I am He Yuzhu in Siheyuan

"Oh, so that's how it is! Thank you for your explanation, brother. You let us know how this porridge came about."

"You're welcome. Welcome to Huaibei. I hope you have fun.

By the way! We have a swimming competition on the levee tomorrow. If you have time, you can go and have a look. It’s very lively!”

"Swimming competition?"

"Yes! It is to warn everyone to be prepared for danger in times of peace. Since ancient times, water and fire have been merciless. We have lived along the water for generations. Although there are few openings now, our location is special. If an emergency occurs, we must release floodwater to protect Jiangsu. Therefore, almost everyone here is good at water.

The swimming competition is an activity that is prepared for danger in times of peace. There is also free porridge and free buns every day. It is organized with donations from people here. The owners of these porridge shops will set up stalls, and everything is free!"

"Okay! We'll go tomorrow, thank you, brother!"

"It's okay! We are all compatriots. If it weren't for the help of people across the country, our hometown wouldn't have been able to recover so quickly. We will always remember this!"

The man left after eating. Wanqing had breakfast with He Yuzhu and Xu Damao and also left.

The three of them wandered around here for a day and then found a hotel to check in, and replenished some fresh water and supplies.

The next morning, Wanqing washed up early and waited for the two grandfathers.

After He Yuzhu and Xu Damao finished washing up, they went to the embankment together.

"Grandpa, it's still a little cold today, aren't they afraid of catching a cold?"

"I don't know either. I'll find out when the time comes."

When we got there, there were already a lot of people there, and many of the stalls had been set up in advance. They were indeed all free.

When Wanqing went to serve breakfast, she asked, and the boss answered like this:

"Water and fire are merciless. Floods come regardless of season. We are just preparing in advance. They all volunteered to participate."

Wanqing was shocked when she heard this. She had grown up with no worries about food and clothing and had never experienced any disaster. She felt that her idea was very naive.

After dinner, I went to the competition venue to witness this grand event and turned on the live broadcast to broadcast the entire process.

Live broadcast until the champion is born.

When she saw the champion coming up, Wanqing cheered like everyone else. After the contestants changed their clothes, the award ceremony began.

The champion received 500 yuan, the runner-up 200 yuan, and the third place yuan.

All contestants were rewarded with two boxes of instant noodles, and the champion was rewarded with an additional box of braised beef in soy sauce.

Then everyone slowly dispersed.

Wanqing also went back with the two grandfathers, and their next stop was Hubei.

After Wanqing and the others left, the video went viral on the Internet, and the forgotten story gradually became known to people.

Many IPs from Huaibei left messages in Wanqing's comment section, thanking Mr. He for his help back then, and told her that the porridge was taught to the local people by He Yuzhu, and wanted Mr. He to give them some more suggestions.

Wanqing only saw the news after arriving at the Three Gorges Dam.

"Grandpa, it turns out that you were the one who taught them how to make porridge! No wonder the rewards for their swimming competition were Jinghua instant noodles and braised beef. You really did a lot of meaningful things in the past!"

"I'm just an ordinary person, I can only do what I can, Wanqing! You are really lucky, most of your generation have not experienced any natural disasters.

In 98, the entire Yangtze River Basin and other river basins were in a critical situation. Many soldiers were fighting for their lives in order to fight floods and rescue people. They jumped in one by one without looking back, and many people never came up again!

You don’t know, many of them are about the same age as you. Military orders are like mountains. Some people work so hard for days and nights, and they work themselves to death. Many soldiers fall asleep directly after they come down, and they have no strength left. When they drink porridge the next day, they can’t even hold the bowl or the spoon!

After eating, they did not rest but continued to move forward! It was summer, and they were under the scorching sun, with half of their bodies soaked in water. Their skin was sunburned and fell off, and then the new skin was sunburned again.

At that time, our country was not strong enough, and it was raining all the time. The people were migrating, and there were no large tools. Everything was done manually by loading sandbags onto trucks. When they reached the dike, the soldiers carried the sandbags up one by one!"

He Yuzhu looked at the Three Gorges Dam and spoke to Wanqing in a very low voice.

Wanqing widened her eyes in shock.

“It was not easy to build the Three Gorges Dam. The whole New China was not easy to come by. We were forced to build this New China.

People say we are infrastructure maniacs, and we think so too!

Our country is so large, the population is so dense, and we also have to face the test of natural disasters, so we are forced to this point!"

"So this is ah!"

"Yes! So you should cherish your current life even more. At least you don't have to go hungry now. You don't have to go through hunger and cold, and you don't have to go through the test of natural disasters. In this era, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will not starve to death!"

"I understand Grandpa, where are we going next?"

"When you come to Hubei, of course you have to visit the Yellow Crane Tower and then visit Chibi! When we are done, we will go see the Yellow River."

"it is good!"

He Yuzhu memorized the song "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" and swam here, then stayed for a few days before setting off for Yellow Crane Tower and Chibi.

After they had seen enough here, they came to Henan.

Go along the Yellow River and arrive at Luoyang first.

He Yuzhu and Xu Damao are too old to climb Laojun Mountain anymore, so they can only taste the local snacks and tour this thousand-year-old capital.

Today’s technology allows the peonies to bloom a little longer, and they just caught the last wave.

They visited the White Horse Temple, Longmen Grottoes and other places, and then set off again.

They went through Xinxiang, then went to Xuchang Pang Donglai for a stroll, and then to Zhengzhou and Kaifeng.

Zhengzhou has very poor greening and a dense population, so I didn’t stay there and went directly to Kaifeng.

Although Kaifeng is also a thousand-year-old capital, it is not that high-end.

Except for a few tall buildings, most of the buildings in the city are ancient.

Local people say that there is a lot of quicksand underground in Kaifeng, and high-rise buildings cannot be built, so it cannot develop, and the consumption capacity is similar to that of other counties in Henan!

Kaifeng Prefecture, the old city wall, Bao Gong Temple, Tianbo Prefecture, Qingming Riverside Park, the artificial West Lake, etc., I visited them all in a few days.

We also tasted Lao Huang's soup dumplings, bucket chicken, four-flavor dishes, etc., and went to Gulou Night Market, Tucheng Night Market and Xiao Songcheng.

If the city had better greenery, it would be a good place for retirement.

"Grandpa, where are we going next?"

"I have an old friend in Qingdao, Shandong, who I need to meet. He still owes me and your Grandpa Damao a meal!"

"Okay! Let's go!"