Old Story Prose on Wangniang Beach

Among the ancient legends, the story of Twenty-four Wangniang Beach impressed me the most. Coincidentally, next to Barrow Village in the western suburbs of our county, there is also a river beach called Wangniang Beach. Of course, it is impossible to prove whether it is the legendary one. I only remember that it was renamed artificially in the mid-1960s, and Wangniang Beach was changed to Wang Liang Beach. Although there is only one word difference, it is of great significance.

It was a time when people were bold and the land was productive, but it was particularly cold in winter. After the agricultural Dazhai was fully rolled out in the county, the land reclamation movement in mountainous areas and Pingba was in full swing, and Duanba Village in the western suburbs of the county was no exception. They first demolished the Hongchuan Temple, and then razed the Gaos Tomb Garden, resulting in many mechanized fields and fields.

The rural work in the county needs to be typical, so the county took advantage of the opportunity of the "three trade unions" that year to organize everyone to visit and study at the land reclamation site in Duanziba Village. Wangniang Beach is near the model yard. In the process of observation, I don't know who first discovered such a large beach by Qingyi River, and people began to talk: If it can be reclaimed, wouldn't it increase production?

Sure enough, it was not long before the whole people became soldiers on Wangniang Beach, and the general mobilization of the "Land Reclamation Movement" began.

I remember it was a sunny morning. As soon as I entered the classroom, the teacher informed the senior students to go back and get baskets and hoes to take part in voluntary labor. That year, I was in the sixth grade.

When I arrived at the scene, I found red flags flying everywhere on Wangniang Beach, and the huge slogan of agricultural Dazhai was hung in the most eye-catching position on the construction site. Adults are already in full swing and sweating. I stood high and made a curious estimate. Ah, yes! There are more than 10,000 workers, peasants, soldiers, businessmen, scholars and soldiers, and the whole floodplain has become a sea of people and flags are flying.

Some adults move stones, some repair river banks, and some level the land. We can only follow other people's asses, go to Haoshan two miles away to transport mud, and pour a thin layer of soil on the newly leveled river beach, and Wangniang Beach will become a flat dry land.

Everyone is working hard. I don't know when an old fisherman who knows nothing walked out of him. He is carrying a fish basket and a fishing rod. Looking at those selfless people and earth-shattering scenes at work, he said to himself, "Sooner or later, it will be out of date."

Female students' ears are always sharp, and the mumbling of the "old fisherman" is also heard by them. This is great. Dozens of our classmates surrounded him like bees facing the king. "What did you say?" The question of "what did you say?" The sound is getting louder and louder.

I didn't say anything. The old fisherman was stunned by the formation in front of him. He ran away with his tail between his legs. To tell the truth, in those days, who dared to admit that he had said such a thing? If he dares to admit it, I am afraid that typical on-the-spot criticism will ruin the agricultural school.

After several months of fighting, a 500-meter-long "grey-covered egg" levee forced the Qingyi River in Tao Tao to move southward by more than 100 meters, forming a dry land of100 million square meters, covering an area of more than 200 mu.

Sowing in spring, in autumn, the corn in the field grows to more than one person's height, the golden branches show their teeth, the river wind blows, smallpox and corn leaves rustle, and there is a bumper harvest scene.

It seems that the words of "Lao Yu" are not effective, and everyone's efforts have not been in vain. Finally, the sweat did not flow in vain. After the autumn, the land on the beach alone increased the yield 10 million kilograms of corn.

In the era of grain as the key link, it is indeed a great achievement to make a barren land increase by more than 100 thousand Jin of grain at once. It is a great pioneering work that has never been done before, and the promotion of creative people is logical.

Two years later, in July, the corn on Wang Liang beach began to sprout again, and it will be harvested in more than a month, and the harvest is just around the corner. The weather was bad, and suddenly it rained cats and dogs all day and night, and the flood in the mountainous area came at once. The choppy flood, mixed with rolling wood and thunder stones, poured thousands of miles and was unstoppable, sweeping everything below Qingyi River (the highest water level in folk history).

At dawn, my friends and I were in a hurry to go to the river. The banks of the river are already full of onlookers, and everyone can only look at the muddy flood and sigh. At this moment, somehow, I suddenly remembered the "old fisherman" who knew nothing about affairs. Unfortunately, what he said is right. The blood and sweat of the people in the county were really destroyed by the ruthless flood. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

After the flood receded, the crops on the beach in Wang Liang disappeared, and even the giant "covered egg" levee that made way for the river disappeared. River sand, pebbles and firewood are piled on the beach. If there is a big river, there are only a few ronin who collect firewood.

After the diversion, Qingyijiang divided Wang Liang Beach into two parts, and the raging river roared past, and Wang Liang Beach turned back into Wangniang Beach. No one has mentioned it since.

A few days ago, we half-baked "old people with sudden illness" got together and had a "dragon gate array". Somehow, we mentioned the Wangniang Beach incident. The people who witnessed the flood and those who didn't witness the flood had a heated debate, with the focus on the harmonious relationship between man and nature. Putting facts and reasoning, we finally reached the understanding that we should believe in science, respect the laws of nature, and be impulsive sooner or later.