Idle Chats in the 60s

Jiang Mengxue dreamed that she would return to several decades ago. She decisively sold all her property and filled the warehouse space of the bracelet left by her grandmother.

When Gu Qingbe...

Chapter 425: National Disaster

I just don't know about the situation in other cities.

And without a letter of introduction, you cannot leave the hospital.

Otherwise, with the food in the space, it would not be a problem to feed everyone in the country.

Although Guan Hongqi was a little hesitant, he still agreed.

He had already made a lot of money from Jiang Mengxue before.

There's no reason why you wouldn't agree to such a small thing, and it's also a good deed.

Jiang Mengxue was planning to leave, so she asked Guan Hongqi to send several large boxes and the Moutai liquor she had bought to the suburbs.

Jiang Mengxue went ahead and waited.

After all, there was no one behind her, and it would not work if no one received so many things.

After coming out, Jiang Mengxue hesitated whether to go to the train station to see her sister.

Mainly because she was too lazy to change clothes.

In order to dress up as an elderly lady, she wore three layers of clothes inside and outside.

Scarves, hats, masks, everything is available.

It's too troublesome to change it.

So even though they had pushed the cart to the outside of the train station, Jiang Mengxue still didn't go in and planned to go back to the county town first.

I guess Jiang Mengxue will be back home soon.

Just getting ready to leave.

I saw a group of more than ten people walking out of the train station.

They all wore new green cotton-padded jackets and Lei Feng hats.

They all looked young, and even though they had just gotten off the train, they couldn't hide their dishevelment.

But it can also be seen that their mental state is good.

There is little excitement in looking around with your head stretched out.

Seeing them, Jiang Mengxue thought of a group.

They are a group unique to this era, the educated youth.

In fact, the educated youth have existed since the 1950s.

It was just that there were very few of them at that time, and the compulsory sending of educated youth to the countryside began in 1968.

Before this, there were many ambitious young men and women in big cities.

I want to serve the country and build the motherland.

The first batch of educated youth were relocated to the countryside.

However, there are also differences in the countryside.

There was the educated youth who were sent down to the countryside, which is well known to later generations.

But some of them were sent to farms and military corps.

In the past few years, people who went to the countryside would receive subsidies, resettlement fees, and food.

The educated youth who went to the north also had a set of cotton clothes.

The ones sent to the vast rural areas were blue cotton clothes, and the ones sent to the farms were green cotton clothes.

These are what Jiang Mengxue saw when she was checking the news of this era.

Although the policies vary from place to place, they are generally similar across the country.

I just didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing again when I went into the city this time.

I didn’t expect that there were already educated youth coming here.

But it seems that this group of people were assigned to the farm.

I have indeed not heard of any production team nearby that accepts educated youth. I guess it will take a few years for them to be assigned to a production team.

Jiang Mengxue just took a look and left.

They probably have to go to the station to take a bus to the farm, so maybe we'll meet them later.

We arrived at the suburbs where Guan Hongqi and others were delivering things.

She chose a place that was far away from the goods so that others wouldn't see her packing things if they were too close.

Jiang Mengxue didn't know how they managed to transport the things out in broad daylight.

However, after making sure that no one was following, he let the person who was carrying the things go.

Put the things into the space and return.

Passing by the cave.

There were a few people squatting under a tree smoking, their eyes fixed on the direction of the big rock.

When they saw Jiang Mengxue riding by on a bicycle, they recognized who she was.

But I just pretended not to see it and continued smoking and chatting.

There are too many people and too much noise during the day. We can't just move the big rocks and start moving the goods now. Wouldn't that be courting death?

I rode my bike directly to the station to take the bus, planning to go back to the county.

While there are fewer people, grab a seat on the bus first.

She didn't want to have to stand all the way for an hour or two of driving.

After waiting for a while and seeing the bus still not leaving, I saw the group of educated youth carrying their luggage into the station.

However, they were not in the same car as Jiang Mengxue, but a car heading to the farm.

"Don't the farms have tractors? We can only take a car to the county town, and then we have to find a way to get to the farm ourselves. How are we going to carry all these things?"

Jiang Mengxue, who was leaning against the window, heard the sound coming from outside and turned around curiously to look.

She is a girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old, and she is very smart.

"Our farm's tractors have been busy transporting grain lately, so we don't have time to come pick you up.

However, when we get to the county town this afternoon, our farm's tractor will be heading back, so we can help take your luggage back with us."

The person who answered was obviously wearing something different from the others.

He should be the person sent by the farm to pick up the educated youth.

After the man finished speaking, he went over to help the driver tie all the luggage to the roof of the car.

The space inside the car is already small, and everyone carries a lot of things.

Cotton-padded clothes, quilts, pots, pans, and bowls are equivalent to all the household items a person needs in life.

The little girl didn't say anything after being refuted.

Instead, she was pulled away by a gay man standing next to her.

Jiang Mengxue saw that the two people were very familiar with each other, so they must be from the same place.

When the time came, the car Jiang Mengxue was riding in departed.

She no longer paid attention to the affairs of the educated youth.

Just think about it, it’s already fifty-nine years.

The next two years were years of disaster, and food was scarce throughout the country.

It was not until 1962 that the situation began to ease.

But it's only slightly better than the past three years.

A month's supply is still about 30 kilograms, barely enough to keep going.

Especially during the Great Revolution in 1966, and in 1968, all educated youth went to the countryside.

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