Yuan Story │ Aunt Yu and "Yu Ji"

In Shenzhen Guangming, the earliest place to have the characteristics of the "immigration city", a Vietnamese intestinal powder store hidden countless memories of returned overseas Chinese

■ Chen Ying

Light is the latest administrative division in Shenzhen. In the hearts of many Shenzhen people, it means the light farm, which means light pigeons, and a large number of Vietnamese returned overseas Chinese.

Aunt Yu is a member of Vietnam's return overseas Chinese. She is running a small shop -Yu Ji, mainly engaged in Vietnamese sausage powder, as well as Vietnamese snacks -Changzheng, spring rolls, lemon powder ... Yu Ji, is a shop that Vietnam is often patronized. The memories of the new environment of the home country together are also the net red shop represented by the Southeast Asian cuisine in the hearts of young people. Many people run far on weekends to taste unique intestinal powder.

In 1978, Sino -Vietnamese relations changed. From 1978 to 1979, Guangming Farm received six batches of Returned Overseas Chinese in Vietnam, with a total of about 834 households and 4,300 people. They returned to China from the place of overseas Chinese and came to the distant and unfamiliar Guangming farm. In 1979, Guangming Farm was renamed "Guangdong State -owned Guangming Overseas Chinese Ranch", and "Overseas Chinese" became an important part of the history of the development of Guangming Farm. Aunt Yu has been in "Yu Ji" for 42 years, and is like developing tens of thousands of returned overseas Chinese and abroad. The process is like the dish of homemade vinegar in Vietnam's intestinal powder.

Bookstore before returning home

Aunt Yu called Yu Xueping, and the neighbors of the neighborhood and the frequent visitor in the store were used to calling her "Snow Sister" or "Aunt Yu". She operated a old -fashioned breakfast shop in Guangming, Yu Ji, and main intestinal powder. It has been 42 years. Intestinal powder is a famous Guangdong snack. In Guangdong, which is used to "sighing morning tea", intestinal powder can be said to be standard food. Auntie Yu made Vietnamese sausage powder, but also of rice peel, but the filling was very different, especially the self -made rice vinegar that was finally used as the "finishing touch" material. Essence

"Yu Ji" is located on the streets of Guangming. This was the most prosperous street of Guangming, which concentrated the iconic buildings such as the office building of the Guangming Farm Farm Department. On the streets of car, it is not possible to directly see the signboard of "Yu Ji". It is hidden in a alley on the street. The alley is composed of small buildings built by the former farm workers. "Yu Ji" is located on the first floor of a four -story self -built building on an alley.

Aunt Yu was a little thin, Qi Er's curly hair was not chaotic, and she was wearing a pair of glasses. She is not married for a lifetime, accompanied by her mother, and sent away her 87 -year -old mother until she regrets it; she operates "Yu Ji" with her brother and sister, regarding her younger brother and sister like her own child. When she talked about business, she was not good at saying, and only knew it silently, but when she talked about the past, especially the content related to culture, she could talk about it, with soft and beautiful light in her eyes. At the age of 74, she is loving, kind, and hardworking, and there is also a rare book of business people who can use mobile phones, WeChat, etc. to be related to young people. She has a good memory. In the past, even after decades, she could be clearly reviewed, and even the date could be accurately spoken. Talking about the days in Vietnam, she said that she missed the work in the bookstore.

Aunt Yu was born in a small port town in Guangning Province, Vietnam, a small town of Gongmen, Vietnam in 1948. The ancestor was from Zhongshan, Guangdong. "Most of the places where I stayed at a time were Vietnamese. When speaking of Vietnamese, Chinese could not speak in Chinese." Before and after the Vietnam War, his grandparents and father died one after another. The mother took the four of their sisters and brothers to live a difficult life. Aunt Yu was the boss. Guangning was bombarded by the U.S. military in 1966. The two younger brothers insisted on school, and Yu Xueping, who graduated from elementary school, dropped out of school with her sister to help support her family. She often goes to the sea to pick up some seafood and other seafood such as fish and shrimp. The family can eat, and take more money to sell money on the market.

In 1967, Yu Xueping, 18, wanted to find a job to worry about her mother. During the war, it was difficult to find a job. She asked a Vietnamese girl to help introduce. I did not expect that the sister came over a few days later. The "people's bookstore" in the town needed to recruit books to ask her to go? Yu Xueping liked to study since he was a child. When he heard that he could work in a bookstore, he nodded happily. The bookstore recruited people over 18 years old and graduated from junior high school. Yu Xueping told her sister without studying in junior high school. My sister said, "Don't worry about it, I have said you have graduated from junior high school, just go." Yu Xueping went to work in the bookstore and needed to show his consent. People asked her to do a week for her place for a week. So, after digging for a full 7 days as required, she got a certificate of consent work to report to the bookstore as required.

The facade of the bookstore was not large. After Yu Xueping went, the person in charge of the bookstore asked her to start working after the registration was briefly asked. She has always been nervous about her unexpected junior high school. She was afraid that she would be discovered, and no one asked.

Vietnam's "People's Bookstore", similar to our "Xinhua Bookstore", is a bookstore that has become a systematic in the country. There are only two staff members in the small stores in Gongmen Town. Yu Xueping should learn to know the book, sort and place it as required, and help the readers find the books they need. If this store does not, you need to register, and go to other stores. In the work, Yu Xueping, who deeply felt the lack of culture, worked hard to read and recognize words, kept learning from colleagues and readers, and solved the difficulties encountered one by one. Yu Xueping, who was diligent and willing to learn, was loved by colleagues and readers. She also got a salary of 29 yuan per month. As the eldest daughter of the family, she was very happy and happy when she handed it to her mother for 25 yuan to supplement her home. of. He worked in the people's bookstore in Gongmen for about a year. In 1969, because of his excellent performance, she was recommended by the person in charge when she selected employees in the province to work in the provincial capital. She came to the Guangning Provincial People's Bookstore 40 kilometers away from home.

The provincial bookstore is a lot larger. There are 6 staff members who sell books, as well as more than 30 staff members of management, warehouses, and logistics. Yu Xueping likes the work of the bookstore very much, and also likes his colleagues. Every day, everyone sells books. In the evening, Yu Xueping forced himself to study and study to adapt to new posts. No one asked her about her junior high school, and no one doubted her. Until 1970, when the people's bookstore had an opportunity to train a school student, the person in charge of the bookstore asked her to apply for the exam. Yu Xueping blushed and told the person in charge: "I only studied in elementary school and didn't go to junior high school." The person in charge stunned and laughed: "How do you enter the bookstore?" Yu Xueping lowered his head and said, "No one has asked After me, I didn't say it. "The person in charge told her that Kang Hai had a night school to study in junior high school and asked her to go to study quickly. Yu Xueping hurriedly registered, and she cherishes the opportunity to work in her favorite bookstore to work in her favorite bookstore. She did not read it all year round like an ordinary person. She used the enthusiasm of hard work than others, and the basis for studying in a bookstore for two years.

In 1971, the theoretical business school of the Ministry of Culture of Vietnam was re -enrolled. The people's bookstore system recommended 23 employees across Vietnam to take the exam. In addition, a total of 150 candidates across the country signed up for the examination and admitted 50 people. Yu Xueping took a paved cover, stepped on more than 100 kilometers of bicycles, and took the exam in Xing'an Province, which was relatively safe in the war. At night at the local farmers' house, after two days of exam, and then ride 100 kilometers home. Yu Xueping, who is going back and forth, does not remember, she remembers the happiness and happiness when she was admitted: "So many high school graduates, I actually passed, so lucky!"

In 1972, Yu Xueping was collected as an employee selected by the bookstore. She studied the book distribution. For Yu Xueping, the opportunity for full -time learning is undoubtedly a huge happiness, not to mention exemption of tuition fees and wages! She studied carefully and read a lot. For ordinary girls, this is exactly the age of marriage and child, but she is deeply inserted into a happy study. She is gentle and introverted, as if she has found infinite power and the source of the truth, kindness and beauty that makes her happy. In 1975, she returned to Kanghai again and started the work of the bookstore.

Yu Xueping, who graduated from technical secondary school, received more than 50 yuan a month, and her job was no longer just selling books in the front desk. Later, in the years, she mainly did accounting and engaged in financial work. After Sino -Vietnam relations were tense in 1978, she was transferred from important positions and was often sent to other bookstores in the province for temporary help. This situation lasted until April 1979 Yu Xueping's family returned to China.

▲ Yu Xueping and her Vietnamese sausage old shop hidden countless memories of returned overseas Chinese.

"Yu Ji" after returning home

In 1978, there was a storm in Vietnam. He was afraid that his younger brother would be arrested and let them return to China first. Yu Xueping worked until 1979. "On April 20, the Vietnamese public security came to the door to read the deportation order and left for 10 days. Auntie recalled that after returning to China, he first lived in a groove stone shed in the border, put a tent with plastic cloth, and then rained, and they moved to the streets to live. After a few months, a car came to pick them up to Dongxing, and set up the shed in Hongshigou in Dongxing Mountain for some days. The younger brother who returned to the country first came to Guangming on December 26.

After returning to China, Aunt Yu and his mother, and the whole family of younger brothers and sisters were farmers who were placed on the bright farm. Aunt Yu was particularly thin at the time, weighing less than 80 pounds. Before returning home, she never worked out of farm work. In the face of the task of brewing rice and rice, she was caught off guard. When the first pairing of rice, Yu Xueping inserted from sunrise to sunset, watching others complete the task, and she had a large piece of what she could do. Thinking of a strange environment of the strange environment, she stood in despair and cried in the field. stand up. There are many young employees on the farm who understand her situation very well, but the language is not unreasonable. Several female educated youths came to pat her and then helped her plant the field together. Slowly, Aunt Yu began to learn "vernacular" with them, that is, Cantonese, completed the farm work together, and slowly understood Chinese characters.

In September 1980, Guangming Farm began to "divide fields to households". Yu Xueping was approved by applying for entrepreneurship for a business because of poor agriculture. At present, a cottage of about 12 square meters under the red and green lights under the viaduct of Guangming Street, Start doing breakfast business. There were three small tables in the hut at the time, mainly steaming Vietnamese sausage. "After returning to China, many fellow villagers (in the light, Vietnam’ s return overseas Chinese calling each other ’s‘ fellow ’) I miss the snacks in Vietnam in the past.” Aunt Yu recalled, “I used to work in a bookstore and sell intestinal powder on the streets. Go to eat, sit on the side and watch too much, gradually know how to do it. "

So, Yu Xueping soaked the rice and steamed the sausage, and tasted it. He also asked the fellow to help, and then told her how to improve it. After a few times, Vietnamese sausage powder is made like a decent look, the rice skin is thin and transparent, the filling is colorful, the pork shiitake mushroom fungus is all available. Pork pepper rice vinegar, the taste of the past seems to hook all the beauty in the past.

The shop is called "Yu Ji", and Aunt Yu and his younger brother and sister take care of it. Aunt Yu recalled: "The breakfast shop is done, and she will get up at three or four every day to prepare. At that time, she was particularly afraid of raining, because the local area was small, the rainy days were wet, and it was troublesome. Vietnamese intestinal powder. "In 1981, the Guangming Farm was developing and the road widen. The" Yu Ji "hut became a road. The farm arranged a house on the opposite side to Aunt Yu. Aunt Yu bought some colorful flower paper and put it in the room, and the simple decoration became a new "Yu Ji". Aunt Yu remembers that the farm leader had a good person named Guo Sen. He often came to see, "He cares about us, says that we are doing well, and we have to do it attentively. Once I also brought foreign reporters to our store, It is said that we were returned to the overseas Chinese to come out to engage in the sideline. The reporter also joked that we would participate in our small business. "

Aunt Yu's small shop has developed steadily, and the deliciousness of the family has attracted countless loyal customers and improved the life of the family. In 1991, "Yu Ji" encountered unfortunately, and the fire of the shop next door burned all Yu Ji. "At that time, we would not buy insurance. A fire burned everything, and we became empty again." Aunt Yu recalled that at the time, Tang Youling, director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangming Farm, immediately came to comfort them. Later Do business for them. Three years later, they changed the place again, and later, they changed several times. The store is getting bigger and bigger, and the business is getting more and more prosperous.

▲ Vietnamese sausage powder, familiar taste.

Relocation and hope

Aunt Yu and his brother and sister operated "Yu Ji" together. Later, the elder brother and sister went abroad and retired one after another. The younger brother Yu Yang's family took on the main responsibility of "Yu Ji". The younger brother is also the overseas Chinese of the former palace gate. He was married to Yu Yang shortly after Lai Guangming, and gave birth to a son and a daughter. Now his daughter -in -law and daughter often help in the store. Aunt Yu retired from Guangming Group in 1999, but she always worked in "Yu Ji". Now that she is in her 70s, she still insists on getting up at 4 in the morning every morning to buy food and prepare. She rode a small electric car to the market to buy ingredients on the market, carefully selected, and returned at a full load. When the first rays of the morning in the morning came into Yu Ji, she had prepared to welcome the first group of customers early. She distressed her brother and sister's nephew and niece. On the day when her nephew and daughter -in -law gave birth to the third generation, she was particularly happy: "Our granddaughter was born!"

People often call Shenzhen the "immigration city", and they are here to bring people from all directions from all directions. In everyone's minds, this phenomenon starts with Shenzhen as a "special economic zone". In fact, light is the first place to have the characteristics of the "immigration city". Since 1958, Guangming has resettied for officers and soldiers from all over the country. Since the 1960s, there are many batches of knowledge youth in the city. In the 1970s, a large number of returned overseas Chinese came to Guangming. After the 1980s, with Shenzhen The names are gradually loud, and new entrepreneurs and migrant workers come here ... Almost all of them come in empty -handed, and they have started hard pioneering and reclamation. They stay away from their homeland and sprinkle youth and sweat on this land. When the streets were first and when the building started, the new posterity always regarded them as "locals", and they also followed the development of light and slowly regarded this foreign country as their hometown.

Aunt Yu's "Yu Ji" also gradually became more famous in the process of continuous development of the city. Aunt Yu said: "When he left Vietnam as a refugee at that time, everything could not be taken before, and he returned to China in a poor and poor land. Seeing the desolation here, where would he think of it would be so good now." In 1999, she was on the Guangming Farm. With retirement, he continued to operate "Yu Ji". In 2008, due to the expansion of urban planning roads, "Yu Ji" faced relocation. Aunt Yu's family has become better and better, and they no longer need to rely on this shop to live. So she discussed with her brother and sister, and both officially "retired" and enjoyed her old age.

Shortly after the "Yu Ji" closed, the neighbors of the neighborhood, relatives, friends, and shopkeepers of the shops came, and they all came to find the site to rent a door to rent a door. The purpose was: Yu Ji was going to open! Auntie Yu's family couldn't hold it. When he remembered the difficulties, these people eat intestinal powder to help themselves. Where can they reject them to eat bowel powder? When discussing with her sister, Yu Yang and his sister did "Yu Ji" downstairs. It doesn't matter if you earn more and earn more. As a result, the new "Yu Ji" was opened again, and Aunt Yu, Uncle Yu, and uncle took care of the shop diligently. After the normalization of Sino -Vietnamese relations, Aunt Yu returned to Guangning several times. The most memorable thing is to return to Vietnam in May 2011. The old colleagues in the bookstore notified each other to meet her after hearing about it. A group. "

Her good friend, Chunxiong and his wife came, Chunxiong took out a note that kept a 31 -year -old note to Yu Xueping: "Xueping, give it to you! To this day, this note was saved in my hand for 31 years 13 years 13 years 13 years. God. I want to return it to you, we will never say goodbye again! "Yu Xueping, who was over the flower, saw the note, tears was full of tears.

In April 1979, when he learned that he had to leave Vietnam and returned to China, Yu Xueping ran away at night to leave a few best friends' homes. Chunxiong is a colleague of a bookstore. He has taken care of himself for many years. His wife is also a good friend of Xue Ping. When Xue Ping ran to his house, no one was there. She cried and asked her neighbors to borrow a pen and paper, and hurriedly wrote:

Friends Chunxiong:

Farewell to your two couples! I wish you two couples happier and happier. Farewell!

Citron

1979.4.20

When the Chunxiong couple got this note, Yu Xueping was "forever". Their couple regretted collecting this paper strip and took it out when they missed it. One year of typhoon floods, everyone rescued the most important thing at home. The first thing that Chunxiong couple saved at home was this note. Even, they didn't even have time to find their son's birth permit.

After a lapse of 31 years, the note written at the night was still well preserved. How did the Yu Xueping and Chunxiong couple not cry and how could they not laugh? Then the day of "forever" thought that there was a reunion time!

Aunt Yu said that in Vietnam, grandpa and grandma often missed their homeland. After returning to China, their family would often miss Vietnam's relatives and friends.

In this immigrant city in Shenzhen, people who have always been the same as them are constantly moving and taking root. Here is the hometown.

From Yu Ji, it is the broaden street that is expanding, and the tall red fences cover the construction site. In 2020, the construction of Guangming Science City became a national strategy, and once again ushered in the earth's land again. Yu Ji, from a breakfast stall on Guangming Street, to thatched sheds, to renting a house, to the facade of the self -built building, it also witnessed the development of Guangming Street.

I asked Aunt Yu: "Yu Ji is going to be demolished? Then what should I do?"

Aunt Yu smiled and answered gently: "It is said that it will be demolished within 3 years. It will be better to see the situation at that time."

How can it be better. We all believe in the hope of this city.

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