Chapter 1829 Class Opening 1

Feng Qingxue didn't know the name of the female educated youth who was speaking, nor did she recognize her. She only knew Zhou Zhou, Zheng Huihui, Xing Yushan and the few educated youth in front. This female educated youth was obviously a later arrival, about seventeen or eighteen years old. She had a pair of upside-down sword-like eyebrows on her thin face, and her two narrow eyes were wide open, making her look a bit fierce.

The seven or eight educated youths present who loudly echoed this female educated youth were all strangers, both men and women. The oldest was no more than twenty years old, and the youngest was only fifteen or sixteen years old, a girl who was still childish, with a look of ignorance and confusion, and seemed to have been dragged in to make up the numbers.

"Return to the city quota?" Feng Qingxue repeated doubtfully, then remembered the large-scale return of educated youth to the city. Although the large-scale return to the city occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the signs are now visible, so she said, "I believe that my uncle is fair. If there is a return to the city quota, he will not hide it from you. Now he says there is no return to the city, which is definitely not the case."

Wang Jiao raised her eyebrows and said, "That's right! In the past, the quotas for college admission, the quotas for urban employment, or the quotas for conscription were all equally distributed to the educated youth point and our Wanglou Brigade, and then a vote was held to make the final decision. They were just afraid that you would be dissatisfied and afraid of gossip. The elders and villagers of our brigade don't need to go back to the city. If there are really quotas, how can we not give them all to you? Instead of making a fuss, you might as well do what you need to do honestly. You are still comparing yourself with Grandpa Zhou. Before Grandpa Zhou was transferred down, he was a senior general in the army and held an important position. Now he is leaving because of the country's order. Do you have any?"

Having lived in the city for so many years, Wang Jiao had experienced so many things. She had long understood the reason why the educated youth went to the countryside. Wasn't it because the country couldn't place the educated youth with urban hukou that they were sent to the countryside to study and re-educate the poor peasants? There was no way to place them six or seven years ago, and there is still no way now. They will definitely not be given the opportunity to return to the city to cause chaos.

Most of the powerful and influential people arranged for their younger generations to join the army or work to avoid being sent to the countryside to work. Only a very small number of children of cadres and ordinary people without power and influence went to the countryside to work. If the educated youth who came from the former group wanted to go back, it was easy for them to ask their families to get a quota for them to return to the city.

Of course not all of them, because there are many people with a positive attitude who are willing to contribute to national construction and take the initiative to go to the countryside.

It was only in the first two years that people took the initiative to go to the countryside to work. They were full of enthusiasm, but after they got there it was like being poured a bucket of cold water in the middle of winter. They could not enjoy themselves and had to work in the fields. Many of their lives were not as they wished. Therefore, many of the educated youth now want to return to the city, but a large number of them are not welcomed by their families when they go home to visit their families because of problems such as housing and survival. How can they possibly return to the city now?

Wang Jiao was sharp-tongued and her words made the educated youth very angry but speechless.

Wang Zhengguo sighed. As he got older, his temper became milder. He also understood the desire of these educated youth to go home. He said slowly, "The country has not issued any documents allowing educated youth to return to the city. Our brigade does not have quotas for returning to the city. If there were, I would definitely tell you that you would have to compete fairly to decide the final candidates. You have the time to make trouble, so you might as well perform well. If you perform well, I will give you a chance. If you don't perform well, I'm sorry."

"My father has been very good to you. When you were sent to the countryside to work, you were a group of educated youth from all over the country. You were assigned to different brigades, so you naturally knew people. You can ask around and see if their living environment is comparable to yours. Now you come to my father to make trouble for a place to return to the city that doesn't even exist. You must be tired of living, right?"

(End of this chapter)