In the summer of 1969, when I had just graduated from primary school, a group of educated youths from the provincial capital suddenly came to our Houzhuang brigade, and they came to our brigade to join the queue and settle down. At that time, the educated youth from the city were temperamental, dressed clean and fashionable, and their walking posture was different from that of us rural people.
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At that time, there was no place for the educated youths to live together in the team, so the educated youths scattered and borrowed to live in the villagers' homes, because my family's housing was tight, and the educated youths did not come to my house to borrow, and the house of Uncle Zhao's house in the front yard of my house was spacious, and Captain Zhang of our first team arranged for two female educated youths to live in Uncle Zhao's house, and the two sisters of Uncle Zhao's family lived in the two east houses.
Uncle Zhao's house came to two beautiful female intellectuals, and we both went to see the Western scenery. The two sisters who live in Uncle Zhao's house are very beautiful, white and clean, with fine skin and tender meat, just like the actors in the movie. The two young sisters are very generous, and a tall sister also took out a candy cube, and each child of the younger age was given a candy cube. I was an older kid, so I hid away and didn't ask for my sister's candy.
After finishing work that afternoon, my brother heard that the female intellectuals in the provincial capital lived in Uncle Zhao's house, so he washed his face and combed his hair, and ran to the front yard to see the female intellectuals. After a while, I saw my brother carrying Uncle Zhao's bucket and helping Uncle Zhao to carry water. My brother is diligent by nature, he often helps Uncle Zhao's family carry water, and every year when the team distributes rations, it is also my brother who helps carry Uncle Zhao's family's rations home from the yard.
Uncle Zhao has back pain, he can't do heavy work, and my dad sometimes helps Uncle Zhao's family do heavy work. Listening to my mother's constant chatter, she said that the two daughters of Uncle Zhao's family are both good-looking, and then let Dajun (my brother's name is Hou Dajun, my name is Hou Ercheng) marry one as a daughter-in-law. It seems that Uncle Zhao also has this intention, and he really wants my brother to be his family's inverted son-in-law.
Since the female intellectuals in the provincial capital lived in Uncle Zhao's house, I found out that my brother ran to Uncle Zhao's house when he had nothing to do. My mother didn't let him go, but he ran there every day, helping to carry water every day.
In the autumn, the team built houses for the educated youth and established a youth point. The educated youths all moved to the youth point, and the two sisters did not live at Uncle Zhao's house.
Since the establishment of the youth point in the team, I found that my brother no longer runs to Uncle Zhao's house, he runs to the youth point every day. In just half a year of age, I saw that my brother and the tall girl who lived in Uncle Zhao's house often talked and laughed together, and I heard my brother call that the young sister Fengjuan, and it turned out that the sister's name was Wang Fengjuan.
One noon in the autumn of 1972, my brother led Wang Fengjuan's sister to my house, my brother would give her dates to eat, and then pick pomegranates for her, and also lent his ** that I wouldn't touch to Wang Fengjuan's sister. My mother doesn't seem to like Sister Wang Fengjuan very much, as long as she sees my brother and Sister Wang Fengjuan together, my mother will scold my brother.
To tell the truth, my brother is handsome, a big man of 1.78 meters, and a junior high school graduate. Once my dad asked my brother, "What do you always mess with other women?""How can you say that I am still thinking of marrying her as a daughter-in-law." "Whether my brother was joking or talking nonsense, I can't verify, but he was serious.
My dad was very angry, he raised his foot and kicked my brother, scolding: "Look at what you can, you don't know what your surname is, and you still want to marry a female intellectual, it's really a weasel who wants to eat swan meat......”
Since my brother and that sister Wang Fengjuan got together, I obviously saw that Uncle Zhao's family had snubbed my family a lot, once I saw Zhao Xiuling, the eldest sister of Uncle Zhao's family, Sister Xiuling asked me: "Ercheng, I heard that your brother is going to marry a daughter-in-law?"Is the date set?"Sister Xiuling, no, don't listen to other people's nonsense. "I vetoed it immediately.
Sister Xiuling said again: "It's not someone else's nonsense, I saw it with my own eyes, Dajun and that female intellectual, often go to the courtyard together, and I also saw them sitting on the haystack reading a book together......"Sister Xiuling is indeed not lying, I have also seen the scene of my brother and Sister Wang Fengjuan sitting on the haystack and laughing together.
Since Sister Xiuling told me about my brother and Sister Wang Fengjuan's going on a date in the hospital, I also began to secretly follow my brother. For a long time, I often heard my mother say that there were always few eggs in the house, and at first I suspected that I might have misremembered the number, and then I suspected that the rats were stealing them, because my mother had seen rats steal eggs with her own eyes.
I remember that it was after dinner on the Dragon Boat Festival in 1973, I saw my brother sneaking into the kitchen, so I secretly stared at him, and it turned out that he went to the kitchen to cook eggs. After a while, my brother put out the fire in the stove, put two boiled eggs in a scoop of water to cool them, put them in his coat pocket, and ran to the yard.
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When I arrived at the yard, I didn't see Sister Wang Fengjuan, the eggs that my brother put in his pocket might still be very hot, so he put two eggs on the haystack and trotted to the youth spot. Seeing that my brother was far away, I pocketed the two hot boiled eggs and hid them nearby.
After a while, my brother and sister Wang Fengjuan came to the yard together, and they climbed up the haystack together. I saw my brother turning left and right on the haystack, and jumping off the haystack to look around, I knew what my brother was looking for, but I hid to the side, and I didn't dare to breathe. That time, I obviously saw the two of them parting unhappily, and I also heard my brother explain to her: "Fengjuan, you don't know who I am, I obviously put two boiled eggs on the haystack, and this time the kung fu is gone......."”
In the early autumn of that year, two female intellectuals were recruited into the city, and a male intellectuals who were teachers in private primary schools were also recruited into the city. That recruitment was to work in the sand turning factory, and the working environment was very poor, otherwise, Wang Fengjuan's sister would also go to the city to work as a worker.
My brother also seems to have sensed that he and Sister Wang Fengjuan will not have a good ending, but he still can't let go of Sister Wang Fengjuan, mainly because Sister Wang Fengjuan always comes to my brother. My mother had already said the ugly things in front, she said: "Dajun, you just make a fool of yourself, in the end, the educated youth of the people entered the city, Xiuling got married, you are in vain, you can't get one end, if you don't believe it, you just walk and look at ......."”
On the way back from work one day after autumn, Sister Xiuling and I walked together. I saw that the one who walked in front of us was Sister Wang Fengjuan, so I took two steps and walked with Sister Wang Fengjuan. Sister Wang Fengjuan greeted me, and I asked her with a smile: "Sister, can you and my brother finally walk together?"When the time comes, if you recruit workers into the city, you can't do without my brother. My brother has already broken Sister Xiuling's heart in order to be with you, you can't break my brother's heart anymore ......”
Since then, Sister Wang Fengjuan has obviously been indifferent to my brother. Later, my brother found out that I had ruined his good deeds, and he kicked me hard.
After the autumn of 1974, Jinan National Cotton Factory recruited workers, and in order to get a recruitment quota, Wang Fengjuan's sister saw her send two bottles of wine to the team secretary's family. For the sake of safety, Sister Wang Fengjuan also took my brother to the team secretary's house to intercede, because she knew that the team secretary was my father's cousin.
That time, our brigade got a total of two recruitment places, and it was also the first time that we got a place to work directly in the provincial capital. Sister Wang Fengjuan successfully recruited workers into the city, and in order to express her gratitude, she gave my brother her melodica and basin hot water bottle. Before returning to the city, Wang Fengjuan's sister also said that she must get my brother to the city if she has the opportunity, and they must be together.
Three months after entering the city, my brother received a letter from Wang Fengjuan's sister, saying that her parents did not approve of her being with my brother and asked my brother to find a better girl in the countryside to marry......
Although I had expected this outcome, I saw the pain and sorrow of my brother's heartbreak, and I often heard him sitting in the courtyard playing the harmonica in the middle of the night.
After the autumn of 1975, my brother married Sister Xiuling, and my brother felt very wronged at that time, but later my brother found out that Sister Xiuling was a very virtuous woman. It was Sister Xiuling who would rather endure hardships and hardships herself, forcing my brother to be a private primary school teacher for more than ten years, and finally luckily became a public teacher, and now I have a pension of 7,000 yuan a month, and my two pensions are not as much as my brother's alone. If it weren't for Sister Xiuling's repeated encouragement to my brother to persist and persevere, my brother would have given up continuing to be a private teacher in the school, because he would have wanted to break through outside.
In the spring of 2018, I met Wang Fengjuan's sister in Jinan, she invited me to a meal in a restaurant, Wang Fengjuan's sister in her sixties had a very haggard face, she said that she was not living well, she caught up with the laid-off that year, she and her lover's pension combined was less than 5,000 yuan, and she couldn't think of changing to a bigger house. Sister Wang Fengjuan also apologized repeatedly, she said that she was sorry for my brother, and she was ashamed of my brother's sincerity and true feelings for her, and she had always felt guilty and guilty about this matter. Actually, my brother has forgiven Sister Wang Fengjuan a long time ago.
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The emotional story of our family and the educated youth in the provincial city is finished, and the era of the educated youth has become a thing of the past.