Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 1043

Chapter 1043: Chapter 916: To the Countryside

Time flies like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, it’s suddenly April 1968. The most beautiful days are in April, and no one can resist the allure of spring.

——Warm spring blossoms, lush grass and trees, fragrant grass everywhere, so beautiful.

But this year, no one has the time to appreciate it. The April spring breeze is very cool, and the sky is filled with willow and poplar catkins carried by the wind, swaying and falling on pedestrians, walls, and street ends.

It’s enough to make one annoyed.

In the office, Jin Lijuan frowned and took a sip of tea from her enamel mug. She was worried; due to a moment of carelessness, the Revolutionary Committee issued a notice emphasizing the mobilization of "three-year" graduates to go up to the mountains and down to the countryside.

And her second daughter just got her graduation certificate. She saw that the real end of junior high school was still months away and thought there was no rush.

Who knew that yesterday the neighborhood committee notified the child to go to the countryside. She hadn’t thought about running connections to quickly find a job to stay in the city like everyone else.

But two years ago, her eldest son graduated and made a fuss about volunteering to join the corps, and she and her husband finally managed to arrange a job for that rascal last year.

This time there’s really no avoiding it.

And yet these words can’t be leaked out, otherwise, you’ll get labeled with something bad. What’s more distressing is that her second daughter was actually delighted upon hearing the news, eager to leave Beijing immediately.

This silly girl lacks sense; how could she know what life is like in the corps and what rural life is like? Ultimately, it’s the fault of her and her husband for keeping the children too sheltered.

Jin Lijuan didn’t know that a person from Yun Province had emphasized the fairyland-like "Charming Yunnan" and "South of Colorful Cloud" when promoting to those educated youths.

Everyone listened in a trance, deeply attracting the inexperienced children.

It was really said elaborately, with spit flying everywhere.

They said that in Yun Province, with radishes overhead and sugarcane underfoot, even a fall would land you in peanuts as thick as your thumb, along with beautiful minority customs!

Of course, it’s not entirely the fault of that person; now many young people with aspirations are enthusiastic about "going up to the mountains and countryside." Last winter, many Red Guards wrote vows to go to the countryside and submitted them to the authorities.

The major trend is such, and the thoughts of parents and children inevitably diverge. Especially a single phrase, "Go to the countryside, go to the border areas, go to where the country needs the most!" has particularly attracted city kids.

"Does anyone have tickets of any kind on hand? Let me have them for now; I’ll pay you back later." She thought it over since she couldn’t change things, it’s better to prepare things early to take with the child.

Zhou Jiao didn’t pay any mind upon hearing this, knowing the other person was the niece of her big cousin, with the couple both working jobs, and the eldest son also working now, borrowing tickets was simply to add something to the family.

She didn’t pretend to be overly generous, handing over two months’ worth of industrial tickets and a few half-pound sugar tickets. There was nothing else—not because she was stingy, but beyond wages and industrial tickets, there were some welfare tickets from the unit; all her supply for the year was understood to be at home.

The other two male colleagues had even less than her, with just a few small amounts of spare change and ration tickets in their pockets, as financial control was entirely in their spouses’ hands.

Jin Lijuan was aware of this and thanked the three, then took her enamel mug for half an hour’s walk, returning with a deeper frown, almost capable of squashing flies.

At work, she usually maintained good relations with Zhou Jiao.

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