January 9 is the third anniversary of my father's death, and after going to the grave, I went to my aunt's house to see, my aunt is 90 years old, and her body is still very strong, but her back is closer to the ground. At my aunt's house, my former neighbor's second sister-in-law was also there. The second sister-in-law is 78 years old, her face is ruddy, and she has not lost a single tooth, her eldest son teaches, and the second son is the head of an engineering team. The aunt and the second sister-in-law used to be neighbors, and they often talked and chatted together, and they got along very well, and they were satisfied and content with their current life.
In the process of chatting, the second sister-in-law talked about participating in the construction of the Jitai Reservoir in Shouguang City in November 1959. I grew up in Weifang, and I didn't know that there was a Jitai Reservoir in history. According to the Internet inquiry, there are six large reservoirs in Shandong's No. 1 Reservoir, including Xiashan Reservoir, Bailanghe Reservoir, Gaoya Reservoir, Yeyuan Reservoir, Qiangkuo Reservoir and Mushan Reservoir, as well as 26 medium-sized reservoirs and 449 small reservoirs. But there is no name for the Kitai Reservoir.
The second sister-in-law said that she was only 15 years old when the Shouguang Jitai Reservoir was built. The second sister-in-law's home is in Houzhen, about 40 kilometers away from the place where the reservoir was repaired. At that time, Shouguang County mobilized tens of thousands of people to build this reservoir, using shovels to dig carts and push them, a lot.
Ten. Five and six-year-olds also participated. Their lives are very difficult, at first they can eat corn tortillas, salted rais, and the oil flowers in the stir-fry can be counted with the naked eye, and then they eat sorghum and dried sweet potatoes, and then these things are not available. The mother of the second sister-in-law brought them carrot tassels, and seven or eight girls of fifteen or sixteen years old gathered around to eat the half-dried leaves of the carrots. The second sister-in-law said that she would never forget the scene of a man from the neighboring village asking them for carrot tassels, and it was a man of medium height. They were reluctant to give the man a little at first, but eventually gave him a few leaves.
If you have those few leaves, you can't starve to death, and a big man begs for a few carrot tassels, hey! At this time, the second sister-in-law's eyes were a little red.
After searching the Internet for some information about the construction of the Jitai Reservoir in Shouguang City, a netizen named Bu Xiangshan published an article in "Today's Headlines" on September 24, 2022, "Recording Shouguang - Jitai Plain Reservoir and the remaining section of the dam foundation". The article said that after more than 60 years of erosion, the Jitai Plain Reservoir has disappeared, and even some memories have gradually yellowed and blurred with the aging of those who witnessed it.
The construction of the Kitai Plain Reservoir is a "special product" of a special period, and I don't know if this description is reasonable and appropriate.
It is a major event in the history of Shouguang that does not pay attention to science, blindly commands, and causes huge waste and losses." Under the extremely difficult conditions of life, tens of thousands of people braved the cold wind and endured hunger, and built two main canals in Mixi and Midong, and three irrigation and depression projects to divert the Yellow River, the Yellow River, the Mi River, and the Dan River.
During the flood season in 1963, the sand sluice at the northern end of the overflow dam was washed out, and in order to ensure the safety of Yuesi Li Village, the barrage overflow dam was blown up according to the decision of the regional flood control headquarters.
The Jitai Reservoir is a ...... for the common people to eat boiled radishesGrain! What food! ......
The labor army of the construction of the Jitai Reservoir, in the life of three meals a day, Bu Xiangsheng and the second sister-in-law said the same. may be the reason for writing the article, Bu Xiangsheng said it better.
I joined the army in March 1990, when the pension was 300 yuan a year, and from 1991 to 1993 it rose to 600 yuan a year. In the process of correspondence with my father, I learned that I could get up to half of the annual pension. At that time, there was a voluntary project in the village every year, and my father could not do such high-intensity work at the age of 63, so he could only deduct the expenses from my pension to replace the voluntary labor assigned by the village, and the village distributed the amount of labor according to the population of the family.
In 1987 and 1988, I participated in two voluntary labor in the construction of the salt works in the northern part of Hanting District, bringing my own bedding and dry food, living in a kiln covered with plastic sheeting (we called it a "sleeper" at the time), eating corn and sweet potato nests mixed with white flour, and drinking boiled water.
*From the Internet).