Author: Wang Shifang Shu Min

A drop of water can reflect the brilliance of the sun, and an ordinary thing can reflect the best thought and the noblest style of our time. How many fragrant communist flowers have the Party's education blossomed in our hearts? You can't count! How many miracles of great communist cooperation have people created with this idea? You can't count! But this ordinary and great thing happens around you every day. Now, let's tell you something ...

1February 3, 960, the seventh day of the first lunar month.

Now, it is exactly four o'clock in the afternoon.

In Wangfujing Street, the capital, the traffic is busy, shops wear holiday clothes, and people come and go with bright smiles. Just to the east of the octagonal trough in the north gate of Wangfujing, there is a small state-owned specialty pharmacy. At this point, the salesperson smiled and answered the customer correctly. In the office, the phone rang, it was almost time to get off work, and I was busy checking out. Suddenly, someone cheerfully sent a red and green ticket:

"Comrades, there will be a wonderful party in CPPCC Auditorium tonight, Beijing Commercial Workers Spring Festival Gala!"

"All right!" Everyone was happy from ear to ear.

It turned out that all of us had a rest during the Spring Festival holiday, but business workers were still busy at the counter. We are really busy in order to let us buy something satisfactory during the holiday. Therefore, this wonderful party performed by famous artists in the capital had to be held on the seventh day of the first month. Everyone has been allocated tickets, and they are still busy with their work happily, just waiting for them to take the whole family, old and young, to enjoy the first Spring Festival in the 1960s after work. ...

Suddenly, the telephone on my desk rang a very urgent bell. Khufu, a salesman with short-sighted glasses, grabbed the microphone:

"Hello, where?"

"Long distance! I am the Pinglu County Committee of the Communist Party of China. We have 6 1 migrant workers suffering from food poisoning, and we need 1000' dimercaprol' urgently. The sooner the better, the sooner the better! " The voice in the receiver is loud and anxious.

"We'll prepare the medicine right away!" Afraid that the other party could not hear clearly, khufu almost shouted: "We will find a way to send the medicine to Taiyuan at once!"

"no! Taiyuan is more than a thousand miles away from Pinglu, and the traffic is extremely inconvenient. Please try to send it by air … by air! ! "

6 1 A comrade's life is at stake! 1000 stitches, and have to be airlifted! ..... Every sentence is like a nail, nailed to people's hearts! Just as khufu scratched his head and talked to each other, everyone was already surrounded. The atmosphere in the store is very tense, and people's hearts have long lost sight of this "wonderful party". The party branch immediately convened an emergency meeting to study and decided to go all out to do it well. Mobilize everyone to find a way to ask for instructions immediately. As a result, all the people in the shop twisted their hearts into a rope and concentrated all their energy on this series of suspense and difficulties. ...

In our big socialist family, hundreds of millions of working people are an intimate whole. A red line runs through and each red heart is connected. We all breathe together and share weal and woe. ...

Here's the thing:

February 2, in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province.

In a newly completed red building, the lights are brilliant. The enlarged meeting of Pinglu County Committee of the Communist Party of China went on as usual. Participants were in high spirits and discussed the leap-forward plan of 1996.

At seven o'clock, director Yan of the county people's Committee hurried into the conference room and found the county people's hospital.

"An hour ago, there were sixty-one migrant workers in Zhanggou section of Fengnan Highway, and food poisoning happened unexpectedly. Please organize medical staff to rescue immediately! ……"

They haven't finished yet. Ai Hai, who is sitting in the position of chairman, is very fond of Comrade Hao Shishan, the first secretary of Pinglu County Committee in China, and has already learned about this emergency. The 50-year-old secretary immediately stood up and glanced at the meeting with bright eyes. Then, decisively said:

"Comrades, now we must fully deal with an urgent matter. The meeting is suspended! "

Say that finish, hao secretary of cutting, put on old cotton-padded clothes, immediately called the county party committee standing committee meeting to study, decided to rescue. In a short time, the big truck was carrying the responsible comrades of the county hospital and all the best doctors. In the boundless darkness, it climbed mountains and ran to our brothers in Class 61!

Pinglu County is separated from Sanmenxia City, Henan Province by a river. A provincial road from Ruicheng fenglingdu to Pinglu Nangou is being built in Zhang Cun, 50 miles north of the county seat. This highway is the lifeline of Shanxi Province to support the great construction project of Sanmenxia of the Yellow River. Migrant workers who build roads are all members of the people's commune. They are really motivated to work. A man named Hou Yongsheng picked up hundreds of loads of earth in one day. They launched a competition, reformed a series of tools and improved their work efficiency step by step. Even during the Spring Festival, I took the initiative to ask for less rest and won a great victory. Who would have thought that this unexpected misfortune happened! This is sixty-one activists who are good at building socialism. Their lives are in danger. Can we not sympathize with them?

Before the car in the county arrived at Zhanggou site, more than 20 medical staff from Xue He, the first secretary of the Party Committee of Zhang Cun Commune, had arrived. They are busy bathing, washing feet and disinfecting the patients. The doctor in the county jumped out of the car and immediately intervened!

They used various methods:

Drinking mung bean licorice water to detoxify patients is ineffective!

The patient was injected with morphine again, but it still didn't work!

..... invalid! Invalid!

Nervous, extremely nervous! The air is suffocating and doctors and nurses are sweating like rain. Comrade Xie Keqin, the attending doctor of the county people's hospital, came to the conclusion after intense and meticulous consultation:

"You must use the specific medicine dimercaprol! The patient must be injected with this medicine before dawn on the 4th, otherwise it will be hopeless! Hurry and send someone to find it! "

Meanwhile.

In the county, restless night.

Our secretary, Hao, has been smoking and standing by the telephone, and the wrinkles in her mouth are deeper. After taking part in the revolution for more than 20 years, he has developed a habit: he is ill (he still has arthritis), which seems nothing, but whenever a villager has a headache and a fever, he can't let it go, and he has to find a way to help you cure his heart. Besides, there are 61 comrades whose lives are in danger! Secretary Hao was on pins and needles. ..... At this time, they received a phone call saying that the patient was in urgent need of "dimercaprol" and immediately sent someone to find it. Wang Wenming and Zhang Yinhu, the chief pharmacists of the county people's hospital, don't even care about thick clothes. They took two steps at a time, skipped deep ravines and went to Sanmenxia City to find medicine. You see, this is the real "pharmacist": he is willing to go through all kinds of hardships and travel all over the world to find what is not in the pharmacy!

They came to Jinmao Ferry on the Yellow River. Under the faint starlight, I saw the waves of the Yellow River rolling, only to hear the river beating against the shore, and the sound was heartbreaking. These two young people clearly know that crossing the Yellow River at night is easy to capsize and fall into the water, which is extremely dangerous. However, in order to save the lives of 61 comrades-in-arms, they are willing to take great risks at this important moment! They knocked on the boatman's door without hesitation. The boatman woke up from a deep sleep:

"Why are you knocking?"

Please take us across the river!

"The Yellow River Ferry, since ancient times, can't sail at night, wait until dawn!"

"Can't wait! We have to cross the river tonight to save people! "

When the boatmen heard that it was to save 6 1 builders of the motherland, Wang Xijian, a heavy smoker, jumped out of the warm bed, tied it on and shouted, "Guys, let's go!" Wang Yuntang and several others followed. Came to the shore, without saying a word, and drove the boat to the river. With decades of experience and sincere heart in fighting the waves of the Yellow River, we finally broke the old rule of not crossing the Yellow River at night and sent drug addicts safely to the other side.

But there is no such specific medicine in Sanmenxia city!

It's already noon on February 3. Time, stop for a while! Why do you always swish past people, but you can't catch them? ...

Secretary Hao urgently and firmly instructed: "It is still necessary to solve it on the spot. Go to Yuncheng county! Go to Linfen county! Look around! "

At this time, Zhang Cun Commune Hospital called again: "If we don't get' dimercaprol' by tomorrow morning, fourteen seriously ill patients will die!"

Looking for medicine phone, constantly looking back:

There is no such medicine in Yuncheng County!

There is no such medicine in Linfen County!

There is no such medicine around here!

Secretary Hao said categorically: "For the lives of sixty-one comrades, now we have to trouble the Central Committee and ask the capital for help. Call the Central Ministry of Health urgently! Make an emergency call to the specialist pharmacy! "

As a result, this tense rescue war began one after another in the capital two thousand miles away. ...

People's hearts turned to Beijing, and Beijing's heart immediately beat with Lu's. ...

At 4 pm on February 3, at the Ministry of Health.

In a quadrangle of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, many comrades of the Drug Administration have stopped other work and are busy with this urgent matter. Comrade Jiang Bing, director of pharmaceutical equipment, received a call from Pinglu County Committee, and asked people to inform Bamiancao Pharmacy to prepare medicines quickly, and went to ask the director and several ministers who were having a party meeting. Vice Minister Xu instructed: We must handle this matter well and immediately request the Civil Aviation Administration or the Air Force to support the delivery of medicine!

Now, chubby comrade Lao Wu, sweating profusely, is nervously urging medicine to go to a special drugstore. Ji Zhongchang, a member of the Communist Youth League, is in contact with the Civil Aviation Administration. Asymmetric breathing from the phone, obviously the other party is also very anxious:

"Tomorrow morning, just have a flight to Taiyuan, it's too late, too late! ..... Yes, request air support! "

What a hurry! The line is busy. When Xiaoji got through to the leadership of the Air Force, the Air Force already knew about it. It turned out that the Civil Aviation Administration stopped this matter first. At this time, the director on duty learned more about the requirements of the Ministry of Health from Xiao Wei and immediately ran to ask for instructions. Commander's instruction: Full support, fast and good! So, like a war, the relevant personnel took their positions, studied the route, studied the airdrop, and gave orders to the troops ... all this was done quickly, all for the glorious tradition of the people's army and the deep love for the people!

Class love, the depth of the ocean. Among us, when a person is in trouble, hundreds and thousands of strangers eagerly lend you a helping hand and spare no effort to help you. ...

Now, it's past five o'clock in the afternoon.

During the long journey from Guang 'anmen, the capital, to Bamiancao, a worker in his thirties is braving the cold wind for nine days and desperately pedaling a freight bicycle at a high speed.

"Comrades, get out of the way!"

He kept yelling at pedestrians. There is a "dimercaprol" on this car. The cyclist, Wang Yingpu, is an advanced worker. You see, he turned the wheel very fast, and it took him more than an hour to walk 30 miles. Why do you want to transport medicine from 30 miles away? There is a little story:

This "dimercaprol", originally imported from abroad, is a rare medicine. But last year, the workers of our state-owned Shanghai No.1 Pharmaceutical Factory creatively uncovered its secret, and now it can be produced and supplied in large quantities. It is no longer a rarity, and its value has dropped from special medicine to ordinary medicine, so the special pharmacy has just sent it to the warehouse and is ready to send it to ordinary pharmaceutical companies all over the country for sale. But now I suddenly needed it, so I pulled it back.

Peter said Wang Yingpu was panting to move the medicine into the house at this moment, and everyone suddenly surrounded him:

"Lao Wang, you really have two immortal legs!"

Meanwhile.

In our specialty drugstore, He, secretary of the Party branch and member of Aihai Aihua, is squatting on the map with a flashlight, taking photos and looking for it. What are they doing? The sun lamp in the room is obviously on. Usually when the needle falls to the ground, you can find that it is not bright enough today. Oh, they are looking for: Where is Pinglu? They are thinking: how to transport? These are still unsolved cases!

At this anxious juncture, the Ministry of Health called again:

"The air force gave enthusiastic support to ensure that drugs will be dropped to Pinglu County tonight! Please put one thousand medicines into wooden cases, and light-emitting equipment should be installed outside the boxes ... "

There's a plane! In people's eyes, it's like a long drought in the rain, and everyone jumps with excitement! But there is still a difficulty: how to solve this light-emitting device?

Meanwhile.

Time, a second, a minute ... flies by. There are only a few hours before the morning of the 4 th.

In Zhang Cun Commune Hospital, the air is still extremely tense! Members of the Zhang Cun Commune sent their brothers a lot of tofu, vermicelli, vegetables, sugar, flour and rice ... These things are piled up there, who can eat them? Our brother is still in danger! After learning this urgent news, Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital and Linfen People's Hospital also quickly sent doctors. Now, more than 40 medical staff, with a string of sweat hanging on their heads, have not slept for 20 hours. In order to prolong these 6 1 lives, indigenous methods and foreign methods have been exhausted, but the patient is not getting better! !

Suddenly someone reported: "Comrades, the county party Committee called and said that the central government decided to send a plane to deliver medicine tonight!" "

Is it true?/You don't say. It's true! The desperate eyes of the patients suddenly lit up, and people's eyes were filled with tears of infinite gratitude. ...

Now, it's almost seven o'clock at night.

In the specialized drugstore, the medicine box is almost installed, but the lighting equipment has not yet landed. At this moment, a girl with glasses suddenly threw her braids and said:

"I want to go to Wuzhou electrical materials!" This man's name is Li Yuqiao.

She flew to five continents with colorful electrical materials. Surprised, this place is really full of customers. He Zheng, a member of the Communist Youth League, is busy taking this and that for customers. Li Yuqiao simply finished the situation with Xiaohei and asked him:

"You have thirty minutes. Can you do it well?"

"Don't worry, Sister Li, make a firm commitment!"

Li Yuqiao helped him do business, and Xiaohei went to find someone when he lifted his leg. I happened to meet Wang Mingde on the road. Xiao Wang is a senior producer in Beijing and a warm-hearted young man. They used their quick wits to go to school, which is really stumbling and also a kind of wisdom. They want to use four batteries to weld together and connect the light bulb, which can light up for more than half an hour. Sixteen batteries and four light bulbs were also developed to install lights on all four sides of the medicine cabinet. When the airdrop landed, it fell out, and the safety was still on. At some point, they began to work. At this time, Lao Yang, director of the marketing department, came back from a meeting outside. When he heard that it was urgent, he also helped them. After a while, Li Yuqiao came over and urged:

"Time is pressing, no more than three minutes!"

"We promise to be ready in two and a half minutes!"

Sure enough, when Li Yu walked back to the shop at the bridgehead, Xiao Wang stepped on her heel with a welded luminous device and got in. It's really two and a half minutes!

Now, it's already half past seven.

A Shengli car galloped out of the gate of the Ministry of Health and ran to the specialized pharmacy.

Here comes the bus. At this time, as CSI described afterwards: I don't know how the box of medicine was taken out. I saw everyone swarming, for fear of missing a minute, for fear that one of them could not hold on and fell to the ground. Many hands holding the 1000 piece of "dimercaprol" squeezed out from the narrow crack in the shop and gently placed it on the best seat of Shengli brand car!

A Victory car carrying 1000 "dimercaprol", on a brightly lit street and a quiet boulevard in the suburbs of Beijing, honked its horn and flew like an arrow to the airport.

Meanwhile.

The telephone of Pinglu County Post Office suddenly rang. From three o'clock in the afternoon, Pinglu-Beijing long-distance telephone has become an extremely agile special line. This call is from the air force leader again. Comrade Dong Hongliang, the postmaster on the phone, is busy putting through the phone to the county party committee. Hao secretary took the phone and only heard:

"Please hurry to find a flat place, away from the river, and prepare four piles of firewood. As soon as the plane arrives, light it as a sign of airdrop! "

"good! Get ready right away! "

So, the secretary and the county magistrate personally ordered. The loudest voice came from the cable broadcasting station, which sent the most urgent call to the organs, schools, people's communes and tens of millions of people near the county seat. Wherever the sound went, the cadres who were learning pinyin left their books and ran outside, the students came out of the classroom of the warm class, the old man came out on crutches, the newlyweds came out of the warm new house, and the workers of the Construction Bureau dragged waste firewood and ran outside the city. On the hillside beyond the Sage River, a large group of male and female members of Hongqi Commune came running to this flat place with bundles of cotton, firewood and reeds. ...

In an instant, four piles of firewood on the top of the mountain are ready!

Thousands of people are standing in this open space called "Sage Creek". People are full of impatient excitement, looking at the boundless night sky, to the northeast, no, to our great capital. The heart has already crossed the clouds! Comrade Sun, who used to do communication work in the army, stood on a high hill and listened to the movement of the plane with his own experience and ability to hear the ears ten miles away. ...

This is a victorious battle to carry forward the communist style. Long live the spirit of self-sacrifice, friendship and mutual assistance!

It's 9: 03 p.m.

There are stars everywhere in Beijing. A military transport plane, full of the deep friendship of the people in the capital, rushed to the silver night sky and flew to the southwest with lightning speed. Comrade Chen Yinqing from the Ministry of Health went at random.

This is a very difficult flight. Airdrop at night, there is no ground command and air contact in Pinglu airdrop field, and the terrain is complex, the mountains are heavy, and there are water and medicine. It is even more necessary to ensure foolproof ... The leaders of the army attach great importance to this airdrop mission, and the political commissar, battalion chief and chief of staff personally studied it, specially selected the most experienced captain, pilot, communications commander and mechanic, and sent two troops at the same time. Just before taking off, they also chose the best parachute and added weight to the medicine cabinet. Everything is planned with the greatest confidence, and everyone is full of confidence.

A pilot was very excited and asked the captain, "In order to ensure the timely delivery of the medicine box, I request permission to go down with the medicine box!"

The captain said: "The chief has instructed people not to go down, so we must ensure the accuracy of drug administration!" " "

Now, our eagle is sailing at high speed. Here is a vast land, the motherland is full of sleepless cities, and the stars and the radiant light complement each other. At this time, how many people are still working hard for the motherland!

It's eleven twenty-three in the evening.

"Please prepare Pinglu! Get ready! The plane will arrive in your county in seven minutes, and ignite immediately! "

Director Dong immediately sent the telephone notice from the air force leader to the crowd waiting for the plane. I don't know who spilled some kerosene on each pile of firewood, and the flames went up into the sky, and the fire reflected the sky and the earth!

At this time, the plane has crossed the Yellow River and arrived in Pinglu. The current altitude of the plane is 2700 meters. In order to accurately drop the air, it must be reduced, the lower the accuracy! Captain Zhou Lianshan pressed the joystick, and the plane descended rapidly, 2000, 1500,1000,500m. The towering mountain shadows pass by the fuselage, which is dangerous! This is a brave and technical struggle!

All the people on the plane, their eyes wide open and their emotions extremely uneasy! The captain suddenly excitedly ordered:

"Prepare for airdrop!"

Umbrella company, mechanic and Xiao Chen have turned on the light on the medicine cabinet. As soon as the bell rang, they accurately flew the medicine cabinet out of the cabin, and one thousand "dimercaprol" parachutes fell to the scheduled airdrop position, falling down! ..... The county party committee called Beijing for help, and the magic medicine fell from the sky, affecting many units and people. However, all this complicated process only took more than eight hours. What an amazing speed!

Don't we often say that "it's light to send goose feathers a thousand miles away, but reciprocity is heavy"? This box of magic medicine falling from the sky is full of the best feelings of countless people in Beijing, which is heavier than Mount Tai!

Meanwhile.

In the Shengren River outside Pinglu County, four big fires are burning more and more brightly. People flow like a tide, and countless flashlights dot the night sky, just like the searchlights in Tiananmen Square, the capital of National Day. Secretary Hao and county magistrate Guo went to the scene.

"Look, there is a light falling from the sky!" Suddenly, who called?

"That's a parachute, that's a magic medicine!"

Hands held high, everyone wants to hold this box of medicine! People cheered for planes and parachutes!

The flashing parachute has fallen! People run down the parachute, run! Run! Guo, the county magistrate, ran to the parachuting place and met Yang Guowa, a girl aged 16 who sang. Her face is still painted with red powder, and her costumes are still there. They are all costumes on the stage!

"The baby! Why are you here? " Guo county asked her.

"All the people in the theater are here. Why don't I take the magic medicine sent by Chairman Mao? " Then she hurried to the parachute.

The parachute landed safely with the medicine cabinet, and the lights at the four corners of the medicine cabinet were on. The members of Zhaitou Management District were the first to hold the medicine cabinet! Thousands of people gathered around this box of medicine. No sooner had you taken two steps than he grabbed it and carried it on his shoulder. ...

Shen, the best car and driver sent by the Transportation Bureau, has already been waiting at the gate of the county party committee. Put the medicine box in the car, and the car stepped on the gas pedal and ran to Zhang Cun Hospital 50 miles away. As the saying goes, the ground is uneven. The narrow and rugged mountain road here is extremely difficult to pass, and the car may break down at any time. Shen has done the best maintenance for the car, but he is still thinking:

"In case of an accident, I will come!"

Late at night on February 3.

Hope! Hope-At the gate of Zhang Cun Commune Hospital, members and medical staff are anxiously looking forward to it. ...

The bus is coming! -Good!

Take the medicine box down quickly.

Quick injection.

The injection was very effective and immediate, and the patient immediately stopped the pain and regained consciousness. The doctor originally stipulated that the medicine could not be found until dawn on the fourth day, but the medicine was delivered before dawn. Our sixty-one brothers saved the day! Their new and stronger lives were given by the party and saved by comrades with true love. Ecstasy comes from people's hearts and generates. ...

It's not just these 6 1 individuals who came back from the dead. No, each of us has two lives. The Party uses the sunshine of thought to help us clear the ideological germs left over from the old times and cultivate us to become brand-new people.

February 5(th)

The sun is shining and the spring is bright.

On behalf of the county party committee and the people of the county, the county party committee secretary, county magistrate Guo and other leading comrades led the county art troupe and came to Zhang Cun Commune Hospital with condolences. They personally went to the bedside to comfort the patient. County magistrate Guo was really happy to see the patient recovered. Migrant workers tightly hold the hand of Guo county magistrate and don't know what to say.

Zhou Manlu, a migrant worker, was in tears. He said:

"The evil Japanese devil blinded my eyes, and no one cares; How many people have been killed by the Kuomintang Yan Laoxi, and the bitter water has been swallowed in his stomach! Today, ordinary migrant workers are ill, and the central government sent a plane to save us. The party and Chairman Mao are really our intimate people! "

Wu Jinxi, an old man from Zhangdian Commune, came from 80 miles away to visit his son Wu Guangxin. At this moment he was shaking with excitement, pulling his son:

"Boy, in our remote valley, I think you are hopeless! Who would have thought that Chairman Mao cared more about my son than the old man in Beijing? Boy, Chairman Mao is really your parents! "

On the spot, everyone couldn't lie down any longer, and they got up and asked Guo county magistrate:

"In order to thank the Party, Chairman Mao and the people of the capital for their support, we will go to work tomorrow!"

County magistrate Guo comforted them and said, "You should listen to the party and have a good rest for a few days!"

The first company commander couldn't resist the imposing manner in his heart, clutching two thick fists, representing the migrant workers of the whole company. He said to Guo County:

"We all promised the Party and Chairman Mao that we would do our best to contract out all the work of Sanlian!"

Then, everyone posted hundreds of big letters to report their determination inside and outside the commune hospital and on the construction site; Letters to the CPC Central Committee and Chairman Mao came like snowflakes. ...

Migrant workers really mean what they say. As soon as they go to work, they dig 30 cubic meters of soil every day instead of 15 cubic meters in the past, and their work efficiency has doubled. Some people even work three days a day! Everyone is determined to repair this road to support the great construction project of Sanmenxia three months in advance! Countless miracles are being created! ……

Not only our road builders, but also120,000 Pinglu people and 650 million China people. Everyone is burning a fire, and it is getting stronger and stronger: the deep love for the Party and Chairman Mao has turned into infinite power, and people are using it to accelerate the construction of our great socialist motherland! Build her with great enthusiasm and high speed. This is our backer and the guarantee of our eternal happiness!

(Originally published in China Youth Daily on February 28th 1960)