Liu Lan clearly remembers that day was his first day at work after graduating from college.

It was an important time to celebrate, and although I didn't celebrate with a glass of wine, in retrospect, everything seems to have happened yesterday, and everything was within reach!

On that day, Liu Lan, who was wearing a pair of glasses and had a green face, faced the hot and humid summer breeze blowing from the southeast, stepped on the first few rays of bright sunshine in July, and was full of the plump ideal of winning glory for the whole village, after getting off the train station in a county town, he hurriedly caught the first bus to the construction site.

After three hours of bumpy mountain roads, Liu Lan finally rushed to the camp where the construction site was located, with the pride and pride of being a national public official.

At work time, everyone went to the construction site, and the camp in the rear became an empty city.

Mountains all around, and a roaring river at your feet!

The mountain had surrounded him in a lonely place, so that he could not see farther!

The roaring river was like a devil demonstrating before him! It terrified him.

Standing in the open space of the camp, there were no teacups or newspapers in front of my mother's expectations, and yellow dust was flying in the dry air.

The flying smoke and dust fluttered into clouds in the sky, yellow clouds!

After graduating from 211 University in the nineties, he didn't expect to fall into the grass in this ravine, Liu Lan felt that he had suddenly become a bandit in the feudal era.

Bandits like to be king in such a place!

Yes, hydroelectric dams are usually located in remote canyons, even more inhospitable than the ancient penal colonies.

If you think about it, you can't build a power station in a bustling city, and damming a river in such a remote place can minimize the flood damage caused by building a dam to raise the water level.

There were no neon signs, no bustling streets, if it weren't for the lofty ideals that inspired him, Liu Lan would have wanted to run away at that time, and he would have fled far away.

"Welcome to the new Tianzhizi, our lovely college student!" said Wang Yong, the technical director, enthusiastically to him in the office of the rear camp.

"Thank you, leader!" Liu Lan put down his luggage, and his voice sounded crisp and neat.

"The young man is very energetic!" Wang Yong patted him on the shoulder, which immediately brought the relationship between the two closer, making Liu Lan feel a warm current overflowing in his heart.

"You have to be mentally prepared, life on the construction site is still relatively difficult, and you have to sleep in a collective dormitory! We are a state-owned construction unit, and we live in an apartment building in the camp, not a shed, so you can bring your luggage and come with me!" After Wang Yong finished speaking, he turned around and led the way in front with his head held high.

"The hardest place is the place where people are most tempered, and where the motherland is in need, we contemporary college students should go there without hesitation. Liu Lan was in high spirits at that time, and what he said was also very conscious, he carried his luggage, stepped on the gravel road of the camp, and followed the technical director towards the brand-new apartment building.

It was a brand-new six-storey building perched on the mountainside, and several blackened mountain dwellers carried baskets on their backs, selling mountain goods underneath.

After settling down and staying, Wang Yong said: "Comrade Liu Lan, you take a rest for a while, recuperate your spirit, the work on the construction site is fast-paced, you go to the construction site with me in the afternoon to familiarize yourself with the working environment!"

"Okay!" Liu Lan straightened his waist and said, his face was serious, and he was about to give a military salute.

As soon as Wang Yong left, Liu Lan took a look at this collective dormitory, there were a total of four beds, all of them were chaotic without exception, a rancid smell of socks rose from under the bed, and the men who were far away from the women lived a mess.

He frowned, and after resting his gaze on the confusion for a moment, he lowered his head and laid down his luggage, and then set up the bed, when a wave of fatigue set him up, and he lay down on the bed, trying to squint.

Just as the drowsiness hit, another smell also hit me.

The smell of stinky socks rising from under the bed opposite came in a surge, driving away his sleepiness.

At this time, drowsiness and peculiar smell were fighting wantonly in the sky, and it was difficult to distinguish between them, which made Liu Lan, the pride of the sky, suffer from it, and he wanted to sleep but couldn't sleep.

He turned to the side, lit a cigarette, and smoked quietly.

At noon, the workers did not come back, their Chinese food was solved on the construction site, there was no huge team of workers to eat, and the huge camp canteen was empty.

In the empty canteen, everyone was unobstructed, Liu Lan saw Wang Yong, the technical director, from afar, Wang Yong nodded at him, and walked straight into a small canteen on the side with a few middle-aged men with fat heads and big faces.

In that small cafeteria, from time to time, obese people came out with full burps.

What surprised him was that nine out of ten people who went in and out of the cafeteria were men, and the women who came and went occasionally were all elderly, immature girls, and they were rarely seen, at least at noon, Liu Lan didn't see one.

When he was in college, he briefly pursued a girl and wrote love letters to her in English, but finally lost to a shriveled campus poet, the man was impulsive to death for a woman, and moved the sentimental woman to tears, his Liu Lan's face was not so thick, the story ended cruelly at the beginning, and he finally lost under the impulse of the campus poet, and drank the bitter wine of lost love alone.

If you don't fall in love like crazy, the whole university will be in vain!

Lying on the cold bed board of the campus, he had imagined countless times that after joining the work, he must find a beautiful Snow White to love well to make up for his regrets during his college studies.

Judging from the people who enter and leave the canteen today, it seems impossible to have a vigorous life and death love on the construction site!

Queuing up for food, Liu Lan sat down, the food in the camp on the construction site was no different from the one in the school, the taste of the big pot of rice was very ordinary, suitable for a full stomach, but not suitable for savoring, Liu Lan hurriedly finished the food in the bowl, and hurriedly returned to the dormitory.

When he lay on the bed, he couldn't help but smoke again.

For this first job in his life, he has fantasized many times, always feeling that he has graduated from his bachelor's degree and should stay in the office building and work decently.

He never thought that he would end up in the mountains and valleys, which was unexpected.

But what's the point of staying on the construction site? What about being at home? Being young is the biggest asset, which means that there are endless possibilities for the future.

Gold shines everywhere, and in the smoke of cigarettes, he feels like a general galloping on the battlefield.

The construction sites that are in full swing are usually far away from the city, and he feels that this is a battlefield where men can easily make achievements.