On Tuesday, March 22, 1977, Renmin Bridge Street in Canglang District (now Canglang Street in Gusu District) finally approved my return to the city after eight years in the countryside. On the morning of March 23, I took the Luxu class at the People's Bridge Steamship Pier to the Dongfeng Brigade Headquarters in Beiwei to go through the formalities of returning to the city.
At that time, on the economic summary table of the Dongfeng Brigade, he was still overdrawn by 11964 yuan, which is equivalent to the value of a Shanghai brand watch in the same period. When going through the relocation procedures on the spot, the big team and the small team stamped a bright red seal without mentioning the economic overdraft account, and let it go with the natural green light. I would like to express my deep gratitude to the villagers for their understanding and generosity.
In the years after returning to the city, I took the time to find my friend Yang Mosheng (nephew of Yang Genhai, secretary of the Dongfeng Brigade, who was assigned to work in the sales department of Suzhou Auxiliary Factory after joining the army and demobilization) to help the production team transport several boats of ammonia for field fertilization, as a way to express my gratitude!
At the same time, a close friend of mine, Liu Xuekun, the first (6) class of the eleventh junior high school, collectively delegated to the Huanghai Farm) also retired from the public list on the same day as me, since applying for sick retirement, we are all at home to play the role of the family "woman and man", his monthly sick pay of 9 yuan are received by farm classmates and mailed to Suzhou. Xuekun knew that I had completed the relocation procedures and came back on the second day, so he came to my house and asked me if he would also go to Huanghai Farm to go through the procedures for moving back to the city immediately? I told my friend that it would be better to go down by myself to go through the procedures for retiring from illness. On the one hand, you can go to the farm yourself to learn about it in time, and on the other hand, you can also express your gratitude to the students on the farm for several years.
However, at that time, each other's financial situation was very tight. He wrote to his classmates on the farm after the street was announced, wanting to save some money, etc., and then he didn't consider going to the farm in person for the time being, because it would cost at least 50 yuan to go back and forth. At that time, my friend's sick leave pay from the farm was only 108 yuan a year. In the early '70s, this was understandable because most people were financially poor. Time passed day after day, and more than half a month later, there was still no information about the Huanghai Farm, and the heart of waiting at home was tormented, and the anxiety was like ants on a hot pot at home.
Seeing that it has been almost 20 days, there is still no news, and on the evening of April 12, a friend came to my house again and asked me what to do? That night, I comforted him that he couldn't solve the problem in a hurry, and he knew that today, when he went to go by himself like me, there would be no anxiety and waiting today. Now I've been waiting for more than 20 days, and in my opinion, just waiting for a few more days is often in the persistence. If there is no news in a few days, then you will have to go to the Yellow Sea Farm. Now that you are in such a hurry, what if you go to the farm tomorrow and the farm sickness and return procedures will come the day after tomorrow?
After listening to my analysis, he said to me at the time, then wait a few more days and see before deciding! But at about half past eight in the morning of the next day, my friend and sister Xuehong came to my house for the first time. I asked her what was the matter, why didn't your brother come with him? She said that someone from the street had notified her that the procedures for returning from the farm had gone to the street, and she asked her brother to go through it himself. After listening to it, I said that it was very good, and my hanging heart finally let go. But she said, "What's good?" My brother can't wait, and he took a long-distance bus to the farm early this morning, so after receiving the street notice, he immediately inquired and found your house to ask what to do with my eldest brother?
When I heard this, I was really surprised that there was such a clever thing in the world. So I comforted her and told her to go back first, so that I could think of what I could do. It was almost 9 o'clock in the morning, and the family's lunch was being prepared. While burning the "small blast furnace", I listened to the cross talk of "**Chasing the Train" on the desktop semiconductor radio. Inspiration, whim: the content of cross talk is to describe a patient from other places who went to Shanghai Hospital to see a doctor and took someone else's medicine by mistake, and his condition was critical! There is an urgent need to find an out-of-town patient just in case, and the patient who can get the wrong medicine has already taken the train on his way home. Without further ado, after many inquiries, the patient on the train was finally contacted through **, and the accident was prevented in time!
After listening to the eloquent speech of the cross talk actor, I was immediately inspired, since ** can catch up with the patient on the train, then why can't I try to catch up with my friend in the long-distance bus by telegraph? However, chasing trains is a cross talk show after all. Is it realistically possible? In any case, it is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen! As long as there is a possibility of 1, then I know about it as a friend, then I should try 99% and strive to make the impossible in life possible! As long as I do my best, even if it can't come true, I will have no regrets in my heart!
Thinking of this, he immediately closed the door of the stove where the rice was cooking, borrowed an old permanent bicycle from his neighbor, rushed to the small people's bridge Beiyan long-distance bus station, and looked at the bus timetable for the train to Yancheng this morning, the time of departure and arrival, and immediately used all his strength to race against time: riding an old permanent brand bicycle to the second floor of the post and telecommunications office at the intersection of Guanqian Street and Jingde Road, and hurried to draw up a short telegram, the telegram fee was only 9 dimes in total, if the telegram could not catch up, It's less than a dollar lost, and if you can really catch up, you can save a lot of money for your friends! The full text of the telegram is as follows: Liu Xuekun, who was on the bus from Suzhou to Yancheng at the Yancheng long-distance bus station, had received the order to return to Suzhou as soon as the report was received. At this point, I was sweating and exhausted, but I still felt sweet in my heart, because I had done my best for my friend.
As for whether the telegram can chase the friend back, it will have to be left to fate! The next night, I heard someone knocking on the door, and when I opened the door, I saw that it was none other than my friend Xuekun. I couldn't help but ask, "Why did you come back so soon?" The friend replied, "Didn't you send a telegram telling me to return to the Soviet Union as soon as I received the telegram?" I was pleasantly surprised and asked, "Did you really receive the telegram?" What really happened on the way? Sit down and tell me about it! So my friend gave a brief account of the whole process of receiving the telegram, and told me about how to help others on the bus.
It turned out that when the car arrived at the Yancheng long-distance bus station, the people on the car hurriedly got off the bus to get off work and went to Binhai. At this time, an old lady with two children looked helplessly at the two duffel bags in the luggage rack above the car, and she had no strength or way to take them down, so she asked me to do a good deed and help her take down the two luggage bags on the luggage rack. I saw that the old lady was helpless, and there was no one else in the car except the old lady and the two children.
Seeing this scene, I risked not being able to catch the Binhai long-distance bus to go to the Yellow Sea Farm, increasing the possibility and risk of staying in Yancheng overnight until noon the next day and then transferring to Binhai, and immediately stood on tiptoe to help the old lady take off the two duffel bags from the luggage rack and helped the old lady and the two children get out of the car together. When we were about to continue to catch the long-distance bus to Binhai, we saw a station staff member running towards us in a hurry, and shouted loudly: "Is there a person named Liu Xuekun on the car?" ”
Hearing him call his name, he stopped all of a sudden, although he felt very strange, but he couldn't help but ask: "I'm Liu Xuekun, what are you looking for me?" The station staff breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this and said: "There was something in the station just now, and I almost forgot about it, and Suzhou sent a telegram to ask you to return to Suzhou immediately after receiving the telegram!" "Because I was helping the old lady with her duffel bag on the train just now, I was delayed for some time, so I didn't miss this almost impossible intersection and jet lag with the station staff who rushed to the station!
After listening to my friend's story, I couldn't help but sigh: Good people always have good rewards! It's not your own act of helpfulness, and the telegram can't catch up with you, but the good deeds you do make the impossible possible in life! I take my 99 hard work and try and add the variable of you1 to make it a real-life Gonzo. So my friend and I high-fived each other and congratulated each other, and walked forward hand in hand in the days after returning to the city, meeting all kinds of difficulties and challenges in the future, and taking the road of life in the future! (Thanks to Mr. Liu Leliang, editor-in-chief of Educated Youth Love, for recommending the manuscript).
Author: Chen Maodou.