After dinner, Zhou Jiao carried Ping'an on her back, carried a horn and a trumpet, and followed behind Aunt Wang.

Aunt Wang is a good person!

Before dinner, Aunt Wang looked at Zhou Jiao's thin body with disgust, especially under the commensurate peace of the fat and dudu, she frowned tightly and gave Zhou Jiao a fat shortage.

Writing slogans, shouting slogans, and blowing trumpets, on the surface, she couldn't rest for twenty hours, but Zhou Jiao knew that this was someone who had the heart to take care of her.

In order not to let Aunt Wang be honest, Zhou Jiao took the initiative to take over the courage and take care of several milk dolls, so that the adults could strive for miracles with peace of mind.

People began to break up the limestone that was pushed back from the mountains during the day.

Limestone is needed for the foundation of the earth blast furnace, and limestone is needed for the foundation of the nine-meter-high blast furnace. It is very sturdy and stable.

The two piles of iron ore and coke next to it are the raw materials for iron smelting, which also have to be crushed.

The fatigue of labor can't stop people's passion. The sound of loud conversations, hammer beating, and the sound of the county radio was in full swing.

Zhou Jiao looked up at the sky, there was little rain this autumn, and there was no rain until now. She looked at the child in her arms, who was not sleepy, and watched around with her eyes open, and wanted to have a rain.

At the moment, she didn't realize that her idea was naïve. Until winter, there were two rains, and people were still busy with green in the rain, where to have a holiday.

In the distance, Zhang's father and mother were beating on the limestone, paying attention to his wife's hands from time to time.

"Daddy, did you meet someone from the village when you went up the mountain in the afternoon? I heard that a blast furnace is also being built in the village, but I don't know where it is. Alas... My heart is falling and falling. ”

Dad Zhang smiled: "I met the fifth child." Our village didn't have the help of people, and the stove couldn't rise so high, so we added a few more mouthfuls. I heard that it was on the wasteland at the foot of the mountain. Our yard is fine, don't you worry about Ming'er taking the time to go back and take a look. ”

Zhang's mother kept shaking her head, "Forget it, if you don't go back, it's useless to watch it." I don't know what happened to our three sons. ”

So you still think about your son? Dad Zhang is not worried about the two sons below, but he is worried about the boss. The second child is clever, and the fifth child is not stupid, and he has a lot of strength. The eldest of his family is not good, he is too loyal and easy to suffer. But he can't tell his wife about this, otherwise he will have to get sick urgently.

He laughed and said, "They've done it more tired, so you don't have to worry?" ”

"Xiao Wu and the second child didn't come back for dinner, I wonder if they will be hungry?"

"Just when Xiaowu met me, he said that the three brothers were eating in the unit. Rest assured. They're all right. You're worried about them, and they're still worried about you. ”

Mother Zhang listened to her wife's comfort and felt much better. Seeing the little daughter-in-law in front of her shouting through the loudspeaker, she was even more full of strength.

Zhang's mother was worried about the three sons, just as Zhang's father expected at this moment.

Zhang Guofu kept smashing stones, and it could be seen from the sweat on his back and the sweat on his forehead that he was very attentive. While he was working, he considered what Zhang Guoqing said. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to listen to his brother's arrangement. Since it is dangerous to climb the blast furnace, then he will forget it.

The second child, Zhang Guoqiang, carried the stone to the colleagues sitting on the ground, he himself sat down from time to time to knock a few times, and handed a few cigarettes to his colleagues from time to time, making fun of each other.

It can be seen that he is like a fish in water. He also thought of his brother's instructions, and he didn't need Xiao Wu to say it, he also knew it in his heart. There are a lot of masters in the game, and they all perform positively, and they still use him to fight?

As for Zhang Guoqing, at this moment, there is a large pile of limestone processed into crushed limestone in front of him, which is twice as much as others, which makes Zhao Dashan always look at him.

He smiled helplessly at Zhao Dashan. He can't help it, he is already known for his strength, is he hiding it at this time? What's more, hearing Zhou Jiao's voice from the loudspeaker not far away made him lose his mind as soon as he was excited.

Let's go! There is a loss and a gain, at least in addition to going up the mountain to push back the stone, he still knocks on the stone. It's really an easy job for him.

Thinking of this, Zhang Guoqing began to think about whether he would take his son at night? The sound of the horn must have kept his family awake. I just don't know if my son is not by his daughter-in-law's side, will his daughter-in-law be transferred to knock stones?

The busy days passed quickly in Zhang Guoqing's gains and losses and hesitation. On many open spaces in the county, earthen blast furnaces of different heights and sizes have been erected one after another.

After ten days of beating, mountains of iron ore, coke and limestone had piled up not far from the blast furnace.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

The completion of the earthen blast furnace has given people hope, and everyone is full of passion and devotes themselves to the cause of ironmaking.

Whether it's to celebrate, or to have fun. On this day, wherever there is an earthen blast furnace in the whole county, the furnace ignition ceremony was held.

As the music on the radio stopped, the heads of the various departments announced the start.

The person who lit the furnace filled the furnace with wood for ignition, and the coke was poured into the furnace from the top of the furnace. The man below set the wood on fire with oil and cut it to death with refractory bricks, leaving a round hole for molten iron.

At this point, the air is blown with a blower - and in an instant, billowing smoke is spraying up from the roof of the furnace.

Witnessing this moment, there were bursts of warm applause and cheers at the scene, and some people were even so excited that they shouted and shouted slogans.

The successful ignition indicates that it is not far from the goal, which makes everyone happy.

Four or five furnace workers were not afraid of the scorching heat, and several people were waiting for the blast furnace with fire-stabbing sticks in their hands, laughing happily and shouting to the feeders to come on.

The loaders confidently carried a basket of iron ore, coke, and limestone on their backs and climbed the ladder up the blast furnace and poured it from the top. There was no timidity in the whole process, and I made persistent efforts when I got down the ladder.

The stone-knockers sitting on the ground below didn't care about talking, and accelerated the speed and strength of their hands, for fear that they would not be able to connect to the blazing blast furnace.

Everyone's face was filled with happy smiles - the hope of refining steel made people even more excited and proud, and people were eager to stick to the blast furnace day and night.

There was still a bright color in the sky, and when I looked up, I could see thick smoke rising from all directions, and gradually the county town was gray overhead.

Slowly, the sky darkened, and I don't know if it was close to nighttime, or if the smoke was covering the sky.

When the night came, the bonfires lit everywhere reflected the entire county.

Working in the dark, without protection.

The loaders carried heavy loads and climbed to a height of nine meters, which made Zhou Jiao unbearable to look at directly. Every time she didn't dare to touch the top, she looked forward to the dawn in horror.

In this way, the furnace and iron-making that have not stopped the fire, except for the strong labor type of work that changes shifts day and night, the rest of the people go to sleep late at night and go to work at five o'clock in the morning.

The topics they talk about are inseparable from iron, and the reports are inseparable from iron, and all of a sudden life seems to have entered the world of steel.