A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 357 Return to Northern Shaanxi

Two days later, Zhou Xiaobai boarded a train to the army, and Lu Cheng did not go to the station to see him off. After all, Zhou Xiaobai was not his type, and friends should keep a distance, especially between men and women.

Immediately afterwards, trains carrying educated youth to the countryside set off one after another.

Zhong Yuemin, Zheng Tong and Ning Wei were assigned to the same group and took the train to northern Shaanxi first.

Lu Cheng and Li Kuiyong also boarded a train to northern Shaanxi two days later.

Before leaving, Lu Cheng left his house to the Li family and asked the Li family to help take care of it.

The green train packed with educated youth took three days and two nights to travel from Yanjing all the way to northern Shaanxi, to the Loess Plateau that Lu Cheng was familiar with.

Looking at the surrounding land and the familiar Loess Plateau buried deep in his memory, Lu Cheng's heart was also filled with emotions.

Lu Cheng has a different feeling for the land under his feet.

Although the memories from hundreds of years ago have become somewhat dim, and although the figure from the past is getting farther and farther away, there are always some familiar memories that will stir up waves in one's heart.

Lu Cheng's future will be long, and he will experience more than anyone else. He will constantly meet new people and things, and will gradually forget some old people and things.

Even Lu Cheng couldn't tell clearly whether he was still the same person at that time. Would he be the same in the future?

Years are always ruthless, and time is the sharpest knife.

After getting off the train, they took a bus, and then took a donkey cart. Lu Cheng, Li Kuiyong and ten other educated youths had a bumpy and shaking journey and finally arrived at the village assigned to them by the Educated Youth Office, Baidian Village, Hechuan Commune, Jingbian County.

When Lu Cheng was looking at the map of northern Shaanxi, he took special note that there was no Huangyuan City here, let alone Shigejie Commune in Yuanxi County.

It’s the same Loess Plateau, but it’s not the same place or the same space after all.

When the three donkey carts carrying the educated youth arrived at the entrance of the village, a group of people in ragged cotton-padded jackets were waiting at the entrance. Two young men were holding a banner that read: "Welcome the educated youth from Yenching to Baidian Village, Hechuan Commune."

"Students from Beijing, I am Bai Guixing, the village party secretary of Baidian Village. On behalf of the Baidian Village Party Committee and all the villagers, I welcome you."

"welcome."

Looking at the villagers in tattered clothes and pale faces, several educated youth from Yanjing realized for the first time the poverty here.

After the welcome ceremony, the village party secretary arranged a dinner to welcome the educated youth.

Afterwards, the village party secretary personally brought ten educated youth to the cave dwelling assigned to them.

"As you can see, the situation in our village is indeed difficult. Fortunately, we have ample accommodation. These three cave dwellings are now handed over to you educated youth. The specific allocation is up to you. You are new here, so take a day off tomorrow to get familiar with the situation here. I will take you to work the day after tomorrow and arrange work for you."

Lu Cheng took the initiative to stand up and said, "Secretary Bai, we are new here and are not familiar with the situation here. We will need your care in the future."

As he spoke, Lu Cheng handed Bai Guixing a cigarette.

Bai Guixing glanced at the Pegasus cigarettes in Lu Cheng's hand and smiled even more brightly: "It's all my duty, all my duty. It's not easy for you kids to come all the way here. Okay, pack up and go to bed early."

In those days, ordinary people could not afford to eat, nor did they have spare money to buy cigarettes. Those with better conditions could spend 20 cents to buy a large bag of tobacco, roll it up and smoke it themselves, or smoke it in a pipe.

Even the village party secretary Bai Guixing usually smokes economical cigarettes that cost 8 cents a pack.

Cigarettes that cost 1.5 cents are considered mid-range, and those that cost 28 cents or more are considered high-end.

What kind of cigarettes you smoke can also reflect a person's status to a certain extent.

After the village party secretary left, only ten educated youth were left in the yard.

There were 10 educated youth assigned to Baidian Village, including three boys and seven girls. In addition to Lu Cheng and Li Kuiyong, there was also a tall and thin boy who was also from Yanjing.

"Well, we are assigned to the same village and eat from the same pot from now on. This is also a kind of fate. Let's take a look at the conditions of these three houses first, and then sit down and discuss how to allocate the houses."

Among the ten educated youth, seven girls did not speak. Li Kuiyong followed Lu Cheng, and the remaining tall educated youth naturally had no say. Lu Cheng naturally became the leader of this educated youth site.

There are three cave dwellings, one is oriented north-south with the door facing south, and two are oriented east-west with the doors facing west, forming a right angle.

After a few people looked around, they found that the room with the door facing south was the main room and had a slightly larger space, while the other two rooms were relatively smaller.

"How about this? The three of us boys will live in the north room, and the seven of you girls will live in the two east rooms. How about that?"

"I agree."

"I don't have any objection either."

"I can do it."

"Then everyone put your luggage inside first, and then come to the north room. We'll introduce ourselves to each other, and you girls can divide into groups."

Afterwards, everyone put their luggage into the house, and Li Kuiyong lit the kerosene lamp in the north room.

There was a brick bed, a square table and two long benches in the north room. A girl brought a long bench from the west room. Everyone sat down around a small square table and began to introduce themselves.

"My name is Lu Cheng, from Yanjing Red Star Middle School, and this is my cousin Li Kuiyong, from Yanjing Yuying Middle School."

"Zhou Haipeng, from the High School Affiliated to Yanjing Renmin University."

"Wan Chunyan, also from Yanjing, from Bayi Middle School."

"Li Lijuan, from the Affiliated High School of Yanjing Petroleum."

"Zhang Huiling, from Yanjing Haidian Middle School."

"My name is Qinling, and my hometown is Guanzhong..."

(Qinling Mountains)

After the introduction, it was revealed that 10 out of the 6 educated youth were from Yenching, and the other 4 were from various cities in Shaanxi Province.

So, the four girls from Shaanxi automatically formed a group and lived in one room, and the other three girls from Yanjing lived in another.

After the groups were divided, Lu Cheng continued, "There are more girls than boys in our educated youth camp. When we work in the future, we need to cooperate with each other. The county educated youth office allocated 1600 kilograms of food to us. If we divide it by headcount, each person will get exactly 160 kilograms. It is still December now, and there is still half a year before the wheat harvest in June. On average, each person gets one kilogram of food per day, so we still have to save some food.

Let's talk about this, boys and girls, should we eat together or separately?"

"Let's eat together. When we get to work, you boys will definitely do the heavy work and will be more tired. You should also eat more."

"Yes, since we work together, we can eat together. Besides... I can't cook either."

"Well, let's just assign the tasks. When I entered the village just now, I saw that the well in the village is quite far from us, and judging from the rope on the well, the well should be quite deep, so it should not be easy to draw water.

We boys can be responsible for heavy work such as fetching water, and you girls can be responsible for cooking. As for other tasks, we can distribute them flexibly. We have just arrived here, so we should pack up our things tonight and have a good sleep. Tomorrow morning, we will see what we need and whether we need to go to the commune to purchase.

If necessary, I will go to the village party secretary to borrow a donkey cart, and we will go to the city together..."

When a group of strangers gather together, it is inevitable that there will be some confusion. As long as one of them stands up and speaks, the others will subconsciously obey.

If the person who stands up can always make the right decisions and gradually build prestige in the team, he can convince others and become a true leader.

It was too easy for Lu Cheng to win over a group of young people aged 17 or 18...