Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

Five classes, seven educated youths, it was impossible for them to be assigned together, but with one person per class, there were two left over.

One of the extras might stay at the team headquarters.

Lu Xiu said softly, "I can't cook."

Sun Guohong was getting annoyed with her. She frowned slightly and said first, "I can cook, do laundry, and work just like the men!"

Shao Jiajia didn't say anything, just nodded, indicating that she was the same as Sun Guohong.

Seeing that the female educated youth had all expressed their opinions, Ma Weiguo quickly followed suit.

"I will obey the leader's orders!"

Wang Dajiang and Bai Qiang exchanged glances and said they would obey the arrangements.

Several squad leaders watched the educated youth with great interest.

In their eyes, they were all just kids.

As the saying goes, "You can tell a person's character from their age at three," meaning that a person's every move reveals their true nature.

The three female educated youths, Sun Guohong with thick eyebrows and big eyes, was tall and wore a worn-out worker's uniform. When she started shouting work songs, the others worked with more energy.

Shao Jiajia is quiet and reserved; she would be well-suited to stay at the team headquarters as a statistician and keep accounts.

That's Lu Xiu, thin and small, like a minor, unable to carry anything, what can she do?

However, everyone else had spoken up, leaving Jiang Sen silent and everyone looking at him.

Jiang Sen noticed everyone was looking at him, so he immediately stood up straight and said, "I want to go to the most difficult places!"

"Alright!" Zhang Jianjun said, "Let's draw lots then!"

It was still a lottery. Even though each class monitor had someone they wanted in mind, they still couldn't escape the fate of drawing lots.

Tong Changshun took out a red notebook, tore off a page, and handed it to Zhang Jianjun.

Zhang Jianjun took out the letter of introduction and said, "You're too quick. Turn this over and draw it yourself!"

Tong Changshun didn't mind. He folded the paper a few times, tore it open, chuckled, took out a palm-sized cloth bag from his pocket, untied the drawstring, pinched off a handful of tobacco leaves, placed them on the paper, and rolled a cigarette.

"We can't waste it!" he said, then asked others, "Would you like one?"

Several squad leaders, who all smoked, didn't stand on ceremony with him. They pinched off a tobacco leaf, placed it on a piece of paper, rolled it up, licked it to seal it, struck a match, and lit it.

Suddenly, a pungent smell of smoke filled the air, and the three female educated youths coughed lightly twice.

Zhang Jianjun said, "Alright, hurry up and draw lots, get out of here early, or you won't make it to the third shift before dark."

Each of the four squad leaders drew one card, and the remaining two cards were reserved for the fifth squad leader, who was either in logistics or at the team headquarters.

The seven educated youths stared at them expectantly, wondering which one of them would be assigned to.

Jiang Sen was also wondering if he would ever go to Class Two again in this lifetime.

Or were you assigned to another class?

When I came to this world in my past life, I also drew lots.

It seems that drawing lots is a tradition of the forest farm in allocating educated youth, to prevent you from liking one thing and me liking another, and ending up fighting.

That's right, fighting is the main pastime at the forest farm.

When a bunch of grown men have nothing to do during the winter and are freezing cold, fighting becomes their favorite activity.

Of course, fighting is not the kind of fighting that people usually think of, where people just start fighting because they don't like each other.

It's more like Mongolian wrestling, with a group of people cheering from the sidelines, occasionally making a bet on who will win or lose, with the prize being a cigarette.

Squad leader Tong Changshun stood up first and said, "Wang Dajiang! Come with me!"

"They're here!" Wang Dajiang hurried over, turned back to wave goodbye to Jiang Sen and the others, and said, "See you later!"

Squad leader Sui Zhongliang, with a cigarette between his fingers, stood up and said, "Jiang Sen, come with me! From now on, you're one of us in Squad Two!"

As expected, nothing has changed!

Jiang Sen turned around and said to the others, "I'm leaving first!" and then followed Sui Zhongliang out of the cafeteria.

When they arrived at the luggage area, they saw Wang Dajiang carrying luggage and walking out with Tong Changshun.

Tong Changshun said, "Second brother, I'm taking my men and leaving first. The higher-ups are still working overtime. If we go back early, we can finish the tasks before the snowfall."

"Wait for me a moment, let's go together!" Sui Zhongliang said, then turned to Jiang Sen and said, "Go get the luggage!"

Jiang Sen took his luggage, and Sui Zhongliang took his suitcase from him. "Wow, that's quite a sight! Did you bring your whole house?"

Jiang Sen laughed and said, "At the time, I thought that if this could be used, that could also be used, so I brought them all."

Sui Zhongliang gestured for him to follow, "It's fine to bring him along. The only decent place here is the team headquarters; the higher-ups are lacking everything."

Jiang Sen didn't see how the remaining people were assigned.

Following Tong Changshun and Sui Zhongliang, we walked up the mountain along the path beside the log-laying road.

Of the five classes, only classes one, two, and three were on the mountain, while class four was at the lumberyard near the train station, responsible for using a crane to lift the timber that was brought down from the mountain onto the train.

If the crane breaks down, we have to move it by hand. It looks close to the team headquarters, but it's still almost five miles away.

After a day's work, people are so tired that they don't even want to walk, and very few people go to the team's canteen for a meal.

The logistics staff of the fifth squad are located at the team headquarters, but you can't see a single person there all day. They all have to run back and forth between different squads. It seems like the easiest job, but in reality, it's the hardest. Sometimes they even have to spend the night in the wild.

That's not all. They also handle things like delivering firewood to the farm headquarters, sending various application forms, picking up and delivering mail, and so on.

There was a hospital near the farm headquarters, but it actually only had two doctors and two nurses, so most people called it a health clinic.

Each brigade has a quota of medics, but people with medical knowledge are rare, and only the reclamation team has one.

In other brigades, many of the doctors were simply barefoot doctors from nearby villages.

If someone contracted a serious illness or was seriously injured, they would have to travel over mountains and rivers to be transported to the nearest commune or county town.

However, the nearest county town is Sankesong.

There were several communes, and to get to a commune from one's place, one had to hitch a horse-drawn cart or drive a tractor, which would take about ten hours.

There's nothing else to it; the main feature of the Great Northern Wilderness is that it's a vast and resource-rich area with a sparse population.

By the way, there are also ethnic minorities such as the Oroqen, Evenki, and Hezhe people in this forest area.

They all live in the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains.

Jiang Sen's forest farm is located near an Oroqen tribe.

Wang Dajiang was quite happy to have Jiang Sen with him.

Just as he was about to speak, someone shouted from behind, "Hey! You two didn't even say you'd wait for us!"

When the group turned around, they saw Zhang Shaowen, the squad leader of the third squad, with Ma Weiguo following behind him.

Ma Weiguo waved excitedly to them.

They waited until they got closer before continuing their journey.

The three squad leaders walked in front, and the three educated youths followed behind.

Ma Weiguo glanced at the three people in front of him and said gossipily, "You guys go ahead. I didn't see anything behind you. Bai Qiang and Shao Jiajia were assigned to Class 5, while Sun Guohong and Lu Xiu went to Class 4!"

Sun Guohong was assigned to Class 4, and there's another theory that Lu Xiu was assigned there?

When she got there, she got pricked by a thorn again and cried, "It hurts so much!"

Then a group of grown men came up to her, asking if she was alright and telling her to go rest over there.

He chuckled and shook his head. Out of sight, out of mind. As long as she didn't cause any trouble, he could get by here.

Although the people here are simple-minded, they are not all innocent.

Well then, good luck to you!

However, Shao Jiajia is quite good.

Logistics also needs clerks and statisticians.

The squad leader of the fifth squad would definitely not let her run all over the mountain; it would be good enough for her to stay in the team headquarters and do their own logistics work.

“You didn’t see it,” Ma Weiguo continued, “Lu Xiu cried right away, which made the squad leader of the fourth squad so angry that he told the battalion commander to replace her!”