Yu Rujia: "Duofu and the others get up at five o'clock every morning to practice martial arts. Can you get up like that?"
The eldest son confidently declared, "I can get up."
Erdan: "Me too."
Not to be outdone, Hua Zi raised his hand: "Aunt Yu, I also want to learn martial arts."
Gou Dan raised his hand and said, "Aunt Yu, me, and me too, I want to practice martial arts with you."
Yu Rujia: "Go back and tell your parents that if you can come in the mornings in the future, I will talk to Uncle Duofu and ask him to train with you."
If Duofu has mastered the moves, then we can let him teach him. Unfortunately, the little guy's moves are still a bit immature. Since we've decided to teach him, we need to teach him correctly.
Whether we have four sheep or more, it's still the same whether we have four or more. So let Gao Shujing lead them to do it together.
The group's harvest in the mountains was plentiful. The Yu family received a total of sixty or seventy catties of mutton, venison, and wild boar meat, as well as several chickens and rabbits.
Of course, there were other kinds of meat, but Gao Shujing knew Yu Rujia's tastes, so he replaced them all with the meats she liked.
The ice buckets at home are piled up to the brim, and there's still half full.
We took some of the meat to the cowshed, and the rest, which wasn't in the ice bucket, we'll use for hot pot.
While cleaning the meat, Yu Rujia mentioned to Gao Shujing that Erdan and the others wanted to learn martial arts from him.
Yu Rujia: "...My idea is that we shouldn't teach them the 'Bright Moon Heart Sutra' and the 'Taiyi Heart Sutra' for the time being. It won't hurt to teach them the moves you learned in the military region."
Gao Shujing: "They are all of good character. If they can come every morning, I won't mind teaching them. It's just a small favor."
Yu Rujia: "Once Duofu has learned enough, you can let him teach you, and then you will be free."
Gao Shujing: "Duofu and his friends are very talented, but if they want to reach the point where they can teach others, they need to study for at least another year."
They had just finished clearing the table when the adults from several other families, having heard the news, came over, carrying their share of meat for the day.
Despite complaining about Erdan, Captain Huang immediately brought over mutton and venison when he heard that Gao Shujing was willing to teach Erdan martial arts.
Captain Huang, who was watching the meat being divided, knew exactly what kind of meat Gao Shujing had brought back today, and picked out two kinds of meat that Gao liked and were not commonly seen.
Captain Huang: "We'll have to trouble Shujing with Erdan. We don't expect him to be that good at fighting, but you just need to keep him occupied so he doesn't have nothing to do all day and cause trouble everywhere."
Wu Shengli: "My eldest son is the same way. He often makes his mother angry, and the house is in chaos every day. With Officer Gao's guidance, he will definitely calm down, and we can save some trouble. Thank you, Officer Gao."
How could he not be a worry? Ever since Da Wa got together with Duo Fu and the others, Da Wa would bring up everything Gao Shujing did and make him feel like a useless piece of trash.
Recently, he even went to his younger brother Wu Desheng and said that Duofu's uncle was so amazing, and that his uncle was not amazing at all.
Wu Desheng fled in panic after being told that, and then ran up to him and asked him to control Da Wa.
Now that Da Wa is following Gao Shujing, whom he admires the most, if he doesn't do well in his studies in the future, Da Wa won't blame them.
Moreover, Gao Shujing is indeed a very capable person. Even if Da Wa learns just one aspect of his way of dealing with people, it would be enough for Da Wa to benefit from for a lifetime.
Zheng Dayang: "I'll leave Gou Dan to Officer Gao. If he doesn't listen to us, feel free to beat him up. We won't say a word."
Huang Xuejun: "Hua Zi is not a particularly outstanding kid, except that he is patient. Officer Gao can teach him casually and give him some self-defense skills, that should be enough."
Gao Shujing: "If they are willing to learn, I can teach them as a matter of course. However, martial arts training is not something that can be accomplished overnight. The key is to persevere. You should make sure to tell them this in advance."
"If you only work sporadically, don't blame me for kicking you out."
After much trouble, Gao Shujing accepted Erdan and the others.
Originally, it was thought that Erdan and the others would give up after practicing for a while, but unexpectedly they actually persisted.
Before we knew it, it was 1969.
Two months after Yu Rujia's first child was born, a boy named Gao Duoji, inheriting the Xia family's tradition of having more men than women. Gao Shujing thus embarked on a new chapter as a stay-at-home dad.
In 1968, a large number of educated youth began to go to the countryside, and the educated youth compound was in chaos every day.
Having experienced many things, Captain Huang was no longer the naive young man who looked forward to the arrival of educated youth. In his words, the character of the educated youth who went to the countryside voluntarily was different from that of those who were forced to go.
Even if those who voluntarily go to the countryside don't have any special skills, they still work diligently after the initial adjustment period.
The educated youth who were forced to go to the countryside couldn't stand not causing trouble every day. It was either that one educated youth hadn't done their work well and needed to redo it, or that one educated youth had gotten into an argument and, when criticized, would remain defiant and resentful.
Of course, this is not absolute. There were some good educated youths among those who were forced to go to the countryside. Unfortunately, one bad apple spoiled the whole bunch, and the other educated youths living there were inevitably affected and became people of bad character in the eyes of Captain Huang.
Today was another day when we were notified to go and pick up the educated youth going to the countryside. In Erdan's words, his dad's face looked as old as an old man this morning.
In the past two years, except for special holidays or heavy rain, they have come to practice martial arts every morning.
Others in the team also wanted Gao Shujing to teach their children martial arts, but those people had only a so-so relationship with the Yu family, so they were naturally not accepted.
Therefore, there are still only a few outsiders practicing martial arts at the Yu family, such as Erdan.
During breakfast, Duofu shared what Erdan had said that morning.
Yu Rujia: "You should be more careful when you go out to play. Try not to go to the educated youth's place if you can avoid it."
Of the four educated youths who came before her, Lu Kuohai moved out after marrying Lü Guihua.
Last year, Zhou Beifa and Zhang Zhaodi also got together. After getting married, they built a house next to Lu Kuohai's house and moved out.
Chen Manman found a job in town and has moved there to live.
In the past two years, Gao Shujing has repaired many units in the town. Some machines and vehicles that were originally unusable were repaired or modified by him and put back into use.
Occasionally, they would modify some machines to increase production.
With increased production capacity and more usable machinery, expanding factories and creating more jobs became an inevitable result, with textile mills and steel mills seeing the largest increases in jobs.
Taking advantage of this favorable opportunity, several members of the Shangfen Brigade with junior high or high school education took the factory entrance exam. Some of them successfully got the job, while others failed.
Four former educated youths, Huang Lijie, and two team members got jobs. Because of this, the adults in the team started to encourage their children to study hard so that they could become workers in town in the future.
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