A little-known special prison was built deep in the mountains of the capital's Yunyan District. There were very few prisoners in this prison, but it was heavily guarded, with a guard post every five steps and a sentry every ten steps.
Xia Heyu sat in her own room and looked out through the window. The sun was shining outside and it was as warm as ever, but she felt extremely cold.
It has been more than a month since she was sent here, but Xia Heyu felt like a lifetime had passed.
Life here is undoubtedly good. She has no worries about food and drink, she doesn't have to work in the fields to earn work points, she doesn't have to cook, and she doesn't even have to wash clothes. Logically speaking, this is the life Xia Heyu wants most, but she is not satisfied at all.
Because there is no freedom here, whenever she takes a step outside, a soldier with a gun will appear behind her on time.
Every day she also had to receive an hour of psychological counseling. The doctor would hold a gold necklace and wave it in front of her. She would feel sleepy and fall asleep as soon as she closed her eyes. When she woke up, an hour had passed. Her mind was blank and she couldn't remember anything.
In addition, every week, two soldiers would question her and ask her to talk over and over again about what happened in the past ten years.
Xia Heyu had already said that she was bored and tired. She really didn't want to recall the life in the past ten years or so. If she did, she would feel like vomiting.
There was a commotion outside. Xia Heyu looked over and saw a woman being escorted up by two soldiers with guns. She was shocked: "Xu Baozhu?"
In her previous life, Xia Heyu had lived in Liushugou for more than ten years. She knew Xu Baozhu. After all, Liushugou was famous for her good fortune. Who wouldn't know her? But why did she end up here? Shouldn't she have studied hard in Liushugou, waited until the college entrance examination was resumed, and then married a rich man in the capital?
Xu Baozhu felt Xia Heyu's gaze and looked away.
She was not familiar with Xia Heyu, but she had some relationship with Xia Heyu's ex-husband Su Yang. A sister she once knew had been in a relationship with Su Yang for a period of time, and during that time, Xia Heyu and Su Yang were also in a hot relationship.
Xu Baozhu had no sense of morality. She thought Xia Heyu was as stupid as a pig because she couldn't even find out that her man had someone else outside. She disdained to play with such a person. She even thought that her sister was capable and could play Su Yang in the palm of her hand. She was really amazing.
She also learned several tricks and planned to use them on the son of the county leader and the neighbor's little brother. However, she was caught here just as she launched her offensive.
Xu Baozhu was very upset.
"Your room is here, go in and tidy up. In ten minutes, you will need psychological counseling." Xu Baozhu was pushed into her room and the door closed with a bang.
Xu Baozhu took a quick look and saw white walls, a blue striped bed, a white wardrobe, and huge windows. Apart from that, there was no furniture. It was so simple that it made people feel uncomfortable just by looking at it.
Soldiers were guarding outside the gate. In the nearby prison building, Commander Xu, who managed the prison, put down his binoculars and told the people around him, "They know each other. You should deliberately create a scene where they meet. Every word they say should be recorded."
"Yes."
Captain Xu turned back to his desk, and a soldier trotted up to him: "Captain Xu, No. 02 is making a fuss."
Captain Xu stood up and walked outside.
There are a total of four prisoners in the entire prison, including Xu Baozhu, but there is a whole regiment of soldiers stationed there. In the scientific research building not far away, there live the most authoritative scientists in various industries in the country.
No. 02 is named Liu Bing. According to him, he traveled from the future and brought a plane trading system with him. His goal is to restore the feudal society and become the emperor himself. He also said that he wanted to have 3,000 beauties in his harem. When he first met Captain Xu, he said that he wanted to take Captain Xu as his younger brother and promised him a high official salary, beautiful wives, and supreme power.
When Captain Xu thought of No. 02, his hands began to itch a little, and he wanted to pull out the gun behind his waist.
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In Liushugou, after Aunt Xu left, Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei waited for Xu Manqiu to come back, gave her some instructions, and then hurried to the commune.
There are many well-informed people these days. The first place Jiang Youtao passed by was a primary school. There were twenty or thirty young people standing at the entrance of the school. They were all there to take the examination to become primary school teachers.
Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei discussed it and walked towards the middle school. Compared with elementary school, the courses in middle school are more difficult. Although there are more positions than in elementary school, there are fewer people applying for the exam.
The commune is trying to be open, fair and just when recruiting teachers this time. At this critical juncture, things like using backdoors are absolutely not allowed to happen.
Liu Manzhu never stopped the educated youth from finding their own way out. After looking at the certificates of Jiang Youtao and the other two, Principal Huang of Zaoxiang Middle School nodded at them and said, "Go inside to the third classroom. Go in and wait. There will be a unified exam at 10 o'clock, and the best ones will be admitted."
The two of them arrived at the classroom and sat down. Soon, the classroom was full.
At ten o'clock, Principal Huang and several teachers from the school came in, holding a stack of papers in their hands. They had worked on them for two consecutive days, and each question was the result of their hard work. In contrast, the difficulty was also increased a lot.
After the papers were distributed, the teachers did not leave, but instead found a place to stand one by one, looking back and forth between the candidates, not missing any possibility of cheating.
An incident like Xu Baozhu blatantly copying the test paper while the teacher ignored it would not happen at this time.
Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei were both top students. They had the knowledge they learned in their previous lives as a foundation, so they had no difficulty in completing this paper. Unlike the other candidates, several of them put down their pens only halfway through the exam. Those who did not put down their pens became more and more solemn, and finally put down their pens.
A small half of the paper on the table was left empty. It was not because they didn't want to do it, but because they really didn't know how to do it.
Most of the people who came to take the exam were about the same age as Jiang Youtao and her classmates. The years when they were in school were when the movement was most intense. In order to protect themselves, many teachers were reluctant to teach knowledge, so the students' study career was particularly easy.
Thay attended all the classes they should have attended, but they didn't learn most of the things they should have learned.
They just don't know since when the higher-ups started to focus on education, teachers have been teaching more, but the previous price they paid was too painful, so they still don't dare to take care of students' affairs.
The educational purpose of many teachers is: I teach you the knowledge, but how much you can learn depends on your own ability.
This test paper covered Chinese, mathematics, politics, chemistry, physics and geography, and they had no idea about much of the knowledge.
The 90-minute exam was over and everyone handed in their papers one by one. But except for a few people, everyone looked unhappy.
Principal Huang said to them, "Don't go back yet. Wait here for a while. The results will be out soon."
A lot of things happened in Zaoxiang Commune this year, and the number of teachers who were dismissed for corruption and bribery was the highest in recent years.
Zaoxiang Commune had become famous in Yangping County. This time, the commune was recruiting teachers, and considering all aspects of the conditions, the commune leaders could not turn a blind eye.
They arrived on time. The teachers sealed the names after collecting the test papers and corrected the papers under the supervision of the commune leaders and the candidates to eliminate any possibility of cheating.
None of the examinees left, and they waited anxiously in the school. Half an hour later, the teachers stopped writing, peeled off the plastic cover covering the examinees' names, and selected the highest-scoring papers.
Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei were among them.
Because of the openness and transparency of this exam, the test scores were clearly displayed there, and none of the candidates present raised any objections.
Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei were admitted on the spot. They were junior high school teachers, earning 18 yuan a month, but the commune will not provide food and accommodation.
This salary is already very good in this era. Teachers also have many holidays in this profession, and they are still paid during winter and summer vacations.
Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei were full of excitement when they returned.
"Taotao, do you want to go to the county town and buy a bicycle?" The distance from Liushugou to the commune is not close. Normally, they can just walk there, but now that they have become teachers, they have to walk this road all year round. Gu Nianwei really doesn't want to do that.
"Okay." Jiang Youtao didn't have much money, but it didn't matter. After repairing another small world, the melon-eating system mall released a button to exchange melon coins for real money, with an exchange rate of 1:2.
After repairing the two small worlds, Jiang Youtao had become a wealthy man with a balance of more than 6,000 yuan, which is more than 12,000 yuan when converted into RMB.
It was only two or three hundred dollars to buy a bicycle, Jiang Youtao didn't care at all.
"The school asked us to report the day after tomorrow, so we will go to the county town early tomorrow morning."
"No problem, it's settled. Let's cook a little more tonight and just heat it up and eat it tomorrow morning." Jiang Youtao had accumulated a lot of melon seeds in her space. It was a good opportunity for her to sell the melon seeds when she went to the county town this time, otherwise the one-grid backpack would not be able to hold enough space.
The two of them returned to the educated youth center chatting and laughing. The atmosphere at the educated youth center was rather depressing. Li Yunying and her friends went to the county town to take the exam, but there were too many people. There were seven people from their educated youth center, and only Liu Yingjun, Zhang Huihui and Zhao Rongguang passed.
Li Yunying and Wang Shanxi failed the exam because they had been away from school for a long time. Although they had reviewed during this period, the time was short after all, and they had almost forgotten many knowledge points.
Zhao Rongguang has never forgotten to study over the years, and the tutoring during this period has made the knowledge points that he had not consolidated more solid. The reason why Zhao Yonglan failed the exam became even simpler. She had never thought about studying before.
Now seeing that Zhang Huihui and Liu Yingjun, who went to the countryside with her, have become workers, Zhao Yonglan feels bad. In addition to the feeling of loss of being left behind by her friends, she also feels sad that she could not go with Zhao Rongguang to be a worker.
Wang Shanxi looked at them in silence and smiled, "It's not a big deal, why do you look like that? Yunying and I told each other on the day of the exam that we would most likely not pass. Now it's just that our premonition has come true. Although I feel a little disappointed, I can accept it."
Li Yunying also suppressed her disappointment and said, "Shanxi is right. If you continue like this, I will be angry."
After the two older brothers and sisters spoke, the atmosphere became a little better.
Jiang Youtao told them that she and Gu Nianwei had been admitted as teachers in the commune, and everyone was very happy for them.
Li Yunying said, "We met Aunt Xu when we came back just now. She told me about you going to the commune to take the teacher exam. Among our group, you and Taotao have the best grades. We are very happy that you can become teachers."
Xu Dazui also said that she only got the news in the morning, and they all went to the county town, so they missed this good opportunity.
If you miss it, you miss it. You can't blame anyone. Wang Shanxi and Li Yunying are both open-minded people. After so many years in the countryside, they have learned to comfort themselves. If they couldn't even think about this, they would have found jobs when they graduated, and they would have been so angry when they went to the countryside.
Zhao Yonglan was even more speechless. With her terrible grades, she felt it would be difficult for her to become a student again, let alone be a teacher.
The cannery is different from the school. It has single dormitories, and Zhang Huihui and her friends plan to live on campus.
Zhao Rongguang should have been happy about going to the city, but he couldn't be happy at all when he lay on the kang at night.
The next day he got up very early, and Zhao Rongguang hadn't slept well the previous night. As soon as he came out, Zhao Yonglan noticed him. Pursing her lips, Zhao Yonglan covered her head with the quilt, and held her breath until she couldn't breathe, then she came out. Leaning on the window and looking out, Zhao Rongguang was still standing in the yard, like a sculpture.
After thinking it over again, Zhao Yonglan decided to get up and wash up.
Zhao Rongguang immediately went to help her pump water. The water pumped out from the well was not as cool as in summer. When the weather turned cold, it was a little warm, but it was still cold to wash your face.
Zhao Rongguang quickly took out his thermos and added some hot water to Zhao Yonglan's washbasin.
Zhao Yonglan thanked him and squatted down to wash. She brushed her teeth and washed her face slowly. Zhao Rongguang stood two steps away from her without saying a word.
Zhao Yonglan was annoyed and didn't plan to waste any more time with Zhao Rongguang. After all, this was the only chance he had. If Zhao Rongguang missed it, it would be his loss.
She poured some water, threw the towel and cup into the basin, stood up and walked away. Zhao Rongguang called her.
"Comrade Zhao Yonglan, I will come back every weekend." When Zhao Yonglan first went to the countryside, she didn't know how to cook and burnt everyone's food. Zhao Rongguang even quarreled with Zhao Yonglan about this. Later, when the two met again, they always had a feeling of "you don't like me, and I don't like you either."
When did his attitude change completely? Zhao Rongguang thought, it must be the time when he saw Zhao Yonglan and Zhu Yuemei fighting in the crowd.
Thinking back to the time when Zhao Yonglan was beaten so badly that she couldn't change her hands but still refused to admit defeat, he still find her quite cute.
But he really started to care about Zhao Yonglan after she gradually got better. That night when they were catching Xu Song and Xu Bai, Zhao Yonglan accidentally fell into his arms, and his heart almost jumped out of his chest.
Zhao Yonglan's hands, which were holding the wash basin, turned pale. "Whether you come back or not, what does it have to do with me?"
Although she said that, she couldn't help but smile.
Seeing her smile, Zhao Rongguang also smiled, and pink bubbles appeared around the two of them.
The two of them were very sweet, but Jiang Youtao, who got up early to go to the toilet, was almost suffocating.
Do you still have any sense of public morality? It's fine if you abused the dog early in the morning, but why hasn't it ended yet? They have been staring at each other for five minutes, and the threads drawn from their eyes can be woven into a silk quilt!