Chapter 1 Escape from Hong Kong
()The sky is very blue, and there are a few white clouds floating in the sky, and the white flowers are a little hot and scorching.
Under the sky is a barren field. On the abandoned land, large areas of green artemisia sway and undulate like waves. In the middle, a "simple" highway that is only five meters wide leads straight to the distance.
On the road, people were surging.
Groups of young people were wearing military green clothing, with mud stains on their clothes, and were wearing leader badges on their chests, holding hands, and rushing forward.
Their faces were excited and frightened. Many people were still holding a wooden stick tightly in their hands, looking forward with passionate eyes, and uttering sharp and loud slogans in their mouths.
"Make up your mind, don't be afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory-"
Among the weeds on the roadside, a young man wearing a green military uniform, handsome and slightly dark-skinned, was lying on the ground. His dark eyelashes suddenly flashed, and his eyes flashed a few times before slowly opening.
"Where am I? Is this the road to the underworld?"
Song Qiong's face was full of confusion.
The severe pain that was the moment before death had disappeared, only the head was swollen and drowsy, and the body felt a sense of alienation after a long sleep. The eyes were also adapted to the strong ripples before they gradually saw the world around them.
In my ears, there were familiar slogans, sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes high and sometimes low.
Life is like a constant cycle of reincarnation. In the depths of his memory, there seems to be such a scene. After he reached the peak of his career through hard work, he did not expect to see this scene again after his death.
"Song Qiong, you wake up, hurry up, drink some water, we will catch up."
A young man with a solid figure, dark face and bright eyes appeared in front of Song Qiong and held a glass salt water bottle filled with water to his mouth.
"Zhao Guoqing?"
Song Qiong shouted in dismay, his eyes suddenly widened.
"Oh, I screamed so loudly, and it seemed that it was okay. We will catch up later. This place is not far from the Jiehe River. After crossing the Jiehe River, Lungang is opposite, and the dawn is right in front of us-"
"Jihe?Lungang?"
Before Zhao Guoqing could finish his words, Song Qiong was so shocked that his face changed drastically. He got up from the ground in a hurry, and almost fell back because his legs were numb. Fortunately, Zhao Guoqing was quick-eyed and quickly, so he reached out to support him.
"Hey hey, what are you doing in a hurry..."
Song Qiong could no longer hear Zhao Guoqing's voice. In front of him, the surging people, the gray national defense highway in the distance, the black barbed wire, the red border outpost, the white border river, and even the shadowy tall buildings in the distance, were extremely familiar.
Although this scene has been decades, it is still unforgettable in his heart.
Escape Port—
In the 1960s and 1970s, Lungang gradually developed into the world's financial and shipping center with its advantages, and its economy and society was prosperous and developed. At the same time, the mainland's economy was relatively backward, and the daily income of farmers' labor was only a few cents, and they could not even fill their stomachs. In addition, the continuous succession of people, many mainlanders crossed the border and fled to Lungang to find a better life, which is known in history as the "Great Escape Port".
However, the road to escape to the port is not smooth.
On the border, there were high barbed wire erected, border guards and militia patrolling back and forth with wolfhounds. Once discovered, they would be arrested and sent back.
If you break through, you may even be shot.
In order to avoid border guards, harbor escapers often cross mountains and ridges at night and swim across the other side of the sea. On the way to escape, countless drowning people were drowned.
Song Qiong was sixteen or seventeen years old at that time, and was in the countryside and had also fled to Hong Kong many times.
When they escaped from Hong Kong for the first time, they were discovered by wolfhounds. Song Qiong was bitten and locked up in prison for more than ten days, and then were taken back to the commune where they were sent to the line.
The second time they escaped from Lingang Bay, they got into the water in the middle of the night, tied a salt water bottle as a lifebuoy, swam in the middle of the night, and were exhausted before they saw the lights. When they climbed ashore happily and found someone, they found out that it was Lingang, and they swam back.
The third time, it happened to run into the "Friday and Sixth" flight port in 1979, and about 60,000 to 70,000 people rushed to the Bian River on the same day.
However, they were driven out by border guards and militias who were on high alert by the border river, and none of them were able to escape.
Song Qiong and Zhao Guoqing were no exception. Zhao Guoqing also got a stray bullet by the border river. The bullet passed through his left chest. If it weren't for his unusual body and his heart was on the right side, he would almost die.
In order to take care of Zhao Guoqing, Song Qiong decisively gave up escaping from Hong Kong and was caught by the militia. When the militia saw that Zhao Guoqing was injured, they did not continue to make things difficult for them and directly released them.
After Zhao Guoqing recovered from his injury, they continued to work hard to "escape from Hong Kong". Zhao Guoqing was lucky. After being injured, he successfully escaped from Hong Kong for the first time. Song Qiong was caught again. Later, he chose to cross Lingang Bay again and finally succeeded.
Thinking of these past events, Song Qiong couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Is this Huangquan Road or Escape the Port?
If this is the Huangquan Road, why are the scenes so familiar? If this is the escape route... More than thirty years have passed, how can this scene be reproduced?
Could it be that when time goes back, he returns to that special era?
"Did you see it? They are rushing to the other side of happiness. We must work harder and not be behind." Zhao Guoqing held Song Qiong with a fascination and said with emotion like a poet.
Song Qiong turned his head and looked at Zhao Guoqing carefully. His face was full of youth, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and bright eyes... It was exactly what he looked like in his memory.
Zhao Guoqing was four years older than Song Qiong, and he went to the countryside to work in the countryside a few years earlier. He also had a history of running away from Hong Kong. He had experienced more than a dozen times.
After Zhao Guoqing recovered from his injury, he fled to Hong Kong again. Because of his poor physical condition, they chose to snorkeleton from the land. The soldiers guarding the post recognized him, but they really couldn't stand it and deliberately turned a blind eye to him, which made him successfully escape to Hong Kong.
After arriving at Lun Port, he found Li Chaoren, the richest man in Lun Port at that time, and recommended himself to work as a gardener in the Li family. He quickly hooked up with the Li family's daughter, Li Chaoren's youngest daughter, and became the Li family's son-in-law.
What's even more legendary is that he did not enjoy it, but started his own business, made a sky in Lungang, and even won the reputation of "Little Superman".
More than ten years later, Song Qiong met him, and it was with his strong help that he could rise rapidly.
Afterwards, the two supported each other, continuing the friendship of sharing weal and woe that year, and teamed up to attack international speculators and domestic speculators, and never left them.
"Brother Guoqing, now, when is it now?" Song Qiong grabbed Zhao Guoqing's arm and his voice trembled slightly: "I, I mean, what year is this?"
"It's been seventy-nine years." Zhao Guoqing was startled, broke away his arm, and reached out to press his hand on Song Qiong's forehead.
"What's wrong with you? Don't have a fever?"
Song Qiong subconsciously leaned back: "I'm fine."
Song Qiong stared at Zhao Guoqing, looked carefully at this close friend who had been "a lifetime" and turned around and looked around. He took a deep breath of "fresh" air, then pinched the flesh on his cheek, twisted it suddenly, grinning in pain, and laughing loudly.
Everything was real, he was not dreaming.
It seems that he was really reborn and returned to the 1979-year-old escape to the port. In front of him was his good partner, ahead of him was the crowd of people who escaped to the port, and ahead of him was the boundary river and the border guards who were waiting for battle.
"Hey, why are you laughing at? Let's go quickly. There is the Border River ahead, so don't be robbed in front of you." Zhao Guoqing was a little puzzled when he saw Song Qiong laughing.
Song Qiong suddenly shuddered, stopped laughing, and said loudly: "Can't go--"
He remembered that when they were about to arrive at Jiehe in his previous life, they had a conflict with several educated youths in the next brigade. He fell to the ground and fell into a coma while pushing. Although it was nothing, they snatched his bag away.
At this time, he should have just woken up after he was unconscious and was not far from the Border River.
If history has not changed, they will continue to rush to the border river and soon encountered border guards expelling the gathering crowds. Tens of thousands of people fleeing Hong Kong were in chaos, wolves ran to pigs, fell and trampled, injured, disabled, and killed countless people.
Zhao Guoqing was hit by a stray bullet in chaos and almost died.
Although he survived by chance in the end, Song Qiong could not guarantee that after he traveled back, the stray bullet with no eyes would hit Zhao Guoqing's left chest. What if it was slightly tilted to the heart on the right, or even hit the head, or other key points?
That injury also damaged Zhao Guoqing's lung lobes, leaving behind chronic diseases that are difficult to cure for life. Every time it rains on Yin, I feel chest tightness and panting, difficulty breathing, and almost died several times.
If life is in danger, what else can we talk about great achievements?
No matter what, it is very dangerous ahead and they cannot go. Even if they want to escape from the port, they can go again next time.
What's more, in Song Qiong's view, the mainland is about to reform and open up, and there will be many opportunities. They no longer need to go to Lungang again.
In addition, when thinking of the educated youths in a long queue next door, Song Qiong also remembered something more important, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light appeared.
After the chaos occurred, only a very small number of people continued to attack the boundary river or chose to swim across the bay. Some of the others were temporarily detained by the army, while others had no choice but to return.
The educated youth in a long queue were also imprisoned for more than ten days. After being deported, about a month later, they tried to escape from Hong Kong again.
This time, they still hit a wall.
On the way back, they met two girls who also failed to escape from Hong Kong, and they actually had a big beast with an intention of rape. One of the women was tough and hit a stone with their heads and died on the spot when they could not escape. The other girl was tragically ravaged and committed suicide soon afterwards.
This tragedy originally had nothing to do with Song Qiong.
However, some of these people brought the bags they snatched from Song Qiong last time, which not only contained some tools prepared by Song Qiong, but also a book of rifts.
I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but Song Qiong’s bag was thrown at the scene.
In addition, there was one of the educated youth in a long queue named "National Day", and someone called his name at that time.
The grandfather of the strong suicide girl was an old revolutionary. During the turmoil, she was labeled as a rightist and rehabilitated soon after, and held an important position in Zhongyang. The girl's brother went down to the Guangdong Naval Military Region to serve as an officer and began to investigate the cause of her sister's death. The only clues and suicide letters left by another suicide girl pointed to Song Qiong and Zhao Guoqing.
In order to find out Song Qiong and avenge her sister, the young school official used various means to bring great harm to Song Qiong's adoptive parents' family.
Although he did not use particularly intense means, his adoptive father died of depression a few months later due to the harm caused by spiritual and physical injuries. The adoptive mother, who had a deep relationship with his husband, also left soon after.
At that time, Song Qiong was already in Lungang, wandering around, unable to contact his family.
More than ten years later, when he returned to the mainland again, things changed, and several brothers and sisters refused to forgive the harm he brought to his parents, and he had to face the blows he had joined forces with the Chen family and Zhao Jingcheng.
If it weren't for the Zhao family's old man's power and the support of the Li family in Lungang represented by Zhao Guoqing, he might not have had the chance to rise at all.
Thinking of the past and the adoptive father and mother who raised him with great difficulty, Song Qiong couldn't help but tremble, and tears appeared in his eyes.
In this life, he cannot let such a thing happen again.
Chapter completed!