They say the weather in June is like a child's face, changing in an instant.
The weather in these mountains changes even faster.
Nothing happened for the first half of the night, but then it started raining with thunder and lightning in the second half.
At 5:30 in the morning, some people woke up and craned their necks to wait for the forest farm's loudspeaker to announce something.
As expected, it's raining today, so we're taking a day off. The family work team also announced that we're off work today.
Those who were at work or doing chores were quite happy to hear the noise, finally able to rest for a day.
The young man cheered, turned over, and went back to sleep.
Of course, even if it's not Sunday, students still have to attend classes as usual.
When children are in school, women still have to cook as usual, and then go through the trouble of waking the children up so they can eat and go to school.
Others can take a break when it rains, but Sheng Liancheng can't. He works at the small repair shop, so rain doesn't stop him from working; he goes to work as usual.
Only Sheng Xiping can rest at home for a day.
"Boss, could you check all the wood in our barn later and see how much we still have that's usable?"
Last night, Sheng Liancheng and his wife discussed it. Now that their son had a girlfriend, they needed to get ready quickly.
Putting aside other things, big items like houses and furniture all take time to purchase.
If we don't prepare in advance, what if the two kids suddenly decide they want to get married? Wouldn't we be caught off guard?
Sheng Liancheng and his wife had discussed it and realized that their family only had two and a half rooms, so their son definitely couldn't live together after getting married.
Alternatively, two rooms could be added to the west end of the house for Sheng Xiping to use when he gets married.
Alternatively, one could apply to the farm for public housing.
Qianchuan Forest Farm has been established for more than ten years. People like Sheng Liancheng were among the first to arrive. They didn't have public housing; they all built their own houses.
In recent years, the forest farm has also built a number of public housing units, and those who come later will all live in these public housing units.
The forest farm built another batch of public housing this year. Given Sheng Liancheng's level, applying for one shouldn't be a big problem.
So Sheng Liancheng planned to go to the farm during the day to ask the farm manager and secretary, hoping that the application could be approved.
Back home, let Sheng Xiping check if there's enough timber or something.
If that doesn't work, we can buy some furniture from the market and hire two carpenters to make it.
Think ahead of everything and make all the necessary preparations so that you won't be caught unprepared when things come to a head.
Sheng Xiping wasn't quite sure what his father was thinking, but he just did whatever he was assigned.
After breakfast, his younger siblings went to school, and Sheng Xiping rummaged around in the storeroom.
A forest farm is a large forest where there is plenty of timber.
Every winter during the peak logging season, the forestry workers can simply tell the farm that they need to collect some discarded timber for firewood.
Use the work team's tractor to pull it to the roadside, tell the dispatcher, and pay some money.
After picking up the workers' gas supply for commuting, a trailer called "Special Three-Plate" was attached to the truck and transported the firewood back to the mountain area.
These are supposed to be firewood, but many of them are high-quality pieces of wood with a diameter of over 20 centimeters.
Pick out the good ones and keep them; the rest, saw them off and split them open, and they become excellent firewood.
If you're making furniture, this kind of wood won't do. You'll have to apply to the factory, pay some money, and get approved for a few cubic meters of good boards.
Whether it's making furniture, doors, or windows, it doesn't cost much anyway.
In the past, Sheng Liancheng worked on the mountain and didn't have time for these things, so he didn't save much.
In the past two years, seeing that his son had grown up and the situation was not as tight as before, Sheng Liancheng applied to the farm and saved up some timber.
Sheng Xiping rummaged around in the storage room for a while and roughly estimated that he had a lot of wood and planks at home, enough to build two rooms.
After Sheng Xiping finished moving the wood in the warehouse and put it all back together, he came out and saw that the rain had stopped.
It's already this late, so I definitely can't go out to work in the fields, but it would be a waste to just stay home all day doing nothing.
"Mom, I'm going to the big alkali field to see my master."
The rain had just stopped, but the ground was still wet and sticky, making it impossible to work in the fields.
Needless to say, the branches and leaves in the woods are soaked with water, and a gust of wind would make it feel like a rain shower, so there's not much you can do in the woods at this time.
Sheng Xiping thought he should go to Xitou Dajianchang Village to visit his master.
I've been so busy these past few days since I was reborn that I haven't had a chance to visit my parents. Luckily, I have a day off from the rain, so I should go and see them.
"Yes, you should go see your master. I'll give you some money to buy him some cigarettes, alcohol, snacks, canned goods, and the like."
Zhang Shuzhen was mending clothes on the kang (a heated brick bed) when she heard that her son was going to visit his master, and she immediately took out money to give to her son.
"Mom, no need, I have money in my pocket. I just wanted to let you know I might not be back for lunch."
It's been a long time since I visited my master. I'll probably have to stay for a meal when I get there.
"Okay, I understand. No need to rush back. Spend some time chatting with your master."
Zhang Shuzhen nodded and continued sewing the clothes in her hands.
After leaving his home, Sheng Xiping first went to the shop at the forest farm.
I bought two bottles of wine, two jin of roasted fruit, two jin of steamed rice cake, two cans of apples, and two cans of hawthorn.
After thinking it over, I bought two more packs of Spring Festival cigarettes produced in the provincial capital.
A box costs three cents; light one, and you can smell the fragrance from a great distance.
That cigarette was discontinued later, and you couldn't buy it even if you wanted to.
In fact, Sheng Xiping's master, Liu Changde, did not smoke cigarettes; he usually smoked his own homemade tobacco.
Occasionally, when we ran out of cigarettes at home, we would ask someone to buy some yellow cigarettes from the big houses along the river.
However, when living in a household, there will always be guests coming and going. It's not appropriate to use dry tobacco to entertain guests, is it?
Sheng Xiping brought two packs of cigarettes over. His master could smoke them if he liked, and keep them to entertain guests if he didn't. Wasn't that a good idea?
After leaving the store, walk west along the main east-west road of the forest farm.
Continuing west past Xidadi, there's a rather thick pine tree. Further west past that pine tree is Dajianchang Village.
Despite being nestled deep in the mountains, Dajianchang Village has a long history.
In 1936, hunter Yu Erpao dug deer enclosures nearby and sprinkled salt to lure deer into the enclosure.
Over time, the soil in Weichang became saline-alkali soil, hence the name Dajianchang (Great Alkali Field).
In 1955 or 1956, the Tonghua Special District Youth Reclamation Team reclaimed wasteland and built a village here, and used the place name Dajianchang (Big Alkali Field).
Dajianchang Village has a total of 140 to 150 households and 500 to 600 people. It is a production brigade under Donggang Commune.
Not only that, Dajianchang was also once a secret camp of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, where they set up a clothing factory and an arsenal.
Unfortunately, they were betrayed by a traitor, the arsenal was destroyed, and the Anti-Japanese United Army was besieged by the Japanese and their puppet regime.
There are bullet holes in that big pine tree, which are said to have been left from that time.
In the past, some naughty children would dig up ironware and other items in the village.
There is a very deep body of water in the Maekawa River, and there is a platform on the riverbank, which is known as the Fishing Platform.
It is said that General Yang once fished there, which is why the place was named that way.
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