She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 888 - 812: Famine Era 53

The journey to Xinjiang is long and far, and the farther west we go, the colder it gets. Even though the train stops at every place to load supplies, it still can’t resist the winter chill. Children have limited patience. At first, they can control themselves, but gradually they start to become restless and cry. Fortunately, there are children on the neighboring berth as well, and the noisy parents have gotten used to such scenes; no one despises each other.

The twin siblings cannot walk yet, they can only crawl. She dressed them in special crawling clothes, allowing them to crawl on the ground as they please, as long as they don’t make a fuss, that would make Gao Xing happy.

Young children love to play with older kids, and these twins are no exception. Zhuangzhuang, being a bit older, knows they are his little brother and sister, so he takes good care of them, following and watching over them wherever they go, not allowing other children to bully them, earning him praise from other military wives.

This batch heading to the Xinjiang Corps not only includes military wives but also outstanding young adults, demobilized soldiers, intellectuals, and tech personnel joining the corps to contribute to Xinjiang’s development; it’s a spirit of dedication that belonged to the older generation.

However, the entire carriage consists of military family members, mostly traveling as a whole family, bringing their wives and children to Xinjiang together.

Of course, the level of these military wives can be seen through their attire; some are simple rural people, some are intellectuals, and some obviously are not ones who can bear hardships. Regardless of how long they can endure in Xinjiang, at least they came this far, which is already better than many.

This time they’re heading to Beitun City, mainly distributed in Beitun, Altay, and Tacheng within the region. The Nongdi Tenth Division Headquarters officially moved to this city in November 1959. Tong Zhan is directly going there to report to the headquarters.

Yet, just on the railway tracks, they’ve been stopping and going for almost a month. After arriving in Xinjiang, they transited with trucks for more than ten days, and when they finally reached the region where they would struggle and strive, it was already mid-to-late March. Starting from early February, they traveled for a month and a half; the pace was unmatched, greatly exhausting both adults and children.

Even Ye Huan herself felt she had lost several pounds of weight. Whenever this happens, Tong Zhan comes over and teases her: "Regretting it now?"

"Regret? Not quite, but it’s truly tiring!" The future remains uncertain; how can one easily say they regret?

"You’re really stubborn. Alright, you might have to stay at this farm with the kids for a while first. We have to build the place we will live in the future, and only after we construct the dwelling can we move there to start a new life."

Xinjiang is extraordinarily vast, even this farm is three to five days away from their future 183rd Regiment. Thousands of people have come to the regiment this time, only one in twenty with families. In the future, to see her sister, it seems it would take at least ten days to half a month of travel.

According to the locals at the farm, Beitun’s climate is characterized by severe winters, dry windy springs, long winters, short summers, with an average frost-free period of around 120 days, but sometimes as short as 74 days, with an extreme low temperature of minus 49 degrees.

Doesn’t that sound terrifying just by listening?

So, in Xinjiang, besides the nomadic tents, the most distinctive residential environment is the earth cave. The so-called earth cave is a dug hole underground, with one or two meters exposed as the roof. Because such houses are low, they can resist sandstorms, staying warm in winter and cool in summer. Inside, there are earth beds that can be heated in winter, making them very practical.

Here, on the west, it borders Kazakhstan, north with Russia, and east with Mongolia, also serving as an important borderline. Before the Tenth Division moved in, this place was desolate.

Beitun is richly endowed with resources, with significant development potential. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Firstly, the water, soil, and sunlight resources are ample, offering favorable conditions for integrated ecological and agricultural development.

Within the region, the Eerqisi River and Ulungu River make up two major water systems, with 58 rivers, large and small. Although unevenly distributed, they indicate that water is not lacking. However, utilizing these waters for developing aquaculture is quite challenging.

There are over thirty species of fish here, including the White Spot Dogfish, River Perch, River Cod, and Eastern European bream, which are rare fish species in China, providing excellent conditions for developing aquaculture.

Additionally, the land resources in the reclamation area are abundant with great development potential. Although the area has a short frost-free period and low effective accumulated temperature, the long sunlight duration and ample light resources offer excellent conditions for agriculture and animal husbandry. The cultivation area of high-efficiency economic crops like grain, cotton, watermelon seed, Hami melon, and tomato is expanding annually.