Like Zhu Min, his son also felt unfamiliar in Wan Shuichang's eyes. What he was thinking at this moment was: Is this his son?
Are they your biological children?
"I'm not planning on coming back this winter. I'm going to build a house in the back of the depression during the New Year so we can live there when we go back."
"Go back? Can we go back?" Zhu Min asked in surprise.
When she came to this frontier land with Wan Shuichang, she never thought that she would return to her hometown one day.
Because relocation was a very difficult thing at that time.
This is certain. In 1984, Wan Feng's grandmother passed away. When her mother received the telegram and returned home to attend the funeral, she met her older brother from her aunt's family.
At that time, this cousin had become the head of the Hongya County Land Office.
The Land Management Office was a very influential unit in the mid-1980s. It was he who used his connections to bring Wan Feng's family back to Hongya and settle them in Jiangwei Brigade.
Nothing will change in this life.
However, Wan Feng cannot reveal the details now, but he must build the house.
Since he didn't have a household registration, he could only build a house in Wahou through Luan Feng. The area of Luan Feng's house could no longer meet the production needs of the garment factory. While the management of homesteads was not so strict now, he had to quickly find a larger place to build a factory. As long as he left the yard for the house, he could build it when he came back in the future.
Wan Feng stretched and stood up: "I want to go out for a walk and see what the 42nd Company looks like."
After saying that, he walked out of the house and came to the avenue behind the house.
The layout of the 42nd Company is still very standard, with a total of six rows of houses in the company.
The main road behind Wan Feng's house runs from east to west through the middle of the village, dividing the village into two, with three rows of houses on the north side and three rows of houses on the south side.
At this time, Wan Feng was heading west on the middle line of the village.
The road under my feet was smoothed by the scraper, but it had not been compacted by the rollers, so it seemed a little soft.
The company has to repair the road at this time every year because it will be time to harvest wheat in a few days.
In Northeast China, there is a saying that wheat is planted on ice and harvested in fire.
Its sowing period is usually in early April. In early April, the land in the north is not completely thawed. Only the surface layer has thawed, and there is still unmelted snow in some shady places.
Wheat is sown in this environment, on the frozen layer, that is, on ice.
August of each year is the time before wheat matures, and it is also the time when the world is hot, so there is a saying that "harvest on fire".
When the harvest season comes, the roads naturally need to be repaired. Of course, it is not limited to repairing the roads within the company, but all roads will be repaired, otherwise how can the grain be brought back from the fields?
The wheat harvest season is the busiest time for the company. Not only are employees from dual-income families busy, but women from single-income families also come to the company as temporary workers.
Wan Feng's family is a single-income family. His mother is not an employed person. Only at this time of year does she go to the company to earn a little over one yuan a day, earning some hard-earned money for the family.
However, this year Wan Feng does not plan to let his mother do these twenty days of temporary work.
What a waste of twenty or thirty yuan! It would be much better to stay in shape at home.
Wan Feng's home is at the east end of the village, about 300 meters away from the west end. The westernmost end of the road is the company yard, while the westernmost end of the road is the company headquarters.
The company headquarters is located on the side of the road. It is made of red bricks and covered with green tiles. It is the most magnificent building of the 42nd Company.
The whole building is divided into two parts, half is a store and the other half is the company office.
It’s a pity that the store was closed at this time, otherwise Wan Feng would go in to see if there was anything he needed.
Opposite the company headquarters is the yard of the 42nd Company, which covers an area of nearly 10,000 square meters of concrete floor.
After a few days, the wheat will be harvested and dried here, then packed into bags and transported to the Sijitun grain depot and shipped away by water.
There are no houses further west than the company. Across a dirt road and an open area is a square, which is the site of the maintenance company.
The yard is filled with various machines of the company, including Wuhua plows, notched harrows, rollers, seeders, harvesters, tractors and so on.
In the open space between this square and the company headquarters, there stand two wooden basketball hoops.
One of them was already crooked and looked a bit fragile.
Under another fairly standard basketball stand, dozens of people, ranging from teenagers to those in their thirties and forties, gathered together. A game that was not exciting enough but was quite thrilling was going on on the court.
There were people all around watching the fun.
Every summer, this is where the men of the 42nd Company
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