Chapter 243 Raising Gu - Qin Xiangxiang is going to the heavens!
Lin Xiuqin learned of the existence of the pig-raising classroom at Feiyan Textile Factory, and she felt uneasy. She originally thought that taking the college entrance examination was a "lower dimension attack", and that with a little effort, she could easily become the top scorer in the province and get into Tsinghua or Peking University.
But if Feiyan Textile Factory's pig-raising classroom is run well and improves many people's math, physics, and chemistry scores... then the sky will fall!
It's important to know that the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have historically been known for their high-scoring candidates in the imperial examinations, and will continue to be notorious for their intense college entrance examinations. Becoming the top scorer in the province's college entrance examination here will be extremely difficult.
Even with her previous high school education and a significant advantage, she might not be able to compete with the students from Jiangsu and Zhejiang at this time.
Lin Xiuqin felt very anxious. She clearly had the opportunity to go back to 1977 to take the college entrance examination, so why was she still stuck in the grueling college entrance examination cycle? Why was she in Jiangsu and Zhejiang instead of Shanghai? Why couldn't she just go to the countryside and mountainous areas... If she went to several mountainous provinces, she would definitely become the top scorer in the province.
"Students from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are caught in a 'devil's circle' of the college entrance exam... Is it going back to '77, and they're still giving us the same test?"
Lin Xiuqin: "Does Qin Xiangxiang even know that the college entrance examination will be reinstated this year? She's still holding math and physics classes in the factory? This Feng Aotian, is she raising a treacherous snake?"
Lin Xiuqin tossed and turned, biting her pillow several times. She couldn't sleep because of this worry. She was curious about the study situation of the workers at Feiyan Textile Factory and whether she could rank among the top in this year's college entrance examination.
Lin Xiuqin hesitated for several days, then went to He Xiuxiu to ask if she could learn about the pig farming class at Feiyan Textile Factory.
"I'd like to ask Qin Xiangxiang from your department about the situation. Does her factory really teach math, physics, and chemistry? Are there even university professors there? How are her studies going?"
He Xiuxiu nodded: "You like math, physics, and chemistry too?"
Lin Xiuqin froze for a moment, then nodded, but in her heart she thought: Only a madman likes math and physics.
If it weren't for the pressure of the college entrance exam, who would want to study these things? Twelve years of hard study!
She used to hate the college entrance exam, but now that she's back in 1977, she has to take it again. It's a sad story.
He Xiuxiu: "You young girls love to learn, we older girls can't compare."
He Xiuxiu took Lin Xiuqin to the second floor of the family compound and found Qin Xiangxiang, who was craving hot pot. Qin Xiangxiang felt cold, probably due to postpartum chills (a feeling of coldness after craving food), and muttered at home: "There is hot pot in the north, but we are by the sea, and we can only drink the northwest wind?"
Li Jianzhi: "Let's have hot pot! I'll make seafood balls, do you want some fish balls too?"
The mere mention of fish balls makes me nauseous. I've eaten too many of them. Qin Xiangxiang shook her head: "Many of the fish balls in our factory are made like rubber balls. They don't taste good, and they have a fishy smell in the middle."
Li Jianzhi: "It's probably because the gelation is not strong enough. The fish paste needs to be made softer and more tender. The cuttlefish balls are delicious, but the fishy taste is unavoidable... so we have to use heavy ingredients to press them."
"It would be great if there was a spicy hot pot with butter."
However, Li Jianzhi also knew it was impossible. Spicy hot pot was too oily, and given the current conditions, they simply couldn't afford spicy red oil hot pot. They didn't even have lard, let alone beef tallow.
The only thing we can do is research seafood-flavored hot pot. Besides spicy broth, the best way to suppress the fishy smell is the sweet and sour style that many Southeast Asian countries choose, using sour flavors like tomatoes to mask the fishy taste.
However, tomato hot pot is more suitable for eating in hot weather. In winter, when it's already cold, eating something sour is not a good idea.
Winter is the perfect time to enjoy spicy hot pot.
If it's hot pot with mutton, then sesame paste, sesame oil, and garlic are indispensable...
Just as Qin Xiang was thinking about how to enjoy a hot pot in winter, He Xiuxiu and Lin Xiuqin came to her door.
"Director Qin, I... I'd like to visit your pig farming class to see how things are going."
Qin Xiangxiang: "Lin Xiuqin? You want to go to the pig farming class?"
"Lin Xiuqin likes math, physics, and chemistry. When she learned that your factory's pig farming class teaches math, physics, and chemistry, she wanted to go and learn it."
Qin Xiangxiang nodded, thinking to herself that Lin Xiuqin was indeed the original female lead, seizing every opportunity to learn and strive!
She's completely different from a lazy person like her.
So Qin Xiangxiang readily agreed: "If you want to come and see our factory, then come on over."
This kind of person who loves math and physics is not to be trifled with; let her fall head over heels in love with math and physics.
"Really? Director Qin, thank you so much." Lin Xiuqin forced a smile, though she felt terrified.
The Qin Xiangxiang before me was too confident! This aura of confidence was awe-inspiring.
Lin Xiuqin: "Director Qin, have you heard of the 'Self-Study Series of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry'? This set is published by Shanghai Publishing House."
Qin Xiangxiang felt helpless when she heard this. Why did everyone love math, physics, and chemistry?
“My family used to own one, and then we got another one.”
Lin Xiuqin blurted out, "The whole set?"
Qin Xiangxiang was incredibly generous: "Seventeen books, I have them all. If you need them, I can lend them to you?"
Lin Xiuqin asked in surprise and doubt, "Can I...can I look through it now?"
"Okay, I'll go get them for you!" Qin Xiangxiang happily went back to her living room to get the books, taking four or five in one go.
The female protagonist wants to borrow books, so let's lend them out! Here we go, math and physics!
Lin Xiuqin swallowed hard as she looked at the books. She took one from Qin Xiangxiang's hand with trepidation, opened it, and found it filled with dense notes—written by Li Jianzhi.
The pitch-black handwriting was shocking.
Lin Xiuqin was sweating profusely.
At that moment, Lin Xiuqin felt dizzy. She knew she probably had no chance of becoming the provincial champion, and even if Qin Xiangxiang continued to "raise Gu" in the factory, she might not be able to make it into the top 100 in the province.
As someone who has received twelve years of education and a university education, if she were to transmigrate to the year the college entrance examination was reinstated and fail to get into Tsinghua or Peking University, she would be too ashamed to face anyone.
Qin Xiangxiang, in front of us, is undoubtedly making this year's college entrance examination more difficult.
"Qin Xiangxiang...are you tutoring your husband?"
Qin Xiangxiang: "That's not true. He just likes to learn."
"I don't like this stuff at all."
Lin Xiuqin snorted coldly, thinking to herself that she hated Versailles the most.
He Xiuxiu picked up a book and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, you're studying so diligently! Why are there two people's notes here? Whose is this?"
Qin Xiangxiang glanced at it: "It belongs to my mother-in-law, Wu Xueyan! My mother-in-law... my mother-in-law loves to learn, especially math, physics, and chemistry."
Lin Xiuqin was so shocked that her jaw dropped to the floor: "Your mother-in-law?"
Qin Xiangxiang is trying to reach for the heavens!
In other historical fiction, the battles between awful relatives and mothers-in-law are a major highlight. But this woman in front of us is not only scheming against herself, she's also scheming against her mother-in-law!
Her mother-in-law is so old, yet she's still being made to learn math, physics, and chemistry.
frenzied.
Qin Xiangxiang said, "My mother-in-law insists on learning, and I can't persuade her otherwise. She says that one should learn as long as one lives."
Qin Xiangxiang felt that her mother-in-law must have something in common with the female protagonist in front of her. This Lin Xiuqin was also someone who worked hard like a beast of burden.
Lin Xiuqin's lips went numb: "That's truly remarkable."
He Xiuxiu: "Is it useful to learn these things now that I'm getting old?"
Qin Xiangxiang shook her head: "I don't know either."
"Director Qin, may I visit your factory's pig farming class to learn more? I'd like to see how everyone is learning."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "Lin Xiuqin, you really love learning. Okay, come and learn if you want."
"Thank you, Director Qin."
Qin Xiangxiang immediately shoved all the books in her hand into Lin Xiuqin's hands: "Take these books back and read them."
"No, no, no, no... Director Qin, you should keep it for your own study." Lin Xiuqin was trembling with fear. If she took the book full of study notes back with her, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to sleep and would have nightmares all night.
Anxious!
Thinking about how hard Qin Xiangxiang was working, she felt incredibly anxious. She missed the carefree Qin Xiangxiang of the past.
“Are you really going to go to the pig-raising class at Feiyan Textile Factory? I don’t think they’ll learn anything useful. There are a lot of women in the textile factory, and the female workers aren’t very well-educated.” He Xiuxiu didn’t take the pig-raising class seriously, thinking it was just “literacy education” and a small-scale operation in the factory.
Lin Xiuqin: "There are also worker-peasant-soldier students, educated youth who went to the countryside, various high school graduates, and retired soldiers. These retired soldiers had already received literacy education when they were in the army."
"That's probably just going from 'basic literacy' to 'comprehensive literacy,' it's all just for fun! I asked Zhuang Xiaoman yesterday, how could she possibly compose poetry? Do you know what poem she wrote?"
"What?"
He Xiuxiu: "Ode to a Pig".
"Just from the name, you can tell they're just playing around and won't learn anything."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiuqin burst into laughter. "Ode to the Pig"? Is it just for literacy education?
If only that were true.
She was afraid that Qin Xiangxiang, that big devil, would turn Feiyan Textile Factory into a "breeding ground for poisonous insects".
"Qin Xiangxiang, it's one thing for her to drag herself into this, but she shouldn't drag others into it! Leave others a way to survive."
He Xiuxiu's words offered Lin Xiuqin some comfort. She also felt that textile workers in this era, even if they had university professors teaching them, probably wouldn't learn much.
Because of their weak cultural foundation, "the more university professors are lecturing, the less they can understand!"
"To imagine a battle between weaklings as a scene of raising a venomous insect—I must be stupid!"
Lin Xiuqin felt more and more relieved as she thought about it, so she chose a day to come to Feiyan Textile Factory to personally experience the pig farming class.
She hopes that everyone she meets will be at the level of Zhuang Xiaoman's poem "Ode to the Pig".
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