The day before Lu Ting came back from his business trip, he heard that Lu Chen's results were also out. He heard that he did very well and received an admission letter from the Aviation College in August.
Su Yan didn't know whether to congratulate or sigh with regret. Although this school was engaged in aviation research, classes had been suspended for several years due to the major movement.
It was not until 1970 that some universities resumed recruiting students, implementing a combination of mass recommendations, leadership approval, and school review to select a group of outstanding students from workers, peasants, and soldiers to continue their classes.
I don’t know whether Lu Chen went to the countryside to be an educated youth or started working at that time.
The whole Lu family was jubilant when Lu Chen passed the university entrance exam. Su Yan naturally couldn't go back on her word as she had promised to give him a gift.
At first, Su Yan didn't know what to buy, but after thinking about it, she decided to buy him a radio worth a few dozen yuan. It would always be good for him to listen to the radio more often and pay attention to national political information.
Seeing that his eldest sister-in-law really bought a radio for his third brother, Lu Yu studied harder. Even if he couldn't get his eldest brother's stamp album, other gifts would be nice too.
As expected, in the summer of the following year, Lu Yu was admitted to university and was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology.
Su Yan didn't expect that he would apply to a school in another city, a school in Beijing. It would be closer to home and if something happened, she would have her father-in-law to help her. It would be more troublesome if she applied to a school in another province.
When Lu Yu filled out his college entrance examination application, he should have discussed with his father-in-law in advance which university he wanted to apply for.
By the time Su Yan found out, the application had already been submitted. When Lu Yu received the university admission letter, the whole family was immersed in joy. What could Su Yan say? Could it be that the big movement was coming in May next year and she shouldn't join in the trouble?
Everyone was making a fuss, so there was no reason for him not to join in. Su Yan was really worried that Lu Chen and Lu Yu would be instigated to be the first to take charge of everything.
When Lu Yu was admitted to university, Su Yan also bought him a radio and asked him to take it to school so that he could get real-time information about the country.
At the end of 1965, Lu Fengnian received a bad news in advance and fired Qin Xiaofang and Hua Jing. He told outsiders that they were only there to help take care of the children.
Su Yan and Lu Jin were at home during the winter vacation, so there was no need to worry about no one to take care of the children. At this time, Lu Yiming was already three years old and Lu Yilan was two years old.
In the spring of 1966, they were both sent to the nursery in the military compound. Nurseries in that era were not like kindergartens. The nursery in the military compound was just a larger courtyard of the Lu family.
There are children of all ages who have no one to take care of them because their parents are busy with work, ranging from seven or eight years old to just a few months old.
The younger ones slept in the cradle, while the older ones were locked in the yard to play freely.
Su Yan didn't want to send her child to a nursery, but it wasn't wise to hire someone to take care of the child now. She could only let her child suffer.
When Lu Yiming was two and a half years old, Su Yan stopped bringing him into the space, fearing that he would say something nonsense.
The good news is that the telepathy between mother and son is increasing. When Lu Yiming was three years old, he seemed to have almost forgotten everything about his previous life.
When Wang Yan gave birth, Jiang Lingling took three months off. She originally wanted to ask relatives to help. At first, they all agreed. But when the time came and they went to ask for help, they sent a girl of about thirteen or fourteen years old to help.
Jiang Lingling resigned in anger and devoted herself to raising her granddaughter in the courtyard. At the end of 1965, the second son Su Lang's wife gave birth to a daughter, whose nickname was Yuanyuan and whose full name was Su Jingyuan.
Su Qingshan and Jiang Lingling were not in a hurry, since their son and daughter-in-law were still young.
In the blink of an eye, it was June 1, 1966. The first thing Su Yan did when she returned home for vacation was to go to the nursery in advance to pick up her children and take them home to celebrate Children's Day. However, she found out that her mother-in-law was on vacation today and took both children to Lu's house.
Su Yan went back to put down her schoolbag and went to Lu's house. Hua Min said, "You will have dinner at home tonight. Your father has something to tell you."
"Mom, what's going on?"
"I heard someone went in upstairs, and something big might happen."
Su Yan knew that a big campaign was about to begin, and as early as a year ago she reminded Lu Jin not to publish articles casually anymore.
There are so many people who publish articles, and they are neither editors nor contracted authors of the newspaper. As long as they don't write or say anything nonsense, they generally won't be held responsible.
Besides, Su Yan had carefully checked the manuscripts that Lu Jin had published before and found no problems.
In the evening, Lu Fengnian and Lu Ting returned home from get off work. After dinner, Lu Fengnian locked the door and said seriously, "Xiaochen, you and Xiaoyu don't have to go to college. You two should sign up."
Lu Chen looked at Lu Fengnian in disbelief, "Dad, I'm only a sophomore, and Xiaoyu is a freshman."
"I know. Didn't you see the commotion outside? New soldiers will be recruited in July. You happen to be college students. Sign up and you'll get promoted quickly."
Su Yan knew that her father-in-law was very smart. He could see the situation clearly and choose what was beneficial to them, avoiding danger and seeking good fortune.
Su Yan agreed, "Xiaochen, you should just listen to Dad! Dad will definitely not harm you."
"My wife is right. Didn't you see that we fired Aunt Fang and Aunt Xiao last year during the Spring Festival? You should be more careful about what you say and do in the future."
Lu Chen was panicking, "Brother, what happened?"
"We can't comment on the major events happening up there. We just live our own lives. If Dad asks you to join the army, then join up. The army, navy, and air force are all recruiting."
Lu Chen knew that his father and elder brother must have heard some bad news, but he was unwilling to let them give up college like this.
Lu Chen asked again: "Dad, what about my second brother?"
"Your second brother and eldest sister-in-law will be assigned to the hospital for internship at the end of the month. Don't worry about them. Now that some people have started making trouble, you should come back early."
Lu Chen is just a man of few words but he is not stupid. He believes that his father will definitely not harm him, so he decides to listen to his father and sign up to join the army.
In mid-June, Lu Yu, who was far away in Harbin, also received a letter from his father, asking him to come back with his student ID number to sign up for army service.
Lu Yu has been like a chicken with its blood pumped up for the past half month. He hasn't attended classes and has been going out with his classmates every day.
When he heard his father asking him to go back and sign up for the army, he hesitated. He always thought that this matter would be over quickly.
Who knew that within two days he received another letter from his sister-in-law Su Yan, also saying that the current situation was turbulent and asked him to sign up for the army and join the revolution.
Although joining the army is hard, at least the future is bright. Since I can't go to school now anyway, I might as well agree to my father and sign up.
Lu Yu wrote back to Lu Fengnian, promising to come back and sign up for the army. Lu Fengnian finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the news.
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