Chapter 47 Soda

Before Lin Qiao came, students never knew that they could do experiments on their own. The experiments that teachers demonstrated were rare and not very interesting.

It was Lin Qiao who first led the students to start a fun little experiment that could be done at home.

It was Lin Qiao who led the students to do it for the first time, and even made something with practical value, such as handmade soap.

It was also Lin Qiao who wrote to the leaders and made this suggestion after the school did not allow her to lead students in experiments...

Now that the suggestion has been adopted, their school will even start building a laboratory immediately to give every student the opportunity to do experiments by themselves.

Before Principal Zeng finished speaking, the audience burst into discussion, and then the classes of Grade 12-13 and Grade 12-14 took the lead, and everyone applauded.

Even those students who had never taken experimental classes were excited. They were the first batch of pilot schools in the country. There were so many middle schools in the country, and they were the first batch!

Moreover, just because they have never taken it before does not mean they will not be able to take it in the future. Once the school laboratory is built, all of them will be able to have hands-on experimental classes.

The applause drowned out the sound of the trumpet, so Principal Zeng had to pause and wait for the crowd to calm down before continuing.

Because it was a pilot project, only the chemistry laboratory was approved this time, which was probably because Lin Qiao was a chemistry teacher and worked in this school. It can even be said that the reason why their not-so-big school was able to become one of the first pilot projects was because of Lin Qiao who proposed this suggestion.

This is not an exaggeration. There are some schools in Yandu that are larger in scale and have better teaching than theirs, but they did not become the pilot sites this time.

After announcing the news, Principal Zeng continued his usual routine and asked the students

Cherish the rare learning opportunities, study hard and make positive progress.

In fact, the students' hearts had already flown away, especially the two classes taught by Lin Qiao. As soon as the break exercises were over, they immediately cheered and surrounded Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao was hugged by several girls, which made her laugh and cry. "Don't block here, the school leaders will come to criticize me for disturbing the order between classes."

As soon as she finished speaking, someone shouted from behind, "Principal Zeng is here!" The students came up to her and immediately dispersed.

This made Principal Zeng feel as if he were facing a flood or a beast. He could not help but stop and felt helpless.

He also saw how popular Lin Qiao was among students. No wonder he received several letters in his mailbox the last time he stopped the experimental class, all of which were to explain to Lin Qiao.

Not far behind the team of the freshman science class, Song Jing, who had just arrived for an internship, saw this scene and also felt complicated.

The last time I saw Lin Qiao, she was scolded by students when she went to try out her class. I didn’t expect that the same group of students like her so much now.

It's only been a few months?

If it were her, could she do it?

Song Jing thought she was a good teacher, but she wasn't arrogant enough to make such a promise. Lin Qiao was a person who seemed to impress you even more with facts every time you thought you had impressed her enough. Who could now connect her with that country girl?

I pushed such a person out with my own hands. I don’t know if Aunt Ye would regret it if she knew.

Even if Aunt Ye doesn't regret it, won't Ji Ze regret it?

With a person like this in front of you, no matter how good you are, people will unconsciously compare you with her.

Song Jing was not very willing to do so in the first place, and now she was even more skeptical about whether her mother's plan could succeed. She looked at Lin Qiao from a distance, even feeling a little jealous.

Of course Lin Qiao didn’t know all this. As soon as she entered Class 4, she was drowned out by applause again.

The soldiers even stood up and took the lead, "Let us welcome our great contributor, Teacher Lin, to come up to the stage and say a few words!"

"Yes, go on stage and say a few words!"

Several other troublemakers followed suit, and one was so excited that he couldn't help but whistle.

"You really want me to tell you?" Lin Qiao smiled and raised his eyebrows.

"Say a few words!" "Say a few words!" The applause from below became louder and louder.

Lin Qiao put his hands on the desk and said, "Speaking of which, when I took over our class this semester, I was very fortunate to see the grades of our other subjects."

This beginning doesn't seem right...

Although the classmates were still looking at her intently, they couldn't help thinking in their minds.

Sure enough, Lin Qiao smiled meaningfully, "To be honest, there is still a lot of room for improvement."

What a familiar recipe, what a familiar taste.

The smiles had already begun to disappear from some of the students' faces, but Lin Qiao continued, "The school is going to build a laboratory soon, and we must keep up with the times and focus on all-round development, right? Why not set a small goal that is easier to achieve first..."

She looked at the audience and pretended to be in deep thought. "For example, if we can improve our scores by two points in all subjects, do you have the confidence to do it?"

"have……"

His answers were scattered and he felt guilty.

Lin Qiao heard it and suppressed his smile, "You guys can get third place in chemistry, but other subjects are not so good? Pay more attention."

But other subjects are not taught by Teacher Lin.

The students didn't say anything, but after Lin Qiao left, they couldn't help but huddled together and whispered.

The troublemakers in the back row were even more hesitant, "When will the school's laboratory be completed? The conscription is about to begin, and we won't be able to catch up, right?"

It would be a pity if they had to join the army before the laboratory was built.

The soldier was even more upset, "How come you just came here? Qi Huaiwen came back yesterday, and I was so happy that I told my family about it."

"Did you really tell your family?" Everyone was surprised. "I thought you liked Teacher Lin so much that you didn't plan to leave once she came back to teach us."

"I like Teacher Lin, but I can't concentrate on other classes either. I feel uncomfortable sitting in the classroom. With my grades, I won't be able to get into a military academy even if I study for another year. Why am I still wasting my time here? I might as well join the army sooner. Teacher Lin lives next door to me anyway."

This sentence was a bit Versailles, and several students next to him immediately looked at him sideways.

The soldier ignored him and banged his head on the table. "I just finished talking about this yesterday and got spanked by my dad. I have to build the lab today."

The soldiers were caught in a tangle here, and Lin Qiao had just left and ran into Wu Haiyang outside the office.

"Teacher Lin, can I talk to you alone?" The young male intern teacher was standing in the corridor, obviously waiting for her.

Lin Qiao had been busy looking for someone these days and hadn't paid much attention to him. To be honest, he felt a little complicated.

But since the other party was looking for her, she nodded and said, "Where do you think is convenient? How about the stairwell?"

The choice of the nearest one was made with consideration of the other party's legs and feet. Wu Haiyang also knew this and said, "Okay, I'll just say a few words."

Soon the bell for class rang, and the corridors and stairwells fell silent. Wu Haiyang was very sincere and first thanked Lin Qiao for the fact that the students in the class laughed at him. "This situation has stopped. I think Teacher Lin has contacted them. I'm sorry for causing Teacher Lin trouble."

"It's not that I worry too much. I'm just concerned about the behavior of the students in the class." Lin Qiao also answered bluntly.

Wu Haiyang paused for a moment and suddenly said, "Please ask Qi Huaiwen to come back to teach. I will transfer to another school when Teacher Qi is discharged from the hospital."

Is this the reason why he came to find me? Lin Qiao was a little surprised.

"I originally studied physics, and came to the school for internship because I wanted to take over my teacher's class and stand on the podium where my teacher once stood."

Even though Vice Principal Qi had been promoted to vice principal a long time ago, Wu Haiyang still used to call him Teacher Qi.

The young intern teacher looked towards the classroom where the lecture was being played, with a look of regret and gratitude in her eyes. "You may not know that I really gave up at first. I even tore up my textbooks to use in the toilet to wipe my butt. It was Teacher Qi who rushed over and gave me another set of textbooks, encouraging me not to give up hope."

No matter how Teacher Qi did in other aspects, in his eyes, she was the person who changed his life.

Without Teacher Qi, he would just be the lame man who was laughed at by others; without Teacher Qi, he would have given up long ago. How could he possibly take the college entrance examination?

But he did hear in school these days that the reason why Teacher Qi had such a fight with his son was most likely because of him.

Although he did not do anything, Teacher Qi did devote more effort and time to him, so he cannot be said to be completely innocent.

Rather than letting the father and son be in such a stalemate, Teacher Qi being embarrassed, and Qi Huaiwen not coming to school, it would be better for him to leave. Wu Haiyang turned his gaze back, "Now that I think about it, I am still narrow-minded. Students are students wherever they are, and being a teacher wherever they are is not spreading knowledge."

The young man's eyes were open and relieved. "Let Qi Huaiwen come back. He is also a student. Students should have a bright and beautiful future."

On the other side, in the military camp, Ji Duo had spent the whole morning dealing with official business that had accumulated over the past few days, and he was still looking through documents when he received the call.

"Uncle?" The caller was just testing at first, but soon turned into surprise. "Uncle, you're finally back. I couldn't get through to you for several days."

Ji Duo obviously didn't have time to listen to his nonsense, "What's the matter? Tell me."

"Didn't I call you a few days ago? My aunt answered the phone, and I almost let slip something about my business. Didn't she ask you about it when she got home?"

Ji Duo stopped flipping through the documents, and Lin Qiao really didn't ask.

The key point is that Lin Qiao didn't ask about more than just this one thing. She didn't ask about anything. Isn't this nephew asking about everything? He was so busy that he didn't even think about it.

Ji Duo frowned and didn't want to talk anymore. "If there's nothing else, I'll hang up."

"No, uncle! Please forgive me this time because I have done a good deed to atone for my crime by personally helping my aunt find someone!"

"In person?" Ji Duo paused as he was about to hang up the phone.

"Yes." Hearing that he didn't hang up, Ji Ze hurriedly expressed, "Originally, my aunt said she wanted to find Uncle Su Zheng. I thought that I have several salesmen who walk around the streets all day long. They are more familiar with these temporary jobs than Uncle Su Zheng. So I thought about helping her find it. I didn't expect that I actually found it."

"At the construction site?" Ji Duo remembered that Lin Qiao mentioned it yesterday.

"Yes, at the construction site. Don't worry, we will definitely take good care of you. I accompanied her there myself because I was worried it might be unsafe. I also bought her a bottle of soda because it was hot."

Ji Ze assured the other party on the phone, but he didn't expect that the other party paused for a long time, which made him a little unsure, and suddenly asked: "What is soda?"

This confused Ji Zewen, "It has only become popular in the past two years. It is sold on the streets and in movie theaters."

Hearing silence again on the other end of the line, he cautiously probed, "Uncle, you wouldn't have never gone shopping or watched a movie with Auntie, right?"

Ji Duo really didn’t.

In fact, before the wedding, he asked Lin Qiao if she wanted to go, but Lin Qiao didn't want to go, so he didn't mention it again. Now think about it, what young couple has never watched a movie? It is estimated that Lin Qiao had no expectations for this marriage from the beginning.

The person they are marrying has changed, so why should they expect others to have expectations for this marriage?

Ji Duo put down the document and pressed his brows, "What else did you buy for her?"

"ah?"

"Besides soda, what else did you buy her?"

"No more, I just bought it casually." Ji Ze always felt that this topic seemed a bit inappropriate, so he quickly talked about Song Jing.

Ji Duo listened, lowered his eyes and continued to flip through the documents, "Did she come to see you?"

"no"

"So I called you at the barracks?"

"No." Ji Ze said, and suddenly realized, "Yes, my mother wants people to stare at me, but I may not be happy about it."

This kid thought Song Jing was sent by his mother to keep an eye on him. Ji Duo didn't say anything.

Hearing that there was no movement from his side again, Ji Ze quickly hung up the phone, "Uncle, you are busy, I won't disturb you from working."

Ji Duo was busy with this until noon.

Old Zhou passed by after get off work and leaned over to the door to take a look. "Aren't you going home for dinner?"

"Right away." Ji Duo packed up his things quickly and picked up the key from the drawer of his desk.

When Lao Zhou saw this, he didn't leave in a hurry. Unexpectedly, when Ji Duo turned around to lock the door, he suddenly asked: "Have you bought soda for your sister-in-law?"

"Yes," Lao Zhou said, "I bought it for your sister-in-law as soon as it came out. She said it was just some sweet soup and thought I was wasting money."

She could say that the poems written by Lao Zhou were a mess and called Lao Zhou a jerk. This is really the style of that sister-in-law.

Ji Duo put away the key and walked out side by side with Lao Zhou. "Don't you feel sorry that your sister-in-law doesn't understand you?"

"How can I not regret it? It's a pity that I have so many talents but I don't even have someone to talk to." Old Zhou sighed, "But we're already married, how can we not celebrate? Besides, your sister-in-law doesn't understand romance, but she still knows how to live a good life. That's how it is for a couple."

That's how it is for a couple. Is that what most people think?

Ji Duo frowned slightly, and heard Lao Zhou's puzzlement, "Why do you suddenly ask this? Did the couple have a quarrel?"

"not."

Some subordinates had quarreled with their leaders, but Lin Qiao had never quarreled with him, and he actually thought it was normal.

Ji Duo got into the car in silence, and Xiao Fang drove in silence, as if without Lin Qiao, the atmosphere in the car was always so quiet that it was a bit silent. When passing by a store, Ji Duo suddenly stopped the car, got out of the car, and asked the store clerk: "Do you have soda?"

When Lin Qiao returned home at noon, he found a whole box of fresh food next to the sofa.

She asked the man who was washing his hands in the kitchen, "Did Ozawa send it?"

Ji Duo stopped what he was doing, looked at her, and then turned on the tap. "Why do you say he bought it?"

"Didn't he buy it?" Lin Qiao was obviously a little surprised.

In the past, Ji Duo might not have asked further questions, but this time he wiped his hands with a towel and asked again: "Why do you think Xiaoze bought it?"

Since he asked, Lin Qiao told the truth, "You don't seem to care about this kind of thing."

Last time she made liquid soap, he didn't know if Yandou had it. She bought ice cream and put it in the refrigerator, but he never ate it.

This man has almost no requirements for food, except that he does not eat seafood. Because he always stays in the army, his life is relatively rough.

So he actually bought the box of soda? The sun rises from the west?

Lin Qiao found it very fresh, but Ji Duo was silent again before hanging the towel on the washbasin rack. "Would you like to drink?"

"Drink it. Why not drink it now that you've bought it?" Lin Qiao took out a bottle and looked around for a bottle opener.

It's a pity that they seldom eat at home, and Ji Duo doesn't have the habit of drinking beer, so there is really no such thing at home.

"Give it to me." Ji Duo took a pair of chopsticks directly from the kitchen.

The man's arm muscles were smooth and his veins were slightly visible when he exerted force. He opened the soda bottle with almost no effort.

"Your troops' training is really not in vain." Lin Qiao praised when he took it over.

Ji Duo still had the same expression on his face. He looked at her, threw the bottle cap into the trash can, rinsed the chopsticks and put them back in the chopstick cage.

Lin Qiao was about to go to the cafeteria to eat with a soda, but as soon as he went out, he ran into Liu Cuiying, the wife of Brigade Commander Liang next door, who was looking in at the door.

Upon seeing her, Liu Cuiying immediately came forward, looking a little worried, "Teacher Lin, Junzi said he doesn't want to continue his sophomore year in high school, did you know that?"

Lin Qiao really knew this, but she couldn't tell Liu Cuiying the little secret that the student had told her, so she just asked, "Junzi told you that he doesn't want to study anymore?"

"Yes, I told his dad last night, and his dad was so angry that he beat him up."

That soldier is really tough. I saw him at school this morning and he was still alive and kicking. You couldn't tell at all that he had been beaten.

"Originally, when he came back at noon today, he said that the school was going to build a laboratory, and it was related to you. I saw that he was very happy, so I said that you should insist on finishing your second year of high school. As a result, he didn't say anything for a long time, and when he opened his mouth, he still wanted to join the army this year."

Liu Cuiying couldn't help complaining, "Why is he joining the army at such a young age? Others join because they are old enough, but he is not. Besides, his father said that it is difficult to be promoted to an officer nowadays, and you have to go to military school. Don't you think he is just talking nonsense?"

Lin Qiao really didn't know the truth about this. After all, she was not in the army. She originally served as a soldier in her hometown in order to be assigned a job when she returned.

She couldn't help but look at Ji Duo, who nodded, "It's not as easy to ask as before."

"That's right." Liu Cuiying said as soon as she saw it, "I'm really at my wit's end, so I wanted to talk to you. If you have a chance, please help me persuade him."

"Let me try." Lin Qiao didn't say it with too much confidence.

Liu Cuiying didn't insist on her making any promises, "Just give it a try. At least you are educated, unlike me, who doesn't even know how to tell him." She dragged Lin Qiao to talk for a few more sentences, then slapped her forehead, "Look at me, are you and Xiaoji going out to eat?"

"I'm getting ready to go."

"Then you two should leave now. I won't keep you company. I think they're almost done eating, and I have to go back to clean up the table."

Liu Cuiying hurried back home, leaving Lin Qiao to continue walking towards the cafeteria with Ji Duo. She felt that this matter was a bit tricky.

It's not that it's difficult to refuse Liu Cuiying, it's that she really doesn't understand the troops. Even if she wants to persuade her, she doesn't know where to start.

"Is your school going to build a laboratory?" Ji Duo, who had been silent, suddenly asked.

Lin Qiao was still thinking about something. He paused for a moment before nodding, "It's time to build a laboratory. It will be the first batch of national pilot projects."

When she saw him just now, she didn't say a word, as if it was just a trivial matter not worth mentioning.

No matter she was assigned to the junior high school or taught military students, she never seemed to be like others, eager to go home and share...

Ji Duo wanted to frown, but Lin Qiao had been like this when he knew her, and her personality could not have been formed in one or two days.

Ji Duo couldn't help but think of her home, and then he wanted to frown even more. Seeing that she was still thinking, he simply said, "How about I go and talk to him?"

"You go and talk?" Lin Qiao was stunned for a moment, then his expression became a little strange.

This reaction made Ji Duo feel subtly unhappy again, as if she refused to let him interfere in her affairs. He couldn't help but lower his eyes, "No?"

"That's not the case." Lin Qiao mainly recalled the last conversation between the two of them. "You look too serious. I'm afraid you'll scare people."

"If you can't even handle this little bit of pressure, why would you want to be a soldier?"

Lin Qiao had no way to refute this, so he simply gave up. "Then when is convenient for you? I'll go talk to him."

"In two days, I'll check the data from the past few years." Ji Duo never fights a battle unprepared.

No one knew the military affairs better than him. With him taking action, Lin Qiao no longer had to worry and went to the cafeteria to eat with peace of mind.

Principal Zeng was cautious but not procrastinating, and within a few days he began to select a site for the new laboratory.

The years around 1980 were the years with the most students in the country, and there were few empty classrooms in schools. After all, the three difficult years of 1963 and 1964 had just ended, and the people were finally able to eat enough and began to have children.

However, the empty classrooms were not suitable for conversion into laboratories. After research, the school decided to simply build a small second floor to serve as a laboratory building in the future.

On the day when the visitor was measuring dimensions and drawing blueprints on the open space next to the teaching building, Vice Principal Qi was finally discharged from the hospital.

His illness was mainly a mental problem, and now that Qi Huaiwen was found, he got better quickly.

Wu Haiyang probably told him personally that he was leaving, but he didn't say anything and silently handed over the task to his most proud disciple.

After all, he was a failure as a father, and he may not be very successful as a teacher, otherwise he would not have put his son and disciples in such an embarrassing situation.

However, the students in Class 4 did not have so many thoughts. They were only familiar with Qi Huaiwen and close to him. Having Qi Huaiwen come back to attend class was more important than anything else.

The school was busy and started to build the experimental building before the weather got cold. Ji Duo also got his

The required data.

However, he hadn't gone to help Lin Qiao talk to Junzi about this matter yet. Ji Ze came to him first to calculate the accounts for the past half month. "I just moved to a bigger yard and added four production tanks that can hold more than 1,000 kilograms. These are more expensive, more than 200 each, so the expenses on the account this month are a bit high."

Speaking of expenses being a bit high, the money Ji Ze handed over was still a thick stack, equivalent to one or two years' salary for an average person.

Liquid soap is now completely famous in the area and sells very well. Once his salesmen take out the soap on their shoulders, it will be sold out in no time.

If the bicycles were not expensive and he did not trust his men and was afraid that they might get lost, he would have given each of them a bicycle and asked them to sell them in places farther away.

Seeing Ji Duo count the money and check the account, Ji Ze squinted his eyes and showed a bit of schadenfreude, "There is another good news, you will never expect it, uncle."