One of the Impression of Heyang Characters-Stone Country

Autumn has arrived, the morning is cold, and it is another September when trees are rustling. Unconsciously, Shi Guo has been sleeping at the top of the mountain on the west bank of Qiaotou River for nearly 20 years. Every time I think of his familiar voice and hearty laughter, it seems like yesterday.

? Shi Guo is my father's workmate, and I became my workmate after I went to work. In that year's Shangwa Station, he was quite famous. He is smart and capable, and is respected and loved by everyone. There is also a legend about him on the station: it is said that his railway maintenance technology is superb, and the calculation and measurement results of Gao Feixia in a few days are not as good as his apprentice; He said that he is smart and immune, and he can always get rid of his responsibilities when he encounters sticky teeth. Saying that he is humorous will "calculate" to win the title of "fox" and so on ... here I only pick out a few small things from my personal experience to share and reproduce him.

Shi Guo is notoriously shrewd, and it is difficult for ordinary people to take advantage of him, so some people don't say anything on the surface, but they are quite vocal behind it. For example, once he went to work to choose tools, he saw two universal measuring rulers on the shelf, deliberately raised one and gave it to another teacher Wang, and said "sincerely and generously": "This one works well, here it is! That won't work, give it to my brother! " Master Wang knows Shiguo very well and thinks, "Can you still give me something good?" He smiled and picked up the ruler on the shelf and said, "Good brother, you can use it. I'll use this lousy ruler." It turns out that Julian Waghann has taken a very bad road ruler! It turns out that what Shiguo did was "the plan is actually empty, but the empty one is real!" . This incident made everyone laugh for a long time afterwards, marveling at the cunning of Shiguo.

But people only know one of them, but they don't know the other. After a heavy rain that autumn, the railway between Shangwa Station and Ganjing Station experienced many subsidence and subsidence. The work area arranged for me and Shiguo to each carry a wooden pillow (a square block of wood about 50 cm long) for first aid. Shi Guo turned over the piled wooden pillows with his feet, first picked a shorter one for himself, pointed to a slightly longer one and said to me, "Uncle, when you are old, you will be a young man." I was so anxious that I shook my head in agreement (actually a few centimeters longer than the short one), and everyone next to me grinned at me-Shi Guo was calculated again! After walking to the nearest disease site, Shi Guo said generously: "The baby is growing up, use the one that the baby swallowed first." Let me put down the wooden pillow on my shoulder, but secretly scold him in my heart: old fox, crocodile tears. It took me more than a kilometer to get to the next site. When I took the wooden pillow on Shiguo's shoulder under the railing, I realized that it was a little short, but it was more important than the one I was carrying. I brought pine or Chinese fir! I turned my head and saw Shi Guo's face covered with sweat. My brain has been cut off and I don't know what to say.

Lao 108 National Road crosses Shangwa Station, forming a road entrance in the station, so there is a guard crossing room on the north and south sides. Behind the crossing house on the south side, there is a service road for Wan Li Coking Plant to transport coking coal to the platform. Coal cars pass by, and coal blocks are often scattered. When Shi Guo went to Daokou class, he picked up scattered broken coking coal on the road while there was no train passing by. After one shift (6 days), he can almost save a bag. When he gets off work, he carries it home by bike, which is a little oil to others. When asked, he joked that "the coal boss standing at the station is his buddy, and he installed it by the way." But it really made a joke! Shi Guo, the speaker didn't mean it, but the listener did. These words reached his old father's ears. One day, the old man rented a neighbor's tricycle and came to the station to pull coal with confidence! The embarrassed Shiguo had no choice but to tell the coal boss quietly that he would let the "old gentleman" pull the coal away first, and then he would pay. I finally got rid of the lie. Hehe, after the story spread, it made everyone laugh for a long time.

Shiguo supports the elderly, brothers and children. As the eldest son, eldest brother and loving father, he is a very responsible person. So he is very frugal with himself, working at the crossing for eight hours, and often eating two steamed buns and a few cloves of garlic for dinner. I feel sad when I think about it. However, Shiguo is reasonable and kind-hearted. He will never refuse to help others, and he will never be stingy with the younger generation eager to learn. In the autumn of 1996, I chatted with him and said, "The wool felt rolled by Heyang craftsmen is of good quality. See if he can help buy 40 Jin of wool. " . A few days later, he took me to the station by bike. You know, the road from the bridge head and the river ditch is steep and long. Everyone came up by bike, and generally no one brought anything at all, let alone three bags of 40 kilograms of wool! 1998 summer, I passed the adult college entrance examination and was admitted to the university. I went to the home of Ning Jia Wan Guo in Qiaotou River to say goodbye. After sitting down, he first asked me if the tuition fee for going to Xi 'an was enough, and if it was not enough, I took it from him first. ) Then I asked my wife to wrap wonton for me. Later, when talking with his workmate Tian, Tian said with emotion, "It's good for you. He worked with me for many years. Once I just got paid, I borrowed money from him, but he wouldn't give it. His life is so tight that it is almost impossible for him to take the initiative to borrow money. " He also said that in Heyang, no matter what stuffing is used, treating guests with wonton is the highest courtesy!

Just like a good man, he died suddenly of a heart attack on a late autumn evening in 200 1 at the age of 5 1. The workers were heartbroken at the bad news. On the day when Shiguo was buried, the cold wind was blowing gently and the clouds were melting. His younger brothers were dressed in mourning, and their son knelt in front of the coffin for a wake. Because his family fled from Henan to Qiaotou River in his early years, there were not many local relatives, and there were only about 20 households in the village, so workers from several work areas came to his house early, waiting to send him up the mountain. But "peaches and plums don't say anything, find a way to do it next", and the popularity accumulated by Shi Guoping won in his last days!

First, after the memorial service, distant relatives and neighbors played and sang in front of the sedan chair to keep them awake. Followed by the spirit after all scrambling to carry the coffin. The Guo family is on the half slope on the east bank of Qiaotou River, and the cemetery is on the top of the slope on the west bank of the river. On Li San's narrow path, everyone just pulls the rope on his shoulder and pushes him up the hill with a sedan chair.

? I still remember the elegiac couplet specially given to Shiguo:

? I respect this gentleman and love me. My husband has gone, and I know my integrity by looking at the pine and cypress.

? Heaven deceives everyone and complains, and the soul comes, relying on plum and bamboo as the spirit!

? When I send Shi Guo back, what I want to say most is: being a good person is the most worthwhile thing! Ten years later, I still think so!