Lotus Lake (Sun Li) in 30 minutes!

-Chronicle of Baiyangdian II

Sun Li; Betty Sun

When the moon rises, the yard is cool and clean, and the broken reed eyebrows during the day are very wet, which can be used as seats. The woman sat in the middle of the yard, her fingers twisted with silky and slender reed eyebrows. Lu Mei is thin, jumping around in her arms.

How many reeds are there in Baiyangdian Lake? I wonder how many reeds are produced every year? I don't know. I only know that every year when reeds fly and leaves turn yellow, the reeds in the whole lake are harvested and piled up, and in the square around Baiyangdian, they become the Great Wall of Reed. Women are tidying up their seats in the yard. How many seats have you knitted? In June, when the lake was full, countless ships carried silver-white mats for export. Soon, cities and villages all over the country have dense and exquisite mats. Everyone rushed to buy: "Good mat, Baiyangdian mat!"

The woman knitted a seat. Soon under her body, it was woven into a big piece. She seems to be sitting on a piece of snow and white clouds. She sometimes looks at the lake, which is also a silvery white world. There is a thin transparent fog on the water. When the wind blows, it smells fresh lotus leaves and lotus fragrance. But the door hasn't been closed and my husband hasn't come back yet.

My husband came back very late. The young man is only in his mid-twenties, wearing a big straw hat and a white jacket. His black trousers rolled up to his knees and he was barefoot. His name is Shui Sheng, the leader of the guerrillas in Zhuang Xiaowei and the leader of the party. Lead the guerrillas to a meeting in this district today. The woman looked up and asked with a smile:

"Why did you come back so late today?" Stand up and serve a meal. Aquatic sitting on the steps said:

"After dinner, don't do it."

The woman is sitting on the mat again. She looked at her husband's face. She saw that his face was a little red and panting. She asked:

"How many miles are they?"

Aquatic theory:

"Still in this area. Dad? "

The woman said:

"Sleep."

Li Xiaohua?'

"And his grandfather went to collect shrimp baskets for half a day and went to bed early. Why don't they come back? "

Shui Sheng smiled. The woman saw him laughing abnormally.

"What's the matter, you?"

Aquatic whispered:

"I will go to the big army tomorrow."

The woman's fingers trembled, thinking that Mei Wei had cut her hand. She put a finger in her mouth and sucked it. Aquatic theory:

"The county called us for a meeting today. If the enemy sets up a stronghold in the same mouth again, Heduan village will become a line, and the situation of struggle in the lake will change. It was decided at the meeting to set up a regional group. I was the first to raise my hand to sign up. "

The woman said with her head down:

"You are always positive."

Aquatic theory:

"I am a guerrilla captain in the village and a cadre. It is natural to stand on my head. They also signed up. They are afraid to come back for fear that their families will drag their tails. Choose my representative and come back to talk to my family. They all think you are more open-minded. "

The woman didn't speak. After a while, she said:

"You go, I won't stop you, what should I do at home?"

Shui Sheng pointed to her father's small room and told her to keep her voice down. Say:

"Home, natural someone to take care of. But we are small in Zhuangzi, and there are seven people joining the army this time. There are few young people in the village, so we can't rely entirely on others. You should do more things at home. Dad is old, and Xiaohua still doesn't take care of it. "

The woman's nose was a little sour, but she didn't cry. Just say:

"I hope you understand the difficulties at home."

Shui Sheng wanted to comfort her. Because there are too many things to consider preparing, he only said two words:

"You should first load one thousand kilograms, beat off the devil. I will come back to thank you. "

After that, he went to someone else's house. He said he would talk to his father when he came back.

Shui Sheng didn't come back until the cock crowed. The woman is still sitting in the yard waiting for him. She said:

"You have something to tell me!"

There is nothing more to say. I'm leaving. You should strive for perfection, literacy and production. "

"hmm."

"Don't fall behind others in anything!"

"Well, what else?"

"Don't call the enemy to capture the traitor alive. If you catch it, you have to fight hard with him. "

The most important thing is that the woman promised him with tears in her eyes.

The next day, the woman packed him a small package with a new coat, a new towel and a pair of new shoes. Those families also have these things, which can be taken to aquatic products. His family watched him go out. Father took Xiaohua in one hand and said to him:

"Aquatic, what you do is a glorious thing, I won't stop you, you can rest assured. I will take care of you, adults and children, and don't think about anything. "

All the men, women and children in the village also sent him out. Shui Sheng smiled at everyone and got on the boat.

Women are somewhat withdrawn. Two days later, four young women gathered in house boat to discuss:

"I heard that they are still here. I don't drag my tail, but I forgot a dress. "

I have something important to say to him.

Aquatic woman said:

"Listen to him, the devil should be based on the same mouth ..."

"What a coincidence where we met. Let's go and come back soon. "

"I didn't want to go, but my mother-in-law insisted that I go and see him again. What's the point! "

So these women secretly sat in the boat and rowed to the opposite Mazhuang.

When they arrived in Mazhuang, they dared not look in the street and came to a relative's house at the head of the village. Relatives said: You came at a bad time. They were here last night and left at midnight. Nobody knows where to go. You don't have to worry about them. I heard that Shui Sheng became a deputy platoon leader as soon as he came, and everyone was very happy ...

Several women left with red faces, rocking the boat on the shore. It's almost noon now, there are no clouds in Wan Li, and there is still some cool wind on the water. The wind blows from the south, from the reed tips on the rice seedlings. There is no boat on the water, and the water is like endless diving silver.

Several women were a little disappointed and sad, and they all called him a cruel thief in their hearts. But young people always think of happy things, and women are particularly easy to forget those unhappy things. Soon, they started joking again.

"Look, just go."

"Being able to panic (meaning happy) is more panic than anything else, than marrying a new girl during the New Year-I have never seen him so panic!"

"It's not a problem to tie a horse stake."

"No, I have no reins!"

"When he arrives in the army, he is sure to forget his family."

"That's true. We lived in some youth teams at home and sang with our necks upturned all day. We have never been so happy in our lives. When they have nothing to do, I will think foolishly: it's time to bow my head. Guess what they did? Draw many circles on my screen wall with white powder, squat in the yard one by one, aim at that with a gun, and sing again! "

They paddled the boat gently, and the water on both sides of the boat was wow, wow, wow. I fished a water chestnut out of the water. Water chestnut is still very tender and small, milky white. Thrown into the water. The water chestnut tree floats on the water and grows up again.

"Do you know where they are now?"

"Who cares? Maybe he ran to the horizon! "

They all looked up into the distance.

"alas! There's a boat coming over there. "

"alas! Japanese devil, look at that dress! "

"Shake it!"

The ship rocked forward desperately. They may have some regrets in their hearts and shouldn't come so rashly; Maybe you have some resentment against people who have gone far away. But think at once, don't think about anything, shake it quickly, and the boat will follow you closely.

The big ship is in hot pursuit.

Fortunately, these young women grew up in Baiyangdian and rocked the boat fast. This ship is like a jumping barracuda leaving Shui Pi. They have been dealing with this boat since childhood, and they drive as fast as weaving and sewing clothes. If the enemy catches up, jump into the water and die!

The big ship behind is coming fast. That is clearly a devil! These young women gritted their teeth and stopped their hearts. Their oars didn't panic. The water is running loudly on both sides, running, running!

"Shake in the Lotus Lake! The water there is shallow and the big ship can't get through. "

They rushed to a few acres of lotus lake with unknown size, and the thick layers of big lotus leaves spread out against the sun, just like an iron wall. The pink lotus arrow sticks out high. Is a sentry watching Baiyangdian.

They rolled into the Lotus Lake, and finally, with a strong shake, the boat jumped into the Lotus Lake. Several wild ducks flew up, screaming and flying over the water. A row of guns rang in their ears!

The whole Lotus Lake shook. They thought they were ambushed by the enemy and would die, so they turned over and jumped into the water together. Gradually, it was obvious that the gunfire was only outward, and then they showed their heads again with the boatside. Not far away, they saw a man's face under the generous lotus leaf, and his lower body grew in the water. Lotus has become a person? Isn't that our aquatic life? Looking around again, everyone soon found her husband's face, ah! It's them!

And those soldiers hiding under the big lotus leaf are shooting at the enemy with rapt attention, without looking at them. Gunfire, three or five rows of guns, throwing grenades, rushed out of the lotus lake.

The Grenade sank the enemy's big ship, and everything sank. There is only the smell of smoke and gunpowder on the water. The soldiers laughed loudly and salvaged the spoils. They began to sink to the bottom and fished out the big fish again. They scrambled to take out the enemy's guns, bullet belts, and then bags of soaked flour and rice. Aquatic beat the surface of the water to catch up with something rolling on the water wave, which was a biscuit packed in a delicate paper box.

Women covered in water are sitting on their boats again.

Shui Sheng picked up the carton, held it high with one hand and slapped the water with the other hand to avoid sinking. Shouting at the lotus lake:

"You come out!"

It seems with great anger.

They had to roll the boat out. Suddenly, a man came out from under their boat, and only the woman on the water recognized it as the captain of the district team. The man wiped a handful of water on his face and asked them:

What are you doing here?

Aquatic woman said:

"I sent them some more clothes!"

Small captain back to aquatic said:

"Are they all from your village?"

"It's not who they are, a group of backward elements!" After that, I threw the paper box on the female boat, swam around, sank to the bottom of the water, and swam far away.

Small captain made a joke, he said:

"You didn't come in vain. Without you, our ambush wouldn't be so thorough. However, the task has been completed, and it's time to go back and dry the clothes. The situation is still very tense! " The soldiers put all the spoils that were salvaged on their boats.

Prepare for transfer. A man picked a big lotus leaf and put it on his head to ward off the midday sun. Several young women threw them small packages that had fallen out of the water, and the soldiers' three boats ran southeast and flew away like arrows. Soon disappeared in the smoke waves on the water at noon.

Several young women rowed the boat, one by one, like drowning chickens, rushing home. Along the way, because of too much excitement and excitement, they started talking and laughing again. One of the people sitting in the bow facing backward pursed his mouth and said:

"Look at their cross section. We love to ignore them when we see them! "

"Ah, it seems that we have lost someone to them."

They also smiled, today's things are not glorious, but:

"We don't have guns. If we had guns, we wouldn't run in Lianhua Lake. We will cooperate with the devil in the big store! "

"I saw the war today. What's so surprising about fighting? As long as you don't panic, no one will lie there and shoot! "

"If I sink, I will float because of something. I promise that I am better than their water and wind, and I am not afraid of being deeper! "

"Aquatic sister-in-law, we have to form a team when we go back, or we can go out later!"

"When you first became a soldier, you looked down on us. Two years later, you think we are worthless. Who is much behind! "

This autumn, they learned to shoot. When catching fish with ice in winter, they boarded the ice boat one by one like meteors and looked back and forth. When the enemy besieged the 100-acre reed pond, they took their children in and out of the reed sea.

Yan' an 1945