The eighth day of the first lunar month is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, and tomorrow is the working day of the office workers
Forty years ago, I worked in Jingquan Township, Gulang County, which was my first work unit after I first joined the work. Jingquan Township is located in the southeast of Gulang County in the edge of the mountainous area, the township eight natural villages more than 8,000 people, the township is located in a narrow Bailinggou Village, the whole village is surrounded by mountains and hills sandwiched by ditches, the township is on a hill, at that time the township only has three rows of adobe bungalows, the whole village is not electrified, all the cadres of the township are lit at night with kerosene lamps, the countryside is all over the mountains and mountains by walking, the township is 50 kilometers away from my hometown, the road leading to the county is a winding mountain and stone road, You can only go to Huangyangchuan Township to take a shuttle, if you can't catch the bus, you can only stay in Huangyangchuan and wait for the next day's shuttle bus to Gulang County.
There is no shuttle bus to my hometown, one is walking, and the other is cycling. In this way, you can only choose to take the interception road, that is, over the mountains and mountains, you need to pass through the township of Bailing ditch, Jing'er ditch, Dalashui, Sidao Xianzi three villages, these roads are uphill roads, not so much riding a bicycle as to push the bicycle to go, with the strength of the legs that is not able to ride at all, over the four Xianzi into Hengliang Township's Jianshan Village, Zhujiadong, Shagoukou, Xiaoshanzi Village, this is a highway that can be paved with stones by shuttle bus, called "Gunian" highway (Gulang to Nianjiajing), Because it is a downhill road, riding a bicycle has to hold the brakes with both hands, and if you don't pay attention to it, the bike will fly into the slope, either injured or killed! Working in this township, all our staff can not go home every week, it is really a dream to go home every day, and it takes a month to go home at the shortest.
In October 1985, three cadres (two men and one woman) who we recruited were assigned to this township, I remember the first time I reported to work, and after living in the township for three days, the secretary of the township party committee Wang asked the office clerk to call the three of us to his office. The office of all the cadres in the township is actually a dormitory, and the secretary's office is the same, about 16 square meters, with a bed against the back wall and a desk by the window, the desk looks dilapidated, and there is a "Beijing brand" iron stove in the middle of the house, which looks very cold. Secretary Wang said: "There is nothing to do in the past few days, you can go home and rest for a week before coming back to work." At that time, I was very happy to hear it, because on the way to work and a few days of life, I had tasted the hardships of working in this township.
When I reported for duty, my father-in-law drove the donkey cart and pulled my luggage to report for duty, and I arrived at my father-in-law's house on the first day, which is in a village called Dagangou, which belongs to Minquan Township of Gulang County. The next morning, my father-in-law drove off with a donkey cart, taking a mountain path, which could only pass a frame car, and it was more than three o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived at the location of the township. Township ** colleagues helped me clean the room and make the bed, the whole township ** compound seemed too quiet at night, out of their room, what I saw was the dim kerosene light on the window of each room, the only sound I could hear was a few dog barks in the village, I could only lie on the bed and look at Jin Yong's popular martial arts ** "Dragon Babu" at that time.
The life of the township ** is very simple, three meals a day is not noodles or noodles, the most uncomfortable thing is the water there, although we drink well water, the water in this well is called bitter water, in fact, it is water containing sodium sulfate, magnesium sulfate and other inorganic salts, every sip of water, every meal, less than half an hour to start diarrhea, but the biggest advantage of drinking this water is that there is no need to adjust salt, because it is salty, and I feel that I can't survive for three days, but I dare not say to the leader, At this time, I didn't expect the secretary to let us go home and rest for a week before coming back to work, so I was very happy. Because of the other two colleagues we came together, their (her) homes are not far away, just around the township, people walk for two or three hours, and I have to walk 50 kilometers home, and the most advanced means of transportation for my home at that time is a bicycle.
At about 9 o'clock in the morning of the day I went home, the office secretary, an old cadre in his 50s, called me to the office and said, "Xiao Li, you didn't have a bicycle when you first came, so if you want to ride a bicycle, you can ride this car in the office." I didn't hesitate to say thank you, and set off with a bicycle, along the way I pushed the bicycle from the township **, over a mountain after a mountain, walked for about five hours to Jianshan Village in Hengliang Township, tired I sweated profusely, panting, to three o'clock in the afternoon before I arrived at my house, I regretted it very much when I got home, the bicycle is simply a burden, not I ride it but it rides me, it's really better to walk home, walk tired and sit and rest, since then, I go home and never ride a bicycle again, No matter how hot or cold it is, no matter how tired I am, I ...... walking
Although the living environment at that time was extremely poor, the working conditions were difficult, but there is one thing worth reminiscing and nostalgic, that is, the Spring Festival and even the spring and autumn harvest holidays, generally a month, every Spring Festival holiday, under normal circumstances, we will go home in the month of the month, to the fifteenth day of the first month will go to work, during the holiday, the township leaders will send the only "liberation" truck to send everyone home, the township ** left on duty are local cadres, so our cadres from other towns will not be on dutyAt that time, I took the car home in the township, it was a very proud and honorable thing, of course, after the fifteenth day of the first month, it was naturally self-reporting.
Time flies, time flies, now, Jingquan Township has long been revoked, I have retired, the development and progress of modern society, people's transportation, life, working environment conditions have undergone earth-shaking changes, but in the Jingquan Township ** work in that period of time, the strong emotions between people, the harmonious atmosphere between leaders and subordinates, every scene feels so warm and nostalgic, which has left an indelible memory in my life!
2024.02.22 Yu Wuwei, Gansu.
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