Carpenter Yang finished it in one day.

Zhang Weiguo packed up the things and took them home.

The city is divided into the inner city and the outer city.

As soon as Zhang Weiguo arrived at the outer city, he saw many refugees coming there.

These are the people affected by the disaster nearby. Food this year is even more scarce than expected.

These people can no longer live at home.

They had no choice but to go out to look for food, as their homes were all washed away by the flood.

The farmland was gone, the food was gone, and even the homes were washed away by the flood.

The entire city was filled with yellow sand. The trees in the north were destroyed and there were no trees to block the wind and sand.

To talk about how these trees were destroyed, we have to mention the Great Steelmaking Movement.

Four years ago, in order to achieve the goal of producing 10.7 million tons of steel, a steel-making campaign was launched across the country.

More than 90 million people were mobilized to go up the mountains, cut down trees, dig coal, look for mines and smelt iron. Millions of small earthen blast furnaces and small earthen coke ovens were built. Production standards were lowered, and iron and steel were smelted using primitive methods. Even iron pots and other iron utensils used for cooking at home were smashed and used as raw materials for iron and steel smelting.

Modern large and medium-sized steel enterprises also broke various rules and regulations, launched mass movements, and disrupted normal production order.

At the same time, the electricity, coal, transportation, culture and education sectors launched a "large-scale national effort", forming the so-called "steel-based, all-round leap forward" situation, with "one horse leading the way and thousands of horses galloping". Even scientific research, poetry writing and painting required "great leaps forward" and the launching of "satellites".

After several months of reckless work, by the end of 1958, a total of 11.08 million tons of steel had been produced, of which only 8 million tons were of qualified quality, and the rest was completely unusable.

The mass movement of producing steel in large quantities caused a huge waste of manpower and material resources, a serious imbalance in the national economic proportions, and severe damage to natural resources and the ecological environment.

As a large number of rural laborers were occupied, major agricultural crops such as grain had "good yields but poor harvests" that year, and people's lives began to face serious difficulties.

In order to support steelmaking, many families melted down all the ironware in their homes, and those without iron just smashed the pots.

We ate from a big pot, and many families no longer had pots. By the end of the movement, there was no longer even a pot to cook in.

In order to make steel, many families did not harvest the crops in the fields, and the crops rotted in the fields.

Everyone ate from a big pot and didn’t have to worry about food problems at all. Coupled with the bragging, it directly led to a shortage of food.

The bolder a person is, the more productive he is.

Coupled with the food wasted during the communal dining system, food shortages became a common phenomenon.

Large-scale steelmaking requires coal. What should we do if there is a shortage of coal?

Without coal, people have to cut down trees, and a wave of tree cutting has occurred everywhere.

Many ancient trees that were hundreds of years old were cut down for steelmaking, which directly led to the disappearance of forests.

Without the forest to block it, the sandstorm spread everywhere.

There was a sandstorm over the city of Sijiu.

Only when the trees were gone did we realize the seriousness of the problem and we organized people to plant trees.

Today, Saihanba is still a barren land, with a grey sky, boundless wilderness, and the wind blowing up sand, making it very desolate.

Now many volunteers are sent to plant trees.

Yan Jiefang and Liu Guangtian were sent to plant trees.

It is a barren land full of wind and sand, and life here is quite difficult.

Many volunteers were very afraid of the yellow sand. There were sandstorms everywhere and if they were not careful they would be swept away by the sandstorm and lose their lives.

Trees can only be planted when there are no sandstorms.

Planting trees in the desert is a very difficult task as you can imagine.

It is unknown how many homes have been destroyed by this flood.

These are the people who managed to escape. It is still unknown how many people did not escape and were drowned in the flood.

Zhang Weiguo looked at these people and his heart was filled with sadness.

With so many people around, even if Zhang Weiguo wanted to, he would be powerless.

So many people need the army to make unified arrangements. If things go wrong, riots can easily break out. This is not a problem that can be solved by individual efforts.

The food consumption of these people is also a terrifying number.

The several thousand kilograms of food in your hand are not enough for these people to have a meal.

Looking at these skinny refugees, who would be willing to leave their hometown and wander around if they couldn't make a living?

These people may have been hungry for a long time, their faces are expressionless and numb.

Maybe they don’t know where the end is, or whether they can hold on.

Zhang Weiguo looked at them, shook his head and sighed.

I pretended not to see it and was about to push the cart away.

I felt something pulling my trouser leg.

Zhang Weiguo looked back and saw a little girl of eight or nine years old pulling his pants with her hand.

The little girl looked a little scared.

Zhang Weiguo said: "What's wrong with the little sister?"

"Brother, can you give my sister some food? My sister hasn't eaten for a day."

Zhang Weiguo looked at the little girl, who had a pair of pure and bright big eyes.

Zhang Weiguo had never seen such pure eyes.

"Where's your sister?"

Zhang Weiguo followed the little girl to a corner.

There is a little girl of four or five years old here, curled up.

It looked like he hadn't eaten for a long time and was almost fainting from hunger.

Zhang Weiguo immediately got some spiritual spring water for the little girl to drink.

Gave the little girl some water.

The little girl was carried into the car, and she drank some water and regained some strength.

Zhang Weiguo asked the elder sister to look after the younger sister and put the two little girls in the car.

Push the cart into the city.

Zhang Weiguo has no children, so raising two little girls is no problem at all.

Now we are considering where to place them?

You can’t buy or sell houses right now.

Zhang Weiguo wanted to buy a house but had nowhere to go.

Let’s talk about this later. Let’s go home and cook for the little girl first.

Soon Zhang Weiguo returned to the courtyard.

Bring the two little girls home.

Made two cups of malted milk for the two little girls.

The two little girls had never drunk this thing and were very curious.

Everyone was very happy drinking malted milk.

I also cooked some porridge for them and added some chicken soup to it.

Wait until the two little girls are full.

Zhang Weiguo brought the two little girls to the street office. Zhang Weiguo wanted to adopt the two little girls, and he also needed a certificate from the street office.

Zhang Weiguo took two kilograms of pork and found Director Wang.

I explained the situation to Director Wang that these were two homeless little girls and I planned to adopt them.

Director Wang immediately issued a certificate to Zhang Weiguo.

Director Wang has already received news about the situation in the outer city.

Just waiting for the arrangements from above.

Zhang Weiguo directly adopted two little girls and was praised by Director Wang.

The proof is there.

Zhang Weiguo asked Director Wang how to solve the problem of their going to school?

Director Wang said: "This is easy. Just take the certificate to the school."

Zhang Weiguo thanked Director Wang.

After finishing all this, I took the two little girls home. Looking at the two dirty little girls, I wanted to give them a bath.