Chapter 5 Impression of Daxing Island
When Li Siming and his friends arrived at the Qixing River, it was already dusk. They had to take a boat to go to Daxing Island. The river was full of swamps, and it was too dangerous to cross the river at night, so Li Siming and his friends received an order to spend the night in a small village called Zhaojiatun. As soon as the car stopped, Li Siming immediately jumped down and moved his hands and feet. After a while, a medium-sized Northeastern man came towards him, with a happy smile on his face. Li Siming knew that he and Zhang Hua would have dinner and spend the night tonight.
Strictly speaking, Li Siming's impression of Daxing Island starts from today because it left a deep impression on him tonight. This man who claimed to be Lao Zhao led them to his home with calluses. It was a straw house. The kang table made of willow wood had been arranged on the kang. The kang table had already been arranged with hot noodles, and each of them added an egg. Li Siming and Zhang Hua were so hungry that they were pressed against their chests, and quickly took off their shoes and wanted to go to the kang. Lao Zhao grabbed the two of them and said nothing. He first glanced at a portrait of Chairman Mao on the wall opposite the kang, picked up a quotation from Chairman Mao, and said in front of his chest, and recited a quotation:
The core force that leads our cause is the Communist Party of China and the theoretical basis for guiding our thoughts Marxism-Leninism.
Forgot this, it’s a sin. Li Siming and Zhang Hua quickly followed Lao Zhao’s reading. Then, they raised the quotation book and shouted: I wish our great leader, Chairman Mao, a long life! I wish you three times in a row.
It's so interesting, Li Siming was secretly happy in his heart.
The next morning, Li Si and Zhang Hua and other newly-known or unaware educated youth boarded a steamboat heading to Daxing Island. One steamboat was running back and forth, which was quite spectacular. The Seven Star River was watching all this quietly like a girl, and the reeds that could not be seen undulating in the wind, swaying, and pheasants and wild ducks fled around from time to time. On the other side of the Seven Star River, there were vast wastelands and blue sky. Under the sky, cattle and sheep were dotted with scattered cattle and sheep. What a rough picture. In his previous life, Li Siming had seen such a beautiful and shocking picture, which made him dream about her more than once in Beijing, Hong Kong, or the United States.
"Oh no, someone fell into the water." Suddenly someone screamed. The person who fell into the water was a female educated youth named Xu Li, who was from Jinan. She may have never taken a steamboat before. She was a little excited, but she fell into the river with excitement.
"Why are you standing there? Save the person quickly!" someone shouted at the top of his throat.
"I don't know how to water!" The person who answered was obviously a landslide. The educated youth were panicked.
"Pu!" Someone jumped down. Shuai Shuai was very fierce and handsome in the diving position. Shuai Shuai rushed in the Seven Star River for a few times before reaching Xu Li who fell into the water. But he ignored the drowning desire for life. Xu Li instinctively grabbed the life-saving straw, making it impossible for Shuai Shuai Shuai to perform. One grabbed it desperately, and the other tried hard to break free, and could not stand stalemate on the river. This was on the river, not on the land. The stone that the educated youth in the steamboat had just put down was lifted up again.
At this critical moment, Li Siming had already reacted and quickly took off his coat and jumped down. The next scene stunned the educated youth. Li Siming used his swimming skills he learned in the special forces, swam quickly to the two of them like swordfish, and knocked Xu Li unconscious with a punch. The strength was very good, which could cause dizziness but not fatal. Then he and the freed Shuai Xu pulled Xu Li to the side of the boat. It was so cold. It had already snowed at this time in previous years. When the three of them got on the boat, their lips were already blue. The men and women of the educated youth on the boat changed their clothes for the three of them in a hurry. Li Siming drank a few sips of white wine before he calmed down. Shuai Xu was really afraid at this time, not afraid of being drowned, but afraid of being frozen to death.
After getting to the dock and stepping on the ground, I arrived at Daxing Island. This will be his "new home". After leaving the dock for about a mile, there are rows of red brick houses, which is the regiment headquarters. There are also some shops, restaurants and so on nearby.
All personnel in Daxing Island Reclamation Area are affiliated to the Sixth Division of the Heilongjiang Construction Corps. Compared with the five divisions when the corps were formed, this sixth Division is a new division, consisting of the 23, 24, 25, 27th Regiments drawn by other divisions and the newly built 57-62nd Regiment in Fuyuan. There is a regiment in Daxing Island called the 57th Regiment, which is moved here from Fuyuan.
Before we arrived at the regiment headquarters, we saw the red flags of the regiment headquarters waving from afar, beating drums and drums to welcome educated youth from all directions. Slogans are inevitable, such as "Led in the frontier, pay tribute to Chairman Mao!", "A red heart is towards the party, and revolutionary youths go to the border", etc. Li Siming and his comrades gathered in the square in front of the auditorium of the regiment headquarters. The leader of the regiment wanted to speak as usual, and naturally praised everyone present for their loyalty to the party. They traveled thousands of miles to the Great Northern Wilderness to contribute to the revolutionary cause, which is melodious. There are a total of 100 new educated youths, and they will be organized into a company-Fifth Company. Although it is a company, there are only so many people so far, and then they are led back to the 5th Company's station by the 5th Company.
When he arrived at the station, Li Siming discovered that the station was only a house that Gu Lianlian was in the office. The Fifth Company was a newly formed company. Except for the leaders of all sizes, all of whom were demobilized soldiers and old educated youth, they were all Li Siming, the group of educated youth. Oh my God, where can we sleep at night? The answer is to do it yourself and have enough food and clothing. These hundred people were divided into five rows under the leadership of the old educated youth. The first thing was to camp and set up tents. This problem arose. These educated youths were all novices and had no experience in setting up tents. The tents they set up were in various shapes, either crooked or loose and loose, making the old educated youth shake their heads. When Li Siming was training in the army in his previous life, he set up field tents more than once, and his movements were proficient. The group of tents he was in were fast and good.
This aroused the interest of the captain. The captain was named Chen Shi. His straight body reminded people of his proud experience of a soldier. He was 38 years old this year and once went to North Korea as a soldier in the Volunteer Army. He made merits and was injured. In 1958, he transferred to the Beidahuang with a military medal. In fact, there were many demobilized soldiers like him in the Beidahuang. They were the first pioneers of the Beidahuang.
"Li Siming, come here." The company commander yelled at the top of his throat, Golden Lion King.
"What's wrong with the company commander?" Li Siming asked.
"You go and help each row set up the tents and set them up within 2 hours, otherwise you will sleep outside tonight."
Chapter completed!