Chapter 244 Looking at you makes me stunned. Your factory manager is really hardworking.
Lin Xiuqin arrived at Feiyan Textile Factory by car and was shocked by the changes the factory had undergone over the years. Her former colleague, Zhao Qiaoqiao, was still working at the factory hospital.
“Our factory has been built so well these past few years! Look, that’s a magnificent guesthouse. I heard they plan to install black and white TVs in every room. When our employees’ families come to visit, they can stay in the guesthouse for free for three days a year. There are also internal travel and family visit discounts.”
“Our factory supplies cream cakes every week. You’ve never had them, have you? We also have pork floss bread, which is my favorite.”
Zhao Qiaoqiao was overjoyed to see Lin Xiuqin, subtly and overtly praising the benefits at her factory. She puffed out her chest, her tone confident and proud.
"The best thing I've ever done in all these years was transferring to Feiyan Textile Factory!"
Lin Xiuqin chimed in with a few words, her real intention being to inquire about the "pig-raising room" at Feiyan Textile Factory. "I heard your factory has a pig-raising study room? And you even teach math and physics?"
"Oh, I see. But I don't study often."
Lin Hsiu-chin: "I heard that university professors are teaching the classes. It must be quite difficult for them, right?"
"It's effortless! Teacher Shen's classes are so funny, everyone loves listening to him, even I've attended several of his classes... Our factory manager used to attend his classes every day! He's so diligent!"
“I think many people go to the pig farm every day to learn in order to curry favor with the factory manager, all in order to show off and get noticed by the factory manager.”
Lin Xiuqin's heart sank: "Your factory manager is really hardworking."
"Of course! Even our factory director's mother-in-law is studying so diligently. It's all thanks to Director Qin's excellent leadership. Teacher Shen is a talent that Director Qin specially recruited—I'll tell you in secret, do you know why Teacher Shen's classes are so popular?"
Lin Hsiu-chin: "Why?"
"Teacher Shen said that all his teaching methods were learned from our Factory Director Qin. It was all inspired by our Factory Director Qin's example. Isn't our factory director amazing?"
"It can be said that without Director Qin, there would be no pig farming class."
Lin Xiuqin: "..."
That Qin Xiangxiang is truly heartless and insane.
"How are the people at the factory doing with their studies?"
Zhao Qiaoqiao shook her head: "I'm not sure. There are no specific rules or assessments. Everyone just learns what they like."
Lin Xiuqin was stunned: "When Qin Xiangxiang urged the people in the factory to study, didn't he set any goals? Didn't he have any specific requirements?"
"No, everyone learned it voluntarily, and each person learned different things."
Lin Xiuqin was completely confused. What was Qin Xiangxiang doing? He was demanding that the workers learn, but he wasn't planning any specific learning outline or objectives, leaving them to learn on their own?
What can one learn from this? Is she promoting "happy education"?
"Zhao Qiaoqiao, take me to see the pig farming class at your factory. I want to go and listen to the lecture myself."
"good!"
Lin Xiuqin felt a sense of pride and satisfaction. She was a person who had received higher education. How could she not crush the "natives" of this era?
Now that she's in the classroom at Feiyan Textile Factory, perhaps she can give some pointers to those ordinary people and make a name for herself.
When the provincial newspaper comes out next spring, the headline will be: "Lin Xiuqin, a female worker at the Hongxing Textile Factory, becomes the top scorer in the provincial exam..."
"Is this your pig farming classroom?" Lin Xiuqin was still daydreaming when she saw the sign for the pig farming classroom and stood there dumbfounded.
The reason is simple: the name "pigsty" is too deceptive. Upon hearing this name, one immediately imagines a dark, damp pigsty filled with the smell of pig manure.
At most, they would just paint the walls white and build a straw shed, which would then serve as a "pig-raising study room" in harsh conditions.
If things were even better, there would be a row of tiled houses... and if things were even better, there would be a large conference room arranged in a three-story building.
And this pig-raising study room in front of us, "is it a rehearsal hall for arts and crafts?"
Zhao Qiaoqiao said naturally, "That's right! This is the rehearsal hall for our factory's propaganda team! National-level singers also come to our rehearsal hall to practice vocal music!"
Lin Xiuqin: "??????"
"We have a worker's child named Zhang Haiyan in our factory. It seems she's become an apprentice of the famous singer Chen Muyun. She won a prize in the National Day cultural performance and has now been exceptionally recruited by the provincial children's choir... I heard that Zhang Haiyan has the potential to become a singer! Our factory's workers' children can produce a singer!"
"This is a talent that we nurtured and developed in our factory!"
Lin Xiuqin gave an awkward smile: "Zhang Haiyan? I hope she can succeed, but the name is too ordinary and doesn't seem like the kind of name that can make someone a celebrity."
As the two were talking, they pushed open the door, and the scene inside the pig-raising training room was displayed in Lin Xiuqin's eyes. She was stunned, and she almost blurted out: "This is what you call a pig-raising room?"
From the outside it already looks like a rehearsal hall, but the inside is even more amazing, just like those top-notch study rooms in the future!
The walls, made entirely of spruce wood, were spacious and bright. The blackboard was polished to a shine, and the walls were covered with various chemical equations, as well as things that left people bewildered, such as "pedigree charts of superior breeding pigs," "pig feed ratio formulas," and "optimized farrowing rate curves for sows."
this……
What kind of illogical mix-and-match style is this?! It's comparable to some manor-building games from later generations, with luxurious decorations and buildings filled with incomprehensible things inside.
This is clearly a luxurious study room and rehearsal hall, but it's plastered with a bunch of pig-raising knowledge, which is such an eyesore!
Yet it perfectly embodies the style of this era.
It's both luxurious and tacky, and it's also both politically correct and professionally competent.
You might call it luxurious, but it's actually learning how to raise pigs; you might call it tacky, but its decor is luxurious!
"This is practically exploiting a bug!"
Zhao Qiaoqiao: "Keep your voice down, don't disturb other people's studies."
In the study room, dozens of young people in work clothes were engrossed in studying their books. The only sounds were the turning of pages and the scratching of writing. Their concentration was astonishing. Even though Lin Xiuqin had made quite a commotion earlier, no one paid much attention to them.
"I guess it's another shocked outsider!"
...
The air was filled with the scent of books. The textile factory workers worked in three shifts, three days on and one day off. Many of them would choose to study in the pig farming study room during their rest time.
Coming to this study room to listen to a lesson, looking at the comfortable and bright spruce wood-decorated hall in front of me, and seeing other people engrossed in their studies around me, I feel a surge of pride and my motivation to learn increases even more.
Lin Xiuqin walked forward a bit. She saw many people learning different things, so she wanted to find someone to inquire about their cultural background.
She first targeted a young female textile worker sitting at the front. Based on her experience in college, those who sat at the front usually had mediocre grades and were considered average.
People who like to sit in the front row are characterized by high enthusiasm for learning, but even if they study hard, they don't acquire much skill.
In other words, they lack talent.
Lin Xiuqin struck up a conversation with the young female worker at the front of the group, asking kindly, "Little sister, what book are you reading? Is it the 'Self-Study Manual' compiled by your factory?"
The young female worker looked up at Lin Xiuqin, her eyes clear and bright: "Sister, this is Mr. Hua Luogeng's 'Introduction to Number Theory'."
Lin Xiuqin's pupils dilated in shock. Count, what introduction?
What was your cultural background before?
The female worker, Zhao Hongmei, nodded: "I only have a junior high school education. After graduation, I was assigned to the textile factory."
Zhao Hongmei started to have an uneven academic performance when she was in elementary school. She liked math, but her Chinese grades were not good. After graduating from middle school, she was lucky enough to be assigned to Feiyan Textile Factory. She had given up on studying, but unexpectedly, she was able to rekindle her love for math.
The learning atmosphere in the pigsty was good. She liked to discuss math with others and explain math problems to them. After a period of hard work, her self-learning ability in math improved by leaps and bounds.
The "Introduction to Number Theory" in her hand was brought by Professor Shen. Director Qin donated a set of books to the pig farm, and Professor Shen also donated many books. Before Dr. Ye left, he also donated many books... Zhao Hongmei really liked this set of "Introduction to Number Theory" published in 1957 and loved it very much.
“Our factory manager said that if we understand this, we can optimize the loom algorithm in the future, which is just as valuable as saving feed for pigs!” As she spoke, Zhao Hongmei wrote down a series of complex formulas that Lin Xiuqin could not understand at all on the draft paper.
In addition to this book, "Introduction to Number Theory," there is also a set of "Introduction to Higher Mathematics," which is a mathematics textbook written by the famous mathematician Hua Luogeng in the 1960s.
These books were old textbooks from the university, and Zhao Hongmei became very engrossed in reading them.
Lin Xiuqin blushed deeply. She never expected that there would actually be such a remarkable person who liked to sit in the front row and read an advanced mathematics textbook. This female worker was extraordinary.
If this were a Minesweeper game, she would have stepped on a landmine.
No way... no way... a "common female factory worker" is actually studying top-level mathematical works? And Lin Xiuqin is still reviewing for the college entrance examination. This factory worker's theoretical foundation is far beyond the scope of Lin Xiuqin's review.
Before Lin Xiuqin could ask a few more questions, other people quietly approached Zhao Hongmei to ask for help with problem-solving. Zhao Hongmei readily agreed. She enjoyed explaining math problems to others. Sitting in the front row, she was practically a math tutor, specializing in solving difficult math problems for people.
Lin Xiuqin: "..."
"Hey comrade, why are you sitting in the front row? Why aren't you in the back row doing your homework peacefully?"
Zhao Hongmei: "Our factory manager made me sit in the first row!"
Lin Xiuqin: "Where does your factory manager sit?"
“Our factory manager usually sits at the very back; she has to oversee the whole situation.”
Lin Xiuqin: "?"
Is Qin Xiangxiang crazy? She's acting like a high school homeroom teacher, hiding behind the classroom and secretly observing.
Trying to ignore Zhao Hongmei, Lin Xiuqin found a middle-aged male worker who looked particularly rough. She walked over and found that he was actually reading English. The college entrance examination had just been reinstated and English was no longer tested. Was this guy just trying to learn something? No, at his age, he was learning English.
"Master, are you learning a foreign language? Why?"
Zhang Dayong closed his English textbook and smiled憨厚ly: "I'm a boiler operator in the factory, and my daughter has been selected to join the provincial children's choir."
Lin Hsiu-chin: "...Then why learn English?"
"What if my daughter performs abroad in the future?"
Lin Xiuqin: "Tsk." The people in this textile factory are really dreaming. They're just trying to satisfy their hunger with empty promises.
"So how's your learning going?"
"It's alright. Professor Shen talked about boiler thermodynamics before, and a lot of the terms were in English... I asked Pingping from our factory for help." As he spoke, Zhang Dayong fluently read a passage about heat conduction from an English article, thanks to the enthusiastic Yin Pingping who taught him repeatedly.
Yin Pingping loves to chat with people and talk about her hometown. Zhang Dayong was originally confused and worried about his daughter Zhang Haiyan, but Yin Pingping patiently explained Zhang Haiyan's talent to him. They also talked about their hometowns, which made Zhang Dayong like Yin Pingping more and more.
Yin Pingping practiced her spoken English and even taught Zhang Dayong a few phrases. She also mentioned that Zhang Haiyan had a bright future and might perform abroad...
Later, Zhang Dayong himself didn't know how he started learning English. He also got along well with Yin Pingping. This girl was so likable that he couldn't refuse her at all.
He was just an ordinary boiler worker, but Yin Pingping took the initiative to help him find articles on heat conduction. Unable to refuse her kindness, he studied them and found it quite enjoyable.
Yin Pingping also said that if she learns English well, she will have the opportunity to represent the factory at the Canton Fair in the future and broaden her horizons.
Lin Xiuqin felt somewhat exhausted: "Heat conduction? In English?"
She was struggling to understand what Zhang Dayong was saying, and it was driving her crazy!
A middle-aged boiler operator is studying heat conduction, and his English pronunciation is quite good?
I asked two questions and ended up making two mistakes.
Was this pig-raising room designed by Qin Xiangxiang as a breeding room for Gu poison?
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