"You and Teacher Xu have a really good relationship. Are you childhood sweethearts?" Sheng Chuncheng asked Teacher Li.
"No, we are not childhood sweethearts." Teacher Li said, "But we are the chosen ones. It can also be said that we are destined partners."
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Sheng Chuncheng didn't quite understand. What did Teacher Li mean by the chosen one? The destined partner? He could understand that your other half must be me, and my other half must be you. However, in this
In this world, are there really men and women who are destined to be together? Even if they are together, they are destined not to be separated? Sheng Chuncheng is doubtful.
Sheng Chuncheng joked: "You mean, God played the dice and brought you together?"
Teacher Li laughed: "Yes, your statement is more vivid. We are really brought together by God's dice. Xiao Sheng, I want to plagiarize your statement. I will say it like this next time."
Teacher Li told Sheng Chuncheng that he and Teacher Xu met at an educated youth spot and ended up together.
At that time, both of them were educated youths, and their educated youth camp had a lot of people. It was a commune, or now a township, where all the educated youths were gathered together. There were more than a hundred men and women. He and Teacher Xu were in the educated youth camp of a commune.
But they do not belong to the same brigade, which is equivalent to the current village. They are not in the same village.
They don't work together during the day. They go to their own brigade. Only when they finish work at night and return to the educated youth point, all the educated youth will be together.
There are many people in the educated youth spot, and both of them are very ordinary people who don't stand out. At that time, some people studied Mao Xuan well and were very popular. Some people danced well and often performed on stage at various celebrations.
They are very pushy. Some people are good at painting and calligraphy. They carry paint buckets and advertising paints everywhere to write slogans and paint propaganda posters. They are also very pushy.
There are also those who are good at basketball, chess, playing the accordion well, and those who are particularly good at fighting, who can be in the limelight. Of course, those who are beautiful will also be in the limelight.
The two of them are ordinary-looking, and they don't have any skills that can make them stand out. They are the kind of people who are drowned in the crowd. Therefore, they don't even know each other, and they have never spoken to each other. At most, they see each other on the streets of Chemical Industry Village.
, you will feel that the other person is familiar to you and should be an educated youth, nothing more.
At that time, not only urban children like them were driven to the countryside to receive re-education, but even the state-owned factories in the city were moved to the mountains and valleys in order to prepare for war and famine. More than ten miles away from their educated youth spot,
There are three chemical factories moved from the city, with thousands of workers, and a large-scale new chemical village.
Including family members, there are more than 10,000 people living in Huagong New Village, forming a town without an official name.
It is different from the shabby state of their educated youth spot, which is alone in a mountain col, with a courtyard and a few rows of thatched houses. It is also different from the location of the commune, which has no other shops except for a supply and marketing cooperative. In their opinion, the new chemical village is
Paradise on earth.
In Chemical Industry New Village, there are not only department stores, photo studios, Xinhua Bookstore, barber shops, chemical industry hotels and chemical industry guest houses, but also cinemas, libraries, and cultural palaces. There are also long-distance bus stations and a ship terminal. There is also a spontaneously formed
Farmers from the surrounding countryside would sell produce from their private plots and mountains and rivers at road markets.
That place was really lively.
Therefore, as long as they have time, they, the educated youth, will go to the Chemical Industry Village.
The peak of educated youth going to the mountains and countryside was in the 1960s. By 1974, there were not many new educated youths. They were mainly young people in the city. Even if they had no jobs, they stayed in the city and wandered around all day long.
The streets are not as strict as in previous years, and you will be driven downstairs.
The number of educated youths in the Educated Youth Center began to decrease year by year. Some went to college, and there were colleges at that time. However, college students were not admitted through examinations. Instead, quotas were allocated from above and sent to the bottom. The bottom made recommendations, which was mainly a racket of brains.
They opened all kinds of backdoors and went to college. There is a difference between these college students and the students who later took the college entrance examination. They are called worker, peasant, and soldier students.
There are also parents who retire in the city and return to the city to take up a job. That is your parents in the city. If you have a work unit and one of you retires, you can choose one of your children to join the work unit with your quota, which is called a post-paying job.
There are also those who return to the city due to illness and stay in the city on sick leave for a long time.
Most of them were recruited locally to various units, such as supply and marketing cooperatives, agricultural machinery factories, shipping companies, moving companies, etc. The children of farmers were not even qualified to participate in recruitment at that time. These units needed people and wanted to recruit workers, and only
We recruit educated youths who have resident registered residence. Young people in the supply and marketing cooperative's location basically have agricultural registered permanent residence and are not eligible for recruitment.
No matter what method you use to leave the educated youth center, if your family has no background, giving gifts and going through the back door is a must. At that time, using the back door became a common practice.
Teacher Xu and I both come from poor families with little background. Her father has passed away a long time ago, and there is a mother and a younger brother at home. Her mother retired from the factory in the street early, and her younger brother took up his job and returned to the city.
There is no way back to the city, so we have to stay there. There is no money for gifts.
I'm even worse off. One of my parents is in Jiangxi and the other is in the May 7th Cadre School in Hubei. They were sent down. My brother is an educated youth in Yunnan and my sister is in Beidahuang. There are five people in the family, divided into five places. No one lives in the house in the city.
, were all taken back by the Housing Management Committee, and their household registrations were canceled by the local police station, let alone even think about going back.
In this way, the number of educated youths in the educated youth camp dropped from more than a hundred to dozens, a dozen, a few, and so on. As the number of educated youth in the camp decreased, the two of us became more and more familiar with each other, and we actually had a certain feeling in our hearts.
A feeling of sympathy for each other.
At the end, everyone else left, and she and I were the only two people left in the entire educated youth spot. It was impossible not to know each other. Look, are we the chosen ones? God chooses over and over again, and finally
They chose us out and kept us in that mountain valley.
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The relationship between the educated youth and the local farmers is not good. Think about it, the educated youth are young people who go to the city. In an era when supplies were extremely scarce, they were hungry every day and looked disheveled. In the countryside,
, it is common to steal chickens and dogs, and also steal vegetables grown in farmers’ private fields.
All the fruits on the trees in front of and behind our houses were stolen before they were ripe. It’s funny to say that in those years, the loquats and oranges we ate every year were all green. How could they change their ripeness?
Yellow chance.
Even the grapes on the grape trellis were stolen despite the farmer hanging a paper sign with a skull on it and the words "Pesticides are Toxic" written on it. Who cares?
The local farmers were so angry that they scolded us and said, "Young educated people are worse than the Kuomintang reactionaries and the Japanese devils, so you will only follow the three-guang policy."
The angry peasants chased the educated youths. At this time, the educated youths were very united. Men and women fought with them. They all had families. If they really fought, how could they be as powerful as us naked devils who are not afraid of anything? Every
The fellow villagers will definitely lose this time.
Think about it, if both parties are in such a state, how can the relationship be good?
Moreover, most of the educated youth at that time were in a state of disillusionment when their ideals were disillusioned. They felt like they were broken. No big principles or political intimidation were of any use to them. They had already reached the bottom of their lives. How could you still survive?
But what can I do? The worst I can do is fight with you and still have this attitude.
There are fewer and fewer people in the educated youth spots, and the local communes and brigade have begun to turn a blind eye, pretending that people like us don't exist, as long as we don't cause trouble for them.
Here among the educated youth, after there are fewer people, they no longer dare to go into the village to steal chickens and dogs. They know that if they start fighting again, they will not be able to defeat others because they have few people.
In this way, both sides stopped fighting and became calm.