I set foot on the special train to Beidahuang Production and Construction Corps on1May, 969 19, and went to the countryside to Heilongjiang Province on the Sino-Soviet border in Sun Ke County, northeast China, where I worked as an educated youth in the Sixth Company of the Fourth Division of Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps. At that time, I just turned 16 years old and came to the desolate northern wilderness from the prosperous and comfortable metropolis of Tianjin. For the time being, there is no electricity or running water here, and the bumpy and muddy dirt road is not as good as the flat asphalt road in the city. I only said that the housing necessary for life is extremely scarce, but the educated youth who need a good rest after being extremely tired every day have no decent accommodation. Due to the fact that Liulian Company received more than 200 educated youths from Kazakhstan, Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing in one year, there was a serious shortage of housing. The company had to transform the original dining hall into an internal partition, and turned the single beds in several simple rooms into upper and lower bunks made of birch poles. How crowded people are when sleeping. If someone wants to turn over, they need several people around them to do it at the same time. Get up at night and come back with no place to lie. On September 22, the first year of going to the countryside, before the solar term of the autumnal equinox, the first heavy snow in the Great Northern Wilderness fell overwhelmingly, and it rained for a day and two nights in a row, with a depth of about one meter. It's suddenly freezing outside, tens of degrees below zero, extremely cold. The original educated youth room was heated by an old gasoline tank, which made some educated youth unable to live any longer. They had to arrange for us to live in temporary cotton tents of a dozen male educated youths. It is necessary to have thick walls to keep out the cold, as well as fire kang and fire wall to keep warm. But we only live in thin cotton tents. At that time, there was no zipper to connect the side seams of the tent, but it was only used later. Every half meter, only the bolts of mother and child iron were used to connect, so the middle part was often blown open by the wind, and the bolts on both sides were loosened to form a larger opening. We lie on the Datong shop made of birch poles in the tent, and we can often see the stars in the sky through the gap in the tent. Sleeping and watching the stars is a romantic thing. But it's MINUS 40 degrees outside, and the wind is whistling and dripping into the ice. What's romantic about it? Anyone who has lived in the north knows that "eyes with big needles and big noses fight against the wind", not to mention that the four sides of the tent are half a meter long! Because the temperature in the tent is too low, it is a pain to get under the bed. Educated youth never dares to sleep in vest shorts. They can only wear sweaters, trousers and thick socks and cotton caps to get into bed. Moreover, they must put cotton trousers and cotton-padded clothes on the quilt, otherwise, you will be too cold to sleep at all. Sometimes it snows or blows at night, and when I wake up the next day, I will find that the quilt under my feet has been covered with a layer of snow. The snow doesn't melt, which shows how low the temperature is in the tent. Looking forward to living in a formal house with a thick wall and a warm kang fire wall turned out to be an extravagant hope of our educated youth who just left their warm homes in big cities. We are all determined to build a house next year! After 70 years of wheat harvest, even the leaders arranged to dismantle the adobe to cover the dining hall. There's a jingle in that pimple in the northeast, which says, "Mix the big mud and get rid of the big blank ..." As the most tiring job for farmers. The burden of the company's vacancy mainly falls on the shoulders of our second row of educated youth. Because only our second platoon is composed of two male educated youth classes and one female educated youth class, thy company will naturally arrange the most tiring work for the second platoon first. Many years later, the whole company recognized the second platoon as "assault platoon". As the fifth monitor of the second platoon, because I don't want to fall behind in my work, I can rush ahead every time I work and grab the dirtiest and most tiring work. For a long time, I have been called one of the' capable' educated youth of the Sixth Company by all the people. After taking off the big blank, our second row of educated youth took on the heavy responsibility of building a big canteen. When the educated youth resisted with their shoulders and raised their hands, Mu Cha's stupid manpower at the top of the pole simply put a dozen pairs of unusually heavy houses on each pillar more than 3 meters high, and was in distress for many times, almost hitting people. I remember that every time the house frame was lifted more than 2 meters high, it could not be stabilized in the eyes of the falcon at the top of the high column. Everyone had tried their best to raise their arms, but they could not let go of the house frame. The desperate cry of' Try harder …' was changed, which was very tragic. More than 30 years have passed, and every time I think of this scene, I still feel scared. After putting up the shelf, we built a big blank wall and finally built the dining hall. The frost-free period of the Great Northern Wilderness is only a short 120 days. The kitchen for everyone to eat was built first, but the educated youth dormitory has not been built yet, and it will freeze sooner or later. The housing problem of educated youth has not been solved. At this time, take off the blank again and it will dry. But adobe that is not thoroughly dried can't bear the load. If the house is built by force, it will definitely collapse as soon as it is civilized next year. What should we do without big bricks? Company leaders decided to build a' Laha substation' dormitory. Now we are still arranged to build it in our second platoon. We dug two rectangular pools of about 4m×6m near the foundation site of the new house, and dug a dozen circular pits with a depth of 1m around each pool. The pool is used to mix mud. Female educated youth are arranged to stand in the pits around, and let them grab a handful of grass with both hands, roll it into the mud and twist it into a mud whip. Then, the mud braid is pressed against the wall by the disc. There are still many gaps in the middle of the mud braid rolled into a wall, and then it is filled with soil to become a' Laha side' wall. My duty is to mix with the mud in the pool, and I need to keep stirring with a hoe to ensure the high saturation of the mud. I stood by the pool and leaned out my hoe to mix the mud. I can't reach the mud in the middle at all, and the mixing is uneven. Therefore, it is necessary to enter the pool barefoot and stand in the mud and keep stirring to ensure high quality. There was a northwest wind and the temperature was around zero. Every night, the surface of the mud in the pool will freeze into ice. In the cold wind, it is uncomfortable to stand barefoot in the ice water. Every time I enter the pool, I feel nervous, but because of the need of work, I have to bite my bullet and walk into the mud pond. After the Laha house was built, I suffered from severe arthritis and it was very painful to walk. At that time, thanks to Lian Li's health worker, Shanghai educated youth Jin Xizhang, who insisted on acupuncture for two courses every night, I was able to walk painlessly later. The last thing I expected was that after the second spring, I couldn't live in the room where Laha changed. Because the wall of Laha side house is made of grass and mud, it is soft and heavy. The upper part of the wall, which is more than one meter high, will soon turn inside out after being covered. There are many thick columns buried deep in the wall of Lahajian, and it is impossible to straighten the thick wall at all, which makes the wall seriously inclined. We have to put more wooden posts outside because we are worried that the inclined wall will collapse. A year later, the originally good grass on the roof was hung around by the strong wind, full of desolation. We jokingly called the' Laha change' room' long hair on crutches'. The next year, the house on Laha side was demolished. When it was completed, all kinds of sins and sufferings suffered by everyone became illusory. Look at the big blank house, the lower body has been against the tide, and the outer wall skin is in a mess. It is troublesome to wipe the outer wall skin once a year to prevent rain. Obviously, it is not a long-term solution to build a house with these two methods, and it is best to build a house with red bricks!

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