I cut a few more pieces, sniffed my fingers, and suddenly smoked so much that I frowned, I beat my sore neck, looked at the silent mountains outside the tunzi, and suddenly felt an inexplicable loss, do I have to stay in the mountains for the rest of my life to cut grave bricks and watch the forest farm? ** Waving to change course, millions of students change the battlefield, go to the mountains and go to the countryside to receive re-education of poor middle peasants, although this does exercise people, but after all, the gap with my ideals is too big, I was too young at the time, I was bored in the face of my future, I thought of living in the ravine for the rest of my life, I couldn't join the army to fight to realize my ambitions, and I immediately panicked in the depths of my heart, my nose was sore, and my tears almost didn't fall.

The fat man looked strange at me and asked me what I thought. Why do you have a sad face all day long? I sighed and replied, "Damn, it's not just that I'm worried about the liberation of the people of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The fat man persuaded me: "Don't worry, how are the people of Asia, Africa, and Latin America doing, we can't take care of it, maybe people don't need us to worry about it, seeing that it's about to get off work, I invite you to eat donkeys and go into the water at night, and then open up to eat. ”

I wiped the snot that flowed down, and was about to discuss with the fat man how to pack up the donkey into the water, at this time the old branch secretary came back, he went to the brigade to do things, and by the way retrieved a few parcels for the educated youth, the transportation in the mountains is inconvenient, we have been in the queue for several months, almost all have lost contact with the outside world, the first time I saw a parcel letter, how not to be overjoyed, and now put a qiē thing behind, I and the fat man remember the most, of course, the situation at home, but the branch secretary turned over for a long time, told that there was no our parcel, These are all from a few other educated youths.

Although I knew that my family was now quarantined, and of course I didn't have a chance to send anything, I still felt very uncomfortable, and was about to turn around and leave, when the old branch secretary called us both back, and he held a letter in his hand, saying that only this letter was addressed to the two of you.

The fat man and I were slightly stunned, and hurriedly rushed over to snatch the letter, still wondering in our hearts, why did the two of us share a letter? Yanzi was also very curious, came over to read the letter with us, I pressed the excitement, I couldn't wait to look at the envelope, the letter was forwarded by the communication room of our hometown military district, so there was an envelope inside is the original, obviously the sender did not know the address where I and the fat man settled in the queue, so the letter was sent to the military region, and then it was forwarded.

I opened the letter, word by word carefully read it, it turned out that the sender was me and the fat man in the national series, on the train met a Red Guard comrade-in-arms Ding Sitian, she is the same age as us, is a top literary and artistic person, we hit it off at first sight, once together in most of China, in the hometown of **, we each grabbed a handful of local soil, a whole day and a night did not let go, but later the hands were swollen, in the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an, we ate a piece of dry food in the cave, we are still in ** After being reviewed to the highest standard, we left each other's mailing addresses at the end of the breakup, and it has been a long time since this happened, and I never expected to receive her letter in the mountains today.

Ding Sitian's parents are museum staff, Ding family a total of four children, respectively in the name of "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Bittersweet Memory", which is also the mainstream of naming children back then, she mentioned in her letter to us: Write to my closest revolutionary comrades-in-arms Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan, since we were separated in the great capital Beijing, I have been thinking about our days and nights together, and I have long wanted to write to you, but a lot of things have happened at home, ......, I think you must enlist in the army as you wishIt is also my dream to join the Chinese People's Liberation Army with honor and become a revolutionary soldier, and I hope you can send me photos of wearing military uniforms so that I can share your joy...... Finally, please don't forget the revolutionary friendship between us, and wish it to be higher than the mountain, farther than the road, evergreen, and never fade.

I learned from the letter that Ding Sitian, who wanted to join the army, had to go to Inner Mongolia to join the left banner of Karen in Inner Mongolia for many reasons such as family composition, and she obviously didn't know that I had a similar experience with the fat man to her, and I didn't become a soldier, and I was sent to Daxinganling to cut the line, after reading the letter, I didn't talk to the fat man for a long time, and I really didn't have the face to reply to Ding Sitian, and how could I send her a photo of wearing a military uniform.

I felt from Ding Sitian's letter that she was very lonely, maybe the life of the Karen Left Banner is more monotonous than in the mountains, although the Karen Left Banner and the Ganggang camp where I are also belong to Inner Mongolia, but it does not belong to the same league, the Karen Left Banner is a pastoral area on the grassland, the environment is harsh, the population is more sparse, it is far away from the Xing'an League, Ding Sitian sings and dances and dances, it is really unimaginable for her to graze on the grassland, how can people rest assured? I was thinking about it, and found that the fat man was rummaging through the cabinets and trying to find paper to write a reply, so I said to him: "Don't look for it, I don't even have a butt paper, where to find the stationery, I think we are almost stupid in the mountains, why don't we go to the grassland to play around, and go to see our close comrades-in-arms on the way." ”

When the swallow heard me say that he was going to the grassland, he asked in surprise, "What?" To the Karen Left Banner Steppe? I can't work half a round trip for ten days and a half months, and I don't work for so many days, do you want your work? What will you eat when you come back? ”

I nodded to the swallow, of course I can't help but consider this question, the division of work is the lifeblood of the educated youth, the educated youth who go to the mountains and go to the countryside to cut the queue, different from the corps that participated in the production and construction corps, the Great Northern Wilderness and other places, adopt quasi-military management, are all based on divisions, there are regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, squads and other standard military formations, the members of the corps have food and accommodation and a monthly allowance of six yuan, the advantage of the corps is that there is a fixed income, the disadvantage is the lack of freedom, can not come when you want, want to go, and the educated youth implement the work division system, The disadvantage is that the income is unreliable, and the advantage is that it comes and goes freely, and it is convenient to ask for leave. Some people may wonder why they don't go back to the city if they are so free? This is mainly because there were no rations when I went back at that time, and the so-called cutting in the queue, since the hukou has fallen to the countryside, it is considered a rural hukou, and it is also a black household when I go back, and there is no one in the city anymore, and it is impossible to find a job.

A few days ago, we picked up a lot of golden beans in the Tuanshanzi Forest Farm, of course, this thing did not dare to stay privately, after handing over the public, the branch secretary had a good heart, although there was no bonus at that time, or promised to give us two more months of work, and leave it for a long vacation when I went back to visit relatives during the New Year. That is to say, the fat man and I didn't have to work for two months, we were tired of staying in the mountains, and we were worried about Ding Sitian, so we decided to go to the grassland immediately.