Wan Feng took them to see the three houses he built at the entrance of the greenhouse. Tengfei's younger brother lived in one of them. The three rooms were very spacious for three men.
"There are pots and firewood here. It's up to you whether you bring food from home or buy rice. I've told Brother Yang that if my greenhouse remains safe and sound throughout the year, I'll give each of you a bonus at the end of the year. I'll also give you some flower seedlings in the future."
Zheng Yuexian made full use of the width of the greenhouse. He used all the available space in the greenhouse and even planted two thousand more pots of flower seedlings beyond Wan Feng's plan.
He also plans to take advantage of the height difference, and he says he can grow a thousand flower seedlings next year.
If these people can work for him diligently and loyally, he will really give them some flower seedlings.
When the Clivia craze started, the first things to go crazy were these seedlings, with the highest price reaching 500 yuan per plant in one month.
By then, if Wan Feng gives them 180 trees each, that would be 50,000 or 60,000 yuan.
Fifty or sixty thousand in 1984 was equivalent to several million decades later.
"If anything happens, remember my words and don't act impulsively. I don't want anyone to be killed or injured. If something like that happens, you'll be held responsible. If you have any questions, you can go to Director Liu Fu of the Luyuan Branch or District Chief Zhang of Luyuan District. They'll help you."
When Yang Jianguo and the other two heard this, they realized that this kid had a background and was actually related to the director of the public security bureau and the district chief.
"Just the three of you need to know about this. Unless something happens, don't bother them, and don't tell anyone else. Got it?"
Yang Jianguo and the other two nodded.
"I'll come every two or three months and pay you all your wages in one lump sum. Is that okay with you?"
"That's no problem."
"Okay, this is what I want you to do. Remember! You must be patient in everything and don't hurt anyone unless it's absolutely necessary."
After arranging all this, Wan Feng left Changchun and returned to Longjiang with peace of mind.
Three days later he had returned to the 42nd Company of Longjiang.
The days that followed were relatively dull. I went to school with my schoolbag on my back every day and spent my days hanging out. Apart from occasionally teasing Zang Yunli at school, there seemed to be nothing else I could do.
Time passed in this dull manner until July 10th.
July 10th is the day when all junior high school students in the Red Bianjiang rural area take the high school entrance examination. The examination is held at the vocational high school at the headquarters of the first branch.
The 42nd Company where Wan Feng was located was a three-point field. These junior high school students who were about to graduate had to take a boat to Xiaowujia, 50 miles upstream, to take the exam.
Xiao Wu's family belongs to the first branch of the farm, and the vocational high school of the Red Bianjiang Farm is located in Xiao Wu's family.
There should be eleven students, including both boys and girls, taking the exam in the 42nd Company, but four of them decided in advance not to continue studying, so there are seven people who took the boat to Sijitun today.
Led by our company teacher Dai, a group of eight people took the company's Dongfanghong 28 to Sijitun.
In the summer, passenger ships can be found on the Longjiang River, sailing up and down the river every two days, both from the Chinese side and the Soviet side.
The passenger ships from China run from Heihe to Jiayin downstream. When there are many people, large ships are used, and when there are few people, small ships are used.
The passenger ships coming down from upstream usually arrive at Sijitun Pier around nine o'clock, while the passenger ships coming from upstream will not arrive at Sijitun until around eleven o'clock.
It was not yet ten o'clock when Wan Feng and his friends arrived, and they had to wait here for more than an hour for the passenger ferry.
There are more than 60 students in the ten companies of the entire three-point field, half of them are boys and half are girls.
In his previous life, when he went to Xiao Wu's house to take the exam, Wan Feng didn't recognize any of the students from the three-point field because they were studying at Dalinzi School on a temporary basis and had little interaction with students from other companies.
But now these people don’t know Wan Feng, but Wan Feng knows many of them.
Many of these people became his classmates a few months later.
There were several people here who caught Wan Feng's attention. Two of them were 1.8 meters tall. One of them was named Li Ting and the other was named Zhang Jinmiao. There was also a man named Guo Wu who was about the same height as Wan Feng.
Li Ting caught Wan Feng's attention because he was the leader of the three-point field middle school. Last summer, when the main field held a full-court middle school basketball game, he and Sun Jin, who was representing the one-point field middle school team at the time, became friends in the yard of the vocational high school.
Sun Jin is one grade higher than him and is now a freshman in a vocational high school. When Wan Feng and the others enter the vocational high school in September, Sun Jin will already be a sophomore.
Sun Jin's father is the deputy director of a branch factory. He is considered the son of a high-ranking official here. He is usually very domineering, but this guy does not rely entirely on his father's power. He is also a good fighter.
Another guy who is about the same height as Li Ting and has an arrogant look on his face is called Zhang Jinmiao. His father is the principal of Sanfenchang Middle School. It is said that he is the only one in the entire Sanfenchang Middle School who has the hope of being admitted to a key high school. He is good-looking and plays basketball well, and is very popular with girls.
Unfortunately, this guy was a tragic figure. Maybe the name was not well chosen. Just before Wan Feng and his classmates arrived at the vocational high school to prepare for tomorrow's exam, that is, this evening, these students were bored and went to the river to swim. This guy drowned in a bay.
This bay is shaped like a pot bottom, about twenty meters in circumference and three or four meters deep.
Zhang Jinmiao knew how to doggy paddle a little, but maybe when he got here and couldn't reach the bottom, he got panicked and disappeared after flapping a few times.
When he drowned, Wan Feng was no more than five meters away from him. The water there was just knee-deep at Wan Feng's place, and Zhang Jinmiao, who was 1.8 meters tall and five meters away, disappeared without a trace.
That was the only time in Wan Feng's life that he witnessed a person drowning. His legs moved without any thought at all and he couldn't move at all.
Wan Feng always believed that Zhang Jinmiao's death was related to a guy named Guo Wu. The two of them made a bet on the shore. Zhang Jinmiao said that if anything happened to Guo Wu, he would stay in the river for a night.
Because of this sentence, he really stayed in the river for a whole night.
After he drowned, the locals knew that there was only one bay of water here, and he must be within a radius of 20 to 30 meters. However, his body was not found until midnight. It was not until eight o'clock the next morning that he emerged from the river by himself.
It was from that time that Wan Feng realized that some things were indeed strange and mysterious.
However, at this time, the students in the three-point field did not know Wan Feng, and even the students in the 42nd Company did not know each other very well. The two sides formed a clearly defined circle.
At ten forty-five, the passenger ship heading upstream finally emerged from the downstream bend.
The flight that day was still on a large ship, a four-story passenger ship.
It took the ferry more than half an hour to approach the Sijitun Pier and slowly docked at the shore.
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