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I walked to every corner of Zaron, looking for your footprints. A voice in my heart was calling: Juanzi, where are you?! Do you often return to the reserve? Do you often come back to visit your red-crowned crane? In the dead of night, quietly visit, silently gaze, stand quietly...
Zhalong, a nature reserve located 30 km southeast of Qiqihar City, a world-famous wetland;
Xu Xiujuan, a Manchu girl from Qiqihar and a crane taming girl, fell into a swamp in search of a missing red-crowned crane and sacrificed her young life. The year of the sacrifice, he was only 23 years old!
Juanzi, you and I live in the same black land, we are fellow countrymen; you and I were also born in two years after three years of natural disasters, we are the same age; you and I have walked through childhood, adolescence, youth, and we were once girls with dreams, we are good sisters!
One autumn more than thirty years ago, you left me, away from your beloved red-crowned crane, black swan, and beautiful mandarin duck, to a completely strange and cold world...
Juanzi, you and I both came to earth in the autumn of October, the difference is that my father is a veteran soldier who has been in the battlefield for a long time, and your father is an experienced crane breeding expert. You've been influenced by your family and have loved protected animals since childhood, especially red-crowned cranes. You are determined to study hard and make achievements in raising cranes and taming cranes in the future.
However, in August 1981, the high school of Biantun Middle School was discontinued, and you were under 17 years old, so you had to drop out of school, and then, following your father, came to Zhalong Nature Reserve as a temporary worker.
On the third day of work, you can identify the birth year and number of the crane, and circle the cranes of different years, months, different species, and different temperaments. This scene not only surprised and delighted the old breeders, but even the demanding father would smile heartily.
In the spring of the following year, you cooperated with the scientific researchers to carry out the artificial incubation of cranes, carefully observed, recorded in detail, and soon mastered the full set of techniques of breeding, grazing, breeding, incubation and brooding of rare birds such as red-crowned cranes, white-naped cranes, and feathered cranes, which were affirmed and highly praised by scientific researchers!
Your young cranes have a 100% survival rate and have been a pilot for three red-crowned crane-themed films. When several professors from the College of Wildlife Resources of the Forestry School went to the reserve for scientific investigation, they found you, a young talent, and they suggested that you study at the University of Forestry so that you can make greater contributions to the cause of crane conservation.
Your father supported you with an iron heart, saying, "Even if you smash the pot and sell iron, you must let Juanzi go to school." The relevant leaders of Lin Da learned of this situation and decided to reduce Xu Xiujuan's tuition fee by half. In this way, you walked into Northeast Forestry University and became a trainee.
You, who have accumulated a certain amount of practical experience and are armed with new scientific knowledge, are determined to create a career. At the invitation of Jiangsu Yancheng Nature Reserve, you carefully guard three crane eggs that will break out of their shells, travel thousands of kilometers, and paint on the yellow beach of the red-crowned crane's wintering ground, so that the chicks can be born smoothly, thrive, and soar in the blue sky.
This scientific research result surprised the experts. This year, you were named an advanced worker in the reserve, was admitted as a member of the Jiangsu Animal Society, and won the science and technology award issued by the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. Your theory and practice, the paper "Semi-scattered Breeding of Red-crowned Cranes in Wintering Land", which was read at the Third Crane Conservation Conference, was warmly praised by the experts attending the meeting.
At noon that day, Mu Ren and Dawn were singing in the cage, and you thought they wanted to come out and play in the water, so you went in and carried them out and put them in the pond. Not wanting Mu Ren and Dawn to play with Dafa, they broke free of the rope and flew away. In the evening, Mu Ren was found, and Dawn was still missing. Late at night, the leader asked everyone to go back to rest and look for it tomorrow. But Juanzi you can't rest assured, when everyone is gone, you are alone in the dark into the dense reeds, constantly calling for dawn, but you can't find it.
You can't eat dinner, and the next morning you don't care about eating and go looking for it again. At noon, I came back and drank half a bowl of porridge, and went out again worried about the dawn.
When you reached the Fudui River, two colleagues swam across the river, Juanzi, you feel that you are physically weak, and when you are about to swim to the heart of the river, you suddenly shouted "I can't do it" and stopped. Colleagues on the other side, seeing that you are pale, shouted that you should return to the shore. You go back to the crane field, because you are worried about the dawn, your mind is restless, and you are restless. So, he pushed another bicycle and detoured north along the river embankment, intending to meet two colleagues and retrieve dawn as soon as possible. Because you didn't eat well, plus you couldn't ride against the wind, you didn't know how many falls you fell along the way! You push the cart to the place where you just started the water, put the car down, and before you even have time to take off your shoes, you get into the water again...
Juanzi, more than thirty spring and autumn have passed, are you okay in "other land"? Still thinking about your red-crowned crane? I don't know how many people still remember you, do people who come here for sightseeing and travel know your story?