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In the seventies and eighties of the last century, a large number of young intellectuals from the cities joined the ranks of going to the mountains and going to the countryside.
There is such an educated youth, who went to the countryside to come to the Great Northern Wilderness for 41 years, until his comrades-in-arms came to pick him up, he was able to return to the city and return to his original hometown.
What has this educated youth experienced, and why has he not returned to the city for many years?
Brotherly separation
In the early years, the Great Northern Wilderness refers to most of the barren areas north of the Heilongjiang River, and as the name suggests, it is very desolate without being cultivated.
Now what we see is the fertile and fertile land after reclamation, in the last century, it was still a barren place, under the reclamation of a large number of educated youth, this is slowly formed today's scene.
Zou Xuesheng was originally just an ordinary middle school student, with a younger brother at home, and a family of four living happily in Beijing.
Due to some political reasons, Zou's father had to return to his hometown in Jiangxi, and the happy family was separated.
Soon after Zou's father left, Zou's mother also passed away, and Zou Xuesheng could only rely on his young brother for his life.
In 1968, the upsurge of educated youths going to the countryside across the country began, and according to the requirements, Zou Xuesheng was also on the list of going to the countryside.
At that time, he broke off contact with his father, and now he is about to go to the countryside, and he has no relatives around him, so Zou Xuesheng can only take his 5-year-old brother to the countryside with him.
17-year-old Zou Xuesheng was assigned to the team of the Great Northwest Reclamation.
The organization was worried that the child would not be able to endure the hard life of the Great Northern Wilderness, so he could only ask his younger brother to return to Beijing, leaving only Zou Xuesheng here.
The good married life is shattered
During the time when he lived in the Great Northern Wilderness, Zou Xuesheng was hard-working and enthusiastic about helping others, and was soon promoted to squad leader, and had a good brother Ye Ming who talked about everything.
The Great Northern Wilderness is a bitter cold place, the day is cold enough, but the night is even more terrifying, and the temperature can drop to more than 30 degrees below zero.
The educated youth do the hardest physical work in clearing the wasteland, often sweating profusely in the heat, and it is even more common to be infected with wind and cold, and life is very hard.
But fortunately, the educated youth all have similar life experiences, have a lot of common topics, and talk together during breaks, and their spirits can be regarded as sustenance.
After 1970, educated youths from all over the country could return to the city in batches, Zou Xuesheng's best friend Ye Ming stepped on the train back to Beijing, but Zou Xuesheng stayed in the Great Northern Wilderness because he liked a local girl.
After that, Zou Xuesheng married the girl he loved, and the two gave birth to a daughter soon after the marriage.
As the saying goes, "poor and lowly couples mourn everything", the Great Northern Wilderness is located on the edge of the motherland, and it is an area that is being cultivated, and it is extremely poor here.
The impoverished life led to frequent quarrels between Zou Xuesheng and his wife, and over time, the relationship was exhausted, and the two chose to divorce.
After his wife left, Zou Xuesheng raised his daughter alone, and finally pulled his daughter to adulthood with great effort, and her daughter was also dragged down by a poor family, and her studies were terminated in junior high school.
In order to survive and farm, Zou Xuesheng has done everything such as moving bricks, but he has never been able to make ends meet.
Zou Xuesheng's life has been miserable for many years, until 2008, when his fate ushered in a change.
Comrades-in-arms welcome
Ye Ming, who returned to Beijing early, has always been thinking about Zou Xuesheng for many years, and after Ye Ming returned to Beijing, the two broke off contact.
After many inquiries, Ye Ming got Zou Xuesheng's contact information, and the two finally met in 2008.
Knowing that Zou Xuesheng's life for many years was very difficult, Ye Ming said that he would take him back to Beijing.
Zou Xuesheng gave up the opportunity to return to the city back then, and now decades have passed, and the Educated Youth Office has long been canceled, and it is difficult for Zou Xuesheng to return to Beijing.
After Ye Ming left the money in his hand to Zou Xuesheng, he hurried back to Beijing to handle the return to Beijing for his good brother.
Ye Ming first found the Labor and Management Department and issued a certificate for Zou Xuesheng, and then returned to the Great Northern Wilderness to help Zou Xuesheng move back to the educated youth household registration of the year.
After Ye Ming was busy, he finally successfully changed Zou Xuesheng back to Beijing.
Together with Zou Xuesheng's daughter, she also followed her father and became a Beijing hukou, and the father and daughter finally did not have to continue to live a hard life in the Great Northern Wilderness.
In that trend of going to the countryside, some educated youths stayed in the local area.
Some of these people are reluctant to take the land under their feet, and some want to stay and help improve local education or medical conditions.
There are also lovers in the process of going to the countryside, and they are unwilling to abandon their families after getting married and having children, and various reasons eventually lead to some people staying in the countryside forever.
Although the Great Northern Wilderness is a bitter cold place, there are also a group of intellectual young people represented by Zou Xuesheng who stayed in the local area.
However, like Zou Xuesheng, it is rare to live in the countryside for decades and return to the city.
Zou Xuesheng was able to return to the city smoothly, thanks to Ye Ming's hard work again and again.
The friendship of that era was simple and sincere, and for the sake of friends, you could stick a knife in both sides, and your friends' affairs should be more attentive and serious than your own affairs, and this kind of friendship is really enviable.