An old man over half a hundred years old tends to regret the past

An old man over half a hundred years old tends to regret the past, which is the new state of the man who is old. This is the first sentence of a legendary narrative "Far Water" about the Reclamation of the Xinjiang Corps.

This book, how to say it, is a bit of a desert fantasy color. But in the story, you can still see the love of the older generation of Xinjiang Corps for that land.

01

The year of Huang Jianjiang's birth is very special for China, it is a year of waste to be rebuilt. From the second half of 1959 to the first half of 1962, China's so-called three years of difficult times. Huang Jianjiang to his father Huang Shiyun wandered all the way from his hometown of Zhumadian to Xinjiang, nothing else, that is, he heard that there was a lot of land in Xinjiang, and the corps was short of people, and he would starve to death when he went.

Huang Jianjiang is a second-generation corps member and is known as the "Bai Kan" of Xinjiang. It means that there is nothing, poor and white, no one even listens to what is spoken, and what is said is also white, belonging to the generation that was sacrificed. Don't the people of the Xinjiang Corps have a slogan, called: "I dedicate my youth to the frontier and my youth to my descendants." ”

"If we are not willing to be sacrificed as lambs by our parents and become the sacrifices of an era, we must go to college and return to our mouths (inland) to find our own water and soil." My side of the water and soil is in Sichuan, that is my mother's hometown, on the Jialing River, it is a beautiful place, that is the distant water in my heart. ”

02

Huang Laoxiao, this bastard, has never looked at me squarely since he was a child. I may be a little unkind in saying this, because his eyes are oblique and he can't look at people squarely. He has to look at people squarely unless he is leaning over, but he doesn't have to look at me from the heart, so I never call him brother, or even call him Huang Jianjiang, I call him Huang Laoxi. His name is Huang Jianjiang, my name is Huang Jianxin, and I have two younger brothers. The third elder is called Huang Jianzhong. My father Huang Shiyun was a man with ideals, he made our names bigger and bigger, and the names of our four brothers were linked to "building China's Xinjiang".

My brother Huang Lao Xie has a physical defect and oblique eyes. His physical defects were not congenital, and for this reason, Huang Lao complained about the world. He has a lot of resentment, who does he complain about? At first, he complained about our father and mother, thinking that my father was not responsible for him, and gave birth to him on the Gobi Desert where the bird did not lay eggs, and did not care if he was born, and threw him in the nest of the ground, becoming a squinting eye, and harming him for a lifetime.

03

The old company commander Ma Gawa gave us a report, often saying that after finding a bowl of springs, it was exactly a lesson. As soon as the bell rang at the end of class, we scattered and peed. When peeing, Huang Laoxiao will make a big fuss in the toilet, saying that a bowl of spring is good, the spring water is bitter, I drank it when I was a child, that water to drink to get a big cock disease, there is no rule of law for this disease, you can only rely on the woman's bag of medicine. As soon as Huang Laoxiao said this, the male classmates in the high school burst into laughter. Then they were there smoking, and we in the middle school could only watch enviously, waiting for the class bell to ring.

The legend about the disease of the big dick is by no means empty in a bowl of springs. Later, I figured out that it was a bowl of spring water that was too mineral-rich, and daily drinking would cause urethral stones, men's lower body was red and swollen, it was difficult to urinate, and the locals commonly known as big cock disease. Why is the water of a bowl of spring bitter in winter and sweet in summer, the superior sent water conservancy experts to investigate, and the conclusion obtained is: a bowl of spring may pass through the underground dark river, and during the dry period in winter, the water of the underground dark river has a large alkali content, so it is salty; in the summer, the water content of the underground dark river is small, so it is fresh water.

epilogue

When the time came to 1949, another group of people went to the desert, and this group of people were our fathers. At this time, the 36 countries in the western region had long ceased to exist, and the western region had become the Xinjiang of the Chinese nation and a province of the Yangyang Great Power. Our fathers are no different from the ancients, and when they enter the desert, their joys and sorrows are in the same vein as those of the ancients. What is different is that in addition to their tragedy and innocence, they also have a kind of heroism and determination of faith out of thin air. As border-makers in the new era, they shouted out the slogan that shocked the desert: I have sacrificed my youth for the frontier and my youth for my children.

The second generation of Xinjiang finally fulfilled the promise of their fathers, and they inherited the innocence without the tragedy of their fathers and the determination of history. They no longer felt that they were on the edge of shubian, they thought that the Western Regions were originally their hometowns, and where was the hometown of their fathers... That's just a legend.