Rebuild the home, cut wood as a beam, the mountains on both sides of the Little Black River are full of trees, inexhaustible; reeds are walls, and the wetlands along the river are full of reeds, everything is available; bamboo is a bed, and the bamboo forests in the opposite mountains are widely spread and inexhaustible. It was only the thatch at the top, and I found many places where I couldn't see where the grass grew, and our platoon's task was to cut the grass.
"I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but I am in this mountain." The villagers said, "You are riding your horses to find horses, and there is a lot of thatch on the top of the back hill where you live." "The platoon leader, as soon as he got up, called me up and went straight to the back hill.
Our platoon leader, who participated in the 1962 self-defense counterattack against India, was awarded and could be regarded as a hero. Thanks to the fact that he looked up to me and let me be with him, I was very excited that I finally had the opportunity to get close to the hero. The platoon leader climbs like a monkey, his body is dexterous and fast, and I am not an idle person, I have been following closely, not falling. I couldn't catch my breath, and the hero was gasping for breath; I was sweating profusely, and the hero's forehead was sweating. More than half an hour passed, my legs and feet began to sour and weak, and the hero was a little faltering; the more I climbed, the slower I climbed, and the hero struggled.
The mountains of Yunnan, at first glance, are very general, in fact, there are mountains behind the mountains, mountains are connected, go up to this mountain and see that mountain, but the higher you go, the more rare the tall trees, the low bushes are all seen. I ran out of energy, and the platoon leader reached the top of the mountain one step ahead of me, only to hear him shout, "So much!" ”
What 'so much's going on"? I hurried up, and in front of me was a flat patch, the thatch was really tall and dense, and it was boundless, and there was a wind blowing grass to see cattle and sheep. It was sunny and the sky was clear, and there would be such a vast grassland on this high mountain, or the first time I had seen it in my life.
"A mountain has four seasons, ten miles of different days" "snowflakes on the top of the mountain, peach blossoms on the mountainside, and crops at the foot of the mountain", this is a portrayal of the three-dimensional climate characteristics of the mountains in Yunnan, saying that because of the huge difference in altitude, even if the same mountain has different climate types and vegetation from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. The low temperatures and scarce precipitation on the summits are only suitable for grass growth that requires only a small amount of water. And because "the rafters rot first", the bare mountain top is susceptible to external forces, and under the combined action of long-term wind, sun, rain and tension, the terrain is both wide and flat, so there is a frank and boundless savanna scenery on the top of the mountain.
The difference between me and the hero on that day was not on the way up the mountain, but at the top of the mountain. When the platoon leader saw that the mountains were full of grass, he immediately went back to bring the team up to work, and I thought that it was already a ship to the dock and the car arrived at the station, and I did not want to continue the revolution. If you want to go down again, you will come up immediately, and if you toss and turn, it will hurt the cattle too much.
At that time, I thought that if I was the platoon leader, I would let him go back first, and I would sleep beautifully on this grass, and the meal would be brought by the dead party in the class. In the words of that era, this is my "private word flash", how can he be a platoon leader, he is a hero, the nose is big and pressed the mouth, I still have no time to fight this "private word flash", I involuntarily jumped down the mountain with him, and from beginning to end, almost one step did not fall. Since then, he has not underestimated me anymore, you know, we are also people with two brushes.
Our platoon leader is a Sichuanese, who is sensitive to words and things, and is a person who can do things but is not good at expression. This morning I was inseparable from him for more than an hour, and from the beginning to the end he said three words: "A lot! With his personality, if he were to change today, who relies on lip service and kung fu, he would not be able to become a hero, and I am afraid that even an activist would be difficult to catch."
We lifted the strength of the whole company, and in the absence of many days, several bamboo huts designed by ourselves, prepared ourselves, and constructed by ourselves rose from the ground, much more generous than before. In the face of this visible and tangible fruits of labor, the excitement in my heart is not to be said, and it is still an incredible miracle to think about.
The so-called miracle, Qi is strange in the construction of so many houses, from the beginning to the end has not spent a penny! Not even a nail was bought, but it was replaced by rattan, contempt, and bamboo wedges! It doesn't cost a penny to build a house, isn't it a miracle!
In the song "There is a Beautiful Place", there are many beautiful words and sentences that cannot be remembered, but I remember the two sentences of "walking horses on a high mountain, transporting salt and cloth to the frontier", and I always feel strange why the author sang these two sentences repeatedly.
In addition to songs, the films reflected in the lives of ethnic minorities in the border areas of Yunnan, which were reflected in the pens of many military writers of the Kunming Military Region at that time, often took salt and cloth as the main content to express. For example, wang Weiyi's "Mountain Bell Ringing Horse Gang" directed by Wang Weiyi and starring Yu Yang and Zhong Xinghuo, and "Mysterious Traveling Companion" adapted from Bai Birch's short story "A Horse Gang Without a Bell" and other works tell the story of the people of all ethnic groups in the border areas of Yunnan who were newly liberated at that time, deeply looking forward to the early arrival of the horse gang and being able to buy salt, cloth and other daily necessities.
There are more things in life than salt and cloth, and salt and cloth are so rare? After personal practice in Mengding, Fang Zhi said to the ethnic minorities in the frontier areas such as Longchuan, Ruili and Mengding who had just been liberated, this salt and cloth were indeed indispensable things in life. As long as there is cloth to cover the body and salt to strengthen the body, even if there is no worries about food and clothing, as for other living needs, most of them can be directly obtained from the rich nature.
Interestingly, seventeen or eight years after liberation, we, the highly educated, were able to follow the customs and live a self-sufficient life in that closed environment! "The kitchen is headed by a hundred flavors of salt", if there is no salt in the glass soup we often drink, who can drink this soup with relish! Don't forget, we ate those bowls of dry rice only by relying on this bowl of salty glass soup without any dishes.
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