What an unexpected pleasure!

Parents, units, and some aspects of society are doing their best to fulfill their responsibilities, and finally passing the approval and acceptance procedures of the Municipal Educated Youth Office is much happier than the issuance procedures at the farm. Li Jin, Ma Guangdi, and Ding Yuechun's return to the city came to the city, and even Pan Xiaobiao's came the day before they were discharged from the hospital. Shanghai educated youth Xi Chundi's sick discharge acceptance procedures are here, and what is even happier is that the factory where Zhu Amei was originally scheduled to be transported at the technical secondary school came to recruit workers, and Zheng Fenghua's admission notice also came......

It's decided, it's done. A novelty happened in the team last night, after Li Jin and Zhu Amei each got the notice of returning to the city, they completed the formalities and held an unregistered wedding according to the contract! He actually borrowed a semi-empty grass house in the family area of the "Second Labor Reform", and 180 educated youths volunteered to decorate the "cave house." Although it was a simple marriage ceremony, it attracted men, women, and children from the team to come for sightseeing! Li Jin made a speech in the groom's speech, officially announcing that he would put an end to the nine-year-old marathon love song with Zhu Amei, and at the same time declared: Don't look at us without registering our marriage, no one can sue us for illegal cohabitation, and we will apply for a marriage registration certificate after returning to the city and settling down the household registration......

What a funny, funny, and deep wedding with a gray and joyful atmosphere!

Men's dormitory, women's dormitory, and small families of educated youth, line by line of tears, joy again and again.

It is strange to say, the educated youths have been hollowing out their hearts to do the time when they returned to the city, everyone hated to put on their wings and fly back to the city at once, now, the procedures for returning to the city have been firmly put into their pockets, and they can immediately shake their hands and set off, but no one moved, some of them actually held the procedures for returning to the city, staring at the bunk horn on the long kang and shed tears. When they came to the countryside, the city mobilized again, and they beat gongs and drums and wore flowers to see them off, which was not so easy; Now I can't leave easily, more than nine years, almost ten years, this is the best period of life! Reminisce and remember those stories full of ups and downs, take a good look at this land and this water, and walk around all the sweaty land, mountains and forests...... Some even proposed that they wanted to work for another day, and they didn't need to be paid, and they compared who sweated the most, which was the last shift for the Great Northern Wilderness Station. Some proposed to have a farewell meal with the old workers who had formed a relationship...... Xi Chundi said with tears in her eyes that she would never forget the hand-rolled noodles and poached eggs that Secretary Xiao and his wife sent to the kang head many times when she was sick, and was taken to the house when it was cold......

Seeing that he was about to say goodbye, a complicated and amorous mind opened to the Great Northern Wilderness!

Li Jin declared hoarsely: He is the "advocacy officer" of the three teams returning to the city, and as long as he does not leave the three teams for a day, he will have the final say! There is a farewell event, all who have obtained the formalities of returning to the city must participate, and everyone unanimously supports it.

The geese flew away, the leaves of the trees were gone, and the weeds of Dadianzi withered and yellowed. The early winter desert is sprayed with desolation in the wind, and the heat in the sun's rays is deducted from the high altitude, and the tractors, seeders, and harvesters who have screamed for spring, summer and autumn are lying quietly in the agricultural airport surrounded by iron fences, safely enduring the cold attack and greater tests, they seem to firmly believe that they are the sowers of spring in the Great Northern Wilderness, even if the spring is still far away, it has begun to call for them a new spring......

Li Jin demanded: Everyone wears the yellow cotton military uniforms issued in the city when they go to the countryside, almost all of them are very torn, and there are many flowers, and some don't want to wear them, they want to wear them freshly and freshly, and take a few photos at that time. He shouted: Resolutely! Fortunately, everyone keeps it, whether it's good or bad, and it should be kept as a souvenir. Liang Yuying, Ding Yuechun and others also put on the small saffron and cloth strips that had been pressed on the bottom of the box for nearly ten years, and some also carried a small kettle with a strap that was also issued when they went to the countryside, and filled it with a small "two pot head", which was also like carrying it on their backs when they went to the countryside, and gathered in front of the dormitory of the Male Educated Youth University after breakfast.

The first batch of educated youths who returned to the city came on time in such costumes. Pan Xiaobiao has been discharged from the hospital and has also arrived. After the diagnosis of experts in the province and Beijing, his blindness was a foregone conclusion and could not be saved. Wearing sunglasses and holding a pathfinder stick (which was carefully made by Ma Guangdi and Li Jin), he became an indispensable "guide friend" in front and behind. Everyone persuaded him not to participate, and his arm was still splint, but he refused and argued anxiously: The doctor said that the broken bone heals very well, as long as you don't fall and bump it, you should move more!

Li Jin came, and he also wore the yellow cotton military hat issued that year. He opened his eyes, raised his right hand and shouted: Comrades returning to the city, gather in a horizontal line!

Everyone quickly stood in a horizontal row. Educated youth, employees and their families who were about to go to work came together to see the excitement. chattering, I can't guess what kind of fame Li Jin is going to do before leaving.

"Stand---" Li Jin shouted solemnly, "Rest-" He was even more majestic than Wang Da was stunned back then, "Friends of the wilderness, today, the first batch of educated youths who are about to return to the city and leave here are proposed by me to carry out this activity in a unified manner, and they must all listen to the command of me, the 'advocacy officer', otherwise you will never be polite!" Here are three requirements: first, I will be the commander-in-chief; Second, everyone must start and finish well,......" he said and moved the camera belt rope on his shoulder, pointed at Zheng Fenghua and said: "Comrade Fenghua, your party branch secretary and official rank have gloriously completed the historical mission, standing in this team means that you are an ordinary soldier returning to the city, but you have to listen to the command!" ”

His serious language and funny tone made everyone laugh.

"Laughing at what? Unorganized and undisciplined! Li Jin straightened his face, pointed to the surrounding people watching the excitement and said, "You don't buy tickets when you see the excitement, you are still laughing here, and you don't follow the rules and hide from me!" ”

Everyone laughed again.

"Just laugh! I can't help you when you laugh. He couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.

"Be quiet, be quiet!" Li Jin raised his throat and said loudly, "Don't look at my requirements so strictly, you don't have to stand in a row when you set off, just a bunch of hoops, you can nag or something." I'm in front, Pan Xiaobiao is next to me, no one should be left behind! After he finished speaking, he waved his hand: "Wild friends, open-step-walk-"

Li Jin walked in front, Pan Xiaobiao's left arm was in a plaster cast and splint, his arm and chest were hung on a white bandage from his neck, and his right hand was holding a pathfinder stick. Since Pan Xiaobiao was injured, it has become more clever. It took a few steps forward, and then retreated to touch Pan Xiaobiao's legs, as if announcing that it could move forward. When Pan Xiaobiao sleeps, as long as there is a little movement, it will "Wangwang" non-stop, as if venting its dissatisfaction.

The team returning to the city was huddled together and marched against the cool breeze, how majestic and high-spirited it was like a strong man who had won a battle from the battlefield and continued to advance.

They went farther and farther away, and the number of people who followed and watched the excitement gradually decreased, and finally disappeared.

"Wait a minute, I'll participate too!"

"Hey—take me one!"

The team members who were huddled together looked back, and Han Qiumei grabbed Magnolia's hand and came over.

"Hey, I said buddy," Ma Guangdi squeezed his eyes and asked Han Qiumei, "Why are you like a plaster that can't be torn off, divorced, what are you sticking to?" ”

"Phew!" Han Qiumei blushed with shame and spat vigorously at Ma Guangdi, "How did we decide at the beginning?" If you are not honest, I will toss and toss you! ”

Ma Guangdi hurriedly said: "Mrs. spare your life, Mrs. spare your life!" Then he asked, "You came here, where is Xiaohuang?" ”

Han Qiumei pursed her lips sourly: "At my uncle's house." ”

Everyone laughed "boom".

The team returning to the city continued to move forward.

"Wild friends!" Li Jin took everyone to the "Rooted Forest" and waved his hand and said, the first stop of our farewell - this is the "Rooted Forest"!

They stood next to the "rooted forest", and the situation of that year was vivid: it was not long after the educated youth entered the field, Wang Da was stunned to set up a "rooted monument" here, and asked each educated youth to plant a rooted tree behind the monument to form a rooted forest, and each person planted a small iron plate with his name written on the branch, and divided the division of labor to water, hoe, and fertilize to ensure its survival. After that, every time he went to the countryside, he would come here to take an oath until Wang Da was transferred away......

The small pine trees like rolling pins have grown into thigh-thick trees, straight and tall, a square pine forest, surrounded by branches and leaves, tree trunks next to each other, the wind does not blow crookedly, and the water does not wash down, but some of the famous signs that were hung back then have disappeared, and some have been lifted to the sky with the increase of the tree. But dare to say that when the educated youths come, anyone can quickly recognize which one was planted by themselves back then. Some educated youths also hold a meter ruler once a year to measure the height and thickness, and take notes in the diary one by one.

"Li Jin," Zheng Fenghua really regarded himself as an ordinary soldier with good rules, "I make a suggestion, plant it when you come, say goodbye when you leave, and in the face of this pine forest, let's leave a word for each of us!" ”

"Okay," Li Jin agreed, "Then you should take the lead first!" Then he instructed everyone, "Use your brains to think, one by one, one by one." ”

Zheng Fenghua pondered for a while, and recited in a tone like a poem: "Songlin, we are leaving, you are the figure left by our educated youth group to the Great Northern Wilderness!" ”

Ding Yuechun continued: "Ah, pine forest, you are a symbol of the perseverance of our young people after being beaten in the snow!" ”

Magnolia opened a loud voice: "From childhood to adulthood, the pine forest, you have matured with us!" ”

Li Jin had already thought about it, and said as soon as he opened his mouth: "Pine forest, you and we have taken the historical mission as a spur, and worked together in the bleak wind and rain!" ”

Xi Chundi hesitated for a moment and said, "O Songlin, you have taught us to find the Divine Mother - the simple and kind working people!" Working people like Secretary Xiao! ”

Liang Yuying has always been in a bad mood, and she wants to divorce and does not go through the formalities, so she completes the procedures for returning to the city with a chaotic and sad mood. She said slowly: "Pine forest, good saplings are planted here, just like when we educated youth had no other way to go, the ideal came to naught, and the seedlings of experts and scholars have all become koji vegetables here, happy to meet the spring rain, grow again!" ”

"Good!"

Liang Yuying's words attracted Li Jin, Zheng Fenghua, and Zhu Amei to applaud.

Silence, applause followed silence.

Li Jin: "Pan Xiaobiao and Ma Guangdi, you two have to leave a few words." ”

"Okay," Pan Xiaobiao said, pointing to the pine forest with his pathfinder stick, "O pine forest, I am gone, and my heart is still like you, remaining in the land under your roots." The road of life I have walked here, no regrets! ”

There was a round of applause.

"Ma Guangdi," Li Jin urged, "how about it, let's have a few sentences!" ”

"I said man," Ma Guangdi blinked his eyes, pulled a handful of Han Qiumei, and pointed to a thick pine tree on the edge of the forest with his finger and said, "That one was planted by me, you take a closer look, there are two parallel branches growing on a branch, just like the two of us wear a pair of pants, never separate, you will follow wherever I go!" ”

Han Qiumei pushed him embarrassedly: "you!" ”

"Hahaha......"

Everyone laughed so happily and so loudly.

"Alright, alright," Li Jinyi waved his hand, "Wild friends, come with me—" He handed the camera to Han Qiumei as he walked, and told her how to take pictures and what kind of photos to take.

Li Jin led into the pine forest until he reached the tomb of Xi Dalong at the southern end. In front of the tomb is the pine tree planted by Xi Dalong before his death, and then Xi Chundi often comes to take care of it, and the small name plate hanging on the high tree is still there, and the name is vaguely visible, which is how many times Xi Chundi has described. The withered flowers in front of the tomb, the broken memorial paper flowers, and wreaths were thickly pressed.

"Uncle-uncle-" Xi Chundi pounced on the grave and cried, "I'm leaving, leaving you here......"

"Chundi! Chundi ...... "Liang Yuying and Bai Yulan want to come forward to help and persuade."

Li Jin stretched out his arms and stopped them: "Let her cry, crying and crying is happy, and let Dalong listen under the nine springs, his desolate friends are here to tear sacrifices, to say goodbye to him, to say goodbye--come-"

His last protracted tail was a long, hysterical cry, poignant and tragic, shaking the pine forest, floating and spilling in the vast and empty cold air.

Everyone present silently bowed their heads and shed tears.

"Friends of the wilderness—" Li Jin wiped away his tears and said loudly, "Come, all the wine jugs are opened, and we will pay tribute to Comrade Dalong together!" ”

The people who had wine jugs opened them, letting the spouts pour slowly, and all the wine jugs were spilled with the fragrance of the Great Northern Wilderness.

"Stand-up-" Li Jin shouted loudly, "one bow, two bows......"

Everyone hung their heads for a long time with Li Jin's shouting, bowed their waists for a long time, and stood for a long time.

Han Qiumei found the right angle, "snapped", and took this commemorative shot.

The wind is stronger, and the weather is cooler.

They bid farewell to the rooted forest and came to the so-called 21st branch of the educated youth on the southwest slope, which is a grave place dedicated to burying the deceased educated youth.

When the educated youth first entered the field, the small Xing'an farm has a total of 20 branches (now it has been changed to a team), there are no 21 branches, to ask who chose the address, why the deceased educated youth are buried here, and who first named the 21 branches, it is impossible to verify, here under a small grave, buried in Beijing, Shanghai and the north of many young people's bones, large and small there are 123, most of them died of epidemic hemorrhagic fever, there are also to fight fires, car accidents, martial arts incidents martyred, there are also those who were locked up at that time to commit suicide. At that time, epidemic hemorrhagic fever appeared frequently, and every spring and autumn there were as many as 2 or 300 people in the whole scene, not to mention more than 10 deaths. A few years later, the hemorrhagic fever was brought under control and the cure rate began to increase, but the 21 divisions continued to circulate and were called by the people.

The sun is light and the cold wind blows.

Zheng Fenghua silently looked around the mound in front of him that was buried by withered artemisia weeds, took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and said with a heavy heart:

Deceased Friends,

We are leaving, but you are left behind forever, and no matter where we go, we will never forget that there are still one hundred and twenty-three desolate friends here! Of course, there are still some wild friends who continue to stay in the Great Northern Wilderness and will pay tribute to us every year!

Those who go are leaving, those who stay are going to stay, those of you who have gone have gone, but we must always remember - we are all wild friends who have fought side by side and hand in hand in the ups and downs of the Great Northern Wilderness, no matter where we go, wild friends - will be the most sincere and most memorable comrades-in-arms in life!

As soon as Zheng Fenghua's words fell, Li Jin looked up to the sky and shouted: "Sacrifice wine!" ”

In the cool and swishing northeast wind, the pure fragrance of Beidahuang wine is flying and fluttering.

Li Jin shouted loudly: "Li-Zheng——, one bow-two bow-three ......"

As soon as Han Qiumei took a shot, Ma Guangdi pointed to this tomb land, waved his hand and said, "Brothers, our educated youth have begun to withdraw their troops, I suggest that we also cancel this twenty-one branch!" ”

"Yes—"

Ding Yuechun echoed and took the lead in applauding.

He looked at a cemetery, longing to see the bottom of the grave, wanting to see what his deceased comrades-in-arms were doing there, and said excitedly: "What is revoked is a name, and the blood, tears and bitterness that have been buried can never be removed; It has been revoked in the minds of a few of us, but it still exists in the hearts of the old workers, family members and friends who have gone to other places! ”

"Because of the bitterness and tears, we can grow hope and light for the future!" Magnolia is like reciting poetry.

"Yes, only then can we grow hope and light for the future!" Li Jinyi waved his hand and shouted, "Keep going!" At that time, Han Qiumei took another shot.

They came to the No. 7 field, and soon after turning over the bean stubble, their eyes were full of black oil. This is the largest piece of land in the whole team, more than 14,000 acres, and it is more than 12 miles long along the sandstone road from north to south. There are the most stories of the educated youth left here, and the sweat shed the most, which is the most worthy of memory and nostalgia. It is said that when this wasteland was reclaimed, it was early spring, and hundreds of wolves mooed and refused to leave when the pioneers burned the wasteland, and a few black bears jumped up to compete with each other without knowing what a tractor was......

After the intellectuals entered the field, there were many years of corn and soybeans in rotation, and oats were a disaster, and almost the whole team gathered here every time to fight against the oat shortage.

When they came to the ground, they were almost all tired.

Han Qiumei suggested that each of them take a picture and use the black oil land as the backdrop, which was approved by everyone. Along the way, Han Qiumei only took pictures and rarely spoke. In the past, although I heard Ma Guangdi tell some stories about this guy, but the team members evaluated differently, and there were a lot of derogatory words, through these two farewell scenes, a sense of admiration arose in my heart, they are flesh and blood, knowledgeable contemporaries, and it is by no means that the team is talking about a mess of "miscellaneous". Although Ma Guangdi is a little bit of a fart, he is also an out-and-out good person, and he married him right.

"Come-" Han Qiumei held a camera in one hand, pointed to a small piece of land that often stops to sell food, and said, "You guys line up, you collectively take a picture!" ”

"Okay-" Ding Yuechun walked over first, and the others followed.

Everyone shouted, some advocated standing in a horizontal row, some advocated standing in two rows, women in front, men in the back, and some advocated standing in a triangle...... Li Jin shouted: "Shut up!" Don't want any formation, hoop into a pile, arm in arm, arm to arm, head to head, just take the No. 7 place of the annual battle as the backdrop, reflect a little sister brotherhood that is closely interdependent, and shine a little bit of the absurdity of friends! ”

In unison, they replied, "Okay—ah—"

Han Qiumei started filming: the blue sky above her head, the dark ground on her back, forgetting who is a man and who is a woman, no one distinguishes who is the two of them, hugging her neck, shoulder to shoulder, arm to shoulder, tightly clustered into a group......

"Hey-" Magnolia was excited, "Qiumei, remember, when you develop the photo, you must inscribe a sentence under this photo - friendship in the wilderness!" Then he turned around and asked, "How's it going?" ”

"Okay-wam-"

Everyone applauded, and Liang Yuying gave a thumbs up and praised Magnolia: "It's really worthy of being a college student!" That's great! As he spoke, he hugged her tightly.

Han Qiumei held the camera in her hand, and the flash flashed again and again, taking pictures of husband and wife, boyfriend, and girlfriend......

These beautiful photos and beautiful inscriptions have led to the poetry of the young people.

"Wild friends-" Li Jin waved his hands and sat on the ground and said, "Come on, come on, there is a story of Cao Cao cooking wine and talking about heroes in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", ...... today" He held the wine jug in his left hand, and slapped the wine in the pot with his right hand and said, "Let's have a desolate friend to cook wine and talk about desolation today, and we can sit down and rest!" ”

Everyone responded with excitement, sat on the ground, and formed a small group.

Xi Chundi put her arms around Magnolia's neck, looked at Zheng Fenghua and said with a smile: "I suggest, let our two college students come first!" ”

"Okay, okay, I'll come first!" Zheng Fenghua opened the wine jug and took a big sip and said, "The wine has passed through the intestines, and the love is the Great Northern Wilderness!" ”

There was a round of applause.

Magnolia tilted her face, took the wine jug from Zheng Fenghua's hand, took a big sip of "Gu Dong", and said with a solemn expression: "I suspect that it is a dream when I first come, and I hate to say goodbye!" ”

Without waiting for others to comment, Xi Chundi took the wine jug and took a big sip, suddenly stood up and looked at the direction of the field, and said affectionately: "After returning to Shanghai, year after year, every time I am at this time today, I stand on the bank of the Huangpu River and shout to the Great Northern Wilderness: 'Secretary Xiao, my mother Xiao, I will always think of you-'" She didn't finish speaking, her eyes moistened.

Pan Xiaobiao took Ma Guangdi's wine jug and took three □ mouths, and suddenly stood up, raised his pathfinder stick high with both hands, and shouted into the distance of the black land: "The Great Northern Wilderness, the black land, the black land, the Great Northern Wilderness, more than nine years of life in the Great Northern Wilderness, in the end, although I am blind, I have no regrets!" ”

Seeing Pan Xiaobiao screaming like crazy, he probably thought that the owner was in unbearable pain, and jumped and screamed "Wangwang", which was intertwined with the cry of "no complaints and no regrets", echoing in the sky, flying, poignant and majestic. Pan Xiaobiao stopped shouting, sat down, and the stunned cry stopped, and the shout of "no complaints, no regrets" still echoed in the valley in the distance like thunder.

"Phew! It's not interesting that you're thieves! Ma Guangdi took a few sips of wine as if venting, dragged Han Qiumei out of the circle and said, "Just let us give Qiumei a picture to you, don't say give us Qiumei a ......."

"Hahaha......" Li Jin smiled and asked Han Qiumei for a camera, "Come, I'll take a picture and take care of it......"

"Wait!" Ma Guang said, listening to what you guys with ink in their stomachs are quite delicious, and we have to borrow a few words of wine today if we don't have water...... As soon as he entered his stomach, his face began to turn red, his eyes narrowed, and he grabbed Han Qiumei's arm hard, Han Qiumei was embarrassed to break free, he pretended to be a little drunk and said smoothly: "In the past, someone sang, the Great Northern Wilderness is so desolate, there are rabbits and wolves, but there is a lack of big girls...... I pretended to be a knowledgeable youth horse, and I also went to the countryside when I mixed into the team of educated youth. When I first came, half of the men and half of the women, there were so many beautiful girls in the Great Northern Wilderness, hey-in a few days, this object, that object, no one wants to be an elephant with our fake educated youth. You don't want to be right with me, I don't want it yet, we imported a big girl from Guanli, capable and good-looking, we are ...... in the Great Northern Wilderness" He said and looked at Han Qiumei, grabbed her arm and continued, "We have a son named Xiaohuang in the Great Northern Wilderness!" ”

When Li Jin grabbed the camera to take pictures, everyone was already laughing and leaning back and forth, and it was a mess.

Borrow wine to express true feelings, passion out of poets. The sincere emotions that have been accumulated for many years burst out at the moment when they are about to leave the Great Northern Wilderness, so sincere, and so poetic, even the "fake educated youth" Ma Guangdi who everyone said also expressed his true feelings for the Great Northern Wilderness, which is intriguing.

The laughter stopped, the atmosphere became more excited, you said, I said, you took a sip, I took a sip, it became no longer so orderly, and even you robbed me, there was no delicacies, not even pickles, and I drank so vigorously and so happily.

One flask is empty, the other is empty......

"Wow-" After Ding Yuechun took a big sip, he suddenly stood up and vomited, it didn't matter if he vomited, several people who wanted to vomit couldn't stop vomiting "wow, wow, wow".

"North...... Big...... Uncultivated...... Ah......" Li Jindong said diagonally, "I ...... Forever...... Always yours ...... Son ......"

Suddenly, the lineup was even more chaotic.

Jiang Tingting was just about to help Ding Yuechun, but she also vomited "wow".

Ding Yuechun rolled on the ground, and rolled into the black soil that had been turned over, and then followed Li Jin's words, and said intermittently: "I...... Also...... It's you...... Target...... Son...... Yikes......"

Right now, the team returning to the city is in a mess, no one can persuade anyone, no one can take care of anyone, only Han Qiumei's face is a little ruddy, her mind is sober, she holds the camera tightly, she is angry and funny, while taking embarrassing shots, she mutters to herself: "I'll take pictures of you, and when I wake up, I will see my embarrassed appearance!" ”

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