8. Chapter 8
There was a four-person parallel road from the village to the town, and later after the establishment of the People's Commune, the brigade on this road also organized volunteer work to expand. It's been almost a decade, and now it's extended to two donkey carts walking side by side. It's just that it's still very narrow compared to later generations. But for today's society, this road is the condensation of countless people's efforts, because this road was dug out in the middle of the mountain, and it was hammered out by countless stonemasons.
Tang Weishan left home to join the army at the age of fifteen and has not returned for nearly eight years. In addition, Tan Zongyuan was also a soldier before, so Tan Zongyuan was a little curious about the affairs of Tang Weishan's troops, and he set up a dragon gate formation with him all the way.
Ye Qiu sat sideways, looking at the marks of the iron hammer on the stone wall, admiring the first batch of people who dug this road! While listening to the conversation between Tang Weishan and Tan Zongyuan. At the same time, he also looked sideways at Qin Lu who was about to lie on the bed board because he was afraid.
Qin Lu was frightened by Ye Qiu's words, and followed hard. But he sat alone on the other side of the board. Tan Zongyuan, who was holding his head proudly and driving the donkey, said, "Catch it!" His face was full of disdain, but he was almost thrown off by a sharp turn of the donkey cart. Fortunately, Tang Weishan was quick and pulled down on the cart.
"Hold on to this rope."
Qin Lu was so frightened that she almost lost her soul, but she thought it was the uncle who was in a hurry to make it bad. Thinking that he knew this soldier ruffian, he felt that they had colluded in his heart, so he angrily pushed away Tang Weishan's hand that grabbed his sleeve, and didn't take his words to heart.
Ye Qiu saw this scene in his eyes, staring at Tang Weishan's side face, and the look in his eyes was indistinguishable.
Tang Weishan didn't see Ye Qiu's reaction, but was displeased with Qin Lu's ignorance, if it weren't for seeing her as a lesbian, he really didn't want to care about it as a big man.
When Qin Lu sat up, he saw the situation outside.
It turned out that after that sharp turn, there was a cliff outside the road. Qin Lu was so frightened on the spot that he almost screamed out, but somehow he saw Ye Qiu's calm and calm appearance, and he was so competitive for a moment that he swallowed back the words to his mouth. Just his hand firmly grasped the rope on the cart, and his whole body was almost lying on the cart.
Ye Qiu inadvertently saw Qin Lu's appearance, and the little displeasure that Tang Weishan had helped her just now slowly dissipated. The eyebrows and eyes are curved, the corners of the mouth are upturned, and the heart is slowly happy.
In the previous life, Ye Qiu and Tang Weishan were sitting outside, although Ye Qiu was also afraid, he was not as reckless as Qin Lu, and as soon as he got in the car, he grabbed the rope under Tang Weishan's admonition. But she was also inexplicably ridiculed by Qin Lu all the way, saying that she was cowardly, pretending to be weak or something.
And in this life, she deliberately sat in it, and she wanted Qin Lu to experience it, but she didn't expect the effect to be so good. Looking at Qin Lu's appearance, Ye Qiu was full of joy.
The donkey cart turned east and west, and it took more than 20 minutes to arrive at Jianshe Village.
The village is just below the road, and the mud-walled thatched huts and wooden buildings on stilts are submerged in the green mountains and green waters. Ye Qiu looked at the familiar place and took a deep breath, she finally returned to this place. This place made her miserable in her previous life, but now looking at Tang Weishan sitting beside her, Ye Qiu's heart instead rose with a faint nostalgia.
Qin Lu couldn't get used to Ye Qiu's appearance, but she didn't have the strength to choke anymore. After all, she was first tumbled in the stomach on the piapia cart, and then after several 306-degree spins on the donkey cart, the whole person was in good spirits. At this time, he was a little weak next to the box tied to the donkey cart, looking at the dilapidated mountain village, and his heart was panicking.
When the donkey cart arrived at the three-fork road at the entrance of the village, Tang Weishan saw his own dilapidated thatched hut on the downhill road. When he was about to ask Uncle Tan to stop, he found that the corner of his clothes was dragged by the little girl, and then a pair of bright phoenix eyes looked at him expectantly, "Brother Tang, will you send me to the Zhiqing Point?" ”
In fact, Ye Qiu also knew that she should let Lao Tang go back to see her mother-in-law in her previous life, but she was a little reluctant. At this time, Ye Qiu really hoped that he had married him and could follow Old Tang home justifiably. Never to be separated again.
Tang Weishan wanted to refuse, but thinking about the place where the young man was located, he looked at the little girl's thin body, his brows furrowed, but he never said anything to refuse.
Uncle Tan was about to park, but when he heard Ye Qiu's words, he didn't hear Tang Weishan's response for a long time, a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and his hand patted the donkey's butt happily, so the donkey cart quickly passed into the village.
It was time for lunch in the village at this time, and most of the villagers were at home, and everyone knew what was going on when they saw Uncle Tan pulling the three of them to the bottom of the hundred-step slope. Many people are thinking that the educated youth in the village are thinking about returning to the city, how can there still be educated youths going to the countryside? Hey, don't stay in the city, go to the countryside to grab food with them. Everyone shook their heads, and then quickly entered their own houses, thinking that they would hurry up and go to work after eating, and take advantage of the small farmer's busy work to earn some centimeters, after all, they were about to divide the grain. Of course, there are also strange ones, pointing at Ye Qiu and a few others.
In fact, when the first educated youth arrived, the villagers were very excited and welcoming. But when the educated youth began to work with them, evaluate the scores together, and share collective resources together, the educated youths who went to the countryside were just the same thing in the eyes of the villagers. Some people are full of unhappiness, after all, the more collective resources are shared, they will have less.
What's more, although the upper echelons of society at that time suppressed the knowledgeable, there was a saying among the vast number of poor peasants, "Strength to support oneself, literacy to support the whole family." "There are some positions in the village brigade that also need people of knowledge.
Therefore, although the educated youths who went to the countryside could not pick their shoulders and could not lift them, they were of course the first to be favored by the cadres of the brigade because of literacy and other reasons. At the first opportunity, you can rely on literacy to get a good job position, which is easy and can get a higher centimeter. There are more things to be scored at a centimeter level. After realizing this, the village's enthusiasm for the educated youth in the countryside also subsided.
Ye Qiu smiled at the villagers who poked his head out, although decades have passed, after all, after living in one place for more than ten years, Ye Qiu can still remember some names.
The villagers were still simple, and when they saw the little girl smiling, they also smiled kindly.
Qin Lu is not as cultured as Ye Qiu, when she saw this poor mountain village, her eyes instantly turned red, just because of Ye Qiu's appearance, she pretended not to cry. When he saw the villagers pointing at him, his face fell.
As a result, the villagers became louder, and told the beautiful girl, who seemed to have a good temper! Some people pointed at Qin Lu, saying that this girl has a sad face and is not easy to get along with, so she should avoid it in the future. After Qin Lu heard this, her face became even worse.
At this time, the donkey cart also arrived at the Zhiqing point - a hundred steps down the slope.
Baibu Slope is a small dirt slope that extends from the mountain forest to the south of the village, and there are 100 dirt steps from the bottom to the top of the hillside. The hillside is the self-reserved land of some people, and the soil quality on the top of the slope is not good, so it was later assigned to the educated youth by the village brigade and made a point for the construction of the village.
There are two youth spots on the Baibu slope, the bottom of the mountain and the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain is a public educated youth spot, which was built at the expense of the village. At the bottom of the hillside is a house built by young intellectuals who are ready to take root in the countryside for a lifetime. At that time, most people had an unusual attachment to the land, so in such an environment as educated youths going to the countryside, many of them happily took root in the countryside and prepared to do a lifelong career of repairing the earth.
However, most of those who have taken root in the countryside all their lives are local educated youths. The local educated youth are relative to the foreign educated youth, and the educated youth from the local town or county are the local educated youth, while the foreign educated youth from other provinces are the foreign educated youth. Although the foreign intellectuals from the big city were ambitious at first, after the days of facing the sky and the loess in the north, the excitement faded, and they began to miss the life in the city, and slowly began to specialize in the way back to the city. Therefore, there are not many educated youths left in today's construction villages.
There are two houses in the Baibu Slope Public Educated Youth Point, the highest place is where the female educated youth live, and the female educated youth house is not far from the place where the male educated youth live. The houses where educated youths live are all boxy, rows of houses. The houses are very similar, surrounded by earthen walls, and the middle of the earthen walls is paved with wooden planks or bamboo, and they are divided into two layers. The ground floor is for cooking, eating, and daily necessities, while the second floor is for sleeping. The roof is also made of bamboo or wood and planks, and is covered with thick straw. There are also tiled ones, but that's too expensive.
The villagers in the village are not enthusiastic about the educated youth who go to the countryside, but the cadres of the brigade cannot express themselves so obviously. In the busy season of small farmers, Tang Chuanmu, the captain of the construction village brigade, was sent to Baibupo as a representative, and welcomed Ye Qiu and Qin Lu to their arrival, and then affirmed that they would resolutely implement the correct policy of the national leadership. Then I was ready to send the two little girls to the top of the mountain.
Uncle Tan's legs and feet were inconvenient, so he drove the donkey cart and prepared to go home, Ye Qiu thanked Uncle Tan, not only in this life but also in the previous life. Qin Lu was in a bad mood, so she just stood aside with a cold face with her own box.
When several people were about to climb, Ye Qiu looked relaxed, while Qin Lu was not in good shape all the way, carrying a box to climb the slope, and walking like a drunk. Tang Weishan walked behind with the box, and when he saw this scene, his brows furrowed, and he hesitated for a moment to mention Qin Lu's box.
Qin Lu dragged the box, suddenly lightened, and then found that Tang Weishan lifted his box, and wanted to be hard again, so he carried it by himself. But she had never walked on such a slope, and it was very difficult for her to walk, not to mention that she was still carrying a suitcase, and finally let go awkwardly. It's just that for Tang Weishan, Qin Lu no longer has the disdain for looking at lower-class people in his eyes.
Ye Qiu turned around and saw this scene, and a wave of anger and fear suddenly rose in his heart. The anger is the possession of Lao Tang, and Lao Tang has already helped Qin Lu for the second time! is afraid because she is a variable, and she is afraid that because of this variable, Lao Tang and her will become strangers.
Thinking that he couldn't be with Old Tang in the future, a panic rose in Ye Qiu's heart. Because of this fear, Ye Qiu's anger did not break out, and she gritted her teeth and endured it. silently turned around and walked up, but there was a deep depth in her eyes, no matter what means, she wanted to marry Lao Tang as much as possible.