The educated youth from Dafang Village have stayed here for as long as seven or eight years, and as short as four or five years.
The first group went to the countryside voluntarily with their ideals, but the later groups had no choice at all.
Until the village can no longer afford to support them, the subsequent educated youth will generally be assigned to farms.
Therefore, the last group of people in the village did not stay here for long.
After settling here for so many years, many educated youth could no longer bear it and married and had children with local people. There are less than ten educated youth left in the educated youth site.
Occasionally, some are lucky enough to have their families help them return to the city, but the rest can only struggle to stay in the village.
Zhu Yu was lucky. His family got him a job and wrote to him asking him to go home and take up the job.
The captain didn't stop him and let him go generously.
The educated youth expressed their congratulations one after another. After all, they had been together here for such a long time, and no matter how big the festival was, they still felt a little reluctant to leave at this moment, and more of it was a mixture of envy and melancholy.
They dream of returning to the city, but they have no connections at home, and they are unwilling to start a family here. They can only look forward to opportunities that seem to be far away and count the days that seem to be endless.
I just watched my best years of youth wasted year after year.
The night before Zhu Yu left, a group of educated youth pooled their money to prepare a farewell dinner. The vegetables were picked from the fields, and the educated youth asked the villagers to harvest the vegetables that they did not plant.
For some meat dishes, they went to the villagers in the mountains to buy some dried rabbits, pheasants and bacon, and went to the river to catch some fish. They put together a table full of delicious dishes, making this farewell banquet quite lively.
Since he was about to leave anyway, Zhu Yu went to the black market and bought some fresh meat as a final token of appreciation for his brothers and sisters who were still holding on here.
In the evening, someone brought a bottle of wine, and a group of educated youth ate the rare delicious food while toasting to each other and chatting happily.
As they drank, someone broke down first and choked up.
"I still remember when we first arrived, there were six of us. One got hookworms while working in the fields and died. Another broke his leg and returned to the city. Another woman was forced to marry a local... Now only the other two and I are left."
Thinking back to when they first went to the countryside, everyone was filled with emotion.
"Back when I was an educated youth from Haishi, I couldn't understand the local dialect. A dog kept barking at me, and it really scared me! I was so scared that I would rather starve myself than throw food to it, hoping that it would eat and stop barking at me! It's funny to think about it now."
One person laughed a little embarrassedly.
"Yes, yes, I remember this!"
“Hahahahahaha!”
Many of the educated youth who remembered the scene laughed out loud when they thought of it, and their eyes became red as they laughed.
They have gradually adapted to life in the countryside, but they still want to go back to the city, back to their hometown, and stay with their families!
Zhu Yu couldn't help but be moved. If he was asked to stay here forever, he would not be willing to do so, but now that he was about to leave, he actually felt a little nostalgic for the life of an educated youth over the years.
Let’s raise our glasses together to toast Zhu Yu.
"Congratulations on escaping the sea of suffering. I wish you a bright future!"
"Don't forget us old friends when you become rich!"
Zhu Yu replied: "I also wish you a speedy return to the city!"
After expressing their feelings, everyone started to eat. After finishing the wine and food, they cleaned up together and went to bed.
Zhao Yuan hadn't slept yet. After dinner, she went to see Zhu Yu privately, holding a pair of new shoes in her hand.
Zhao Yuan smiled and said, "Congratulations, you're leaving soon. I bought you a new pair of shoes as a way to pay you back for the pair you gave me."
Zhu Yu stared at her for a moment. "They are just a pair of my old shoes. They are not worth it. You should have avenged yourself, right?"
Zhao Yuan lowered her eyelids and said, "Take it. Consider it my parting gift to you."
He turned around and left.
Zhu Yu looked at her leaving back and shook his head.
He has no right to care about other people's grudges. After this separation, he doesn't know if he will see them again in the future.
Has revenge been achieved?
Zhao Yuan answered herself without hesitation, of course not!
Even though Li Zhigao is treacherous and Tian Suyun is stupid, isn't Hua Laizi also barbaric and vicious?
Many female educated youth were forced to marry villagers due to such schemes and coercion. Most of the men were not interested in them, so they set their sights on the educated youth.
She couldn't care less about other people, but Hua Laizi was plotting against her, causing her to almost end up like that. He deserved to die the most!
Li Zhigao did not know how to restrain himself from doing immoral things. It took her almost no effort to make his ugly deeds public and make him get punished.
Although Tian Suyun had no plans against other people, she couldn't stand the loneliness and met someone secretly. Zhu Yu caught her and borrowed a pair of old shoes from him, put them on his head and beat Tian Suyun up.
With a bit of luck, her plan went surprisingly smoothly, allowing Tian Suyun to marry a countryman.
They were all educated youth. No matter how fierce the internal fighting was, the villagers just looked at them like monkeys.
But Hua Laizi was different. He was a villager, and no matter how bad he was, the villagers would always side with him. If a villager had a dispute with an outsider, the locals would naturally unite to exclude the outsider.
If she attacked Hua Laizi, not only would the other party be much stronger, even if she succeeded by luck, once anyone found any trace, she, an educated youth from outside the village who was alone, would definitely not be let off by the villagers.
She could kill Hua Laizi, and at least half of the people in the village have the surname Hua. How difficult would it be for them to kill her?
Her death in the village wouldn't even cause a stir.
So a few years passed and Zhao Yuan didn't take any action.
She wanted to find the most appropriate opportunity to kill the enemy with one strike without revealing any flaws.
…
Seeing that summer was about to end, Hua Wanchi took out more than ten baskets of peaches - she wanted to eat to her heart's content!
My family has gotten used to this.
Wan Qingliu skillfully conducts:
"Fifth brother, take some to your uncle's house. Second brother, take some to three families in the city."
Hua Qingping asked a soul-searching question:
"Mom, I've always been curious. How did you carry so many peaches back home? You can't carry them all by yourself! And whether you got them from the commune or the county town, couldn't you just give them to me when you bought them?"
There are also good things that can't be found in department stores that appear at home from time to time. Hua Qingping doesn't believe that the relative in Hai City has such great ability to send so many!
Wan Qingliu's expression did not change at all, and he opened his mouth and said:
"You want to see how these came about? Wait until next time."
Hua Xuguo looked at his mother in surprise. "Isn't this a gift from the gods? How can I explain this?"
Although he didn't want Hua Qingping to know, Hua Qingping was his mother's beloved, and his mother didn't even tell the truth?
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