Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 200: New educated youths have been deceived
November 1968, 11, the beginning of winter.

"I know what you want to say!" As soon as the director of the knife field saw Zhang Heping entering the room, he stood up and took a newspaper and handed it to him, "You don't have much time. Before February 2st next year, if you don't send the general manager Employee No. 1 of the factory is settled, I will not grant your family leave!"

[Educated young people go to the countryside...]

This was the headline in the Yundu newspaper 4 days ago, which means that the wave of educated youth going to the countryside is coming!

Seeing Zhang Heping frowning, the director of the knife farm advised: "They just go to the branch farm to perform, and there are trucks to pick them up. I think you can trust them to take care of themselves."

Zhang Heping was a little confused. The instructions for going to the countryside had been issued in advance, and the fee for the second manuscript he had previously sent had also come down. Why didn't the new educated youth come?
"Director, from the summer vacation in July to now, have any new educated youth joined our farm?"

"Yes!" the director of the knife farm said with a smile: "In the past few months, 453 educated youths from Yundu have been sent. Before they arrived at the main farm, they were all snatched away by branch farms to open up wasteland, haha!"

"Hehe!" Zhang Heping also laughed, "You have to add 15 male workers and 25 female workers to my carpentry team before the 5th. Otherwise, let them build the houses on the branch farm themselves."

"What do you want a female worker for?"

"Matching men and women, the work will not be tiring!" Zhang Heping turned around and went out, "It is best to find a female worker who is more aggressive and likes to joke, even if she is not married."

Zhang Heping waved his hand in a dazed manner, turned around and wanted to go back to the house.

As for the 25 male workers and 5 female workers requested last night, they are used to serve as assistants and serve tea and water.

"First, you must see clearly what kind of snake it is and confirm whether it is a venomous snake; second, tie the end of the heart with a rope; third, reduce strenuous exercise and do not shout; it is best to be carried by a companion; fourth, use salt water, Clean the wound with soapy water and bring the casualty to you.”

"Ye Juan, I was bitten by a snake, what should I do?"

A group of boys laughed obscenely.

Early the next morning, the old classmates climbed into two trucks and went to the branch farm.

"These 8 bamboo tubes are detoxification pills for the 8 common poisonous snakes here in Banna. The characteristics of the poisonous snakes and how to use them are written on the bamboo tubes, and they are given to Ye Juan for safekeeping. When you were bitten by a snake when you went out, you asked Ye Juan to get the medicine. ." Zhang Heping said, handed out a few bamboo tubes, and added:
"If it's a snake that you can't tell, take medicine based on the color of the snake and send it back as soon as possible."

Therefore, the work of the carpentry team has been quantified. Zhang Heping only needs to look at the production quantity of each standard part to have an idea.

"Also, the newspaper headlines on the 3rd of this month called for unemployed graduates to go to the countryside. Liu Yuan remembered to remind the branch farm to set up its own propaganda team and train successors, lest the farm would not let us go. .”

Zhang Heping returned to the room, found several glass jars containing ointment and several bamboo tubes, and asked others to take them out.

Liu Yuan hurriedly said: "Heping, we also want to use some money to buy bacon and fruits from the local fellows so that we can send them back home."

"The ointment in the glass jar can treat scorpion venom, centipede venom, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic. Most people have used it, so I won't explain it further. Each person keeps one jar, so you can take it yourself!"

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Then, he came to the bamboo building, looked around, and asked everyone: "A girl's butt was bitten by a snake. Can she use her mouth to suck the poisonous blood from the wound?"

Because Zhang Heping did not plan to build the fancy bamboo house he and his classmates lived in, he divided the ordinary wooden bamboo house into 35 standard wooden parts. As long as the quantity is enough, a wooden bamboo house can be quickly assembled. Then there are rows of buildings.

Zhang Heping walked back to his bamboo building under the expectant gaze of all his classmates, "What are you looking at? The director of the factory won't approve my leave. He also said that if the accommodation problem of the 2 employees of the main factory is not solved before February, there will be no accommodation for the New Year." Let me go back."

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"Whatever you want to buy, go early and come back early, and go to a nearby village to buy some other day." Zhang Heping said angrily, and then added:
"The escorts bring their guns with them. There is no danger. Don't load bullets to avoid misfires."

Zhang Heping, on the other hand, took a look at the solidification of the square foundation next to the lumber factory, and then went into the lumber factory to check the work progress of the two team leaders and 2 team members of the carpentry team.

"Hehe...can't!"

In the evening, after a group of classmates came back, they immediately found Zhang Heping and talked with smiles about what they had seen today.

They were recognized by the new educated youth, Grade 2 Class in the newspaper!
Then, someone asked them, where is the new dormitory?
The answer is: We all cultivate it ourselves!
Where is the pretty Dai girl?
The answer: At my fellow villager’s home!

What about fruits?
The answer is: Buy it with your salary!
These words hit those new educated youths hard. In the next five days, Liu Yuan and the others performed once in the morning and once in the afternoon, visiting all 5 branch farms.

During this period, almost all the new educated youth they encountered had the same problems, and they felt cheated.

On the 14th, they had a day off. Liu Yuan and the others took money from Zhang Heping, divided into three groups and drove oxen-drawn carts. They went out to buy bacon and fruits with letters of introduction, and then took them directly to the post office to mail them.

Because the 30 male and female workers Zhang Heping wanted were in place, he did not go out with his classmates. Instead, he took the 25 male workers to build the foundation and plaster the cement floor.

As for the five female workers, they are responsible for fetching water and food for the carpentry team and the 5 temporary masons outside.

As the afternoon approached, Zhao Jianguo found Zhang Heping and called him back to his dormitory.

It turned out that five unlucky classmates had poked a honeycomb and received many bites on their heads.

When Zhang Heping passed by, other students were helping the five of them clean their wounds with soapy water.

"Peace, their stingers have been pulled out. What do you think will be done next?"

"Who is that jar of white analgesic ointment? Take it out and apply some on them." After Zhang Heping saw some classmates going to get the ointment, he smiled and asked, "Did you take pictures of them?"

Snapped!
"Why did you forget this crucial thing!" Chu Chuan slapped his forehead and ran out quickly, "This is a big event, hehe!"

After Zhang Heping and other five wounded people were smeared with ointment, they were observed for a while to confirm that they had no other symptoms, and then they went back to work on the foundation.

In fact, the director of the knife farm and his colleagues hope to build brick houses, but this year's coal quota is not enough and they can barely use it until the end of this month.

Next month, cement factories and brick and tile factories will have to shut down.

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On December 12, when the cement ran out, Zhang Heping took 4 people from the carpentry team and the 20 male workers to start assembling the wooden bamboo building.

The first batch of ordinary bamboo dormitories were chosen on the cement floor next to the lumber factory, because these dormitories were allocated to lumber factory workers, and if anything went wrong, they themselves would be blamed.

In just one day, 1 wooden bamboo dormitories with four rooms were erected on this cement floor.

Then, the remaining wooden parts are not enough to repair a bamboo building.

As long as the roofs of these 10 new dormitories are covered with tiles, windows are installed with glass, and locks are nailed on the doors, you can move in with your bags.

However, Zhang Heping did not arrange for anyone to lay tiles or install glass in the new dormitory the next day.

He said that he would wait until all the wooden bamboo dormitories were assembled before unifying them and moving them in together.

To put it bluntly, if you want to live in a new dormitory, you have to make wooden accessories quickly.

The day after the Bamboo Building Dormitory was erected, the educated youths from the branch farms, possibly with instructions from the farm leaders, began to take turns taking leave to come to the main farm to visit the Propaganda University Bamboo Building, Zhao Jianguo and his dormitory, and the newly built dormitory.

There were valuables in Zhang Heping's dormitory, so he locked the door and did not let them visit.

In order to live in the new dormitory, other workers in the lumber factory approached Luda, the director of the factory, and applied to help the carpentry team work on wooden accessories.

Employees from various departments and factories in the main factory were also asking about the progress of the construction of the new dormitory, but they were all diverted by Zhang Heping, who asked them to ask the factory director who had always ignored Zhang Heping.

After Zhang Heping arranged for the 25 male workers to help the carpentry team, he reported the progress of the dormitory construction to the director of the knife farm, and then went out to hunt.

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(End of this chapter)