This year, the educated youth team was disbanded and reassigned to several other work teams. Although they were all from the same forest farm, the older workers and masters, relying on their seniority, always liked to boss the younger people around.

Sheng Xi'an is a quiet and reserved person who doesn't like to talk much, which makes people think she's easy to bully, which is why Sheng Xiping asked that question.

"Brother, things are alright up in the mountains. I'll go with Brother Jianshe and be Li Dazhuang's assistant."

"You know what kind of person Li Dazhuang is at work. Only Jianshe-ge dares to criticize him. He wouldn't dare to mess with us." Sheng Xi'an said with a smile.

Regardless, the Sheng family has some connections in Qianchuan Forest Farm.

Although Sheng Xiping didn't go up the mountain, Sheng Liancheng was there, and he was being taken care of by Wang Jianshe, Chen Weiguo, and others, not to mention Wang Jiachuan and Zheng Xianyong.

Unless someone is completely out of their mind, who would have the time to trip up Sheng Xi'an?

“Li Dazhuang, then it’s alright. Jianshe could do his job better with just one hand.” Sheng Xiping laughed when he heard this.

Most of the newly recruited workers who came to the mountain this year started as assistants. They need to gain experience for two years before they can work independently; that's the rule.

In reality, both Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo were technically superb, far superior to someone like Li Dazhuang.

Therefore, Li Dazhuang didn't dare to utter a single word in front of Wang Jianshe, and naturally, he didn't dare to bully Sheng Xi'an either.

"Xiping, what are you doing at home?"

While they were chatting inside, they heard the dog bark twice outside, and then someone opened the door and came in, and Wang Jianshe's movements could be heard.

"Haha, speak of the devil, and he appears! We were just talking about you, and before we could even finish our sentences, you're here. How come you're so easily remembered?"

Sheng Xiping came out of the inner room and saw Wang Jianshe, Chen Weiguo, Gao Haining and others coming in from outside, so he smiled.

"Huh? What did you say about me?"

Wang Jianshe came in from outside with a smile, stamped his feet at the door, patted the snow off his clothes, and asked with a laugh.

Sheng Xiping then told Wang Jianshe and the others what he had just said to Sheng Xi'an, and everyone burst into laughter.

"To be honest, I really don't think much of Li Dazhuang's skills."

The problem is, I just started working here, so my seniority is what it is, there's nothing I can do. I'll just have to endure it; things will get better in a couple of years.

"Xi Ping is so smart. He went to work in the security department. It's a relaxed and carefree job." The group followed Sheng Xi Ping into the east room, talking as they went.

Of the five people recruited this year, only Sheng Xiping works in the security department; the others all work in the construction team.

Wang Jianshe and Yu Shuaijun were chainsaw assistants, Chen Weiguo was a tractor assistant, and Guo Yongping was a winch assistant.

Newly recruited workers, regardless of their previous job, must start as assistants when joining the work team.

As for the educated youth team members, needless to say, most of them did manual labor such as pruning branches, clearing forests, and loading trucks.

There's no other way; there are very few easy jobs on the logging front. You make money by doing heavy lifting.

Fortunately, frontline workers have high wages and many subsidies, and those who do heavy physical labor retire early.

Although the staff in this department have a relaxed job, their salaries are low, their subsidies are small, and they retire late.

Therefore, every advantage has its disadvantage; it's impossible to have all the good things in the world.

As they talked, they stepped into the east room and greeted Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen.

"Hey, you guys are all here tonight, huh?"

Sheng Liancheng glanced at Wang Jianshe and the others, and nodded with a smile.

"Weiguo, how's your baby? Is your confinement period almost over?"

Chen Weiguo's wife, Zhao Juan, gave birth to a girl on January 14th, which was the 26th day of the 11th lunar month.

Originally, the doctor at the clinic calculated the due date to be January 6th, but this girl stayed in Zhao Juan's belly for eight days longer.

However, the baby girl was quite large at birth, weighing six pounds and eight ounces, which was two ounces heavier than Sheng Xinhua was at birth.

The Chen family was overjoyed to have a big, healthy granddaughter, and Xu Xiuxiang was so happy that she held her tightly and wouldn't let go.

As a result, I was so busy taking care of the child that I almost forgot to cook for my daughter-in-law, which made a fool of myself.

"Yes, I'm almost out of confinement. My dad's idea is that since everyone is busy before the New Year, we'll wait until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year to hold the full moon celebration. My grandparents will bring all my younger siblings over then."

When Chen Weiguo talked about his daughter, his smile widened.

He was up in the mountains, and his wife was giving birth and couldn't come back. Today was the first time the father and daughter had met.

When Chen Weiguo saw the chubby little girl, he was absolutely smitten and held her for almost an hour.

“Okay, your dad’s arrangement is quite reasonable. There’s not much to do during the first month of the lunar year, so it’s a good opportunity to get together and have some fun.” Sheng Liancheng nodded.

"Hey, Xiping, have you been working day and night shifts these past few days?"

Look, the New Year is almost here, and we haven't prepared anything at home.

Otherwise, you could lead us up the mountain and bring back something to prepare for the New Year.

While Chen Weiguo was talking to Sheng Liancheng, Gao Haining sat down next to Sheng Xiping and asked in a low voice.

"I'm on the day shift this week, and the night shift next week."

Sheng Xiping calculated that Sunday would be the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and it seemed a bit late to go up the mountain then.

In fact, Sheng Xiping had been out hunting in the mountains quite a bit all winter, and his family had no shortage of meat, but since his brothers had come, he couldn't very well refuse them.

"How about this, I'll switch shifts with someone else for a few days. Tomorrow morning, we'll take the dog up the mountain and fight whatever we encounter."

Sheng Xiping plans to take a few days off after the New Year to accompany Zhou Qinglan back to her parents' home for a short stay, so he can't just take this leave randomly.

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