Deputy Director Liu glared at Xiao Qin unhappily.
How does this girl do things?
Xiao Qin is a girl from Northeast China. She is straightforward by nature. She was too lazy to make up for it, so she went back to her desk and sat down, pretending to write and draw with her head down.
Deputy Director Liu looked at the two documents in his hand and smiled with satisfaction.
"They are all very good young people, politically strong, and have received commendations and recommendations. We cannot miss out on such talents."
He looked at the two of them seriously.
"It just so happens that the farm office is short of a trainee clerk to assist the clerks. However, the salary will be four dollars less than that of ordinary farm workers, twenty-eight dollars a month."
"Who of you two is interested?"
"Director Liu, I'm interested!"
Qiao Xinwei answered hurriedly and loudly, and stood up.
But Deputy Director Liu was more optimistic about Zhang Hongcheng, the son of a martyr. After all, they were all transferred from the army to the Construction Corps.
However, Zhang Hongcheng didn't want to stay at the headquarters.
Although the name of the trainee clerk sounds nice, he is actually a target that anyone in the field office can manipulate.
Besides, the site is too far away from where the main plot of the book takes place, which will greatly reduce his advantage of foreknowledge.
"I still choose to go to the company and receive further training."
After hearing Zhang Hongcheng's answer, Deputy Director Liu became more and more satisfied with him.
It's good not to forget your original intention. This is indeed the style of us children of soldiers.
"That's fine," Deputy Director Liu said, seeing Zhang Hongcheng's resolute attitude, he had no choice but to give up. However, he also decided to give Zhang Hongcheng an extra treat. "Come and take a look. Our regiment has three battalions and eighteen companies. You can choose a place for yourself."
Zhang Hongcheng's heart moved, and he stepped forward to take a look at the small map that Director Liu took out.
The Yunshan Farm, under the responsibility of the 39th Regiment, covers an area of 470 square kilometers and has large reservoirs, pastures and farming areas.
He saw a familiar place name on the map.
Muling River, Chunyang Village.
Across the river from Chunyang Village is the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 39th Regiment.
"Reporting to the director, I apply to be transferred to the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion."
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The Second Battalion's branch headquarters was more than ten miles away from the field headquarters. Xiao Qin took the initiative to help Zhang Hongcheng contact an ox cart and took him to the Second Battalion's headquarters, which was also the branch headquarters.
The branch office is not big, probably only one-third the size of the main office, and looks only slightly larger than a village.
"Are you going to the Fifth Company?"
The person in charge of the reception was Chief Gao from the Youth League Office of the branch office.
"Then you wait a little longer. Your company commander won't arrive until noon, and another group of educated youth going to the fifth company will be here soon."
Facts proved that Section Chief Gao was wrong.
The first to arrive were a group of educated youth who were staggering around.
They were brought here by the field office on a tractor, and as soon as they got off the car, they started vomiting violently.
The road conditions from the field headquarters to the Second Battalion's branch field headquarters are indeed touching.
Zhang Hongcheng was somewhat glad that he had ridden in an ox cart before.
The tractor is in a town not far from the farm, so it's convenient to send these people over.
The narrow truck bed was not only filled with supplies for the town, but also squeezed with ten people and a large amount of luggage. Add to that the road conditions where there were potholes every ten steps, and it would be strange if the traffic was comfortable.
Zhang Hongcheng quickly got to know the newcomers.
Eight of them were new educated youth like him, from the fifth company, while the other two were ordinary educated youth who had been sent to the countryside to work.
The tractor driver was very enthusiastic and picked up these two along the way.
Coincidentally, the place where these two ordinary educated youth were going to settle down was Chunyang Village.
This is also the center of the story where the heroine Chu Miaohong is located.
Zhang Hongcheng also had some impression of the names of these two people.
The male educated youth was named Wu Jianlei and the female educated youth was named Fang Chunmiao, both from Shanghai.
In the novel, these two were initially neutral characters for Chu Miaohong, but in the end he was more emotionally inclined towards the heroine.
Zhang Hongcheng chatted with the two men for a few words. He wanted to get to know them first so that he could use their relationship to investigate the situation in Chunyang Village in the future.
The other eight new comrades in the Fifth Company came from all over the country.
The oldest was 20-year-old Song Chunrong, a male educated youth from Shaoguan, Guangdong Province.
Four months younger than Song Chunrong was Feng Xuexiu, a woman from Jinling.
The third oldest is Zhang Hongcheng, 19 years old.
Next are two lesbians who are also 18 years old and born in the same month, Jia Yumei from Xuzhou and Bao Zhihui from Sichuan Province.
Kou Shihong from Gan Province, Ma Changjiang from Hubei Province and Yang Yongjun from Jinling are all seventeen years old.
The youngest one is called Su Beijing, a young man from Guangzhou, only sixteen years old.
We waited at the branch headquarters until three in the afternoon. By the time everyone had gotten to know each other, the two horse-drawn carriages from the fifth company that came to pick people up finally arrived at the branch headquarters.
The company commander of the fifth company was not a big man, estimated to be no more than 1.7 meters tall, but he was very strong.
His Northeastern dialect was interspersed with a few words like "turtle son of a bitch", which clearly revealed the hometown of Captain Yan.
"I am your company commander, Yan Jinrong."
"Put your luggage on the carriage. The two people from Chunyang Village will also follow me. When we get to our company, I'll take you across the river to Chunyang Village."
Among the eleven people, Zhang Hongcheng had the most luggage.
While loading the truck, Su Beijing looked at Zhang Hongcheng several times with surprise on his face.
"Brother Zhang, did you carry all these things from Hunan Province?"
He only brought a thin quilt and some clothes.
Zhang Hongcheng smiled but didn't explain.
Because it was against the rules for him to go to the capital halfway, it was really difficult to tell anyone.
After tying up the luggage, several female comrades began to look for an empty space on the carriage, hoping to sit there to go to the fifth company.
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