Report to the head office
On the last day of January, 1971, as an educated youth in Chengdu, I finally completed all the procedures to be transferred back to the city in Luoba Commune, Hongya County, Sichuan Province. With simple luggage, I left the Glorious Team One and boarded the long-distance bus back to Chengdu at the bus station on the opposite bank of Luoba Commune. I left Luoba Commune and ended my mission of receiving education from poor and middle-aged farmers.
The next morning, February 1st, 1971. I walked out of the house with all kinds of documents for the transfer procedures. At the Jinhua Street bus stop, I took the No. 1 trolleybus Chengdu City, got off at Yanshikou, then took the No. 2 trolleybus to the terminal station, and got off at the Niushikou bus stop.
On the way, I was very happy. Looking at the familiar streets on both sides of the streetcar, I had an infinite longing for my future work. She kept imagining what the workplace she was about to reach would be like.
After getting off the bus at Niushikou Station, I followed the Niulong highway to a three-way intersection and turned into the factory road leading to the 65th factory. At the entrance of the original No. 39 Middle School, I crossed the road and turned into a small alley on the opposite side. I walked onto a simple three-way sidewalk. After making two small turns, he stopped in front of a two-story building. Looking at the big wooden board hanging beside the door of this small building, which read " Revolutionary Committee of the 5th Metalworking Construction Company of the Ministry of Metalworking Industry ", I understood that this would be my work unit in the future. In the next few decades, I would show off my skills in this company.
I walked into this small building and found the labor department on the second floor. I handed the various documents for the transfer procedures to the staff of the labor department. After making a simple inquiry and registration, The staff at the labor department told me, Due to the large number of new workers who were transferred back to work this time, close to a thousand people, in order to strengthen the necessary management, the head office decided: All the new workers who were transferred back this time had to undergo factory training. He wants us to go back and pack our luggage. Two days later, we will gather in Huayang Town in Shuangliu County for a completely closed training.
After leaving the office of the labor department, I met many of my parents 'friends in the corridor. They were all elders who watched me grow up. Now, including my parents, we all work in the same head office. After meeting, we have endless confidences and endless questions. In the face of these heartfelt greetings, I feel very grateful and happy. What made me even happier was that I met many friends who had grown up together after many years of separation. We were all the children of employees in this unit. Today, we could gather together. The same experience and fate made us have endless topics to talk about. In the corridors upstairs and downstairs, there was a constant loud and cheerful greeting. This caused people in the office building to come out and interfere from time to time."This is the office area. You have to speak softly here. Don't disturb our normal work."
After leaving this small building, the narrow Sanhetu sidewalk was crowded with educated youths who came to report. Some of them knew each other, while others didn't. As soon as he opened his mouth, he could confirm that the other party was an educated youth. Among the educated youths. Especially among the educated youths who had been transferred back to the city, there were endless confidences. The sense of superiority of the first batch of people who had been transferred back to the city added a lot of new topics. The educated youths who came to report had already blocked the small roads around the small building. My registration procedures have been completed. There are too many people here. I really can't leave if I stay for a while. In order to avoid the bigger educated youth flood peak, I had to leave this place as soon as possible.
After leaving this small building, I returned along the original road and came to the starting point of the second trolleybus. I got on the trolleybus at the starting point of Niushikou and took the trolleybus to Yanshikou Station. I wanted to see the downtown Shizhong District of Yanshikou. I had been dreaming for two years in the countryside. I hadn't seen it for a long time. I came down to take a walk and watch the fun.
On this familiar street, I leisurely looked around. The bustling shops on both sides of the road attracted my attention. This was compared to the shops on the rural streets. He immediately felt that the difference between urban and rural areas was too great. It was no wonder that there were quite a number of people who came from the countryside. Once they went to work in the city, they were unwilling to return to the countryside.
When I wandered to the bus stop near the People's Park, I looked up at the sky. It was still early, so I took the No. 5 bus and arrived at the Tonghuimen Twelve Bridge bus stop near Qingyang Palace. After getting off the bus, I took two turns and walked onto Zaozi Lane on Xi'an South Road. I returned to my alma mater, Chengdu City 32 Middle School.
In the corridor on the ground floor of No. 32 High School's teaching building, I met my former form teacher, Teacher Chen Wentao. After greeting him, I told him that I had been transferred from the countryside to the city as a worker. Teacher Chen was very happy to pick me up and turned me around several times in the same place until I was dizzy. He kept saying," Good boy, you're really something. We were still mobilizing others to go to the countryside. There are still a few of your classmates in our class who haven't gone to the countryside yet. We were persuading Song Youyang, Jiang Pinxue, and the others to go to the countryside. We were still mobilizing them to go to the countryside, but you actually transferred back. It's good that you're back." As far as I know, you are probably the first educated youth to return to Chengdu.”
Forty years later, at a class reunion, I finally got accurate news about my good friend, Chen Yonghua. His life was truly tragic.
Life was like playing chess. Of course, it was crueler than playing chess. Losing a game of chess could be done shamelessly, one could go back on their words, and one could not admit to their mistakes. At most, he would be scolded by his Go friends and the matter would be settled. And the path of life was one that one had to walk on their own. As long as he took one wrong step, it was very likely that he would make several more mistakes. It could even affect his entire life.
Under the school's arrangement, Chen Yonghua was sent to Hongya County United Commune in July 1969 as an educated youth. After May 1971. Most of the educated youths who came with him from the various brigades of the United Commune left the production team of the United Commune one after another and returned to Chengdu City in a grand manner. They were hired, joined the army, sick, and so on. From 1973 to 1975, most of the educated youths in their production team had left.
All the educated youths of the entire community had left, leaving him alone. He was still holding on to the empty educated youth house of Hongya United Commune, continuing to live his lonely life as an educated youth. Around March 1976, the Sichuan chemical machinery factory in Qingbai River near the outskirts of Chengdu came to Hongya County to recruit a group of ordinary workers. At this time, Chen Yonghua had no idea what to do. He was in a panic and could not wait to follow the unit that recruited ordinary workers. He left Hongya County United Commune and went to Sichuan Machinery Factory, which was located in Qingbai River, Chengdu City. Because he was recruited according to ordinary workers, he was assigned to work as a porter in the workshop.
It was not easy to be a porter in the workshop. Because Chen Yonghua's eyes were highly short-sighted, he had never come into contact with technical work. His ability to read mechanical processing drawings was relatively poor. He did not understand the model of the processing machinery and the characteristics of the processing materials. He often sent the materials to the wrong location for mechanical processing. In addition, he was physically weak and could not do long-term heavy physical labor in the workshop. Later, he was transferred to the workshop canteen as a cook. Until retirement.
It was said that after he retired, he and his wife and children moved from the staff dormitory in the chemical machinery factory in Qingbai River to the suburbs of Xindu near Chengdu City. At the class reunion, I asked everyone, and it was said that no one in the class had his exact address. No one knew his phone number. We can't even get in touch with him. There would be no more information about him.
I often think of a question: if he could be like me and go to the same production team as an educated youth, this might be another ending. But we all know that. After all, history was history, and it could not be repeated. He couldn't just assume. On the road of life, it was even more impossible to have a rehearsal like a show. One wrong step meant that every step would be wrong.
There was another thing that needed to be explained, Jiang Pinxue. When he was in junior high, we were in the same class. His eyes were severely short-sighted, and the glasses he wore were like the bottom of a pair of beer bottles. He was not tall, just like me. He was often nicknamed the " Five Tiger Generals " by his classmates. Back then, the school had mobilized him to go to the mountains and villages. He and his family went to school together and applied to the school many times to take care of his body. The main reason was that he was severely short-sighted. In the countryside, especially at night, he could not take care of himself at all. It was difficult for him to take care of himself. Could they consider not letting him go to the countryside? However, the school had never agreed. Jiang Pinxue insisted on not going to the countryside. After a few years, the school removed his personal relationship from the school and directly returned it to the street office. She no longer cared about him.
In the next twenty to thirty years, Jiang Pinxue had been working as a worker in a small factory under the industrial system of Jinniu District. I remember that when I was a material planner, I went to their factory and ordered a batch of pliers. At that time, I met him. He was doing quite well in that factory. He had studied all the processes in the factory by himself.
In the past two years, when my classmates held class reunions, I saw that his eyes seemed to be more short-sighted than before. Everyone was retired and old.
According to the arrangement of the head office, all the newly reported workers have to undergo basic intensive training. After the registration, we all packed our luggage at home and prepared to go to Huayang Town in Shuangliu County in two days to attend the new worker training class. This time, there was plenty of time. We walked around. She went to play with her classmates. However, it was not easy to find. After searching for two days, Jiang Pinxue was the only one who lived by the bamboo forest beside the river in the south of Chengdu. The rest were basically still educated youths in Hong Ya. There were also some students who had only heard that they were returning to Chengdu. However, the information was still not available, and he could not contact her, so he could only give up.
From then on, I worked in the Ministry of Metals's No. 5 Metalwork Construction Company, a large national enterprise, for more than 30 years. After 30 years of my good life, I went from an apprentice to a high-level economic officer. During this period, I worked as a material planner, a construction and installation project budget examiner, an economy officer, an assistant economy officer, an economy officer, and finally a senior economy officer.
These words went off topic again. He would rest at home for a day or two. After two days, he would bring his luggage and backpack to the children's school. Then, he would go to Huayang Town to attend the new worker training class.
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