Go back to the past to plant trees

Two days after Ma Yiqian arrived, leaders from several other forest farms also arrived one after another.

These mid-level leaders were all transferred from other departments in Weichang County.

Because Feng Cheng was in his office, every forestry station secretary and director would wave a hoe at him when they came over. Feng Cheng realized that he had evolved into RMB (Chinese currency), becoming someone everyone liked.

However, Feng Cheng knew that his job was already secured and the appointment was about to be finalized, so he could only politely decline the offers from these secretaries and directors.

However, Feng Cheng also took the opportunity to memorize the appearances of the top two leaders of these sub-fields.

"Engineer Li."

Li Zhong brought his whole family to the dam today. Feng Cheng knew about this and came to wait for him at the entrance of the forest farm at noon.

"Feng Cheng".

Mr. Li got out of the car, looking rather unwell; the journey up there had made him feel uncomfortable.

Behind Li Gong, a woman got out of the car with two children in her hands.

"Sister-in-law, your things are in the car, right? Let me get them for you."

Seeing that Li Zhong's family looked listless, Feng Cheng stepped forward to offer his help.

"You must be Feng Cheng!" The woman, holding two children's hands, greeted him with a smile. "My husband has always mentioned you, saying you are a rare young talent. Today I've finally met you."

Feng Cheng quickly waved his hand: "I don't deserve the title of a young talent. I'm just an ordinary person."

The woman smiled, patted the two children's heads, and said softly, "Call him uncle."

"Hello uncle..."

The two children's faces were red from the cold, and they obediently greeted Feng Cheng.

"well."

Feng Cheng reached into his pocket and pulled out a few White Rabbit milk candies, handing them to the two of them. "Uncle didn't prepare any gifts for you, just a few candies. Take them and have them."

This was something Feng Cheng specially put in his pocket for the two children.

"Thank you uncle."

Upon seeing the candy, the two children's eyes lit up immediately, and they reached out to take it.

Feng Cheng smiled and said to Li Zhong, "Engineer Li, where is your luggage? I'll help you carry it. Let's go to your dormitory first; it's cold outside."

"it is good."

Li Zhong nodded, turned around and went to the back of the truck bed, where he pulled out several boxes and large bags of luggage.

Feng Cheng led the way, carrying a bag of luggage in each hand.

"The farm headquarters' dormitory building hasn't been built yet, so everyone has to live in dugouts right now, and the conditions are rather rudimentary..."

"It's alright. I was mentally prepared before I came. Besides, I've been to Saihanba several times. Do you think I don't know what the conditions are like here?"

Feng Cheng didn't say much, and led Li Zhong straight to the dugout. It had been cleaned up a couple of days ago, and Feng Cheng had Zhao Jinquan make a few tables and chairs to put inside.

Feng Cheng put the things away and helped heat up the kang (a heated brick bed).

"We've come all the way here through wind and snow, let's warm ourselves up on the kang first."

"Engineer Li, you go ahead with your work, I'm going back to my job now."

Li Zhong nodded, "Okay, you go ahead and do your thing. I'll come find you when I'm done."

"Ah."

After Feng Cheng left, Liu Guozhen glanced around the room and sighed deeply.

"The conditions are still too poor."

Li Zhong said, "There's nothing we can do. This is already considered good. When Feng Cheng was in Bashang a couple of years ago, the accommodations there were much worse than this."

"Dad, I want to go back. It's not fun here at all."

The two children sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), eating the candy that Feng Cheng had given them. Although the candy was sweet, the two children were not happy, because this place was so different from what they had imagined.

“You said you wanted to go to the places where the motherland needed you most. This is not just empty talk. When we discussed it with you, you agreed to come. Now that you’re here, you can’t go back on your word.”

The youngest son pouted, looking miserable, "But it's so cold here, there's no one around, and we live in mud houses."

“The earthen house is much more comfortable than the beds in Beijing. You’ll see after staying here for a couple of days.”

Although Liu Guozhen also felt that the conditions here were poor, she had already come all this way, so she could only grit her teeth and persevere.

"Pack your things first, I'll go check out the office."

"Okay, you go ahead with your work, I'll take care of things at home."

Li Zhong nodded, turned around and left the dugout. When he first came, he had scanned the area around the forest farm. Now there was only one building in the forest farm, and Li Zhong knew that it was the office.

"Engineer Li, you've arrived."

Li Zhong walked towards the building and suddenly ran into Sui Zhichao, who called out to him.

"Oh, right, it just arrived."

Li Zhong casually replied that he didn't know Sui Zhichao. He had come to Bashang last year to check the survival rate of the seedlings and knew that a few students had come to Bashang last year, but he didn't know who they were or what their names were.

“I heard from Feng Cheng yesterday that you were going to the dam today, but I had something to do just now, so I didn’t go to pick you up.”

Li Zhong shook his head and said calmly, "It's alright, I'm not an important person, I don't need to accept it."

Sui Zhichao knew that he wasn't very familiar with Li Zhong, so he said goodbye and left after exchanging a few words.

Li Zhong glanced at Sui Zhichao's back before continuing to walk towards the building.

Upon arriving at the building, Li Zhong looked around before finally finding Feng Cheng.

"Engineer Li, why did you get here so quickly? Aren't you going to take a break?"

Seeing Li Zhong open the door and come in, Feng Cheng said with some surprise.

“My wife is tidying up at home. There’s not much stuff anyway, so I’ll let her do it herself.”

"Secretary Yu and Director Qu have gone out to inspect the land; they probably won't be back for a while."

Li Zhong asked, "What land are you looking at?"

Feng Cheng replied, "Aren't we a mechanized forestry farm? We need to carry out mechanized afforestation, but we also need to choose the right place. Only flat terrain can be used for mechanized afforestation. Secretary Yu and Director Qu looked at the map of Saihanba that we drew and said they would go and take a look first to see where is suitable for mechanized afforestation."

"That's it!"

Li Zhong nodded slightly to show that he understood.

"I was a little late coming up today, otherwise I would have gone over to take a look too."

Feng Cheng smiled and said, "Secretary Yu and the others will be going out to take a look these days. If they can't go today, they can go tomorrow. Right now, they're just going to take a look at the location. The specific place to carry out large-scale mechanized afforestation is up to you, Engineer Li."

As the first deputy technical director of Saihanba Forest Farm, Li Zhong was in charge of technical work. Feng Cheng, the head of the forestry department, was directly under Li Zhong's supervision. It can be said that Li Zhong was responsible for making all the technical decisions regarding the mechanical forest farm.

Feng Cheng beckoned to Li Zhong, who then asked Feng Cheng about some matters concerning the forest farm. However, the forest farm was not yet on the right track, and there were no technical problems. After chatting for a while, Li Zhong noticed that Yu Zhenglai and Qu He had not returned, so he left the office and went back.