Chu Tian walked forward with a smile, picked up two large bags on the ground that no one knew who had them, and said to the female educated youth, "First, put your luggage on the two carriages in the front, and then sit in the carriage with hay curtains at the back..."
Sun Weiguo reacted and said to the male educated youth, "You too, put your luggage away first, then sit in the carriage at the back. The one in front is for the female educated youth..."
After putting away the luggage, Chu Tian saw several female educated youth standing by the carriage but not getting in. He knew they disliked the hay curtains covering the carriage. After thinking for a moment, he smiled and said, "Comrades, this hay curtain is new. We just put it up this morning. You won't feel cold sitting on it. Don't worry, it's all clean..."
Several female educated youth looked at each other, and finally Li Aihong raised her chin slightly and got on the carriage first. The following female educated youth also got on the carriage one after another. Song Xiao, who got on the carriage last, looked at Chu Tian several times when she passed by him, which made Chu Tian puzzled.
The male educated youth did not have so much to do. Although they were all young men of eighteen or nineteen years old and all came from the city, they put down their luggage and got on the carriage and waited to leave. It was not that they did not mind, but for the same reason as before, they were too tired and now just wanted to get to a place to rest as soon as possible.
Chu Tian did not sit in the carriage for the male educated youth, let alone the carriage for the female educated youth. Instead, he sat in the luggage cart at the front. Sun Weiguo, the driver of the cart, was in a bad mood and spoke in a bad tone, "Brother Tian, those female educated youth dared to cause trouble in front of my father on the first day they arrived. Who knows how they will cause trouble in the future."
Chu Tian looked back at the female educated youth huddled in the carriage and smiled slightly, "Don't worry, your father knows how to deal with them..."
After a pause, he continued, "Weiguo, these educated youth will definitely return to the city in the future. You shouldn't get too close to them, especially the female educated youth..."
Sun Weiguo was honest, but he was not stupid. He looked back at Chu Tian in shock and whispered, "Brother Tian, what nonsense are you talking about? I won't get close to those female educated youth. I'm about to get married..."
"Besides, those educated youth don't look like people who can live a normal life, but my future wife doesn't look like she can live a normal life..."
Chu Tian chuckled and patted him on the back, "Drive your carriage well. Your brother Tian's head injury has just healed. If you throw him off the carriage again, he will probably be injured before the New Year..."
Sun Weiguo said loudly, "Brother Tian, don't worry. My carriage driving skills are second to none in the team!"
Captain Sun, who was sitting in the carriage behind him, stared speechlessly at his son's back, thinking to himself, "What a fool! He's showing off just because he's driving a carriage?"
The old horse knew the way, so Sun Weiguo didn't have to pull the reins much, and the horse automatically walked towards the direction of the Fourth Battalion of the Seventh Company.
Finally, they arrived at the brigade headquarters before dark. As soon as Chu Tian jumped off the carriage, he heard Sun Weiguo say, "Brother Tian, why don't you hold on and wait until I send the educated youth to a temporary place to settle down, and then I'll help you send the stove back?"
Chu Tian had no intention of returning right now, but upon hearing Sun Weiguo's words of concern for him, he smiled and nodded, "Yeah."
Captain Sun came over at this time, leaned close to Chu Tian and whispered, "I have decided to arrange for the educated youth to live in the dugout south of the brigade."
Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, "The dugout south of the brigade?"
Seeing Chu Tian's bewildered expression, Captain Sun explained, "Those are the dugouts that are no longer inhabited. They were built when our Fourth Production Brigade was reclaiming this piece of land. But it's been more than ten years now. At that time, our Fourth Production Brigade didn't have many households, and your Chu family hadn't been assigned to our brigade yet. It's understandable that you don't know..."
Their 4th Brigade of the 7th Company was the latest to be established among all the production teams. Some families moved here from other brigades that were already full of people in the following years. Some families moved here from the locals, or were family members who had previously accompanied the army...
Chu Tian thought for a moment after hearing this and said, "But haven't those dugouts been uninhabited for years? Can people still live there?"
Captain Sun waved his hand. "Why can't we live here? I went to check it out a couple of days ago, and it's fine. The kang inside hasn't collapsed. I already had someone clean it up this morning, and they even installed the stove."
As he spoke, Captain Sun walked over to the carriage where the educated youth were sitting, and it was unknown what he was saying.
Chu Tian's thoughts gradually drifted away. He recalled from his original body's memory that the Chu family actually moved to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1961, more than ten years after Chu's father's death. There was no other way. From 1960 to 1963, the Chu family's ancestral home in Henan Province suffered from severe food shortages due to natural disasters. Seeing that her sons were almost starving to death, Liu Zhaodi was really desperate. She spent money to send a telegram to ask for help from the leaders of the Corps when Chu's father was alive. Out of consideration for the late Chu's father's face, the leaders of the Corps found a way to move their family to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and settled down in the 4th Regiment of the 7th Company, which had just been established.
Only their family was moved here. The Chu family still has two branches, and the old lady of the old Chu family, who is Chu Tian’s original grandmother, is still in her hometown. For so many years, the Chu family has never gone back to visit... It is fine if the other two branches of the Chu family and Grandma Chu are not good to Chu Tian’s four brothers and Liu Zhaodi, but they and Grandma Chu are very good to Chu Tian’s four brothers and Liu Zhaodi...
When the eldest son Chu Jun married his eldest sister-in-law Ma Cuihua, and the second son Chu Min married his second sister-in-law Zhang Ping, it was Grandma Chu and Uncle Chu Tian and Second Uncle Chu Tian who pooled their money and grain to marry them. But even so, Liu Zhaodi had the opportunity to bring the other two families and Grandma Chu to the military corps by just saying a few more words, but she didn't...
You know, although the days of reclaiming wasteland in the Corps were hard in the past few years, they could eat every day, unlike when they worked hard all year round in their hometown and all the grain they grew had to be handed over as public grain, and the hungry people had to eat tree bark.
Chu Tian still vaguely remembered that when the four brothers followed Liu Zhaodi away, Grandma Chu hugged him and cried breathlessly, mumbling to herself, "What will Chu Tian do if he gets wronged again in the future without her?"
Alas, thinking of this, Chu Tian couldn't help but curse in his heart that these people in the Chu family were really heartless. He thought that he should find an opportunity to mail something back to Grandma Chu and the two uncles as compensation in the future.
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