After dinner, the two walked to Xinyu Street, where the yard was.
In fact, Xinyu Street is the back street of the grain station, and as Xiaoqiu said, Yang Youjiang's house is in the front street of the grain station, which is actually very close.
Yufang knew nothing and just followed them, but Lian Xiaomin knew what was going on and it would be convenient to do it at night as it was only a ten-minute walk away.
Arriving at the gate of No. 18 Xinyu Street, Lian Xiaomin took out the key and unlocked it.
As soon as I entered, I saw that everything was cleaned very cleanly, and there was basically no trace of Sun Xuefeng's family living there.
When I came back from Fengtian in the middle of the night to pick someone up that day, it was very hurried.
It took Sun Han and his family only about ten minutes from the time they were woken up by their son to the time they took their simple things and walked out of the yard.
He definitely didn't pack anything before leaving.
The back was cleaned and tidied by Sun Xuefeng's cousin Shen Chunqiao. The young man did a good job.
"Xiao Min, this house is really nice. Houses in the county are better than those in the countryside."
Of course it is. This courtyard is really nice. If it is bought by Mr. Qian, it must be good.
There are four large tiled houses, which are spacious and bright, and the yard is also large, but now there are only some flowers planted everywhere and a jujube tree, nothing else.
"Yufang, you can sleep in the west room. I live next door. There are all kinds of things in the kang cabinet inside. You can use whatever you want."
The pillows and bedding are all placed in the kang cabinet to avoid dust.
It was summer when Sun Xuefeng's family escaped. They didn't use quilts or mattresses, only sheets, and lay directly on the kang mat to keep cool.
The rest are new and neatly stacked in the kang cabinet.
The weather is getting colder now, especially at night, so we need to cover ourselves with quilts and put down mattresses.
Yufang found a kerosene lamp. It was November and it got dark early, so she had to light a lamp in the house.
Lian Xiaomin boiled a pot of water on the stove, and found two washbasins, two new towels, and a bar of soap from the utility room outside, and placed them all at the head of the kang.
The two of them washed their faces early and sat on the kang chatting. It was too early to go to bed.
"Xiao Min, why is such a nice house empty? Who lived there before?"
"Yes, the people who lived here before, their whole family, sneaked into Hong Kong."
Lian Xiaomin led the topic to this point. Yufang would not tell anyone anyway, so she continued to ask tentatively: "Yufang, do you know Xiangjiang?"
"Yes, it's close to Guangdong Province. It's a very big island... I heard that you don't need a ticket to buy things there, the income is very high, and you can make a lot of money."
In the dim light of the kerosene lamp, Yufang leaned her hands on the kang table and spoke in a low voice.
Lian Xiaomin smiled: "How do you know so much?"
"Xu Chunlai, the grandson of our old village party secretary Xu Fengmin, served as a soldier in Guangdong Province. After he returned from demobilization, he talked a lot about what happened there."
"...Also, there was a teacher named Jiang in the cowshed. You know, he had a son who took that route and tried to sneak into Hong Kong. Later, there was no news from him. Teacher Jiang had a very hard time during that time. He was less than 50 years old, but his hair turned completely white..."
"...Actually, there were many such cases. For example, three educated youths from the Xiaoxintun production team ran away once. I heard that they were trying to get to Bao'an County in Guangdong Province by hopping on a train and swimming across the Xiangjiang River from there. They couldn't stand the hardship of working in the countryside, so they ran away..."
As Yufang started talking, her expression became so excited that Lian Xiaomin couldn't stop laughing.
"These are the words that Grandma Cui and Aunt Qiaozhi from Uncle Shengli's family chatted about. Did you hear them?"
The news about the Xiaoxintun Production Team must have been spread by the team leader during the meeting, and then passed on through his family.
But these rumors are no big deal, just say it.
According to Yufang, this kind of thing has been common since the movement began.
There were rumors that many educated youth who had been sent to the countryside to work and some members of the "five black categories" had escaped. Everyone chatted about this and that while working, and the conversation never ended.
Of course, the fate of these people and what happens after they escape is hard to say. Some of them were caught and it is not certain whether they will be deported or sent to a farm for education.
There is no known news of the life or death of more people, and most of them are dead.
"Yeah, Xiaomin, do you think Hong Kong is really that good?"
Lian Xiaomin thought about it and asked her, "Yufang, tell me, if our family moved to Hong Kong together and there was no risk, would you be willing to go?"
This time it was Yufang's turn to laugh: "How is that possible? I would really like to see what that place is like, but that's because I don't have a husband's family and I'm all alone!"
"...My mother is over 50 years old. All her relatives are in Sandagou. Can they all go together? Haha, then the captain should arrest himself first! My mother has only one son, my brother. If my mother doesn't leave, how can my brother leave? And my eldest sister is living well in Daliushu Village. She can't leave either."
Lian Xiaomin was just pretending to chat casually with Yufang about her random thoughts, but in fact she knew all these things clearly, just as she expected.
She is not a real girl of fifteen or sixteen. Before she traveled through time in her previous life, she was already thirty-three years old. She has life experience and is very mature in guessing other people's thoughts.
It is said that it is hard to leave one's hometown. Unless one has experienced something like Zheng Ying, where his family is about to be broken up, who would leave the hometown where they grew up?
In 1970, although the living standards were low, people's mental outlook was very good and they had a "red heart" and were never ambiguous.
Now, my aunt and her family feel that they are living a very satisfying life.
With three eldest grandsons and two eldest granddaughters, Grandma Cui has the support of her maternal relatives in the village, and her eldest nephew is a capable team leader. The Li family has no worries at all, and her son has a job and earns more than most people.
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