Liu Qing: The History of Entrepreneurship Part I: Chapter 15: 1

Although the road of life is long, there are often only a few steps at the critical point, especially when people are young.

No one's life path is straight, no fork in the road. There are some forks in the road, such as political forks, career forks, personal life forks, you take a wrong step, you can affect a period of life, you can also affect a lifetime. Before liberation, because the social impact was very bad, many young people were unconscious of this, often resulting in a waste of vitality, or even a lifetime of hard work, and as a result, they did not contribute to the social cause. Xu Gaixia, a member of the youth league after liberation, although she is a village girl, she already knows how to treat life with what kind of attitude.

The croppers of Toad Beach could not see with their eyes that There was a relationship between Jia Xia and Shengbao. They had no time to wander the country roads, waiting for each other. Third-grade elementary school students don't yet write love letters; It is a mutual aid group leader who can write, who has learned to write in a literacy class and has not completely removed his semi-illiterate hat, and will not read letters. And there is no red lady-like character, how difficult it is to help them connect and understand each other's thoughts! The economic and political feudal forces of Toad Beach have been brought down; But the spiritual feudal ideas of the croppers will take some time to wash away! When influential young people in the masses talk about family affairs, they still have to be scrupulous. But Gai Xia's love for Shengbao is strong and modern.

At night, Jia Xia and her mother slept together on the small kang of the grass hut in the persimmon tree courtyard. Mom slept so hard she couldn't sleep. The short spring night is so long for The Change!

Jia Xia turned over and over to think about one thing—was she really going to leave the persimmon tree yard where she grew up? Did she really want to leave this verdant Zhongnan Mountain and the green Tang River? Is she really going to leave this rice field where white cranes, storks, herons, and yellow ducks are flying around? Is she really going to live in a red building somewhere on the outskirts of Xi'an, in her completely unfamiliar factory and workers' dormitory, to explore a new life, to meet new friends, and finally not to make a treasure with her companion of land reform, but to share a fate with a young man she has new love for? ......

Her heart was heavy. She felt uncomfortable and awkward. She asked herself: Are you reluctant to leave this beautiful toad beach and go to the big city to participate in the industrialization of the country? She wanted to go! There is nothing more desirable for a young league member who aspires to socialism than to participate in industrialization. I heard that many military cadres and local cadres have turned to industry. Participating in industry has become a fad. The glory of the working class also attracts the reformer. In 1951 and 1952, the factories in Xi'an came to the county to recruit people, and there were still fewer willing to go, and they needed to be mobilized. But 1953 was different, and "socialism" had replaced "land reform" and become a new term for the Tang River Valley. How many girls of the lower castle elementary school have made up their minds to go to the factory. Some of them talked about the city life introduced by the female classmates who had lived in the factory in the previous two years: what they ate, what they wore, what they lived, what they used, what they saw... The league branch member Gai Xia heard it from the side, flattened his mouth, shrugged his nose, and despised these rich middle peasant girls. How tacky they are, thinking "upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and phones"! The Kao kao factory was not for these purposes. She had seen Hao Jianxiu's image in the pictorial, and she wanted to be a female worker like that. New China opened up the path of heroism for Hao Jianxiu, a poor girl, and Gai Xia was inspired by her deeds.

...... If so, she should be happy, why is it uncomfortable?

She was still uncomfortable, awkward. She wondered: Is it selfish for her to do so? Is it sorry to be a raw treasure? When she saw her from Shengbao, she was so nervous that she concluded that Shengbao's heart was still on her. And her? If she didn't like raw treasure in the first place, it would be simple! No, she still likes him. This is the knot that weighs on her heart! Not the verdant Zhongnan Mountain, not the clear Tang River, not the beautiful rice fields, not the fluttering cranes, not the familiar grass huts... Instead, there is a young man named Liang Shengbao who is active here, and He is nostalgic.

Still when Shengbao's adoptive daughter-in-law was alive, the marriage contract was dissolved last time in The Xia District and the last time in the countryside. At that time, she thought to herself, "How nice it would be if my people were like Shengbao!" "She thought of Shengbao as her ideal person. It is not shengbao's face, eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth that are popular, because shengbao's appearance is really very common. Shengbao - His kindness of heart, his integrity of his deeds, and his bravery in doing things combine with his voice, appearance and physique to form a whole, which arouses the admiration of his daughter-in-law. Who cares whose son he is, how many estates and houses he has, and how good his in-laws' hearts are! "Don't pick Qin Chuandi, single out a good son-in-law." If two years ago, in the middle of the wave of land reform, both of them were as unattractive as they are now, and Lao Tzu, the Heavenly King, would not have been able to stop Chang xia from going to shengbao's grass hut as a daughter-in-law! Mom, public opinion, Liang San's unhappy face, compared to the innocent feelings hidden in her heart, what is gained! She didn't care! But now, she never expected that when Shengbao became a bachelor and she dissolved her marriage contract, the social situation would become like this. Toad Beach can no longer hear the gongs, drums and slogans of Xiabao Village, and can no longer see the red flag waving and crowd flowing on the road. The village was lifeless, and all I could hear was cow barking, dogs barking, and chickens chirping, which made people panic. However, the city construction that has mushroomed after the rain is beckoning to the third-grade primary school students. It really embarrassed her! She is not the kind of person who has no heart, how can she suddenly forget the old feelings of the land reform, give up her life treasure, and just fly away on her own?

"You're in third grade. The objects of change and change, who propose to you, are all people with literary ink. He only learned a few words in the literacy class..." This is the thought of Chang xia's mother. The old woman didn't say it out of her mouth, and Ji Xia could see it on her face. Alas! Poor old feudal brain melon! Is your daughter going to school to raise her value? Changing Xia is not that kind of cheap goods. She knew how much she had changed after three years of school; And Shengbao, even though he was still a militia captain and had not yet joined the party, she had already seen from his words and deeds that he was a person who wanted to do great things. In Jia Xia's memory, there are many such situations - Shengbao stands in public, neither showing his sharp edge nor shrinking from inferiority. He always listened quietly to others and did not interject. As soon as he began to speak, he said some of the most weighty words that no one present could say, which attracted people's attention. At such times, Gai Xia's heart was completely poured into shengbao. A poor young man in the countryside, without the slightest selfish thought; This also firmly grasped The heart of Jia Xia.

After Guo Zhenshan enlightened that day, Jia Xia began to think, "Alas! Who knew that it would take decades for Toad Beach to reach socialism? Decades! The spontaneous forces are so powerful, how big a wave can be set off by a small mutual aid group! So I stayed at Toad Beach, and after a few decades, I was an old woman who should have a grandson. I'm still socialism in the city. "For Jie xia, the object is not for the sake of eating and wearing, nor is it for physiological needs." She was for a new desire to create socialism together. Thinking like this, she felt that it was legitimate for her to leave Shengbao to live in the factory. She felt that her decision was patriotic, forward and positive. Her heart was calm for a few days.

But when she heard that Shengbao had organized a large group of people to enter the Zhongnan Mountains and bravely fought back against the challenge of spontaneous forces resisting "active lending", Jia Xia's heart was shocked again. Ahhh! You were so bold, in the spring of 1953, it was not simple! Jie Xia knew how many croppers were in Toad Beach, and they were all preparing for a few decades without harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, no soldiers and bandits, no bully landlords, no robbers and thieves, only crops and croppers competing for each other's wealth and profits. However, the whole party, which studied the raw treasure of spiritual mobilization, led a group of basic masses and launched a new struggle. His bold action shook Guo Zhenshan's determination to change the Xiakao factory. She wanted to talk to Xiulan several times, but considering that the transfer of words often could not accurately express the original meaning, she swallowed back the words to her mouth. She was going to talk directly to Shengbao once. Before he entered the mountain, she must take the opportunity to talk to him once, once at a time, once in detail, once in a calm manner...

The opportunity to change Xia came. This Sunday happens to be the market day of Huangbao Town. She knew from Xiulan's mouth that Shengbao had entered the mountain after the Qingming Festival, and in the past few days, she was busy preparing to enter the mountain. She thought, "He must be on the set." When I went to Huangbao to meet him, the two of them naturally talked on the road to Fengdian Village in Dongyuan, where there were few acquaintances. ......”

"Mom, I'm going to go to the last episode today." She got up in the morning and said to her mother.

Mom was amazed: "What did you do in the last episode?" Let's plant plum beans today! ”

"I'll buy a notebook and go..."

"What book?"

"Ben Ben! What a book! Workbook..."

Mom stared at her suspiciously and promised, "Well. Go for it. ”

All morning, the old woman cleaned the hut and made breakfast. Facing the window illuminated by the spring morning sun, She combed her hair and braided her braids. She looked in the mirror and wore thick, dark, shiny braids for her twenty-one-year-old daughter. Then she threw her two braids behind her back with vigor.

After breakfast, Gai Xia carried the bamboo basket where her mother had placed about thirty eggs in it, and came out of the street gate of the persimmon tree courtyard. She lifted her oily head and looked down the river—there was no sight of the raw treasure, only the grass hut courtyard of the raw treasure, quietly sitting under the budding elm and poplar trees. Mom followed out of the street door, ding:

"Change, you go early and come back early, and you will wave in the street for a day." After that, we planted plum beans! ”

"Uh-huh." Gai Xia agreed in her mouth, thinking in her heart, "Shengbao hasn't left yet." I'll go first. Right! I'm waiting for him in the town of Yellow Castle..."

She wore buttoned floral plaid shoes and two small pieces of foot on the field path, stilted gently. Her heart was full of joy and joy, like the dandelions and cat's eyes blooming on the side of the road.

Before the Qingming Festival, the banks of the Tang River changed into spring costumes, which is the time when peach red willows are green and warblers fly and swallow dance. The sun shines on the wheat seedlings that have been plucked, emitting a pungent wheat green fragrance. Barley, already in the pregnant spike. The flowing water in the roadside channel, crystal clear, rushed to the long way back to the sea. The government launched spring irrigation, and many single-handed households were blocked by the old agricultural proverb - "watering summer without grain", which blocked their minds and had concerns. In order to set an example for the croppers, the Shengbao Mutual Aid Group implemented spring irrigation and applied ammonia sulfate fertilizer, and the wheat branches and leaves were extraordinarily lush and dark green, and the color was like the pine peaks of Zhongnan Mountain.

Gai Xia left the field path and embarked on the road from Huangbao to Yukou Town. On the highway, those who push carts, those who drive livestock, those who carry reeds, those who carry wooden planks, those who carry burdens, those who carry baskets, those who hold chickens... The croppers who have changed seasons and those who have not yet changed seasons step on the dust on the road and flock to the Yellow Castle in an endless stream under the warm and baking sun.

Gai kao walked very slowly. The three-by-three and the individual croppers walked from her to her side. Someone turned his head to look at her, then smiled at his companion and said:

"This girl is waiting for someone, watching her toes walk..."

"What do you care about?" Dislike! Gai Xia said in her heart, and glanced forward with her white eyes.

There were people who were preparing to enter the mountain, and they also walked to her in pairs. As they walked, they talked about what they were going to buy— crooked sickles, sharpened sickles, woolly wrapping, hemp shoes... Some say he has a curved sickle and only buys one to cut the sickle; Some people say: Shengbao said, there is no need for each person to cut a sickle, two or three people to make a hand; Because cutting off the twigs on the broom handle, unlike cutting bamboo, is very fast. - "Raw treasure said"! Everything is "raw treasure to say"! Shengbao seemed to have become their authority.

When Jie Xia heard them talking like this, she felt comfortable in her heart--"Shengbao has a way, he is bold and careful..."

"Ah, Change!" Ren Laosi roared in an open voice, and spit in his mouth, "Are you going or not?" How to walk on the road, still uncertain? ”

"I think something." Gai xia blushed and lied.

Ren Laosi's mouth grinned, and the water snake's waist shook and walked forward. Jia Xia thought to herself: Why hasn't Shengbao come yet? Now she wanted to turn around and look back, afraid to see acquaintances laughing at her. After taking a few steps, she thought again: Maybe Shengbao has a lot of things in Huangbao, and he has left in front of him.

"Jia Xia, did you go to the last episode?" It is the tone of Sun Shuizui's complaining. Gai Xia felt a moment of tightness. She didn't need to look with her eyes to imagine Sun Shuizui's eyes. That greedy gaze really terrified any serious girl. ......

Now, Sun Shuizui jumped on three stilts and jumped up and caught up. He walked shoulder to shoulder with her. He used his arm in the white cloth shirt to touch the arm of the student's blue cloth shirt. Gai xia dodged it annoyingly.

"Come on! I'll give you a basket. ”

"No! I'll mention it myself. Chang Xia changed the bamboo basket from her right hand to her left hand.

Sun Shuizui was indomitable and went around to the left to grab the basket. Dead beggars!

"You few eggs, I can't drink them raw!"

Jia Xia changed the basket from her left hand to her right hand. She stretched her face, very seriously with a hint of warning, and said:

"Zhiming! You walk well, grab and grab! What does it look like for people? ”

Sun Shui's face was not red, and he smiled unashamedly. He gave up his intention to carry the basket for Gaisha. But he was not discouraged, and he looked for another possibility to serve Jiaxia.

"These eggs, do you want to sell them once?" You probably have something else to do, right? ”

Jia Xia didn't make a sound, she felt uncomfortable following the ghosts around her. She thought, "It's bad luck to run into this guy." If he wasn't a civil servant and helped the director of the deputies, I wouldn't have given him a good look. Chang Xia looked at the representative director's sake and endured.

"Did you have anything else to do in the last episode?" The spout was tempted again.

"Uh-huh."

"What's the matter?" Too busy, I'll help you..."

"Not necessarily."

In the middle of speaking, Jia Xia had already accelerated her pace. She rushed over to the people who had come from her side. She wanted to throw away Sun Shui's mouth. She couldn't stand the greedy look he had at her face, her braids, and her breasts. He spoke to her in a sour voice, and seemed to treat her as a woman with a problem with her reputation. "Yuck! What a dirty thought! She thought with hatred in her heart.