The first time I met Mr. Lee Chang-geun, I mistook Mr. Lee Chang-geun for a Korean, because his fluent Korean language was quite standard, and even his appearance, Mr. Lee Chang-geun was like a Korean, and his lover, a very kind and beautiful Korean lady. Through exchanges, I realized that I had misjudged that Teacher Li Changgen was a native of Shanghai, a Shanghai intellectual, and a Han chinese.
Teacher Li Changgen is very talkative and enthusiastic, he told me about the whole process of his cutting in line and settling down, and also told me about the touching scene of him and the beautiful Korean girl from love to marriage.
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On March 26, 1969, Li Changgen and his eleven junior high school classmates came to the beautiful Changbai Mountain and came to a small mountain village called Taipinggou Brigade. Li Changgen, three men, three women, and six Shanghai Zhiqing were assigned to the Taipinggou first team to settle down, and the other six Zhiqing were assigned to the Taipinggou second team to settle in the team.
The Taipinggou Brigade is not a large population, and the two production teams have a total of sixty households, and the Proportion of Koreans accounts for 60 percent. The captain of the team is named Park Sang-kwon, who is less than forty years old, very kind, and speaks Chinese very well. Because there was no vacant house for the Zhiqing to live in, the three female Zhiqing temporarily lived in Captain Park's house, and Li Changgen and the three male Zhiqing temporarily lived in the home of the member Kim Sung-chul.
Kim Sung-chul is a Korean, his family two girls, no man, the eldest girl is called Kim Young-soon, when he was seventeen years old, the second girl was called Kim Young-wook, when he was fifteen years old, the sisters looked like flowers like jade, it was two golden flowers famous in Taipinggou. Kim Sung-chul is simple and kind, kind and generous, three male Zhiqing live in his home, he is very happy, but also specially went to the forest to set a condom set two hares, to the Taiping River to cut open the ice surface to catch river fish, set up a banquet to entertain three Shanghai Zhiqing. Lee Chang-geun and his wife also call kim sung-chul Aze-seok (uncle) according to the Korean name, and Kim Sung-chol's daughter-in-law Damai (great aunt).
The meal that Lee Chang-geun at Kim Sung-chul's house was very sumptuous, sauerkraut stewed rabbit meat, Korean flavored small fish soup, Korean kimchi, snow-white rice, much better than the team's pickle dinner. That day, Kim Sung-chul called Captain Park to accompany him, and as soon as Captain Park entered the house to see Li Changgen sitting on the upper seat, he smiled and said, "Zhiqing Xiao Li sat on the upper seat, and it looks like you will become the aunt of the old Jin family in the future." Although it was a joke, it made Li Changgen very embarrassed, his face was red, he looked left and right, and he didn't know where to sit well, PullIng Captain Pu to sit, Captain Park said nothing to sit, simply Li Changgen didn't move.
Uncle Kim Sung-chul's family has three main rooms, a half-box room, the roof is all straw, their family of four live in the main room, the main room has a Korean fire kang (ground kang), there is a sliding door in the middle of the kang, and two girls live in the middle. Li Changgen and his three male intellectuals lived in the box room, which was also a kang (Korean fire), the kitchen and the bedroom were connected together, there was no gap, and the fire had to jump into the stove pit.
Although Uncle Kim Sung-chol's family is very enthusiastic, the three male Zhiqing are still a little unaccustomed, mainly because there are two beautiful girls in his family, and the three male Zhiqing blush when they see Yingshun and Yingyu. To this end, they went to Captain Park and wanted to change the place where they lived. Captain Park smiled and said, "If you come to live in my house, my family also has two girls, so you are not afraid to be my aunt?" Li Changgen was speechless and never said where he changed his residence again. To tell the truth, the Taipinggou first team has a generous house for Uncle Jin and Captain Park, and Captain Park's family also has two sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls, and Li Changgen really has no choice.
Li Changgen and their place of residence had pots and pans and chopsticks, and Captain Park also received rations from the commune grain station for them, but they were not very good at cooking, not even kang. Aunt Jin was very enthusiastic, so she went to help the three male Zhiqing kang cooks, and also taught Li Changgen how to light a fire and how to paste cakes to boil porridge. With the help of Aunt Jin's guidance, Li Changgen and they soon learned to cook on kang and also learned to carry water and chop wood. Every time Li Changgen went to the cowshed behind the house to fetch water, he would fill Uncle Jin's house with water tanks. Aunt Jin is also not polite, and she will think of these three Shanghai Zhiqing when she has delicious food.
Gradually, Li Changgen and his family became familiar with Uncle Jin,And when Jin Young-soon and Kim Young-woo saw the zhiqing, they would sweetly call Oba (brother).
When they first participated in the production labor, because Li Changgen did not have the strength and could not work, Captain Park asked the three male Zhiqing and the female members to pick up the dung together, pull the cart together, and do the farm work together. Of course, their male intellectuals also earn the same number of jobs as female members, with seven divisions of labor per day (male members earn ten divisions of labor a day). At that time, Kim Young-soon and Kim Young-wook also participated in labor, and they earned seven divisions of labor every day.
Watching Li Changgen they picked up the dung and shook it from side to side, that action was dumber than the ducks, Jin Yingshun took the initiative to tell them how to pick up the burden and save effort, and also untied the cotton pad tied to the flat shoulder and tied it to Li Changgen's flat burden. Maybe the cotton pad was tied to the middle of the flat burden, or maybe Kim Young-soon's guidance played a role, Li Changgen really found the feeling, and then picked up the feces to feel a lot easier. Every day when he came back from work, Jin Young-soon would help Li Changgen beat the dust on their bodies, and also arrange the soil baskets and flat shoulders neatly. Jin Yingshun's love and care made Li Changgen feel warm, and they were grateful to Jin Yingshun from the bottom of their hearts and to Uncle Jin's family. Kim Young-soon also took the initiative to teach them to learn to speak Korean, and also asked Lee Chang-geun to teach her to write Han Chinese characters.
Time flew by quickly, and in the autumn of 1971, Captain Park led the members to build three adobe houses (Han-style houses, one in the middle is a kitchen, and the houses on both sides are bedrooms), two beds of fire kang (Han Kang), three female Zhiqing and three male Zhiqing all moved to the new house, the six of them counted as a collective household, li Changgen as the head of the household.
On the day li changgen and they moved, Aunt Jin burst into tears, saying that she had lived in a courtyard for more than two years and had treated him as her own child, and she really did not want them to move away. The day after Li Changgen moved to their new house (collective household), Aunt Jin brought twelve boiled eggs and half a pot of rice noodle dumplings to the zhiqing, as well as freshly pickled spicy cabbage and radish strips. Looking at the tearful Aunt Jin, Li Changgen they were as kind as they were when they saw their mother.
In the days to come, as long as there is free time, Li Changgen and they will go to Uncle Jin's house to play, often help carry water and chop firewood, go to the mountains to collect firewood when they are idle, follow Uncle Jin to set rabbits to play roe deer, and also go to the Taiping River to chisel ice to catch fish, in Li Changgen's heart, Uncle Jin is like their father. Kim Young-soon and Kim Young-wook sisters are extra close to Lee Chang-geun, just like brothers and sisters. Lee Chang-geun communicates with Uncle Kim's family, generally half Chinese and half Korean, he can basically understand Korean, and he can also speak most of Korean, that is, the pronunciation is not so accurate.
In the winter of 1972, Kim Sung-chul went up the mountain to collect firewood and accidentally broke his foot and neck, the pain was unbearable, and he could not walk, and it was Lee Chang-geun and a male Zhiqing who replaced Kim Sung-chul and carried Kim Sung-chul back to his home. That day, Kim Sung-chul was sad, and he choked up and said, "If I had a son like you, it would be nice, but unfortunately I only have two daughters and no sons." "Azecy (Uncle), we are all your sons." Li Changgen's words caused Uncle Jin to burst into tears.
The following spring, someone introduced kim young-soon to the object, and Kim Young-soon ran to the collective household to find Lee Chang-geun and said, "Oba (brother), I don't want to marry anyone, you go and tell Aboji (Daddy) that I don't like that person." Li Changgen was dragged by Jin Yingshun to Uncle Jin's house, and the matchmaker saw this scene and walked away with interest. Uncle Jin Sung-chul shook his head and said to Jin Yingshun, "Yingshun, Changgen will leave Taipinggou sooner or later, you are so old, it is time to find a partner." ”
Listening to Uncle Jin's words, Li Changgen's heart was quite confused, he liked Jin Yingshun from his heart, but he never showed it. Hearing that Kim Young-soon was looking for a partner, could he not be flustered in his heart? But there is also a practical problem, everyone is looking forward to leaving Taipinggou through recruitment or recommendation to go to college, and Li Changgen has no intention of taking root in Taipinggou for a lifetime. That day, Jin Yingshun had been watching him want to get an answer, but Li Changgen didn't say anything, he picked up the bucket and picked up two trips of water, and then went back to the Zhiqing collective household.
At the end of that year, Li Changgen returned to Shanghai to visit his relatives for the Spring Festival, and he told his mother about the idea of finding a partner in the northeast countryside, and his mother discussed with his father, and the opinion was that he did not want him to get married in the countryside, as long as there was a glimmer of hope, he still hoped that he would return to Shanghai. If you can't do it, you have to find a way to get out of the countryside, even if it's better to be a worker in the mines than in the countryside.
Shortly after returning to Taipinggou from Shanghai, just in time for the Kaishantun Chemical Fiber Factory to recruit workers, Li Changgen was recommended to become a worker. Li Changgen became a worker and left Taipinggou, it is reasonable to say that Jin Yingshun should also be dead hearted, but she still can't let go of Li Changgen, Li Changgen left for less than a month, Jin Yingshun took delicious food to the chemical fiber factory to visit Li Changgen, and later also went once every once in a while, every time to Bring good food to Li Changgen, and went to help him wash clothes. In this way, the hearts of the two people are gradually getting closer, and Li Changgen decides to marry Kim Young-soon.
In the summer of 1975, Li Changgen and Kim Young-soon got married, and although his parents did not strongly oppose it, they did not come to his wedding, but only sent Li Changgen a hundred yuan and thirty pounds of national food stamps. After so many years of going to the countryside in the countryside, it was difficult to jump out of the farm, and Li Changgen still married a rural daughter-in-law, which made his parents and intellectuals feel incredible.
Life after marriage is happy and happy, and Jin Yingshun's gentle and considerate nature makes Li Changgen feel a joy he has never felt before, and he can wake up laughing in his sleep. The next year, Li Changgen asked someone to buy a bicycle, and with a bicycle, he could often return to Taipinggou. Taipinggou is not far from Shantun, and more than four hours back and forth is enough.
In the early winter of 1976, Jin Yingshun gave birth to a white and fat boy, named Li Jin, and Li Changgen's parents rushed from Shanghai to Taipinggou, and they held their grandson excitedly and loved it. In the autumn of 1982, Kim Young-soon enjoyed the treatment of Zhiqing's family, and she also became a regular worker at the Kaishantun Chemical Fiber Factory, and seven-year-old Li Jin was cared for by his grandmother.
After Li Changgen retired, he returned to Shanghai with Jin Yingshun and lived in Shanghai for a year, not only did Jin Yingshun not adapt to the sweltering heat of Shanghai in summer and the wet and cold in winter, Li Changgen was also somewhat uncomfortable, they combined, directly returned to the northeast with their eighty-three-year-old mother, lived in the city in winter, and lived in the countryside in summer, they lived very happy and happy. Especially Li Changgen's old mother, she said that the environment in the northeast is good, the air is fresh, she likes the northeast, and she prefers the countryside in the northeast. She also asked her daughter-in-law to teach her to speak Korean, and soon learned many Korean sentences.
At present, Li Changgen's family still lives in Taipinggou, only his son and daughter-in-law and grandchildren live in Shanghai, and Li Changgen's ninety-two-year-old mother is very tough and can carry a basin of water to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables. The family of three usually speaks Korean and speaks fluently, and people who don't know it think they are Korean families.
Whenever he talks about his life experience in the northeast for more than fifty years, Li Changgen is very emotional and contented, and he says that the biggest gain is to marry a beautiful and gentle Korean wife and learn Korean. What made him most happy and happy was that his mother was very happy and happy in the northeast.
Author: Grassroots writer