047: Now I will take you to the Eighth Company
When the old couple heard their daughter's idea, they both laughed.
Yu Jiahui praised:
"Xiao Ye, you're so quick to think. You just deliberately mispronounced my name. It was amazing. I almost didn't react!"
Yu Xiaoye also laughed:
"It's a quick fix."
Xu Ying smiled and said:
"Our Jiabao is smart. We'll just do as she says. Even if Li Dasong comes looking for us later, we'll just refuse to admit that this marriage happened because we lost our memory after being hit by his son. If he dares to force us, we'll just turn around and sue his son!"
The family made a plan.
Soon, the truck was unloaded, and Li Xinchun returned to the cab and started the car again:
"Okay, now I'll take you to the Eighth Company!"
The road ahead was not as smooth as the previous one. It was full of bumpy roads, and Yu Jiahui was almost injured again due to the bumpy roads.
After walking about twenty miles, we saw a large expanse of farmland behind a row of birch trees on the side of the road in the distance.
There are people working in the fields.
From a distance, each figure looks as small as an ant.
Li Xinchun pointed to the farmland outside the car window and said:
"This is the land of your Eighth Company."
The family of three looked towards the farmlands on both sides of the road.
Yu Jiahui asked Li Xinchun with joy about the basic situation of the Eighth Company. Li Xinchun told them that the Eighth Company was quite large, with about two hundred formal farmers and workers.
Among them were one hundred educated youth, some retired officers and soldiers, young people who had been sent to border areas, migrant workers who had fled famine, many released prisoners from labor camps, and cadres who had been sent from the city for re-education.
These people, together with their families and children, total more than 300 people.
Compared with other farm companies, this scale is not small.
Some companies even have only a few dozen people and there is no electricity in the team.
At least their Eighth Company had electricity, and the team was well-equipped, with a mill, a classroom, and even a large combine harvester. There were three ordinary agricultural tractors and at least ten horse-drawn carriages.
Moreover, the company raised several pigs of its own. These pigs did not need to be handed over. They were raised by the company and killed and eaten during festivals, spring plowing and autumn harvest.
In general, the overall situation of the Eighth Company is above average among the dozens of companies in the entire Mishan Farm.
If you ask whether the Eighth Company has any problems, yes, it has more released prisoners from labor camps than other companies.
Because this place was actually a labor camp that held many prisoners.
Later, due to border tensions, the Beidahuang Production and Construction Corps was established, and this place was transformed into an agricultural company. The labor reform personnel and management personnel who had been here were transferred to become agricultural workers in the company.
Therefore, other companies had at most a few or a dozen prisoners, but the Eighth Company had at least twenty or thirty released prisoners.
This gave the Eighth Company a bad reputation outside.
Moreover, the Eighth Company had experienced several rather thrilling cases, which cast a gloomy image on the company.
The truck crossed the farmland and then passed through a forest, and finally saw the company headquarters.
Looking around, there is a group of low adobe houses and only a row of neat brick houses. These brick houses should be the company's offices.
Apart from the office, the dormitories where the educated youth and farm workers lived were all braided houses made of a mixture of earth and grass.
Some houses are crooked and look like they are about to collapse.
However, probably because the area is vast and sparsely populated, the yards of those people are very large, and are surrounded by wooden stakes to form a large area.
Moreover, the wooden stakes seemed to be deliberately made uneven.
Yu Xiaoye had seen it and knew why the yard was made like this. It was deliberately made uneven to prevent wolves.
There are many wild wolves in the Great Northern Wilderness. The companies are basically located in relatively remote areas, where there are especially many wild wolves.
These people usually raise poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese in their yards. If the walls of the yards are made of the same height, it will be easy for wild wolves to jump in at night and steal the chickens and ducks.
If the fences are not consistent, with some being high and some being low, it will be difficult for wild wolves to cross over, and they may even be pricked by the suddenly higher wooden fences.
This is the wisdom of local people in dealing with nature!
Finally they arrived at their company. Yu Jiahui, Xu Ying and Yu Xiaoye all felt it was quite novel and kept looking at the mud houses back and forth.
Yu Jiahui was particularly happy.
The truck finally stopped in front of the row of tiled houses.
At this time, most of the farm workers in the company went out to work, and there were not many idle people in the company headquarters. Only a group of children and a few women heard the sound of the engine and gathered from their yards to see the majestic truck.
A young man wearing a blue cotton jacket walked out of the office.
The young man had a cigarette in his mouth, his eyelids drooped as if he hadn't woken up yet, and a cynical look on his face. When he saw Li Xinchun getting out of the car, he jokingly said, cigarette in hand:
"Hey, isn't this Mr. Li, the driver from the field office? What brings you here?"
"Secretary Jia, I'm following orders from Chief Zhou to send a few people over to your company."
When Jia Song heard that it was the director who asked him to see someone off, he raised his eyelids, took out the cigarette from his mouth, bent down and put the cigarette butt on the ground, then put the remaining half of the cigarette between his ears and walked over to greet the people in the car.
Since the director personally sent Li Xinchun to deliver it in a large truck, he might be a member of a working group or even the leader of a department.
Although Jia Song was a little reluctant, he still went to greet him in a businesslike manner.
As a result, Li Xinchun carefully helped down an old man with unshaven beard and patches all over his body.
Holy shit, I was about to say welcome to the leader, but instead I helped a beggar down?!
Jia Song looked at Li Xinchun with a confused look on his face.
At this time, Yu Xiaoye had already jumped down from the other side and rushed over to support.
Xu Ying also got out of the car carrying a net bag.
The family of three was dressed neatly, though in tattered and shabby clothes. However, it must be said that they were in very good spirits. There was light in their eyes, and they looked around as soon as they got out of the car. They really looked like a working group coming down for inspection.
Jia Song looked at the family of three in disbelief, and was a little confused:
Is he coming to their company to beg for food, or for some other reason?
At this moment, Yu Jiahui, supported by Li Xinchun, said with a smile:
"Well, not bad, the Eighth Company is pretty good."
Jia Song almost habitually said, "Thank you for the praise, leader!"
Fortunately, I stopped talking in time and avoided making a fool of myself.
In the past, they often assigned people to their company, but they could tell the approximate identities of the people at a glance: whether they were educated youth sent to the countryside, prisoners in labor camps, people with bad backgrounds, or migrant workers fleeing famine. It was clear at a glance.
This family of three really left Jia Song stunned.
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