Having made their decision, the couple did not stay in Beijing for long and rushed back to Heilongjiang Province immediately after the old man's funeral.

He Chaoyang's transfer may indeed take some time, but Chen Shuning's connections are very convenient. Not to mention the He family, even for He Chaoyang himself, arranging a transfer for an educated youth to return to the city is not a difficult task.

He Chaoyang was thinking that he needed to get things sorted out with Chen Shuning as soon as possible, so that Chen Shuning could have a good New Year in Beijing this year.

All Chen Shuning needed to do was return to the educated youth settlement to pack his belongings and say goodbye to the people he knew.

After all, after this departure, it's uncertain how many years it will be before we meet again.

Chen Shuning wasn't worried that revealing the news in advance would prevent him from leaving, because before they returned, the old man had personally called to say that Chen Shuning's return to the city had already been arranged before they came back.

Over the years, more and more energetic new educated youth have come to this land, while many seasoned veteran educated youth have quietly left.

Time has passed, and now Song Weiping is in charge of the educated youth settlement, but Feng Baoguo had already returned to the city in 1972.

Actually, he's quite old, and he insists on not settling down and starting a family in the countryside, leaving his family helpless about his attitude.

After much effort, they finally managed to get him transferred back to the city through various connections. They heard that he is now working as a temporary worker in a steel factory.

Besides Feng Baoguo, another former educated youth also returned to the city, namely Liu Xiangyang.

The once lively, cheerful, and sunny young man has also returned to the city. It is understood that his family has some connections, and the reason he chose to go to the countryside to work was out of necessity to avoid trouble. Later, when his family's difficulties were resolved, he was transferred back to the city as soon as possible.

As for the female educated youth, none of them returned to the city. Instead, most chose to find someone to marry, using this method to alleviate the burden of their difficult life in the countryside.

Among them, Sun Xiaoxiao married a young man from a well-off family in the village, and this marriage was facilitated by Fang Qing.

Although Fang Qing's own married life was not satisfactory, and could even be described as chaotic, the man she introduced to her friend Sun Xiaoxiao was quite reliable.

The young man was Wang Changjiu's distant cousin, a member of the Wang family, one of the two major surnames in Qingshan Brigade. He was a down-to-earth and hardworking man, and the couple had a happy life after marriage.

Whether it was because they felt hopeless about returning to the city, or for some other reason, Duan Hongxia and Li Jun, who had been working in the countryside for many years, quietly got married.

However, judging from their life after marriage, it seems that the two did not get married because they were in love; it seems more like they were just sticking together for warmth.

Another surprising piece of news is that Dong Haisheng actually married Shen Baogen's youngest daughter, Shen Xiaohua, who taught at the town's primary school after graduating from high school.

Later, thanks to his father-in-law's connections, he even got a spot at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. It has to be said that Dong Haisheng was quite lucky.

However, this person still had some conscience. Three years later, after graduating from university, he was assigned to work as a technician in a large steel plant in the city.

After settling into his job, Dong Haisheng immediately asked for leave from the factory and returned to Heilongjiang Province to bring Shen Xiaohua and their child back to the city.

Although Shen Baogen and his wife were reluctant to part with their daughter, they were also relieved that Dong Haisheng had not abandoned his wife and children in the countryside as soon as he returned to the city, unlike other ungrateful people.

Because the number of places available for returning to the city each year is very limited, and various conditions must be met to apply.

Many people are eagerly awaiting this opportunity, hoping to return to the city as soon as possible.

However, reality is always cruel, and not everyone can get what they want.

Some people have even waited for several years but still cannot obtain the qualification to return to the city.

They could only continue to live and work in the countryside, silently enduring the harsh environment and life pressures.

Every year, there are educated youth sent to the countryside, so new buildings have been built in the former educated youth housing complex, and they are all large communal sleeping quarters.

After all, the yard is only so big, there's really no room to build so many single rooms.

Therefore, when everyone learned that Chen Shuning was about to return to the city, many people began to covet her small house.

Since Chen Shuning returned, her little house has become lively and bustling, with hardly a moment of peace.

This annoyed Chen Shuning immensely. After asking several friends if they wanted to move and receiving negative answers, Chen Shuning resolutely decided to hand over the small house to the village so as to get rid of these troubles completely.

As for the items here, Chen Shuning only selected some useful ones to send home, and generously distributed the rest to acquaintances.

In addition, Chen Shuning also took some time to visit the black market.

Using the excuse that her son needed to be transferred to a new job, she sold a large quantity of goods to Hei Zi in one go, and then agreed that they would not have any further dealings.

Chen Shuning bought a return ticket for the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, while He Chaoyang might not be able to return to Beijing until after the spring due to work handover reasons.

Therefore, Chen Shuning had to return to Beijing alone this time.

On this cold winter day of the 19th of the twelfth lunar month, the educated youth gathered together to hold a farewell party for Chen Shuning.

This was a special privilege enjoyed by every educated youth who was about to return to the city or marry elsewhere, and Chen Shuning was naturally not excluded.

At the farewell party, Gu Xinyi burst into tears and sobbed uncontrollably.

Wang Chunni and Xu Laidi also kept wiping away tears from the corners of their eyes, unable to suppress their reluctance to part.

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