[Memory] The days I lived in the "horse shed" temporarily ‖ Cao Shuqing

The days I lived in "horse sheds" temporarily

Cao Shuqing

I am 87 years old this year. In September 1965, more than 20 veterans of our army were ordered to support the construction of the third line from a certain factory in Zhongnan. At that time, we were still under 30 years of age. Most of them were separated by husband and wife for many years. At that time, the slogan was "prescribed, life", and it was difficult for someone to take into account the difficulties of single workers in the factory. But after all, it is a large factory of 10,000 or 20,000 people. Thousands of "Cowherd Weaver Girls" attract each other like magnets, and they have to go to the factory to meet in the factory.

At that time, most of the factories' hostels lived in meetings, cadres, and external transfer personnel in the reception department. Small workers had income geometry, and they dared to call you to live.

Therefore, at the entrance of the 420 factory, the factory was repaired at a place where the Kankan of Sedrack was called "Anonymous Highland" and repaired a simple house. There was no listing. Children use relatives. However, this "unknown highland" is often overcrowded, and there are more monks and less porridge. Detectors often do not leave for two or three months. The demand is too large and it is difficult to turn.

After that, another single -employee hostel in the 420 factory came into being, that is, next to the "Wannian Farmers Market" of Shuangqiaozi today, the "New Era Photus Pavilion" is called "horse shed". People at the 420 factory did not know the "horse shed", and its diagonal was the "rich rich" restaurant in Chengdu.

When it comes to "horse sheds", the old comrades of the 420 factory will immediately think of the low -rise buildings that cover the top, fat pier, dwarf squats, and thick knots like the desert.

People can't remember why it is named for why the year, saying that it is a horse shed, neither the grooves, nor the horse piles. It is about its appearance that looks like a horse. Not long ago, I saw the photo of the "Horse Shed" in the "Aviation Archives" magazine in Beijing. It was a warehouse that was stacked with building materials when the 420 plant implemented in 1958.

The infrastructure warehouse of the 420 factory in the distance is the later "horse shed" (Cao Shuqing's picture)

However, I dare to say that as early as 1958, our factory was built 3 months before the construction of Shuangqiaozi. As a warehouse, the "horse shed" had been built. At that time, the factory living area was still a piece of farmland, green fertile wild, farmhouse bamboo huts, cooked smoke, chickens and dogs, and the pastoral scenery. The rise of the "horse shed", with its brand new appearance, wide and solid shelf, strong wind and heavy rain, in order to enable electric light calls, tap water, and provincial and municipal special supply of three -tier construction. Great the limelight, letting farmers living in this area envious.

Before the 420 factory was relocated, in the past years, the old comrades liked to hold their children and grandchildren, leisurely on the road in the factory area, stepped on a flat and warm land, or leisure in the dense French sycamore tree shade. It caused reverie through the halo of the four shots between the dense leaves and the dense leaves.

Yes, when I was under the shade of the factory area, I saw those elders who had a strong sense of being full of energy and today, and they often paid attention to their respects. They have worked hard for the only fighter engine factory in the southwest of the southwest, devoted youth to their children and grandchildren. And they should have experienced the experience of staying and visiting relatives in "horse sheds".

We all remember history. When we are strong in China, when the J -10, J -13, and J -20 are talked about and proud of it, the 420 manufacturers will always remember the difficult years of the production of the J -10 engine.

Yes, when I saw the elders who hit Taijiquan and the old man who bought milk in the community, I often cast with admiration. After decades of wind and rain, the "horse shed" has disappeared without a trace today. Even in Chengdu, the relics of the "horse sheds" are like a sense of historical sense, historical sense, and modern industrial civilization.

For decades, tens of thousands of employees in the entire plant have forgotten the hard work, and have contributed to Chengdu's reform and development of a bright pearl carved by New China in the southwest. At that time, many old revolutionaries Zhu De, He Long, Luo Ruiqing, Li Ruiqing, Li Xiannian, Wang Zhen, Chen Muhua, etc. went to the factory to inspect, and made many important instructions on the development of the factory.

Many of the old comrades who led the start -up at that time were from veterans and had a glorious history. After they retreated, another generation of fresh blood took their class. In the years of reform and opening up, the factory has changed the cage and changing birds. The iconic building of the "horse shed" that year has long been squeezed by the city's development. On this night of Haoyue, it evoked my infinite and profound emotions and looked up at the bright moon. I couldn't help thinking of the years that had been close to the "horse shed".

It, the "horse shed" of the 420 factory, was sent to the new use field after completing the mission of the initial infrastructure warehouse in the construction plant. The entire greenhouse is divided into two, leaving a passage in the middle. On both sides of a house like a match box, there is no ceiling, the top of the head is a beam, lying on the northern fire puppets that are nailed to the north. This is the reception of the "Qiaoqiao Meeting" that was very comfortable and satisfied with the single employees of the 10,000 people. Although the conditions cannot be rude, in that special era, every night, here are full of laughter and silent affection.

At that time, there were a lot of "Cowherd Weaver Girls" in the factory, and they had to wait in line. That summer, I lined up in the "horse shed". My wife and children came to visit relatives from the county seat. Although the flea was horizontal at night, the mosquitoes flew in chaos, and they had no complaints, and gratitude to the factory's arrangements was the spiritual realm of people at that time. Dozens of households who live in the "horse sheds" come and go, and change new faces from time to time. Everyone uses different township sounds to ask for a long, harmonious, and live in a short, sweet family life. From time to time, there are also people in the "match box". From time to time, the union chairman, team leader, and branch secretary of the units come to visit, visit, and care. In that specific era, people felt particularly warm.

On that day, the rain was sunny, and the blue sky was glory. After get off work, she returned to the "horse shed". I saw the two children and the children of the neighbor's house put paper boats and ditch in the ditch. The song "Shake, Shake, Shake to the Grandma Bridge". On another day, the lover called his son to cross the road to fight soy sauce. When he came back, he was hit by a bicycle master. He simply sat on the ground and couldn't get up. He also hugged the man's leg and did not let go. The man was anxious and said helplessly, "Little brother, you let go, can't you pay you?" But where can the man get out of? Fortunately, his mother saw that he couldn't go back for a long time, and went out to find him to solve it. At that time, he was only five or six years old.

What is unpredictable is that the time is glory, and the son grows up as an adult. He first worked as a soldier in the northern side, and returned to the 420 factory after retiring to dedicate to the Chinese aviation industry.

The special periods and special buildings such as "horse sheds" and "unknown highlands" have left a chapter like poetry in the city of Chengdu.

The flames of love here, the naive laughter, and the touching story of Chengdu.

In a sense, "horse sheds" and "unknown highlands" are the times engraved in the hearts of 420 manufacturers. It is the era symbol of Chengdu's past thousands of years from consumer cities to modern industrial cities, although they are In the process of "east -adjustment" industrialization, it has disappeared without a trace.

About the Author

Cao Shuqing, male, born in November 1935, Yibin, Sichuan, former Chengdu 420 factory worker. Member of the Chinese Prose Society, a member of the Sichuan Writers Association, and the former vice president of the Sichuan Prose Society. Love literary creation, publishing many works such as "Far Sailing Collection", "Flashing Fireflies" and "Maple Leaf Zheng Hong". He has won the Tianfu Literature Award and the Sichuan Prose Award. In October 1988, he was awarded the "Dedication of the National Defense Science and Technology Certificate" issued by the National Defense Science and Technology Commission.

Source: Sichuan Provincial Local House Work Office

Text/Figure: Cao Shuqing

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