January 9, 1961
Northern Shanxi District, Liyang Mountain in the northwest corner of Shuo County City
Lin Sanqi was holding a wooden stick and was wrapped up like a brown man. He wore a dog-skin hat on his head and wrapped it with a scarf. He looked like a fleeing peasant.
As I was walking, I suddenly stumbled and fell down on the hillside.
"Comrade Sanqi, are you okay?"
When the people around saw it, they quickly gathered around and showed concern.
Lin Sanqi raised his head and shook his hand: "I, I, I'm fine... Damn it, you, why is the wind in northwest Shanxi so strong, so strong... It makes people unable to stand..."
Dean Shen walked in front of the team and looked back at Lin Sanqi, who was lying on the ground like a dead dog. He felt extremely contemptuous in his heart:
"Hurry up and look at you. In our team of more than 100 people, who is as weak in physical strength as you? Look at the other comrades in the People's Liberation Army, who are carrying 180 kilograms of supplies on their shoulders. , are they tired and lying down?”
Everyone around laughed when they heard this.
Political Commissar Hu from the Northern Shanxi Military Region smiled and said:
"It's no wonder Comrade Lin Sanqi. He is a young man from the capital. He enjoys the best life and has never suffered any hardship since he was a child. It's not like us, who climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed grasslands during the 25,000-mile Long March. I came here, so I don’t feel so miserable or tired now.”
Dean Shen took the opportunity and sat down on the ground:
"Old Hu, don't say good things for this kid. It's useless. He can't even compare with old men like us, let alone with the comrades of the People's Liberation Army. I will urge him to exercise well when he gets back. If he doesn't give Everyone is holding back.”
Lin Sanqi lay on the ground, thinking that she would have to exercise restraint when going out with Yin Lianyi in the future. After fighting hard for several nights, her legs were soft, and no matter how much Chinese medicine she took, they couldn't make it back.
I just traveled back in time to 1961 and drove hundreds of kilometers to Shanxi. Then I climbed the mountain. It would be strange if I didn't get tired and fell down. It seems that I still have to eat a lot of it when I go back, like chewing strange-flavored beans. Gag in mouth.
"Hu, political commissar Hu... how long do we need... how long will it take to get to Jing... Jingde Temple?"
Lin Sanqi thought to herself that in 2013, she took a car up the winding mountain road and the whole journey took less than an hour.
As a result, I have been climbing all the way up the mountain for 5 hours, but I still can't see the shadow of the ruined temple. How long do I have to climb?
Political Commissar Hu glanced at the mountains and felt a little embarrassed, so he looked at a local villager guide next to him.
"Fellow, how long will it take for us to get to Jingde Temple?"
The fellow hurriedly nodded and bowed: "Boss, hurry up, hurry up, if you let me go, I'll be there in another hour at most."
Lin Sanqi wailed for a while: "It's over. One hour for my fellow villagers would take at least three or four hours for me."
When Dean Shen heard this, he quickly stood up and patted his butt:
"Okay, let's go. It's already noon. It would be good to climb to Jingde Temple before dark. Do you still want to camp in the wild? Watch out for wolves. The wolves in northwestern Shanxi were all eaten before liberation. Those made of human flesh are more ruthless and ferocious than the wolves in Changping.”
When Lin Sanqi heard this, he glanced at the 100 gold troops. They were all in green uniforms, and those on their backs and waists were all real guys. Not to mention wolves, even ghosts would make shit when they came.
"Uncle Shen, you can't scare me. If I were still scared of the two of us, there are so many People's Liberation Army troops here. It is estimated that the wolves will run away when they see them from a distance, otherwise they will deliver food to us."
Political Commissar Hu is a local snake, and he laughed after hearing this:
"Comrade Lin Sanqi, let's climb harder."
Lin Sanqi stood up while leaning on the wood: "Then crawl."
Captain Xu of the Golden Army also laughed and said:
"Comrades, Lieutenant Colonel Lin can't climb anymore. Let's sing a song for him to cheer him up!"
"Okay!!!"
"Get ready to sing!"
"The red clouds are flying over the western mountains at sunset, and the soldiers are returning to their camps from target shooting; the red flowers on their chests reflect the colorful clouds, and happy songs are flying all over the sky; Misolamiso, Lasomidore, happy songs are flying all over the sky~~~"
Dean Shen laughed after hearing this and said to Lin Sanqi:
"The song "Return from Target Shooting" was just released this year. It has been loved by the majority of commanders and soldiers since it was released. Look, how energetic these respectable and lovely young people are."
Lin Sanqi nodded heavily:
"The Gold Army is not easy. It fights in places with the harshest environment and the most difficult conditions. It is worth learning from." Lin Sanqi came to the Gold Army because the Gold Army has to look for gold in the wild and there are rich ore prospecting resources. Experience, professional counterpart.
Gold can be mined successfully, so finding a coal mine is not a piece of cake?
Three hours later, the villagers finally shouted in surprise:
"Go to Jingde Temple."
After hearing this, Lin Sanqi, who had been completely exhausted like a dead dog, quickly got up and climbed up to the top of the mountain with the help of two young People's Liberation Army soldiers on the left and right.
Dean Shen, Political Commissar Hu, and Captain Xu were already at the temple gate. When they saw Lin Sanqi coming up, they quickly waved:
"Is it this temple?"
Lin Sanqi quickly took out a stack of photos from her backpack and faced the temple door. The photo was taken by Lin Sanqi on his mobile phone in 2013 and deliberately photoshopped in a 1960s style.
"There is a stone archway in front of the temple gate with flame patterns on it. Yes, it is the same archway. The temple gate is made of stone, with the words "Jingde Family Temple" written on it. Hey, this plaque seems wrong. .”
Dean Shen grabbed the photo and compared it:
"Everything else is correct. It's okay if the wooden plaque is wrong. Maybe someone has changed it in the middle. There is a temple behind here. Come on, let's go in and compare."
The Jingde Temple in 2013 is definitely different from the Jingde Temple in 1960.
After all, the Jingde Temple was renovated in 2013 and was used as a tourist attraction, so it was well protected.
There was not even a monk or Taoist priest in the Jingde Temple in front of me. The temple was overgrown with weeds and dilapidated. It was obvious that no one had been there for a long time. Even the roof of the temple had collapsed a lot.
Dean Shen and the others were comparing photos. Lin Sanqi had just arrived in another era and had similar impressions, so she looked at it with her eyes and concluded in her heart that this was the Jingde Temple he was looking for.
"Uncle Shen, Political Commissar Hu, and Captain Xu, I think the Jingde Temple is inseparable, and this is it. I also have a stack of photos here. You can compare them with the scenery of the surrounding mountains."
In the past 60 years, although the general environment of the mountains and rivers has not changed, the details have changed a lot.
For example, the mountains around us are all bare now. The tops of the mountains are all exposed, and there are very few trees and vegetation.
In 2013, the mountains were all covered with forests. Obviously, future generations will pay more attention to environmental protection.
Mountains with trees look different to the naked eye than mountains without trees. Just like a chicken, a chicken without feathers looks different from a chicken with feathers.
Everyone took the photos and spread out to compare the surrounding mountains.
Lin Sanqi stood on the top of the mountain and looked down. There was a huge canyon at the bottom of the mountain, covering an area of at least two to three hundred square kilometers, but it was different from what he had seen in another era.
In 2013, there were two huge coal pits at the foot of the mountain, which were very, very deep and very, very spectacular.
After a while, Captain Xu from the Golden Army came over:
"Dean Shen, Political Commissar Hu, Lieutenant Colonel Lin, according to our judgment, this should be the Jingde Temple in Lieutenant Colonel Lin's photo. Look, the mountain in the photo is the mountain opposite. There is a gap here. , even the gap between the two peaks over there matches.”
Lin Sanqi was confident and not too surprised.
Dean Shen was a little excited after hearing this: "Xiaoqi, this is it. Then where is the huge open-pit coal mine you mentioned?"
Lin Sanqi pointed to the foot of the mountain and said:
"If I told you that at least 300 square kilometers at the foot of this mountain is entirely covered with coal, and it is very shallow, would you believe it?"
Dean Shen and Captain Xu looked at each other and saw the word "disbelief" in each other's eyes.
If these hundreds of square kilometers were all open-pit coal mines, what an astonishing and huge wealth it would be, and it would be impossible not to be discovered after so many years.
Hu Policy looked at the guide next to him:
"Fellow, what is the name of the land at the foot of the mountain in your local area?"
"Return to the leader, our name here is Antaibao. There used to be a fortress military camp to protect the Tatars in the north of the Great Wall. Later I heard that when King Li Chuang rebelled, he fought a battle with the Ming Dynasty army here.
At least more than 100,000 people died on both sides in that battle. Everyone thought this place was unlucky. In addition, the land here cannot grow crops, so there is no village here, and even the caravans do not go through Antaibao. ”
Lin Sanqi laughed as soon as she heard this:
"It's okay if you can't grow crops. Haha, because the coal content in coal soil is too high, it will cause the soil to become too acidic, affecting the plant's ability to absorb nutrients, so we will never be able to grow crops. It seems that we are We’ve found the right place!”(End of Chapter)