235: Let’s sleep next to each other?
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When the first batch of demobilized officers and soldiers arrived here, it was a vast wasteland covered with white snow and there was not even a house. They temporarily dug a big hole in the frozen ground, supported it with wooden sticks, and covered it with hay and felt to form a temporary residence. They called such a house a dugout.
At that time, everyone lived in dugouts like this.
Men and women lived together, with only a strip of corn stalks in between as a symbolic barrier.
The temperature was minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. They endured the biting cold at night and went to open up wasteland and build sites during the day. In this extremely harsh environment, they slowly built the first batch of houses and reclaimed the first piece of wasteland.
Later it developed into the current field headquarters and company.
So compared to the conditions of the company today, the first group of people who came here to open up the wasteland back then had truly difficult times!
They are the entrepreneurs of Beidahuang Farm.
Captain Yang of the Eighth Company was one of the first group to come here. He was one of the 100,000 retired officers and soldiers in 1958.
At that time, Captain Yang was a battalion commander of the Railway Corps. After completing the task of building railways in the south, the entire team was pulled to the remote Great Northern Wilderness and assigned to various places to establish strongholds.
When Captain Yang led ten people deep into the ice field to explore the farm base, they walked in half a meter deep snow for a day and a night. Both feet were frostbitten, but they could still walk with the help of others.
When we returned to the base and entered the warm room, our feet started to ooze yellow water like frozen pears that were beginning to thaw.
All ten toes were frozen and rotten, with blood and flesh all over the place.
According to Captain Yang himself, there was no hospital nearby at that time, no painkillers or anesthetics, and he could only take some anti-inflammatory drugs and ointments given by the locals.
Later, the rotten bones of the little toe on his right foot, which was the most severely frostbitten, were exposed, and Captain Yang was in so much pain that he couldn't sleep.
Captain Yang was also a ruthless man. In a fit of rage, he drank a pound of sorghum wine. Taking advantage of the alcohol, he grabbed a small piece of toe bone that was exposed outside, exerted force suddenly, and pulled it off directly.
After being pulled down, he let out a scream and then fell asleep.
After sobering up, he still held the small piece of bone in his hand.
So, Captain Yang now has only four toes on his right foot, and his little toe is gone. When he goes barefoot in the summer, everyone can see his injured right foot.
A few years ago, when the educated youth first arrived at the company and heard Captain Yang talk about this, they all thought that Captain Yang was bragging. How could the bones in the feet be pulled out just like that? They were bones!
Later, an old comrade who had gone out with Captain Yang to survey the terrain came to the company and personally confirmed that this story was not made up, and that Captain Yang had indeed pulled the bones off his toes himself.
Everyone was completely convinced.
Sai Jinhua told this story to the three members of the Yu family in the carriage. The three people were stunned and their hair stood on end.
Captain Yang is a real man!
As they were talking, the carriage stopped in front of the Propaganda Department's office.
The group got off the carriage.
Lao Pu didn't even bother to park the car in the yard, and just tied it to the hitching post on the side of the road.
As soon as I stopped the car, a person walked out of the office. It was Shao Xia.
Shao Xia seemed to have just arrived, still carrying her luggage. She saw Yu Xiaoye coming into the office and hurried out to greet her:
"Yu Xiaoye, you're here early!"
When he came out and saw the huge crowd of six heads, he was startled and blurted out:
"Why are there so many people?"
Yu Xiaoye looked embarrassed and said with a forced smile:
"It's all along the way."
Shao Xia believed it and said hurriedly:
"By the way, let me take you to the dormitory first. Put your luggage down first. I'm familiar with this place."
"Okay, take me there."
Shao Xia took Yu Xiaoye to the dormitory.
The four old men and women who were traveling along the way kept following, and the cart owner even followed with his horse-drawn carriage.
Shao Xia glanced back quietly, Xiao ()..
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Voice question:
"These four people are so strange. Why are they following you all the way?"
Yu Xiaoye answered in a low voice:
"It's okay. Two of them are my parents, and the other two came with my parents."
"oh--"
Only then did Shao Xia turn around and smile at them.
Arrived at the dormitory.
Lao Pu and Yu Jiahui did not go in, but stayed outside to observe the surrounding terrain.
Xu Ying and Sai Jinhua followed the two girls into the dormitory.
The dormitories here are similar to those in their company, divided into inner and outer rooms.
The outer room is small, used to store some small items and washbasins, and there is also a long wooden table.
The inner room is large and is where people live. There is a large kang next to the south window that can sleep more than a dozen people.
When Yu Xiaoye and Shao Xia came in, two female educated youth were already cleaning the room.
Yu Xiaoye looked at them curiously, trying to see if he could guess who they were.
After taking a look, I actually guessed one.
One of the female educated youth had short hair, wore a faded green military uniform, and a military cap. She exuded a rebellious and arrogant spirit.
Just from the short hair, Yu Xiaoye recognized that this person should be Xia Ning, the child of a high-ranking official in the province. In the original book, she was also a domineering and beautiful person. Moreover, probably because of Xia Ning's identity as the child of a high-ranking official, she would serve as the captain of this propaganda team in the future.
Yu Xiaoye couldn't recognize the other female educated youth for the time being. She had two long braids and was quietly packing things on the kang. She looked very reserved and was probably an inconspicuous passerby. Yu Xiaoye couldn't guess who she was for a moment.
The auras of these two people were obviously incompatible, and neither of them paid any attention to the other. The atmosphere in the dormitory was a bit cold.
This is understandable. Xia Ning is a person with eyes on top of her head. She doesn't submit to anyone in the propaganda team. Sometimes she is so serious that even the head of the propaganda department has to give her some respect.
Who made her father a high-ranking official?
Anyway, no matter who it is, Yu Xiaoye has made up her mind that she will not get involved in those messy things and just take care of her own business.
Try your best to be a responsible and qualified spectator!
So after Yu Xiaoye came in, he didn't take the initiative to get close to them. He just took off the bedding behind him and tried to find a bed against the wall.
Shao Xia also put down the luggage behind her and said to Yu Xiaoye:
"Shall we sleep next to each other?"
"Okay, then why don't we sleep here?" Yu Xiaoye pointed to the wall on the left side of the door.
Shao Xia agreed very casually:
"Okay, that's it."
The two girls agreed on their own beds and placed their quilts here to take up space.
Sai Jinhua said worriedly:
"Xiao Ye, don't sleep against the wall. It's damp in the summer and cold in the winter. It's not good for your health if you sleep for a long time. It's better to sleep closer to the wall."
Yu Xiaoye didn't want to move in, as she didn't know what kind of person would be sleeping next to her. It was good like this now, with the wall on one side and Shao Xia on the other. She felt very safe.
"It's okay, Aunt Jinhua. I won't be staying here for long. I might go back soon."
"You can't compromise on that. You have to take care of your body even if you stay here for one day."
Xu Ying guessed her daughter's thoughts. She probably didn't want to get too close to other people, so she took the initiative to move to the side. She could understand her daughter's choice, so she came over and advised:
"This place is pretty good. If it rains a lot in the future, I can just light a fire in the kang hole to get rid of the moisture."
Sai Jinhua frowned and complained to Xu Ying:
"You, you are so careless, you don't even feel sorry for your own daughter!"
Xu Ying also became popular:
"Just stay away, you're everywhere! I don't feel bad for my own daughter, but you do!"
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