Video loading...
Cover news reporter Zhou Yi Xi Qinling
"Son: You've been away from home for more than half a year, you haven't heard from you, you sent you a telegram yesterday, and I haven't seen a reply either, doesn't that mean that you can receive letters from that mailbox?" ——Excerpt from "Lei Yong's Mother's Letter to Her Children"
Fifty-six years ago, a letter from the family was delivered to mailbox 22 at the ferry port, signed "Mother, March 2, 1966", and the recipient's name was Lei Yong.
The ferry port is today's Panzhihua City in Sichuan. The mighty construction of the third line has opened the curtain on the development and construction of Panzhihua, and hundreds of thousands of third-line builders from all over the country have come to this "barren land" of deep mountains and valleys to build a new steel base. In 1965, at the age of 20, Lei Yong resolutely joined the army of the third-line construction team and rushed to Panzhihua.
This family letter was received by Lei Yong the year after he arrived in Panzhihua.
Ray Yong in the studio. Zhou Yi photography
Despite his family's opposition, he resolutely became a third-line builder
More than 50 honors bear witness to his outstanding contributions
More than 50 years ago, in order to build a solid strategic rear area of the Chinese nation, millions of outstanding builders packed up their backpacks and gathered from all directions to the third-tier areas, which accounted for more than one-third of the country's land area. It is precisely because of the relay struggle of countless "third-line people" that New China realized the industrial layout of the central and western regions from scratch, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent large-scale development of the western region.
In 1965, at the age of 20, Lei Yong was so excited that he wore a torn suit and carried his bags to Panzhihua. "My parents didn't agree at the time, especially my father, who scolded me." On April 19, when the cover reporter met Lei Yong in the Chuxin Garden of Hemen Street in the West District of Panzhihua City, he recalled the scene of leaving home at that time.
Lei Yong in his youth. Profile picture
The young and vigorous Lei Yong did not listen to his parents' opinions. After coming to Panzhihua, Lei Yong was assigned to the pole factory of the Building Materials General Factory of the Mining Bureau and became a boiler worker. Burning the boiler was very bitter and tiring, but Lei Yong still took on the most bitter work, and everyone said that he was crazy. But he said: "I am not crazy, the country is in difficulty, I just want to do a little more, do a little better, and do my best." ”
In order to reduce the amount of coal used and save costs, Lei Yong led the whole class to experiment with 50% of the sludge mixed into the raw coal as fuel, saving 200 tons of raw coal per year. "National Excellent Production Expert", "National May Day Labor Medal", "National Labor Model", "Excellent Communist Party Member of Sichuan Province"... More than 50 honors have witnessed his outstanding contributions to the construction of the third line.
A family portrait taken by Lei Yong when he was young.
A letter from the family is worth ten thousand dollars
"How nice it would be to have you!"
On the fiery infrastructure front, Lei Yong's daily life passed quickly, but for his family, his days at home were worrying.
In her heart, her mother complained that the telegram had not been echoed, and there was no reply to the letter, where did she know that even the family letter sent in the spring had gone through more than 100 days of tossing and turning, and it only arrived in Lei Yong's hand in the midsummer.
"Spring ploughing is about to begin, and everything from beans and peas must be rushed before spring ploughing, otherwise the harvest of this year's harvest is not good for barren farming, how good it is to have you!" Lei Yong's mother wrote in the letter, "I remember that when you left, there were still small yellow flowers blooming on the side of the road, and now the small persimmon trees on both sides have withered." ”
A few parents are short, but a mother's infinite thoughts about her son. Since he could not write, this family letter was also ghostwritten by someone else.
Even if he was extremely reluctant to his son, when he left, his mother still told Lei Yong, "We must work seriously and listen to the party's words", these two simple words have also become the family training that Lei Yong remembers for a lifetime.
Awards and medals received by Rayon
Use the mother's home training to educate the children
It is necessary to pass on the spirit of the third-line construction
To this day, Lei Yong, who is nearly 80 years old, is still active in the place where he struggled when he was young.
In 2019, the "Silver Yao Flower City West District Lei Yong Studio" was established, and since then, the most important thing for Lei Yong every day after retirement is to sort out the third-line construction materials in the studio. "People often come to visit, and I want to tell them about the history of the construction of the third line and the spirit of the third line." Lei Yong told the cover news reporter, "There are still many people who invite me to give lectures, and there are government agencies and schools. ”
Lei Yong, who does not fade in retirement, was also named the "Top Ten and Five Elders" volunteer in Sichuan Province, as he himself said, he is like a brick, where he needs to move wherever he needs it.
Such a spirit also infected Lei Yong's children. "Since I was a child, I have heard my father say that we must work seriously and listen to the party." Lei Yong's daughter Lei Haiyan told the cover news reporter that Lei Yong is "kind" in daily education, "because he is not highly educated, so he usually does not talk much about big reason." ”
Lei Yong family (Lei Haiyan in the back row, right)
There is a small story that Makes Lei Haiyan remember deeply. When Lei Haiyan was a child, once she went back to her hometown in Dazhou QuXian to visit relatives, she did not want to write homework, Lei Yong stretched out her hand to give Lei Haiyan a "brain melon collapse", "and then taught me to be diligent, not to steal and slip, and to be honest, not to be greedy and cheap." Lei Haiyan said that it was Lei Yong's only "hand".
Today, Lei Haiyan and her brother Lei Dongbo have become parents, "We will also pass on the spirit of our father, and educate our children to strive to become useful to society and the country like the older generation of builders." ”
(The picture in this article is provided by the interviewee in addition to the signature)
[If you have a news thread, please report to us, once adopted, there is a fee reward.] Feed WeChat attention: ihxdsb, feed QQ: 3386405712]