"Don't point all your fingers at me, okay!" Liu Yan waved his hand with a smile, touched his nose again, and thought for a while: "I have a proposal. I hope everyone sitting here tonight can tell a story.

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Moreover, the story must be one’s own personal experience in Genpei, such as the story about eating the Yiku meal mentioned by the educated youth just now.

It must not be made up, it must be a true story. If there is no story, just talk about your feelings.

After everyone has finished speaking, I will sing another song for you at the end, okay?"

"Okay! Okay!" Then there was another burst of cheers and applause.

…

"By the way! I have a question that I know should I ask?" asked a male educated youth.

"As long as it is a fact related to the educated youth farm, I can tell you everything I know," Zhou Haiyang said.

The male educated youth continued:

The day before leaving the farm, I went alone to say goodbye to Uncle Liu.

Because for a long time, I have been trying to figure out one thing: how did the landlord exploit him back then?

I feel that every time he remembers the bitter and misses the sweet, he only talks about sweet things, but nothing that reminds him of the bitter.

After all, isn't the most difficult thing about herding cattle every day?

What do you think Uncle Liu said?

He said that the place where he lived was more than a hundred miles away from Yuanping, and it was a sparsely populated ravine.

There are only five families living in the ravine, and the life of each family is not good.

The family with the best life can only have enough to eat, and these are all coarse grains.

This family has a few acres of land inherited from their ancestors, but the family has a small population and no strong labor force.

He had no choice but to hire a long-term worker and Uncle Liu, so he was classified as a landlord.

Uncle Liu told me that we are all from the same village, and every time we work, their whole family also works together.

Every time we eat, everyone eats at the same table and eats the same food.

At that time, because she saw that Uncle Liu was an orphan and felt pity for him, the landowner adopted him.

But they have always been treated as members of their own family. Uncle Liu and his son have been like brothers since they were young, going to the mountains to herd cattle and cut grass together.

According to Uncle Liu, the landlord's mother-in-law was seriously ill and died the year before last, and she kept mumbling his name until she died.

For this reason, the landlord's grandson went up the mountain to tell him, but he did not dare to ask for leave from the team to see her.

One person just hid in the bullpen of the production team, covered his mouth, and secretly cried all night.

Uncle Liu's eyes were red as he spoke.

I asked him why he didn't dare to take leave to see her?

If he went to see her, it would be equivalent to recognizing the landlord's mother-in-law as his biological mother. If he recognized this biological mother, he would become the landlord's son.

…

After the educated youth finished speaking, there was silence. Everyone looked at each other in shock.

Zhou Haiyang pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, a considerable part of the so-called landlords in China belong to the bottom class.

In the traditional concept of rural China, everything is for future generations.

Therefore, most people who have some wealth actually live a very difficult life.

They use their saved wealth to purchase land to pass on to future generations.

Especially in mountainous areas with many people and little land, this process is not only full of hardships, but also full of risks.

Any time a family member gets sick or suffers a natural disaster, the little wealth they have accumulated over the years may be wiped out and they may be reduced to the bottom of the pile.

Lu Xun's father was ill and his family fell into ruin..."

Although there was no clear answer to the questions and confusion raised by this educated youth, as well as Zhou Haiyang's words, most of the people present turned from silence to contemplation...

The original economic and political significance of educated youth going to the mountains and countryside was integrated into a movement because the political significance was overemphasized.

Because it did not grow along its own normal growth trajectory, but was stimulated by an external coercive political force, it lacked the solid social foundation it should have.

As a result, all the people in the country at that time did not have enough spiritual and material preparations for it, and they did not have a clear and deep understanding of the situation that had occurred in this barren land for a period of time.

Not only the majority of people in rural areas do not understand or understand these students from cities.

Many educated young people from the city encounter, hear and see things here that are very different from what is advertised in the city.

…

In 1978, the educated youth gathering at the Yuanping Educated Youth Spot ended with the song "Unforgettable Tonight" by Liu Yan.

Unforgettable tonight Unforgettable tonight

Regardless of the ends of the earth and the corners of the sea

China embraces each other thousands of miles apart

Wish the motherland a good life together

Unforgettable tonight Unforgettable tonight

Regardless of the ends of the earth and the corners of the sea

China embraces each other thousands of miles apart

Wish the motherland a good motherland

Wish the motherland well together

Wish the motherland well together

Farewell tonight, farewell tonight

Whether new friends or old friends

I'll invite you again next spring

The green hills are still there when people are young and old people are not old yet

Green hills remain before a person grows old

Green hills remain before a person grows old

Wish the motherland well together

Wish the motherland well together

…

"I won't see you off tomorrow morning. I still have some work to hand over.

Let's meet again when we return to Ningcheng." Liu Yan took the hands of Zhou Haiyang and several Ningcheng educated youths.

Zhou Haiyang said to Pei Xiaohong, Tan Yuanyuan, Yuan Shanshan and Li Xiaoming: "Don't send them off tomorrow. Remember to call me before going to Ningcheng and I will pick you up at the station.

Before school starts, you will have room and board at my house."

…

Three days before the Spring Festival in 1978, Liu Yan completed all the work handover procedures and handed over a "Yongfeng County Rural Economic Work Five-Year Development Plan" to Pei Changyuan.

On the same day, Liu Yan and Fan Lili got on the long-distance bus to Tianyuan Commune. They arrived at Yuanping Village in the afternoon.

Seeing Liu Yan and Fan Lili back, the men, women, and children of the Fan family all beamed with joy.

Especially Fan Yanping and his wife!

You know, the daughter of his old Fan family is the top scholar in liberal arts in the province, and she was admitted to Yenching University. Her son is also good, and he was admitted to Ningcheng Normal University.

Not counting the son-in-law, there are two college students in the family, which is a very shameful thing.

Seeing her parents' excitement, Fan Lili immediately took out her admission notice and handed it to her father.

Fan Yanping first knocked out the dry tobacco pot in his hand, stuffed the pipe into the pipe and tied it, then clapped his hands, and then carefully took the notice handed over by his daughter.

When he saw the above content and the bright red stamp below, Fan Yanping said excitedly: "Is this really the admission notice from Yenching University?! Girl, you kid really gives your father credit!"

Fan's mother was so excited that she could not speak coherently. She wiped her tears and said, "Our Fan family also has a college student, and there are two of them. Our ancestors bless us... our ancestors bless us!"

Fan Lili immediately held her mother's hand and said, "Mom, it's a good thing that my third brother and I are admitted to college. Why are you crying?"

"Mom, I'm so happy. In the first few years, when the people in the village heard that we were supporting your education, they all laughed at us because we had so much money and no place to spend it.

Now let them see that our money was not wasted, let them be envious!" Mother Fan said.

Fan Lili then smiled and said: "Mom is right, let them be envious!"

Fan Lili is grateful from the bottom of her heart for her parents providing for her to go to school.

You must know that there are more than thirty girls of her age in the village, but most of them have never read a book.

Even those who have gone to school will at most stop after elementary school.
To be continued...