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Chapter 8 Our New Home

The next morning, everyone gathered and a new day began. The sequelae of working hard yesterday finally appeared. When eating breakfast, some educated youth could not even bring lunch boxes, and they were sick for a while. Only a row of educated youths were in high spirits. Platoon Commander Zhao Shanhe even asked all educated youths to mobilize and show off before breakfast. It was definitely a type of looking for trouble. After breakfast, the company commander and instructor convened the platoon leaders and the old educated youth to hold a meeting to discuss how to arrange the work.

"Look, it's the next day, and our even became a ward company. Yesterday Comrade Ding Chenggong repeatedly emphasized that these educated youths are all new comrades who have just left school. They should take care of them. They have just participated in labor and do what they can. Before they can do anything, they are not fighting to reduce their staff. Why can one row of educated youth maintain a good mental outlook? How did you do it in the second row, third row, fourth row, and female educated youths and fifth row?" Company Commander Chen scolded. Only Zhao Shanhe was secretly happy.

"No one cares about our platoon!" The platoon leader of the second platoon muttered in a low voice.

"What did you say? Let's say louder!" Company Commander Chen had a good hearing.

"I mean, the reason why the first row can maintain a good mental outlook is because they have a press and touching teacher. They did the press and touch last night and recovered well, otherwise it would be better than us." The leader of the second row said loudly.

"Yes!", "That's it!" There was a buzzing below.

"Sujing! Zhao Shanhe, tell me what happened." Company Commander Chen named.

"Company Commander, Instructor, Dear Comrades, this is the case. Last night, I patrol my educated youth dormitory and prepared to talk to the educated youth, such as remembering the bitterness and sweetness." Zhao Shanhe began to say, of course, there was a little bit of fuel to the fire, "I heard the sound of a wolf cry from a tent, so I hurried over and take a look..."

"So that's the case. Last night, I thought the wolves swam across the Seven Star River." Company Commander Chen laughed, "Instructor Ding, I'll see if today's work is adjusted. The educated youth in a row and the educated youth who can work normally, take the lead and be responsible for building the house. Other comrades have a break and ask Comrade Li Siming in a row to press and touch them. Oh, when will I press it?" There was a lot of laughter.

"Fortunately, the logging progressed very quickly yesterday. The comrades were very motivated, they had enough wood, and the foundation was dug almost all, which had little impact on the entire project. Lao Chen, I think it would be arranged like this." Instructor Ding nodded in agreement.

So, our Comrade Li Siming took up the job of a touching teacher, but he had no money to collect it. In broad daylight, he remembered the sound of wolf howlings.

"Platform Commander, there is something to do with this. I want to tell you." Li Siming said to Platoon Commander Zhao Shanhe who took the time to come from the construction site.

"What's the matter? Tell me, hesitate."

"This, will you come from the fifth row later? You will also come here." A erotic picture flashed in Li Siming's heart. He has never been pressed by a woman in his life.

"Well, the company commander has already considered it, why? Sorry, this is also human nature. The platoon leader of the fifth platoon will send a female educated youth to worship you as his teacher. You must be responsible for handing her over. This is an important task assigned to you by the company commander. Don't let the company commander down."

I'm not embarrassed, why do I have to send someone to learn from me? I can do it. Li Siming's expectations were dashed.

The female educated youth sent from the fifth row, Li Siming, knew Xu Li, who fell into the water.

"Hello, Teacher Li!" As soon as Xu Li came in, she bowed deeply again, and she almost kowtowed to meet her.

"What teacher, let's study each other." Li Siming was so happy. Although he was young in his previous life, there were not many people calling him a teacher. Xu Li's call him a teacher reminded him of his days in the research institute. However, the educated youth who was practiced by Xu Li was in trouble.

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The house was built smoothly. The educated youth divided the fir into two rows and buried them in the deep foundation, stood on the built scaffolding, smashed them hard with a wooden hammer, and then mixed some river sand and lime with the mud left when digging the foundation into the mezzanine, tamped them, then built the roof with logs, and then lay a layer of birch bark, and then laid a thick thatch on the top. The educated youth worked for four days before they built the house. It took another two days to build the kitchen and toilet. Looking at the new house built, the educated youth were very excited.

The new house is very humid and cannot live in people. One good way is to burn kangs continuously. The newly built houses are all set of earthen kangs, which occupy one-third of the area of ​​the house. This is a standard in the northeast. It is impossible to survive if you don’t sleep in a kang in winter. After three consecutive days of burning kangs, the educated youth moved in immediately. The tents are really not for people to sleep with. It is too cold. The air leaks at night, making people curl up into a ball. The educated youth dormitory is very spacious. Each house can accommodate 12 people, all with large kangs, with about two buildings in each row. When the allocation was made, Li Siming, Xu Dashuai, Zhang Hua, and Yuan Hou were still together, and there were 8 other educated youths.

On the evening of the day when the educated youth moved into their new house, heavy snow fell on the sky. It snowed all night. Even the cadres and all educated youth were glad that the house was built smoothly, otherwise they would suffer. The next day, what was reflected in the eyes was a world covered with ice, just like Liu Zongyuan's poem: Birds flew across thousands of mountains and people were destroyed. Among the educated youth, they may have never seen snow in their young lives. They seemed very excited. They fought in the snow and played. When the company cadres saw it, they did not stop it, but just let them.
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