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Chapter 98 The Disappearance of Educated Youth

The meeting lasted for more than three hours and ended at around nine o'clock in the evening.

"I have prepared some Hongqi local specialty dishes in the cafeteria. Would you be so kind as to come with me for a simple meal?" Seeing that Gu Qingyu and others were about to leave, Ma Aiguo hurriedly stepped forward to invite them.

"Secretary Ma, thank you for your arrangements. But look at the snow outside. It's already so thick. If we don't leave now, we'll be trapped here!"

Ma Aiguo turned around and saw that the snow on the road, which had just been cleared in the afternoon, was now higher than half of the wheels of the car.

"Oh, I was in a meeting and didn't notice these things. I was inconsiderate!" Ma Aiguo said embarrassedly to Gu Qingyu and others.

"It's really unfortunate that we don't meet today. We'll get together again next time if we have the chance." After thanking Ma Aiguo and others for their warm invitation again, Yang Shucai and his group got in the car and left.

Inside the guesthouse, the receptionist saw Gu Qingyu and the others coming back and hurriedly stepped forward to say, "Thank you for your hard work, leaders. Hot water has been prepared for everyone and is in your room."

"Thank you, big sister!" Gu Qingyu thanked people politely.

They were the only group of people staying in the guesthouse today, and it was obvious that the elder sister was waiting here for them to come back.

"Sister, is the kitchen stove still lit? We haven't eaten yet, so we plan to make something to eat."

"If you can trust me with the stuff, I'll go and make it for you!"

Gu Qingyu thought it was okay after hearing this, and then she turned to ask others for their opinions.

The grown men in Yang Shucai's family are not very good at cooking, so it would be great to have someone to help.

Although Wang Zimei can cook, she is really too tired today and now she wants to go back to the house and lie down to rest.

Seeing that no one had any objections, Gu Qingyu smiled and said to the elder sister, "Then I'll trouble you to cook for us!"

"It's not hard, it's not hard, it's all done smoothly!"

Several people brought some dry food with them for emergency use this time, and it came in handy.

Gu Qingyu went back to the room and washed her face with hot water to calm herself down. Then she found the pancakes and steamed buns that Li Dahua had baked for her in the morning from her luggage and went downstairs to take them to the kitchen.

Everyone had been hungry all day, so they didn't hesitate to share the dry food they brought with them and went back to their rooms to rest early.

Gu Qingyu slept dreamlessly all night until dawn. When she opened her eyes and saw the light outside the window, she thought she had overslept. She raised her hand to check the time and found that it was just a little after six o'clock.

They opened the window and looked out. After a night, the snow outside had completely covered the wheels of the car. It seemed that they would have to go out on foot today.

The guesthouse does not provide meal service. I have already troubled the old lady downstairs last night, so I can’t trouble her again this morning.

The commune cafeteria also provides breakfast, but it is no longer available after 8 o'clock. The snow is deep and it is difficult to walk outside. If you go too late, you will miss breakfast.

Looking at Wang Zimei who was still asleep next to him, Gu Qingyu had no choice but to wake her up.

"Comrade Xiao Wang, wake up, get up!"

Wang Zimei heard someone talking in her ear in a daze. She opened her eyes with difficulty and found that it was Gu Qingyu calling her.

"Comrade Xiao Gu, what time is it?" Wang Zimei had just woken up and her consciousness was still a little fuzzy. She asked in a low voice.

"It's already half past six, we have to hurry up, otherwise it will be too late to go out!"

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Wang Zimei was a little grumpy when she woke up. She rubbed her hair and screamed. She had no choice but to get up and put on her clothes.

Gu Qingyu found the rain boots he had prepared earlier and put them on. He said something to Wang Zimei and went downstairs to wait.

After Gu Qingyu went downstairs, she found three men already waiting downstairs, so she smiled and joked, "It seems that you all pretended to be tired yesterday, otherwise how could you get up so early this morning?"

"Tired? Of course I'm tired! I'm used to getting up at this time, but I can't fall asleep at this time." Zhao Guodong said helplessly when he heard this.

Looking at Zhao Guodong's funny expression, everyone else smiled knowingly.

Wang Zimei packed up quickly and came downstairs in just a few minutes.

The snow was already above the knees, and there was a deep pit with every step. Only a few men could lead the way. Gu Qingyu and Wang Zimei slowly moved forward along the deep pits they had stepped on.

It only took about seven or eight minutes to drive back last night, but this morning it took Gu Qingyu and the others almost forty minutes to walk from the guesthouse to the commune compound.

When we arrived, everyone was exhausted, their faces flushed and they were out of breath.

After finishing breakfast, the group went to the conference room to meet up with the people from the Red Flag Commune and started the day's work.

The snow that had been falling all night finally stopped this morning. Although the sky was still gloomy, fortunately the snow did not continue.

After the snow stopped, the entire commune entered into a major snow-clearing operation. Everything was moving in a positive direction, and everyone's mood gradually improved.

At noon the next day, the supply team that had set out the day before came back with good news one after another.

Although the roads were blocked by heavy snow and they lost contact with the outside world, every household in the rural area has the habit of stockpiling food and can cope with the road closures caused by heavy snow.

Except for a few old houses that collapsed under the weight of snow, of course, those who were temporarily homeless were properly resettled in various villages, and no casualties were caused.

Wang Zimei even joked, "Although the snow was heavy, it stopped yesterday!"

"Things went pretty smoothly this time. I estimate we'll be able to go back in a day or two!"

Unfortunately, less than two hours after Wang Zimei finished speaking, her peace was broken by a phone call from Gujia Village.

Xia'ao Village reports that two educated youth comrades are missing!

Gu Qingyu was surprised when she heard this. With the heavy snow blocking the mountain, how could these educated youth not stay in the house obediently and actually run away?

Gu Qingyu and others also hurried over to see what was going on.

If someone goes missing in the heavy snow, someone might die. If the higher authorities hold people accountable, not only the people in the commune will be in trouble, but the county and city will also be held accountable.

When Gu Qingyu and the others entered, they heard Ma Aiguo roaring at the person on the other end of the phone, "He's been missing for a whole day and night, and you're just calling now?"

"Others can be called ignorant if they don't know, but you, Ma Jianshe, are a commune official. Can you be as ignorant as those old peasants who can't read a single word?"

"What should we do? Send someone into the mountains to look for him!"

"If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body. Do you understand?" After saying that, Ma Aiguo hung up the phone.

"The disappearance of educated youth is no trivial matter. We must know what happened?" Gu Qingyu asked the furious Ma Aiguo.

"And we need to report this to the county. I hope you understand!"

The current major national policy is to encourage educated youth to go to the countryside to build new countryside. Local governments at all levels attach great importance to the work of educated youth, so Gu Qingyu said that to Ma Aiguo.

Ma Aiguo looked at Gu Qingyu and the others and thought, if these people were not around, he could still keep it a secret for now, but now that they had already found out, he had no choice but to tell everything.

Gu Qingyu's eyes widened after hearing this. The missing people were Jiang Xing and Jiang Chen!

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