Anyone who fought hard and made contributions in the base area can find his shadow in "Zhang Ga"
◆"Ga incident" 1: Hiding a gun in the old bird's nest.
◇Scene replay: In a battle, Gazi really captured a "real guy". In order to prevent the captain from taking away the gun, he actually used his "Gak spirit" and hid the gun in the gun. In the old stork's nest in the tree.
◇Interpretation: This is a true story I heard. The protagonist was a big scout in the Shenxian County Brigade in Hebei Province during the Anti-Japanese War, not a small scout. I can't remember his name. Therefore, the "Ga things" of "Zhang Ga" I wrote are not all the deeds of "little devils", many of them happened to adults.
◆"Grudge" 2: Wrestling and biting fellow villagers.
◇Scene replay: Pang Dun wanted to exchange his hanging whip (firecracker) for Gazi’s fake pistol. Although Gazi also liked Pang Dun’s hanging whip, he was reluctant to part with his own gun, so he arrogantly and Pang Dun Wrestling in the competition, I didn’t expect to lose.
One of Gazi’s biggest problems is that he loves to bite people: the first time he was wrestling with Pang Dun, he bit Pang Dun when he couldn’t fall. Pang Dun scolded him: “You are a dog!” The second time was when he was chasing a puppet army officer and bit him. The third time was when he bit the bandits who came to capture him at the door of Pang Dun's house. The bandit soldiers also scolded him: "You are a dog!"
◇Interpretation: I have heard and witnessed these things. Among the comrades around me at that time, some were wrestling with ordinary people. In addition, I have also heard of some scattered "ga people" and "ga things" such as biting people. When making art, I synthesize these events. This creative method is very normal. As far as this writing feature is concerned, it fully demonstrates that art comes from life.
◆"Three things": blocking the chimney for fellow villagers.
◇Scene replay: Gazi was wrestling with Pang Dun and bet on his wooden pistol, but he couldn't beat him, and he couldn't bear to part with the souvenir given to him by Uncle Zhong, so he bit him and was criticized for it. He got angry and blocked the chimney of Pang Dun's house.
◇Interpretation: This incident has nothing to do with the war. That was between 1953 and 1955. I served as deputy secretary of the district committee in a district in my hometown, Xiong County, and my division of labor was to run agricultural cooperatives. At that time, there was a village called "Manziying" in our county. There was a medium-sized cooperative with about 60 households in the village. The president was a very "ga" person. This aroused my interest in him, so I learned about his story from fellow villagers. One such story impressed me deeply: One year during the Spring Festival, on the first day of the first lunar month, it was the time to celebrate the New Year in the countryside. Every household was very happy. Pay attention, it is customary to get up at five o'clock to cook dumplings. As a result, the president climbed to the roof in the middle of the night and blocked the chimneys of several households, causing the dumplings of these households to not be cooked. When I was writing "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", I borrowed this incident into my work. Of course, you should pay attention to one issue when borrowing: that is, you should pay attention to whether it is reasonable and reasonable when using it.
◆ "Ga thing" 4: Use jujube thorns to prick the car belt.
◇Scene replay: When Zhang Ga met the "enemy" for the first time, he used the hard thorns from the jujube tree to pierce the enemy's cart belt. He suddenly thought that there was a scout named Luo Jinbao who used a broom to kill the traitor's gun. Wouldn't his own fake pistol be better? Unfortunately, this "enemy" turned out to be the scout Luo Jinbao; but fortunately, because of this incident, Zhang Gacai was appreciated by Luo Jinbao and was taken to the regional team as a soldier.
◇Interpretation: I made up this matter myself, and I had no choice but to write it down to that point in the novel. At that time, I had the plot of Zhang Ga shooting first, so I had to keep the "traitor" Luo Jin. Luo Jinbao rides a bicycle, how can we keep him? I thought for a long time and came up with a way to tie the straps. Because Zhang Ga wanted to tie his belt, he had to let Luo Jinbao go to the toilet. When I write novels, I usually try to avoid activities like going to the bathroom, so this method is not the best, but there is no other way. As for the fact that jujube thorns are used to tie car belts, we call jujube thorns "finger roots" here. They are very hard, and there is generally no problem in tie-breaking car belts.