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That's all for later. I recently watched the "Documentary" channel, and hundreds of thousands of educated youths in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province wrote letters to Deng Xiao and Ping, asking to go home. After that, just like the vigorous movement of intellectual youth going to the mountains and going to the countryside, the vigorous movement of intellectual youth returning to the city was at the end of 1978. Seeing this, I feel that among the educated youth, all of us in the group are very lucky. After we go down. The labor performance was good, the relationship between the cadres and the masses was good, and they all returned to the city after two years. Compared with the educated youths from all over the country in the primeval jungle of Xishuangbanna, some of whom did not return to the city until the end of 1979, we returned to the city nine years earlier. However, it was something that happened in these two short years that changed Xia Qiuyi's life and me.

There is a line in the TV series to the effect of: "The more the two parties love each other, the more they will hurt each other." I never forget that.

Half a year after we went to the countryside, Feng Meimei came to our group. She refused to leave, but then she couldn't go any longer, so she chose to go to the place where we cut the line, and asked to join our group. The school mobilized her people to go to the countryside to complete the task, and agreed to her request, without even our consent. This is like forcibly selling us something that we don't want, Feng Meimei roared and drove in with her bags.

Hua Jun was the first to express indignation at Feng Meimei's entry into our group:

"How did she get into our group, it almost me off!"

Hua Jun expressed our common mentality.

Feng Meimei was led into the door by the old captain and the 5.7 cadres of the commune. Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, the old captain is usually good to us, and we don't want to offend the cadres of the commune. We reluctantly arranged a bedroom for Feng Meimei.

The production team let us live in a house that is not small, and it is a single family. The owner, his wife and their children all had tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was no longer a terminal disease back then, and the medical conditions in rural areas were poor, and families died one after another.

This is an unowned house, except for a large hall house, there are four wings on the front and back, left and right. Xia and Qiu Yi and Fang Ci lived in the south wing; Hua Jun and I live in the North Wing; the other south wing room is lived by Shi Shuliang and Mei Quntao; There is also an empty north wing, which is our storage room, where some farm tools, rice, vegetables and other miscellaneous items are stored. We cleaned that room, and it became Feng Meimei's boudoir.

Our daily activities are in the hall, the bedroom is black and hollow, two meters above the ground There is a hole in the wall, and we can't usually read, so we can only sleep. The production team made a table for us in the hall, big enough to play table tennis. We used it as a dining table, a table tennis table, a chess and card table, and in the summer when it was hot, we boys spread mats on the table and used it as a cool bed.

Feng Meimei can speak, her lips are not ordinarily thin, like two pancakes pressed over the head of a rolling pin overlapping her face, which is a sample of eloquence of "two layers of skin on the human mouth, no matter how you say it". For some reason, in the class, the girl she doesn't like to see the most is Xia Qiuyi, and she looks down on Xia Qiuyi picking up garbage at home. In fact, the two families are each other, Feng Meimei's mother also has no job, and she carries a lot of soil in the Zhuanggong Brigade, but his father is not dead. Of course, Feng Meimei has her strengths, and she is very good at housework. Xia Qiu is also a man's character, female red is not good, and she is not good at needles and threads. However, the problem with the table, the chair, the door and the nose is all her fault. She even repairs locks, so it's no wonder she once unlocked a brand-new jeep. It's too peaceful, Xia and Autumn are useless heroes, and in troubled times, she should be a good female thief. As for Fang Cixiu, because Shi Shuliang protects him tightly, he can't do housework. Back then, Shi Shuliang had something to do to go to Fang Ci's house, dripping into ice in the cold winter wax moon, Shi Shuliang saw Fang Ci correcting and washed a large basin of clothes, his hands were frozen like ten carrots, Shi Shuliang was distressed, rolled up his sleeves and helped wash together, thus achieving a lifelong relationship. We boys have some needlework and thread work, and we would rather shake our left hand and tremble our right hand to do it ourselves, and we don't bother the two eldest ladies. After Feng Meimei came, the situation changed greatly. She always got up early in the morning to wash our boys' clothes, dried them and folded them to the edges and corners of the bed. The seams of our pants and buttocks will blow up the threads, and it is common to wear the buttocks and panties of the workers in a mess. Socks are always broken, and Chang Yi has no money to buy new ones. Whenever this happens, Feng Meimei will always sew our pants to prevent us from making a fool of ourselves at the back, and will also pick up our discarded socks, fine needles and threads, and add a new bottom to it. For this reason, our impression of Feng Meimei has changed greatly. Only Hua Jun, invulnerable, once even threw the clothes she washed for him into the water and rewashed them himself. We all feel that Huajun is too much, people's hearts are a flowing river, moisturizing things silently, and we are all close to Feng Meimei.

For Huajun, Feng Meimei is always obsessed. It can be said that when she sharpened her head and wanted to come in, she came for Hua Jun. How could Hua Jun reject her thousands of miles away. Therefore, women chasing men are chasing backwards, and it is difficult to do things backwards, turning counterclockwise and reversing. Although she is unwilling in every way, she can only accept the reality. Feng Meimei, like many girls, has a beautiful vision of love, I don't know why, I know that Xia Qiu and I have long been a couple, but she wants to insert it, and secretly tells her best friend that she and Xia Qiu are also rivals. My best friend is a village girl, illiterate, I don't know what a rival is, I thought it was a relative, and I even asked Xia Qiu for confirmation. Only then did Xia Qiu know that there was a junior in his family who wanted to come in. Xia Qiu is also very arrogant, although she rejected me because of family problems, she is a very confident person in her bones, she doesn't take Xiao San seriously, and she fully trusts me. I didn't think that Feng Meimei's green head would bite like a fly, and Hua Jun would bite my head. Actually, I don't feel too bad about Feng Meimei, although she is a money mischief at school, she is young and naïve, and she has done unpopular things with the head teacher, and she has not made a big mistake of stealing and pickpocketing. As for her incompatibility with Hua Jun, I tend to sympathize with her, feeling that she is in love with someone she shouldn't love. Just like me, it is impossible for me to treat her the same way as Xia Qiu. I feel like Feng Meimei is like Hua Jun to Feng Meimei - I don't feel it. Oh, it's a little different, because she harassed Hua Jun, Hua Jun has feelings for her, that is, disgust. I don't dislike her, maybe she doesn't give me a wink. I think Feng Meimei is a good match for a muscular man in the class. He has well-developed limbs and a simple mind, except for being busy on the playground all day long, he always holds a copy of the "Russian-Chinese Dictionary" in his spare time. It stands to reason that he is not bad at Russian, but he always comes at the bottom of every exam. Feng Meimei, like him, has a performative personality, although she claims to be literary, she doesn't see how brilliant what she writes.

However, there are some things about Feng Meimei that always make people feel pity. She is sick, don't look at her normal sinus and abnormal reproductive system. Her lower body is closed, and a coffee-colored, fishy, smelly liquid flows from her nose and mouth every month. I later asked my mother, and I knew that this was called "menstruation", and the shedding endometrium had nowhere to go, but to break out of the encirclement and go to the side door. She has to "reverse menstruation" every month and have a few days of "illness". This kind of woman is commonly called "stone girl". Everyone else didn't care about her, I always poured water for her and made her rinse. That's probably why she thinks so badly about me. The rest of the group was sneering at my actions, and Xia Qiu did not, so to speak, my care for Feng Meimei was tacitly approved by Xia Qiuyi. Xia and Qiu don't seem to be jealous, it's a treasure among women. I know that women are jealous like female tigers, with teeth and claws, which is terrible.

The night of the accident was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the group accepted an invitation from another group of students in the class to go to a banquet. Later, I heard that I actually burned a table the size of a ping-pong table. With money and strength, both male and female students donated the treasures sent by their families - salted fish, bacon, and kelp. I was the deputy captain of the basic militia of the brigade at the time, and I went to the commune to attend a meeting about the basic militia and did not go with me. When I came home after the meeting, I saw Feng Meimei alone in the empty court, and she said that she was at home and waited for me to come back, and she would go with me. It was already dark at that time, and it was estimated that we would only have to eat leftovers even if we rushed to the ground with long scuds. The educated youths in the countryside are all wolves, and there is too little oil and water in their stomachs on weekdays, so they finally catch the opportunity to feast. Feng Meimei suggested not going, let's spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at home. I looked at the sky and felt that there was no other choice, so I agreed. Feng Meimei cooked a table of dishes neatly with her hands and feet. I can't imagine that her boudoir is like the treasure cave of the forty thieves of Alibaba, and she hides so many treasures, and I don't know if she brought it from home and refused to hand it over, and the food that we all brought from home has been confiscated, or if it was sent by her family recently. She also conjured up a bottle of "Fenjiu" like a trick, saying that it was given by her sister Linxing. That night, we had three rounds of wine and five flavors, and talked a lot, from high school to culture and revolution, and from culture and revolution to going to the countryside. She asked me suddenly:

"Wu Xiaolu, what do you think has changed the most in the world?"

I said, "Man! ”

"How so?"

"You probably didn't notice, but I never called a baby a baby, because Hitler was a baby. Uncle Zhang, who is next door to my house, said that he loved his youngest son the most since he was a child, lying on the ground as a cow, and letting the baby ride on the back of the cow. Now, his baby is in his forties, not only did he give birth to a baby, but he also became a fierce old baby, asking for money every three or five times, and he wanted it, or he used a stick to whip Uncle Zhang, and he really treated his father as a cow. Also, you know, Wang Jing, Wei, Chen Bijun and his wife are a Chinese traitor couple, not only a traitor, but also the biggest traitor in China. However, at the beginning of the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, because he had no money, Liao Zhongkai, who was in charge of finance, went everywhere and borrowed money. One day, Liao Zhongkai went to Wang and Jingwei's house to raise funds. Chen Bijun couldn't take out the cash, so he took out a box. Liao Zhongkai opened it and saw that it was full of a large box of dazzling jewelry. Liao Zhongkai didn't dare to ask for it at that time, and said: "I can't afford to pay it back then." Chen Bijun said, "Who wants you to pay it back?" The state needs money now, and I should take it out for the state. "You see, this is the change of people. If Liao Zhongkai knew underground and knew that Wang Jing and Wei would become like that later, he wouldn't be able to understand it. ”