Rebirth in 1976 begins with educated youth

After learning the news of Lin Nan's sacrifice, everyone was extremely sad.

Pei Xiaohong, Tan Yuanyuan, and Fan Lili's eyes were all red from crying.

Especially Pei Xiaohong, who has not eaten for a whole day and night.

After receiving the letter, Zhou Haiyang called Lin Nan's home.

That evening, a group of six people boarded the train from Yanjing to Ningcheng.

No one spoke along the way, their expressions were serious, their eyes were red and swollen, and they didn't even eat or drink.

Even if the passengers in the same carriage came to talk to him, they all ignored him.

The passengers around and passing by looked at them with incomprehensible expressions on their faces.

More than ten hours later, when they walked out of the Ningcheng train station, they saw Yuan Shanshan, Liang Ming, Wang Qiang, Lin Junping and several Yuanping educated youths who were studying in Ningcheng, standing at the station exit to greet them.

Everyone wore a black veil on their right arm, and they were extremely depressed.

Along the way, no one said a word, and the air seemed to be solid.

After getting off the train, several people went straight to Lin Nan's home.

On a chest of drawers in the living room of Lin Nan's house, there is a frame wrapped with black gauze. Inside is an enlarged portrait of Lin Nan.

It was taken from a group photo of five people taken during the Spring Festival in 1978, after processing.

Next to it is a photo of Lin Nan wearing military uniform and taking a photo with Zhou Haiyang in Yunnan.

Unexpectedly, the Spring Festival of 1978 would be the last time Lin Nan met Liu Yan, Pei Xiaohong, and Fan Lili.

When seeing these two photos, everyone couldn't help crying.

What everyone didn't expect was that Pei Xiaohong, who always gave people a strong impression, was holding the photo frame of Lin Nan's portrait with both hands at this moment, crying like crazy: "No! Lin Nan, Lin Nan, you, you can't Leave me behind!”

Seeing this, Liu Yan, Fan Lili, and Tan Yuanyuan kept comforting him, and others also tried to persuade him.

Everyone knows that among the female educated youth in Yuanping Educated Youth Point, Lin Nan and Pei Xiaohong are best friends.

Lin Nan's mother told Zhou Haiyang word for word: "A week ago, Lin Nan's father and I went to the Yunnan Army to attend Lin Nan's funeral and brought her ashes back."

After speaking, he pointed to a black wooden urn next to the portrait, and continued: "After discussing with her father, I hope that part of Lin Nan's ashes can be buried at the Genpei Educated Youth Point."

Hearing these words, Pei Xiaohong couldn't help but think of the past again, and even burst into tears.

She cried loudly to Lin Nan's portrait: "Lin Nan, I'm sorry! It was me who hurt you! It was me! I was the one who should have joined the army, and I should have been the one who died on the battlefield!"

Hearing what Pei Xiaohong said, Zhou Haiyang and everyone present were stunned!

Liu Yan's mind immediately flashed back to the scene of military recruitment in Yongfeng County that winter in his previous life...

He paused, stepped forward and said to Pei Xiaohong: "Xiaohong, Lin Nan's sacrifice has nothing to do with you. No one could have imagined this situation at the beginning, and no one could have imagined that there would be such a war."

"No! You don't know that I harmed her..."

"Xiaohong, you..." Tan Yuanyuan and Yuan Shanshan quickly supported Pei Xiaohong, as if they were afraid that something would happen.

Pei Xiaohong calmed down, wiped the tears on his face, and said intermittently to everyone in a crying voice: "You all know that in the winter of 1974, there were only two quotas for female soldiers in Yongfeng County.

After registration, recommendation, political review, and physical examination, these two places finally fell to Lin Nan and me.

However, just as we were rejoicing about putting on the military uniform, I received unexpected news from the County Armed Forces Department. Because an unofficial quota suddenly appeared in the Jiangning Provincial Military Region, the County Armed Forces Department had to decide to give up Lin Nan.

After a fierce ideological struggle, in order to keep Lin Nan's place in the army, I went to the county hospital through the back door without telling my mother, issued a hepatitis certificate for myself, and gave up the opportunity to join the army...

When everyone heard what Pei Xiaohong said, they suddenly realized, and then continued to comfort Pei Xiaohong.

At this moment, I heard Lin Nan's mother's voice: "Zhuang Yan, is it you? When did you come back? Please come in!"

When everyone heard the sound, they immediately looked towards the door and saw a tall female soldier with delicate features and a sad look on her face standing outside the door.

"Auntie, I just returned to Ningcheng last night. I came to see Zhou Haiyang."

Zhou Haiyang looked at the female soldier in front of him and said in a deep voice: "I am Zhou Haiyang, may I ask who you are..."

"I am Lin Nan's comrade-in-arms, the same Zhuang Yan who wrote you that letter."

Then, Zhuang Yan continued to say to Zhou Haiyang: "In the summer of 1978, when you went to Yunnan to meet Lin Nan, I happened to be back in Ningcheng to visit relatives, otherwise we would have known each other a long time ago."

Before Zhou Haiyang could react, Zhuang Yan walked quickly to Pei Xiaohong and said to Pei Xiaohong: "Hello! Are you Pei Xiaohong?! My name is Zhuang Yan, and I am Lin Nan's comrade-in-arms.

I heard everything you just said to everyone.

When the female soldiers were recruited in the winter of 1974, I was the one who filled a quota for female soldiers in Yongfeng County.

When I went to the Yunnan Army from Ningcheng, there were only two female soldiers, Lin Nan and me.

We are both children of the Jiangning Provincial Military Region. We knew each other before, but we were not very familiar with each other.

Unexpectedly, from the day we joined the army together, we became comrades who talked about everything.

Lin Nan told me many stories about you educated youths, not only about Zhou Haiyang, but also about her best friend Pei Xiaohong at the educated youth farm.

He also talked about Liu Yan, Yuan Shanshan, Tan Yuanyuan and others, saying that you were educated youth who went to Yuanping Educated Youth Point in the same year to join the queue.

Moreover, I also told Lin Nan a lot about myself, and told her that I had taken the place of a female soldier in Yongfeng County.

Pei Xiaohong, what I want to tell you is that on the first day Lin Nan arrived in the army, she knew that it was you who gave her the only quota in Yongfeng County that year.

Do you know what Lin Nan said to me at that time?

She said: I can only be grateful to Pei Xiaohong in my heart, because she is my best friend.

If I were Pei Xiaohong, if I knew there was only one spot, I would do the same thing.

However, I am not Pei Xiaohong, I am Lin Nan, and I am a descendant of a soldier.

I have an obligation to do my best for this spot. No matter what, I will fight for this only spot for myself. "

Zhuang Yan paused and then continued: "At that time, none of us thought that there would be such a war in peaceful times.

However, as a soldier, especially a descendant of a soldier, from the first day he joins the army, he has the psychological and ideological preparation to defend his family and the country and to sacrifice his life for the country.

I remember on the first day I joined the army, my father told me that your quota was to take someone else's place.

But you have to remember that what you are replacing is not the military uniform you are wearing, but the responsibility and obligation to defend your home and country!

When our motherland needs you to make sacrifices, you must do it without hesitation and without hesitation.

This is the meaning of replacing others, this is the meaning of joining the army!This is the duty that Chinese soldiers should fulfill!

So Pei Xiaohong, there is no need for you to feel guilty for your original behavior.

As a child of a soldier, Lin Nan would never give up this spot to you.

I know that you are all the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination.

As contemporary college students, you should better understand the responsibilities and meaning of existence as contemporary soldiers.

Therefore, we should be proud of Lin Nan!We are proud of the heroic female soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam! "

After saying these words, Zhuang Yan slowly turned around and handed Zhou Haiyang a note: "Haiyang, this is my home phone number.

The reason why I came to you today is to tell you that when I return to Ningcheng this time, I just want to go to Yuanping Educated Youth Point with you to see Lin Nan off for the last time.

Before you decide to leave, remember to call me.I will ask my father to arrange a car from the Provincial Military Region to take everyone up the mountain.

I remember Lin Nan was very happy to tell me that your Yuanping Highway was opened to traffic in the third year after we joined the army.Moreover, she also invited me to go to your educated youth spot when we returned to Ningcheng to visit relatives in the summer of 1979. Unfortunately, we were unable to go at that time.

This time, I will go with her on behalf of her! "

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At dusk and sunset, the clouds are thick, the wind is strong, and the mountains and forests are howling.

A dignified and solemn tomb stands on a green lawn located in Genpei's educated youth spot.

In front of the tombstone, a group of young people stood.

Behind them stood Fan Yanping, Huang Guozhu, Fan Jianguo, Fan Jianming, Huang Huanggang, and a group of members of the Yuanping Production Brigade who came spontaneously.

At this moment, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, with thunder and thunder, and the lightning illuminated the tombstone in front of him:

Lin Nan (1953.10.6-1979.7.30)

Sleep here.

Zhou Haiyang led all the educated youths from Yuanping to pay tribute