We still eat glutinous rice and boiling water every day, and it is difficult to see even vegetables and the like in the market, let alone meat dishes. But the task is as heavy as a mountain, the solar terms don't wait for anyone, and no one can run, so they have to grit their teeth and survive these few months.

In order to better complete the quota task, I said to everyone, we still divide the production task to the individual, each person completes each person, after completing the task, the team can rest after passing the acceptance, and if you do not complete the task, I'm sorry, your own ideas, the help of others is always limited, and you can't rely on others every day. In this way, two days of tasks were completed in one day, and the efficiency was greatly improved. This matter was reflected to the field department, and our group was praised: the task was completed, the work and rest were combined, and the task of the whole team was promoted at once.

If you want to improve your life, you can't wait, you can't ask for it, you have to think about it yourself. I discussed with you: each person took out some money to buy some chickens and ducks to raise (the Dai and Hani people have food, and they don't have to worry about no feed), chickens and ducks lay eggs, the sick number is preferred, and everyone can also drink an egg soup to replenish the body. At that time, it was a unified purchasing and marketing system, collectivization, there was nothing to buy in the store, and it was difficult to see oil flowers in the canteen, so we had to buy from the Dai and Hani people. Whenever the Dai people kill pigs and cattle, they can buy one or two catties of high-priced pork and beef through the usual good Dai "Lao Geng", and their lives have been improved to a certain extent. At that time, the salary of our demobilized officers was seventy or eighty yuan a month, which was not bad money, and we were all bachelors, so we had no burden. As long as life is better, there will be fewer illnesses and more energy. Since the whole group is united and they are all singles, everyone is willing to do the same.

We have a total of more than 20 chickens and ducks, eggs, we can drink some egg soup every day, kill a chicken a week to improve our lives, and there are many fewer sick numbers. The most valuable thing is that some comrades sent supplements to their homes, such as milk, bacon, canned food, etc., all of which were "communist", managed by the fat man Bi Xiaozhou, and the sick number was given priority. Buy and eat whatever you can buy. Later, a large number of canned food was transferred from Chuncheng and Shencheng City to the frontier, although it was a little more expensive, we still bought a lot, our bodies were strong, our attendance was high, and the daily progress skyrocketed. Every night the Dai family has sweet sake lees to sell, two dimes a small bowl, each of us is indispensable to one or two bowls, female compatriots are even more happy, but also invented eggs to make sweet sake lees, eat straight licking mouth. Our group completed the dam cutting task half a month ahead of schedule.

This was followed by the digging of terraces and holes. The terraces are required to be dug into a flat ribbon-shaped terrace, the belt surface should be low inside and high outside, and the surface fertile soil should be left during excavation. The width is 1.20 meters to 1.5 meters, and after this task is completed, the next step is to dig a hole. It is stipulated that each person digs twenty-five per day (thirty for the old workers), and the size of the hole is 80×70×60 cm, which is a coffee (the hole for rubber is much larger). This is another arduous test, calculated according to 80×70×60, each person needs to dig out 8.4 cubic meters of soil per day, and the leader takes care of me as the team leader and only digs 23, but after I complete the task, I go to help the weak comrades. The fat man Bi Xiaozhou is a fat man, after coming to Sina, he suffered from severe arthritis due to rheumatism, and the pain was so painful that he could not walk, so he was often absent from work. With the concerted efforts of the whole group, coupled with the improvement of life, the attendance rate reached more than 90%. The task was completed quickly. In this digging task, Wang Laijin, Chen Diande, and Hu Guozhang contributed the most, and these comrades-in-arms added glory to the group! Under the high-intensity physical labor, we kill a chicken (or duck) every few days to stew soup, shabu the canned meat, and everyone eats sweating profusely to dissipate the cold. The big canteen can't be run well, but our small "canteen" has a hole. At the end of June and the beginning of July, before the rainy season came, all the preparations were completed, and then I started to build my own home, the bamboo tent house.

The bamboo tent house is also simple, erect a few tree forks, tie the bamboo rafters (there are wild bamboos on the mountain), buy the woven grass row from the Dai people, use the bamboo (this kind of bamboo is thick, the diameter is more than 20 centimeters, the bamboo tube we fill with boiling water is this, the Dai people use to hold rice is also this kind of bamboo, the Dai people can plant it for three years to become a forest) broke into a bamboo row, 2 meters high, tied into a wall, the whole company took more than four or five days to build four grass houses. The middle is divided into a small room with bamboo rows, which is ventilated and cool on all sides, which is very suitable for living in a tropical rainforest climate.

The first and second groups live in large tents, close to the temporary "road". Singles and men are all in the bunk, and those with families and female workers live in another straw hut with a small room, and there are not so many secrets between men and women. Everyone only has a pitiful amount of daily necessities, and one bag is full. The civil box I brought was sent by Qu Guo's friend Yanwen back then, although it was bulky, but it was very practical, with a large volume, and would not be drilled into by miscellaneous insects.

After coming to Sina for so long, I don't know what the outside world is like, everyone's hair and beard are in a mess, and there is no barber, the beard can be removed with a razor, and the hair has to be allowed to grow freely, and we really look like a group of "wild men" from a distance.

In our group, in addition to six people who came from the preparatory school, there are eight people who are directly under the military region, most of them are party members, with the rank of second lieutenant, most of them are single, only Wang Laijin brought his wife to the frontier (Lao Wang was on the eve of coming to the frontier, the object of the time when he returned to his hometown in Puyang Province, and brought it after the surprise marriage), the daughter-in-law is young, only more than 19 years old, Lao Wang is more than ten years older than her, the old husband and wife, the newlywed Yan'er, and the life is sweet. Except for labor, the two of them shrank in the "cave room". Soon, the little daughter-in-law and Lao Wang often "fought", quarreled endlessly, trivial, and fought for the "upstream" with their tongues. Lao Wang wants to take the lead in everything, and has no time to argue, so the little daughter-in-law often stands and cries at the door of the small house, and when she is tired of standing, she squats and cries (there was no stool at that time), and no one pays attention to her (everyone has gone to the construction site), so she retracts back to the "cave room". Maybe it's too bitter and monotonous here, and I feel depressed, and I regret that I shouldn't marry into this deep mountain and old forest.

After a long time, she seemed to understand us people. Idle, take away her men's stinky clothes and our singles' stinky clothes and wash them, hang them on the bamboo fence and straw canopy, like opening a universal clothing fair, colorful and large, after drying, and fold the clothes neatly, put them on everyone's bamboo shop, and return to the small "cave room" silently.

At first, everyone was very strange, I don't know who did the good deeds, but then it was finally discovered by Bi Fatzi, saying that Wang Laijin's little daughter-in-law did it, and we are so grateful to her. I wrote a small article and published it in the tabloids of the field department, which caused a sensation, and the team leaders praised her, and she shy shy and shrank into the "cave room" and saw no one.

When encountering a big break (once every ten days), we often invite them to come to the singles shed to chat, and praise her for being a good daughter-in-law, worthy of being a good daughter-in-law taught by a good husband. I smiled and said, "Lao Wang should accompany her well in the evening and perform a few more wonderful shows for the little daughter-in-law, so that she will not dare to beat you in the future......." Everyone laughed again, who knew that she punched me, "Team Leader Zhang, educate everyone like this, right?" ……。 ”

"Yes, yes, yes, I want Team Leader Zhang to teach you a few more hard kung fu in the future", there was another burst of laughter, and she went to chase and beat others again. This is Wang Laijin's daughter-in-law, the Miao daughter of Puyang Province - Li Shaoqin, an innocent young woman.