Poor little thing is eating melons and watching the drama in the period literature

As soon as he said this, someone was immediately unhappy. A middle-aged man shouted, "Why don't you let us go?"

"You have to drive steadily. What can a young person do? It's better for us older people to go."

Of course, some people who have educated children at home refute: "People say that educated people are smart. Of course, we should learn from smart people. Besides, I heard that driving is also very tiring, and young people can bear more fatigue."

"Pah, only drivers who drive long distances are tired, how can driving a tractor be tiring?"

"Anyway, the team leader said that young people with education should go. My son just graduated from junior high school today, so it's just right for him to go and learn how to drive a tractor."

"Captain, my son graduated from junior high school last year, so he can do it too."

"Captain, my son has graduated from high school. He is smarter."

"..."

The team members were arguing loudly about whose child should learn to drive a tractor. Seeing this chaotic scene, the team leader Gao Mingliang looked calm and composed.

The educated youth sitting in a place also became excited, and many male educated youth wanted to learn how to drive a tractor.

Driving a tractor is good. It is easier than working and more respectable.

Yu Qingtang also wanted to learn. She knew how to drive, and she had studied mechanics in her previous life. She was just an undergraduate and her skills were not very advanced, but she could still do basic repairs.

Seeing Yu Qingtang's eager expression, Yu Qingxu tried to hold back but couldn't help but hit her: "Sister, the team leader won't let too many educated youth go."

Yu Qingtang was instantly deflated.

Yes, being a tractor driver was also a glorious profession in that era, and the team leader would definitely not give this opportunity to the educated youth.

The others were also discouraged after hearing what the Yu siblings said, but they were still unwilling to give up.

Wen Jianhua, the first person in charge of the educated youth site, stood up and asked the team leader loudly: "Can our educated youth sign up?"

Before the captain could say anything, others began to refuse.

"This is the tractor given to our brigade. Why are you educated youth driving it?"

Hearing this, most of the educated youth clenched their fists and looked grim.

The status of many educated youth was actually quite awkward. They could not stay in their hometowns, nor could they integrate into the local community in the countryside. Their family members wanted to drive them out, while the people in the countryside just treated them as outsiders.

Wen Jianhua said to the team leader: "We are educated youth, but the moment we arrived at Gaolitun Brigade, we became locals.

"We will do our best to build the brigade, and we should also have a share in the brigade's welfare."

"The educated youth and the team members are a whole. Are you trying to divide them now?"

The latter sentence was directed at those who opposed him.

In this era, causing division is also a serious accusation.

As soon as this hat was put on, no one dared to speak. They refused the educated youth to sign up on the grounds that they could not drive the tractors in the brigade.

Yu Qingtang clapped his hands and said, "Well, well said."

I didn't expect that this elder brother who usually works silently at the educated youth training center has such a good eloquence.

In this quiet atmosphere, she was the only one clapping and cheering, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

Even Wen Jianhua, who was originally righteous and wanted to stand up for the educated youth, felt a little uncomfortable in his toes, as if he wanted to grab the ground.

Yu Qingtang was clapping until she realized no one was following her, so she slowed down her clapping.

"Clap clap-"

A crisp applause sounded beside her. It was Cheng Wuyang.

Soon after, the other educated youth also started to applaud.

The team leader then said, "What Wen Zhiqing said is right. The educated youth and the team members are a whole. I have fought with the commune for ten places for study. Our team will select ten applicants to study in the transportation team of the machinery factory. Whoever learns the best will be the tractor driver of our team."

There are no more than one handful of people in the team who have finished junior high school and high school and have not found a job.

So ten people were selected, and the others must be chosen from among the educated youth. The old fox, the team leader, had already planned to choose the educated youth.

But there is always a bias in everything. If no one really wants to be in the educated youth point, the team leader might simply lower the requirements and select all team members.

When it was time to register, Yu Qingtang had to actively step forward to sign up.

"Yu Qingtang, 14 years old, graduated from high school."

The scorekeeper who was filling in the registration information saw her stunned for a moment, and pointed at Yu Qingxu standing beside her: "Register for him?"

Yu Qingtang frowned, thinking that he didn't hear clearly and pointed at himself to emphasize: "I, Yu Qingtang."

"Why did you sign up?"

"Sign up for tractor training!" Yu Qingtang looked like he didn't understand what you were asking: "Do you have any other registrations?"

"You...learn tractor?"

Yu Qingtang was really a little unhappy, and his voice became cold.

"Did anyone say I can't learn? Didn't the captain say that I have to be a junior high school graduate or above, young man?"

"Do I not meet any of the requirements?"

The scorer laughed and said, "Your education level meets the requirements and your age meets the requirements, but you are a girl. How can a woman drive a tractor?"

Yu Qingtang couldn't help but roll his eyes. After all, he encountered this kind of thing.

She took a deep breath and tried to speak calmly to him: "Why can't girls drive tractors? The leader said that women hold up half the sky and men and women are equal."

"That's what I say, but..."

"But what's wrong? Isn't this right? Do you have a better opinion?"

Faced with Yu Qingtang's series of questions, the scorer was speechless. He couldn't say that he had more insights than the leader.

Yu Qingtang knocked on the table: "Sign me up quickly."

The scorekeeper had no choice but to write her name, and finally reminded her: "There are many people who have signed up. The team leader and secretary will select the ten who they think are the most suitable. You probably won't be able to make it."

Yu Qingtang was just trying to prove herself to him, but she knew she was powerless to change the situation.

Not to mention now, even in the future it will be impossible to truly achieve gender equality.

It is very common to have an imbalance in the ratio of men to women in some positions and professions. For example, in her class of mechanical engineering, there were less than a hundred girls out of thousands of people in the entire college.

But she just couldn't stand this kind of thing and always wanted to fight for it.

In the end, the number of people who signed up far exceeded ten. All the young people in the team who had been to school and could read signed up. The team leader said that the ratio was 37, so three out of the educated youth would be selected, and seven out of them would be selected.

The educated youth had no problems, and those who had problems in the team were suppressed by the team leader.

So those who had already registered began to try to find ways to get themselves chosen by the team leader and the branch secretary.

At night, on the way to the captain's house, several figures walked past each other tacitly without greeting each other.

In the backyard of the educated youth point, Ye Yunxiao and Cheng Wuyang also signed up.