Chapter Forty-Eight: Hongxia Returns to the City (I)
Chapter 48: Hongxia Returns to the City (1)
In the blink of an eye, 78 years later, most of the educated youth still remain in the countryside.
Zhao Hongxia has not been in contact with Li Yongjun for nearly a year. Zhao Hongxia's fiery heart towards Li Yongjun began to slowly turn cold.
"People's hearts change." Zhao Hongxia sighed softly.
At this time, Zhao Hongxia heard cheers nearby, and felt a little strange, and when she went out to take a look, she saw that some educated youths actually started to set off firecrackers.
"Hongxia, Hongxia!" Tang Qianrui rushed towards Zhao Hongxia in a hurry. After that incident, Tang Qianrui apologized to Zhao Hongxia many times and assured Zhao Hongxia that something similar would never happen in the future. Zhao Hongxia was angry for a long time, and finally forgave Tang Qianrui.
Although Tang Qianrui promised not to force Zhao Hongxia, he did not say that he would no longer pursue Zhao Hongxia. Although Zhao Hongxia's heart couldn't accommodate Tang Qianrui, she had no disgust for Tang Qianrui.
"Hongxia, things have taken a turn for the better! An article was published in the "China Youth Daily", which was to speak for our educated youth. You see, this is it. The front page of "Correctly Understanding the Problem of Educated Youths Going to the Mountains and Going to the Countryside" is almost full. It shows that the Party Central Committee has begun to consider our problems. Tang Qianrui was extremely excited.
When Zhao Hongxia heard the good news, she naturally couldn't suppress her excitement, "Give it to me, show me." ”
Zhao Hongxia snatched the newspaper from Tang Qianrui's hand, but she always felt that the words on the newspaper were so small, and when she looked at it, she just couldn't read it, and she didn't know what was said in it. Just after reading the title, tears were already pouring out like a spring.
"Finally, we were finally able to go home!" Zhao Hongxia only said this, then squatted on the ground, hugged her head and cried.
"Crying, crying. We have to be happy! Tang Qianrui couldn't see Zhao Hongxia sad, and comforted on the side, but he didn't notice that there were also two lines of tears on his face.
If you haven't experienced it, it's hard to experience it.
The whole Caiyun Farm cried, and each educated youth used their own unique way to vent the depression in their hearts, and they had waited too long for this moment. Despite this scarred place, the peasants are to live happily ever after.
Firecrackers happily jumped on the ground, and the sound of firecrackers mixed with the sound of gongs and drums. A new era began to stride.
But Zhao Hongxia's return to the city waited until 79. Although the return to the city began as early as around 75 years, the real large-scale return to the city did not wait until after 79 years.
Zhao Hongxia got the news of returning to the city, but He Ni was in trouble. At that time, the policy of the party and the state was: Educated youths who stayed in the countryside could return to the city, but there were two specific policy restrictions: married educated youths could not return to the city, and those who had been arranged by the state and had attended a college or secondary school, whether it was arranged for you to be in a local commune, a rural distribution station in the township, an agricultural machinery factory in the county seat, or a primary school in a certain mountain township, as long as the state gave you a job and a salary, the state solved the problem for you, and you could not come back.
In Ho Ni's case, both conditions have been met. In fact, He Ni didn't want to leave, she was different from other educated youths here, she lived a very happy life. There is a man who loves her, and she also has a lovely son. But the letter from home made her a little unsure of what to do.
The parents of the family did not approve of her marriage, and it was not ordinarily difficult to let a city person marry in that era. The people in the city eat the grain of the state, while the peasants eat the soil. The people in the city take iron rice bowls, but the peasants take clay rice bowls.
"Sister, what are you going to do? You're going to have to stay here for the rest of your life. "Caiyun Farm is not much different from hell to Zhao Hongxia.
"That's it. I'm fine here too. Except for being a little far away from my mother's house, everything else is fine. He Ni said.
"Ugh." Zhao Hongxia didn't expect that He Ni's situation was indeed a little different from his own, but he quickly found a reason to convince He Ni, "You are willing to stay in Zhangjiashan now, have you ever thought that such a smart child as Shanhai can only stay here for the rest of his life and live a chaotic life?" If you can go back to SH, you will have the opportunity to let Shanhai go to SH in the future. In SH, I deliberately received a better education, had better living conditions, and was able to marry a better daughter-in-law. Do you want to see Shanhai like the peasants in Zhangjiashan, living a confused life for generations? ”
To be honest, this remark touched He Ni. Although He Ni does not think that the farmers in Zhangjiashan are as chaotic as Zhao Hongxia said. Zhao Hongxia did not really integrate into the lives of the peasants in Zhangjiashan like He Ni, and Zhao Hongxia, like most educated youth, was like a passer-by, never putting herself on the same level as the peasants here. Even they don't bother to get to know the farmers here.
But He Ni really hopes that Zhang Shanhai can receive the best education and be able to sit in a bright classroom to study, not in a low classroom like Caiyun Primary School. There, she taught math and Chinese, as well as art, physical education and music. Like an all-rounder, in fact, He Ni knows that she is not an all-rounder, but under the conditions here, she can only adapt.
He Ni knew that her son was different from the children in Zhangjiashan, and he was much better than any of the children here. Although she didn't know exactly what the reason was. The people of Zhangjiashan attribute Zhang Shanhai's difference to the fact that he has a different mother.
Zhang Yunyang is also very conflicted in his heart, of course, his mother-in-law sleeps in her arms every day. This man who doesn't know what love is, but he loves his mother-in-law very much, and let He Ni stay in this poor Zhangjiashan with him all his life, which makes him feel guilty deep in his heart.
"Mother-in-law, can you think of a way, you go back to the city first, and if you have the opportunity in the future, you will bring the mountains and seas over?" Zhang Yunyang said softly.
"Even if I go with the mountains and seas, what about you? Now that so many educated youths have returned to the city, their families will definitely not be able to take them. Besides, now that I have met both conditions, I can't go back even if I want to! Don't always feel like you owe me, in fact, I'm very happy here, and I'm very satisfied with you and the cubs. He Ni said.
He Ni said and glanced at Zhang Shanhai, who was playing not far away, Zhang Shanhai was still practicing madness.
"Madman, you're standing upright. You can stabilize the bowl of water above my head, if I hit the bowl, I will go back and be spanked by my mother, I can't spare you. Zhang Shanhai threatened.
This kid has more and more ghost ideas, but fortunately, the madman never complains, what Zhang Shanhai wants him to do has always been meticulously executed, and he has completely become a knife in Zhang Shanhai's hands.
Although Zhang Shanhai is a little nonsense, his practice is very effective. Several practitioners in Zhangjiashan saw Zhang Shanhai practicing a madman, and some skills were itchy, so they tried to compete with the madman, but none of them were the enemies of the madman.
Crazy people are ruthless, and these practitioners have learned a lesson that will never be forgotten for a lifetime. Since then, no one in Zhangjiashan has dared to fight the madman. Even the nickname "madman" can only be called behind his back.
Zhang Shanhai, who has grown two years older, has grown a lot taller, and he stands out among his peers. The villagers began to slowly ignore Zhang Shanhai's age.
After Zhang Shanhai's grain exchange, even He Ni and Zhang Yunyang no longer simply treat Zhang Shanhai as a child.