The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Two days later, Lu Mingzheng accompanied her to do a check-up, and by the time the results came out, it was already August.

The disaster had already happened, whether good or bad, everything was a foregone conclusion. Zhu Xiaomin's emotions gradually calmed down, and she applied to go back early in the name of preparing for the inauguration ceremony of the food factory.

Knowing that Lu Mingzheng had returned, Liu Zhuangzhi felt relieved and signed the document to release him.

Lu Mingzheng bought the ticket in advance and chose a more comfortable seat in the front row. When he arrived at the county, he was afraid that Zhu Xiaomin would feel tired riding the tractor, so he got off the long-distance bus and went straight to find Yan Yimin, borrowing the supply and marketing cooperative's car to send the two of them back.

From the county to the town, Zhu Xiaomin paid attention to the environment along the way, and felt more relaxed when he saw that there was no obvious collapse.

We went to the commune to say hello, and the car drove through the town towards the first brigade.

When passing by the food factory, Zhu Xiaomin asked the car to stop, and she and Lu Mingzheng got out and walked inside.

Most of the fences originally made of branches and broken wooden boards have been removed, and many people are working on the food factory's fence.

As soon as the two of them entered, someone noticed them and immediately started shouting.

Hearing the sound, Xia Dongliang ran out first, saw Zhu Xiaomin, and greeted her excitedly.

Zhu Xiaomin's eyes swept across the entire factory area, and the first thing he asked was: "There was a big earthquake a few days ago. How is the factory doing?"

Xia Dongliang shook his head: "It doesn't matter, our factory only has some ground works left, which are not affected."

Zhu Xiaomin asked again: "What about the village?"

Xia Dongliang said: "Several old houses were cracked, Xia Laogen was leading people to repair them, and no one was injured."

Zhu Xiaomin asked: "Where is the educated youth point?"

"There's nothing wrong with the educated youth site." Xia Dongliang replied.

Zhu Xiaomin finally breathed a sigh of relief and then asked, "How many people are still here in the factory? When will the project be completed?"

Xia Dongliang said: "Yesterday, the last group of people from other teams had already withdrawn. Now only people from our team are doing the finishing work. The wall will be closed the day after tomorrow, and the inauguration ceremony will not be delayed."

Zhu Xiaomin nodded and pointed outside the door, saying, "At the beginning, we took transportation and parking into consideration, so we left a large open space away from the main road. We can't let weeds grow there. We'll clear it out and make it flat. It would be best if we could lay stones and harden it."

Xia Dongliang agreed immediately and called two people over: "Lao Xu, take everyone in your group and smash the broken stones we chiseled into stones."

Lao Xu agreed and ran away.

Zhu Xiaomin asked: "Are there no educated youth here today?"

Xia Dongliang pointed inside and said, "I'm in charge of the project here. They are all in the factory over there." Then he led the two people over.

Entering from a newly paved dirt road is the factory where the machines are placed, but the machines have not been delivered yet, so it is still empty.

At this time, dozens of young men were carrying flattened stone slabs in. The inside was divided into several areas, and they were laying the stone slabs on the ground. Xiang Zhikuan, Yang Aijun and others were each directing the work.

Seeing Zhu Xiaomin and Lu Mingzheng, several people were surprised and happy. Xiang Zhikuan came out quickly and led the two to the paved side. He said helplessly: "It's not safe to move heavy things here. How did you get in?"

Zhu Xiaomin smiled and said, "I saw it on the way back and couldn't help but come in to take a look." She looked at where they were working and asked in surprise, "I remember they said they wanted to buy bricks, why did they use slate?"

Xiang Zhikuan was helpless: "Captain Xia and his team did some research and found that there are a lot of stones on our mountain. It would take a lot of effort to carve them into stone slabs. Buying bricks would cost money, and stone slabs are more load-bearing than square bricks, so we changed to stone slabs."

Zhu Xiaomin was stunned: "That will take a lot of effort."

Xiang Zhikuan said: "Not really. The two sides of these stones are relatively flat. They just need to shape the four sides into a regular shape."

Lu Mingzheng said: "There is a cliff over there. There is a lot of shale. It should be mined there."

When he mentioned it, Zhu Xiaomin suddenly remembered it and couldn't help but admire him: "I didn't think of it."

Xiang Zhikuan said: "It was Captain Xia who suggested it. It saves a lot of money."

Zhu Xiaomin looked down at her feet and saw that the stones were laid flat and the gaps were filled with lime. She nodded repeatedly, but also reminded: "This stone slab is not small, you ask everyone to pay attention to safety."

Xiang Zhikuan nodded and urged: "You guys should go back quickly. You should wait for two days before coming back. There is still time to find out if there is anything wrong."

Lu Mingzheng withdrew his gaze from the group of people working and said, "Yes, we are also affecting other people's work here." He supported her with one hand and walked out.

This person is a little strange.

Zhu Xiaomin looked back at him and saw that he had a tense face, which made her feel even more strange. She turned her head to look and saw several shirtless young men in the crowd. She understood immediately and couldn't help but chuckle.

The food factory was not far from the village. When we got off the car at the threshing ground, it was just mid-afternoon and we saw that the threshing ground was busy again.

Some people were carrying out sunflower cakes from the mountains, some were drying them, and more people were sitting by the threshing floor, peeling out the dried sunflower seeds and sending them to the other side to dry again.

In a blink of an eye, it is the season for harvesting sunflowers again.

Zhu Xiaomin turned around and smiled at Lu Mingzheng.

Seeing a car coming, many people stretched their necks to look. When they saw Zhu Xiaomin, they immediately greeted her loudly, and some even ran over.

When they got closer, Zhu Xiaomin saw that it was Chen Danqing and He Wenhua. She immediately smiled and waved.

Chen Danqing and He Wenhua ran up to him, both with surprised looks on their faces, and asked about the situation one by one.

Zhu Xiaomin answered them one by one, then greeted the people on the threshing floor, looked at the threshing floor full of sunflowers, and asked the two people, "How is the sunflower harvest this year?"

Chen Danqing nodded: "It rained a few times before, and we were worried that it would be affected. Fortunately, it is a slope and water cannot be stored there."

Zhu Xiaomin asked: "Where are our people?"

She was talking about the people at the educated youth center.

He Wenhua smiled and said, "Not only us, but all the people in the team who could go there have gone there. Those who really couldn't do it are all here peeling sunflower seeds. There are no groups this year."

After two years, sunflowers had become an important source of income for the team, and the labor tasks were no longer mainly completed by the educated youth.

Zhu Xiaomin nodded in satisfaction and smiled at the two of them: "You guys go about your business, we'll go to the brigade headquarters first."

Chen Danqing smiled and said, "Let's go together. We also want to go to the base." He ran back and picked up the empty basket.

Zhu Xiaomin thanked the driver of the supply and marketing cooperative, watched the car drive away, and then followed the two people across the stone bridge to the brigade headquarters.

There were only a few people from the propaganda team in the brigade headquarters. Not to mention Gu Mancang, even Huang Xiaojuan and Xia Chunhua were not there. Upon asking, I found out that they had all gone to the base.

Zhu Xiaomin immediately said: "Let's go to the base too."