Dong Bochao saw and heard people care about and talk about Wuhan along the way.
When friends met Dong Bochao in Beijing, they asked him in the first sentence: "Did you go underwater?"
After Dong Bochao arrived in Zhangjiakou, he stayed in a small hotel in the corner of the city. Going to the bookstore at night, when I heard that he was from Hankou, an old lady of about 50 suddenly sat up from the kang. She scrambled to ask, "Comrade, has the flood in Wuhan receded?"
Dong Bochao told her about the rise of the Yangtze River. She looked worried and couldn't say a word.
Then, Dong Bochao introduced the flood control situation, and the old woman smiled. She said, "As long as there is a producer, that producer will not suffer."
The old woman's son hugged her and said, "lie down, or you will catch a cold."
Then her son told everyone, "Mom has a cold. A few days ago, a guest came from the south. At midnight, she said that the Yangtze River was flooded. She couldn't sleep at night, sat in the yard and sighed, and caught a cold. "
Then Dong Bochao passed Datong by bus via Tongpu, drove into a small station, and a group of farmers came up, each carrying a pole.
Dong Bochao found a farmer in his fifties sitting next to him. From his clothes and appearance, he knew that he was a mountain man.
The farmer approached Dong Bochao. It was very hot at that time, so Dong Bochao moved aside, but the man kept staring at him and was still chanting.
At this time, Dong Bochao discovered that the man was looking at his badge. After a while, I asked Dong Bochao, "Are you from Hubei?"
Dong Bochao nodded, and the man immediately asked him, "Is Wuhan underwater?"
Therefore, Dong Bochao introduced the flood control situation to him in detail. After listening, he said, "No, with the Party, Chairman Mao and the people, any difficulty can be overcome."
Then he said that they went to the city from the mountains to sell hemp, sell hemp to weave sacks for workers and support flood control in Wuhan. They came in the middle of the night and got home at the next stop.
Dong Bochao went back and forth to his hometown of Wuyang, Henan. He found that the water in his hometown of Shahe and Lihe was flat, and the waves beat the coast with their long tongues. People on the shore are also nervously repairing the embankment. They all shouted:
Learn the fighting spirit of flood control and fighting in Wuhan to repel floods!
As soon as Dong Bochao entered the room, his father saw him and leaned his spade against the wall. Then he asked Dong Bochao, "What's the water like in Wuhan?"
Although Dong Bochao has heard such words thousands of times along the way, he is still surprised by this sentence.
Because Dong Bochao knows that his father has always only cared about his family. He is a farmer in his seventies. Asking this sentence from his mouth shows that people all over the country are paying attention to the flood control in Wuhan.
Dong Bochao immediately told his father about the water situation in the Yangtze River and showed his father the sunburned skin on his back when he participated in the flood control. Father smiled. He said, "We are not afraid that floods will be bad for our socialist construction. With the leadership of the * * * production party, nothing will be difficult for us. "
The villagers knew that Dong Bochao was back, and everyone came to see him. Everyone cares about Wuhan and has a long chat with Dong Bochao. Dong Bochao's father smiled and said, "Tell your uncles who don't care about Wuhan."
On August 17, Dong Bochao returned to Wuhan. He saw that the river was still rising, rising by 1 m in 20 days, but the dam was higher and stronger, and the flood still could not climb to the shore. The street is still so lively. The children came back from school wearing red scarves and sang songs all the way.
At this time, Dong Bochao felt that Wuhan and the people of the whole country were United, and the sufferings of Wuhan people affected the people of the whole country.