After the Mid-Autumn Festival comes the autumn harvest.

After the autumn harvest, Guo Youxing asked someone to build two houses behind the house, both made of earthen bricks and tiles, one for each of his two sons.

After the new house was built, Deng Qingling moved with her two daughters to the new house at the back of the house. It turned out that the room was occupied by Guo Haochen and his brother.

1976 was an uneasy year. Even in the remote mountain village of Lixia Brigade, people could hear the news outside, and for a while no one dared to go out.

As the news of the end of the revolutionary movement and the defeat of the bad guys came, everyone immediately cheered.

During that period, Deng Qingling rarely went out, and the chickens at home became lazier and lazier, laying only one egg every ten days or half a month.

The days without eggs and meat made the children very greedy, and they went to the chicken coop to look for eggs every day.

So seeing that the situation was getting better, a few days before winter came, Deng Qingling went out for a walk around the town, and then took out a lot of food from the space, so she didn't have to worry about it going bad in the cold weather.

She also took out a large quilt to cover the Guo Haochen brothers, and put the old quilt on the bed so that they would not be cold in winter.

When Deng Qingling returned home, Liang Xueying was cleaning the yard, while Guo Haochen and the others were playing under the eaves.

When the children saw Deng Qingling coming back, they all gathered around her and asked to help carry the things. Since they were not fragile items, Deng Qingling let them take them.

After entering the house, Deng Qingling gave some candies to the children to share, then she put everything in order and went into the kitchen to cook.

Liang Xueying finished sweeping the yard and went into the kitchen to help.

"Mom, you just need to light the fire. I don't need your help with anything else." Deng Qingling said.

There are only two dishes in this meal, one is steamed egg with minced meat, the other is stir-fried shredded pork with sauerkraut, and the staple food is corn and multi-grain rice.

When stir-frying sauerkraut, Deng Qingling added a chili pepper. The weather is cold, and eating some chili pepper can dispel the cold.

Deng Qingling is generous with the amount of oil she uses when cooking. Once she stir-fries chili peppers and sauerkraut in hot oil, the aroma spreads all over the place.

Deng Qingling didn't need to tell them to set the table; the children would wash their hands and set the table as soon as they smelled the fragrance.

These two dishes have always been well received by everyone, especially the stir-fried shredded pork with sauerkraut, which is slightly spicy and warms up the stomach after eating.

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The end of the year is here in the blink of an eye.

While everyone was buying New Year's goods in preparation for the Lunar New Year, the educated youth from the province in the village also applied to go back to visit their families.

The cadres of the brigade discussed it and agreed. Now that the situation has changed, it is a good opportunity for the educated youth to go back and find out the news.

Chen Chen and his friends also went back to Guangzhou. The day before they left, Chen Haitao and his brother told Guo Haochen and his friends that they would bring them some local specialties, which made the kids very happy.

On New Year's Eve, Zhou Kai and his wife came early in the morning and brought some eggs, food and a few pounds of mutton.

As for Zhou Feng and Guo Yu, they did not come back. They were still in Guangzhou. Guo Yu was pregnant and Zhou Feng was worried about her being alone in Guangzhou, so Zhou Feng would not come back to pick up Liang Xueying and the others until after the New Year.

That is to say, Guo Yu and his wife spent the New Year in Guangzhou, and Zhou Kai and his wife took Zhou Jiazhen to the county town to celebrate the New Year.

Originally, Liang Xueying invited Zhou Kai and others to have New Year's Eve dinner before returning to the county town, but they were unwilling.

They returned to the county town without even having lunch.

This made Liang Xueying and the others feel very embarrassed. The in-laws came to give gifts, but their family couldn't even arrange a meal for them. It would be so embarrassing if they told others about it.

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This year's New Year's Eve dinner was eaten later than last year, and was not served until around seven o'clock.

This year's New Year's Eve dinner is very simple, with just two dishes and one soup.

A plate of boiled chicken, a plate of fried bacon with garlic sprouts, and a pot of mutton and radish soup. If you take out the mutton and radish, you will have three dishes.

Mutton is very rare here. Deng Qingling has never seen it in all these years since she traveled through time. You can imagine how difficult it is to get it.

Even though mutton was rare and hard to get, Liang Xueying was not stingy and brought a plate of mutton and radish to Uncle Guo and Uncle Guo II.

Even though there were more radishes than mutton, Uncle Guo and his friends appreciated the kindness.

Mutton is so precious!

So later, Uncle Guo and Uncle Guo’s families both received a bowl of meat dishes.

It’s amazing how delicious the lamb and radish are when cooked together, without any fishy smell. Everyone loves it.

On the third day of the New Year, Zhou Feng came back to pick up Liang Xueying and Zhou Jiazhen to go to Guangzhou.

Liang Xueying also brought some dried vegetables, eggs and two chickens. She used rice bran to pad the eggs so that they would not break, and could also be used to feed the chickens when they were hungry.

That day, the educated youth also returned from visiting their families. The others didn't share any important news, but Chen Chen said, "The darkness has passed, the dawn has come, and the days ahead will get better and better."

Everyone looked at Chen Chen, asking him to say more. After all, his family was the best among all the educated youth, so it would not be surprising if he got some news.

Finally, he added, "National development requires talent."

Now everyone understands that the country is short of talent, and talent is needed for development in all aspects, while some industries are directly interrupted, so the restoration of the college entrance examination is inevitable.

Sooner or later they will return to the city, and I believe that day is coming soon.

The brigade secretary also specifically told everyone not to spread the news and just keep it to themselves to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

When Guo Youxing returned home and told Deng Qingling about it, her expression was shocked.

She didn't expect Guo Youxing to tell her this news, and she agreed with what Chen Chen and the others said.

If she didn't know the future direction of the country's development, she might think they were dreaming.

This is the difference between educated people and uneducated people.

Educated people can analyze the future development trends of a country with just a few words and know what is important to the country.

Those who have not received an education will only think that studying is useless. After all, those educated youth are intellectuals and have gone to the villages to farm with them.

No one expected that these people were only farming temporarily and would return to the city sooner or later.

In fact, some educated youth also thought so, otherwise they would not have married and had children in the countryside, especially the earliest batch of educated youth, who had been in the countryside for almost ten years.

From the initial anticipation, it gradually turned into numbness, and they were no longer so obsessed with returning to the city.

Guo Youxing thought his daughter-in-law was frightened by her expression.

He quickly said, "We don't know when the college entrance examination will be resumed yet. Don't tell anyone about this. Also, if you want to take the college entrance examination, read more books. I think that day is not far away."

Deng Qingling came back to her senses and said to Guo Youxing, "I understand."

I really didn't expect Guo Youxing to have such an idea. She really didn't think she had any hope of passing the college entrance examination and going to university.

She knew her own limitations and that her chances of getting into university were slim.