Educated youth life

These two days, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of educated youth going to the countryside, a group of people talked about the life of educated youth and the anecdotes about going to the countryside. This casual, simple and unrestrained form of conversation is very lively, grounded and readable. I will edit one article after another, and each article has a theme, such as life, dogs, pigs, sheep, chickens and cows ... It is composed of several short stories, so I will make up a few for the students first.

The first dog

Dogs are friends of human beings, and their greatest characteristics are loyalty and guardianship. As the saying goes, "Good people protect the mountain village, and good dogs protect their neighbors." In order to keep dogs in rural areas, educated youth also keep dogs.

Zhao Xinluo:

After reading the story of Beijing educated youth and Yi gouhuang, I also shed tears. I not only shed tears for the friendship of educated youth and Huang's loyalty, but also reminded me of the story of our rural educated youth league and our educated youth raising dogs. This is a true story, and it has made me sad to think of it for decades. There are two dogs in our countryside, both of which were raised from childhood. Although they were all born in peasant families, they all grew up in educated youth spots. It can be said that they are well-educated, smart, loyal to their masters and conscientious in their work. It also brings a lot of fun to our boring rural life! There are many stories about dogs and dogs, but one thing has been bothering me. It was the winter of 72, and the educated youth in our educated youth group boarded the last bus back to the city for employment, and the educated youth group basically had to leave. During that time, they were busy handing in rations, transferring accounts, packing their bags, inviting farmers to eat, and feeding pigs at low prices for four years. The dog seems to feel something, and follows us every day, not eating or drinking. Everyone is busy with their own business and ignores the dog! Just two days before we left the educated youth point, an unexpected thing happened! I didn't see the dog after getting up in the morning. Usually when we get up and open the door, it will say good morning at the door, but it doesn't respond when called. I found it on the woodpile in our yard! It has been sleeping forever! When I touch it, my body is stiff and cold! What is even more chilling is that a dog skin is wrapped in a skeleton! I'm so thin that I have no meat! My tears can't stop flowing downwards! Wake up the other students, and everyone stands silently in the cold wind of winter morning. I am thinking: the dog said goodbye to us in this way, in order to let its owner feel at ease to go to a new job and be carefree! After all, we have been with dogs for several years. People are advanced animals, but there are feelings between animals! Dogs are friends of human beings! May the dog meet a better owner than us in the sky!

Great freedom:

@ Zhao Xinluo's writing is really touching. I still remember that every time I went home and returned to the team, just halfway up the mountain, I saw the tiger rushing down to meet me, jumping up and twisting his ass happily, with a short tail.

Every time I eat, I put the steamed food on the ground, and the dog lies next to me, obediently ignoring the food. It knows that this is the master's meal. Only by breaking a piece and throwing it out can it catch it quickly and accurately. If you tease it on purpose, put the complete bun on its mouth, and it will hide and turn its head to one side. Our pigs are lying on him in the sun in rows, and he is lying quietly, as if still enjoying himself. But other people's pigs can't go to the hospital to chase and bite. Extremely fierce. I still remember its lovely appearance.

Zhao Xinluo:

Yuanshou said that there are too many stories about our dog! The dog and pig next door are afraid to come to our yard. Do you remember that the old man's pig came to our yard to rub rice, but it was pulled out with nothing and bit a hole in its ear?

Great freedom:

That's right. There is also a waiting talent (vice captain) who bites. [snicker] [snicker] [snicker]

Great freedom:

Educated youth have never seen it. It never bites. That's brilliant.

Jia Pingquan:

Yes, too smart and too human. Every time I go out or have a meeting with the three teams (brigades) opposite, the tiger takes the lead, running and jumping, so smart that I can tell who it is according to the sound and footsteps, whether it is biting or not.

Great freedom:

Chickens from other families can't come either, so they will chase them as soon as they see them. Resolutely safeguard their own fields.

Zhao Xinluo:

Baoyuan Wang, secretary of the brigade, bit the hardest when he came. Baoyuan always leans on a stick, his legs are turning, and there is nothing more malicious than this bite!

Zhao Xinluo:

Thank you for your comments! Thanks to Pingquan and Yuanshou for sharing the unforgettable years in the countryside with me and the joy that dogs bring to our educated youth group! Pingquan added a short narrative, which reminded me of something I will never forget: our nothing once saved me, and it suffered a lot for me. Now that I think about it, I still have fear. It's not that dogs are likely to be injured or disabled. Listen to me slowly: one day after dinner, I went to the third team to do some shopping. It was dark, I couldn't see my fingers, and I didn't bring a flashlight. As Pingquan said, we are educated youth. If you are far away from your host, you will stop and wait. The road to the brigade needs to turn over a ditch, and our road is easy. The road leading to the third team became a narrow path, and the roadside was a cliff. We walk more by feeling. On the way back, halfway up the mountain, I didn't walk in front of anything, and suddenly I cried. I don't know what happened. Everything was fine when I came. Is it a wolf? I couldn't see anything clearly, so I shouted a few times. The dog in our village heard the shouts and ran to me. Strangely, they don't bite or bark, and there is nothing around them. I see: if it is a wolf, they will bite together! It suddenly occurred to me that someone must have planted a badger trap on the road after we passed by. This trap was found in the mountains. It is used to trap wolves, deer and other large animals. It's like an oversized mousetrap. One end is fixed on the ground or a tree, slightly touching the prey. You can't run away after an organ attack. Moreover, the spring of this clamp is very hard, and it is either disabled or injured after clamping. It was too dark for me to do it. I went back to the team in the dark to find someone. When I arrived in the village, I only heard the villager Qiu calling for someone, holding a rope and a handle in his hand, shouting: The dog has been caught! Take the dog and eat dog meat! I was so angry that I scolded Chang Lu, and almost all the educated youth groups, such as Anfu and Zhonglan, who arrived at the news, started work around Chang Lu. Just then, I saw nothing limping up the hill with three legs! I don't know how it broke free from the clip. I saw that a layer of skin on its hind leg was peeled off, but fortunately there was no fracture after inspection. Our group has commonly used drugs, disinfection, dressing, dressing, and rest for a long time before recovery. I can't forget it for many years. If the dog didn't go out with me that night, if the dog didn't run ahead, it was me! Dog legs are much thinner than human legs! The result of pinching people's legs is definitely different! That dog saved me! It's the dog who suffers for me! This is one of the reasons why I have never forgotten that our volunteer dog is fine for decades.

Wang Yuanshou:

Nothing, I have an interesting story. Once, when my eldest girl (Zhang Ruifang) and I came back from the commune and walked halfway up the mountain, we heard the villagers who were working not far away shouting, "What are you looking at on the road, cats and cows?" Ha ha ha ... "We stopped and looked ahead. I saw a bunch of flowers still shining in the sun. I don't know what it is. But listening to the villagers' laughter, there must be something strange. They are both nearsighted. I picked up a piece of soil and threw it in the past. I missed it and threw another piece on the side. I didn't dare to move on until I saw something moving. Ha! It turned out to be a dead snake more than one meter long and thicker than a stick, bending on a narrow road. Needless to say, it was the villagers who came up to scare us after seeing us kill people. I'm afraid to live, but I will think of snake soup when I die. I grabbed it and threw it to the villagers first. Ha ha ha, scared them to scream. Enough trouble. Pick up the snake and drag it back. It is a heavy one. Suddenly I saw nothing running towards us happily. I squatted down to touch it and secretly tied the snake to its tail root and dragged it back. Unexpectedly, it turned around and disappeared with a whoosh. We went to the house and didn't see it. I saw it came back late, with messy hair, no snakes and no snake soup. It seems that it scared you, too. I'm sorry to think of it.

Zhao Xinluo:

Yesterday, I saw an article written by Yuanshou, which reminded me of a past event: just one month after we went to the countryside, we went to Guanshan to build the Longguan Highway, which is now the highway leading to Guanshan Racecourse, a tourist resort in Longxian County. I, Zhong Lan, Guang Qiang, Zou Wei and Zhao Wu lived in the farmers' home of Tiancheng Commune, slept in the highland barley grass shop on the ground, and a dozen people lived in one room. You have to walk for miles in the ravine to get to work. The main job is to blow up mountains and take stones to cushion the roadbed in the river. The construction site is at the mountain pass. The cold wind blows for three or nine days, and the wind blows with a whistle. Cold was not a problem for us at that time, but I still remember one thing: the story about the dog was not that we had nothing, but another puppy, which Zou Wei bought from the farmer's house with a food stamp of 15 kg. It's smart, too. It sleeps in the grass shop with us at night. Ironically, when he urinated at night, he met the cotton shoes of other farmers in the same room. In the morning, when farmers put on their shoes, they found that they were wet. Of course, we know it was the dog! The cotton shoes you are wearing are very warm inside! There is another thing that is similar to Yuan Shou's prank on you. Zou Wei caught a sparrow, and we had a whim to tie it to the dog's tail and see how to eat it. Who knows, tying the sparrow to the dog's tail makes the dog anxious, biting and biting, and the tail turns around with its head, but it is difficult to bite. I saw the dog spinning 360 degrees in place, turning faster and faster, and biting faster and faster. We laughed while watching, but I didn't know it was for the dog. After a sharp turn, the dog finally succeeded! Sadly, the dog bit off the tip of his tail! I always remember this clearly, and I also understand a truth: the tiger's ass can't be touched, and the dog's tail can't move!

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Huang, the dog of justice

A friend posted a touching post and forwarded it to everyone for appreciation: I remember having dinner with some friends in Dalian more than ten years ago, and a friend from Beijing once cut in line and settled in a small mountain village in northern Shaanxi. At that time, seven or eight educated youths lived in two caves, picked up a stray puppy, named Huang, and built a nest for it by the cave. Since then, A Huang and educated youth have lived together day and night, living alone, adding a lot of fun to the lonely mountain village life. Although life is hard, as long as the educated youth still has a bite to eat, Huang will have a bite to eat. Huang has a skill. Every two days, he would climb two ridges and go to the brigade to retrieve the letters sent by the educated youth at home. At that time, the traffic was inconvenient, and the postman only sent the mail to the brigade, the captain and others on the way, so that people could take it back to the village. It is convenient to have yellow. When the captain saw Huang coming, he gave it a letter with a letter in his mouth and ran for three or four hours on the mountain road to give it to the educated youth.

Year after year, some people went to the army, others went to school, and Huang and his master sent off one educated youth after another in the county. When the last educated youth returned to the city to leave, Huang frantically chased the speeding car and collapsed on the dusty road until he couldn't run. When it returned to the mountain village alone, it still stayed in front of the cave every day, not letting anyone near it, as if waiting for its owner to return. In the future, strange things often happen in the brigade. Letters sent by the postman often disappear. As long as the captain turns around, he will never find them again. Sometimes it is a document sent by a superior, and the captain has to admit that he is unlucky. A few years later, Huang passed away. The villagers dragged him out of the kennel and found dozens of letters under him. It turned out that Huang decided that these things belonged to educated youth, and he still went to get a letter every two days. Although the captain stopped giving it, as long as he was not careful, he secretly took the letter and hid it in his nest, waiting for the educated youth to come back.

Later, the captain wrote to tell the educated youth about it. Everyone was shocked and guilty, and sent two representatives to the mountain village. On behalf of the educated youth, a stone tablet was erected at the burial place in front of the nest, which read "Yellow, Righteous Dog". As my friend in Beijing spoke, tears welled up in his eyes and he almost finished the story with a sob. That night, everyone at the table listened silently, and then they were all drunk-for the dog and for the unforgettable years in their hearts.