Spring quietly approached the Great Northern Wilderness. The days have lengthened considerably, and the wind is no longer sharp. The snow began to melt on the sunny slopes, and long ice cubes hung under the eaves, dripping and dripping. The snow on the road melted during the day and froze at night, and the pedals were like stepping on broken glass.

In order to promote the surface warming, tractors pull wooden rakers to lower the snow. The snow and fields of the locomotive are mottled like traces of a giant pen dipped in ink. After a few days, the snow cleared and the ground revealed its dark chest, and it was time to sow wheat.

At the end of the probationary period, the volunteers will be arranged to work for a long time (period) and temporary (time).

Changlin Labor is a self-recruited worker of the farm. "Long" stands for non-seasonal long-term employment; "Pro" means subject to approval by the labor department. Generally speaking, a permanent job is equivalent to a regular job.

The children and relatives of employed peasant workers, Ye Xiaona went to the health center, Lu Kuan went to the rice and flour processing factory, and Gou Wanshan and others all learned to drive tractors.

Feng Yonghou wants to learn electrician, which is a good job that is difficult for ordinary people to find. Lao Feng was a veteran of the construction of the field, staring at Xue Xue, the elder of the personnel department, and put on a posture of not giving up until the goal was achieved.

The director of the repair plant took a fancy to Feng Yonghou, who was simple and diligent. The son became an electrician as he wished, but Lao Feng Tou attributed it to him. He said that you can't be too honest, I have been driving a car for half my life, and the animals are bullying the soft and afraid of the hard.

The farm is located in a remote area, and it is extremely inconvenient to get around without a bus, so you have to take a ride to get around, otherwise you have to use footsteps no matter how far the road is. Therefore, driving a car is particularly popular, and even racing over the sitting mechanism.

Guan Erzhuang proposed to his brother, who was the captain of the car, that he wanted to drive a car. Da Zhuang said that the drivers here are the sons of the labor reform bureau and field-level leaders, except for those who have been transferred from the army, and the youngest ones are also at the section level! Can you?

Er Zhuang blushed and said: You, no, department, department? Now, the official is not, it is better to manage, and now manage!

Da Zhuang ignored his brother's request -- the second strong boss was not small, and it was not suitable for him to learn to drive a car with a clumsy hand. Besides, the team is not a rural production team, and the leader of the team has boundless power, and he can accept whoever he wants. He went to Section Chief Xue and said that Erzhuang had worked in his hometown and was assigned to work as a repairman in the team. This is a live technology, and enjoy the driver's labor insurance treatment.

Brother Ren Wei and Brother Ren Wu are good. Section Chief Xue asked Ren Dahai's opinion, what are your two nephews doing?

Lao Ren's posture is very high: I can't thank them enough, what is there to pick and choose? It's up to you!

Section Chief Xue said tentatively: We still lack accounting personnel, why don't we let them learn accounting? It's also easy to cultivate.

Ren Dahai shook his head: No, no, no, I didn't graduate from elementary school, and my culture was too low. Besides, the impact is not good.

In the end, the brothers were assigned seven sub-stations to serve as prison guards, responsible for registering the number of prisoners entering and leaving the prison, and receiving and supervising family visits. If you do a good job, you will have the opportunity to be promoted to be a discipliner. Ren is the section chief.

Jiang Lesheng's brother-in-law Ma Shukui and Lan Rong's brother Lan Lepu are agricultural technicians and technical instructors of the improved seed station. Wang Huaju discussed with the stationmaster Ping Qingyun and decided to leave Jiang Lesheng and Lan Rong behind, one accountant and the other as a custodian. Leave them behind, and the good seed station and the biotechnology department will be close to each other.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of cadres on farms, and a small number of workers with good thinking and strong ability are filled into management positions, which is called "work instead of work". For example, clerks, secretaries, team leaders, accounting and statistics custodians, substitute teachers, trainee doctors, and so on. After the "generation" cadres have been replaced for a long time, there may be hope for the cadres to be transferred to the next level.

Who wouldn't want to be a cadre? A pie fell from the sky and smashed on the heads of the Ren brothers, Jiang Lesheng and Ye Xiaona. Lan Rong had tears in her eyes, and she couldn't wait to kneel down to thank Instructor Wang.

Wang Huaju is a native of Pingyao, Shanxi, with a wide forehead, pointed chin, and a dumpling face, white and pure talent, and is 29 years old this year. His wife Liang Erni is one year older than him, she is strong, she can pick up the mountain on her back, she is spicy and capable, and the whole village is famous. Before Wang Huaju joined the army, the two of them made a marriage, and when he left, Erni sent him to the entrance of the village, and the four calloused hands were caught together: Huaju, there is a sister in the family, and the sister is not afraid of being tired no matter how hard she is. You work hard in the team, and when you change jobs and get a job, my sister will go with you to live a good life.

During the four years of Wang Huaju's service, his parents were sick, his younger brothers and sisters were young, and this poor family was supported by Erni, who had never been through the door. He often wrote home to express his gratitude and guilt for Erni, and saved money from the pitiful allowance to buy a red cotton jacket and a plaid headscarf to send to her.

Three years ago, when he was about to change jobs, his father's illness became more and more serious, urging his son to go home immediately to complete the marriage. Erni went to the station for three days in a row to pick him up. The girl in the mountain village is not old, and the twenty-seven-year-old Erni has dark skin, and her red jacket and plaid headscarf have long faded. Wang Huaju was reluctant in his heart, and he didn't dare to show it on his face, and he worshiped heaven and earth in a proper manner-he was afraid that his father would be angry and infamous for his unfilial piety.

On the night of the candles in the cave room, Erni's heart was like a pot of blazing charcoal. She stripped herself naked and leaned on her back on a new bunk sprinkled with peanuts and red dates. The bridegroom sat in the shadow of the flickering candles, holding his cheek with one hand and half-closing his eyes, smoking a cigarette one by one. He said that there was too much wine and that the bride would sleep on her own. Erni jumped up and got angry:! Can I sleep? It is said that when the three-year soldier meets the old sow race fairy, you will be gone for four years, and my sister is not as good as an old sow?

Wang Huaju didn't reply or move. Erni came to the momentum, pulled out the cigarette in his mouth and stepped on his feet, hugged him and threw it on the kang "Bang Dang", stripped off his clothes three times and gritted his teeth: Whether to kill or chop, I can't help you today!

From across the wall, my father groaned. Wang Huaju didn't dare to make a noise, and half-pushed and half-pushed at the mercy of the crazy bride. The charcoal fire melted the frost, and the twenty-six-year-old man was really powerful. After a hand-to-hand fight, Erni let out a happy howl.

Three days later, my father died, his eyes closed tightly and peacefully. After Wang Huaju finished the funeral, he had to report to the work unit where he changed jobs. He dissuaded his wife, who had already packed up her things and wanted to go with him: "It's a labor camp over there, and I'm going to see a prisoner." Leaning on the border in the ice and snow, eating big ballast and gnawing on the nest and nest, why do you bother to suffer with you?

Erni didn't listen, and threw herself into Wang Huaju's arms while beating and sobbing: It's so easy to look forward to your coming back, the quilt is just hot, so you can't bear to throw your sister home to guard the empty kang? I am not afraid of sin following you!

Wang Huaju was moved by her softness, and even coaxed and persuaded: Erni, you are a good person, you have suffered for my family all these years. Dad just left, and my mother was lonely. There is no house on the farm now, and living in a tent and squatting on a horse rack is not called bringing your family, you go to live in the open air? I'll pick you up when I have a room.

Erni raised her face and stared at him intently: Really? Next year, next year, will it work?

Wang Huaju was stared at by her, and turned his head and responded: Seriously.

Erni turned his head, for fear of losing the baby, pressed on his fat and bulging chest, and said in a child's tone: You are now a national cadre, and you are my sister's life. In the ugly words, you must not learn from Chen Shimei! You learn from Sister Chen Shimei to find Bao Longtu to figure you! Wang Huaju was covered and breathless, and a cold breath came from behind his back.

After coming to Maoshan for three years, Wang Huaju devoted himself to his work. In the dead of night, I also miss my mother and home, miss Erni, think of her good and her suffering. can turn out the wedding photo that never shows people, and the sweet happiness is gone.

He sends money home every month for his salary, and he goes home as usual on family leave once a year. It is a pleasure to be separated for a long time and get married, and it is unbearable to be together every day. He repeatedly lied to Erni that he didn't have a house: the farm only builds two houses a year, and I am a party member who is embarrassed to fight with others? I'm afraid it won't be solved in three or five years! He hoped that Erni would lose patience and file for divorce, so that he would not be able to fulfill his wish and not be stabbed by Bao Longtu.

Few people on Maoshan Farm knew that he had a wife. Someone wanted to propose marriage to him, but he only shook his head and did not speak.

Stationmaster Ping Qingyun is twenty years older than Wang Huaju. In the second year of the Xi'an Incident, he and his classmates defected to Yan'an on foot from Henan, entered the third phase of the "Kang Da", participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, and fought with Chen Geng in the Liberation War to Liangguang Yunnan. In 53, he stepped down as chief of staff of the division and transferred to the provincial public security department as deputy director. In the past fifteen years, his career has risen to prominence like his name.

The road of life is too smooth, and it is easy to fall behind. Thanks to the protection of the old chief, he did not wear a rightist hat but the punishment was not light: he was placed on probation in the party and demoted to three levels, and he was appointed as a section chief of the labor reform sub-bureau.

Lao Ping also learned to drink after planting a big heel. Three meals a day, sometimes drunk at work. Get up happily and sing the song of the University of Resistance against the University: On the shore of the Yellow River, a group of outstanding descendants of the Chinese nation gathered...... The leader of the agency talked to him, and he openly claimed that the broken jar was broken! is also "Lao Tzu Lao Tzu" is not disrespectful.

Newton's law of inertia also applies to the path of life. When people become popular, everything goes smoothly, and when they are unlucky, the wall falls down, and everyone pushes through the drums. Lao Ping's wife's garment factory streamlined non-production personnel, and she was unwilling to go down to the workshop as a worker to force Lao Ping to find the director. The director said that he couldn't arrange it, and Lao Ping shouted in the corridor: Tiger fell in Pingchuan and was bullied by dogs! This is a good arrangement, that is a good arrangement, the little wife with a head and a face is easy to arrange, but Lao Tzu's authentic wife can't arrange it? Don't take Lao Tzu for a fool, if you provoke Lao Tzu and kill you! Get rid of the meritorious slave Jiao Da in "Dream of Red Mansions".

Lao Ping couldn't kill anyone without a gun in his hand. He is just hearsay, and he does not have real evidence of who is the little wife. The crowd pushed and shoved him to persuade him to go home. He was not stuffed with horse dung like Jiao Da, but he was punished far more severely than horse dung: he was expelled from the party, demoted by two levels of administration, demoted from the main department to an ordinary cadre, and sent to Maoshan Farm.

As the saying goes, the tree moves the dead and the living, and after Ping Qingyun came to Maoshan, he changed his personality: after he calmed down and thought about it, he ran to fifty in his early forties, six children were waiting to be fed, and the broken jar couldn't withstand the fall, and he had to live a good life. He no longer indulged in glorious and poignant memories, and was determined to quit drinking, and worked diligently like a tamed bull.

Secretary Sun respects him a lot, and the two field directors Yu and Wang are also very polite to him. Considering that he had many children and family difficulties, and that it was difficult for anyone to bear even a five-level salary reduction, the farm party committee made a report and recommended that he only be demoted but not a salary cut, which was approved; Then he arranged for his eldest daughter to go to work, and Lao Ping was comforted a little, and he cried like a child.

Wang Huaju and Ping Qingyun have a tacit understanding between the old and young partners, one is in charge of political work and discipline, and the other is in charge of production, and the improved seed station has been rated as an advanced unit for three consecutive years.

Jiang Lesheng Lan Rong joined the Seed Station, adding a youthful atmosphere to this courtyard. Lan Rong is the only woman, with bright eyes and a soft voice like a little red in the green bushes. When night falls, the accounting room, which doubles as a dormitory, wafts the melodious sound of erhu.

The general ledger accountant is an employed peasant worker, and this strange name resembles the name of a monk. Wang Huaju told Jiang Lesheng: This person's accounting level is amazing, and the section chief and the director of the financial department of the bureau admire him. If you study hard with him, you will become a master.

Jiang Lesheng was fortunate to have met a good leader, and he met a master when he studied accounting. He called Jiedian the master, swept the floor, wiped the table, boiled the water, and did not need the old man to do it.

Every morning, he followed the stationmaster to the field to complete the work of counting the stall. In the afternoon, go back to the office to fill out the form, and then start the bookkeeping. Picking up the account book and not waiting to open it, Jie Dian asked coldly: Have you washed your hands?

Jiang Lesheng replied: I washed it when I entered the house.

Jie Diandian said in an irrefutable tone: Re-wash, remember next time.

Don't look at this old man's sloppy and sloppy, the ledger of the voucher is as neat as new, like a collectible work of art. The Arabic numerals are all inclined at an angle of 75 degrees, neatly arranged to occupy half a grid height. The corrections are all crossed out by red lines, and the black and red contrast is more clear and beautiful.

Jie Dian takes a fancy to Jiang Lesheng who is smart and studious, but he should not be his master: Do you recognize a second labor reform as a master, and you are not afraid of other people's gossip? Sometimes I hum and agree.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the disciples of the church starved to death of their masters. Jiedian understands that the farm is short of accountants at the moment, and he will have to get out of the way when he teaches others. He went down to work in the earth or fed the animals, and he was too old to bear that sin. Out of the defensive instinct of fear of being "starved to death", he was tight-lipped about Jiang Lesheng's request for advice, and sometimes had to say a perfunctory sentence or two.