She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 874 - 804: Famine Era 45
Tong Zhan has recovered well in all aspects, except for a certain issue that he still can’t regain his former glory.
Every time she pulls him to practice, she feels more helpless than amused, fearing that before the age of fifty, he won’t easily give up!
On February 1st, the first batch of 230 simplified characters in our country was announced by the "People’s Daily", marking our transition from traditional to simplified characters.
Although she is adept at both scripts, she still finds simplified characters more comfortable. After all, the vertical writing style should have been changed long ago.
On February 6th, the nationwide promotion of Mandarin began. The importance of Mandarin goes without saying. Ye Huan had been forced to learn the local dialect since arriving here. Luckily, she originally came from Henan in her previous life, so a slight adjustment in tone makes it indistinguishable from the real thing. Now starting to speak Mandarin is considered progress for the times.
In March, Ye Yu wrote to her, saying she was about to graduate and originally planned to intern at a middle school in Hebei. However, Ji Huzi was temporarily reassigned to a regiment leader position in the frontier area, and she didn’t want to go. Ji Huzi said she had a problem with her ideological awareness, leading to their first argument since marriage.
After returning to school in a huff, Ye Yu grew angrier the more she thought about it, so she could only write to her elder sister to complain. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Tong Zhan’s matter is still unknown at home, and she hasn’t planned to reveal it for now.
As early as August 1955, there were already suggestions that urban employment was tight, and to alleviate pressure, the ’Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside’ movement of educated youths emerged.
Not until October 1956 did it become an official development direction.
Due to the leader’s instruction that ’the rural areas are a vast world where much can be accomplished’ and ’it’s very necessary for educated youth to go to the rural areas to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants’, it sparked a wave of city-educated youth heading to rural areas and the frontier to reclaim wastelands.
Receiving such a transfer order at this time for Ji Huzi is also an affirmation of him, isn’t it?
Considering the challenges ahead, Ye Huan pondered repeatedly before writing back to Ye Yu.
The gist of the letter was to tell her that although life on the frontier is tough, it’s also a kind of training, and politically it’s a positive response. She should follow Ji Huzi’s steps to the frontier Construction Corps, where more people need educated youth like her. Perhaps in the near future, they as a couple might also follow the path.
Before 1968, the ’Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside’ movement mainly adopted a farm model,
Starting that winter, the queue-insertion model became the main form of the movement.
The scale of the participants, the number of families involved, the intensity of the mobilization, and the profound domestic and international impacts were unparalleled.
’C Team’ also became a term of special significance, and mentioning ’C Team’ meant there was no need to mention ’educated youth’ or the ’Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside’ movement anymore.
Less than half a month after sending the letter, she received a reply from her little sister. After reading it, she smiled with relief.
Because Ye Yu took it to heart, and that’s a good start.
No matter what outcome befalls Tong Zhan now, his personal experience is like a time bomb for her, which might explode someday.
If that day truly comes, she and Tong Zhan’s fate will be as labor-bound individuals, either heading to a farm or to the rural areas.
She has been considering whether to turn passive into active and apply to go over there herself, wouldn’t that be...
Thinking of this, Ye Huan felt a surge of spirit and immediately went to discuss the matter with Tong Zhan. Tong Zhan looked at her incredulously, seeming to doubt his ears.
"Don’t look at me with that expression. I’m just saying there’s a plan, not that we’ll go immediately. After all, you haven’t even been to the military factory yet, have you? Let’s wait a few more years. If we really need to go to the Construction Corps..."
Tong Zhan looked at her puzzled, "Why do you think they will need us there? Isn’t life in the city good enough? Why go there to suffer? You know how cold the frontier is, right? Can your body handle it? Don’t just get excited from hearing one thing; those couples had a normal reassignment, why would you join in the chaos there?"
The old lady is just worried about any big upheavals later, right?
Rather than living in fear like this, of course, it’s better to volunteer to go!
Ye Huan calculated the time, thinking it would be most suitable to go between ’63 and ’65,
