Not to mention that the pillars deviated by one meter, even if they deviated by five centimeters, that would be terrible!However, when he set up the instrument, he measured from left to right, and found that the positions of the four pillars were exactly the same.It turned out that the error mentioned by the worker just now was the visual gap caused by his difficulty in measuring with naked eyes.A heart that jumped out of the throat fell back to its original place.Fang Daosheng broke out in a cold sweat, slumped on the ground, and didn't get up for a long time. On October 12, 1990, the project of the main hall of the memorial hall entered the stage of capping. Roof capping is a critical stage for any building.For memorials, it is even more critical. The structure of the roof is too complicated. The height of the roof is 9 meters, and the slope of the roof is 30 degrees. The entire roof is mainly supported by various cantilever beams and load-bearing beams.The specifications of the beams are different, there are more than 200 beams of different sizes, and they are criss-crossed and intersected.The entire roof is located on four 15-meter-high beams and pillars, and it must be successfully cast in one go, which is extremely difficult to construct. Everyone on the construction site was mobilized, even the purchaser and chief secretary of the cafeteria.Provincial construction leaders, leaders of Huai'an City, and representatives of Party A all came to the scene in person.The quality inspectors of Party A and Party B work together in unity and conduct inspections according to excellent standards.The atmosphere on the construction site was tense and lively. Li Changlai caught a cold in the rain and had a low fever.But he didn't say a word, and calmly led the workers to set up the formwork and tie the steel bars.More than 1,300 tons of concrete were required to cast the entire roof.The tasks of mixing, transporting and pouring mainly fall on the concrete group.In order to ensure the quality of the concrete, they are prepared in strict accordance with the mix ratio.More than 1,300 tons of gravel, yellow sand, and cement, each basket must be weighed and counted.The workers are divided into 12 hours and work in shifts, but as the leader of the concrete team, Qian Hougui has no time to rest.I was really tired, so I curled up in a corner and took a nap.Wake up, get up quickly and do it again.His voice was hoarse.Some beams are too thin, and the steel bars are too dense, and the concrete cannot be poured in at once, so they use their hands to stuff the concrete into the steel bar gaps bit by bit... From 8 a.m. on October 12 to 10 a.m. on October 14, after seventy-four hours of continuous fighting, the firecrackers celebrating the success of the summit were finally blown off.The exhausted workers collapsed in the shed amidst the deafening sound of firecrackers, and slept for fifteen or six hours as soon as they lay down! There are many characters and stories on the construction site. The roof glass of the main building was installed by Shenzhen people, and the landscaping was done by Nanjing Garden Bureau.Shandong people invested in the construction of the auxiliary hall, and Fujian Huian Chongwu Stone Carving Factory contracted the exterior decoration.The workers in the stone carving factory carefully polished Zhou Enlai's famous poem "The Song of the Great River, Turn Your Head..." on the marble with grinding wheels. The dust of the stone fell on them and penetrated into their respiratory tracts, but they were completely unconscious and focused. .It seems that they are not polishing inanimate words, but creating a life with soul and flesh. Everyone's love, everyone's affection, and all the stories are built in every inch of the memorial hall and integrated with the entire memorial hall.