The Spring Festival in 1978 was in February. A week before the Spring Festival, Su Tian and her classmates had already received their admission notices one after another.
Su Tian discovered that the notification letter for the missing person in Songjia Village was missing.
This shows that no one there dares to abuse their power to impersonate someone else and receive an admission notice to go to university.
As soon as Su Tian received the admission notice, she packed her luggage and planned to go to town to catch a bus.
The village no longer needed those who had passed the university entrance exams to work and return home, except for a few educated youth who hadn't taken the exams.
Now, the entire educated youth compound is empty.
Knowing that Su Tian was leaving this morning, Ma Chunling rushed over to see her off, saying, "Su Tian, take care on your way back. See you in Beijing sometime."
"Okay, Xue'er, come here to Auntie, here's your big red envelope for the New Year." Su Tian gently stroked the cute little Xue'er.
"Thank you, Auntie. I wish you will become more and more beautiful," Xiaoxue said sweetly.
"Okay, thank you, our lovely little Xue'er. Auntie also wishes you to grow up to be more and more beautiful."
"Chunling, I'm leaving now. See you in Beijing sometime."
"Okay." Ma Chunling hugged Su Tian and watched her ride her bicycle and gradually disappear down the path.
Xu Wen, who was in the educated youth compound, watched Su Tian leave silently. He planned to go to Beijing after the Spring Festival. He also applied to a school in Beijing, the university where Su Tian's uncle taught—Hua University.
"Awen, has Su Zhiqing left?" Xu's mother came out and looked around.
Xu Wen held his mother's hand and said, "Okay, Mom, I'm going to trade jobs with someone else. You can go work at the textile factory and stay in the dormitory. Don't go back to the educated youth compound."
"When I go to school, if I have enough money to rent a place and settle down, I'll bring you to live in Beijing."
"Okay, Mom will follow your arrangements. You can make the decision."
Xu's mother was very pleased that her son was successful and got into such a good school.
When he becomes successful, she will be able to live a good life with him.
Su Tian has recently found herself feeling sleepy all the time, and she almost falls asleep while riding her bicycle.
She goes to bed at 8 p.m. and doesn't get up until 8 a.m., she can never get enough sleep.
She thought she was just feeling sleepy in the spring, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
She took out her water bottle and drank a few sips of the spring water to refresh herself, and she immediately felt much more energetic.
When Su Tian arrived in town, she missed Song Zhe so much that she couldn't help but go to the post office and call his military base.
"Hello, is Song Zhe there?" Su Tian asked expectantly, waiting for a response.
"Not here again? Okay, thank you." Su Tian hung up the phone in disappointment.
Then she called home and asked them to pick her up from the train station in a couple of days.
Two days later, Su Tian arrived at the train station in Guangdong Province.
These past two days, she's been feeling nauseous in the car because of the smell. She's had to drink spiritual spring water several times to suppress the nausea.
As she got off the train, she instantly felt the air was fresh. Carrying her luggage, she walked to the train station entrance and saw her father's car already parked there.
“Daughter, I’m here. You’re finally home.” Su Jianjun walked quickly to her.
"Dad, Happy New Year!" Su Tian shouted happily.
"Happy New Year! Get in the car, we'll go to Grandpa and Grandma's house first, have a reunion dinner, and then go back."
After getting into the car, Su Tian said a little shyly, "Dad, I didn't buy you any gifts. You won't be upset with me, will you?"
"Honey, are you treating us like an outsider? It's my own daughter coming home, why would I buy her a gift? Do we need your little gift?"
"Hehe, family is the best." Su Tian sighed involuntarily.
When she arrived at Su Tian's grandparents' house, her grandparents were already waiting for her at the door.
"Sweetie, my sweetie, you're finally back. Come home with Grandma." Grandma Su walked briskly to Su Tian.
"Happy New Year, Grandpa and Grandma! I'm coming home to celebrate the New Year with you!"
Su Tian got out of the car and helped her grandmother into the house. Her grandmother looked at Su Tian and asked happily, "Tian Tian, your mother said you did exceptionally well on your college entrance exam, scoring 380 points, is that right?"
“Yes, Grandma, isn’t your granddaughter amazing?” Su Tian said proudly to her grandmother.
"Amazing, absolutely amazing," Grandma Su said with a smile.
Grandpa Su watched the two of them singing and laughing incessantly.
Their family reunion dinner started at noon, and Wang Lin brought out all the dishes.
"Mom, thank you for your hard work." Su Tian looked at the table full of dishes and felt a little touched.
"Daughter, are you hungry? Eat first, we'll talk after we eat."
The family enjoyed their meal together happily, and Su Tian even ate an extra bowl of rice.
Song Zhe, who was thousands of miles away, was originally leading his team back home after completing field training.
Who knew that they would run into local villagers who, on New Year's Eve, secretly went up the mountain to worship their ancestors and burn paper money, setting the mountain on fire.
"Commander, is there a fire on the mountain over there?" Squad Leader Wang noticed with his sharp eyes.
"Everyone, move out to put out the fire!" After issuing the order, Song Zhe quickly led his team up the burning mountain.
Because of the dry winter weather, it hasn't rained for two months, and the mountain is covered with dry branches and leaves.
As soon as it encountered a spark, it burst into flames.
When Song Zhe led his team to the burning mountain, the villagers all fled in panic.
He had no choice but to direct the team to fight the fire, saying, "Break off tree branches to put out the fire."
The twenty-odd men he brought were all holding wet branches and were doing their best to put out the fire.
When the villagers at the foot of the mountain saw that there was a fire on the mountain, they called on all the villagers to go and help.
Because there was a river at the foot of the mountain, the villagers carried wooden buckets and basins to carry water up the mountain with great difficulty.
"Go and help fetch water to put out the fire, that will be faster," Song Zhe ordered while patting the wildfire.
With everyone working together, the fire was finally extinguished after four or five hours of hard work.
At this moment, their village chief walked up to Song Zhe and said gratefully, "Thank you for helping to put out the fire. Otherwise, who knows how long this forest would have burned? Our village at the foot of the mountain might have also suffered."
"Village chief, please remind them not to burn paper money when worshipping their ancestors, otherwise they might accidentally set the mountain on fire," Song Zhe patiently advised.
The village chief replied with lingering fear, "Alright, we understand. I will definitely give them a stern warning."
Thank you so much, you've worked so hard.
"You're welcome. It's what we should do. It's getting late, and we need to go back to our unit."
After Song Zhe led his team to salute the villagers, they left the mountain in an orderly manner.
"Commander, your face is covered in soot," Squad Leader Wang suddenly said.
"Hmm, where?" Song Zhe originally intended to wipe it with his hand, but his hands were covered in cigarette ash, so he was too lazy to wipe them.
"Xiao Wang, your face is too."
Then he looked at the line behind him, and everyone's face had some smear on it.
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