Jiang Xiaoning, a retired teacher in Haidian District, lived in northern Shaanxi for more than eight years, and in the first year of resuming the college entrance examination, she was admitted to a teachers' college, and after graduation, she taught at a middle school in Beijing until her retirement. Speaking of the life experience of settling in northern Shaanxi, Jiang Xiaoning still remembers it vividly, saying that the five female classmates also served as flower protectors once, which contributed to the good marriage of the widow's sister (landlord).
In January 1969, the weather in northern Shaanxi was particularly cold, and in that cold winter, Jiang Xiaoning and a dozen of their junior high school classmates arrived at the Chen Jiayi Brigade in Yanchuan County, Northern Shaanxi Province, and five of them and seven male Zhiqing were assigned to join the third production squad of the Chen Jiayi Brigade, and Jiang Xiaoning and his five female Zhiqing temporarily lived in Qiu Hong's sister's house. Twenty-five-year-old Qiu Hong's sister is a widow, and her man Chen Gensheng fell into the sentry cave (a deep hole formed by the rain) when he went up the mountain to collect firewood, and she and her three-year-old daughter Chen Xiangling were dependent on each other.
The two-hole earthen kiln in Qiu Hong's sister's house is very spacious, and it is a new earthen kiln when she got married. Qiu Hong's sister married a year after the Waxing Moon, her man Chen Gensheng went up the mountain to collect firewood, that day the wind was very strong, when picking firewood down the mountain, Chen Gensheng accidentally planted into a sentry hole more than two inches deep, and when the villagers rescued him, he was no longer able to do it. At that time, Xiangling was just three months old, and Qiu Hong's sister suffered the pain of tearing her heart and lungs, if it were not for the pity of the doll, she really did not want to live.
Knowing the painful experience of Qiu Hong's sister, Jiang Xiaoning was very distressed about Qiu Hong's sister, and they also sympathized with her, and they were even more distressed about that poor little Xiangling. The five female intellectuals all gave Xiao Xiangling sweets and pastries brought from Beijing to eat, and also rubbed alabaster on Xiao Xiangling's cracked little face.
There was a female Zhiqing at home, And Qiu Hong's sister showed a long-lost smile on her face, she helped the Zhiqing to burn the fire, taught the Zhiqing to cook, and also gave the few radish potatoes and pickles at home to the Zhiqing to eat, Jiang Xiaoning They all liked the Qiuhong sister very much.
At that time, northern Shaanxi was idle, there was no agricultural work in the field, the young people occasionally went to the team headquarters to meet and study, and other times they basically hid in the kiln and did not go out, the winter in northern Shaanxi was colder than Beijing, and the young people were really a little uncomfortable with the dry cold (dry and cold) of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. Although the weather is very cold, but the villagers can not stay idle, as long as there is no work in the team, the members basically go up to the mountain to collect firewood. Considering that the female Zhiqing had not participated in production labor, nor had they ever gone up the mountain to collect firewood, coupled with the cold weather, Captain Chen would not let the female Zhiqing go up to the mountain to collect firewood, he proposed that everyone reach out to help these female Zhiqing, and Captain Chen was the first to take the lead in picking up a load of firewood for the female Zhiqing.
Although a load of firewood was not worth much money, the natural environment in northern Shaanxi at that time was not good, there were barren mountains and bald ridges everywhere, and the members of the community had to go to the ravines seven or eight miles away from the road to collect firewood, and it took almost a day to fetch a load of firewood. Therefore, the villagers in northern Shaanxi cherish firewood and take firewood as a treasure.
On the sixteenth day of the sixteenth day of the waxing moon, a descendant came to Qiu Hong's house with a load of firewood (two small bundles), he put the firewood in the courtyard, and went straight to the earthen kiln where Qiu Hong lived. After seeing that Qiu Hong was really fighting, he picked up the firewood placed in the yard and ran out of the courtyard of the Qiu Hong family.
That night, Jiang Xiaoning, who was asleep, suddenly heard movement in the courtyard, and she hurriedly put on a cotton jacket to the door and opened a door slit to look out. Through the bright moonlight, I saw a person standing outside the kiln door of Qiu Hong, knocking on the door constantly. Jiang Xiaoning deliberately closed the door forcefully, and the person heard the movement and turned away.
The next day at breakfast, Qiu Hong led Xiangling to the earthen kiln where Zhiqing lived to play, Jiang Xiaoning inadvertently talked about hearing a knock at night, Qiu Hong blushed and said: "Don't be afraid of your jokes, the person who knocked on the door at night is the second son of our team (Chen Erping's nickname), he is delicious and lazy, he is a well-known second-rate lazy egg in the village, almost thirty years old or a bare stick." Since Xiangling and her father were gone, he often came to pestering Oh (me), Oh (I) was afraid of ruining his reputation, and could only avoid him, and could only swallow his anger. Oh (my) orphans and widows, there is really no way. ”
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Listening to Qiu Hong's words, everyone was silent, for such a thing, what good way do a few teenage Beijing intellectuals have?
Two days later, in the middle of the night, Jiang Xiaoning and the four female Zhiqing all heard a knock at the door, Jiang Xiaoning put on a kang under his clothes, deliberately opened the door with force, and the person who knocked on the door left again. Back on the kang, everyone can no longer sleep, you and I are discussing countermeasures, they will never let such a thing happen under their own eyes, everyone decided to punish this rogue second-rate son for Sister Qiu Hong.
How can we stop this second-rate harassment? Everyone discussed for a long time, but they didn't come up with a good way. In the end, Jiang Xiaoning decided to go to the male Zhiqing to discuss it together to see if the male Zhiqing had a good way.
At breakfast, Jiang Xiaoning and a female Zhiqing came to the place where the male Zhiqing lived, and they told everyone truthfully about Chen Erping knocking on Qiu Hong's sister's door in the middle of the night. Some people suggested that Chen Erping be caught and beaten up fiercely, while others suggested that this matter be reflected to the captain or the secretary of the brigade. Finally, a male Zhiqing named Zhang Bin said: "In this way, let's go to the secretary of the brigade, and say that in the middle of the night someone went to harass the female Zhiqing, without mentioning Chen Erping's name, if the secretary of the brigade did not care, we would go to the commune to find the Zhiqing Office." ”
Everyone unanimously agreed, and Jiang Xiaoning and Zhang Bin went to the brigade secretary's house and told the brigade secretary the method that had been discussed in advance. The secretary of the brigade immediately expressed his position: "This is a return, this is a campaign to sabotage the knowledge of young people going to the mountains and going to the countryside, you can rest assured, tonight Oh (I) will arrange for the militia to go to the squat pit, and we will definitely catch this bad element." ”
Three days later, several militiamen really caught Chen Erping and took him to the brigade headquarters, and when the brigade secretary saw that it was Chen Erping, he went up and kicked him twice, saying, "Erjie, you have lived enough, do you know what is the crime of sabotaging the Zhiqing movement to go to the mountains and go to the countryside?" Shoot miles. Now that you don't have to marry your mother-in-law, you don't have to suffer, so you should first go to the commune and wait for your superiors to deal with it. ”
As soon as he heard that he was going to be shot, Chen Erping fell to his knees in front of the secretary of the brigade and said in a panicked voice, "Oh (I) don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore..."
In the more than a year since then, Chen Erping has never dared to go to Qiu Hong's sister's yard in the middle of the night, nor has he dared to harass Qiu Hong. He was not afraid of Qiu Hong, he was afraid of the young people.
After the autumn of 1971, the superiors built new cave dwellings for the Zhiqing and established the Zhiqingdian, and Jiang Xiaoning was about to move to the Zhiqingdian to live. After more than two years of getting along day and night, the female Zhiqing and Qiu Hong's sister established a deep affection and friendship, and Xiao Xiangling called out to the aunt when she saw the female Zhiqing, and she and Jiang Xiaoning were the closest.
Seeing that Qiu Hong's sisters and sisters were not living easily, Jiang Xiaoning asked Qiu Hong: "Sister Qiu Hong, you are still young, you can't live alone like this, you still have to find another object, someone to take care of you, we moved away and rest assured." "Oh (I)am a widow, who would want Oh (me)?" Besides, if a widow remarries, others will laugh. Qiu Hong was embarrassed to say what was in her heart.
Knowing Qiu Hong's thoughts, Jiang Xiaoning had a number in his heart. After living in the Chen Family Yikuo Brigade for more than two years, Jiang Xiaoning basically knew the situation in the village, who had a few families, who had good character, whose family was rich, and whose descendants had not yet married their mother-in-law.
There was a descendant named Wang Dazhu in the third team, because his father died of illness early, the family conditions were not good, he was almost thirty years old, and he was still wearing a bare stick and living with his mother. Although the conditions of Wang Dazhu's family are not good, he is industrious and can bear hardships, and he is tall and burly and simple and kind, and the villagers have a good evaluation of him. Jiang Xiaoning asked Qiu Hong, "Sister Qiu Hong, what do you think of Brother Dazhu?" Do you like him? "The eldest and greatest brothers are good and good offspring, but Oh (I) am a widow and are not worthy of others." Speaking of Wang Dazhu, Qiu Hong blushed and couldn't speak anymore.
How can these two bitter people be brought together? Jiang Xiaoning is also worried, she is a girl, and she is not suitable for saying that the media pulls the fiber. Thinking about it, Jiang Xiaoning found Captain Chen's mother-in-law and told Captain Chen's mother-in-law about this matter. Captain Chen's mother-in-law is a warm-hearted person, and she is willing to be this person who pushes the boat along the water.
In the summer of 1972, Qiu Hong married Wang Dazhu, who was the red thread led by Captain Chen's mother-in-law. On the day of passing the door, Jiang Xiaoning said to Wang Dazhu solemnly: "Brother-in-law, Qiu Hong is my sister, if you are not good to her, then don't blame me for not being polite." "Look at what you said, oh (I) Wang Dazhu is, you don't know what your sister doesn't know yet, oh (I) want to be bad to her, the sky is thundering." Wang Dazhu swore to heaven.
Wang Dazhu did what he said, and after getting married, he not only loved Qiu Hong, but he also loved Xiangling like a biological doll.
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In the autumn of 1973, Qiu Hong gave birth to a white and fat male doll, and Wang Dazhu jumped up happily. Also in the autumn of that year, Jiang Xiaoning went to Chen Jiayikui Primary School as a private teacher until 1977, when the college entrance examination was resumed, and she was fortunate enough to be admitted to a teachers' college in Beijing, where she taught at a middle school in Beijing's Haidian District after graduation until she retired.
After teacher Jiang Xiaoning told her life experience of settling in the northern Shaanxi team, she smiled and said: "I tell you about my experience of joining the team, I don't know if you believe it or not." When I was in school, I once told my colleagues about this experience of cutting in the line, but they were all half-convinced, and some people said that I was making up stories, which made me embarrassed. Later, I gave them the northern Shaanxi dates and millet sent by Sister Qiu Hong to taste, and they believed it. Unfortunately, I didn't keep the photos that Pang Huan gave us that year, and I couldn't find them. ”
At present, Jiang Xiaoning is still in contact with Qiu Hong (Wang Dazhu is gone), and Chen Xiangling often video chats with Jiang Xiaoning, and their relationship is particularly good. A sentence that Qiu Hong often said is: Sister Xiaoning, you are not only a matchmaker or a benefactor of Oh (me), you have contributed to this good marriage between Oh (I) and Brother Dazhu, oh (I) will never forget you for the rest of my life.
Author: Grassroots writer