CHAPTER 5

    Xu Jianan cut a row of wheat in one breath, sweating profusely. He was standing up and planning to take a rest. When he looked up, he saw the three people standing on the ridge not far away.


    But I don't know why, there are obviously three people on the ridge, but his eyes are only on Bai Su's body unconsciously.


    She was different from when he saw it just now, she actually cut off her two black and shiny braids!


    Xu Jianan didn't know what he was horrified, but when he reacted, someone was already yelling in his ear: "Black five, don't hurry to work,


    why are you lazy!" Xu Jianan has become accustomed to it. He didn't even wrinkle his eyebrows, but mechanically bent down again and began to harvest another row of wheat, but he didn't know why, but his mind seemed to be less focused. From time to time, he raised his head and glanced at the ridge. Seeing them gradually walking away, there was an inexplicable feeling of loss in his heart.


    Bai Su didn't look back at Xu Jian'an. To Xu Jian'an, she was still a stranger, but she knew they would know each other sooner or later.


    "There is a simple welcome party tonight. Starting from tomorrow, you will officially start your educated youth life." Standing in the summer evening breeze, Liu Zheng looked at Ji Lanying and Bai Su and said meaningfully: "The conditions here are tough, but I believe that as long as you really love this land, all the suffering and training will become your unforgettable treasures in your life."


    "I will be where you are, as long as we don't Just separate again." Ji Lanying said emotionally.


    When Bai Su looked at Ji Lanying, he suddenly remembered the scene when Liu Zheng was swept into the reservoir in order to save people. The heavy rain in the sky blurred the tears on everyone's faces, and they also lost Liu Zheng forever.


    Later, the educated youths returned to the city, but Ji Lanying did not go back and chose to stay in this land and stay with Liu Zheng forever.


    Bai Su thought to himself that in this life, she would never let them separate anymore.


    "I heard that the country is going to resume the college entrance examination. Do you want to take the college entrance examination in the past?" Bai Su raised his head and glanced at Ji Lanying, and then asked Liu Zhengdao: "Now the country advocates the four modernizations. In the future, talents will definitely be in short supply. We are young. People should contribute more to the country.”


    In the eyes of outsiders, Bai Su has always been a taciturn character, and usually only talks a little bit more with Ji Lanying. She hardly talks with other people, so when she was in high school , She has the nickname "The Flower of Gaoling".


    Even Liu Zheng had hardly said a few words to her. Everyone would involuntarily show a kind of polite strangeness when they saw her.


    Therefore, when Bai Su took the initiative to say this to Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng felt a trace of excitement in his heart and couldn't help but applaud: "We have also heard of this policy, but no one knows what this day is. The time will come. Now, if you want to go to university, there is only one way, that is to be recommended by the brigade, and maybe you still have a chance to leave here." He didn't say anything more here. Obviously, Ouyang Tian wanted to leave at this time. This is the way.


    "Maybe soon." If I remember correctly, the country resumed the college entrance examination in 1977, which means that in less than half a year, it will usher in the first college entrance examination after the Wenhua Revolution. "I think We should always be prepared so that as soon as the country announces the news of the college entrance examination, we can take the exam as soon as possible!"




    Ji Lanying couldn't help but laughed. She wanted to stretch out Bai Su's long braid, but found that her braid had already been cut, so she gently squeezed the end of her hair and said: "You are here first. God, just thinking about leaving, then you might as well not come!"


    Bai Su just smiled and said: "I don't want to leave, I think that every one of us must have a way to keep making progress. "Motivated."


    "Comrade Bai Su is right. We young people should be like this. We must not give up any hope of progress. Starting today, after work, we must also review cultural knowledge. In this way, in the face of opportunities, we There is the possibility of success." Liu Zheng only clenched his fist.


    ******The


    evening meal was eaten in the educated youth cafeteria, fried bacon with green vegetables, fried carrots in snow, scrambled eggs with scallions, bamboo shoot egg crust soup, and quarter-sized red oil and salty Duck eggs, each person has such a small piece.


    Several educated youths who have been here for a long time all eat with gusto, but the newcomers who have just come from the city seem to be appetite. Li Hui rummaged through the vegetables with chopsticks. Seeing that she could not pick out a piece of bacon, she only dropped the chopsticks and frowned, "There are no pieces of meat in the vegetables."




    "You have eaten all the meat, of course you can't find it." Ji Lanying glared at Li Hui, and put a piece of scrambled eggs into Bai Su's bowl. "Susu, you eat more, you see you are thinner. "


    Bai Su nodded and thanked Ji Lanying, and only listened to Liu Zheng said: "Today's stir-fried bacon with greens and vegetables was made by the team in order to welcome the new educated youth comrades. Every family and every household specially collected it. There will not be so much meat in the future. You have eaten."


    Li Hui only curled her lips when she heard the words. When she came from home, she took a large pile of meat tickets, and then went to the supply and marketing agency to buy meat and eat slowly. Just thinking of the hard life here, Li Hui can't lift the energy just like a defeated rooster.


    "Attention, comrades, please note, comrades, there will be a brief welcome ceremony at the Brigade Shaigu Field after dinner. We welcome our new comrades from the provincial capital. Please come to the scene on time. If there are those who are not present, One centimeter is deducted."


    Suddenly the voice of the production team leader Zhang Guoqing came from the tweeter at the door. Several educated youth hurriedly dialed the meal and said: "Hurry up, go get a good position, and there will be drama in a while. Look!"


    Ji Lanying asked very curiously: "There are still plays to watch? What are they acting?"


    "White-haired girl!" Zhao Zhenguo on the side said: "Zhang Huifang will only play the white-haired girl! Nothing else.


    I know how to sing!" "I remember that Bai Su also acted as a white-haired girl." At this time, Chen Zhiyong suddenly said: "Next time you can let Bai Su act."


    Bai Su used to be the backbone of literature and art when he was in school. "Female", "Red Lantern", and "Dingjun Mountain" are often performed, so they are naturally familiar. It's just that these things, for her, are things that have passed for more than half a century. She thought she had forgotten them a long time ago, but after thinking about it in her mind, she still seems to remember it clearly.


    Obviously, her body and memory have returned to the state they were when she was nineteen years old, but her mind still retains the memories of her previous life.


    "Yes, let Susu act next time, and let them country folks see how our city people act." Ji Lanying said excitedly.


    Liu Zheng, who was on the side, looked helpless and shook his head, "You'd better change your countrymen and urbanites. We are all comrades of the proletariat, so we don’t like this. "


    Ji Lanying received the training, but was not angry at all, nodded obediently, and said to Zhao Zhenguo and the others: "You eat faster, help us occupy a few more good positions!"


    ******


    Shaiguchangli The educated youth dormitory is not far away. It is located in the highest vacant lot in Xujiatun. In addition to the dry grain farm, there are also granaries and cow sheds.


    After Bai Su had dinner and washed his face, he followed Ji Lanying and the others to the Shaiguchang.


    The villagers in Xujiatun were almost there, and they surrounded the whole Shaiguchang. An incandescent lamp of tens of watts was pressed on one side of the square, and people's heads throbbed under the dim light.


    In the middle, there is a small stage with spring benches and wooden boards. Several village children are circled around a young girl in red, shouting: "Xie'er, Xi'er..." She is Zhang Guoqing's Girlfriend Zhang Huifang.


    "Liu Zheng, Ji Lanying, Bai Su...Come here to sit." As soon as Bai Su walked over there, he heard Zhao Zhenguo calling them.


    Ji Lanying took Bai Su's hand and squeezed into the crowd, and said loudly, "Let's give in, let the troublesome guy give in."


    Several young gay men stepped aside and stood up, while the lesbians were still sitting on stools. Go up, just lower your head slightly, watching this group of new educated youths from the city.


    "Why is her face so white?" Bai Su heard someone whispering: "Did you put powder on your face?"


    Another person replied, "I don't see it, it's not so smooth after applying powder. Look at her skin, it's all white and transparent."


    "No, why does she look so good?" Seeing Bai Su approached, the lesbians lowered their voices more and more, "From my point of view, she is the same group. The best looking female educated youth!"


    "Do you know her name?" someone asked.


    "It seems to be Bai Su, I just heard Zhao Zhenguo call her like this!"


    "Bai Su, is that Bai Suzhen's Bai Su?" The big guy became curious for a while, and someone said, "Then she will come to Xujiatun. Are you looking for Xu Xian?"


    Everyone burst into laughter, Bai Su's face was slightly hot, and Ji Lanying on the side saw her and took her hand and said, "Don't listen to them nonsense. Knowing the names of two people is great, then Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen that met in Hangzhou, where what places? West Lake? have Broken bridge? have Pagoda it? "


    Ji Lanying's voice is exactly the make behind the row of people hear, we listen to her If you say that, you can't talk too much.


    Bai Su didn't want to listen to them chattering. She stood up and looked at the bullpen from a distance, and she saw the darkness behind her, revealing half of her pale face.

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