Xu Yin spent the night in the waiting room.
The next day, a reclamation team indeed set out from here, passing through the boundless wilderness and over many mountains, to open up wasteland in the uninhabited meadow.
However, the people recruited by the Reclamation Team are actually some urban junior high school graduates or young people without careers. Young working people like Xu Yin, who live in the countryside and have rural registered permanent residence, are not part of the organization's mobilization ranks.
It’s just that there was no identity card at this time, and the inspection was not as strict as in later generations. The main reason was that there was land for farming in the countryside, but as long as there was something to eat, who would be willing to send their children to suffer such hardships.
That's not a slogan, just shout it.
That is a real effort to build a new village and open up fields for farming in a wilderness that is hundreds of miles uninhabited and occasionally visited by wolves. It is simply unimaginable how many difficulties they will encounter during the process.
Therefore, Xu Yin’s joining made the members of the reclamation team very curious, but they were only curious, but they did not doubt it. They only surrounded her and asked:
“Comrade, what’s your name? I haven’t seen you at the mobilization rally!”
“Comrade, which school did you graduate from? We will divide you into groups according to the school you graduated from.”
Xu Yin replied without changing her face: "My name is Xu Yin. I had something to do and I couldn't come on the day of the mobilization meeting, but my heart is always with you! What is your graduation school? I studied in elementary school and junior high school in other places. I just returned to our county this year. .”
“Oh, I know! Is it because my parents’ jobs were transferred? I have a classmate who is in a similar situation to you. He went to other places with his parents in the third grade of elementary school and only transferred back last year.”
“It’s no wonder! It’s difficult for junior high school graduates in our county to find work units immediately. They are all waiting in line. If you just transferred from another place, it will be really difficult for you to get work done for a while.”
Xu Yin smiled and said nothing, watching them help her find reasons one by one, and sighed in her heart: How can these colleagues get along!
At this time, the leader of the Yuanshan Reclamation Team counted the number of people and saw that all fifty team members from all over the county had arrived. He came over and clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, line up! The train is about to pull into the station. We are 17 Carriage, remember! Don’t rush, don’t rush, line up one by one to get on the car! Don’t leave your luggage behind!”
Xu Yin quickly moved her luggage to her feet.
A young woman with short ear-length hair next to her saw a bulging luggage bag in her hand, and stretched out her hand to help her. Unexpectedly, the luggage was so heavy that it seemed like it was not being helped, and it didn't move at all. She couldn't help but sigh in envy. Sentence: "Comrade Xu Yin, you are so strong!"
Xu Yin: Give it a try!
Last night, I took out a lot of supplies from the system warehouse that are useful in this era but are not too conspicuous:
I added a thick quilt, a pair of work clothes and old cotton-padded jackets that I wore in the 1960s, two pairs of hand-sewn cotton socks, two pairs of old marching shoes, and two pairs of mill-layer cloth shoes. There are also aluminum lunch boxes, enamel tubs, toothbrushes, toothpaste, face towels... There are two big packages packed away.
In the package of the lunch box, there was also stuffed a bag of brown sugar, a bag of prunes, a jar of dried radish, several kilograms of dried sweet potatoes, and a mixed coarse grain of millet and brown rice.
Can the luggage not weigh too much?
Getting on the train, everyone helped each other stuff their luggage into the luggage racks, and put the luggage that couldn’t fit on the aisle. Anyway, the entire 17 carriages were filled with members of the land reclamation team, and then they each found a seat to sit down.
The train whistled several times and drove out of Yuanshan County.
The rising sun in early spring exudes warm and bright light, illuminating this simple yet beautiful small mountain town.
Xu Yin was sitting on the window seat with her cheeks in her hands, curiously admiring the towns that were in need of redevelopment in the 1950s, when she was touched on the elbow by the young woman sitting next to her:
“Comrade Xu Yin, the captain asked you whose name you used when you signed up? Your father or your mother? Your name was not found in the roster.”
Xu Yin was stunned.
Team leader Fu Rongxing flipped through the handwritten roster in his hand, struggled to squeeze through the luggage, and asked Xu Yin:
"There are two people named Xu, one is named Xu Xiali and the other is named Xu Wenfa. You..." "Xu Xiali is here!"
There was a girl in the back row, raising her hand high and shouting "check in": "Captain, I am Xu Xiali."
"Oh!" Captain Fu nodded, put a check mark next to Xu Xiali's name, and then asked Xu Yin, "Then you are Xu Wenfa."
“This name sounds like a **** man. Did you use your father’s name when you registered?” The young woman sitting next to her smiled at Xu Yin knowingly.
Xu Yin looked around the car, and no one jumped out to claim the name "Xu Wenfa". She nodded slightly, and Fu Rongxing put a check mark next to the name "Xu Wenfa".
There were two boys in the back row whispering, head to head:
"Wenfa didn't come? Did this guy really escape?"
"Tsk! When did that kid get so bold? How dare he run away from such a thing? In the past, when our class was pulling weeds in the work area, we all ran away, but he didn't even dare to run away."
“Say this **** is a relative of his family?”
“I don’t know, I’ve never seen it before.”
…”
On the far away platform, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy held his luggage and stared at the tail of the train in the distance. He was stunned for a long time and muttered: "You can't blame me! It was the train that left without waiting for me, wasn't it? I deliberately couldn't escape...you can't blame me..."
Xu Yin was glad that a comrade named "Xu Wenfa" didn't come, otherwise she wouldn't know how to explain it.
At the time at the train station, I thought I had gotten through it, but I didn’t expect there was such a thing as a roster.
Luckily, someone didn't get on the bus and indirectly helped her, thank you!
Xu Yin made an "Amen" gesture in her heart and sincerely thanked Comrade "Xu Wenfa" who didn't get on the bus.
“A sneeze!”
Xu Wenfa sneezed all the way back home and couldn't explain what he felt in his heart.
To be honest, he was really reluctant to go to Northern Xinjiang to reclaim wasteland.
But my parents and brothers and sisters all feel that if they only go away for two or three years, they will not be able to come back for the rest of their lives. Anyone who joins the reclamation team will be given a formal job position upon their return. Endure a temporary hardship in exchange for comfort, not to mention there are subsidies during this period, what a bargain this deal is!
He also thought it was a good deal, but when he thought of the reclaimed land, not only was it deserted and life was difficult, but he heard that there were wolves, he couldn't help but be afraid. Several times, I anxiously asked my friends who signed up together: What would happen if I signed up but didn’t go? Will the organization criticize him?
My friends all said they didn’t know.
He didn’t know either, so he didn’t dare not come.
But unexpectedly, on the way to the train station, out of pity, I helped an old man push a heavy trolley uphill. After going downhill, I saw that the old man’s legs and feet were not very agile. The good man did his best and pushed it all the way to the old man’s house. The entrance to the nearby alley was delayed a lot, causing me to miss the train.
For a moment, I was not sure if this was good news for a good person?