On the afternoon of March 8, 1983, just after the Spring Festival, the festive atmosphere of the festival has not yet dispersed from the streets of Guangzhou.
While cooking, Hu Shenhua is waiting to listen to a news about Wenchong Shipyard to be broadcast by Guangdong News, because this interview was just arranged by his son at home at noon.
"Yes, it's better than usual. The microphone helped you." The mother didn't praise her son's first oral recording too much, but she actually expected her son's works to spread all over the streets of Guangzhou more than anyone else.
at 7 o'clock in the evening, anxious Hu Shenhua and his wife heard a hurried ringing of the phone.
Hu Shenhua picked up the receiver, but he didn't hear half of it. He felt that the world was spinning and the world was collapsing. The call came from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan Medical College in Guangzhou, and the news was that An Ke was stabbed by a gangster because of his bravery.
On An Ke's bookshelf, there is still the favorite book of Lei Feng that he read since he was a child.
Hu Shenhua has always been deeply proud of his son's respect for Lei Feng, learning from Lei Feng and being like Lei Feng, but he never thought that his son would be like Lei Feng even when he left.
Just, what on earth does An Ke have to face the vicious gangsters for? Also, will people always remember Lei Feng as they remember him?
In fact, on the road of An Ke's growth, he had countless opportunities to avoid the road he chose later and take a safer, more secure and more consistent road, which would not necessarily lead to tragedy.
An Ke was born in Guangzhou on August 31th, 1959. He is not only a veritable "city dweller", but also a "cadre's son" whose starting point is half higher than ordinary people.
An Ke's father, An Mingxin, was born in Zanhuang County, Hebei Province. He joined the revolution during the war years and later became a cadre. He was transferred to Guangzhou with his work. An Ke was the first Guangzhou native in his family.
An Ke lived up to the family he was born in and the times he lived in: from the beginning of recognizing pictures, he liked to read comic books depicting heroes and martyrs of the Communist Party of China; From the beginning of understanding words, I love to listen to the battle stories of the revolutionary era; From the beginning of picking clothes, I love to wear a navy suit with blue and white stripes and "fight" with my friends in the courtyard.
Hu Shenhua, the mother, has already prepared the ladder for her son's education: from The Story of Lei Feng, The Ordinary Soldier, and then to the immortal masterpiece How Steel was Tempered, among which An Ke's favorite is, of course, the Story of Lei Feng.
"Class stand with clear love and hate, revolutionary spirit of matching words with deeds, * * * proletarian style of putting public interests at the expense of private interests, and desperate proletarian fighting spirit".
Young An Ke still can't fully understand this "Lei Feng Spirit" personally summarized by Premier Zhou, but from primary school to high school, teachers and classmates all like him. He cares about everyone in the class and always takes the initiative to undertake the most important and difficult tasks in the class.
In 1976, with the arrival of the hot summer in Guangzhou, An Ke also bid farewell to his carefree boyhood, and let the complicated society test how far he can follow the path of his idol Lei Feng.
Going to the countryside was the only way for young intellectuals at that time, but considering An Ke's family background, it was not difficult for him to find a proper job and stay in Guangzhou.
An Mingxin and Hu Shenhua have been worried about their son's future for a long time. Unexpectedly, one day, an acquaintance put an application form for supporting agriculture in front of them. The name and handwriting on it are the most familiar ones written by An Ke, and the support destination reads: Tibet.
Although An Ke's spirit is commendable, many factors need to be considered to support Tibet, and he can't go there if he wants to.
after careful consideration, the organization decided to respect his idea of supporting agriculture, and arranged him to the youth farm of Shitan Agricultural Society in Zengcheng County near Guangzhou City.
Zengcheng is located on the tropic of cancer, with high temperature, abundant rainfall, few frosty days and sufficient sunshine, which is very suitable for planting various crops. Before the reform and opening up, farmers here had to soak in the land all year round and work nonstop.
An Ke, with fine skin and tender flesh, stepped on the muddy water barefoot. Because he was unfamiliar with farming, when he poured quicklime to improve the soil into the ground, the lime spilled on An Ke's feet and burned off his toe caps.
This cadre's son, who is only 17 years old, and his farmers' friends are like companions who grew up together. They are close and close, and they are all smiles, stirring up more than 111 kilograms of soil, fertilizer and rice, and walking through the mud ridges.
In the Datian Group, where he is the team leader, there is not a farmer who has not received all kinds of help from An Ke: perhaps when they can't finish their farm work, An Ke will appear in the fields they are responsible for waving hoes; Or when the laborer is sick in bed at home and can't go out to work, An Ke will take the medicine and watch and record the farmer's illness while decocting it until he fully recovers.
During the whole 18-month life of supporting agriculture, neither parents nor farmers' friends have heard An Ke cry out.
But after all, An Ke received a good education. He wrote down these days in his notebook with a handsome pen and poetic language: "Stone is the friend of the knife, and obstacles are the friend of the will." "Giving for the sake of getting, personality will become despicable." "Nine months of rural life has taught me a lot, but it is not enough. I have to continue to learn."
in September, 1977, An Ke followed in the footsteps of Lei Feng and joined the Youth League in Shitan Agricultural Society.
An Ke, who handed in a perfect answer sheet in the countryside, soon ushered in the next rare growth opportunity in his life: with the decision to counterattack Vietnam's self-defense entering the actual deployment, the troops in Guangdong and Guangxi began to recruit and expand.
This time, the parents didn't stop their son from "inheriting the family business". In March, 1978, An Ke joined the army and was assigned to a standard first-line dangerous post: scout. The resident also left his parents' sight and came to the border of Guangxi and Vietnam.
In 1979, they received a letter from their son from the front line, which contained an unequivocal oath: "I will spare no effort to contribute my life selflessly in order to defend my motherland." They know that the war has really started.
It is impossible for An Mingxin and his wife not to worry about their son's life, but his son's growth in consciousness far exceeds their expectations.
On the battlefield, An Ke was brave and resourceful. He went deep into Vietnam alone for many times to carry out reconnaissance missions, and then quietly returned to report accurate military information and guide his comrades to launch accurate and effective attacks.
For comrades, there is nothing more reassuring than having An Ke around.
On one occasion, monitor Ye Delie was selflessly spying on the enemy, but he didn't notice a shell flying behind him. Just as the shell was about to land, a warm body grabbed himself from the side, and then he heard a loud noise exploding around him.
Ye Delie got up from the dust and found himself unscathed, but the back of An Ke's head was grazed by a small shrapnel, and his neck was bleeding.
There was another reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines. Because it was in the rainy season, the reconnaissance route had to go through dense forests, and An Ke and his teammates were separated at night.
in order to resolutely complete the combat mission and not to worry his comrades-in-arms, he used the geographical knowledge he learned in Guangzhou middle school, relied on the compass, dry food and mountain spring water he carried with him, and managed to reach the top of the reconnaissance target within the time specified in the mission, and set instructions for his comrades-in-arms before returning to the camp.
Seeing the return of An Ke's lone hero, comrades-in-arms fell into crazy joy and hugged each other. An Ke's deep affection for the word "comrade" had a more profound experience.
Because of this heroic reconnaissance work, An Ke's application for joining the Party submitted before his departure was naturally approved without objection, and the army also awarded him a third-class merit.
During his four years in the army, An Ke * * * was awarded six times by companies and regiments. Not only was he awarded the status of "learning from Lei Feng activist" and "learning model" year after year, but he completed the glorious sublimation from * * * youth league member to * * * party member. The class he led is also the "top military class" and "model class" of the company.
In October, 1981, An Ke ended his military career with convincing performance, and returned to Guangzhou from the army. His new unit was Guangdong Radio Station.
An Ke inspired himself to face the new role with a passage in How Steel was Tempered: "Hurry up and live, because an inexplicable disease or an unexpected tragic event will interrupt life."
no one would have thought that this sentence turned out to be a prophecy.
The old masters of Guangdong Radio found themselves trapped in the same "magic circle" as the teachers and students of Guangzhou No.2 Middle School, the villagers of Shitan Agricultural Cooperative and the comrades in the reconnaissance troops, and they could not escape liking this handsome young man.
Every day when they come to work, the doors must have been opened, the water bottles filled, the tables and floors kept clean and tidy, and even the newspapers that the old masters like to read have been put on the shelves, just waiting for the day's work to start immediately.
All these things are done by An Ke voluntarily, free of charge and without interruption.
Jane, an old comrade, couldn't find a way to express her love, so she had to respond to An Ke's questions and pass on her closet experience and technology.
By studying hard, An Ke will catch up with his predecessors sooner or later. They are only worried about one thing.
is this credible? Actually needless to say, from the stone beach to the border, An Ke has verified this sentence again and again.
in mid-February, 1982, the civil court of Yuexiu District People's Court decided to take compulsory relocation measures for an illegally built house.
On the day of relocation, it was raining cats and dogs in Guangzhou, and my colleagues who had gone with me had a retreat. They tentatively asked An Ke, "Do you want to go after such heavy rain?"
He only heard a simple and powerful answer: "Go!" Looking back, An Ke has put on his raincoat and water shoes and set off on his bike in the rain.
Only the people of Guangzhou and An Mingxin did not expect that one day An Ke would remind everyone with his own life how important it is to solve the side effects of rapid growth.
at 6: 15 pm on March 8th, 1983, An Ke left the journalism class of an amateur university, talking and laughing with two classmates, and walked along the long beach road.
There is a night shift in Guangzhou Daily, and they must hurry to have dinner.
An Ke and his classmates entered the door of a restaurant called Huaguang Snack Shop. They didn't notice that there were four pairs of ignorant and greedy eyes behind them, staring at their bags full of books and bulging.
Anke was immersed in traditional Guangzhou cuisine when he suddenly heard Xiao He, a classmate, shouting, "Stop thief!" Bounced up from his chair and rushed outside the store.
Outside the store, four young people with a rogue face are carrying Xiao He's big schoolbag, running all the way.
Xiao He caught up with one of the thieves. Unexpectedly, when the other turned around, his eyes showed a fierce look, and he even flashed a horn knife that was common in Guangdong and Guangxi, and stabbed Xiao He with his backhand.
This vicious gangster is called Wang Jintao. His horn knife is about to plunge into Xiao He, and a powerful fist hit him head on, forcing him to retreat again and again.
It was An Ke, a brave veteran, who embarrassed the rogue Wang Jintao. Seeing his accomplices fall into the wind, the other three hooligans, Zhou Jierong, Tang Dongyi and Lai Shaochang, also threw their daggers at An Ke.
On the busy main road in Guangzhou, hundreds of people who came home from work just looked at the middle of the road, and An Ke was one against four.
Sadly, I don't know if it's because I'm too afraid of the murder weapon in the hands of gangsters, or because ordinary people don't have the lofty courage and consciousness like An Ke. For dozens of minutes, no one came forward to help An Ke, and no one drove away the extremely dangerous hooligans.
It is said that two fists can't compete with four hands, not to mention there are eight talons holding the murder weapon.
Suddenly, people found that something was wrong. An Ke was bleeding profusely behind his back and under his ribs, and his clothes were dyed terrible red.
With a knife wound all over his body, An Ke struggled with the gangster from the right side of the store door to the left pillar, and with all his last strength, he flew up and kicked the gangster.
The blow failed, because An Ke exhausted all his strength, so he had to stagger and sit down with his back against a stone pillar, keeping his upper body upright with his last strength and glaring at the murderer.
A young woman hurried forward to check An Ke's injury; A motor tricycle driver and two students, An Ke, sent him to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Medical College nearby for emergency treatment.
However, after only 21 minutes, at 6: 45, the doctor had to announce that An Ke died of serious injuries.
Just like Lei Feng, after An Ke died, people read his diary, recalled his life, and visited his family, classmates, comrades-in-arms and colleagues who were too sad to help themselves, only to find out what an excellent young man Guangzhou lost and what an excellent "Lei Feng" China lost.
Colleagues in the news industry published An Ke's deeds and diaries before his death with full feelings, and the whole city of Guangzhou fell into sorrow.
For a whole month, flowers kept growing in front of the Yinhe Revolutionary Cemetery where An Ke was buried, and tens of thousands of people paid their respects.
An Ming's new home is full of letters from thousands of places in Qian Qian, all of which are from young people from all over the country. They admired An Ke's noble character, and in order to comfort An Mingxin and his wife who lost their only son, they offered to be their sons.
Lei Feng of this new era not only touched China, but also the international students studying in Guangzhou shed tears when they saw the report.
Jinan University organized 13 foreign students, students from Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinese, representing students from 24 countries and regions, to come to An Ke's home and present evergreen conifers and tapestries in front of the portrait.
A Nigerian female student said, "An Ke, not only young people in China, but also young people from other countries should learn."
An Ke