< h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > (xii) in the Pingkun section of the Southwest Highway</h1>
I had expected that laying sand and gravel on the pavement would never result well, and I also had a bad impression of the U.S. military. After that, he did not want to meet with them again, so he gave the responsibility of supervising the repair to the chief engineer Cai Jizhao and the section chief Wu Xilin, and returned to Qujing himself. Sure enough, the road behind it has not been paved, and the pavement that was previously paved is broken again. So they said that the material was insufficient and ordered the contractor to add a shop, and the shop was soon broken. As a result, Engineer Cai and Chief Wu were reluctant to meet with the US military, so they caused a misunderstanding among the US military and went to the bureau to file a complaint, and the bureau ordered shen rao. At that time, I felt that I could no longer do it, only to let others do it, so I wrote a resignation letter to Director Chen Yanjiong. Probably Director Chen had inquired about my personality from all sides, so he returned a sincere letter of condolence to keep me, and I had to stay in office and pave the road with more materials again. After the shop was finished, Director Chen asked me, there will be no problem in the future, right? I told him to keep it up to a month at most, because there were so many trucks, and the gravel pavement had to be paved at any time. The purpose of my efforts to change the stone pavement is to be both economical and solid, and the Americans only care about solving the problems in front of them, spending more money but they don't care, Director Chen suddenly realized. Fortunately, less than ten days later, Japan announced its surrender. The War of Resistance Against Japan was victorious, and the volume of transportation immediately plummeted, so this troublesome matter came to an end.
U.S. soldiers drink tea at the homes of ordinary people stationed in the garrison
Military vehicles lined up on the highway
I worked on the Southwest Highway for almost seven years, and the general organization was reorganized several times. First the Southwest Highway Administration, then the Authority, and then the Transport Authority. The supervisors have experienced Xue Cixin, Xiao Qingyun, Kang Shizhen, chen Yanjiong four people, and they are still satisfied with my work, so they give me a salary increase every year, and it is 550 yuan before I am demobilized and returned to my hometown. At that time, the political atmosphere was not too bad, and there was no phenomenon of one son of heaven and one courtier. Each person is determined by his own ability and work performance, and there is no custom of giving gifts to the supervisor. However, when Director Xue Zixin came to Panjiang, he knew that our living conditions were very difficult, but he brought us a lot of food. I also go to the bureau at most once a year to solve some difficult problems without the need for perfunctory fans.
Run transport trucks on gravel roads
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Director Chen Yanjiong was transferred to the Northeast Special Commissioner. He knew that I had been doing railway engineering in the northeast for many years, so he asked deputy director Qiu Bingmin to write a letter inviting me to go to the northeast with him to receive it. At that time, I thought that it was not easy to use southerners to go to the northeast to receive them, and moreover, my family's population was large and inconvenient, so I refused his kindness. I wrote to Director Chen to introduce Gao Yunkun to him, hoping that he would hire Mr. Gao to help him and everything would go much smoother. Director Chen replied to me that he had written to hire him, but we did not communicate with him again, so the result was unknown. When I was preparing to return from demobilization, Ge Feng, director of the Highway Bureau of the Fourth District, and Chen Xiangming, deputy director of the Fourth District Highway Bureau, sincerely invited me to stay, because I was still homely and my heart was like an arrow, so I did not agree to them.
When I was in Panjiang, my wife gave birth to a boy, and when I arrived in Qujing, I had another girl. My niece got married in Qujing, and only my second sister followed us until 1947. Since working on the Southwest Highway, life has become more and more difficult every day. My wife would have only done some needlework, but gradually she learned to do it herself. Although there were other people in the family, they hardly did anything, and of course, my wife was polite and did not ask them for help. So she washes her clothes every day, cooks and cooks, and takes care of her children. Even after giving birth, she only rested for a few days to start doing housework, coupled with the harsh environment and lack of nutrition, her health deteriorated, which was the biggest loss that our family suffered during the War of Resistance.
(To be continued)