mynovelweb Chapter 243 The plot is completely off
Chapter 243 The plot is completely off
Although the situation was tense, fortunately the village was well prepared and everyone was able to cope with it with ease.
Especially when everyone found that except for being alert when going to the town for shopping, it would not affect anything if they did not leave the village at other times, everyone became less and less willing to go outside, and their enthusiasm for work increased a lot.
Time quickly entered 1967.
In March, news came from Mingzhu City that it was the first to establish a revolutionary committee. By September, almost half of the communes in the country were taken over by this organization.
Qingshan Town has a special status and has not been fully taken over for the time being. It is still controlled by the military.
But when he went to see Lu Xue, he met Shen Zhiqiang, and heard him say that it seemed that several factions in Beijing were fighting each other, and they would send people over soon. It was hard to say which side they were from.
In addition to this matter that made Gu Mingyue worried, there was also the educated youth.
She stopped submitting articles, but some readers still wrote to her, some expressing their longing for her, while others regarded her as a tree hole.
Through these letters from all over the country, she also learned that many places have sent educated youth to the countryside or people for reform, but Qingshan Town has never had any. She doesn't know how long this situation can last...
Speaking of these readers' letters, they are really all kinds of strange.
If you just want to talk, she usually won't reply.
If there was really a problem that couldn't be resolved, she would occasionally reply with one or two letters as a way of comforting herself.
Some people wrote to her asking for help because they were in trouble, but she ignored them all.
Not to mention that it is so far away, why would she find a pen pal for help? It is hard to tell whether it is true or not. Just talking about her as a person, she is not a kind-hearted person. She is willing to be nice to people around her, that is mutually beneficial. As for strangers, forget it, she is not that great.
What she remembers most clearly is that a girl named Lai Di sent her two consecutive letters asking for her help.
She handed the letter directly to Shen Zhiqiang and asked him to contact the local public security bureau to see if help was really needed. After all, although the society is in chaos now, it is still a peaceful society. If there is any problem, go to the government and you will get it right.
Sure enough, the local police quickly sent people to investigate and learned that Lai Di was 18 years old this year. She failed to get into high school and wanted to repeat her studies, but her family was unwilling to support her and wanted her to get married.
Lai Di doesn't want to get married and wants her family to continue to support her schooling, but she is afraid that she will not be able to convince her family. She accidentally reads the story written by Gu Mingyue about Man Yue asking a reporter to help find someone, and she becomes interested.
She wrote to ask for help, hoping that Gu Mingyue would help her put an advertisement in the newspaper.
She knew that her family was very face-saving, so this way, they would definitely not force her anymore. Then, she would push everything onto Gu Mingyue and continue to maintain the image of a good woman.
I never thought that the police would come. No matter how cunning she was, she was still a little girl and could not resist being frightened. She quickly confessed the truth. There was no way to hold her accountable for such a thing, she was just given a lecture.
Lai Di's parents were very angry when they found out. They admitted that they were more partial to their son, but they were not bad to their daughter either. Nowadays, few families would send their girls to high school.
Besides, they had agreed in advance that she would not go to school if she failed the entrance exam. It was her own fault for not studying hard. They were afraid that their child would suffer, so they specially found a family with good conditions. Even in this situation, they still didn't say a good word. It was really sad.
They had originally planned to prepare more dowry for Lai Di and didn't want to care about her anymore. They wanted to marry her off as soon as possible as they could fulfill their last responsibility as parents.
Even though Lai Di's husband treated her well, she was still unwilling.
She blamed all the mistakes on Gu Mingyue, and wrote to her to scold her for being cruel and seeking fame. Not only did she blame Gu Mingyue for not helping her, but she also framed her and said that everything she was going through was caused by her.
Anyway, the whole story is about her having a hard life. She blames the heavens, the earth, her parents and everyone else but herself.
Gu Mingyue didn't tolerate her illness and wrote back directly, "If you were to speak openly about what you want to do, I would look up to you. Or if you work hard, I would look up to you too. As far as I know, all you do in school is compare your clothes with others and envy others for having a good life. You gossip and chat all day long. Did you fail the exam? You didn't even pass. You don't want to work hard all day, but want to get something for nothing. You're expecting a pie to fall from the sky. If it really falls, can you catch it? You don't deserve your position, you don't deserve wealth, and you don't deserve the love of your family. Kindness is for people who know how to be grateful, not for ungrateful people who only scheme and complain behind their backs. Don't take yourself too seriously. No one owes you anything."
Her reply made Lai Di even more resentful. Don't underestimate a person's desire for revenge. It was such a person who had nothing to do with her, but actually tripped her up in the near future and she was almost tricked. This is a story for later.
In the blink of an eye, it was 1968.
At the end of the year, the higher authorities issued a document recommending that young people and unemployed urban residents go to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants.
As a result, a wave of sending educated youth to the countryside was launched across the country.
This move shocked the whole country and may be terrible news for those graduates who are idle at home. But for the current society, it has more advantages than disadvantages.
The most striking benefit is that this move has gradually eliminated the trend of activists who were organizing connections everywhere to go to the countryside. The situation is as tense as before, but the crazy momentum has slowed down.
But for Qingshan Town, it was the beginning of unrest.
First, a director of the Revolutionary Committee was parachuted in, and soon after, a notice was received that a number of educated youth and transferred personnel were assigned here.
After the commune meeting that day, Zhang Qianjin called Gu Mingyue and handed her a list.
"This is?"
Zhang Qianjin explained, "This is the list of educated youths to be assigned to your village, and the following is the information of each of them."
Gu Mingyue flipped through it and suddenly remembered that she had traveled through time to a book. But looking at the list in her hand, none of them matched. She was slightly confused but quickly relieved.
Gujia Village is no longer a remote and poor place. In period novels, the plot to frame the heroine is always set in a poor and dilapidated village. However, their village is currently the richest village within a ten-mile radius.
Just by looking at the information, you can tell that the people assigned here are either rich or noble. It seems that this is a deliberate arrangement. The heroine of a period novel needs to go through many difficulties, so how can she enjoy this blessing at the beginning? She does not meet the requirements.
Thinking of this, Gu Mingyue couldn't help but feel excited.
Even though she was no longer afraid of any setbacks, she didn't want to be associated with the protagonists. Who knew if there would be some favoritism from the heavens? Man-made disasters could still be reversed, but if it was fate, she really had no confidence in resisting it. That was why she had been firmly rejecting the plot.
The names on the list now don't match the ones in her memory at all, which proves that the plot line has completely deviated. She successfully escaped from it. When she thought about this, she was so happy.
However, she still asked worriedly, "President Zhang, are all the people here permanent? Will they force a few more people in temporarily or replace them with more relevant people?"
"No, the number of people is fixed, and the files are all recorded. Other places dare not say anything, but here, no one dares to falsify or replace things. If someone really dares to do so, the Youth League Office will be the first to be implicated, so they check very strictly. Even if they have connections, they dare not agree to it."
Gu Mingyue was completely relieved, but frowned slightly when she saw the information of one of them, "Qu Lingling? Isn't she Director Qu's daughter? Why is she going to the countryside?"