Early the next morning, two trucks loaded with materials from the logging team stopped at the side of the large carousel in front of the yard department. All the Year 6 students lined up to see off their teacher Jiang, and many presented wildflowers from the meadows. Before graduation, the teacher was suddenly transferred away, and the children did not cry. Jiang Lesheng poked his head out of the flowers and waved frequently: Goodbye, classmates! The wheels rolled, and the send-off team was chaotic, running behind the car and shouting: Teacher, goodbye! Good bye! Good bye! Crying and calling rang out.

The truck traveled for two hours and walked 100 kilometers of potholed gravel roads to reach the transfer station set up by the forest farm. From there, there is only a side road made of tractors.

Lao Bao, the deputy team leader, instructed the peasants to unload the materials and load them onto the tractor-pulled climbing plows. The climbing plow leg is a tree trunk with a diameter of more than two feet, and the bottom is covered with a thick iron sheet, otherwise the 70-kilometer mountain road will not end, and the climbing plow will be worn apart.

The tractor crawlers roll back and forth, and the towing wooden plough crawls through the forest, and the bottom of the plough rubs against the ground, making a noise that arouses goosebumps. Every few miles, you come across a puddle of water, tractors struggle in muddy water, clouds of black smoke from exhaust pipes, and hoarse roars that shake the valley. The puddle was filled with many stones, so that the locomotive and the plough did not sink too deeply.

The air is particularly fresh in the big forest. Unknown birds fly around, singing and answering each other; On both sides of the path, the coniferous forests are verdant, and the broad-leaved trees are full of new shoots. The red pine and larch stand tall into the clouds, like a mighty and awe-inspiring soldier; The birch drills the sky and the poplar is slim, like a graceful girl. In the gap between the forests, the dead grass sprouts a little new green, and the small flowers of various colors show smiling faces. The stream is murmuring, and the waves are snow-white along the mountain, singing all the way forward......

As the sun sets, the woods gradually darken. The tractor hummed and chirped for most of the day, climbed over six or seven hills, and finally arrived at the Shengnu River Forest Station.

The Virgen River gets its name from the Virgen Pond in the middle section. Located at the northern foot of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, it was originally a nameless stream that flowed northwest into the Namur River, a tributary of the Nenjiang River. The Virgen Pond is willow-shaped, more than 200 meters long, and more than 40 meters wide in the middle, surrounded by two symmetrical hillsides. The shrubs on the hillside are green and verdant, looking like a layer of dense fur from afar, and the whole landscape looks like a saint lying on her back. The water of the Holy Maiden Pond is crystal clear, it is said that it gathers the aura of heaven and earth, long-term drinking can prolong life, and the elderly have the miracle of gray hair turning black and toothless regeneration.

The Maoshan logging team set up camp by the Holy Maiden Pond. Four cotton tents enclose a courtyard. On the second day of going up the mountain, Captain Ping and Jiang Lesheng visited the person in charge of the forest farm, and learned that this area was inaccessible and often harassed by wild boars and black bears, so they temporarily borrowed a cyan wolf dog from the forest farm to keep watch over the yard, named Qingniu.

More than 200 workers were divided into two teams, and the deputy captain Bao Lao Niu led a team to immediately put into road construction: the original sidewalk was disemboweled, the silt inside was taken out, and the stones were filled in to tamp it, so that the ridge of the roadbed was not dented, and finally the ditch was dug on both sides for drainage.

The task of building the road was completed in two years. The only way is to do it in sections, and it is not allowed to call it a day if the task is not completed.

In addition to being an accountant, Jiang Lesheng is also responsible for measuring and nailing piles, assisting the team leader in checking the quality, and filling in the segmented acceptance records. Every day he was the first to arrive at the site, and the last team finished work before returning to the tent to rest. Running around the construction site all day long, his face became red and black, and a layer of skin was peeled on his arms.

The road is impassable, and the materials cannot be transported into the mountain, and the soybeans are boiled three times a day, and the stomach is gurgling and farting. Later, two frail peasants were selected to pick wild spinach, and after the rain, they took advantage of the rising water to fish at the mouth of the pond, and their food improved. The forest farm supported two old sows that were eliminated, and the meat and oil were boiled together, and two spoonfuls of wild vegetable soup were scooped up to make it much better.

There are many mosquitoes in the forest area in summer, and mosquito hats and ponytails are inseparable protective products. When there is no sun, swarms of mosquitoes rush into the eyes, noses, ears, and eyes, and with a wipe of their hands, the blood mixed with the mosquito corpses is slimy; The dust-like small bite is even more pervasive, and the bite that gets into the mosquito cap makes the scalp itchy and cannot be extinguished. When the sun rose, the gadfly flew all over the sky, and when they bit people, the itch was limited, and when they found it, their blood-soaked stomachs swelled like red beans, and they splashed a bloody flower with a slap. Jiang Lesheng never left his hand, and the velvet pants that Cong Jing gave him were bloodstained.

This is a lonely world without women, except for the wolf dog and the green girl, all of them are male. The female voice coming out of the semiconductor radio is particularly charming. This group of peasant workers is young and strong, although the food is rough and the labor intensity is high, but the hormones in the body are restless, and they still change ways to find opportunities to release: telling hooligan jokes in private, gathering on the radio to cry wolf with female singers, and even risking being bitten to tease the young girl. They jumped into the holy pond naked, and the white flowers on the surface of the water were floating like dumplings cooked in a cauldron. The holy water really calmed the spirit, and after coming ashore, he was no longer restless.

On 18 June, the central government's "Decision" was broadcast on the radio: the education system should be reformed and the enrollment method of colleges and universities should be abolished. It all started when students from two middle schools in Beijing wrote to the Party Central Committee, denouncing the old recruitment system and breaking the bourgeois political leadership with scores. After the broadcast of the "Decision" and the recording of the interview was played, students from all over the country angrily denounced the heinous crimes of the old education system, and wept impassionedly.

Jiang Lesheng has been restless these days, the situation is chaotic, and all schools that are busy rebelling in various places have been suspended, can this year's college entrance examination be held as scheduled? The fears really happened! I have been busy preparing for the exam for a year, and my hope has come to naught. Thinking of Cong Jing's expectant gaze and the promise to help him share his financial difficulties, he wanted to cry bitterly! What is she doing at this moment? Playing the accordion alone to express your frustration, or wandering along the boulevard where they used to walk together? After more than a month of separation, endless thoughts gnawed at his heart like small animals. After dinner, he came to the holy pond with a banana fan in one hand and a "shaker" in the other. The bright moon passes through the clouds, and the water in the pool is sparkling for a while, and black for a while. He hummed "Prairie Night", which he hadn't sung for a long time:

How quiet the beautiful night is/Only the sound of my piano is left on the grassland/I want to write a letter to a girl from afar/It's a pity that there is no postman to pass the love......

In the past half a month, Lao Niu, the deputy captain who returned to the farm to do business, returned to the logging team and brought a letter from the third sister Lehua. When I opened it, there was only a note written by Cong Jing, with a few words and three lines:

Sister Lehua: Lesheng has been in the mountain for two months, and I don't know what the situation is? Now that the college admissions test has been abolished, what is his next step? Regardless of whether the school is closed or not, I want to go back to Blackwater in early August, can you inform him to come back as soon as possible? Cong Jing 66. 7。 25

In the tent of the office--dormitory, the old cow recounted what he saw when he returned to the farm: It's all messed up! If you want to do something, you can't find anyone, and your mind is spent on big-character posters; The 100-meter corridor of the field office is full of big-character posters from east to west; The first big-character poster was posted by a teacher surnamed You, and the first cadre to be pulled out was Principal Lin, who shaved his yin and yang heads, and was fighting with his ass every day. Secretary Sun was suspended for inspection, and the field leader inspected while working, all of which were wrong routes; Deputy Director Wang was born as a landlord, and the spies of the Kuomintang Blue Coat Society were imprisoned in the trumpet. At present, Wu Bande, the acting secretary, has suddenly changed from the "fourth" to the "boss", and he has grasped the power of the party, government, finance and literature; The Labor Reform Bureau sent a working group, consisting of Honglu, Cai Chuanguang and the teacher surnamed You, who were all "leading groups", and they were very angry; found out a large number of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, Niu Qiushi, who had the best medical treatment in the health center, and his niece Ye Xiaona, one cleaned the toilet and the other fed the pigs......

As if listening to the story of the Arabian Nights, Ping Qingyun, Lao Bao and Jiang Lesheng were dumbfounded, the situation was changing faster than they imagined. Jiang Lesheng walked out of the tent to relieve himself, and heard Captain Niu behind him say in a low voice: There are a few big-character posters and the name of Accountant Jiang here, saying that he is the black cadre of Principal Lin and the black minion of the bourgeois education line.

Jiang Lesheng pinched the note written by his sweetheart, and his heart was like numbness. He seemed to see her pale and tired, her two big eyes showing anxiety, dazed and helpless, looking at the mountains in the distance. He heard the call of her heart!

Today on the 30th, he made up his mind to go down the mountain tomorrow. The public money brought is almost gone, and I have to go back to the farm to get it. Lao Ping told him that the situation on the farm seemed to be very complicated, and he should go back quickly and not intervene. This veteran comrade reflected on the lessons of the anti-rightist movement and regarded the deep mountains and old forests as a paradise. After hesitating for a moment, he said: Before coming, the leader took care of you, and let you go down the mountain as little as possible, so I understood the reason for transferring you, which is really lacking in morality! As an elder, I advise you to say two things: one is that people have to bow their heads under the roof, and the other is that if you win, you will fight and leave if you can't win. You have to take a long-term view, use your brain more when you encounter problems, and it is easy to suffer if you are reckless. Jiang Lesheng nodded gratefully.

Summer in the north dawns at three o'clock. Jiang Lesheng took a few nests from the room, put on plastic sandals and a wooden stick on the road. Wooden sticks can defend oneself and save effort when walking long distances on crutches; Plastic sandals are just fashionable, and they are not afraid to wade through the water rain or shine. On the way, a shoelace broke, so I picked up a rope and tied it and walked away. At noon, I took a bite of pickles, picked up the stream water on the side of the road and drank until I hiccuped, and finally came to the end of the long mountain road after dark. He limped to the transit station, exhausted and without any strength. The ankle was worn out, the leather drill was distressed, and the shirt was wet and dry, leaving rippled sweat stains.

After resting overnight at the transit station, I finally waited for a truck passing through Maoshan the next afternoon. Stuff the driver with two packs of "Sun Island" and sit in the cab. Lao Niu introduced the market: don't give cigarettes and don't let you ride, a pack of cigarettes in the carriage, and want to sit in the cab for two packs. A hundred kilometers, worth it.

The wheels are spinning. Two hours later, I vaguely saw the cone-shaped shadow of Maoshan Mountain, which became clearer and clearer the closer I got closer. Pinching his fingers and Cong Jing for sixty-six days, day and night Sauvignon Blanc, the distance at this moment is approaching step by step. The thought of being able to meet again soon, he couldn't help but beat his heart pounding. The car went uphill, and the red-tiled house of the field was impressive. The loudspeaker was playing "Rebellion is Justified", and an atmosphere of solemnity filled the air.

The new person in charge of the guest house is called Lao Cui. The staff of this field stayed in the guest house, and generally lived in a Datong kang for six people, but Lao Cui arranged for him to live in a small room, saying that the conditions in the mountains were difficult, so he could enjoy the treatment of foreign guests.

Take a hot shower after dinner, and the fatigue will disappear a lot. I haven't looked in the mirror for two months since I entered the mountain and bathed in the stream, and now when I look at the big mirror on the wall, I can't imagine that my dignity has become like this: my face is angular, and I am much thinner than before; The skin has become dark, and the corners of the eyes are white lines. When did the lips grow a circle of hair?

He hesitated: go to the school to find Cong Jing or go to Teacher Du Pu's house, and ask her to tell Cong Jing that I am back? I was too lazy to go to school to meet You Hongshan, that guy was so red and purple who wanted to see his face? I'm sorry to trouble Mr. Du. I was hesitating when I heard someone knocking on the door, but I didn't expect Cong Jing to come!

Cong Jing rushed over as soon as he entered the door, hugging him tightly without saying a word. She had just washed her hair, and the smell of sandalwood soap made him dizzy.

Jiang Lesheng asked: How do you know that I am back? Who told you I live here?

She said mischievously: Telepathy! I dreamed about it last night, and today my dream has come true. It turned out that she had been looking forward to it these days, and she had come to the guest house after dinner for three consecutive days, and her "Liu" had to stay here when she came back.

She held his face with both hands and looked at it carefully, and said distressedly: Tanned, thinner, Liu, you suffered!

Liu Ya joined the group not long ago. Wrote more than a dozen applications to join the group, persevered in digging the toilet for two years, and unswervingly strive for progress and finally achieved positive results. She took the shining regimental emblem and couldn't wait to pin it to her chest, crying like a tearful child.

Liu Ya's joining the group is thanks to the strong support of the You Hongshan Branch Committee. In the past two years, she has unpacked and washed the bedding for him seven or eight times, and You Hongshan gave sneakers and shirts on his birthday. That time, You Hongshan was slapped by Cong Jing with a smile and a grin, and he was drunk and vomited all over the bed, and Liu Ya cleaned it up.

Jiang Lesheng was transferred out of school for self-explanatory reasons. During that time, You Hongshan was so happy that he told Liu Ya: You and Teacher Cong Jing in the women's dormitory, you have to care more about her. The attitude is absolutely upright and gentlemanly. Liu Ya guessed that he didn't give up, maybe he expected her to thread the needle and let Cong Jing and him get back together?

Last week, You Hongshan asked Liu Ya how Cong Jing was doing? Liu Ya said that her appetite has been a little bad in the past two days, if you care about her, it is the right time to send some condolences.

He bought four canned fruits, but when he sent them, he touched a nose of ash - Cong Jing resolutely refused to accept them.

After dinner yesterday, Liu Ya and You Hongshan went back to school together, and on the way she told him: Cong Jing has not been in a high mood these days, and her mind is uncertain as if she has something on her mind.

Liu Ya inadvertently acted as an informant again - You Hongshan, who had a keen sense of smell, guessed: Jiang Lesheng is coming back!

Three days ago, Cong Jing asked You Hongshan for leave -- Lin Bai was found out to criticize the school, and he was in charge of it -- saying that he wanted to go back to the family because of something. At first, You Hongshan disagreed on the grounds of exercise nervousness, but later saw that her attitude was resolute and afraid of stiffness, so he agreed to give half a month of leave, but she has not been seen to move for a long time. By the way, I must be waiting for Jiang Lesheng! It seems that these two people eat the scales, and the rods can't be scattered!

You Hongshan secretly thought to himself, the opportunity for revenge has come! He came to the guest house as a member of the leading group, asked this and that, and inadvertently inadvertently instructed: The people of the logging team on the mountain are working hard outside, and they can arrange a small room when they return to the field. Lao Cui can't wait to be a good person, so he is naturally happy to do it.

Rats, thieves, dogs, stalking, and stalking is what this person is good at. He was setting a trap and wanted to wait for the rabbit urn to catch turtles - Jiang Lesheng would definitely stay in a guest house when he returned to the farm, and Cong Jing would definitely come to see him