Text: Wang Mingkai.
I really didn't expect that Wang Yu would actually be a soldier! This is my surprise discovery and heartfelt emotion after reading Wang Yu's newly published collection of essays "Heart Spring" by the People's Literature Publishing House.
In the eyes of many literary friends and poets, Wang Yu has two identifying titles, one is a famous medical expert, and the other is a heavyweight writer. He is a professor of medicine, a doctoral supervisor, and has served as the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heavy Medicine, the Director of the Institute of Ultrasound Imaging of Heavy Medicine, has won many national scientific research projects, won the first prize of Chongqing Science and Technology Progress Award and many other awards, cultivated a large number of outstanding medical talents, and cultivated a national outstanding young man. At the same time, he is also a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the former vice chairman of the Chongqing Writers Association, in the "People's Literature", "Chinese Writers", "Xinhua Digest", "Guangming**" and other publications published many **, prose, scripts and other literary works, published "Flying Over the Pacific", "Water Dragon", "Eighteen Ladders" and other long **8 and ** set 3, "Fill Sichuan", "Young Friends", "Delivery Room" and many other works have been filmed as film and television dramas, won the Tian Han Drama Award, Yang Sheng'an Literature Award and Chongqing Literature and Art Award, Five One Project Award, Literary Award, first prize of "Ghost Cup" and other awards.
But I thought I was familiar with Wang Yu, but I didn't expect that Wang Yu, a famous medical expert and heavyweight writer, would even be a soldier. It wasn't until I read his collection of essays, The Fountain of the Heart, a week ago, that I made this surprising and novel discovery. Published in the magazine "People's Literature", "A Thousand Miles Post" is the opening work of "Heart Spring", which records and tells the unforgettable military life engraved in Wang Yu's life process.
It should be in the summer ......and autumn of 1961, when 16-year-old Wang Yu graduated from junior high school, he unintentionally put on a military uniform without thinking and unprepared, and became a PLA cadet who entered the military health schoolThe most unforgettable thing is that "the higher authorities transferred me to the propaganda team of the Logistics Department of the Chengdu Military Region to walk the thousand-mile Sichuan-Tibet line to express condolences to the officers and men of the military stations along the line." It is precisely because of the difficult journey of sleeping in the Sichuan-Tibet online dining style that there is the fascinating "Qianli Sticker" in today's "Heart Spring".
This reminds me of a poet's poem called "A Thousand Mountains": from one to ten to hundreds to thousands, all mountains and mountains ......Wang Yu's propaganda team set out from Chengdu, and more than 20 people crowded into a Jiefang brand truck and traveled through the "Thousand Mountains" of the Sichuan-Tibet 318 Line, ...... Erlang Mountain, Zheduo Mountain, and Qi'er MountainMountains and military stations are connected like gourds, Ya'an Military Station, Luding Military Station, Kangding Military Station, Xinduqiao Military Station, 135 Military Station, Litang Military Station, Batang Military Station ......Wang Yu's task was to give condolences to the officers and men of these military stations scattered in the lofty mountains and mountains, such as poetry recitation, allegro, three and a half sentences, solo singing, chorus, singing and dancing, ......With their passionate singing, wonderful dancing and affectionate smiles, they brought spiritual comfort and spiritual strength to the officers and men stationed there.
The difficulties can be imagined. The members of the propaganda team not only had to march in a hurry, but also had to perform continuously, and they also had to write and create their own literary and artistic programs. More importantly, it is necessary to overcome a series of very harsh objective conditions and the impact of the natural environment, such as the impermanence of climate change and the lack of oxygen in the mountains on the Sichuan-Tibet line. In the work "A Thousand Miles of Stickers", the author repeatedly talks about their personal experiences and vivid scenes of encounters with unpredictable bad weather:
The heavens suddenly changed their faces, the wind howled, and the sand and rocks flew away, as if a giant was sweeping the world with a huge broom. Everyone hurried to a large tree and hugged the trunk. After the storm, we were clay figures, covered in dirt. A female team member was hit on the forehead by gravel and bulged out a pack, so angry that she gritted her teeth: she will never come again in the next life. ”
We performed in the Grand Place and the audience was full. When the dance "Laundry Song" was in progress, it caught up with heavy rain mixed with hail particles. No audience left. There was no shelter on the band's head, and the people and instruments were in the rain and hail. The moon qin in my hand is still plucking, and together with other instruments and rain and hail, it is dripping, tinkling, and noisy. ”
This section of the road is narrow and steep, with cliffs on both sides, and the muddy road is slippery. The driver told Captain Feng that in order to ensure everyone's safety, they all got out of the car and walked, and he drove alone, and the captain agreed. The team members cursed this dangerous road and walked down the mountain, looking back, Captain Feng was directing the military vehicle to slowly descend. This section of the road is too narrow, and if the wheels are slightly off, there is a danger that the car will be destroyed and people will die. Everyone sweated for the driver. When I was about to drive through that section of the road, a female team member suddenly exclaimed, Danger! I saw that the front wheel of the car slid to the left, and Captain Feng gestured to the right to correct it, and the body continued to tilt to the left. In an instant, the driver reacted extremely quickly and decisively hit the steering wheel moderately to the right, and the military vehicle was finally out of danger. ”
In addition to facing harsh weather conditions, it is also necessary to be ready to respond to emergencies at any time. "At the foot of Erlang Mountain, a military vehicle returning to Chengdu unfortunately fell into a valley more than 200 meters deep due to heavy fog. Most of the propaganda team were military doctors and **, and in order to rescue, they hurriedly drove to the scene of the accident. The bottom of the valley is very deep, the vehicle is not visible, the rope tied to the waist is put down, put halfway, there are rolling stones falling, comrades exclaim to call the police, and loose gravel will roll down at any time, and a small soldier holds it with his shoulder. The pain in my hands holding the rope was unbearable, and I didn't dare to let go, so I had to grit my teeth and persevere. Down to the bottom of the valley, there was a mess, a miserable situation, ten people in the car, seven were seriously injured, and three had no vital signs......”
The sound of admiration, wonderful and wonderful, this is Wang Yu's former military life.
There are also many texts in "Young Friends", "Yellow Mountain Rain", "School", "Going to the United States", "Going to a Small Town Again", "Full of Glory", "Painting Crane Man", "Tibetan Plaque Man", "The Most Pastoral Good Scenery", "Traces of Time" and many other texts. Come on, dear friends, open "Heart Spring", read between the lines and appreciate the unforgettable life experience and what you have seen and heard in Mr. Wang Yu's life journey, perhaps, you will have more new harvests and new discoveries.
Wang Mingkai, former secretary of Chongqing Writers Association, is a well-known writer and poet.