Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 46 My Friends
"Yes! What else?"

Shang Xiuzhen raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and then looked at Li Guoqiang with a bit of mischief, as if she was very satisfied with his reaction.

Li Guoqiang: “.”

I have to say, Li Guoqiang was really speechless at this moment.

The world is so big and there are so many people, how could things just happen so coincidentally?
Just as he was wondering whether he had said anything inappropriate in front of Shang Xiuzhen, he suddenly heard a slightly excited voice behind him.

"Great! I also want to go to the Jinshanbao Production Brigade. Now I finally found an organization!"

Li Guoqiang looked back and immediately saw a face that looked like Xiao Yueyue popping out from the back of the chair. There was that very familiar mean expression on his face, which made people want to beat him up at the first sight.

Afterwards, without waiting for him and Shang Xiuzhen to say anything, voices of agreement rang out one after another in the carriage.

"I, I also want to go to the Jinshanbao Production Brigade."

"And I!"

"Me too!"

"Is there anyone who went to the Erdaogou Production Brigade?"

"Laowang Village Production Brigade, is there anyone who wants to go to Laowang Village Production Brigade?"

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Amid the sounds coming one after another, the carriage soon turned into a scene of searching for an organization.

Li Guoqiang looked at the three men and one woman who gathered around him, as well as Shang Xiuzhen who was sitting next to him, and a look of happiness appeared on his face.

It is undoubtedly a happy thing to be able to find comrades with whom you will fight together before arriving at the place where you will be sent to work in the countryside.

So he immediately stood up and introduced himself: "Hello, my name is Li Guoqiang, I'm from the old city, and I'm a high school graduate of the 64th class."

After hearing this, others also started to introduce themselves.

Among them, there was a man with a scholarly face, fair complexion, and wearing a pair of black-framed myopic glasses. His name was Shao Ruian. He was from Shanghai and was a high school graduate of the 65 class.

A boy named Liu Jianjun, who is a bit sloppy, ruffian and speaks with a Beijing accent, is from the old city and is a senior high school student of the 66 class.

A girl with pretty looks, quiet temperament and a soft Wu dialect in her voice, named Xu Wanling, from Suzhou and Hangzhou, is a high school graduate of the 65 class.

In addition, there is the man who looks very much like Xiao Yueyue, named Zhao Dabao, from Jinshi, and a sophomore in high school, class of 67.

Finally, there is Shang Xiuzhen, who is from Beijing and graduated from high school in 65.

Li Guoqiang felt better when he saw that three of the six people were from Beijing.

As the saying goes, when fellow villagers meet, their eyes are filled with tears.

Although Liu Jianjun and Shang Xiuzhen both seem a little unreliable, the friendship between them as fellow townsmen makes people feel more at ease.

After everyone introduced themselves, they looked at each other first, then Shang Xiuzhen directly pulled Xu Wanling to sit aside and chat in private. Zhao Dabao and Liu Jianjun had similar interests, and soon they got together to talk about eating, drinking and having fun.

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang could only find Shao Ruian to chat with him. Since the topic only involved some basic situations, such as their respective interests and hobbies, local customs and practices, etc., the chat was quite pleasant.

Afterwards, at Li Guoqiang's suggestion, everyone took out the dry food they had prepared in advance and shared it with others, so that they could taste the special foods from different places.

As they were eating, I didn't know which small group started the song first, but soon a burst of passionate singing rang out in the carriage.

After waiting for a long time for the singing to stop, someone started shouting quotations again, not wanting to be outdone.

This went on for more than an hour, and everyone's enthusiasm was finally vented, and the carriage returned to silence again.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, just when Li Guoqiang was getting tired and wanted to go to sleep, the train finally arrived in Chang County.

He forced himself to cheer up, and together with the friends he had just met, he carried his bags and packages and followed the main group off the train. Then he immediately had someone use a tractor to take them to the county youth league office for a meeting.

After the meeting, he thought they would arrange a place for them to sleep for a night before going to the countryside, but he didn't expect that a number of horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts suddenly arrived at the door of the Youth League Office.

Then, under the direction of the staff, more than a hundred teenagers present, like tadpoles looking for their mother, took their identification cards and looked for the car to pick them up.

Not long after, Li Guoqiang and his friends stood next to a donkey cart.

At this time, they discovered that in addition to the six of them, there were two other people, a man and a woman, who were also assigned to the Jinshanbao Production Team.

After some introductions, Li Guoqiang learned that the man with a resolute face and a bit taciturn was named Wang Zhiyong, from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and a high school graduate of the 64 class.

The other girl, who had a big braid on her chest, spoke in a soft voice and looked timid, was named Zhang Chunyan. She was from Jinshi and was a senior high school student of the 66 class.

Due to time constraints, there was no excessive greeting among the crowd. Soon, at the invitation of Xu Guangfu, the captain of the Jinshanbao Production Brigade, everyone squeezed onto the donkey cart.

Then, at the shout of the cart driver Lao Sun, the donkey immediately started walking towards the outside of the city, and the wheels began to turn.

Fortunately, this donkey seemed quite strong, otherwise it would have been unable to pull a cart with ten people in it.

After walking for a while, perhaps Xu Guangfu felt that the atmosphere was a bit dull and tense, so he took the initiative to introduce the situation of the Jinshanbao Production Brigade to Li Guoqiang.

After listening to his introduction, Li Guoqiang and others learned that Jinshanbao Production Brigade was located at the easternmost end of the county seat, a small mountain village more than 50 miles away from the county seat. Even if they took a donkey cart, it would take at least two hours to get back to the village.

In addition, there are only two production teams under the Jinshanbao Production Brigade, and each production team has about seventeen or eighteen households. Therefore, the entire Jinshanbao Production Brigade has less than forty households and less than three hundred people in total, which can be regarded as a relatively small village.

After introducing some basic information about Jinshan Fort, Xu Guangfu talked about the arrangements for Li Guoqiang and others.

According to the documents issued from above, the cadres of the production brigade held a meeting to discuss and finally decided that two production teams would each be responsible for receiving four people. At that time, Li Guoqiang and his colleagues would discuss with the people in the production team which family they would stay in.

After all, this involves issues such as accommodation and food expenses, which cannot be decided unilaterally by anyone.

Hearing this, Li Guoqiang had an idea and took the opportunity to ask: "Captain, can we build a house in the village?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of Shang Xiuzhen, Xu Wanling, Shao Ruian and others lit up instantly.

Xu Guangfu looked at Li Guoqiang in surprise, and then hurriedly thought about it carefully in his mind.

(End of this chapter)