A mother worries about her son even when he is thousands of miles away, let alone in a bitter cold place thousands of miles away. All the family members came to see him off, including Li Kuiyong's mother, his younger brothers and sisters,

"Kuiyuan, I'm leaving now. You'll need to take care of the house. Xiaomei, and you two, listen to your second brother and our mother."

Several people nodded, "Brother, you have to take care of yourself too."

"Okay, I'm going over."

Coming to Luo Jianguo and Ermao, he said, "Jianguo, Ermao...where are Yuemin, Zheng Tong and the others? Why haven't they arrived yet? We're about to set off."

"Who knows?" Luo Jianguo looked towards the station entrance.

"Damn, did these guys oversleep?"

The conductor was also urging, "The train is about to start, hurry up and get on board, get on board..."

"Let's go, let's go up first!"

Following the crowd, they squeezed onto the train. "Woo woo..." The locomotive roared a few times, thick smoke billowed, and the wheels rolled slowly. Zhong Yuemin and his companions ran out from nowhere and rushed into one of the carriages, almost knocking down the conductor who was about to close the door. He cursed at them, but they ignored him and quickly squeezed into the crowd to meet up with Li Kuiyong and his companions.

"Damn, Yuemin, Zheng Tong... I thought you weren't coming!"

Monkey butt Le Jizhong cursed and saw Ning Qun was injured, "What's going on?"

"Come on, Ermao, don't sit there anymore, give up your seat!"

Zhong Yuemin greeted, "Something happened, let Ning Qun sit down."

Ermao made way for Ning Qun and helped him to his seat. "Why is little Ning Wei here? Are you going to the countryside with us?"

Zhong Yuemin wiped his sweat,

"Let's go together. Last night I asked Director Wang to write a note, but he's not the director anymore. There was such a big commotion in our hospital last night, didn't you know?"

"What's going on?"

Zhong Yuemin pointed upwards.

"They've started arguing again, fighting over positions. Wang Zhanying has gone down, but it's none of our business, so let's just take a break."

Sitting directly on the floor, the entire carriage was full of people, it was really stuffy. There was no direct train from Beijing to Yan'an and Yulin in northern Shaanxi. One had to go to Xi'an first and then transfer to another train. The train first went south, passing Baoding, Shijiazhuang, and then turned west to Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Weinan... What's more, at the beginning, everyone was quite excited, singing red songs, shouting slogans, and full of fighting spirit in the carriage. In his opinion, it can be summed up in one sentence,

Young and frivolous, young people don’t know the taste of sorrow!

After two days and one night, he calmed down a lot and fell asleep in his seat. He arrived at Xi'an Station in the early morning of the third day, got off the station, bought a train ticket to Tongchuan, and headed north. During this time, he wanted to look for Qinling people. They should be on the same train, but there were too many people. There was no place to step, let alone the aisle. He ate, drank, defecated and urinated in the space. Walking through a carriage was like fighting a hand-to-hand battle. He didn't want to struggle any more. According to the normal trajectory, he should be assigned to a county town.

Another half day passed. After arriving in Tongchuan, they still hadn't arrived yet. They continued to head north. There were no trains, so they had to take a long-distance bus instead. At three or four in the afternoon, they arrived in Yan'an City. Some of them had to go to Yulin City. The large group had to disperse here. The educated youth went to the surrounding counties to report and continued to take long-distance buses. Zhong Yuemin and his group went to Jingbian County. They met a few "acquaintances" on the bus, Qian Zhimin, Cao Gang and others, and Jiang Biyun. This girl had a red plaid scarf on her head and her eyes were angry. She glanced at them from time to time.

"Hey, Leap People!"

Zheng Tong, who was sitting on the side, nudged him with his elbow.

"That girl's eyes look weird to me. Why does she keep looking at me? You're so charming that you've already snagged one right after you arrived."

Zhong Yuemin chuckled.

"Zheng Tong, you can go get another pair of glasses. You know this girl, an acquaintance. How could you forget about her so quickly?"

"acquaintance?"

Zheng Tong looked at the person carefully again, but couldn't remember her. It wasn't because his eyesight was poor, but because he had photographed so many women in the past that he couldn't remember who was who.

"Who?"

"Last time, you and Yuan Jun didn't brag about having photographed a woman, and you pretended to be her cousins. In the end, that woman called the police, and they beat you both up."

"Oh my god!" Zheng Tong remembered, "It's her?!" He whispered:

"Look at your fierce eyes, we are enemies." He immediately lost interest.

"Don't be assigned to a large team, or you'll have a hard time."

Zhong Yuemin smiled but said nothing, thinking to himself, if you two weren't divided into two teams, how could you two be a pair?

The journey was bumpy and it was dark when we arrived at the county town. This trip from the capital to the county town took nearly four days. The county educated youth office arranged for us to have dinner in the canteen of the Revolutionary Committee. There were white flour buns and a meat dish, potatoes and meat. Although there was not much meat, everyone ate happily.

Ermao said, "Yuemin, the conditions in northern Shaanxi are not bad. They're not as bad as you said before. Look, white flour buns and pork. We can't eat this every day in Beijing."

"Maybe we can go to the brigade down below and treat us to better food."

Le Jizhong interjected.

"What the hell are you two thinking? Who doesn't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year?" Zhong Yuemin said:

"We just arrived today. If we only treat you to black-faced steamed buns and pickles, I'm afraid you'll want to run away and return to Beijing before you even get there. That's not okay. Let's be realistic and be mentally prepared."

After dinner, we were arranged to stay in a guesthouse. It was called a guesthouse, but it was actually a cave house with a big kang that could sleep more than ten people. After nearly four days of traveling, we were all tired and lay down to sleep. Soon, we heard snoring. Zhong Yuemin got off the kang and wanted to go out.

"Where are you going?" Zheng Tong woke up and said while lying on the kang.

"Sleep, turn around!"

After leaving the cave, he went directly to the office of the director of the Youth Educated Office. He knocked on the door and opened it after receiving a response. Ma Guiping was sitting at his desk looking at the list of educated youth sent to the countryside and calculating their allocation to the various communes and brigades. He thought it was a subordinate who came in and did not even raise his head.

Zhong Yuemin came to the desk and said respectfully, "Hello, Director Ma."

Ma Minguiping then looked up and saw a young man standing in front of him. He was a stranger, but when he saw his appearance, his heart skipped a beat.

"you are?"

"Director Ma, I'm an educated youth who arrived today from Beijing. You were speaking in the cafeteria just now, and I was also downstairs. Director Ma, please have a cigarette."

He took out a bag of peonies from his pocket and handed one over.

Ma Guiping did not answer, as the cigarettes were not cheap, but asked:

"What's your name?"

"Director Ma, my name is Zhong Yuemin!"

"Your hometown is Hunan, right?"

"Yes!" Zhong Yuemin followed the man's words. His Uncle Ma, his father's former bodyguard, probably recognized him.

"Your father is Zhong Shanyue?"

Zhong Yuemin pretended to be surprised, "Director Ma, how...how did you know?"

Ma Guiping laughed heartily and stood up, saying, "How should I know? I held you in my arms when you were a child. I was your father's former guard."

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