01

Although Song Jishan survived the disaster, he lost a lot of money. He was reluctant to spend money to see a doctor and take medicine. Besides, his son's luggage for college had countless costs. How could he not know his family's fortune? He relied on his medical skills and wrote a few herbs and asked his wife to go up the mountain to dig it and boil it. The family took out all the money saved by one cent and one yuan on weekdays, and exchanged the cloth tickets, food tickets, oil tickets, and sugar tickets that he "can't use" on weekdays. Finally, he successfully bought a white Queliang shirt, a khaki shirt, a khaki pants, a labor cloth pants, and a new pair of liberation shoes for Song Yunhui. Other beddings were ready-made goods used when Song Yunhui went to the lineup, so that Song Yunping got it in the August sun and let it burn several times before she could get rid of the pig's slut.

The family declared that they had lost all their money and had no money to go to the county town to take a car to the city train station. But they were reluctant to give it to him. They knew that he would have no money to go home for a few years, so the whole family wanted to give it to him. So they got up at 1:00 a.m., from the moonlight to the sun shining, to the city train station, exchanged the last bit of money on the edge of the fur and a half-price train ticket, and sent Song Yunhui on the train on time. Song Yunhui became the first person in the Song family to take the train, but fortunately he didn't have to transfer the train. Even at the last moment of breaking up, Song Yunping repeatedly reminded her brother.

Brother, if you have to go to college with such strict political review, the people inside must be extremely great. She wants her younger brother, a dog, to be a human being with his tail, so don't talk nonsense. Song Yunhui said he knew, but Song Yunping was worried. He scolded his younger brother for being bold and bold. The word "know" should not be put in his mouth. He had to put it in his heart. While saying that, the abortion brought Song Yunhui to the ticket gate. The mother cried first, and the father and sister cried. Song Yunhui bit his lips and almost walked backwards, but in the end he went further and further away, and he couldn't see his family when he turned around. Then he wiped the tears in his eyes.

Song Yunhui always believed that the moment he jumped on the train was the real beginning of his college life. Jumping on the train was like jumping into a completely different world. Passengers spoke dialects he couldn't understand and things he had never touched before. Song Yunhui thought curiously, this is what "all the worlds" means. He stretched his neck and listened to it, but he threw away the sorrow of leaving the countryside. On the contrary, after his parents and sisters took him into the train, they rushed back with their heads in a hushed way, crying all the way, without saying a word.

Song Yunhui thought that the people on the train were already very exciting, but when he arrived at school, he realized that his classmates were the real world. The oldest student in the class was 30 years old, with children and daughters, and was fourteen years older than him, and he also received his salary to go to school. The youngest is also a fresh graduate of high school, and he is still older than him. Everyone in the class and department called him little brother, little prodigy. Wherever he did his business, when people saw his young appearance, they couldn't help but laugh and asked him if he was that little brother. He became a little celebrity, more famous than the eldest brother with children and daughters. His family was a pediatrician among the eight people in his dormitory, and his second father in the dormitory.

He was an old rightist who went to newspapers, which made Song Yunhui, who had endured since childhood, felt relieved. The teachers who taught them were also rightists, but at the welcome party, several professors and lecturers who had worked with Soviet experts before happily danced Soviet dances, walking like ducks. Infected by their joy, Song Yunhui felt that he could not bear it anymore, and finally said a few words of his heart occasionally. Song Yunhui wrote all these novelties on letter paper almost without missing a single drop and sent them home one letter a week. Song Yunping loved to read these letters, and after reading them, he replied to them, but the sisters always kept saying a word afterwards, telling his younger brother not to forget to study.

How could Song Yunhui abandon his studies? Not to mention that he really likes to study. Even if he wants to play, those elder brothers and sisters who know that reading opportunities are hard-won would bring him to study and read regular books. After the Cultural Revolution, the learning materials were very simple and there were almost no decent textbooks. Many of them were started by the school to print ink. Some were the teachers brought several textbooks printed by themselves in wax paper every time they gave lectures, and some did not even have books. The teacher said above, the students recorded below, and the English started from ABC. The teachers wanted to stuff all the things they learned and knew to the students, and always taught them to cherish the hard-earned opportunities. The students were willing to be willing to suffer no matter how hard they were. Song Yunhui was young and remembered it well, and it was easier to learn anything than older classmates, which made those elder brothers and sisters envious.

In the class dormitory, when talking about study, Song Yunhui was like a fish in water, but when talking about current affairs, he was speechless and he didn't understand anything. Everyone analyzed his belated admission letter. Someone maliciously stuck it, or someone arrested the letter but went to the admission school to ask for the cancellation of the admission, a puppy, who was almost killed and afraid of causing a big disaster, was quietly released back to his house. When the big brothers in the same dormitory analyzed it for him, they patted him on the shoulder and sighed that their family was still pure and rare purity. The classmate from Beidahuang said that in order to apply for the college entrance examination in 1977, he was bubbling in the cold winter and asked the instructor of the League to fight. He was afraid of being afraid of the people, so he let it go. Song Yunhui thought to himself, if he and his sister were also tantrums during the political review, would their sister have a chance?

There are often political study sessions in the class. The big brothers and sisters who have been through the battlefield have impatiently tried to read newspaper articles at a glance at the meeting. Of course, they pushed the task of reading newspapers to the youngest Song Yunhui. The counselor later naturally took a lazy look and asked Song Yunhui to go to the school gate to get a daily "People's Daily". Song Yunhui hardly speaks Mandarin, and the class newspaper reading session becomes a transformation meeting where everyone teaches Song Yunhui to speak Mandarin. Song Yunhui sometimes laughs and swears to read newspapers in English to them in the future, but everyone

They all started to clamor and wait and see, which forced Song Yunhui to Liangshan and had to take the initiative to learn high school textbooks as a self-study high school textbook. But more often, those big students debated verbally that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth" and debated "two whatevers". Song Yunhui was dizzy when he listened. The truth did not pass the test of practice, just like a mathematical formula that did not pass the argument, how could it be determined that it was valid? What can be argued with such a simple sentence and a few words? He didn't understand the seriousness of those big students in this sentence.

Song Yunhui never thought that a person like him would be qualified to read and keep the People's Daily. In memory, the People's Daily could only appear in the principal's office, the street revolution committee office, and the treasure on the highest floor of the newspaper stand. He cherished the opportunity to preserve the People's Daily. Whether he could read it or not, he would take time to read all the newspapers every day. Even if he was extremely boring, he would bite the bullet and eat it alive. Sometimes he would not understand it, and he didn't know what the newspaper said after reading it. He needed a big brother.

Only with a guide can he have a clue. From the newspaper, he saw that the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held. He did not know what the importance of this session was. He only knew that the elder brothers and sisters were abnormal and rushed to read the newspaper, and then they did not need counselors to organize it. They had a lively discussion before and after class. From their discussion, Song Yunhui not only understood the political situation, but also gradually developed a new way of thinking, knowing how to connect the news theory in the newspaper with his own life and study.

Of course, more news comes from the Tao, from the family letters of those classmates with backgrounds. Song Yunhui was eager to learn theoretical knowledge in college, and at the same time learnt the knowledge of social universities from those students with rich social experience. But the university knowledge learned only stays in terms of nouns and concepts.

During the Spring Festival in , Song Yunhui had no money to go home. However, the desolation of the Spring Festival and the cold weather could not extinguish the raging fire that had just risen in his heart. For the first time, he participated in the discussion among his classmates and conveyed this great news to his parents and sisters as soon as possible: the central government made the decision to remove the hat of "land, wealth, and bad". In the letter, he also wrote down the insights he had drawn after discussing with his classmates, so that parents who were thousands of miles away could stand up and behave as human beings.

Although the final policy implementation has not yet arrived, from that moment on, Song Yunhui felt that he could stand upright and be a human being without having to hold his tail. Song Yunhui saw several big classmates who were deeply harmed to celebrate with white wine, and he drank tears and laughed wildly. He had no alcohol tolerance, but he could empathize with it. All of this was finally over. He found that he began to love this world.

But this topic was not very popular in the school, and the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam began. The war in front, the whole people mobilized the enemy in the rear, and the same hatred for the enemy. In addition to some old classmates, many people wrote letters to pay tribute to the heroes on the front line, and Song Yunhui was no exception. But he also made a bold move. He heard that the school was preparing to select a group of students with both moral integrity and ability as amateur counselors of the Affiliated Primary School Affiliated Primary School to promote the heroes of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam to primary and secondary school students. He wanted to verify whether his five-category background could be removed.

He took the initiative and quietly asked the counselor to apply to become a member of the amateur counselor. For this reason, he carefully prepared a thick stack of newspaper clippings, notes and experiences obtained from the People's Daily. Unexpectedly, although the counselor said that the process of approving him to join was quite special and full of twists and turns, he was finally gloriously approved to become an amateur counselor at the affiliated primary school. In the words of a big classmate, he, a comrade with a poor background, could corrupt the buds of the motherland with the Shangfang sword.

Song Yunhui was very grateful to the department leaders, cherished this hard-earned opportunity, and devoted himself to the work of amateur counselor of the university's primary school affiliation primary school. He tutored the students of the third and fourth grades of primary school, and the primary school students liked him very much. It was the first time that he gave his eloquence and openness to use his skills, and he was very convincing to both children and teachers. However, he still remembered the painful lesson that almost caused lifelong regret by saying a mistake. He would be wrong and would not talk much to the children when he was free. The head teacher of Class 1 of Grade 4 is a young man. He liked Song Yunhui's sincerity and invited him to attend classes on an afternoon without classes.

Song Yunhui went and sat at the end of the class. He looked full of black little heads, and he was sitting upright with an adult look. The boys and girls around him all felt his aura and sat upright. There was only a tall girl who occasionally studied him with her shining eyes. Her facing eyes and slightly raised chin showed the girl's fearlessness and pride. Song Yunhui also noticed the girl. He could see that the girl's temperament was unique, as if she was radiating all over her body.

After a while, the class teacher commented on the composition of the last class. It may be that the students' compositions were generally not satisfactory. The class teacher became more and more excited and couldn't stop talking. He scolded them one by one. After most of the class, several students were airstrikes from chalk. But when the class teacher said that everyone was so indifferent and there was no future in the future, Song Yunhui saw the girl raise his hand and spoke calmly and argued that half of the students in the class would definitely be admitted to university, which was more promising than the teachers who graduated from technical secondary school. The class teacher was so angry that he trembled all over, but did not fly out the chalk head, but left.

Song Yunhui was surprised and thought that he had to deal with this matter, so he asked the girl to go out for a conversation alone. The girl walked out of the classroom gracefully like a swan, came to the center of the playground with Song Yunhui, and reported to her house to call Liang Sishen, and took the initiative to argue for her reason. Song Yunhui admired her very much. He had never been so energetic since he was studying, but he still used himself as a counselor as an example to tell Liang Sishen the difficulties of his predecessors in the ten-year catastrophe and how difficult it was for the teacher to get to know his secondary school. What he did not expect was that after asking a few questions curiously, Liang Sishen readily and boldly found the head teacher to apologize.

Liang Sishen was curious about the hardships and twists and turns of Song Yunhui's junior high school entrance examination, while Song Yunhui was curious about Liang Sishen's courage and straightforwardness. Liang Sishen became a little follower of counselor Song, and counselor Song was good at doing things.

Not long after, Song Yunhui submitted an application for joining the league to the class league secretary, and it was quickly approved.

This trick made all the big students look at each other with admiration. Unexpectedly, it was the whole class, or even the entire department, and it was even more likely that the youngest student in the school would come from behind and be flexible, and seize the opportunity to actively seek progress.

Everyone thinks that this kid is a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger. He hits a chance by chance. Some experienced people in society are waiting to see Song Yunhui succeed in his youth and be arrogant, but they are all disappointed. Song Yunhui continues to live and study as usual, and still works hard, and fights every second, and still rushes to do the class work that big classmates disdain and work hard. Everyone first thinks he is a small man, but later gradually feels that this person is a hard-working person.

Song Yunhui was not indifferent at all. After he wrote the idea of ​​applying for an amateur counselor and applying for joining the group into his family letter, he had not yet been amateur counselor, and the family had a thick stack of teachings. His father told his son with his own painful lesson that although the policy has been temporarily calmed, no one knows when it will be repeated. Remember not to make people angry or to be honest. His father and sister told him in detail that when eating, he should not be careful when it was a meal, tone and rhythm when speaking, and the frequency and participation of participating in group activities should not be done, etc. Song Yunhui was upset. He was not a child, and when it was already, he was still so cautious. But he still remembered the lesson that a mistake would become an eternal regret. Although he refuted it back, he was still restrained in his actions. After all, his parents have not yet taken off their hats.

So the letter rushed over again, and there were trembling between the lines. There were also two national food coupons in the letter. Song Yunhui received a monthly scholarship of 15 yuan, and he saved money from his teeth to buy books at Xinhua Bookstore. Sometimes he saved pickles in the morning until lunch, but he saved money from the food, but he had a lot of food, so he was not enough for a meal. He cared about the cafeteria in the last class every morning. Fortunately, the family sent national food coupons to subsidize every month, unlike some classmates who had too many male students at home who did not have enough meal tickets, so he could only save money.

My sister Song Yunping waited for recruitment after the college entrance examination, but no matter how bad the opportunity was, it was not the turn of families like them. Her parents were too low to find someone to open the back door, so Song Yunping's work was not settled. Song Yunping refused to eat, so she exchanged two old tin cans at home for a pair of long-haired rabbits. The family worked carefully for two days to build two rabbit cages in the backyard and started to do family side jobs. When winter and spring came, they had already carried a nest of six little rabbits, and their long hair had been cut. When the second batch of eight rabbits in early summer were cut off, they started to put a two-yuan or five-yuan ticket in Song Yunhui's letter. In the letter, Song Yunping was smart in calculating and planned a bright future for her family. She didn't want to take the college entrance exam or go to school again. How could she compete with the regular army of fresh graduates? It would be better to stay in the moment.

Therefore, Song Yunhui did not like the college students who came in the new school year. Strangely, the classmates and teachers did not attach much importance to the college students. Everyone said that these little-mao Dandans who had not experienced social experience did not know anything, had no brains, were chattering like sparrows, and only knew how to play, and there were many parents who came to school. The ceremony did not welcome the 1978 class and the professors simply did not attend.

However, the long-haired rabbit raised by her sister has already given birth to a second litter, and she has regarded it as a way out.

02

The way out is at the feet of people, but all the roads lead to Rome, and all the roads are different. Lei Dongbao had the greatest wish to join the army, which was to join the party in the army, and then strive to train and wear four military uniforms. He was generous, worked hard, and had little thoughts. He was highly valued by the company commander and instructor. He was honored to join the Communist Party of China in the second year of joining the army.

When the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam started, he wrote a blood letter like other brave soldiers and asked to go to the front line, but unexpectedly, engineers like them did not go to the front line, and the war ended successfully for only one month. These activists were in vain, and then they could only listen to the heroes' report group to give speeches. After listening to the speech, Lei Dongbao was excited. He thought that as long as he could be promoted and stayed in the army, he would always have a chance to defend his country like those heroes.

But unexpected events occurred, and a document suddenly came out. In order to ensure the knowledge of military commanders and fighters, all military personnel had to pass the military academy examination. Lei Dongbao was stunned.

Although he claimed to have a junior high school education, what kind of book was he studying at that time? He spent most of his time playing and making fun of it. After joining the army, his level was middle and lower in the company, and he could not compare with the city soldiers. He could not stand the military academy exam. Helplessly, he had to retreat. At the end of the year, he was reluctant to leave the army with other volunteer soldiers. Lei Dongbao did not give up and was reluctant to retire. However, when he saw his baby son coming home, his widowed mother was happy and revolted around her son for nothing.

Although my hometown was born and raised, in the eyes of Lei Dongbao, who has seen the world, this hometown is so poor. The newspapers and radio stations are promoting the realization of "four modernizations", but there is no movement here. The mud walls are still painted with slogans "Criticize the Lin and the Kongs". Everyone still listens to the radio speakers under the eaves and get up, and listens to the village entrance to work and finish work. Men work one day, only seven cents, and buying a stamp is not enough. The key is that Lei Dongbao is strong and eats a lot, and he is worried about eating every day.

Lei Dongbao went home in the past few days, and his home was visiting his uncle and uncle. He hurriedly finished his etiquette and learned about the situation in the brigade. He was backward, closed, and poor. He only saw the big girl marrying out but not the young wife marrying her.

On the fourth day of returning home, Lei Dongbao came to the brigade headquarters, a small bungalow with only two rooms, and asked the secretary and the captain to work. The old secretary was his distant uncle. He had visited him on the first day of his return home, but private visits were very different from official business. If you want to work, you get talked about in the yamen, especially as a party member, you have to find the organization in time. The secretary was only resuming his post this year. The old monk who controlled the brigade was an old monk who was a rebel. The old secretary was respected, but he was a little reluctant, so he entrusted the important task to Lei Dongbao as soon as he started.

The old secretary told Lei Dongbao: "Dongbao, there are six party members in the brigade, four of which have a criminal record of rebellion, and the commune refuses to reuse it. Now I join you as a new force, and I can finally feel at ease. Yesterday I went to the commune and asked me how you are. I said yes, I watched Dongbao grow up and join the party in our revolutionary team. Can it be worse? The commune promised you to act as the deputy secretary for half a year first. Dongbao, do you have confidence? Give me a letter to you."

Lei Dongbao said directly: "Uncle, I originally wanted to ask you for a militia company commander, but I didn't expect you to respect me so much. I didn't say that I was well trained in the army and couldn't be exhausted. If you have any tasks, just give me instructions."

The old secretary laughed when he heard this, and the wrinkles on the corners of his eyes and mouth were like an old cat's beard: "I like to be cheerful. OK, since you said that, I won't be polite to you. The tasks assigned by the commune this year have not been implemented yet. One is a responsibility system, and the documents are one set yesterday and one set today. I have never figured out this matter and didn't dare to do anything randomly. Go back and take a look at these documents and tell my uncle how to do it. One is how to make our brigade richer. The commune said that our brigade is the poorest in the county and has to eat and sell food every year. This will not work. Uncle ordered you to come up with your ideas before the Spring Festival and report to the commune with you."

Lei Dongbao shouted: "Uncle, are you pushing me all the brigades? I have become the acting platoon leader in my army, and I am not the company commander."

The old secretary said cunningly: "You told me the day before yesterday that if you didn't have to go to the military academy exam, you can do it as a company commander. You said that, right? Since you can be a company commander, you can be a brigade secretary. Do you have to be a wronged to you? Don't push me, you will be exhausted, haha."

Lei Dongbao was choked by the old secretary and speechless. He was not the kind of eloquent person who was very eloquent. Looking at the old secretary's face that was smiling like an old cat, he thought that this uncle was more cunning than the chief of staff of the regiment. However, Lei Dongbao's young man was eager to try and no longer pushed. Otherwise, according to his personality, he would not do anything if he didn't do it, and would still slam the table and sing against the company commander in the army, and would never swallow his anger. He took the documents to study, but he, a person with thick lines, had endless energy to do his work, and the biggest thing was to sit down and read the documents, just like Zhang Fei embroidered flowers, and he was so nervous that he could not hold back.

The old secretary had already left. Lei Dongbao walked out to the open window for a while and went downstairs to find Shi Hongwei, a classmate who had written the best in his brush. He did it as soon as he did, and he found a bucket of lime to paint the wall. Hongwei took a bottle of red paint to paint the slogan. After a day, three new slogans appeared in the most lively place in the brigade, all of which were Lei Dongbao found from the documents, which he had seen elsewhere. One was to promote the "four basic principles"; the other was to "large contracts are to ensure the country, leave enough collectives, and the rest are all their own". There are more complicated documents in the documents, but Lei Dong

Bao looked at it and saw this sentence, and he could understand it at first glance; one was "promoting the fine traditions of the Party and working together to carry out the four modernizations." No matter how many, Lei Dongbao couldn't think of it. Anyway, he said all these words of implementing the responsibility system, developing the economy, and supporting the Party's policies. What else is missing? It should be gone. He thought that there were some main things to let everyone come and go, and they could remember them in detail in their hearts, and they could do whatever they wanted to do. Just like when he was in the army, he arranged his work in a rumor, and he asked the soldiers to memorize it carefully, and nothing he said would not miss.

The old secretary sneaked out and took a flashlight, smiled, and walked to Lei Dongbao's house in person, but saw that his house was busy as if it was a small meeting. Everyone went straight to the point and asked Lei Dongbao what it means to do. The old secretary stood on the threshold and looked inside. Lei Dongbao was eating with a red face. He thought to himself that this kid must have not understood the spirit of the document and could not answer it. He quickly made a loud noise to smooth things over and said that the brigade had not discussed the matter of the contract. It was only after Dongbao came up with a plan to discuss it. It was still a secret now. Everyone stopped chasing Lei Dongbao and asked. But everyone was talking about what the meaning of "the rest is their own". As he spoke, the turbid and clear eyes of the old and young were full of longing.

When the old secretary saw that there was a house, Dongbao was inciting, and everyone became excited. Dongbao himself forced him to Liangshan.

The old secretary wanted to open a closed-door meeting with Lei Dongbao the next day, but he didn't expect that Lei Dongbao was more active than him. He was waiting in the team headquarters to drag the old secretary into the door early in the morning, kicked it to the door and asked, "Uncle, what do you think you should do? How do the team do it?"

The old secretary sat down according to Lei Dongbao and frowned and said, "I don't know. The above document said in the first half of the year that villagers voluntarily formed a team to contract, and they could not contract it for individuals. The brigades next door were doing this. I sent a document before, saying that they could contract it to individuals and learn from somewhere in Anhui, but they didn't say how to learn it. I asked the commune, and they were clueless. But, contracting land to individuals, isn't this a mess? Everyone became a little landlord before liberation? Do you still have to collectively? I can't figure it out. Dongbao, we must be careful about this matter. The commune can't ask, we asked the county, but we can't move without asking clearly. I thought, we would rather not move, and we must seek stability, and we must never make principled mistakes. Otherwise, if we come in the movement, we will all have to criticize and fight."

Lei Dongbao thought to himself, no wonder he was not sure when he looked at the documents last night, but it turned out that he was not sure. He spread his hands to the old secretary readily and said, "Uncle, give me a few letters of introduction. I'll go to the next few brigades to ask, see what they do."

The old secretary said repeatedly: "Yes, we need to ask more questions and think more before we can implement the spirit of the document steadily. Dongbao, uncle has made a cold leg, you go by yourself, call me and tell me if you have any."

Lei Dongbao didn't say anything bold, he just nodded.
Chapter completed!