Break out of the courtyard

On Monday, May 5, it rained a little from time to time.

The two trucks carrying Zhang Heping and his group of students drove into the gate of Jingcheng Farm. What came into view were several adobe houses, thatched houses one after another, and hills on the left and right of the dirt road.

On the white walls of the adobe house, there are some slogans:

I would rather have glue than life, give birth first and live later!

Production comes first, life takes a backseat!

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Li Yunrong, the head of the Publicity Section of Jingcheng Farm, who waited for Zhang Heping to organize the students to line up and brought them here with the order, smiled and said: "Are you a little disappointed?"

Zhang Heping stood up straight and said loudly: "Report! Struggle with heaven, the joy is endless! Struggle with the earth, the joy is endless! Struggle with people, the joy is endless!"

The female section chief surnamed Li carefully looked at Zhang Heping's determined expression, then looked at the classmates standing in rows of 5 and 9 next to her, and said with a smile:

"Before you came, the people in the capital called me to ask for my opinion. It was I who suggested sending you to Olive Dam. There are old rubber plantations over there and there are few land reclamation tasks. But I didn't expect that your files are still being held at the school, waiting for you. Graduation has caused the farm over there to ignore you and even exclude you."

"However, you are good! Under such circumstances, you can create a momentum that is conducive to the construction of Banna. If not, I would not be able to transfer you here."

"From now on, you will be a member of the Publicity Department of our Jingcheng Headquarters. In addition to publicity work, you also have to perform some programs and even perform in other units and villages. Are there any problems?"

"Report!" Zhang Heping whispered: "I hope we can properly participate in the work of opening up wasteland and planting rubber trees. We still lack training in this area, as well as relevant photos and manuscripts."

Section Chief Li of the Publicity Department was a little surprised, but when she thought of the word "appropriate", she immediately understood and nodded: "Only by not breaking away from production can we create promotional materials that are closer to front-line work."

"This is a good idea, but I need to connect with the leaders of various departments and farms. Your work is still based on the work of the Publicity Department. There will be many opportunities to participate in labor in the future."

"Now, I will take you to the dormitory!" said Section Chief Li of the Publicity Department, leaving the straight dirt road in the farm and walking towards the two long thatched houses on the right.

"Turn right! Walk in step! One, two, one..."

Following Zhang Heping's command, a group of students stomped on the ground, stepped into the knee-deep grass, and followed Section Chief Li.

The reason why the steps make noise is mainly to scare the snakes.

After everyone arrived at the thatched house on the right, which was more than ten meters long and five or six meters wide, Zhang Heping asked them to wait where they were. He left his luggage and backpack behind and walked around the house empty-handed.

When he came out, he had two two- to three-meter-long yellow piebald snakes in his hand, and asked casually: "What kind of snakes are these?"

Zhang Heping was seen grabbing a long snake with one hand, circling around the students who were lined up, and extending the snake in front of the students for them to take a closer look. Some girls almost screamed in fright.

"Ye Juan, open your eyes and look, what kind of snake is this?"

"The non-venomous cauliflower snake, what's there to be afraid of?" Chu Chuan, the representative of the Physics Department, interjected,

"Everyone, look carefully. This is a non-venomous cauliflower snake, also called the smelly king snake. It can hunt small venomous snakes. Where there are cauliflower snakes, there are relatively few venomous snakes. So, don't mess around when you see this kind of snake in the future. Kill." Zhang Heping said and threw the two cauliflower snakes into the grass nearby.

"Zhao Jianguo, take the two of them into the house and spread the realgar. I'll go to the next room to take a look."

Chief Li of the Publicity Department looked at the group of students in surprise, especially the girls in the team. They were obviously very scared and their eyes were closed in fear, but they still maintained their straight posture and did not scream.

Zhang Heping went in and out of the next room three times, leaving six cauliflower snakes out. The girls were so frightened that they did not dare to choose the second thatched room.

"He Zijiang, bring two people here to spread realgar, and the others disperse." Zhang Heping frowned and shouted, then squatted down and grabbed two handfuls of wet soil and rubbed his hands.

The smelly king snakes are not called for nothing, they are really smelly if you catch them.

"Organizing Committee member, are you sure there are no snakes in the house?"

"Ugh! I'm going to vomit, the room smells so bad!"

"What a shabby house this is! It doesn't even have a window!"

"There are so many gaps in this wooden fence wall for ventilation, what kind of windows do you need?"

"How can you sleep on this wooden bed with bunk beds? There are no bed boards!"

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Just when Chief Li of the Publicity Department was shocked that these big guys had returned to their true colors, Liu Yuan was sent by Zhang Heping to do public relations.

"Aunt Yunrong, can we build the bamboo house ourselves?" Liu Yuan pulled the arm of Chief Li of the Publicity Department, as if coquettishly.

"That's okay!" Section Chief Li of the Publicity Department nodded and said, "I mentioned this to the director of the site before, and the director promised to let the carpentry team cooperate with you, and the new brick and tile factory will also give you support."

"However, you have also seen that there are such thatched houses all around. If you want to build them, you must build a few more. At least teach the people in the carpentry team to build your kind of wooden bamboo houses. Otherwise, it will not be easy to give them in the future. You judge the advanced ones."

"No problem!" Liu Yuan said confidently: "Zhang Heping can even teach those cats Duoli, and he can definitely teach the people in the carpentry team."

"Follow me to the Human Resources Department to fill in the information, and tell me about Zhang Heping." Li Yunrong, the head of the Publicity Department, pulled Liu Yuan toward an adobe house with white walls and black tiles.

Zhang Heping glanced at the two women walking to the other side of the farm's dirt road, and then looked around.

Although the Jingcheng main site is close to the city, it is puzzling that the main site is built in this small mountain depression.

Isn’t the flat land outside the gate bad?

On the hillside behind the house on both sides of the dirt road, there are only weeds and no trees.

"Guards, assemble the rifles. There are no walls around here, be careful of wild beasts. Also, don't load the ammunition normally, be careful of misfires!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Heping entered the thatched house on the left, which was the one where most cauliflower snakes were caught.

"Organizing Committee member, we need to get some wooden boards or use bamboo to lay the bed frame, otherwise we won't be able to sleep tonight."

"Heping, why are we transferred to this farm? It's nice to live in Chunman Village."

"Okay... we don't need to wash the clothes, we just have to go to the bridal chamber."

After Zhang Heping assembled his rifle, he put ten bullets in his left and right trouser pockets, put the gun on his back, said hello to everyone, and went to the slope behind the thatched house with a few followers.

The trees on the mountain had been cut down, leaving many tree stumps among the weeds. Zhang Heping thought rubber trees would be planted here.

However, after Zhang Heping walked southwest along the dirt road below and reached the southwest side of the hillside, he knew that he had gone astray.

This mountain is used to get soil to bake bricks and tiles!

At the foot of the mountain are factories with black tiles. The most obvious one is the brick and tile factory at the foot of the mountain that uses soil to make bricks and tiles.

Then there is a lumber factory filled with lumber. I don’t know what the other factories are used for, but some clanging noises can be heard coming from them.

After working for a long time, Jingcheng General Factory allocated resources to the factory here!

"There is a river behind the factory! There is a river!"

"Why are you excited? You still want to dive under the water and peek at the poop of a beautiful girl!"

With nothing going on, Zhang Heping led people down the mountain and continued to learn more about the general field.

Then I found supply and marketing cooperatives, workers' hospitals, schools, rubber processing factories, agricultural tools factories, rubber cup factories, etc.

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