"Is there any educated youth coming to our village?" Captains of the eight production teams, you look at me, I look at you, just come. Captain and secretary, why did you ask us to come here?

The brigade secretary of Heilingtun is named Wang. He is thirty-eight years old this year. He became the brigade captain of Heilingtun after returning from the army. After the old secretary retired, he became secretary Wang.

The captain chose a young man from the Zhang family. He was strong enough, a decent man, and good at hunting and farming.

"Those are people from a big city!" said a team leader.

Some people curled their lips and said, "Aren't the people living in cowsheds now also people from big cities?"

"The educated youth comrades are advanced elements, how can they be the same as the five black categories?"

"Advanced elements don't eat the food we grow!"

"Okay!" Secretary Wang raised his hand and knocked on the table, "I came to you today to discuss where the educated youth comrades will live. I went to the commune for a meeting yesterday, and the commune secretary said that two educated youth comrades are coming to our village."

"You also know that our place is far from the commune. This is the first time that an educated youth comrade, including two female educated youth comrades, has come. Let's think about where it would be more suitable for them to live."

One of the squad leaders scratched his head and said, "These days, no one has an empty kang room for them to live in."

"Two lesbians, this is not going to be easy!"

"Why did you come here after the autumn harvest? There is no work left. It will be winter in a few days."

Another squad leader rolled his eyes, pointed outside and said, "If you ask me, just pack up in the brigade warehouse and build two beds."

"You fart, it's cold in winter for us. We live in a warehouse and drink the northwest wind! No wonder Hu Xiang you can't get a wife, you don't take care of lesbians!" A female production team leader said, making the other party's face turn red.

"I'm not married because I have high vision! What's wrong with living in a warehouse? The chairman said women can hold up half the sky!"

The captain, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said: "Secretary, what do you think of the abandoned little yard of Wang Orion's house? Let's clean it up and let the educated youth comrades live there?"

"But no one has lived there for more than ten years. Wang Orion's eldest grandson is a little older than the people in that house."

"I don't know what the situation is like inside the house. The small yard outside the house is being used as a vegetable plot by Dali's family."

Secretary Wang remembered that house, which was just beside the village road, but close to the village and into the mountains. He nodded and said, "Let's go and see the situation of that house first."

A group of people went to find Orion Wang to get the key to open the door. Orion Wang used to live in the mountains and make a living by hunting. Later, when he heard that he was liberated, he moved to the Black Ridge at the foot of the mountain.

He was a good hunter and married to a capable wife. After giving birth to several children, he could no longer live in the original house, so he found a piece of land from the village and built a new large green-tiled house.

Wang Orion is quite strong. After hearing about the people's intention to come, he happily took them to see the house: "My house was built with good materials back then. Thanks to socialism, otherwise I wouldn't have the ability to marry a wife. I am still farming steadily now." , when you are an Orion, you are dealing with the Lord of Hell every day."

The house is an adobe house, about 30 square meters. When you open the door, you can see the main room and the kang. There is a door on the left, and you can enter the kitchen.

In the yard outside the house, on the right is a long-abandoned dry toilet, and on the left is a half-collapsed pigsty.

As expected, there are radishes and Chinese cabbages planted in the center of the yard. Depending on the situation, it will take more than ten days before they can be harvested.

Seeing a group of people coming, Zhang Dali, the householder in the house opposite, hurried out to say hello.

Secretary Wang took a puff of native smoke and pointed at a production team leader of his family, "Stone, go to Dali's house to borrow a fire and burn it to see if the kang and chimney inside can still be used."

Zhang Dali quickly went back to his earthen stove and took out some burning firewood.

"The earthen kang can still be used, but the ashes need to be removed, and the chimney is open."

"If the roof is patched up, this house will be ready for habitation."

The team leaders of the eight production teams added various things to each other. Finally, Secretary Wang asked them to go to each house to inform them that one person from each house would be required to repair the house.

Secretary Wang went to the commune to find someone to approve the note and brought back some tiles and bricks.

So shortly after the autumn harvest this year, more than fifty men were divided into three teams, and each worked enthusiastically for two days to renovate Wang Orion's house.

"Secretary, what should I do with the remaining bricks and tiles?" someone asked after finishing the work, and everyone else looked at it eagerly.

Secretary Wang glanced at the cowshed at the foot of the hill behind and said, "The remaining bricks will be used to build a kang for the old couple in the cowshed. The tiles will be pressed on the thatched house, and a layer of mud will be put on the outside of their house."

Several people suddenly shouted in dissatisfaction: "Secretary, how can you take advantage of outsiders! Those couple are here to undergo transformation."

Secretary Wang glared at those people and cursed angrily: "Then you go to live in the cowshed and get up early every day and wait for those cows and pigs? Even if it's the black five categories, you have to Let people live!”

"We can't survive this winter without a kang. When there was a food shortage, no one in our village froze to death in winter. Now that things have improved, people are freezing to death in winter. The commune asked, where do you want my old face to go?" "

Now no one dared to speak, and a group of people ran to the cowshed to help the old couple clean up the thatched house.

When a group of men came to help, they couldn't bear to see that the food cooked in the old man's pot was similar to what pigs eat.

Some would go home that day and ask their wives to secretly take the sweet potatoes with thin fingers or insect bites from home to the cowshed and give them to them.

The next day, Lin Qian and Gao Xiao'an went to the post and telecommunications office. Gao Xiao'an wrote a letter to Zeng Jingcai and sent four pounds of red sausage.

Lin Qian also wrote a letter to Li Mulan and sent two kilograms of red sausage to express her feelings.

At noon, the two of them took Maomao to a state-owned restaurant to eat pot-roasted pork and vermicelli stewed in lard residue. It was really delicious. Lin Qian felt that the skills of the master chefs here fully developed the original taste of the ingredients.

In the afternoon, I visited several traditional Chinese medicine stores in Harbin and bought some medicinal materials that the old man used to treat Lao Han's legs.

When I returned, I went to a state-owned restaurant to pack up six white-flour steamed buns as big as an adult's fist.

In line with the principle of not wasting, the lunch tickets and lunch boxes were given to Li Zhuzhu and others next door to help them prepare meals.

Today at noon, Master Niu made fried pork with green onions. Lin Qian opened the lid under the coal stove and let the fire burn brightly.

The vegetables are heated up, then the steamed buns bought are heated up, then the vegetables are added, and the steamed buns are mixed with meat and vegetables.

Lin Qian also developed a new way to eat the multi-grain steamed buns made in the cafeteria. She asked the aunt who boiled water to borrow some iron skewers for skewering mutton skewers.

Cut the multi-grain steamed buns into thin slices, skewer them and bake them on a coal stove. After drying, they become crispy and taste a bit like biscuits.

After coming to Harbin Market, they could no longer put the things they bought in their suitcases and backpacks, so they had to take out the thin quilts covered with fur on the train, put some spring and summer clothes in them, wrap them up, and then bundle them up. The space is used to store wine and medicinal materials.

In the next two days, Gao Xiaoan and Lin Qian took Maomao around Harbin by bus.

Harbin is a city without city walls, but it is the birthplace of two dynasties. The cold weather has tempered the perseverance of Harbin people. No wonder it has become an important manufacturing base in the country.

Educated youths who came from all over the place also moved in one after another. When Lin Qian watched them gather together to talk about their ideals and recite Chairman Mao's quotations, she always felt like they were watching old documentaries, which seemed so out of place.

Gao Xiaoan felt that he was a generation older than them and did not want to participate.

Lin Qian used the need to take care of Maomao as a shield and refused their invitations several times.

Listening to the exciting red poetry recitation coming from downstairs, Lin Qian for the first time became curious about this unimagined era.

I’m curious about why people in this era are so innocent, and also curious about what will happen to this era in the end?

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