"Eh, (I) said, what about the little guy from the capital? Why can't you see anyone?" The captain of the anti-sarin planting brigade, Lao Song, who is in his fifties, counted the number of people at night. What was supposed to be a team of thirty people was now twenty-nine. There are only Xiao Song who has just been transferred from the capital not long ago, and Song Renjie is not there.

This made Lao Song anxious, because the place where his team was currently located was uninhabited by people within a radius of thirty miles, and there was a desert all around. What if that little Song gets lost?

"When you come back from the big car, you will have a wooden look and a wooden and a little silver (person)?" Lao Song roared angrily at the truck driver.

Lao Lu, the truck driver, was a little aggrieved: "That kid obviously came up." I can see it clearly, why is it disappearing in the blink of an eye now?"

Lao Song patted his thigh: "Then what are you doing standing! Hurry up and find it, if Xiao Song gets lost, he will die outside if he gets lost in the wind at night!"

The members of the anti-sarin planting brigade were busy, looking for the lost Xiao Song. And Xiao Song Song Renjie, who was being looked for by everyone, was sitting on a barren beach rock ten miles away, and he jumped out of the car when everyone in the car fell asleep when the truck was transporting everyone back.

He didn't know what he was thinking, anyway, at that time he just didn't want to stay in the car longer, he just wanted to get off. So without much thought, he jumped out of the car.

Song Renjie looked at the boundless desert of yellow sand, as well as the sand control belt planted in the distance. These sand control belts are not yet sand forests, but a grass that is extremely resistant to drought and sand. It is constantly planted and arranged in the form of mouths, densely weaving the earth into a huge grass net.

This is because the sand phenomenon in this area is particularly severe, and the amount of precipitation is also low. If you plant sand-control forest directly, it is very difficult for the trees to survive. It is necessary to stabilize soil erosion with sand control belts and allow the land to accumulate water before planting sand control forests.

Looking at this huge grass net firmly stabilizing the wind and sand on the land, Song Renjie felt that his life was probably locked in this place.

"I didn't learn this skill to do this!" Song Renjie roared frantically towards the gray sky: "My ideal is not to come to the northwest to plant trees! I have a greater place to play! Just because of my sexual orientation, am I going to be excluded like this?!"

"I'm NB!" Song Renjie was resentful, in fact, this is really not difficult to understand. originally had a great future waiting for him in the capital, and Song Renjie's ideal was to be able to become a high-level in the future. It's not because I want to be a big official or anything, but I just have a passionate concept of serving the country.

He felt that he should be of greater use than planting trees in the northwest. This is to let all his learning go to waste!

Song Renjie was furious, and the seeds of the anti-sand grass he had in his pocket were scattered all over the ground. Somewhat frantically, he grabbed a large rock and threw it out. And the weed seeds scattered on the ground were also growing wildly, and they instantly grew several people tall. Then these weeds tied up the stone that Song Renjie had just thrown out like a spiritual snake, and then the weeds were locked, just like a giant python.

This piece of earth and stone was actually crushed by weeds. Watching the stones smash, Song Renjie's mood improved a little.

By the time he walked back to the camp, Old Song was going crazy. looked at Song Renjie and grabbed him and asked, "Where are you going?!"

"Upset, go out for a walk. Song Renjie said indifferently.

"Go out for a walk?!You go out for a walk!" Old Song became angry all of a sudden, and he twitched Song Renjie vigorously: "You go out for a walk, do you know how fortunate it is for you to find you?" Lao Lu thought that you were thrown out of the car by him when you were in the car. You fell and injured yourself when he was looking for you at night?!"

Song Renjie's face moved, but his mouth still said: "I'm such a big person, don't I have the right to go out and go around?"

"Do you know what discipline is? You still come out of the police academy to pinch, you can't find anyone in this big Gobi, do you know?!" Old Song taught Song Renjie a tone of hatred that iron is not made of steel: "I know you don't like this place." ”

"There are poor mountains and bad water drops here, and there is nothing wood. Except for our gang, that is, the wind and the sand. Even the signal for phone calls is intermittent, and when the wind blows, there is no signal at all. It is not as big as the capital, and it is a big city. That's all we eat here. ”

Lao Song opened the lid of the food that the team members ate tonight: "Eh, these are potatoes, onions, and carrots stewed together in a pot of meat." There are fish in the wood, leafy greens in the wood, and fresh fruits in the wood. ”

"I was so happy when you first came, your skills are good! With you, we can plant anti-sarin faster, and the survival rate is higher. But if you can't endure this hardship, then don't come back to the capital!"

Song Renjie thought to himself: What you said is light, I still want to go back to the capital. The question is can I go back?

Song Renjie is different from other members of the anti-sarin planting team, he comes from a big city, and he has not suffered so much. It is the norm here not to take a shower for a month, and you can only wipe your body with a towel dipped in water. The food is not good, it is the same as the old three, carrots, potatoes and onions. I didn't sleep well, and the wind next door was blowing at night, and it was as sharp as a ghost crying wolf.

The only thing that still makes Song Renjie insist on this is that he is still in the system. It's not that he's obsessed with this identity, but that Song Renjie feels that he is a person who can do great things, and he won't spend his whole life planting trees in the northwest.

He felt that what he lacked was just an opportunity, and as long as the opportunity came, he could soar into the sky. However, before he can reach the sky, he still needs to lie dormant in the northwest. It's been more than six months since this hibernation.

The relationship between him and Lao Song has also eased a little, and it is not as intense as it was at the beginning.

The previous work with Lao Song on a barren beach came to an end temporarily. The anti-sand forest planting team has to move their positions, and they have to go to the previously planted anti-sand forest to inspect the survival rate of the trees, and if necessary, to replant some trees.

Because there is a little distance, they need to rest for the night in between. Song Renjie: The place where they settled was a place called Panshui Middle School. Because of the Northwest

The principal gave an empty classroom upstairs to Song Renjie for them to sleep in. However, Song Renjie's sleep was not sound, and he was woken up at five o'clock in the morning. While the other companions were still sleeping, Song Renjie stood up and walked towards the corridor.

At half past five in the morning in the northwest, it was still dark. Although China uses Beijing time, China's territory is very large, in fact, the difference between the northwest and Beijing regions is about one to two hours in terms of time zone. Half past five in Beijing time is only equivalent to three or four in the northwest.

Song Renjie didn't know who made a loud noise early in the morning, and he looked down from the corridor on the roof. The students of Panshui Middle School have actually gotten up. Because many places in the northwest are vast and sparsely populated, schools may be far away from home, especially in rural towns, and many students have to live on campus.

Song Renjie looked at his watch, it was only half past five in the morning, and the students had already gotten up. The lights in the classrooms on the bottom floor were also turned on. Surprisingly, there are more than 1,000 students in Panshui Middle School, and almost eighty percent of the students live on campus, except for those who happen to be in the nearby town.

Now the more than 800 senior students have gotten up, and in such a dark sky, they have already started their morning reading with the lights of the classroom on the first floor.

This is not required by the school, nor is it required by the teacher. Rather, it is the spontaneous behavior of a group of people. Song Renjie rubbed his eyes, and he walked downstairs. I watched as there were at least 300 or 400 students in the school's playground reading to the classroom lights.

Why don't you study early in your own dormitory? Because there are more than 30 students living in a dormitory in Panshui Middle School. If it is a junior student, it is likely to sleep fifty. Everyone is a row of Chase shops. Some students are still sleeping, and if they study early in the dormitory, they will disturb other students.

The classrooms on the first floor are limited and cannot accommodate all the students who read in the morning, and some students stand in the hallway reading by the light. It's not all kinds of extracurricular books that your peers love to read, but all kinds of textbooks. Language, English, Geography. Everyone was reciting in whispers, and the voices of so many people gathered together were like a swarm of bees working tirelessly.

Song Renjie saw a senior high school student (because he was holding a textbook for his third year of high school) standing in the corridor, holding an English textbook in one hand and munching on a dead dough cake as big as a wheel in the other. Song Renjie has eaten a lot of this kind of car ** cake, because this is the main dry food they will bring when they go out.

There is no moisture, and it tastes like gnawing on sawdust, and my mouth is very dry after eating. The only thing worth commendating is that this thing is durable, and in a place like the Northwest, it won't break for a month at room temperature.

Song Renjie walked over and listened to the student's recitation. A lot of English pronunciation is very problematic and very non-standard. If this is regarded as the standard phonetic transcription, then I am afraid that I will not get a few points for the listening questions placed in the college entrance examination.

"The t here has to be pronounced with a plosive, and the way you pronounce this sound needs to be changed. Song Renjie finally couldn't help but step forward to correct the student's pronunciation. After all, people have worked so hard, and it is not worth it to bury their future because of these small mistakes.

Song Renjie's English is not very good, but he has passed level 6 and can communicate with foreigners on a daily basis. He corrected the student's pronunciation, and the junior was very grateful. also warmly invited Song Renjie to breakfast.

In fact, it was the dead dough cake of the car **, and a small plate of pickles he put on the windowsill in the corridor.

"Wang Bin, do you eat this for breakfast?" Song Renjie rejected the kindness of the student Wang Bin, to be honest, he hated this kind of cake.

"I eat this every day. "Song Renjie doesn't eat it, Xiao Wang eats it very fragrantly. Although he is only an eighteen-year-old senior in high school, because of the strong wind and sand in the northwest countryside and the lack of water and soil, the eighteen-year-old boy already has some old looks.

"Eat three meals a day?"

"Well, the school cafeteria is too expensive, and it costs five cents a piece to make a potato rub. It costs three dollars to eat two meals a day, which is too expensive. And I can't eat enough one serving of artichoke rubbing, at least two servings. It's going to be more than 30 yuan a week. Wang Bin took a bite of the dead dough cake and said, "I will go home on Sunday and bring back a big cake and pickles made by myself, which will cost less than ten yuan." ”

Wang Bin was very shrewd, and for a while, Song Renjie didn't know what to say.

In fact, when Song Renjie came to school last night, they also ate the artichoke rub made in the school cafeteria, although there was no oil and water, but a piece of five cents was not expensive. Buy such a potato rub in Huaihai for at least six yuan.

Song Renjie looked at these hard-working students and recalled whether he had been so serious when he was studying. He couldn't help but ask Wang Bin, "You guys get up so early every day to study?"

"yes. ”

"What the teacher asked?"

"No, we did it spontaneously. Wang Bin said casually.

Song Renjie's cheeks were a little goosebumps, because it was five o'clock in the morning in the northwest in September, and the weather already felt a little cold. On such a cold day, everyone does not hide in the quilt to sleep, but gets up to study in the cold wind, and is still conscious and spontaneous. Song Renjie suddenly felt that his assault study in his third year of high school and these students who had been so fortunate for three consecutive years were nothing.

"You're working hard. Song Renjie was a little emotional.

"The teacher said that knowledge changes fate. If we can get into a good university, we will be able to get out of this ravine. Wang Bin answered Song Renjie's question while eating the cake.

"You don't want to stay here?"

"I don't want to, not only I don't want to, but none of my classmates want to. You can't live here if you stay here. The teacher said that the desertification and salinization of our land here are too bad. It's hard to grow anything, and it will become more and more unsuitable for people to live in the future. No one will come here to open a factory, and we won't be able to find a job here. ”

"It's so hard for my family to farm that my dad has to go out to work and wash new jeans in a factory in Fujian. Washing jeans had to be disinfected with various chemicals, and my dad's hands were so rotten that I couldn't see them. I don't want to starve to death if I can't plant in the future, and I don't want to wash jeans in the future. I want to study hard, this is the only way out. ”

"Our teacher said that even if you can't get into a good university. Study hard, and you can learn a skill when you work in the future, and become a blue-collar technician. Every year in our county, high school students who fail to get into the college entrance examination will organize them to go to the coastal areas to work. The county contacted the manufacturer there, so that we could save our travel expenses. I don't want to go to the factory to make screws for the assembly line, I have to be a skilled worker. If you don't study well now, you won't be able to learn technology in the future, and you won't be able to read the drawings. Formulas don't count. ”

Wang Bin's simple words made Song Renjie feel suddenly shocked.

There is a lot of perseverance hidden behind these young faces, and at an age when many people are learning just for the sake of learning, they have already understood the truth that learning is for life. Song Renjie looked at the classroom, and there was a blackboard newspaper behind a professor with a line of large letters

The teachers at this school are pragmatic and they know that their teachers are limited. It is difficult to cultivate any outstanding talents, and it is difficult for schools to get into many good university students.

They forgo the college acceptance rate and teach students with a most unpretentious educational philosophy. If you don't want to eat dead noodles and pickles every day for decades, then you have to study hard now. Even if you learn these basics, you can learn technology later and become a skilled blue-collar worker. If you can't even learn this knowledge, I'm afraid you won't even be able to be a skilled worker in the future.

These young people are so oblivious to learning that this is not a choice of life, but a choice of survival!

Song Renjie and his teammates had mixed feelings when they left Panshui Middle School, and it was impossible to say whether it was heavy or other factors. In the car, Song Renjie took the initiative to chat with Lao Song for the first time.

"It's too poor to stay here. ”

Lao Song glanced at Song Renjie when he heard this, and then said: "Yes, the land is very desertified." Farming is all wood-based. Along the way, we saw several abandoned villages, all of which were desertified and could not survive, so we had to move the whole village. Do you know why Panshui Middle School is called Panshui Middle School?"

Song Renjie shook his head.

"Because there used to be a big river turning there, it was called Panshui, and the school was called Panshui Middle School. Forty years ago, when I was studying in Panshui, I went to the river to take a bath. Now there is only a dry riverbed left, and the water is all wood. Lao Song said a little distressed.

"Old Song, you said that everyone here is leaving. Is there any point in us planting trees?" Song Renjie said suddenly.

When Lao Song heard this, he became angry: "Why is it meaningful to be a wood? Why do people go to the drops? Because the land is desertified! They plant trees to prevent sand, and people enter and retreat from the sand." The desert has become an oasis, and in the future, everyone can plant fruit trees and sand dates behind the sand control forest. ”

"Turn this yellow desert into a green prairie, and people will come back naturally. You don't have to leave your hometown and struggle to survive. Old Song patted Song Renjie on the shoulder.

"I know you have a lot of ideas, you are the capital of the city, and you are different from these old farmers. But I told you, you can do great things in the desert! You have the ability, but you don't have to be in the capital to show your ability. It's the same here! Capable people have capable there, can a desert trap you?"

When Song Renjie heard what Lao Song said, he thought of the young students of Panshui Middle School, as well as the desert Gobi and abandoned villages he had seen along the way. The knot that had been lying in Song Renjie's heart was suddenly opened. Men should be so ambitious and dare to change the world with a new look!

From today onwards, Song Renjie has decided to bring more green to the world!

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Listening to Song Renjie easily and simply finish talking about his experience in the northwest, Zhang Tong sighed, he didn't know how to reply, he just turned his head and told Xiao Xiao: "Wait a minute, don't eat too much, it's not easy for everyone." ”

Xiao Xiao was a little embarrassed, her heart was very entangled, after a long time, Xiao Xiao blinked her eyes, and said in a pitiful tone: "Then boss, can I eat half full later?" This was Xiao Xiao's last request.