Chapter 274 A school is being built in the village

You need a special ticket to buy an electric fan, and it is definitely impossible to buy it in the town. You have to go to the largest department store in the county to buy it.

This year, the whole village had electricity, and everyone listened to Aunt Zhu's advice and wanted to buy one to try it out. But when they asked about the price, they were reluctant to buy it.

Nowadays, electric fans are manufactured in various places. For example, the "Hangsheng" brand is produced in Hangzhou, and there is also the Diamond brand, which is produced in Guangzhou. However, the price is not cheap, costing fifty yuan. It may take an ordinary rural family two years to save up such a large amount of money. How can they afford to buy one?

Xia Juanjuan didn't care about the money, the main problem was that she didn't have the ticket.

However, just when she was worried, she received three tickets for electric fans. One was from Li Zhan, another from Yan Haotian, and the remaining one was from Fu Nanzheng.

Xia Juanjuan could understand the tickets sent by Li Zhan and Yan Haotian, but why did Fu Nanzheng send her the ticket for the electric fan?

The Fu family is not familiar with her...

Xia Juanjuan kept the ticket without using it, thinking that she would return it when Lizhan came back.

Because of Fu Qingye, she kept her distance from the Fu family's goodwill.

Yan Haotian returned the money of 80 yuan, saying in the letter that it was for them to buy an electric fan.

Xia Juanjuan did not hesitate and went directly to the county town to buy two machines, one for her room and the other for Lin Yuru's room.

Lin Yuru felt distressed for a long time: "I could have bought one for you and a few kids to play with, but you insisted on buying two and put one in my room. Isn't that a waste? I'm not afraid of the heat..."

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Who said it was a waste? It's so hot in the summer, I don't believe you are not afraid of the heat... Besides, your son sent back 80 yuan and the ticket for the electric fan. If I don't buy it for you, my brother will definitely scold me for being unfilial and only thinking about myself when he comes back! Moreover, I estimate that the extra 30 yuan will be used to pay your electricity bill, so that you don't feel bad about the money for the electric fan and the electricity bill again."

Lin Yuru also laughed when she heard it.

The electric fan was brought home on a ox cart, plugged in, and turned to the highest setting. It started to spin on its own with a wheezing sound, which was much cooler than using a palm-leaf fan.

Moreover, when I go to bed at night, sometimes I fall asleep while fanning myself with a fan, but as soon as I stop fanning myself, I immediately feel hot again, and I have to force myself to fight sleepiness and fan myself a few more times.

With this electric fan, you can run it all night long, which makes summer much more bearable!

Lin Yuru couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She and Xia Shuangshan didn't know what good deeds they had done in their previous lives to be able to give birth to a son like Xiaotian and a daughter like Juaner.

They had always treated their sons and daughters badly, but now that they were old, they received all kinds of filial piety from them and lived a better life than most people in the village.

Apart from anything else, when the electric fan was moved into the house, several women of similar age in the village came to see it, all looking at Lin Yuru with envy, praising Xia Juanjuan and Yan Haotian for their filial piety, and scolding their own children for being inconsiderate... This made Lin Yuru feel uncomfortable, but at the same time, she felt indescribably proud.

After all, Xia Juanjuan was used to air conditioning, so she was naturally not that excited about electric fans.

All I can say is that something is better than nothing.

Of course, summer also has its own fun.

The big watermelons grown in the vegetable garden are growing well. We pick an icy watermelon from the well in the yard, take it out at noon, when it is the hottest time of the year, cut it and eat it with the whole family.

The lotus roots and lotus seeds in the lotus pond can be harvested, so we dig the lotus roots to make cold lotus root slices, which is also a common dish on the table in summer. In addition to lotus roots, there are also cold cucumbers and cold tomatoes.

In addition to fish fry in the lotus pond this year, Xia Juanjuan also put shrimp fry and crab fry.

Crabs can only be caught in September or October, when people eat crabs while drinking rice wine. Prawns are almost fully grown in the summer, so Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu, who are on summer vacation, go into the water with Xia Shuangshan to catch them with a fine net.

The two kids had already learned to swim, and with Xia Shuangshan watching them, there was no need to worry about them being in danger, so Xia Juanjuan let them play in the water and do some work at the same time.

The shrimps that were caught were transparent, quite large in size and extremely fresh.

While the shrimps are still alive, quickly put them in the wine to soak, this is drunken shrimps. When eating, just eat it raw, mix with minced garlic, minced ginger, green and red pepper, steamed fish soy sauce and light soy sauce, salt, sugar, and some white wine, mix well.

Of course, the drunken shrimps were for adults, so Xiao Wen, Xiao Wu and Bei Bei were only allowed to have one to try. The triplets couldn't have any even if they cried.

In addition to drunken shrimp, you can also mash the shrimp meat into shrimp puree and then make steamed eggs, mix it with egg starch, etc. to make shrimp balls, etc.

Or, you can just make boiled shrimps. In summer, everyone likes to eat light food, so boiled shrimps are the most suitable.

Xia Juanjuan often made jellyfish. She mixed flour with water to make dough, then washed it over and over in clean water until the water became clear.

After washing the remaining dough, steam it in a pot and then cut it into pieces to get the honeycomb-shaped gluten.

As for the water washed out, let it sit for a few hours, and after the white precipitates, pour out the excess water. For the remaining white batter water, use a flat iron plate, pour a little flour water into it, and then put the container in boiling water and cook it for a while. After the flour water solidifies into a thin transparent milky white dough, scoop it out, brush oil on the dough, put it aside, and repeat the previous steps. In a short while, you can make a stack of transparent dough.

This is cool skin.

Cut a handful of cucumber shreds, season it with garlic juice, sesame oil, chili oil, fried peanuts, salt, sugar, light soy sauce, vinegar, etc., and you will have a delicious and refreshing cool skin.

If you like to eat it with sesame paste, add some more sesame paste.

The kids at home are clamoring for food every few days!

In addition to liangpi, there are also mung bean soup, lotus seed eight-treasure porridge and the like, which are all foods that can cool down in summer.

There is also yellow eel, which can be made into braised eel and eel noodles.

In addition, there are various fruits. The big peach tree in the yard of Luo's house in the county town is still full of fruits this year. Xia Juanjuan picked a lot of them and sent some to the families of her friends in the village. She also sent some to Grandma Luo through space.

As for plums, this year she picked green plums from the mountains, soaked them with rock sugar, and then drank them chilled. It is a very healthy dessert drink.

I also made plum wine for Xia Shuangshan.

Although I feel hot, I can’t resist eating, so I’m not that sad.

In early August, Secretary Zhao informed everyone that the county had called on all communes to pay close attention to the education of their children, and the communes had decided to set up their own rural primary schools.

This also makes it convenient for children in the commune to go to school, as they no longer have to get up early and go to town to attend school every day.

Moreover, although many educated youth from the commune have returned to the city in recent years, there are also new arrivals every year. Some of them have married men and women in the village and started a family and cannot return to the city. There are also quite a few who simply have no connections and cannot return to the city.

Letting them work in the fields would indeed be a disservice to the education they received and the knowledge they acquired.

We set up schools and let them become teachers to teach the children in the village to read and write. This can be considered as making the best use of their talents.

Moreover, children in the village now have to pay four yuan in tuition for each semester when they go to school in town, which is not a small amount.

After the school in the village was established, the tuition fee was at least halved to two yuan, which reduced a lot of burden and more children could afford to go to school.

The educated youth in the educated youth sites were of course happy too. Being a teacher also allowed them to earn work points, and at least they didn’t have to work hard in the fields. Who wouldn’t want to do that?

The school was finally built in two empty houses in Qingshui Village. The desks and lecture tables were all built with brick legs by a village mason, and the tops were covered with wooden boards. The children had brought the seats from their homes, and they could move them back home after school or just leave them in the classroom.

The village also organized a teacher selection event, which was also very lively.

Aunt Zhu's son Zhu Xiaopeng went to Beijing to attend university for a year and graduated with excellent grades. He received his diploma in the summer and was assigned to the agricultural station in Qingshui Village.

Although he still had a rural household registration, the agricultural station was responsible for arranging a job for him. He worked as an assistant to Secretary Zhao in the commune. As a grassroots cadre, he was considered to be half a consumer of commercial grain.

I heard that it was Zhu Xiaopeng who suggested building a primary school in the village.

The commune's decision was also praised by the county, which allocated 200 yuan to allow them to buy textbooks, chalk, and other necessary items. The excess was given to the teachers as wages.

It is impossible to have any extra money. With this little money, I can't even buy desks and chairs. Otherwise, I can't let the children bring them from home.

However, despite the many difficulties, everyone was still happy to run the school.

Secretary Zhao was made principal, another commune cadre was made vice principal, and Zhu Xiaopeng was made the director of education, responsible for teaching and disciplining teachers. Of course, he also taught mathematics.

Other teachers of language, geography, physical education, music, etc. have also been decided. Unfortunately, there is no foreign language teacher.

Some funny things happened regarding the construction of the school.

Secretary Zhao and Zhu Xiaopeng were in charge of selecting educated youth to be teachers. Xia Fangfang, who didn't know where she got the courage from, actually came and clamored to take part in the assessment.

Relying on Li Cuihua and her father's ability to bully people, Xia Fangfang impersonated Xia Juanjuan and went to college in Beijing. Later, she was expelled from school for cheating. The whole village laughed at her for more than a year. No one thought that she could be so shameless as to come here and want to be a teacher.

However, Secretary Zhao was not a harsh person, so he still gave Xia Fangfang a chance.

No one knew that Xia Fangfang's real intention was not only wine, she actually had a crush on Zhu Xiaopeng and wanted to be his girlfriend.