Li Hongmei was fortunate to be the last batch of workers, peasants and soldiers to be college students. In the first days, she missed He Erbao unusually, this first love lingered in her heart, this was the first time she had ever come into contact with a man in her life, she lay in the medical school dormitory with eight people, thinking about He Erbao's rude and savage hugs, and the sound of their teeth rubbing together roughly, all of which moved and made her unforgettable.

At that time, she corresponded frequently with He Erbao, writing her thoughts and ambition to become a commune hospital doctor in the future in the letter over and over again. He Erbao has a worry every time he writes a letter, in which he says: Now that all the educated youths in the countryside have returned to the city, you are now a college student, will you return to the countryside in the future?

When they poured out their thoughts to each other in the letter, the country that was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt underwent earth-shaking changes, first the whole country resumed the college entrance examination, and the importance of knowledge and culture was placed in an important position.

Li Hongmei's medical school, like the rest of the country, is immersed in an atmosphere of learning, and with the resumption of the college entrance examination, the teaching method has also changed. She reminded herself all the time that she was a college student, and that their last class of workers, peasants, and soldiers had caught up with the good policies, and almost all of them stayed in the hospitals in the provincial capital.

In this process, Li Hongmei once again thought of the words when she and He Erbao hugged each other under the big tree with a crow's nest in the back mountain, and Zeng Shan Menghai vowed to return to the commune hospital to be a village doctor in the future, and blushed for her own eyes. Thinking of these, she thought of the future with He Erbao, maybe He Erbao can really be like he said, become a commune secretary in the future, what will be the result? Can a commune secretary replace a college student? They are now called the pillars of the state, and what are the pillars - they are towering trees one after another, supporting the backbone of a country, and what is a secretary of the commune?

In this subtle change in mentality, her relationship with He Erbao has changed. She rarely writes letters to He Erbao, and even if she writes, it is only a hurried word, and at the beginning of each letter, most of them talk about a few words in the form of the whole country, and then say that she is learning how to be busy, and so on. She no longer mentions going back to the country to become a doctor.

He Erbao's letters still come frequently, and he recounts his thoughts, and then says that the form of his brigade is as good as that of the whole country, and so on.

Li Hongmei no longer cares about the backer team, everything He Erbao said in the letter, like an old dream, faded little by little in her waking memory. Sometimes, she would feel upset by He Erbao's frequent letters, and every time she got a letter written about a certain brigade in a certain commune in a certain county, she secretly felt a blush. Most of the letters from the students came from major cities and schools across the country, and they were letters from relatives or friends of the students, and they read the letters with joy, and after reading the letters, they announced some new news and new developments in public. At that time, news sprung up all over the country like mushrooms after a rain, which was enviable and surprising.

When she received He Erbao's letter, she was like a thief, secretly hid the letter, put it in her schoolbag, sometimes did not read the letter for several days, sometimes she hid in the toilet, hurriedly read He Erbao's letter, and then let the flushing toilet flush it clean. She naturally has no interest or energy to reply to He Erbao, and He Erbao, who was in love for the first time, has gradually withdrawn from her historical stage.

Many female students began to secretly like Teacher Zhang. Teacher Zhang is naturally very young, with a white and clean face, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a white-washed Zhongshan suit, and a white scarf tied around his neck, reminiscent of the intellectual youth of the "May Fourth" period. Teacher Zhang is also a worker, peasant and soldier college student, two years earlier, during the study period because of the excellent character and learning and stayed in the school to teach, now is a teaching assistant, because of his youth, he served as Li Hongmei's class teacher. In addition to attending classes, Mr. Zhang has a reason to have the opportunity to contact these students.

Teacher Zhang's knowledge makes them girls admire. Mr. Zhang is not only a college student of workers, peasants and soldiers, he is also a family of traditional Chinese medicine, and when he was not in school, he already knew a lot about traditional Chinese medicine. And because of Teacher Zhang's youth, they feel close.

It has been a matter of course for students to worship their teachers since ancient times. Moreover, in that era, Mr. Zhang's every move represented the image of intellectuals in that era, as well as Mr. Zhang's elegant temperament, which could not help but make these girls who were new to the world impulsive, and even had a lot of thoughts.

Teacher Zhang lives in a tube building in the school's collective dormitory, which has a very human atmosphere and taste. There are many teachers, who are middle-aged, still living in the tube building, marrying wives and having children, cooking and coaxing children in the corridors, looking very lively and restless. Teacher Zhang lives in such a tube building without exception.

There are many girls who often go to Mr. Zhang's dormitory to ask him for advice on their studies, sometimes these girls come alone, sometimes in groups, they come here to ask Mr. Zhang for advice just in name, but more often to get close to him.

Li Hongmei also came to Teacher Zhang's dormitory one night, accompanied by a female companion. Before this, she was almost one of the few girls who had never been to Teacher Zhang's dormitory, and there were several girls who lost their confidence in contacting Teacher Zhang because of their ugliness. Of course, Li Hongmei was an exception, she was upset by He Erbao's letter, and she didn't have a good mood to contact Teacher Zhang.

After supper, she went into the college's reading room, where she had spent many distracted evenings. Not long after she sat down, the female classmate with a red face whispered to her to go to Teacher Zhang's dormitory to ask questions. For some reason, she immediately agreed.

When they knocked on Teacher Zhang's dormitory, the young Teacher Zhang was crouching under the lamp to write papers, and he still expressed unprecedented enthusiasm for their arrival. Li Hongmei looked at the furnishings in Teacher Zhang's room curiously, a single bed, all books were placed on the bedside, a writing desk next to the bed, thick books were stacked on the table, and two book boxes were placed under the bed. There is a dilapidated wardrobe in an inconspicuous position at the door, presumably, all of Mr. Zhang's belongings are contained in that cabinet. All this made Li Hongmei feel novel and warm, and she was deeply attracted by the atmosphere in Teacher Zhang's small single dormitory. That's all an intellectual has, and in that moment, she was in a trance. It wasn't until Teacher Zhang asked her twice in a row: Xiao Li, this is the first time you have come to me. She came to her senses and nodded hurriedly, and then her face turned red. At this time, she had forgotten that when she first looked at He Erbao, she also blushed like this.

Teacher Zhang received them with a smile all the time, and that night, her eyes met Teacher Zhang's gentle gaze several times, and finally her gaze fled in a hurry, and her face naturally turned red again and again.

It wasn't until she and her female companion walked out of Teacher Zhang's dormitory that she felt that her face was still feverish. That night, she was in a good mood, and after returning to the dormitory, she even hummed a Soviet song "Hawthorn Tree". Naturally, this song was also learned by her after entering college.

That night, she had insomnia, and all she could do was Teacher Zhang's voice and smile when she opened and closed her eyes.