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The lever lifts the giant wood back to the back. Cheng Yingtie photography.
During the Republic of China, at the mouth of the Futai River in the foothills of the Changbai Mountains, hundreds of cattle and horses climbed and plowed huge pieces of wood, which were endlessly transported down from the original forest of the fallen wooden ditch and spread on the beach at the mouth of the river. The people of Jiangkou shouted horses and were very lively. But the loudest sound is the lever gang's wooden trumpet: rough, bold, even savage.
The wood spread on the ground needs to be lifted up one by one with the shoulders and stacked into stacks of wood. It is called "wooden len" here, and the strong man who lifts the wood is called the bar force. The person in charge of the bar force gang is the bar head, commonly known as the bar master.
★ The lever force must be from Shandong
Bar Ye is a Shandong native who broke into the Kanto, more than forty years old, surnamed Xu Shuangren, but no one dared to call him by his name, just call him Bar Ye. As soon as the Futaihe Estuary was established, the timber merchants in Jilin City immediately invited the bar from the bar team at the railway station and asked him to recruit soldiers to set up the Futai River Bar Gang.
Timber lenden in the mountains. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet.
The bar ye was full of promises, and the picture was for the Shandong brothers to come to Kanto to have a mouthful of food. Therefore, the key to his list of recruits must be Shandong people, aged 20-40 years old, tall do not, short do not want. It is best to be a shaft man, that is, a solid man who is about five feet tall.
Others scolded the grandfather, since it is to take care of the Shandong brothers, why is it not tall and short, and it is not good to be old? Grandpa Bar smiled bitterly and sighed: This job does not support people, and it is not good to be injured or disabled.
★ The first level of the bar master's recruitment is to carry the thick water ash willow at the mouth of the basin
The bar master recruits people who do not take the exam, but they have to pass three levels. In the first level, there is a six-meter-long elm wood in the snow outside the mountain shack, with a weight of about 300 pounds. All the Shandong people who came to apply for the conscription passed the visual inspection pass of the bar master, and they had to carry the wood. Lift the elm from the ground, carry it on your shoulders, find your own balance, and then walk three times along the snow set by the bar.
Carry a springboard on a large log. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet.
This is a difficult level, and some people can't lift the wood at all. Someone can barely lift a head of wood, but they can't carry it on their shoulders. Someone can carry elm on their shoulders but can't find a good balance of wood. Someone who can carry elm can't walk three laps at all. More than 300 pounds of wood weighed heavily on the shoulders, and it was difficult to move, even the swinging arms were turned, not to mention the uneven snow covered by heavy snow. The floater staggered a few steps, only to throw the wood on the ground and automatically exit.
★ The second level of the bar master's recruitment is the jump over the mountain
In the second level, he carried another 200-pound ash willow and "jumped over the mountain" alone. The jump is a large pine springboard that is two feet long, one foot wide, and four inches thick. This springboard is placed in the snow at one end and directly mounted on a wooden or cart at the other end. As soon as a person carrying more than 200 kilograms of ash willow stepped on the springboard, the springboard was bent. The bar force needs to carry the wood step by step, bend by step, step by step, until it reaches the top of the wooden len, and puts the wood down as required.
Leverage. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet.
Everyone on the springboard, the bar master must be on the side of the serious watch, to see if your steps are solid, to see if your legs are soft or not, to see if your waist is bent, and to see if you can breathe. Bar Ye is a Hongquan family, he looks at people, is to see if you can practice kung fu solidly. If you can walk off the springboard smoothly, you will be patted on the shoulder by the bar: Cheng. Stay and come inside to eat!
★ Eating is also an exam: a meal of large dry food with an axe handle
Don't be happy too soon. Eating is the third level of the bar master's examination - each person eats a few dry foods full of an axe handle. How long is the handle of a large axe? About four feet, lined with four feet long axe handles, it required seven or eight large dry grains of cornmeal the size of a palm.
There is a theory that the person who lifts the large wood must have a good meal. Without the amount of food, there is no strength. Eat like a lady, can you do the work of your grandfather? He had read the "Records of History" and knew the truth of "incorruptible and old people can still eat or not".
Carrying a large piece of wood to load the car. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet
★ Eight people could not lift the large wood, and the bar master ordered six people to carry it
The rules of the Lever Gang are very strange, and no one has been able to explain them reasonably.
On that day, a three-cubic-meter red pine was transported to the field. When he returned to The Ridge, the bar master grabbed the hook and roared: Ha waist hanging! Eight people on four bars shouted "Hi yo" in unison, and as the trumpet stood up, the huge wood left the ground.
The bar master burst out another trumpet: Go forward! Eight people burst out another "Hi Yo" and walked forward in unison. At the sound of the trumpet, the eight people advanced less than fifty steps, and some people could not hold on, their steps were staggering, and the lineup was shaken. The bar master had to sing the trumpet command "Stop and rest your shoulders." The bar master knew that these eight people could not return this huge tree to the ground, and could only play cards according to the rules of the bar gang and not according to common sense. So he shouted: Brothers tighten their belts and tighten their waists, retreat eight to six!
The Lever Gang carried a large wooden car. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet
Two of the original four pairs of eight people automatically exited, and the remaining six people regrouped the bar. Watching the lively plow climbers stunned! This giant tree is said to be more than three thousand pounds, eight people with four pairs of bars, more than 400 pounds per capita, but eight to six, six people need to bear more than 500 pounds each! This is not right, since eight people can't lift it, it should be eight to ten! Each person bears more than 300 pounds, isn't it much easier? However, the rules of this lever gang are strange! The more wood cannot be lifted, the more it will be reduced. The plow climbers who watched the hilarity were all smirking.
In the eyes of people's doubts, the bar master burst another trumpet: Ha waist hanging! Miracles happen. The giant tree was easily lifted up by the six people. The second roar of the bar master: Go forward! The huge wood was actually lifted steadily and moved forward steadily. The two bars that automatically retreated, hurriedly holding the crowbars on both sides of the guard, moving the tiger stool, setting up a springboard, and helping the six people to steadily return the giant tree that the eight people could not lift to the wooden len.
The bar force helped the four pairs of shoulders to lift the large wood back to the back. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet.
★ The woman dressed as a man came, and the bar master waved his hand: it is a mule or a horse walking
One day, one of the "small shoulders" (the person who lifted the wood on his left shoulder) accidentally flashed his waist. The next day, a young man came to enlist. When he looked at it, he knew that this person dressed as a man was probably talking about the "small shoulder" who flashed his waist yesterday, and he didn't say anything broken, but just whispered: I don't care if you are a man or a woman, if you come here, you must pass three levels. The young man also said politely: According to the rules of the bar master, if the mule is a horse, then walk around, right? She passed two levels in a row, relaxed and happy. The old levers were stunned.
Only at the third level of eating, the young man said: I have just finished eating, and now I can't eat this big dry food with the handle of the axe. If you lose two dry foods, I will eat them, and if you do not reduce them, I will not enter your gang and count them in vain! Bar ye intends to complete her: "Medium! She made up for the "small shoulder" position of the person who flashed his waist.
Leverage to help load the car. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet.
It was almost noon, and the lever force helped everyone to be hungry and weak. But when he climbed to the middle of the springboard carrying a huge log, the young man shouted: I have lost my shoes, and I need to stop and put on my shoes.
In this springboard that can't go up and down, how dare you stop? But the bar master sang "stop". It was the young people who couldn't lift their shoes, and many of the eight people were already sweating coldly. But I have to stand up!
Grandpa Bar said that people carry shoes but a one-legged springboard! The man had a hard time lifting his shoes. Everyone gritted their teeth and lifted the huge log to the top of the tree, and immediately sat down on the wooden tree and could not get up again, only the new young man was like a fine person.
Lever Ye opened his mouth: Lever force pays attention to benevolent cooperation, and if the mind is crooked, it will hurt the other party. It's time for someone to apologize.
Leverage helps guilen. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet.
The "big shoulders" of the man with the flashing waist (the person who raised the wood on his right shoulder) immediately bent down to pay tribute to the young man: Brother, I'm sorry. Yesterday I was not good, when I stood up, I deliberately grabbed a bar and made your brother flash his waist. I covered my brother's medical expenses, plus a month's salary.
Lever Ye spoke in time: I deliberately took this girl as a brother today, that is, I saw its arrogance, and wanted this girl to teach everyone a lesson. It is necessary to know that there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people.
Since then, Futaihe bar has helped everyone to obey the bar. Praise the bar master for employing people.
(About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a senior journalist and writer from Qingdao, Shandong, has lived in the snowy plains of Linhai in Northeast China for more than 50 years, published 42 monographs such as novels, written more than 200 episodes of TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentaries, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles. ）
The bar force gang lifts the wood on the springboard. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet.
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