In 1992, the state officially decided to build the Three Gorges Dam, and with the start of the project, villagers living below the 175-metre level of the Yangtze River had to move out of their current villages.
At that time, Zhang Bingai, who lived in Guilin Village, Zigui County, Hubei Province, happened to be in the first batch of relocation lists.
However, as the villagers moved away one by one, Zhang Bingai and her husband repeatedly refused to mobilize for various reasons.
In the blink of an eye, the Three Gorges Project has been established for more than 20 years, and the people who followed the first and obeyed the arrangement have taken root in the new city and lived a stable and happy life.
And some people still stay in place and become "nail households" that everyone rejects, and as time passes, they don't even know where to go in their future lives.
At the beginning, ** provided good living conditions for the relocated households, but why was Zhang Bingai reluctant to leave?Now, more than 20 years later, what happened to her?
In 1992, the villagers of Zigui County, Hubei Province, after learning the news of the relocation, had a lot of discussions, and everyone was mixed about the relocation.
Happily, they can finally leave the mountains and see the more prosperous world outside;The worry is that I am about to live in a completely unfamiliar place, and I don't know what the future will look like.
At that time, the village cadres came to the village to mobilize the villagers to relocate, and when the villagers learned that the relocation could not only live in a more convenient place, but also get a generous compensation, many people were moved.
However, only Zhang Bingai did not buy the immigration policy provided by **, no matter how persuaded by the village cadres, Zhang Bingai was always extremely resistant to relocation.
On April 24, 1995, 434 villagers from 121 households in Guilin Village began to move out en masse.
The pots and pans at home, no matter whether they are worth or not, cannot be left behind, although they are all old objects that have been used for decades, but for the farmers of that era, they are also one of the few household belongings in the family.
On that day, the rest of the village came to see off the first batch of villagers who had relocated, setting off firecrackers by the river, wishing the former villagers a safe and smooth arrival in their new place.
At that time, the transportation was not convenient, although the relocation place was in the downstream villages and towns, but it was far away for them, and it is estimated that there will be no chance to meet in this life.
Zhang Bingai and her husband also stood by the river to see off the villagers, looking at the back that was gradually moving away, Zhang Bingai's heart was full of mixed feelings, in fact, she didn't know whether her choice was right or not, but she had to consider the difficulties in front of her.
In 1998, six years passed in a hurry, and the villagers below the water level of 175 meters had moved away, leaving only patches of uncultivated wasteland and old houses without cooking smoke.
Although he lives in a chicken feather, Zhang Bingai is still fighting against fate, so what is Zhang Bingai's special reason for having to fight against the village cadres?It all started with her marriage.
Zhang Bingai's husband's name is Xiong Yunjian, his legs are disabled, and he usually has no major problems walking, but he can't do hard work, and for farmers, if the man in the family can't do hard work, the woman is destined to suffer and suffer.
Before Zhang Bingai got married, he actually had a boyfriend, but unfortunately his parents didn't like it, so they forcibly broke up the two, and then took the initiative to marry Zhang Bingai to Xiong Yunjian.
The parents were optimistic about Xiong Yunjian, just because the villagers who lived on the mountain at that time only had 3 cents a month's work, while Xiong Yunjian at the bottom of the mountain had a dime a month.
Zhang Bingai did not resist or resent her parents' arrangement, but since she got married, people in the village have pointed fingers at her, and they all said behind her back that she married a man with poor quality.
However, Zhang Bingai does not admit defeat, since everyone says that she married a useless man, then she has to live a good life, she wants to use her own way to tie her man and children tightly together, so that the family can be reunited forever.
However, in the feudal countryside, the burden of a family falls on the shoulders of a woman, and it is not difficult to imagine how difficult Zhang Bingai's life will be.
However, fortunately, Zhang Bingai's maiden home is not far from the mountain, and there are several brothers in the family, although Zhang Bingai is married, but the brothers and father of the mother's family will spare no effort to help Zhang Bingai every time they are busy with farming and autumn harvest.
This is also a force that Zhang Bingai values the most, in her opinion, once she leaves her mother's help, she drags two children and a disabled husband alone, and her life will definitely not be able to sustain.
Moreover, if you really relocate, to a new place, a place full of strangers, it will be difficult for Zhang Bingai to level the foundation and start the house again.
In addition, Zhang Bingai is just an uneducated rural woman, and she has to find another livelihood when she arrives in another country, and if she can't adapt to the new environment, the family will have to sit and eat.
In fact, when mobilizing and relocating, the village cadres also learned about Zhang Bingai's concerns from the local villagers.
At that time, most of the men in the village said that Zhang Bingai's man was a "sick seedling", but fortunately, there was still his mother's family to help him, but after arriving in the new place, if he relied on Zhang Bingai alone, it was estimated that life would be very difficult.
When the village cadres came to do Zhang Bingai's ideological work, Zhang Bingai once asked the village cadres: The situation at home is quite special, can you give them some additional assistance.
However, the village cadres told her that the village is currently very poor, and each family has a corresponding compensation, and there is no other subsidy for the time being, so they can only find a way to build a house.
After a few years, the village cadres tried their best to speak, but they did not shake Zhang Bingai's fear of relocation, and in the end, Zhang Bingai asked ** to allow her to lean back on the spot, as long as there was a place where she could live in peace.
However, the village cadres told Zhang Bingai: "If you lean on the ground, not to mention whether the foundation can be approved, your children will have difficulties in schooling, employment, water and electricity and other problems in the future”
Obviously, Zhang Bingai only saw the difficulties in front of her, but never considered the consequences of her choice.
However, even though he knew that he would face all kinds of difficulties next, Zhang Bingai still firmly believed that only not far from his mother's home, only by guarding the field under his feet, could there be hope for the future.
Therefore, Zhang Bingai is still reluctant to move to other places, she insists on leaning back on the spot, hoping that ** can approve a homestead for her.
After the villagers moved out, the only primary school in the village was closed, and after that, the two children had to go to school elsewhere temporarily, and they had to walk a long, long way every day.
Fortunately, Zhang Bingai's two children are very sensible, and when the son knew that his mother was worried about his school, he comforted her intimately:
Mom, it's okay, if there is no school to ask me in the future, then I will lie outside the school window and eavesdrop, if the power is cut off in the future, then I will light a candle to learn Xi. ”
Her son's empathy made Zhang Bingai feel warm, but at the same time, she also felt that she couldn't live with her children, so no matter what, she had to strive for the most ideal result for herself and her children, no matter how difficult the reality was, Zhang Bingai would never let her children drop out of school.
Later, Zhang Bingai conducted rounds of "negotiations" with the village cadres, and the village cadres finally agreed to grant Zhang Bingai's family a homestead land.
It's a pity that Zhang Bingai couldn't choose the location of the homestead by himself, and in the end, the village only approved a steep slope called "rotten lawn".
The location is overgrown with weeds, there is no water or electricity, there is not even a decent road, and the children have to walk a long way to school after moving here.
Not only that, but if you want to build a new house in this place, you must first flatten the original steep slope, and the large rocks cost a lot of money just to level the land.
Zhang Bingai and her husband were very dissatisfied with the land, so they begged the village cadres to change another piece, but the village cadres told Zhang Bingai: "It is impossible to change it, at most I will give you another 650 yuan subsidy." ”
In the end, after negotiation, the village cadres agreed to help find a construction team to bulldoze the homestead and connect it with water and electricity as soon as possible, while Zhang Bingai agreed to move to the newly approved homestead to build a new house.
However, the reality is extremely cruel, Zhang Bingai's thinking is not thoughtful enough, and in the end, for various reasons, Zhang Bingai's family failed to build their new house after all.
In 2002, not far from the riverside, Zhang Bingai's home was still standing alone in ruins, and the reality had made this hard-working woman face full of vicissitudes, but she was still stubbornly fighting against fate.
Soon after, the water level of the Yangtze River reached 135 meters, and the village cadres stepped through the threshold of Zhang Bingai's house, and finally let the stubborn Zhang Bingai relent, she promised to move to other parts of the village, but she still resolutely did not move unexpectedly.
At that time, ** considered the difficulties of Zhang Bingai's family and gave them a resettlement fee of 4,800 yuan, and Zhang Bingai used the money to buy a shack next to the highway, and the family has been crowded into this nest with no water and electricity since then.
In a blink of an eye, Zhang Bingai's son graduated from high school, but unfortunately fell off the list, considering the difficulties of his parents, his son gave up the opportunity to repeat his studies, and then joined the army and was assigned to Xinjiang.
In 2020, Zhang Bingai's son officially retired from the army, and then went to Guangdong to become a security guard.
In the son's heart, although the mother is stubborn, she lives extremely tenaciously and vividly, she seems to have infinite strength, even if life is miserable, but she has never been defeated.
Looking at the money her son sent home, Zhang Bingai's heart was full of mixed feelings, in fact, she also regretted that if she had moved out with the villagers, would the family have a better life now?
Unfortunately, everything is a foregone conclusion, and everyone has to pay for their choices, whether the outcome is good or bad.
In 2022, relying on the salary sent home by his son and his savings for many years, Zhang Bingai finally built a new house belonging to their family, and at the same time, he also owned two pigsties.
Zhang Bingai's daughter also achieved a positive result with the person she liked, she married a young man who worked in passenger transportation, and now her life is quite happy.
No matter what the process is, Zhang Bingai's family finally ushered in the dawn in the twists and turns, for this "strong woman", her life's long-cherished wish is to tie her family firmly together, and now, it can be regarded as a wish!