"They are the white snowflakes floating in the sky, in the company of the wind, they become cotton seeds, falling on the earth, quietly bathing in the earth and the nutrients given by heaven."
Little zhiqing, big dream
This is talking about Zhiqing. And today's protagonist is a model intellectual of that era.
Xing Yanzi, who had just entered the countryside, was overwhelmed like most girls.
They are all girls who have been held in the palm of their hands by their families since childhood, let alone farm work in the field, or the kitchen has never been in.
Compared with other girls, Xing Yanzi is even weaker in this regard, because she has liked to read since she was a child, and her family is very supportive of Xing Yanzi, so housework rarely allows her to intervene.
But none of this has become a stumbling block for Xing Yanzi to become a Zhiqing. Because this little girl has always had a belief in her heart.
"To be the first generation of educated peasants in the motherland", she hopes to bring her hometown people to keep up with the pace of the development of new China, lead her hometown, and get rid of the current situation of poverty and backwardness.
Xing Yanzi, who tried the cattle knife, although there was a little situation, but this did not hit her enthusiasm, but it was more and more frustrated and courageous.
Xing Yanzi's diligence and cheerfulness made the villagers very fond of this little girl from the city.
Soon under the careful guidance of the villagers, Xing Yanzi quickly mastered the skills of farm work in the field and began to follow the women in the field.
Xing Yanzi, who followed everyone at sunrise and rested at sunset, lived every day to the fullest. Whenever the moon climbed up the eaves, Xing Yanzi, who was lying on the collapse, would once again depict the future of the village in his heart.
Perhaps this was the happiest time of her day, watching her favorite village get better day by day, Xing Yanzi would always fall asleep so sweetly.
Small body, great strength
Xing Yanzi's village was a place with a very shortage of labor, and during the three years of self-confessed disasters, the family looked at the rice fields with no harvest, and there seemed to be no other way but to sigh and sigh.
In 1959, this small village called Sijiazhuang had a food crisis. Every household was in a hurry, looking at the children who were not running and the old people who were hungry and dizzy, Xing Yanzi felt despair for the first time.
Xing Yanzi and her friends sat together and discussed how to change some grain.
"Straw shoes can be sold for money," "There should still be fish in the river." ”
These two sentences made the villagers look at this little girl with surprise. Everyone knows this, but these nine cold winter weather, how to go fishing on the river.
Probably the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, Xing Yanzi with such a righteous spirit, led the villagers to fish. Although the chances seem slim, it is better than starvation.
In this way, a dozen women and a commando team of young intellectuals embarked on the road of fishing. Just chiseling through the thick ice cubes wastes a lot of effort.
It was hard to have a mouth word, it was full of water, there was no fish to be seen at all, the undead Xing Yanzi scooped the water one scoop after another, his feet were frozen red, and the little friends who couldn't see it also came to help. Soon everyone was led up and scooped up the water together.
Kung Fu pays off, the bottom of the water is full of fish and shrimp, jumping around alive.
"Now the child has been saved." I don't know which mother, took a long breath and sat there paralyzed. Maybe that's hope.
This girl with short hair, with a smile on her red face, seems to have never seen her have a little sadness, and her life seems to be different from everyone's, and she has a comfortable life.
The current eating is solved, if it is not better next year, what will happen to the harvest. Xing Yanzi, who graduated from agricultural middle school, recalled the knowledge she had learned before, combined with the habits of crops.
"Plant ahead."
No one could have imagined that the little girl who only shouted for help when the porridge overflowed knew so much. The villagers listened to Xing Yanzi's explanation, and took advantage of the fact that the sky had not yet warmed up, and planted early.
You must know that these seeds are the life of the villagers, and if they can't grow up, how will they live next year. The hearts of the people were hanging like this, seeing that the crops were getting better every day, and this little girl had become a little hero in everyone's heart.
Stories about her also gradually spread among the villages.
There is no regret in this life
"Rural youth should contribute their strength to the construction of a new socialist countryside, listen to the party's words, not empty slogans, see practical actions, agriculture is so important, the party needs to stay in the countryside itself, no matter what the circumstances should stay in the countryside."
This was the decision that Xing Yanzi made when she was eighteen, and it turned out that Xing Yanzi did it, which was not an empty phrase from the beginning.
Xing Yanzi, who has brought agriculture to life, has been reported by major newspapers and periodicals, and her "six nine wheat" has played a great role in everyone's weathering the famine.
In 1964, when the invitation to Comrade Mao Zedong's seventy-first birthday was handed to Xing Yanzi, the indescribable excitement made this woman who took root in the countryside feel belonged. At the banquet, Comrade Mao Zedong was both a condolence and a dish, and everyone was very moved.
This little girl with double braids, with her own pair of hands and a hot heart, brought hope to countless families, and was received by Comrade Mao Zedong five times and Premier Zhou thirteen times before and after, and her life can be said to be legendary.
Xing Yanzi, who is middle-aged, has been highly valued and has served as deputy secretary, standing committee member, secretary, and vice chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Perhaps because of her advanced age, in 1983, Xing Yanzi dismissed the secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and became the vice chairman of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Xing Yanzi, who has reached her old age, is still the same look that she did not accept defeat when she was young, although her body was bearing a high load, she was still conscientious and rushed to the forefront.
In 1985, Xing Yanzi devoted herself to the environmental protection industry and was appointed deputy director of the Northern Suburban People's Congress.
Don't look at xing yanzi today, she is no longer the little girl who was in the wind and fire. After a long time in the battlefield, her sword is not old, and the spirit of serious study has not changed at all.
In 2009, Xing Yanzi, who had retired and enjoyed her old age, once again entered the real eyes of the media and was nominated as one of the "100 Chinese objects that have touched since the founding of New China." ”
Cheers and praise once again surrounded her.
Perhaps someone once asked Xing Yanzi, is there any regret in this life? Have you ever wondered what life would have been like if you had stayed in the city?
But when we think of the eighteen-year-old Xing Yanzi said, we should understand that Xing Yanzi has no regrets in this life.
epilogue
Xing Yanzi's life has been dedicated to the cause of social construction. Whether it is the righteousness of going to the countryside to be a young person when he was young, or the personal efforts during his middle-aged tenure, or the year of people spending time, they are still picking up lights for the cause of environmental protection and reading at night.
All this is enough to prove that Xing Yanzi's original intention of firm life has never changed, and it is still so hot.
This cotton seed has blossomed and borne fruit, and the soft white cotton wool has stuck to its post for a lifetime.