A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 361: Enjoying the Suffering

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed. Lu Cheng's medical skills had been recognized by the villagers of Baidian Village. When the villagers saw Lu Cheng, they would greet him warmly and call him "Doctor Lu".

Afterwards, Lu Cheng took two girls, Qin Ling and Li Lijuan, to start door-to-door visits to understand the health status of each household and make a family medical file for them.

While visiting homes, Lu Cheng would also spread some health knowledge to the villagers, teach them how to prevent diseases, etc.

If he encounters families whose financial conditions are really difficult, Lu Cheng will provide them with free medical treatment and medicine.

When treating some children, Lu Cheng would always take out a piece of fruit candy from his pocket so that the children would happily accept his treatment.

Although the people here are poor, most of them are simple and honest. They will respect anyone who treats them well.

After being cured, many villagers would come to Lu Cheng to thank him with some peanuts, red dates, etc. Although the gifts were not much, they were all a token of their thoughtfulness.

Moreover, Lu Cheng made contributions to the village, and the villagers became more accepting of the educated youth. The relationship between the educated youth and the villagers became more and more harmonious.

After spending half a month visiting all the villagers in the village, Lu Cheng found the village party secretary Bai Guixing again.

"Secretary Bai, I recently learned about the situation in Baidian Village. Many children in the village should go to school, but some are already seven or eight years old and have not started yet. Moreover, the school in the commune is a bit far away, so it is not convenient for the children to go to school.

It just so happens that most of us educated youth have graduated from high school, so it is no problem for us to teach primary school children. I was thinking, why not set up a primary school in the village, so that the children don’t have to go to the commune to study. What do you think? "

"This is a good thing. Of course I agree with it. Last time I went to a meeting at the commune, I heard from the commune leaders that some villages have indeed set up village-run primary schools. If children can go to school in the village, they don't have to travel so far, and their families don't have to worry.

However, you know the situation in the village. It is not easy to run a primary school. It is not easy to arrange classrooms. Moreover, we need to prepare desks and benches for the children and buy chalk for the teachers.

"There are no big requirements for classrooms. A cave house is enough. As for chairs and benches, if they are not available, we can borrow them from the villagers and see if anyone has them."

"Okay, I'll think of a way and discuss it with the village leaders. If everyone agrees, I'll report to the commune and see if I can apply for some supplies. If everything goes well, after the New Year, we'll set up a village-run primary school."

"Okay, I'll go back first. By the way, the village is running low on medicines, so I plan to go to the county to buy some while the weather is fine these two days. Secretary, can you lend me your bicycle?"

"No problem, just ride it off in a moment and return it to me when you're done."

The next morning, Lu Cheng rode out early on his bike and took Li Kuiyong to the town first, asking Li Kuiyong to pick him up by bike in the afternoon. Lu Cheng himself went to the county town.

When Lu Cheng came back in the afternoon, he not only brought back some medicines, but also 20 kilograms of flour and two kilograms of pork.

That night, the educated youth group was busy making dumplings.

In fact, every time Lu Cheng went to the commune, he would bring back some food and cook for himself and Li Kuiyong, so that other educated youth could also have a full meal from time to time.

Although he had stored so many supplies before, Lu Cheng never let himself go hungry.

On the other hand, Zhong Yuemin, who was working at the educated youth center in Shichuan Village, was not so lucky.

There were more men than women in Ishikawa Village, and the food was consumed faster. In addition, half of the food was withheld by the village party secretary, making life even more difficult.

Afterwards, Zhong Yuemin and Zheng Tong found the home of the village party secretary of Shichuan Village and wanted to threaten Chang Gui to take back the other half of the grain that the Youth League Office had distributed to them.

But after Chang Gui took Zhong Yuemin and Zheng Tong for a tour of the village and showed them several unattended families of martyrs and five-guarantee households in the village, Zhong Yuemin and Zheng Tong lost interest and did not mention the matter of getting the food back again.

Although people were very poor in those days, their ideological awareness was very high. When Zhong Yuemin and others learned that their food was given to the families of military martyrs, they did not pursue the matter any further and were willing to starve.

After entering the coldest month of winter, heavy snow began to fall in northern Shaanxi. The educated youth no longer had to go out and all stayed at home to spend the winter.

In the educated youth center in Baidian Village, all the educated youth have been reading and studying recently.

Under Lu Cheng's guidance, Li Kuiyong has developed a habit of self-study. Whenever he has free time, he will sit down and study mathematics, physics and chemistry seriously.

Lu Cheng would also sit there, reading a book.

There were only three people in the male dormitory. Zhou Haipeng, who was left alone, didn't talk to anyone, so he just followed suit and studied.

The girls in the neighboring dormitory were soon influenced by the boys' learning atmosphere and began to read and study consciously.

Especially after the two girls came to Lu Cheng for help when they encountered problems they didn't understand and received Lu Cheng's attentive answers, the other girls' enthusiasm for learning became even higher, and they would come over to ask questions from time to time.

When everyone has nothing to do, they will get together to discuss some exercises, explain some historical and geographical knowledge, or recite a poem to each other, play idiom chain games, flying flowers and so on.

Although life was hard, that was a time when people valued revolutionary optimism, encouraged and comforted each other, so life didn't seem so hard.

The suffering will be much lessened if we share it with a group of like-minded people.

During this period, Zhong Yuemin, Zheng Tong and Ning Wei would come over from time to time to play and have a meal.

Of course, they don’t come here often after the snow, after all, the distance is quite far.

Of course, Lu Cheng also has some small troubles on ordinary days.

"Lu Cheng, I see your clothes have a tear, take them off and I'll mend them for you."

"Lu Cheng, this is the scarf I just knitted, would you like to try it?"

"Lu Cheng, I don't understand a few questions. Can you teach me?"

Lu Cheng would gladly accept the kindness of his female classmates, and give them some candies, a bar of soap, a few eggs, etc. in return, without ever owing anyone anything.

Of course, Li Kuiyong and Zhou Haipeng were somewhat envious of the girls' displays of affection towards Lu Cheng. Even Zhong Yuemin and Zheng Tong, who occasionally came to visit, would sometimes make a few jokes.

It is worth mentioning that among those educated youth from Shaanxi Province, there was one from Xi’an named Xu Xiulan, who gradually developed some feelings for Li Kuiyong as they got along, but Li Kuiyong had not realized it yet.

In the original play, after Li Kuiyong was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he recalled in a conversation with Zhong Yuemin that there was an educated youth from Xi'an who liked him in northern Shaanxi, but Li Kuiyong knew his family situation and did not want to drag down the girl. The girl's family also disagreed with their daughter marrying Li Kuiyong.

Later, before the girl left, she wanted to give her body to Li Kuiyong. Although Li Kuiyong was impulsive, he hugged his beloved girl and did nothing all night. Because he understood that since he could not give her happiness, he could not delay her life.

Perhaps, this Xu Xiulan is Li Kuiyong's true love.

However, now that Li Kuiyong has a cousin named Lu Cheng, he will no longer live such a miserable life.

It is winter now. When spring comes, Lu Cheng will find a chance to go out and do something big...