In the winter of the 80s, the hinterland of Daxing'anling, endless snow covered land! This belongs to the security circle under the close control of the border guards and the forest police brigade. There is no humanity allowed here – it is fireproof and special, and it is also a nature reserve.
Early morning. In this white world, a snow mound like a cotton mound moved a little, revealing a cave and drilling out a black "animal" from it! Not an animal, but a person! Yes, it was a man, a medium-sized woman with a face full of wrinkles and a sick face, she was motionless, a vivid statue with life.
At the moment, she stood motionless, with no expression on her face, just staring into the distance with a pair of talking eyes. The wind flowed down her cheeks, blowing coldly into the mountains and forests, to the place where her soul was attached. The wind groaned and swept over the snow-covered land, emitting a weeping melody.
Her name is Liu Huilan. Extrapolating from her gaunt face and the gray hair pressed under her oil-stained dog skin hat, she was more than half a hundred years old. In fact, she was only in her early forties. Judging from her clothing, she looks a bit like a mountain dweller, but it is even more worn than a mountain dweller; Similar to a beggar, but neater than a beggar. And her eyes were bright and bright, and the light affirmed her identity: this unfortunate woman was cultured.
She seemed to hear something. She moved. Then, from the mouth of the river she had just drilled, Hula drilled out four children of varying ages and ragged clothes. These are her four children: the eldest son, Xiao Bao, 17 years old; Eldest daughter Xiaomei, 13 years old; Second daughter, 11 years old; The youngest son, Daping, is 10 years old. As a result of malnutrition, the children grew thin and small, which was very inconsistent with their actual age.
As soon as the children came out, they cheered: "Ha! It's sunny, let's have a snowball fight! "Come, fight, fight!"
"Shhh—" The eldest son, Xiao Bao, noticed that his mother's face was not right, made a gesture, and everyone immediately calmed down.
Together, the children set their sights on their mothers. The mother remained motionless and looked into the distance. The children suddenly understood, their faces changed suddenly, and their eyes showed a look of panic and anxiety.
Xiao Bao made a gesture again, and the children automatically disbanded. Xiao Mei carried chai into the cave, Xiao San and Da Ping picked up the broom tied with artemisia grass, while Xiao Bao calmly walked towards the snow forest sea.
After a while, Xiao San and Da Ping swept away the snow from the bulge above the cave and swept away a small snow field around it. At the same time, a faint wisp of green smoke rose from a small chimney. Oh, it turned out to be a home: a little horse frame room, a little courtyard. Two stacks of hill-like dry firewood... It turned out to be inhabited!
How can there be people? This is a forbidden area! Why did they come here?
It's hard to say who they are in a sentence or two. It is not wrong to say that they are Chinese. However, their names are not on the register anywhere. For some reasons at that time, the family escaped into the security circle and lived the life of a wild man in the depths of the Daxing'an Mountains.
"Mom, it's time to eat!" The eldest daughter, Xiaomei, came out of the horse frame and called.
She looked at her daughter with a miserable look, did not move, and went to look again. The husband has been gone for three days and has not returned. He went down the mountain with his herbs and went to a distant town to get some salt and grain. The family had not eaten salt for a month, and the only food left, potatoes, was gone.
Click, click—footsteps. Not the husband is the eldest son. The eldest son, Xiao Bao, returned with a fox on his shoulder.
"Brother, did you trap the rabbit?" Xiaomei asked.
"Stuck in. Two big and three small. ”
"Ah, there is meat to eat!" Xiao San and Da Ping were happy.
"I put them again."
"Why?" Xiaomei asked.
"They're a family, they're pathetic..."
"Brother, you!" Daping pouted disapprovingly.
When the mother understood her son's heart, she took her son in her arms, caressed his frozen red face with her hand, and murmured in her mouth, "Yes, let them go, they are a family..."
As she spoke, her face gradually showed a look of suspicion. She still looked into the distance, waiting for her husband to return...
Oh, where is the husband of this sick-faced woman? Where is the father of this skinny child?
At this time, the woman's husband was selling medicinal herbs in front of the Gagdaqi Workers' and Peasants' And soldiers' hotel.
A buyer is haggling with him: How much is this mother-of-pearl? Two pieces of five? Too expensive, too expensive. ”
Look at his hand, which stretches out like the big bone joints of the branches of a tree, like an authentic mountain man; Listen to his Beijing accent when he is doing business with people, three points of inferiority, seven points of mystery and deceit, like a second-way dealer, more like a rogue! ......
He was the man of the family in the forest vigilance circle, Shang Jintang.
He was a little cold. He held his hands in his hands and stomped his feet, waiting for the buyer, while calculating in his heart, how much salt, corn ballast and blue cloth should be bought when the mountain goods were sold...
Gollum, Gollum—stomach aching, he burped.
Yes, you'll have to buy some baking soda. But is there enough money?
He has stomach aches, and baking soda is a cheap cure for his stomach pain. Over the years, just eating baking soda, there is always no more than a sack. A few years ago, eating baking soda depended on begging people, but now it is not possible, where is the place where his family lives?
A stout middle-aged man in a police uniform was looking at him. He found out and became alert.
His heart was tightening, and he grunted again. He looked flustered and prepared to slip away. He was afraid of such people. Every time he went out of the mountain, he was always wary of such people. Once, when he went out of the mountains, he was caught, he refused to give his wife and children the residence, and finally, he was detained and deported. Then he ran back. During this time, he and his wife and children were suffering from hunger and terror. Alas. It's all because of myself, how many sins my wife and children have suffered!
He lifted the bag and left, but the man followed and grabbed him by the shoulder.
"Ah!" He screamed.
"May I ask, are you surnamed Shang?"
"I... Yes, ah, no..." He muttered, incoherently.
"Your name is Shang Jintang, right?"
"Me? No, my name is Shang Wu. "Shang Wu is the name that Shang JinTang later changed.
"Shang Noon? Hey, Shang Jin Tang, you are Shang Jin Tang! ”
When it was over, when it was over, he immediately thought of his fate, of his wife and children in the ice and snow, and trepidation overflowed from his thin face.
His wife and children were waiting for him to send salt and grain back, and they had not eaten salt for a long time. The scene of Xiao San and Da Ping grabbing salt soil in the saline and alkali land suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Poor kids! He was determined to resist, pulled his leg and ran! But where can he run the professional police. Within ten steps, he was stopped, and his wrist was firmly clamped into the man's hand.
"Kanedo! What are you doing here? The policeman yelled at him, "Look who I am, I'm your classmate Wang Yintong!" ”
"Shade? He stared wide-eyed at the policeman in front of him: "You are... Shade? When he determined that the other party was indeed his classmate and friend when he studied at the Hohhot Finance and Trade Cadre School in the 1950s, he burst into tears. He shook his friend's arm and begged him: "Yin Tong, look at the love of your friend in the same window." Please, you let me go, I'm not a bad person, I'm not a bad person..."
Comrade Wang Yintong, who was the commander of the Gagdaqi Border Defense Brigade, knew about Jintang's exile in his early years. But what happened afterwards, he didn't know anything. For years, he thought of him and sympathized with him. At the moment, he was confused by Shang Jintang's actions. He tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, slowed down his words, and spoke to him peacefully: "JinTang, you are not anxious, Mo urgent, I know, you are not a bad person, I will not arrest you!" ......”
"You don't catch me? You let me go? So why are you still grabbing my hand? Shang Jintang stood up.
Where was Wang Yintong willing to let go of Jin Tang's hand, he calmed down for a moment and asked Jin Tang: "Jin Tang, has your problem been solved?" ”
"No! I will never overturn the case! Never overturn the case..." Shang Jintang panicked again.
"Jintang, you, where do you live now?"
"Me. I won't tell you. ”
Comrade Wang Yintong is an old public security officer in the Daxinganling area, with his experience, he has already guessed a few points at this time, looking at Shang Jintang, who is like a frightened bird in front of him, he naturally thinks of Shang Jintang's talented, lively and cheerful handsome smiling face more than twenty years ago... Yin Tong's heart was sour, and tears swirled in his eye sockets.
"Jintang, now that the Third Plenary Session has passed, the problems have been solved!"
"What do you say?" I don't understand..."
Shang Jintang was confused by Wang Yintong's series of unfamiliar political terms. Having lived in the mountains for a long time, he didn't know what year it was!
Wang Yintong finally pulled Shang Jintang to his home: ... A hot bath and a human fireworks made Shang Jintang return to the warmth of the human world. He finally woke up from the obscurity of primitive people, and he finally understood the earth-shaking changes that had taken place in China over the years. He couldn't help himself, the great man, in spite of everything, in front of Wang Yintong's wife and children, threw himself into the arms of his old classmate like a child, and cried bitterly!
No talking – no time, no words to talk about these decades of humiliation! Just let the tears flow tirelessly! Flow! ......
The warmth and enthusiasm of Wang Yintong's family did not keep Shang Jintang, and he soon embarked on his return journey.
"Whelan! Whelan! Whelan—" His heart called out his wife's name, and he rushed to the depths of the snow-covered Daxing'an Mountains.
Whelan, you are waiting and looking forward to the depths of the Daxing'an Mountains, at this time, have you ever heard?
In 1972, the family's back pulled, for some reason, fled to the depths of the Daxing'an Mountains, becoming a modern "savage"!
Spring. Daxing'anling is like a beautiful and attractive ink painting. However, who in the heart of the Whelan couple with their children and daughters has the heart to appreciate this picturesque and beautiful scenery?
"High in the Xing'an Mountains, there is a big forest, and in the forest lives the brave Olunchun, one person, one hunting horse, one person and one gun..." This is the song that Huilan and Jintang loved to sing more than ten years ago. More than ten years ago, the Orunchun people, who lived the life of a savage, walked out of the dense forests of the lofty mountains and walked out of the primitive life; More than ten years later, Whelan and Jintang took 4 poor children to the mountains and mountains and into the life of primitive people. However, they walked empty-handed, without hunting horses or guns, not even a wire or a box of matches.
They went into the mountain, walked forward along a large ditch, came to the head, and walked down a large ravine.
When they were tired of walking, they sat on the big rocks by the mountain stream and drank a meal of mountain stream water to relieve their fatigue; When you are hungry, you will pick some wild vegetables and cook them to eat.
There is no path anymore, there is no one there, they still go inside...
They finally came to the bottom of a big black mountain deep in the dense forest, where there was a slope, sparsely forested, grass and water, and a lot of wild vegetables. Well, just live here, just call it "Black Mountain Head".
This time, there are no people here! They were the "first" to break into the uninhabited and barren kingdom, and they became the rulers here - all plants and beasts were their inhabitants! It was a great twist and reform!
Whoops – two rabbits jump up from the grass, hurry, catch it, open the meat!
The children cheered and chased the rabbits away. The rabbits were not caught, but for the first time in their lives, the children experienced the strength and pride of the strong!
Fluttering rumble - a flock of unknown wild birds flew up from the field in panic, and the children rushed into the wild grass, and after a burst of laughter, they held out more than a dozen snow-white bird eggs! The children again enjoyed the joy of easy harvesting for the first time in their lives!
What a teenager! Where do they know. At this time, their parents' tears were flowing into their stomachs, and their hearts were flooded with sorrow!
Night fell, and the curtain of true savage life was lifted. The Whelan family of 6 wore two battered quilts, and in the hunger and cold, they looked forward to the rise of the sun yesterday. Suddenly, a few wolf howls followed, and they saw, in the dark night around them, a few frightening green lights like ghost fires!
"Mommy!" Dad! The children screamed and went straight into their parents' arms!
"Don't be afraid, there's a dad!" Whelan and Jintang clutched the wooden stick in their hands, guarding their children like hens guarding their chicks.
Terror! Hunger! Misery! The children finally understood: Daxing Anzheng's life was like this!
This is the life of a savage. But after all, they are small and wild people. The evolution of wildlings is a process of millions of years, but they can improve their living conditions millions of times faster than the evolution of wildlings.
They first set up their homes on the trunks of several large trees that were close together. Soon, they abandoned it, set up a horse frame house on the hillside, and then dug a deep ditch around it, and put camouflage on the ditch, which was both a weapon against the invasion of wild beasts and a tool to capture the delicacy of meat.
There are no ropes, they are woven with bark; There were no shovels, they used sharp stones and wooden sticks; There were no matches, so they lit them with flint stones, and finally dug a big pit in the house, lit firewood in it, and then used the soil to smother it, so that the fire would not be extinguished day and night.
At first, they ate only three kinds of wild vegetables: lettuce, gray cabbage, and amaranth. Later, like Shennong's taste of hundreds of herbs, they gradually discovered four-leaf vegetables, chicken claw vegetables, axle spindles, old bone tendons, horseshoe vegetables... Naturally there are also broccoli, fungus, mushrooms, acorns, hazelnuts, mother thorns, strawberries and various other wild fruits. Many of these wild plants are Chinese herbal medicine. These heavenly medicines have made it a miracle that none of their families have suffered from headaches and brain fever in their many years of life in Daxing'anling!
At first, the logic of their lives was no different from that of all the wild animals in the forest: every morning when they opened their eyes, they began to look around like animals. They invented the willow flute, which constantly signals so that they would not get lost in the four-headed food hunt. (They've been lost a few times!) ）
They found a few broken canned boxes, which were like treasures, and searched for food in the deep grass of the dense forest. They knocked on the canned box, and the sound could frighten the vicious snakes and beasts and flee!
They found that they couldn't pull out the after eating acorns, so they ate a lot of mushrooms to lubricate their stomachs...
Gradually, as their savages lived to a degree of ease, their demands grew. They put four-leaf vegetables and small astragalus leaves in the sun with tea leaves. They used bark ropes to trap wild and roe deer, and wicker to weave fences to catch fish. What is even more interesting is that in winter, when they went to the big cover to dig the ice hole, when the ice hole was chiseled through, suddenly, there were baskets of small fish and ants crossing out. The cockroach meat is fat and good, and it is a high-grade nutritional product that people in the city can't buy at high prices!
Whelan teaches children to sing, tell stories, and is responsible for the children's cultural life; Shang Jin Tang teaches children to recognize and write. What about pens? With branches, with blades of grass. When using grass when the pen, a white disk with flowers is right as a blackboard. The green blade of grass juice is printed on the disk and is so clear. After a long time, the color of the magnetic tea plate was worn out, and the plate was ground out of a pit, but the eldest son Xiao Bao practiced a good hand!!
The most heart-wrenching thing is that they can't eat food or salt! Over time, their bodies softened and they often dozed off. Sometimes, watching the children lick the saline soil on the riverside, Whelan and Jintang's hearts were like knives. Therefore, Shang Jintang had the dangerous idea of going out of the mountains and forests in exchange for grain and salt.
Danger, he is not afraid. He hurts the child, he sins the child. If it weren't for his fault, how could the children have suffered this sin? But out of the mountains, what about money? At this time, he found the precious medicinal herb Mother Offinder. This is a major discovery! Soon, an old man who went into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs came to their home and found a pile of white bones piled up in front of his house, so he bought it at a high price of 15 yuan a catty. From then on, Lao Shang began to collect shellfish, and had the courage to go out of the mountains to sell, and then exchanged for a little grain, salt and necessary tools and daily necessities. The life of the Old Shang family began to improve significantly, and they even opened a small wasteland and planted a high-yielding crop, yam eggs.
This is the "savage" life of their family, in the forest of Daxing'anling in the 1970s! They look forward to one day taking their children out of the mountains and living in modern society.
This day, they finally look forward to it.
After Shang Jintang met Comrade Wang Yintong in Gagdaqi, he immediately returned to his "home" in the dense forest of daxinganling. Along the way, he rushed, no longer hiding from people's eyes. As he approached his home, he looked back and happily sang the Soviet song: "A small road is thin and long." ......”
He appeared near the door, "Shhh—Jintang, crazy, aren't you afraid of someone hearing?" ”
"Not afraid! Whelan, fast-forward home and tell you the good news! He happily helped his wife into the house: "Whelan, the Third Plenum has passed!" We solved the problem! ......”
"What? What do you say?? You are crazy? Whelan was stunned by Jintang's words.
"No, no, Whelan, you listen to me..."
Jin Tang told his wife the words he had heard from Wang Yintong. Whelan stared at the fans, refusing to believe it.
Finally, at the instigation of Comrade Wang Yintong, the husband and wife discussed a foolproof plan: Shang Jintang wrote a letter of appeal to his original work unit, the Hohhot Construction Bank. CcB quickly replied, saying: "Before receiving your letter, we had inquired about your whereabouts everywhere, and now we have accurate information about you, and the comrades of the organ are very happy..."
Reading the letter from the Municipal Construction Bank, Shang Jintang and his wife cried bitterly. They finally look forward to it, and finally see the sun rising on the horizon of life!
After leaving the mountain, immediately after, the Municipal Construction Bank sent a living allowance, first 300 yuan, then 200 yuan, 300 yuan... They used the money to buy food and clothing for the whole family. At this point, the life of the Shang Jintang family really got enough to feed!
On October 15, 1983, the Municipal Construction Bank sent someone to pick up the Shang Jintang family and return to Hohhot. On the way back, they stayed in Qiqihar for a day and in Beijing for half a day to see liu Huilan and shang Jintang's elderly parents. Who knows, Liu Huilan's parents have long closed their eyes under the Nine Springs!
In Beijing, Shang Jintang saw his 82-year-old lonely father, and the old man saw his son's family and fainted after two dry howls!
11 years, life and death parting, pain and pain, pain is like a lot!
They finally returned to Hohhot, where they had been away for 22 years. The leaders of the Municipal Construction Bank came to visit them. And soon arranged housing for them. At that time, Liu and Shang's friends also came to visit and sent bedding and furniture by them. After shedding a wave of tears and sighing, countless warm consolations sprinkled their hearts like spring wind and rain!
The children who came out of the forest were strange and curious about everything in front of them, and sometimes a sense of doubt arose.
When Shang Jintang took his 20-year-old eldest son to the street to buy grass mats, the eldest son saw that there were many people, and even pulled his father's arm to run, he reminded his father: "Dad, run fast, there are many people, why should we catch us?" ”
Shang Jintang comforted him: "Child, don't be afraid, these are the same as us, go shopping." ”
When the child heard his father's affirmative reply, his heart gradually settled down.
The little daughter picked up a round iron grate at the mouth of the sewer and was hungry. She said to Dad; "Daddy, let's fry this too,"
"Okay, let's fry." Shang Jintang agreed bitterly, and he knew in his heart that his little daughter remembered the oil cake she had eaten when she asked for food.
Joke! It's a joke. Although there are many jokes in the world, there are not many jokes like this that make people listen to soft intestines!
Hohhot Jianfang implemented the policy for Shang Jintang, and he restored his original salary and paid a supplementary salary of 40 months. In March 1984, Liu Huilan's policy was quickly implemented!
Later, Liu Huilan's family has moved into a new building with three bedrooms and one living room, her eldest son has been assigned to work, and the other three children have attended the fifth and sixth grades of primary school and the first grade of junior high school according to the educational level of self-study in Daxinganling. Unfortunately, Liu Huilan's leg disease was finally serious and she underwent surgery on her right leg. Her legs were crippled...
11 years on, at the snap of a finger! In a wave, how many waters and sorrows are bounced off? But the snow could not cover the story it buried...