"Eh? Fafa? Why are you still here?"

   Just entered the alley, before he got home, he was stopped by his elder sister.

   "I, something happened to me on the way, I missed the train..."

   "What? Missed the train?"

  His elder sister was in a hurry, and her voice soared an octave: "Xu Wenfa! Did you do it on purpose? You didn't want to go, so you didn't catch the train, did you?"

   "No, no, I don't have..."

   His eldest sister decided that he did it on purpose, and cursed all the way home.

  After arriving home, he was bombarded by other brothers and sisters in turn, thinking that he was ignorant and would not think about the family. The elder brother beat the second sister, and the second sister finished the fourth sister... Until noon, a middle-aged man with a briefcase under his arm and the appearance of a cadre came to the door: "Is this Comrade Xu Wenfa's house?"

  Xu Wenfa's heart skipped a beat: Did you come to criticize him so soon?

   Bite the bullet and stepped forward: "I, I am Xu Wenfa, but I didn't do it on purpose, I did it because..."

"Haha! Comrade Xiao Xu is so humorous! Thank you so much this morning! My father said that if it weren't for your help, he would not only be unable to push the millet home, but he might be crushed by the cart. He specially told me to come Thank you!"

  “…” originally came to thank, not to criticize.

  Xu Wenfa breathed a sigh of relief.

The middle-aged man learned that he had signed up for the National Land Reclamation Team when he went out early in the morning, but he missed the departure train because he helped his father push the scooter. In this way, our unit is about to recruit a hard-working warehouse clerk, I recommend you, but this job requires accounting, and requires a junior high school diploma..."

   "He has a junior high school diploma." Xu Wenfa's brothers and sisters rushed forward to fight for him this unexpected opportunity.

   In this way, he accidentally entered the steel factory that everyone yearned for, and became a glorious regular worker in the steel factory.

  In the dead of night, he put his hands behind his head and couldn't help thinking: Is it true that good people get rewarded?

  Similarly, Xu Yin was also thankful that the comrade named "Xu Wenfa" didn't come, saving her from the embarrassment of racking her brains to make excuses.

  In the mid-1950s, things like this kind of accident happened, and they happened.

   Once contact is difficult, the grassroots will not use precious national resources such as telephones and telegrams to find out why they did not come for an ordinary person?

  Secondly, the roster and forms are hand-copied. It is normal to have mistakes. It is not uncommon for parents to register for their children and leave their own names when registering. It is not uncommon to correct them.

   Therefore, no one doubted her along the way.

   Three days later, the steam train with a speed of no more than 30 kilometers per hour finally arrived at the northern border Fulong County, but this is not the real destination. The reclamation point they are going to is still one or two hundred kilometers away from the county seat.

   Everyone dragged their luggage and got out of the car. Before they had time to move around, they got on the convertible card that came to pick them up.

  In March in Yangchun, it was warm and cold, especially in Beiguan. On the rusty second-hand Jiefang brand tent truck, the face turned purple from the cold.

   Finally got to Beilong Township where the wasteland reclamation site is located, and had to change to a bullock cart.

   Not to mention lesbians, many **** men couldn't help crying: "Haven't we arrived yet? How far is it?"

   "It's coming soon!"

  The leader comforts them.

  The bullock cart continued to rattle and rattle on the land where the ice had not completely melted.

  Walking slowly for a long time, finally, I heard the uncle driving the car say "arrive" in dialect, and everyone was so excited that tears filled their eyes: finally it's here!

  I feel that my legs and feet are not my own anymore—they are numb from the cold and numb.

  On the train, Xiao Jing, a tall young man sitting next to Xu Yin, was so cold that her teeth were chattering, she asked her tremblingly, "Xu Yin, aren't you cold? Your face is still white and tender."

   Of course Xu Yin is not cold, she has a thermostat.

  When I got off the train, I also thought about whether to put away the thermostat, so as not to expose the flaws.

  But the weather in the north is too cold, and I worry about getting sick from the cold.

  She joined the reclamation team in order to avoid the plot and stay away from the fate of cannon fodder.

  She can farm, but she can't afford to get sick for this reason. Good health is an important factor for survival! So the thermostat was not removed.

  At this moment, she touched her cold, fair face and said, "It's cold, maybe it's because of the skin, you can't tell, if you don't believe me, touch my face."

  Xiao Jing didn't really reach out to touch Xu Yin's face. Her fingers were numb from the cold. She rubbed her hands and said with envy, "That's great! My face turns red when it's cold."

  Huang Xiaohong, who was in the same bullock cart as the two of them, said: "I don't even need to look at my face, just look at my hands. They are all purple from the cold, woo woo woo...it's too cold..."

  Although the male compatriots were not like the lesbians who stomped their feet in the cold, they were all rubbing their hands and breathing, and asked the team leader: "Captain, when will we arrive at our place?"

  Captain Fu glanced at them hesitantly, and then said after a while: "I only found out on the truck that we need to build the place to live. For the time being, we can only borrow from the local fellows. But..."

  The captain's turning tone made everyone feel nervous.

   "Captain, don't you want to say that you can't find anyone to stay?"

   "No way? We came here all the way, and they didn't even arrange a place for us to live?"

   "This is too miserable!"

"That's not true." Captain Fu hurriedly reassured everyone, "The locals are very enthusiastic. Besides, we are responding to the call of the country. Those who come here to reclaim wasteland are willing to live with us. It's just that the conditions in the villages near the reclamation site are relatively poor. , needs everyone to overcome. In short, be mentally prepared, and when you get to the ground, don’t make a fuss or make a fuss, and leave a bad impression on the fellow villagers. Let’s fight here for three years at least, and cheer up , Come up with invincible courage!"

   "..."

   With that said, everyone is even more uncertain.

  Walking to the lodging village - "Hewozitun", whispering to each other:

   "It's the end of March, and it's still icy and snowy here. After a while, I feel like my hands are going to get frostbite. Think about the work we are about to face, what should we do!"

   "I'm ready to endure hardships, but the hardships... Hey, I can't bear it when I first came here."

   "That is to say, where did we come from? Why don't we even have a place to live..."

  Xiao Jing said to Xu Yin: "There are so many of us, if we stay at the people's house, we must be separated. If we can choose ourselves later, we will live together?"

   "I'm with you too." Huang Xiaohong followed closely.

  Xu Yin: "..."

   Ask her to choose, she prefers to choose a single room.

  The conditions are almost okay, mainly because I live alone, and occasionally I can cook a small stove for myself to supplement nutrition.