Chapter 5 third chapter

Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province is famous for its typical.When interviewing Wu Yuhui, director of publicity of the city, Minister Wu mentioned Zhangzhou's scenic spots, historic sites and famous specialties with some pride, so the author knew that Zhangzhou's narcissus is famous all over the world.And Longhai City is the birthplace of the model opera "Ode to the Longjiang River".From this, Minister Wu talked about Zhangzhou's contribution to the construction of spiritual civilization. He said that spiritual civilization is a new title only after the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee, but it did not come out of thin air. It has a long historical root. Scattered all over the motherland, they have nurtured generations of Chinese people in different time periods and with different flowers and spiritual fruits.For example, Gu Wenchang, a good cadre like Jiao Yulu, appeared in Zhangzhou in the 1950s, "Ode to the Dragon River" appeared in the 1960s, the Chinese women's volleyball team went from Zhangzhou to the world in the 1970s, and 315 and 110 emerged in the 1990s. These four spirits are Gu Wenchang's entrepreneurial spirit, Longjiang's spirit of taking care of the overall situation, the Chinese women's volleyball team's fighting spirit and Zhangzhou 110 service spirit, and integrate it with the Zhangzhou spirit of unity and pioneering, realistic innovation, hard work, and daring to strive for first-class , making it an internal driving force to encourage the people of Zhangzhou to build Zhangzhou and prosper Zhangzhou...

Wu Yuhui's words inspired me a lot.The tree of China's spiritual civilization construction is not groundless, it has a long historical root and a long ideological and cultural foundation, and it is also a strange phenomenon that occurred in China at the end of the 20th century.Inspired by this, the author approached the big tree with a sense of root-seeking, to explore its long and deep historical roots... Gu Wenchang (October 1915-January 1981), formerly known as Cheng Shuan, was born in Guojiazhuang, Shibanyan Township, Lin County, Henan Province.When he was a child, he fled famine and begged for money. When he grew up, he became a long-term worker and learned how to hit rocks. In March 1943, he joined the Communist Party of China and served as the mayor and secretary of the district committee. In January 1949, he went south with the army. On May 12, 1950, when Dongshan was liberated, Gu Wenchang served as the Secretary of the Working Committee of the First District of Dongshan County. Later, he successively served as the Organization Director of the 21st Committee of Dongshan County, the county magistrate, the secretary of the county party committee, the deputy director of the Forestry Department of Fujian Province, and the deputy director of the Standing Committee of Longxi District. Director, Deputy Commissioner of Longxi Administrative Office. Gu Wenchang died of illness in Zhangzhou on January 30, 1981. July 15, 1987.Gu Wenchang's ashes were buried in Chishan Forest Farm, Dongshan County. In 1991, according to Gu Wenchang's performance in his life, the provincial and municipal committees issued a call to learn from Comrade Gu Wenchang.

A Communist Party member has been dead for 10 years. Based on his performance in his life, it seems rare that the provinces and cities make a decision to learn from him.However, what is even more rare is that around the Qingming Festival, the local people spontaneously come to the tomb of the Communist Party member, offer flowers, fruits and incense offerings, and kneel down to worship the Communist Party member in the unique way of the Chinese nation. The atheistic Communist Party members sprinkled bits and pieces of their thoughts here, and sent their blessings to Lin Tao behind the tomb.The common people said: Although he is only a county-level cadre here, we worship him as a Bodhisattva. He is a great Bodhisattva who saves suffering!

This person known as the Great Bodhisattva is Comrade Gu Wenchang.I remember that Wang Luobin, the king of western singers, said that a person who only knows how to eat steamed buns can only live for 50 years, but if he spends his life dedicating his life to pursuing noble careers like Beethoven and Mozart, then he will definitely live to 500 or 5000 years. year.I want to dedicate myself to Chinese folk songs for 500 years, and let the Chinese folk songs I collect, organize and create be sung by the world for 500 years!This is Wang Luobin's famous five-hundred-year plan.From this, the author thinks of Gu Wenchang, a person who lives in the hearts of the people, how many years can he live?

On May 12, 1950, Gu Wenchang jumped from a wooden sampan and landed on Dongshan Island, the southernmost tip of Fujian. Dongshan Island is an island of misery.Due to the geographical relationship, it is the closest to Taiwan. The Kuomintang used this place as a distribution center for collecting people's fat and anointing. When they left Taiwan, they exploited this place severely. From 1949 to April 1950, Dongshan, with a population of only 60,000, distributed 43 kinds of funds 53 times.At the same time, another 2,000 people died of smallpox on Dongshan Island, and 1,340 people became beggars.On the eve of the Kuomintang army retreating to Taiwan, 4,520 1,752-year-old men were abducted from here.Tongbo Village, the famous widow's village, is here. In the tragedy that took place that day, 147 young and middle-aged people in the village were taken away.Overnight, the hometown changed dramatically, and all orphans and widows were abandoned.Separated by the strait, hundreds of women who have lost their husbands often come to the beach, facing Taiwan deep in the sea of ​​clouds, burning incense, paper and wine to shed tears of lovesickness.As a result, Tongbo Village is known as the Widow Village.

Dongshan Island is also a poor island.Dongshan Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, and there are winds of force 6 for more than 150 days a year.On the land of 194 square kilometers, there are only 147 mu of trees.The southeast of the island stretches for more than 30 kilometers, covering an area of ​​more than 35,000 mu of sandy beach, which is vast and not a blade of grass grows.The wind is blowing and the sand is flying, and the people's livelihood is bitter and desolate.There are 43 mobile sand dunes raging with the wind on the island. In ten years, 13 villages, more than 1,000 houses and more than 30,000 mu of cultivated land have been swallowed up.Dongshan people worked in the wind and planed food in the sand, and how many people rubbed their eyes.Among the more than 1,600 villagers in Shankou and Hutang villages alone, 400 suffered from rotten eyes, and more than 40 became blind.This is not a place for people to stay, as the elders say.According to statistics at the time of liberation, one-tenth of Dongshan people fled overseas to make a living, and countless went out as beggars.There is a folk song that says: the beach is smooth without grass, the wind and sand are ruthless, the farmhouses are closed, the spring rains come, and the firewood is gone, and the crops are too much to harvest.In summer, the sand burns my feet when I go out, and I smoke 37 when I walk.The autumn and winter wind and sand make it hard to open your eyes, and there is nowhere to pour out your bitterness and hatred...

However, Dongshan Island is an unyielding island.Not long after Gu Wenchang came to the island, the Kuomintang army gathered 13,000 troops and brazenly invaded Dongshan. At the critical moment, the people of Dongshan braved the hail of bullets and guarded their homeland side by side with the soldiers.Chen Jiechun, a villager from Huwei Village, risked his life to transport ammunition; 120 militiamen from Houlin Village cooperated with their subordinate soldiers to break down the ferry with 13 guns and more than a hundred rounds of ammunition; villager Lin Jianbi led the reinforcements to the island and died gloriously; The thigh still insisted on delivering water to the highland defenders; Liu Xing, a woman from Shitan Village, tactfully covered the wounded of our army; farmer Lin Dafu held a kitchen knife and militiaman Lin Zhuosheng grabbed an American machine gun from the enemy... Thanks to the support of the people of Dongshan Island, Dongshan Island Standing in the bloody wind for 36 hours, they finally achieved a complete victory in the defense battle. A total of 3,379 enemies were wiped out, 715 were captured, 3 landing craft were sunk, 2 enemy planes were shot down, a large number of weapons and ammunition were seized, and a new era of defense was created. A glorious example, played a majestic military and civilian symphony.

Facing the suffering Dongshan Island and the unyielding people of Dongshan Island, Gu Wenchang, the county magistrate, said: If you don’t save everyone from suffering, what are the Communists doing here?No matter how bad the natural conditions are, we must build socialism here! In 1954, Gu Wenchang was appointed Secretary of Dongshan County Party Committee. At the meeting of the leading group of the county party committee, Gu Wenchang delivered his inaugural speech and said: Our Dongshan County used to have three major disasters, military disasters, droughts and sand disasters. Now the military disasters are gone, but the wind, sand and drought still threaten the survival of our Dongshan people. If we don't relieve the suffering of the masses, we feel ashamed in our hearts!

As a result, a group of members of the county party committee unified their understanding and embarked on a long journey to subdue the wind and sand and overcome the drought. If we want to control sandstorms, we must find out its ins and outs, explore the wind outlets, and check the sand dunes. Every time we investigate, Gu Wenchang is at the forefront.When thirsty, take a sip of cold water from the marching pot; when hungry, take a sip of hard cold steamed buns.In this way, from Sufeng Mountain to Aojiao Village, from Qinying Mountain to Nanmen Bay, Gu Wenchang traveled all over the 412 hilltops of Dongshan Mountain, recorded the wind force of each tuyere and the detailed position of each sand dune, and drew them on the map. On the road, after returning home, he went to villages and households, had a long talk with old farmers, and quickly formulated a set of plans for controlling sandstorms.

The plan began to be implemented, and thousands of troops moved the sand dunes. However, after two or three years of hard work, there was a gust of wind, and the dust came back again. Try to plant grass and trees, more than 10 kinds of tree species, more than 100,000 seedlings, when the wind blows, I can see the green faded a little bit, hoping to be blown away by the wind again. A large species of agave was activated, but the agave did not grow a tongue, not only did not block the wind and sand, but was buried by the sand. Mobilize soil to press the sand, but the beach area is too large. When will the huge Dongshan Island be able to suppress the sand dunes?

At the end of 1957, a battle of tens of thousands of people building embankments broke out.This is another defense battle for the people of Dongshan Island. There are 30 battlefields in the air outlet area of ​​more than 30 kilometers. Gu Wenchang took part in the battle with the cadres of the government.After more than two months of hard work and hundreds of thousands of labor days, 39 sand-blocking dikes with a height of 2 meters and a width of 10 meters were built, totaling more than 22,000 meters. Some people say that this is another Great Wall built by Dongshan people. Although the Great Wall is 10,000 meters long, it can be seen that Dongshan people are determined to drive away the sand demons.However, in just one year, wind and sand razed it to the ground, and the sand barrier collapsed again. During the 3 years, the Dongshan County Party Committee organized the army and the people of the county to fight against the wind and sand eight times, all of which failed. However, Gu Wenchang, who had been defeated and fought repeatedly, was not discouraged for a day. One day, someone reported that a farmer in Baicheng Village had dug out peat soil that could be used for fire in the sand. Gu Wenchang was overjoyed when he heard the report.He immediately rushed to Baicheng Village, took back a handful of charcoal soil, dried it, and put it into the furnace with his own hands.When the peat soil ignited green smoke and a spark popped up, Gu Wenchang's heart was instantly ignited.He said to everyone, Dongshan was a huge forest in ancient times, and trees can be planted here, many, many trees can be planted! At this time, Wu Zhicheng, a cadre of the county forestry department, aroused his interest: Lin Ri, a farmer from Baicheng Village, went to Xishanyan to sweep graves many years ago. Knowing that the willows were planted unintentionally, the saplings were all alive, and three of them were particularly strong.Gu Wenchang rushed there, looked and looked around, touched and touched the three casuarinas, feeling happy in his heart, these three casuarinas are the future of Dongshan Island, this is a green future, Dongshan Island will definitely be covered by this The green is dyed verdant, like an emerald inlaid on both sides of the strait.He immediately pulled more than 300 cadres who were holding an expanded cadre meeting in the county to visit the site, and let the cadres see the three tall and straight casuarinas, so as to build up their confidence in eradicating sandstorms.Not long after, Gu Wenchang was ecstatic when he learned that Casuarina was successfully planted on the beach in Dianbai County, Guangdong Province. He immediately sent people to visit and learn from it. At the same time, he quickly organized a seed-collecting team of 235 people and sent them to Xiamen, Jinjiang, Guangdong and other places. Collect tree species and report to the Provincial Forestry Department to submit to the National Forestry Department to import casuarina seeds from abroad through diplomatic channels. On March 12, 1958, the Dongshan County Party Committee issued a call to the army and civilians in the county to fight on Bald Mountain, fly to the beach, green the entire island, and build a new Dongshan. Tens of thousands of afforestation troops planted 200,000 casuarinas in a few days .Unexpectedly, a few days later, the north wind blew, and the temperature dropped rapidly. The month-long late spring cold shattered the green dream that had just risen in people's hearts, and only 9 of the 200,000 casuarinas survived. .Many people feel cold, saying that Dongshan people are born with a hard life, and it seems that the wind and sand will be difficult to cure in this life.A farmer in Baicheng Village made a bet: If the beach can be reforested, I would rather somersault to the Xipu County Committee. But Gu Wenchang refused to admit defeat.He said to his fellow villagers: Communists are not afraid of failure.We can grow 9 casuarinas on the beach this time, and next time we can grow 9,000 or 90,000 trees, turning the whole island into a big forest.He made a solemn oath to all the cadres at the county expansion cadre meeting: If you don't subdue the sandstorm, let the sandstorm bury me! Gu Wenchang organized technical personnel to carefully summarize the sand control plan, and worked out: building embankments to stop sand, planting grass to fix sand, and afforestation to prevent sand from both symptoms and root causes. Basked in the sun, looking for a village in the woods.Call on the county to plant 50,100 casuarinas per person. A people's war for a large variety of casuarinas was launched vigorously on Dongshan Island. After a season of hard work, 175 forest belts 150 kilometers long appeared on Dongshan Island, and the green began to stop on the beach. Afterwards, they continued to fight for three consecutive summers. Whenever it rained, it was the silent order of all the cadres and masses of Dongshan Island.After three summers, another 20,000 mu of windbreak forest stands proudly on Dongshan Island. A few years later, the raging wind and sand for so many years was finally stepped on by the people of Dongshan. Dongshan was surrounded by long green dragons, and people began to share the kind gifts of nature. The pearls on both sides of the Dongshan Island Strait began to shine. What Gu Wenchang left to the people of Dongshan Island is not only clear water and blue sky, but also the party spirit and ideological pursuit of a Communist Party member, an ordinary and great soul. On Dongshan Island, more than 4,000 strong men were captured by the Kuomintang. The family members of these strong men amounted to more than 20,000, accounting for one-third of the island's population.In the Mainland, these family members, without exception, have to wear the hat of counter-revolutionary family members on their heads. They will be discriminated against politically, and their children will be implicated, and they will become a heap that will last forever.But among the relatives of these survivors, except for a very few military officers who really dedicated their lives to the Jiang family dynasty, most of them were young men who were taken away. They were nothing but cannon fodder and victims, a group of victims of war.However, in the era of class struggle, everything was cut across the board, and their families were called counter-revolutionary families, or they were said to have overseas ties, so every family was shrouded in a black shadow.They are a group of people who were beaten and registered separately, a group of people living at the bottom.There are many such people on Dongshan Island. Gu Wenchang faced many such people. He has visited these people, such as the famous widow's village.The men were taken away, and these women were left behind. They supported their parents-in-law and raised their children, and experienced all kinds of hardships in the world, but what they left for themselves was only endless thoughts.A woman named Lin Wei. Her husband was captured by the Kuomintang army when he was dragging nets on the coast of Nanyu Island. In desperation, the husband entrusted a tiger head brand flashlight to his wife, which was regarded as reporting the news. The flashlight has been used since then. It has become a part of Lin Wei's life, and no one is allowed to touch this flashlight. She often comes to the beach in the dead of night, and uses the faint flashlight to illuminate the distance, like a beacon light that will never go out, waiting for the return of her relatives.A woman surnamed Wu had a large stone mill in the courtyard. When her husband was at home, she would grind rice cakes with her. She likes to hear the sound of the stone mill snoring. She can hear her husband whispering on the other side of the strait. Nine years have passed, and the stone mill has worn down to an inch of thickness. She is still pushing and pushing...more What moved people was the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law was named Chen Xiangyuan, and the daughter-in-law was named Shen Xinpao.Shen's husband passed away early, and there was only his younger uncle Lin Jinquan in the family. After the uncle was taken away, only the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were left to live a difficult life.Lin Jinquan once asked someone to bring back a letter and more than ten yuan in Taiwan, telling his mother and sister-in-law to come back to reunite with them if they had the opportunity.The old mother said to her daughter-in-law tearfully: Your uncle said he would come back, we can't spend the money, I want to buy a piglet to raise, and kill it when Jin Quan comes back, so I can thank God.The daughter-in-law said it was a good idea, so she picked up a basket, bought a piglet from a nearby fair, and tied red yarn around the pig's neck according to the custom of her hometown.The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law now feel that life has a new meaning, and they have raised the piglet very carefully since then. They hope that the piglet will grow up soon, and when the pig grows up, their relatives will come.However, the little pig has grown up, but Lin Jinquan still has no news.Day after day, year after year, the little pig turned into a big pig, and the big pig turned into an old pig. This pig was too old to walk, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were reluctant to kill it... Gu Wenchang sympathizes with the poorest people in the world from the bottom of his heart. Their misfortune was imposed on them by the Kuomintang reactionaries, and they are innocent.When studying the identities of these people, according to the requirements of the superiors, they should be crowned as the false family members of the enemy, but Gu Wenchang said: Their relatives were tied up and taken away by the Kuomintang reactionaries. This is a military disaster, and their family members are all victims. Or, our Communist Party has come to save them, it is to relieve disasters, not to add disasters.Under his suggestion, the county party committee unified their understanding and boldly changed the name of the family members of the enemy and puppets to the family members of the military disaster. In the whole country, the title of family members of military disasters is probably only used in one area of ​​Dongshan County.However, it is the two words of military disaster that have saved many family members from political discrimination and escaped the attacks of political movements.Not only that, they also receive financial relief, and the widowed and lonely elderly are supported by the state.How lucky are the families of the Dongshan soldiers who were killed by the snow sword and frost knife to the nourishment of the sun and rain. A virtuous government wins the hearts of thousands of people.During the defense of Dongshan, more than 20,000 family members of the victims of the war firmly stood on the side of the Communist Party and withstood severe tests. On a rainy day, a sad woman came to Gu Wenchang's office.Her name is Zeng Fengyan, and she lives in Tongling Town. Her husband, Sha Changzhong, was originally a cadre of the county judicial department, and was transferred to work in Nanjing County a few years ago.However, there are both a 90-year-old grandmother and a disabled mother in her family, and their child is less than one year old. Zeng Fengyan is unable to bear the burden of the family.She cried and begged Gu Wenchang to find a way to transfer her husband back to work in Dongshan.After listening to her story carefully, Gu Wenchang promised to find out the situation as soon as possible and help her solve it.Seeing that she was drenched in the rain, Gu Wenchang knew that she couldn't even afford a long-distance bus due to financial difficulties, so she must have walked dozens of miles, so he took out his own money and asked the correspondent to buy a ticket for the return trip. A ticket to send her back home.Zeng Fengyan burst into tears when she received the ticket from the secretary of the county party committee. As long as the secretary can listen to ordinary people and solve their practical difficulties, why would we dare to spend his money?She said she didn't need Gu Wenchang's money for anything, so she refunded the ticket, and entrusted the conductor at the station to return the money to Secretary Gu.As soon as Gu Wenchang received the call from the conductor, he immediately became anxious.What should a weak woman do if she falls ill at home after walking for dozens of miles?Who will take care of the elderly, weak, sick and disabled?Gu Wenchang, who always pretended to be warm and cold in his heart, immediately sent a messenger to chase after Zeng Fengyan on a bicycle, and asked the messenger to drive Zeng Fengyan home... Regarding the problems reported by Zeng Fengyan, Gu Wenchang asked relevant departments to conduct research on the same day.A week later, the chief of the county's personnel department rushed to Zeng Fengyan's home and told her that she had sent a business transfer letter to Nanjing County. After some time, Zeng Fengyan's husband transferred back. When the family was reunited, the whole family cried.Their old grandmother said in an old voice: They are still cadres educated by Chairman Mao! Gu Wenchang could keep in mind the request of an ordinary peasant woman, but he would ignore the voices from above as long as they violated Dongshan's reality. In 1958, the Great Leap came in.Thousands of catties of rice, thousands of catties of potatoes, big fat pigs, racing yellow cattle... The wind of exaggeration intensified, and the work of Dongshan County fell far behind other counties.What's wrong, Dongshan's pig painting is on the evaluation table, and it's not as big as someone else's pig tail!A county leader came back from the region to make a big fuss. I think it doesn't matter, the pig picture on the table is too big, if there are not so many in the column, it is not empty.Gu Wenchang said, we have to seek truth from facts. At the end of the year, Dongshan County overfulfilled the task of increasing the number of live pigs, and the pig tails on the evaluation table were at the forefront of the region. The wind of steelmaking has blown into Dongshan Island again.The leader of the county party committee asked Gu Wenchang: Secretary Gu, steel is being smelted outside the island, what should we do?Gu Wenchang said: We are short of firewood and iron ore, why don't we try building two stoves first.Try it, it won't work.Large-scale iron and steel smelting was not implemented in Dongshan. The dense planting wind also blows to Dongshan Island.The higher-ups asked to implement 2-inch by 2-inch rice dense planting and sweet potato deep hole dense planting, what should I do?People turned their attention to Gu Wenchang.Gu Wenchang said at the meeting of the leading group of the county party committee: Even if it is done, it must be tested first. If the ventilation problem is solved, it will not be too late. In a paddy field of the Chengying Brigade, the paddy rice planted densely according to the size of 2 inches by 2 inches, within a week, even the roots were rotten. The Chengying Brigade planted sweet potatoes densely in deep holes on an acre of soil. The leaves had just covered the ground, and the insects were infested. A few days later, the vines rotted and the leaves fell, which was a failure. Gu Wenchang attracted cadres to look at the scene, and the cadres who advocated dense planting shook their heads themselves.In this way, Mi Zhifeng did not settle down on Dongshan Island. However, the wind of hunger in 1960 blew into Dongshan Island.Shredded sweet potato and boiled chard, each person is given a bowl of soup that can shine into the sun.20% of the people in Dongshan suffered from edema. The old man's wrinkles were flattened by the edema, his face was radiant, and his expression was weird and terrifying. Gu Wenchang thought of the troubled times in his hometown. In 1942, there was a severe drought in Henan, thousands of miles of barren land, and no crops. His hometown Lin County was the hardest hit area.But that was the old society. Now that there is the leadership of the Communist Party, no one can starve to death in Dongshan! Gu Wenchang and the leaders of the county party committee split up to organize farmers to rush to grow vegetables and solve the food problem.A medical team was also sent to the countryside to take emergency measures to treat patients with edema. Gu Wenchang also suffered from edema. His legs were like two pillars. In addition, he also had stomach and lung problems, which made him suffer a lot.Seeing his uncomfortable appearance, Xiaopan, the correspondent and Lin Muxi, the secretary of the organization department, who went to Huwei Village with him, notified the secretary of the county party committee to issue a certificate and bought him a catty of biscuits. However, Gu Wenchang was determined not to eat it. He said: The masses are starving, how can I eat biscuits... Until the end of the camp, Gu Wenchang did not touch a biscuit.In the most difficult years of life for the masses, the secretary of the county party committee of the Communist Party has always shared weal and woe with the masses, and led 63,000 peasant brothers in Dongshan County to tide over the difficulties safely... Gu Wenchang kept in mind that he was the son of a farmer, and spent his years on Dongshan Island Here, he traveled to every piece of land in the county, and he can name each of the more than 400 production team leaders in the county.The masses came to him for a heart-to-heart talk, and he didn't mind it in the middle of the night, and he never got in the way of the common people.For many years, Gu Wenchang has always worn a patched gray cloth Chinese tunic suit. Because of the age, the color of the clothes has become difficult to identify. It has been dyed into colorful camouflage by the juice of casuarinas and chard, just like the colorful land of Dongshan Island. .His face is thin and thin, just like a stone carving carved on the rock wall of the mountain in his hometown, but this stone carving has been soaked by the wind and rain in the south and exposed to the subtropical sun, and has been dyed bronze.Gu Wenchang has integrated with Dongshan Island. Gu Wenchang has always been strict with self-discipline and lived in poverty all his life, but he has maintained the high integrity of a Communist Party member. Dongshan Island is short of water.Because of the lack of water, Gu Wenchang especially cherishes water. One morning, after Gu Wenchang got up, the correspondent brought a bucket of water to Gu Wenchang's room.Gu Wenchang's lover Shi Yingping took a ladle of water and poured it into the basin. Just as she was about to wash her face, Gu Wenchang stopped her and said: You should go home and wash.Shi Yingping was puzzled and asked why?Gu Wenchang said that this is the county party committee compound, not a home.Shi Yingping said I got it, can you wash it first, I will wash it after you wash it.Gu Wenchang said: That's not okay, because this is the water that the correspondent fetched. This is a kind of treatment, and you have no right to enjoy this kind of treatment.You better go back and wash it. Shi Yingping is also a cadre going south. When she first met Gu Wenchang, she was a district head with an administrative level of 18.His position and level are not lower than him, but since he married Gu Wenchang, he has become a permanent 18th level.Every time it was time for a salary increase, Gu Wenchang would push her down, saying: The country's economy is in trouble, so give up the quota to someone with a lower salary than Lao Shi.This happened several times, and Shi Yingping couldn't figure it out, so Gu Wenchang did her job and asked her to be considerate of the country's difficulties and give up the quota to local cadres.In this way, from 1952 when Shi Yingping assessed wages to 18 grades, to 1984 when all state cadres naturally increased their wages, in 32 years, only one grade of wages increased. Gu Wenchang and Shi Yingping have three children, all placed in their hometown in Henan and raised by Gu Wenchang's younger brothers and sisters. Gu Wenchang's thoughts in those years were all on sand control and planting trees on Dongshan Island, and he rarely cared about family affairs. .However, it takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to grow a person.Children are growing up day by day, and they also need education. What should I do?Seeing that the older child was 12 years old and hadn't gone to school yet, Shi Yingping became anxious and asked Gu Wenchang several times to take the child over to go to school in Dongshan, but Gu Wenchang refused.Gu Wenchang said that we can't do two things at the same time. Both of us are working people. If we pick up the children, it will affect our work.It's a small thing to delay our children, but it's a big thing to delay the work of the whole county. The children should not come. After a while, Shi Yingping couldn't bear the thought that the child would be illiterate if he didn't have any books to read. The child would blame his parents for the rest of his life, so behind Gu Wenchang's back, Shi Yingping secretly asked Gu Wenchang's younger brother to send the three children to Dongshan Island. The children arrived unexpectedly, Gu Wenchang wanted to get angry, but when he saw that the older child was almost as tall as her mother and still looked dazed, Gu Wenchang realized that he had really delayed the child, so he hurriedly took the child away. They settled down.He only asked the public for a dormitory of more than ten square meters for his two daughters, and his son Gu Yumin lived with his uncle in the communication class at night. Gu Wenchang has very strict requirements on the children.The cooks of the county party committee ordered a little more food for the younger son Gu Yumin, and Gu Wenchang never let his son go to the cafeteria to get food.After Gu Wenchang learned to ride a bicycle, the government gave him a bicycle. He cherished it very much and locked it up when he got home.One day he forgot to lock it and was pushed out by the children to learn how to ride a bicycle.When he found out, he was furious and said: This car was given to me by the government, and you have no right to use it!When the eldest daughter got married, she bought two soft satin quilts from the warehouse of Dongshan Department Store. When Gu Wenchang found out, he immediately asked his daughter to return them, saying that he opposed specialization.The three children have been wearing democratic blue shirts that cost 30 cents a foot since Dongshan. They have accompanied them from elementary school to junior high school and then to high school.The son went to college, and the shorts he wore were made from Gu Wenchang's frayed trousers.Just a week after the youngest daughter received her graduation certificate, Gu Wenchang canceled her urban hukou and sent her to the countryside to join the queue.On the eve of Gu Wenchang's transfer to other places, someone suggested that the eldest daughter could be transferred to an official cadre, but Gu Wenchang firmly disagreed.In this way, when Gu Wenchang was alive, the eldest daughter was always a temporary worker. Three years after Gu Wenchang passed away, the eldest daughter was transferred to a full-time cadre.After the youngest daughter got married, her father-in-law was transferred to other places to work. Gu Wenchang, regardless of her daughter’s pregnancy, insisted on retiring the three-bedroom suite where her father-in-law lived, and let her live in a dormitory until the daughter’s child was 8 years old. , she had her own house. Gu Wenchang planted trees all his life, but he never used a wooden dining table or sat on a wooden bench.His home has bamboo stools, rattan chairs, and a stone dining table.Someone sent a wooden dining table to his family, but he insisted on sending it back. In the early summer of 1964, Gu Wenchang transferred to work in the Provincial Forestry Department.When he parted from Dongshan Island for 14 years, all he took away was an old suitcase for books, a handbag for clothes, a small ax for pruning trees, and two jars of pickles he made himself... However, Gu Wenchang left a generous gift to the people of Dongshan County: Gu Wenchang came to Dongshan Island for 14 years and led the afforestation of more than 82,000 mu, making all 412 bald mountains in the county green; roads; built thousands of meters of sea levee; successfully tested sand filtering water pipes, established the largest groundwater project in the country at that time, and solved the drinking water problem that has plagued Dongshan Island for thousands of years.The green revolution triggered by Gu Wenchang on Dongshan Island has brought great changes to Dongshan. According to the measurement of Fujian Provincial Forestry Institute: the wind force on Dongshan Island has weakened by 41.32%61%, the winter temperature has increased by 1.15 degrees Celsius, and the evaporation has decreased by 22%. The relative humidity has increased by 10% to 25%, expanding more than 6,000 mu of cultivated land, and improving more than 70,000 mu of farmland... Dongshan, the former island of bitterness, poverty, and death, has now become a place where rice is ripe, melons are yellow, flowers and fruits are fragrant, Treasure Island rich in products.Due to the fundamental change of the natural environment, it has provided a solid foundation for the economic take-off of Dongshan Island.At the beginning of the reform and opening up, its gross national product has reached 335 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers has reached 1340 yuan, making it the richest province in the whole province.Now Dongshan County has infrastructure such as hydropower, docks, and communications. It has built the largest asparagus base and the largest selected silica sand base in the country. It has become a foreign exchange-earning agricultural experimental area in Fujian Province, an agricultural cooperation experimental area in southern Fujian, and a famous scenic spot. The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade.What Gu Wenchang left to people is a towering green monument. On January 30, 1981, Gu Wenchang died of esophageal cancer in Zhangzhou due to ineffective treatment. In July 1987, according to Comrade Gu Wenchang’s last wish, his ashes were returned to Dongshan Island and placed on a high ground called Chishan Forest Farm, where you can overlook the beautiful scenery of the surrounding forests and listen to the sound of flowers blooming on Dongshan Island. On May 4, 1991, the Fujian Provincial Party Committee made a decision to widely carry out activities to learn from Gu Wenchang among party organizations at all levels, all party members and cadres in the province. At around 3 pm on March 25, 2000, the author came to Chishan Forest Farm in Dongshan County to pay homage to Gu Wenchang's mausoleum.At this time, the Qingming Festival has not yet come, and Dongshan County is organizing manpower to repair the mausoleum and the memorial hall of Comrade Gu Wenchang.According to the director of the Civilization Office of Dongshan County, this place has become a must-visit place for Dongshan people every time around Qingming.As long as the trees on Dongshan Island are green and the flowers are red, people will never forget him. In people's hearts, there will always be a most holy and beautiful place dedicated to those who give selflessly.It is said that there are people who come back from Taiwan to visit their relatives in the annual tribute team. At first they heard that there was a Bodhisattva-like person named Gu Wenchang in the Communist Party, who changed the island in Dongshan for 14 years. They didn’t believe it. Come back and read the whole letter.In the past, there was a security chief in the village who oppressed the common people in the past and had blood debts. He ran to Taiwan on the eve of liberation.A few years ago, he also came back with the tide of returning home. He heard a relative tell about Gu Wenchang's deeds, but he didn't believe it. How could there be such a person?People are not for themselves, and heaven and earth are destroyed. KMT officials also talk about serving the public, but they talk a lot and do little. Therefore, they asked to go to Gu Wenchang's cemetery to have a look.As the saying goes, hearing is believing, seeing is believing. He went to Gu Wenchang's cemetery, saw the crowd of worshipers, and saw Gu Wenchang's deeds. He immediately knelt down towards Gu Wenchang's statue.You see, even the KMT members are very grateful to him... I remember that at the unveiling ceremony of the statue of Gu Wenchang, people from Dongshan rushed here spontaneously from all directions. The author thinks of Mr. Wang Luobin's 500-year project, which is an artist's pursuit goal for his own artistic immortality, and his 500-year project is also effective for every leading cadre of the Communist Party.Anyone who has been to Dongshan Island.Everyone will be amazed by its beauty, and Gu Wenchang injected his life into those tall casuarinas and graceful silver birch trees, and melted into the veins of every fertile rice field.His life will always exist in the praises of the people, and his soul will live forever in the great cause of benefiting the people. As long as Dongshan Island is still there, people will remember Gu Wenchang's name. Gu Wenchang is a person who lived far longer than the 500-year project. If we say that spiritual civilization needs a broad social foundation and a process of breeding, people like Gu Wenchang are the most solid foundation for the building of socialist spiritual civilization.After traveling and interviewing for nearly a year, the author has personally seen many people like Gu Wenchang, and they constitute a unique phenomenon of Gu Wenchang: Her name is Li Defen. Born in 1925, he participated in the revolution in 1946. After enlisting in the army, he became a hygienist first and then a nurse. In 1950, he changed jobs and came to Sanming City, Fujian Province.She did not return to her hometown, which is Feizhuang, Hanliu Town, Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province.Her husband has passed away.She has retired many years ago, but she still does not forget the spiritual civilization construction work in the hospital, and she has used her own savings to participate in this work, such as writing some signs that do not take out the garbage casually, keep clean and hygienic, and cooperate with the hospital to do the traditional work. report etc.As soon as she heard that there was a disaster somewhere and anyone needed help, she immediately went to the post office to donate 1,000 yuan or 2,000 yuan.But she herself has been living a poor life.She has two houses, one is used as a bedroom and a living room. There is a bed, a table, two chairs, a wardrobe, and nothing else in the house.The other room is arranged as an honor room. A huge table is filled with various awards, medals, honorary certificates, and some iconic objects of those years, such as the badges of the New Fourth Army, the drinking tanks of the Volunteers, and It is written as a gift to the cutest person, and there are also towels used in that era, which can be described as dazzling.She often goes to schools or other units to give reports and conduct traditional education to the younger generation. These are her indispensable props.She is also the school's extracurricular counselor. When school is over, she even holds a small flag to lead the lower grade pupils to cross the road.There is a construction site not far from her residence, and there is a small pond next to it. Children often play here. Mr. Li is afraid that the children will swim, so he always waits by the pond.Because the pond was full of mosquitoes and flies, and it was not safe, she took the initiative to contact the responsible comrades on the construction site and asked migrant workers to help fill the pond.夏天的时候，李老还天天为工地上的民工烧开水，并且为民工们冲上糖水。她经常领孩子们到她的荣誉室参观，只要孩子们能来，她就显得很开心，很兴奋。她家徒四壁，千金散尽，惟有这些奖章一类的什物印证着她的过去，她那曾经逝去的青春和美丽，她的理想和追求。这些东西就是她的生命，就是她的生活和生命意义，就是她的全部。每当夜深人静的时候，她就独自披衣下床，在这些什物间徜徉，就像在历史中穿行，她们彼此之间熟稔至极，并且有自己的语汇，有传神的密码，有会意的方法。她们彼此拥有，并且彼此相约，她们将互相扶携走到生命尽头。 这就是李德芬的故事。 她叫任桂芝，是辽宁省盘锦市一个普普通通的老太太。下面是任老太太讲述她自己的故事： 我叫任桂芝，今年69岁，退休前在辽河油田物资公司于楼储运公司工作，现在居住在兴隆台区振兴街道幸福小区。我有3个孩子，两个女儿，一个儿子，都已成家立业。老伴于1975年去世。孩子们多次劝我搬到一起去住，也好有个照应，可我觉得自己身体好，能自立，就不想给孩子们添更多的麻烦，再说我是个喜欢自由的人，我喜欢无忧无虑无拘无束的生活。 1985年退休后，冷不丁闲下来觉得没着没落的，想着总是这样，也不是个事，觉得还是要干点事。我想起来了，我这个人爱缝缝补补，缝制衣服算是我的一个业余爱好，也是我的一技之长，就寻思着想发挥这方面的特长，给别人一些力所能及的帮助。几年来，我给街坊、邻里、驻街企事业单位、机关团体缝制缝补衣物达几千件，服务人次达千余人，从没收过一分钱物。那年国庆节，咱们幸福小区六区做秧歌服，人手少，时间紧，我知道这一情况后，就主动提出帮助制作。当时，我的二女儿正要做手术，需要我去照顾，可是为了赶制这批服装，我没有去成。 咱们这个区的人有些特号型的人，她们的服装不好买，自己又不会做，因此穿衣服成了老大难。我就主动上门来帮她们缝制。比如我们的邻居陈素芹、陈善荣等几个胖嫂胖妹的，她们的腰围都在3.4尺以上，几年来一直是我给她们做特号服装。我觉得能为大伙儿服务心情很高兴，觉着比呆着或打几圈麻将强。 每当遇上有困难的人，我心里总有说不出的一种滋味，总是要想方设法、尽己所能地去帮助他们。1992年1月，我在从朝阳返回盘锦的汽车上，遇上了一位家住新生村的姑娘，后来知道她叫倪树玲，是从朝阳搬迁到盘锦来的，家里生活很困难，父母身体都不好，她想出来学门手艺，再找份工作，帮助家里挣几个零花钱。我知道这一情况后，当即答应帮助她，并记下了她的通信地址。回到家后，我到处打听，四处托人，还真的在于楼技校被服厂找到了一份一边学习缝纫技术，一边上班的工作，我觉得很适合她干，就赶紧给她去了信。可是倪树玲接到这封信时，已经记不起我了，她觉得哪能有这样的大好人，平白无故地为自己找工作。于是她就按照通信地址给我回了一封信，问我是哪位阿姨，在哪认识的，顺便又打听一下工作情况，接到信后我详细地给她回了一封信，收到这封回信，他们全家都很感激我，很满意这份差事。单位没有住宿吃饭的地方，倪树玲就吃住在我家，一直到1994年10月，她结婚成家离开我家，在我家两年多的时间，我分文没收，说实在的，这个小姑娘很会来事，我很喜欢她，我们娘儿俩处的像亲母女一样，直到现在她还时常来看我。像这样的事，不止倪树玲一个人。 我在于楼居住时结识了残疾人曹丽，她腿有毛病，走起路来特别吃力，就在这种情况下，又被丈夫抛弃，自己带个孩子过，生活非常困难，我经常帮助她料理一些家务，并资助她一些钱物，每到换季时我都给她送去些换季的衣服，现在我搬到兴隆台居住，也没有忘记关照她，曹丽的妈妈感激地说：你对待曹丽就像自己的亲闺女一样，你真是个大好人。将来丽丽要好好报答你任姨。说实在的，我从来就没图能有什么回报，我觉得人与人之间就应该互相拉一把，这就是人之常情。1994年冬季，一个要饭的老太太到我家，这个老太太冻得直打颤，我就让她进屋里，让她吃了一顿饭，又把我穿的一条驼绒棉裤送给她，临走时又给她拿了一把黄烟和路费钱，劝她天冷了赶快回家吧，老太太泪流满面地对我说：老大姐，像你这样的好人一定能活100岁。1995年秋季，我去于楼二院看病，路上遇到一个捡破烂的老太太，特别寒酸，当时，我就约了她第二天再到这里等我，我给她收拾了10件衣服和一双新雨鞋，老太太感动得热泪盈眶。兴隆台区新区七委仇玉晶家，两口子都是残疾人，生活特别困难，我知道后，就想帮助他们，先后3次到他们家，送去了40多件衣服和一些日常生活用品，他们很感激，都亲切地称呼我是他们的妈妈。 几年来，前后有6个人在我家吃住过，最长的有四五年，最少的也得住上几个月，有人说我家是慈善机构，我自己就叫它临时家庭，我觉得这样的生活挺有意思。社会是一个大家庭，如果我们每个人都献上一份爱心，那么我们这个大家庭将充满欢乐，开开心心。我就是这样想的。退休前我是做会计工作的，退休后，我就充分发挥这一技之长，为一些单位和职工们服务。辽河油田机关活动中心有几名同志对财会工作不熟练。我就在那儿为她们办了个短期培训班，有3名同志参加学习，我手把手地教了一个多月，告诉她们怎样记账，怎样点库，现在她们都能独立地开展工作了，当她们一声声地称呼我任老师时，我的心里真是有说不出的高兴。辽河油田机关王忠富老师傅听说我办财会知识辅导班，也前来参加学习，有一次我手头的表格不够了，就让他找个地方要几份表格，他到单位要表格，有个同志就问他跟谁学呢？他就说那个任老太太，听后那个同志就劝他说：你可别跟她学，现在搞市场经济了，还哪有无偿服务的，她精神不好，拿你们开心呢。我听了这话以后，开始心里很不是滋味.但仔细一想，他们这么说也不奇怪，人和人想法不一样，特别是搞市场经济，讲有偿服务，咱不能说人家有偿错。但是，我搞无偿服务，这也没错呀。后来，我又在家里办了几期学习班，先后培了20多人，这些人走上工作岗位后都是手笔相应，也很感激我，总想给俩钱或买点啥东西，都被我谢绝了。我经常到公园去和一些老年人聊天，我觉得这些老年人需要更丰富、快乐的生活，虽然我年岁也不小了，但我尽力帮助他们，让他们心里高兴。几天不去，他们就打电话找我，都说愿意同我聊天。有时我还义务为他们照相，他们大多数都是七八十岁的老人，每当我照完相洗出来，送到他们手中时，他们都兴奋地说：照得真好，照得真好！他们要给我钱，我说：我不要钱，你们大家高兴，我就高兴了。听了这些话，老人们一起伸出大拇指说我心瑕真好。为了让这些老人们高兴，我准备找个好地方带老人们一起去游玩。我到金宝度假城跑了好几次，终于征得了度假城领导的同意。度假城的领导很重视我们这次活动，专门派了两名工作人员做向导，为我们服务。徐敬中老人说：我都活70多岁了，还从来没有见过这样的宾馆，有山有水，还有跑马场。这次春游大家玩得特别开心，在水上乐园钓鱼，在水上乐园舞厅跳舞，老人们都说玩得高兴，玩得开心，是一次难忘的春游。今年以来，我先后组织100多人到湖滨公园、金宝度假城游玩、搞联欢。我还拿出980元工资，办了一张金宝度假城夜总会会员证，这样老人们就可以随时随地到度假城去游玩，我觉得这钱花得值，我也很高兴。 为了帮助更多的人，我在振兴街道办事处领导和同志们的大力支持和帮助下，办起了振兴街道办事处夕阳红无偿服务社。服务项目主要有婚姻介绍、调节家庭矛盾和邻里纠纷；开办财会辅导班，培训财会人员；为居民缝制、缝补衣物，特别是为有困难的老年人解决一些生活中的实际问题；代办、代记财会账目，为个体、集体工商业户解决会计记账问题等等。寒冬腊月，我背着广告板，提着录音机去大市场宣传我们的无偿服务项目，边放录音机，边散发宣传单，开始时围观的群众不理解，认为我是在整景，后来看我真的这样去做了，每个人都向我投来赞许的目光。通过这么一宣传，上门登记的人越来越多，经这里介绍上班工作的有80人，有10对男女喜结良缘，还有正处着的。山东省茌平县广平乡姜庄村的王霞来盘锦打工，人生地不熟，打听到我和服务社的事儿，就打电话同我联系，我答应为她介绍一份工作。她来到我家，我看她穿得太破了，我就给她换了一身衣服和一双鞋。过了几天，我给她联系了一份保姆工作，就打电话把她约来，可她没穿上次我给她的衣服，这样破烂不堪的样子，怎么往人家里领呢！没办法，我就又给她换了一套衣服和一双鞋。对方看后很满意，王霞干活麻利，品质也好，可以说是为双方解决了一大难题。黑龙江来盘锦打工的李金萍是一个20多岁的小女孩子，到盘锦举目无亲，又没有找到工作，生活不下去了，就到医院去卖血，看到无偿服务广告后，来到我家说明了她的困境，我想一个女孩子在外面闯荡，多不容易啊，我就叫她在我家吃住，不要着急，慢慢帮助她介绍工作，后来她去卖盒饭，现在又到双台子区恩达公司做广告工作，临走时我给她一床被褥，一件新风衣和一套旧衣服，小姑娘感动地流泪了，现在还时常来电话打听我的身体情况。 去年6月份，在有关部门和领导的大力支持下，我们夕阳红无偿服务社召开了正式成立大会。有1500多人来参加了大会，越来越多的人来到这里，一起为别人无偿服务。大家一起去为福利院的老人义诊、理发，到街上宣传讲文明、树新风活动，事儿办得红红火火，大家心里也都非常高兴。 十几年来，我操心费力不说，还搭上了几万元的积蓄，退休后，我一个月能开700多元钱。除了生活费支出外，几乎都用到帮助别人身上。有人问我：你这样做不后悔吗？我可以实事求是地告诉大家，我真的不后悔，因为我在付出的同时，在为他人服务的同时，在为社会奉献的同时，真正感受到了一种无尽的乐趣，尝到了一种无法用语言表达的满足，这种乐趣和满足是金钱和物质换不来的，它让我感到十分快乐。 河南省濮阳西水坡曾出土过中华第一龙。这是一条用蚌壳摆塑的龙。据专家考证，该龙的创作年代大约在6460年前。蚌壳龙造型相当生动，有呼之欲飞的动感，他的上半部像人的脊背样弓着，正如腾跃前的蹲伏准备，所有的能量和飞翔的渴望都聚积在动人的脊梁上。有人说，似这样传神的脊梁仅凭想象是断然摆塑不来的，想必是以生活在大河之阳的人做模特，从他们奋力一跃的姿势中得到启示，于是才有这永远的图腾…… 李连成向我们走来。他所在的村子叫西辛庄，距离西水坡约40里地，虽然都在一个县，但却一南一北。据古书载，濮阳因居濮水之阳而得名。濮水是一条古老的河流，经西边新乡长垣县流来，过濮阳老城南向东注入大海。此地开发甚早，古之濮水，绿水涣涣，桑田美池之间，青年男女折柳幽会，两岸踏歌，便遗下歌谣无数。中国第一部诗集300余篇，不少篇幅就出自濮水两岸。然而，濮水悠悠，给李连成的记忆却少有丰饶和美丽。他的村子不大，仅有600多口人，900亩盐碱地。这是片极度贫瘠的土地。当西辛庄从历史深处走来时，人们都会为它的一穷二白而触目惊心。土改时，全村168户人家没有一户地主，没有一户富农，甚至连一户中农也没有，全是清一色的贫雇农。由于全村人都目不识丁，记账的会计还是从外村借来的。西辛庄的土地不长庄稼却长盐，年景好的时候，麦子才能收到100来斤，一个闺女家，从生下来到出嫁，吃不到200斤麦子……李连成从记事起，就会干两件事，挖野菜和熬盐。他熟悉各种野菜，熟悉它们的形状和气味，正是这些野菜给了儿时的李连成以深刻的苦难意识，并且教给了他惊人的生存能力。挖野菜的日子长了，李连成的脑海里就有了西辛庄的野菜分布图，这就是野菜给他上的小村地理课。李连成弟兄8人，他排行老二，从小连一天学也没上过，然而野菜却帮了他的忙，给了他诸多类似幼儿园老师所教的看图识字那样的课程。李连成能从茫茫大野里找来各种野菜，虽然他写不出它们的名字，却熟悉它们的每片叶脉，每条纹路，每种颜色。这种草根教育，使李连成的生命里渗透着苦苦菜的汁液，也使他成了最能吃苦的人。 西辛庄的地大部分都是盐碱滩，无法长庄稼，村民们只好用地来熬盐，用卖盐的钱来维持生计。 这是一种古老而粗劣的制作方法。 他们在地上挖一个大坑，坑里置放一个大水瓮，水瓮上覆着一层滤网。人们把地表上的土一层层刮下来，然后放到大坑里用水浇淋，那些含在地表层的盐分就会随水渗流到下面的水瓮里。待水瓮满了的时候，人们用一个鸡蛋放在水的表面，若鸡蛋不下沉，就说明盐分够了，然后就把这些盐水拿出去晾晒或去熬盐……这种盐含有大量的有毒元素，原本是不能食用的，但对贫苦人家来说，拿出几分钱来买一把盐，不白水煮野菜就相当奢侈了，因此这种盐在三乡五里还有些销路。但靠刮地皮熬盐的人家委实太多了，村民们熬来熬去，把西辛庄熬干了，熬焦了，熬成了挂在墙上能敲得当当响的穷棒子村。 李连成从小就会熬盐。他把自己熬成了1.60米的个子，熬成了干巴精瘦的骨架子，不管是穷还是富，他的体重没超过100斤。就这样，李连成到了22岁，并且遵从父母之命，媒妁之言，和邻村一个姑娘结了婚。 三年之后，他们有了一个儿子。儿子一岁那年生了病。 儿子得的是拉肚子，不知何故，孩子总哇哇直哭，哭过之后，就是一通屎尿。如此三番之后，李连成和妻抱起儿子去了医院。去医院之前，两个人商量，看病可是个大事，得多带些钱去。家里银豆子似的放着两块多钱，妻说是不是都带去，李连成很大气地说咋不带，都带去，花不完再带回来嘛！谁知一次看病下来，钱悉数留给了医院。等几包药片吃完，儿子的病非但没好，反倒更厉害了些。儿子瘦的已经脱了形。看看仍拉肚不止的儿子，夫妻俩一合计，不中，还得去医院给儿子看病。但是，看病得花钱呀。一想起钱，李连成的冷汗就冒了出来。钱花得一个子也没了呀。穷人家平时有吃有喝谁花钱？那些钱都是当神去敬的，放在那儿，好避邪消灾，谁没事敢去花钱玩呀。李连成长这么大，没有尝过花钱是啥滋味，当然，他也不知道自己家的钱竞有那么少。当一次病看下来，医院把他家的积蓄全部花光的时候，他才知道世界上什么事情最可怕了。但是这种恐惧感并不是一下子降临的，它有着自己的生长过程。李连成起初就想，去亲朋好友家借借吧，就是一户户凑，还能借不来十块八块钱？当他把全村都跑遍的时候，他才真正绝望了，一个村子，竟借不来两块钱。没办法，他狠狠心，把正下蛋的两只老母鸡卖了，才凑够四块钱去了医院。有了这四块钱，李连成的腰板稍微直了一些，他想，无非是再买些药片片呗，咋也不能花完吧。然而看病真是个无底洞，医生说光吃药不顶事，得赶快打针，于是，李连成手里的钱又呼啦一下子花光了。眼看着儿子的病就能治好了，但救命的钱却再也凑不来了。眼睁睁看着儿子拉得像一根麻秆一样，瘦得皮包骨头，皮薄薄一层能透亮，对着太阳，光线似能穿透过来，人就像没有脊梁似的站立不住。李连成看看一贫如洗的村庄，看看四壁空空的家，看看瘦弱不堪的儿子，他的心里像刀割一样疼，泪水哗哗地淌下来。他心里喊道：我得想法救救儿子，我得救救这个家…… 思前想后，李连成拉起了架子车，干起了拉煤的营生。死靠生产队挣工分，一年下来，难挣来给儿子看病的钱，于是他就相中了给别人拉脚的活儿。从濮阳到200里外的鹤壁煤矿去拉煤，如果三天赶紧的话能拉个来回，这样他一趟就能挣一块五毛多钱。这是个丰厚的利润，一想到自己吃一天苦就能给儿子挣来几包药钱，他就充满了干劲，他个子小，体重才90多斤，但是他却能拉动上千斤重的东西，每天能跑上百里路。回忆往事，李连成说，咱没有别的长处，咱就是能吃苦，别人不敢吃的苦，我敢吃，吃苦是我的强项。我把吃苦当做了一项本事，一项产业，只要能吃苦，并且这苦能挣钱，我就抢着去吃。拉煤那些日子，我带着铺盖卷，一天到晚在路上，渴了喝凉水，饿了啃干馍，没日没夜地干了两三个月，一算账，我一下子挣了七八十块钱。 这时，正值割资本主义尾巴的时候，邻村李连成的亲戚把驴牵到他家躲避，连成一合计，就用刚挣来的80块钱把驴子买了下来。在农村，一个牲口顶一个壮劳力，有了这头小驴，李连成有些如虎添翼的感觉，他便玩起命来，多拉快跑，3个月之后，他竞挣了100多块钱！可是好景不长，不久驴子就得了风湿病，腿一瘸一瘸的，为了给它治病，李连成又把挣来的钱几乎全花光了，尽管血本赔干还是没救活。李连成是一个念旧的人，看见长路就会想起那头驴，想起它心里就难受吃不下饭。煤拉不下去了，一无所有的李连成就借了30多块钱北上内蒙古，到一个建筑队里跟着别人搞建筑。他人长得瘦小，人家相不上，头一个星期把他炒得没脸见人。可是李连成不气馁，他知道干建筑是个苦差事，像自己这样能吃苦的人，全工地不会有第二个，他相信自己的实力，于是他就二话不说，默默地干起来。人家休息的时候他不休息，收工了，人家往回走，他不回去，他干活不惜力，不要命，还善于琢磨，活干得