The educated youth who jump the queue in rural areas (1) are waiting for distribution.

In the morning, I heard an educated youth song "Our Generation" on WeChat, and I couldn't help feeling a lot. I'm retiring soon. Now I am not old, but those educated youth years are understandable in our life. We always like to compare time to a loom. Time flies, the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle. In the early 1980s, there was a song called "Golden Shuttle and Silver Shuttle", which was really a golden age. Golden shuttle and silver shuttle weave the most beautiful flower of youth. Time flies, but what was the time shuttle made in the early 1970s? What is it made of? As the sun and the moon fly, our youth weaves a different kind of time, which is an unforgettable experience and an unforgettable treasure.

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1. Waiting for allocation

1In early March, 974, I was about to graduate from high school. There are no classes at school, and everyone is waiting for distribution. I wandered around the house, wondering where my fate would go. Xiao Sui and Wei Guang are neighbors one year older than me. They have all settled in the countryside. On that day, they went home from the country to have a rest. We met and talked about our future life. They are tired of the barren, boring, tired and depressed days in the countryside and want to go out and see the outside world. The three of us hit it off and decided to go to Shanghai. It happens that we all have relatives in Shanghai. The next day, the three of us ran to the railway station and went to Shanghai without telling our family anything.

? We don't have much money What I have on me is 20 yuan that I secretly took out from home. It was a lot of money at that time. It's the subsidy I earned by working in the school factory. My mother said I should take care of it myself. The train ticket from Xinxiang to Shanghai 18 yuan, we are reluctant to buy tickets. Besides, it was normal for educated youth to evade tickets by car at that time.

We left Xinxiang and took the train to Zhengzhou first, and then got on the train to Shanghai smoothly, free of charge. As we get closer to Shanghai, our hearts are getting more and more nervous. Shanghai is a big station, and the inspection must be very strict. We didn't know how to get out of Shanghai Railway Station, so we decided to get off at Suzhou Railway Station and buy a ticket from Suzhou to Shanghai after leaving the station. It only took more than one yuan to get to Shanghai. The train arrived in Suzhou in the evening, and we got off the train and quickly left the station along the tracks. Who knows that we just got off the train and got caught by the vigilant station police. The police took us to the office and had a good interrogation. We claim to be educated youth from Henan. Because we are sick and have a hard life, we went to Shanghai to find relatives and have no money. These policemen stripped us naked, searched everywhere, and found no money, so they put us in the waiting room and waited for the return bus to take us back to Zhengzhou.

? It's midnight, and all the passengers in the waiting room are in a daze. The police put us in chairs outside the office, waiting for the return bus, but they didn't watch us closely. The three of us won't be sent back so willingly to discuss countermeasures quietly. We decided to sneak out of the waiting room in the middle of the night when the police were not in front of us, then stop for a short time along the railway track to Shanghai, and then buy tickets to take the train to Shanghai.

? The first stop from Suzhou to Shanghai is Waikuatang, which is about12km away from Suzhou Station. Decades have passed, and the scene at that time is still vivid. Waikuatang is a fourth-class station, built at 1908, 75 kilometers away from Shanghai Station. It was still dark when we walked along the railway to Waikuatang Railway Station. There is only a lonely waiting room in the station, and there is not even a chair in the empty house. After reading the train timetable of the ticket office, we found that the earliest train only existed in the morning, so we sat down in the waiting room and dozed off on the ground.

At dawn, when we walked out of the waiting room, it was the first time I saw the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. At dawn, the Chinese and foreign towns across the pond show the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. A small river and rows of houses were built along the roadside by the river. In the morning, thin fog and smoke rose from the river, and smoke floated in the town. Moist air wafts from lush fields and colorful rivers, fresh and refreshing, and the silent market is quiet. The man with a laundry list on his shoulder is wearing shabby clothes, but the patches are neatly patched, not as sloppy as the northerners. The village girl carrying a bamboo basket is wearing a silk handkerchief and an apron, all of which are blue calico. In Shajiabang's view, Sister-in-law A Qing looks gentle and elegant. The number of people in the morning market is increasing gradually, but it is not prosperous. There are not many vegetables, fish, eggs, meat and vegetables in the laundry basket beside the stone road. Several breakfast stalls sell fried dough sticks, rice, wonton and fermented rice balls. I remember I bought fried dough sticks and glutinous rice balls that day. Time flies, decades have passed, and the morning in the water town near the pond is like a hazy ink painting, simple and quiet, deeply engraved into my memory.

to be continued