As soon as summer vacation came, I went by myself to central Asia, to a Tungkan village called Miliang River, and I told the leader of the farming collective there that I wished to labor together with the villagers and study the Tungkan language. I was assigned to the construction brigade as an assistant maker of mud blocks.
暑假一到，我就隻身前往中亞，在名為「米糧川」的東幹村，向集體農場領導表明我想和村民一起勞動，學東幹話，他們就把我分派到建築隊當泥水匠助手，幫忙和泥、遞磚。