boyutpedia Chapter 50 The Old Lumberyard
Chapter 50 The Old Lumberyard
When Sun Changkui and Hu Yuling were leaving, Chen Tuo gave them an extra jar of braised pork under the pretext of getting a gun.
Everyone at the educated youth settlement had left, and Chen Tuo was still momentarily stunned by the lively scene just now.
He thought he was used to being alone, but it turns out that he only chose to be alone because the people around him were not satisfactory...
That night, although he was still excited and agitated, Chen Tuo felt the cold of the Xingan Mountains.
In the middle of the night, the little red-haired puppy hanging on his chest was whimpering from the cold.
Chen Tuo, who was busy working in the courtyard of the educated youth settlement wearing only a fleece sweater, also felt a little cold.
After putting on the sheepskin overcoat, I felt much warmer, which meant my senses had returned to normal.
Besides feeling cold, my tongue felt numb and also had a bitter taste.
They worked until dawn, spending most of the night setting up the sauna floor in the vegetable garden behind the gatehouse.
Chen Tuo, who was testing the load-bearing capacity of the wooden planks, heard Hong Ye's slightly panicked shout.
"Chen Tuo, last night a stable at Lushu Forest Farm was attacked by a pack of wolves. Three horses died. The Forestry Bureau held a meeting around 2 AM, saying they're going to establish a wolf-fighting team!"
Upon hearing this good news, Chen Tuo didn't bother to test whether the three-layer slabs on the granite could bear the weight.
The fact that the Forestry Bureau wants to establish a wolf-hunting team means that he, an unregistered resident of the forest area, might have the opportunity to obtain standard firearms.
"I hope no one was hurt?"
"No! After a day's work, the people on the mountain were sleeping too soundly. The horses in the stable kicked open their stalls and that's when they realized something was wrong."
"It's good that no one was hurt. Hong Ye, did you come here to warn me about the wolves?"
After asking about the general situation, Chen Tuo didn't disappoint Hong Ye's kindness and took the initiative to praise him.
"You're kind enough to know better. I was pretty scared on the way here too. Feel it, my heart is still pounding!"
Knowing that "Evenki Women" hadn't been published in Longjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, Hong Ye would put on an act for him all day.
After praising her, Chen Tuo did not take any concrete actions to soothe the chubby girl's flustered heartbeat.
The Forestry Bureau's plan to hunt wolves came true, as predicted by Sun Changkui.
Chen Tuo had to carefully consider what he had said last night about keeping a backup plan.
It's simply unreasonable to let him occupy such a large educated youth settlement in Xiaoyangqi by himself.
Wu Laowai's method of using wooden planks and canes to separate the educated youth settlements may not be reliable.
I glanced at the wooden tables and chairs that had just been placed next to the gatehouse, the smokehouse that had just been built, and the sauna that had just begun construction.
Chen Tuo sighed softly and looked behind the educated youth settlement.
Between Xiaoyangqi, the educated youth settlement, and Beishan, there is a large snowdrift.
Chen Tuo thought it was a mound of earth extending from the North Mountain, but after Wu Laowai reminded him, he realized that it was also piled with firewood.
"Hongye, is that the Japanese lumberyard behind there?"
To confirm the information, Chen Tuo, on a whim, asked the somewhat disappointed Hong Ye.
"Chen Tuo, you don't remember the old lumberyard? Ever since I came to Songling in 1966, it's been called the old lumberyard. I've never heard of it being related to the Japanese."
Following Chen Tuo's pointing finger, we looked at the old lumberyard behind the educated youth settlement.
Hong Ye can now conclude that Chen Tuo's amnesia is real; otherwise, he wouldn't be unable to remember this place.
This is because most people in the Songling area refer to the educated youth settlement not as the Xiaoyangqi educated youth settlement, but as the Laozhumuchang educated youth settlement.
"I have absolutely no recollection of it; I thought it was just a snow crust covering the earthen mound!"
"That's not a mound, it's just crooked timber, tree stumps, and piles of pine trees that came down from the mountain!"
Chen Tuo's speech became increasingly stilted, but Hong Ye's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
He could pretend he didn't know about the old lumberyard, but what did the educated youth in the settlement not know about the lumberyard?
The crooked trees felled on the mountain, the tree heads and stumps cut off for timber, and the tree stumps harvested during the clearing of the forest.
Most of the unused pine branches and leftover scraps of military timber were piled up by the educated youth at the educated youth settlement.
Chen Tuo, who connected with other educated youth, did these kinds of odd and heavy jobs at the educated youth settlement.
Chen Tuo even forgot about his own main job, which was her opportunity.
Create a preconceived notion and become the person Chen Tuo can never forget.
"Come on, I'll take you there to have a look. I'm not familiar with the area, but I know the general layout..."
With a plan in mind, Hong Ye stepped forward and pulled Chen Tuo, wanting to take him to see the old lumberyard.
"No rush, I'll grab the gun."
Chen Tuo's wariness was entirely consistent with the understanding that Hong Ye had learned from literary journals.
In the past two years, many works about educated youth have been published, and some of them actually describe amnesia.
Chen Tuo took his gun and went to the warehouse to get two snow poles without iron tips.
The two walked through the ankle-deep snow to the back of the educated youth settlement.
"Chen Tuo, this is a timber storage area, mainly containing Chinese pine."
"The pile in the middle is tree stumps, the pile behind is crooked timber, and further back, I heard, is the office area of the old lumberyard."
Hong Ye first described the general layout of the old timber yard to Chen Tuo, and then pointed to the northernmost part of the timber yard and began to talk about the buildings there.
"There's a row of log cabins with collapsed roofs, thick walls, and a cement floor underneath."
"Next to the wooden house, there were two large wooden warehouses in 1966. I heard they were timber processing workshops. They were demolished when the band saws were moved."
As Hong Ye spoke, she recalled the events, secretly annoyed that she hadn't properly understood the Xiaoyangqi educated youth settlement; there were many things she couldn't explain.
"Oh, right! The floor of the lumber mill was also a cement floor. The band saws were removed, and there used to be a stable over there. The roof of the log cabin was demolished at that time."
Although Hong Ye's introduction was somewhat ambiguous, it was enough for Chen Tuo.
It doesn't matter what kind of timber is stored in the old lumberyard; what matters is that it provides the foundation for building houses.
More importantly, this place has been abandoned.
Although Wu Laowai's ideas were not very reliable, he made a good point about one thing.
"What era are we living in? The forestry bureau certainly can't let him sleep in the snow during the winter, can they?"
The Xiaoyangqi educated youth settlement is an established property, and the Forestry Bureau can reclaim it.
If Chen Tuo could build a wooden house on the original site of the old lumberyard office area and lumber workshop, there's a high probability no one would kick him out.
When setting up the sauna last night, Chen Tuo also considered digging pits and burying stakes.
After trying the smokehouse stove pit, where he could only dig down 20 to 30 centimeters of frozen soil after the meat had been smoked, he gave up on the idea.
He was quite lucky to find a small patch of cement ground in the Xingan Mountains, where there is permafrost.
Whether this place was once a horse racing track or not is irrelevant.
The important thing is that with a smooth cement ground, he can build a wooden house in the winter.
"Let's go take a look at that row of log cabins."
Upon arriving at the roofless log cabin, Chen Tuo discovered that it was more complete than Hong Ye had described.
The walls are made of two layers of pine wood, each about a foot thick. The exposed logs, though gray and old, are still dry and sturdy.
I went up to the top of the wooden wall and looked around. The moss that had been stuffed between the two layers of logs years ago was still there!
"This place is great, nestled against the mountains and facing the river, with no noise from the roads. I plan to build my own wooden house here..."
"Can it be ours?"
Upon hearing Hong Ye's addition, Chen Tuo simply smiled; he was tired of the life of a beast of burden.
The chubby girl in front of him, exuding an artistic air, probably yearns for the drudgery of life he so despises...