Li Xuegong is the director of the field, and it is a busy time at this time. It is impossible for his wife not to know this.
But he still had someone send a letter to inform him to go back. The person who sent the message braved the smoke and took a truck to the foot of the mountain. When the snow stopped coming up the mountain, he knew that the situation at home was not good.
After not starting work for three days, something happened at home again. Li Xuegong asked the messenger to go to dinner first. He called Xiao Shougen to go to the shack to discuss it.
Xiao Shougen's idea was very simple, "The situation with my sister-in-law must be urgent, otherwise they wouldn't have sent you a letter. I remember I sent you a letter a few days ago, and I sent you a message just a few days ago. Please go back as soon as possible." I am here, as well as Wang Jianguo, and we can discuss anything together."
Li Xuegong nodded, "That's it, I'll come back as soon as possible."
Li Xuegong kept in mind what He Siwei said a few days ago and wrote to his lover. He was afraid that his lover would not take it to heart, so he took this opportunity to go back and have a good talk with his lover in person.
As agreed, after breakfast, Li Xuegong went down the mountain with the messenger.
After three days of heavy smoke and heavy snow, only the tops of the tents and shacks in the camp were exposed.
Wang Guojian led people to the logging site. He didn't leave the camp all morning. The snow was too heavy and it was impossible to get through without shoveling a path. However, after shoveling the snow, he found that the snow reached people's chests. Even if they shoveled out a road, it would be impossible for one person to pass. Very laborious.
After a whole morning of hard work, everyone was so tired that they didn't even have time to catch their breath. They hadn't even left the camp yet. If we continued at this rate and shoveled all the way to the logging point, it would still take a few days.
Wang Jianguo and Xiao Shougen saw that this was not going to work, so they stopped and called everyone to think of a solution.
He Siwei didn't go out to collect firewood. With such heavy snow, it was difficult to walk out of the camp. The only things everyone used to keep warm these days were wooden poles, which the workers dragged back from the logging site after logging.
There has been no movement for three days, and the zongzi has been almost used. After breakfast today, there is not much left.
Everyone was talking about it. Some people said that they could just climb over the snow. Someone immediately stood up and refuted, saying that it would take too long to climb over, and then climb back again. Half of the day would be spent on the road.
At this time, someone joked about rolling over quickly and without exerting any effort.
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.
Wang Jianguo raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, "Everyone, please be serious. Now is the time for everyone to come up with a solution. Let's brainstorm and don't treat it as a joke."
"Director Wang, there is such a heavy snowfall and it is still on the mountain. There is nothing we can do."
"Yes, we have been shoveling all morning. The snow below is firmer and does not need to be shoveled, but the snow above is so soft that it is difficult to pull it out with your foot."
"If it doesn't work, just go ahead. It's a waste of time anyway. Who knows if it will snow tomorrow if we shovel the way out."
Nearly seventy people can make a lot of noise with just one sentence from each person, not to mention that sometimes several of them speak at the same time.
The discussion lasted for more than half an hour with no result.
At this time, Sun Xianghong stood up from the crowd and said, "Director Wang, I suggest that everyone ski over."
"ski?"
"You can use wooden boards to make simple skis and tie them to your feet." Sun Xianghong said.
The crowd fell silent, and then there was a small discussion, and then someone said that this method was good.
Wang Jianguo turned back and asked Xiao Shougen, "What do you think of this proposal?"
"Xue Ruan, I don't know if it's possible, but I can try."
When Wang Jianguo saw that Xiao Shougen had no objection, he immediately asked a few people to come out to find wooden boards for experiments.
At the same time, he led others to continue clearing the road.
Sun Xianghong went over to look for Xiao Shougen, "There aren't many bamboo poles for cooking and heating. Should we organize a few people to cut down trees nearby in the afternoon to make preparations?"
"I'll organize people to get it done now."
Sun Xianghong also took several female employees to prepare dinner.
He Siwei was a little cold when he came out in the morning, and a cotton-padded jacket was always no match for a sheepskin jacket. Fortunately, he had been shoveling snow all morning and was sweating all over, so he was warm.
While cooking, Tang Shuang lit the fire, and Sun Xianghong arranged for her to knead the dough and steam the buns with them.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, when the temperature was over minus 30 degrees, I was washing hands and kneading dough outside. One pot could only steam enough food for nearly 70 people, and the steamed buns had to be kneaded seven times.
He Siwei also paid great attention to protecting his hands, but on this day, his hands became swollen from the cold, and his fingers were itchy and he couldn't help but want to scratch them.
He Siwei controlled the urge to scratch, wrapped his hand with clothes, and rubbed it slowly.
In the afternoon, more than half of the road was cleared, and a few people studying skiing finally found a suitable method. However, there were not many boards, and it was time-consuming for one person to cut them.
Some people found that they found a few branches of similar thickness, stepped on them, and tied them with ropes, so that they would not sink into the snow when walking on them.
By enlarging the area under your feet, gravity is also amplified.
This method was researched by Wang Jianguo when he saw that everyone was looking for wooden boards.
He tried it himself and it was very good. He immediately stopped a few people who were still cutting wood boards and asked everyone to try his method together. It was indeed very applicable.
It was already after three o'clock in the afternoon. In winter, it gets dark early and the sun sets after four o'clock. Wang Jianguo asked everyone to find branches before dark and use them at the logging site tomorrow. He also asked everyone to eat and rest as soon as possible.
As for the wood used for heating at night, Xiao Shougen and his staff cut down two trees, chopped them into coffins, and asked people from each tent to send people out to collect them.
He Siwei put down the last armful of zhe, and instead of sitting down to eat, he went out of the shack again, rolled twice in the snow at the door, and collected the dust and dirt on his body before returning to the shack to eat.
Tang Shuang was not surprised. We had been living together for more than a month. He Siwei's love for cleanliness was noticed by all the female employees. No matter how tired she was or how late she came back, she had to wash the dirty clothes she wore that day. Come out and change into something clean the next day.
However, He Siwei changed his clothes again and again, but in the eyes of outsiders he still wore the same clothes, so this small gesture was not particularly conspicuous in the camp.
Nowadays, there are only a few styles of clothes for everyone, either gray military uniforms or blue coats. The clothes of female employees are more colorful, that is, red and black plaid.
He Siwei was afraid that others would make a fuss about her life, so when she came out of the house, she looked through her clothes and found two green military uniforms. She usually switched between these two sets of clothes when working in the mountains.
Military uniforms are very popular in this era. If your family members are in the military, they often have old military uniforms or newly issued military uniforms that they are reluctant to wear and mail them back to their families.
One set of He Siwei's was bought for her by her father through some connections, and the other was given to her by her father when he was seeing a doctor. He said it was because his son in the army was reluctant to wear a new military uniform and mail it back to his family, and the family was also reluctant to part with it. Wear it, I received the favor from He's father when I was sick, so I took it out as a thank you gift.
There are not many such cases. There are many cloths given to Father He, usually two meters of cloth.
He's father left everything to his stepmother. In his previous life, He Siwei lived a simple life under the protection of his father and didn't care about these things. It was only after he went to the countryside that he gradually understood these things.
After there was a stove in the shack, it became more convenient to use hot water. He Siwei filled the washbasin with snow and put it on the stove. The snow turned into water. After the water boiled, he threw the towel into it and twisted the towel with his fingers while the water was hot. Come out, and then wrap one of your hands. When the towel is cold, put it in hot water and wring it out, and apply it on your hands again.
Apply hot compress three times and then switch to the other hand. This can promote blood circulation and relieve the discomfort of cold hands and feet.
He Siwei tried her best to protect herself, but her face and hands were still a little dry and cracked, and her skin had become rough. All she could do was to relieve the pain as much as possible, and then apply clam oil to her hands and face.
Clam oil contains grease and petroleum jelly, which when rubbed onto the skin can prevent cold hands and feet and moisturize the skin, so He Siwei rarely suffers from chapped skin.
Compared with cream, clam oil is very cheap, and everyone buys it for skin care. A small one costs five cents, a large one costs seven cents.
But nowadays, supplies are in short supply. If you want to buy clam oil, you need to have a ticket. You need to go to the supply and marketing cooperative with the ticket and money, and you need to have the goods there.
Among the five female workers in the shack, only He Siwei has skin care. The other four don't want to buy it, but they can't buy it.
After He Siwei discovered this situation after going up the mountain, she applied clam oil on her face and hands in the dark every night before going to bed. However, we all lived together, and other people's faces and hands were frostbitten. In her case, It's not serious. In the eyes of everyone, it can be said to be 'perfect', so how can it not be noticed.
No one asked or mentioned it, everyone knew it well and didn’t talk about it.
It is common for male workers to have frostbite on their hands, crack and bleed every day, but this situation does not only happen in the mountains. In the Great Northern Wilderness in winter, this situation is normal, and everyone has long been used to it.
Tang Shuang saw He Siwei's hot compress and heard that it could relieve frostbite on his hands, so he immediately started using it.
Zhao Yongmei thought about it for a while, and then applied heat. After finishing the application, the itching of frostbite was indeed relieved.
In the evening, Sun Xianghong and Zhao Yongmei, as the backbone, went out to meet with Xiao Shougen and the others to arrange the tasks for tomorrow.
Things had to be counted every day. Zhao Yongmei and Xiao Shougen went to count the places where the supplies were placed, while Sun Xianghong lagged behind.
She stopped Wang Jianguo who was about to leave, "Director Wang, employees can apply hot compresses several times to the frostbitten areas to relieve the itching symptoms."
