Taking out the letter, Song Yuanchao couldn't wait to look at the address of the letter first, and when he saw that the letter was from Anton, Song Yuanchao, who was extremely excited just now, couldn't help but sigh lightly in his heart.

Some time ago, Song Yuanchao sent a total of three letters, these three letters were to Andong, Jinling and the capital, among which Jinling's reply was the fastest, and Song Yuanchao received it a few days ago.

According to the distance, Song Yuanchao originally thought that today's letter would come from the capital, but who thought that it was sent by Anton, and he replied to two of the three letters, but the letter he was most looking forward to in his heart was never seen, which made Song Yuanchao very disappointed.

Opening the letter, Song Yuanchao carefully read the contents of the letter, and then found the letter paper and wrote a reply, after writing it, Song Yuanchao put the reply letter in the envelope and sealed it, and couldn't help but look aside.

On the side, next to the photo of himself and his parents, there is a new photo frame, which contains a group photo of four people.

Song Yuanchao has two men and two women in this group photo, Song Yuanchao is standing in the second position from the right, and on his right is a man about his age, who is affectionately putting his arm on his shoulder.

To his left, there are two young girls, one of them is a green girl with braids, the girl and her female companion with short hair next to her hold hands and smile at the camera, everyone in this group photo is wearing very old blue-gray coarse cloth clothes, trousers are rolled high, liberation shoes are on their feet, and the back can vaguely see a ...... of a freshly harvested crop field.

This group photo occupies a very important position in Song Yuanchao's heart, and in his previous life, before Song Yuanchao passed away, it was this group photo that accompanied him to the end of his life.

And now, the group photo in front of me is not the old yellowed appearance of the previous life, although it is black and white, it still looks very clear.

Picking up the group photo, Song Yuanchao's fingers gently stroked it, and his fingertips stayed on the girl with braids.

"Why didn't you write me back? Swallow, are you doing well now? Song Yuanchao asked softly, as if he was confiding and complaining to the most important person in his heart.

His eyes couldn't help but turn a little red, and his heart was full of incomparable longing.

The four people in the group photo, except for Song Yuanchao, the young man on his shoulder is called Qin Zhengguo, the girl with short hair is called Ying Caixia, and the remaining green girl with braids and the sweetest smile is called Lin Yan.

The three of them, including Song Yuanchao, were the best friends of the educated youth, Qin Zhengguo went to the countryside in about the same group as Song Yuanchao, Ying Caixia went in the third year, Lin Yan was later, and she only went to the countryside in the fourth year.

In the difficult years in the northwest, the four of them supported each other, encouraged each other, and survived those extremely difficult days together, and also formed a deep friendship with each other.

Lin Yan is the youngest of the four, and Song Yuanchao takes great care of her on weekdays, not only helping her to work in the field, but also often doing what he can for her.

After a long time, Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan directly had a good impression of each other, but limited to the difficult local conditions and the identity of educated youths, their good feelings were all controlled by their own reason, and they did not take the last step.

In later generations, the relationship between Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan has reached the level where lovers are not friends or more, and the two only have to pierce the last layer of window paper.

If everything hadn't changed, maybe Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan would have come together in the end, but suddenly the policy changed, and the country reopened the college entrance examination at the end of 77, so that all educated youths saw the dawn.

Song Yuanchao had discussed the college entrance examination with Principal Zhou before, and according to Song Yuanchao, he was unable to take the college entrance examination because of his remote location and some other reasons.

And this is not the case, the college entrance examination that year was limited in the number of places for the educated youth, and Song Yuanchao did not give a few places in the entire brigade of the educated youth in that place, and there were many porridges and few monks, which could not meet everyone's needs.

Song Yuanchao was qualified at that time, but after considering the limited number of places, he took the initiative to make concessions in order to ensure Lin Yan's chances, and at the same time spent a lot of money to help Lin Yan tutor, and finally let Lin Yan take the first college entrance examination and successfully get the admission notice of Beijing Normal University.

Song Yuanchao still remembers the day Lin Yan got the notice, Lin Yan cried loudly in his arms that day, this is a tear of joy and a tear of happiness, and it is also because of the reluctance to leave.

Gently wiping away tears for his beloved woman, Song Yuanchao smiled to comfort her, encouraged her, and silently prepared her luggage.

On the day she was sent away, Song Yuanchao sent her a long way, from the village to the brigade, then from the brigade to the commune, and then from the commune to the region...... Until he saw Lin Yan board the train to Jingshi, when the train left the platform, Song Yuanchao couldn't control his emotions, ran behind the train and waved goodbye to Lin Yan, and unconsciously his tears were scattered into the air with the wind blowing on his face.

Returning to his residence in a low mood, looking at the empty room, there seemed to be Lin Yan's breath left in the air, as if she was still there, as long as he turned around, Lin Yan's figure would appear at his door, and looked at him with a smile as before.

Soon after Lin Yan left, Song Yuanchao fell seriously ill, this illness was fierce, Song Yuanchao almost didn't stop, thanks to Qin Zhengguo and Ying Caixia's careful care, and then slowly recovered.

It was precisely because of this serious illness that Song Yuanchao failed in the second college entrance examination last year, thus completely dispelling the idea of continuing the college entrance examination.

This is the deepest secret hidden in Song Yuanchao's heart, and no one knows it except for a few parties in his previous life. Even Song Yuanchao's ex-wife didn't know about it, and it was buried in Song Yuanchao's heart until he passed away.

In his previous life, Song Yuanchao failed to enter the university because of two college entrance examinations, and after returning to Shanghai, he was running for life because of work. Song Yuanchao felt that he couldn't give Lin Yan an imaginary good life, plus at that time, Lin Yan had graduated from Beijing Normal University and had an excellent and decent job, compared to Song Yuanchao, who was just an ordinary worker and a temporary worker.

The gap in status coupled with the inconvenience of transportation and communication at that time, Song Yuanchao took the initiative to give up this feeling, thus personally burying the most profound beauty of youth.

After that, Song Yuanchao didn't want to disturb Lin Yan's life, so he took the initiative to cut off contact with her, and as time went by, there was no contact between him and Lin Yan for a long time, but it was only after many years that he learned from the mouth of the former intellectuals that Lin Yan went abroad in the mid-eighties, and no one knew about her situation after that.

But in Song Yuanchao's entire life, his thoughts about Lin Yan never disappeared, he just hid this feeling deeply.

Looking at Lin Yan in the photo stupidly, Song Yuanchao gently hummed the children's rhyme he sang to Lin Yan before: "Little Swallow...... Wear floral clothes...... Come here every spring......" As if suddenly, her crisp and cheerful laughter like a silver bell sounded in her ears, Song Yuanchao wiped his confused eyes, and found that he had burst into tears unconsciously.

Put the photo away, Song Yuanchao continued to write a letter to Lin Yan, and after writing, he put the two letters out of the door and put them into the mailbox at the intersection, looking at the mailbox, Song Yuanchao silently said to Lin Yan in his heart: "Hurry up and reply to the letter, don't let me worry, even if it's just a few words." Winter is over, spring is coming, and the little swallow is going home, my dear swallow! Do you know I've been waiting for you? ”