In a residential community in the northern part of the Yunhe District, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, there is a grocery store with a small scale. The owner is an old sister in her 70s and her husband. The old sister is Zhao Xiurong, and she is an educated youth in Tianjin. How could the educated youth from Tianjin Wei open a grocery store in Cangzhou ? Today, let’s hear this old sister talk about her past and emotional life experiences of educated youth.
Zhao Xiurong is a junior high school graduate of the 1968th grade. In the spring of the second year after graduating from junior high school, 17-year-old Zhao Xiurong and dozens of classmates from their school actively responded to the national call and came to Qingxian, Hebei to settle down and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants. More than half a century later, Zhao Xiurong still clearly remembers that she came to Qingxian on February 6, 1969.
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In the afternoon of that day, eleven Tianjin educated youth arrived at Liuzhuang Brigade in two carriages at Qingxian Railway Station. Eleven of them (six boys and five girls) were assigned to the sixth production team of Liuzhuang Brigade and temporarily lived in the three adobe houses in the yard of the team.
and other villagers moved all the luggage of the educated youth to the room and placed it, and the sun set. Zhao Xiurong and the others were tired for a day and were about to sit on the pavilion (the floor made of sorghum and wheat straw) for a while, but someone outside shouted, "Everyone comes out to wash their hands, have a meal quickly."
The one who greeted the educated youth to come out to have a meal was nothing else. He was the deputy captain of Team 6, named Liu Liansheng. Liu Liansheng was twenty-five years old at the time, tall and strong, with dark and red skin because he lost his father at the age of twenty-five and had not yet married a wife.
The first supper is quite rich, including cabbage vermicelli stewed pork , and a pot of tofu soup . The staple food is a noodles steamed bun mixed with corn flour and sorghum noodles (steamed steamed buns with two noodles mixed together). Liu Liansheng's mother also brought a bowl of carrot pickles from home.
After dinner, Liu Dianming, the old captain of Team 6 (Liu Liansheng's cousin), said to the educated youth with a smile: "Although the natural conditions of our team 6 are a little worse, I will not treat you children badly. When the weather is warm, I will build a new house for you and fight for you. The Chinese New Year will be in a few days, and there is no important farm work in front of you. If you have a day off, follow Liansheng (Deputy Captain Liu Liansheng) to the river beach to cut some reeds as firewood. For the time being, let Liansheng's mother help you cook. Your daughters have to learn to cook. When the busy farming in spring plowing and sowing begins, you can't arrange people to cook for you..."
The old captain said a lot, and after talking about the main things, he said to the educated youth: "If you have any things in the future, let Liansheng tell Liansheng that Liansheng is the deputy captain of our team, and your affairs are under his control." After the old captain said that, he went home. After Liu Liansheng and his mother cleaned up the pots and bowls, they told the educated youth where the cottage was. Liu Liansheng's mother also ran home and brought a urine pot for the female educated youth.
Starting the next day, Liu Liansheng took the initiative to take on the water draw of the educated youth. The educated youths arrived for the first time. They were not old and had never been to the well when they were in Tianjin. In addition, there was ice on the well platform in winter, so Liu Lian was afraid of accidents, so he refused to let the educated youths go to the well to fetch water. He said that when the weather gets warmer and the ice on the well platform is frozen and melted, then let the educated youth fetch water. Although Liu Liansheng is not a few years older than the educated youth, he regards the educated youth as children.
In just a few days, the educated youth became familiar with Liu Liansheng's mother. Liu Liansheng's mother had a good temper and liked to joke. The educated youth all called her Liu's mother affectionately.
The day before the Spring Festival, Liu Ma helped educated youth steam two large pots of white flour steamed buns and a pot of big buns filled with carrots. On the day of the Spring Festival, Liu Liansheng killed two chickens from his family. Liu's mother made a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner for the educated youth. Liu Liansheng and his mother accompanied the educated youth to celebrate the Spring Festival. Zhao Xiurong said that she still remembers the warm scene of Liu Ma accompanying everyone to celebrate the Spring Festival back then, and Liu Ma is like the biological mother of educated youth. Because of the company and care of Liu Ma and Liu Liansheng, the educated youth did not miss home during the Chinese New Year.
Shortly after the Spring Festival, Liu Liansheng led a group of young and strong members to the water conservancy construction site (at that time, the project to cure Haihe was in full swing), and the old team leader Liu Dianming led the members to transport soil and fertilizer to the field to prepare for spring plowing and sowing production. Liu Ma still helped the educated youth cook and took care of the lives of the educated youth with all her heart and strength. Seeing that Liu Ma cares about everyone like her biological mother, the educated youth are very warm and moved.
After the spring plowing and spring sowing production began, Liu Liansheng and the others returned from the water conservancy construction site. The spring plowing and spring sowing production time was tight and the tasks were heavy. The eleven new Tianjin educated youth had no production experience, so it was impossible to rely on some old members and female members alone. Liu Liansheng and his 20 young and strong members are the main labor force of the production team. Seeing Liu Liansheng as he was soaring to the sky, the educated youth admired the young deputy captain very much.
Liu Liansheng also took special care of the educated youth, trying to arrange some relaxing farm work for the educated youth, and also taught the educated youth step by step to use farm tools to teach the educated youth to learn to divide seedlings and hoe the land. In the hearts of the educated youth, Liu Liansheng is like their elder brother. One morning in early July, Liu Liansheng was leading the members to weed sorghum on the river beach. Suddenly, lightning and thunder were roaring in the air, and a heavy rain was coming. Liu Liansheng carried the hoe and shouted loudly, "Everyone run back quickly, it will rain heavily."
Liu Liansheng led the way in front. As soon as he ran under the river bank, raindrops as big as coins fell down. The slope of the river embankment is very large, and the road surface is slippery, so the young members are leaning on hoes and climbing up the river embankment step by step.
Seeing that the older members and the female educated youth could not climb the slippery river embankment, Liu Liansheng used a hoe to dig a hole in the steep part of the river embankment, and asked everyone to step on the pit he dug up the river embankment. The members on the river embankment stretched out their hoes to pull them, and everyone slowly climbed up the river embankment.
Zhao Xiurong was the last one to climb the river bank. It was Liu Liansheng who held her hand and slowly pulled her up. Zhao Xiurong wore an old rubber-soled sneaker on his feet. The soles were smooth and slipped step by step on the flat ground. It was difficult to take every step.
When he was going down the river bank, Liu Liansheng originally wanted to help her walk, afraid that she would slip. Zhao Xiurong felt embarrassed and insisted on leaving by herself. Just after walking a few steps forward, Zhao Xiurong slid down the slope of the embankment.
When everyone helped Zhao Xiurong up who was sitting on the ground, she choked and said, "My ankle sprained, it hurts so much..." Everyone helped her forward for a few steps, and Zhao Xiurong squatted on the ground.
Seeing the rain getting heavier and heavier, Liu Liansheng walked over and squatted in front of Zhao Xiurong and said, "Come on, I'll carry you. The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it's even more troublesome to catch a cold." Zhao Xiurong hesitated for a moment, and still lay on Liu Liansheng's back embarrassedly. Zhao Xiurong said that he would never forget Liu Liansheng's warm spine.
Back at her residence, Liu's mother (Liu Liansheng's mother) pinched Zhao Xiurong's ankle and told her to exercise less and have a good rest. It would be fine in a few days. At that time, Zhao Xiurong really felt a little relaxed and his ankles didn't hurt so much.
Liu Liansheng's grandfather is a bone-setting man, and he is inherited from his ancestors. Liu Liansheng's mother also knows some medical skills. If the child in the village has dislocated his arm or sprained his ankle, he will ask her to stroke and pinch it, and it will be fine soon, especially if the arm is dislocated, and it will take effect immediately. Around Liujiazhuang, Liu Ma's bone-correcting technique is still well-known.
In the middle of the night that day, Zhao Xiurong suddenly had a high fever and his whole body was hot. The female educated youth gave her a fever-reducing medicine, but the high fever still did not go away. Everyone was afraid of an accident, so they asked two male educated youth to call Liu Liansheng.
Soon, Liu Liansheng and his mother came to the residence of the educated youth. Liu's mother touched Zhao Xiurong's forehead, touched the soles of her feet and palms, and hurriedly said, "Liangsheng, this child is very burning, hurry to send him to the hospital."
Liu Liansheng and the educated youth used floor car ( rack car ) to pull Zhao Xiurong to the commune health center, Zhao Xiurong was already unconscious.After the doctor gave Zhao Xiurong a drip (drip bottle) and was injected with liquid, Liu Liansheng and the others collapsed on the ground. On the muddy dirt road for more than ten miles, everyone was pulling the cart all the way. A male educated youth and two female educated youth were left halfway. After fifteen minutes, they rushed to the commune health center panting.
When I was having breakfast, Zhao Xiurong woke up and his fever subsided. The doctor said that fortunately, he was sent to the commune health center in time, otherwise the consequences would be difficult to predict.
When Zhao Xiurong returned home from the commune health center, he lay down for eight or nine days before he dared to walk. During that time, Liu's mother came to visit Zhao Xiurong almost every day and made delicious food for her every day. Liu's mother also asked Liu Liansheng to buy fifteen eggs at the market. Zhao Xiurong is really grateful for the care and care of Liu Ma and Liu Liansheng, which is a life-saving grace.
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 After working on the water conservancy construction site for 18 days, the blisters that Zhao Xiurong had ground on his hands became infected and suppurated. She had a high fever again and became significantly thinner.
At that time, the slogan on the water conservancy construction site was to avoid getting off the front line if you were slightly injured. Every commune had commune cadres to supervise migrant workers, and members were never allowed to go home privately.
Seeing that Zhao Xiurong was very ill, Liu Liansheng went to ask the commune cadres for leave, hoping that Zhao Xiurong would go home and rest for a few days. The commune cadres disagreed. He said that the command center had an order and no one could stop work without authorization. If there were any violations, the commune would report criticism.
Two days later, Zhao Xiurong came to illness. Liu Lian was afraid that Zhao Xiurong would have an accident, so he used a cart to pull her home. The commune cadres stopped Liu Liansheng and said, "If you dare to violate the regulations of your superiors, you will revoke your captain position and hold your criticism and controversy meeting." "Even if you shoot me, I can't watch educated youth from a big city die here." Liu Liansheng pushed away the commune cadres, pulled the cart and ran to the commune health center.
Fortunately, Director Yang of the Commune Education Youth Office was also at the water conservancy construction site. If he hadn't spoken, the militia carrying guns would not have let him go.
On the way to the commune health center, Zhao Xiurong, who was lying on the cart, covered her with Liu Liansheng's cotton jacket, covering her head, and cried bitterly. In the days after
, Liu Liansheng still took care of Zhao Xiurong everywhere, because Zhao Xiurong's health has always been not very good, and what he is most worried about is that Zhao Xiurong has a problem.
On the evening of February 19, 1975, it was the ninth day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar. Zhao Xiurong, who came back from Tianjin to visit his relatives, brought the pastry he brought back from Tianjin to Liu Ma's house to visit. As soon as he walked into the yard, Liu Ma said, "Liansheng, you are a thirty-year-old person. We should go to the widow of the Houwa Brigade introduced by your Aunt Zhang. He has two children, but in a few years, the children will grow up and can borrow money. It's better to be a family than a bachelor." "Mom, just let me be a bachelor, I don't want to marry that widow..." Liu Liansheng said as he walked out of the house, just opposite Zhao Xiurong.
That day, Zhao Xiurong mustered up the courage to say to Liu Liansheng: "Brother Liansheng, if you have no objection, I am willing to marry you..."
In the autumn of 1975, Wang Baolan, who went to the countryside to work in the countryside with Zhao Xiurong, was recommended as a worker, peasant and soldier student. She returned to Tianjin to attend technical secondary school. It was also in the autumn of that year that 23-year-old Tianjin female educated youth Zhao Xiurong married Liu Liansheng, a farmer from the Liujiazhuang Brigade. Liu Liansheng was eight years older than Zhao Xiurong.
Because he did not listen to his parents' dissuasion, he married a farmer. Zhao Xiurong's parents made a harsh statement at that time, saying that Zhao Xiurong would not be allowed to step into the house in his entire life.
Although her life after marriage is not rich and her life is still very hard, Zhao Xiurong feels very happy. Her mother-in-law treats her like a daughter, and she almost doesn't have to do housework. Her husband loves her even more and never lets her do the work of carrying water and firewood at home. Since she had a child, Liu Liansheng has never let Zhao Xiurong participate in production labor again.
It was not until the summer of 1981 that Zhao Xiurong's mother retired, and her father wrote a letter asking Zhao Xiurong to return to Tianjin to pick up her mother's work.At that time, Zhao Xiurong's son was five years old, and the commune was preparing to arrange for her to be a tax collector at the commune tax office.
Seeing her father's letter, Zhao Xiurong cried. She replied to her parents with tears in her eyes that the commune had arranged a job for her, so she would not go back to Tianjin to take over. She could not leave her men and children behind. Zhao Xiurong also said that after a while, he would take his children back to Tianjin to see his parents. In this way, the relationship between her and her parents was finally solved.
In the autumn of 1981, Zhao Xiurong became a tax collector in the tax office. Although his job was very hard and he had to go to the market in the commune to collect taxes, Zhao Xiurong was still very pleased. After all, she and her son were transferred to non-farmers' household registration, and she also had a formal job. Two years later, Liu Liansheng was recruited to work in the water conservancy drainage station and was transferred to a non-agricultural household registration.
When Liu Liansheng's son was 19 years old, he was admitted to Hebei University . After graduating from university, he went to Cangzhou and worked in the street office of Yunhe District, Cangzhou City. Later, he got married and got married in Cangzhou, and Liu Liansheng's daughter-in-law also worked in the government department of the Canal District.
In early autumn of 2002, Zhao Xiurong completed the retirement procedures. Liu Liansheng originally wanted Zhao Xiurong to go to Cangzhou to help his son see the child, but Liu Liansheng's mother was not in good health at that time. Zhao Xiurong was worried that she was sick, so she did not go to Cangzhou and asked her mother-in-law to see the child.
In the winter of 2004, Zhao Xiurong's mother-in-law passed away. Liu Lian gave birth to a couple to mourn her mother for three years. After the mourning period expired, he came to Cangzhou and bought a house near the community where his son and daughter-in-law lived. His son and daughter-in-law all said that when their parents are old, they should not be too far away from their children, so as not to worry about their son and daughter-in-law.
After coming to Cangzhou, Liu Liansheng, who was unable to rest, wanted his son to find him a job to watch the door. His son felt that his parents had pensions and there was no need to find work anymore.
Zhao Xiurong also said it was boring and she wanted to find something to do. Her son and daughter-in-law discussed it and opened a small door on the balcony of her house (Zhao Xiurong and his wife live on the first floor), and used the living room space to run a grocery store. The grocery store is not large in size and does not have much income, but Liu Liansheng and his wife have something to do, so they are very happy.
This grocery store has been in operation for more than ten years, and several large and small supermarkets around have been lost one after another. The grocery store run by Zhao Xiurong and Liu Liansheng is still operating because they adhere to the concept of honest operation with small profits but quick turnover, which has facilitated the surrounding residents and found a job for themselves, making money and having something to do. This is the happiest thing for the old couple Zhao Xiurong.
After telling her past and emotional life experiences of educated youth, Zhao Xiurong was very happy. She said that although she married a farmer eight years older than her, her life was very hard at that time, she did not regret it at all. Being able to marry a man with love is the greatest happiness of a woman. She is very content and she is very happy.
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Sister Zhao Xiurong said so well, because she is content, she is happy. Here, I sincerely wish that the old sister Zhao Xiurong and Master Liu’s life will be happier and better in their later years! I wish all educated youth and sisters all the world a happy life, good health and happiness!
Author: Grassroots Writer
