Lin Qiqi smiled. "That's great! I'm also an educated youth who went to the countryside. My name is Lin Qiqi. I'm an educated youth from Beijing. I'm eighteen years old today. What's your name?"
Xu Wanning also introduced herself: "My name is Xu Wanning, I'm eighteen years old like you, and I'm an educated youth from Haicheng."
Lin Qiqi's eyes sparkled: "Xu Zhiqing, you are so beautiful!"
Xu Wanning smiled faintly, "Thank you, you are also very beautiful!"
After a while, the girl sitting in the front row also came over and said timidly: "My name is Liu Yiyi, I am seventeen years old, and I am also an educated youth from Beijing who went to the countryside."
Lin Qiqi asked curiously, "Xu Zhiqing, which brigade are you assigned to?"
Xu Wanning's lips curled up slightly: "Red Flag Gongliujiagou Producers' Brigade"
Lin Qiqi smiled brightly: "Really? That's great, Yiyi and I have also been sent to the Liujiagou Reproduction Team!"
"Then you can call me Qiqi from now on. That's what my parents call me. I'll call you Wan Ning from now on, okay?"
Lin Qiqi instantly became excited. She had been extremely depressed since she got on the train, and was full of worry and fear about the future!
The three of them hit it off on the train. After a while, Xu Wanning realized that they were both going to the countryside to represent their brothers.
In this special era, most families still have the traditional idea of favoring sons over daughters. Sons are treasures, and daughters are weeds...
After a day and a night, the train finally arrived in North City. As soon as they arrived at the station, Xu Wanning and the other two couldn't wait to rush down with their luggage. The two-day and two-night journey had made them exhausted. The train conditions at that time were too simple. The carriage was filled with all kinds of stinky sweat smells, which made people's brains hurt!
Lin Qiqi awkwardly hugged her luggage and stumbled out, complaining, "Wan Ning, we're finally here! I'm so miserable! I really can't move anymore! The train is shaking so much that I'm dizzy!"
Xu Wanning smiled helplessly: "Qiqi, just hold on a little longer, we'll be fine once we get settled in the educated youth camp."
Not long after the three of them walked, they saw a group of people gathered under a big tree in front of them. There was a wooden sign that read "Red Flag Public Going to the Countryside Meeting Point".
The educated youth had already begun lining up, waiting for their assigned production teams to pick them up. After a few hours, someone shouted, "Educated youth going to the Liujiagou Production Brigade, come here!"
The one who came to pick them up was Shen Yujun, the captain of the Liujiagou Production Brigade. He was wearing a coarse grey cloth full of patches. He had a straight figure, a square face, and a slightly old look. He looked to be in his forties, Xu Wanning had heard from Xu Yu.
When Shen Yujun was young, he was a very good friend of Xu Yu. Later, Shen Yujun injured his leg in an accident. The factory gave him a sum of compensation to appease him. He could no longer continue to work and had to return to his hometown with regret!
"Xu Wanning, Liu Yiyi, Lin Qiqi, Xu Wenjing, Liu Mingwei, everyone I just mentioned, take your luggage and follow me."
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Shen Yujun, and I'm the captain of the Liujiagou Production Brigade. You'll be staying in Liujiagou from now on. It's not like the city, and you can see the conditions here. You'll have to overcome them on your own!"
Shen Yujun frowned as he looked at these children and sighed. The children in the city were all delicate and tender, how could they work? They could not earn much in a day, and some of them could not even distinguish wheat from grass...
It's been five or six generations since the first batch of educated youth went to the countryside. Every year, countless educated youth come here to build the countryside, but few of them actually go to work. To avoid going to work, some female educated youth hook up with young men in the village and ask them to work for them. These young men have never seen city girls before, so they're so captivated by a few nice words from these girls that they lose their minds...
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