July 4th, Huoqubing City (formerly Guriyev City), a city on the north coast of the Caspian Sea in South China.
An Yi's special plane arrived at this pleasant coastal city at 10 a.m., met with the main generals of the Central Asian Front Army and the leaders of the local Military Control Commission, had a simple working lunch, and then drove to the heavily fortified Ural Defense Line to inspect the place.
The road stretches 30 kilometers west of the Ural River and is a copper and iron wall built at a cost of tens of millions.
An Yi expressed condolences to frontline officers and soldiers, personally inspected the newly built refugee migration channel, and put forward specific requirements for possible refugee flows.
Since Lyushenkov could not arrive until the next morning, after returning to the city at four o'clock in the afternoon, An Yi wanted to have close contact with the immigrants who had migrated from the country and investigate the real living conditions, so he declined the offer from the front army commander Zhao Rui.
During the banquet, I found Huang Yingwu and asked him to help arrange a suitable identity.
When Huang Yingwu heard the request, his head got big. Now An Yi's big head is posted in the main hall of almost every household, with incense burners placed as offerings to Bodhisattvas. Once recognized, accidents are very likely to happen. Sometimes, excessive
Enthusiasm can also be bad.
An Yi knew what Huang Yingwu was worried about and immediately asked Shen Fengdao to do his makeup.
Huang Yingwu saw An Yi put on an ordinary camouflage uniform. Shen Fengdao used some tricks on his face to immediately cover up the original charm and replaced it with the image of a young man with dark skin and a slightly green look. He patted his legs.
Wow.
Huang Yingwu's confidence increased, and after thinking about it, he called up the file and picked out a few useful pieces of information for An Yi to choose. An Yi browsed through it in a hurry, pointed to one of the items, and said: "This is it, but don't
After alerting the county and township governments and village committees, I appeared as an ordinary staff member."
"this--"
Huang Yingwu hesitated: "The Quanshui District Military Control Commission has a mass art performance. It is held in the district auditorium. It is more convenient to deploy security personnel. I think it is better there!"
"Parrot, your grandson is getting less and less courageous!"
An Yi saw Huang Yingwu trying to tell the difference, glared at him, waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about my safety, just have Lao Shen by my side. Besides, even if the people find out my true identity, they will not worry about it."
Am I at a disadvantage? If that's the case, I might as well just take off my armor and return to the field, why bother with it!"
Huang Yingwu smiled bitterly and had no choice but to agree.
An hour later, An Yi and Shen Fengdao were transported by a Jeep from the Political Department to Longtou County, 30 kilometers away.
Longtou County is located on the peninsula southeast of the city, covering an area of 3,600 square kilometers and governing nine townships and 72 villages. At this time, in the courtyard of the Military Control Commission, six rear three-wheeled motorcycles were lined up neatly, with eighteen
The staff of the film projection team in Mingxian County lined up neatly on the concrete floor next to the motorcycles and listened to the speech of the cultural officer of the Military Control Commission. The main idea was to send movies to the countryside, so that the government's policies and care can be delivered to the grassroots people.
Stimulating patriotism in villagers is of great significance.
Seeing the jeep entering the government compound, everyone turned their heads and looked at the uninvited guest.
Captain Guo Dongming, the officer of the Political Department of the Front Army who was responsible for sending people off, did not know the true identities of An Yi and Shen Fengdao, nor did he know that there were at least ten military trucks full of officers and soldiers following behind this jeep. He took An Yi and Shen Fengdao with him.
Shen Fengdao walked towards Ming Changyan, the familiar officer in charge of culture at the County Military Control Commission, and handed him a letter of introduction, saying:
"Lao Ming, these two are civil servants newly assigned to our city as interns. The organization has arranged for them to join your county's film screening team. Find someone to take them."
Ming Changyan was obviously an old acquaintance with Guo Dongming. He took the letter of introduction without even reading it. He hugged him warmly, then turned his head to An Yi and Shen Fengdao, and greeted with a smile: "Welcome new colleagues, I hope you can work in Longtou County."
Stay longer and accumulate more for future work!”
After saying that, he turned his head and greeted: "Master Wang, I handed the person over to your projection team. You have to take care of the person for me. Do you understand?"
"Okay!"
A man in his early thirties answered with a smile, and then waved to An Yi and Shen Fengdao: "Comrade, come and line up behind us. We will set off after the meeting."
When an acquaintance arrived, Ming Changyan obviously didn't want to waste any more time. He simply explained some precautions, announced the adjournment of the meeting, and then took Guo Dongming's hand and walked into the Military Control Commission building in front.
Master Wang's surname is Wang and his given name is Ning. His ancestral home is Luoyang, Henan. At the end of 1938, his family fled to Xufu and was then sent to Central Asia. Wang Ning himself had no education, so he should have been assigned to the new city together with his wife and three children.
The completed resettlement village was divided into ten or twenty acres of farmland, and from then on the people lived from sunrise to sunrise.
However, because his wife Fan Bingyan had studied in a normal school in Beijing, she was undoubtedly a talent for Zhongya who was in urgent need of primary and secondary school teachers. Therefore, a husband was more valuable than his wife, and Wang Ning also obtained the status of a civil servant.
After undergoing rigorous cultural and technical training, he became a film projectionist.
A standard movie projection team consists of three people, including a driver and two projectionists.
The three-wheeled motorcycle used for travel is about the same size as the later Hong Kong and Tian motorcycles. People can sit on the seats on both sides of the carriage, and the space in the middle is used to place generators and movie equipment.
After Wang Ning and another projectionist sat down on one side of the carriage, they asked An Yi and Shen Fengdao to sit down on the other side, and then ordered the driver to drive.
The tricycle swayed, followed by other projection teams, and drove out of the Military Control Commission compound, and then went their separate ways.
An hour later, the car arrived at Xiaogang Village in the south of the county.
This village is built on the Caspian Sea. Some villagers go fishing at sea, while other villagers open up fertile fields on the saline-alkali land and grow corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops. Now throughout Central Asia, Japan and Siberia, the staple food
Mainly eating mashed potatoes, potato chips, vermicelli, etc., most people have adapted to the current life.
The sun was setting in the west. Under the big tree at the entrance of Xiaogang Village, a group of children who were under school age did not go to the beach a mile or two away to play in the water, nor did they chase and play as usual. Instead, they sat eagerly on the white birch.
Under the tree, I stared at the road at the entrance of the village from time to time.
This road existed long before the village was built. Engineers first laid the road, then transported cement, stones and bricks, and built houses one by one.
After the village was completed, people gradually moved in until all the houses were filled. The government provided half a year's rations in advance, distributed fishing boats and nets to each household, and finally sent agricultural experts to provide guidance on how to improve the saline-alkali land.
The land outside China has become an important food producing area.
The children gathered here today because they know that every two months, a three-wheeled motorcycle will come to the village and set up a big white cloth on the field dam. In the dark night, a movie will be shown on the white cloth.
Something called a movie, you can see vivid and vivid pictures.
Finally, a "thud" sound came from the distance, and a three-wheeled motorcycle passed through the dense windbreak forest in front of the village and appeared on the asphalt road three to four hundred meters away.
"You can watch a movie today!"
The children immediately cheered with surprise, waving their hands one by one, and walked towards the three-wheeled motorcycle.
The three-wheeled motorcycle slowed down, and the children were very excited and shouted loudly. They followed the three-wheeled motorcycle all the way to an open field in the center of the village.
The car stopped slowly. An Yi followed Wang Ning and got out of the car. He looked at everything in the village curiously. Shen Fengdao remained calm but secretly increased his vigilance.
At this time, a little girl about five or six years old with big bright eyes stretched out her hand and grabbed An Yi's sleeve, shook her head and saw An Yi lowered her head, and asked innocently and cutely: "Uncle, tonight Do you still act in movies about fighting Japanese invaders?"
An Yi didn't know what the movie being shown tonight was about, so he looked at Wang Ning, the captain of the screening team.
Wang Ning said with a smile: "Little girl, call your village chief, and I will tell you what to watch tonight, do you agree?"
"good!"
When the little girl heard this, she beamed and ran out immediately. Who knows, just a few steps away, she turned back and said to a group of friends: "You come with me to find the village chief, or else you can take advantage of my absence." If you know, then I will suffer a loss!"
Hearing these childish words, An Yi couldn't help but laugh.
Seeing the children jumping away, Wang Ning introduced with a smile:
"People in the village know everything about them, and children can find people much faster than we can! However, children are usually naughty and like to play with novel things. We must be careful not to let children come into contact with these projection equipment later, otherwise Even if I lose it, I won’t be able to complete today’s work.”
While they were talking, several men in their thirties and forties, surrounded by a group of children, came to the dam.
"Haha, Lao Wang, I've been waiting for you to come every day... This time it's three days later than before. People in the village are asking where I am, and they're afraid you won't come!"
The man walking in front was greeted with a warm hug.
"It rained continuously for one or two weeks in the first two months, and the screening work in several villages was delayed, so the screening task was postponed... No, I worked overtime during this period, and finally made up for the time. , the delay of only three days is already the result of hard work... By the way, let me introduce to you, the driver Xiao Zhou and the projectionist Xiao Chen, you are all familiar with them. These two people came to our county to film Xiao Lin and Xiao Shen, who are interns in the team, are the village heads of this village..."
In order to hide his identity, An Yi introduced his surname to Lin to Wang Ning on the way there. Then, together with Shen Fengdao, he smiled and shook hands with several village cadres introduced by Wang Ning.
"Ah! Lao Wang, you have brought in new people again. Where are the two new people you brought in half a year ago?" Village Chief Zhuang asked in surprise.
"Going to the front line... They are having a much harder time than us right now. Two provinces, cities, and counties have been established on the Persian Gulf side, and many farms and reclamation sites have been established. The temperature there is around three degrees all year round. The temperature is above 10 degrees Celsius and the climate is dry. In order to encourage immigrants, film projectionists are needed. If young people are motivated, they voluntarily apply!"
"Well, you guys are very brave. You dare to go to such a far place! Lao Wang, speaking of our territory, it is getting bigger and bigger. It is much bigger than the generals in the Han and Tang Dynasties, right? But there are so many
How many people are needed to cultivate the land?"
"Don't worry, even in the current state of war, your village still has two combined tractors that can plow, sow and harvest. In the future, when there is peace, all the factories that produce tanks will switch to tractors, and all the land will be mechanized.
No matter how much land there is, there won’t be enough land for cultivation!”
"That's right!"
Village Chief Zhuang nodded, and then said with some concern: "But since then, the purchase price of crops will probably drop a lot, and we won't be able to make much money from farming!"
Wang Ning comforted: "Don't worry, our grain purchase price in Nanhua has always been higher than the market price. This is also the fundamental reason why those grain merchants who hoard food in our land cannot survive. In order to prevent the low price of grain from hurting farmers, the central government has affirmed
Special policies will be issued!”
At this time, the five or six-year-old girl timidly grabbed An Yi's hand, raised her head and asked: "Uncle, you haven't told me what movie to play tonight!"
Wang Ning heard this and said with a smile: "You are so good, little girl. Let's watch "Battle of Shanghai" tonight. It tells the story of Chairman An leading the troops to fight the Japanese army in Shanghai. The battle was very fierce and exciting!"
"ah!"
The little girl was slightly disappointed after hearing this, and said: "I thought it would be a pilot story like last time! I have already thought about it, and I want to be a pilot when I grow up!"
"Wow, it's a war!"
"Niuniu, you are wrong, fighting is the most beautiful thing!"
"You can watch Killing Japs again tonight!"
The boys were so happy that they vented their excitement. They looked for the wooden toy pistols and rifles made by the adults and went to play war games. Although Niu Niu was a little unhappy, she also played along.
Already.
"Okay! Another movie about fighting Japanese invaders to relieve your anger! Lao Wang, you guys are busy first. I'll go home and feed the animals at home first, and then make some food and drinks. After the movie is over, let's have a good drink!
"
Seeing Village Chief Zhuang and several village cadres leaving happily, An Yi asked strangely: "Why, there are so few war movies? We have shot a lot of war movies in these years!"
Wang Ning did not notice anything inappropriate in An Yi's words and explained:
"We screen movies in the village, usually showing news briefings and targeted agricultural teaching films, coupled with a film praising workers, farmers and soldiers. We have a lot of war movies in our inventory, but every year there are movies about fighting Japanese invaders.
Just one or two, war movies
It also includes the civil war and fighting against the British and French. It seems that fighting against the Japanese is not as good as fighting against the Japanese! Almost all the immigrants here were forced to leave their homes due to the Japanese invasion. They hate the Japanese very much, so when they see people beating the Japanese
The video is very refreshing!”
An Yi nodded clearly, and then, together with Shen Fengdao, helped Wang Ning and the others take down the movie projection equipment from the motorcycle.
While the driver and another projectionist were guarding the equipment, Wang Ning took An Yi and Shen Fengdao to several homes near Bazi to borrow ladders, tables, stools and other things to build movie screens.
Wang Ning greeted the villagers familiarly, and these people were also very enthusiastic and greeted them warmly with tea. However, this was not real tea, but the villagers boiled it with bark and grass roots to remove the fishy smell of the water.
The tea was sweet in the mouth, and after cooling for a long time, it tasted very refreshing and comfortable. An Yi and Shen Fengdao drank two or three bowls in one go to quench their thirst.
The three of them returned to the field dam with the borrowed things, started to build the curtain, stabilized the projection equipment, and connected the sound converter and speaker equipment.
The diesel generator placed in the three-wheeled motorcycle was not removed. Instead, the driver drove it outside the dam and parked it, and then connected a long wire. This is because the motor sound of the diesel generator is very loud. If
If the distance is too close, the audience will not be able to hear the dialogue in the movie clearly, so we can only send it as far as possible.
At present, it is not realistic to electrify rural areas. When the war is over in the future and the country has enough funds to build infrastructure, rural areas will be considered. Now, movie screenings can only rely on diesel generators to generate electricity.
After the sun went down, because it was midsummer, the sky did not get dark immediately. The experienced Wang Ning told An Yi and Shen Fengdao that it would take an hour or two before the movie could be shown. After entering autumn, the movie screening time could be moved forward.
In November, due to the rapid drop in temperature, snowstorms may fall at any time, and movie screenings will be suspended until the snow and ice thaw in April of the following year.
Therefore, from this point of view, the work of film projectionists in Central Asia is quite easy. During the entire long winter, they do not have to work for about five months.
Taking advantage of this time, Wang Ning and another projectionist debugged the equipment to ensure the screening effect later. They also tested the interference of the generator noise on the movie sound and were very satisfied with the results.
After debugging the equipment, the projection team started preparing dinner.
Before departure, he brought two warm water bottles filled with boiling water in the car, which are now placed next to the projector. Wang Ning took out five bags of instant noodles and an equal amount of ham from the food box. Wang Ning and the three of them all brought lunch boxes.
, An Yi and Shen Fengdao didn't bring anything, so Wang Ning and another projectionist lent them their water cups, and then started making noodles.
Nanhua's instant noodles have many flavors. A bag of 200g instant noodles, a 100g ham sausage, and soup can make you feel full. According to the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, people are strictly ordered to eat at people's homes.
It is prohibited, of course, except for invitations as friends. When the film team goes on a mission, they will basically bring this kind of convenience food.
After eating the noodles, it finally got dark. When various benches were spread all over the field, Wang Ning and another projectionist began to get busy. As usual, they played an agricultural science and education film for half an hour.
, and then began to show the feature film "Battle of Shanghai".
The film excerpted several clips from the Songhu Battle, and ended with An's army defeating the Japanese invaders and holding a military parade in Shanghai. There were many scenes of burning, killing and looting by the Japanese invaders, which was originally affected by the Japanese invasion.
The blood of the persecuted villagers was gushing, and during the movie screening, slogans of "Down with Japanese imperialism" were heard one after another.
When the film was about to end, an impassioned commentary sounded:
"The Chinese nation was originally the greatest nation in the world, but in modern times it has declined and suffered ruthless aggression from foreign powers. The citizens of the former Celestial Kingdom have long been insulted by Westerners as monkeys with long pigtails, thinking that our
The army can only rely on foot wraps and menstrual belts to fight. However, reality has taught the invaders that the Chinese are not cowardly, and we also have an invincible Anjia army!
"There was Yue Wumu in the past, and there is the Anjia Army today. Our people's army, from North China to Jiangnan, from Japan to Central Asia, from the Persian Gulf to India, is moving from one victory to another. So far, we have
It has regained its ancestral homeland, Central Asia, and gained the trust of the people of West Asia and India while resisting foreign humiliation.
"The sons and daughters of China should unite. The sixty million compatriots should work together. Farmers farm and fish so that the soldiers on the front line can have enough to eat. Brother workers should seize the time to work and produce more products to support the front line. Teachers must educate
Students become the pillars of the country and the nation..."
During the movie screening, although An Yi struck up conversations with the villagers many times to understand the current situation in the village, the villagers were so fascinated by the movie that they hesitated a few words intentionally or unintentionally and stopped talking. If they asked too many questions, they would glare at them.
After a few glances, he moved the stool away from An Yi and found another place to watch.
An Yi was very embarrassed and then relieved.
It can be seen that the villagers here are in good spirits, and from the crops outside the village and the sincere smiles on the people's faces, it can be seen that they are quite satisfied with their current life.
The film ends with the majestic singing of "March of the Volunteers", and the clock hand has pointed to eleven o'clock in the night.
After the villagers dispersed and the screening team packed up their things, Village Chief Zhuang invited everyone to have a drink at his home. An Yi finally got the specific data he wanted. He knew that in addition to being allocated ten acres of land, each household here could also benefit from daily income.
A large amount of fish was harvested during the fishing operation. Except for a small number of fish that are eaten by oneself, they are all sent directly to the collection point at the port, and then processed into various canned fish in the city's canneries and sent to the front line as military supplies.
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***: Every day when I call at six o'clock, I am like a war, nervously typing words! Thank you all for your hard work these days, I hope it can return to normal on Saturday!