After eating the dry food they brought with them, the educated youth discussed the matter and went to bed early.
Early the next morning, these educated youth ran directly to the commune.
Qian Shulan had just put breakfast on the table when she heard someone knocking on the door.
Xiao Min ran over to open the door, and when she saw it was Wang Shouquan, she immediately turned around and shouted into the house, "Grandma, it's my third cousin."
Qian Shulan poked her head out of the room and said, "We are having breakfast, do you want to come over and eat?"
Wang Shouquan had no mood to eat breakfast. He was so anxious that his head was sweating. "Aunt San, they really went to the commune to complain."
Seeing how anxious he was, Qian Shulan patted his shoulder with a look of disdain, "Look at you, if they come looking for you, I'll go with you, okay?"
Wang Shouquan didn't mind being disliked by her. After hearing her say this, he finally let go of the heavy stone in his heart.
He is quite eloquent, but those people are just too amazing.
He suddenly remembered, "Third Aunt, there is a new department in the commune called the 'Revolutionary Committee'. I heard that it is specifically responsible for these educated youth. You have to be careful. Don't let them catch you. Director Chen told me that those are all..." He pointed upwards, and the meaning was self-evident.
Qian Shulan smiled and nodded, "Okay, I got it." Then she invited him in to eat.
Wang Shouquan waved his hand and said, "No need. We have prepared dinner early in the morning. I will come and call you when someone from the commune comes later."
"Okay! I'll go to the chicken farm after dinner."
"good!"
After dinner, Qian Shulan put all the neatly arranged newspapers from last night into her bag.
Xiao Min opened her eyes wide and was very curious, "Grandma, are you going to school too?"
"Grandma doesn't go to school, but this is useful."
Xiao Min said "Oh", put on her schoolbag, and walked out holding Qian Shulan's hand.
Qian Shulan worked at the chicken farm for about an hour and finally waited for Wang Shouquan to come find her.
He rode his bicycle, "Third Aunt, come quickly, I'll take you."
Qian Shulan sat in the back seat and the two of them arrived at the commune.
As soon as I entered the gate of the commune, I was stopped by the guard and said, "Go to the meeting room on the first floor. The leaders are waiting for you."
Wang Shouquan thanked him.
Wang Shouquan parked his bicycle in the yard and followed Qian Shulan into the meeting room.
The fifteen educated youth were divided into two teams and stood side by side against the wall.
There were three people sitting down.
Among them, two are President Zhou and Secretary Chen, whom Qian Shulan is more familiar with.
The other man was probably in his forties, with a fair face and no beard, a little plump, a slightly bloated body, and a bit of a beer belly.
His eyes were very small, and when he squinted, they looked like a line. Although he had a face like Maitreya Buddha, his expression was very serious, not like a Buddha, but more like an evil ghost from hell.
He waved away Wei Jianshe who was standing in front of him, and squinted his eyes to look at Qian Shulan and Wang Shouquan. "I heard from the educated youth that your production team threw manure on them. Is that true?"
Wang Shouquan was about to answer when Qian Shulan spoke up, "They were the first to slander the poor and lower-middle peasants in our production team as bad capitalist elements. Our class status has been determined for 20 years. Why do they slander us with empty words?"
The man was a little unhappy and glanced at Wei Jianshe.
The educated youth all lowered their heads. Wei Jianshe was quite thick-skinned and came over to explain, "Director Lei, we heard that their production team raised a lot of hen chickens, so we wanted to educate them."
Qian Shulan argued, "You also know that we raise chickens, not eat them. Then what grounds do you have to say that we are capitalists? I think you have a problem with your thinking. No wonder Chairman M said that we, the poor and lower-middle peasants, should educate you."
Director Lei was stunned and frowned, "Comrade, these educated youth went to the countryside to support rural construction. Not..."
Qian Shulan opened her eyes wide, "Director Lei, please don't joke with me. Chairman M clearly said in December last year that 'it is very necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants.'"
As if she was afraid that he would not believe her, Qian Shulan even took out a newspaper from her bag and pointed out this line of big words to him, "See, there is also Chairman M's portrait here. This sentence means that we, the poor and lower-middle peasants, should educate these unorganized and undisciplined students. Director Lei, don't you agree?"
Director Lei coughed lightly and said pretentiously, "Of course I know."
Is that what she meant? Director Lei had only attended literacy classes and barely learned to read, so he had only a vague understanding of the policy. They were told to support the movement of going to the countryside, or they would be counter-revolutionary bad elements. He thought they were to treat the educated youth well. How could the old lady's meaning be the opposite of what he understood? Director Lei was a little confused. But he couldn't ask openly. It was too embarrassing.
He turned his head to glance at Wei Jianshe, "But Chairman M also said, 'The countryside is a vast world, and there is much to be done there.' These educated youth are here to help us build the countryside. You have to take good care of them."
Qian Shulan spread her hands and said, "We built them a new house, doesn't that count as taking care of them?"
She looked at the other two leaders, and President Zhou hurriedly said, "Count! If the new house doesn't count, then what will count?"
Secretary Chen also nodded, "Yes, yes, it's good, living in a new house is already very good."
Director Lei was a little confused. He looked up at Wei Jianshe and asked, "New house?"
The others lowered their heads, and Wei Jianshe became anxious, "That's a mud house, there's not even a bed in it."
Wang Shouquan followed up with another sentence, "We are in the north, and we all have kangs."
Director Lei was a little angry. Why do you still complain when others build new houses and dig new pits for you
One of the educated youth shouted, "But we don't even have a pot."
Without waiting for Qian Shulan and Wang Shouquan to reply, Secretary Chen said quickly, "Don't say you don't have one. My mother-in-law's family doesn't even have a pot."
Thinking that Director Lei was new, Director Chen kindly gave him some basic knowledge, "The production teams below only issue about ten industrial coupons each year, most of which are used to buy farm tools. The members below have not seen industrial coupons for many years, so how can they afford to buy pots for these people?"
Director Lei opened his mouth in surprise, "So what do they use to cook?"
Director Chen smiled and said, "In the past, 10 kilograms of grain were exchanged for a pot, but in recent years, this has disappeared."
Wang Shouquan said quickly, "We prepared a casserole for them, which can also cook sweet potatoes."
President Zhou stood up from his chair. "Isn't this great?" He counted on his fingers, saying, "New house, new pit, sand. Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, only food is missing. It's pretty good."
Director Chen also stood up and said to the rows of educated youth, "I know you are intellectuals from big cities, but when you come to our countryside, you have to adapt to the local customs. The reason why you are sent down here is to let the poor and lower-middle peasants in the countryside educate you, so you must not fall behind. Don't be infected with those bad capitalist habits and be lazy and hate work."
Director Lei was so angry that he glared at these people. They were so ungrateful. They even hid the complaint and made him so embarrassed.
Someone shouted in dissatisfaction, "But they don't even give us food."
Qian Shulan: "Three leaders, in our countryside, we have to collect the grain and pay the public tax before we can distribute it to the members. As soon as these people come, they want to share the grain. How can we have extra grain to give them? Moreover, they haven't even worked in the fields, but they want to mess up our chicken farm. I think we should transfer them to places with more work points, so that they can contribute more to our production team. When the summer harvest comes, they can also get more grain. What do you think?"
Director Lei nodded subconsciously and said, "From now on, you must obey the arrangements of the production team, and don't come here to complain without any reason. The commune is not a place for people like you to play house. Go back and accept their education." After saying that, he waved his men to let these people leave.
Everyone in the group left the office dejectedly.
Qian Shulan and Wang Shouquan also wanted to follow these people and leave.
President Zhou stopped them and asked, "How many chickens does your production team's chicken farm plan to raise this year?"
Qian Shulan smiled and said, "It will be the same as last year. We will hatch another 40,000."
President Zhou narrowed his eyes and clapped his hands, "So that adds up to more than 80,000, right?"
Director Lei frowned slightly and said sternly, "What do you use to feed them?"
President Zhou tilted his head to comfort him, "They use earthworms, not grain."
Director Lei nodded and looked much better.
President Zhou asked some more questions and Qian Shulan answered them one by one.
After the two of them left the office, President Zhou said to Director Lei, "The wages of our commune all depend on the taxes paid by their production team. If you want to cause trouble, don't go to their production team, otherwise everyone will have no money to eat and will blame you."
Director Lei's gloomy face was stunned for a moment.
After leaving the commune, the educated youth felt as if all the energy had been drained out of them.
Recalling that at the end of last year, they heard Chairman M's latest instructions on the radio and television: "It is very necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants. We must persuade urban cadres and others to send their children who have graduated from junior high school, high school, and university to the countryside to mobilize them. Comrades in rural areas everywhere should welcome them to go."
As soon as the latest supreme directive was issued, the whole country was in an uproar. More than two million revolutionary teachers and students took to the streets overnight, and the sound of gongs and drums continued until late at night. Many students wrote letters of determination and guarantees on the spot, and painted large slogans. Some even bit their fingers and wrote blood letters, expressing their ambitions with great passion: "Chairman M waved and I moved forward, joined the production team and settled down to make revolution!"
With the dream of supporting rural construction, they are determined to work hard, develop agriculture, and contribute to the motherland.
But who would have thought that the facts would make them so desperate. They came here not to make revolution, but to receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants. What could these country folk teach them
"What qualifications do you have to educate us?" The group of people surrounded Qian Shulan and the other person and started making a commotion in the square.
Qian Shulan looked at them expressionlessly, "You still look down on us rural people. Aren't the grains you city people eat all grown by us farmers? We can't teach you anything else, but we can teach you the good qualities of hard work and the bad habit of not asking for favors from others."
Everyone in the group glared at her.
Qian Shulan ignored their dark faces and said, "Let me advise you again, in our rural countryside, you can only have food if you work hard. You can't buy food even if you have money! If you don't believe me, just wait and see!" After that, she urged Wang Shouquan to ride his bike.
Wang Shouquan pushed his bicycle and pretended to hit the person standing in front of his bicycle, "Get out of the way quickly, or I will hit you!"
The man was so scared that he quickly dodged away.
Wang Shouquan rode a bicycle, and Qian Shulan ran two steps and jumped onto the back seat.
The group of people were so angry that they gnashed their teeth.
Wang Shouquan walked for a long time and suddenly asked, "Aunt San, do you think these people are stupid? A powerful dragon cannot suppress a local snake. Don't they understand such a simple truth?"
Qian Shulan laughed, "They don't understand! They are just confused."
Since the revolution began, in the past two years, all areas of the country have been in chaos, government agencies have been paralyzed, factories have stopped working, schools have suspended classes, leaders have become enemies, people are full of confrontation, and differences between factions have developed into armed conflicts, with real guns and live ammunition used.
This revolution was launched from schools. Students were relatively innocent. After being used as a tool to launch the Cultural Revolution, the idle Red Guards had become a destructive force. The authorities must deal with the Red Guards as soon as possible. In addition, the cities are unable to provide employment for the 20 million graduates of three consecutive classes. If they are still stranded in the cities and cannot continue their studies, the consequences will definitely be serious.
Therefore, going to the countryside was the best place for these people to go. It was ridiculous for these lawless students to think that they could continue to make revolution in the countryside.
Qian Shulan curled her lips, "They didn't even interpret Chairman M's document properly. They are the ones being educated, yet they still want to educate us. How ridiculous."
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