Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

We followed the post office's vehicle back to the Fourth Brigade.

After giving the purchased items to those who needed them and putting away the money and food coupons, Jiang Sen smiled and took out the notice.

As a result, the educated youth settlement was in an uproar that very day.

No one hesitated to use candles and oil lamps anymore, and the lights in every room stayed on all night.

After discussing it with Dashanzi and Mao Jun, Hu Zhiqing decided to clean up the canteen and let those preparing for the college entrance examination gather together to study.

If you don't understand something, you can ask someone, which is much more effective than studying alone.

That wasn't all. When Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang took out the notebooks and pens they had bought in the canteen, they were almost thrown onto the roof by the excited educated youth.

Anyway, nothing happens in winter.

Others waiting to return to the city for job recruitment spontaneously formed a support group, helping with cooking and lighting fires.

Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang were also unable to go up the mountain to find mountain products, so they continued to patrol with the village militia, trying their best to search for Zhao Erhu, and also ensuring that no one would disturb the educated youth who were studying.

Zhao Erhu seemed to have vanished without a trace, and there was no news of him since.

Even Erluzi and Heizi, who usually played with him, were listless.

Especially Erluzi, after the previous two mothers had quarreled, he was even more at a loss for what to do.

He was listless all day long, and although he wanted to go to the educated youth settlement to find Jiang Sen, he felt he had no reason to.

Hei Zi was nowhere to be seen either. It seemed that, to avoid being implicated by Zhao Erhu and to lay low, his father had sent him to a relative's house in another village.

And just like that, January arrived in the blink of an eye.

After everyone received their admission tickets and packed their things, they set off together to the team headquarters. The team headquarters would send a vehicle to the farm headquarters, and then the farm headquarters would take them all to the state farm.

The examination venue was set up in a school in the state farm area.

Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang hitched a ride with the educated youth who were taking the exams to the farm headquarters.

Seeing the educated youth enthusiastically board the truck, Li Chaoyang called them to his office and told them a few more pieces of news.

Feng Chao and others whose crimes were relatively minor were all sent to labor camps in the far northwest.

Zhao Guangming and his family of three were all executed, and their property was confiscated.

Shao Jiajia was compensated with 50 jin of grain rations and 100 jin of grain coupons.

Li Chaoyang did not disclose the verdicts for Lu Xiu, Xiao Ma, and Wang Weimin.

Because the people who went to Kyoto to investigate have returned, and the problem is more complicated than expected.

Lu Xiu's mother married a Japanese soldier and gave birth to Lu Xiu.

Little Ma was an orphan.

It was eventually discovered that his Japanese parents had left after their defeat and returned to their home country, leaving him behind alone.

Later, through some unknown channel, they learned about their origins and subsequently became spies planted by the Japanese within our ranks.

Lu Xiu's original intention was to cause sabotage, undermine unity from within, and create chaos on the farm.

Xiao Ma was very well hidden. He had arrived three years earlier than Lu Xiu and had already made contact with Wang Weimin here to plot the destruction of the forest railway.

Because at this time, the timber from Beidahuang is supplied to the whole country, so if there is a problem with the railway tracks, the impact will be enormous.

Before arriving, Lu Xiu received orders to recruit people like Jiang Sen for his own use, because his experiences would surely make him hate society and everyone, making him easier to recruit.

However, after failing to break through for a long time, Wang Weimin became impatient and thought that Lu Xiu's ability was questionable, so he gave him an ultimatum.

By a twist of fate, Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang witnessed this scene, and Wang Haiyang understood the Japanese language.

That led to the subsequent arrest of Wang Weimin.

The body buried in the mountains belonged to one of their men, but he was killed by Wang Weimin because he wanted to hand over important intelligence directly to Wang Weimin's superior.

At that time, they happened to encounter some educated youth coming up the mountain. Without obtaining any intelligence, Wang Weimin hurriedly left.

Afterwards, Lu Xiu was asked to retrieve it, but Lu Xiu didn't want to touch the body, so she went to Feng Chao instead.

Feng Chao is an idiot; he was easily fooled.

Who knew that the intelligence would be lost? Lu Xiu then had the idea of ​​killing someone to cover it up.

But before he could achieve his goal, Feng Chao was arrested.

After several attempts, Xiao Ma couldn't take it anymore. One nail after another was pulled out, and he had no choice but to take matters into his own hands and bring forward the plan to blow up the railway tracks.

Unexpectedly, they ran into Wei San again!

In short, it all boils down to one thing: man proposes, God disposes.

All conspiracies will be destroyed!

This sentence was Li Chaoyang's summary after recounting the entire process.

Jiang Sen wholeheartedly agreed.

The fact that they kept going around in circles only shows that no matter how cunning the fox is, it can't outsmart a good hunter.

As for who Wang Weimin actually is, Li Chaoyang didn't mention it.

The commendations for Jiang Sen, Wang Haiyang, and Wei San will be issued in a few days.

Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang waited at the farm headquarters for the educated youth who had returned from the college entrance examination, and then they rode together back to the Fourth Brigade.

Right now, everyone's hot topic of discussion is the college entrance examination.

They talked about the schools they were applying to and which cities they were in.

Then they started exchanging contact information, as if they were going to part ways the next day.

Jiang Sen looked at them, his eyes slightly warm. He was very moved and also envious.

He had never had any true friends, but the feelings of these educated youths in front of him were so simple and intense.

Almost everyone asked for Jiang Sen's contact information, which made Jiang Sen feel flattered, but he accepted it calmly.

They're all good comrades!

We're scattered all over the world, and we don't know when we'll meet again.

Spring has arrived, and the snow has begun to melt.

Jiang Sen and his team's mission to support the Fourth Brigade was also about to end, according to news from the field headquarters.

But he didn't leave just like that. Instead, he secretly went to find a few more trusted educated youth with whom he had a good relationship.

Especially Old Zhang, who plans to report to a female educated youth and get married, and then stay here and never leave.

Jiang Sen assigned him the job of collecting mountain goods.

Old Zhang agreed without even thinking about it.

Having been a few years older, he knew perfectly well what Jiang Sen was up to.

Besides, since he's staying, he should earn some money to get married and support his future family.

Of course, Jiang Sen didn't forget Wei San either.

Wei San only has a primary school education, so the college entrance examination is irrelevant to him. He can only wait for the city to recruit workers before he can go back.

While staying here, I can easily earn some money by collecting mountain produce.

Finally, at the end of March, as several educated youths from the forest farm left, the admission notices arrived.

Unsurprisingly, both Hu Zhiqing and Dashanzi passed the exam.

To his surprise, it was Liu Hongzhi who actually passed the exam!

Dogs have such good lives!

Sun Guohong and Shao Jiajia applied to schools in Kyoto, which is like going home.

This time, more than 100 people from the Fourth Brigade signed up, and more than 20 of them passed the exam.

For the rest, they vowed to pass the exam next time.

With mixed emotions, Jiang Sen and his group left the Fourth Brigade and went to the headquarters. They followed Zhang Jianjun and Sui Zhongliang, driving horse-drawn sleds back to the forest farm.

Meanwhile, personnel returning from other brigades also gradually returned to the forest farm.

Jiang Sen looked at the vast mountains, let out a long breath, and finally returned.

"Jiang Sen!" Wang Haiyang came out of the canteen and ran to his side. "The squad leader said that we'll go up the mountain together once everyone else has arrived."

Jiang Sen hummed in agreement, then pointed to the mountains and asked, "Tell me, what did you see in these mountains?"

"What do you see? Snow, trees, and what else?"

"Money! It's all money!" Jiang Sen laughed heartily. "Once we get back to the forest farm, we can go all out and get whatever we want. We can make as much money as we want!"

Infected by his emotions, Wang Haiyang said, "Once we've made enough money, I'll start a company when we get back to Kyoto, and you should start one too. Let's make a fortune together!"

Jiang Sen said, "You can just start your own company, and I'll supply you with the goods from here!"

"Are you really not going to leave?" Wang Haiyang frowned slightly. "Is this place really that good?"

“You don’t understand!” Jiang Sen said, “This is where the most important thing in my life is located.”