1976 was a year of turmoil. It started in January 1976 when our country's beloved emperor passed away. Then, I also quit the workers 'theory group in the factory. It wasn't easy for me to get into the 721 workers' university. It wasn't even two weeks since I officially took cultural classes, and then there was an earthquake. People often said that life was bitter.
Starting from the middle of July 1976, all units Chengdu City were organizing the delivery of earthquake predictions. It was estimated that an earthquake might occur in Sichuan. There were some elderly people near our 7.21 University. They were elderly people who came from Haicheng, Liaoning, to visit their relatives. These elderly people had personally experienced the earthquake in Haicheng, Northeast China, in 1973. They were very experienced and knew what to do. They had made up their minds early on. As soon as they began to deliver the information about the earthquake, they began pulling small iron dump trucks and picking up rotten bricks, waste wood, and oil hoes around the factory area. With a small felt, they began to level the ground in the open space in the family area by themselves and built a decent earthquake shed. In fact, when he built the earthquake shelter, he had already planned to use this opportunity to solve the problem of his house's size. Many people lived in houses that were too small. Who wouldn't want to take advantage of the earthquake shelter to expand the area of their houses? Many residents had set up earthquake shelters in the family quarters. They really looked good.
There was a special feature in the family area of the machine repair factory. As long as a house built an earthquake shelter, the neighbors of every house would follow suit. Everyone wanted to take this opportunity to expand their housing area. The asphalt oil sticky paper that the factory originally distributed to each household was definitely not enough. The material department of the factory brought back a batch of asphalt oil sticky paper from outside. The material department was afraid that it would be snatched by others, so they asked the factory to find a way to distribute it to each household in the family area. The leader of the factory gave this task to our 7.21 University. He asked the university to cooperate with the factory and distribute this batch of asphalt felt paper to every household so that they could take it back and build their own earthquake shelter.
Students of 721 University, according to the factory's regulations, the name list and number will be distributed collectively. There were also some problems here. In order to get more asphalt sticky paper, some employees deliberately found trouble and quarreled with our 721 students. From quarreling to cursing, and then to body language, they began to snatch it. Our students are basically young people. When we seriously carry out the decisions of the factory, we have had many fierce arguments with these unconscious workers. He had also offended many people. No matter what, he had finally completed the task assigned by the factory safely.
"During this period of time, the factory has basically stopped production in order to let the employees avoid the earthquake. Only our 7.21 University is still holding classes.
During that period of time, the workshops in the factory were deserted. There were not many people in broad daylight. There were also some employees who lived too far away from the dormitory area. At the entrance of the dormitory, there were a few rotten rattan chairs and they were sitting there playing poker. The area around the cafeteria was still a little crowded. There were more people here than elsewhere.
Once, after school at noon, we were on the way to the cafeteria to eat when the ground suddenly shook violently, shaking the pedestrians on the road to the left and right. We couldn't stand firmly at all. We quickly held hands and formed a circle to support each other. Only then did we barely stand on the road. No one fell down. After about half a minute, everything around us returned to normal.
During that time, we rode our bicycles to and from school every day. On the way back and forth, we saw that the people had set up earthquake shelters along the streets. There were all kinds of conical shelters. There were cylindrical ones, and there were also hexagonal ones. Generally speaking, they used the sidewalk trees by the roadside and built them with the trees as the center.
In the streets and alleys of the city, there were fully armed militia at the gates. And those with red armbands were in charge of security and maintaining order. Rice and flour had to be bought at the grain store. The people in the grain store were also full of complaints. At that time, the most difficult thing was the supply of vegetables. Because of the earthquake. The vegetables could not be sent in. The state-owned vegetable shop did not have many vegetables, and they still had to plan for the supply. Take a notebook to buy. You have to buy whatever you have and whatever you encounter. There was no room for choice.
Let's go shopping after work. There were only poker cards,'Words of Leader Mao' and a badge of Leader Mao on the counter of the mall. He wanted to buy some soap. I'm sorry. It has to be supplied by tickets. He wanted to buy some watercress. The ingredients for cooking, sorry, were supplied by the industrial voucher. Did you bring your industrial certificate? If he didn't bring it, he probably wouldn't be able to buy it. If you wanted to buy a bicycle, it would be even more troublesome.
If one wanted to buy a bicycle, one must first have a bicycle supply voucher issued by Chengdu City. In Chengdu, the probability of each employee getting a bicycle ticket was less than 1%. I remember that there was a time when our factory had more than 1,000 employees, but the relevant departments of Chengdu City only issued 20 bicycle tickets. The distribution ratio determined by the factory department was four for the mechanism and four for each workshop. Then, each unit would organize employees to draw lots to decide who was lucky enough to get the bicycle ticket.
After getting the bicycle ticket, he would need 30 industrial tickets. These industrial coupons would take away all the coupons that the family needed to buy industrial products. In the future, they wouldn't be able to buy bedsheets even if they wanted to. If his family did not have enough money, he would have to find his colleagues, friends, and relatives to think of a way. He asked them to lend him some industrial credits. If you borrowed someone else's industrial certificate, they wouldn't be able to buy the industrial products they needed. So... You want to buy a bicycle. There were countless people who owed him favors.
With the bicycle ticket and the industrial voucher, take your money and go to the shop to buy a bicycle. It was even more troublesome. He had to buy whatever was available in the shop. It can't exceed the deadline. They had to pick up the goods at the stipulated time. Within the stipulated time limit, if you couldn't catch up with the bicycle of the style and brand you wanted, you either gave up or made do with it. There was nothing he could do if he was not satisfied.
There was also one more thing to note. If they happened to be in the mall for an earthquake drill, not only would they not be able to buy anything, but they would also have to run out as soon as possible. Otherwise, it'll be even more troublesome if you're detained inside. Fortunately, at that time. There were slightly more people in the shops on People's South Road, Yanshikou, and Chunxi Road. In other places, there were not many people in the shops. There was nothing to buy, so there were naturally fewer people shopping.
Forget it, let's not go shopping. Let's go watch a movie. In the cinema, other than a few sample plays, there was a news briefing. Everyone had seen the model opera countless times. If you want to see it, just look at the news briefing. When the movie started to play in the cinema, I saw many people standing up and leaving the cinema after reading the news bulletin. No one was willing to watch the main film of the movie.
After work, if he didn't want to go shopping or watch a movie, he could only go home and rest. They really couldn't rest at home. They had to hide in the earthquake shed set up by the Wuye Corporation downstairs to rest.
On a Sunday afternoon, my parents and I had just finished lunch at home and were sitting at home chatting.
His father said,"There's an earthquake in Chengdu now. Your eldest brother is in the countryside of Xichang. Your younger brother has gone to his place to play. You should write a letter and ask them not to come back for the time being." The three of us can do anything in Chengdu.”
Just as I said this, I heard someone knocking on the door. I opened the door and saw that my two younger brothers had returned. They were standing neatly at the door.
My parents said,"It's good that you're all back. The whole family is gathered together. No one needs to miss each other."
I built a simple bed board under the inclined board of the stairs at the bottom of the unit. He spent nearly two months carefree. At that time, it was the dog days of summer. Everyone slept very late and the weather was very hot. No one brought any blankets. There was nothing to be afraid of losing. Everyone in the courtyard was gathered in the earthquake shelter. At this time, we were all hiding in the earthquake shelter in the courtyard to rest. No matter day or night, as long as we opened our eyes, we could see them. They were all old acquaintances in the same large unit. Those petty thieves did not dare to enter the courtyard.
The headquarters of the Fifth Metal Corporation had set up a large earthquake shelter in the family area in the front yard. It was stipulated that each family should only put one bed in the earthquake shelter and rest inside when they were hiding from the earthquake. Every household sent someone home to prepare the food and bring it to the earthquake shelter to eat. After eating, they would bring the bowls and chopsticks back to wash and clean them. The head office had specially arranged for the militia to be fully armed and responsible for standing guard. As long as there was an earthquake, they would immediately shoot and call the police. Everyone would immediately hide in the earthquake shed when they heard the gunshot.
The Wuye Corporation had already made arrangements. Every family area would play an outdoor movie in the courtyard every night. There was only one purpose. They would think of ways to get everyone into the courtyard. They repeatedly asked everyone not to go home as much as possible when there was nothing to do. They all hid in the earthquake shed in the courtyard to rest. The tight schedule passed day by day.
In late August 1976, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.6 and above occurred in the Songpan area of Pingwu in Sichuan Province and the Tangshan area of Hebei Province respectively. Because the epicenter of the earthquake was very far away from Chengdu, the Chengdu area only felt the ground shake a little. It did not have much impact, but it dragged on for a long time. People could not work, study, and live normally for nearly two months.
During the earthquake, our 7.21 University still insisted on attending classes as usual. On the afternoon of September 9th, 1976, our school received a call from the factory, asking the 7.21 University to stop classes immediately. All the teachers and students were to go to the factory's stadium to listen to the important news. We immediately packed up our textbooks and stationery and arrived at the designated location. We saw that the entire factory was shrouded in a tense atmosphere.
Please look at the next section,"On the Day of the Leader's Death."
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