Although the news of resuming the college entrance examination has not been confirmed, Ye Qingshui and his wife obviously took the time to review after learning from Grandma Xie that the college entrance examination might be resumed this year.
Xie Tingyu closely follows the news from the capital every day.
At the same time, Xie Tingyu also began to prepare for research on biogas lighting and heating.
He explained his intention to the village committee, and the village cadres were shocked after they found out what biogas was.
With this thing, they can use electric lights like people in the city? Even without burning firewood?
Although city dwellers don't need to burn firewood, buying coal every month is still a considerable expense. With such benefits, why don't city dwellers use it?
"Xie Zhiqing, is this 'early qi' you mentioned really that effective?" the village committee director asked him in a thick local dialect.
Xie Tingyu nodded.
He prepared to take out his own collection of newspapers and said: "Using biogas for lighting and heating is not without precedent. In some places with better economic conditions, it has already been used."
After listening to this, several village cadres looked at each other and silently made a calculation in their hearts.
Kerosene costs more than 30 cents per pound, and those living in difficult conditions cannot afford it. Therefore, during the autumn harvest every year, some people in the village squeeze out oil from beans and use the oil to light lamps. Although firewood is free, it still takes labor to go up the mountain to collect firewood. But what about biogas?
I heard from Xie Zhiqing that if manure and rice straw are fermented, they will produce methane.
Manure is free! How can the countryside be without manure and straw?
They all agreed readily!
Xie Tingyu then tried to persuade them to pay for the construction of the biogas tank, and also explained in detail the cost of the biogas lamps. Several rural people with little education quickly waved their hands:
"Xie Zhiqing, just go for it! If you succeed, our Yejia Village will be the best in the surrounding area!"
This sounds so glorious. In this isolated little village, our ancestors have been using oil lamps for lighting. When it gets dark, people who are reluctant to waste kerosene can only lie in bed to sleep. If they could use electric lights like in the city, with bright lights on like daytime, how comfortable life would be. In the city, you have to pay for electricity, but in the countryside, you don't have to pay for biogas.
Although they are not educated, they are not stupid. Biogas research is a big project. Why not do something beneficial? Isn't it a waste to leave such good talents unused?
Ye Qingshui, a little girl, has invented a water-finding instrument, which shows that Xie Zhiqing will become even more powerful!
Last time, Yejia Village stole the show, and this time it will be even more eye-catching if it produces biogas.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s beautiful or not, what’s important is to save a lot of money and make life more convenient.
The village director patted Xie Tingyu on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Comrade Xie, no matter whether this biogas digester can be built or not, since you have this intention to benefit others, you will definitely be admitted to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University next year."
Xie Tingyu didn't care about this position and he declined it politely.
This made the village cadres feel that Xie Zhiqing was a good comrade who made selfless contributions and did not ask for anything in return.
Xie Tingyu got the funds and asked people to build a biogas digester. The village cadres specially convened a mobilization meeting for the villagers. Yejia Village will realize biogas lighting and heating this year!
After listening to the popular science education, the villagers were immediately enthusiastic. When the topic of building a biogas tank was raised, all the strong laborers raised their hands when they were called.
Before this, Xie Tingyu had done a lot of homework and wrote two full notebooks. Under his leadership, the biogas pool in Yejia Village was completed in half a month.
After the autumn harvest, every household had a lot of rice straw piled up in their firewood room. The weather was warm, and the manure and straw fermented quickly...
Xie Tingyu also spent some time thinking about biogas.
The first thing he made was a biogas stove.
The biogas stove is modified from an ordinary gas stove. Although few people use gas stoves these days, that is because LPG is expensive and difficult to transport.
When Xie Tingyu connected the pipe of the gas stove to the biogas, a crowd of heads surrounded him. Ye Qingshui was also looking at him.
He picked up a match, struck it gently, and a small flame ignited at his fingertips.
With a "puff" sound, the gas stove made a slight sound, and a small, faint blue flame jumped up!
Everyone let out a "whoosh" of surprise.
It’s not because they have never seen fire. The birth of this flame means that they can use biogas to boil water and cook in the future!
This biogas is really useful!
It doesn't hurt at all when it burns.
It only costs about thirty yuan to build a biogas digester, but it can support the use of several families.
The success of this biogas stove has given hope to the villagers of Yejia Village.
Even the usually picky director of the Women's Federation smiled and said, "We are much more fashionable than the city people this time. We can use biogas to boil water and cook, while the city people still have to burn coal!"
That’s not the case, everyone nodded.
They used to envy city dwellers for having coal briquettes to burn, as they didn't have to go up the mountain to collect firewood. If they didn't collect firewood, they wouldn't know how hard it was, as it would take only a few days to burn all the firewood from the mountain.
But now there is no need to envy them at all. Biogas is clean to burn, has no odor, and saves labor.
Ye Qingshui missed the modern biogas stove. She could use the stove to boil water and cook without being disturbed by wood smoke. Cooking with a gas stove would allow her to better control the fire.
Ye Qingshui felt warm in his heart as he looked at the flame controlled by Xie Tingyu.
"Ye Zhiqing, we're waiting for you to make a biogas lamp!"
"If we can even make lights, our lives will be more beautiful than living in the city."
"Yes, my grandfather is 87 years old this year. He has never been to the city or seen lights in his life. Let him see the lights in the village light up!"
Everyone was discussing it at once, and the more they talked, the more excited they became. The village cadres had even made arrangements to report the biogas digester to the county and give Xie the honor of being an advanced member.
Before this, Ye Qingshui was very worried that Xie Tingyu would delay his studies because of the biogas issue.
But now she saw the anticipation and joy in the eyes of the whole village. By participating in them, she could also feel everyone's long-awaited hope for light, and she suddenly felt relieved.
Forget it, she should urge her man to study hard when she has free time.
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At the same time, the educated youth points also began their review plan in full swing.
At this time, the educated youth training centers were divided into several distinct camps.
On one side are the educated youth who believe that the country will restore the college entrance examination and are eager to study hard.
On one hand, there were educated youth who were completely indifferent to the resumption of the college entrance examination. Some of them had low education levels. When the educated youth went to the countryside, there was no rule that those with only primary school education would not be accepted. Even if they had only studied for a few years, they could still be called "educated youth" when they went to the countryside.
Another type is the educated youth who are not ambitious and content with the status quo. Even if they know the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination, they will remain indifferent.
They simply couldn't understand Zhou Tingting, a young intellectual who studied late into the night like a man with chicken blood, and they didn't understand why they would stay up all night with red eyes just for a piece of trivial news.
Another type is those who wait and see. They also want to go to college in their hearts, but if the news is not confirmed, it is fake. When they see those educated youths reviewing with books in their hands, they cannot understand their foolish efforts. If the news is false, it is useless to read the books to pieces.
How can there be such a stubborn person? This is not smart, this is stupid!
It's okay to waste energy, but buying books for review is a big expense, not to mention the tutorial books. To review well, you have to prepare these books.
I worked hard to save a little money, but it was all spent on a piece of fake news.
"You just believe whatever Xie Zhiqing says? What are you after? Wake up, are you crazy about going to college?"
Isn't this just wanting to go to college like crazy?
Those who had enjoyed favorable educational conditions and whose parents and grandparents were educated youth with decent jobs were the most excited. They knew very well what the college entrance examination meant.
This is an opportunity, the only chance to return to the city in glory.
They can't work as hard as activists or old farmers, and the amount of food they get each year is pitifully small, so they have to live frugally. If the college entrance examination is really restored, will they still have to live such a hard life?
Sun Lingyu closed her mouth, held her breath and immersed herself in the book.
She was a little tired of reading, but when she saw the people in Zhou Tingting's dormitory carrying cheat sheets in their pockets and taking them out to look at them from time to time while working, she gritted her teeth and continued reading.
Li Dahong raised her head and answered the educated youth who mocked her: "I love to read, I am happy, you can't control the world, can you control whether I read or not?"
Reviewing is not an easy thing to do. I spent all my monthly allowance on buying a few books. And there were people who made sarcastic remarks. This kind of sarcasm really hurts people's hearts.
You clearly want to go back to the city and go to college, so why are you regarded as a fool or a lunatic in the eyes of others?
Zhou Tingting shook her head and whispered to the sisters in the dormitory: "Why fight with them? Let's just focus on our own business."
Shen Weimin couldn't help but laugh when he heard such sarcastic words.
They probably didn't know where old lady Xie worked, or what was discussed in the meeting she mentioned in the letter. If they had carefully understood the situation and made their own judgment, they would never have said such things.
Shen Weimin also continued to pay attention to the news from the capital.
He not only found all the high school textbooks, but also bought supplementary teaching materials. It happened to be the "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Handbook" recommended by Xie Tingyu and his wife. He reviewed little by little with the tutorial book, and he, who had forgotten all the high school knowledge, gradually became familiar with it.
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September, the capital.
Capital Publishing House had just finished printing 80,000 copies of the Handbook of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and was originally worried about sales, but when they heard the news, they took advantage of the discussion about the resumption of the college entrance examination and printed another 50,000 copies. This decision was indeed risky, but printing another set of books was just a piece of cake for this large company that could generate millions of profits for the country every year.
The factory director had to sign orders every day, involving hundreds of thousands of copies. If this "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Handbook" was a loss, then he would hold on to it and sell it slowly. This kind of knowledge book will never go out of date.
As soon as the Handbook of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry was printed, it was sent to bookstores all over the country for sale. After the bookstores in various places received this set of teaching supplementary books, the store managers were very angry: such books are printed in large quantities, and no one even glances at them after they are sent out.
"Students in schools these days are so impatient that they don't even read the textbooks. How can they afford to buy supplementary textbooks? I don't know what Capital Publishing House is thinking."
The bookstore manager felt a headache when he looked at the thousands of sets of books.
At the same time, Ye Qingshui and Zhou Tingting were going into the city to buy tutoring materials. When she saw the neglected "Handbook of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" in the bookstore, she suddenly thought of a business deal.
She went home and secretly told Xie Tingyu: "I have thought of a way to make money."
Ye Qingshui spent several months reading this set of books from beginning to end. The quality is much higher than that of the "Self-study Series" in his previous life. In his previous life, a set of teaching supplementary books was sold out, and many people had to go to S City to ask for connections to buy them.
After changing hands several times, the price can be sold at three or four times higher.
Instead of letting those scalpers ask for exorbitant prices, it would be better to let Ye Qingshui make some quick money.
Ye Qingshui told Xie Tingyu about this idea. She took out all her savings and counted them. She earned a total of 820 yuan from the black market business and received a total of 400 yuan in rewards from the water finder. Apart from daily expenses and the cost of building a house, she also received 200 yuan from the capital...
Ye Qingshui had a total of 730 yuan left, and she wanted to buy Zhou Cunren's book.
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