1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 110 An era ends

A week passed in a flash, and it was February 29th, the eve of the Lantern Festival.

Just as people were about to welcome the Lantern Festival, an editorial dropped like a nuclear bomb, shocking educated youth across the country.

This report, titled "From February 29, 1980, new graduates will no longer go to the countryside to work" - "marking the official end of the educated youth going to the countryside movement", details the issue of going to the countryside that the educated youth were most concerned about.

This report mentioned that the movement of going to the countryside over the past 20 years has been huge, and countless educated young people have voluntarily given up their good lives in the city and resolutely devoted themselves to the revolutionary construction. The country will not forget them, and the people will not forget them...

The end of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement marked a step forward for my country towards the goal of building a new era of modernization.

At the same time, the Youth Office announced that all the educated youth stranded outside would no longer be subject to any restrictions, and whether they were married or not, spouses, and children could all return to the city together...

The name of a novel also vaguely appeared in the article, which caused a very small number of politically sensitive people to have some speculations after reading the editorial.

"Fragrant grass! It must be the influence of fragrant grass!"

"After all, the educated youth who committed suicide out of shame caused a sensation in various places, and the impact was too great."

……

"We can go back to the city! Red Army!"

"Yes, we can finally go back to the city! Let's go and inform the other comrades on the farm."

……

Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions
This small village located at the foot of the mountain is shrouded in mountain mist. The clear spring water in the mountain stream flows gurglingly, making a sound like the collision of jades, and flows into a lake at the entrance of the village. The lake water seems to be boiling, and wisps of water vapor rise up, like a dream.

The golden sunlight pierces through the mist on the top of the mountain, making this small village look like a fairyland.

The old man herding cattle walked on the lake bank, leisurely and contented.

A family at the entrance of the village was getting up early to make breakfast, and the green smoke from the chimney merged into the mist in the air.

A long and narrow stone slab extended from the lake at the entrance of the village. The clear lake water submerged most of it. A young woman in formal clothes squatted on it, beating clothes with a mallet.

"Clap clap clap!"

The collision of the mallet and clothes made a low sound, which echoed around like ripples on a lake and drifted all the way to the dilapidated Taoist temple on the top of the mountain.

Zhan Wenlei got up early in the morning to cook. After cooking and keeping the food warm, she took a bucket to the lake to fetch water for washing clothes.

As a married educated youth, Zhan Wenlei did not choose to divorce her husband and leave here alone like other educated youth.

Even though her father and mother were both highly educated, they sent her letters from the capital many times telling her to return to the city as soon as possible and not to stay there, and that they had already prepared sufficient material conditions for her to find a job.

If others heard these things, they would definitely be extremely envious. However, to Zhan Wenlei, they had no appeal at all, and she still did not choose to return to the city.

Even if parents are highly educated, they still have little persuasiveness in the face of national policies.

If married educated youth wanted to return to the city, they had to either divorce or go back alone, which was known as abandoning their wives and children.

This was something that Zhan Wenlei could not accept at all. In her opinion, she had to go back to the city with her husband!
While washing clothes, I was thinking about things.

The old cowherd passed by and asked casually, "Wenlei, your Dongshan went to the county yesterday and hasn't come back yet?"

"Not yet. He's out doing some work. He should be back by noon today."

Zhan Wenlei looked up, then replied with a smile.

She has lived in Xiaoxu Village, Hongqi Brigade, a small mountain village located on the edge of the mountains for eight years and has long been completely integrated into this place.

Eight years ago, the county's Youth League Office sent twenty young people to Xiaoxu Village to work in the countryside. As the only five female young people among them, Zhan Wenlei was good-looking and had a good figure. She was also born in Beijing and naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Although her background had always been looked down upon in the village before her parents were rehabilitated, she was a girl and this contempt did not affect her.

Moreover, her parents soon became ordinary people, and she attracted many young men and educated youth in the village.

Zhan Wenlei finally chose the man who had been good to her from the very beginning, her current husband Xu Dongshan.

Xu Dongshan is an orphan with a miserable life experience, but he is a decent man with a tall stature, which makes Zhan Wenlei gradually fall in love with him.

Five years ago, the two got married under the witness of the village party secretary and later had a son. Xiaoxu Village is located on the edge of a deep mountain. The villagers are simple and kind. In addition, there are few villagers and they are very united. They value the educated youth very much. Zhan Wenlei lives a happy life here.

She washed clothes while thinking. After a short while, she finished washing the clothes. Then she wrung out the water, picked up the bucket and went home to take care of the children.

ten o'clock.

Excited shouts broke the mist-shrouded small mountain village.

"Return to the city! Return to the city! It's time to return to the city."

"We can all return to the city now. We don't need to take the college entrance examination or retire due to illness. We can all return to the city without any reason!"

"Wenlei, we can go back to the city now!"

Her husband Xu Dongshan's excited shouts could be heard from the village entrance all the way home. When Zhan Wenlei heard the noise, she hurried out of the house.

"Dongshan! What did you say?"

When Zhan Wenlei heard the news, she was struck by lightning. She froze in place, shaking uncontrollably. Then her nose felt sore and her eyes were red and wet.

She covered her face with one hand, her tears soaking her calloused palm, and sad sobs spread out.

Eight years!
Eight years!

There are so many eight years in a person's life. Zhan Wenlei used to be a good student in school and an art genius in the eyes of her parents. Today, she has never held a paintbrush in her hands, has forgotten how to paint, and has forgotten the faces of her parents and younger sister. She can only miss them silently while looking at the photos in her hands in the dead of night.

Now I can finally go back to the city, all the hard work has paid off!

Husband Xu Dongshan came over, hugged his wife and comforted her.

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Go back inside.

After reading the newspaper her husband brought back, Zhan Wenlei almost cried with excitement, "The country has not forgotten us. We can return to the city unconditionally. Family members and children can return with us!"

"Yes, it is also thanks to Comrade Cheng Kaiyan, the author of Fragrant Grass. A friend of mine who works in the county said that this novel has caused a great impact and has attracted public attention.

First, it is a new direction that is different from scar literature, and secondly, it is a criticism of the educated youth who returned to the city and abandoned their wives and children. In the past few days, there were reports of educated youth committing suicide out of shame in various places, which caused great discussion.

There will be no more going to the countryside, no more. Spring is coming! Back to the city!
Take care of things in the village, and then return to the city!"

Husband Xu Dongshan patted his wife's back with great emotion and explained.

When he turned around, he found his wife was stunned. "What's wrong?"

"Cheng Kaiyan? You mean the author's name is Cheng Kaiyan?"

Zhan Wenlei suddenly looked up and looked at her husband in surprise. She then reread the newspaper her husband brought back, and a bold guess came to her mind.

Could it be him? The sickly boy next door?

……

Meanwhile, scenes like this are happening across the country.

"Woohoo~ We can finally go back to the city! Hongmei, we can go back to the city together!"

"It's not easy!"

On farms and in rural areas everywhere, many people shed tears after reading this editorial. They shouted excitedly in the village and shared their excitement and joy with their educated youth friends.

Some wives whose husbands were abandoned by the educated youth broke down and cried after hearing the news.

Married educated youth can return to the city!

Not only can the educated youth return to the city, but their spouses and children can also return with them, and local authorities are not allowed to prevent them.

The sending of educated youth to the countryside has completely become history, and an era is about to come to an end.

The spring breeze is coming, spring is coming!
(End of this chapter)