Chapter 1469

Li Kuiyong knew he had caused a scene, but didn't know the inside story.

Wang Yan couldn't tell Li Kuiyong about this kind of thing, and with Li Kuiyong's thinking, he couldn't understand these twists and turns.

"Brother Yan, this matter can't just be let go." Li Kuiyong was furious.

"If you really want to talk about it, even if I broke their fathers' legs, I could do it. But if I really did that, there would be no room for me to survive on this land. And on the other hand, they are all great heroes who shed blood, and from the level of the whole country, children not being disciplined well is just a minor matter."

Wang Yan looked at Li Kuiyong with a smile, "In the final analysis, the root cause of the conflict between me and Li Yuanchao and the others lies here. The confidence of this bunch of people comes from their fathers. You say it can't be let go, then what should we do? Now if I go to break their legs again, it's me who is unreasonable, but if I'm really taken to the execution ground, that's it."

"Then we can't..."

"Of course we can't." Wang Yan waved his hand, "There will be opportunities in the future. A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late. As long as we stretch the time and have enough patience, who knows when we will grasp their handle, and then they will suffer..."

"Sigh..." Li Kuiyong let out a depressed sigh, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness and a huge class barrier...

Yu Ming listened for a while and naturally understood the reason why Wang Yan came here. While watching the fun, he also felt a sense of powerlessness.

Wang Yan didn't comfort them. This was a normal situation, unavoidable at any time. If you want to splash blood five steps away, you might not even splash the real black hand.

He flipped through the books he brought by candlelight, flipping through page after page, truly reading fast.

The entertainment here was really scarce. Even though everyone brought quite a few books, they exchanged them to read, and there were times when they finished reading them. During the day, they faced the endless yellow earth, and at night, they faced only a bright candle in the cave. Beside them were people they were already used to seeing, and every day was the same...

On the first day they arrived, the educated youth who were exhausted from the journey all went to sleep early, slept until the sun was high, and then one by one came out of the cave with great spirit.

"This sleep was really comfortable."

"Yeah, the train made me so uncomfortable."

"Hey, I seem to have heard wolves howling in a trance last night, did you hear it?" Three women make a play, seven women together is a four-hour long movie.

They discussed it for a long time together, and finally asked the three male comrades.

Li Kuiyong and Yu Ming slept like dead pigs, snoring loudly, so they didn't hear any wolf howling.

Wang Yan nodded: "I heard it. There are indeed wolves here. The Northwest Wolf isn't just talk. I heard that the wolves here are big, fierce, and like to be active at night. Some people call them Night Moon Wolves."

"Ah? Really?" The group of female educated youth turned pale at the mention of wolves, as if they had already been carried away by wolves before they even saw their shadows.

Qin Ling waved her hand: "It's fine, we have no problem in the village. If we want to go out, just walk together."

It could be considered comfort.

Everyone worked together to wash up, then burned fire to cook. Just at this time, Old Liu brought several men carrying wood and walked in.

"I knew you just woke up. It wasn't easy coming from the capital, you must be exhausted."

He said with a grin, very enthusiastically, and then walked straight to Wang Yan with a clear goal.

"Comrade Wang, the wood is brought here. See if it's enough for you to repair the house. If not, I'll go find some more. This is the carpenter's tool, I bought it from Carpenter Li in Linping below early this morning. See if it's usable."

"It's usable." Wang Yan took out cigarettes from his pocket and distributed them to Old Liu and the others. Everyone didn't smoke, but tucked them behind their ears, muttering that they were city people after all, smoking cigarettes, having money.

Wang Yan responded with a smile, lit a cigarette himself, looked at the wood, measured it roughly, and said to Old Liu, "It's enough. Not only can we repair the house, but we can also make the kang table we agreed on yesterday, plus one or two stools."

"Oh my, that's great." Old Liu nodded happily, "I said it yesterday, I live in the cave behind yours, if there's anything, just go find me. You guys get busy, I'm going back."

Old Liu nodded honestly to everyone, taking care of everyone.

Wang Yan greeted and asked: "Old Liu, how often does the postman come?"

"Ten days. Why, want to mail a letter?" Before Wang Yan could speak, Old Liu continued, "Must mail it, you are all young, coming from so far away, your family misses you. The postman will come again in five days. It just so happens that tomorrow is the 15th, our brigade has to go to the county to buy things. You write the letters today, give them to me in the afternoon, and I'll mail them for you tomorrow when I go to the county."

"Alright, Old Liu, I'll go with you tomorrow to see the county."

"What's there to see? How can it compare to the capital? Chairman Mao is blessing us..."

Old Liu left with the others, leaving behind a group of educated youth chatting.

The female educated youth were still more concerned about Wang Yan, because Wang Yan had been very prominent from yesterday until now. He had money, knew technology, was always smiling, and looked very easygoing.

So when everyone was eating together, they talked about their respective families and also talked about ignorant feelings. It was also at this time that they learned that Wang Yan's parents had both died, and he already had a partner who was a soldier in the army. Wang Yan was writing letters to his partner, and had even met the parents.

Hearing this, the female educated youth lost interest, at least that's how it looked...

After eating, the educated youth strolled around the village to familiarize themselves with the environment. Li Kuiyong and Yu Ming also went together. Only Wang Yan didn't go, because he got up early in the morning and had already visited the whole Baidian Village.

So he was comfortably chopping wood in the courtyard by himself.

His strength was great, his precision was high, and the wood was no different from tofu in his hands. His work efficiency was quite high, and it didn't take two hours. He had already roughly processed the wood, divided the materials needed for the three rooms, the materials for making the kang table for Old Liu, and the surplus materials that could make two stools, all into piles.

After finishing this work, he took the wood into the cave to work, relatively speaking, it was warmer. It was really because the educated youth who just arrived didn't cherish firewood, and the fire in the house was very strong.

The cave dwellings they lived in were all facing south, with plenty of sun, and the house was very bright. Cave dwellings, nothing special, inside it was about the same as a normal house. It was just that the layout was different. The kang was directly connected to the stove, right next to it, unlike in the Northeast where it was separated by a wall.

Besides that, there was a broken wooden shelf, a broken table, a broken stool, and a large water vat by the stove. One look and you could tell it was temporarily arranged by Old Old Liu, but it was usable.

The rest was very clean, nothing at all. The only thing worth mentioning was that the space was very large. This cave was connected to the other cave on the side, which could be considered two rooms and a living room.

Wang Yan didn't even measure specifically, just looked at the wooden windows and wooden doors at the entrance of the cave, and started sawing wood with his hands. If he took it up for comparison, the error would definitely not exceed a few millimeters. This was the combination of eyesight and precision, the ultimate control of distance.

In fact, the workload for the wooden windows and wooden doors of the three rooms wasn't large. He didn't intend to completely replace them with new ones, but to replace the rotten parts, repair other parts, and re-process the gaps. Making it not rattle in the wind, maximizing the avoidance of air leakage and heat loss along the gaps.

The rest was just repairing as it broke.

So when the crowd who had walked for most of the day came back, Wang Yan had already finished processing the three rooms.

"Wang Yan, you're really amazing, three rooms, you finished so quickly." Qin Ling didn't hesitate to provide emotional value.

Tian Fang also nodded: "Yeah, Wang Yan, it seems your Grade 2 carpenter status isn't just for show."

"The work is quite rough, the goal is speed, and also to let everyone sleep well at night." Wang Yan said with a smile, talking while his hands didn't stop, smoothing the wooden boards.

"You must be tired from walking, right? Hurry back and rest." Wang Yan said, "I guess after walking this circle, you also understand, it's bitter here, definitely won't be full, save where you can, otherwise when the grain is gone, a bunch of us will be hungry and dizzy. At this time, you can't borrow grain from others. Besides, you should also write letters, I'll help you mail them tomorrow."

"No need, we also want to go to the county to see." Qin Ling said politely.

Li Kuiyong interjected: "Forty miles, you'd better think it through. I guess the donkey cart won't let us sit, we have to walk. A round trip of a hundred miles, it's really fatal..."

"Can't be, right?" Tian Fang said, "When we came yesterday, didn't they let us sit for a long time?"

"That was because they were afraid we wouldn't make it before dark, afraid we couldn't walk." This was said by Yu Ming, this kid was still quite thoughtful.

"Then I'm going too! I don't believe it, I can't walk a round trip." Qin Ling turned to ask, "Sisters, what do you say?"

She looked at the other six female educated youth, wanting to gain some strength. However, she wasn't disappointed; the female educated youth all agreed, saying they would get up early tomorrow morning and must go to the county to see. Then they went back to rest, and would gather again when it was time for dinner...

"Brother Yan, I'm going with you tomorrow, you get up early, remember to call me." Li Kuiyong took off his shoes, sat cross-legged on the warm fire kang, and took out cigarettes to distribute.

Yu Ming took the cigarette handed by Li Kuiyong and followed suit: "I'm going too, Brother Yan. When we came, they didn't let us stroll around the county, we were sent away as soon as we woke up, I also want to see what the county seat is like here."

They hadn't rested much along the way, except for rushing on the road. They stayed in the county for one day, the county educated youth office held a welcome activity, beating gongs and drums and twisting yangge, but it was already afternoon when they arrived, and there was another round of speeches in the county. The next morning they were sent to the commune, so there was really no time for free activities, and free activities weren't allowed.

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "Sure, I guess we have to get up before dawn, sleep early tonight if there's nothing to do."

"What could there be to do." Li Kuiyong sighed, "I want to go home now. Although it's not much better in the capital, it's still better than here."

He kept messing with his hair, "Look, Brother Yan, I went out for a stroll, and my head is full of sand."

"Otherwise, why do people wear headscarves? It's to prevent sand." Yu Ming laughed, "I'll get one to wear tomorrow, can't wash my hair, so let's prevent it well. I get goosebumps on my legs just thinking about walking ten miles to fetch water later."

"Why don't we dig a well, it's also doing a good deed for the villagers here, Brother Yan, what do you say?" Li Kuiyong said very generously.

Wang Yan glanced at him: "Is digging a well so easy? You have to master the water vein, this is the work of a geography expert. Do you think such an expert can run over to dig a well for us? Besides, our Baidian Village is relatively high, and the cost of digging a well is also high, it's not a small amount of money."

However, Li Kuiyong's words were wrong, but the meaning was fine, that is, it wasn't about money.

Before leaving, he strolled around the capital, visited many Old Cannons, conducted friendly exchanges, expressed opinions, and the results were quite good. Not to mention a well, he could afford ten.

But money isn't spent like that...

"Stay safely first, understand the situation of the county, the city, and other communes. We can't make the decision to dig a well, it has to be Team Leader Liu, it has to be Secretary Zhang of the commune, they are the ones who make the final decision. Besides, you don't think about it, it's winter now, can you dig that soil?"

Wang Yan waved his hand, stopped paying attention to Li Kuiyong, and continued to polish the wooden boards, repairing the mortise and tenon structures.

Old Liu gave him a box of small nails earlier, all used for repairing doors and windows. However, if he made furniture, he didn't need nails to fix it. His carpentry skills might not be top-notch, but his understanding of various structures was absolutely master-level. After all, after many years, his level of mathematics, physics, and even materials science was extremely high.

Mathematics allowed him to grasp precision, physics' structural mechanics allowed him to grasp the superiority of the structure, able to bear more weight, and materials science was a bit like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, after all, this was ordinary elm wood, and it couldn't be brought into play. The carpenter's own intuition for wood was already enough.

Wang Yan really had nothing to do here, so besides eating dinner, he kept making the kang table, and before going to sleep, he finished the table.

Not only did he finish it, he also carved on the legs of the table, and made some fancy designs, so the small kang table became high-end, atmospheric, and classy, looking expensive at first glance.

He applied oil that night, put it in the house to dry in the shade, and it could be used tomorrow.

After finishing, Wang Yan also wrote letters on the table by candlelight, packed them in envelopes, and wrote the addresses. After all this, he fell asleep.

Early the next morning, he got up early, woke up the educated youth, everyone burned fire to cook together, and ate a mouthful early. He even made some more dry rations, all put in his own satchel. He burned a large pot of boiling water and poured it into his water bottle.

By the time they finished, Old Liu had brought several men carrying carrying poles and baskets, obviously to do some major purchasing.

The female educated youth looked around, and sure enough, they didn't see the donkey cart.

"Brother Yan, should we carry the water buckets down? Just in time to carry some water back, it's not even two days, and more than half of the vat is gone." Li Kuiyong put forward a very constructive suggestion.

Carrying poles and water buckets were all available. The carrying pole was a very elastic piece of wood, with iron hooks fixed at both ends. The water bucket was an iron bucket, which deformed with one kick. But it was lightweight, as long as it didn't leak, it was a qualified bucket. Repairing was also simple, melt iron, pour it where it leaked. Those with skills would re-weld it.

The female educated youth also followed to get two carrying poles and four water buckets. A team of nearly twenty people, mighty and majestic, went down the mountain to the county...

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