It is naturally a good thing to reunite with my father, but the prerequisite is to settle things here. The children in the village cannot be left without school and without anyone to take care of them.
"I really miss so many of my friends here."
"All good things must come to an end. We will meet again if we are destined to." Huang Yuelan said to comfort her children.
Children now pay special attention to the relationship between friends. They usually have a great time playing with each other. If they are separated all of a sudden, they will definitely be reluctant to let go.
But these are all small things. For the sake of the whole family, some things must be given up.
Once they get there, they will have new friends and new circles, and slowly they will no longer be sad.
Two days later, which happened to be the weekend, the educated youth assigned from above arrived.
As a school representative, Huang Yuelan followed the team leader to the village entrance to welcome the educated youth.
After waiting for a while at the entrance of the village, I heard the "beep beep" sound of the tractor.
When Huang Yuelan heard the sound of the tractor, she knew that the educated youth had arrived. They rarely saw motor vehicles coming here, only during the autumn harvest and spring planting seasons.
The captain standing nearby was a little excited, rubbing his hands constantly, as if he had been looking forward to it for a long time.
Soon, a tractor turned the corner from the intersection, with seven educated youths on board.
These educated youth looked young and sunny, with childish faces. They had red flowers on their chests with the words "It is glorious to go to the countryside" written on them, red armbands on their arms, quilts on their backs, and some luggage in their hands.
The educated youth saw someone coming to the village entrance to greet them, and waiting here early. They thought that the people here were quite tactful, as they knew to wait here so early.
The tractor driver left after giving a few brief instructions to the team leader. He was so busy every day, either hauling grain or fertilizer. At the age of thirty, he was already tanned like a man in his forties.
"Hello, I'm Fan Ming, the leader of our first production brigade, and this is Huang Yuelan, a teacher at our village primary school. Welcome to our brigade." Fan Ming shook hands with everyone one by one.
The educated youth said: "Hello!"
After a few greetings, the team leader brought many educated youth to the school.
After arriving at the school, the team leader said to the educated youth: "We have dormitories in our school. You can live directly on campus in the future, which will be more convenient for teaching. If you encounter any problems on weekdays, come to the team headquarters to find me. I will guarantee that I can solve your problems."
"Thank you, Captain. We will definitely trouble you again in the future." The educated youth were quite satisfied after arriving here.
Although the environment here cannot be compared with that in the city, since they came to the countryside to endure hardships and training rather than to enjoy themselves, they feel very lucky to be able to be teachers and do not have to do farm work in the fields. The knowledge they have learned has not been in vain.
After all, many educated youth, let alone becoming teachers, worked harder than cows, ate worse than pigs, did the most tiring work, and suffered the greatest hardships.
Happiness is created by comparison. Even though your life is not very good, when compared with others, your mood immediately becomes much better.
After the team leader settled the educated youth, he went about his own business. Then Huang Yuelan introduced everyone to some of the school's situations.
"This is the dormitory, this is the classroom..." Huang Yuelan took the educated youth on a tour of the school and introduced every place so that the educated youth could fully understand the environment here.
Seeing Huang Yuelan’s detailed explanation, the newly arrived educated youth were very moved, but at the same time they began to doubt Huang Yuelan’s identity.
"Teacher Huang, I want to ask, are you the first educated youth to come here to work in the countryside?" One of the educated youth felt that Huang Yuelan did not look like someone who grew up in this remote mountain area. Both her speech and way of thinking were relatively advanced and clear.
Huang Yuelan: "No, I grew up in this village and am an old native here, so I am familiar with every corner here. You can come to me if you want to ask anything."
I can’t believe it, he is a native here, not an educated youth!
"What school did you go to?" asked another educated youth.
Huang Yuelan: "I was admitted to high school, but because of a change in my family, I was unable to go."
I see. Since he was admitted to high school, he must have received a good education and was a good student, so it's no wonder he can talk like this.
"What happened at home? He can't even go to school." One of the educated youth asked curiously.
Huang Yuelan: "My father had an accident in the mine."
"I'm sorry to bring up your sad story."
"It's okay, it's okay. So many years have passed and I've let it go long ago." Huang Yuelan said.
It can be seen that these people are somewhat doubtful of herself and feel that she is not like someone from here.
Fortunately, Huang Yuelan was able to explain and managed to get away with it without arousing anyone's suspicion.
Since she was going to join the army soon, there was no way she could take all the chickens Huang Yuelan raised with her.
After all, just taking care of eight children was tiring enough for her. Besides the children, there must be a lot of luggage, so it was not convenient to carry these living creatures. If one flew away on the train, she would have to catch it...
Moreover, these chickens have been raised for several years, and their egg-laying period has long passed. At the beginning, they laid one egg a day, then one every two days, and then one every three days. Now they may not lay an egg for a week or so.
Since these ignorant young people had arrived, Huang Yuelan thought about slaughtering and eating the chickens to entertain them properly.
After all, it's not easy for people to leave their hometown and come here after a long journey.
If you go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy meat, you have to pay money and get tickets, but you don’t need that if you raise the meat yourself.
"Teacher Huang, I would like to ask, is there any wild game in our mountain? Do the villagers here go to the mountain to hunt wild game to eat?" asked one of the educated youth.
Huang Yuelan couldn't help but sigh in her heart, thinking that this educated youth probably had little experience in society. He looked like he had just graduated from school and was very naive.
It is clearly stipulated that all animals running on the mountains and swimming in the rivers are public property and cannot be caught privately. Even if villagers secretly go to the mountains to hunt some game, no one dares to speak out.
"We should have game in the mountains here, but as you know, our production team was the poorest in the entire commune before, and the long-term water shortage led to poor harvests, so the grasshoppers in the mountains have been almost caught. But there are game in the deep mountains, where jackals and wild leopards live. I advise you to give up the idea of going there to avoid any accidents." Huang Yuelan reminded.
She knew that Wang Jianguo had often gone into the mountains before, and he never returned empty-handed, but always gained a lot.
However, these educated youth do not understand the environment in the mountains, and they do not have Wang Jianguo's agility. If something happens, the consequences will be disastrous. We cannot let them take the risk of going there.
After hearing Huang Yuelan's words, everyone's enthusiasm was greatly dampened.
Just now on the way here they were discussing that although the First Production Brigade was relatively poor, it was close to the mountains and forests, so there must be plenty of game. Then everyone could go to the mountains together to hunt some game to satisfy their cravings.
Now, when I hear this, let alone pheasants and rabbits, even grasshoppers are hard to catch, and there are ferocious beasts in the deep mountains. Who would want to go to the mountains?
It was obvious that everyone was disappointed. Huang Yuelan said, "Everyone, take a rest first. I have prepared two chickens for you tonight. Although they are not wild chickens that run in the mountains, they usually eat insects and grass to grow up, so they are all natural and taste good."
Upon hearing Huang Yuelan's words, several educated youth immediately looked at each other.
I never thought that I could eat chicken as soon as I arrived. I don’t even have such treatment at home. I couldn’t even imagine it.
No matter what, when they came to the First Production Brigade, not only did they not have to work in the fields, but they could also be teachers. This was their first joy. After all, facing the earth and working hard, just thinking about that kind of life was enough. It was also the reason why they did not despise the poverty here.
The second happy thing is that the team leader here is very nice. Not only does he not make things difficult for these educated youth, but he also takes care of them in every way. Teacher Huang from the school also treats them very warmly, just like a close elder sister.
These two things made the educated youth fall in love with this place at once.
According to common sense, they came here to steal Huang Yuelan's job, so she should be unhappy.
But the result was completely opposite to what they had imagined. Not only did people not rush to withdraw, but they even killed chickens to welcome them.
This enthusiasm made many educated youth feel the warmth of home. At the same time, they felt that coming to the countryside was like a vacation, and they did not feel that they were coming here to suffer hardship at all.
Of course, in order to repay Huang Yuelan's enthusiasm, the educated youth also took out their precious belongings, which were some food and snacks they bought when they left home.
For example, some cookies and candies, etc., and share them with your children.
Huang Yuelan knew that these things were very rare, so she let the children take a little bit symbolically so that they would not be eaten up.
"You should keep more of it. We will have a long time of hard times here. We have no shortage of snacks at home. Their father just sent back a big bag yesterday." Huang Yuelan said as she asked Aiguo to take out the food and share some with everyone.
When the educated youth saw the snacks, they were surprised to see so many of them, more than they had brought with them.
It’s obvious that he is a wealthy man!
Anyone who can send so many snacks back home at one time is definitely not an ordinary person.
What about chocolate? They have been living in the city for many years and have only eaten it a few times. There are also some canned meats, which are obviously high-end products. They have never eaten them, let alone seen them.
"Excuse me, what does your wife do?" one of the educated youth asked curiously.
Wang Aiguo answered quickly, "Our father is the regiment commander! He is an officer in the army." As he said this, a look of pride unconsciously revealed on his face.
"So your father is the head of the group! No wonder! So awesome!" Everyone finally understood. No wonder Huang Yuelan killed chickens and gave snacks without bullying them. It turned out that her husband was the head of the group and didn't care about any of this at all.
Only those who are extremely poor would care about a penny. It is obvious that these people are not short of money, so they will not be stingy, as that would make them look cheap.
"It turns out that Mr. Huang's partner is the regiment commander! I'm so envious! I've always wanted to marry a soldier. I feel that soldiers are very elegant. Unfortunately, I don't have that blessing."
Huang Yuelan smiled.
Although they had just arrived, these educated youth were not particularly familiar with the environment here, and some were not used to using the earthen stoves in the countryside, but they all helped to collect firewood, scoop water, and boil pots, and were not idle at all.
Huang Yuelan boiled a pot of water, scalded the chicken, plucked the feathers, cleaned the chicken, and then cleaned up the chicken intestines and offal.
Vegetables are scarce at this time, and meat is even scarcer, so the chicken offal and the like will be carefully cleaned, even the chicken buttocks will not be spared. After cutting it off with a knife, it will be cleaned and put into the meat to stew together.
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