Reborn as a New Farmer of the 1980s

Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....

Chapter 1518: Simply Not Human

The avenue leading to the bay mouth is just to the right of Han Guang’s hotel. Further to the right, across the cement avenue leading into the bay is the hillside of East Bay.

The hillside is not high and extends eastward at a gentle slope. An octagonal pavilion is built at a high point.

Several young men in open-crotch pants were climbing up and down the pavilion.

There is a large courtyard behind the Hongying Hotel, surrounded by two-story buildings on both sides. This is the headquarters of the security company.

The non-local employees of Han Guangjia Security Company stay, rest and train in a large yard.

Wan Feng parked the motorcycle on the side of the road, and he and Tan Chun walked past the security company and came to the open space on the left side of the security company's yard.

There is a piece of land about a hundred meters long from here to the Dongqiao River bank of Shuangqiao, just behind the row of restaurants and inns on the road.

From the day when Nan Da Wan was developed to the present day, the land from here to the instant noodle factory has been idle, so it is covered with green weeds and dotted with colorful flowers.

Several half-grown children were playing football on the grass.

This piece of land is a natural football field.

"I'm planning to build a technical school here, from here all the way to the Dongqiao River. It should be two stories high. Please gesture to show me how it would look like."

Wan Feng stretched out his arm and drew an approximate area, and Tan Chun walked around the area drawn by Wan Feng.

It took more than ten minutes to walk back.

"Is your yard too big? Do you really need such a big yard? You can even build a regular football field here."

How can a school without a yard? This is a technical school, and there's no telling what might be in the yard in the future. If it were to open a repair shop for machinery and vehicles, it might become a workshop, so the yard would definitely need to be larger.

Besides, if the school is no longer needed in the future or needs to be moved to another place, this place can be directly turned into a factory.

"My requirements are simple. I want a two-story building made entirely of frame, with reasonable wall strength. It should be able to be used as a factory building without modification in the future. There's no rush for this project. You can take your time with the design and budget, and we just need it to be ready by the end of the year."

Tan Chun was speechless. "You're not in a hurry? The project has to be completed by the end of the year, and you're telling me to take my time?"

If I were building a building specifically for this purpose, it wouldn't be a big deal, but the welfare factory building hasn't been built yet.

It’s not feasible for me to complete these two projects at the same time with the manpower I have and hand them in by the end of the year!

It seems we still need to recruit people.

"What kind of study are you going to build?"

The school matter was settled in a few words, and the two of them walked from the field to the road.

"Even if it's a vocational school, it specializes in various skills, from computer application to mechanical machine tool learning to vehicle maintenance, clothing cutting, mold making, and plastic processing. Anyway, let's put it this way, if there are factories in Nandawan, this school probably has it."

While they were talking, they walked to the side of the avenue.

The next step for the two of them was to go to the hillside in front of the depression to check on the construction progress of the nursing home and welfare factory.

Tan Chun was not bragging. The nursing home was indeed in the same stage of completion as Zhang Xuan's paging station building.

The progress of the nursing home is a little faster than that of the paging station building. The roof of the nursing home has been covered with red tiles, and the tilers are already working on the water-brushed stone walls outside.

There are a total of forty rooms in the nursing home, including the left and right wing rooms. There is also a forty-centimeter-high flower bed in the middle of the yard. There seems to be a flowering tree in it, which is now green and has buds.

Wan Feng watched from outside the yard as he walked through every room in the yard.

The interior walls have been painted and the windows are clean. Now it seems that as long as the water-brushed stone walls on the outside are completed, the nursing home can be put into use.

Tan Chun followed Wan Feng, and whenever Wan Feng came to a place, he would explain everything.

As expected, the nursing home will be completed within ten days, so the next thing the nursing home needs to do is to recruit employees, including waiters, chefs, etc.

We also need a dean or something to take charge.

It is not easy to choose the director of a nursing home.

After all, the profits generated by the welfare factory in the future will be allocated to the nursing home. This is a relatively sensitive position and requires a selfless person.

But such people are hard to find.

After these peripheral projects are completed, the village will be able to accept all the lonely elderly people to live there.

There are more than thirty lonely people and childless elderly couples in the village.

These more than 30 elderly people will be the first group to move in.

Wan Feng left these matters to the village to handle.

After visiting the nursing home, Wan Feng went to the welfare factory next door.

Although the mahjong game at the welfare factory will not make much noise in the future, there is still a distance between the two units, forming an alley, and a high soundproof wall has been built.

Compared with the nursing home which is about to be completed, the first floor of the two-story welfare factory has only been built up to the top of the windows.

However, the framework of the first floor has been set up.

This is a one-story frame and two-story brick and concrete building and is not expected to be completed until September.

The main machine for making mahjong is the mahjong forming machine. As long as the machine makes the mahjong pieces and carves the fonts on them, the workers will color the pieces and the job is done.

Wan Feng handed the matter of recruiting disabled people to Zhou Yongyi before going to the capital this time, and he didn't know how he was doing.

After Wan Feng saw the conditions at the nursing home and the welfare factory, he said goodbye to Tan Chun and returned to the Nanwan Factory.

When I walked into the motorcycle engine workshop after returning the motorcycle to the sample library, a figure flashed not far away.

Wan Feng frowned and recalled for a moment before he remembered who this person was. He shouted to him, "Come here!"

It was a young man, wearing the work clothes of Nanwan Factory, walking towards us with a nonchalant look.

Wan Feng looked the other person up and down, making the other person feel uncomfortable.

"What are you looking at? Don't you know him?"

"You little bastard! How dare you do this in my place? Do you believe I'll throw you into the well and soak you for three days?"

"You can't do this to me. My dad told me to come here to study."

"Look at you three, you're not ambiguous and you seven, you don't care. I'm telling you this is Jiangwei, not Dongguan. Repeat to me, where is this?"

Zhang Chunlei grunted for a long time but couldn't utter a word.

"Tell me! If you don't, you'll have to stand here today and you won't be allowed to eat dinner!"

"My dad said..."

"Your dad is in Dongguan right now. Even if I beat you up, he can't come. Tell me where this is?"

"General's might!"

"I didn't even take you seriously back in Dalingzi. Now that you're in Jiangwei, if you still don't behave, I'll really skin you alive. Do you hear me?"

Zhang Chunlei has lost his temper. He has been here for almost two months.

He has finally gotten to know some of the details of this kid, whom his father admires so much.

It's really a beast.

Just as his father said when he taught him a lesson: Look at others, they are only a few years older than you, and then look at you, what are they doing?

In Zhang Chunlei's mind, this guy is not a human being at all, he is simply a beast.