Chapter 32

Sheng Kangning decided to mail most of her things, so that she would be much more relaxed on the road and wouldn’t have to worry too much. There were too many people on the train. In her previous life, Sheng Kangning was not so lucky to buy a sleeper ticket. She and Sheng Fengxiang both bought hard seats, and they were always worried that their luggage would be stolen.

Sheng Kangning knew the address of the field office, and he also knew that the first thing these newly arrived educated youth, regardless of whether they were men or women, would do when they arrived was to put out the fire.

In the previous life, when Sheng Kangning and Sheng Fengxiang arrived at the site, a fire broke out there.

The director of Hongyang Farm was named Zhou, a professional military officer and a very upright man. He helped Sheng Kangning a lot and led all the retired officers and soldiers and the newly arrived educated youth to put out the fire.

The fire burned for three days. It was not until the third night when it rained heavily that the fire was put out.

Hongyang Farm is newly built.

People had no time to build houses and lived in tents. All the tents were burned to ashes, and the food that had just been brought in was also burned.

After the fire was put out, four people died.

Two retired soldiers and two newly arrived educated youth.

Very tragic!

The fire started simply because of the wind. The cooking stove was too simple and the sparks inside were blown out by the wind, and the fire got out of control.

This lesson is so profound!

Four lives!

There were also two new educated youth who had just arrived and had not even had the chance to experience the Great Northern Wilderness before they died.

Director Zhou was silent for a long time, and finally gave the order to build a house.

In the next half month, everyone was doing one thing, which was building a house.

The houses built in the Great Northern Wilderness are a type of mud houses called Lahebian.

Most of the houses are simple adobe houses with roof beams and thatched roofs. The roofs are made of a kind of hollow, jointed grass that grows in the wild. The surface of the grass is smooth and the locals call it felt grass. This grass is cut at the beginning of autumn every year and dried for later use.

The mud houses in Lahebian are generally not very tall, less than a person’s height, and people have to bend over to get in.

In order to solve the problem of the house being not high enough, they dug deeper, so when you enter the door you walk down and there are three to five steps inside the door.

Only after the houses were built were these educated youth assigned to the companies below.

Because of her beautiful looks, Sheng Kangning was chosen by Director Zhou’s lover, Sister Xue.

In the previous life, Sheng Kangning went on a hunger strike because he didn’t want to go to the countryside, and Yang Chunling was reluctant to let her own daughter Sheng Fengxiang go to the countryside, so she kept dragging it out.

Sheng Kangning and Sheng Fengxiang were the last group of educated youth to leave by train.

In this life, Sheng Kangning figured it out. If he left as the first group, he could arrive at Hongyang Farm a week earlier.

Sheng Kangning thought that maybe he could find a way to prevent the fire from happening.

I wrote down the address of Hongyang Farm, weighed the goods, and paid the money.

Sheng Kangning picked up the empty handbag and spent a few cents to buy two sheets of stationery.

Sheng Kangning came out of the post office, found a place to sit down, and spread out the letter paper.

On the way to the post office, Sheng Kangning had already made up her mind that she wanted to write letters to Li Dagang and Sheng Fengjiao.

Add fuel to the fire for Sheng Fengjiao and Sheng Fengxiang.

How do I add fuel to this fire?

Just write a letter.

Sheng Kangning first wrote to Li Dagang in the name of Sheng Fengjiao, implicitly expressing her love for Li Dagang in the letter.

Afterwards, he wrote another letter to Sheng Fengjiao in the name of Li Dagang.

Both letters ended with an agreed time and place to meet.

Sheng Kangning even wrote at the end of the letter that he would burn it after reading it to prevent it from being discovered.

After writing the letter, Sheng Kangning did not put it directly into the mailbox of the post office. Instead, he took the bus to a post office near the department store, where there was a letter delivery point.

After delivering the two letters, Sheng Kangning decided to go to a shoe repair shop to see if they could help put glue on the menstrual pad.

I found a shoe repair stall and the man doing the repair was an old man.

Sheng Kangning stood at the corner, hesitating, wondering what the old man’s expression would be when she took out a few menstrual belts and handed them to him.

Sheng Kangning couldn’t think of the right words for a moment.

Biting her lip, she looked at the shoe repair stall with embarrassment.

An old lady came over from behind, first glanced at Sheng Kangning, and found that the girl was quite pretty, so she couldn’t help but look at her twice more.

The old lady walked to the shoe repair stall with a bag in her hand, sat down, and took out a pair of rubber shoes from the bag. The uppers of the shoes were torn.

The old lady handed the rubber shoes to the old man.

After the old lady’s shoes were repaired, she walked back and saw Sheng Kangning still standing there, glancing at the shoe repair stall from time to time.

I couldn’t help but ask:

“Little girl, you need your shoes repaired! Go ahead! There’s no one here right now! Old Li has pretty good skills! He can definitely help you fix your shoes!”

Sheng Kangning found out that the old man’s surname was Li.

Sheng Kangning shook her head: “Auntie, I don’t repair shoes! I…”

“If you’re not repairing shoes, then what are you doing here? Are you looking for someone? Who are you looking for? I know everyone in this area!”

Sheng Kangning waved his hand, thought for a moment, and said in a low voice, “Auntie, I’m not looking for anyone, I…can you help me ask?”

The old lady smiled and said:

“Girl, why don’t you tell me what I want to ask you?”

Sheng Kangning blushed as she opened her handbag, revealing a newly bought menstrual belt.

Every woman knows this thing.

No matter whether you are young or old.

“Auntie, it’s like this. I want to ask Mr. Li, the shoe repairman, to help me put a layer of glue under the menstrual belt to prevent leakage! It’s just… I’m a little embarrassed to go over!”

The old lady was a little confused and didn’t understand: “Glue hanging? Leak-proof? Little girl, what is glue hanging? Can you explain it in more detail?”

Seeing that there was no one around, Sheng Kangning took out a menstrual belt from his bag and pointed to the position below the belt:

“Auntie, look, it’s right here. If we put a layer of glue at this position, it will prevent leakage!”

The old lady looked at it curiously, and suddenly reached out and patted Sheng Kangning on the shoulder:

“It’s OK, little girl. Who told you this method? I have three girls at home. Every time they have their period, they feel very uncomfortable. Stomachache is the least of them. The most terrible thing is leakage! You said that we women only have it once a month. Hey! If it can really prevent leakage, I will prepare some of this glue for my three girls. Wait, I will get it for you.”

After saying this, he returned.

Sheng Kangning grabbed the kind-hearted lady:

“Auntie, how about I give you the money first!”

The lady thought for a moment and said:

“It’s just a layer of glue, it won’t cost much, so five cents a piece, do you think it’s okay? Let’s calculate it this way first, and then we have to see how Mr. Li charges, how about refunding more or paying less?”

Sheng Kangning actually wanted to say that even giving a little more would be fine.

But since the old lady has spoken, let’s just do as she says!

Sheng Kangning nodded: “Thank you, Auntie!”

After saying that, he took out a dollar from his pocket and handed it to the lady.