On the Hebei Plain, there is a triangle where the Fuyang River and the Hutuo River converge and flow into the Ziya River. In the old society, there were dozens of miles in a radius here, the depression was cold, and there were nine floods in ten years, and the "forty-eight villages" of Xian County were located here.
Forty-eight villages" is the old nest of floods, from 1368 to 1948 in the five hundred and eighty years, there have been serious floods 387 times, countless small floods, really years of floods, working people wandering begging, ** can see the end of the disaster!
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, floods engulfed the "48 villages" again, and the houses collapsed and the crops were flooded. Li Laoqiang and his family stood on top of the collapsed ruins, looking angrily at the surging flood.
The roar of the flood and the hungry cry of the child made Li Laoqiang unable to hold back the anger in his heart anymore, he picked up the pickaxe, smashed a broken jar, and scolded angrily: "Shi Daotai, dog and stolen official, you have to force the people to go to Liangshan!" ”
Shi Daotai was an official of the Qing Dynasty. Since the "Forty-eight Villages" were classified as the "King James Pan Area", he took a sedan chair to Xian County, which was in honor of "giving relief and releasing grain", but in fact, he was scavenging the people's fat and ointment.
On the second day after Shi Daotai took office, he accepted a generous gift from Yang Hongfa, the big landlord of the "48 villages", and from then on, Yang Hongfa colluded with the government and became even more rampant in the township, showing off his might.
At present, the flood is raging, and the poor people cannot live, but the big landlord Yang Hongfa is sitting in a small boat, carrying an osprey, and jumping around with a dog's legs, looking for fun.
Li Laoqiang looked at all this, gritted his teeth with hatred, he threw down his pickaxe, jumped on the boat, made a penny, and rushed towards the torrent. The family was stunned, not knowing what Lao Qiang was going to do.
Li Laoqiang is a man with a straightforward personality and has a lot of prestige among poor buddies. He drove a small boat, braved the wind and waves, colluded with the poor buddies in more than a dozen surrounding villages, and decided to go into the city to find Shi Daotai to settle accounts.
On this day, more than 500 poor people, armed with steel forks, wooden sticks, big knives, and shovels, took more than 20 large boats and rafts, and under the leadership of Li Laoqiang, they held their heads high and drove towards the county seat.
At the same time, a carved brocade boat also made a detour towards the city. This is the big landlord Yang Hong heard that Li Laoqiang gathered a crowd to rebel, and secretly went to report to the county government.
The dog landlord came to the county government to see Shi Daotai and the county officials, and hurriedly said: "The big thing is not good, Diao Min Li Laoqiang instigated the people to come to rebel, and the people are afraid that the adults will be frightened, so I hereby tell you!" Shi Daotai was terrified when he heard this, like an ant on a hot pot, and panicked.
The county magistrate said that he was willing to deal with it with a three-inch tongue to ensure the safety of the platform. Shi Daotai immediately ordered: "The leader must be arrested and questioned." After sneaking into the dark room, Yang Hongfa, the dog landlord, also slipped away through the back door.
Besides, the poor people of the "48 villages" came down to the outside of the city under the leadership of Li Laoqiang, jumped off the big boat, broke through the city gate, and went straight to the county office.
The villagers rushed into the county courtyard and shouted: "Why don't you distribute food?" Call out the Studberg! The dog county official hurriedly came out under the escort of the officials, and said with a wicked smile: "The villagers are angry, Lord Daotai will return to Beijing to face the saint, play the book to adjust the grain, and wait a few days!" ”
Li Laoqiang asked in the head: "It sounds good, since the 48 villages were classified as the "King James Pan Zone", in which year has the grain been distributed in a number of years?" The villagers raised their knives, guns, sticks and roared: "We have been soaked in the flood for ten days, and we have not seen a grain of grain from you, what do you say?" ”
The dog county magistrate was so frightened that he stepped back again and again and said, "Please be quiet, be quiet! The county order guarantees the distribution of grain, but at the moment there is no grain in stock, and this is .........
Li Laoqiang revealed: "The King James Pan Zone is divided by the imperial court, and it is stipulated that 48 villages eat imperial grain, but now we are all hungry, and the relief grain has been swallowed by you alone. ”
The dog county official was a thief, and he was poked in the sore spot, and he was angry, he waved his hand left and right: "Arrest this Diao Min for me!" The officials pounced on Li Laoqiang like wolves and tigers.
Li Laoqiang waved the steel fork and shouted: "Brothers, fight!" The villagers rushed up like a tide, several officials were knocked down, and the rest were holding their heads and running away, and the dog county officials also took advantage of the chaos to slip away.
Everyone immediately took advantage of the victory to open the granary, and carried the bags of grain to the big ship, Li Laoqiang held a steel fork in his hand to direct the grain transportation and watched the surrounding movements.
The fleet returned to the village full of the fruits of victory, and the villagers rushed to tell each other, and the old and weak women and children carried bags of grain and applauded.
People expected that the dog county official would not give up on his own, so after discussing it, it was decided to let Li Laoqiang temporarily hide in the poor buddy's house in the neighboring village. Unexpectedly, this matter was heard by Yang Hongfa's doglegs.
When Shi Daotai and the county officials learned the news, they instructed the officials to suddenly surround Li Laoqiang's residence, and Lao Qiang and a few poor buddies resisted for a while, and because they were outnumbered, they were arrested in the city.
After the poor buddies heard the news, they rushed to the county seat in groups, only to see that the four gates were closed, and a notice was posted under the city gate, which read: "Diao Min Li Laoqiang gathered a crowd to rebel and be beheaded according to law. People were filled with righteous indignation after seeing it, and they hated to avenge Li Laoqiang immediately.
This unfortunate news reached Linhezhuang, and Li Laoqiang's mother was too sad and angry because of her old age and frailty, and she died immediately; The old strong wife cried to death.
With the help of the villagers, I took care of the aftermath. In order to avenge Lao Qiang, the poor people gathered several teams to enter the city, but the results failed, and the people had no choice but to suppress their anger in their hearts.
After Lao Qiang's death, he left behind Lao Qiang's wife and two children, Shui Sheng, Yuesheng, lonely and miserable, the difficulty of the famine, the sun and the moon were difficult, and he had no choice but to wander the streets and beg for a living.
When Da'er Shuisheng was eight years old, there was another famine, so his mother handed him over to a poor friend of Lao Qiang and went down to Kanto together. Before leaving, she instructed her son, "Son, run away with your uncle, don't forget how your father died!" ”
The tail of the scorpion, the heart of the jackal, the landlord Yang Hongfa saw that the time had come, so he took Erdou Guzi to find Lao Qiang's wife, and said hypocritically: "Lao Qiang's brother has a strong temperament, good **, I went into the city several times for him to intercede, but the king did not allow it, alas, this day is not good!" As he spoke, he put the food in front of the mother and son.
The old strong wife refused to accept it, and Yang Hongfa laughed twice and said: "The villagers don't have to be polite, I can't bear to starve the child." If you have any difficulties in the future, just speak! With that, he walked away.
After eating the grain of the Yang family and carrying the account of the king of Hades, due to the compulsion of life, the old strong wife and the second son Yuesheng had to enter the Yang family's compound and became slaves, and since then they have fallen into the tiger and wolf's den. As the days went by, Yuesheng's mother became ill from hard work, and her body and bones became thinner and thinner day by day, and the dog landlord still forced her to bear heavy labor.
The mother and son struggled in the tiger wolf's den, Yuesheng was already thirteen years old, and the hard years tempered him to be strong and brave, and the uncles of the long-term workers liked him very much, and often told him some ways to deal with the landlord.
On this day, Yuesheng's mother went to feed the pigs with a basin of swill, and suddenly the sky swirled, spitting blood, only to hear a "quack" sound, the basin was broken, and the person fell to the ground, and she died with hatred for the old society.
Since then, Xiao Yuesheng has become an orphan, herding cattle for the landlord during the day and sleeping with Uncle Lao Xiang, a long-term worker, at night. At night, Uncle Lao Xiang told him how Yang Hongfa assassinated Li Laoqiang, and Yuesheng gritted his teeth when he heard it, hating the landlord.
After that, Xiao Yuesheng rarely spoke, but his eyes often showed the fire of revenge. Late that night, he saw the opportunity, and with a big axe in hand, he quietly slipped into the landlord's house.
Yang Hongfa was unguarded, lying on the bed like a pig and falling asleep. Xiao Yuesheng rushed up with an arrow, "chirping" two axes, the dog landlord screamed, and it was over, Yuesheng turned his head and ran.
Xiao Yuesheng ran back panting with a big axe in his hand, and woke up Uncle Xiang: "What are you doing?" Yuesheng said, "I've dominated the dog land!" Lao Xiang was taken aback when he heard this.
The matter was urgent, and Lao Xiang said, "Son, you have to get out of here quickly! He then took out a few dollars he had saved and put it in his pocket, leading him to a secluded path.
Xiao Yuesheng was full of class hatred, bid farewell to his hometown with tears, and strode towards the embankment of the Hutuo River.
The next day, people found a bloody axe on the embankment, and there was a lot of discussion, saying that Xiao Yuesheng killed the dog and the landlord threw himself into the Hutuo River. All the villagers were deeply saddened by the tragic experience of this family.
Time flies, the years go by, and the Hutuo River is rushing endlessly. In the autumn of 1947, a man walked on the Qianli Embankment, wearing the hat of the Eighth Route Army, and strode towards Linhezhuang. This person is Li Yuesheng who axed the landlord Yang Hongfa back then.
When the villagers heard that Yuesheng was back, they were all pleasantly surprised, and they went up to ask long and short questions, and this one said, "Didn't you jump into the river!" The one said, "How have you come all these years!" Yuesheng excitedly recounted his wanderings and later his experience of joining the Eighth Route Army.
In the evening, people gathered at Lao Xiang's house, and Yuesheng told the villagers about the excellent situation of the revolution and the task of the party to demobilize him and return home, and to carry out an agrarian revolution in the countryside, fight the landlords, and divide the land. "The poor people are going to turn themselves into masters completely. When the villagers heard this, they all shed tears of excitement.
Yang Datou, the son of the landlord Yang Hongfa, heard that Yuesheng had returned to his hometown, and he was frightened. He hurriedly called the bookkeeper to him and said: "Now that the Communist Party is going to make an agrarian revolution, Li Laoqiang's son is back, we are more than lucky, and we will hide the land deed immediately!" "Dogleg said yes again and again.
The great land reform movement began, and the poor peasants in Linhezhuang were in a very high mood as if they had been in a long drought and rain, and under the leadership of the party, they soon established the Poor Peasants' League, and Li Yuesheng was elected chairman of the Poor Peasants' League.
Yuesheng led the masses to study the "Outline of the Land Law" formulated by himself, he stood on the Lu Gong and said loudly: "The landlord bullies are more fierce than the flood, they have sucked our blood and sweat dry, and occupied our land. ”
Lao Xiangtou, who has been living for the landlord for many years, saw this exciting scene, and did not fall asleep for several nights, he connected the poor buddies who carried the long life in the Yang family back then, and wanted to settle the blood and tears with Yang Datou.
The struggle landlord meeting began, and people dragged Yang Datou to the venue, and Lao Xiangtou was the first to come to the stage to expose the landlord's crimes. Then many poor peasants rushed to the stage and complained with blood and tears, arousing the anger of the masses.
The landlords were overthrown, the poor peasants divided the houses and land, and Linhezhuang began to be reborn. The industrious people have sown their seeds in the land of "Forty-Eight Villages", and they are smiling and the fields are filled with joy.
Like the poor middle peasants in the "48 villages", Li Yuesheng turned over and became the master and established a happy working family.
From mutual aid groups, cooperatives to people's communes, Li Yuesheng has always been at the forefront, and people praise him as a good leader and a good secretary of the party branch.
In order to turn the flood nest into an oasis, the people of the 48 villages relied on the collective strength of the people's commune to start building a floodway that was 60 miles long and ran through the 48 villages.
Yang Datou, who harbors a bitter hatred for socialism, fanned the flames behind his back, saying nonsense: "No matter how you toss, the flood is incurable, and this is a waste of money and labor." ”
Li Yuesheng knew that this was a platform for the class enemy to dismantle socialism, and led the masses to withstand the headwind, and they criticized Yang Datou and aroused the class consciousness of the masses. ”
The flood drainage project was completed, and other water conservancy projects have also brought into play one after another, and the area has changed from planting only one crop a year to harvesting two crops a year, and grain production has increased year by year.
"The people of Forty-Eight Village have been battling the floods, and they have organized a professional team to protect the berm, and planted all kinds of trees on both sides of the embankment.
In the early autumn of 1963, the sorghum dried red rice, the millet bent over, and a bumper harvest was in sight. The poor middle peasants in Linhezhuang were particularly happy, and Li Yuesheng waved his hand and said: "This year is another bumper harvest, let's make more contributions to the country!" The members said, "Look! ”
No one expected that in early August, a major flood rarely seen in history would suddenly occur on the Hebei Plain, and the embankment of the Hutuo River would be breached, and the flood would roar like a beast of prey and roll into the "48 villages," which would suddenly turn into an ocean.
At this critical juncture, Li Yuesheng led the people of the whole village to fight against the flood, and on the danger, they waded waist-deep water and rescued the old, weak, sick and disabled to a high place.
Li Yuesheng's son Li Jigang led several militiamen to inspect and came to Yang Datou's house, Yang Datou hurriedly greeted him, and he said pretendedly: "You have worked hard, this water is really enough!" Ji Gang said sharply: "No matter how big the water is, it can't scare us, and you are not allowed to talk nonsense!" Yang Datou said yes again and again.
As soon as they left, the landlord Yang Datou looked at the surging flood and said viciously: "Poor boys, toss, God has eyes, the time has come to look good, see what charter you have!" The landlord's wife also said: "Look at the excitement! ”
At this moment, two large boats came against the vicious waves of the rapids, and people looked at them in surprise.
When the big ship came, people recognized it at once, it turned out to be Secretary Zhang of the county party committee who came to visit everyone, and immediately people were so excited that they burst into tears.
Li Yuesheng held Secretary Zhang's hand tightly and said excitedly: "It's really better to be close to your father and mother, we must overcome the famine and overcome the difficulties!" Secretary Zhang encouraged him and said: "If the wind is strong, we must stand firm, if the waves are strong, we must hold the helm steadily, rely on the party and the masses, and any difficulties can be overcome!" ”
The villagers unloaded the daily necessities issued by the party and the state, helped the old, weak, sick and disabled to the boat, and the big ship turned around and headed for the city. At this time, people's mood can no longer be calm.
Then, airplanes appeared in the sky, and bags of flatbread, bags of biscuits, and bundles of clothes were airdropped. People excitedly raised their arms and shouted: "Long live the Communist Party of China!" "Hooray! This voice overwhelmed the waves of the flood and swept the sky.
After the flood, the people of Forty-eight Villages started production to save themselves, rebuilt their homes, and rows of new houses were built again, and people were thinking: When will this flood disaster be completely **!
The day that people are looking forward to has finally arrived, on November 17, 1963, the great leader *** wrote down the seven glittering characters of "must ** Haihe", this great instruction illuminated people's hearts.
The vast number of poor middle peasants in Linhezhuang rushed to tell each other and asked to go to the river, and the brigade headquarters was crowded with people, and the letter of determination was plastered all over the wall.
The old people who have experienced the harm of floods are like happy events repairing pickaxes and grinding shovels, tying baskets and repairing cars, and they are all ready to contribute to the Haihe River.
The members of the party branch were in high spirits, they were willing to go to the battlefield to participate in the battle, and Li Yuesheng, the secretary of the party branch, said with a spring breeze on his face: "Don't look at how old I am, push and push the ground and stand in the way!" The militia instructor said: "This work is militarized, and none of you can fight it!" ”
In the end, the commune appointed an instructor to take the migrant workers to the river, and Li Yuesheng led his son Jigang to the instructor and said: "This child is handed over to you, let him beat and fight well, and use all his strength on the Haihe River!" The instructor said, "Don't worry, Jigang is a good young man!" ”
The migrant workers of Linhezhuang, full of the pride and ambition of fighting the heavens and the earth, took vigorous steps and drove to the Haihe construction site.
* The battle of the Haihe River began. The choke point of the "48 villages" is full of red flags. Tall scaffolding has been erected on the site, and flood gates and control gates to control the Hutuo and Ziya rivers are to be built.
The construction site has entered an intense construction stage, and the labor competition has been launched between companies and companies, platoons and platoons, and classes and squads.
The moving deeds of the Linhezhuang Migrant Workers Company spread to the "48 villages", and the poor middle peasants were particularly happy when they circulated the battle report on the construction site.
At night, he carried a crutch to the housekeeper who wore a hat and the bad elements who were the villains of the year, and plotted to sabotage.
A few days later, the migrant workers of Linhezhuang at the Haihe construction site received two ** letters at the same time, one to Zhihai and one to Jigang, saying that the old man at home was seriously ill and had an emergency, so he should go home quickly. Zhihai said to Jigang: "Then let's go together. ”
Jigang pondered for a moment, and felt that the letter was stilted, he said: "I'm afraid there is a problem here, my father wrote two days ago that the migrant workers in our village are very good, why did he write at this critical juncture of construction, why did two letters come in one day?" And the pen body is the same? Zhihai was also a little puzzled when he heard this.
In the evening, they hung a long-distance ** inquiry at home, and Li Yuesheng, the branch secretary, answered the ** and said angrily to Jigang: "That's the rumor-mongering and sabotage of the class enemy!" "And tell them to work the jobsite. After investigation, it turned out to be a ghost caused by Yang Datou.
In order to ensure the completion of the pivotal project on May Day, the migrant workers of Linhezhuang accepted the arduous task of expanding and digging the foundation pit of the gate, and they fought against the wind and snow.
Li Jigang, the platoon commander of the migrant workers, adopted the method of using wooden poles to pry the frozen blocks, and the young men launched an all-out attack on the frozen soil in small groups, and the progress of the project was very fast.
At the tense moment, a piece of frozen soil rolled down from above, which was a harbinger of a landslide, and Li Jigang yelled: "Comrades, hurry up and get out of the way!" Zhihai didn't hear it, and was still there with a pickaxe.
Jigang rushed up with an arrow step, pulled out Zhihai, and suddenly the soil collapsed with a "boom", and the two people almost fell underneath, and the comrades sweated for them.
Li Jigang's name was written on the honor list, and his moving deeds of single-mindedly governing the river were praised on the construction site.
Besides, the old branch secretary Li Yuesheng, since he sent away the army to govern the river, he always thinks about the construction site, he often says to his wife: "* His old man is called us to govern the river, this is for the benefit of future generations, we can contribute more to the poor middle peasants!" ”
In order to boost the morale of the migrant workers, Li Yuesheng arranged the work of the brigade, pushed it into a trolley, and went to the construction site to express condolences with the entrustment of the poor and middle peasants of the whole village.
The old branch secretary came to the construction site of the Haihe hub project, and was attracted by a boiling scene, only to see the red flag fluttering, the crowd of people, and blurted out unconsciously: "The people are the driving force to create history, which is really amazing!" ”
He pushed the cart to the shed, and the people greeted him together, and the instructor took the old secretary's hand and said, "Why are you here?" Yuesheng said: "The whole village cares about the Haihe construction site, and the poor middle peasants asked me to send you gifts!" As he spoke, he carried a bundle of shoulder pads to the boys.
The old branch secretary asked the instructor: "How is Jigang doing?" The instructor said: "It is a good piece of steel, fighting frozen squares, fighting quicksand, and running ahead in all kinds of innovative work, and it is the pacesetter of the whole company!" Jigang said embarrassedly on the side: "We are far from everyone!" ”
In the evening, the old branch secretary told everyone about Yang Datou's instructions to write a letter to destroy the water, and people were very angry when they heard it, which inspired everyone's consciousness of class struggle and line struggle, and they were determined to dedicate all their strength to the ** Haihe.
In the early summer of 1967, to the east of the "48 villages", a new Ziya River leading directly to the Bohai Sea was completed, and the flood gates and control gates spanned the riverside, which were majestic and magnificent, locking up the flood that had endangered the millennium.
With the completion of the main project of the Haihe River, the grain output of the "48 villages" has increased year by year, and the people's life is that the sesame seeds are blooming and rising.
The surrounding land of Linhezhuang is square, the forest is lined up, and the field roads lead to the village, but they are not satisfied, and they are determined to carry out the Haihe River water conservancy project under the leadership of the party, and the party branch leads the well drilling team to fight day and night.
On this day, a truck loaded with a motor stopped at the intersection leading to Linhezhuang, and a red-faced worker master got out of the car and walked straight to the derrick on the side of the road.
Li Jigang, who was repairing the motor, hurriedly stood up and said hello, "Master, take a break, drink a bowl of water!" The old master said: "I'm asking for directions, is this the Linhe Commune of "Forty-Eight Villages"? Jigang said heartily: "It is Linhe Commune!"
Hearing the words, Li Yuesheng walked over and saw a worker master hurriedly stepping forward to shake hands: "Comrade, ** come!" The old worker said: "I am from the Northeast Hongqi Motor Factory, passing by here with the car, I want to go back to my hometown to see, I miss my hometown!" ”
Li Jigang interjected: "You are also from the forty-eighth village?" The old man said: "I am from Linhezhuang in this commune, and when I was eight years old, I went down to Kanto with others, and later I heard that my mother was tortured to death by the landlord Yang family, and my younger brother killed the landlord and jumped into the Hutuo River, and there was no one at home!" ”
Old man Li Yuesheng's eyes widened and asked, "What's your name?" The old man said, "My name is Li Shuisheng." Yuesheng stepped forward and grabbed his arm, and said with tears in his eyes for a while: "Brother, brother, I am your own brother!" The old man was so excited that he didn't know where to start with a thousand words.
Jigang looked at the two old men in shock, and the people in the well heard that Yuesheng's brother had returned, so they all enthusiastically surrounded him, holding hands and asking questions.
Yuesheng said excitedly: "Brother, I'll take you around and see the changes in our hometown!" So saying, the two brothers walked towards the embankment.
The two brothers walked along, and the old man looked at everything fresh, and kept asking: "What about the **beach back then**? Lao Yuesheng said: "At the foot, here is the famous bumper yield of the whole commune, with a yield of 866 per mu, and it has already crossed the "Yangtze River"! ”
Yuesheng pointed to a jungle in the distance and said, "Brother! You see, that's where I jumped into the river back then, and now the fruit trees are in a row, and I harvest three or four hundred thousand catties of fruit a year. The old man said excitedly: "This is all the happiness brought by his old man!" ”
The two brothers stopped at a well, and Yuesheng said, "I heard that my mother said that there was a great drought that year, and my grandfather died of thirst in this place! Shui Sheng listened, looked at the clear well water, bitter and sweet sour came to his heart together.
Suddenly, a crisp singing voice interrupted the old brothers' contemplation, and Yuesheng said excitedly: "Listen, our forty-eight villages have all made up songs!" The Hutuo River is surging with golden waves, the green trees are shady and the grains are fragrant, ** call for the control of the sea and the river, and the millennium pan area becomes a granary... Shui Sheng grabbed a handful of black oily soil and said to himself: "Hometown, you are changing so fast!" ”
The old man couldn't see enough of the grass and trees in his hometown, so Yuesheng said: "Let's go, drive the car to the commune first, how long will it take to watch?" With that, the two brothers walked towards the car.
The two brothers stood on the car, looking at the green field, at the majestic gate, at the iron ox running in the field, at the rushing Hutuo River... What a change all this has become!
The car sped on the wide road of the People's Commune, driving faster and faster, facing the sun, and running forward.