In September 1977, Niu Yuehong began a depressed junior high school career.

It was an era of respect for talents and knowledge. The touching deeds of scientists are broadcast on the radio every day. Every day, the teachers told the students the stories of Chen Jingrun, Hua Luogeng, Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning, who worked hard to solve key problems, and encouraged the children to study hard, study for the rise of China, and become the pillars of the country in the future.

Schools are ranked according to the test scores from elementary school to junior high school. The top 40 students enter the top class, which is taught by the strongest teachers.

Niu Yuehong's score ranked 101st out of 150 students and was placed in the ordinary second class. She has no complaints about this, because she has no interest in learning, she just wants to grow up quickly and support herself.

As she grew older, Niu Yuehong gradually began to hate boys' games, but she still didn't want to get along with girls, and always went to school alone, and went home alone after school.

Just as Niu Yuehong predicted, Niu Xinguo joined the army after graduating from high school and went to a distant place.

Niu Xinjiang was admitted to Jinshan County No. 1 Middle School, which is 20 kilometers away from his home, and usually lives in the school and only returns home on weekends.

Except for her parents, who are busy working all day, Niu Yuehong is the only one left in the family.

She began to feel lonely and developed a need for love.

On the first day of the first semester of the third year of junior high school, a boy came to the class.

This boy's name is Wang Gang. His father was the party secretary of the commune. Due to his parents' busy work, Wang Gang lived at his grandmother's house in Shandong since he was a child. Now that my grandmother is old and in poor health, she can't take care of Wang Gang's life. So, Wang Gang's parents took him back to their side from their hometown in Shandong.

Wang Gang is a tall man with fair skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a small black mole on the tip of his nose. He speaks softly and does things steadily, unlike other boys who are rude, presumptuous, hippie and smiling, and not serious.

When Niu Yuehong saw Wang Gang for the first time, her heart suddenly trembled. She tried to keep her eyes open and carefully observe this "visitor".

She felt that this handsome and quiet boy had an elegant temperament. Needless to say, Niu Yuehong, who is used to seeing naughty boys, was deeply attracted by the gentle Wang Gang.

During class, Niu Yuehong's eyes were staring at the teacher's mouth, but what she was thinking about was the black mole on the tip of Wang Gang's nose. When she came home from class, she was irritable and couldn't calm down to write her homework, and her mind was full of Wang Gang's polite appearance.

Wang Gang's academic performance is very good, and his first unit exam score ranks first in the class, and he has been praised by teachers, admired by boys, and admired by girls.

Niu Yuehong seemed to have lost her soul, and the top priority at school every day was to see Wang Gang. She deliberately left the classroom at the latest, watching Wang Gang and his classmates go home from school. She longed to talk to Wang Gang, but she couldn't find any topic. Her heart was in great distress.

On the weekend, Niu Xinjiang, who is in high school, brought back a reference book for extracurricular exercises in the third year of junior high school.

What's the use of this for yourself!, Niu Yuehong slapped the book angrily. Suddenly, a thought crossed her mind. That's it!

After the recess exercise the next morning, Niu Yuehong saw an opportunity to approach Wang Gang. She pretended to be calm and said, "Wang Gang, my second brother has a reference book that may be useful to you." I'll lend it to you. ”

Niu Yuehong picked up the reference book with both hands and solemnly handed it to Wang Gang.

Wang Gang looked stunned, then took the reference book with both hands and said sincerely, "Thank you." I'll give it back to you after a quick look. ”

Niu Yuehong's heart was shrouded in nervous and sweet feelings. She smiled brightly: "No hurry. I don't need it anyway. ”

Immediately afterwards, she told Wang Gang affectionately: "Our hometown is also from Shandong. Qingdao. Revolutionary Old Area!"

Wang Gang's eyes widened in surprise. He only knew that Yimeng Mountain in Shandong was an old revolutionary area, and he had lived in Qingdao for more than ten years, and it was the first time he had heard that Qingdao was an old revolutionary area!

Despite this, Wang Gang was still grateful to Niu Yuehong for taking the initiative to borrow reference books for him. He kept his promise and returned the reference book to Niu Yuehong a few days later. Because of the matter of borrowing and returning books, they quickly became familiar with it. Every time they met, Wang Gang would nod and smile at her politely.

At this moment, Niu Yuehong had a feeling like an electric shock, and her heart was full of happiness and pleasure.

Niu Yuehong found through private observation that Wang Gang often read and thought in front of the flower bed in his spare time, so she guessed that he was different from the boys in the class who only played and played, and must love flowers and plants. So, she didn't say hello to her father, and took the initiative to bring a pot of the most vigorous Yueyuehong from home and gave it to Wang Gang when others were not paying attention.

Wang Gang looked at Niu Yuehong, who was quickly flashing, and his heart was shocked and moved, so he carefully placed the flower pot on the windowsill of the classroom.

Hu Liping, who usually speaks very harshly, found the moon on the windowsill and immediately shouted loudly: "Where did you get the stinky hydrangea? The smell is bad and dead." ”

The others also responded: "That's it, that's it, it stinks to death!"

Niu Yuehong and Wang Gang looked at each other for a moment, and found that the other party was red-eared and very embarrassed.

The school implements dynamic management of student class placement. After the final exam of each semester, the three students with the worst scores in the top class will be transferred to the regular class, and the three students with the highest scores in the ordinary class will be transferred to the top class.

At the end of the first semester of the third year of junior high school, Wang Gang was transferred to the top class with the first place in the second class.

Niu Yuehong suddenly felt the gap between herself and Wang Gang. She thought about it painfully for several days, and boldly decided to test whether Wang Gang liked her too.

One day after school, Niu Yuehong saw through the glass window that the top class in the opposite classroom was still in class, so she sat on the seat near the window and pretended to read, looking around from time to time to observe when the top class was out of class.

The top class is finally out. The students walked out of the classroom in twos and threes.

Wang Gang was the last to come out.

Niu Yuehong came to Wang Gang quietly, and coldly startled Wang Gang.

"Wang Gang, don't study too hard. Take a look at this when you have time. ”

Niu Yuehong whispered, handing over a copy of the magazine "Chinese Youth" with both hands.

Wang Gang took the magazine and glanced at the cover, nodded seriously, and turned to leave.

Looking at Wang Gang's distant back, Niu Yuehong was preoccupied: What would Wang Gang think when he saw the letter in the magazine? Will he think of me as the kind of bad girl who doesn't do her job? Will he like me as much as I like him?

It was the first time Niu Yuehong was so unconfident.

What made Niu Yuehong extremely painful was that after several days, Wang Gang neither returned the magazine, nor did he reply to Niu Yuehong about the letter sandwiched in the magazine.

Niu Yuehong was unsettled all day. She wanted to face Wang Gang directly several times, but she was worried that she would be abrupt and reckless, but she would make things stiff. They also met by chance at school, but Wang Gang was in the group of classmates, and Niu Yuehong was inconvenient to speak. Wang Gang's face was expressionless, and he didn't look at Niu Yuehong squarely.

Niu Yuehong couldn't bear it anymore, and finally found an opportunity to be alone with Wang Gang.

Schools should organize students to learn agricultural labor and help commune members hoe weeds. Because of the limited number of hoes, the school radio announced that each class would send a student to the warehouse to collect the hoes. Niu Yuehong saw from the window that Wang Gang had just walked out of the classroom to the school warehouse, and in a hurry, he raised his right hand and strongly asked to get the hoe on behalf of the class.

The head teacher saw that Niu Yuehong, who usually didn't care much about the collective, was so proactive, and happily assigned Niu Yuehong to get the hoe.

Niu Yuehong ran into the school's warehouse, and saw that in addition to Wang Gang, there were several students with hoes, so she gave Wang Gang a secret look and asked him to wait for a while.

Niu Yuehong waited until the other classmates carried hoes and walked out of the warehouse, walked up to Wang Gang, stared at his face with dead eyes and asked, "Why didn't you reply to me?"

Wang Gang lowered his head in embarrassment, hesitated for a while before raising his head and telling Niu Yuehong: "My parents let me study for the high school entrance examination with peace of mind, and I can't do distracting things." ”

"You told your parents about my letter?" Niu Yuehong exclaimed with wide eyes.

"Yes. Wang Gang said with certainty.

Oh my God! Niu Yuehong felt the sky spinning, and her legs couldn't stand firmly. How can this nerd be like this! My love letter written with my heart was ruthlessly trampled on by him! Study! Study, you will know to learn!

"You're going to die!" echoed in the empty storeroom, Niu Yuehong's angry roar. The voice was full of sadness, anger, resentment, and loneliness.

Niu Yuehong's first love was ruthlessly stifled in this way.

She didn't come to school for days. Some say she's sick. Some say she's out of love. People didn't really care about her. Because she usually goes alone, she doesn't particularly attract the attention of others.

Niu Yuehong finally came to school.

In just a few days, she seemed to have become a different person, silent all day long, her soul was unavoided, her face was sallow, the corners of her mouth were closed, and she nestled in her seat in a daze in decadence.

The students were nervously studying for the high school entrance exam. No one cares about Niu Yuehong's heart.

The teacher said that the high school admission rate was 80%, which meant that 20 out of 100 students could not go to high school, and of course they would lose their qualifications to enter the university entrance examination in the future.

Niu Yuehong suddenly changed from longing to get close to Wang Gang to being afraid of meeting Wang Gang. Her resolute, passionate, and strong heart was mercilessly hurt and trampled. This major blow made her feel so painful that she was discouraged. She always chooses to come to school when there are the least people, and is the last to leave the school when her classmates are gone. She didn't even want to go back to school.

"Hell! this is my hell!" Niu Yuehong said angrily, biting her lip.

Niu Fushou looked at his sullen daughter and felt that his daughter had something on his mind. He knew that his daughter's academic performance was not as good as that of the second child, so he didn't pay much attention to his daughter's high school and university entrance exams. What makes him even more distressed is this baby girl.

One day, Niu Fushou asked Niu Yuehong with concern: "Xiaohong, if you are unhappy to tell your parents, don't hide it in your heart." If you don't like it to tell your dad about it, tell your mom about it. ”

Niu Yuehong shook her head gloomily: "Dad, I'm fine." Rest assured. ”

Mother Zhang Guilan is a strong woman who refuses to lose to her husband in work. She is the leader of the vegetable class, and she is not black and white in the field to conduct new vegetable variety experiments, and she has no time to take care of her daughter's thoughts.

When Niu Fushou was at a loss, the melodious voice of the female announcer came from the radio of the production team: "Comrades of the majority of members, now broadcast the notice." Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock sharp, all the members will hold a meeting in the commune club. Broadcast again......"

Niu Fushou suddenly remembered something when he heard the broadcast, and said to Niu Yuehong in an inquiring tone: "Xiaohong, this announcer is your Aunt Tian Shuzhen." She is an intellectual youth in Tianjin and is about to return to the city. The Commune is looking for someone to replace her lately. Would you like to do this job? If you do, I'll go and tell the secretary of the commune?"

Niu Yuehong seemed to have discovered a new continent, and her eyes immediately flashed with hope, and she replied eagerly: "Okay! As long as you don't go to school, you can do anything!"

In July 1981, Wang Gang was admitted to Jinshan County No. 1 Middle School with the first place in the commune, and once again became a member of the top class of high school. Most of Niu Yuehong's classmates also went to high school or vocational high school, and a small number of classmates bid farewell to school, picked up hoes and became members of the People's Commune.

Niu Yuehong also became a new member of the People's Commune. However, she doesn't have to repair the earth in the wind and in the sun. She replaced Tian Shuzhen as a full-time broadcaster at the commune's radio station.

"Comrades members, now broadcast the news of production. Comrade Zhou Zhiyuan, a member of our commune, harvested 500 kilograms of corn a day in a corn harvesting labor competition, and was commended by the commune. ”

Niu Yuehong's crisp and neat voice was transmitted through the radio speaker to the hot fields and every household in the commune.

Niu Fushou and Zhang Guilan were very excited when they heard their daughter's voice from the loudspeaker. Niu Fushou said happily: "This girl in our family is very capable! Our Niu family has finally come up with a cultural person. ”

Zhang Guilan said proudly: "Look at your beauty! The girl was born to me, let me be!"

Niu Yuehong can be described as the first cry of a hundred spirits, and it was a great success.

People originally thought that only people in the city could do high-level work, but now Niu Yuehong has easily ascended to the position. In everyone's eyes, Niu Yuehong has become an admirable intellectual.

Although Niu Yuehong's broadcast has a Hedong accent passed on to her by her father, she is still reasonable as a rural broadcaster.

Niu Yuehong came to the radio station early every day, cleaned up, turned on the power of the equipment, and started the day's work. She first relayed the "News and Newspaper Summary Program" of the Central People's Radio, then the "Hexi News Network" of the Hexi People's Radio, then the "Jinshan News" of the Jinshan County Radio Station, and finally broadcast the commune's production news and various meeting notices herself.

Niu Yuehong's work is very simple, her life is also fulfilling, and her depressed mood is gradually getting better.

One day, a few idle young men lay on the window of the radio station and asked through the glass how Niu Yuehong was broadcasting. While they were looking around, they made fun of Niu Yuehong.

When Niu Yuehong saw these hippie smiling guys, she immediately stopped broadcasting, rushed to the window with an arrow, and pulled the curtains to prevent them from seeing her.

The guys were unwilling and slapped the glass with their hands to interfere with Niu Yuehong's broadcast.

Niu Yuehong opened the door, picked up a basin of cold water and poured it on them.

The guys fled like chickens in the soup.

Niu Yuehong stood in front of the door, with her hands on her hips, looking at the young men running in embarrassment and laughing proudly.

The girl's cheerful laughter was mixed with a soft tone with a magnetic touch. It sounds like a charming charm to the boys.

Niu Yuehong felt that the sky was blue, the wind was warm, and even the world in front of her became comfortable. It was the most beautiful moment of her girlhood. At that moment, the bleak days of her girlhood were over. A new chapter in life has begun. She feels that she is now a victor, a princess and a hero-like character who is envied and admired by everyone.

She secretly encouraged herself and said, "I just want to be a strong person." ”

Sometimes, Niu Yuehong can't help but think of the prince-like Wang Gang. She felt very unwilling to be treated coldly, and always felt that she was despised and underestimated by Wang Gang. She resented Wang Gang, but she always paid attention to all the news of Wang Gang.

Miss him?

Niu Yuehong couldn't understand her own thoughts.