Working barefoot in the snow, I don't know what suffering is.

The story is: Zhengzhou educated youth recalls the years when they went to the countryside. At that time, I was afraid that they had less work, so it was very uncomfortable to ask for sick leave. Female educated youth also works hard.

Yesterday, Business Daily started with the gathering of Zhengzhou educated youth, cut into memory from reality, told the general situation of Zhengzhou educated youth going to the countryside, and restored the touching story that Wang Hui, the first secretary of Zhengzhou Municipal Committee, resisted political pressure and let Zhengzhou educated youth go to the countryside nearby. Today, Business Daily published The Precipitation and Materialization of Zhengzhou Educated Youth in Forty Years.

For Zhengzhou educated youth, educated youth, as an identity label, has left many traces for history, and it is a precipitated and materialized person, thing and thing. There is no doubt that people exist objectively. What happened between them, either stored in words or formed memories, has settled down. The old photos, objects and diaries collected by the educated youth so far are all human feelings and history.

These histories were recorded by Henan Business Daily, adhering to the principle of objectivity and truth, without whitewashing the gray tone or avoiding colorful colors.

This is a group of young people who are keen on generate. They are only sixteen or seventeen years old, but they pull carts barefoot in the heavy snow and build the Erqi Memorial Tower in the scorching sun.

There is no "respect" in their hearts, and it is nothing special for cadres and ordinary people to eat and live together.

They are 197 1 "educated youth" sent to the suburbs of Zhengzhou. Some people say that they are a lost generation. They should be studying in the classroom, but they are sent to work in the countryside.

So, how do they view their own history? In this issue, Henan Business Daily reporter takes you to Zhengzhou educated youth and feels the youth of that era.

Henan Business Daily reporter Yang Huijun

Those people, educated youth

It's slippery on snowy days, so I pull a rickshaw barefoot.

"It was the most bitter and tiring period, but it was the purest period in my mind." Wang Ping is an educated youth from the May 7th Educated Youth Farm in Huayuankou, Zhengzhou. According to her introduction, when she first went to the countryside, everyone was comparing their achievements and efforts. Even the most naughty male educated youth will complete the labor task on time and in quantity.

"What I remember most clearly is that once I pulled dung from the city to the farm with a cart (a kind of rickshaw). That day, snow and hail kept hitting my face. " Wang Ping said that when the bridge in Jia Luhe went uphill, the snow and hail were tight for a while, and the plastic sole stepped on the hail particles like a roller, sliding left and right, unable to catch the car.

Wang Ping broke out in a sweat. He can never climb the slope. what should he do ？

Take off your shoes and pull the cart barefoot and rush up. In order to prevent his feet from slipping again, Wang Ping wrapped his feet with some straws, rushed up the slope again and finally pulled the car over the bridge. After that, she walked barefoot on the muddy snowy road and returned to your residence.

"At that time, I really didn't know where the courage came from, and I didn't know what suffering was. Anyway, there is passion and everyone is working hard. " Talking about the past, Wang Ping said, "At that time, I was afraid that I had less work, and it was very uncomfortable to take sick leave."

"Going back to the city to take a bath, the shoulders of female students are all black and purple, and they are all pressed by the pole when carrying water." Li, deputy secretary of the Provincial Working Committee, president of the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee and educated youth of Huayuankou May 7th, recalled that sometimes the shoulders felt cracked, but everyone was still struggling to do it when they got a job.

Even male educated youth are not as good as female educated youth. "We are girls who have made great contributions (because most educated youths are classmates and are used to being called girls), and they seem to work faster than boys." Educated youth Zhong recalled: "But they all did stupid things and didn't use them. We boys have it. "

Of course, it will inevitably hurt smart boys. Even Hao, an educated youth, was knocked out of five of the ten nails in his work. "This is a minor injury. Go to the hospital to clean up and continue working the next day. "

Those people and cadres

Farm secretaries take part in labor like ordinary people.

The diligence of Wang Ping's educated youth has a lot to do with the style of leading cadres. Fan Taiping, the third company of Cao Nan Farm, recalled that there was nothing special about the leading cadres who were sent to the farm, weeding and farming with their classmates, eating the same food and sleeping in the same bed.

Even the farm secretary works with the educated youth. At that time, Li Shuzi was the secretary and director of Huayuankou Farm, responsible for digging rivers, planting rice, harvesting rice, planting wheat and harvesting wheat.

1973, when Li Shuzi arrived at the farm, the educated youth were in a period of ideological confusion, which was different from the initial efforts. Many people feel that there is no hope of returning to the city, and they start to pick fights, and fights happen from time to time. In some companies, "order" is often deliberately ignored. Even the quietest educated girl occasionally takes some sweet potatoes from farmers and hides them quietly in her own shelf car.

Li Shuzi was born in the army and served in the South China Sea Fleet in the 1950s. "Those who are naughty, seeing Secretary Li is like a mouse seeing a cat." Li Jing, an educated youth from the Second Company of Huaqing Farm, recalled.

"During his stay on the farm, he never scolded the educated youth," an educated youth who asked not to be named told the Henan Business Daily reporter. "Perhaps it is the example of old Li Man Shuzi, which makes us more' awe' of him."

Those people, poor representatives

Rabbit hunters often disappear suddenly.

In order to make educated youth familiar with farm work as soon as possible, each company is also equipped with "poor (lower middle peasants) representatives" They come from local farmers, mostly gentle and simple, and teach educated youth to learn a series of farm work such as plowing and raising fields.

"I remember that the first thing I did when I went to the countryside was to listen to the poor representatives accusing the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek (at that time, people used to confuse the two) of opening the Huayuankou levee and bringing suffering to the coastal people." Li recalled that this was the first class for poor middle peasants to receive re-education.

After many years, the image of most poor representatives has gradually blurred in the minds of educated youth, but those who can leave a deep impression are some poor representatives with distinctive features, such as Wang Yingfa, a poor representative of He Shili Farm No.7 Company, who is a famous "hunter".

Wang represents his thirties. He is particularly good at farm work and teaches everyone to build houses and drill wells. For a time, when he was working, he often disappeared when people were not paying attention. The educated youth and several partners were determined to see what the secret was for the king, so they quietly followed him into Nangou. Ha, it turns out that representative Wang is collecting rabbits there!

At that time, rabbits appeared from time to time in the fields in the suburbs of Zhengzhou. The shrewd representative Wang made many rabbit traps and put them in the hidden place of Jiazhai Nangou, where Qilian was located, and captured many prey. Because of the ravines in the fields of the farm, every time representative Wang catches a prey, he finds a place to hide, so he "often disappears".

"After we found the secret, we didn't say anything. After that, he didn't pay attention and didn't steal his rabbit. " Li Huamin, who is now the general manager of the asset management department of Zhongyuan Trust and the deputy secretary-general of Henan Translation Association, recalls the situation of eating rabbits in those years, and he is still wanting more.

Those people, lovers

Love is simple.

After the relationship is determined, it will generally not change.

"A male classmate left as a soldier and sent me a letter. I thought there was something wrong and thought it was bourgeois ideology, so I handed the letter to the instructor. After receiving the letter, the instructor neither opened it nor spoke. He just kept looking at me and laughing. I was so embarrassed that I had to burn the letter in front of him. " In the idea of educated youth Wang Ping, it seems that the spark of love should not be rubbed out on the farm.

However, many of her comrades are already quietly "acting". Zhao Jingyu and Huang Yali of Huaqing Farm came together in this period.

According to Huang Yali's memory, when she was 15 years old, she met a boy on her way to school one day. "Like a tall and straight tree standing in the wind, in today's words, it is called' handsome', and I can't help but look at him." This boy is Zhao Jingyu. However, before going to the countryside, the two did not say a word.

Perhaps Yue Lao was interested in matchmaking and went to Huaqing Farm together when he went to the countryside. 1974, Huang Yali was taken to a small factory run by Lian Li, and Zhao Jingyu was in charge of this work. On the eve of the Spring Festival that year, the students all went back for the New Year. Huang Yali stayed on duty. What a coincidence, Zhao Jingyu also stayed.

Two young people with a heart in mind finally ignited the spark of love. "We also had romance by the river in the field, but it was' hidden' and many people didn't know it." Zhao Jingyu said.

The two lovers finally got married on 1980.

"There are more than 200 people in our company, and there are as many as 14 couples who got married later." The educated youth and Zhong, who are also married, said, "At that time, it was relatively simple to find an object, and generally it will not change after determining the relationship."