Zhong Yuemin actually didn't know if his choice was correct, but he chose it like this, not only for Qin Ling, but also for his inner peace.

Of course, he can choose to be a soldier, a cadre, a platoon commander, a company commander, and a battalion commander like in the original book, and experience a long hibernation in the army, and then go to the sea to toss and walk to the peak of life.

But is this really what he wants? Is it really like this, throwing away Qinling, Zheng Tong and Li Kuiyong, everyone who knows the youth, and the members of the production team?

Zhong Yuemin can have countless reasons to explain his departure, and everyone will understand him, but what about his own heart?

"Even if you have a face that everyone envies, a well-read talent, and an inexhaustible wealth, it can't prove that you are strong, because the strength of the heart is the real strength."

This sentence was said by Mingyue when he wrote about those things in the Ming Dynasty, but Zhong Yuemin didn't realize this sentence until he was in this life.

The life of cutting in line is a tempering for him, and he has changed from an angry young man who thinks he has read a little book to a warrior with a strong heart.

He can see his heart clearly, know his own path, and he will go on with determination.

The Department of Water Resources organized 10 teams to go to various counties and cities, and these teams were dispersed into more teams to go to communes and townships.

Zhong Yuemin thought that he was following Luo Jinlan's team, but he didn't expect that in the county, he was appointed as the captain of another team and was independently responsible for a water conservancy project.

There are two other members of the team, one is named Li Jun, who has just graduated from the water conservancy school and assigned to the hall, and the other is named He Xiaomin, who is also a student of the water conservancy school, and he is regarded as an intern on the project.

At this time, most colleges and technical colleges stopped recruiting students, but water conservancy projects could not be done by just two people, so the Water Conservancy Department set up a water conservancy school to train water conservancy technical personnel.

Li Jun and He Xiaomin are both honest children, and the organization arranged Zhong Yuemin to be the team leader, and they followed behind Zhong Yuemin and waited for him to arrange.

"My name is Zhong Yuemin, I was the production captain of the fifth production team of Shichuan Village, Tucheng Commune, Jingbian County, and now I am the captain of our team. Zhong Yuemin looked at his two team members and introduced himself.

"Oh!" Li Jun wore eyes, the lenses were particularly thick, he was carrying a quilt on his back, and he was holding a net pocket in his hand, which looked a little wooden, and only after Zhong Yuemin finished speaking, did he react, "My name is Li Jun, I just graduated from the water conservancy school, and I am at your disposal." ”

He Xiaomin was more lively, "Hello Captain Zhong, my name is He Xiaomin, I am also from a water conservancy school, and I will graduate next year." ”

"Okay, let's get acquainted with each other. The village sent a car to pick it up, so let's hurry up. Zhong Yuemin said and took them into the villager's car.

Not far away was the team led by Luo Jinlan, they were going to another commune, Zhong Yuemin glanced at her, but she was always busy.

Since Zhong Yuemin chose to give up being a soldier that day, Luo Jinlan has never spoken to him again, and Zhong Yuemin even guessed that Luo Jinlan asked to lead the team independently this time.

Along the way, Zhong Yuemin was silently looking at the scenery along the road, where the hillsides have been built into terraced fields, which is very different from Ishikawa Village.

"Fellow, how are you watering the fields in this high place?" asked Zhong Yuemin in northern Shaanxi.

"Most of them carry water miles by hand. The fellow who pulled the cart wore a sheepskin jacket and a white towel, and the wrinkles on his face were like knife cuts.

"How much effort does it take?" He Xiaomin exclaimed.

"There's no way, when there is a drought, the whole village goes into battle to fetch water, and you can't watch the crops die of drought and water. "Countryman's way.

He Xiaomin asked, "Do all terraces have to be like this?"

"No, if the terraced fields on the side of the mountain can build a reservoir and store the water in the mountain stream, it can be used to irrigate the terraced fields. Li Jun replied, but he knew a lot.

"Then the silt dam we built is to help the farmer uncle store water, right?" He Xiaomin asked.

"Yes, the silt dam we built is also to hold back sand and store water. Li Jun pushed his glasses with his fingers, "Didn't you read the book on the silt dam that the school handed out?"

"Look!" He Xiaomin's voice lowered again: "I just haven't finished reading it yet." ”

"Then you have to come on, let's go and help the fellow build a dam, you have to finish the book." Li Jun said as he took out a book from his bag and gave it to He Xiaomin.

He Xiaomin pouted and refused: "No, I brought it too." ”

Zhong Yuemin was lying in the car, with a bunk roll under his head, looking at the two of them with interest, thinking that this Li Jun's EQ was too low, and he was too straight to speak.

He Xiaomin took out the book from his schoolbag, looked at it quite new, opened the book and read two pages, "Hey, captain, the preface of this book mentions a person with the same name and surname as you, it is Shi ······ of Yanchuan County"

"What's the matter?" He Xiaomin was silent in the middle of speaking, Li Jun was a little strange, he also picked up the book, and he didn't read the preface carefully.

Li Jun looked at it and read it: "This book is especially grateful to Zhong Yuemin, the captain of the fifth production team of Shichuan Village, Yanchuan County······"

Reading and reading, Li Jun also stopped, and looked at Zhong Yuemin in the same surprise as He Xiaomin.

"Captain, this is what this book is talking about, aren't you the production captain of Ishikawa Village?" He Xiaomin asked happily.

"The author of this book is Captain Zhong, and it was written by Deputy Director Luo in the hall. Li Jun said.

Zhong Yuemin asked, "Deputy Director Luo?"

"It's Deputy Director Luo Jinlan Luo. Li Jun said, "You should know each other, right?"

Only then did Zhong Yuemin know that Luo Jinlan had actually been a cadre during this time, and the last time they met, because of the controversy, they didn't even mention it.

"I know, the main writer of this book is your deputy director Luo, and I mainly provided some information and ideas, not the author. ”

He Xiaomin looked at Zhong Yuemin admiringly and said: "That's also very powerful, Deputy Director Luo thanked you in the book, saying that if it weren't for you, the book wouldn't be finished." ”

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The project was very arduous and far more difficult than Zhong Yuemin expected.

When the team arrived at the place, they began to work non-stop.

Zhong Yuemin took Li Jun and He Xiaomin up the mountain and down the ditch, exploring the upstream and downstream of the water stream step by step, and drawing a topographic map little by little.

After a few days of crawling and rolling, several people felt a little cold in their hearts, the dam can be built, but the price paid may be beyond imagination.

The water stream to build the dam is more than 10 meters wide and more than 10 meters deep, and the soil of the mountains on both sides is loose, and the landslide collapses at any time, and there is no construction machinery, so it is completely carried by hand and shoulder.

The cadres of the commune were quite determined, and mobilized the labor force of several surrounding villages to go to the dam, all of which obeyed Zhong Yuemin's dispatch.