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This story of the educated youth was told to me by the old educated youth Master Lu Jizhong, who said that in fact, he was not an educated youth, and he went to the countryside to join the queue in the name of a social youth. At that time, why did he go to the countryside to join the queue, mainly because it was difficult for him to stay in the city to settle for a job, and there was a very cruel practical problem, when he reached the age of marriage, it was difficult to find a partner.
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If you want to talk about Master Lu Jizhong, he is also a hard-working person, when he was seven years old, his mother gave birth to his younger brother and died of postpartum hemorrhage, and it was his father who raised his brothers with hard work. Before graduating from junior high school for a year, Lu Jizhong went to the wood factory as an apprentice.
I remember that in the autumn of 1965, when Lu Jizhong had just turned nineteen years old, one day on the way home from work, he saw three young people bullying his younger brother, snatching his younger brother's schoolbag, and letting his younger brother get under his crotch.
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Seeing this situation, although Lu Jizhong was very angry, he dared not speak out in the face of the three young people alone, so he had to take out his cigarette and beg the three young people to return the schoolbag to his younger brother. Unexpectedly, a young man pointed to his crotch and said, "From here, the schoolbag will be returned to you." ”
Lu Jizhong didn't squeak, and stepped forward to snatch back his brother's schoolbag. At this time, the three young men stopped doing it, and they came around and grabbed Lu Jizhong's hair and beat him, which frightened his younger brother and shouted for help. Lu Jizhong was punched several times, and his eyes were beaten straight to Venus. Unable to bear it any longer, he took out the axe in his satchel and raised the axe to cut down one.
Seeing Lu Jizhong's death, the two young men ran away, Lu Jizhong caught up with the young man who snatched his brother's schoolbag, and slashed on the man's shoulder with an axe, only to hear a scream, and the man fell to the ground. Lu Jizhong held an axe and cut down another social youth, before picking up his brother's schoolbag and going home with his brother.
Soon, the public security officers came to the door, and Lu Jizhong was taken to the public security bureau. Finally, it was transferred to the court, and the court found him guilty of negligent wounding, and Lu Jizhong served one year in prison. It was because of those three axes that the gangsters in society converged a lot, and Lu Jizhong also suffered from prison.
After being released from prison, reemployment became a problem for Lu Jizhong, and the street promised to place jobs for him as much as possible, but after waiting for two years, Lu Jizhong still failed to find employment. At that time, Lu Jizhong was twenty-two years old and had reached the age of marriage, but he had a criminal record, whose girl would fall in love with him.
At the end of that year, that is, in December 1968, the whole country set off an upsurge of the movement to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, and the street cadres went to the door to mobilize Lu Jizhong to go to the countryside to receive re-education from the poor and middle peasants.
After thinking about it again, Lu Jizhong decided to follow the educated youth to the countryside to join the queue, and Lu Jizhong's father felt that it was not easy to let him stay in the city for employment, and the marriage problem was not easy to solve, so he agreed to let him go to the countryside for reeducation.
In late December 1968, 22-year-old Lu Jizhong and a group of junior high school graduates left Beijing by train and came to Wenxi County, Shanxi Province.
After Captain Feng's mother died of illness, his father lived with him. Captain Feng's old father is the breeder in the team, because he is the third in line, the villagers in the team call him the third master, and Lu Jizhong and Wang Chenglin also call him the third master. The third master is a very simple and kind person, he was in his sixties, he was in good health, and he could carry a burden of more than 100 catties, and he took care of the five donkeys and two cows in the team alone.
At that time, it was winter farming, there was no farm work in the field, and the members occasionally went to the team to do a little odd work, and the rest of the time they went to the ditch to collect firewood. Lu Jizhong and Wang Chenglin were embarrassed to lie in the kiln, so they followed the third master to the cowshed to help the third master feed the cattle and pad the cowpen, and also helped carry water and forage. Seeing that Lu Jizhong is very diligent and can work, the third master likes him very much.
After a period of contact and understanding, Captain Feng and the third master both knew about Lu Jizhong's situation, and his father and son were very sympathetic to Lu Jizhong, and said that what he did was right, he should teach those doll descendants who don't learn well.
After the Spring Festival, the weather gradually warmed up, taking advantage of the time before the spring ploughing was not too busy, Captain Feng led several members to pick up the two holes of the clay kiln in the team site, and set up a clay kang and stove in the kiln. Ten people eat and live together, there must be someone in charge, and Captain Feng asked Lu Jizhong to serve as the leader of the educated youth group.
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Considering that the educated youths can't cook, Captain Feng also arranged for an aunt-in-law to temporarily help teach the educated youths to cook on the fire, and the team recorded seven points of work for her a day.
The mother-in-law who helped the educated youth cook was surnamed Lu and Lu Jinying, she was twenty-five years old and very good-looking, but unfortunately her husband died less than a year after marriage, and fell into the drainage ditch in a rainstorm, and it took several days to find the body. Because of this, Lu Jinying has become a broom star in the mouths of the villagers, and the people in the village say that she is a nuisance to men, and the young descendants are all hiding when they see her, and they are afraid that they will be hindered by her.
has been widowed for three or four years, and there are also well-wishers who come to her to tell her the matchmaker, she can't look down on a man who is too unpresentable, and she doesn't want to marry a broom star in her young life, Lu Jinying is also very distressed. Her in-laws didn't want to see her, and she didn't have a baby, so she had to move back to her parents' house to live, and Lu Jinying's parents also prayed every day, praying that Lu Jinying could find a good man.
Lu Jinying came to help the educated youths cook, and as long as Lu Jizhong had time, he helped carry water, helped carry firewood, and sometimes helped light the fire. Lu Jinying was always embarrassed to say: "You rest, I can do it." I'll cook for you, and the team will give me a credit score, you don't have to always help me......" Although Lu Jinying said so, she also very much hoped that someone would help her carry water, the team site was quite far from the well, and it took more than half an hour to pick up water back and forth, and ten people ate and washed, and two loads of water a day were not enough.
Although Lu Jinying told Lu Jizhong every day that he could do it, Lu Jizhong still went to fetch water early in the morning every day, and asked the female intellectuals to help Lu Jinying cook on the fire, so that she could learn to cook with her. Seeing that Lu Jizhong took such good care of himself, Lu Jinying was grateful to Lu Jizhong from the bottom of his heart.
After the spring ploughing and spring sowing production began, Lu Jizhong and the villagers also went out to work in the mountains, Captain Feng picked ten times a day, and the members also picked eight or nine times. The two baskets of soil and miscellaneous fertilizer picked by Captain Feng can weigh more than 100 catties, and the members of the club can weigh 70 or 80 catties of dung. Seeing such a situation, Lu Jizhong asked an old member: "Uncle, do you and Captain Feng earn the same amount of work every day?" The old member replied with a smile. Lu Jizhong said again: "That's not reasonable, Captain Feng obviously works a lot." "What's unreasonable about this, he's the captain, so he has to do more. The old member said disapprovingly.
Listening to the words of the old member, Lu Jizhong felt a little uncomfortable, I really don't know what the truth is, when you are the captain, you have to work harder, and you don't give more work, what kind of logic is this.
On the first day of picking dung on the mountain, Lu Jizhong picked eleven dung, one more trip than Captain Feng, and the two baskets he picked were larger than the two baskets picked by Captain Feng, and each load of soil and miscellaneous manure was more than 100 catties. At the end of the afternoon, Captain Feng called several old members together to discuss the work standards of the educated youth. The final evaluation result is that female intellectuals have six points of labor a day, and male intellectuals have eight points of labor a day.
As soon as he heard such a result, Lu Jizhong quit, and he said loudly: "You work 10 times a day, why do you give me 8 points of work? I pick 11 trips of dung a day, and each load of dung is more than 100 catties, how many times do you pick up dung a day? How much does a load of dung weigh?"
Lu Jizhong is not lazy at all, unlike the members of the club, which is obvious to all. Captain Feng knew this better, he felt that even if he gave Lu Jizhong twelve points a day, it would not be much. After soliciting everyone's opinions, Captain Feng decided to give Lu Jizhong ten jobs, and ten educated youths earned Lu Jizhong as much work as a male member.
Lv Jinying helped the educated youths cook for 20 days, and the female intellectuals learned to cook with her, Captain Feng didn't let Lv Jinying help the educated youths cook, and the team didn't give her a work score.
Every day when she comes back from work, as long as Lu Jinying has time, she will come to the team headquarters to help the educated youths cook on the fire, which educated youth's buttons are off and their clothes are torn, she will also help the educated youths sew, and the educated youths affectionately call her Sister Jin Ying.
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In three months, Lu Jizhong became the vice captain of the third team of Lujiayu, and the villagers had no opinion on letting Lu Jizhong be the deputy captain, because Lu Jizhong was really capable, he was not afraid of offending people, and he dared to speak fairly and justly. After Lu Jizhong became the vice captain, he first criticized and warned the members who were lazy and slippery, and continued to be lazy and slippery and directly lowered the standard of work. This trick really worked, and it greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the members, and the villagers spoke highly of Lu Jizhong, saying that the Beijing educated youth really have a way, and no one in the team is lazy and tricky.
When the final accounts and dividends were distributed after the autumn of that year, Lu Jizhong, a member of the whole production team, shared the most dividends. Considering that Lu Jinying often helps educated youths cook, Lu Jizhong took out five yuan and asked two female intellectuals to go to the commune supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a little gift for Lv Jinying to express his gratitude. Lu Jinying was very moved, she couldn't repay it, the only thing she could do was to often come to help the educated youth cook on the fire. In this way, Lu Jizhong and Lu Jinying gradually became familiar with each other.
In the winter of that year, Aunt Liu, a matchmaker in a team, came to propose marriage to Lu Jinying, a matchmaker who was four years younger than Lu Jinying. That queen grew up very well, but his mother died early, the family was poor, and it was difficult for him to find a partner. It stands to reason that Lu Jinying is a widow, and it is not easy to find such a man. But Lu Jinying did not agree to this family business, she said that she did not want to find a man who was several years younger than herself.
In fact, the educated youths all saw that Lu Jinying was in love with Lu Jizhong, so she didn't agree to this family business. Captain Feng also saw Lu Jinying's thoughts, and he also wanted to match Lu Jinying and Lu Jizhong together, but he was worried that Lu Jizhong would dislike Lu Jinying as a widow.
When they had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together on Chinese New Year's Eve, Captain Feng secretly said to Lu Jizhong: "Jizhong, I want to introduce you to an aunt, I'm afraid you don't want to." In fact, Jin Ying is a good woman, a hardworking and kind person is not ugly, if you want, I will be a matchmaker, if you don't want to, just say nothing. "Captain, I have to discuss this marriage matter with my father first. Lu Jizhong said with a red face.
Twenty days later, Lu Jizhong received a reply from his father, who said that women are a few years older and know how to live, and he has no opinion on this family matter. In this way, Captain Feng became a matchmaker and brokered the marriage of Lu Jizhong and Lu Jinying. On February 22 of the lunar calendar of that year, Lu Jizhong married Lu Jinying, and Lu Jizhong, who settled in Lujiayu, married his rural aunt alone.
In the second year after marriage, Lu Jinying gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, a male baby and a female baby. Lu Jizhong gave the two dolls nice names, the male baby is called Yulong, and the female baby is called Yufeng. After the doll's first birthday, Lu Jizhong took his aunt back to Beijing. Seeing his grandchildren well-behaved and cute, Lu Jizhong's father couldn't be happier.
In the spring of 1981, as the only Beijing educated youth in the Lujiayu Brigade who did not recruit workers to enter the city, Lu Jizhong also enjoyed the treatment of educated youth, and he was recruited to the commune post and telecommunications office as a courier, and finally became the director of the township post and telecommunications office. Lu Jizhong's two dolls are also very competitive, Yufeng was admitted to the regional teacher's school, and Yulong was admitted to Taiyuan University of Technology, and they both have a good job after graduation.
At present, Lu Jizhong, who is nearly eighty years old, and his mother-in-law are still living in Shanxi, and his husband and wife are very tough, and Lu Jizhong can still carry fifty catties of white noodles on the fifth floor. Because he was willing to eat hand-rolled noodles, his mother-in-law rolled noodles for him almost every day.
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After telling his life experience and emotional life story, Lu Jizhong was very emotional and content, he said that if he didn't come to Shanxi to settle down, if it wasn't for Captain Feng to worry about introducing him to the object, he would have been a bachelor in this life, and he would never forget the kindness of Captain Feng and the villagers. Lu Jizhong also said, don't look at Lu Jinying is a few years older than him, but Lu Jinying looks young, and others say that they are a good match. The most important thing is that Lu Jinying is hardworking, kind and virtuous, and being able to marry such a good aunt in this life is also a blessing from the previous life.
Yes, there is no greater happiness than this, and the greatest satisfaction in life is contentment, and contentment leads to happiness.
Author: Grassroots writer (thanks to Master Lu Jizhong for providing materials)