"Huh? Hair? Why are you still here? ”

As soon as he entered the alley, he hadn't arrived home yet, and was stopped by his eldest sister.

"I—I had an accident on the way and didn't catch the train......"

"What? Didn't catch the train? ”

His eldest sister was anxious, and her voice soared an octave: "Xu Wenfa!" Did you do it on purpose? I didn't want to go, so I didn't catch the train, didn't I? ”

"No, no, I don't have ......"

His eldest sister decided that he did it on purpose, and scolded all the way home.

After arriving home, he was bombarded by other siblings in turn, thinking that he was not sensible and would not think about his family. The eldest brother finished the second sister, and the second sister finished the fourth sister...... Until noon, a middle-aged man with a briefcase under his arm and the appearance of a cadre came to the door: "Is it Comrade Xu Wenfa's house?" ”

Xu Wenfa chuckled in his heart: Did you come to criticize him so soon?

stepped forward head-on: "I, I am Xu Wenfa, but I didn't mean to, I was because I ......"

"Haha! Comrade Xiao Xu is so humorous! Thank you so much in the morning! My father said that if it weren't for you, not only would he not be able to push the grain home, but he might have been crushed by the cart. I specifically told you to thank you! ”

"......" turned out to be here to thank, not to criticize.

Xu Wenfa breathed a deep sigh of relief.

The middle-aged man learned that he went out early in the morning to sign up for the national reclamation team, but because he helped his father push the cart, he missed the departing train, and said with a deep sigh: "This matter is that we have burdened you, so our unit is about to recruit a down-to-earth and hard-working warehouse keeper, I recommend you to go, but this job requires bookkeeping, requiring a ...... of junior Chinese."

"He has a first Chinese certificate." Xu Wenfa's brothers and sisters rushed up to fight for him for this good opportunity to fly unexpectedly.

In this way, he accidentally entered the steel mill that everyone yearns for, and became a glorious regular worker in the steel mill.

In the dead of night, he pillowed his hands behind his head and couldn't help but think: Could this really be a good person with a good reward?

Similarly, Xu Yin was also glad that the comrade named "Xu Wenfa" did not come, so she was spared the embarrassment of digging out her mind to find excuses.

In the mid-fifties, things like this happened and happened.

First, it is difficult to get in touch, and the grassroots will not use precious national resources such as telephones and telegrams to verify why they didn't come for the sake of an ordinary person.

Secondly, the roster and forms are all copied by hand, and it is normal to have errors, such as parents who register for their children and leave their own names when registering for this situation is not unheard of, and it is corrected.

Yes, no one doubted her all the way.

Three days later, the steam train, with a speed of no more than 30 kilometers per hour, finally arrived in Fulong County, on the northern border, but this was not the real destination, and the reclamation point they were going to was still one or two hundred kilometers away from the county seat.

Everyone dragged their luggage and belongings out of the car, bought a little time to move, and got on the convertible large truck that came to pick them up.

In the spring of March, it was warm and cold, especially in Beiguan, on the rusty second-hand Jiefang brand tent truck, the face was purple from the cold.

finally managed to get to Beilong Township, where the reclamation point is located, and had to change to an ox cart.

Not to mention lesbians, many gay men couldn't help but wail: "It's not there yet? How far is it? ”

"It's coming, it's coming!"

The leader comforted them.

The ox cart continued to clatter across the icy land that had not yet completely melted.

After walking slowly for a long time, finally, when I heard the uncle who was driving the car say "I've arrived" in dialect, everyone was so excited that they burst into tears: It's finally here!

I felt that my legs and feet were not my own—I was numb and numb.

Xiao Jing, a tall young woman sitting next to Xu Yin on the train, was so cold that her teeth chattered, and she asked her tremblingly: "Xu Yin, aren't you cold?" Look at your face is still white and tender. ”

Of course Xu Yin is not cold, she has an automatic thermostat.

When I got off the train, I also thought about whether to put away the thermostat so as not to expose the flaws.

But the weather in the north is too cold, and I am worried about freezing and getting sick.

She joined the reclamation team in order to avoid the plot and stay away from the fate of cannon fodder.

She can farm, but she can't get sick because of this, and her health is an important factor in surviving! So the thermometer was not removed.

At this moment, she touched her cold white face and said, "It's cold, it may be a skin relationship, I can't see it, I don't believe you touch my face." ”

Xiao Jing didn't really reach out to touch Xu Yin's face, her fingers were numb, she rubbed her hands and said with envy: "It's so good!" My face turned red from the cold. ”

Huang Xiaohong, who was in the same ox cart with them, said: "I don't even need to look at my face, just look at my hands, it's all frozen purple, woo woo...... It's so cold......"

Although the male compatriots were not like the female comrades who were so cold that they stomped their feet on the spot, they were all rubbing their hands and asking the team leader: "Captain, when will you come to where we live?" ”

Captain Fu glanced at them again and again, and then said after a while: "I only learned from the truck that we need to build the place we live in, and we can only borrow the local villagers' homes for the time being." But ......"

The captain's tone of change made everyone feel relieved.

"Captain, don't you want to say that you can't find someone to stay with?"

"Wouldn't it? We've come all the way here, and we don't even have a place to live? ”

"It's terrible!"

"Not really." Captain Fu hurriedly reassured everyone, "The locals are very enthusiastic, not to mention that we are responding to the call of the country and coming here to reclaim the wasteland, and we are willing to borrow us to live." It's just that the villages near the reclamation point are in relatively poor condition, and everyone needs to overcome them. In short, be mentally prepared, when you get to the ground in a while, don't babble, make a fuss, and leave a bad impression on the fellows. Let's not say that we have to struggle here for three years, and we all have the courage to fight and be invincible! ”

“……”

This said, everyone's hearts are even more bottomless.

On the way to the village where they stayed - "Hewo Zitun", they exchanged heads with each other:

"It's the end of March, it's still freezing and snowy here, so I feel like my hands are going to get frostbite, think about the work we are about to face, what to do!"

"I'm ready to endure hardship, but this hardship ...... Hey, I was a little overwhelmed when I first came. ”

"That said, where are we here? Why don't you even have a place to live......"

Xiao Jing said to Xu Yin: "There are so many of us, if we stay in Tunmin's house, we will definitely have to separate." If you can choose for a while, let's live together? ”

"I'm with you, too." Huang Xiaohong followed closely.

Xu Yin: "......"

If she was to choose, she would prefer to choose a single room.

It doesn't matter if the conditions are almost, the main thing is to live alone, and occasionally I can open a small stove for myself and supplement nutrition.