Chapter 51 You Lied
It's getting dark and night is falling.
Suddenly, there was a burst of shouting outside the educated youth compound.
Yun Qiao couldn't hear clearly through the window, but seeing that everyone else put down their things and walked out, Yun Qiao followed the crowd, put down his things and walked out.
When I walked to the door, I met Chen Fengxia who was coming back from the bathroom.
Chen Fengxia took her hand and said, "The company commander has brought back the new educated youth. Let's go to the grain drying ground now."
"good."
The threshing ground is an open space at the entrance of the village. When the grain is harvested, it is threshed and dried here. Wood and firewood are also used to dry here. However, it is empty most of the time. The children in the company like to play here.
When he arrived at the threshing ground, the first thing Yun Qiao noticed was the tractors lined up in the middle of the ground.
There were six tractors, all parked side by side, looking quite impressive. Behind the row of tractors was a line of horse-drawn carts, each pulled by a pair of strong, energetic horses with large red bridles tied to their chests.
What is even more eye-catching are the new educated youth lying in a mess next to the tractor.
However, they were not glamorous and beautiful, but all of them were covered in dust and dirt.
The new educated youth walked for a whole afternoon before returning from the field office. Now they were all exhausted and didn't even want to talk.
Those who were physically strong enough could still stand, but most of them were squatting on the ground. A few unruly male educated youth even lay directly on the ground, and a few girls broke down and cried.
Yun Qiao looked at this scene and didn't know what to say.
I can only say that Captain Yang’s show of force was really scary.
Of course, the welcome meeting was not held under such circumstances. Captain Yang still had some humanity. He asked the kitchen team to bring dinner and provided the new educated youth with a full meal first.
The entire cooking team moved to the threshing ground, so not only the new educated youth but also the old educated youth ate here.
Dinner was a 200g white flour bun per person, served with pickled dried radish, and the soup was a wild vegetable and egg soup, the kind with only wild vegetables but no eggs.
This was still considered good. Chen Fengxia whispered to Yun Qiao, "Except during the busy farming season, we usually don't have white flour buns. We either have wild vegetable steamed buns, mixed flour buns, or simply boiled soybeans in water or stewed potatoes with sweet potatoes, the kind without even a trace of oil on them."
Yun Qiao was speechless and could only eat the steamed bun in silence.
After dinner, the welcome meeting is about to begin.
The old educated youth lined up in a team, and Yun Qiao and several other new educated youth who arrived earlier were also incorporated into the new educated youth team.
The other team is a group of retired soldiers led by Captain Yang, Instructor Zhao and female student Ren Jiang Ling.
Captain Yang took a step forward and shouted, "Salute!"
His voice was loud and high, and instantly echoed throughout the audience.
Yun Qiao's face unconsciously became solemn, and he and other new educated youth accepted the salute from the soldiers.
Afterwards, Company Commander Yang, Instructor Zhao, and Commander Jiang came forward to deliver speeches, while also introducing themselves to everyone.
All three of them were military men, and their speeches were not at all long-winded; they finished in just a few minutes.
Afterwards, Company Commander Yang personally demonstrated how to blow the bugle, asking them to remember what the "wake-up call", "lunch break call", "assembly call", and "lights out call" were.
In short, they would have to live with these short and long trumpet calls for their entire lives, working from sunrise to sunset, until the day they left the Great Northern Wilderness.
Afterwards, a bonfire was lit in the center of the threshing ground, and the welcome party officially began.
Instructor Zhao from Si'an played the accordion, and his wife Jiang Lingren sang hymns beside him.
With the instructor taking the lead, the old educated youth also presented their talents.
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