[Hardcore infrastructure building + striving in a bygone era]
One moment, Su Xiaohe is a modern engineering director. The next, she has become a stoker girl in a frontier corps in 1975!
Before her stretch endless yellow sand and a diet of steamed cornmeal buns. Everyone around her says women should just stay quietly in the mess hall.
Su Xiaohe looks down at these hands that once drafted plans for a cross-sea bridge and smiles.
Tend the fire? If I'm going to set something ablaze, I'll kindle a fire that transforms the Gobi!
A sandstorm buries the granary? I'll lead the women's team in designing windbreak forests.
Drought leaves the fields barren? I'll draw up an irrigation network and bring down water from the Tianshan snowmelt.
Short on cement and machinery? I'll invent using simple methods and make reinforced concrete grow across the Gobi!
The conservatives call me a troublemaker, so I turn around and double the harvest.
The male technicians laugh that I'm all talk, but the engineering teams I lead win the red flag every time.
At last, the cold-faced head of the corps blocks my way at the construction site. "Comrade Su Xiaohe, your blueprints have rewritten my life plans, too."
In this fiery era, he and I stand shoulder to shoulder.
With blueprints for our pens and sweat for our ink, we write the most burning vow on our motherland's frontier:
We will make hope grow from this land, and love grow there, too.
The writing is delicate and the plot is solid. I give it four stars. As a third-generation farmer in Heilongjiang, I give an extra star to all works that truly reflect farm life. I have never done that period of burning passion because I was young, but I have seen it. Farmland is the same as other places. As long as there are people around, intrigues and intrigues are inevitable. However, the biggest difference between Farmland and other places is that the average quality of the personnel is high and there are more idealists!
A very nice piece of career writing about the times, highly recommended
It's very beautiful, canals and roads are being built.
A very, very good book
Inspiring and a tribute to the pioneers!
A very good-looking infrastructure article with a clear outlook on life, vivid descriptions, and no impetuousness.
A very informative novel, very vivid and with a strong sense of immersion.
A rare and excellent work that surpasses the regular high score of Tomato
A very unique perspective, the writing is very good and very immersive, and the description of professional characteristics is very detailed. I am looking forward to the author's follow-up.