Soon, Lin Wanjun learned the specific situation of the cadre school from Li Yuetang.
Although the Song family was not the first group of land reclamation workers to come to the cadre school, their lives were not much better.
After the first batch of transferred personnel arrived in early autumn last year, they began to reclaim land and sow seeds in preparation for this year's food supply for the cadre school.
These transferred personnel came from various urban agencies, and the vast majority were politicians and their families.
If you ask them to manage and coordinate the overall situation, they will definitely be top-notch experts, but if you ask them to farm...
The consequence was that grain production was so catastrophically low that they had to borrow grain from the commune. Hundreds of people were starving and unable to wear warm clothes, and their lives were miserable.
And the accommodation conditions are also very poor.
The adobe house was leaky on all sides. It rained heavily outside and drizzled inside. From time to time, poisonous creatures such as scorpions, centipedes, and long insects came to visit. It was really exciting.
"Don't look at our dorm room, which looks shabby, but it's actually the best room in the entire cadre school!"
Li Yuetang sighed, "The house your father and Zhan Jin live in doesn't even have a complete roof. They just use two pieces of plastic sheeting to keep out the wind and rain."
But what can we do? No matter how big the difficulties are, we have to overcome them, right?
Lin Wanjun's bed was at the very edge, with the earthen wall on her right and her mother-in-law Li Yuetang on her left.
"Your father and his family are working hard to cut down trees and build houses. I heard that the family housing will be completed in about a month, which will solve the housing problems of more than 30 families!"
Li Yuetang was a little excited, but also a little nervous. The family room was a two-bedroom suite, just enough for their family.
"We came late, I don't know if we can get a room."
Lin Wanjun didn't say anything, but silently recalled the contents of the novel in her mind.
In the original plot, the Song family was the last group to be allocated family housing. They lived on a large bunk bed for a whole year and experienced the coldest winter.
Li Yuetang breathed her last on a large bunk bed and never lived in the family room she had longed for until her death.
The reason is simple.
Meng Fugen's sister is the wife of the logistics director of the cadre school, and the logistics director has the power to distribute housing. Because he has a backer, even Wei Yifu can't control him.
In the original plot, Li Yuetang offended Meng Fugen. In order to vent her brother's anger, his sister spared no effort to whisper in her husband's ear.
First, he set up trouble by assigning Li Yuetang to the most difficult and tiring job of pulling excrement, and then he gave the housing quota that should have belonged to the Song family to someone else.
"Don't worry, we will definitely be among the first to move into the family housing, after all, my father's status is there!"
Lin Wanjun comforted Li Yuetang, with a glimmer of determination in her eyes.
She must take the family housing!
In the afternoon, Platoon Leader Wu Renyi went to talk to Lin Wanjun, looking embarrassed.
"Well... you've been transferred to another platoon."
He didn't dare look into Lin Wanjun's eyes and spoke stutteringly.
According to the original arrangement, Lin Wanjun and Li Yuetang both worked as odd jobs in the logistics class, which was the easiest job in the cadre school.
But just now he received an order from Director Chen, asking Lin Wanjun to report to the manure collection team.
As the name suggests, the manure team is responsible for cleaning up the manure from all the toilets and livestock pens in the cadre school and taking it to the fields.
This is the dirtiest and most tiring job, and only those who make the most serious mistakes will be assigned to the excrement team for reform.
Besides, all the people doing the work are men. How could a little girl like Lin Wanjun be allowed to do this kind of work?
What's more, she is the daughter-in-law of the Song family!
"Did they assign me to the poop class?"
Lin Wanjun looked calm, obviously having prepared herself mentally.
From the moment she picked up the stick and hit Meng Fugen on the head, she knew the outcome.
"It's okay, Platoon Leader Wu, don't worry. I know this wasn't your plan."
Lin Wanjun smiled and said, "I'll report in a moment."
Li Yuetang was furious when she heard that her daughter-in-law was assigned to the dung-collecting team.
"Isn't this bullying? How can you let a woman do something like this? No, I'm going to confront the principal!"
Lin Wanjun grabbed Li Yuetang.
"You think the principal doesn't know about this? If he had the power to change something, why would Sergeant Five have made this trip?"
In the original plot, after Li Yuetang was assigned to the excrement team, he suffered a lot because he was honest and inflexible, and soon his health had problems.
But Lin Wanjun is not Li Yuetang. She is smarter than a monkey. How could she suffer this loss?
"I'll go take a look first. Don't worry, and don't argue with the principal. As I said before, be patient if you can."
After comforting her mother-in-law, Lin Wanjun walked towards the manure removal team in a leisurely manner.
There were nine people in the manure removal team. At this moment, they were cleaning manure in the cattle pen behind the cadre school. Flies were flying around, maggots were crawling everywhere, and the stench was nauseating.
Lin Wanjun could smell the odor from afar and was so irritated that she could hardly open her eyes.
She found a headscarf from the space to cover her mouth and nose, and took a few boxes of Hongtashan cigarettes and stuffed them into her bag.
You should know that Hongtashan has always used a quota sales method, and you need a cigarette ticket to buy it. Its status is roughly equivalent to that of Moutai in the tobacco industry.
When she walked near the cattle pen, Lin Wanjun heard voices talking.
"Hey, I heard there's going to be a new student assigned to our class? Is that true?"
"I heard it's a woman. Is that surprising?"
"Nonsense! How could it be a woman? In this cadre school, even if a female comrade committed a serious offense, there's no way they'd be exiled to Ningguta to suffer!"
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Ningguta, Lin Wanjun felt like laughing.
She took a deep breath and walked into the cattle pen with light steps, her voice sweet and crisp.
"Hello everyone, I'm new to our class. My name is Lin Wanjun!"
When the men who were working heard this, they all stood up at the same time, their eyes dropping to the ground.
"Oh my god, you're really a woman!"
Someone shouted out loud.
Lin Wanjun chuckled and started handing out cigarettes without saying a word.
"You all should be older than me. I'm new here and don't know anything. Please take care of me from now on!"
The leader took the Hongtashan cigarette handed to him by Lin Wanjun and couldn't help but exclaimed "Wow".
"Hard currency, here, a token of appreciation from our new comrades, one for each of us, buddy!"
As she was about to pass out the cigarettes, Lin Wanjun smiled and said, "This is for you. The other brothers and uncles have some too!"
She walked up to a person and took out a pack of cigarettes. She guessed his age based on his appearance and called him "big brother" or "uncle". She was sweet-mouthed and sensible.
I walked all the way to the last person, and saw that the other person had a torn towel wrapped around his face, and he couldn't even see his eyes clearly.
He didn't take the cigarette that Lin Wanjun handed to him, but just stared at her blankly.
Lin Wanjun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shouted in surprise.
"Hey, Doctor Shi? Doctor Shi, is it really you?"
Shi Kai pulled the towel off his face, revealing his elegant face. He was about to reach out to shake hands with Lin Wanjun, but retracted his hand the next moment.
Lin Wanjun took the initiative to hold Shi Kai's hand.
"Doctor Shi, why were you assigned here?"
Shi Kai smiled bitterly and said, "In troubled times, we are like duckweed, helpless and drifting with the tide."
Although he refused to take the cigarette that Lin Wanjun handed to him, Lin Wanjun still stuffed it into his hand.
"It's okay if you don't smoke. Save it for social events, right? Since you're born into this world, you can't escape the ways of the world. It's okay to bow when you should, and to curry favor when you should. It's not shameful."
"Draw a moral bottom line in your heart, and just don't cross it."
Shi Kai looked at the young woman in front of him and couldn't help but think of her decisiveness and agility in saving people on the train, as well as her conversation at this moment, which showed her seeing through the ways of the world...
She sees life more clearly than many people.
So Shi Kai took the cigarette and carefully put it in his pocket.
Lin Wanjun used Hongtashan to expand her network, and with her eloquence and sweet talk, she quickly became friends with the other people in the dung-collecting class.
"Alright, alright, how can a little girl like you do this kind of work? Go and rest over there!"
Everyone happily "drove" Lin Wanjun aside and took over her share of the work.
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