Chapter 30 New Tasks
The next day, Guo Jiefang and other members of the advance team packed up their logging tools, tied their luggage up, and put them on the sledge. Each of them wore thick fur coats and dog-skin hats, and gathered on the playground. There were six people in total, two horses, and stood in a long row!
The bearded company commander stood at the front and held a red flag that he had obtained from somewhere. The sky to the east was just starting to shine! Snowflakes floated from the sky again. The red flag in the bearded company commander flew and danced in the air, whipping the cold air, making a ripple...!
Guo Jiefang touched the tiger in his arms and found that it was already asleep in his arms. Huang Yaju covered the cotton hat on her head, ran to the front of the team, and explained to the company commander Bearded. The company commander shook the red flag in his hand and shouted to Lao Liang'er: "Have you brought all the things?"
Lao Liang'er licked the snowflakes on the corner of his mouth, spit out a large cloud of fog, and said, "I have brought them all... and can leave now..."
The bearded company commander turned his head and ordered the team: "There are all... targets... logging points... take steps... walk... walk............!"
When the entire team heard this, they trembled for a moment, then walked out of the camp with neat steps and thick snow, and walked out of the camp and into the snow-covered mountains.
Guo Jiefang carried his luggage and placed his rifle on his back. He pulled the strap of the rifle with one hand and touched the tiger in his arms with the other. Hu Zi's body was warm... When they walked to noon, a strong wind blew in the sky again, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier... Guo Jiefang's eyes were white and he could not see anything clearly. The snowflakes hit his face, like a knife cutting, and he couldn't open his eyes at all... He could only vaguely see the blurry back of the fat man in front...!
Guo Jiefang looked behind him again, and saw Lao Liang's head holding a mule and horse with one hand, and covering the dog-skin hat on his head with the other. The wind blew his ears up and down, just like the wings of a bird!
Guo Jiefang felt that he was about to be frozen. His feet were no longer conscious and his hands were also painful like needles...!
At this time, the entire team stopped. The bearded company commander ran back from the front of the team. He shouted loudly at the people behind the team... However, the wind was too strong, and he couldn't hear clearly what the bearded company commander was shouting!
Guo Jiefang only saw the bearded company leader with his mouth wide open, his eyes wide open, and his icy shattered on his beard...!
Guo Jiefang narrowed his eyes, and the sound of howling wind was beside his ears. The cold not only freezes his hands and feet, but also freezes his thinking. He thought hard, and finally realized that the bearded company commander was asking everyone to find a place to avoid the blizzard in front of him!
Guo Jiefang looked up and saw that the fat bull in front of him was gone. He cursed inwardly, took a few steps back, and helped Lao Liang'er hold the mule and horse that was frightened. Lao Liang'er was so tired that he sweated heavily. He pointed to the roadside and signaled Guo Jiefang to pull the horse to the roadside.
It turned out that the other team had already found a cave sheltered in the ravine on the side of the road. The cave was not deep and there were a lot of bear hair hanging at the entrance. Everyone speculated that this cave might have lived in the cave. But it was too cold outside now. Although it was not much better in the cave, it could always block the wind and snow. So everyone, regardless of whether there was a blind bear in the cave, they all got into the cave.
After everyone entered the cave, they found that there was no blind bear in the cave. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone set up a bonfire in the cave. Guo Jiefang, Niu Jianjun, Li Yuanchao and Xiao Shanghai were baking the fire. The bearded company commander helped Lao Liang'er remove the mules and horses from the sled, trying to drive the mules and horses into the cave.
While stomping the frozen wood, Xiao Shanghai kept sniffing to her hands and cursing, "Ala·····The weather here is so cold... This is not about freezing people to death..."
Niu Jianjun said to Xiao Shanghai in anger: "You kid, straighten your tongue first before talking. Look at how hard you are..."
Li Yuanchao asked Little Shanghai, "Hey... I said Little Shanghai, are you cold in winter in Shanghai??"
Xiao Shanghai said: "We are not cold at all, but this kind of cold is not the same... Allah... I forgot to ask you, why are you sent to the advance team? Did you offend Political Commissar Huang?..."
Guo Jiefang asked Xiao Shanghai, "Then what happened to you? You can't offend her, right!"
Xiao Shanghai's face turned red and she said embarrassedly: "It's nothing! I am just unpleasant. You will understand it after a long time...!"
Niu Jianjun sneered and said, "You kid, have you gone to take off the women's bathroom again? Otherwise, why would you be sent to the advance team to be sent?"
Xiao Shanghai was furious and cursed at Fatty Niu with his hips, "You little Chi Lao, you dare to accuse a good person without any evidence. Let me tell you the truth. I was sent by Political Commissar Huang to supervise you. Now you understand what's going on..."
Niu Jianjun said angrily: "Fuck! Huang Yaju will send you to supervise me? I think you may have done something again..."
Xiao Shanghai refused to admit it even though he refused to die, but just kept shouting for justice. Everyone had no choice but to do anything to him!
The advance team rested in the cave for a night, and when the blizzard passed the next day, he started to the road again. He walked all day long and arrived at the logging site in the evening. The logging site was surrounded by a clearing of forests, with several cellars on the open space, which were already covered by heavy snow. Opposite was a lush primeval forest and towering trees. After passing the treetops, you could see the undulating distant mountains and the snow on the ridges of the distant mountains.........!
Everyone walked to the cellar with deep foot and shallow foot, and cleaned up the snow around the cellar. That night, they spent the night in the cellar. The next day was a sunny day, so everyone seized the time and cleaned up the cellar from inside to outside. Lao Liang said that the cellar had not lived in it for too long, and there was another heavy snow, which would have to be crushed! So everyone decided to take advantage of the good weather these days to build a new wooden house for people. Although the cellars in the past could not be lived in, it was also very good to keep them as warehouses!
They did it as soon as possible, and each of the six people assigned tasks, some cut down trees and some built houses. In just a few days, the wooden houses were built. Since there was no glass, the windows of the wooden houses were nailed with wooden boards.
The wooden house was lying on the slope of the clearings in the forest. When the sun shone, the peeled birch trunks flashed with brighter than the snow... The temperature had risen significantly, and the snow had begun to melt, but everyone understood that the rise in temperature was only a temporary phenomenon, and the blizzard might be raging somewhere not far from them!
The logging spots started to log again shortly after they moved in. They marked the trees that meet the requirements in the woods with red paint and cut them down according to the marks. The trees that felled were dragged by mules and horses to the bottom of the mountain and piled them in the log field by the Sancha River. When the ice and snow melt and the river water was vast, they would then put them down the water and load the small trains out of the mountain to transport them out of the continuous mountains!
Time flies, and more than a month has passed in a blink of an eye. Guo Jiefang and his colleagues are getting more and more comfortable in logging work. Their arms have become thick and strong because they often wield their axes. Their lives, accompanied by horns and splashing wood chips, are as calm as the frozen water surface in Sancha River...!
Hu Zi has grown up a lot, and he is no longer the toddler puppy. He now barks at everything he moves, and then illuminates the fangs that have just grown in his pink mouth...!
The company usually comes to deliver food once every forty days. Lao Liang's head counts on his fingers. He takes his old sleeve and goes to the woods to grab two grouse, saying that he is keeping the comrades who are delivering food. The grouse is plucked and hung on the eaves and is frozen under the eaves. This attracted the attention of Hu Zi. It is drooling and barking under the eaves all day long... It is almost noon, Hu Zi suddenly barked at the opposite mountain. Guo Jiefang walked out of the wooden house and put his hand on the awning to look at the top of the mountain opposite. He saw four people rushing toward two sledges on the top of the mountain opposite, walking towards them. Because the distance is too far, Guo Jiefang couldn't see clearly who was coming.
Niu Jianjun, Li Yuanchao, and Little Shanghai also ran out. Little Shanghai also set up a shed for a while and poked Guo Jiefang and asked, "Old Guo, who is the person here?"
Niu Jianjun guessed: "It must be the person sent by the company to deliver food... I'll tell the company commander...!" After that, he ran to the Lunchang.
The group of people got closer and closer, and gradually they could see their faces clearly. The two men who were rushing to the sled looked very familiar, but they couldn't name them. The two women sitting on the sled were Huang Yaju and the other was Liu Lili!
Company Commander Hu Zi followed Niu Jianjun and ran back from the stadium. He looked at the opposite mountain for a while and muttered in a low voice: "Why are there two women here?" Then he turned around and told everyone, "Hurry up and go back to the house to sort out the internal affairs. You, the province, are embarrassed in front of Political Commissar Huang..."
Everyone scattered, and while running back, Niu Jianjun shouted loudly, "My fellow villagers... Run quickly... Japanese devils... have entered the village...!"
His strange screams frightened Hu Zi who was sleeping in front of the door. Hu Zi's dog hair stood up and yelled at the crowd running around!
Chapter completed!