Chapter 055

After driving a donkey cart to the commune, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan went directly to the sawmill.

The master builder gave them an estimate of the total amount of wood they needed to buy.

In addition to the beams, doors and windows, they also had to make two beds and two simple tables.

There is no need to make a dining table and benches. When the house is built and you move in, you can just move a table and two benches from the educated youth site and put them in the newly built kitchen.

Except for what the educated youth brought from their homes, everything else at the site belonged to the brigade.

In terms of usage rights, all twelve people have a share, so there is nothing wrong with them sharing a little.

Because of the limited supply, there is not much to choose from no matter what you buy these days.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan arrived at the sawmill and ordered the required wood according to the list made by the old master's estimate. They paid the money and loaded the wood onto the donkey cart.

In early summer, people are not strong enough to move large pieces of wood, and are of no help.

The workers from the timber factory came over to help Lin Xiaohan move the things. After they finished moving, they suddenly smiled and said, "When you came just now, I thought you looked familiar. Now I finally remembered. Are you from the Tanxi Brigade? Every time there is a market, you set up a stall at the market to sell noodles with soybean paste?"

Lin Xiaohan also laughed after hearing this, "You have a good memory, it's just the two of us."

The worker took the hemp rope and tied the wood to the cart with Lin Xiaohan. He smiled and said, "That's really unfortunate. I was thinking of having a bowl of noodles today, but it seems that I won't be able to eat it."

Lin Xiaohan tightened the hemp rope in his hands and tied the end of the rope to the cart. "We really don't have time today. We are in a hurry to build the dormitory. After pulling these wood back, we have to find a carpenter to do the work. Let's wait until next Sunday. We will set up the stall next Sunday, still at the old place in the market."

The worker also tightened the rope in his hand, tied the end of the rope to the cart, and said with a smile: "Okay, then I will go to the market to find you next Sunday. The noodles you make are really delicious. Everyone in our factory who has eaten them will talk about them every once in a while."

After exchanging a few polite greetings, Lin Xiaohan and Chu Xia pulled the donkey cart away.

When they came, the two of them were sitting on a donkey cart. Now the cart was full of wood and there was no place to sit, and they had to save the donkey's energy, so they led the donkey and walked with it.

Of course, Lin Xiaohan was leading the donkey.

When they were alone, Chu Xia thought of what happened just now and said, "If the current policy did not prohibit private business, I think I could do something big with my skills."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaohan turned his head and looked at Chu Xia, "You really don't treat me as an outsider now."

Wanting to do private business and wanting to do something big are all capitalist ideas.

Of course Chu Xia didn't dare to completely ignore him as an outsider.

She quickly looked at him and smiled, saying, "I spoke too quickly again. Just pretend you didn't hear anything."

Lin Xiaohan: “…”

Before Lin Xiaohan could say anything else, Chu Xia turned around and saw a large chimney standing in the depths of the field. White smoke was coming out of the chimney, and the smoke was dissipating in the blue sky and white clouds. She immediately changed the subject and asked, "What is that for?"

Lin Xiaohan looked in the direction Chu Xia was looking.

Seeing the chimney and the white smoke, he answered aloud, "That direction should be the kiln factory. If we buy tiles in a few days, we should go there."

Chu Xia nodded slowly and responded: "Oh..."

The topic shifted to building a house, and then we talked about building a house again.

***

Driving a donkey cart to pull the timber back to the brigade.

After lunch, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan were not idle in the afternoon. After a short rest, they went to find the carpenter in the village and asked the carpenter to start the carpentry work immediately.

After a busy day, I returned to the educated youth site in the evening to eat and sleep.

That night, the educated youth's site was so peaceful that it seemed as if no one was living there.

No one was talking, and no one was making any noise. Everyone just ate, washed up, and went to bed.

The reason for this is, of course, that I am too tired from working during the day.

I am extremely tired, I don't have the energy to care about anything else, and I don't have the mind or mood to think about anything else. Q裙丝二耳儿五九衣斯七 compiled this article and uploaded it. Welcome to join and follow the updates as soon as possible. The biggest luxury is to have something to eat and a place to sleep.

Of course, the time of the seven of them was also strictly controlled by Wu Changming.

Apart from eating, sleeping and going to the toilet, there is almost no time to do anything else.

Two more days passed like this, and they became even more numb, like zombies; even their eyeballs had lost their vitality.

Every day I wake up to the alarm clock before dawn. After waking up, I dare not waste even a second. I immediately get up, wash, eat, go to the construction site to gather, and work under the supervision of Wu Changming.

He worked hard until noon, went back to the educated youth site to eat a hot meal, then used his break time to go out and dig some wild vegetables before continuing to work on the construction site.

There was not enough food and they were forced into a desperate situation, so they had no choice but to dig wild vegetables to eat.

Originally, there were still some edible vegetables in their two acres of land, but after they broke up, Li Qiao, Hu Yang and their friends sneaked into the vegetable fields in groups and picked all the vegetables.

They didn't divide the vegetables equally. Whoever secretly grabbed one got it.

Su Yun was slow to react, and by the time she remembered the vegetable garden, not even a single tomato was left.

She wanted to lash out, but she no longer had the strength.

Even if she went to argue with them, she would not gain any benefit, after all, she didn't know who picked and ate the vegetables.

Moreover, she hardly did anything when it came to preparing the land, planting vegetables, or fertilizing and watering the vegetables.

But she had more food, so what she ate was much better than the six of them.

Tonight, the seven of them got off work and returned to the educated youth site only when it was almost dark.

Although exhausted after a day's work, they were still in no mood to care about anything else and just focused on cooking and eating.

Since rice cooked with coarse grains is not enough to fill you up, you can cook more wild vegetables in the porridge.

Now it doesn’t matter what I eat as long as I can fill my stomach.

Su Yun was alone and she was not very down-to-earth. She would not do anything rude or aggressive to grab things, so she could not get the stove when cooking every day. She waited until Li Qiao, Hu Yang and the other six people had finished eating before she started to make a fire and cook.

Tonight, everyone went back to the dormitory to wash up before she sat down to eat.

She was the only one in the kitchen, so she ate while thinking about many things with a blank expression.

Think about all the bad things in this era and all the warmth and coldness in human relationships that you have experienced.

In the end, most of the sweetness and warmth in her life were brought to her by Han Ting.

Ever since he left, she has missed him very much every day and wished he would come back immediately.

Han Ting has become her spiritual pillar that allows her to grit her teeth and hold on, because she knows that as long as she can hold on until Han Ting comes back, everything will be fine.

Perhaps because she missed Han Ting too much, Su Yun's dreams were all about him after going to bed at night.

All kinds of sweet scenes of their time together appeared in the dream, and it felt as if they all happened in reality, but they seemed different from reality.

In this countryside, he took her through countless romances.

Then, in the chaotic and romantic scene, Han Ting suddenly placed a return-to-city application form in front of her and said to her: "Tanxi Brigade does have two return-to-city quotas. I got one for you..."

The alarm rang and Su Yun suddenly woke up from her dream.

Before she had time to think about the dream, she saw Li Qiao, Gu Yuzhu and Chen Sisi had already gotten up and tidied their bedding, so she quickly threw off the quilt, got up, tidied herself up and went to wash up.

Because they are in a hurry to go to work.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan were not in such a hurry, so they naturally got up a little later than them.

If we get up together, there won't be enough stoves in the kitchen, and it will be troublesome to fight over them.

And Su Yun is the one who can't compete even if she gets up.

Fortunately, they cook more food at night and just need to heat it up slightly in the morning, so it doesn’t take much time and you just have to wait for a while.

I was in such a hurry to pack my bedding and wash up that I couldn't think about anything else.

While waiting, Su Yun sat there in a daze, and then she remembered the dream she had before the alarm rang.

The brain subconsciously reproduces the romantic scenes in the dream.

After the romantic scene reappeared, the picture gradually faded, and finally the only scene left was Han Ting putting down the application form for returning to the city in front of her, which became clearer and clearer each time.

Hu Yang and Li Qiao heated up their breakfast.

Su Yun sat behind the stove and lit a fire, but the scene kept appearing in her mind.

Although it had no beginning or end, every time I think back on it I feel that it was not a dream but reality.

She thought that perhaps this was God giving her strength.

God was telling her that as long as she held on until Han Ting came back, not only would all the pain in front of her pass, but even the pain of being forced to go to the countryside would soon end completely.

Just get through this darkest moment.

As long as she has Han Ting, she can see her hope and light.

***

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan did not join in the morning fun.

They got up later, washed, and fed the chickens. When they finished feeding the chickens, Su Yun was the last one to finish her meal and hurriedly left the educated youth center. So there were only two of them left in the center.

With just the two of them, they were naturally very relaxed and comfortable.

I had a relaxed breakfast and went to school. Before I got close to the school, I saw the master craftsman had already led the workers to build the earth wall on the foundation next to the school.

The country people are kind-hearted. They know that if they work one more day, the master will have to pay them one more day's wages or cook an extra good meal, so they try to hurry up and build the house as early as possible.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan certainly understood what was going on, so they went over to greet them, thanked them for their efforts, and gave each of them another cigarette.

After politely expressing their thanks, the two went to school and the bell rang as usual.

But they did not rest at noon today. After returning to the educated youth site to have lunch, they borrowed a donkey cart from the brigade and drove the cart to the brick and tile kiln factory.

The old master said that the earth wall could be built in two to three days.

After the walls are built, it takes half a day to a day to put on the tiles, and the house is completed.

Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan had already prepared everything else, and now only the tiles were left.

I took some time today to go to the kiln factory to buy tiles, and then I'll wait to move.

The autumn heat has not yet passed, and the sun is still hot in the sky.

When driving the donkey cart to the kiln factory, Chuxia still wore a straw hat on his head to block the sun.

The kiln factory is neither close nor far from Tanxi Brigade.

I drove the donkey cart slowly and it took about half an hour to find the place.

The chimney became thicker and thicker in sight.

When the kiln factory was right in front of him, Chuxia lifted the brim of his hat and said, "We are almost there, right in front."

However, Lin Xiaohan's attention was not on the kiln factory in front.

His eyes fell on the large dirt field not far away, and he gestured to Chu Xia and said, "Look over there."

Chuxia looked over as he gestured, and saw many people working hard in the large yard.

These people do heavy work, with bent backs, shoveling soil, carrying soil, and pulling carts full of soil.

In addition to the people working in the yard, there are also people watching them work.

Some of the people watching them work were holding whips in their hands, and some were holding guns in their arms.

Just as she was about to look away after taking a quick glance, Chu Xia suddenly saw a familiar face in the crowd.

His eyes subconsciously stopped and he looked more carefully, and there were two other familiar faces.

***

It was not long after noon when the sun's rays began to burn my skin.

On the messy construction site, Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai, together with a bunch of people who were arrested and sent to labor camps, gritted their teeth and worked with all their might.

Han Ting had just returned from pulling a full load of dirt. He was holding the handlebars and standing to catch his breath when he heard someone call out, "Han Ting, Li Chao, Guo Gaiming, the three of you, come here!"

Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai raised their hands to wipe the sweat from their heads.

They gasped, put down their tools, and went to the person who called them.

Not knowing what to ask them to do again, Han Ting asked first: "We didn't make any mistakes today, did we?"

The person who called him said in a stern voice, "Someone is looking for you. Follow me."

Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai were slightly stunned when they heard this, and turned to look at each other - what kind of good person would come to them in this situation?