A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

After a while, seven or eight men and women were seen walking towards this side.

The people who came over were the old educated youth living in the educated youth site.

There are not many educated youth living in the educated youth site. After going to the countryside, except for a few who return to the city, many educated youth who see no hope of returning to the city, as well as some other reasons, choose to marry local people or other educated youth.

The educated youth who got married in Xiageda Village generally married local villagers and moved out of the educated youth site.

The educated youth who walked over looked pale and thin, with exhausted faces.

A male educated youth who looked a little older came forward and said to them, "Hello, comrades, you have worked hard. My name is Zhao Yuanchao, and I am the team leader of the educated youth site in Xiageda Village. Are you the educated youth who just arrived today?"

The team leader had already informed him a few days ago that a new group of educated youth would be arriving in the next few days, and they should pay attention to helping each other.

The new educated youths, the male ones, shook hands with Zhao Yuanchao, while the female ones nodded to him.

The meeting between the new and old educated youth was completed, and everyone introduced themselves to each other.

Among the old educated youth, there are four men and four women, the oldest is 28 years old, and the youngest is only 19. Shen Jiaren is 16 years old this year, and has become the youngest educated youth in the educated youth center.

Chen Jiaojiao is one year older than her and is seventeen years old this year.

Among the old educated youth, Zhao Yuanchao, the oldest, has been in the countryside for five years, making him the one who has been there the longest.

The youngest, Liu Xiangdong, has also been working in the countryside for a year this year.

During the process of introducing each other, Chen Jiaren discovered that Xiageda Village is backed by a forest and the land is black soil. Only one crop of crops is grown a year, and everyone hibernates in the winter.

The food was not very good, but it was enough to fill my stomach. It was just hard to prepare cotton for the winter.

Moreover, the team leader here is a good one. He does not favor the villagers or the educated youth, and he handles conflicts from a local perspective.

Unlike other communes, there was no practice of forcing educated youth to marry or get married in order to solve the marriage age problem for bachelors or young men and women in the village.

The educated youth who have gotten married that we know of so far were all willing to do so, and they took the initiative to get married after they fell in love with each other.

Shen Jiaren also heard some gossip about Liu Hui. It was said that he was a skilled technician and became a tractor operator. Many girls in the village liked him, but Liu Hui was not interested.

I also learned that although the team leader said that the advance grain had to be offset with work points, he would still pay attention to it to make sure they were not starving to death and that they were still able to do farm work. If they could not be good at farming, they had to be able to follow behind and help out.

After hearing so much, Shen Jiaren felt that this place was actually quite good. There were no examples of forced marriages, and the most important thing was that the people in the village were relatively simple and honest.

After the two sides introduced themselves and exchanged greetings, Zhao Yuanchao said, "It's getting late. I guess you've just been here all day and you're probably tired and hungry. Let's eat together today. Starting tomorrow, you'll have to cook for yourselves.

Originally, the young people in Xi Jinping's group ate together, thinking that since they were all comrades who had gone to the countryside and were unfamiliar with the place, they could help each other.

As a result, when there were too many people, many conflicts arose.

For example, where to provide food, what to eat, how to eat, how much each person eats, how much each person works, and how many people are asked to help cook. There were many unexpected things, which led to constant quarrels in the educated youth center all day long, affecting the comradeship. Later, in order to solve these problems, everyone ate separately.

Although there are still some frictions, at least they are not too serious.”