Chapter 1055 People from afar (first update, two-in-one)
“...accompanied by Your Excellency, King Faisal II and his party visited the Taiping United Petrochemical Company. After the visit, The King of Iraq signed an oil exploration contract with Nanyang Petroleum Company. According to the contract..."
In the flight officer cabin of the aircraft carrier, the news from the radio echoed there. Although it was far away from the mainland, Thanks to the signals relayed by artificial communication satellites, broadcasts in Nanyang can still be heard.
However, for soldiers on the battlefield, they don’t care about things like the king’s visit. Compared to these news, they prefer to listen to domestic pop music, or listen to music while , while writing letters to my lover.
However, Gao Binghan, who was writing a letter to his lover, only wrote a few dozen words and then stopped writing.
"Did Mom receive the letter?"
Once again, Gao Binghan was thinking there, it had been two months since he sent the letter in November.
“It’s been so long, Mom should have received the letter!”
Just when Gao Binghan was wondering whether Mom had received the letter, some comrades were walking over there. Come over and ask.
“Gao Binghan, do you want to go out for a walk together?”
"No need, I have something else to do here?"
"Is there anything else?"
The comrade looked at him and said.
"The fleet is about to return home. If we don't go shopping and buy some souvenirs, we may not have a chance!"
The words of his comrades shocked Gao Binghan, and he lost his voice and said:< br>
"What? Are you going to return?"
Gao Binghan's expression suddenly changed. He hasn't received a reply yet. Why did the fleet return?
Seeing this, his comrade said.
"Didn't you hear the news? The Foreign Minister and his party have already left for Geneva to attend the peace conference. We have also ceased fire with the Egyptians. It will be a matter of time before the armistice and the peace treaty are signed. The fleet can still be permanently stationed here. Suez? "
Listening to the speculations of his comrades, Gao Binghan's expression changed, and for a moment, he felt empty.
Could it be that I really can’t receive a reply from my mother?
Just when Gao Binghan was thinking this, a sailor knocked on the door and reported.
"Lieutenant, I have your letter."
Letter?
It should be said that it was Jieying's letter. Just when Gao Binghan thought the letter was from his girlfriend, although he was overseas, military mail was still open, and the navy would use aircraft to transport mail every few days.
But just when he was about to take the letter, the sailor smiled.
"A local came here from the shore...a letter from Tangshan."
A letter from Tangshan...For a moment, Gao Binghan felt his heartbeat speeding up, and he didn't even notice Knowing what to say, after taking the letter and looking at the beautiful regular script written with a pen on the brown paper, he suddenly cried loudly.
"It's my mother's word, it's my mother's word, I recognize my mother's word..."
As he said that, he held the letter tightly in his hand and kept it in his heart. before, and then burst into tears with excitement.
This is the word for mother, the word for mother!
Everyone else's eyes turned red when they saw this. How could they not be excited to receive a letter from Tangshan here?
"Gao Binghan, hurry up, look what your mother wrote?"
The comrades who were about to go ashore were also full of expectations and had no regard for other people's privacy. In fact, most of them , they are all envious, not everyone has such an opportunity.
"Well, well..."
Gao Binghan nodded repeatedly and carefully tore open the letter, as if he was afraid that if he moved too much, he would damage the letter.
The thick letter of more than ten pages was unfolded. As soon as it was unfolded, Gao Binghan saw the words mother, and there was a photo in it.
"This is my mother, mother..."
For a moment, Gao Binghan couldn't control it anymore, and the tears that had been stopped flowed down again, crying like this, While grabbing the photo, I put the photo of my mother in my heart.
After a while, Gao Binghan picked up the letter again, and then looked at the words on the letter, his heart was full of fire.
"Spring gives birth to my son..."
...
On November 21, 1956, at eight o'clock in the morning, Li Meiying, the sorter, sat down exactly at her desk in the post office of Jinan City, Shandong Province Before, her job was very simple, that is, sorting the large piles of letters one by one according to the districts and counties to which they were sent.
In this pile of letters, there is a letter sent from a foreign country. It is not only in an airmail envelope, but also a package. The recipient and address are written in Chinese characters:
Lu Shandong Administrative District of the province, 35 miles northwest of East Heze City, is located at Gaozhuangjiao: Song Shuyu, Gao Bingtao, and Gao Bingqing collected it.
Different from ordinary envelopes, in addition to the recipient's address, name and the name of the sender, there is also a small vertical text on the envelope. If you look closely, it is a message to the postal staff:
Please postal office Dear gentlemen: The above address is still the same one 49 years ago. Now that Tangshan is changing with each passing day, the address will inevitably change. I wonder if there has been any change. Has the recipient moved? I heard that the New Tangshan Post Office is very good, and the address has been explored for several years. Please ask the gentlemen at the post office to be particularly distracted and explore the investment. If you cannot submit, please return the original letter, thank you.
“Oh, it’s actually a letter from overseas.”
Li Meiying looked at the postmark again in confusion and asked.
"Section Chief, is there a letter here from abroad? It was sent to Heze."
"He Ze? Where did it come from?"
"The address written on the letter is Egypt, Suez. Isn't this the country we just supported and is being invaded by the imperialist powers?"
"They are from Egypt..."
When the section chief heard this, he took the letter and looked at the small print on it and said.
"It is currently being invaded by foreign devils. It is not easy to send this letter. Send the letter quickly. This is a letter from overseas friends."
Isn't this just an overseas friend? What a new Tangshan, getting better and better with each passing day. How can you write such words if you are not an overseas friend?
A week later, after several twists and turns, the letter arrived at the Heze Post Office. At this time, it was not common for ordinary residents to communicate with overseas. As a postman, Wang Hu was deeply impressed by this letter from Egypt and read it repeatedly while holding the envelope. Several times.
After hanging the mail bag full of letters on the bicycle, I deliberately put the letters in the mail bag and started the day's delivery work.
After arriving in the town that afternoon, although he had just started working, Wang Hu did not go directly to the three recipients to post letters. Instead, he went to the local township government and explained the letter.
“Is it a letter from the Gao family in Gaozhuang?”
When the other party heard this, he quickly said.
“This family is amazing. Not to mention that their eldest sister is a graduate of Tsinghua University. She went to the Pagoda to join the revolution as early as the Anti-Japanese War. You must send this letter to them properly.”< br>
“What about overseas relations?”
“What about overseas relations? They are old revolutionaries. Egypt is also a place invaded by imperialist powers. Maybe they are all old comrades!”
< br>When he heard that the other party actually had such an identity, Wang Hu dared to neglect him and hurriedly rode his bicycle to Gaozhuang.
In the afternoon of that day, Wang Hu came to Gaozhuang. He only asked at the entrance of the village and found out where the Gao family lived. However, after asking, he found out that the three people in the letter no longer lived here. It was said that they had gone with their eldest daughter. Changchun.
Is it possible that no one in their family is in Heze?
Wang Hu asked around the neighbors and found out that a relative of the Gao family worked in a village school. So he redirected the letter to the school. When the man heard that it was Song Shuyu's letter and saw that the sender on the letter was "Gao Binghan", he immediately said excitedly.
"This letter is for me. I will collect it on my behalf. His family members are all in the capital now. I will forward it to him."
But when he was sending the letter, the man I deliberately put another envelope and wrote the address.
...
In Changchun in December, although it had long been a land of ice and snow, Song Shuyu was still basking in the sun in the yard while picking up the soles of her shoes. Six years ago, she took her son to Changchun for a reunion at the invitation of her eldest daughter. , and live here. It was the same day as usual. When she was picking up the soles of her shoes, she would always think of her eldest son who had left home and fled overseas. After thinking about it, she returned to the house and picked up the pillow. There was her son on his head. little cotton-padded jacket.
"Spring is born, Chun is born..."
Since her son left home, she misses her son every day, and from time to time she goes to the homes of classmates who went south with her son. Ask for news. In May of the year he left home, his son's classmate Guo Dehe followed his mother to the house and brought back this little cotton-padded jacket. This was when his son had a fever. In order to keep him warm, he exchanged his large cotton-padded jacket with him.
When she saw her son's little cotton-padded jacket, she burst into tears. She put the little cotton-padded jacket into her arms and started crying. Later, Song Shuyu wrapped this little cotton-padded jacket in a pillow leather and never left it behind from Heze to Changchun.
Just when she was holding the pillow as if she were holding her son, she suddenly heard the voice of her eldest daughter.
"Mom, my cousin from home has sent a letter, and he also sent a package. Maybe it's a specialty from home. Mom, can you take a look at what it is?"
The little boy put down his hand. Pillow, Song Shuyu said.
“Come on, come on, this kid is really serious, he’s sending something here even though he’s so far away...”
Song Shuyu wiped her tears while leaving the room. How come a daughter doesn’t understand her mother? When she saw this, she said.
"Mom, do you want to have a baby again?"
Song Shuyu nodded without saying anything, and took the letter and package from her daughter's hand.
When he tore open the letter and took it out, Song Shuyu was stunned for a moment, even though there was another letter in the envelope.
Although the writing on the envelope was slightly different from the past, she still recognized it - it was her son's writing!
Her son was still alive, but she did not speak. She held the letter in her arms, tears streaming down her face, and murmured to herself:
"Chunsheng is still alive, Chunsheng is still alive." Alive..."
Reciting his son's nickname, Song Shuyu, who had not heard from his son for ten years, said to his eldest daughter excitedly.
"Chunsheng is still alive, your brother is still alive..."
"What?"
"Your brother is still alive."
Song Shuyu tore open the letter excitedly, and then the words from afar jumped into his eyes.
“Dear mother:
When my son picked up the pen, I really didn’t know where to start. My tears blocked my sight and I couldn’t write for a long time... First of all, please accept my mother, grandma and grandma. I pay my respects from afar and wish the three elderly people, my second sister Bingqing and my second brother Bingtao, safety and health. It has been more than eight years since my son cried goodbye to his mother on the sixth day of August 2008..."
The eldest sister also sat next to my mother, reading the letter and wiping her tears. Over the years, she even thought that her brother was dead.
"Chunsheng is still alive, still alive, you see, he has grown up..."
Looking at his son's photo, Song Shuyu, who has missed his son day and night for so many years, shed tears while talking.
At this time, all the longing and pain disappeared. She just hugged the photo of her son tightly and talked to herself.
"Chunsheng, my Chunsheng..."
But when the eldest sister looked at the address written in English on the letter, her brows knitted together.
When my younger brother went south with his classmates, he heard that he boarded a ship to Nanyang in Lianyungang, but why did he go to Egypt again? Went to Suez? "
Looking at the name and address on the letter, her heart sank and she had a bad premonition.
At this moment, she heard her mother say.
“Look, Chunsheng has grown up so much and has a girlfriend. It’s great. This is great. How did he end up in Egypt? Isn’t that Africa Africa? In the past few days, newspapers have mentioned it every day, saying that it was being invaded by imperialist powers. How could Chun Sheng go there? "
Song Shuyu, who has studied in a girls' school, naturally knows about Egypt. Listening to her mother's words, the eldest sister said.
"Mom, you must not tell others about this. I think that if Chun becomes a soldier, Nanyang will have a share in the invasion of Egypt. Hey, hey... This, this kind of overseas relations, right now, can... It’s not a good thing!”
Perhaps because of her excitement, she coughed several times as she suffered from tuberculosis.
Song Shuyu looked at her daughter and said:
“That’s your brother!”
“I know, mother, you must not tell others about this. Let me go first. Think about it, think about it first..."
...
My mother has written a letter!
The whole day, Gao Binghan read his mother's letter, touching the words on the letter again and again with his fingers. After eight years, he finally had news about his mother and his family. He knew that his eldest sister Working at the Ministry of Railways, he also knew that his third sister and his younger brother were alive and well. More importantly, he finally received a letter from his mother, not only a letter but also a photo.
Looking at the photos of her mother and her family, Gao Binghan’s tears flowed out again. He read the letter over and over again, even muttering to himself.
“My mother wanted to see Jieying’s photos. I really should have sent them to her, but it seems I should have obtained her consent first.”
But thinking that he was already married to Jieying Lunji, he thought about it and made a decision in his heart. After writing another letter to his mother, he put his girlfriend's photo in the envelope.
"Mom, I miss you..."
Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he sat up suddenly and said.
"Tuberculosis, my eldest sister has tuberculosis... How can this be good? What can I do?" Although he is not a doctor, Gao Binghan also knows that tuberculosis is an incurable disease, and he immediately becomes worried about the patient he has never met before. Sister, get up.
Soon, Gao Binghan came to the infirmary and asked the military doctor directly how to treat tuberculosis. When the military doctor heard it, he said.
"Tuberculosis? It's easy to treat. Jianmin Pharmaceutical's streptomycin is specifically designed to treat this..."
Hearing this, Gao Binghan said in surprise.
"You mean, we have medicine to treat this disease?"
The military medical officer looked at the pilot in front of him and asked.
“Why are you asking this? Do you know anyone suffering from tuberculosis?”
As a military medical officer, he has been helping these soldiers a lot in the past two months. It is inevitable that they will know some local women in Suez, and it is inevitable that some of them will get sick. In Suez, where there is a shortage of medicine and the medical conditions are backward, military doctors are what they turn to. The medical conditions of the military are far better than theirs.
“However, if you have a friend who is infected with this disease, it is best to contact a hospital on land. The aircraft carrier does not allow outsiders to come on. There is a military hospital over at the airport, and your friends can go there. Get treatment.”
“No, not a friend here,”
Gao Binghan explained quickly.
"Yes, they are my relatives in my hometown, from my hometown! I want to send them some medicine from here."
"You mean, you want to send the medicine to Tangshan!"
The military medical officer was stunned and said.
“Are you sure?”
“That’s my eldest sister, I always want to help her. Since we have medicine here, I will feel uneasy if I don’t send it to my eldest sister. , Dr. Liang, can you help me?"
Then Gao Binghan explained.
"Mr. Liang, this is where I can send the medicine back. If we withdraw our troops, then... I'm afraid I won't even have the chance to send the medicine back."
Looking at Gao Binghan who looked worried, Dr. Liang thought for a while and said.
"Okay, but you must tell her to use it according to the instructions. This medicine is somewhat toxic."
Soon, Dr. Liang gave her the medicine and instructions. He asked Gao Binghan, and when Gao Binghan bowed repeatedly to thank him, he waved his hand and said.
"Okay, hurry up to the post office on the shore and send your things back. The withdrawal may be in the next few days."
(End of this chapter)