godfather

Chapter 16 Tangshan

After a few words of discord in the woods, Shaotang almost got into a fight with those two, but also because of his temper and a knife in his hand.He felt that the other party's words were unreasonable, so he talked nonsense, you hide in the mountains and fuck as you like, who cares if you fuck until your intestines are pierced and your butt blooms, but you can't say that I'm a godson, my son is still young and clean.

Later, it was the one of the two men with a weaker voice, clutching his crotch, and begging Shaotang: "You, you must not tell others, you just pretend you didn't see anything, okay?"

Another man with a thicker build, with slightly fierce eyes, hugged the people around him to protect him, as if he was afraid that his friend would be robbed.

Shaotang was inexplicably embarrassed, and I didn't intend to win love, why are you staring at me so hard?

Then the two put on their pants and ran away in a panic...

The father and son also put on their clothes and pants, wrapped them tightly, and headed back to the outpost all the way.Before entering the door, Shaotang stopped suddenly, and said: "Xiao Bei, I'm fine today! Don't mention this to others later, don't tell your father... don't let your father misunderstand that I have led you into trouble. "

Meng Xiaobei asked: "What are those two men doing?"

Shaotang's eyes were full of disdain: "Heh...the two wild boars are in heat, and they made a bunch of them to push their big butts."

Meng Xiaobei likes to ask the bottom line: "I've seen wild boars and pigs in pens, why haven't I seen pigs arch like that?"

Shaotang: "Hmm..."

Meng Xiaobei: "The pig's butt is so fat, it's panting heavily when it's full, how can it move!"

Shaotang let out a "poof" and was overjoyed, and his mood suddenly improved: "Forget it, pigs can't move, I don't have the ability to find you two pigs to show you!"

In Meng Xiaobei's memory, at Shaotang's age, he thought of such things in that way, with a slight indifference and contempt on his expression, thinking that after all, two men were shameless and shameless for doing such a thing.In that particular era, which was far from the era when the whole people would be corrupt and stir up foundations 30 years later, this was the concept of ordinary normal people.It was kind enough to report the two hooligans to the leaders and the police.

Several comrades gathered around the stove to boil water and eat. The small radio on the wooden table played the news, and a serious and heavy female voice came out.

The Party Central Committee and the State Council announced that at 42:[-] a.m. today, a strong earthquake of magnitude [-] occurred in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, my country. At present, the houses and personnel in the earthquake area suffered heavy losses.The quake was felt strongly in Beijing and Tianjin, and a large number of houses collapsed. The exact number of casualties is unknown...

He Shaotang squatted in front of the stove, suddenly put down the big bowl, and was stunned.

The man stood up abruptly, his mind was suddenly at a loss.

Everyone looked up at Shaotang, and Xiaobin asked, "What's the matter? What are you going to do?"

He Shaotang gasped, his face suddenly turned pale with anxiety, he picked up his coat and strode out of the guard post.

"Xiao Bei's father is still in Beijing!!!"

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Shaotang and his troops specialize in ordnance and natural disaster prevention in forests and rivers. With some knowledge, they knew something big had happened as soon as they heard it. They drove back to the factory with Xiaobei, and then returned to the battalion to report, and were on standby at any time.

At noon that day, the news of the devastating earthquake in Tangshan had spread through the radio station, loudspeaker announcements in the factory, and word of mouth from the masses, spreading throughout the entire family dormitory area of ​​the automobile factory.The factory was shut down that afternoon, and many workers poured into the labor union and the office of the factory leader. There was a crowd of people at the gate of the family compound, and everyone was in a hurry!

The weather in the Qishan valley is good, and it is far away from Beijing. Why are these people in a hurry?Because many people's homes are in Beijing and they come from Beijing.

Parents, siblings, relatives, and their homes are all in Beijing.

That night, there was no sleep in Xigou, and the lights of thousands of houses were not extinguished.

At that time, the communication conditions were extremely underdeveloped, and it was impossible to make calls in the earthquake area.The official news was very vague and cryptic, and there was no real-time broadcast of the specific number of casualties. However, all the clues and corners of the information were revealed. This was a devastating disaster. Tangshan was razed to the ground, and Beijing was also affected.

That night, hundreds of workers, with their families, blocked the door of the factory leader’s office, which was lit all night, asking for leave collectively and asking to return to Beijing.

There were more than 800 young people who came to Qishan from Beijing to open up wasteland and build factories, and they were all middle-aged.

The leader said: "No chaos, we can't mess, you all have to ask for leave now, can't the project and production be up?"

The workers said: "We still have time to start work, why is Nima thinking about this month's profit output?! My house is gone!"

The factory leaders tried to persuade us to wait patiently for the news from Beijing. The central government will not ignore it. The army is doing disaster relief, and the state will not ignore your families.

The old man who has worked in the factory for more than ten years, and several of the oldest employees shouted in grief and indignation, "The state has never controlled our family!"

"We have been living in this ditch for so many years, and the only thing we can think about is that home in Beijing, where is the home? What happened to the house, whether the parents are buried or alive, at least we have to go back and take a look!!!"

The public sentiment was fierce and indignant, and the demand to return to Beijing was also a public grievance that had been suppressed for many years, and it was vented incisively and vividly in the face of the earthquake.

Over the years, wave after wave of educated young people have returned to the city after getting the quota or going through the back door.

More and more people stay here and cannot go back, and there is no hope of returning home.The ideals and spirit of youth who responded to the call to go to the third line to serve the country were full of enthusiasm, and the ideals and spirits of the youth could not withstand the difficult years, the wind and frost and the fleeting years.When the torrent of change breaks through a gap, who is willing to fall behind?Who is willing to sink to the bottom and be a victim of the whirlpool of history? ...

That time was the first time in the history of Qishan Armory that it was on the verge of worker riots.

The young and strong workers of the factory gathered in the open space of the playground, blocking the door of the factory director's office, waiting for a call from Beijing, but what they waited for was the news that hundreds of thousands of people had died in the hell on earth in Tangshan.

The officers and soldiers from the army compound next door were dispatched again. Shaotang and his company carried guns and guarded around the empty field to maintain order and persuade and deter the surging crowd.

Someone rushed into the soldiers, trying to storm the gate of the small courtyard of the office.

A soldier carried the crowd with a gun and shouted, "Stop crowding, and shoot again."

Shaotang was concerned about Meng Jianmin's safety, and frequently turned his head to look at Meng Xiaobei in the crowd.

This matter is so small, Meng Jianmin has not been back to Beijing for several years, but he went to visit relatives in such a season, just in time for the once-in-a-century earthquake.Shaotang held the gun tightly, gripping the cold barrel with his flesh, and his palms were sweating frequently.Meng Jianmin is a man with bad luck and a lot of misfortune. No matter where he goes, he can't get a good one?

Jianmin also took Meng Xiaojing to Beijing to play, so what if something happened to the father and son?

The old lady of the Meng family is still in Beijing. There are five or six people in her family. Has the building in Balizhuang collapsed?Is everyone safe?

If Meng Jianmin really can't come back, there is something good or bad, what will his wife do here? !How sad Xiao Bei must have been!

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The man said he didn't love his mother-in-law. Shaotang had already thought about many possibilities in his heart, and even realized that Meng Jianmin was always sensitive, delicate, melancholy, and it happened that he had entrusted Xiaobei to him a few months ago. Take care?What is this called? ...

Meng Xiaobei and his mother were also standing in the crowd, anxious but helpless, standing there completely blankly waiting for news.There are only a few telephones in the whole factory that can make outgoing calls.The ravine is so closed, in the final analysis, no one knows what the earthquake in Beijing looks like and how serious it is.

The battalion commander had no choice but to go to the rostrum to appease the masses, saying that according to the instructions of the leaders of the Military Commission, Beijing was only affected by the earthquake, and the damage was not large. There were not many houses collapsed, and there would not be too many casualties.But at this point, I didn't see it with my own eyes, and it wasn't broadcast live on TV. No one believed it. They thought it was an excuse to prevent the workers from returning to Beijing for disaster relief.

Later, in the chaos, the leader caught a glimpse of Meng Xiaobei and Ma Baochun on stage.

The factory director's eyes were sunken due to exhaustion, his throat was hoarse, and he pointed at Ma Baochun and his wife with a tweeter from afar.

"So, today is already the 30th, let's wait another day!"

"Let's wait for the workers who went back to Beijing to visit their relatives to come back!"

"Meng Jianmin, an old worker in the first workshop of our third district, everyone knows this person, right? Meng Jianmin has been in the factory for so many years, can everyone trust him?"

"His wife and a son are still in this ditch. He must come back, right? There's no way he won't come back!"

Everyone turned around at the same time, looking at the reaction of Ma Baochun and his wife.

The factory manager shouted hoarsely through the loudspeaker: "Meng Jianmin asked for family leave until the 31st, and we all see if he can come back on that day? If he comes back on time, it means that their family is fine! If their family members are fine, then Beijing The city will be fine!"

"If Meng Jianmin doesn't come back by that day, I, I, I will call the shots and report to the province to allow everyone to ask for leave!"

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At this time, who could be more worried about Meng Jianmin's safety than Ma Baochun, facing everyone's eyes, as if frozen there, being poked in the heart, speechless.

Someone in the crowd asked angrily: "You are just delaying time, what if Meng Jianmin can't come back! Who knows what happened to Meng Jianmin and whether he was buried...Are we just waiting here stupidly?!!!"

The crowd fell silent for a moment.

Everyone actually thinks so in their hearts, but most people can't say it.

"Yes, can Master Meng come back..."

Meng Xiaobei's dark brows and eyes were fierce, and two stubborn eyes shot out from under his narrow eyelids. He was used to being wild, and suddenly burst into foul language: "I'm your dear father!!! Damn you, why can't my father come back?" Come, my dad will definitely come back!!!!"

The young man roared like a wolf, and at that time he yelled a group of big men around him silently, and objectively relieved the siege of the factory leaders, and the crisis of riots was temporarily suspended.

He Shaotang crossed the crowd and stared at his Xiaobei's expression at that time.

He can't touch it.

very distressed...

That night, He Shaotang took some time to go to the family compound and knock on the door of Meng's house.

Xiaobei's mother's eyes were red, and she was obviously crying.

He Shaotang gave a few words of consolation: "Sister-in-law, don't worry too much. I called Beijing and asked about it. The large area in the west of Beijing, the Fuxingmen Yuquan Road side, the newly built buildings after liberation can bear the burden. It's gone, it's not collapsed! I reckon that the buildings over there at the No. [-] and No. [-] National Cotton Mills won't collapse either, so don't worry."

Ma Baochun asked with concern: "What about your family? Is your family safe?"

Shaotang nodded: "My family is safe. The news from the military region said that no one died in Beijing. The news from the army is reliable."

Ma Baochun was relieved, and politely greeted this person to enter the room to talk.Shaotang did not enter the other party's house very well, and stood at the door, because Meng Jianmin was not at home, and his family was in the state of "orphan and widowed mother", so he avoided suspicion.

After Shaotang finished speaking, he paused for a while, then said in a low voice: "You two should rest early, I will leave after smoking a cigarette at the door, and I will be on duty at night."

The moonlight sprinkles a silvery nostalgia in the doorway, and everyone has a little bit of starlight in their hometown in their hearts.

He Shaotang squatted at the door of the unit, motionless, quietly smoking and chewing.

Meng Xiaobei went downstairs to find someone, and slowly hugged Shaotang's shoulder from behind, hugging him tightly.He buried his face in the hollow of his godfather's shoulders, and lay on his godfather's back, resignedly lying on his stomach, wishing to entrust his whole body weight on this person.

Shaotang grabbed Xiaobei's wrist and squeezed it firmly, the silent comfort between the men.

Meng Xiaobei was particularly fearless and would not shed tears, because he always firmly believed that nothing would happen to his father and his brother, and he would come back by train tomorrow.

What are you crying for? You're already a man. What's the point of crying?

But he saw that his Shaotang's eye circles suddenly turned red, his eyelashes glistened in the moonlight, and the small mole on his lips fluttered slightly with his lips, as if he was really moved, revealing the most subtle emotions.

Shaotang wiped his face vigorously, feeling a little embarrassed, and smiled at Meng Xiaobei: "I'm the eldest in our family, and I don't have an older brother. I really regard your father as my eldest brother."

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