Lin Yiyi returned to Datang Production Brigade and went to the old house. She asked Qin Xiangju to help her keep an eye out for unmarried girls and told her that she was planning to arrange a marriage for Lin Sijun.

Qin Xiangju's age, with all her children grown up, is free from the pressure of life, so she likes gossip and marriage proposals the most. Although she was surprised to hear that her second daughter-in-law was going to propose marriage to her brother, she thought it was normal. Lin Sijun was 16 years old, and boys of this age can be engaged. They can get married in two years when they are 10 years old.

Lin Yiyi: "Mom, my daughter's family has to be three generations of poor farmers. It would be best if the family has an elder brother or a father who is a soldier. It doesn't matter if the family conditions are pretty good, the main thing is that the background has to be clean." In this era, for Lin Yiyi, it is better to have a family of poor farmers or a family with elders serving in the army than a family of workers or people from the county town.

Qin Xiangju also understood in her heart that in the current situation, given the Lin family's conditions and the fact that they did not want to marry into the family, it was most important to have a clean background.

After a few days, Lin Sijun still hadn't found a partner, but the educated youth had gone to the countryside. Not only did the Shanglin Production Brigade have educated youth going to the countryside, but so did the Datang Production Brigade.

Train Station

Young men and women got off the train one by one. Each of them had a different expression on their face. Some were full of curiosity, some were full of disgust, and some had an indifferent expression.

Captain Lin shouted: "Shanglin Production Brigade is here... The educated youth from Shanglin Production Brigade are here..."

In addition to Captain Lin, Captain Zhang of the Datang Production Brigade also shouted: "The educated youth from the Datang Production Brigade are here... This is the Datang Production Brigade..."

One of them, a thin, medium-sized boy, brought several men and women to Captain Lin and said, "Hello, Captain. We are all going to the Shanglin Production Brigade."

Captain Lin said in a friendly manner, "Really? I'll call your names. Those whose names are called will follow me to the oxcart outside. Zhang Xiaojun... Qin Meimei... Fang Fang... Fang Cao... Zheng Wangming... Ren Qing, a total of six. If you are here, follow me out."

Everyone carried their luggage and followed Captain Lin out of the train station. Because it was summer, some people didn't have much luggage, and some of the big items, such as quilts and winter clothes, were mailed and were not urgently needed.

Everyone got on the bullock cart. The captain stared at a thin boy and said, "You look very familiar, a lot like someone in our village." Yes, very similar.

The captain! The young man who was stared at for a long time was Zhang Xiaojun, also known as Lin Erjun. Zhang Xiaojun knew why the other party said that he looked familiar and like someone, because he and Lin Dajun were twins and looked the same. He didn't want to come here, but he was worried about going to other places to work in the countryside, so he came here. Speaking of this work in the countryside, a vicious look flashed in his eyes. This matter was all Zhang Xiaohong's fault.

After he was adopted by the Zhang family, they adopted another boy of the same age as him and renamed him Zhang Xiaohong. From then on, he and Zhang Xiaohong fought against each other and schemed against each other in order to gain the care and attention of the Zhang family. This time, because the Zhang family had two sons, one of them had to go to the countryside. When they received the notice, the Zhang family asked them to discuss it. However, before they could finish the discussion, the news that he had voluntarily signed up to go to the countryside spread.

But he had never registered to go to the countryside. Then he realized that this was Zhang Xiaohong's doing. It was just that he had already registered and it was impossible to change it. Fortunately, those who registered voluntarily could choose where to go, so rather than going to a place where he was unfamiliar with, he would rather come to the Shanglin Production Brigade.

Of course, he did not let Zhang Xiaohong go. He changed his image and signed up Zhang Xiaohong to go to the countryside in Zhang Xiaohong's name. Since they were going to die, they would die together. He was plotted, and Zhang Xiaohong could not expect to get the benefit alone. As a result, the two adopted sons of the Zhang family went to the countryside, and the Zhang family gained a good reputation because of this.

Zhang Xiaojun said, "Really? Maybe people are similar." According to his original plan, he came to Shanglin Production Brigade and got to know the Lin family, so that he could live a better life here. But on the train, he met the educated youth who came to Shanglin Production Brigade together. One of them was Fang Fang, the sister of Fang Cao. When he heard them chatting, he talked about the family conditions and knew that the conditions of the Fang family were very good, so he had ideas about Fang Fang. In this way, he and the Lin family could not recognize each other. Once they recognized each other, how could he, who came from a rural mud-legged family, be a match with Fang Fang?

Captain Lin: "Really? Maybe."

Although Lin Dajun and Zhang Xiaojun are twins, they used to look the same, but in the past six years, their appearances have changed a lot because of their different living environments. As the old saying goes, appearance is determined by the heart, and there is a certain basis for the saying that couples look alike. Lin Dajun is kind-hearted and fat. In addition to studying, he works, works on his own land, and raises pigs, so he is very strong. In addition, his family is well-nourished, so he has flesh on his face and his skin is a little dark.

Zhang Xiaojun was not as tall as Lin Dajun, with a difference of half a head between them. In addition, he was thin, white-skinned, and wore glasses, so the two were only 50% alike. So Captain Lin would never have thought that Zhang Xiaojun was Lin Erjun.

After leaving the train station and arriving at the county gate, the captain said, "It's still early. Do you want to buy anything? If so, I'll wait for you here for two hours. Meet here at 10:30."

Zheng Wangming: "I'm not going. I'm a little tired from riding the train these days. I want to go back and rest early."

Qin Meimei: "I'm not going either."

Everyone looked at the yard in front of them. The yard was of course old, which made the educated youth who were used to living in the city very uncomfortable.

Fang Fang said with a look of disdain: "No way, you want us to live here? Is this place habitable?"

The team leader ignored her words and said, "You can arrange your own rooms. You can take a day off tomorrow and start working the day after tomorrow. But now is the farming season and there is no rush to work. In addition to this yard for you to live in, you are the same as the villagers here. The team has also reserved private plots for you. According to regulations, each person has one fen of private plot, but you have to go to the foot of the mountain to open up wasteland. You can take a rest and come to my house for lunch at noon. After lunch, I will take you to the private plot in the afternoon. In addition to the private plot, there is one more thing. Our team has a primary school. The primary school plans to add two teacher quotas, one for female educated youth and the other for male educated youth. The quotas are selected based on work points. After you start working, whoever has the highest work points will get the quota..."

After the captain finished speaking, everyone was stunned. How could such a thing happen?

No one had any objections to the arrangement of the house, especially since each room had a bed. The female educated youth room had one bed per room, and the male educated youth room had two beds per room, so the rooms had already been arranged before they arrived.

Zhang Xiaojun chose a room with Fang Cao because he had feelings for Fang Fang. Fang Cao also had a very good impression of Zhang Xiaojun. Along the way, Zhang Xiaojun took good care of everyone. He graduated from high school and was 19 years old this year. He was the oldest in the group, so he had a tendency to become the elder brother of the educated youth.

The captain went home and came back with a basket of food: "Have you finished?"

The educated youth all came out when they heard the news about the team leader.

The captain took out the food from the basket, which was all sweet potatoes and potatoes. He said, "Here is 30 kilograms of food for each person. Eat carefully. You get your food once a month. Everyone, take this food in and have lunch at my house."

After everyone brought the food in, they followed the captain to his home to have lunch. On the way, Zhang Xiaojun was a little nervous, afraid of being recognized by everyone.

The simple meals in the captain's house were something that these educated youth from the city were not used to. Take Zhang Xiaojun for example. After living in the city for six years, he returned to the countryside and was disgusted with eating such dry and coarse food. However, he always put on a show.

Zhang Xiaojun: "Captain, if we cook our own meals, we won't have any vegetables or anything like that. Can we exchange them with the villagers in the village?"

The captain said: "Yes, but you have your own private plots. Once they are reclaimed, everyone can plant crops. After all, if you keep changing crops, it will be very expensive. You should be more careful."

The captain said: "I don't have anything to exchange at home. I will take you to someone else's house to exchange. What do you want to exchange?"

Zhang Xiaojun: "Eggs, vegetables, and preferably rice or something like that."

The educated youths' eyes lit up when they heard Zhang Xiaojun's words. They looked at their own food, which was mostly sweet potatoes and potatoes. They were really not used to eating these. Even though sweet potatoes were sweet and tasted good when roasted, they preferred white rice.

The captain said: "You have to ask for rice yourself. You can exchange eggs and vegetables."

After dinner, the team leader took them to a house where they could exchange things: "This is Aunt Gui. Aunt Gui's conditions are not very good. If you want to exchange things, you can go to her house." In fact, the Lin family had plenty of eggs, but the team leader did not recommend the Lin family. He did not want these educated youth to trouble his son-in-law's family.