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Life has been stormy

My name is Wei Shufen, female, 29 years old, and she is still unmarried...

A link to the word...

My name is Li Cuifeng, female, 25 years old, I am getting married soon...

Li Cuifeng is a rural girl. She has worked as a long-term worker in the landlord's family for several generations. Thanks to the liberation of China, her family has freed from the fate of being exploited and oppressed and stood up from then on.

As the first graduate of Capital University in the village, village, and even the surrounding townships, Li Cuifeng needs to thank many people, thank the Party, the government, the parents and brothers, and even more thanks to Teacher Jiang. Oh, now she is called "Auntie Jiang". In three months, she will be called "Mom".

The first time I met Teacher Jiang was when the capital was just liberated. That year, Li Cuifeng turned 6 years old...

Jiang Xiuping, a native of Daoqing, died of both her parents when she was young and was adopted by a female high school principal. After she finished high school, she worked in the school. In early 1938, the Japanese army occupied Daoqing, and Jiang Xiuping's adoptive mother had passed away. She contacted several progressive young teachers in the school and went to Anyan, the revolutionary holy land, and participated in the revolution.

Two years later, because of her outstanding performance, she was young, had a high level of cultural and political theory, and had rich revolutionary experience, she was recommended to study at the School of Tsing Youth Cadres and was assigned to the Advanced Class (Class 1). During her study, Jiang Xiuping met, fell in love with Sun Cheng, who was in the same class, got married and had children.

After the capital was liberated in 1949, Jiang Xiuping stayed in the capital with her two sons to take care of her parents-in-law. She joined the newly established Capital Education Bureau and bravely shouldered heavy responsibilities and organized a working team to go to the countryside to carry out literacy work. The first place selected by Jiang Xiuping was Xibeiwang Township in the northern suburbs. It is close to the city and has convenient transportation, which is suitable for the work team to carry out work. With the cooperation of local governments, the members of the work team entered each village to promote.

Jiang Xiuping came to Qianjiachuan Village, which she assigned to her. Under the introduction of the village chief, she came to the village chief's cousin Li Wen's house and started her first work.

Li Wen has four children, the third child, Li Cuifeng is a girl, and the rest are boys. These children are separated by 3 years of age from age to age, which is very neat.

One of Jiang Xiuping's jobs is to convince Li Wen and his wife to participate in the literacy class that is about to start in the village, and the other is to persuade Li Wen and his wife to send Li Dalong, Li Erlong and his third brother Li Cuifeng to go to the school that is being built in the village next year.

Li Wen is an interesting person. He has been a long-term worker since he was a child and illiterate, but he likes to listen to storytelling when he has time. He admires the literati who wear long gowns and are full of knowledge described in storytelling. Therefore, he, who had no name at first, changed his name to "Li Wen" when registering the population and land after liberation.

Jiang Xiuping successfully completed her first work goal. Li Wen not only agreed to participate in the literacy class, but also actively cooperated with Jiang Xiuping to do work with other villagers. But the second goal encountered some trouble. Li Wen was very open. He did not value boys over girls and was willing to let all his children go to school. Qianjiachuan Village is not far from the village, with only a few miles of flat roads. But just like the problems encountered in promoting compulsory education in the current poor areas, being able to eat a full meal is the first problem that villagers need to solve. The same is true for the Li Wen family. Qianjiachuan Village is at the foot of Baiwang Mountain, halfway up the mountain and half flat, and the real estate is not generous. The Li Wen family and his family farmed;

The 12-year-old eldest son Li Dalong helped them; the 9-year-old second son Li Erlong and the 6-year-old third son Li Cuifeng took care of the 3-year-old younger brother Bruce Lee (originally named Li Silong, but a few years later, because Li Wen and his wife no longer had children, they thought Silong was not nice, so they changed their name to Bruce Lee). While boiling water and cooking at home, they often go out to dig wild vegetables, pick wild fruits, catch birds, fish and rabbits, and supplement their homes from time to time.

If all three older children go to school next year, Li Wen and his wife will go to work with their youngest children, and they will probably be difficult to support the whole family, and they will definitely not be busy during the busy farming period. Li Wen is unable to solve this problem, and it is also a problem that they have to face in the entire rural work. After careful thinking, Jiang Xiuping submitted the problem to the bureau and proposed the solution she had imagined. She suggested restoring and improving the busy farming holiday; adopting more flexible and pragmatic strategies to reasonably arrange the school time and teaching methods of rural students; on the basis of literacy, use existing educational resources to actively carry out adult amateur education and other contents. After several discussions and consultations and demonstrations by multiple parties, the bureau improved the suggestions put forward by Jiang Xiuping and handed over to the Ministry of Education. The department quickly followed up and asked the bureau to carry out pilot work.

Jiang Xiuping participated in the pilot work with great confidence. After several months, she returned to Qianjiachuan Village and took the lead in solving the learning problems of Li Wen's family. The eldest brother Li Dalong has passed the best learning stage and he also hopes to help his family work as soon as possible, so Jiang Xiuping arranged for him to study in the literacy class (later, stimulated by his younger brothers and sisters to go to school to obtain diplomas, he also completed the primary school course). The second brother Li Erlong graduated from junior high school because there were only elementary and junior high schools in the village, so he was unwilling to do so.

When she continued to go to high school in the city, she went home to farm. The third brother Li Cuifeng was the most powerful and went to college until she graduated from college. She lived in Teacher Jiang's house (Sun's house). She studied and grew up with Sun Weiguo and became in love. Later, the two became husband and wife. The fourth brother Bruce Lee was born in a young month and was one year late for school. Just when his sister was admitted to university and started living in the school, he was admitted to high school in the city. Bruce Lee also moved into the Sun's house and finished high school. After graduation, he joined the army with Sun Weimin, a good partner who also failed the college entrance examination.

Teacher Jiang carried out rural education pilot work centered on Xibeiwang Township. With the continuous achievements, the bureau increased its support for her. She increased her manpower, brought Zheng Ziyun, and gradually expanded the pilot scope. They forgot to eat and sleep, worked day and night, and even their newborn daughter could not be taken care of herself, so they could only be sent to a nursery.

God rewards hard work. With their unremitting efforts and achieving many achievements in the pilot work, they also gained their own honors. After being recognized and received by the leaders of the Party and the state, their enthusiasm for work has increased, and the pilot work has continued to advance. It was not until 1966 that the current situation was chaotic and the work stopped.

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Li Cuifeng, who had finished get off work, hurried to her home. After she greeted Jiang Xiuping, who was cooking at home, she squatted on the kitchen floor while choosing vegetables, and whispered: "Aunt Jiang, Aunt Zheng, when I went to the editor to sign this morning, he told me that the central government might have to go to the mountains and rural areas to receive re-education of poor and lower-middle peasants' activities. The main targets are junior high schools, high schools and college graduates of the 66, 67, and 68th classes. The editor said that if there are such people among my relatives and friends, they should prepare early. I think Xiaohong and Xiaoyue are not right?"

"They should have graduated from junior high school last year, and are considered to be from the 67th class. Because the school has suspended classes, they didn't get their graduation certificate until this year. They have been reviewing their homework at home and waiting for the high school to start enrolling again. What should I do?" Zheng Ziyun was anxious.

"Don't be anxious first, let Xiaofeng say it slowly." Jiang Xiuping calmed down Zheng Ziyun: "Xiaofeng, what do you think?"

"I checked the information for an afternoon, and it seems that what the editor-in-chief said should be true. Because classes were suspended in the past two years, three consecutive graduates were not assigned to work or continued to study. Now they are all gathered together, and there are about a few million people across the country. But at present, high schools and universities have not officially started recruiting students, and factories do not recruit workers. Therefore, almost all graduates gather in major cities. Our newspaper receives countless letters from readers every day, reflecting such problems. The central government must find a way to solve them. And a few days ago, our newspaper published several articles in succession, all of which were blowing the wind and vigorously promoted the outstanding educated youths in the activities of going to the countryside in the past few years."

At this time, Sun Weiguo and Chef Cao returned home together.
Chapter completed!
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