The story of police officer Yang Qianfeng

Chapter 6 Name Luosun Mountain
The college entrance examination came as scheduled, and the questions in the college entrance examination were more difficult than expected. Yang Qianfeng felt that he didn't perform very well on the spot, but he just did the questions he knew how to do. With an uneasy heart, I worked at home while waiting for the results of the college entrance examination.

If he didn’t pass the exam, he didn’t go to school. Yang Qianfeng suddenly felt very lost. Sometimes his heart seemed to be hollowed out, and sometimes his heart was panicked. In a daze, I don't know how to live in the future, and I don't know where the direction of life is.Sometimes when I think about it, I resent myself for not working hard enough. Whenever I resent myself, Yang Qianfeng clenched his teeth in hatred. One day he blurted out: "Looking at the sky and resenting myself, I gritted my teeth in anger."

Yang Qianfeng's father discovered this problem, and said to him while smoking a dry pipe after dinner one day: "No matter how you do in the exam, don't be discouraged, eat what you need, drink what you want, and sleep when you need sleep. You are the son of a farmer. Aren’t the vast majority of people in China all farmers? Farming is still a good life. The more books you read, the more things you know, and the thoughts in your heart are different. But don’t be too ambitious. If you fail the exam this year, you can take the exam again next year. If you still fail the exam, you can farm with peace of mind. The fields will be divided into households soon. All the allocated fields will be planted with rice. There will be two seasons a year. It’s enough to eat. I work in the commune film factory, and I get some salary to subsidize the family. You brothers are not lazy, and I believe our family’s life is still very easy.”

Dad knocked the dry pipe and the ground, put tobacco on it, blew on the coal fire, put it on the pipe, took two puffs, and said, "The key to our family is that there is too little dry land. Dividing a little dry land is definitely not enough. There are still many barren hills that have not been reclaimed. At present, some people are rushing to reclaim them. Whoever reclaims them will be theirs. If you are late, there will be no place. You and your elder brother should take good care of them. If you choose a few places to reclaim it, you have more brothers, and each of you can share a little more land when the family is divided in the future."

Dad took a few more puffs of cigarettes and then said: "The fundamental thing of a farmer is to have land. A farmer without paddy fields and dry land here is like a woman without rice. Of course, you can't lose your books. You can do it on rainy days and at night." Read books. If you don’t have enough time, stop the farm work and read at home wholeheartedly. I’m a father who can’t help you. I won’t put pressure on you. It was hard work and failure.”

Dad's words were very simple, objective and realistic, and he pulled Yang Qianfeng back from floating exercises, thinking that the reality was already like this, so he should actually do something and read some books in a down-to-earth manner.

The eldest brother Yang Yongfeng is very busy, not only participating in the labor of the production team, but also worrying about the farm work at home. After getting married, especially after he and his sister-in-law had their first daughter, he became even busier. In fact, the eldest brother had already chosen a few yuan to leave home Relatively close, relatively good barren hills are ready to be reclaimed. Dad has to go to work. The second child, Yang Ganfeng, is learning carpentry. Yang Qianfeng did this hard work, so he didn't do it all the time. He was also very worried that the place he chose would be snatched away by others.

It just so happened that my father said that the third child was also willing. Early the next morning, Yang Yongfeng took Yang Qianfeng to see the places he had chosen. Yang Qianfeng didn't know much about them, but he felt that the places chosen by the eldest brother were very good.

Yang Yongfeng put one hand on Yang Qianfeng's shoulder and said with concern: "You have been doing a lot of farm work with me since you were a child. Since you were in junior high school, you have also joined the production team to double fight every summer vacation, and you have also mastered weeding, rice cutting, rice transplanting, and plowing. I know that you are willing to learn basic farm work such as plowing, harrowing, and pulling ridges. As a farmer, I believe you will soon become a qualified farmer, but your sister-in-law and I still hope that you can jump out of farming. Mom and Dad think so too."

"Brother, don't worry, I will review while working." Yang Qianfeng said gratefully.

"Of course, don't put too much pressure on yourself. If you don't pass the exam after working hard, we will face the loess and turn our backs to the sky together. Anyway, we brothers will take care of each other when we are together." Yang Yongfeng saw Yang Qianfeng's spirit today. It’s much better. I looked at him with relief and selected a few places and then said: “Just cut down the messy things on the ground, and put the chopped things in place. After drying, I’ll burn them. You Just come out of school, chop slowly, don't be too tired, as long as it is cut out, others will be embarrassed to rob us, and these places will become our private land in the future."

"It's a bit like enclosure!" Yang Qianfeng said after listening to his brother.

"What? Land enclosure movement." Yang Yongfeng only studied in elementary school for three years, so of course he didn't know what land enclosure movement was.

Yang Qianfeng briefly explained and said, "Does it look like it?"

"It's very similar." Yang Yongfeng laughed and said, "My father still has the foresight. Our production team doesn't have many paddy fields, and the rice we grow can only be kept for food, and there are even fewer dry lands. At that time, the family will not get a little bit. According to the rules, I dare not build a lot of private plots, but now it is different, the policy on private plots has been relaxed, and if we don’t start early, there will be no place.”

"You are as far-sighted as your father." Yang Qianfeng said confidently, "I will strive to reclaim these places as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, cut them out first." Yang Yongfeng pointed to a few places and said, "The slopes of these places are not steep, and the soil will not be washed away by mountains and rivers after they are opened, but there are many grass roots and bamboo roots, so it is relatively difficult to dig. It's a drudgery, and you can do as much as you can."

"With such a large area, what can we cultivate and plant?" Yang Qianfeng asked.

Yang Yongfeng pointed to Dongshan on the opposite side and said: "In Dongshan, there are fir trees on the top of the mountain, sandalwood trees on the middle of the mountain, and big mulberry trees on the lower part of the mountain. This will make it easier to raise silkworms and pick mulberry leaves." Pointing to several places in the front mountain, he said, "I'm going to plant tea leaves in the area of ​​Shan'ao. There are many rocks on the mountain, and all of them are planted with sandalwood trees. The soil quality in the places below the mountainside is better, which is very suitable for growing various vegetables and other crops."

"Brother, you are amazing, you have planned everything." Yang Qianfeng looked at his elder brother with admiration and said.

"The production team will be separated. Of course I have to think about it. With these dry lands, our family will have its own fir forest in a few years. We will have ready-made wood for building new houses and making furniture at home; The tree is the material used to make rice paper, and its economic value must be good. It is cut down every three years, and I want to serialize it for three years. After that, it will be cut down every year, and a few silkworm seeds will be raised every year, so that it will have a stable economic income. Mom and Dad like to drink tea, and after the tea is ready, it is enough for the family to drink."

Yang Qianfeng was infected by the elder brother's words. He did not expect the elder brother to be so far-sighted. From the bottom of his heart, he admired this elder brother who did not have much education.

After returning home and having breakfast, Yang Qianfeng filled a bucket of boiled water with a small bucket made of a whole knot of big moso bamboo, and went up the mountain with a knife and a book to review.

It's easy to say, but it's really not easy to do. The weeds, trees, bamboos and various thorny plants on the barren hills were intertwined. After a while, Yang Qianfeng's clothes were soaked and his hands were cut by the sharp grass. A little careless stabbing stuck into the palm of the hand, and at the end of the day, the hand holding the knife blistered. He knew that this was a process. shoulders and a pair of callused hands.

After ten days of hacking from dawn to dusk, I finally finished cutting off all the places selected by my eldest brother.When the weeds, trees, and bamboos that had been cut down were dried in the sun, they were burned with a torch, and they began to open up barren mountains barebacked.

From the first day of clearing the wasteland, Yang Qianfeng read a book for a while or read some basic knowledge or one or two questions and answers when he was tired, and then continued to work.

Yang Qianfeng was indeed very tired. His skin peeled off from the sun. Blisters first appeared on his hands. After the blisters burst, the tender flesh inside turned from red to brown, and there were small cracks. In the first few days, his hands would rot as soon as they were soaked in water. Heartbroken, Yang Qianfeng endured the pain and thought: It will be fine when the calluses grow.Sure enough, after more than 20 days, calluses developed. Although my back hurts every day and I can fall asleep on the bed, I feel very fulfilled and fulfilled when I see the fruits of my labor.

Mom and Dad felt distressed seeing Yang Qianfeng like this, and his elder brother and sister-in-law also advised him many times not to tire himself out, but Yang Qianfeng, as always, said that he would not give up if he didn't drive all of them.

Yang Qianfeng's hard work also influenced and mobilized his family's determination to reclaim the barren hills. Every morning, his father went to the mountain to dig for two hours before going to work; He just went to school, and once the second child Yang Ganfeng was free, he would go home to help.In the evening, those who got off work, finished work, and after school returned home and continued to go up the mountain to reclaim the land. The whole family wore the stars and the moon, and the progress of reclaiming the barren hills was advancing by leaps and bounds. This action suddenly awakened the entire production team. Every family began to expand their private plots. Outside the forest farm, every corner is occupied by people.

The results of the college entrance examination finally came down. In the entire liberal arts class, only one student passed the admission mark, and in the science class, three students passed the cut-off mark. Yang Qianfeng fell short of the cut-off mark by one point.

The teachers were very happy because they had achieved their expected goals—there was no one in the arts and sciences class (no one in a class could pass the exam, so it is said that they were all in the same class), and the three students in the science class exceeded their expectations.

Teacher Hong, the head teacher, felt sorry for Yang Qianfeng, but he encouraged him: Don't be discouraged. If you study hard for a year, you will definitely be able to pass the exam. I heard that next year it will start recruiting high school technical secondary schools, so the chances of passing the exam will be even greater.Don't lose your books, you must study systematically, it is best to go back to school for a year or go to a review class in the county to study for a year.

The teacher's words are not unreasonable. Yang Qianfeng also wants to repeat the study for a year, or go to the review class in the county for supplementary tuition, but he knows that his family's conditions are not good, and spending money to repeat the study will undoubtedly be a burden on the family's back, and he is even more worried about spending money. What should I do if I can't pass the exam, so he decided to study hard at home and take the exam next year.

After the results of the college entrance examination came out, Yang Qianfeng no longer felt uneasy. He thought that he should not be defeated by failure. He must keep up his spirits and continue to work hard. First, within a year, his father and elder brother would preliminarily realize the economic forest plan of reclaiming barren hills and planting trees, planting mulberry trees, sandalwood trees and tea. Second, we must study while working, and complete the study plan that we have determined.

(End of this chapter)