Chapter 150 A good memory is not as good as a bad pen
"Hello, Chunzhi, come in." Jiang Tang greeted Tao Chunzhi with a smile and asked her to follow him into the room where the broadcasting equipment was placed.
The other girls who had not left yet looked at this scene with envy in their eyes.
Tao Chunzhi followed behind Jiang Tang, walking inside with careful steps, for fear of accidentally bumping into Jiang Tang and dirtying her beautiful clothes.
"Chunzhi, sit down here."
Jiang Tang pointed to the seat where she had just sat, facing the microphone.
"Can I...can I?" The little girl was nervous from head to toe, afraid that she would accidentally break the equipment that had just been installed in front of her.
Jiang Tang smiled and soothed him, "You will be the village broadcaster in the future, so of course you can sit here. And you have to sit here for a long time. Relax and sit down."
Even so, Tao Chunzhi rubbed her hands nervously, wiped the sweat from her palms, and then slowly sat down.
She is yearning, focused, serious and full of expectations.
Like a most obedient student, he placed his hands properly.
"Chunzhi, look here. This is the microphone. This is the microphone wire, which should be connected here... These are the power cords for other equipment... From now on, the first thing you should do when you arrive every day is to check whether these wires are normal and have not slipped or loosened. Only with electricity can the radio start normally."
"And here, this button turns it on, and this button turns it off..."
Jiang Tang explained everything in great detail, fearing that Tao Chunzhi would not be able to remember. He would deliberately slow down his speech for some things, and if one time was not enough, he would explain it twice until Tao Chunzhi could understand it.
Tao Chunzhi not only listened carefully, but also wrote in her notebook and spoke in a soft tone.
"My teacher taught me that a good memory is not as good as a bad pen. If I write it down, I won't forget it."
"Okay, take your time to remember it. I'll wait until you finish writing before I talk about other things."
"Comrade Jiang, you are such a good person!"
The pure and direct praise directed at Jiang Tang was quite pleasing.
Jiang Tang taught and Tao Chunzhi listened. After about half an hour of back and forth, Tao Chunzhi had almost learned everything. She sat on the chair obediently, no longer as nervous as at the beginning, and showed a shy smile to Jiang Tang.
Tao Chunzhi said, "Comrade Jiang, I have another question. Can I ask you?"
"Of course, you can. I'll listen carefully."
"I... I only went to fifth grade, and I don't even recognize some of the more complex characters. The announcer position was originally for Gensheng, who went to junior high school and knew more characters than I do. But the village head and Director Yang all said they wanted the announcer to be a girl, so they chose me. But I really don't recognize a lot of characters, and I'm afraid... I'm afraid I'll make a fool of myself while reading."
Girls in the village generally do not have the right to go to school. Tao Chunzhi, for example, was able to study until the fifth grade of elementary school, which was probably the highest level of education in the village, so this job fell on her.
Jiang Tang thought for a moment and said, "This matter is not difficult. It is very easy to solve."
Tao Chunzhi's eyes sparkled as she asked, "Comrade Jiang, is that true?"
"Chunzhi, you'll get the script before you read the broadcast, so you'll have time to prepare. This could be a day or several hours. During this time, you need to seize the time to prepare the script. If you come across words you don't understand, you can ask others for help or look them up in the Xinhua Dictionary. Don't worry, what you need most right now is just a Xinhua Dictionary; it can solve most problems."
"Besides that, if you want to continue working as a broadcaster, the most important thing is to develop your own abilities."
Tao Chunzhi blankly repeated Jiang Tang's words, "Train...myself?"
"Well, every girl is a flower. Flowers need sunlight, rain, and nutrients to bloom in their vibrant colors. You have to find sunlight, rain, and nutrients yourself. Chunzhi, Director Yang is planning to set up a rural school recently. I will be a teacher there. If you have free time, you can come and listen to the lessons and learn together. This is how you cultivate yourself."
Tao Chunzhi vaguely understood that learning was what Jiang Tang had mentioned: sunshine, rain, and nutrients.
After thinking about it, she nodded heavily, "Comrade Jiang, I will definitely go."
Jiang Tang liked this hardworking and motivated girl, and gave Tao Chunzhi several newspapers that she read on the radio today. If she couldn't read any words or understand any sentences, she could ask questions now, and she would answer them one by one.
Not long after, there was a gentle knock on the door of the broadcasting room.
Jiang Tang turned around and saw another little girl.
The girl said to Jiang Tang and Tao Chunzhi, "Comrade Jiang, Sister Chunzhi, do you want to go crabbing?"
Tao Chunzhi looked up at Jiang Tang, "Comrade Jiang, are you going?"
Crab? !
There are actually crabs in this small village. Wouldn’t it be possible to eat spicy fried crabs tonight?
Jiang Tang's eyes lit up, "I'll go crabbing with you guys."
Tao Chunzhi and the little girl laughed happily when they heard Jiang Tang's answer.
On the way to catch crabs, Tao Chunzhi was a little worried. "Comrade Jiang, catching crabs in the mud is very dirty. I'm afraid it will dirty your clothes."
"It's just clothes. It can be cleaned by washing. Don't worry about it." Jiang Tang said so in an open-minded manner.
They soon arrived at the crab catching area.
This area is not near the sea, so the crabs here are not sea crabs, but hairy crabs.
In the 1970s, hairy crabs were not a delicacy on every household’s table, but were just wild game grown in the fields.
The hairy crabs live in symbiosis with rice fields, eating pests in the fields and running around between the gaps in the rice, with quite flexible movements.
They just look a little smaller, but they're still quite delicious.
In addition, there are not only hairy crabs in the rice fields, but also eels. Eels hide in the holes in the ridges of the fields and are more difficult to catch than hairy crabs. It often takes several people to surround them and get dirty before they can catch eels.
However, eel has better nutritional value, and villagers regard it as a tonic.
Jiang Tang thought that the eel looked like a snake and was quite scary. She had no interest in eels. Secondly, stir-fried eels were too difficult to make and most chefs couldn't do it well. Hairy crabs were simple and convenient, and they were delicious whether steamed or braised.
When Jiang Tang arrived, there were already quite a few children, both boys and girls, who took off their shoes and stepped on the mud, looking for hairy crabs under the scorching sun.
Tao Chunzhi is a big sister that everyone in the village likes, and the children immediately start shouting when they see her.
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