Me and the Educated Youth Who Went to the Countryside

Introduction to the work: 1. In the autumn of 1968, Zhou Zhiyuan, an educated youth who returned to his hometown, met three new urban educated youths - Zhang Xiang, Lin Xing and Li Quan, under the leadership of the production team leader. The strangeness and discomfort they faced in rural life made Zhou Zhiyuan feel pity for them. 2. Integrating into the countryside: Zhou Zhiyuan took the initiative to take the responsibility of helping the educated youth adapt to rural life. From fetching water for cooking to working in the fields, he patiently taught them various farm work skills, and gradually established a deep friendship. 3. Emotional buds: In working together and living together, Zhou Zhiyuan developed a profound friendship with the educated youth who went to the countryside. They shared their ideals beside the wheat stacks under the moonlight and supported each other in the hard years. 4. Changes of the times: In the early 1978, educated youths began to return to the city for various reasons. Lin Xing and Li Quan successively left the countryside and returned to the city, while Zhang Xiang chose to stay, married veteran Zhang Han and became a substitute teacher, and was promoted to a full-time teacher in 1981. 5. Revisiting the old place: Many years later, the educated youths of those days returned to their second hometown, and Zhou Zhiyuan also rushed back to his hometown from the coastal city. Everyone gathered together to recall the youthful years they spent together, and lamented the changes of the times and life. 6. This writing focuses on Zhou Zhiyuan's first encounter with three urban educated youths and the process of helping them adapt to rural life, showing the innocent friendship and budding emotions among young people in a special era.