"After my grandfather came back from the battlefield, he received awards from leaders in the capital for his great contributions and caused a great sensation in his hometown. After he returned to the local area to work, he became the number one in Deming County within a few years.
At the 19th People's Congress, he was elected as the first democratically elected county magistrate..."
Guo Dongmei took down her grandfather's military medals in glass frames from the bookshelf. There was also an appointment letter stamped with a red seal and made of yellow paper.
The camera switches again, and the next story tells the story of how this "young" county magistrate led farmers in his hometown to prevent sand and plant trees, manage saline-alkali land, and develop agriculture (Note 1).
Of course, a simple and straightforward narrative would not be the style of a great director like Yang Chuanrong. He is good at starting from the details and embodying the righteousness of his family and country from seemingly sparse and ordinary things.
At work, the protagonist played by He Yanbing, who has just become the county magistrate, has encountered a difficult period for three years. In order to ensure that the people can eat, he runs around and never enters the house three times.
Even though the family was too poor to open the pot, his wife and children could only eat wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and the eldest brother went out to beg for food, he resolutely donated the subsidies and wages he accumulated after changing his job to a country in dire straits.
Running between the fields and seeking help from the Agricultural University in the provincial capital for farm work, County Magistrate Guo was too busy to care about his sick wife or his own injuries, which later became so swollen that there was a pit in his thigh.
At first, the people blamed him for the famine, and secretly and openly called him a lame magistrate.
Later, when some people who couldn't stand the hunger came to their homes for relief, they only saw an environment with few decent furniture, and a few unattractive people who could only sit around a few bran buns.
As children, they were all shocked and finally withdrew silently.
The difficult period was finally over, and County Magistrate Guo worked non-stop to lead the people to manage the saline-alkali land, prevent wind and sand, and heard that the paulownia forest in Lankao County was well planted, so he took people there to inspect it.
Later, he learned that the secretary of Lankao County who had introduced him to the experience had died on the job. He silently wiped away his tears and continued to focus on front-line work.
"There is a steelyard between heaven and earth, and the weights are the common people!"
County Magistrate Guo failed to make the people in the county rich and prosperous, but in the past ten years, he has fulfilled his promise to make all the people have food. Therefore, when he left office, many people came from all over to see him off.
, and even held his hand, crying and not wanting him to leave.
"The Great Luo of All Worlds"
Originally, the children did not understand their father's neglect of the family. Only after seeing this scene did they understand their father's greatness.
However, County Magistrate Guo, who has a clean mind, has never taken a single step from the common people, nor will he use his power for his relatives at home.
When they left, their house was still in ruins, and they still had no meal left.
As a soldier, he sent his children to the army one after another.
The eldest son joined the army early and retired early. After the second son joined the army, the army went to the battlefield in the southwest. In the end, Lao Guo, who was already gray-haired at home, only waited for the notification that his second son had been killed in battle.
"To be a soldier, you must have the consciousness to sacrifice for the country! A country, a country, a family. Only when the motherland is peaceful can the small family be stable! My son's sacrifice is for the long-term peace and prosperity of the motherland!"
These words reminded the audience of another song included in the trailer - "Speak from the Heart"!
"Come on, come on, come on, having said that,
Come, come, only a country has a home,
If you don’t stand guard, I won’t stand guard.
Whoever protects our motherland will protect our home,
Who will defend the home..."
This song also quickly became popular in the military camp, and Qiu Shipeng also led the soldiers in his class to learn "Speak from the Heart" together.
It is just like the song "We Are Soldiers" that Yang Qian led them to sing. It is both passionate and exciting, and it can also arouse their deep love for their parents, their hometown, and their motherland!
However, it does not appear as an episode in the movie.
Facing the solemn salute of the officer who came to inform him, Lao Guo also raised his trembling right hand and returned the military salute.
This military salute happened more than ten years ago. The camera turned around and the person saluting Lao Guo was a young man wearing glasses. He was covered with red flowers and wearing a military uniform, and he was about to step into the military column.
Enlisted in the army.
Lao Guo, who was already an old man with gray hair, a stooped back and difficulty in walking, refused the support of his family. He stood tremblingly in front of his eldest grandson on crutches.
"Behave well, the motherland needs you!"
Lao Guo stretched out his hand to straighten the big red flower on his eldest grandson's chest and said with a serious expression.
The young man wearing glasses nodded vigorously.
As the military column drove out, the green mountains and green waters along the way had many more bright colors and bright spring scenery compared to the pictures before and after Lao Guo's war!
"Girls are like flowers,
This young man has such a broad mind,
In order to open up new horizons,
Awakening the sleeping mountains,
Let the river change its appearance..."
In the high-pitched and melodious singing of the theme song "My Motherland", the military train passed through the bustling railway network and transformed into a green train full of passengers. It traveled from north to south and arrived at the bustling Pengcheng Special Economic Zone.
!
The young and shy Guo Dongmei also appeared in the main plot for the first time.
Guo Dongmei is more ordinary than everyone imagined. She did not join the army, graduated from a technical secondary school, and did not go to university like her brother. She did not have the aura of the county magistrate and grandpa - so many years have passed.
She was just an ordinary young person who came to Pengcheng to look for work. Her first job was as an ordinary quality inspection female worker in a factory.
Hard-working and simple, she worked in the factory for three years without getting promoted or changing jobs, but she didn't save much money - because she couldn't bear to see her co-workers' children getting seriously ill, she spent all the money she had worked hard to save.
However, good luck favors kind people.
When Guo Dongmei was bringing fruit to visit the children of her coworkers, she met her future husband, Chen Zhimin, who drove a taxi.
The enthusiastic Chen Zhimin volunteered to help her, and the two young people gradually came together amidst the rapid changes in Pengcheng.
Guo Dongmei and her husband drove a taxi together. They worked in shifts from dawn to dusk, and soon tasted the fruits of their labor. They bought their own house in Pengcheng after only three years of marriage, and they had a family full of hope.
s home!
On the day of joining the company, my grandfather, Lao Guo, father, and aunt all took the train to Pengcheng. Everyone gathered together and decorated the place with lanterns and colorful lights, just like the Chinese New Year.
Guo Dongmei also announced the news of her pregnancy to her family on the spot. She had a house, a car and a future child in Pengcheng. Her face was filled with the most simple and joyful glow of Chinese people in that era.
However, before Guo Dongmei could be happy for too long, severe floods broke out in the late 1990s. Guo Dongmei's brother, who was already an officer in the army, led a team to rescue and provide disaster relief. Unfortunately, he was swept away by the turbid floods during a piping surge and sacrificed his life.
young life.
His sacrifice was no accident. During this flood, no one knew how many soldiers and civilians sacrificed their lives to guard the dam.
(Note 1: The plot during the "County Magistrate" period is partly adapted from the recently popular "My County Magistrate Father", as well as the deeds of Mr. ***.)