He just entered the alley and before he got home, his eldest sister called him to stop him.
"I, something happened on my way and I missed the train..."
"What? Didn't catch the train?"
His eldest sister became anxious and her voice rose an octave: "Xu Wenfa! Did you do it on purpose? You didn't want to go, so that's why you didn't catch the train, right?"
"No, no, I didn't..."
His eldest sister thought he did it on purpose and cursed her all the way back home.
After arriving home, he was bombarded by other brothers and sisters in turn. They felt that he was ignorant and would not consider the family. The eldest brother finished bombarding the second sister, and the second sister finished bombarding the fourth sister... Until noon, there was a man under his arm. Holding a briefcase, a middle-aged man who looked like a cadre came to the door: "Is this the home of Comrade Xu Wenfa?"
Xu Wenfa's heart skipped a beat: Are you criticizing him so soon?
He stepped forward bravely: "I, I am Xu Wenfa, but I didn't mean it, it was because..."
It was not easy to get to Beilong Township, where the reclamation point is located, and we had to change to an ox cart.
When contact is difficult, the grassroots will not use precious national resources such as telephones and telegrams to find out why an ordinary person did not come.
Xiao Jing didn't really reach out to touch Xu Yin's face. Her fingers were numb from the cold. She rubbed her hands and breathed in the heat and said with envy: "It's great! My face turns red when I freeze."
Xiao Jing, a tall young woman sitting next to Xu Yin on the train, was so cold that her teeth chattered. She asked her tremblingly: "Xu Yin, aren't you cold? Your face is still white and tender."
Although the male compatriots were not like the female comrades who were stomping their feet in the cold, they were all rubbing their hands to breathe and asked the leader: "Captain, when will you arrive where we live?"
It felt like my legs and feet were no longer my own—they were numb from the cold and numb.
At this moment, she touched her cold, fair face and said, "It's cold, maybe it's because of my skin. You can't tell. If you don't believe me, just touch my face."
Huang Xiaohong, who was in the same oxcart with them, said: "I don't even need to look at my face, just look at my hands. They are all purple from the cold. Woohoo...it's too cold..."
Three days later, the steam train with a speed of no more than 30 kilometers per hour finally arrived at Fulong County on the northern border, but this was not the real destination yet. The reclamation point they were going to was still one or two hundred kilometers away from the county seat.
In this way, he accidentally entered the steel factory that everyone longed for and became a glorious official worker in the steel factory.
She could farm, but she couldn't do it if she got sick. Good health was an important factor in surviving! So she didn't take off the thermostat.
This statement made everyone even more unsure.
In the dead of night, he put his hands behind his head and couldn't help but think: Could it be that good people are rewarded?
Similarly, Xu Yin was also glad that the comrade named "Xu Wenfa" did not come, saving her the embarrassment of racking her brains to make excuses.
"That is to say, where did we come? Why don't we even have a place to stay..."
But the weather in the north is really too cold, and I worry about getting sick from the cold.
The oxcart continued to clatter on the land where the ice had not completely melted.
Therefore, no one doubted her all the way.
Xu Wenfa breathed a deep sigh of relief.
She joined the reclamation team in order to avoid the plot and avoid the fate of cannon fodder.
Of course Xu Yin is not cold, she has an automatic thermostat.
Everyone got out of the car with their luggage and belongings. They had time to move around before getting in the big convertible truck that came to pick them up.
"No way? We have come all the way here, and they don't even provide us with a place to live?"
"..." It turns out I'm here to thank you, not to criticize.
When I got off the train, I thought about putting the thermostat away to avoid exposing any flaws.
"Haha! Comrade Xiao Xu is so funny! Thank you so much this morning! My father said that if it weren't for your help, not only would he not be able to push the millet home, but he might also be crushed by the cart. He specifically told me to come.
Thank you!"
"..."
"This is too tragic!"
It's March in spring, and it's suddenly warm but then cold, especially in Beiguan. On the rusty second-hand Jiefang brand tent truck, my face turned purple from the cold.
In the mid-1950s, things like this happened by chance.
"Hurry, hurry!"
The leader comforted them.
After walking slowly for a long time, we finally heard the man driving the bus say "We're here" in dialect. Everyone was so excited that tears filled their eyes: We're finally here!
Not to mention lesbians, many gay men couldn't help crying: "We haven't arrived yet? How far is it?"
The captain's changing tone made everyone feel excited.
On the way to the village where we stayed - "Hewozitun", we whispered to each other:
"It's already the end of March, and it's still very icy and snowy here. In such a short time, I feel like my hands are going to get frostbite. Think about what we are about to face, what should we do!"
"He has a junior high school diploma." Xu Wenfa's brothers and sisters rushed to help him fight for this unexpected opportunity.
Captain Fu glanced at them hesitantly, and then said after a while: "I only found out on the truck that we need to build our own place to live. For the time being, we can only rent it to a local fellow's house. But..."
"Captain, are you trying to say that you can't find anyone to stay with?"
Secondly, the rosters and forms are all hand-copied. It is normal to have errors. For example, parents registering for their children and leaving their own names when registering has not happened before. Just make corrections.
The middle-aged man learned that he had gone out early in the morning to sign up for the national reclamation team, but because he helped his father push the cart, he missed the departing train. He pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that we have caused trouble for you.
In this way, our company is looking for a warehouse keeper who is down-to-earth and hard-working. I recommend you to go for it, but this job requires bookkeeping and requires a junior high school diploma..."
"That's not true." Captain Fu quickly reassured everyone, "The locals are very enthusiastic, not to mention that we responded to the country's call and came here to reclaim wasteland, so they are willing to let us live. It's just that the conditions in the villages close to the reclamation point are relatively poor.
, everyone needs to overcome it. In short, be mentally prepared. When you arrive at the end of the field, don’t make a fuss or make a fuss, which will leave a bad impression on the fellow villagers. Let’s fight here for three years without saying anything, and keep our spirits up.
, show invincible courage!"
"I was prepared to endure hardship, but this hardship... hiss, it was a bit too much to bear when I first arrived."
Xiao Jing said to Xu Yin: "There are so many of us. If we stay in a villager's house, we must stay apart. If we can choose later, can we live together?"
"I'm with you too." Huang Xiaohong followed closely.
Xu Yin: "..."
If she had to choose, she would prefer a private room.
It doesn't matter if the conditions are not so good. The main thing is that I live alone and can occasionally open a small stove for myself to supplement my nutrition.