Chapter 172 Have a Happy New Year
After this group of experts arrived, Xie Yun asked Li Wenrui and Yu Ziqin to take everyone's pulse. They all had some health problems to varying degrees.
Pan Changqing politely thanked Li Wenrui and Yu Ziqin, and while drinking the bitter medicine soup, he complained to Xie Yun: "Do we have a grudge against each other? You are playing this trick on me!"
He is most afraid of suffering and would rather be sick than take medicine.
Xie Yun said, "Of course there is hatred. Class hatred will never be forgotten. Finish this bowl and get back to work! I tell you, don't think about dying early and being free. You must live a long life and work for the poor and lower-middle peasants."
A group of people who were taking medicine were coughing one after another.
This old man and this young boy really are birds of a feather.
When it comes to using words to disgust people, one person goes further than the other.
Pan Changqing swallowed the medicine in one gulp and slammed the table: "Get to work! Let's go."
He and Xie Yun are now both teachers and friends, and he harms his teacher and friend.
At first, he thought Xie Yun was here to supervise them, and was an insider sent by the people to infiltrate the ranks of the "stinking ninth class." After listening to the explanations of the old comrades in the cadre school, he felt that this child was indeed kind and smart. At the same time, he was worried that she had no talent in scientific research. If she didn't want to study anymore, would he withdraw his recognition and help for scientific researchers?
Fortunately, his worries were unnecessary. The child was extremely talented in learning and research, and his attitude was very serious and sincere.
Infinite regret arose in his heart again. If the college entrance examination had not been stopped, this child would have gone to college long ago, and after receiving formal education, he would have helped the country research various things. How great!
Why is it that now, hunkered down in this small place, I have to arm myself with revolutionary language and spirit before I can do anything? I'm used to expressing my stance before doing anything, and everything I say has to be under the banner of the poor and lower-middle peasants. For a 19-year-old, it's too difficult.
He couldn't even imagine how strong and determined this child must be to be able to do this.
He entered National Tsing Hua University at the age of 19, then went abroad in his twenties to study. Upon his return, he vowed to serve his country. Unfortunately, his mission was thwarted before he could achieve his goal. In 1958, he went from being a respected vice president of National Tsing Hua University to a widely condemned reactionary academic authority. Over the years, he'd moved from farming to screwing screws in factories, switching jobs several times, and had abandoned his professional research.
Now I can start research again, but I don’t know where to start!
Things in the world are unpredictable!
Pan Changqing sighed while teaching Xie Yun.
Xie Yun asked him, "Teacher, how many things can your brain do at the same time?"
Pan Changqing was annoyed: "Of course you can only do one thing! When doing academic research, the most important thing is to concentrate and focus."
Xie Yun was puzzled. "Then why are you sighing? Is knowledge making you unhappy? Or are you distracted and thinking about other things? Didn't you say that research requires concentration?"
Pan Changqing: “…”
He frowned and said, "You made me unhappy."
Xie Yun laughed and said, "How is that possible? I'm such a smart, hardworking and studious student, every teacher would be vying to have me, right? Just be happy that I'm your student. People should be content."
Pan Changqing: “…”
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Although he has been away from the academic circle for a long time, Pan Changqing is a player with both talent and hard work. He quickly regained his rhythm.
As a pioneer of the "Grand Graduate Reform," he decided to completely break free from the constraints of his previous profession and become a people's scientist. He would research whatever the country needed, and whatever the people needed.
He can do what he says.
Xie Yun believed this without a doubt.
After all, he is a famous "slash professor". When he first entered Tsinghua University, he studied chemistry. After graduating from university, he changed to physics. Later, he also studied mathematics. He is also very accomplished in literature and history.
Xie Yun followed him and, using the various links in the fertilizer production process as a framework, learned all the involved disciplines. Not only was she learning, but Pan Changqing was also actually learning.
Pan Changqing told her: "I can't be considered your teacher, I am your classmate."
Xie Yun said, "'We are young students, full of vigor and vitality, full of scholarly spirit, full of ambition and vigor.' Look at you, how is that similar to you?"
"What's wrong with me? I'm in the prime of my life! I'm full of scholarly spirit."
At most, I am a little short of being able to make decisions with great vigor. It’s not that I don’t want to, but that I don’t dare.
Pan Changqing is determined not to admit his old age and feels that he can still serve the country for another 50 years.
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Before we knew it, it was already 1970.
The end of the year is approaching.
Liushutun is particularly festive this year.
On the day of the Little New Year, the night school held a final exam, and the first batch of students trained there received their elementary school diplomas. The graduation rate was around 50%. These "elementary school students" ranged from nearly 20 years old to already in their 40s and 50s.
Wang Qingli, Wang Qinghong, Xu Wumei, Zhang Ruifeng and others have all graduated.
Xie Yun wrote a special article entitled "A Group of Special Primary School Students" to praise the new era and thank the leaders and the government for allowing these people who had no chance to study before to get the opportunity to receive education, pass the exams and get their diplomas.
By the way, the commune spent a fortune to buy a camera for the propaganda officer. Xie Yun took a group photo of the first graduating class and published it in the newspaper.
Everyone was very happy.
After this graduation exam, the night school will be divided into elementary and middle school sections. Those who have passed the graduation exam will proceed directly to the middle school section, while those who have not will remain in the elementary section, studying alongside the new students. Graduation exams will be held every six months going forward. This means that those who didn't pass this time will have another chance in June.
So, those who passed the exam should be happy, and those who didn’t should not be discouraged.
Apart from this, there are many other things to be happy about.
The most important point is that the income of all members has increased.
Xie Yun's family had a particularly good income this year. Xie Yun and Zhang Ruifeng both received salaries, and their expenses were very small, so most of the money could be saved.
Zhang Ruifeng didn't want her daughter's money, letting her save it. Ever since she got a job, she also stopped taking the money Xie Yun earned from reselling things, letting Xie Yun keep it all. She also paid for all household expenses, preventing Xie Yun from spending any money.
Xie Shen's income was decent. He earned over 400 work points by collecting grass for pigs and helping out in the vegetable garden during holidays. This year, the work point value in Liushu Village had increased to six cents per point, and he earned a little over 20 yuan from the production team. He sold his own pig for 81.54 yuan. It was a first-class pig, weighing 151 kilograms, at 54 yuan per kilogram.
Xie Shen told Xie Yun that he was extremely nervous when selling the pig. If the buyer cut out an extra pound of belly for the pig, the pig would become a second-rate pig, and he would lose 6 cents per pound.
He looked eagerly at the pig collector, his eyes filled with longing and hope, hoping that the man would be kind. As it turned out, the man was really kind and classified the pig as first-class at 151 kilograms.
As a result, Xie Shen was awarded a certificate of "Pig Farming Expert" by the brigade, and he and Qingli also made a speech at the year-end members' meeting.
This year, the rabbits he raised bred three generations and sold more than ten of them, earning a total of more than 30 yuan.
As for the cotton grown at home, Xie Yun kept ten kilograms for his own use and sold the rest. From his three-mu plot, he harvested over twenty kilograms of cotton. At that time, the average cotton yield per mu was less than 30 kilograms. Xie Shen was largely the sole caretaker of the Xie family's three-mu plot, so a harvest of over twenty kilograms was considered quite good.
The current purchase price of cotton is 1.02 yuan per kilogram. If it enters the black market, it can be several times higher. Of course, Xie Yun would not do this. She gave it all to her master. Yu Ziqin bought it all by herself and gave Xie Yun 20 yuan.
With this cotton, she could replace all the children's cotton-padded jackets and trousers, and their quilts with new ones. The old cotton could be fluffed up again and added to the adults' quilts.
Besides the income from the above, and the money from selling eggs, Xie Shen alone earned nearly 200 yuan. After deducting the cost of breeding and his own living expenses, he had a net income of about 100 yuan.
In the past, this was actually the entire family's income. Now, it's all Xie Shen's.
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