502: The Hardships of the Logging Company Are Well-Deserved
Everyone gathered around the chopping board, cheering and waiting to share the roasted rabbit meat.
Two roasted rabbits, shared by twenty-six people, each person can probably only get a big bite.
But at least it’s meat!
Eat slowly, the aroma of meat will linger in your mouth for a long time!
After eating roasted rabbit, roasted steamed buns and roasted potatoes, the bearded captain asked everyone to continue working.
It’s okay to be lazy at other times, but now that the director is here, we must cheer up!
In one afternoon, they knocked down sixty-three large trees.
Before coming to the logging company, I only knew that the logging company was hard.
Now Zhou Ziheng has truly experienced how difficult the life here is, and it is indeed as good as its reputation.
Not only do they live in a remote area with almost no contact with the outside world, the food is worse than that of the company down the mountain, and most importantly, the work is extremely tiring.
In temperatures of minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, people were cutting down trees with axes and saws, and soon they started sweating.
Once the sweat starts, I can't stop.
As soon as the hands stop, the sweat immediately turns cold. When the cold sweat sticks to the body, it feels as cold as being naked.
You have to keep working and moving to keep sweating to stay warm.
This is not the most tiring job.
The most tiring part is carrying the felled trees down the mountain.
The trees were about the same height as an adult man's waist, and each one weighed hundreds or even thousands of pounds. It took at least six people in a group to carry them down the mountain using poles.
The road down the mountain is difficult to walk at this time. If you slip and fall, you may be hit by a tree.
The logging company had been injured by trees before.
Some people even couldn't stand the harsh conditions of the logging team, and in order to leave, they intentionally or unintentionally let trees fall on them.
However, this is too risky and may cause someone to become disabled, so most people don't dare to try it easily and try to be careful not to fall.
That afternoon, they felled sixty-three large trees and piled them all on the spot, planning to concentrate on transporting the trees the next day.
In the afternoon, as soon as the sun set, the logging company finished work.
Before finishing work, the bearded captain asked people to go back early to light the fire in the tent and go back to boil water and cook.
During the day, I just had a few bites of dry food in the morning and at noon. I could only have a hot meal at night. In addition, since the director was coming, I had to eat better.
So the bearded captain asked people to go back in advance to stew the pork delivered this morning, stew a large pot of potatoes, and then boil a large pot of sweet and stomach-warming cornmeal porridge.
It just so happened that no one was satisfied with the roasted rabbit meat at noon, so we went back home to have a meal of meat to satisfy our hunger.
When Zhou Ziheng returned to the tent with the team after work, he was covered in cold sweat and felt like he was soaked in cold water.
My fingers were frozen stiff and numb, white frost formed on my eyelashes, and a thick layer of ice formed on the outside of my mask.
Back in the tent, he and the others gathered around the campfire in the middle of the tent, took off their gloves and warmed themselves by the fire.
The frozen fingers finally felt a little warmth and began to regain consciousness.
But the sweat on my body was still damp and cold.
He took off his mask and picked off the ice that had formed on the outside of it.
The people around him looked at Zhou Ziheng with admiration. They thought that Zhou Ziheng would be so tired that he would cry for his parents on his first day here. They were all waiting to see his miserable state and let the director experience how hard the people in the logging company worked.
But at the end of the day, Zhou Ziheng did the same work as everyone else without any laziness. Instead of complaining about being tired, he looked as if nothing had happened.
I didn’t expect that a person who sits in an office all year round could have such physical strength and perseverance.
It seems that the director is no mere figurehead. Not only is he determined to come down and live and eat with them, he also does the same work as them.
Everyone looked at him with more admiration and respect.
After they finished roasting the fire and warmed up their hands and faces, everyone took their own rice bowls to get their meals.
Each person was given a large bowl of steaming cornmeal porridge and half a bowl of stewed potatoes and meat.
There are also steamed buns that are considered soft and fluffy.
For the people in the logging company, it has been a long time since they had such a decent meal!
Everyone gathered around the campfire, eating without talking.
After dinner, there was no entertainment and I just lay down to sleep.
They don't even take off their clothes and just sleep wrapped in cotton clothes.
Because if you take off your clothes, the cold bed won’t warm you up at all.
And when you wake up in the morning, no one wants to put on a cold cotton-padded jacket again.
The logging company had no electricity and there were no electric lights in the tents. They only relied on the campfire in the middle and a lantern hanging from the top of the tent for lighting.
Lying in the tent that was leaky on all sides and like an ice cellar, listening to the wolf howling almost next to his ears, Zhou Ziheng's heart was unusually calm.
Faced with the harsh living conditions and high-intensity physical labor in the logging company, all emotions disappeared.
He was only thinking about one question:
The logging company can't go on like this.
No one could withstand such harsh living conditions for long.
Even those who were exiled here had made mistakes or had bad backgrounds.
But this is not a labor camp, and there is no need to punish them in such extreme ways.
So there are two options before us. The first is to withdraw the logging company every winter and go back into the mountains to log trees in the spring of the following year.
The second is to install power lines to provide electricity to the logging company, build houses on the mountain, improve the basic living facilities here, and then further expand the scale of the logging company and develop it towards the scale of a formal forest farm.
However, this would require a huge investment, and there would be many things to consider. It was not something he could just decide on the spur of the moment.
We must go back and hold a serious meeting to discuss and study. If the study is passed, we will invite professional forestry experts to come and conduct on-site inspections.
Check to see if there is any prospect of developing this place into a forest farm and whether it is worth investing in.
If you can't invest, then choose the first path and withdraw the logging company every time the cold season comes.
If the investment can be made, it will be a big plan for the entire farm. The investment amount will start at at least 100,000 yuan, and it may take three to five years to see benefits.
So this plan must be made carefully.
After temporarily setting a plan for developing the forest farm, Zhou Ziheng still couldn't fall asleep.
My hand unconsciously touched the photo in my inner pocket.
He took out the photo and looked at the blurry figure in the firelight, and a feeling of heat arose in his cold body.
Zhou Ziheng looked at the photo and felt a surge of heat in his body. The depression he had felt during the quarrel two days ago was completely gone.
He looked at the photo and spoke to the person in the photo in his heart:
Xiao Ye, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lost my temper with you that day and shouldn't have treated you like that.
Please give me a chance, I promise I will never quarrel with you again, and I will never quarrel with you again for the rest of my life!
I really regret it!
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