Author: Sunflower on the Cliff

Jiang Yifan smiled and pointed at the mounds of dirt behind him.

"This is Diwozi, and it will be your dormitory from now on.

One house can accommodate two people. You allocate a place for yourself and the person you want to live in.

Right.

One person cannot occupy a single den. Let me explain to you in advance. The place we live in is limited and the conditions are like this.

If everyone moves faster, they can still clean up and go to the canteen to eat in a while.

I will take care of the food in the cafeteria for everyone tonight, but I won’t be able to take care of it from now on, I have to cook for myself.”

Jiang Yifan dropped these words and left immediately, obviously not giving them any chance to resist or refute.

Everyone stood in front of these low mounds and realized that this was the house they were going to stay in tonight - Diwozi.

Looking at everyone's expression, it was as if they were struck by lightning.

Xia Zhi pursed her lips. No wonder they couldn't accept it.

The so-called Diwozi is the simplest kind of house in the frontier. Obviously, the group they came to should be a newly developed farm in the agricultural reclamation area.

If it were a farm where the Corps was built in the past, it would probably have been possible to build an adobe house.

This place should be responsible for land reclamation, so we still live in a diwozi.

Most people don't know what a diwozi is. The so-called diwozi is a very simple house, and the overall style is a bit like a vegetable cellar in the north.

No matter where you go these days, conditions are difficult and materials are scarce. If you want to build an adobe house, how many people will it take to make the adobe house?

But Diwozi is no longer needed.

It adapts to local conditions, saves raw materials, and requires a little labor at most.

In fact, there are many benefits to the underground nest, such as keeping warm in winter and keeping cool in summer.

The materials used are economical and it is very convenient to build. To put it bluntly, it means saving money.

Xia Zhi found the nearby den and walked straight in. He saw Xia Zhi walking in.

Liu Zhiyan said nothing, holding her hanging arm and holding her suitcase with one hand.

Just followed him.

Liu Qianjin looked stupid and followed him, carrying his own bag.

Who would have thought that Xia Zhi turned around and turned back again, pointed to the dino next door, and told Liu Qianjin.

"Liu Qianjin, please live next to me."

Liu Qianjin immediately scratched his head obediently and nodded.

"Xiaoxia, I listen to you."

He really dove right into the hole next door.

Xia Zhi then turned around and helped Liu Zhiyan carry her suitcase into the cave.

Liu Zhiyan walked in here with a look of disgust on her face while fanning her nose.

When I saw the situation inside, I was almost stunned.

"Xia Zhi, how can anyone let us live in a house like this?"

"Do you call this a house? Let's just call it a pig pen. I think we are kept in a pen like pigs."

Obviously, Liu Zhiyan, who comes from a family of minor cadres, has never seen a house like this.

The pit is actually quite spacious, 6m long and 3m wide. The height of this pit is okay, 1m8.

Otherwise, they would have to bend their waists when walking in.

The bed for sleeping is an earthen platform more than 30 cm above the ground with a layer of straw spread on it.

But overall, this den faces south, and the only simple door opens inwards.

Several pieces of wood were nailed together and covered with pieces of sacking.

There is a thick poplar tree in the house that serves as the beam of the entire house.

With the poplar tree as the center and scattered to both sides, there is a rafter as thick as a forearm every few dozen centimeters, just like a human rib.

On these rafters, a layer of hay will first be spread, and then a mat made of reeds will be spread on top of the hay.

Of course, a layer of mat will be laid on top of the mat, both for waterproofing and to keep out the cold.

Finally, the top is capped with soil.

This kind of house has a small window of about 50cm reserved in the middle of the roof.

Generally, no one specializes in making window frames, that is, a piece of glass is pressed on top of the hole.

When the sun rises, it will shine in through the roof window, and there will be light in the dark cave.

This is still very different from a normal house. It not only looks dark and simple, but also makes people feel depressed.

There is a stove next to the door, and the stove is connected to a two-meter-high adobe wall. This is called the fire wall.

No one is building a fire bed here.

In winter, dead branches or thatch are burned in the furnace, and the flame conducts heat from the flue of the stove through the flue of the fire wall.

This crude way to keep warm and ward off wind chill.

Xia Zhi touched the fire wall with his hand. It was now ice cold. Obviously, they needed to find a way to find fuel by themselves.

Definitely not tonight.

But obviously in order to welcome these intellectual young people,

A slot was dug out in the wall next to the earthen platform to hold an oil lamp.

There was a small half bottle of kerosene in a can glass bottle, which was used to light them at night.

There aren't even electric lights here.

Liu Zhiyan exclaimed, only to see a mouse emerge from the straw pile on the floor, wipe the edge of her shoes and rush out of the door.

"Ah! Rat!"

Xia Zhi glanced at the baggage in his hands with a calm expression, and threw Liu Zhiyan's suitcase and baggage onto the floor covered with wheat straw.

Walked out again.

Liu Zhiyan was frightened when she saw it, and followed Xia Zhi with her arms hanging.

"Xia Zhi, where are you going? Wait for me and don't leave me behind. I don't dare to stay here alone."

God knows, thinking about being in the same room with a mouse, Liu Zhiyan wishes she could grow two wings and fly back.

When we first came here, everyone just said enthusiastically that they wanted to support border construction and that they wanted to fight against the sky, the earth, and nature.

Dedicate your youth to the construction of the motherland. Who would have thought that dedicating your youth would mean being with a mouse?

"Don't follow me. I'm going out to find something. We have to clean up the house quickly, or we won't be able to sleep until it gets dark soon."

The two lesbians came out, and the others all came out of their dens.

The main reason is that no one expected that the living conditions here would be like this. They all came from the city, and even if they were poor, they would at least have an adobe house to live in.

This house is simply unheard of and unseen.

Many people's eyes were already red and they were about to burst into tears.

"We want to go back!"

"We're not staying here!"

"Is this a place for people?"

"How can you give us a house like this?"

Many people were filled with indignation, and Xia Zhi glanced at these people.

No one will care about them today.

When the educated young people saw the poor conditions now, they immediately turned their backs.

Even if they wanted to go back now, they couldn't go back. They would never be able to walk these hundreds of miles by walking alone, and there would be wolves on the road.

To put it bluntly, they deliberately left them here to kill their prestige and prevent these intellectual young people from falling out.

She had seen this kind of tactics in her previous life, and at least she didn't want anyone to talk to them today.
Chapter completed!