Chapter 1261: Going to the Countryside 2
On the train, more than half of the passengers were educated young people like them, both men and women, carrying luggage, shoulder bags, and net bags with daily necessities such as enamel pots in their pockets. Most of them had excited faces and their eyes were full of longing for the future.
Zheng Huihui huddled in her seat, leaning against the window, hugging her knees.
"Comrades, the countryside is a vast world, and we will be able to achieve great things there!" A young woman with short hair stood up, waved her arms, and said loudly, "We must go there with full enthusiasm. Don't show such a discouraged expression, or people will think that the country is forcing you to go to the countryside!"
Upon hearing this accusation, a girl like Zheng Huihui, who was sad about leaving home, immediately suppressed the expression on her face, wiped her face with her sleeve, and pretended that she was not among the people who were crying.
The girl sitting next to Zheng Huihui was two years younger than Zheng Huihui, and had two pigtails tied with a red hairband.
She was the one who cried the loudest just now. She had an oval face, big eyes, small lips, fair skin, and a tall and thin figure. But it seemed as if tears were flowing out of her eyes, revealing a pitiful look.
"My name is Zheng Huihui. What's your name?" Zheng Huihui asked her, turning her head to the side.
Zhou Zhou whispered, "Wanglou Brigade."
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After hearing this, Zhou Zhou finally smiled.
"What a coincidence?" Zheng Huihui's face was full of surprise. "I'm going to Wanglou Brigade too. We can be companions."
Hearing the accent of a local from the capital, Zheng Huihui's expression became much more friendly. "I just saw that the ticket you took was to Huaihai City, and so was mine. So where in the Wanglou Brigade were you assigned to?"
She was a child who was neither loved by her father nor her mother at home. She was the most redundant. Her eldest sister was the most favored. In order to avoid going to the countryside, she took over her mother's job in the food factory in advance. Her younger brother was the treasure of the family and stayed at home on the grounds of his young age. Therefore, the quota to go to the countryside fell on her and she was assigned to the Mongolian grassland.
"Zhou Zhou, my name is Zhou Zhou."
Her grandmother loved her and said that the prairie was not a good place and that she might not find another person even if she rode a horse for a whole day and a night. So she secretly went to find a distant cousin, and her uncle transferred her to the Wanglou Brigade in Huaihai City.
Her aunt told her grandmother that Wanglou Brigade was a good place where she could live peacefully.
Zhou Zhou couldn't be sure whether it was a good place or not, but when they got off the bus, they found that only people from the Wanglou Brigade came to pick them up with two mule carts. After confirming their identities by name, they asked the seven of them to put their luggage on the mule carts and sit on them. The other brigades had at most one or two ox carts, which only carried luggage and no people, so they all followed them back on foot.
An old man in his sixties who led the Wanglou Brigade said, "I am the leader of the Wanglou Brigade and also the Party Secretary. My name is Wang Zhengguo. I don't care where you come from. Once you arrive at the Wanglou Brigade, you must listen to me! Now that the luggage has been moved, you all get on the bus!"
The seven educated youth, three men and four women, shivered involuntarily and sat obediently on the mule carts, divided into men and women.
Wang Zhengguo drove the mule cart with the female comrade in it, and asked Wang Dachun to drive the other one. He first asked Zhou Zhou to move over from the back and sit in the front with him, leaving some empty seats for others. He whipped the cart forward and said, "You are here to receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants, so learn to work honestly. Don't act like city people and say you can't do this or that. If you don't know how to do it, then study hard. Once you have learned, work hard. Only when you earn work points can you share the food!"
(End of this chapter)