Reborn in 1977

Chapter 96 The Educated Youth Forest

Chen Fan ran back to the educated youth spot in one breath, panting and red-faced when he entered the door.

He was careless. He had been immersed in the pleasure of skill improvement just now, running all the way so fast that he didn't pay attention to his physical condition. It wasn't until he got to the door that he realized he was almost overdrawn.

But it wasn't without its benefits. Running all the way not only caused his martial arts experience points to soar, directly rising to level 2, but also filled half of his experience bar, and even his physique increased by 0.3, reaching 9.5.

So the cheat can prove that practicing martial arts can indeed strengthen the body.

Of course, you can't just practice blindly. You must be like Chen Fan, with 100% standard movements, and you can't overexercise.

Jiang Lili was tidying things up in the yard. She divided all the cotton into two piles and put them into new bamboo baskets. The two bamboo baskets were placed side by side under the eaves, with a carrying pole across them, ready to go at any time.

Seeing Chen Fan coming in, she was about to speak when she saw Chen Fan was sweating profusely and his face was flushed. She couldn't help but walk over quickly, and asked with a worried look, "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

She raised her hands to help him, but she didn't dare.

In broad daylight, someone might come over at any time. If someone saw it, not only would she be in trouble, but she would even implicate Chen Fan.

Chen Fan leaned on the dog-beating stick, too tired to speak. He waved his hand, pointed to the house, and walked straight inside.

Jiang Lili followed him, but didn't dare to get close, extremely anxious.

When Chen Fan entered the house and sat on the chair, she immediately poured a cup of tea, "This was just boiled, and it's just warm now. Have a sip of water first."

Chen Fan took a small sip, and let out a long breath before he recovered. He looked at her and smiled, "It's okay, I just ran back today and didn't pay attention for a while, running too hard. I won't do it next time."

Hearing his words and seeing his complexion improve a lot, Jiang Lili breathed a long sigh of relief, "It's good that you're okay."

After a pause, she said, "Then you rest for a while, and I'll go cook."

After saying that, she walked out.

The 12 teams in Lujiawan are almost half an hour's walk apart. People in this era have tough feet and can walk about 7 kilometers non-stop in an hour, so the distance between teams is about 3 or 4 kilometers.

From Team 6 to Team 10, there is a distance of about 14 kilometers. Even if walking on the river embankment is a little closer, it is still more than 10 kilometers, which will take at least an hour and a half to walk.

If they go this time, and then walk back after finishing their business, it will take at least 3 and a half hours. Even if it is calculated as 4 hours, starting at 10 o'clock, they will not be able to return home until 2 pm at the earliest.

With such a long time and such a large amount of exercise, it is impossible not to eat enough.

Soon Jiang Lili cooked the meal.

A bowl of stir-fried cabbage, a carp that Chen Fan caught in the river a few days ago, slightly pan-fried, stewed with scallions, ginger, garlic, and local bean paste and chili sauce, fresh, fragrant and appetizing.

Since Chen Fan moved in, Jiang Lili's food has immediately jumped up several levels, even better than the homes of the commune cadres.

If it weren't for "Master Chen", I'm afraid someone would have run over to pull her to a meeting.

Now, of course, nothing will happen. Whoever comes will only see Chen Fan eating, and it has nothing to do with others.

After the two finished eating, Jiang Lili was busy cleaning up the dishes, and Chen Fan drank some warm tea to digest his food.

Half an hour later, Chen Fan set off carrying the load.

33 kilograms of cotton, only 3 kilograms were left at home, in case they might make cotton clothes, cotton trousers, or cotton shoes in the future. 30 kilograms were divided into two bamboo baskets, which looked like two full baskets, but actually didn't weigh much.

During this period of time, Chen Fan insisted on carrying water every day, and had already skillfully mastered the technique of carrying a load. Unfortunately, he failed to get a skill bar, and it was directly classified as housework.

He went up the river embankment and walked north. After walking for a while, Chen Fan glanced at Jiang Lili, who was three meters away from him, and said, trying to find a topic, "I see so many small woods here. Do you usually chop firewood here?"

Jiang Lili came back to her senses, looked at the woods on both sides of the river embankment, "Oh, it's not chopping firewood. These forests can't be chopped casually. You have to get the approval of the brigade, but you can come here to pick up dead branches."

Then she said, "The cedar forest at the entrance of the educated youth spot, and a patch of miscellaneous forest where the adobe was dug in the backyard, were originally approved by the commune to solve the problem of firewood for the educated youth. It was specially approved as the 'Educated Youth Forest', allowing the educated youth to decide when to cut down trees. There is no need to report to cut tree branches, only to report in advance to cut trees, but it is just a formality.

However, after the first batch of educated youth planted the trees, they encountered large-scale recruitment in the city and the re-enrollment of universities within two years, so they all left. At that time, the trees had not grown up, so there was no cutting."

Chen Fan was a little curious, "Large-scale recruitment and large-scale enrollment?"

Jiang Lili nodded, "In 1971, the above issued a notice that if there were suitable job opportunities in the city, priority should be given to educated youth. At that time, the whole country was supporting the construction of the third front, and many backbone workers left the city and went to the large and small third fronts, and there was a lot of recruitment demand at once.

In 1972, all universities began to expand the enrollment of workers, peasants and soldiers as college students, so many educated youth returned to the city in these two years, except for..."

She lowered her head suddenly, pursed her lips, "Except for those with problems, who must stay in the countryside for at least 7 years before there may be a chance to return to the city. Those who have not completed 7 years will not be considered."

Chen Fan naturally understood the meaning of her last sentence.

But he didn't quite understand how this 7-year standard came about?

But seeing her appearance, he didn't want to ask, so he naturally changed the subject and smiled, "So, the predecessors planted trees for the later generations to enjoy the shade?"

Jiang Lili raised her head and smiled, nodding, "Yes."

Chen Fan asked again, "Then why don't the later ones cut it down either?"

Jiang Lili, "Because the later educated youth don't stay for long. The longest stay is more than a year before they go home. The shortest stay is even less than a month. Those people have never been here, and their names have just gone through the motions on the village list."

After a pause, she said, "And everyone likes that cedar forest very much. Even if they want to chop firewood, they will only go to the miscellaneous forest behind, but they can't chop much. They just cook some rice, and don't even often cook vegetables. The straw from two seasons a year, and the cotton stalks after harvesting the cotton, are very good firewood, and that's enough. So, not many people go to chop firewood."

"Oh, so that's how it is."

Chen Fan nodded, chatting with her casually, and unknowingly walked for more than an hour, about to reach the destination.

When Jiang Lili saw the village of Team 10, she felt a faint sense of loss in her heart.

On one side is a winding river, and on the other side is a vibrant field. In the distance, small villages gather and smoke curls up, as beautiful as a prose poem in a textbook.

Especially with someone willing to talk to her beside her, and so good-looking, it would be nice if this road could continue forever.