Chapter 114 Xiaofang (Subscription Request)

Zhang Yunqi was startled: "That man tonight wasn't your father?"

Chu Jian nodded, was silent for a moment, and asked, "Aren't you in a hurry to go home?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled: "No rush."

Chu Jian said, "Then how about we go for a walk? Yunqi."

Zhang Yunqi nodded and agreed.

He knew that this girl had a lot on her mind and was under unbearable pressure. She was always used to keeping things in her heart, but after a long time, she would collapse.

In the silent night, two people walked along the bumpy mud road. Zhang Yunqi followed Chu Jian. Chu Jian was very familiar with this area and took him to a camphor tree, under which was a green meadow.

The two of them sat on the grass. Chu Jian hugged her bent knees with her hands and looked up at the night sky. There was a moon and stars in the sky. She suddenly said, "Yunqi, do you want to hear about my story?"

Zhang Yunqi had been waiting for Chu Jian to speak: "You go ahead."

Chu Jian said, "In fact, the man you met at my house today is Chu Xin's biological father, but he is only my stepfather. His name is Chu Dapeng. My biological father is Zhao Shixiong. He is from the capital, Yanjing. He was an intellectual in the 1970s and an educated youth who went to work in the countryside in Wutong Village, my mother's hometown."

Zhang Yunqi was stunned for a moment, but said nothing and continued to listen to Chujian's story silently. It took him about ten minutes to understand the whole story clearly. Even with his many years of experience in dealing with people and his macro understanding of the period when educated youth went up and down the mountains in the 70s, he understood it more thoroughly and clearly.

Zhao Shixiong, the biological father I first met, was a native Yenching young intellectual. Both of his parents were university professors.

As for Zhao Shixiong, he was sent to Wutong Village in Guiping County, Jiangchuan City as an educated youth in the year of July 4th. He was tall and energetic, with lively eyes, a handsome appearance, and a sharp tongue. He was very popular with the women in the village and the team at that time. But to everyone's surprise, he fell in love with the mute daughter of the village team leader, Jiang Feng, the mother he met at first sight.

Jiang Feng was quite pretty when she was young, but she had been mute since childhood and had never married. When she was favored by Zhao Shixiong, a talented and handsome young man, Jiang Feng's father was very happy, and Jiang Feng had no resistance to Zhao Shixiong, so the marriage became a natural outcome. In 1976, Zhao Shixiong and Jiang Feng got married.

After the two got married, because Jiang Feng's father was the village team leader, Zhao Shixiong avoided a lot of heavy farm work. Not only did his quality of life improve, but he also had plenty of time and energy to read and study.

On this day in 1977, Jiang Feng gave birth to Chu Jian.

It’s just that Chu Jian at that time was not called Chu Jian, but Zhao Yu. This name was given by her biological father Zhao Shixiong, and was taken from a sentence in “Tai Xuan Yuan Gao”: “The sun shines in the day, and the moon shines in the night.” It means light.

Also in October of the same year, a major event that attracted national attention occurred: the country ended the era of "blank paper heroes" and restored the college entrance examination system.

As a promising young man from a family of high-level intellectuals, Zhao Shixiong had long been aware of his independence and had seen the world in the capital. How could he be willing to stay in a small village and be a farmer all his life?

It was natural for him to take the college entrance examination, and he had been studying hard in private during those years. However, candidates at that time needed something that was not very formal but very necessary for the college entrance examination - a letter of introduction!

Without this thing, Zhao Shixiong could not take the college entrance examination. It is not known whether he was foresighted or just lucky to marry the mute Jiang Feng, because all the letters of introduction for the educated youth who went to Wutong Village to take the college entrance examination were managed by his father-in-law, who was the village team leader.

For the sake of his son-in-law's future, his father-in-law wrote a letter of introduction to Zhao Shixiong, so Zhao Shixiong successfully took the college entrance examination. Perhaps because of his family background or perhaps because of his natural intelligence, he was admitted to Tsinghua University, the top university in China, without any problems.

This incident caused a sensation in the entire Jiangchuan Administrative Office at that time. Hundreds of people from all over the county and the countryside came, and it was very lively in Wutong Village with the beating of gongs and drums. Jiang Feng's father was also very happy and held a big banquet in the village. Perhaps this old farmer simply thought that this was an opportunity for his family to become successful.

Zhao Shixiong even vowed to his father-in-law that he would bring his wife and daughter to live in the capital after they settled down there. However, after he boarded the train to the north, he never returned after that.

During this period, Jiang Feng's father, who had been waiting for a son-in-law for a long time, had not received any news from Zhao Shixiong, so he took his daughter Jiang Feng to Yanjing.

An old man and a mute, these two peasants who didn't even know the way in such a big capital, found Tsinghua University after going through untold hardships and made a big fuss in Tsinghua for several days. Finally, a man who claimed to be Zhao Shixiong's cousin appeared in front of them and brought a divorce agreement and 600 yuan.

This story sounds very melodramatic, very similar to the 8 o'clock emotional drama "Looking for Love" on Mango TV in later generations, but Zhang Yunqi knows that in the 1980s, such things as educated youth abandoning their wives and children were like the leg hair of European and American handsome men, too much!
Some educated youth were forced to settle down in the countryside and had wives and children. Later, they returned to the city and cut off all ties with the past in order to get rid of it. Some educated youth went to college and moved to the city, yearning for free love and becoming Chen Shimei for the sake of love.

Zhao Shixiong should be the latter.

Zhang Yunqi vaguely remembers that in 1993, which was this year, an unknown singer Li Chunbo wrote a song called "Xiao Fang". This song became popular all over China as soon as it was released. Li Chunbo also won the National Top Ten Most Popular Male Singers Award and became the hottest and most popular singer in 93.

The reason why this song was so popular in that era, in addition to its catchy melody, the more important reason is that it suits the tastes of people of that era. It is based on the life experiences and emotional experiences of going to the countryside to work, and it touched countless educated youth who returned to the city at that time.

However, some people in later generations interpreted this song as saying that "Xiao Fang" is the regretful voice of a heartless educated youth who abandoned a beautiful rural girl, but pretended to sing it in a high-sounding manner, saying nice words, "Thank you for your love, I will never forget it in this life." Haha... What's the use?
In fact, who can clearly tell and understand the right and wrong of marriage and love in special times?
Zhang Yunqi would not stand on the moral high ground to accuse anyone. He just thought that Zhao Shixiong was such a bastard for transferring all the right and wrong onto the 16-year-old girl next to him.

　Fourth update! Fulfilled my promise. It’s almost five in the morning. I’m so tired. I can finally get some sleep~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)