The closer we get to Baoqing, the more familiar Lu Lu’s route becomes.
That night, we bypassed Jianshan Mountain and spent the night in a large area of low hills and hills, but nothing happened.
We will arrive at Yan's Nest Island at noon tomorrow.
When they got up in the morning, both Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu became solemn and changed into clean clothes. Chen Xiuyu even freshened up carefully before packing up and riding to Bird's Nest Island.
Two years later, everything I saw along the way was still familiar.
The biggest change is probably that the educated youth returned to the city. After a large number of employees were reduced, the place became deserted and lost many familiar faces.
In a daze, Lu Lu couldn't help but remember the scene when he first arrived on Bird's Nest Island and was busy building his own house.
With the arrival of thousands of educated youths, there was no ready-made housing allocation, so they had no choice but to build their own houses in order to find a place to live.
When you first arrive, you can only stay temporarily in the horse racks or tents provided by the farm.
Fortunately, you can use local materials to build a house on Yan's Nest Island. It is surrounded by endless virgin forests. The wood is inexhaustible. If you need materials, you can cut them freely without restrictions.
"Look at those houses, the main material for building walls is straw. At that time, straw was still called a specialty of Beidahuang by the educated youth."
The two of them rode horses and walked not very fast. Lu Lu introduced everything he saw to Chen Xiuyu along the way.
"Adobe? I only know adobe." Chen Xiuyu was also full of curiosity.
"There is a large expanse of original black soil in the wilderness. Thousands of years of fallen wood have decayed and accumulated, turning it into fertile, soft and resilient soil. Lush grass grows on the ground year after year, and dense old and new grass roots have already formed underground.
The soil more than two feet deep is woven into a whole plate, and the grass is taken from this soil."
Lu Lu explained: "The process of taking out the grass is very simple. First use a shovel to clear the weeds on the ground, then dig vertically into the ground from all sides, cut it into a one-foot-square piece of adobe, and then shovel it up from below, and it will be a piece.
It's useless.
This kind of grass-rooted soil block is tougher than expected and not easy to break. It is a good material for building walls. It is the same as using a mold to make adobe and adding chopped straw and wheat straw into it.
Don’t worry about thatch for roofing, there is it everywhere in the forest, you just need to work hard to cut it.”
She has lived in the mountains since she was a child and has never been to such endless plains. The impact on Chen Xiuyu is not small. The endless fields, the machines roaring inside, the wide and smooth dirt roads, and the few houses that can be seen from time to time...
...can attract his attention.
"These roads are better than those in the mountains!" In addition to being curious, Chen Xiuyu also felt increasingly strong envy.
"What are these roads? In winter, this is a world of ice and snow. The normal temperature is more than 30 degrees below zero. If a cold wave comes, it can drop to more than 40 degrees below zero, which is even colder than in the mountains.
At that time, all the rivers and rivers had become good roads, which were extremely flat and had little slope. Cars could run on the rivers." Lu Lu said with a smile.
"What, can a car run on a river? A big iron lump like a car is so heavy, so it's not afraid of being crushed?"
Chen Xiuyu felt a little incredible.
"The ice is so thick that some of it can freeze through the bottom of the river. Not to mention an empty truck, even if it is loaded, it can withstand it. However, the anti-skid chains on the wheels must be installed."
Lu Lu paused for a moment and then said: "People often say that when a man goes out to urinate, he must remember to take a stick and break the popsicle while peeing to avoid being stretched. This may sound a bit pretentious, but it is true.
The tap water freezes into popsicles."
"Tap water?" Chen Xiuyu looked confused: "What is that?"
Lu Lu was stunned for a moment and realized that these days, there is no running water in the wilderness. Water is taken from the river or dug wells. The key is that in winter, there are running water pipes connected, and they are also frozen.
Up.
"Well...it's a bit like our well-pressure. It's built outside. It's more convenient than that. It's very common in southern cities. Water plants supply water and connect it to thousands of households with pipes. The water can be released as soon as the faucet is turned on. There is no need to go there.
Carrying water from the ditch or well." Lu Lu explained in a low voice.
“It’s really convenient!”
Chen Xiuyu felt a little more envious, but this time it was about the South.
"I will tell you about these things slowly in the future. We need to speed up and arrive at noon, just in time for lunch."
"Yeah!"
The couple shook the reins and started running with the six dogs.
Near noon, we finally arrived at the fourth branch of Yanwo Island Farm.
Everyone was busy harvesting rice and soybeans in the fields. It was not yet lunch time, and there were not many people in the farm, and there was no one to be seen.
Lu Lu led Chen Xiuyu directly to the office of the branch office. Before he even got close to the gate, someone was already shouting: "Hey, hey, hey... Who is that? Stop, stop!"
Hearing the sound, Lu Lu tightened the reins slightly and slowed down his pace.
The person who stopped them, Lu Lu, had never seen him before. He looked like a cadre.
"What are you doing, running rampant like this, yo yo yo, watch the dogs!"
The cadre asked aloud, and when he heard Yuan Bao's and the others' fierce voices, he took a few steps back in panic, with a look of caution on his face.
Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu jumped off their horses and rubbed Yuan Bao's head to stop the fierce noise. He smiled and said, "Comrade, I used to be an educated youth in the fourth branch."
"Back to the city?"
"I have returned to the city, but I have returned to the wilderness to settle down."
"You've already returned to the city. Why are you coming back? You can't survive anymore?"
The cadre shook his head, looking a little disdainful.
"I can't survive anymore!" Lu Lu was not annoyed and followed his wishes.
It suddenly became very difficult for the educated youth to return to the city and leave their farms behind, and the people who stayed behind were somewhat resentful of this matter.
He was telling the truth. He was indeed a loser in those days in Shanghai.
"Are you looking for a job or what?"
The cadre looked at Lu Lu riding a horse and leading a dog. The most important thing was that he was still carrying a semi-automatic. He felt a little strange: "You're here to hunt?"
As soon as I finished speaking, I felt something was wrong. How could you take a girl out hunting?
"Hunting is just a way to go, mainly to see old friends." Lu Lu said with a smile.
"Old friend...who are you looking for?"
"Raymon, the field director."
"Raymon, he is no longer the director of the branch field. He has been transferred to the sideline team to feed the animals."
Um?
When Lu Lu heard this, he was slightly startled, and he quickly asked: "What's going on?"
"Some time ago, something happened in the branch and he was dismissed. If you want to find him, go to the sideline team. He should be feeding pigs at this time."
After the cadre finished speaking, he turned around and returned to the building.
Lu Lu frowned slightly. He had never expected that Raymond would be dismissed from his post. He wanted to stop the cadre and ask about the specific situation, but then he thought about it. He would see Raymond soon, so he might as well ask directly.
he.
He immediately called Chen Xiuyu, mounted his horse again, and ran towards the sideline team.
Raymond was transferred to feed pigs. This was definitely a big turning point for Raymond. He must have been having a hard time these days!
The sideline team is located in the northwest corner of the Yanwo Island branch farm. It mainly has a brewery, oil pressing house, pig farm, chicken farm, stud farm, as well as orchards, vegetable base and safflower 100 planting base.
Although many people think that the sideline team is a leisurely job, in fact, almost everything has to be done. Lu Lu himself has personal experience. If you stay in the sideline team, you will be transferred to work in the fields at any time, especially
It’s time to rush to sow and harvest.
This period of time is the time when farms are rushing to harvest.
Such a large area of a farm is the result of months of hard work. If we don't seize the opportunity to put it away quickly, we will suffer serious losses when the frost and snow come. It's all our hard work.
It truly corresponds to that sentence: I am a brick of the revolution, and I can move it wherever it is needed.
Probably the biggest advantage of being in the sideline team is that the food in the cafeteria is very delicious, better than other companies.
As for the sideline team, it is natural that those who are close to the water and the building are first served, and the unit that raises chickens and ducks can’t go wrong.
Lu Lu remembered that as soon as the food in the cafeteria was improved, the gluttons from other units came immediately because of the smell, especially the educated youth who were the most active, which made the director of the cafeteria unable to do anything. He could only sigh: "Just eat! We are all brothers."
The team’s diners.”
Lu Lu, who was taken into the sideline team under Raymond's care, was most grateful to Raymond for this reason.
Except for the more than two years since he came to the farm, like other educated youths, he worked hard in the fields, toiled in the ice and snow, cut wood in the forest farm, and joined the fishing team to fish.
Sideline team.
Work is indeed much more leisurely. Not only am I not hungry, I also have good food and accommodation.
When Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu rushed to the sideline team, they walked around the huge sideline team and did not see Raymond. He initially estimated that Raymond should have been transferred to harvest grain.
When Lu Lu saw employees feeding the pigs in the pig farm, he saw a familiar face. He was a retired soldier from the sideline team named Jiang Jihong, an old employee.
"Brother Jiang..." Lu Lu shouted from a distance.
Jiang Jihong, who came out with a bucket, raised his head and looked at Lu Lu. After identifying him for a while, he said in surprise: "Xiao Lu..."
He put down his burden and walked quickly towards Lu Lu: "Why are you back?"
Just coming out of the pigsty, Jiang Jihong's whole body was filled with the smell of feces and urine unique to the pigsty. He originally wanted to shake hands, but he stretched out his hands and quickly retracted them when he saw his dirty hands.
"I came back to see Brother Lei. I went to the field department and asked, and he was told that he had been transferred to the sideline team, so I came over."
"Raymon...Oh!"
Jiang Jihong shook his head slightly: "He was transferred to harvest rice today. You know, he is proficient in almost everything. He went to drive the harvester! He will not come back until evening."
Regarding Raymond, Jiang Jihong seemed unwilling to say anything more.
He looked Lu Lu up and down and said with a smile: "You look like a dog in your clothes, you must be doing well!"
"It's just so so. Now I've returned to the wilderness, settled in Yichun Mountain, and married a daughter-in-law... This is my daughter-in-law Xiuyu!"
Lu Lu smiled and then introduced to Chen Xiuyu: "This is Brother Jiang. When I was in the sideline team, he took good care of me!"
Chen Xiuyu immediately smiled and shouted: "Brother Jiang!"
Jiang Jihong also looked at Chen Xiuyu, turned around and smiled at Lu Lu: "She is a good girl, you are so lucky... Let's go, follow me to my house, don't stay here, go home to drink water, wait
The cafeteria will open for dinner later, let’s go to the cafeteria to eat together, I’ll treat you!”
"Brother Jiang, are you done with what you are doing?"
"Just to feed the animals, you have to shovel the pig manure and wash the pig pens. It's not much!"
"I also worked in the sideline team. There are a lot of things to do, so I won't bother you. I want to go and see the house I lived in before... By the way, is that house still there?"
"Here, they are all idle."
"Okay, I'll hunt some game in the afternoon, and come to my place to eat meat in the evening!"