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

The educated youth team has tractors and ox-horse harnesses this year, and its working methods are very different from last year, mainly in the transportation of skids.

Originally, the wood was manually lifted, stacked and then lowered down the mountain through the ice ditch.

This is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and extremely dangerous. Production accidents may occur if you are not careful.

Nowadays, mechanical skidding and ox-horse skidding are used, which have high work efficiency, fast operation speed, save manpower, and are safer.

Sheng Xiping held a meeting with several key members and divided the sixty or so people from the educated youth team into several groups.

The logging team is led by Wang Jianshe, Guo Yongping, and Yu Shuaijun, who are led by chain saw assistants, and specialize in felling trees.

Later, Zhang Zhijun and Pan Fusheng led a group of people to form a special group to break branches with axes.

Followed closely by the lumber-making team, sawing lumber with a curved handle, trying to make long lumber and not short lumber.

After building materials, there is the gathering of materials. Chen Weiguo and Sheng Xiping took turns driving tractors and sledges at the large alkali field.

When oxen and horses are harnessed to gather materials, people walk on the left side of the oxen and horse harnesses, which is both safe and can help the cattle and horses sit on the slope.

After the sledge stops at the mountain site, the people from the timber building team will roll the bulk of the wood (long wood) that needs to be gathered onto the sledge and fix it.

Then the tenants go to the market and go down the mountain to Lengchang to unload, and then the people from the Guileng group return to Lengchang.

Tractor skidding is to lock the logs on the index frame with a lock belt and drag them on the ground.

This method can drag many logs at one time, and the logs will form a fan-face shape on the ground, so it is also called the fan-face method.

However, this method is extremely damaging to seedlings, saplings, and reserved trees in the working area, so it is more suitable for clear-cutting.

For those operations areas where both harvesting and cultivation are combined, the tractors are required not to leave the skidding road. When winching, they must be pulled out individually. After the load is sufficient, the tractors must be winched together on the loading plate and transported to the loading yard.

The chain saw operators and tractor operators in the educated youth team are all novices who have just received training and certificates this year.

At first, the factory was worried and specially arranged for the production director and safety personnel to come to the scene to watch.

Although Sheng Xiping and others are novices, their work is no worse than that of veterans.

Young people have a lot of strength, and they can work not only steadily but also quickly.

The production director followed for four or five days and found that the educated youth team worked very quickly and efficiently, so he immediately arranged for people from other work teams to come over and study.

Promote the working procedures and methods of the educated youth team among several work teams in the forest farm.

Working in the mountains is boring, and the only time for relaxation is when everyone gathers in the cafeteria after dinner every night to chat about the mountains.

In the blink of an eye, the work team has been working on the mountain for almost two months. It has snowed several times and the temperature is getting lower and lower.

In the mountain forests where temperatures are 30 to 40 degrees below zero, forestry workers wear large cotton-padded jackets and cotton trousers, fur hats, felt socks and large cotton shoes.

Braving the wind and snow, shouting loud and clear chants to cut down the big trees, they were then transported out of the mountains and transported to various places to support national construction.

The workers worked hard on the mountain, and the families of the workers were worried about their husbands and children at home, looking forward to their husbands and children coming down safely every day.

"Mom, the final exam is over. Students will have a holiday today. We may have to wait for another seven or eight days.

Didn't you say you want to pack a sticky fire spoon? I quickly soaked the rice and just soaked it for a few days before grinding it. I guess I was on vacation too.

Yunfang Yunfei and I worked together, and my mother and I were able to finish it in one day. "

On the afternoon of December 25th, when the final exam of primary school was over, Zhou Qinglan, with a big belly and one hand on her waist, opened the door and entered the room, and said to Zhang Shuzhen.

Liu Yujiang had previously sent a lot of glutinous rice balls, sticky sorghum and the like to the Sheng family, and Zhang Shuzhen said that she would keep the bags of glutinous rice balls and eat them with fire spoons.

This sticky fire spoon is made of various sticky grains, such as rhubarb rice, sticky corn, sticky sorghum, sticky millet, etc., soaked in water for three to five days, and then sent to the mill for water grinding.

Push it back and put the sticky noodles into the noodle bag to control the water. After controlling the water to a certain extent, pour the sticky noodles out into a basin and knead them hard until they are elastic, soft and not sticky to your hands.

Then use a small ball of sticky dough, wrap it with adzuki bean filling cooked with saccharin, and press it flat.

Put the spatula in the pot, heat the pot dry, and when the spatula is hot, place the hot spoon on the spatula to cook it.

This work is very tedious and cannot be done by one person.

There was no school holiday before, and Zhou Qinglan, Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei didn't have time, so Zhang Shuzhen kept talking about it and never made rice, just thinking about waiting until the school holiday.

The school exams were finally over today. Zhou Qinglan hurriedly mentioned it to her mother-in-law as soon as she entered the door.

"Just in time, before I give birth, quickly wrap up the fire-sticking spoon.

Otherwise, after I give birth to a child, I will have to take care of my confinement and take care of the fire spoon, which will be very busy. "

Zhou Qinglan untied her scarf as she spoke. It was extremely cold at the end of December, so she had to cover herself tightly when going out.

"It's soaked. I soaked the rice yesterday."

As soon as Zhang Shuzhen saw her daughter-in-law come in, she quickly came forward with a clean towel and wiped the snow off her body.

It's snowing again outside, the snow is quite heavy. During the walk from school to home, a thin layer of snow fell on Zhou Qinglan's head and shoulders.

"How are you feeling today? Does your stomach hurt? Do you feel any tightness in your stomach?"

There are only about ten days left before the due date. Recently, Zhang Shuzhen has been asking every day, fearing that her daughter-in-law is inexperienced with her first child, what if something goes wrong.

"Mom, I'm fine. I'm fine everywhere. I don't feel a stomachache at all. I'm just a little tired anyway, it's nothing."

Zhou Qinglan smiled and shook her head. She was indeed pregnant well. Apart from the torture in the early stages of pregnancy and the constant vomiting, the child had no other problems.

Since her pregnancy, Zhou Qinglan has never asked for leave due to discomfort.

Of course, most people in this era were pretty. Many women went to work in the fields when they were pregnant, and some even gave birth to their children directly on the fields.

Zhou Qinglan's job as a teacher is relatively easy compared to working in the fields.

After all, she doesn’t stand and give lectures all day long. With her size, even if she sits down, no one will say anything.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, as long as you and the child are safe."

After hearing her daughter-in-law say it was okay, Zhang Shuzhen finally felt relieved.

The son is working in the mountains, and the daughter-in-law is pregnant and has a big belly. She goes to school in the wind and snow to teach her child.

Those naughty kids are so naughty. If Zhang Shuzhen fails to take good care of her daughter-in-law, how can she explain to her son if her daughter-in-law has some troubles?

"Sit down and rest, I tell you, since the exam is over, you might as well ask for leave and go home.

It's cold outside now and the roads are slippery. I'm worried when you go to school every day.

It's only been a few days. If you need to take leave, you can take leave. The school can't say anything.

If you really say anything, I'll go find your principal. "Zhang Shuzhen helped her daughter-in-law sit on the edge of the kang while chanting.

"After these two days, I finished marking the children's papers and posted the results.

After waiting for the children to return to school and hear their results, I asked for leave from the school and went home to rest. "