The more than 60-mile mountain road is far more difficult than everyone imagines.
I left the county town at around three o'clock and hurriedly drove slowly. It took more than four hours. After the sun set, which was almost eight o'clock in the evening, I finally arrived at Baiya Mountain Village.
(Mulan County has a higher longitude and latitude than Yanjing. It gets bright after three o'clock in the morning and gets dark after seven o'clock.)
"Get off the car. Our primary school in Bai Yashan Village is just ahead. You will live here for the time being."
With a few words from the old village chief, several people who were about to fall asleep or were already asleep immediately woke up.
"Huh? Sun Penghai, why are you sleeping in the back?"
Wang Quan got motion sick while riding in the truck in the morning, and was the first to fall asleep in the carriage in the afternoon.
When he woke up and saw Sun Penghai lying next to him, he felt a little strange.
Wang Yafang next to her suppressed her anger and answered for Sun Penghai:
"He, not long after entering the mountain road, his back ached and his legs hurt. They were all illnesses. He also wanted to act like a gangster and rest on the girl. There was nothing he could do, so Su Mingzhe changed places with him."
Sun Penghai's face turned red when Wang Yafang said it, and he couldn't refute it. After all, what Wang Yafang said was true.
He sat on the front frame and sat on the mountain road for several miles before feeling uncomfortable all over. He couldn't sit still no matter how hard he sat, and kept leaning back.
Yu Hong was right behind him. When she saw Sun Penghai leaning towards her, she thought he was going to be a hooligan, so she was so frightened that she quickly hid in Xu Kai's arms.
It was Xu Kai who roared angrily, and both Su Mingzhe and the old village chief began to glare at Sun Penghai.
Sun Penghai suddenly woke up and realized that he had almost made a big mistake.
Sun Penghai quickly explained that he just fell asleep from sitting tired and had no idea what happened just now.
None of the three women agreed with Sun Penghai's excuse.
It was the old village chief who thought that this was everyone's first day in Baiya Mountain Village and was embarrassed to throw him out of the car alone, so he suppressed his anger.
However, the old village chief also asked him to change places with Su Mingzhe, and he was not allowed to get close to the three girls anymore.
Su Mingzhe, who was sitting in front, imitated the posture of the old village chief and put his legs on the frame, so that he could straighten his back no matter how rugged the mountain road was.
After such a comparison, the three women's impression of Sun Penghai became even worse.
Sun Penghai also felt that he was humiliated, and he did not say a word for more than fifty miles of mountain road.
Wang Quan had missed these things on the road.
The old village chief parked the carriage and took the six people into the school.
It is said to be a school, but several warehouses were built on the basis of the original air-raid shelter.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the villagers of Baiyashan Village also built a farm nearby. Some of the crop tools needed for the farm were placed in these houses.
The ginseng grown later had low yields and poor quality.
Technicians from the farm have visited it several times and said that the location of White Tooth Mountain is not good, with heavy fog and frequent cold waves, so it is not suitable for growing ginseng.
The ginseng planting field here gradually became desolate and turned into a classroom for children.
"The educated youth used to live in this air-raid shelter. From now on you will live here too. The men will live in the west room, and the women will live in the east room. The outside room is the kitchen..."...
The old village chief took six people into the air raid shelter and took a look.
This air-raid shelter is not big, with only four rooms and a hall.
The hall, also the outer room, has two stoves for cooking pots.
There are two small rooms in the hall, which don't even have windows. They can't be occupied at all and can only be used as storage rooms.
Although there is a door to the west room, it is not locked.
When I go to bed at night, I can only use something to block the door.
The east room has a door and a lock, but the door doesn't look very strong. It's best to use something to block it when sleeping.
The old village chief showed everyone around and introduced them.
Wang Yafang had a more lively personality and asked:
"Village chief, you said educated youths lived here before. Where are they now?"
"That was ten years ago, and they returned to the city long ago."
The old village chief was still a little resentful when he talked about this.
Back in 1957, the educated youths who went to the countryside didn't even stay for a few years before leaving.
This time six more students were sent down, and he couldn't let them run away no matter what.
Thinking of this, the old village chief spoke again:
"Students, I know that you city kids have never done any physical work. Our village is currently short of two teachers. Therefore, the elders in the village discussed it and decided to arrange two teacher positions for you, only for the children in the village. Go to class, teach them to recognize a few words, and give you work points, what do you think?"
After hearing the old village chief's words, several people's eyes immediately lit up.
Although everyone goes to the mountains and countryside to receive re-education, being a teacher in the countryside is definitely better than being a farmer.
Only Su Mingzhe frowned:
"This old man seems quite honest and honest. I didn't expect him to be so thoughtful and understand that 'two peaches kill three people.' Doesn't this cause the six of us to have conflicts and fight among ourselves?"
Thinking of this, Su Mingzhe didn't wait for others to react, smiled calmly, and put forward his own opinion:
"Village Chief, we have three boys and three girls. Let me make a statement first. The positions of these two teachers will be given to girls. However, can you think of a way to find a more relaxed position and place them there? Another girl? After all, it’s not about scarcity but inequality.”
When the other five heard what Su Mingzhe said, Wang Quan didn't mind. He also believed that girls should be taken care of.
The three girls were also grateful to Su Mingzhe for helping them speak.
Only Sun Penghai secretly scolded Su Mingzhe for being cunning, for actually being one step ahead of him and speaking out the beautiful words.
"Looking for a more relaxed position?"
The old village chief sighed, with a troubled look on his face:
"Our small village of Bai Yashan has only 75 households and more than 400 people in total. Being able to provide two teacher positions is already the limit of what we can do... Well, we will discuss it in the village tomorrow."
The old village chief did not refuse everyone at once, and asked everyone to rest early, then pulled the carriage and went home.
Nowadays, the sun has set long ago, and the electricity in Baiya Mountain Village has not yet been connected. After nightfall, every house is pitch black.
[To be honest, I have been using @ recently.
Looking at him longingly.
It was Wang Yafang who said, "Su Mingzhe, can you lend us your oil lamp for one night?"
In this era, kerosene lamps were also valuable items.
The villagers in Bai Yashan didn't have much, so they naturally wouldn't think of preparing two oil lamps for a few educated youths.
"no problem."
For Su Mingzhe, as long as a thin layer of moonlight shines through the window, his eyes are no different from those during the day. Whether it is a kerosene lamp or not, it is of no use to him.
"Thank you, Su Mingzhe, I knew you were the best!"
After Wang Yafang got Su Mingzhe's consent, she happily held the kerosene lamp and walked towards the east room with Xu Kai and Yu Hong.
The stove in the east room is connected to the kitchen stove outside. As long as you cook every day, the stove will be warm.
The hot bed is not spread with hay, but with straw mats made of hay.
The temperature difference in Xiaoxinganling is large, more than 20 degrees Celsius during the day, but it may only be more than 10 degrees Celsius at night.
With this layer of straw mat, the three women put a layer of sheets on top to keep them warm at night.
Just as the girls were spreading the sheets, there was a sudden strange cooing sound, which made the three of them stunned at the same time.
"I went out...without bringing anything to eat."
Yu Hong's face turned red when the two girls looked at her, because the strange noise just now came from her stomach.
The other two girls thought about the dry food they had prepared and hesitated for a moment. Xu Kai said first:
"When I went out, my mother prepared three pieces of cake for me. I had already eaten two pieces on the way. There is another piece of cake here. You can put it on the table first."
Xu Kai was actually a little hungry, but the education she received since childhood prevented her from watching others suffer.
Wang Yafang didn't expect that Xu Kai, a girl who was a bit taciturn along the way, would be so generous. She couldn't help but take out her last piece of cake:
"When I went out, my mother only gave me three pieces of cake. She said it would spoil after being left out for a day in the hot weather. Now there are two pieces of cake here. Let's share them among the three of us."
"thank you all."
Yu Hong was touched by the generosity of her two partners. At this moment, she felt that her tear ducts were particularly developed and she wanted to hug them and cry.
Wang Yafang comforted Yu Hong when she saw this, and used the self-defense tool she brought with her, a small dagger, to divide the two cakes into three equal parts, and then handed one to Yu Hong and Xu Kai each.
The three women had their first meal in White Teeth Mountain.
Compared with the scene of three women loving each other, the scene of three men in West House is more funny.
Wang Quan, who was sleeping in the middle at first, heard Sun Penghai moving next to him and seemed to be eating secretly.
After hesitating for a while, Wang Quan also took food from the package and ate quietly.
Only Su Mingzhe never responded.
It wasn't until about nine o'clock.
Whether it was the east room or the west room, several educated youths began to fall asleep.
Su Mingzhe, who had been lying in bed, got out of bed quietly and came to the school yard. He found a few pieces of hay that could be seen everywhere, twisted them into a four- to five-meter rope, and walked towards the deep mountains and old forests. go. .
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