At 11 o'clock in the morning on November 10, 1978, that is, when the solemn meeting in Beijing (the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee) entered into a significant theme report, it was impossible to find it on a map in the border of Yunnan. In a remote place called Olive Dam, a Shanghai female educated youth named Xu Lingxian walks with difficulty on the uneven mountain path with a very heavy belly.There was no clamor of people, no dust, only a ray of late autumn sun passing through the woods lonely, and sprinkled broken spots of light on the panting young pregnant woman who was about to become a mother.The female educated youth straightened up from time to time, wiped the sweat from her forehead, or supported the tree trunk by the side of the road to rest.Of course, it is impossible for her to know what is happening in distant Beijing at this moment, and the relationship between these things and the future fate of her and the educated youth. Right now, she only has one desire stronger than ever, and that is to finish this paragraph as soon as possible. Short distance, the child was delivered to the hospital.

In this way, when this female educated youth, who has trekked up the mountain and down to the countryside for a full ten years, is gestating her own great hope for the future and is struggling towards the branch hospital, she does not know that her road of life is about to end. to the end.For a terrible catastrophe awaits her, and the shadow of death has spread its wings. In any sense, the old house in Qifenchang, which can only provide shelter from wind and rain and poor conditions, cannot be called a "hospital". It is also difficult to be called a "doctor" as a doctor who has studied in the "medical class" for three months.However, Dr. Cheng and his colleagues have indeed been working in this big house that has never been seriously disinfected for nearly ten years.

Dr. Cheng was not nervous or panicked by the arrival of the pregnant woman.He asked a family member who was experienced and enthusiastic about giving birth to be his helper, and calmly sterilized all the delivery instruments one by one, then put on rubber gloves, and sat patiently on a chair to wait for the baby to arrive.Unexpectedly, a whole afternoon passed, and the fetus did not intend to be born immediately.Things become very unfair at this point, because doctors and patients also need to eat and rest, and need to abide by a common schedule.So the doctor, after looking at his watch three times in a row, decided to go home and have dinner immediately.He ordered his family's elder sister-in-law to take care of the pregnant woman for him temporarily, and to look for him at home if something happened, and then left the clinic and hurried home.

Unfortunately something happened.Maternal symptoms of transverse dystocia.At this time, Dr. Cheng had been away for more than two hours and hadn't come back. The only person in the delivery room was his family's wife.Soon, a monster that made all the obstetricians turn pale - uterine hemorrhage suddenly appeared.At 9:45, the female educated youth stopped breathing on the way to the farm hospital.Both mother and child died.After ten-thirty, someone finally found the drunken doctor in a low kitchen not too far from the headquarters. There is a simple morgue in the southwest corner of the farm hospital.In the past few days, this place, which has always been regarded as a daunting place, has suddenly become the focus of local public opinion.After hearing the news, there was an endless stream of educated youths who surrounded the morgue.The deceased was dressed in a grass-green military uniform, his hair was combed neatly like a festival, and his face was lightly made up, partially covering up the traces of pain left at the moment when his young life was torn apart.The little life that died prematurely before birth was wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying side by side with his mother.Neither the mother nor the son looked like they had been in an accident but were sound asleep.

Most of the educated youths who came to express their condolences were classmates or comrades-in-arms of the farm. Some of them drove a long way to the mountains, all of them were wearing trouser legs, black gauze or small white flowers on their arms.Some female educated youths couldn't help but burst into mourning before entering the door.Instead of mourning the deceased friends with tears, it is better to say that they also mourn for the fate of their own educated youths. People in the hospital were immersed in this sad and depressing atmosphere for a long time. ... people contagious and fueled each other's long-pent-up anger and dissatisfaction.Some people planned to hold a memorial service and asked the farm to deal with the aftermath; more people proposed that the perpetrators must be held accountable, the treatment of educated youths and medical and health conditions should be improved, and so on.The above proposal immediately received a unanimous response from most educated youths.So this kind of dissatisfaction caused by the death of female educated youths quickly evolved into an act of resistance against the general fate of educated youths.

The rapidly spreading hostility among the sent-down youth deeply disturbed the farm leadership.That afternoon, the hospital tried to transfer and bury the corpse under the pretext that the hot weather would not allow the corpse to stay for a long time, but was stopped by the educated youth, but failed. On the 16th, the farm security department was ordered to forcibly dispose of the corpse.The educated youth refused to allow it, and friction occurred between the two parties.When the news spread, the educated youths were in an uproar, and more and more angry male and female educated youths rushed to the scene from all directions.

Conflict is imminent. Zhou Limin, a female educated youth from Chongqing, recalled: "At that time, no one realized that this incident would cause a big mess. We thought that since Xu Ling was not the first and not the last innocent victim, we demanded better living conditions and medical conditions, and punished Those doctors who disregard human lives should not be unreasonable. It is unbelievable to say now that I have been an educated youth for a full ten years, living in a thatched cottage, and drinking salt water soup for half of the year..." Another old educated youth, Li Xiaolin, said: "Actually, no one thought of confronting the farm leaders at the beginning, because the original intention of the educated youths was not to make trouble. What problems can be solved by making trouble? ... The problem is that the farm leaders adopt high-pressure methods, not persuade them with reason. Instead, they are prepared to use force to forcibly disperse the educated youth and suppress people's dissatisfaction. Under such unbearable circumstances, the educated youth was forced to make a final roar."