New Year's Day just passed, and 1979 came. On New Year's Day this year, there were three major events on the same day. First, the focus of the central government's work was shifted to economic development; second, the shelling of Kinmen was stopped; third, the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.

Li Siming, who had just completed a difficult project, decided to give himself a vacation.

The two presidents, Chen Cheng and Xu Dashuai, came to the door again.

"Do you want to donate again? I don't have anything else, and my salary is still a little bit." Li Siming joked. He has contributed at least five times and has not sent one certificate, so he comforted himself.

"Aming, what you said is as if we were jealous of money!" Chen Cheng and Shuai Xu were really embarrassed. They did "squeeze" a lot of money from Li Siming.

"It's not that your conscience has discovered that you want to treat me to a meal and compensate me for my hurt heart, right? I don't bother you, just treat me to a roast duck!" Li Siming said with a smile. The two of them looked for themselves together, and they must have asked for it.

"Amin, you are not so cruel! We have a serious matter to find you!" Chen Cheng said.

"What's wrong? Once you become a professor, you won't recognize me as a 'corps comrade-in-arms'?" Xu Dashui said with a smile.

"What's going on? You said it, I'll listen carefully!"

"Then follow us to strengthen our momentum!" Shuai Shuai pulled Li Siming straight to outside the school.

"What are you doing? You're so anxious!" Li Siming saw hundreds of students gathering outside the school, all of whom were from the Educational Youth Association.

"You will know when you get to the place!" Chen Cheng said.

Their destination is the Monument to the People's Heroes on Tiananmen Square, which has long been crowded with people. Among the crowd, there were a group of young men and women with dark skin and thin clothes. A wrinkled flag was flying in the wind under the biting cold wind. A line of eye-catching big words read: "The first group of educated youth from Yunnan Agricultural Reclamation to Beijing to petition". They were the group of educated youths that Sun Chang met in the suburbs of Kunming.

Li Siming understood that these people were educated youths, and they were rushing to the capital for their way back to the city. Chen Cheng and Xu, the former Red Guard activists, would not let go of such a thing, so they also pulled Li Siming over.

These men and women from the subtropical frontiers were wearing thin clothes when they set off, and were trembling with cold cold in this cold northern country. Li Siming quickly took off his coat and put it on an educated youth who was the commander-in-chief of the group. Chen Cheng and others also took off their clothes one after another.

"Comrade, thank you!" The man did not refuse.

"It's nothing. We were also educated youth a few months ago. We support you!" Li Siming pointed to the people beside him and said. Chen Cheng and Xu had already lit up their flags, which read: Peking University Educational Youth Association supports the petition action of the educated youth in Yunnan!

This made these educated youths who came from thousands of miles away from southern Xinjiang burst into tears. The educated youth in the petition group were inspired, cheered up, and told the crowd of people who had been watching their sufferings. For two days, more and more Beijing citizens and parents of educated youths, as well as educated youths who returned to Beijing from all over the country to celebrate the New Year, rushed to the square to support the educated youths in the south. Food, beverages and cold-proof clothes piled up into a hill.

The fountain of life has dried up,

The flowers of youth have withered;

Extending his decayed arms to the sky,

Ask for the last warmth from the sun.

The storm swept away the only yellow leaves,

The cold current brought ice and snow all over the sky.

Like a worm sucking into its thin muscles,

Start hibernation safely.

It bent with a wrinkled body,

Towards the long years,

With a trembling voice,

Tell your own suffering.

...

The towering monument to the people's heroes is still tall and upright. This monument symbolizing the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation witnesses the history of China since 1840. Li Siming suddenly remembered Ning Weidong, an educated youth who was lonely in the birch forest in the north. Can he see this at this moment? That young man who loves reading, is extremely stubborn and fragile in his heart. If he is still alive, will he regret it? Li Siming once promised in front of Ning Weidong's tombstone that he would build a monument for him, which is even more majestic than the one in front of him. It seems that he has forgotten it a little.

The actions of the educated youth were finally received by the central leaders. They were received by two veteran leaders in the Great Hall of the People. The educated youth achieved their goals, but since then the trend of educated youth returning to the city has become a foregone conclusion. In late January of the New Year, the State Council approved a report called "Six Notices", and the door to the educated youth returning to the city has been opened. But this is a later story.

When he returned to school, no one else had anything to do. The two presidents and vice presidents and Li Siming were invited by Principal Zhou, which was a bit of education. This made Li Siming a little dissatisfied. He should also educate the two presidents, so why did he just bring him with him? The two presidents accepted the criticism "humally" and then left. Before leaving, they deliberately winked at Li Siming.

"Xiao Li, you are also a professor now. Don't participate in such things in the future." Seeing that Li Siming wanted to defend himself, Principal Zhou interrupted, "I know you were also an educated youth, and it is natural for them to sympathize with them. But it is the most important to concentrate on doing your own things. The last time the Dongguang Factory project was very good. You can do things that others can't do, saving the country a lot of foreign exchange and greatly improving our country's technical level in this regard. What's wrong with doing? You have to do things that have nothing to do with your job! Have you suffered less sins in this regard?"

"I understand, principal!" Li Siming could only accept it, and the principal was kind-hearted.

Back in the laboratory, Yang Yue was waiting for him.

"I heard you were criticized today?" Yang Yue asked.

"Why did you know so soon?" Li Siming asked.

"We are professional journalism, of course we are well-informed. Are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's just a little sad." Li Siming said.

"If you hadn't resumed the college entrance examination, you might have been waiting in Heilongjiang now, right?" Yang Yue said.

"Yes, if this is the case, maybe I've settled down there." Li Siming said with a smile.

"Is that so? I wonder which girl is so noble and willing to marry you?" Yang Yue was unhappy.

"Yes, once you return to Beijing, you have become a hot item!" Li Siming laughed deliberately.

"Who misses you!" Yang Yue automatically filtered his meaning. She gently tamped with the hair on her forehead, revealing her bright and charming eyes and crescent-like eyebrows. Li Siming has seen this beautiful face countless times, and he will be temporarily lost in his mind every time. Yang Yue saw her expression in his eyes and was secretly happy.

"Tomorrow on Saturday, I'm going to go home tonight. You can go home with me." Li Siming said.

"what?"

"For the sake of the manuscript, you have taken good care of me for the past month."

"I won't go with you."

"Why? I can't go there alone and go back openly with me?"

"What 'sneaking'? What are you talking nonsense!" Yang Yuebuyi.

"Then you prove it to me."

"If you go, go. But I declare that this is not to prove it to you." In terms of eloquence, she is not Li Siming's opponent.

The two walked out of the campus side by side, Li Siming smiled and said, "Where is this considered to be 'Men and wife pay back the family'!"

"If you say it, I won't go." Yang Yue couldn't stand Li Siming's words.

"Okay, okay, I won't say it." Li Siming didn't say it, but grabbed Yang Yue's hand. Yang Yue tried hard to pull it out but failed.

"Let go quickly and let's see it." Yang Yue hurriedly pinched Li Siming's waist with another hand. This was a move that a woman could learn without a teacher.

"What are you afraid of? It's an old couple." Li Siming forced himself to hold back the pain in his waist and grabbed Yang Yue's other hand. The two formed another strange posture. The passerby had to take a gaze. Several tall and big horsemen were eyeing each other, preparing to implement the hero's feat of saving the beauty. As long as the weak woman gave the order, Yang Yue had to compromise.

"Am I really old?" Yang Yue said dissatisfied. Women are very sensitive to their age, especially older than the other party.

"Well, as the saying goes: a female junior high school girl holds gold bricks. What's more, you're no longer older than me for a few days." Li Siming explained "patiently".

"Actually, there are few people like us, such as Dashuai and Xiaoli, who can return to the city smoothly and be together!" Yang Yue said fortunately that she felt so happy when she saw those educated youth from Yunnan who had traveled a long distance today.

"Yes, I think that educated youth from all over the country should be able to return to the city for a while. However, those who are already married or are actually married may have many tragedies."

"You are quite touched! I think you can write poetry. People who write poetry are either emotional or sentimental."

"In the future, I will build a monument to the educated youth, a monument, which records all the glory and sorrow of our educated youth, so that future generations can remember that our educated youth have fought. Just like Tiananmen Square." Li Siming looked into the distance, as if he was talking to himself.

"So, if you are still on the frontier like the educated youth we met in the square today, will you still remember me?"

"Then I must cry and shout and pull you away, climbing you, the golden phoenix, so that I can escape from the sea of ​​suffering one day earlier." Li Siming smiled.

"I don't believe it!" Of course Yang Yue didn't believe it. He didn't even care about going to the labor reform farm, let alone repairing the earth. Yang Yue's words also aroused Li Siming's memories. He remembered the night when he was knocked down, Yang Yue's crying, the fiery scarf in the snow, and the years of labor reform, she blindly ran around for help. He only learned about all this later. Yang Yue and he were essentially the same kind of person, silently caring about the other party and not caring about whether the other party knew it.

"Thank you, past, present and future!" Li Siming said in a low voice.

"So too!" Yang Yue grabbed his hand. On a cold night in the Great Northern Wilderness, on that cold and thrilling night, Li Siming used his chest to warm her feet.

His hands were very warm and her hands were very hot.
Chapter completed!