Kong Lingchen carried a hoe and followed the members who had finished their work, walking towards the direction of the 10th Production Brigade of Xiangyang Commune with tired steps.

There are more than 300 people in the labor force of their brigade, of which more than 200 are local members and more than 80 are educated youths in the countryside.

The line dragged loosely, and the front part was the local members. They have been accustomed to farm work since childhood, and although they are a little tired at the end of the day, they can still talk and laugh, and some of the green-haired people still play with each other.

The educated youths who cut in line walked behind, listless and indifferent.

It's not that they can't endure hardships, they have been in the countryside for so many years, even if they couldn't do it before, they have practiced, at most, they don't do as well as the members. Their exhaustion is more of a spiritual emptiness, numbness that cannot see the future.

When they first went to the countryside, everyone was full of enthusiasm to develop and build the frontier, spread scientific knowledge to every corner of the motherland, and help the poor middle peasants to stride forward on the first road.

After they came, they learned how harsh the environment in the countryside was and how difficult the conditions were. After actually participating in farm work, they found that the knowledge they had learned was useless, and they couldn't even distinguish between dog tail grass and rice ears, so they had to learn everything from scratch!

Accept the re-education of the poor middle peasants!

It turned out that sending them to the countryside was not to let them teach the peasants, but to let them receive peasant re-education! Moreover, it is a few years, more than ten years, and "graduation" is far away, and there is no news at all. It's as if you took them out of the city and threw them in the countryside and left them alone!

After the enthusiasm subsides, all that remains is anxiety and boredom, and when the only remaining glimmer of hope is also stifled, self-abandonment, despair, numbness, being a monk hitting the clock for a day, and other thoughts have become the norm in the life of educated youth.

Some educated youths who can't survive have chosen to marry locals, and some have already given birth to children, but more people still refuse to give in to reality.

Most of them were born in cities, and they really didn't have a common language with the peasants, and their living environments and education levels were different, so it was difficult to find topics of interest to both sides. Getting married is just because you are too miserable and want to find a partner.

The local members also look down on this group of educated youth, a group of pampered city children, three people are not as good as a local member can work. If you don't know how to learn, it's not that anyone is born with everything, but these babies still think of themselves as high, and they don't want to listen to the old members' teachings, and they often mess around, or they just stuff their heads and do nonsense.

Over time, although the two sides are not bound to become fire and water, they are also going their own ways and making clear distinctions.

"Kong Lingchen, have you heard, Longkang's school is about to open." In the same group of educated youth, He Yuanchao from Chengdu leaned over and said in a low voice.

"Ahh

Kong Lingchen dragged his throat and responded weakly. Why is this hoe so heavy today, is there too much clay on it, and it hurts in the shoulder.

He had the heart to put down the hoe and take a look, but he didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he followed the ass of the person in front of him and pushed forward step by step.

But he knew it was because he had a fire burning in his heart.

Why, why did all those people who went to Weiding go to school, but he was a top student from the 35th middle school, but he had to work in the fields here every day with his back to the loess and his back to the sky, in order to eat three meals a day that could not fill his stomach?

Knowing that this would be the case, he might as well follow the others and run over to forget it, even if he was beaten to death, it would be better than living and suffering every day like this!

"Damn, that bastard Jia Zhiwen ran back again, wearing a clean military uniform and an armed belt, and ran to our bedroom with vigor and bragged to us about how good he was with the 291st Brigade. He also said that their troops are now paying allowances, and ordinary soldiers have twenty yuan, and he is a small squad deputy, and he needs two more yuan! Looking at his villainous appearance, Lao Tzu can't wait to beat him! He Yuanchao scolded, but there was a strong sour taste in his tone.

A large part of the educated youths who ran over were assigned to Yunnan. Although one is now on the farm and the other is in the People's Army, they have not completely severed contact with each other. Occasionally, there are some educated youths who will go to the original farm during the holidays to chat with their former brothers and friends.

Jia Zhiwen went out of their commune, and there are also a few fellow alumni here, so it is not surprising that he came back.

It's just that he has come back more recently, and there are a few times when he is said to have not yet come to the holidays, and he has also run back, drilling around in various bedrooms, and blowing about how good the 291st Brigade is when he catches people, and the food is delicious, and sometimes he can eat meat. In the past few days, they have begun to boast that every soldier in their brigade has received a salary book, and a minimum monthly allowance of 20 yuan, and there is a military service club, and they can buy everything sold in the county town.

But what he said, there are still many people who like to listen to it, and every time he comes, many people come over to listen to the excitement. Because of the lack of enthusiasm of the people, there are more and more people who cheat and cheat, and although they still go to the field every day, the harvest in the field is getting less and less. The food in the canteen is also decreasing day by day, and the educated youth rarely have a full time.

Listening to Jia Zhiwen's blowing through the sea, although everyone was still hungry, they felt a lot fuller mentally.

There are those who like him, and there are those who hate him.

Some people took advantage of his arrival to quietly run to inform the commune that Jia Zhiwen ran by himself, and it was the same as a deserter. When the commune caught him, it didn't criticize him, and it was inevitable that they would beat him up and make him suffer a little.

But Jia Zhiwen was also cunning, every time he sent people to guard outside, and when he found the people sent by the commune to arrest him from a distance, he immediately fled. As a result, the commune tried to catch this model several times, but he slipped away.

I didn't expect it to come again today.

This time it was a new school that was about to be established by the 291 Brigade, and it was said that several hundred teachers had been invited from the country to teach them. As long as you pass the high school diploma exam, you can be assigned a package and enter the factory to become a worker.

Phew!

Lao Tzu fell to the ground with a drop of sweat and fell eight petals, you kid can actually enter the factory as a worker! What a fucking unfair!

This is not the first time Kong Lingchen has heard this news, and there have been similar words from other farms before, but he chose not to believe it.

I can't believe it, but after believing it, isn't it even more unbalanced?

Sometimes he also has a faint feeling that the news has been spreading too much and too often recently, not only this commune, but also other communes have constantly heard news of the 291st Brigade. Someone is organizing behind the scenes to spread the news on a large scale among the educated youth in China.

However, this idea was fleeting, and whether the news was passed on or not was not something he could control. The key point is not who is spreading it, whether it is organized and purposeful to spread among the educated youth, but whether these news are true!

The placket of his back shirt was pulled, and when he looked back, it was his girlfriend, Xue Zhen, an educated youth from Zhaoqing, Guangdong.

After staying in the countryside for a long time, he lost hope for the future, and he did not have the confidence that he could survive until he returned to the city to find a girl from his hometown to marry. Xiao Zhen is very good, although she is not particularly beautiful, but she is also a young person who is in the queue, and she is also very gentle, so he launched an offensive and tried his best to chase her down, and the two officially confirmed their relationship half a year ago.

"Ling Chen, I heard that the 291st Brigade is ......," Xiao Zhen quietly pulled him aside and said in a low voice.

"School is about to start, isn't it? My ears are almost hearing the cocoon scar! I tell you not to ask around, it is still uncertain whether these things are true, and who knows what kind of heart the people who spread these news have. Besides, doesn't the Commune know? If you have the heart to wear this news, you might as well have time to wash my clothes. Kong Lingchen said impatiently.

"It's not a rumor, let me tell you, I heard that this time the 291st Brigade has no choice to enroll, and anyone can sign up for classes! If you learn it, you will be treated the same as their fighters, and you can also pack and distribute! It was rare that Xiao Zhen didn't listen to him, and said to him very seriously.

"Open...... Are you kidding! Kong Lingchen suddenly stopped.

He didn't believe the news, and stretched out his fingers and picked at his ears hard, trying to make sure that he was not blocked by earwax and had auditory hallucinations.

No Admissions?

Isn't it true that people from the 291 Brigade can also go to school?

After learning it, it will also be distributed!

There was a buzz in his head, as if someone had struck a large bell overhead, and it shook his head dizzy. The scene in front of me became blurry, and my heart was beating violently, as if I was about to lose my breath, so I had to open my mouth wide and breathe hard to ensure that I could deliver enough oxygen to my heart.

The world in front of him became a little red, I don't know if it was because of congestion, but he grabbed Xiao Zhen's shoulders and said in a dumb voice: "No choice to enroll? Also package distribution, who did you listen to, is it true? ”

"It hurts!"

Xiao Zhen's tears were about to flow out, desperately tearing his hands, but Kong Lingchen's hands were like a big tongs, clamping her shoulders tightly, making her unable to move.

"I'm sorry, I'm so excited!"

Kong Lingchen hadn't lost his mind yet, and after a while, he suddenly realized that he had hurt his girlfriend, so he hurriedly let go of his hand and apologized vigorously. At the end, you asked, "Are you true what you just said?" ”

"Of course it's true!" Xiao Zhen had the heart to ignore him and be angry with him, but looking at the expression in his eyes, he still relented, "This is the news that Jia Zhiwen brought back." It is said that their brigade commander said that building a high-tech new city requires many, many high-tech talents. They don't have it now, and they definitely can't invite them in China, so they plan to train it themselves. Anyway, the troops can only use the evening to attend classes, and it is wasted if they don't use it during the day, so they plan to simply recruit students without choice, so as to maximize the efficiency by combining daytime teaching with night school learning. ”

It turned out to be true, it turned out to be true!

Kong Lingchen's heart was pounding, and he was not so resistant to the news that Jia Zhiwen had come out. He had only one thought echoing through his mind: "I can go to school too!" Then you can get rid of the current state of life, go to work in the factory, and return to the city life! ”

He suddenly thought of a question: "But the 291st Brigade is far away from us, if we go to school there, we will definitely have to escape from the commune, what will we do in the future?" ”

In his heart, there was no choice whether to escape from the commune, only the question of how to survive after running to the 291st Brigade and having no source of income.

"It's fine!" Xiao Zhen's face was shining, and she was also excited, "Jia Zhiwen said, the school does not charge fees, it also provides accommodation, and three meals a day are provided by the army, which is regarded as a commission trainee of the army." Each trainee shall sign a contract for commissioned training on a voluntary basis, and guarantee that he will work in the military factory for at least five years after graduating from high school......"

"No problem, no problem! Not to mention five years, fifteen or fifty years! Kong Lingchen smiled.

What's the matter!

Being able to live in the city is the wish of every educated youth. This contract is not only not binding on them, but it is unwanted!

As the sun sets, the sky has become a little dark red, but at this moment, it is so bright in his eyes, full of hope for the future.

He looked up happily, and was about to express his happy feelings, but found that the team of educated youths had stopped at some point, and they were all gathered in twos and threes, talking about something fiercely and excitedly.

The breeze was blowing, and he seemed to hear "...... Room and board are provided......,...... Commission training ......".

His mood suddenly became nervous, and when he looked around, he found that almost all of them were like this, even those educated youths who had become a family in the local area and had children, all showed a mysterious expression, avoiding other people, and whispering to their acquaintances and lovers.

He took a hard breath, suddenly grabbed Xiao Zhen's hand, leaned into her ear, and said very seriously: "Xiao Zhen, I decided to leave at night, will you go?" ”

"Huh? So fast? Of course I'm going, but I have to prepare a little more, right? Xiao Zhen didn't expect him to react so violently, looking at him, if he wasn't afraid that the goal was obvious now, he would have run towards the border at this moment.

"You're stupid! If you look at other people, there are not many people who have this idea of us! This is the case with our brigade, but what about the other brigades? What about other farms? At that time, there will definitely be many educated youths who will run over there, and this scale may not be smaller than when the People's Party first started a few years ago! You see, at that time, the domestic side will definitely increase the management to stop too many people from running over. If you want to run, you have to run early, and if you are late, you may not be able to run! ”

Xiao Zhen looked at the others and nodded thoughtfully.