Written by Xing Yuzhong
In 1966, when our military academy participated in the "Four Clean-up Movement" and went to the mountain village of Yunyang in northwest Hubei Province, it was very closed and remote, there was no electricity in the village, and all meetings at night relied on kerosene lamps and torches when going out at night. Labor is done using primitive tools of labor. The folk customs are also very unique, and the interaction between men and women is very casual.
Therefore, before we participated in the Four Qing Dynasty, we conducted strict training in military academies and formulated a lot of regulations. Among them, in the four Qing Dynasty, there is a problem of male and female style, "two open and one stay", that is, expelled from the army, expelled from the party (regiment), and stay in the local labor reform. Therefore, the members of the Siqing team strictly abide by discipline and pay special attention to preventing this high-voltage line.
There is a Sichuan student named Deng Xiangyun in our class, who is an orphan. He is not tall, he speaks little, and he laughs every day. In the fourth Qing Dynasty, he was assigned to the fourth squad of the Qiliya Brigade.
The local farmers live in lonely mud houses, and the households are not adjacent. Most of the team members live alone in unused mud huts. Deng Xiangyun told me that there was a girl surnamed Lu in their four teams who was very enthusiastic about him and often had to wash his military uniform, but Deng Xiangyun repeatedly refused. And explain that she can wash it, and let her wash it has a bad effect. But Xiao Lu said: My fiancé is also a soldier, and I see a soldier who is very close.
One night, when I was sleeping, Deng Xiangyun came to me in the middle of the night and said that when he returned to the dormitory in the evening, he saw a person lying in the mosquito net on the bed. Because there was no electricity, he shone a flashlight through the cotton silk mosquito net, and saw that it was Miss Xiao Lu lying naked on the bed, and immediately scolded her to get up and put on her clothes and go out. Xiao Lu said that he didn't get up at all, and Deng Xiangyun had no choice but to go over the mountains and mountains to the village where the brigade where I lived and asked me (who was the leader of the cadet squad at the time) what to do
I said I had to get her out of your bed as soon as possible anyway, and I couldn't say anything yet. I had to accompany Deng Xiangyun to the place where Deng Xiangyun of the fourth team lived. After I went, Miss Xiao Lu was still lying in the mosquito net, so I said: Xiao Lu, get up quickly, since you are the fiancée of a soldier and love the People's Liberation Army, you should abide by the discipline of the army. I said that if the villagers in the neighborhood knew about it, it would affect the reputation of the People's Liberation Army, the reputation of the Siqing Task Force, and even more so the growth and progress of Deng Xiangyun. That's why she agreed to go out. We hurried out the door and waited for her to get dressed and go home. We quickly closed the door and went back to my accommodation. Because the families in the countryside were so scattered, we didn't alarm anyone when we went back and forth for most of the night.
Early the next morning, we reported the situation to Liu Ru, a military instructor, and Qin Zhengwen, the local person in charge. They praised Deng Xiangyun's noble sentiments and affirmed our approach. And immediately said:
First, it must be kept secret, Deng Xiangyun's reputation must be protected, and no extraneous branches should be spread. It is also necessary to protect the reputation of Miss Xiao Lu, she is young and confused, and she can't let her be ruined.
Second, on the pretext of strengthening the work of the third squad and the four clearances, Deng Xiangyun was immediately transferred from the fourth squad to the third squad and left the village. The matter was dealt with quietly.
When the political commissar of the squadron came to inspect our work, we made a truthful report, and the leaders were very satisfied, but from all aspects, we could not publicize Deng Xiangyun's noble qualities.
When we graduated from the military academy, a problem left over from the Four Qing Dynasty was that a cadet surnamed Huang who enlisted in the army from Beijing was sued by a local girl, saying that she was in love with her, and finally did not want her.
After all the classmates graduated, we sent Gong Ziping, the deputy squadron leader of our squadron, Yang Shengjue, the district captain, and I (I was a member of the graduation leading group at the time) to investigate, but there was no investigation. After we returned from the investigation, we reported to President Liu of the Military Academy, Director Wang of the Political Department, and Deputy Director Yang. I don't know what to do with that student later.
After graduation, I returned to the 38th Army, and Deng Xiangyun returned to a regiment of the Beijing Military Region.
Because Deng Xiangyun is an orphan, my family and I discussed finding a partner for him in Shenyang, and the whole family listened to me tell me Deng Xiangyun's story, and they were very active in helping, and soon found a girl who was a worker, and the family was very good. Knowing that Deng Xiangyun's aunt heard in Sichuan that Deng Xiangyun was looking for a partner in Shenyang, she sent a telegram urging him to return to Sichuan immediately, saying that she had found a partner and asked him to go back on a blind date immediately, Deng Xiangyun was very helpless and said: Since he was a child, he had no parents, and his aunt was kind to him, so he had to go back to Sichuan.
After that, we exchanged many letters. Later, when we were busy with work, we lost contact.
I really miss Deng Xiangyun and that pure era!
Deng Xiangyun. 
The students of the military academy took a group photo on the Yangtze River and on campus.
A letter from Deng Xiangyun at that time.
A photo of the author Xing Yuzhong when he was in a military school.
A recent photo of the author, Xing Yuzhong.
Read "Drinking an Extra Bowl of Corn Paste - Four Qing Years (1)".
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A cadre of the regiment during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, his lover went to see him in the Four Qing Dynasty, and spent six cents and seven cents on staying in a hotel for a few days at night, and he took it for reimbursement and was found out. The demerit has been saved and filed. In the seventies, before returning to Renshou County, Sichuan, he asked the regiment to revoke the punishment, and took out the punishment materials in the file.
Rimongo:This Chinese painting is the work of Mei Xiaoqing, an art creator of the Kunming Military Region, "Walking on the Plateau for a Thousand Miles of Snow", which records the ordinary and hard life of the Southwest Frontier Force on the plateau.