Chapter 36: Leave Something Behind

It is winter now, and there is not much farm work, but at this time, water conservancy projects are being overhauled all over the country. Objectively speaking, the past ten years have not been all bad things, at least many of these water conservancy projects have been in use for a long time.

After last night's meeting, Shen Long became the leader of the ten educated youths invisibly. He led them to Bai Mingchuan early in the morning and asked them to arrange work for them.

After a few words of politeness, Bai Mingchuan took them to the construction site. Seven female educated youths followed the female director to do some light work such as cooking, and the remaining three followed the production team leader Bai Guangliang to dig and transport soil.

"You are all children from the city. I'm afraid you haven't done much rough work. Don't use your strength when you come up, just do it like me." Bai Guangliang showed them with a hoe, and waited for him to turn around. Shi Shi's eyes lit up, "Yo, you are an expert, you have done it before?"

Don't mention it, I was not tossed about by Gui Xianren back then, Shen Long smiled honestly, and Li Kuiyong's honest face made the surrounding villagers feel very kind, "I haven't learned it, it's Captain Bai who taught it well!"

He not only did it by himself, but also helped Hu Jianjun and Jiang Shaoan to adjust their movements. Bai Guangliang has been holding a hoe for decades, he can do it but can't say it, Shen Long can do it and he can say it. The villagers gave a thumbs up and kept praising the three of them as good young people.

Farmers are actually very simple. At the beginning, they might feel that there are ten more people in the village to share the rations, but now seeing that these dolls are not coquettish at all, they are willing to work with them, and the resentment in their hearts has dissipated.

After working for a while, when resting, Shen Long also put the hoe flat on the hoe handle like them, took out the big front door and let it go, "I'm gone after I smoked these, I'm afraid I will ask you for them again in the future." Dry smoking."

"You young man, haven't you seen someone else? Later I'll find you a pipe pot, and if you want to smoke, I'll grab the tobacco leaves for you." Compared with those educated youths in other villages who sneaked, raped and played tricks, Bai Guangliang looked at Shen Long more and more satisfied, just for a while Shen Long has done more work than the two strong laborers in the village. It is a pity that he is not from Baidian Village. Otherwise, with this strength, Bai Guangliang would be willing to marry his daughter to Shen Long.

Everyone chatted while smoking dry cigarettes. Except for Bai Guangliang, most of the people present were young people. Young people naturally cannot do without women when they gather together. There are no outsiders around at the moment. , They joked that each of them was more naughty than the other, and some of them deliberately teased them a few young men in the city.

Hu Jianjun and Jiang Shaoan were blushing, but Shen Long started to fight back. He looked at Bai Xiwa, who made the most noise just now, and remembered a joke he had seen before, "Just listen to what you said, and I will tell you too It is said that there is a young man named Xidan in the village. One day Xidan’s wife saw that Xidan was not there, so she went to her father-in-law’s house to look for him. Saying nothing, Xidan's wife thought he hadn't heard, and asked again, Dad, is Xidan? Father-in-law immediately became angry, wash the eggs? Master will wash up soon!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Everyone understood instantly, seeing Bai Xiwa laughing up and down, since then, no one dared to make fun of Shen Long and the others, for fear of getting themselves into trouble. As for Bai Xiwa, many people said Started calling him Xidan.

One meal at noon was eaten on the construction site. After casual work, everyone returned to the cave and began to cook by themselves. The village provided them with coarse grains such as sorghum and corn, and at most potatoes and radishes were added as vegetables. It's not free, and he can cook simple dishes very unusually.

After eating, Hu Jianjun was taken aback for a while, "When did sorghum noodles taste so good?"

"It's not that the sorghum is delicious, it's that Kui Yong's craftsmanship is good." Qin Ling pursed his lips and smiled, "This is a bad thing, I'm afraid Kui Yong will take away your taste, so don't think so when it's my turn to cook. It's unpalatable."

After dinner, Jiang Shaoan and Hu Jianjun took the initiative to take over the job of washing dishes,

Qin Ling came to ask Shen Long to borrow books, Shen Long opened the box, found a copy of "Paustovsky Selected Works" from under a pile of "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Textbooks" and handed it to Qin Ling, "Here, I think this book is good , his works are not as full of misery as other Soviet writers, full of romanticism, full of fantasy, our life is suffering enough now, it is good to read his works occasionally."

Shen Long dug it out from the waste recycling bin. He doesn't like the popular works full of revolutionary struggle spirit. On the contrary, this book is more suitable for his taste, so he brought it to northern Shaanxi to pass the time. Knowing about Qin Ling, he felt that Qin Ling would probably also like it.

"I didn't see it, but you still like this kind of book?" Qin Ling was a little surprised. Li Kuiyong's face didn't look like someone who loves to read, and his clothes were also different from those of the cadres' children. Generally speaking, this kind of people can't be contacted at ordinary times. This type of book, let alone like it.

"Reading is always useful. Although all schools are closed now, a country still needs knowledge." Shen Long avoided talking about it, but picked up a "Self-study Textbook of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry", "Every day after work It's still early, it's too wasteful to go to bed directly, you go back and ask anyone who wants to learn, let's study by ourselves together."

"Okay, I'll go now!" Qin Ling went back, and when she reached the entrance of the cave, she couldn't help but look back at Shen Long. She felt that the man in front of her was different from everyone she had come into contact with before. Born in the first year, I know a lot of intellectuals, but those intellectuals always like to hold their hands, and it is difficult to sink down and mingle with the peasants, and the children of ordinary poor backgrounds do not see as far-reaching as he does.

After asking again, Hu Jianjun, Sun Xiaoxia, Liu Ying, and Wang Liping wanted to continue studying. The rest of them thought it was hard to study in school. Now that they are finally free, who is willing to continue to work hard?

Shen Long didn't force it, he still had to be responsible for a person's fate after all.

After more than half a month like this, Shen Long got to know the folks in Baidian Village, and got acquainted with Bai Guangliang and Bai Mingchuan. He felt that it was almost time, so he went to Bai Mingchuan, "Secretary, I have a question. Ah, why doesn’t the school in our village run anymore? I’ve seen dolls running around the village with their buttocks naked these days.”

"There is no money in the village, so we can't afford it." Bai Mingchuan said, smoking a pipe.

"Secretary, do you think this will work? Don't we have two dilapidated cave dwellings next to the place where we live? Clean up and turn it into a classroom, and several educated youths will take turns teaching the children." I will stay in Baidian Village for several years, and I should more or less Leave something for the village.