In the primeval forest activities, encounter the beast is not afraid, the most afraid of getting lost.
Mang Lin Hai, if you are not careful, you may be trapped in it, especially after losing your sense of direction, you will also encounter the phenomenon commonly known as "ghost hitting the wall", which makes people physically and mentally exhausted.
Zhiqing Wei Wenhua went into the forest to collect fungi, and after getting lost, he found himself going around in circles, and just when he was desperate, he suddenly saw the mark left by his fellow villagers...
(Compiled by Zhiqing's real experience, if there is a similarity, it is purely coincidental.) ）
In the winter of 1973, Wei Wenhua, a Shanghai intellectual, did not return to Shanghai and stayed in the production team to repair water conservancy.
It's not that I don't want to go home, but I am shy and can't make up the money for the round-trip ticket, so I simply stay and work and earn some centimeters.
The water conservancy of the production team is actually digging a canal in the mountain to divert water in preparation for planting rice in the coming year.
There are places in the northeast that can grow rice, but Wei Wenhua's production team, every year the winter is long and the summer is short, the harvest of rice is not very good, even if it is built into a canal, it is also a problem to divert water up the mountain, but at that time advocated "fighting with the sky and the earth", everyone felt that as long as they paid labor, they could produce good results.
This spirit deeply affected Wei Wenhua, which also laid the groundwork for him to get lost in the forest.
When the canal was being repaired, Wei Wenhua and the other Zhiqing who stayed behind walked for more than an hour every morning carrying a shovel and a pickaxe to work on the mountain four kilometers away.
When you leave in the morning, each person carries two steamed buns, and at noon there is a fire, and everyone roasts the steamed buns and eats them hot. Grilling hot steamed buns is not for the sake of taste, but for the sake of necessity. In winter, the temperature is about minus 40 degrees, and the steamed buns brought in the morning are frozen into ice lumps by noon, similar to a solid lead ball, and cannot be eaten without baking.
Once, after finishing work, Wei Wenhua and a few Zhiqing prepared to roast steamed buns to eat, but they did not expect bad luck and could not find dead branches in the snow.
"If you can't roast it, then eat it dry!" A Zhiqing took out an ice bun and took a hard bite, except for leaving two rows of tooth marks, he didn't even bite off the dandruff.
"Put it in your arms and cover it, maybe you'll be able to eat it in a moment." A suggestion was made.
"No, that's when it's time." People are iron rice is steel, a meal does not eat hungry panic. I went back to my dorm room to get something to eat. Wei Wenhua picked up the shovel and prepared to go back.
"Eight miles, it's too much trouble to walk back and forth." Everyone was too far away and did not follow Wei Wenhua.
"If no one goes with me, I'll go back myself." Wei Wenhua walked halfway through another production team, remembering that there was a supply and marketing agency here where he could buy food.
He stepped through the door of the supply and marketing agency and said to the salesman, "Bring me a pound of biscuits." ”
At that time, the biscuits provided by the supply and marketing cooperatives were small and square, and the taste was not good, but it was too good to be hungry, even if it was 5 cents and 4 cents a pound, Wei Wenhua still decided to eat first.
The biscuits were wrapped, Wei Wenhua handed over the money, and the salesman suddenly put the biscuits back: "I want half a pound of food stamps!" ”
"Oops, I forgot!" Wei Wenhua quickly rummaged through his pockets, he didn't have food stamps with him when he went out, and it was useless to rummage through his pockets.
"Well, comrade." Wei Wenhua tried to find a way, "I paid you a little more and paid the food stamps, how about it?" ”
The salesman shook his head and poured the wrapped cookies back into the box.
Wei Wenhua left the supply and marketing cooperative, and walked toward the dormitory, he was so hungry that his stomach almost cramped, his legs were weak, and he walked for miles sweating profusely. "I have to eat cookies today!"
When he returned to the dormitory and took the food stamps, he trotted all the way to the supply and marketing agency, weighed a pound of biscuits again, and with the food stamps, the salesman did not have difficulties for him.
Returning to the dormitory with the biscuits, Wei Wenhua opened the warm water bottle, a large handful of biscuits took a sip of water, and a few clicks ate a pound of biscuits. After this incident, he remembered the feeling of starvation and vowed not to go hungry again in the future.
At that time, the materials were not abundant, there was not much to fill everyone's hunger, and Wei Wenhua's desire to have a full meal was always unattainable, but he found a way by observing the activities of his fellow villagers.
Northeast China is rich in products, can you still starve by guarding the "North Okura"? The fellow villagers went to the forest to collect fungus when they had nothing to do, and Wei Wenhua also went to the forest to collect fungus.
At first, he wandered around the forest around Zhiqingdian, and without going deep, he picked some wild fungus and returned, and there was no danger.
A fellow reminded him: "In the primeval forest, people are easy to get lost. In particular, newcomers to the forest are more likely to get lost. You know that qing are children in the city, don't run around in the forest. ”
Wei Wenhua thanked his fellow villagers for their kind reminders, but he didn't think so in his heart, he felt that he had been in the countryside for several years, he was very familiar with the surrounding environment, and from a young age, he had a good sense of direction, and learned to distinguish the direction according to the yin and yang side of the trees, so he was very confident in his heart, thinking that it was impossible to get lost in the forest.
In order to prove his ability, he went into the primeval forest many times, and each time he returned safely and unharmed, with fungus such as fungus, lion's head mushroom, and oyster mushroom.
The Zhiqing ate the mountain treasures brought back by Wei Wenhua and praised: "Xiao Wei's brain is like a compass, and he never gets lost in the forest. ”
"That's it! He is the representative of the Fighting Heaven and the Earth! ”
Listening to everyone's compliments, Wei Wenhua also felt that he was gifted, and others might get lost, but he Wei Wenhua was impossible.
It is good for people to have self-confidence, but overconfidence becomes a disaster.
One morning in the early summer, Wei Wenhua went up the mountain with his pocket on his back to collect mushrooms, and this time he was going to play a big game: across a section of primeval forest, out of the road on the other side, and then along the road back to Zhiqingdian.
As soon as he entered the depths of the forest, he found a large number of fungus, "Oh, it was conservative before!" Should have come early, there are so many fungus here. ”
As he talked to himself, he walked toward the depths of the forest, and more and more trees appeared fungus, and he was seduced by the delicacy of the fungus, and one tree after another was picked, not knowing how far he had gone, and actually filled his pockets.
Full of harvest, he took a cigarette from his pocket and lay down on the sunny hillside, closing his eyes and enjoying the gentle caresses of the warm sun.
"Man, you still have to have a bit of a fighting spirit, go into the forest early, you have already discovered the benefits!"
After resting for a while, he noticed that the sun was not right, opened his eyes, and wondered, "Hey, I just walked towards the sun, why did I turn to the back now?" ”
Finished! There is something wrong with the direction! He jumped up, his head "buzzed", and he only felt the sky spinning.
Don't get lost, if you can't get out of the forest before the sun goes down, I'm afraid there will be danger, not to mention bears, wolves and other beasts, that is, the temperature of the forest at night may be fatal.
He was in a mess, roughly fixed the direction, picked up his pocket and began to hurry. Walked for about an hour, found that the woods in front of me were a bit familiar, took a closer look, yelled bad!
"Isn't this where I just lay!" How to get around again! ”
The cold sweat on Wei Wenhua's back came out, and his legs seemed to have been pulled out, standing unsteadily, and suddenly collapsed to the ground.
It won't be a "ghost hitting the wall", right?
He felt a cigarette with trembling hands, drew several matches without lighting it, and was so angry that he crushed the cigarette in his mouth.
Oops, it's toddler after all! I used to think that it was okay to go into the forest because I was cautious, and I only moved on the edge of the forest, but today I ventured into the depths of the forest and harmed myself!
He slammed his head a few times, warning himself: Don't be in a hurry, the more urgent the more chaotic, you can only calm down and look for everything that can discern the direction.
Wei Wenhua forced himself to think, recalled the direction of entering the forest at that time, and walked up to the highest mound around him, looking at the nearby woods.
Suddenly, he saw a large cedar tree not far away, unnatural, as if it had been cut down.
"Ah! Saved! ”
He rushed over with a shout of joy, and sure enough, he saw that the big cedar tree had the mark of an axe, and someone must have come.
Using the large cedar tree as the center of the circle, he began to look for the next mark, and really found it, and then did the same, and finally followed the instructions of the mark on the tree, and found a path leading to the road.
On the road, he took a long breath, looked back at the forest behind him, and had the feeling of escaping from the tiger's mouth and being reborn as a human being.
There were passing vehicles on the highway that carried him back to Zhiqingdian, and he told everyone about his experience, and Zhiqing all pinched a handful of sweat for him.
"The mark on the tree should have been left by the villagers who went into the forest, and they were afraid that someone would get lost."
"Yes, I heard the master of the canteen say that."
Someone asked, "Why did Wei Wenhua go back and forth in circles?" Is there really a 'ghost hitting the wall'? ”
A Shanghai cadre who went to the countryside explained: "The so-called 'ghosts hitting the wall' is actually very simple. Once we lose our sense of direction, it is easy to go in a straight line. ”
"Why go in circles in a straight line?"
The Shanghai cadre continued to explain: "Because people's legs are not the same length, most of them are high and low, so they have been walking forward, it looks like a straight line, but in fact, the path out is a circle, but the circle is large and small. ”
"I understand, two legs one long and one short are like compasses, and walking up is like drawing circles."
"That's pretty much it."
Wei Wenhua didn't have the heart to listen to everyone's discussion, and he began to reflect on the significance of his small adventure.
After picking the fungus a few times without getting lost, he arrogantly thought that the forest was just like this, his ability was outstanding, and he was not afraid of getting lost, but in fact, he had not encountered a single challenge before, and even just wandered on the edge of the forest, treating small fights as big winds and waves.
Wei Wenhua realized that one of the great enemies of life is arrogance and complacency, and we must always face everything with a humble attitude and maintain reverence for everything.
People will get lost in the forest, so why not get lost on the road of life? Since then, Wei Wenhua has kept a low profile and no longer dares to brag to people that he will not get lost.