Educated youths cut in line, two village girls compete for love, and the captain breaks off his feelings
Zhou Bingqing, a junior high school graduate of the 68th class, settled in the 9th production team of the Weizigou Brigade for more than 6 years, and was later recommended to enter the university and return to the city. Recalling the past when he was in the countryside, Zhou Bingqing mentioned that there were two beautiful rural girls who expressed their love to him at the same time, which made him feel very embarrassed.
Luckily, the old captain intervened, otherwise he might have had some trouble.
In the summer of 1969, Zhou Bingqing and his classmates came to Chang'an Commune in Tumen County. Nine of them, male intellectuals and seven female intellectuals, were assigned to settle in the nine teams of Weizigou.
Zhou Bingqing is the tallest and most handsome of the nine male intellectuals, and Captain Li is very impressed by him. Zhou Bingqing and his family lived in three houses to the east of the cowshed, and seven female intellectuals lived in a half-wing room in Captain Li's house.
Their first dinner was arranged by Captain Li, and the daughter-in-law and girl of the team accountant Wang Renguang made it. The next day, Wang Shuqin was responsible for cooking for the educated youth, she was the most beautiful girl in the team, and she cooked very neatly.
The first time the educated youths participated in production and labor was to carry water to water the ground, and the young members saw that they were slow to carry water, so they proposed a division of labor. Zhou Bingqing and the others were very anxious, but the young members all called it a day and went home, and Captain Li and the members helped them complete the task.
Captain Li criticized the young members and asked them to care about and help the educated youth. Half a month later, when the farm work in the field was busy, Wang Shuqin stopped cooking, but she often came to the collective household and asked the educated youth to teach her to read.
Wang Shuqin fell in love with Zhou Bingqing, often helped him wash his clothes, and gave him delicious food, but Zhou Bingqing didn't think about it.
In the spring of 1973, Zhou Bingqing became a substitute teacher at Weizigou Elementary School, teaching fourth-grade students. Weizigou Primary School has only four grades, with only a dozen students in each grade, and the fifth grade students have to go to Chang'an Central Primary School.
Weizigou Primary School has a total of four private teachers, including Zhou Bingqing and a female teacher named Sun Yumei, who is the niece of the brigade secretary and has been teaching for more than four years in Chinese.
Sun Yumei is tall and beautiful, she is the same age as Zhou Bingqing. On the first day Zhou Bingqing arrived at school, Sun Yumei had a good impression of him and took the initiative to exchange teaching experience with him.
The principal saw that Sun Yumei and Zhou Bingqing got along well, so he let them work next to each other. Sun Yumei often sent food to Zhou Bingqing and expressed her favor to him in the name of giving eggs.
Zhou Bingqing was afraid of being misunderstood, so he gave her a copy of "Xinhua Dictionary". The news that Zhou Bingqing and Sun Yumei were in love began to circulate in the village, and Wang Shuqin was uneasy about this, so she personally found Zhou Bingqing and gave him two pairs of embroidered shoes.
Although Zhou Bingqing did not dislike Wang Shuqin, he never thought about falling in love, and he had no plans to get married in the countryside. Later, he heard that Wang Shuqin and Sun Yumei quarreled because of themselves.
At the end of that year, the school had a winter vacation, and Zhou Bingqing returned to Yanji to visit his parents. Sun Yumei waited for him at the entrance of the village and gave him some millet, indicating that she liked him and hoped to be with him forever.
Zhou Bingqing was very embarrassed, and after returning home, he told his parents about the pursuit of the two. His mother advised him to return to the city as soon as possible, while his father was worried that his marriage in the countryside would affect his return to the city.
Zhou Bingqing returned to Weizigou with the two of them showing their love, and he couldn't refuse Sun Yumei and Wang Shuqin, so he went to Captain Li with snacks. Captain Li heard about Zhou Bingqing's matter and expressed his willingness to help solve it, but he asked Zhou Bingqing which girl he liked.
Zhou Bingqing said that he already had a partner in Yanji, but he was used as an excuse by Captain Li. On the first day of school, Captain Li told Sun Yumei that Zhou Bingqing was engaged. It didn't take long for everyone in the village to know about Zhou Bingqing's engagement.
Zhou Bingqing was later recommended as a worker, peasant and soldier cadet, and became a financial officer after graduation. In 1998, Zhou Bingqing and the educated youths who had settled in the Weizigou Brigade returned to their second hometown, visited the villagers and Captain Li, and also met Wang Shuqin.
That year, Sun Yumei was already a public teacher and was transferred to work in a primary school in Tumen, and Zhou Bingqing went to Tumen to see her.
Whenever I think back to the experience of cutting the queue back then, Zhou Bingqing will always smile and say that if it wasn't for Captain Li decisively helping me solve the problem, I wouldn't know how to deal with it.
What I was most afraid of was hurting the two innocent and kind girls, but Captain Lee's help saved us both from being hurt. From the bottom of my heart, I am grateful to Captain Li for his simplicity and kindness, and I am also grateful to Sun Yumei and Wang Shuqin for their understanding and tolerance.