For a long time afterwards, whenever Tan Xuemei and Meng Yue met Li Jie, they would choose to take a detour.
After all, the scene that night was really embarrassing.
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In a blink of an eye, the time came to April, the spring was just right, and the spring afforestation battle was in full swing.
One day in April, Saihanba welcomed a special comrade, who came to the train station with Quhe early in the morning.
About half an hour later, an old green van slowly parked on platform three.
Qu He asked while stretching his head and looking around at the crowd.
"Lao Yu, is this the bus Comrade Li Zhong took?"
"That's right, this is the train."
Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm is about to be established. According to the appointment from superiors, Yu Zhenglai will serve as secretary and director of the farm, and Qu He will serve as his deputy.
Since neither of them were professional technicians, the Forestry Department specially sent a technical deputy director.
This person is none other than Li Zhong, a former expert from the Ministry of Forestry who has been to Saihanba several times, and today is the day Li Zhong comes to report.
After searching for a while, Qu He still couldn't see Li Zhong and couldn't help but sigh.
"Huh? Comrade Li Zhong couldn't have sat at the wrong station, right?"
Looking at the gradually thinning crowd on the platform, Yu Zhenglai also had a trace of doubt on his face.
When there were a lot of people before, he thought Li Zhong didn't want to be too crowded, so he chose to get off the bus later. But now there are only so many people on the platform, why can't he see the other party?
"Lao Yu, should we get in the car and look for him?"
"Well, let me see..."
Just when Yu Zhenglai was about to agree, Li Zhong finally appeared on the platform. He was traveling lightly, carrying only a rattan box in his hand, and was looking around at the drop-off point of the carriage ahead.
"Laoqu, Comrade Li Zhong is there!"
Yu Zhenglai patted Qu He's shoulder, stretched out his hand, and immediately stepped forward to meet him with great enthusiasm.
After meeting, Yu Zhenglai shook Li Zhong's hand very enthusiastically.
"Comrade Li Zhong, welcome to Saihanba!"
Yu Zhenglai admired Li Zhong very much. He was originally a great expert in the ministry. His whole family was in the capital, and all his connections were in the capital.
But in order to cooperate with the national greening plan of Saihanba, I resolutely gave up my job in the capital and signed up to come to Saihanba.
Not only that, Li Zhong also transferred his family's household registration and food relations to Saihanba.
It was a ministry job and a household registration in the capital, but Li Zhong gave up when he said he wanted to.
Most people would never be able to do this, so Yu Zhenglai admired Li Zhong from the bottom of his heart.
When Yu Zhenglai let go, Qu He immediately stepped forward and held Li Zhong's hand firmly, his face full of enthusiasm.
"Welcome Comrade Li Zhong to work in Saihanba. Your arrival will definitely inject new vitality into Saihanba. Saihanba's future afforestation business will definitely be successful."
Li Zhong is a typical technical official. He prefers to use technology to communicate with others than to communicate with others.
Facing the extremely enthusiastic Yu Zhenglai and Qu He, he was obviously a little uncomfortable and said quickly.
"Comrade Yu Zhenglai, Comrade Qu He, you are too polite."
After the two sides exchanged pleasantries, Li Zhong suddenly mentioned the spring afforestation plan on the dam.
"Director Yu, is the spring afforestation on the dam going well this year?"
At the mention of spring afforestation, Yu Zhenglai couldn't help but grin back.
smoothly?
More than success!
With last year’s ‘successful’ experience, the spring afforestation plan is going extremely smoothly.
Although the afforestation machinery distributed by the Ministry of Forestry is not yet in place, with high morale and gradually familiar skills, the speed of afforestation on Bashang is increasing day by day.
In just ten days, most of the afforestation task has been completed. If nothing unexpected happens, the spring afforestation plan is expected to be completed a week in advance!
After listening to Yu Zhenglai's story, Li Zhong clenched his fists and felt very excited.
In ancient times, when marching and fighting, the emphasis was on "timing, location, and people." The country wanted to plant trees in Saihanba. In the eyes of forestry people, this was a war, a war between man and nature.
The most important of the three is harmony and harmony. Mencius said that the weather is not as good as the right place, and the favorable geography is not as good as the harmony.
In this war, we forestry people have neither the right time nor the right location. If we want to win this war, we can only rely on harmony!
This is not the first time Li Zhong has come to Saihanba. In the entire forestry system, he knows the technical staff of Saihanba relatively well.
Choosing Saihanba may seem blind to outsiders, but it is not so in Li Zhong's eyes.
Although the conditions in Saihanba are difficult and the climate is harsh enough, Saihanba also has a group of young people who fight against the world and dare to make the sun and moon change the sky.
They are full of energy, they are brave and fearless, and they are tenacious. Li Zhong believes that as long as there is such a group of people, Saihanba's future will be bright.
On the way back, Yu Zhenglai kept introducing the recent work situation of Saihanba Forest Farm to Li Zhong to help him get into work faster.
At the same time, his title for Li Zhong also changed from "Comrade Li Zhong" and "Director Li" to "Old Li".
Finally, Yu Zhenglai couldn't help but asked casually.
"Lao Li, have you confirmed the time for your brothers and sisters to arrive? I will come with you to pick them up then."
Li Zhong said frankly: "My wife and I have discussed it and plan to wait until the child finishes studying this semester before coming here."
"That's fine."
Yu Zhenglai also thinks that this arrangement is good. After all, children are no better than adults. What's more, their children are still studying. They can't drop out of school halfway through, right?
"Summer vacation, if it comes quickly, it will be just in time for the forestry farm to be established."
Although the recent main focus of the forest farm is spring afforestation, the construction plan of the new forest farm has not been suspended.
According to the plan from superiors, Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm will become a large forest farm that can accommodate nearly 400 people.
Compared with the previous "Weichang Forest Farm" with only about thirty people, the scale of the new forest farm has expanded by more than ten times.
In addition, in order to cooperate with the afforestation plan, the new forest farm was built on the dam instead of expanding on the original basis of the paddock forest farm.
Saihanba is geographically remote and has inconvenient transportation. It is a huge challenge to build a large-scale forest farm on the dam, both from a human and material perspective.
It takes nearly three hours for a truck to go from the station to the dam one way. The reason why the construction speed of the forest farm is not fast is mostly due to the low transportation efficiency.
As of now, the new forest farm has been under construction for half a year, and only half of the plan has been completed. It will not be fully completed until this summer at the earliest.