In 1951, Sun Changyu was assigned to the art group of the 18th Army Art Team. At that time, the art detachment had to go up the mountain to cut the grass during the day, and at night had to work overtime to write propaganda slogans and post them. Once the slogan was written late, and the captain Gu Jianying took Sun Changyu and a few other comrades to go outside to post it, they were all so hungry that they couldn't stand it, so Gu Jianying distributed the leftover paste of the slogan to everyone for a night meal. Unexpectedly, the next day, the captain was criticized by his superiors.
In 1941, after completing its mission, the Kang-Tibet Task Force was announced to be disbanded when it arrived in Qamdo. Sun Changyu was assigned to the art group of the division art team. At that time, the art detachment, like other comrades in the art team, had to go up the mountain to cut the grass during the day, and when they came back at night, they had to work overtime to write propaganda slogans, and after they were written, everyone went out to post them together.
Once, the slogan of the art team was written very late, and after the captain Gu Jianying took Sun Changyu and several other comrades to go outside to paste it, everyone was so hungry that they couldn't stand it, so Gu Jianying took it upon himself to distribute the remaining paste of the slogan to a few people for a night meal. At that time, Sun Changyu ate a large mouthful of batter and felt that it was very sweet. Several people looked at the detachment leader with grateful eyes.
However, the next day, the team leader was criticized by his superiors. The superiors believed that the paste was made of flour, and in the case of food shortage, saving the paste was to save food, and the remaining paste should be kept for the next time, and it should not be eaten without authorization. Some people say that the swaddling paste will dry when you put it down, and you won't be able to use it next time. The leader said that when it is dry, you can stir it with water and use it as a paste, but it really can't be used, and you can't eat it casually.
Later, Sun Changyu was transferred to the Propaganda Section to be responsible for copying the daily recorded news of the Central People's Radio Station for the use of the mimeographed tabloids regularly published by the troops. Because she often worked late at night and ate scarcely during the day, she was often dizzy with hunger, and sometimes she didn't even know what she had written on paper, and she didn't know it when she sorted it out the next day.
At that time, Qamdo had just been liberated and had not yet used the renminbi, and the common use in the market was silver yuan. The troops did not pay any allowance, and only paid three silver yuan to the female comrades for health care.
Sun Changyu said that she was so hungry that she couldn't help it, and if she didn't eat something at night, she couldn't complete the task, so she took out a piece of silver and bought three flatbreads on Qamdo Street. She quietly put it aside and took a bite when she was hungry late at night.
The climate of the plateau was dry, and the cooked flatbread quickly became hard as iron, and by the time she ate the third loaf of bread, she could no longer bite it. She was reluctant to throw it away, so she smashed it into small pieces with stones, soaked them in warm water, and ate them slowly.
In the middle of the night, the temperature often drops to more than 30 degrees below zero, and Sun Changyu's fingers are often frozen stiff, and he does not obey the call, and he is hungry and tired.
Due to the blizzard, the listening signal was very unstable at this time, in order to cheer up her mental work, she put the chili powder in front of her nose and smelled it, and put it in her mouth when she was sleepy, so hot that she burst into tears, and her head was sweating, and she couldn't sleep if she wanted to. But I was hungry and had to endure it until the next day.
Sun Changyu later recalled that one of the most beautiful dreams she had in her life was in the "tent newspaper house". After she finished recording the news that day, Wang Liting and Wang Xiang took over her on duty.
She dreamed that she had bought five or six large and fragrant pork buns on the street of Qamdo with her own sanitation money, and ran to the tent in a hurry, and was about to eat when she was suddenly woken up by her companions Wang Liting and Wang Xiang.
Sun Changyu asked them angrily, "Why did you wake me up?!" They asked, "What are you laughing at when you sleep?" Sun Changyu told them the plot of the dream just now, and the two companions listened to her with their mouths open, and their saliva flowed out. Sister Fang Qingyuan, who was on the side, said: "You really shouldn't wake her up, otherwise we can all follow her to eat big meat buns in our dreams." "
