It's finally time to leave home and go to the countryside!

The educated youths wore big red flowers on their chests one by one, and surrounded by their families, they reluctantly walked into the team and lined up to get on the bus.

Dong Lixing is alone, and there are no relatives to send him off! - It was not that his family was indifferent, but that he insisted that no one in the family should be allowed to see him off, and that he should avoid everything with a special imprint. He made up his mind that he must forge his own path in the future!

More than a dozen liberation cars started slowly, and the family members also ran after the cars, crying, and admonishing!

On a high slope in the distance, Dong Lixing's parents kept watching until the convoy was nowhere to be seen.

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After going to the countryside, Dong Lixing was assigned to the third production team of the Yongqing Brigade.

The first time I went to work, the production team leader sent work. Seeing a dung truck parked next to him, Dong Lixing said, "Captain, I'll go and dig for dung!" ”

The captain looked at him in amazement and said, "This is not a good job, young man!" Can you do it? ”

"Okay!" Dong Lixing said firmly.

The captain nodded and said, "Then you can try!" ”

The first time he went into the city to dig for dung, he didn't know how many times he vomited. The dung truck is a large wooden carriage, in order to prevent the manure from overflowing, there is only one half-meter square inlet on it, and there is an outlet at the lower end of the carriage, which is usually closed. The scavenger strapped a large iron spoon to a long wooden pole and scooped up the manure from the toilet tank one by one, and then poured it into the inlet of the manure truck.

I can't remember how many times, the dung spoon lost its balance, the dung soup ran down the wooden pole, the feces and urine poured into the sleeves of the clothes, and then flowed coolly from the armpits to the body.

In the evening, Dong Lixing dragged his weak body back to the team. He almost vomited all his bile, but he didn't take a sip of water. Don't say that he can't eat anything while guarding the dung truck, even his own hands, he feels very smelly.

The captain walked up to him, holding a lunch box in his hand: "Xiao Dong! You don't eat or drink, that's not okay! Man is iron, rice is steel,—— drink porridge! Dong Lixing said: "I didn't expect that this manure digging is still a technical job!" ”

"I'll accompany you into town tomorrow! Remember, young man, steel is not made in a day! The captain patted Dong Lixing's shoulder and said.

……

Wen Min also went to the countryside. And also came to the Yongqing brigade.

However, because of her strengths, and there were no music and art teachers in the primary school, she stayed at the school and taught both subjects at the same time.

On the first Sunday, Wen Min arrived at Dong Lixing's production team, Yongqing Team 3. However, there are no days off except for rainy days. She searched all the plots, but she didn't see Dong Lixing. After asking the members, I found out that Dong Lixing had taken the initiative to do the work of washing dung since he arrived here. During the day, he drove the dung truck to walk the streets and alleys of the county seat, digging toilets everywhere. At night, he had to look at melons in the melon field, and he lived in a melon hut at the head of the field.

On the way back, passing by the melon field, Wen Min's nose was a little sour when he saw a small lonely shack in the large melon field. At the beginning, on campus, Dong Lixing was so powerful! - But now, her hero is in the cesspool outside the toilet every day, scooping up feces and urine spoonful, she can't understand! couldn't control his feelings for a while, so he sat on the ridge on the side of the road and cried bitterly. ……

In September, the brigade held a meeting, and Dong Lixing met Wen Min.

Wen Min lives in the office of the elementary school, but a partition is made in the inner part of the room and a wooden bed is placed.

"You live here?" Dong Lixing asked.

"Yes, it's just that the conditions are almost there. - Are you still living in a melon shack? Can't you always be alone when you watch melons at night? ”

"I loved staying there ,—— quiet! I can't live there for a few days, and I don't have to look at the melon garden. ”

Quiet? - Is this still the same energetic teenager? Wen Min's heart felt bitter. She took out a paper bag from the dilapidated roll cabinet and handed it to Dong Lixing, "The biscuits and candies I sent from home originally wanted to be sent to you, but you just came." ”

Dong Lixing took it and put it on the table: "No, you can keep it and eat it!" My family also sent it, I ...... it, and returned it. ”

"How can you do that? How sad they must be! Wen Min didn't understand.

"He made that mistake! - How do I understand him? Dong Lixing was very angry.

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