It's snowing.

The snowflakes fluttering all over the sky, white and vast, heaven and earth, earth and sky, and the Great Northern Wilderness turned into a goose-down-like white.

According to the requirements of Secretary Xiao of the field department, to go to college and retire from illness, trapped and return to the city to do a good job of seeing off the work, Captain Zhang arranged a liberation brand truck early in the morning, drove to the door of the male dormitory before breakfast, and then drove to the door of the female dormitory, and loaded their boxes and luggage into the car.

Zheng Fenghua, Li Jin and others finished breakfast accompanied by Captain Zhang and boarded the big truck to see them off, only Pan Xiaobiao and Jinghu were in the cab, and the rest of the people who returned to the city, plus those who were going to the county railway station to see them off, had to be crowded on the truck. In fact, this is also used to it, and the educated youth are satisfied, and when they first entered the field, they wanted to take a ride to the county, and they had to be looked at by the driver, and in the end they still didn't hit.

The educated youths, veteran workers, family members, cadres of government agencies, and so many peasant workers who had completed their sentences and were employed crowded around the three layers of the big truck, and some shook hands and shook them again, and Principal Qian, Wei Liangchen, Mu Guihua, and others brought them salted goose eggs and boiled eggs to eat on the road.

Li Jin, Zheng Fenghua and others had wet eye circles and shed tears.

Many of the people who saw them off choked up and shed tears.

The snow is still falling, and the luggage and boxes loaded in the car, all the ones that are carried and delivered, have all turned into white flowers.

"Tick-tick-tick-"

Li Jinyi waved his hand and ordered loudly: "Prepare-prepare-Qi!" ”

Jiefang brand truck slowly started with the educated youths returning to the city, and in the sound of faster and faster wheels, the educated youths on the car waved their hands rhythmically and shouted goodbye:

"Goodbye, folks!"

"Goodbye, friends!"

"Goodbye to the Great Northern Wilderness!"

……

As soon as the Jiefang brand drove out of the field and turned onto the gravel road, when he was filling the accelerator, Li Jinyi took the lead, and the people in the whole car actually howled and cried, they hugged each other and cried, they waved their hands, and they were crying to the people who were still faintly visible seeing off, and the crying sounded into a piece.

"Tick-tick-tick-"

This is the driver in the preview car people to stand firm, with the rear of the smoke pipe out of a thick smoke, Jiefang brand truck on the white road quickly threw off two wheel prints, towards the county railway station.

The big trucks were speeding away, and the wind was whistling in their ears with the snowflakes, and no one felt cold. The educated youths were clustered, their backs to the direction of driving to avoid the wind and cold, the three teams were thrown away, the sweaty black soil was thrown away, a white branch and silver flower-like shelterbelt was thrown away, and the familiar wheeled road was thrown away......

It was on this road that Li Jin escaped from the "study class" in handcuffs, kneeling in the vast dark night begging for a car to carry his feet; It was on this road that Captain Zhang led the armed militia to chase down the deserted friends who returned to the city for the Spring Festival and were not allowed to take a vacation; It was on this road that he left the sad cry that Magnolia returned to the city to spend the difficult days and months after being raped by Wang Mingming......

Ah, the wheels are spinning, leaving behind the unbearable sorrowful wasted years!

How did they know that when the Jiefang brand truck drove into the county seat, another Jiefang brand truck of the third team was driven by Zhang Xiaokang and chased after him in a hurry! It turned out that as soon as the big truck to Li Jin and others set off, Wang Da was stunned and hurriedly wrote a report letter in cursive, without leaving his name, and cleverly sent it to Yuan Dacang, who was in mourning, saying that Li Jin, Ma Guangdi, Ding Yuechun and others secretly loaded the public property in their boxes and luggage. He quickly reported to Captain Zhang. When Captain Zhang was hesitating, he agreed at the instigation of Tian Yeyi. Yuan Dacang immediately called the director of the police station, found several people, boarded the car and chased after him, and rushed to the cargo department of the station before their luggage was checked in. He firmly believes: No matter if you go to college or return to the city, stealing things is to obey the law, and if you really turn it out, you will give me the fuck back to the city! Get it all back and deal with it! When the evidence is overwhelming, it is useless for anyone to say. If this is the case, it will also relieve the hatred in the heart of Li Jin's boys! Yuan Dacang repeatedly asked Captain Zhang to lead the team in person, but Captain Zhang refused to do anything, and said that the field department came to call to inform him, asking him to arrange for the acceptance of newly recruited employees as soon as possible. If you don't go, you won't go, when Yuan Cannon jumped into the car majestically, he wanted to laugh, and secretly laughed and shouted: Li Jin, Li Jin, see who laughs at the end......

Where did Yuan Dacang know, just when he was urging the car to chase after him, Secretary Xiao and the director of the Public Security Bureau also rushed to chase after him in a Beijing brand jeep. The reason for this incident is this: when Captain Zhang promised Yuan Dacang and Tian Ye to pursue Li Jin and others under the leadership of the head of the police station, he hesitated to make a decision. After Yuan Dacang set off, he was extremely conflicted in his heart, in all fairness, he hoped to find public property in their suitcases or luggage, so that they would be ruined...... But thinking about it again, what if Yuan Dacang is searched out, what if he can't find it? What if Li Jin's gang of boys don't let them search? What if a fight kills? Then you won't be able to eat and walk away! The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and he hurriedly picked up the phone and reported to the Public Security Bureau, which heard that it was a matter of the third team, and felt that the matter was very important, so he immediately reported it to Secretary Xiao. Secretary Xiao had arranged for the car to go to the station to see off Zheng Fenghua and others, and by the way, he picked up the first batch of rural villagers in the south who came to the farm to settle down to enrich the workforce, killing two birds with one stone. This formed a scene in which the big truck in which Li Jin and others were riding was speeding away, the big truck in which Yuan Cannon was riding was following in a hurry, and the car in which Secretary Xiao was riding was in a hurry.

After Zheng Fenghua, Li Jin and others arrived at the cargo department of the railway station, the soldiers divided into three ways: all the way to the waiting room to buy train tickets, all the way to the cargo office to handle the luggage check-in, and the rest to look at the boxes and luggage.

Yuan Dacang looked at his watch from time to time, urging Zhang Xiaokang to drive the Jiefang brand truck straight to the door of the cargo department.

"Stop-one-stop-" Before the big truck could stop, Yuan Cannon pushed the car door with a "bang", jumped out of the car first, and jumped up the cement steps in front of the door of the cargo department in a few steps.

Subsequently, the head of the police station, Tian Ye and others arrived and showed Zheng Fenghua, Li Jin and others the proof of searching the boxes and luggage, and then more than a dozen team staff began to unpack the boxes and luggage that were being carried through the weighbridges to the cargo warehouse.

Zheng Fenghua couldn't bear it for a while: "What are you doing here?" ”

"Isn't it very clearly written on the search warrant?" Yuan Cannon was full of arrogance, pinching his waist with both hands, not even glancing at Zheng Fenghua, staring and looking forward to the "results" that would appear in the boxes and luggage.

He couldn't wait, he thought that the person who did it was too slow, so he helped him move his hands, first opened a large wooden box with the consignee's note Ma Guangdi, turned it over, and threw out some worn-out shoes and socks and clothes, and turned out two small planers and two saw blades at the bottom of the box.

"Humph! What else to say! Yuan Dacang looked at Ma Guangdi viciously, pinched his waist, and chuckled inexorably, "Ma Guangdi, he kept saying that he had changed from a 'fake educated youth' to a 'revolutionary youth', just this change, hum - he has become a thief, eating the farm and drinking the farm, and before leaving, he wants to steal the farm, what crime should he be guilty of?" He waved his hand, "Search!" ”

Everyone present was stunned. Han Qiumei's face was sallow and she went up to plead: "Platoon Commander Yuan, how much money should we give, see how much we have been together for more than nine years......

"Don't give me a rambling face!" He reprimanded one side of his face with a vertical face, and found that Ma Guangdi was gritting his teeth and glaring, and loudly ordered the police station chief next to him: "Load the gun!" Strictly prevent thieves from retaliating! ”

The head of the police station and the two police officers drew their pistols, "clicked" and pushed the bullet into the load, and the two team burners and sweepers beside Yuan Dacang clenched the big sticks in their hands.

Dangerous, very dangerous, if Ma Guangdi, Li Jin and others resist a little, there will be a bloody battle! A bloody battle worse than that martial arts!

Ma Guangdi didn't dig into anything in his luggage.

At this time, more than a dozen luggage and boxes were opened, and Ding Yuechun's box turned out a hoe and a sickle head; An axe was found in Li Jin's suitcase, even Liang Yuying and Bai Yulan had a hoe or sickle head in their luggage, and Pan Xiaobiao's luggage was tied to a wicker hat worn by a miner......

Seeing that no one was willing to touch Zheng Fenghua's luggage, Yuan Dacang rushed over and shouted, "Come!" Open this one for me! ”

"You have to hurry, we are still waiting for the delivery to catch the train!" Zheng Fenghua said.

"I'm sorry," Yuan Cannon said dismissively, "I'm afraid you won't be able to leave!" ”

"What did you say?" Li Jin asked menacingly, leaning forward to Yuan Dacang as he asked.

Zheng Fenghua blocked Li Jin: "Be calm!" After a while, there was something to say together. ”

"How?" Yuan Cannon glanced at the educated youth who had been turned out all of a sudden, "What do you want?" I'm here on behalf of the organization with the approval of Captain Zhang! Let me first tell you a simple truth, the party's policy has always been frank and lenient, strict in resistance, insisted on resisting, and the crime will be increased by one degree, and there will be no regret medicine sold at that time! ”

At this time, Ma Guangdi, Ding Yuechun and others had already copied their belongings, some of which were used by freight workers, and some of which were tightly held by the weighing stones......

"No one-quasi-hands-on-who ......" Secretary Xiao jumped out of the jeep and shouted as he walked, "What's going on?" ”

Yuan Dacang snatched words with joy: "Secretary Xiao, this is simply not like words!" He angrily pointed to the hoes, sickles and other objects that were turned over: "It's really hard to prevent thieves, if you want to leave, you have to get a handful, and you have to steal a ......."

"Stay-——!" Zheng Fenghua couldn't bear to say, "Who is not like words?" ”

Yuan Dacang asked: "Looking at you like this, are you still stealing things and stealing reason?" You're going to college now, aren't you the secretary of the party branch or a member of the Communist Party? ”

"Don't play with him!" Ding Yuechun pulled Zheng Fenghua, picked up the hoe and sickle head, and said to Secretary Xiao anxiously and angrily, "Secretary Xiao, take a good look at this hoe and sickle head, this is the first year I went to the countryside to get it from the custodian, eight years, I used it for eight years, I didn't use them since last year, and I replaced them with new ones." This hoe collar is eight inches, now only three and a half inches, this sickle head, three inches when leading, now only more than one inch, is the two of them, with my passage in the Great Northern Wilderness years grinded, thinned, should be thrown away when the new is received, I saved them, in order to make a commemoration, when I miss the Great Northern Wilderness, when I miss Secretary Xiao and Xiao's mother, I can look at it...... I'm bringing them back for a permanent memory......"

Li Jin held an axe, and said excitedly: "Secretary Xiao, I have been in the countryside for more than nine years, and I have been doing carpentry, I just used it, cut and repaired tens of thousands of hoes, sickle handles, and pickaxe handles, I sharpened them, blunt them and sharpened them, you see, there is no steel on the axe blade at all, and it doesn't look like an axe, but like a hammer......

"Don't say it, don't say it!" Ma Guangdi picked up the planer and saw blade that had been turned out of his box, and threw them on the ground with a "bang", "No, we don't want it!" He angrily rushed to Zheng Fenghua again: "Zheng Fenghua, you, you, you...... We don't have anything to say, it's useless to say, you're not in power anymore......"

"Secretary Xiao," Zheng Fenghua moved a few steps to Secretary Xiao, and said with tears in his eyes, "A few of them told me when they had just a clue about the return to the city that once the return procedures were completed and they were about to leave the farm, they hoped to bring these things back to the city as a souvenir, and I agreed." At that time, they said that they would pay some money, and I said forget it, it was all scrap anyway......" he said in a lower tone, "At that time, I hadn't received the admission letter, and I hadn't been dismissed from my job......

There was silence around them, and people were watching the development of events intently.

"Scrap?" Yuan Dacang snorted and said, "Scrap products should also be recycled, and scrap iron can still be sold to the country for money!" ”

Secretary Xiao grabbed Yuan Cannon's two arms tightly, and his eyes moistened: "Cannon, you're right!" That's right! That's right, scrapped is also the property of the state......" The more he said, the louder and more passionate he became, "You have heard it, since these educated youths who have returned to the city have this affection for our Great Northern Wilderness, let's do it together, on behalf of the party committee of the field, and you represent the educated youths who stayed in the field, give these things to them as the most precious gifts, give them them!" After I went back, I asked the office to send a document to give the labor tools that the educated youths had used for many years as precious gifts as a commemoration of their return to the city, and give them them——"

Everyone present applauded enthusiastically, even the porters at the cargo department.

Yuan Dacang was stunned, Tian Ye was stunned, and those who came to search were stunned.

"Children-" Secretary Xiao wiped away his tears of excitement and said, "You are about to leave the Great Northern Wilderness, I originally arranged to see you off, on behalf of the party committee of the field, and on behalf of the educated youth left behind, Platoon Commander Yuan will give these things to you as the most precious gifts-" He said and picked up those things and sent them to Li Jin and Ma Guangdi one by one. As soon as he looked up, he saw that Yuan Cannon was still standing there stunned, so he went over and pulled him and said, "Platoon Commander Yuan, come on, I have expressed my heart on behalf of you, do it quickly......"

"Secretary Xiao—" Li Jin threw himself into Secretary Xiao's arms and cried.

"Secretary Xiao—" Ding Yuechun threw herself into Secretary Xiao's arms and cried.

"Secretary Xiao—"

"Secretary Xiao—"

……

Zheng Fenghua, Xi Chundi, Jiang Tingting, Han Qiumei...... All the educated youths who were about to return to the city and embark on the journey shouted and cried and pounced.

They hugged and whimpered, for a long, long time.

Secretary Xiao was already full of tears.

"Don't get excited! Don't get excited! The freight clerk shouted, "Quickly pack up and bundle up on the scales, the train is about to enter the station......

Everyone, including those who had come to search, were also busy.

After the luggage was re-bundled and weighed, it entered the cargo warehouse. Li Jin wiped his tears, hugged one of Secretary Xiao's arms, put his face on his chest and whimpered: "Secretary Xiao, we have lived on the farm for more than nine years, and we have not worried you or made you angry...... I blamed me for that fight, not Platoon Commander Yuan, I'm sorry for you......" The crying voice became louder and louder, so sad, so uncontrollable.

"Alas......" Secretary Xiao hugged Li Jin and sighed, his voice was a little dull, "You are all children, you are children who have not yet started a family!" To be honest, I have learned a lot of valuable things from you, but you must remember that when you return to your new position in the city, you must not be willful, you should be mature. I believe that your nine years of life on the farm will not be in vain, and I believe that you, the educated youths who have withstood the test of the Great Northern Wilderness blizzard, will make great achievements in the future......"

The educated youths listened and nodded.

The train started.

"Children-" Secretary Xiao took off his hat and waved it in his hand, "When you get to the city, don't forget our Great Northern Wilderness-"

Zheng Fenghua, Li Jin, Ma Guangdi, Ding Yuechun and others poked their heads out of the three car windows, waved their hands and responded together: "Xiao - book - remember, your words - we - remember - stop-"

The sound shook the falling snowflakes.

The sound drove off into the distance with the rumbling of wheels......

October 1993 - October 1996

In Jixi City - Hulin City