Except for Xu Yin, the other members of the land reclamation team will return to their hometown—Yuanshan County after the autumn harvest.

  The three years of hard work here will become a strong stroke in their resumes. After returning home, major factories will give priority to recruiting them.

  No, at the end of the year, there will be a batch of factories that want to recruit people, which means that there will be jobs when they go back.

  The return date is just around the corner, and the employment problem will be solved. The good news one after another makes these young people more motivated.

   Not only is the Yuanshan team full of energy, but the other reclamation teams have also broken their reclamation records this year.

  By the time of autumn harvest, the total mu of wasteland reclaimed by the five wasteland reclamation teams in Beiguan reached 30,000 mu. In the golden autumn of October, the total amount of grain handed in exceeded 1,000 tons, which was a beautiful answer to the motherland.

   These 30,000 mu of land, this endless golden field, will be guarded by soldiers transferred to this place in the future.

  After the grand handover ceremony of Waist Drum Yangko, the land reclamation team left Beiguan one after another in the order they came and returned to their hometown.

  The demobilized soldiers who took over arrived in batches to build the houses needed for future work and life before winter.

  The Beiguan State Farm, which will impress people all over the country in the future, has already taken shape.

  Before winter, Xu Yin moved into the public house built by the farm for the employees' families.

  The two rows of houses left by the reclamation team were transformed into the farm's office. In the future, this will be the entrance to the farm, the closest to Hewozitun. Foreign personnel, who come to visit the farm or visit relatives and friends, need to register and wait here.

  The living quarters of the employees and their families are located at the border of the fields that have been reclaimed, and are located in the northward extension of the Dahe River. Building houses along the river bank is not only convenient for water collection, but also does not affect future land reclamation.

  The flat staff room, when you open the door, you will see the grassy beach in front of the river bank.

  There is an open space behind the house, and beyond the open space is the farming area for future work.

  Some employees have four or five children at home, and one public house cannot accommodate them, so they build another room in the open space behind the house for older children;

  Xu Yinxiang found a long strip of land near the river beach in front of the door. The surface is moist and the soil is fertile, so it must be good for growing vegetables. As for the back yard, it's still going to be the same as before - a fence and a chicken coop for the chickens.

  It's too far away from the mountain, so I just go there once in a while. Usually, if I want to improve my food openly, I only raise a few chickens and pick up a few eggs to eat besides the fish in the river.

   Fortunately, in the past two years, she has put a lot of cold-water fish and shrimps from Taoyuan Star into this big river one after another.

  These cold-water fish and shrimps are extremely resistant to low temperatures. Even in the freezing winter, if you dig a hole in the ice, the fish you catch are still alive and kicking, and they can be kept in ice water buckets for several days.

  It's a pity that their yield is quite low. After two years of breeding, they are still rarely seen flexibly. Unless you use a large fishing net and salvage like a carpet search, the average person can't catch them.

  Xu Yin also made use of the skills of [Catching the Big with the Small] and the homemade delicious fish food, otherwise she might not have the chance to taste it.

  But as long as you taste it once, you will be captured by their tenderness.

  Captain Fu never forgot the taste of them. Before leaving, he made a self-made fishing net and went down the river to fish once, but unfortunately there was nothing.

  In the end, Xu Yin made a move and caught one for him, so that he would not go back to Yuanshan County with regrets.

Xu Yin caught two of them herself, but she didn't plan to eat them fresh. She rubbed them with coarse salt, dried them in the sun, and sent them together with a cured chicken and a pack of dried mushroom bamboo shoots. The Cheng family.

They don’t plan to go back today for Chinese New Year. The farm has just been established, and there are many things to be busy. The public house has just moved in, and it also needs to heat the room and heat the kang. By the way, use sandpaper to grind the rough walls and stone kang walls to decorate the room. Be sweeter.

   After all, this will be their home from now on. If you don’t do it during cat winter, you will have no time when you get busy in spring.

   The Cheng family.

  Cheng's mother was unpacking the parcel that Cheng's father had picked up from the post office after get off work. After weighing it, it was very heavy, and she couldn't help muttering:

   "Looking at the address, it should be from my son, but didn't I just write a letter back in October? Didn't I say that I would send something. What could this be? The stitching is really tight."

   "You'll know if you take it apart." Father Cheng took a sip of water and came over to help.

  The couple worked together to open the huge package.

   "Ho!"

   Good for many years!

   "Is this a fish?"

   "And chicken!"

   "There are so many dried mushrooms and bamboo shoots sent in? I haven't finished eating last year's!"

   "Here's a letter?"

  As a result, I opened it and found that it was not a letter, but a small packet of wild camellia.

   "It smells really good!"

   "Don't just listen to the smell, look for the letter."

   "Yes, yes, here!"

  Cheng's father pulled out the letter written by his son from a pile of New Year's goods. The letter was so concise that he almost wanted to beat him up.

   "Stinky boy, only a few lines are written on such a large piece of letter paper, which saves ink, and half of the credible paper is empty, isn't it a waste!"

   Cheng's mother urged him to read, and after he finished reading, she sighed: "You can be satisfied! If it weren't for Yinyin, even if he didn't go home for the New Year, he wouldn't have prepared so many years to send back."

   "That's true." Cheng's father felt the same way, "Our son has a good eye for finding a wife!"

  The couple thought of the Liu family next door at the same time.

Lao Liu and Cheng's father were the same age, had three sons, and married three daughters-in-law. As a result, the old couple was still busy in and out of the family during the Chinese New Year. Don't expect the son and daughter-in-law to help with the tidying up and clean up, let alone the money for the new year. .

   Cheng’s mother looked at the table full of New Year’s goods, and couldn’t help worrying about her son and daughter-in-law who were far away in Beiguan: “The two of them probably used up their allowance again. The winter in the north is so cold, how can we do without money!”

Cheng's father laughed: "You must have not listened carefully to my letter. Didn't my son say it? Yinyin raised the chickens herself, Yinyin caught the fish from the river, and the mushrooms and bamboo shoots were the two of them on vacation. Sometimes I went to the mountains to do some shopping, and the wild camellias were picked by Yin Yin from the mountains and fried by herself."

  Mother Cheng punched him pretending to be angry: "Oh! Who told you to scold your son for being lazy while reading the letter, and you don't want to write more words when you write a letter, so I missed it!"

   After finishing speaking, he laughed happily: "It's a good job to find a wife here!"

   "Shh—" Cheng's father raised his index finger at her, "Be quiet, the old Liu and his wife heard it, and thought we were showing off on purpose!"

Last time, in front of the old Liu's wife, Cheng's mother praised her for being filial and considerate. She spent money and asked someone to get a bottle of medicinal oil. I suffered from low back pain, and I haven't had a recurrence this year.

  Old Liu's daughter-in-law's face darkened on the spot, thinking that Cheng's mother was deliberately embarrassing her. Who told her three daughters-in-law to be lazier than the other, and more picky than the other? Since the daughter-in-law entered the house, the old couple not only didn't enjoy the blessings, but also had a few more mouths waiting to eat.

  Recalling this, the couple looked at each other and laughed silently with their mouths pursed.