I really didn’t expect that I would move as soon as I was told.
Early the next morning, Section Chief Chang Gaofeng went out and made a phone call. When he came back, he immediately informed Wang Ke to move immediately to an apple orchard more than ten kilometers away.
Wang Ke was caught off guard. He didn't even have time to say goodbye to his godfather Dong Pianfang and the old village chief, let alone a group of comrades in the company. He quickly organized the whole class to pack their backpacks and pack their equipment, and while using the toilet, they ran to the cooking class and found the deputy squad leader Hu Yanlou. Ask him to report to the company leader on his behalf and say hello to platoon leader Yan Jiao, wireless squad leader Huang Zhonghe, telephone squad leader Xiao Gao, and first squad leader Luo Shaohuan...
Twenty minutes later, the whole class, including the black donkey, got into the pickup truck.
The black donkey had to stand, and there was no other way. Wang Ke could only let it stand sideways next to the front baffle, with the baskets piled at its feet. There were three people sitting on each side of the carriage, and all equipment and equipment were put into the passenger seat.
In less than an hour, the pickup truck drove into Apple Orchard Village.
"Ah, squad leader, we really live in the apple orchard!" Song Ruimin shouted loudly first. This apple orchard is the center point of the second phase of the Perak surveying and mapping team, and the row of houses in the orchard is their temporary residence. .
A village chief surnamed Liu had been waiting there for a long time. He pointed to the four huts on the west side and said, "Chief Chang, these four huts have been packed out. You can live here, cook in one hut and cook in the other three." There are people living in each house. The conditions are a bit worse, please bear with me. If you need anything, come to the village and tell me."
"Village Chief Liu, thank you very much. Isn't the owner of this orchard here?" Section Chief Chang Gaofeng asked.
"Yes, but his father and daughter went to work and won't be back until noon. The old man's surname is also Liu. I have already said hello to him." The village chief left after a short while.
Wang Ke quickly organized the whole class to clean the four rooms again, sweep the floor in front of the door, fill up the water, and make the toilet clean. Then he tidied up the housework, arranged for Niu Suozhu to cook, and arranged for Gu Maolin to go into the village to buy some daily necessities.
When it was almost noon, there was a sound of footsteps, and the owner of the orchard, Uncle Liu, and his daughter came up.
"Is he Section Chief Chang?" Uncle Liu has a dark red face, a loud voice, and a medium build. Carry a shovel on your shoulder. Behind him, a girl who looked very similar to Uncle Liu also carried a shovel on her shoulder, but in her hand was a bucket with something in it and a snakeskin bag on top.
"It's Old Liu!" Section Chief Chang Gaofeng raised his head when he heard the sound and walked towards Old Liu. "I'm causing trouble for you."
"No trouble, no trouble, my place will be lively as soon as you come."
"Come have dinner with us at noon!" Section Chief Chang greeted enthusiastically.
"No, you can eat!" Looking at the few People's Liberation Army soldiers, he was happy and spoke in local dialect. "Look how clean you have made my little yard, and the water has been filled. In two days, you will go to my orchard to pick apricots to eat!"
Wang Ke puffed up his chest and saluted him. "Hello, Uncle Liu, I am squad leader Wang Ke."
"Kid, you're too polite. Just call me Lao Liu from now on." Ever since the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army had never been cut off in this area, so the soldiers and civilians had a close friendship.
"Uncle Liu, if you have any work in the future, just call us."
"Okay, okay, just rest!"
Although the scout class are all young people in their twenties, the whole class has been helping cooks for a long time, and everyone in the class is good at cooking. Soon Song Ruimin, along with sweet potato, Liang Xiaolong and sesame stalk Zhao Mingming, prepared two dishes and one soup.
After the seven people had dinner around the small table, Wang Ke followed Section Chief Chang Gaofeng out of the orchard and came to a nearby high ground. Looking south, it was boundless. The early summer sunshine shines on the wilderness, and everything is full of life.
"Squad leader Wang, the south bank of the Juma River is our main battlefield for thousands of acres of fertile land, and it is also the granary of Dingxian County! Every hundred acres is a unit, and our task is to plan 1,000 acres, totaling more than 100,000 acres. Among them, organic farming roads, With supporting water canals, dry land can be converted into both flood and drought, and food crops can be changed from single to diversified, and the development of breeding, animal husbandry and ecological agriculture can be promoted." Section Chief Chang Gaofeng is looking forward to this magnificent blueprint, and Wang Ke is not like this.
"Chief Chang, then our task is to plan the fields first, or the water network first?"
"No, according to the drawings, we first plan out the main east-west highway. The most important one is the road into Xishan. We will straighten it and divide Ding County into two, and then spread out the fields and fields from both sides of the road to the north and south. Aqueduct planning.”
"Okay, the total length of this road is 53 kilometers. If we take a straight line, there are cars and donkeys, we can go back and forth in two and a half days at most." Wang Ke said excitedly, this is a real start.
"Squad Leader Wang, the benchmark starting point on the west side has been established. Is it more accurate for us to advance from west to east?"
"Yes, but this requires first determining the coordinates of the east side road. The two are connected, not only straight but also flat. Chief Chang, will this road still be a gravel road after planning in the future?"
"Yes, we will pave it with asphalt, two lanes in both directions, and a third-class highway standard with an annual average day and night traffic volume of 2,000 trucks and passenger vehicles."
Hearing this, Wang Ke stuck out his tongue and said, "Hey, 2,000 cars a day. Now even counting donkey carts, there can't be 200 cars a day." These roads and canals were the main arteries of Dingxian County. At that time, good times for the people really came.
"But Squad Leader Wang, you will be in charge tomorrow. I will be responsible for setting up the front line and getting in touch with all the towns and villages ahead. How far do you think you can advance in one morning?"
"Chief Chang, let's try to advance 10 kilometers first, mainly to gain experience. Not only is it straightening, but there is also a leveling task, which is quite difficult. From the map, the altitude difference between east and west is more than 20 meters. , these more than 20 meters must be digested into 53 kilometers, otherwise it will affect later construction."
"Yes, yes, I was just about to remind you."
"Chief Chang, is it better to digest it equally or in sections?"
"It would be best if it could be digested evenly, and it would be a truly flat river. However, this kind of construction requires high requirements, and the project may not be small. Digestion in stages is based on local conditions, and in the future it will appear in a trapezoidal shape."
"Then we'll digest it based on the average, and we'll make a decision during the specific construction period."
Early the next morning, Section Chief Chang Gaofeng drove the equipment, tools, pile materials, and black donkeys to the entrance of Nanshao Village. After unloading the equipment, tools, pile materials, and black donkeys, Section Chief Chang drove gone.
Wang Ke organized the whole class to start quickly. According to the coordinates of the road exit on the east side of the map, it was aligned with the end of the road into the mountain from Nanshao Village and moved nearly 200 meters southward.
"What should the squad leader do? Should we take the west end or the east end as the standard? Should we take a straight road from east to west? If so, is it equivalent to building a new highway?" Song Ruimin asked. This was a new situation. For a moment, Wang Ke was thinking rapidly in his mind.
One millimeter at a distance of 1,000 meters is 25 meters horizontally. If it's 10 kilometers, there will be a stagger of 250 meters. Now, if it's 50 kilometers, is less than 200 meters still called an error?
"Just start at the original location and make corrections step by step! The key is level."
"Yes!" After Song Ruimin finished speaking, he quickly calculated the number of centimeters that should sink every 1,000 meters, set up the theodolite tripod, quickly calculated the coordinates and altitude of the starting point, and laid the first benchmark pile of the highway. Next, those who lifted the benchmark pole and those who drove the piles soon drove out the first direction pile a thousand meters away, and marked the horizontal line of the highway with red paint on the direction pile.
The little black donkey was very docile and basically followed Song Ruimin's footsteps.
Just before noon, Section Chief Chang Gaofeng drove up to us. Wang Ke quickly recounted the situation he encountered in the morning. Section Chief Chang was very happy to see such high efficiency. "We will go to Zhangjiazhuang for lunch today. After dinner, we will come back and see if we can go to Nandaniu Village tonight!"
"Don't worry! Section Chief Chang." Niu Suozhu, who was carrying the benchmark, responded loudly and walked towards this side. All the soldiers in the reconnaissance squad were particularly happy when they heard that they were going to eat Baijia rice.
The meal we had at the Zhangjiazhuang village chief’s house at noon consisted of scrambled eggs with green onions and pickles from the farm. The village chief went to buy some meat specially and brought a fried pork slices with potatoes, baked white flour pancakes, and a pot of corn dregs porridge.
After eating, take a short rest and continue working. Section Chief Chang Gaofeng brought six small-brimmed straw hats from the car and said to Wang Ke: "Squad Leader Wang, from now on, you no longer need to wear military hats. You can work wearing straw hats."
Wang Ke was happy when he saw it, "Chief Chang, if we wear military uniforms, we can't wear straw hats. Otherwise, if we remove the collar badges and hat badges and tie a scarf around our necks, we will look more like the young people from a farmer's family."
"Hey, don't say it, this is fine. I see that when you are working, you even fasten your disciplinary buttons tightly. It is really inappropriate to wear a military uniform and a straw hat. You are not exempt from the consequences of your life as a general outside, so you should wear casual clothes. "
"Isn't this appropriate?" Wang Ke said, but his mind was also moving, so we just wore shirts and gave our sweatshirts to Professor Wen and Section Chief Chang. One day we would make another one ourselves.
"There is nothing inappropriate. I have the final say on this matter. Starting from this afternoon, you no longer need to wear military uniforms to work." Section Chief Chang Gaofeng ordered.
"Yes, Section Chief Chang."
As a result, I don’t know whether it was because I ate well at noon or because I was more relaxed without wearing military uniform, but I actually drove nearly 20 kilometers in one breath in the afternoon. If we keep this pace, we can reach the Rapunzel Barracks at noon tomorrow.
"Niu Suozhu." Wang Ke shouted.
"arrive!"
"Tomorrow at noon, you go back to the barracks, find the left-behind squad leader, and get our letters back. In addition, you help me pull two and a half feet of white cloth back from the service club, and then help everyone buy some daily necessities."
"okay."
"Squad leader, squad leader!" Gu Maolin was shouting over there. "Apply, can I go? I have...something to do, and I want to take care of it on the way."
Wang Ke looked back and didn't know what Gu Maolin meant. But since this kid received a third-class merit in flood fighting and rescue work, although the official commendation document has not been released yet, it still touched him greatly. In the reconnaissance class, even he himself said that he didn't know when things changed.
The bald head is no longer, and now the hair has grown to more than an inch. From a distance, he looks like a hedgehog.
"Okay, you go, but as agreed, you must give Niu Suozhu some compensation." Wang Ke said with a smile.
"That's no problem. I'll bring him popsicles when I come back." Gu Maolin was serious.
"Come on, I don't want the ice anymore, you just bring a stick with me." Niu Suozhu scolded him.
