Second, build roads in the mountains, meet wolves at night, exchange cotton-padded clothes for meat, and worship the mountain gods.
Lao Li (my father) was sent to reform-through-labour camp. Where is his position? In Zhongtanpu, the current location of Zhongtanpu can't be found on the map. Probably in the area of Anding Village, chongzhou city, Sichuan Province, where the highway leading to Wolong County began to be built. This road is 55 kilometers long. There are mountains and rivers on the road, which is very difficult to repair. Coupled with the backward environment at that time, roads were built almost entirely by manpower. This process is slow and difficult!
Lao Li was sent there the day after he was sent to build roads. On the way, he took a boat, took a car and walked over mountains and mountains, tired Lao Li, who was 16 years old, to his destination. As soon as we got there, the road was repaired to a small part of the mountainside. Except for the road where I came, there are mountains on both sides, surrounded by dense trees and flowers, and some small animals can be seen running out from time to time.
On the first day, I didn't have to arrange work, so I asked Lao Li to assign a dormitory, and their newcomers also went together. Because some people left before they came, the dormitory location was empty, and the good location had long been changed by people who continued to build roads here, but Lao Li and them were arranged to live in the dormitory outside, not staying in the mountains and not knowing so much.
When I went to the dormitory, I saw two bunk beds in one room. At that time, Lao Li was only 16 years old. Those people in the dormitory are older than him, and they are not good people. He was alone when he arrived. The dormitory is still the outermost one, but it is close to the places where the dormitories gather.
In this way, Lao Li came here. There is no electric light here, but kerosene lamps are used. Living materials are all shipped from the rear cities. When the chef as a food has free time, he will raise some livestock such as chickens, ducks and pigs, and wait until the New Year to kill them and improve the food.
What's the point of building roads? On the first day of road construction, Lao Li learned almost everything except digging and transporting stones, clearing roads in the mountains and bridging bridges in the water. The most difficult thing is to punch holes. To make a hole is to blow up the mountain and open the way. First, you need tools. A hole needs a big nail, about five centimeters in diameter. One person takes a sledgehammer and turns it on a big nail held by another person. With the deepening of the hole, it is necessary to constantly replace nails with appropriate length according to the depth, which is the most dangerous and tiring work in road construction.
As the road approaches Xiu Yuan, time flies and winter will come soon. Winter in the mountains is not so easy, but Lao Li, who lives near the dormitory, realizes the disadvantages of living there.
Goose feather-like snow mixed with cold wind blows in the outermost dormitory, so cold that Lao Li is wrapped in sheets. At this time, a burst of urine came, and Lao Li got up and wanted to go outside to take a break. He picked up the kerosene lamp on the table and went to the window to look out. The snow outside seems to be getting smaller. Lao Li tightened his clothes, opened the door and went out. Suddenly, he saw several pairs of green eyes staring at himself in the Woods. Lao Li was afraid at that time. He picked up the kerosene lamp and took a photo there. Those green eyes stepped back behind him. Lao Li stayed in the mountains for half a year and thought, this may be a wolf in the mountains!
When I couldn't find food in winter, I had the idea of hitting people, but I was afraid of fire. If I go out again, these wolves will rush up and I, a reform-through-labour prisoner, will be here! Forget it, don't pee. Hold it and go home! Try to solve the whole spittoon in the future, and then put the spittoon outside the door. I think those animals have smart noses. If you want to eat me, smell my urine first! Lao Li scolded 1 in his heart and went back to the dormitory. He dare not treat wolves with his ass. As soon as he arrived at the dormitory, he wanted to understand why those people didn't choose the outer dormitory. Lao Li cursed the person assigned to him at that time and went to bed again.
Winter in the mountains is very cold, so a lot of cotton-padded clothes, trousers and quilts are brought from the city. But there are still local residents in the mountains. There are not many residents, and every household is an Orion. Because the mountains are all old forests, and the products are still rich, you don't have to worry about eating, but you have to worry about wearing them! It's cold in winter, and the whole family huddles in the house, afraid to go out. One is lack of decent clothes, and the other is fear of getting sick. At that time, even doctors looked down on getting sick, let alone taking medicine. Therefore, every New Year, Lao Li and his cellmates want to have a good meal. If there is so much meat, they will take quilts from the city to the Orion's house to eat meat.
Today, under the command of the captain, Lao Li and Liu, who is five years older than him, went to the mountains to find Orion to exchange meat. Big-bellied Liu is a famous "big-bellied arhat" in the team, and he is good at eating, but he has great physical strength. Therefore, every time he wants to climb mountains and run errands, he is always looking for him, but he is afraid that he will steal meat, and he must find someone to go with him every time, and it cannot be the same person, for fear that they will consult each other! Lao Li's main task today is to keep an eye on the pot-bellied Liu and prevent him from stealing vegetables.
Turn left and right in the mountains. After walking for nearly an hour, several families finally appeared in front of us. Lao Li, they left at dawn in the morning, and now they see the sun rising to the waist of the tree. The captain told them to go back before noon, so there is plenty of time now, so both of them relaxed and walked slowly.
I saw from a distance that one of the families was cutting something with a knife. Pregnant Liu has been here several times. I shouted directly, "Master Wang, what are you doing?" At this moment, I saw a man with a knife stopped the knife that was about to be cut, turned to look at Liu with a big belly and said, "Why, your boy has come to change meat again?" Belly Liu smiled and ran to Master Wang and nodded, and Lao Li followed and greeted Master Wang.
Then, Master Wang turned and pointed to the body of the wild boar behind him and said, "Then you really came. You just set a trap last night. When you went this morning, you saw this guy trapped there and couldn't finish eating. You are so lucky! " Then Master Wang said, "Are you busy? If you are not busy, just wait for me to take this pig's five internal organs to worship the mountain god, and I will come back to get you meat. " Liu, a paunchy man, knows that once the Orion on the mountain hits a big prey, it will be regarded as a gift from the mountain god, so every time he hits the prey, the first time he takes out the internal organs of the prey, and then puts it in a sparsely populated place to burn incense and worship, so that the mountain god can bless the people in this mountain. So as soon as we met, we put a big bag of cotton-padded clothes and trousers on the ground, and then quickly said, "No, no,no."
At this moment, Master Wang turned and walked home. Lao Li and pot-bellied Liu followed him with cotton trousers, and then followed Master Wang into the house. When he went in, there was nothing in the room. There was a fire shelf in the middle and a pile of charcoal was still smoking below. On the left side of the ground is a floor covered with several skins, and the wall on the right side is covered with various hunting tools and some unknown leather. Lao Li followed the pot-bellied Liu to put the cotton trousers on the ground.
When I looked back, I saw that Master Wang grabbed a handful of incense from the skins on those walls and pulled out three sticks. "You have lived in the mountains for a while, haven't you?" There is always some trouble in building roads! Do you want to go to worship the mountain gods with me? "
Pregnant Liu quickly said, "I'm not going. I don't believe in ghosts and gods. I'm just here to change meat. Besides, I'm too lazy to leave. I will wait here! "
At this time, Master Wang turned his attention to Lao Li, who was only 17 years old at that time and had never seen anything strange. Moreover, when he slept every night, he was worried that the wolves outside would rush in and eat him, so when Master Wang saw it, he immediately agreed, only to see that Master Wang took out three more sticks from the bundle of incense, then put the remaining incense back in its original place and turned to walk away. Lao Li quickly followed. Then he walked forward, and Lao Li quickly followed.
There is nothing to say along the way. After walking for about half an hour, Master Wang in front stopped under a big stone and said, "That's it!" " "Then he put down his things and opened the banana leaves, and his internal organs leaked out. This time, Lao Li, who was relatively close, was washed back several steps by this foul smell. Master Wang smiled and said, "What's your name, boy?"! "
Lao Li's Wen Li
"Why did you come?"
"There are wolves outside when you sleep at night."
Master Wang laughed a few times. "Living in the mountains, there are no wolves!" As he spoke, Master Wang took out the incense and lit it. He said, "Come on, follow me. If the incense doesn't burn for a while, it's over, and we can go back. " Meanwhile, I handed a wick of incense to Lao Li. When Lao Li took this incense, he found that it was covered with the blood of pig viscera. It's damp. What happened? It smells a little fishy,
But by this time, Master Wang had begun to worship, and Lao Li did not ask, but also learned to worship with Master Wang. After the worship, he put the incense on the ground in front of his internal organs, and then Master Wang and Lao Li watched the incense burn out. Soon the incense burned out and it was still very bright. Lao Li wondered how the incense got wet and burned so brightly! But Lao Li didn't ask much. No sooner had the incense been burned than he went back with Master Wang.
As soon as I got back to Master Wang's house, I saw Liu, who was pregnant, dozing off on the ground, as if awakened by the sound of someone entering the house. Seeing Master Wang and Lao Li coming back, I said, "Come back so early."
Master Wang: "If you want to continue to build roads, I can hurry." Then Master Wang said, "All the pork outside is yours. Hurry up and carry it away! "
Big-bellied Liu said, "Yes, yes, right away." He got up and took Lao Li outside. Lao Li also thanked Master Wang and went out with the help of pregnant Liu. When she was pregnant outside, Liu was afraid that Master Wang would go back on her word, so she picked up a pig carcass weighing more than 200 kilograms and left. Lao Li quickly mentioned the pig head behind him.
An hour and a half later, Lao Li and pot-bellied Liu arrived at the canteen of the camp. The captain was very happy to see so much pork replaced. He decided to wait for the Spring Festival on the spot, and when the new couple came, he hung Lao Li and pot-bellied Liu to another relaxed position to work. Lao Li and pot-bellied Liu naturally thanked each other.
That night, the prisoner Lao Li had a good meal. It was Lao Li's first year in the mountains, but he didn't know how unlucky and lucky he was to be hanged to that post after the New Year!
Tomorrow is the last chapter of this short story, so let's call it a day! Stay tuned.