1972, The Red Flag-Waving Youthful Era

In the spring of 1972, on a train heading to the Great Northern Wilderness for re-education, Chu Miaohong quietly tossed an old envelope into the wind. Far away in the year 2024, Zhang Hongcheng co...

Chapter 292 Family Portrait

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With the disbanding of the Construction Corps, many institutions were merged or abolished.

The seed farm at the entrance of Hongqi Wetland is one of the units that has changed the most.

More than half of the employees in the seed farm were transferred to local areas or other units.

According to the plan from above, seed farms in various places will streamline their staff and concentrate key personnel to build high-quality breeding research and development institutions.

Since the beginning of this year, young people carrying luggage can be seen leaving the breeding farm almost every day.

The people who were seeing each other off and those who were leaving all had red eyes. In the end, they hugged each other silently, patted each other vigorously, and then turned around and left.

Life is a long journey, and you never know when our farewell will be our last.

The tide of the times has slowly begun to wash away everything people are familiar with.

Pei Shujing, who was standing not far away, watched the scene in front of her silently, and countless images flashed through her mind.

When Zhang Qianyi and she were preparing to be demobilized, the entire battalion cafeteria was filled with tears from both male and female soldiers.

She suddenly felt dazed.

At that time, she thought she was going to lose her comrade-in-arms, but who could have expected that Zhang Qianyi was just returning to the army to handle the last procedure, and when they saw him again, he would find a box of ashes wrapped in a red flag.

"Quiet!"

A trembling voice sounded not far away, finally calling Pei Shujing's soul back.

A woman dressed as a female cadre suddenly jumped out of the jeep and rushed towards her, shouting her name desperately.

Although they had not seen each other for nearly twenty years, Pei Shujing recognized the other person at a glance.

Ever since she became a wife and mother, Pei Shujing's long-forgotten passion suddenly surged in her heart. Even in front of her future daughter-in-law, she could not maintain her reserve. She rushed over trembling involuntarily and hugged the other person tightly.

“Zhuoma!!”

In these days, when comrades guarding the border part, what separates them is life and death. Who would have thought that two good friends who slept in the same bed on the snowy plateau could meet again in their forties.

At their age, children are already talking about marriage, but they still cried and hugged each other, patting each other's backs.

Tao Ju, who was standing by the car, looked at his wife and Pei Shujing hugging each other. He was usually expressionless, but he choked for a moment.

Faintly, he seemed to see a handsome man standing behind Pei Shujing, looking at him with a smirk on his face.

The old military uniform, the dog-skin military cap that was never worn straight, the gun belt that always had one more magazine than his own, and his favorite carbine.

The teasing voice of that guy seemed to transcend time and space and appear in his ears again.

"Saw, you instructors are just so pretentious. What's the point of dropping cat urine? I won't die..."

Coming back to his senses, Tao Ju was bewildered to find that he was the only one at the scene, with no trace of that rogue guy. His lover and her friend could finally meet again, but if he wanted to meet that guy again, he would probably have to go underground...

He took out a cigarette in a daze, lit it for himself with trembling hands, took a few deep puffs, and then skillfully stuck the cigarette into the soil on the side of the road.

"Damn it, you got a bargain!"

Looking at the cigarette stuck upside down on the side of the road, Zhang Hongcheng suddenly stopped wanting to say hello. Looking at Tao Ju smiling and cursing at the cigarette, both he and Chu Miaohong felt a little sore in the eyes.

More than half of the dormitories at the seed farm were empty, which Zhang Hongcheng borrowed to accommodate his relatives and friends.

Grandpa and mother-in-law of the Chu family arrived the day before yesterday. The old man of the Pei family was too busy in the capital to leave, so he sent Zhang Hongcheng's step-uncle to help.

With Tao Ju and Xie Zhuoma, all the elders from both sides are present.

In this era, due to distance and holidays, there were rarely any elders present at marriages between educated youth.

The fact that parents from both families came together, such as Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong, is also thanks to the unique conditions of the two families.

There is no need to mention Mr. Pei, and Mr. Chu is now the immediate superior of Pei's uncle. Chu Yuehe was appointed as the vice president of the hospital less than two months after he resumed work.

Tao Ju and Xie Zhuoma directly applied for home leave, under the pretext of going back to the Northeast to visit old comrades, and came to attend the wedding of their two younger generations.

"Hey, everyone, look at the camera!"

"Keep smiling, bride and groom, and keep your heads closer!"

"Three, two, one, bang..."

The flash of magnesium powder made everyone's eyes light up.

"Okay, let's take the second one!"

Xie Zhuoma, with a stiff smile on her face, quickly turned around and tidied Tao Ju's hair and collar.

Pei Shujing, with a calm expression, quietly pinched her daughter who was sitting next to her and feeling uneasy.

In other people's families, the sister-in-law and the sister-in-law always don't get along.

It's the complete opposite at home.

The sister-in-law and her future daughter-in-law had only known each other for a few days, and for some reason they were able to chat so well.

It has always been the sister-in-law who fights with her brother for his sister-in-law. Who has ever seen a sister-in-law fighting with her brother for her sister-in-law all day long?

If Pei Shujing hadn't pinched Zhang Yumin just now, this girl would probably have gone back between his sister-in-law and brother.

She is a girl who is brighter than the spotlight.

Thinking of Zhang Yumin, Pei Shujing felt a little tired.

When she was working in the factory, she kept an eye on her daughter every day, fearing that she would be coaxed away by others.

But now that she sees her stepson has found his other half, she finally starts to worry about what kind of partner she should find for Zhang Yumin?

There are still many good boys in the factory, but Zhang Yumin doesn't feel anything when she sees them.

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