Chapter 546 Profits are considerable

After Sheng Xiping and his entourage had finished sightseeing in the capital and completed their business, they set off to return home.

On August 18th, the family of six finally returned to Songjianghe, and Zhou Qinglan went back to school the next day.

Zhou Qinglan has discussed it with the school and has agreed that she will not be teaching a class this year, but will only be a subject teacher.

That way, as long as I don't have evening classes, I can go home after get off work in the afternoon.

Sheng Xinhua is in junior high school now, and these three years are crucial. Zhou Qinglan wants to spend more time with her child.

Zhou Qinglan was very capable. Originally, the school was vehemently opposed to donating a batch of teaching equipment to the school, but Sheng Xiping went to the principal and persuaded him to agree. Only then did the principal give his approval.

This year, August 21st is a Sunday, so school officially started on August 22nd, and students returned to school on the morning of the 21st.

Starting this year, all the middle schools in the forest farms have been merged, and all students will attend No. 1 Middle School.

Therefore, there are quite a few new students this year, with a total of fourteen classes and six or seven hundred students.

Sheng Xinhua had good grades and was assigned to Class 1. The homeroom teacher knew Zhou Qinglan and took good care of Sheng Xinhua.

It's about the size of a pea, with a smooth and shiny surface.

Then take an awl and pierce it through the hole in the binder, then thread it through a black shoelace or yarn and tie it securely. The binder is now bound.

The calendars of those days were different from those of later generations where all twelve months of the year were crammed together. Now, each month had its own calendar, and with the cover, it was thirteen pages in total.

Just then, Sheng Xinyu also came home. Seeing that his sister had finished covering her books, he also asked to cover his own books.

Those beads are mostly gray with some patterns on them; they are the seeds that grow on a type of grass.

Sheng Xiping remembers seeing people stringing grass beads together as door curtains when he was a child.

In the summer, using this kind of door curtain, the curtain sways when people come and go, preventing flies from following them into the house.

Cut calendar paper into long, thin triangles, then wrap them around paper clips or special wire.

"Dad, please help us cover the books and staple them together."

"Wow, Dad is so amazing! The book covers he made are so neat and tidy, and they even have lace trim. They look much better than my brother's."

It seems that starting from the beginning of this spring, a trend of making door curtains suddenly emerged.

"Dad, you used calendar paper to cover their books? Then give me two sheets of calendar paper too, I want to cover my books too."

Sheng Xiping rarely covers books for his child, so he wanted to do it well. He folded the bottom right corner of the book repeatedly to make it look nicer.

In junior high school, boys are usually chosen as class monitors because they have authority and can keep these naughty boys in check.

With the support of these people, Sheng Xinhua was elected as the class monitor.

Therefore, most families use kraft paper to cover their books.

Because Sheng Xinhua's home is nearby, he had just been leading people back and forth to get tools and clean up, and many students in the class had come up from the same primary school, so they all knew Sheng Xinhua.

When Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei were little, they were vain and even asked others for some bracelets to wear.

The two girls were quite naive; they'd never seen books covered like this before. They immediately showered their father with compliments, making Sheng Xiping grin from ear to ear.

This type of door curtain isn't the kind hung on the door in winter to block the wind, but rather in summer; it's similar to a beaded curtain.

Sheng Xinyue and Sheng Xinqi were the first to get home. As soon as they entered the house and saw Sheng Xiping there, they started assigning tasks to their father.

Go to school to hand in your holiday homework, do some cleaning, get your books back, and then you can go home.

Two notebooks, one with grid paper and the other with pinyin grid paper, were stacked together and clipped together with a black binder.

Compared to Sheng Xinhua, it was much easier for these elementary school students to return to school.

"There's parchment paper in the desk in the west room; you can use that." Sheng Xiping snorted.

The Sheng family has several wall calendars, which are company benefits.

The calendar paper is thick and smooth, making it perfect for wrapping books.

Newspapers are thin and not durable; they tear easily. Wall calendars were highly sought-after items back then, and not easily obtained.

Then they wrapped the calendar paper one by one, string by string, until they had enough for one door. Then they coated the outside of the calendar paper with a layer of white glue, let it dry completely, and then nailed it to the door frame.

Every winter, Sheng Xiping would have someone order a special batch of calendars from the printing factory for the company's employees.

On the first day back to school, we were divided into classes, received desks and chairs, cleaned up, then arranged seating, distributed books, got to know each other, and elected a class monitor.

Finally, they were taken off the nails and put on one by one, forming a rather long string.

When wrapping, the patterned side should face outwards and the white side inwards. Apply some white glue to bond them firmly, making a shape similar to a date pit.

After covering the books for the two girls, I then stapled them together.

Sheng Xiping covered the books with book covers, stapled them together, and wrote the children's names on the books and notebooks. Only then was he considered to have completed the preparations for the start of school.

Middle school is different from elementary school. Elementary school teachers generally prefer to choose girls as class monitors because they are serious and responsible and don't require much attention.

Sheng Xiping ignored all that, took out a calendar from the cabinet, cut it to size, and started covering his two daughters' books with it.

Some people make this thing with paperclips, while others make it with wire.

Wrap the wire evenly around two nails spaced at a fixed distance, forming a shape similar to a paperclip. Then cut the wire from one side and clamp it firmly with pliers.

These days, there aren't those plastic book covers, and children don't really know how to cherish books, so parents usually use kraft paper, calendar paper, or newspaper to cover the books for protection.

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