Captain Yan is a man of his word.
If you say you only need to rest for ten minutes, then it means ten minutes, not even a second more.
Seeing everyone sighing as they set off, Captain Yan pointed to the sky with a smile.
"Hurry up, everyone! We still have a mountain to cross along the way. There are wolves in the mountains!"
When they heard there were wolves, everyone quickened their pace.
After walking another three or four kilometers, they finally saw a small hill with a dirt road extending straight to the top.
"Wait a minute!"
Captain Yan suddenly stopped everyone, and came to Su Beijing with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face.
"You were so lifeless earlier, but I noticed you were actually much stronger than the others during the rest of the walk."
Su Beijing was so nervous that he hadn't figured out how to explain yet when Captain Yan suddenly bent down and pulled up his trouser legs.
Then everyone saw Su Beijing's messy leg wraps.
"Hey, where did you get this?"
Bao Zhihui asked Su Beijing curiously while pounding his legs.
"Why haven't I seen you have this along the way?"
"Besides, what's the use of this?"
Captain Yan chuckled and without explaining, waved his hand and asked everyone to go up the mountain immediately.
The distance from the mountain to the bottom is about one kilometer. Not long after we came down the mountain, the sun started to set.
Everyone stopped complaining and continued walking with a breath held.
When the sunset filled the sky, the staggering group of people finally saw the Fifth Company's base.
The moment they entered the camp, many people sat down on the ground without caring about their image and refused to move.
The instructor of the fifth company, Yu Pengnian, had already been waiting at the gate of the base with his men.
"I know everyone is tired, so I'll assign the units and barracks first. Everyone go clean up and gather in the cafeteria in half an hour. Our company is having a dinner today to welcome the new comrades, and there will be a show to watch."
"Two educated youth from Chunyang Village, follow our messenger. He will take you across the river to Chunyang Village."
The nine new educated youth in the fifth company were all assigned to the third row with the largest vacancies.
Among them, Feng Xuexiu went to Class 2, and the other eight, including Zhang Hongcheng, went to the newly established Class 4.
The fourth squad leader is called Hao Aiguo, who introduced himself as being from Qiqihar. Besides him, there is another old educated youth in the class, Zeng Jianjun, who is from Tieling.
Jia Yumei and Bao Zhihui lived with the female comrades, while the other eight people in Class 4 and the two squad leaders squeezed into a large bunk bed.
It is called a long bunk bed, but in fact it is also a long kang.
With this length, eleven or twelve people can sleep together without any problem.
Opposite the big bunk bed was a row of wooden cabinets, and Zhang Hongcheng squeezed his pile of large quilts into them with all his strength.
Hao Aiguo also gave each person a cabinet lock.
That's the benefit of state farms.
Wu Jianlei and Fang Chunmiao, who settled in Chunyang Village, had to buy cabinets themselves, and most of the educated youth settlements were old houses in the village.
The kang, which was originally intended for a family of three or four people to sleep on at most, was often crowded with seven, eight, or even more educated youth.
When Wu Jianlei and Fang Chunmiao arrived in the village, they had to go to the brigade to borrow food to start their own cooking. This involved many issues such as the order of using the stove, compensation for firewood, and borrowing vegetables grown by the old educated youth.
After Zhang Hongcheng and his group packed up their bedding, they went to the company canteen.
You don't have to pay for the tickets or the welcome banquet.
The fifth company has a little over a hundred people.
The company headquarters consists of a company commander, an instructor and two communicators, and is divided into three platoons and ten squads.
Each shift takes turns cooking.
There were crowds of people around the ten tables, all huddled together to listen to Captain Yan speak.
The old educated youth had no intention of listening to what the company commander said. They were all staring at the big bowl of pork stewed with vermicelli on the table.
There are eight dishes on the table, and only the pork stewed with vermicelli is a meat dish.
The other dishes were vegetarian dishes like stir-fried beans and boiled cabbage, and the portions looked okay.
The men all had large enamel bowls, and even the smallest one, Su Beijing, had four taels of rice in his bowl.
Zhang Hongcheng unceremoniously filled half a pound of it.
He hasn't eaten a single meal of rice since leaving the capital.
He also heard the old educated youth chatting and saying that rice was only available during the New Year or festivals. Usually, they had either steamed corn bread or multi-grain pancakes, and the appearance of steamed buns was considered an improvement in the food.
Yan Jinrong is not well educated and speaks directly.
He mainly talked about work arrangements, work schedules and discipline, and Zhang Hongcheng listened very carefully.
State-owned farms are part of the Construction Corps.
Zhang Hongcheng and his colleagues are both state employees and soldiers of the Corps.
In addition to their usual farming work, male comrades must take time to participate in military training.
Female comrades also need to learn battlefield first aid and so on.
Of course, nothing major has happened on the border in recent years, so the intensity of training in this area is only slightly higher than that of the militia in the south.
"But everyone can't let their guard down!"
Instructor Yu Pengnian took over the conversation.
"Our company's north is the border defense force, and the famous Zhenbao Island is only a hundred kilometers away from us!"
When the new educated youth heard the word "Zhenbao Island", their faces became serious, but Zhang Hongcheng found that the old educated youth seemed a little indifferent.
"Let me introduce everyone's salary and benefits."
"Farm workers are paid 32 yuan a month. Each person is given a free set of work clothes, a hat, a pair of Liberation shoes, and two pairs of cotton gloves."
"In winter, there will also be a pair of cotton gloves, a cotton hat, a cotton coat and a pair of cotton trousers."
"If you want to get a large quilt, you will need to deduct an additional 36 yuan, which will be deducted over four months. Of course, if you bring your own large quilt, there will be no deduction."
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