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"Young people go to the countryside to put down roots and go to the countryside to study".
In the fifties and sixties of the last century, along with words like this, many knowledgeable and literate young people responded to the call to take root in the countryside, build the countryside, learn new ideas, and carry out re-education.
According to statistics, in the wave of rural re-education, nearly 20 million young people have devoted themselves to the construction and development of rural areas, so these people are also called knowledgeable youth.
After 27 years of development, the tide is over, and some people choose to return to urban development, but there are also people who are still in obscurity in the countryside and even dedicated their lives to the country.
1. Go to the Great Northern Wilderness
Zou Xuesheng is the last educated youth to take root in the countryside in this torrent, and Zou Xuesheng, who originally had a happy life, was torn apart because of the sudden turmoil.
His father was originally an old Red Army soldier who walked snowy mountains and crossed meadows, but because he was implicated, he was exiled to his hometown in Jiangxi for reform, and his mother also lost the courage to continue living due to a huge blow.
The Zou Xuesheng brothers also began a life of uprooting.
In 1986, his younger brother was sent to Jiangxi to reform with his father, and only Zou Xuesheng was left at this time, so where should he go in this turbulent era?
Later, obeying the party's arrangement, Zou Xuesheng also became a member of the Zhiqing who went to the countryside to receive re-education at that time, and was arranged to study in the Northern Wilderness.
In the train station, there are voices of separation everywhere, and on the train are young people who have gone to the countryside, saying goodbye to their parents and about to leave for a distant place.
The Great Northern Wilderness of that era was inaccessible to people, overgrown with weeds, and simply not suitable for survival.
In summer, the weather is hot, if you do not pay attention to the protection of mosquito bites, there will be infectious diseases, and in winter, the temperature drops to minus tens of degrees at night, and you will be frostbitten hands and feet if you do not pay attention.
The work of the young people is dirty and tiring, so that the young people living in the countryside for the first time feel the pain of life, and they are tired every day.
However, since they have come, they are adapting, some people try their best to return to the city, and some people have seen the living environment in the countryside, and they have strengthened their determination to build the countryside, and they will never return to the city unless the countryside is developed.
In such a difficult environment, not only pay attention to their own safety, but also work, and the prescribed work must be completed on time and in quantity.
In winter, you need to grab the beans frequently, otherwise the beans will be frozen and unusable.
At that time, among the young people who went to the countryside, there were many people who were frostbitten toes due to careless negligence, but when there were many people, they did not feel bitter.
Most of the people who go to the countryside to become young people are the same age, so there is no lack of lively activities, and some people bring many books to read in their leisure time before coming to the countryside.
Zou Xuesheng is warm-hearted and often helps other comrades in daily life, so friendship is also warming up silently.
For teenage knowledgeable youth, the thirst for knowledge is incomparable, coupled with the living environment of the Northern Wilderness, they can only rely on books for learning.
It was at this time that Zou Xuesheng learned all kinds of knowledge in the book and the advanced ideology and culture in the book.
Fortunately, the XPCC does not have great restrictions on books, and all kinds of books can be used to study, so that the young people can get the only solace in the boring rural life.
At that time, Zou Xuesheng was the captain of the village's youth team, rushing to do all the dirty work and taking care of the people around him as his younger brothers and sisters.
The scene of the cold winter is particularly warm, and perhaps for Zou Xuesheng, he may also think of his brother thousands of kilometers away.
In his hard daily life, Zou Xuesheng also made a very good friend named Ye Ming.
The two often exchange books and help each other in life, and one night when they received a notice that they needed to rush to grab the beans, a few of them put into labor.
After a busy night, the sweat on Zou Xuesheng's body has frozen and stuck to his body, which is a very dangerous phenomenon, and a little attention to his body will lead to hypothermia.
At this critical moment, Ye Ming and the young people who worked together quickly helped Zou Xuesheng remove his clothes and clinging to the surroundings to keep warm, and someone next to him specially poured water to keep Zou Xuesheng warm.
After enduring the biting cold wind and finally returning to the dormitory, Ye Ming and several people quickly took off Zou Xuesheng's shoes and rubbed them over and over again, which helped Zou Xuesheng get through the danger.
In the subsequent life, the relationship between Zou Xuesheng and Ye Mingming became better and better, but there was no banquet.
Ye Ming's family wanted Ye Ming to return to the city, but the corps he was in said that he was unwilling to let Ye Ming go.
However, according to the rules, the corps could only return to the city if it agreed to complete the formalities, otherwise it had to stay in the countryside.
The opportunity was in front of him, but he couldn't seize it, which made Ye Ming very painful, so he often came to talk to Zou Xuesheng.
Later, Zou Xuesheng came up with a way to tell Ye Ming, that is, to give up his urban hukou, switch to a rural hukou, and then return to Beijing smoothly according to the policy.
There was a way to make Ye Ming very happy, and hurriedly told his family about it, and the follow-up was also smooth, Ye Ming received a notice to return to Beijing, and he quickly found Zou Xuesheng to inform him of the news.
While Zou Xuesheng is happy for Ye Ming, he is also looking forward to when he will be able to return to Beijing and when he will be able to reunite with his father and brother's family.
The two stayed up all night and chatted all night.
Zou Xuesheng told Ye Ming that he would definitely be able to realize his ideal ambitions in the future, and Ye Ming also relaxed Zou Xuesheng and told him that he would definitely be able to return to Beijing.
II. Taijoku Ōara
After waiting for Ye Ming to be picked up, one after another, his comrades-in-arms also slowly left the Zhiqing Point to return to the city life, and Zou Xuesheng's heart became complicated.
Sometimes I think about how my father and brother are living now, and whether the father and son can still reunite.
He is always looking forward to when he will end his work and return to the city with many young people.
Later, Zou Xuesheng also tried to apply to return to the city, but because of the influence of his father's identity, he was expelled from the military and had no identity in Beijing, so he could not go back at all.
I had no choice but to stay in the Northern Wilderness all the time, and be with this mountainous field.
As time passed, the matter of returning to the city was not at all, and Zou Xuesheng's heart slowly became calm, and he took root in the countryside with peace of mind.
Later, I met a local girl, and the two slowly walked together.
In 1980, Zou Xuesheng's daughter was born.
Although the days were relatively difficult, when I came home and saw the warm scene of my wife and daughter, my heart was full of energy, but God seemed to have to go against Zou Xuesheng.
In 1990, Zou Xuesheng found an opportunity to grow crops on the land of the contracted corps, hoping to improve his current life.
Not long after taking over, a natural disaster occurred, a large area of crops withered, in order to continue to feed the family, even the seeds of the crops were eaten, and tens of thousands of yuan in foreign debt, the family base accumulated for many years was instantly hollowed out.
The days were too hard, and Zou Xuesheng's wife couldn't live such a life and filed for divorce. Zou Xuesheng did not keep and continued to take care of his young daughter alone.
Came to the Northern Wilderness with nothing, and when he reached the age of having a daughter, he still lived such a downfall, and he could only live in a dilapidated thatched hut with his daughter.
As her daughter grew up, Zou Xuesheng could only do some scattered work in the regiment headquarters to make ends meet, and when she reached junior high school, she couldn't afford the school's tuition, and her daughter was forced to drop out of school and go to Shenzhen alone to work.
Zou Xuesheng is getting older and older, the dilapidated thatched hut can't even light the oil lamp, and he is often awakened by the biting cold wind when he sleeps at night, and he can only rub his hands to feel the only warmth.
Later, he was also hired to look at agricultural equipment, nearly a thousand yuan a month is enough to live on his own, but in the winter in the snow for several months, all day with wolves, at night often heard the roar of wolves, sometimes besieged by wolves.
He didn't even dare to get sick, and once he got sick and there was no one around to take care of him, it would soon become food for the wolves.
At that time, Zou Xuesheng was often very confused and did not know what supported him to live.
Zou Xuesheng lived like this until 2008, when Zou Xuesheng, who was more than half a hundred years old, worked at a construction site.
Suddenly received a strange call, doubtfully asked the other side, when he learned that the other side of the phone was Ye Ming, but Zou Xuesheng was happy.
Later, Ye Ming contacted several young people who went to the countryside together, returned to familiar places, and saw those familiar places, Ye Ming and several young people sighed a lot.
When visiting Zou Xuesheng's house, looking at the dilapidated thatched house, everyone's hearts were full of guilt.
I didn't expect that such a kind captain at that time had been living in the Northern Wilderness for decades under such conditions.
Ye Ming, who returned to Beijing, relied on his own efforts to become an official and a half-post in the army, and asked why Zou Xuesheng broke off contact with himself and his former comrades-in-arms.
After hesitating for a long time, Zou Xuesheng said embarrassedly that he was having a bad time, and he really had no face to disturb his friends back then.
Hearing this, Ye Ming and his party promised to bring Zou Xuesheng back.
The flame of hope that had disappeared burned again, but Zou Xuesheng did not hold out much hope.
Because at that time, with the end of the great turmoil, I also went to the relevant units to learn about it, and the chances were very slim.
Now that decades have passed, he has taken root in the Northern Wilderness, and it is easy to go back, but Zou Xuesheng did not refuse the kindness of several friends, so he did not take it as a thing.
3. Successfully returned to Beijing
But Ye Ming, who knew about this, attached great importance to it, and immediately began to investigate after returning to Beijing, and must bring this old comrade-in-arms back to Beijing, and absolutely must not let his friend down.
Soon, under the arrangement of the relevant departments, Zou Xuesheng's long-sealed file was found, and Ye Ming immediately wrote to tell Zou Xuesheng about it.
Zou Xuesheng was grateful when he knew it, but he didn't expect that after decades of time, he was still extremely important in Ye Ming's heart.
Later, with the help of Ye Ming, Zou Xuesheng restored the identity of the city, left the Northern Wilderness where he lived for decades, and finally returned to the long-awaited Beijing, where he cried with joy.
Soon all kinds of documents were also issued one after another, but if you settle in Beijing, you need to have a certificate of immediate family members, Ye Ming resolutely replied that my home is your home, and then entrusted the relationship to find the unit that accepted the file.
After the matter was done, Ye Ming quickly called Zou Xuesheng, and the first thing he said after connecting was to go back to Beijing with me, and after that, Zou Xuesheng also officially became a member of Beijing.
After living in the Great Northern Wilderness for 41 years, Zou Xuesheng dedicated his life to it and made outstanding contributions to the agricultural development of the Great Northern Wilderness.
Moreover, he has forged a deep friendship with the young people who went to the countryside together, and has always been able to strengthen his ideals and beliefs, so that he can stand out in the difficulties again and again.
Although the movement to the countryside has been over for many years, the spirit still affects today's young people.
epilogue
We should learn from our ancestors' spirit of not fearing life and death, taking root in the countryside, building the countryside, and daring to show everything in the face of suffering.
In the dry well again and again, accumulate their own strength and courage, forge ahead, among the young people of the same era, there are many people like Zou Xuesheng, all of whom are silent dedication.
Some are remembered, and some remain in the Northern Wilderness forever, which is regrettable, they are all people we should always remember.
It has made indelible contributions to the construction and development of the country, and the people are immortal and the spirit is immortal.