Among the four new educated youth, except Shi Qianjin and Ma Hongying, the other pair are brothers.
The tasks assigned to the new educated youth were relatively easy at the beginning, such as collecting banana leaves, branches, etc.
But one day, everyone had gone home from work, but Ma Hongying had not returned from the rainforest.
There was a big quarrel at the educated youth site.
Some said they should go look for it, others said it was getting dark and it was too dangerous in the rainforest.
Shi Qianjin was so anxious that he reported it to the village without hesitation.
The team leader immediately reprimanded the captain of the educated youth point and arranged for several old mountain people to go to the rainforest to look for him.
Shi Qianjin also went.
Ma Hongying was found by Shi Qianjin.
Only half of her head remained on the surface of the swamp.
There are rumors that when Ma Hongying was dragged out of the swamp, all her clothes had fallen off.
More than a month after the incident, Shi Qianjin contracted dysentery and had a high fever, and was so exhausted that he became unrecognizable.
It was Ma Hongying who took care of him for more than a month without taking off her clothes, wiping his body and washing his pants. In the end, he survived, but became darker and thinner.
When the work points were calculated at the end of the year, the two of them did not have enough food to eat, so they had to discuss eating together next year.
But the following summer there was a severe flood, and the village had almost no harvest.
Everyone in the village relies on relief to wait for the second season's food.
The two brothers who came with Shi Qianjin could not hold on and married girls from their own village or other villages respectively, and received a marriage subsidy for settling down.
(I checked a few memoirs and found that this policy was intended to attract Han Chinese to settle in Banna and encourage educated youth to marry locally, but I couldn't find the original document on Baidu.)
Shi Qianjin, who was extremely hungry, discussed with Ma Hongying and decided to have a fake marriage.
It was thanks to that subsidy that the two of them managed to survive that six months.
There is no need to say much about what happened next. The single man and woman pretended to live together...
Zhang Hongcheng slept at Lao Zhao's residence for one night.
He remained untouched by the wedding wine, but placed a few grain coupons from the Great Unity and Yunnan Province beside it.
This was considered the wedding money for him, Jian Yong, Lao Du, Chen Beilei, Lu Yan and Zhao Ganmei.
As time goes by, our friendship as classmates comes to an end.
When we returned to Jinghong, the Water Splashing Festival was still going on.
Lao Cheng was also at the scene, and his fire truck was parked not far away.
Because the villagers are going to fly sky lanterns today..., they are very busy.
Zhang Hongcheng, who was not very clear about the idea, pulled Lao Cheng and whispered a few words. Lao Cheng finally smiled and nodded.
With his tacit consent, Zhang Hongcheng climbed onto the fire truck, picked up the water hose and grinned at the girls.
"Everyone, come and see the rainbow~!!!"
The white water dragon fell towards the singing and dancing crowd, and there was cheering.
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