Reborn in the 60s and adopted

Tang Yongli, the third uncle of the Tang family, successfully entered the village brigade and became the deputy village chief. The village chief was semi-retired, and all village affairs fell on him. He focused on managing the economy. Tang Yongli understood that if he wanted to have great power, he must not take shortcuts.

Every day he ran back and forth between the fields, bamboo weaving teams, mushroom sheds, and supply and marketing cooperatives. When he was too busy, he asked the village chief's second son, Tang Guofu, to help with village affairs and study various mushroom varieties.

He also went to Kyoto to consult Niu Nan and his colleague, a professor at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and brought back more mushrooms. Under his leadership, in five years, the mushrooms in the village became famous throughout the county, enriching the tables of people throughout the county and generating a lot of income for the Bayi Brigade, which was appreciated by Deputy Mayor Wang. No, Deputy Mayor Wang has been promoted to Mayor Wang, and he also rewarded the Bayi Brigade with a tractor, and Gao Xiang is now the tractor driver in the village.

Now, the Bayi Brigade has become a star village among the nearby villages. They are the richest! If a child can marry someone from the Bayi Brigade, it will be very prestigious!

Tang Mei, a member of the village's weaving team, also participated. With her vision and Wang Ranchao's excellent painting skills, they designed many different types of bamboo bags, screens, and small and exquisite objects. Unfortunately, in this era, people could not even get enough food to eat, and they wore out their big clothes and continued to wear their small ones. They might not change their clothes for seven or eight years. They were not interested in these exquisite things, so only city dwellers would buy them.

Tang Mei's life suddenly became simple and fulfilling. She either studied attentively in school or went home to continue studying. In contrast, Wang Jiaojiao felt that running back and forth between home and town every day was too tedious and tiring. So she begged her father to arrange for her to live in Tang's house.

In this way, Wang Jiaojiao, Tang Li, Tang Mei and Goudan started a new chapter in their lives. They often played together and their relationship became deeper.

Since the third grade, they can even take interesting English courses taught by teacher Wang Ran at home. Thanks to this, Tang Mei and others have always been far ahead in their grades and have become famous. However, these children themselves are not aware of this.

Time flies, and the summer of 1968 quietly arrives. Tang Mei is now ten years old, and her brother Tang Wenkai has also spent four years growing up to four and a half years old. Tang Wenkai likes to chase cats and play with puppies with the villagers and enjoy the happy time; occasionally he will follow his sister like a little tail.

Tang Mei successfully completed her primary school studies and welcomed the long summer vacation, but she did not relax and still insisted on taking her friends to preview junior high school knowledge at home every day. In just ten days or so, Tang Mei and her friends will enter the first grade of junior high school in the town and officially become junior high school students.

This morning, Tang Mei was studying with her friends at home. Sister Ran, as a teacher, was helping them review junior high school knowledge. Suddenly, there was a flurry of footsteps outside the house. Wang Ran was about to let the children take a break, so she stuck her head out of the window to see who was coming.

It turned out to be Tang Mei's father, Tang Yongli, who was hurriedly rushing into his room.

Tang Mei recognized her father at first sight. She hadn't talked to her busy father for a long time. She hurried out of the house and stood quietly outside her parents' door waiting. Not long after, Tang Yongli quickly put on his clothes. When he noticed that his daughter, who had obviously grown taller, was leaning against the door, he asked curiously, "Girl, are you waiting for me?"

Tang Mei raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a bright smile, and replied: "Dad, what are you going to do? It looks like you are going on a blind date."

"Haha, nonsense, your dad just changed his clothes and went to the town to pick someone up." Tang Yongli explained with a smile.

Hearing what her father said, Tang Mei immediately became interested and asked, "Who are you going to pick up? Is our village going to welcome new educated youth?"

Tang Yongli nodded in affirmation and continued, "Yes, a group of educated youth will be arriving soon, and along with them will be the capitalist-roaders assigned to our place this time."

"Capitalist roaders~" Tang Mei couldn't help but scream out in surprise, secretly sighing in her heart that history always repeats itself in an amazing way, and the political struggles in the outside world are becoming more and more intense.

"Little girl, why are you so surprised? Didn't you know that there were people living in a cowshed in the neighboring village? Those people are the so-called capitalist-roaders!" Tang Yong gently touched his daughter's nose with his finger and said in a doting tone.

"Oh," Tang Mei nodded to show that she understood. "Then Dad, go quickly."

After Tang Yongli left, Tang Mei and others returned to their rooms to study.

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It was almost noon when Tang's third aunt Liu Lin hurried home from the fields and started cooking. Wang Ran led a few students to help in the kitchen. Tang's third aunt suddenly sighed.

Tang Mei saw this and was curious. Liu Lin had only taken care of her younger brother and occasionally earned some work points in the past few years. Now that she was the wife of the deputy village chief, many people came to curry favor with her. She was cheerful every day and rarely sighed like she did now.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Lin glanced at her daughter and sighed even longer: "My daughter, I really don't know what's the point of you reading so many books?"

Tang Mei looked at her mother with a puzzled look on her face: "Haven't you always been in favor of us studying hard?"

"Hey, today your father went to pick up a group of pro-capitalist roaders, including a geologist and the son of the president of Kyoto University, who seems to be a professor or something. They are now living in the dilapidated and dusty landlord's house next to the barren hill at the east end of the village. I saw that they were all ragged and miserable, and were escorted here like prisoners by the ferocious militia in the town. If it weren't for the head of our family who stopped the indignant villagers in time, I'm afraid those rotten leaves and fist-sized stones would have rained down on them. So I was thinking, you have read so many books, what will you do if you suffer like them in the future?"

Tang Mei remained silent. She knew in her heart that all industries in the future would have a great demand for highly educated talents. Although the current situation was turbulent, it would gradually get better.

However, after Wang Ran heard these words, her face instantly turned pale and bloodless. The son of the president of Kyoto University was actually a professor. Could it be that... Wang Ran didn't dare to think about it any further. She just wanted to rush to that place immediately and confirm it in person.

"Sister-in-law... Sister-in-law, can we... go over there and take a look?" Wang Ran asked stutteringly, his voice full of nervousness and anticipation.

Liu Lin looked suspicious: "Wang Zhiqing, why did you go to see those capitalist-roaders?"

"I...I..." Wang Ran stammered and couldn't speak. In fact, she had received a letter from Pei Yanyan before, saying that she used her grandfather's connections to assign Lin Xiao's family to the Bayi Brigade, so she guessed that the people who came this time should be the Lin family.

"Oh, Mom, don't ask, Sister Ran, let's go out for a walk!" The ten-year-old girl was almost as tall as Wang Ran's shoulders, and she easily dragged Wang Ran away.

Soon, they arrived at the east end of the village, getting closer and closer to the old landlord's house, and could not find any residents nearby.

"Meimei, are we in the right place? Why is there no one here?" Wang Ran looked at the bamboo forests on both sides of the road. The weeds were almost knee-high. He felt that this place was so desolate. It was a bit eerie in the middle of summer. He couldn't help but hug his arms.

"Yes, it's definitely right, don't worry!" Tang Mei patted her chest hard, with an expression of full confidence on her face that made people absolutely trust her.

Not long after, about two minutes, the two arrived in front of a dilapidated gate. The landlord's mansion covers a large area, several times larger than Tang Mei's house, but it looks very dilapidated and desolate. Wang Ran was very uneasy at this time. After all, he hadn't seen him for several years, and he couldn't help but feel homesick.

"Come on, why don't you go?" Tang Mei saw her standing there blankly and couldn't help but urge her.

"Well, let's go in." Wang Ran responded softly, slowly stepped forward, reached out and pushed open the shaky door.

With a "creak" sound, the scene before one's eyes was shocking - a courtyard as vast as a football field appeared in front of one's eyes, but the dense weeds growing in it were almost as tall as the Tangmei.

"This... this grass is too deep!" Tang Mei opened her mouth in surprise and couldn't help but sigh.