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Chapter 378 Dismissed!

Chapter 378 Dismissed!

The closer he was to Baoqing, the more familiar Lu Lu's route became.

That night, I bypassed Jianshan Mountain and spent the night in a large area of ​​low mountains and hills, and nothing happened.

At noon tomorrow, we will be able to arrive at Bird's Nest Island.

When they got up in the morning, both Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu became solemn and changed into clean clothes. Chen Xiuyu even cleaned up carefully before packing up and riding to Bird's Nest Island.

In the past two years, everything I have seen along the way is still familiar.

The biggest change is probably that the educated youth returned to the city. After a large number of downsizing, they became deserted and lost many familiar faces.

In a daze, Lu Lu couldn't help but think of the scene when he first arrived in Yan's Nest Island and was busy building his own house.

With the arrival of thousands of educated youths, there is no ready-made housing allocation, but they have no choice but to build houses by themselves.

When you first arrive, you can only temporarily live in the horse racks or tents provided by the farm.

Fortunately, local materials can be used to build a house on Yan's Nest Island. The surrounding area is surrounded by endless virgin forests. The wood is inexhaustible. If you need materials, you can cut them freely without restriction.

"Look at those houses. The main material for the walls is straw. At that time, straw was called a specialty of the Great Northern Wilderness by the educated youth."

The two rode on horses and did not walk fast. Lu Lu introduced everything he saw to Chen Xiuyu along the way.

"Adobe? I only know adobe." Chen Xiuyu was also curious.

"There is a large area of ​​original ecological black soil in the wilderness. Over thousands of years of fallen wood decay and accumulation, it has become fertile, soft and resilient soil. Lush grass has been growing year after year on the ground, and the dense new and old grass roots have grown underground. The soil more than two feet deep is woven into a whole plate, and the straw is taken from this soil."

Lu Lu explained: "The process of taking the grass is very simple. First, use a shovel to clear the weeds on the ground, and then cut vertically to the ground in four directions, cut into a one-foot-square adobe shape, and then shovel it from the bottom to form a piece of grass. It's grass.

This kind of mud clods intertwined with grass roots is tougher than imagined, not easy to break, and is a good material for building walls.It is the same as using a mold to make adobe and adding chopped straw to it.

There is no need to worry about the thatch that covers the roof, there are everywhere in the forest, as long as you work hard to cut it. "

Living in the mountains since she was a child, she has never been to such an endless plain area. It has a great impact on Chen Xiuyu. The endless fields, the roaring machines inside, the wide and flat dirt road, and the few houses that can be seen from time to time... ...can catch his eye.

"These roads are better than the ones in the mountains!" Apart from being curious, Chen Xiuyu also felt more and more envious.

"What are these roads? In winter, here is a world of ice and snow. The normal temperature is more than minus 30 degrees. If the cold wave comes, it can drop to minus 40 degrees, which is colder than in the mountains.

At that time, the big rivers and rivers became good roads, which were extremely flat and had no slope.Cars can run on rivers. "Lu Lu said with a smile.

"What, can cars run on rivers? Cars are like big iron lumps, so heavy, are they not afraid of being crushed?"

Chen Xiuyu felt a little unbelievable.

"The ice is so thick that some can freeze through the bottom of the river. Let alone an empty car, even if it is full of things, it can withstand it, but the anti-skid chains on the wheels must be installed."

Lu Lu paused for a moment, then continued: "People often say that when a man goes out to urinate, he must remember to hold a stick and break the pee popsicle while urinating, so as not to be stretched. The tap water that came out froze into popsicles.”

"Tap water?" Chen Xiuyu was full of doubts: "What is that?"

Lu Lu was slightly stunned, and realized that these days, there is no tap water in the wilderness, and the water is all taken from the river, or dug wells.The key is that in winter, there is a water pipe connected to it, and it is also frozen.

"Uh... It's a bit like our well. It's built outside. It's more convenient than that. It's very common in southern cities. The water supply is supplied by the water plant, and the pipes are used to connect thousands of households. The water can be released as soon as the tap is turned on. Carrying water from river ditches or wells." Lu Lu explained in a low voice.

"It's really convenient!"

Chen Xiuyu was a little more envious, but this time it was about the south.

"These things, I will tell you slowly later, the two of us have to speed up and arrive at noon, just in time for lunch."

"alright!"

The couple shook the reins and started running with the six dogs.

Near noon, we finally arrived at the quarter of the Bird's Nest Island Farm.

They are all busy harvesting rice and soybeans in the fields. Before lunch, there are not many people in the farm, and there are not many people in sight.

Lv Lu led Chen Xiuyu directly to the branch office. Before he was near the gate, someone yelled away: "Hey, hey...then who, stop!"

Hearing the sound, Lu Lu tightened his reins slightly and slowed down his pace.

The person who stopped them, Lu Lu, had never seen him before. He looked like a cadre.

"What are you doing, such a rampage, yo yo, look at the dog!"

The cadre asked aloud, and when he heard Yuan Bao's fierce sound, he backed away a few steps in shock, with a look of wariness.

Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu turned over and jumped off the horse, rubbed Yuan Bao's head to silence his fierce noise, and he said with a smile: "Comrade, I used to be an educated youth in the quarter."

"Back to the city?"

"I have returned to the city, but I have returned to the Great Wilderness to settle down."

"I've already returned to the city, what are you doing back here, I can't get along anymore?"

The cadre shook his head with a look of disdain.

"I can't get along anymore!" Lu Lu didn't get annoyed, and followed his will.

Regarding the return of the educated youth to the city, leaving the farm behind, it became very difficult to run the farm all of a sudden, and those who stayed were somewhat worried about this matter.

This can be regarded as the truth, in those days in Shanghai, he was really useless.

"Are you here looking for a job or what?"

The cadre saw that Lu Lu was riding a horse and leading a dog, and the key point was that he was wearing a semi-automatic, and felt a little strange: "Are you here to hunt?"

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt that something was wrong. How could anyone bring a girl out to hunt?

"Hunting is just incidental, mainly to visit old friends." Lu Lu laughed.

"Old friend... Who are you looking for?"

"Station leader Raymond."

"Raymond, he's no longer the team leader, he's been transferred to the sideline team to feed the animals."

Ok?

When Lu Lu heard this, he was slightly taken aback, and he quickly asked, "What's going on?"

"Some time ago, something happened in the branch and he was dismissed. If you want to find him, go to the sideline team. He should be feeding pigs at this time."

After the cadre finished speaking, he turned and went back into the building.

Lu Lu frowned slightly. Lei Meng was dismissed, which he never expected. He wanted to stop the cadre to ask about the specific situation, but after thinking about it, he would see Lei Meng soon, so why not ask him directly? he.

He immediately called Chen Xiuyu, mounted his horse again, and ran towards the sideline team.

Raymond was transferred to feed the pigs. This was definitely a big turning point for Raymond. He must have had a rough time these days!

The sideline team is located in the northwest corner of the branch of Yan's Nest Island. It mainly includes a winery, an oil press room, a pig farm, a chicken farm, a stud farm, as well as an orchard, a vegetable base and a safflower 100 planting base.

Although the sideline team seems to many people to be a leisurely job, in fact, they have to do almost everything.Lu Lu himself had a personal experience that if he stayed in the sideline team, he would be transferred to work in the field at any time, especially when he was rushing to plant and harvest.

Now this period of time belongs to the time for the farm to grab the harvest.

Such a large-scale farm is the result of several months of hard work. If you don't hurry up and put it away, you will suffer serious losses when the frost and snow come. Those are all painstaking efforts.

I really answered that sentence: I am a brick of the revolution, and I can move it wherever it is needed.

Probably the biggest advantage of being in the sideline team is that the food in the cafeteria is delicious, better than other companies.

As for the sideline team, it is natural that the near-water platform gets the moon first, and the unit that raises chickens and ducks can be wrong.

Lu Lu remembered that as soon as the canteen improved the food, the greedy people from other units immediately came to smell it, especially the educated youth who were the most active, so that the canteen steward had no choice but to sigh: "Eat it, just eat it! It's a band of brothers." The team's eating friend."

Lu Lu, who was taken care of by Lei Meng and joined the sideline team, was most grateful to Lei Meng for this reason.

Except for the two years when he came to the farm, like other educated youths, he worked hard in the fields, tossed in the ice and snow, logged in the forest farm, and went fishing with the fishing team. sideline team.

It is true that the work is much more leisurely. Not only am I not hungry, but I also have good food and lodging.

When Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu rushed to the sideline team, they walked around the huge sideline team, but they did not see Lei Meng.He preliminarily estimated that Raymond should have been transferred to collect grain.

Seeing workers feeding out of the pig farm, Lu Lu saw that he was a familiar face, a retired soldier from the sideline team named Jiang Jihong, an old worker.

"Brother Jiang..." Lu Lu shouted from afar.

Jiang Jihong, who came out with a bucket, looked up at Lu Lu, and after recognizing it for a while, said pleasantly, "Little Lu..."

He put down his burden and walked towards Lu Lu quickly: "Why are you back?"

As soon as he came out of the pigsty, Jiang Jihong smelled like feces and urine that is unique to a pigsty. He wanted to shake hands, but he stretched out his hands. Seeing his dirty hands, he quickly retracted them.

"I came back to see Brother Lei. I went to the field department to ask, and he said that he had been transferred to the sideline team, so I came over."

"Ramon... alas!"

Jiang Jihong shook his head slightly: "He was transferred to harvest rice today. You know, he is proficient in almost everything. He went to drive the harvester! He won't come back until evening."

Regarding Lei Meng, Jiang Jihong seemed unwilling to say anything more.

He looked Lu Lu up and down, and said with a smile: "You look like a dog in your kid's clothes, you are doing well!"

"So-so, now I'm back in the Great Wilderness, settled in Yichun Mountain, and married a wife... This is my wife, Xiuyu!"

Lu Lu smiled, and then introduced to Chen Xiuyu: "This is Brother Jiang. When I was in the sideline team, he took care of me a lot!"

Chen Xiuyu immediately laughed and called out, "Brother Jiang!"

Jiang Jihong also looked at Chen Xiuyu, turned around and smiled at Lu Lu: "You are a good girl, you are lucky... Come on, come with me to my house, don't stick around here, go to the house to drink water, wait The cafeteria will open soon, let's go to the cafeteria to eat together, I invite you!"

"Brother Jiang, are you done with the work at hand?"

"It's just feeding the animals, and you have to shovel the pig manure and wash the pigsty. It's not much!"

"I also stayed in the sideline team. There are a lot of things, so I won't trouble you. I want to go and see the house I used to live in... By the way, is that house still there?"

"Yes, they are all idle."

"Okay, I'll go hunt some game in the afternoon, and eat meat at my place in the evening!"

(End of this chapter)