1970s Gentle Beauty

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Chapter 1

The summer is hot.

Jiangcheng during the summer vacation is like a pressure cooker, boiling with hot steam, as if it is going to roast people.

Even more bustling than Jiangcheng in summer is the registration office for going to the countryside to work in the mountains and mountains located in the west of the city.

During the annual graduation season, a large number of junior and senior high school graduates will become educated youth and go to backward rural areas.

Unlike the first few years of the policy, it is now 1975, and the freshness of going to the countryside to work in the mountains and mountains has long passed.

And the first batch of enthusiastic educated youth who went there also more or less told them the reality of the situation.

The powerless city kids who were raised in a pampered way were suddenly assigned to the countryside with poor resources and harsh conditions. They had to endure hardships that they could not imagine.

It was unimaginable to want to make a career there and create a new world. When the passion faded, what was left for them was endless pain and suffering.

In the first few years, the educated youth took the initiative to sign up to go to the countryside, but now young people expect to be arranged by their families for jobs before graduating from high school to avoid going to the countryside.

But not everyone has the opportunity to stay. Some families have many children. Even if both parents are dual-employed, they can only give up two jobs, and the remaining children can only be forced to accept the arrangement of going to the countryside.

Not all families have the conditions to arrange jobs for their children, so the registration office is still full of young people who come to register regardless of the heat.

Most people think that since they can't escape, they should try to register as early as possible to see if they can use their connections to be assigned to a slightly richer village.

This also leads to a lot of people at the registration point, some just came to register, and some have already registered but are still lingering.

However, these naive children don't understand that even if there is a good location, it has already been divided up by people with connections, so how can they get it by chatting on the spot?

It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and even though the sun had been much lower than at noon, the temperature at the registration point was still hot.

The registrar was exhausted after working all day. It was almost time to get off work, but the number of people at the registration office was still the same.

Not only did they have to register the information of the young people who came to register, but there was also a group of young people who were lingering around the desk and trying to get close to them.

The anger in his heart had already reached its peak, like a balloon that was about to explode but was still being blown inwards. It was already on the verge of exploding.

"How old are you? Take out your ID card and have a look. If you keep hesitating, leave here. This is not a place for children to play!"

The clerk at the registration office in the middle of the registration office was the first to get angry. The clerk was in his twenties, wearing glasses and looking at the boy sitting opposite him with a frown.

At first, I thought he was just a boy with a short stature due to malnutrition. After all, the educated youths of that time were busy hiding from going to the countryside, so how could they lie about their age and take the initiative to go to the countryside?