Chapter 9 Chapter 9 The thin little girl, slowly, slowly...
Illiterate!
Lin Xinghuo was "boarded" at Wangxian Cave at the age of three, and was officially accepted as a disciple by her master at the age of ten. By the time she reached adulthood at the age of eighteen, she had achieved some success in her cultivation. During these fifteen years, she performed morning and evening prayers, studied sutras, fasting and offering sacrifices, and practiced Daoist music. She also received individual instruction from her master in the traditions of her lineage: studying medicine, meditation, and practicing qigong. Despite this busy schedule, she, like any other child, earned elementary, middle, and high school diplomas, and even advanced to graduate school.
Lin Xinghuo followed his heart and directly asked his request: "Can I pass the exam and get a primary school diploma?"
The audience below, staring intently at the stage, scoffed and muttered loudly enough to be heard: "You don't know anything about the exam, what's the point of pretending to be so capable!"
Yang Wei Bo frowned and took the initiative to explain, "Primary schools are divided into primary and secondary schools. Grades one to four are primary schools, and grades five and six are secondary schools. Those who pass the fourth grade are awarded a primary school diploma, and those who pass the sixth grade are awarded a secondary school diploma."
So, elementary school graduation is divided into two stages? Actually, as long as you can pass the exam and get a diploma, it's fine.
Chang Qing was secretly annoyed. What's wrong with this Yang Weibao? You even tried to explain to her that she's a competitor! Competitors are class enemies. If you don't defeat them, you're surrendering! Yang Weibao's philanthropic nature is back. How can he be a representative of the educated youth? His girlfriend, Cui Xia, would be more useful than him.
Chang Qing was still a little afraid of Lin Xinghuo. She avoided Lin Xinghuo and said directly to everyone in the audience, "The sooner the health station is built, the better it will be for the village. The sooner everyone will benefit from it."
"What is the prerequisite for building a health station? It requires a barefoot doctor in the village. Who this barefoot doctor is, it doesn't matter!"
"As long as we take the barefoot doctor training and pass it, our village will be eligible to set up a health station!"
"We educated youth don't know how to treat illnesses, but isn't the purpose of training to teach people how to treat illnesses? And we have an advantage. We have diplomas and are quick learners. As long as we pass the exam, we'll be recognized as barefoot doctors!"
"Please give us a chance, I promise I will qualify!"
Chang Qing, as if giving a speech, held his head high and chest puffed out, placed his hand on his left chest, and said in a resounding voice: "I dare to promise the leader!"
The members below were talking about it. They all felt that the person should not be replaced but they could not think of any rebuttal. Chang Zhiqing's words were correct.
But there were also many who understood, especially the old Party Secretary. This educated youth was quite good at confusing the key points, but he couldn't be fooled: "Just because you pass the exam, you can treat people and animals? The health station is good, but without a real person in charge, all those benefits are just blind guessing!" Even if we don't talk about treating patients, even the most sought-after task of "collecting herbs" is not something that a half-baked person can do! Even if you don't know how to prepare them, you still have to collect and sort them first. If you don't do anything, won't the fresh herbs rot? The higher-level pharmacy is no fool. If you fail once or twice, they will no longer want the products sent by your health station after the third time. Not only will the members' work be in vain, but it may also extinguish their spirits.
Finally, Ren Chang, the educated youth, spoke again: "Isn't the most important thing now to set up a health station? With a health station, who would stop Comrade Lin from seeing patients? When the time comes, we can just ask Comrade Lin to take the lead and everyone will listen to her, right? The work points subsidized by the brigade should also be given to Comrade Lin. Old Party Secretary, this is something that will benefit everyone!"
She said it with heartfelt emotion: "We are concerned about the collective's urgent needs, so we bravely stand up and take responsibility!"
Some people were really led astray by her and thought, "That's right."
It's also a hammer!
The old branch secretary tapped the blackboard with his pipe: "This is 'selling dog meat under the guise of sheep meat'. Is Chang Zhiqing trying to deceive the higher authorities?"
Chang Qing laughed, then elbowed Yang Weibao in a panic. Yang Weibao stood up and said, "What Chang Zhiqing said actually makes sense. Building a health station first is the only way to follow up. Barefoot doctors lack experience and can learn from Comrade Lin."
Why should they teach you? And how could they not know what you're up to? Barefoot doctors aren't the hot commodity; the training is the real meat. These educated youth are using the training as a springboard, so they can use connections or trickery to get assigned to the county hospital! They're fighting so hard just to get back to the city.
Lin Xinghuo raised her eyes, but Grandma Wei grabbed her hand and stopped her from speaking.
Before the old Party Secretary could say anything, Grandma Wei spoke first: "Everyone knows that my granddaughter married into the forest farm. She told me that two years ago, Xiaohezigou, the nearest village to the forest farm, recommended an educated youth to participate in the barefoot doctor training. In the end, he passed but didn't return. He was transferred to the Linxian County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. The Party Secretary and Captain of Xiaohezigou went to the commune and the county to ask for another training quota. But the regulations are fixed and they can't just give it to their team. The waiting list for training applications is already until the year after next. The county hospital only has a few doctors who can teach, and they have to take care of their own work. They are simply too busy to handle it."
Grandma Wei sighed, "You've all heard about the triplets in Xiaohezigou, right? It's not easy for all three to survive. They were raised to be strong and healthy. Last spring, the eldest child somehow got beans stuck in his nostrils, and he couldn't get them out, and they kept going deeper. The child cried because he felt uncomfortable, and the eldest child kept sniffing his nose. The adults in the family carried him to the forest farm. But on the way, the beans entered his trachea, and the child's trachea was too thin, so he suffocated to death. His parents cried and said that if they had known earlier, it would be better to cut open his nose than lose his life. But the doctor at the forest farm said that it was not safe to cut it open. The child was only one year old and was weak. The injury, shock, and high fever would also be fatal."
"Let's just listen to the doctor's words of comfort. My granddaughter said that after the person died, the old doctor sighed and said, 'Just use a hook-shaped device to press against the nose and go around the back of the bean to pull it out. Never use tweezers.' But you can't say that to someone who just lost a child... That's the thing, everyone should try to figure it out."
Grandma Wei was a martyr's relative, so no matter how obvious the implication of her words was, the educated youth did not dare to object.
All of a sudden, the members were furious, and some even shouted at Chang Qing: "What are you thinking?"
Wei Bushun and Xiao Lanqin finally realized that Chang Qing was trying to give them a chance to return to the city. Cui Xia, who was standing next to them, looked at Wei Bushun with sympathy. This fool was so bad and stupid, there was no hope for him.
Chang Qing's face turned pale. She had hoped the old Party Secretary had guessed her plan, but she couldn't bring herself to say it out loud. This old Party Secretary from Buxian Village wouldn't do something like convicting someone based on speculation.
Unexpectedly, Grandma Wei came forward and told a story——
But she refused to admit defeat: "I can write a letter of guarantee! I promise I will come back!" She did not drag other educated youth into the fight. Among the educated youth, Yang Weibao and she had the highest education level, both of them were high school graduates, but Yang Weibao could not compete with her. She could risk it all, but he could not!
"What's the point of a letter of guarantee? If their company issues a letter of transfer, how can we stop it? You're so good at coaxing people. What if they refuse to admit that the letter of guarantee was yours?"
Lin Xinghuo even admired this educated young man Chang, who would never give up until he achieved his goal.
"I can take the primary school diploma exam first, and then the high school diploma exam. I don't want the village to be questioned for recommending me." If possible, she will also take the junior high school diploma and high school diploma exams.
Lin Xinghuo added: "I can also write a letter of guarantee."
Chang Qingbai's eyes were red: "When you pass the exam, please Comrade Lin, please think about everyone!"
"You..." Lin Xinghuo overturned all of Chang Qing's efforts with just one sentence: "You are a little color-blind, so you are not suitable for studying Chinese medicine." Such a person can't even distinguish the simplest tongue coating when studying Chinese medicine.
She once overheard the educated youth named Xiao Lanqin secretly making fun of Changqing, saying, "The captain was scared silly by a wolf. She's not called Da Huang because her fur is yellow. She said Comrade Lin released the yellow wolf to bite her." Later, she paid more attention to Changqing's eyes and found that she couldn't even tell the ripe fruits by color when picking them. But the more something was missing, the less willing she was to admit it. Aunt Wang scolded her several times, but Changqing, who was so easy to please, stiffened her neck and said nothing. Changqing had a bad habit of adding a color word to a normal sentence. For example, when everyone was talking, saying that all the leaves had fallen, she would say that all the yellow leaves had fallen. Then, realizing it, she would change the subject.
"You!" Chang Qing was speechless.
Lin Xinghuo pointed at her and then at himself, "I worked hard and got a chance, but you... don't."
"What is color blindness? Can't distinguish colors? That's not going to work. Just picking herbs is pointless, right?"
"Oh my! This is incredible! Chang Zhiqing gave a long speech, but Comrade Xiaolin just said three sentences and put him down!"
"Yeah, it's blocked, it's blocked."
If the members think of this decades later, they will have a particularly appropriate word to describe Lin Xinghuo: a ruthless man who doesn't talk much.
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After Lin Xinghuo defeated Chang Qing, the leader, the old branch secretary stood up and added fuel to the fire—a fire that divided people's hearts.
The old man sighed and said, "There is only one training spot, at least for a few years. In fact, this quota was announced last year, but after discussion, the brigade headquarters was reluctant to submit an application for fear of wasting it. They gave up two training sessions, so this time it was approved as soon as they applied. Our village must participate in this session. If we miss it, we will miss it. If we can't graduate, we will be doomed. The final step of the review is also very critical. The notice does not require a diploma, but the leader said that 'medical education needs to be reformed, and there is no need to read so many books... Three years of study is enough for high school graduates, and the main thing is to learn and improve through practice.' If that is the case, it is indeed more reasonable to require at least a high school diploma. I was not thoughtful about this."
"So, I have a suggestion: prepare for both scenarios!"
His old face grew more serious as he swept his gaze over each educated youth with authority: "Select two candidates for training. One will listen in the classroom, and the other will listen outside. They will take turns! Then, Comrade Xiaolin must obtain a high school diploma before the training is completed, otherwise he will automatically be disqualified. If Comrade Xiaolin obtains the diploma, then the two will compete in training results, medical skills, and comments! So now let's vote."
"well!"
"agree!"
Representatives from both sides raised their hands.
Wei Chunfeng closed the notebook, covering the crooked words, and stood up and said, "Well, now I declare the meeting over."
Chang Qing couldn't be happy at all. She hurriedly grabbed Wei Chunfeng, who was closest to her, as if it was the last straw: "Who is the other candidate? They haven't chosen yet?" Wei Chunfeng looked at the educated youth and broke free from her hand: "Aren't you talking about a high school diploma? The kids in our village who meet the requirements are either studying or know that they don't have the ability to graduate from the crash course. You educated youth can just nominate one among yourselves. Submit the nomination letter with your fingerprints to the team office tomorrow. Okay, I have to get busy!"
Wei Chunfeng said impatiently, "Do you think adding one more person is so easy? The old Party Secretary might get scolded. If everyone were like you, the walkway outside the commune classroom would be torn apart!" Actually, there's precedent for this, mainly because the spots are so rare, and the hard-earned one can't go to waste. Selangor is probably the place with the most limited medical resources, otherwise the old fairy wouldn't be so revered. And then there's Xiaolin, a half-grown little girl, all alone, but even the most troublesome and troublesome gossips in the village never miss a bad word about her.
"Don't worry too soon. This six-month training is a crash course, but the exams aren't. I heard there won't just be one final exam, but rounds of them. If you fail three consecutive small exams, you'll be criticized by the commune and have it recorded in your files! Think about this carefully." Otherwise, why would the old branch secretary be so cautious? Even when recommending workers, peasants, and soldiers as university students, they hadn't been this cautious.
After she left, the educated youth immediately fell into internal strife, everyone coveting this opportunity. Wei Bu Shun even said to Chang Qing directly: "Captain is color blind, so he doesn't count in this."
Elsewhere, the old Party Secretary turned around and saw Lin Xinghuo chasing after him. He wanted to walk to a less crowded area to discuss the diploma exam with the child. Ultimately, the main beneficiaries of this matter were the entire village, and Xiaolin herself was the one who benefited from everyone's help. Now she was causing trouble for no reason, and she had to take another diploma exam. He had seen Xiaolin's handwriting, and she was someone who could write Spring Festival couplets! Just being able to read and write was enough, and these educated youth had caused such a commotion!
"Xiao Lin, this kind of exam for a diploma is not allowed in the commune primary school. It doesn't have this right. We have to go to the county primary school to take the exam. I heard that the requirements for this kind of diploma exam are extremely strict, and the questions are difficult. Even the junior high school students in the village may not be able to pass. My daughter Ni'er stopped studying after finishing junior high school. Two years later, she came back and wanted to continue studying. Thinking that she always got first place in the commune, she taught herself the textbooks for senior high school and went to the county to take the exam. She failed the test and came back crying! The most deceptive thing is that it's not enough to just pass. You have to get 80 points to issue you a diploma and put it in your file. But don't worry, I have a niece-in-law who is a teacher in primary school. This matter... Hey, why is it you! Xiao Lin?"
The old branch secretary walked forward with his hands behind his back, talking to Lin Xinghuo without turning his head, but when he turned around, he found that it was the accountant holding a broken blackboard.
The accountant wasn't young anymore, but compared to the old Party Secretary's horse-faced face, a weathered man in his forties or fifties looked much more appealing. That was why the accountant loved standing next to the old Party Secretary.
The accountant looked at the secretary's face, which had become even longer, and was not afraid at all. He pointed in the direction of the warehouse where the equipment was stored and said, "Go after Dazhuang and the others."
"Hey, Secretary, how about letting your little girl learn to keep accounts and use an abacus with me? Just because you've chosen Hongzhong as your successor, can't you see how anxious your old partner is?" Hongzhong is a veteran. As soon as he returned, the old man had him groomed as his successor. He's been through so much, from scorekeeper to warehouse manager to militia member... He's been through so many trials and tribulations! This year, it's the autumn capture team's turn. He gets along well with Dazhuang, and he's also doing a good job supporting him. These two will be a perfect team together.
The old branch secretary didn't care about the accountant's successor at all. He just said, "Go find your Wang family's second bearded man!" and hurried to the warehouse. What was wrong with Xiaolin? Why did he insist on joining the autumn hunting team? The old forest was not a place like Lotus Peak, where incense was once prosperous and accessible!
When the old Party branch secretary arrived, he saw Lin Xinghuo picking up a stone pillar left over from the old society. The thin little girl slowly, slowly lifted the solid pillar above her head...
It was not until Lin Xinghuo placed the stone pillar steadily on the ground that the old branch secretary began to breathe again.
But no one knows what that fool Da Zhuang said. The old branch secretary watched the kid doing well, and suddenly he used all four limbs and jumped up to the tree next to him, almost reaching the top of the tree.
The old man opened his mouth and the pipe that he never let go of fell to the ground with a plop.
The author has something to say:
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KO!
Note: "Medical education needs to be reformed. There is no need to study so many books... Three years of study is enough for high school graduates, and the main thing is to learn and improve through practice." This is from a conversation in August 1965 when the leader summoned the Minister of Health and proposed the idea of training health workers in rural areas.
In addition, the leader once said, "Chinese medicine is a great treasure house that should be explored, organized and improved." The crash course in medicine has always been training in traditional Chinese medicine.
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