Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

At this time in previous years, Zhang Shuzhen would go up the mountain for a day. When she returned home in the evening, she would still be busy cooking.

This year, my daughter-in-law was here, so I helped Lao Qiaopi cook the food.

Everyone came home hungry after a busy day, and there were hot meals upon entering. Everyone said that having more people in the house made a real difference.

So everyone washed their hands, put the food away and put it on the table to eat.

While eating, several schoolmates started telling interesting stories about their experiences in the mountains.

"Sister-in-law, you don't know that Xin Youlin from our class fell from the bully circle today."

Sheng Yunfang remembered what happened in the morning and quickly talked to her family.

With so many people going up to the mountains to plant trees, the forest farm's commuter buses are not enough, so they are towing the Overlord Circle behind them, sending them to fight, and so on.

The afforestation campaign started early. The children didn't sleep well at home and were still sleepy when they got to the car.

The car was driving, and Xin Youlin was sitting in the overlord circle and fell asleep in a daze.

There is a gap at the bottom of the Overlord Circle. If it were an adult, it would be fine and it would not fall through, but it happened to be a child, and he was still asleep.

Xin Youlin was asleep and accidentally slipped through the gap in the Overlord Circle.

Unfortunately, the car was driving in the direction of Gaotaihe, which was uphill, so the car drove slowly.

Xin Youlin fell onto the sleeper and woke up, then got up and chased after him.

After someone discovered it, he signaled the internal combustion engine to stop and then dragged Xin Youlin up.

When I got to the place where I was working, I discovered that Xin Youlin's hand was knocked on the sleeper and was very blue, so he didn't dare to move.

"The teacher said that Xin Youlin can't work like this and asked him to rest at home tomorrow and go back to school after he recovers from his injury."

Sheng Yunfang talked for a while and finally concluded.

She didn't envy Xin Youlin for not having to work. For children of this age, collective honor trumps everything else. It was a pity that he couldn't participate in collective labor.

"Oh my God, this kid lost his life.

You said that if the car drove too fast, or if he fell into the wrong position and was run over by the wheels, wouldn't the child be disabled? "

Several adults were shocked when they heard this.

Sheng Yunfang was still young and did not understand the dangers involved, but adults understood that if something went wrong, the child would be disabled if not dead.

"You guys, go to bed as soon as possible after eating. Don't be like Xin Youlin and sleep in the car.

It's so scary. If this is not done right, the child's life will be lost. "

Zhang Shuzhen recalled that when her family moved from Dashahe Forest Farm to Shuguang Forest Farm, they also sat in that kind of overlord circle.

When Sheng Xiping was only six or seven years old, Zhang Shuzhen kept shouting to her son not to sleep.

"Oh, I got it." Sheng Xian, Sheng Xikang and the others agreed quickly.

After a tiring day, I still don't have much energy left. I can't wait to get into bed after dinner and fall asleep.

After the family had dinner, Zhang Shuzhen refused to let Zhou Qinglan move. She led the two girls to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

Then the people in the family take turns to soak their feet in hot water and wash their feet. After washing, they tidy up the bed and go to bed.

Zhou Qinglan didn't have to go up the mountain, so she was quite energetic, so she lay down on the desk and wrote lesson plans for a while before taking a rest.

The spring reforestation battle lasted for five days. After five days, the forest areas logged last year were replanted with saplings, and the afforestation came to an end temporarily.

Afforestation is over, but silvicultural production has not yet begun. There is probably a gap period of less than a month.

At this time, the wild vegetables in the mountains are in good season.

This kind of wild vegetable is Niu Maoguang, also called Weiwei. Its scientific name is Cinnamomum cinnamon and it belongs to the family Vitaceae and bracken.

This thing tastes very bitter, even after it is boiled and soaked in boiling water, it still has a bitter taste.

At the beginning, everyone thought this stuff was poisonous. Even during those difficult years, no one ate it. It really tasted bad.

But people in one place particularly like this kind of wild vegetable. It is said that this kind of mountain vegetable has anti-cancer and anti-aging effects, and they call it a mountain delicacy.

Therefore, this kind of dried product made from cow hair is very popular in the country in the east where life is good, and it is expensive.

Since [-], the country has purchased large quantities of dried Niumaoguang products and exported them abroad in exchange for foreign exchange.

Niu Mao Guang can be found all over the mountains and plains, especially in Goutangzi and Laowadian. There are as many as ox hairs.

It is precisely because it is widely distributed and has a layer of yellow hair on its body that it is called Niu Maoguang.

The Changbai Mountain area and Xiaoxinganling area are the main producing areas of Niu Maoguang in China.

For people in the northeastern forest area, collecting cattle and hair every year is the main income from their sideline business.

Every year from mid-to-late May to the end of June, during this month, every household in the forest farms and villages in the entire Changbai Mountain Forest Area has come to visit.

All those who had the ability rushed up to the mountains and into the woods to collect cow hair, carrying baskets and bags on their backs.

If you can go far away, go far away; if you can't go far, go to the ditch or pond near your home.

The scene was just like going to the market, or like people on the beach going to the small sea when the tide ebbs. It was a busy and lively scene.

Qianchuan Forest Farm is located in a large forest with abundant resources.

There are no roads in the forest area, and most of the people gathering cattle hair gather in groups, pushing railway tricycles along the only railway line to go inside.

When we arrived at the place, we took off the two wheels and found a place to hide them, leaving the frame alone in the grass.

After waiting for the cows to come out, I found the wheels, put them on the frame, and pushed the tricycle back.

In these days and months, if you can export something to earn foreign exchange, that would be absolutely amazing.

Units at all levels must provide support for exports to earn foreign exchange, and must not hinder the major event of exporting foreign exchange for any reason.

Instead of hindering it, we must actively provide all facilities for exports to earn foreign exchange.

For example, at the Qianchuan Forestry Farm, several leaders, Wang Jiachuan and Zheng Xianyong, were very clever. In order to allow the employees to better realize this income, they arranged internal combustion engines to pull four or five overlord circles and carriages to transport people to the mountains to pick cattle.

There were hundreds of people hitching rides, and many people from Dajichang Village also came to borrow money.

The vehicles pulled people to the end of the work area in the morning, and then waited on the spot on the mountain. In the evening, they pulled people back to collect cattle and hair.

Some people are so naive that they carry their own railway tricycles on board the train, but when they get to the place they still dismantle the two wheels and hide them.

They would come out of the woods later than others, so they would miss the train, so they found their own railway tricycle and installed the wheels on it.

Together with Niu Maoguang, Ren Ren rode a railway tricycle to ride home.

The ones in the Sheng family who could do this job in previous years were Sheng Liancheng and Sheng Xiping.

This year, Sheng Xian suddenly said that he would also go up the mountain.

Sheng Xi'an will graduate from high school in July this year. There is no college entrance examination this year. After graduation, he will join the agricultural team as an educated youth, waiting for when the government will have policies to recruit workers.

There is no way out by studying, and many people go to school just to get a diploma and find jobs.

If it weren't for Sheng Liancheng's high salary and Sheng Xiping's ability in the Sheng family, Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang would probably have stopped studying and gone to work.

So in this environment, Sheng Xian felt that the classwork was over long ago anyway.

This month, it doesn't matter whether I'm in school or not, it's better to go home early and work.

Many students in the same class as Sheng Xi'an thought the same way, and the teacher could understand and would give him leave if he asked for it.

In this way, Sheng Liancheng took his two sons and went into the mountains to collect cattle.

The job of collecting cows and hair is not an easy task.

People walk into dense forests and have to walk a long way through mountains and rivers before they can find Laowa Dianzi, where the grass grows widely.

However, there is a lot of water in the Laowa meadows, which breeds mosquitoes and small mosquitoes. The most hateful ones are small planer adzes and blind midges.

These bloodthirsty insects come in swarms, buzzing around people in front, back, left and right, biting anyone who is not paying attention and leaving pimples all over their faces.

Most women who go into the mountains put on a sun hat, sew a gauze scarf on the edge, and finally tie the bottom corner of the gauze scarf around their neck, so that at least their faces won't be bitten so hard.

It's okay for women to do this, but it's hard for men to cover themselves with gauze. There's no other way but to get bitten.

Sheng Liancheng and his son both lit cigarettes and held them in their mouths, but it didn't have much effect.

I have no choice, I still have to burn some old beef liver to repel mosquitoes, which is somewhat useful and reduces the chances of being bitten.

Mosquito bites were just one of them. As soon as I walked into the grass in the morning, my pants were half wet with dew, and they couldn't be dried by the wind until noon.

If it rains in the forest, your whole body will be soaked from the inside out, except for a small area.

From afternoon to evening, when people were tired and hungry, people walked back through the old forest, carrying bags filled with cow hair tubes.

It is said that the road is long and there is no need to carry it lightly. The farther you go, the heavier your back becomes. Your legs wobble as you walk. A vine on the ground can trip you up.

All day long, I don’t know how many times I have to fall.

Sometimes when I encounter a tree stump or fallen wood, I quickly lean on it and rest for a while. My tired legs feel heavy and my body is covered with sweat.

"Second brother, how are you? Can you still keep walking back? If not, give me your pocket and I'll carry it for you."

On the first day when he entered the mountain, Sheng Xiping looked at his younger brother's red face and sweat. He felt a little distressed and wanted to share some of the burden for Sheng Xi'an.

"Brother, no need, I can do it. You can pick more vegetables than me. It's already heavy enough."

Sheng Xian had never done such tiring work in the mountains before. This was the first time that he was so exhausted that he was out of breath.

"Okay, just take it into consideration. If you really can't walk, just take a break. We'll just wait for you."

Sheng Xiping is fast at all tasks, and Guang Guang is also good at harvesting cattle. He can harvest hundreds of kilograms a day.

At noon, while eating, Sheng Xiping poured out all the ox hair he had collected and knocked off the curled head.

This way, you can reduce the weight and save yourself the effort when you go home.

But even so, he carried the most, and to be honest, it was really tiring.

The three of them were all too tired to talk anymore and continued to walk out with their heads down.

After a lot of effort, we finally arrived at the commuter bus stop.

"Xiping, why did you come back? Hey, Xi'an is very powerful, and she also picked up a lot."

Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo both went to the mountains with their fathers to gather vegetables. Each of these forest farm old men had their own secret nest.

Laowozi has a lot of food and special dishes, but they usually don't tell others.

Therefore, when collecting cattle and hair, all the sons of each family would go up the mountain with their father.

Sheng Xi'an's legs were weak from exhaustion, but when he heard others praise him, he felt energetic again.

The three men unloaded the fertilizer bags they were carrying, and the people in the car reached out to take them. Then the three of them grabbed the sides of the car and climbed into the car with difficulty.

As soon as I got in the car and sat down on my bag, I felt like there was no part of my body that wasn't sore. I really couldn't even move my fingers.

Most of the people were back, the commuter bus honked several times, and many people hurried back.

After waiting for a while, no one came back, so the commuter bus driver started the car and returned to the forest farm with a string of carriages, bullion circles, and send-offs.

At least I rested in the car for a while, regained some strength, and waited for the commuter bus to arrive at the forest farm train station.

Everyone first threw their bags down, then jumped out of the car, picked up their bags, and staggered home.

As soon as Master Sheng Liancheng and his wife walked outside the door of their home, they smelled a sweet smell.

"Your mother is making pancakes at home."

The aroma of pancakes is different from other foods, especially for these hungry people, it is simply too appetizing.

"Not only are they making pancakes, but they are also making pancake boxes." Sheng Xiping sniffed and smelled the unique spiciness of leeks.

At the beginning of spring, Zhang Shuzhen baked pancakes once, but there were many people eating at home, and they all went to the mountains to bring rice a while ago, so the pancakes would soon be exhausted.

Zhang Shuzhen saw that this was not going to work. It was the peak season for Niu Mao Guang. She had to cook Niu Mao Guang and did not have time to carefully prepare meals.

So I soaked some corn husks the day before yesterday and went to the mill early this morning to grind them. Taking advantage of the little time before Niu Maoguang got home, I quickly made pancakes at home.

Most of the pancakes made in these days were made from corn flour, and most people were reluctant to use rice. If they were made in their hometown, they would also have sweet potato pancakes.

Anyway, they cook coarse grains carefully, just to make cooking easier and to make it easier to carry food up the mountain.

Zhang Shuzhen is a good pancake maker. If someone can light a fire for her, she can make pancakes worth thirty or forty pounds of grain in one day.

I was busy making pancakes and had no time to cook. In the afternoon after my daughter got off school, Zhang Shuzhen asked Sheng Yunfang and the others to go to the vegetable garden to cut some leeks, pick the grass, wash them and chop them into pieces, then fry a few eggs, beat them up, and mix them with the leeks.

After the pancakes are baked, you don’t need to stack them up. Instead, spread the leek filling on the pancakes, then roll them up and fry them again on both sides.

When the vegetable filling inside is cooked, use a knife or shovel to cut it into sections and put it on a plate. This is the pancake box.

Pancake boxes are not always available. When I need to bake pancakes at home, I happen to have fresh leeks.

And it also depends on whether the person who cooks at home has the leisure to do it.

Zhang Shuzhen felt sorry for her husband and son, who were tired from working in the mountains, so she wanted to give them a try.

It was just in time to make pancakes, and the last bit of batter was mushy at night, so I baked some pancake boxes, just in time to have something fresh.

"My dear, are you making pancake boxes? Give me two pancake boxes with sugar, please use more oil."

Sheng Liancheng entered the courtyard with his bag on his back, threw it on the ground, wiped the sweat on his head and face with his sleeves, and stood in the yard shouting.

"You have a lot to do. The child hasn't asked for candy yet, but you are greedy for it."

In the kitchen, Zhang Shuzhen, who was sitting in front of the spoon, was hot and sweaty. After hearing her husband's words, she babbled with disgust.

His mouth was disgusted, but his hands kept moving, using the scraper to quickly scrape the batter on the griddle.

"Fang'er, go to the cabinet in the back room, take out the sugar, and bake some sugary ones for you."