Several times in dreams

Chapter 102
In the spring of 1959, Chen Wenlan followed the border troops to the Great Northern Wilderness Production and Construction Corps with his blanket on his back. The Sino-Soviet border was tens of kilometers away.

After getting off the train, Chen Wenlan was shocked by the vast ice field.

It was already spring in my hometown, but here was still ice and snow. Chen Wenlan and tens of thousands of demobilized officers and soldiers, educated youth and revolutionary cadres set foot on the land of the Great Northern Wilderness with the pride of defending and building the frontier.

Wenlan was assigned to work in the infrastructure team. Since last year, the Great Northern Wilderness has entered a period of large-scale development. People have built hospitals, schools, dormitories and rows of houses bit by bit.

Wenlan and the others worked day and night, in order to build enough housing before the next winter, so that the builders who were still coming could have a place to stay.

Although the work was hard, Wen Lan didn't feel it. Instead, she felt that she had a role to play here. Compared with the comrades who reclaimed wasteland, she felt that her work was simpler and easier.

The Great Northern Wilderness is known as "grow oily flowers from the black soil that can sprout with chopsticks". When the comrades who reclaimed the wasteland just built a farm, they walked all over the wilderness step by step on two legs.

The vast wasteland is densely covered with thorns, and Tatou Dianzi and swamps are also all over it. When one pick goes down, muddy water splashes all over the face. In order to save time, people carry dry food on their backs and eat while they are dry.

On the ancient wasteland of the Sanjiang Plain in Kanto, people initiated the great feat of "warning the earth and asking for food from the wasteland". Since 1956, hundreds of state-owned farms and military farms have been gradually established, producing a large amount of food for the country.

Building a house requires a lot of wood, so Wenlan and the others walked into the vast virgin forest, where there are stretches of birch forest, ash and elm.

When logging, in order to ensure that the trees are brought down safely, it is necessary to use a rope to change the direction of the trees. One end of the rope is tied to the middle and upper part of the trunk, the other end is pulled to the direction where the tree will fall, and it is wound around the other trunks. One person tightens the rope and the other tightens the rope wrapped around the trunk.

Use a chainsaw to saw the root of the tree in an oblique triangle first, the purpose is to change the gravity of the tree, and then saw the side opposite to the gap, and at the same time tighten the rope bit by bit, the tree will fall when it is sawed off. well designed direction.

Wenlan is full of curiosity about all this. She doesn't cry like ordinary lesbians, and sometimes she is even more capable than gay men.

In the second year after Wenlan left, there was a severe drought in Shandong, and a large area of ​​crops failed. The Changsheng couple and their two children saw that they could not survive, so they wrote to Wenlan for help.

At this time, the Great Northern Wilderness was the time when a large number of builders were needed, and Wen Lan immediately wrote back to ask them to come here too. It would be a pity that a good crop grower like him did not come.

Meng Wanying's life at home is also difficult, the food supply is tight, and when the children are growing up, they have to take care of Wenjing's family.

Chen Wenlan's monthly salary is 32 yuan, and she has to remit 25 yuan to the Jiang family. She only keeps a few yuan for herself, and the farm pays [-] yuan to join the big cafeteria, so Wenlan's monthly pocket money is only [-] yuan.

Meng Wanying knew that it was not easy for Wenlan to be abroad, so Jiang's idea of ​​going to the Great Northern Wilderness was immediately rejected by her.

The carpentry workshop where Wenxiu worked was temporarily closed due to the stagnation of construction, so the wages were naturally not paid. Now Sun Yujiao was blown up, without wages, what did the whole family eat?
I heard that many people went to the Great Northern Wilderness, and Sun Yujiao urged Wenxiu to write a letter to Wenlan, asking about the situation there. Wenxiu didn't want to write at first, but after all, she had already fallen out, and she hadn't seen her sister for two or three years. Open your mouth?
Helpless, being pestered by Sun Yujiao every day, the soft ones come hard ones, and she wants to bring Xueli back to her mother's house, so Wenxiu has no choice but to write a letter to Wenlan.

Wen Lan was not as ruthless as the couple imagined, and quickly wrote back that the Great Northern Wilderness was short of a senior carpenter like Wen Xiu, and asked them to come quickly.

Sun Yujiao happily jumped three feet high, and immediately packed her things, wishing she could set off immediately.

Here, after Wenlan answered the letter, she realized that the family was in a difficult situation, and Wenxiu couldn't stay any longer. Why didn't sister-in-law Meng Wanying mention it in the letter?The letter said that everything was fine at home, and asked her to work hard without worrying about it.

Wen Lan had a heart, and wrote a letter to Wen Jing, asking what was going on at home.

Wen Jing wrote back and told the truth, life at home is really sad. In order to earn more money, my sister-in-law now uses a small cart to pull sheets and bedding to the house to wash in large quantities. A few days ago, the cart got stuck on the threshold, and Meng Wanying was hit by the force of the rebound Knocked down, back injury committed again.

Chen Wenlan was very worried after reading the letter, and immediately wrote back to Meng Wanying and Wenxiu, asking Wenxiu to bring her mother Yuhui and Xuewen to the Great Northern Wilderness to find her. It was time to share the burden for Wanying.

Meng Wanying's eyes got wet when she received the letter. After getting along with Wenlan all these years, she already knew that she was a cold-faced and warm-hearted person. Although she had a perverse personality, Wenlan had been silently giving for this family.

Yuhui didn't want to leave her mother. She was almost as tall as Meng Wanying when she just entered middle school, but she was still a child at heart. She lost her father since she was a child, and has always been dependent on her mother. Now she suddenly has to go to her aunt who is thousands of miles away, a 14-year-old girl , I can't help feeling miserable.

"Mother! I don't want to go to the Great Northern Wilderness. If I leave, who will take care of you?" Yuhui's tears clung to Meng Wanying's body.

"Stupid boy, what's so sad about following grandma and aunt as relatives? Originally your aunt told me to go too, but you know that brother Liang Shuang didn't want to leave his father. Your uncle Liang has never woken up. You are still one year younger, how can I leave him alone?"

"But how can you bear to leave me alone?" Yu Hui pursed her lips again.

"Fool! How can you be alone? You have a grandma and an aunt. I heard that your third uncle will also go together. Brother Liang Shuang has no relatives other than his father. If I don't take care of him, how sad he will be." ah!"

"Mom! Then you have to take good care of yourself and don't wear yourself out. My aunt asked us to go to the Great Northern Wilderness just to lighten your burden." Yuhui was a sensible child, and she was worried about Meng Wanying.

The family was too poor and had nothing to clean up, so the whole family took the train to the north with their bedding and a change of clothes on their backs.

Along the way, Yuhui looked at the scenery outside the car window, from emerald green to golden yellow, and the desolation became more and more desolate. It took three days and three nights to arrive at the legendary Beidacang - the Great Northern Wilderness.

In order for Yuhui to come here with peace of mind, Wen Lan described the richness of the Great Northern Wilderness full of temptation in the letter, "the roe deer is beaten with a stick and the fish is scooped with a ladle, and the pheasant flies into the rice pot", which makes Yuhui have a little longing, After all, the stomach has been short of oil and water for a long time.

"Auntie!" Yuhui saw Chen Wenlan who was picking up the bus on the platform, and she ran towards Wenlan with two small bags.

I haven't seen her for a year. Chen Wenlan is dark and thin, with two protruding cheekbones. Jiang looked at her daughter suspiciously. Didn't she say that there is enough food here?Why are you so dark and thin?
Sun Yujiao couldn't help muttering in her heart, "Neighbors, if someone from the family came to the Great Northern Wilderness, they wrote back and said that life was a hundred times better than at home. Why is Wenlan so thin?"

Sun Yujiao suddenly had the thought of turning around and running away. Don't deliberately trick us and retaliate, right?
Chen Wenlan didn't explain too much, and led the whole family, got into the carriage of the farm, and drove to the family courtyard of the infrastructure team!
(End of this chapter)