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

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 1972, 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 could afford it rushed up the mountain and into the woods, carrying baskets and bags on their backs, to collect cow hair.

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.