Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

After school started, Lin Baoyan discovered that two classmates were missing from the dormitory.

Cao Shuiyun's face didn't look very good: "They both dropped out of school and will never come back."

Lin Baoyan paused and frowned: "Isn't winter wheat harvesting season yet? Isn't it too early to make a decision so soon?"

Tao Xiaomei sighed and said, "There's no need to wait until the end of May. The wheat seedlings in the fields are not growing well now. The harvest won't be good unless there is enough rain next time."

She originally thought that she would not be able to go to school this semester, but unexpectedly, her family unanimously agreed to tighten their belts to let her finish high school.

Lin Baoyan did not respond to Tao Xiaomei's words.

She knew better than anyone else here that the weather would only get drier in the future. There would simply not be enough rain, not only this year but also next year. Two years of natural disasters would be a huge test for the female students who came from rural areas.

There are five other students in this dormitory who are in a similar situation. By the time they graduate, I don’t know how many of them will be left.

As spring begins, another round of drought hits.

There are a few missing classmates in the class. I heard that they all went home to fight the drought. It is still a question whether these people will come back to study in the future.

After getting up in the morning, everyone washed up and went to class together.

Lin Baoyan wrapped her head with a scarf and followed her classmates out of the dormitory.

The sandstorms in spring are so severe that you have to be fully armed when going out to class, otherwise your head will be full of sand.

Lin Baoyan knew that shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the leader called for greening the motherland, and the entire nation began to plant trees and green barren hills on a voluntary basis. By four years ago, the first sanitary protection forest belt had been built.

However, in the past three or four years, many industrial and mining enterprises have been expanded in the city. The increase in population will inevitably cause damage to the environment. The speed of greening cannot keep up with the speed of destruction, and the wind and sand are even more severe than in the previous two years.

She didn't have enough common sense. She only knew that before she came, BJ was no longer damaged by wind and sand for a long time, and she also knew that many places had turned deserts into oases. But when did all this start? Sorry, she didn't know.

Knowing about the Three North Shelterbelt Project already made her lucky enough.

At this time, even if she had some ideas, she didn't know where to start.

As for afforestation, it is already being done. It is impossible to launch a campaign to carry out large-scale afforestation. The country is currently so poor and is facing such a dilemma. As long as it is not a matter of life and death, everything must give way to the survival of the people.

In other words, the days of enduring sandstorms in spring and winter will continue.

Fortunately, the situation is not as serious as when the country was first founded, with yellow sand all over the sky. The greening efforts over the years have been effective.

Thinking of this, she wanted to laugh.

When the People's Republic of China was first founded, Badaling was still a barren mountain.

Over the years, we have worked so hard to plant trees and restore green mountains and clear waters, but in just ten years, the foundation is too poor and the forests have not recovered much. Not only are there rabbits and pheasants everywhere in the mountains, but the trees are sparse, and it is not at all as lush and green as in later generations, with wild animals everywhere.

I just don't know how those protagonists can travel from Nanluoguxiang to the mountains and forests outside the city in one day just by riding a bicycle, including hunting. Not only that, but every time they go hunting, they can catch wild boars, rabbits and pheasants.

Or maybe it’s not the same world at all.

High school life is still very busy every day.

Lin Baoyan now has no time to learn the knowledge for her freshman year, or rather, she simply does not have the energy to learn anything outside of class.

The classmates in their dormitory were studying like crazy, to the extent that they forgot to eat and sleep. Lin Baoyan was amazed and followed their pace unconsciously.

At this time, let alone learning extracurricular things, even picking fruits every day seems like a heavy burden.

However, Lin Baoyan gritted her teeth and persevered.

She understood why her classmates worked so hard, because in the village, girls aged sixteen or seventeen were already strong laborers. They could earn eight centimeters by going home to the fields to earn work points. If they were allowed to go to school, not only could they not earn centimeters, but they would have to pay for food and tuition. The difference between the two was too great.

In other words, the families of these classmates love their daughters enough to allow them to study. Now that the family financial situation has problems, it is normal to let the children go home to earn work points.

But it is a different matter if their grades are good enough and they will definitely have a bright future.

At the end of May, another classmate left the dormitory.

Before leaving, she cried her heart out.

Obviously her grades were much better than her brother's, but she was the one who dropped out of school.

The atmosphere in the dormitory became much quieter.

Cao Shuiyun said to Tao Xiaomei gloomily, "Do you think there will be a day when we will also drop out of school and never be able to attend classes again?"

Although Tao Xiaomei has the comfort and assurance of her family, there are no unchanging promises in this world.

She could only remain silent.

Lin Baoyan felt uncomfortable with the atmosphere and it was time to go back to the courtyard, so she said goodbye and left.

The female students who are able to attend high school are from well-off families among the general population. Now they have to drop out of school. This shows how severe this natural disaster is and how much impact it has on rural areas.

On the contrary, in cities and towns, due to quantitative issues and the state's control over food supply, the impact on daily life is that there is less fine grains and more coarse grains. If you want to eat more fine grains, you have to find ways to exchange them, which costs a little more.

Apart from this, there is no other impact.

In the era of tickets, it was difficult to spend extra money.

When I got home, I cleaned the house as usual, then picked fruits and vegetables, as well as dozens of chicken and duck eggs.

In early February, after the fruits were all picked, she began to pick the remaining half of the fruits, one basket of fruits and one basket of vegetables, and continued to hand them in. There was no response from the higher-ups, so the matter was settled. Maybe the amount of fruits handed in each time varied, but it was always there.

When the monkey came, Lin Baoyan handed him an envelope: "Give it to the top."

The monkey picked up the things and left without saying a word.

Lim Bo-yeon sighed.

She was really scared of this thing called space. How could it keep changing and never be the same? This made her very uneasy.

Just now when she entered the space to pick fruit, she found a well next to the two-story building in the space.

Although I have read many time-travel novels, and I am used to seeing that the time travelers hold spiritual spring spaces, the water in the space can prolong life and cure all diseases, and eating more vegetables and fruits grown with the water in the space can beautify the skin and get rid of dark spots. Then the protagonist relies on the space to get rich and become a superior person.

However, those spaces had a spiritual spring from the beginning, not like hers, where she had been in the space for six years before a well suddenly appeared.

We don't know what the water in this well is like yet.

As an ordinary person, she should leave things to smart people to decide and follow their decisions.