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From where I stand, I can see the entire venue. Seven or eight men are sitting around a lantern. Some are gesticulating, while others are motionless. Chen Guangzhong is sitting third from the left. He is the youngest among them. The air smelled of sulfur and fire. The smell came from two huge boilers. They stood akimbo like monsters and emitted hot steam. There were all kinds of iron inside, including iron pots, iron axes, iron rakes and sickles, hammers and iron hairpins. Some of these iron guys were tasks assigned per person, and some were "scrap" iron that the cadres went into every household to find from behind the door and under the bed. Some of them were fished out of the pond by people based on reporting clues. There were people in front of the furnace who had not slept for two days and two nights, and no one was willing to go back for fear of missing the glorious moment of tapping the steel.
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