Siheyuan: At the beginning, you can absorb good luck to stay alive.

After breakfast the next day, Mei Wenhua and his family took their tools and went out.

In the courtyard, many neighbors also went out with tools, some carrying hoes, some carrying shovels, and some carrying axes.

The most powerful one was the old man, who brought two tools, a hoe and an axe.

"As expected of a great man, he actually brought two tools! The ax looks brand new, I'm so willing to give it up!" a neighbor praised.

He couldn't bear to part with the ax at home, so he brought his own hoe.

The ax is easy to break when you bring it with you. If it breaks the edge, the loss will still be yours.

I didn't expect that the first man would bring a new axe!

"Yi Zhonghai is the big man in our courtyard. If he doesn't set an example, who will do it seriously?"

"Yesterday, the leaders in the factory specifically told everyone to bring better tools. If anyone brings a bad hoe to make up for the loss, they will be criticized!" Aunt Tao said, looking at the hoe on Qin Huairu's shoulder.

The neighbors in the yard followed Aunt Tao's gaze and saw the hoe Qin Huairu brought.

It looked rusty and only half of it was left. At first glance, it was unnecessary.

It’s amazing that such a hoe can work!

"Qin Huairu, are you afraid that you are not good at hoeing? Didn't you hear Aunt Tao say that if you bring a bad hoe, you will be criticized!"

"I...we only have this hoe in our family, and it is already the best in our family!" Qin Huairu said with a blushing face.

She wanted to take her good hoe to the factory, but unfortunately Jia Zhang stopped her and wouldn't let her take it out.

In the words of Jia Zhang.

Aren't you a fool to bring your own good hoe to work?

If it breaks out, the factory will not compensate you!

"I think Qin Huairu just wants to be lazy. With a hoe like this, she can be lazy openly and let others work more while she works less!"

Some neighbors suspected that Qin Huairu was trying to escape.

"I didn't. Everyone has their own tasks. Why am I lazy?"

Qin Huairu heard someone saying that she was going to be lazy, but she refused.

"Who knows if you have? Anyway, we are not in the same workshop, and we don't work together!"

"Let's go, work hard! Let's go to work!"

After Mei Wenhua watched a play, he took Mei's mother and sister out of the courtyard.

Most of the tools brought by neighbors are usable, and those who are as calculating as Qin Huairu are in the minority after all.

My sister Mei Lan was pushing her bicycle, preparing to take Mother Mei to work. Mother Mei followed her sister with two hoes.

Mei Wenhua was also pushing a bicycle with a shovel tied to the back.

After leaving the courtyard gate, I got on my bicycle and set off.

Along the way, I met many workers going to work in the mountains and students going to school.

Everyone is armed with tools and no one is left empty-handed.

Mei Wenhua rode a bicycle to the investigation department, and his colleagues also came with tools.

When he walked into the office, Lao Zhou brought a hoe.

"Okay, everyone is here. Get your tools and let's go to the open space behind the unit." Zhou Jianjun saw Mei Wenhua arrive and called the people in the office to go out together.

Zhou Jianjun was the director of the department. When he spoke, the entire department followed him with the tools they brought.

Mei Wenhua walked at the back carrying a shovel.

There are more than 10 people in their department, and it is rare to see such a large number of people.

Most people are either on a business trip or on the road.

If it weren't for the task of digging an air-raid shelter, we wouldn't be able to gather together.

Even when the commendation meeting was held, Mei Wenhua had never seen people from the department come together like this.

It seems that the higher-ups attach great importance to the matter of digging air-raid shelters, and have called back all those who were on business trips.

The group of people came to the grass behind the Investigation Department, where many people had gathered.

Zhou Jianjun took them to a place painted with lime.

"Comrades, we are in this area. There are 12 people in our department. We need to dig 6 square meters, 3 meters long and two meters wide!"

"Director Zhou, such a big place is only big enough for us to stand together. How can we dig it?" A colleague sat down on the ground.

"Everyone divides the work first. Where should the excavated soil be transported? Four people are responsible for digging, and the other eight people are responsible for carrying the excavated soil to the designated location over there. They will take turns switching after half an hour!" Zhou Jianjun began to assign tasks! .

It is definitely impossible to dig them all together, otherwise who will transport the excavated soil.

"Okay, our department is all male, so no one suffers!" Mei Wenhua said she had no objection.

But what he brought was a shovel, and the digging had to be given to the colleague with a hoe first.

"The older ones should dig first. The upper layer of soil is easier and the lower layer of soil is more compact. Let the younger people do it!" An older comrade took the initiative to stand up with a hoe and bent down to start. Digging with a hoe.

"As you age, you become better, Lao Lu, you have to take advantage of this! Then I am considered the old man in our department, so I will go first!"

At the beginning, everyone was very interested in digging the soil. After a few shovels, the soil was turned up.

"Where are the people carrying the soil? Why don't you take action?" Comrade Lu shouted loudly, as if he was worried that others would not hear him.

The comrade sitting on the ground quickly stood up and joined the digging team.

Mei Wenhua was not picky, so he picked up the largest handful of dustpans, put them behind Lao Lu's butt, and asked him to collect the dug soil.

When Lao Lu saw that it was Mei Wenhua, he only pretended to be half of it and then stopped.

"Little Wenhua, carry it away. If you can't lift it, pour it out a little. Just run a few more times!"

"Thank you, Lao Lu. Even if it is full, I can still lift it even if you compress it tightly for me!" Mei Wenhua motioned to Lao Lu to continue filling it with mud.

"Young man, don't show off, I'll add a little more for you!" Lao Lu added two hoe mud into the dustpan.

Mei Wenhua saw that Lao Lu couldn't bear to add more soil, so he took the shovel and continued to fill the dustpan.

A large handful of dustpans were filled and piled sharply.

Throwing the shovel to the side, he squatted down, easily lifted up a large handful of soil, and ran towards the designated place to dump the soil.

"Good guy! Little Wen Hua from our department is sincere and willing to work hard. He is a good comrade. You should learn from him!"

"This is too much strength. His big handful of soil looks like it weighs seventy or eighty kilograms!"

"The key is that he can still run over, he is simply not human!"

"Okay, don't be lazy. Our Comrade Mei Wenhua has already given you a lesson. Let's all take action!" Zhou Jianjun was very satisfied with Mei Wenhua's performance.

He is indeed a good comrade and has made a good start!

People from other departments also saw Mei Wenhua running forward.

Everyone sighed when they saw him carrying so much dirt and running so fast.

The leader of the department next door wanted to bring Mei Wenhua over to join him.

If there were such strong men, it would be easy for them to transport the soil.

"Comrade Mei Wenhua, come and follow us, we are close to the place where the soil is dumped!"

"Go on, you dare to rob someone in front of me? Don't I want to lose face? Besides, our two departments are right next to each other, how many steps are there?" Zhou Jianjun said angrily.

"That's right, Comrade Mei Wenhua is from our department, not yours. Don't think about poaching people, or you will be in trouble!"

Comrades from the same department as Mei Wenhua all supported their Director Zhou.

We must not let Comrade Mei Wenhua be shouted away.