A generation will eventually grow old, but there are always people who are still young.

After the snow melts, the sharp and sharp Liuhe River washes away all the gold and silver ingots and birch bark that were burned to charcoal in the twelfth lunar month in the Daqingshan reaches of the upper reaches.

Only the crystal clear forest water like jade liquid and nectar is left, dancing with rosin, for the young people who are working hard to push rows of wood downstream along the Liuhe River.

It was May at this time, and people in the south, three thousand kilometers away, were wearing short sleeves, but there were still lumps of unmelted snow on the waterside here. When the sun shone, contrasting with the white snow, the cold river

What flows in it does not look like water, but oil.

Forest farm workers on both sides of the river lined up the logs to drill holes and strung them side by side with long poles. Every fifty logs were divided into sections, and wooden tools were used to connect the three sections together. Sometimes they also had to use smelly

Plum vine tied them tightly.

These tasks may seem complicated, but to our forestry workers, they are as easy as an old lady weaving bamboo baskets.

Next, everyone worked together to push the raft into the water, using the simple principle that water moves downwards to transport the wood from the mountains to the plains downstream of the river.

These timbers have been dumped before the Spring Festival, transported down from the mountains with sledges and placed by the river. They wait until the snow melts in spring and can be transported by running water. Then they can be rafted and discharged.

The workers who were arranging the rows were shirtless, exposing their bronzed muscles. They were holding up the poles while repeatedly shouting slogans:

"Go along the river, don't look back!"

By the time these nearly 2,000 cubic meters of rafts were moving down the river, Lin Ze, a lumberjack who had been working at the forest farm for three years, was already sweating from exhaustion.

It is said that there are three hardships in the Northeast: digging for ginseng, digging for ginseng, and cutting down big trees.

Lin Ze has never done anything except digging ginseng, but he has suffered the other two kinds of hardships.

He originally didn't have to suffer either of these hardships, but a report letter three years ago changed his bright future.

Three years ago, he failed in college, so his family used connections to find him an easier job.

There happens to be a shortage of a cashier. He is a college graduate and has sufficient education. This job will most likely fall to him.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the director of the breeding farm, Zheng Ke, was reported to have embezzled public funds and had problems with his lifestyle, and it was rumored that the reporter was Lin Ze.

Originally, Zheng Ke brought the blame on himself and had nothing to do with Lin Ze. However, the person responsible for arranging Lin Ze's work was Zheng Ke's nephew. He gave the cashier job to someone else, and finally arranged for Lin Ze to be the hardest working lumberjack.

Lin Ze was in his early twenties and had worked in a forest farm for three years. He suffered from rheumatism, arthritis and lumbar disc herniation.

Thinking back on this, Lin Ze felt extremely frustrated. He was a person who almost went to college, but his education level and quality were much better than those big guys. How come he had studied in vain for so many years?

He doesn't get along with others, and others look down upon him! They think he is arrogant, idiosyncratic, and difficult to get along with.

Isn’t it just a matter of studying a few more days and recognizing a few more words? I didn’t see him cutting wood any faster than us. In the first half year, he almost sawed his own hand, if it weren’t for the foreman’s quick reaction.

, he becomes a cripple, why are you so crazy!

But from then on, Lin Ze always worked more carefully and would rather be slower than others.

This time, it was originally not Lin Ze's turn. But when he heard that he could go to Danjiang City in the lower reaches of Liuhe River, he couldn't sit still!

Back then, he almost got admitted to the Normal College in Danjiang. Later, he became an ordinary forestry worker. He was so tired that he lay on the kang and fell asleep every day. The dream of getting into the university could only occur when he fell asleep.
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The longer he worked in the forest farm, the more he wanted to go to the big city.

Every year when I go home during the Chinese New Year, the people who come back from the city brag and talk about the latest news in the big city with these young men who have never gone out to travel, and he listens most seriously.

"People in the city don't drink boiled water at all, they just drink soda as water!"

"That soda is so expensive. We are only willing to buy it during the Chinese New Year. The few naughty boys at home are fighting over it. How much money do city people have to drink every day?"

"You haven't seen it before. The house outside is built so high. In winter, the boiler is burned in the house and the toilet is inside the house. It's not like ours, which is open to the outside and freezes the buttocks!"

"Er Xiao, just brag! How can you do it in the house? The smell in the house will kill people. People in the city are not as clean as we in the mountains!"

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Every time he heard Erxiao talk about these experiences in the city, his heart would beat wildly, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

On New Year's Eve, when I walked out of Erxiao's house, I was thinking about what they had just said. I didn't even know that the firecrackers were going off at my feet.

When he entered the house and took advantage of the New Year celebrations, he told his parents about his idea of ​​going out to make a living, but his father scolded him, saying that he was too ambitious and would be corrupted by money sooner or later, and told him to completely stop such thoughts in the future!

On New Year's Eve, Lin Ze didn't want to contradict his parents on this happy day for the whole family, so he could only suppress his restless heart.

Until this time I had the opportunity to go out with Master to perform.

They floated in the river for three days and soon reached the confluence of Liuhe River and Danjiang River. As long as the raft entered the Danjiang River smoothly, there was a flat plain in front of them, and they could reach the lumber factory in Danjiang City in half a day.

But something happened at this time!

There was a long platoon that was knocked apart by rocks under the water, and logs rolled uncontrollably on the river, and collided with several other platoons. Just ahead, they were approaching the fork of the water flow, and dozens of logs escaped from the large group.

, drifting towards a small fork of the river.

"Ahem, the water is so shallow this year that even this granite is exposed. Let's go into the water and push the wood back!"

After hearing the master's words, Lin Ze got into the water without even rolling up his trousers.

The cold river water made Lin Ze tremble all over. He gritted his teeth and endured the pain as if thousands of steel needles were piercing his bones. He followed the others and pushed back the dozens of stray logs.

The water was not deep, just above his waist. When Lin Zefu entered the water, it was so cold that he almost lost his breath. After a while, he slowly got used to it, and his body became numb from the cold. He couldn't feel the cold, but his feet were numb.

It still slips from time to time and has to fight against the current.

When they pushed the last lost piece of wood over, Lin Ze turned around and waded over to the raft headed by his master. Wang Youfu stretched out his big, dry and rough hand, trying to give his disciple a hand.

At this time, when he saw his apprentice behind him, his expression suddenly changed and he shouted: "Ozawako, go east!"

"Ah?"

Lin Ze stared, and before he could react, he suddenly felt something heavy hit him on his back. Before he could feel the pain, he fell into the water, and a lot of ice entered his nose and mouth.

The water suffocated him so much that he couldn't breathe. The coldness and stinging sensation rushed to his brain. He kept thrashing. Even though the water in the river was only above his waist, he couldn't stand up. Gradually, he felt helpless.
Chapter completed!