Chapter 33: Caught Young Love
The moon is like a shining pearl, inlaid in the sky.
The night is clear.
The sky is dotted with stars, and occasionally dark clouds cover the moon.
The evening breeze is blowing gently, and the sound of frogs croaking in the fields can be heard one after another.
This is the night in the countryside, quiet and peaceful.
However, this peaceful and quiet atmosphere was soon broken by the shouting and cursing coming from the grove on the south side of the village.
Some people took small porcelain basins and went around the village banging them, going from house to house, asking everyone to get up quickly and go to the commune, saying that something big had happened.
Although the villagers were bleary-eyed, they dragged their tired bodies out of bed one after another.
Every household lit a kerosene lamp, and soon the village was brightly lit.
Zheng Yun and Gu Qijiao also climbed out of bed.
Both of them looked a little solemn.
Although the person who knocked the porcelain basin did not say anything about what happened in the commune.
But Zheng Yun and Gu Qijiao already had some guesses in their minds.
It was so long ago that they both forgot about the big event that had happened on this day in their previous life and had shocked the whole area.
The next night, the people passing by on the other side beating drums and gongs reminded them of this, and they all remembered it all at once.
The couple got up from the bed and, like everyone else in the village, started to put on their clothes, thinking of going out to the commune to find out what was going on.
Usually, only when something big happens will there be such a big fanfare to wake up all the villagers from their sleep.
When Zheng Yunxiao and Gu Qijiao put on their clothes and were about to go out, someone knocked on the door of the yard.
Hearing the knock on the door, Zheng Yun immediately stepped forward and opened it.
Standing at the door is Xu Jianan.
"Come in quickly. There's such a big commotion. Do you know what happened?" Although Zheng Yun had already guessed what it was, he still asked Xu Jianan.
Xu Jianan carefully looked around and made sure there was nothing around before entering the yard. He whispered mysteriously to Zheng Yun:
"It is said that there was a man from the Corps who was having a tryst with the educated youth from our team in the woods. They were caught by their company commander and have now been taken to the commune."
Gu Qijiao was standing behind Zheng Yun, she also heard Xu Jianan's words, thinking that it was indeed that thing, she couldn't help but sigh slightly in her heart.
There are two types of educated youth: one is the educated youth who went to the countryside to work, and the other is the educated youth who went to the military corps.
Both types of educated youth were intellectuals who went to work in the countryside, but their natures were different, and their treatment and disciplines were also different.
The educated youth who went to the countryside to work were generally students from the same city or even the same school, with similar cultural backgrounds and living habits.
The educated youth in the Corps came from all over the country. They were assigned to companies like in the military and were managed by the company commander.
The lives of the educated youth sent to the countryside to work were relatively difficult. Sometimes they could not even get enough to eat and drink, and it was common for them to go hungry and cold. However, their lives were relatively relaxed and free.
Although the educated youth in the Corps also worked on the farm, they lived a life under quasi-military management. Because they worked within the system, their food and accommodation were basically guaranteed.
Now that their lives were guaranteed, there were more disciplines to abide by. The lives of the educated youth in the Corps were several times more difficult than those in the production team.
It can be said that he gets up earlier than the chicken and goes to bed later than the dog.
Moreover, educated youth in the Corps were not allowed to date or have relationships, which was a serious violation of discipline.
The educated youth in the Corps had the hardest life. There was a widely circulated saying at that time: Serving in the army is a glorious flower, working in a factory is a happy flower, working in the countryside is a sunflower, and being a Corps soldier is a bitter vegetable flower.
From this jingle, it is enough to see how hard the educated youth in the Corps lived.
The female educated youth mentioned by Xu Jianan was only about nine years old and came from Shanghai.
Gu Qijiao remembered her name, Tong Dixin.
Tong Dixin has a childhood sweetheart, an educated youth from the independent regiment in the village, named Shen Guidong.
The two went to the countryside at the same time. When they left home, their parents arranged a wedding for them and confirmed their relationship.
But the Corps is a place with iron discipline, and no romance is allowed. ' is one of them.
After the two arrived at their destination, they still kept in touch privately.
Shen Guidong often waited until his comrades in the corps fell asleep, then sneaked in, walked here in the middle of the night, and went to the commune to visit Tong Dixin.
The next morning, they crossed mountains and rivers and rushed back to the Corps before the roosters crowed.
They met each other frequently, and thought they knew everything.
I thought that when the two of them were having a tryst in the grove last night, they were caught by Su Shaoyun, the company commander who followed Shen Guidong.
Su Shaoyun brought his son with him, and he asked his son to take the two young people to the playground.
Then Su Shaoyun asked the villagers to go door to door to notify them to go to the commune to participate in the education of Shen Donggui and Tong Dixin.
This education lasted for a full hour.
Gu Qijiao remembered that in her previous life, Shen Guidong and Tong Dixin, a couple whose self-esteem was crushed, quietly escaped on the night of the trial and disappeared into the dark forest.
It was not until half a month later that the Corps members found them, deep in the dense forest in the distance. By that time they had already found two bodies hugging each other tightly.
This incident caused quite a stir at the time, mainly because Tong Dixin's parents were both prominent figures.
They arrived at Yueyu Village on the third day after Tong Dixin's death and understood the whole story.
Su Shaoyun, who tied up Tong Dixin, was arrested because he was from the Corps and his involvement as an ordinary educated youth was not in line with the procedures.
Moreover, Tong Dixin was half-naked when she was found, and her parents believed that Su Shaoyun's motives were pure.
I heard that Tong Dixin's parents both have red * backgrounds. After Su Shaoyun is arrested, he will face more than 10 years in prison.
In the end, Su Shaoyun committed suicide by hanging himself in prison.
It had been so long since the incident happened that Gu Qijiao still had impressions of many things, but she could no longer remember the specific dates on which they occurred.
She felt a little annoyed.
If she had remembered it earlier, maybe she could have done something for that poor couple, even if it was just to remind them secretly!
Gu Qijiao also made a mistake. She made a mistake, but in the end she successfully married Zheng Yun because of this mistake.
But Tong Dixin, a girl who was also only nineteen years old, had her life forever frozen at the age of nineteen in that ancient forest because of that mistake.
Thinking about the follow-up of the incident, Gu Qijiao felt a little sad.
Xu Jianan came to ask Zheng Yunru and Gu Qijiao to go to the commune to watch. He arrived in the yard for a long time, and Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunru followed him.
The handles made of trees were floating around the village in twos and threes, and the villagers were walking in groups of twos and threes towards the commune.
In the playground of the commune, the flickering lights made Su Shaoyun's dark face look ashen. He shouted with a ferocious look:
"Bah, you shameless bastard."
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