? Among the 100 people who went in the same batch, 3 people were assigned to Dashegu Village with their mothers. On the day of departure, Dashegu Village Committee sent a donkey to pick up four educated youths in the city. When grandma saw off her mother who left home for the first time in the alley, mother and daughter had mixed feelings. Grandma gave her a bag of dry food and some toiletries, and told her to be careful all the way. When she arrived in the village, she paid attention to life and took care of herself. Mom nodded yes, but didn't say much. She grabbed the shovel and bedding in a hurry, then got on the donkey cart and embarked on a journey to the countryside. At that time, she didn't shed tears, but just stared at her grandmother for a long time. Forty years later, my mother told me the scene, grandma's actions and eyes, which she still remembers.
? On the way to Dashegou by donkey, my mother was stunned by the bare loess high slope along the way, and all she saw was "the hinterland". Mother can't relate the scene in front of her to the slogan "There is much to be done in a vast world". After a day's drive, she stepped on the yellow mud for a long time, crossed the Junjiadun Mountain, and finally arrived at Dashegou Village, where she saw the hard rural living environment and thought of it. After arriving at Dashegou, the village committee assigned them two small caves, and two people lived in one cave. In the cave, there is nothing but two big boxes for bees. It is uncomfortable to come to the ravine from the city at once. Young people who grew up in the city often took part in housework when they were young, but most of the work was done by their grandmothers, so the labor time was short and the labor intensity was not great. Therefore, the initial understanding of the countryside was completely obtained from books. With longing and worry about her future life, her mother began a three-year reeducation-through-labor life.
? At the beginning, the mother who first arrived in the countryside was also uncomfortable, unable to work, communicate or cook. Everything has to be learned from scratch. In that era of information occlusion, all this can only be learned from local farmers, and the first lesson to be learned is labor. Rural labor is all-round, and the kind of labor intensity of farmers shocked the mother who first came to Dashegu Village. Get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and go to work in the mountains. When I climbed to the top of the mountain, I was panting, but I still had to work until lunch time. At that time, although my mother was assigned to a forestry post, she usually had work to do, such as planting trees, raising seedlings, building terraces, planing peas, cutting wheat, building dams, hoeing, breaking millet, picking mulberry leaves and raising silkworms. Sometimes you will encounter many dangers in your work. Once my mother climbed a tree to pick mulberry leaves and fell off the tree with one foot empty. Fortunately, there was a stump on the hillside. Fortunately, there was a near miss this time. If it falls, it will be unimaginable. I'm a little scared to think of it. Another time, I broke the millet to pass it on the earth grid beam between two pits. Because of my timidity, I rode on the Tugeliang when I was in a panic and my legs were weak. Finally, with the encouragement of my partners, I finally overcame myself, climbed over and turned the corner. Although I don't have to take such risks every time I work, the fear brought by these two dangers left a deep impression on my mother. Although my mother tries hard to reform through labor every day, I can't get rich results every time I try. At that time, under the system of earning work points in rural areas, everyone had a strict scoring system, and the amount of labor was measured by work points. According to my mother's labor estimation at that time, I can only earn 4.5 points a day in the village and 3.6 points if I don't go in the morning. At that time, a strong laborer in the village earned 8 points a day, and a female man named Grey Hammer even worked harder than a man. However, young intellectuals can only earn almost half of their money a day. Even if they are full-time, they can't earn their own rations for a year, and even have to pay for food every year. Fortunately, in the first year, they ate the food supplemented by the commune. After the supply of subsidized grain stopped in the second year, they ate and drank in farmers' homes of similar age, and farmers ate with them whatever they ate. It can be said that they fully meet the requirements of "eating, living and working together" with farmers.
? To be practical and realistic, when my mother and her educated youth partners first came to work in the production team, their work enthusiasm was not very high. On the one hand, they have not formed the habit of working; on the other hand, their scores are too low. In a strange environment, I was surrounded by distrustful eyes. My mother is only 17 years old, and she felt very lonely at first. Later, after a long time, my mother's thoughts changed, and I had more contact with fellow villagers, and my work habits and hard-working spirit were also developed. So my maladjustment is mostly in the first year, and it will be much better in the second year and the third year. Although my working ability has definitely improved, the work points I can earn have never increased.
At that time, traffic in rural areas was almost entirely dependent on feet, unlike the cadres who now work in the township government who drive back and forth by themselves. At that time, there was no asphalt road in Lijiata town, and the mountain road was rugged. They needed to turn around. Usually, they don't even want to go home. Only on holidays can they go home to visit relatives. You need to ask for leave from the village party secretary Li to order the boss. Once Secretary Li disagreed, my mother took out the "killer" and cried in front of him. Finally, Secretary Li relented before being allowed to leave. Starting from the village early in the morning, you can't stop on the road, and you can only get to the city at night. If you can meet the donkey cart bought by Lijiata Supply and Marketing Cooperative on the road, you can also ride it on the road, saying that it is riding, but actually taking turns, because there are many educated youths returning to the city on holidays, and there are too many people sitting on the donkey cart, so you can only take turns sitting and walking for a while.
? In Qingjian, there are great differences in dialects, accents and living habits between the East and the West. As the saying goes, a hundred miles of different sounds make a hundred miles of different customs. In addition, my mother is not good at communication when she first arrived, and she has suffered a lot in her work and life. For example, if she shares potatoes and others share them every time, she can carry them down the mountain several times. However, because her mother is not sociable, people who divide potatoes don't ask, and they didn't give her any before. On another occasion, the Master Temple distributed food. Because the main temple is far away from the village, and the journey is far away. The person in charge of distributing food didn't name the educated youth until the end. When they got the food, it was already dark and the villagers had gone back. They were unfamiliar with the dark road and cried for a while. When they brought the food back, it was already dark, and they were hungry, so they had to make a fire to cook, which disrupted the normal work and rest time.
? There are difficulties in life every day, and the difficulty that can't be avoided almost every day is the problem of eating. For urban children who have never cooked, they can't cook, cook or steam steamed buns, which involves the survival problem. In addition, the caves where educated youth live are surrounded by towering Huangtu Mountain. When it is dark, standing by the ditch to see the residence, the largest flat land you can see is less than 80 square meters, which is far from the place where water is carried. You have to bear the daily water supply and chop the firewood you need every day. Because you can't make a fire when cooking, sometimes the fire goes out when cooking noodles, and you have to start a fire again. People are always like this. They didn't know their potential ability until they were at the end of their tether. Through a year of mutual cooperation, mother and her friends have adapted to this difficult new life. Since the second year, they have been able to climb on high slopes with water and cut some firewood on their way home from work. Before cooking, firewood had already been piled in the yard, and various labor skill packages were unlocked through their own efforts. The scene of a day's life is probably like this: get up at 6 am and go to work in the fields with the production team. On the way back at noon, I have to cut wood and go home to cook. After lunch, I have to go out to break corn, and I have to go up the mountain to work when I get it back. After work in the evening, I will carry water by myself to prepare for the next day's laundry and cooking. At that time, there was little white flour, so it needed to be steamed with red flour and corn flour. When I hit the dam, sometimes I need to fight at night.
? The production team distributed some plots to the educated youth. At that time, my mother and friends planted pumpkins, sorghum and wax gourd themselves, but these things needed fertilization. Because there was no chemical fertilizer at that time, only sheep manure was used, so they took a small basket to dig out the sheep manure in the sheepfold, and then carried it basket by basket to fertilize the land in the old distance on the mountain. Don't underestimate this little plot. Winter melon and pumpkin are harvested in autumn, so you can push a kang.
? In the second year, each township needs to send a person to zhouzhi county to learn sericulture techniques. The village was reluctant to let the strong laborers go, and the educated youth had a strong understanding of new things, so they sent their mother to learn sericulture techniques for two months.
? In the third year,1975,65438+February, after three years of training, she was recruited to the silk factory after meeting the recruitment requirements. Apprentice in a new position for one month 18 yuan. Three years later, the apprentice became a full member and his job rose to 32 yuan. During this period, he also participated in the militia training organized by the county.
/kloc-On Sunday in August of 0/9, I drove back to Dashegou Village with three educated youths and a farmer who jumped the queue in Dashegou Village. The village chief, Heizi, introduced us to the basic situation of the village. He said: The village has changed a lot. The asphalt road in Tongcun has already been built, so villagers don't have to climb mountains and mountains to travel. Every household has eaten tap water, and even their plots are watered with tap water, so it is no longer necessary to carry water for dinner. The beautiful village committee was built on the site where grain was distributed in those years, but the noisy labor scenes in those years are gone forever. There used to be 500 people in the village, but now there are more than 60 permanent residents in the village, including only three young people under 55. The caves where the educated youth lived in those days were already overgrown with weeds. An old woman took her mother and said, if it weren't for the subsidies from the producers, we would have starved to death. Faced with this situation,
? The car slowly left the village. I think our generation may not be able to experience this kind of exercise, but we must remember and understand the educated youth feelings of our parents. My mother said that she would never forget Dashegou Village and her fellow villagers. No matter how far you go, no matter how long you leave, there is a kind of concern that can always cross Qian Shan. Yes! No one's life is smooth sailing. What people can remember when they are old is often what happened when they were young. The experience of youth often plays a decisive role in shaping their life character. My mother's educated youth experience has shaped her industrious, simple and labor-loving character, and also made her more aware of the difficulties of ordinary people. Very grounded, easy to integrate into the grassroots, and popular everywhere. At the same time, it also exercised her strong will and full enthusiasm for life. Even if she encounters some difficulties in her later life, after three years' experience as an educated youth, she is more able to bear these difficulties. In the face of difficulties, she will always actively solve them. I think this probably stems from her labor experience when she was young! Youth is for struggling, and struggling youth is the most beautiful. No matter how the times change, working with the working people is the heavy background of bright youth.
On this special day, I just want to dedicate this article to my dear mother and wish you a happy birthday.
? August 20 18 18, lunar calendar.
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