The two of them were covered in ice water and shivering from the cold, so they hurried to the duty room.

The stove burned out last night.

They quickly lit the stove first.

Watching the small flames licking the birch branches and crackling in the furnace, I breathed a sigh of relief.

The coat had turned into an ice coat. I cleaned up the ice and baked it by the stove. The dripping water wet the ground.

Hu Dagui rushed out in the severe cold, brought back three pieces of elm wood, and stuffed them into the furnace while the fire was still raging.

The flames were suppressed, and a puff of green smoke shot out from the gap in the furnace ring, causing the two of them to choke and cough.

"Open the door quickly."

Hu Dagui grinned and ran to open the door.

Woo~

A cold wind rushed into the house and rolled around the room, not only taking away the choking smoke but also stealing the warmth.

"Damn, it's so cold!"

Hu Dagui shivered from the wind and quickly closed the door again.

Lu Changhua opened the stove ring and quickly took out the top piece of wood.

The flames in the furnace suddenly began to leap into flames, as if they finally took a breath.

"Bring me a pot of water."

"Okay."

Hu Dagui picked up the iron pot and ran out.

Since the spring water appeared, their water use has been upgraded to spring water.

The outside of the iron kettle was covered with crystal clear thin ice. Under the licking of the flames, it turned into water droplets and slid down. The water droplets rolled back and forth on the stove ring, steaming with steam, and rolled smaller and smaller. Finally,

A black mark forms on the stove ring.

Both of them were warming their hands around the stove.

The fingers were red, and when illuminated by the fire, they were red and translucent, as if they had practiced blood mudra.

"Changhua, are you really inappropriate as secretary of the Youth League branch?"

Hu Dagui asked.

When he thought about it, this was the organization's trust in Lu Changhua, so he rejected it so ruthlessly?

You’re not Naqiao, are you?!

"It's inappropriate. I just want to get rich now and strive to become a household worth ten thousand yuan."

Lu Changhua stared at the flickering fire in the stove ring and said leisurely.

Lu Changhua was inexplicably accused, summoned to a meeting inexplicably, became a representative inexplicably, and was named a "Young Reform Pioneer". This made him confused and didn't know why the trend had changed.

A few days after he came back, Han Jianhua came to him and told him that the farm youth league committee was going to appoint him as secretary of the Sanfenchang youth league branch and asked him what he thought.

In Han Jianhua's view, this is a good thing. Young people should be proactive and move closer to the organization. If they have the opportunity to enter the official career in the future, this is also a good opportunity.

But when Lu Changhua heard this, he refused directly.

He was born again, but he didn't want to be an official.

In the future, the legal system will become more and more perfect, and it will be easy to reach out when you are an official, and you will be caught if you reach out. Why should you give up your current career to become an official?

Besides, as a branch secretary of the Youth League branch, he still works part-time and is not paid a salary. How can he have the time?

Not even doing it to pay wages.

I have long been a thorn in many people's eyes and a thorn in their flesh. Now that I am an official who is not an official, I am afraid that my friends who usually play well with me will alienate me.

Why bother with this?

In his previous life, Lu Changhua saw with his own eyes that several of his original employees became petty officials by chance, and he immediately became trembling.

Immediately, there were flatterers who followed him and surrounded him all day long. However, after he stepped down, no one paid any attention to him. His popularity was completely gone, and he was no longer as good as an ordinary employee.

Seeing that he refused to agree, Han Jianhua tried to persuade him for a while, but when he saw that he was determined not to do it, he asked him to go back and think carefully before making an answer.

Lu Changhua was told that there was nothing he could do, so he agreed to go back and think about it.

This incident quickly spread throughout the branch.

Every household is talking about it. The youngest son of the Lu family is not qualified to be an official. He just wants to raise fish. He has no future.

Don't think about the long-term vision of ordinary people. In their eyes, Lu Changhua is just a fool.

Many people secretly think, if he doesn’t do it, what will I do? Come to me!

But the more Lu Changhua stopped doing it, the more people kept looking for him.

When Han Jianhua saw that Xiao Lu did not agree, he reported it to the Youth League Committee.

Li Wei, a senior official of the regiment, pushed up his small glasses and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, I will do his ideological work."

Lu Changhua warmed himself by the fire with Hu Dagui in the duty room, and the two chatted for a while.

After the coat was dry, I went for a walk on the dam.

The iron boat had been pulled ashore long ago and is now frozen on the shore.

The ice surface of the reservoir in the south of the dam is obviously much higher than that in the north of the dam.

The ice was covered with snow. The two of them tried it out, and there was a slight clicking sound when they stepped on it. This meant that it was not frozen solid yet, probably because there was running water.

The sluice gate opened a crack, and a stream of water was still flowing to the north.

Because the amount of water is small, it forms ice when it flows out for a hundred or ten meters.

The water flow and the ice layer overlap each other, forming low-lying water at the sluice, but high ice layers in the distance.

It is estimated that around the Spring Festival, the water gate will be frozen to death, making it impossible to release water.

The ice surface of the reservoir is now at least 30 to 40 centimeters frozen, making it not so easy to steal fish.

Hu Dagui's task is to guard the warehouse and spring.

The reservoir is a matter of convenience.

At noon, Lu Changhua went home and brought lunch. It was cold, so he also brought a bottle of Yuquan wine.

Seeing that there was wine to drink, the boy immediately became excited.

"Haha, Changhua, that's really interesting. When you're not in the duty room, I'm alone. It's so lonely. It's best to have some wine."

"Drink less, be careful not to fall into the water."

Lu Changhua also had a drink to warm himself up.

He secretly applauded his decision to repair the duty room back then. Without this duty room, where would the two of them be now?!

Now that the reservoir has been expanded and the warehouse has been repaired, the number of big carps in the reservoir will increase again next year when they are seeded.

By then, not only will your skills be upgraded, but you will also be able to sell them for more money.

The more Lu Changhua thought about it, the more he felt that his future was bright.

Well, the future is promising!

The two of them cleaned up the mess and couldn't drink any more wine.

Hu Dagui's tongue was a little awkward.

More wood knots were added, and the iron kettle on the stove was steaming and humming.

The two of them drank a bowl of boiling water each, then ran to the back wall of the warehouse to put some water.

When I returned to the house, I lay down on the kang and fell asleep.

Suddenly someone knocked on the door.

There are also figures staring at the windows.

Lu Changhua was awakened.

It was too cold today, so Xiong Bao didn't follow him out, otherwise the police would have been called.

"who?"

It was only around two o'clock in the afternoon, and the light was already dark. He only knew that someone was outside, but he couldn't see clearly.

"It's me, Lao Nie."

Lao Nie is the security director of the branch.

Why is he here? Anyway, nothing good happens every time he comes.

Lu Changhua pulled on his cotton shoes and went to open the door.

At this moment, it started to snow again outside.
To be continued...