Back to 80: My Literary Life

While drinking and chatting, Fang Minghua realized that the three of them were from the Northeast. Two came from Hafei and Shenfei in the 1960s to support third-line construction, and the younger vice president graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in the 1970s. The distribution came to Factory 182.

"What a coincidence, my hometown is also from Northeast China, and my dad was transferred from Shenyang to Xijing in the 1960s." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

"Oh my god, are they all from Nagada? What's going on?" Mr. Wang said something in authentic Northeastern dialect, which made everyone laugh.

"Drink, drink, you fellow Northeasterners, hurry up and have a drink." Director Zhang was cheering from the side.

"Chairman Zheng wants to have one more drink with Chairman Fang. They are both from Liao Province, fellow villagers!" Mr. Wang said with a smile as he picked up his glass.

After the three people clinked glasses, Mr. Wang said with emotion: "Factory 182 was built by us Northeasterners."

"That's wrong, Mr. Wang." The somewhat silent, thin vice president spoke with a southern accent in Mandarin: "Don't forget, there are us Shencheng people too!"

"Yes, Mr. Liu is right!" Mr. Wang said with a smile: "When Factory 182 was built, most of the technicians and workers came from the Northeast, and a small number of college students came from Shanghai. Mr. Liu was one of them. ”

Mr. Liu was not very good at drinking, and his face was already red. He said: "My home is in Shanghai, and I never left Shanghai before graduating from college. The year I graduated, the country called on me to go to the west, to where the country needs it most. Go, so I signed up.”

"Mr. Liu is a top student. He graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University. More importantly, he brought a female classmate with him when he came. She is so beautiful that she is known as a flower in the factory." Mr. Wang said with a smile.

"You, Lao Wang, always hold on to this, be careful when your sister-in-law talks about you when you go back." Mr. Liu laughed and cursed, and explained to Fang Minghua.

"We are childhood sweethearts. We went to the same elementary school and middle school. She went to Fudan University when she was taking the college entrance examination. She heard that I was coming here, so she signed up."

Fang Minghua was truly impressed after hearing this.

These famous college students have stayed in this valley for thirty years.

What I admire even more is their steadfast love.

"Ke Bing, where are you from?" Fang Minghua asked, looking at Ke Song, who was sitting at the bottom with some restraint.

"I'm a local, and my home is in Chenggu." Ke Bing replied quickly.

Director Zhang told Fang Minghua that after the college entrance examination was resumed, college and technical secondary school students assigned to various factories in 012 base were all over the country, but the number of locals gradually increased, mainly because there were so many aviation factories.

After the meal, the three bosses all had their own jobs. Director Zhang was going back to the base, and Ke Bing was going to take the factory shuttle bus back down the mountain to work.

Mr. Wang said to Fang Minghua: "Chairman Fang, Chairman Sun has been with you these days. He was one of the first ones to come here. When Factory 182 was built, he was the captain of the youth commando team. He is known as the walking dictionary of Factory 182. You have Whatever you want to know, you’re right to ask him!”

"Thank you."

Finally, Mr. Wang specially assigned a Santana to the two of them to facilitate travel.

Accompanied by Sun Yuanchao, Fang Minghua sat in a car and wandered around the factory area.

The factory area is very large, built along the hillside, with no walls around it. What surprised Fang Minghua was that the red brick family buildings and gray factory buildings were mixed together.

When Fang Minghua asked about this, Sun Yuanchao said with a smile: "Restricted by geographical conditions, you can see that there is basically not much flat land here."

He told Fang Minghua that the family areas in the factory were divided into three districts based on their relative concentration, namely District 1, District 2 and District 3.

"The employees also gave them names based on the geographical characteristics." Sun Yuanchao said: "The first area is built on a mountain ridge, where the factory headquarters you have been to is located. The mountain wind blows all year round, so the employees call it "Yingfeng Building"."

"The second area is built in a ditch. It's so hot and uncomfortable in summer that it's called "Xiangyanggou." The third area is built on a half-slope and is also the westernmost part of the factory. It's the most remote family area on the mountain and the farthest away. Everyone calls it Frog. Pond, there are more frogs there.”

"Let's go to Frog Pond now, where my house is."

The car drove for more than ten minutes and climbed over a beam. The two got out of the car. Fang Minghua saw several neat rows of red brick buildings on the slope not far away.

"You see, now there are cement roads, but back then they were all dirt roads. To get to the more prosperous market from here, you have to climb two hills. Taking the big roads takes a long time, and taking the small roads is steep and too tiring."

"The sandy soil road is full of potholes, and the dust is flying on sunny days. Whenever it rains, it is even more difficult to walk. The yellow mud soaked by the rain is so sticky that once you step in, your feet often come out and your rain boots are left in the mud. I lived in 9 On the first floor of the building, during the summer rainy season, muddy water often floods the entrance to the building. Unexpectedly, the first thing we did in the morning was to "rescue the waterlogging", and we almost didn't leave the frog pond for a whole month. "

"At that time, each of us had the "three treasures" - a flashlight, a raincoat and high-heeled rain boots. It was not until the 1980s that workers in each unit dug drainage ditches, built slope protection, and poured concrete roads on their own. Only then did we have this road under our feet."

“Back then, the Tianhan area was relatively backward, and there was this jingle among factory workers.

Black cloth wrapped around head and robe worn

Old woman's cotton-padded jacket shows red edges

Wearing straw sandals in the cold winter months

Surround the fire pit to keep warm

“Thousands of people came here from the Northeast one after another, and while the construction was being planned and put into operation, the houses and roads were not yet repaired, so everyone moved stones to build the roads together. When the red bricks came, they moved the red bricks and carried them to the construction site, and the lesbians also came together. "

"Are there also lesbians?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Of course, women can hold up half the sky. Don't underestimate others. A brick mover can move 10 yuan at a time, which weighs nearly fifty kilograms! That's when I met my wife."

The two of them walked forward while talking. Fang Minghua suddenly found a stone tablet standing on the roadside with the words "Monument to the Battle of Huabao Factory Control" written on it.

Seeing Fang Minghua paying attention to this stone tablet, Sun Yuanchao explained: "This was the summer of 1974. I don't know what happened that year. There was a hole in the sky, it rained all day long, and landslides affected the factory not far away. Safe and safe."

"Later, al-Qaeda organized more than 6,000 people to carry out emergency repairs here. "We fight on sunny days and fight on rainy days to control the landslide and protect the factory." This is our slogan. After seven months of hard work, the landslide area was controlled and the factory was saved. ”

"Chairman Sun, are you participating?"

"Of course. I was the head of the infrastructure section of the factory at the time. I stayed on the construction site all day long. In the end, the factory was saved, but we also paid the price. Six people died, one of whom was my friend. We flew here from Shenyang together. ”

"Well, they are buried in that mountain."

Looking in the direction pointed by Sun Yuanchao's finger, Fang Minghua saw nothing but a patch of green pine trees.

"It's really not easy for you." Fang Minghua admired him sincerely.

"Haha, which one is easier to build in the third line? 011 in Guizhou Province, 013 in Hunan Province, and 061 and 062 are all in the mountains! Some mountains are bigger than the mountains here."

Sun Yuanchao said: "Actually, our aviation factory is pretty good. If you look at the factories of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, they are all in caves and are much more difficult than here."

I followed Sun Yuanchao around the mountains for three days, visiting every corner of the factory. There were not only schools and hospitals, but also cinemas, clubs, and bathhouses. It was like a small society.

After interviewing some employees and their families and learning a lot about the history of the factory's construction, Fang Minghua decided to go to the foot of the mountain to find Ke Song.