As New Year's Eve approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder. Everyone from the educated youth in the educated youth spots to the villagers in Xiaoqingshan Village have taken a break.
There is a word in the north called "Maodong". Cat means hiding. Maodong means hiding at home in winter to avoid the severe cold.
The lowest temperature in Jichun City in winter can reach minus 20 degrees Celsius. In such weather, even if you pour a basin of boiling water outside the door, it will freeze in a short time.
However, although they all stayed in the house, the educated youths at the Educated Youth Point were not idle and had to study every day.
Learn various spirits and learn outstanding and advanced personal deeds.
The educated youth are not very interested in the former, but are very interested in the latter. After all, Xiaoqingshan Village is located in a remote place and has little access to news from the outside.
Learning about the advanced deeds of other regions is one of the ways for educated youth to contact the outside world.
In normal times, after every study, the educated youths would gather together and discuss enthusiastically what they had learned at the meeting.
These days, everyone still has a strong sense of ownership.
But this day was a bit special. As soon as the study meeting was over, the educated youth sent representatives to the village headquarters. Those who stayed at the educated youth point were all looking forward to it, hoping that the person sent would come back soon.
Today is letter day.
Letters were the most important method of communication in this era. Xiaoqingshan Village is located in the mountains, and transportation is not particularly convenient.
Therefore, the letters here are not sent every day, but once a week.
Not long after, Xue Haibing walked into the cafeteria carrying a stack of letters in his net bag, and then he distributed the letters to everyone in turn.
There are a lot of letters today. It’s approaching the end of the year, so the frequency of letter exchanges will naturally become higher.
"Excuse me, your letter."
Xue Haibing eagerly ran to Li Jie and handed the letter into Li Jie's hand with his own hands.
More than two months later, he was completely convinced by Li Jie and convinced him wholeheartedly.
Under the leadership of the commander, the educated youths hardly lived a hard life, but the commander had a hunting skill.
You can bring back some game every now and then. Although the portion is not much, there is no harm if there is no comparison.
Although communication in Xiaoqingshan Village is inconvenient, the educated youth are not without contact with the outside world.
An educated youth spot like theirs where you can get extra meals every few days, looking at a radius of 180 kilometers, is definitely the shit of a scorpion, the only one!
What's more, even if they don't compare with other educated youth spots, they are satisfied with just comparing with Xiaoqingshan Village.
"Excuse me, you have a lot of letters today. I just counted them, there are seven in total!"
"sorry to bother you."
"No trouble, no trouble, just an easy thing."
Xue Haibing had an eager smile on his face, and he was unique in receiving seven letters at once and reading the "Educated Youth Spot" several times.
Although he could not see the contents of the letter, Xue Haibing could still see the contents on the envelope.
He looked carefully and found that one of the seven letters was sent from Guangzichi. This should be a letter from the headmaster's home.
There were two other letters sent from other places, one from a certain regiment in the Northeast and one from a certain place in the Southwest. Xue Haibing heard someone mention that the commander's father and eldest brother also went to other places.
These two letters are probably from the family.
Of the remaining four letters, one is from Hongxing Machinery Factory Primary School, and the other three letters are from the same place.
Jichun Heavy Tractor Machinery Factory.
Li Jie opened the letters and glanced at the covers. Among the seven letters, the one with the phototype was from Chunyan. Among the remaining letters, four were from Cai Xiaoguang and three were from home.
Putting the letter under his arm, Li Jie left the canteen.
Half an hour passed and I had finished reading the letter.
The letters from Zhou Zhigang and Zhou Bingyi had similar meanings. They both asked him if he could go back to celebrate the New Year.
They can't go back.
Although they have one day of family leave every month and twelve days in a year, this leave is taken every two years.
Take a break of twenty-four days at a time.
Even if they want to go back, they still have next year.
Although Zhou Zhigang and Zhou Bingyi were far apart, they still thought about their families. They thought that there were only two women at home during the New Year.
They felt very uncomfortable.
The letter from Hongxing Primary School was written by Zhou Rong. She also asked in the letter if she could go back to celebrate the New Year.
The handwriting of the letter was Zhou Rong's, but when I looked at the content of the letter, it gradually became clear that it was Li Suhua's tone. This letter was only ghostwritten by Zhou Rong.
According to regulations, Li Jie will definitely not be able to go back during the Chinese New Year this year.
However, there is always room for change.
It was not possible to go back to celebrate the New Year, but he had to go back before the New Year.
This time I went back partly for personal matters and partly for official matters.
Xiaoqingshan Village is surrounded by mountain forests, among which elm is the most abundant. As we all know, elm is tough, has clear texture, and has good hardness and strength. It is especially suitable for making furniture.
Beech from the south and elm from the north are both good materials for making furniture.
Xiaoqingshan Village has always had the idea of setting up a furniture factory, because it would be difficult to make enough money simply by farming.
However, running a furniture factory is not an easy task.
The formalities are not particularly troublesome. They are all public property anyway, and Xiaoqingshan Village also has resources. If you apply, you will most likely be approved.
Xiaoqingshan Village has never applied, mainly because there are no people.
There are no management personnel or technical personnel.
The people in the village can chop down trees, carry wood, and do physical work, but when it comes to professional work, they can't handle it.
These days, there is a shortage of talents everywhere.
The higher authorities can give approval, but they cannot give enough talents.
It wasn't until the educated youth came that Xiaoqingshan Village started thinking about opening a furniture factory.
However, once you have the idea, it is not easy to implement it.
It is true that all educated youths have gone to school, but they have either graduated from junior high school or high school and have never worked.
And I don’t know how to do technical jobs like carpentry.
After learning about these circumstances, the Xiaoqingshan Village Committee almost gave up the idea of setting up a factory.
Finally, Li Jie made a suggestion to the village, and things turned around.
If you don’t know how to make furniture, no problem!
You can learn!
As for the way to learn, he has a way.
Cai Xiaoguang's father is now a member of the Provincial Military Control Commission, although he has not yet been transferred to the Department of Commerce as the top leader.
But the impact on this matter is not significant.
Li Jie was not afraid of troublesome Cai Xiaoguang. After all, this matter was not a big deal. He just arranged for a group of people to be apprentices in a furniture factory.
This matter does not violate the principle, and it is the village that finally implements it.
In a sense, this incident can be regarded as the result of promoting the work of going to the mountains and the countryside. Helping farmers get out of trouble is one of the purposes of going to the mountains and the countryside.
In addition, putting aside official matters and only talking about personal friendship, Cai Xiaoguang should also help with this.
Cai Xiaoguang has been in contact with him since he went to the countryside. Among his letters, seven or eight out of ten letters were about Zhou Rong.