Rebirth in 1970: I work as an educated youth in a forest farm

Since the twelfth lunar month, the forest farm stores have become richer in various products.

Most of the new year’s goods can be purchased from the forest farm’s stores.

In addition, the company distributes welfare during the New Year, so there are very few people in the forest farm who go to Songjiang River alone to buy New Year goods.

After all, it’s not easy to go down there, and food and accommodation are all problems.

The train still leaves every three days. It just left today, and the next time will be three days later on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month.

That's why Sheng Xiping asked, where will we go tomorrow? Is it possible that the motorcycle truck from the forest farm will go down to do some work tomorrow?

If the motorcycle gets stuck, they can just hit the car.

"Let's get up early tomorrow, walk through the woods to Ma'anshan Forest Farm, and take a bus there."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shuzhen gave such an answer.

Sheng Xiping opened his mouth and hesitated before speaking.

"Mom, it's thirty miles from here to Ma'anshan Forest Farm. It's snowing pretty deep right now, right? Let's walk through the snow, is that okay?"

From Qianchuan Forest Farm to Ma'anshan Forest Farm, there is a simple road in the forest, which is actually the former tractor road.

Ma'anshan Forest Farm was the first forest farm built after the Songjianghe Forestry Bureau was established. It was not called Ma'anshan Forest Farm at that time, but was called Hongqi Forest Farm.

Hongqi Forest Farm started logging in the mountains in 1958, with eight saw hands holding curved saws. It is the oldest forest farm in Songjianghe Forestry Bureau.

When the Sheng family moved from Manjiang Forest Farm to Shuguang, Sheng Liancheng's apprentice drove a tractor to pick them up at Ma'anshan Forest Farm, and then walked through the forest from Ma'anshan Forest Farm.

Back then, we were constructing and producing at the same time, and logging and advancing deep into the Changbai Mountains.

From Ma'anshan to logging here, tractors run back and forth, forming a tractor track.

Later, although I stopped logging, I still had to go frequently for forest management and forest protection and fire prevention.

There were people walking on the tractor track in the mountains all the time, and it gradually became a simple road.

People from the two forest farms also communicate with each other through this simple road.

The snow has been heavy this year. The snow on the mountain is so deep that it can reach my thighs. The snow on that road is probably quite deep as well.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

This year, the forest farm arranged a tractor to run back and forth on that road twice after every snowfall. "

No, Zhang Shuzhen said so.

The tractors used in forestry are all crawler type, and they can do anything uphill and uphill.

Using a tractor to plow the road after snowfall is really overkill.

In a few years, after the forest transportation is converted into automobile transportation, every time it snows on these roads in the forest, there will be scrapers to push the snow away so as not to delay the movement of cars.

After saying this, Sheng Xiping felt relieved.

The train from Ma'anshan should leave before ten o'clock.

They left home early in the morning. The journey was less than thirty miles, and about two hours was enough.

This is the only solution. Who says transportation in forest areas is inconvenient?

Things will get better when roads are built and cars can pass through.

At that time, you could buy a car and go anywhere conveniently.

"Well, that's all I can do. My parents will have to suffer for my marriage."

Parents will give everything for their children, but what can children do for their parents?

Originally, Sheng Xiping wanted to help chop the meat.

But Zhang Shuzhen felt sorry for her son who was tired from working in the mountains and refused to use him. She had to urge Sheng Xiping to lie down on the Beikang to rest for a while.

How could Sheng Xiping, a young man, lie on the kang during the day?

After thinking about it, I simply took Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang with me, such as iron picks, nets, baits and other things, to smash holes in the ice on the river to catch fish.

There is no running water in Qianchuan Forest Farm yet, so people drink water from the river regardless of winter or summer.

When winter comes, people make many holes in the ice on the river for the convenience of fetching water.

There are also naughty children who want to catch fish through holes in the ice, but this also requires technical skills.

When Sheng Xiping was a child, he would use a piece of steel wire, grind one end to a sharp point, and inlay the other end on a thin wooden stick to make a simple drill.

At night, I lay on the edge of the ice cave and used a flashlight to shine into the water in the ice cave.

There are many bighead fish in the river and they will rush towards the light.

This kind of fish does not swim over, but clings to the bottom of the water, swaying over, and stops moving when it reaches a bright place.

The color of the bighead fish is very similar to that of rocks. It sticks to the bottom of the water and is motionless, making it difficult to detect.

However, Sheng Xiping had a sharp eye and could spot it, so he aimed it with a drill, pierced it hard, and poked the big head fish up.

You can poke half a lunch box at a time, fry it with miso paste at home, and eat it, it's delicious.

There are a lot of bighead fish in the river, and we didn't take them seriously before.

Only after waiting for many years did I find out that the big-headed fish, whose scientific name is Yalu River sand pond snakehead, is a small cold-water fish from Changbai Mountain. It is very nutritious and is of top quality.

Sheng Xiping is now twenty, so naturally he can no longer catch bighead fish like he did when he was a child, so his goal is Daman Bay upstream.

The water is deep there and there are big fish.

I am going to Songjianghe tomorrow, and I don’t know what I have prepared at home.

He has been working in the mountains recently and has not had the chance to hunt. It would be nice to catch a few bigger fish and bring them to the Zhou family.

The location of this ice-breaking hole is also very important. It must be chosen where there are fish.

Some people say to lie down on the ice and see if there are any bubbles underneath. If there are bubbles, there are probably fish underneath.

But Sheng Xiping never used this method. He directly chose the position on the back of a big rock.

On the back of the stone, the water flow will be relatively still, which is the stable water area.

In winter, there is insufficient oxygen underwater, and fish don’t like to swim, so there are usually fish in such stable water places.

After finding the right place, he began to tap the ice with an iron drill, and gradually made a hole in the ice.

This job is not easy. After a lot of effort, the brothers finally managed to break out a small hole in the ice.

Then, Sheng Xiping took out a short homemade fishing rod, hung bait on the hook, and stretched it along the hole in the ice to below the water surface.

In winter, there is insufficient oxygen under the water surface, so fish don’t swim much. When the ice surface is broken, the underwater fish will swim to the ice holes to breathe.

The bait Sheng Xiping used was something he had made before. It was sealed in a bottle. When using it, just pour some out and stir it into a ball with a little water.

The fish swims over to take a breath and suddenly finds something delicious. How can it not take the bait?

The place Sheng Xiping chose was good. Not long after the hook was lowered, fish bit it.

The brothers hurriedly pulled the fishing rod up to pull up the fish underneath. Good guy, it turned out to be a thin scale about a foot long.

"Wow, what a big thin scale. Brother, you are so awesome."

The boy Sheng Xitai also came. One look at the fish made Sheng Xitai very happy.

If there are fish, it means there is something delicious to eat.

In the past few months since his eldest brother has been away from home, the family's living standard has dropped significantly, so Sheng Xitai likes it best when his brother is at home, because he can eat meat from time to time.

Sheng Xiping picked the fish and threw it on the ice of the river without putting it in a bucket.

At this time, it was 20 to 30 degrees below zero. When the fish left the water, it jumped around for a while at first, then gradually stopped jumping, and after a while, it gradually froze.