At six o'clock on Monday morning, all the educated youth who were going to the Beijiang County Commune were already waiting at the gate of the Educated Youth Office.

Liu Haitao informed them last night that they did not need to carry their luggage to the passenger terminal in Harbin.

He had already made an agreement with them that the car would drive directly to the Educated Youth Office to pick them up, so the educated youths could ride all the way to the destination, Beijiang County.

After the eight educated youths got on the bus, they went to the bus station to pick up a group of passengers.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the bus to Beijiang County left on time.

There were a lot of people on the bus. Fortunately, it was cold, otherwise it would be very easy to get motion sickness.

Along the way, Lin Qian felt that she had walked on a winding mountain road for a long time and climbed three mountains. No wonder it took a day's drive to go from Harbin to Beijiang County.

The straight-line distance between the two places shouldn't be far, but it takes a long time to go around the mountain.

The road conditions along the way were not very good. Lin Qian sat by the window and looked out with fear, feeling as if the car was suspended in the air.

In the end, I had to comfort myself that the masters of this era were very skilled, closed my eyes and slowly fell asleep.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the car arrived in Beijiang County.

The people from the county commune made arrangements with Liu Haitao and took all the educated youth to the commune.

A commune officer said to them: "Comrades, let's gather together. It's too late today, so we'll live in the commune."

"Gay men will live in this room, and lesbians will live in that room over there. Your luggage can be stored in the warehouse. Each brigade will come to pick you up tomorrow morning."

The living place must have been temporarily renovated. It was full of Datong shops. There was only an iron stove burning firewood for heating inside. The conditions were naturally not as good as those in Harbin.

But this was the normal life in the future. Lin Qian did not compete with other female educated youths for a place near the stove.

She took a black quilt that had been covered by countless people and walked to the innermost part of the bunk bed. The concrete bunk bed was covered with tightly packed straw mats.

"By the way! Should our package have arrived?" Lin Qian suddenly remembered that the quilt they sent should have arrived in Beijiang County.

He excitedly said something to Gao Xiaoan, then rushed to the post office with the list in hand.

As a result, the comrade at the post office said coldly: "Not yet, please come back next Monday."

It's so stupid. How can the transportation of this era be comparable to modern times? Lin Qian began to worry. When they go to Heilingtun tomorrow, what will they sleep on at night?

Alas, after thinking about it for a long time, I still had no solution. In the end, I could only sigh. There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. In the future, we must integrate into the current era.

The next day, after bidding farewell to Chi Yuyuan and He Zhenzhu, Lin Qian and the others watched the bullock carts and horse-drawn carriages of the other brigade gradually go away.

Liu Haitao had to catch a bus and went to the bus station early in the morning, but last night he secretly slipped a note to Lin Qian. On it was an address in Beijiang County and a sentence, "If you need help, come here to see Grandma Huang."

After Lin Qian wrote down the address, she immediately tore up the paper and threw it into the ditch, thinking silently that she didn't offend Liu Haitao much along the way, right?

I always feel like this person is walking a tightrope, which is very dangerous. Those who can do business in Beijiang County are not ordinary people in this era.

If possible, it is best not to deal with the other person again in the future.

While waiting, I heard from the commune officer that Heishantun was the farthest village from the commune and it would take more than two hours to ride a bicycle.

If you drive a bullock cart to pick up people, it will take double the time. If you set off from the village at dawn, you will arrive at the commune around noon.

Waiting and waiting, no one came at nearly noon, so the three of them went to the commune canteen for another meal.

Good guy, I had potato soup with sauerkraut in the morning, and sweet potato with cabbage and tofu soup at noon. I don’t know what kind of sweet potato it was. Not only was it not sweet, but it was very woody.

Lin Qian and Gao Xiaoan silently took out the dried multi-grain steamed bun slices and started eating them.

"Are there any of our educated youths assigned to Heilingtun this year?" A bullock cart slowly approached the commune gate from a distance, and a high-pitched shout came from the cart.

"Yes!" Lin Qian responded loudly after finishing the piece of steamed bun in her hand, then got up and walked out of the commune gate.

"Oh, it's a little girl." The person who came here was probably in his early 60s. His dark and rosy face had wrinkles left by the years, but his eyes were deep and bright, and he looked very energetic.

The commune officer who followed Lin Qian saw the old man and asked, "Uncle Wang, why are you here to pick me up? What are the young men in your team doing?"

Uncle Wang got out of the car and said: "We are going up the mountain soon. They are all busy, I am free. Besides, the road is not easy to walk, and those young men are afraid that they will overturn the car."

"Uncle, you must be strong!" the commune officer introduced to Lin Qian: "Uncle Wang drives the cart in one word, steady! Their team transports grain after the autumn harvest every year, and every time Uncle Wang's oxcart drives the road at the front."

The ox cart slowly turned a corner and stopped under a tree. Uncle Wang got out of the cart, took out a bundle of hay and threw it in front of the cow.

Uncle Wang said to the commune officer: "Is there still food? Wait until the cows and I have finished eating before we go back."

"Okay, uncle, you go into the cafeteria to eat. I'll ask the two educated youth comrades to carry their luggage up first."

Uncle Wang ate very quickly and finished his meal in less than ten minutes. The cows were still grazing under the trees. Lin Qian and the others' luggage had been put in the car with the help of the commune officials.

"And there's a little baby?" Uncle Wang narrowed his eyes and asked uncertainly, "Are you a family?"

Lin Qian replied: "Uncle, you have such nice eyes. This is my younger brother. My mother and I responded to the country's call and came to participate in labor and production. The chairman said well, the world is vast and there is a lot to do!"

Uncle Wang glanced at the mother and daughter, with their thin arms and legs, and their fair faces, and didn't know what to say.

On the other hand, that little baby is quite lucky, white and strong, like the Fuwa in the New Year pictures.

So he couldn't help but take a few more glances at the little doll, then stood downwind, took out an old pipe from his pocket, lit it, took a puff, and asked Gao Xiao'an: "Girl, your man What? Won’t you come with you?”

Gao Xiaoan was startled, and said in a daze: "My man was originally a university professor, engaged in physics. He was selected by the superiors to participate in a research project last year, and the confidentiality level is very high. I don't know where he is now."

"What physics? Why should we keep it a secret?" Uncle Wang stopped smoking after hearing this, his face full of confusion.

"Uncle, it's the kind of bomb used by the Japanese and American devils. My dad went to study it! In order to prevent the enemy from discovering it, he had to do research in places no one knew about." Lin Qian summed it up concisely.

"Then your father is very powerful!" Uncle Wang straightened up, with a more solemn expression on his face, "Back then, little Japan caused great harm to Harbin. They flew those planes and dropped bombs everywhere, and many people died! "

"Your father is so powerful, how can he be a college student?" Uncle Wang muttered to himself: "I have never seen what a college student looks like in my life."

Lin Qian smiled and said: "Uncle, my mother is a college student! She is like this when she is a college student."

"Oh, my dear, you are a college student. You are so handsome!" Uncle Wang took a puff of his cigarette and asked, "What do you know, dear? Can you also fuse bombs?"

Gao Xiaoan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Uncle, I studied literature when I was in college and I didn't know how to make bombs."

"Oh, I don't know how to bomb." Uncle Wang's mood dropped visibly.

Uncle, why are you so obsessed with bombs? Lin Qian rolled her eyes and said to Uncle Wang: "Uncle, my mother can't fix bombs, but she can cure diseases. She is a Chinese medicine doctor!"

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