Chapter 506: After the New Year
Xia Zhizhi spent the New Year quietly at home. As Xia Zhuoran and Zhou Nan were discussing marriage, she didn't need to worry about it.
They said they would go back to the army to report and have a group wedding with everyone, and that their family would not prepare a separate wedding banquet. The bride's parents were also from the same military region and supported their idea.
Xia Sihua and Pan Wenjun are quite open-minded in this regard. After discussing with the two children, they expressed their support for their child's decision.
After the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, Xia Zhuoran and Zhou Nan returned to the army.
After the two of them returned to the army, his third brother, his third sister-in-law, and his sister and brother-in-law also returned to the army.
After Xia Qingqing's vacation was over and she was about to start working, she asked another aunt in the military family compound to help take care of her child during the day.
Xia Zhizhi was not too idle during the time she was at home.
After a year away from home, her family received a lot of letters from her friends. Her family members respected her very much and did not open her letters. They left them in her house.
Xia Zhizhi spent some time replying to all the letters that needed to be replied to.
I stayed at the blindness-eliminating team's base for several days.
After a year, the blindness elimination team has developed quite well, and not only have the results of blindness elimination begun to show results.
Last year, members of the North-South Illiteracy Campaign organized exchanges with each other, and the results are pretty good. The greater the population mobility in a place, the more people will accept new things mentally. This is an inevitable result.
No one is a fool. After finding out that someone else is like that, as long as it is good and positive, there will always be some people who will envy it and imitate it.
Xia Zhizhi discussed it with several senior executives and prepared some more places. It was just a matter of money, and she had the money.
In addition, she also sorted out some books and articles according to her own needs. If she felt that the content was not comprehensive enough, she even took the initiative to rewrite it several times and sent it to the newspaper.
One good thing about this era is that the contents of books are all meaningful. Let's put it this way, buy a book on mechanics and read it carefully. After the reform and opening up, it will be no problem to open your own repair shop and repair motorcycles.
Even some books on popular science about sexual physiology, premarital education, and guidance on married life are written very clearly and are more open than in the past few decades.
Xia Zhizhi also compiled some content on eugenics and related female physiological knowledge, as well as basic health knowledge for children, and submitted the manuscript to the newspaper.
In this regard, Pan Wenjun and Deng Nutu provided her with a lot of help.
Seeing that Xia Zhizhi had this intention, the elders were very happy. They probably thought that if Xia Zhizhi didn't want to travel to other places in the future, she could go to work in the Women's Federation.
Xia Zhizhi submitted a lot of articles of this kind to newspapers.
Of course, even if the information is published in black and white in the newspaper, many people have no way of knowing it.
Xia Zhizhi did not expect the vast majority of poor people to care about the content of newspapers. She just encouraged the young comrades in the anti-blindness group to force these things into everyone's heads.
After all, newspapers and books are very authoritative these days, and it is more effective to introduce something to others by taking a newspaper with you rather than just talking without any evidence.
Of course, it is difficult to persuade people in their 40s and 50s whose thinking is already set, but young people, no matter which era they are from, are quite receptive to new knowledge.
Nowadays, families have many children, but not every family wants so many children.
In an era when food and shelter were not yet a problem, even if they wanted to continue the family line, most of them would stop after having two sons.
However, due to the lack of contraceptive methods and the fact that entertainment was relatively scarce in those days, most people were reluctant to even turn on the lights after dark. They just went to bed and engaged in sexual activities.
Most of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth babies were already pregnant and there was no other choice but to have them anyway.
Human energy is limited, and having too many children will put tremendous pressure on the entire family.
Frequent childbearing by women in a family will place a severe burden on their bodies.
One more person means one more mouth to feed, which is not a good thing for the adult men in the family. The heavy responsibility of supporting the family is enough to break anyone's backbone.
It is not good to take care of the children either, after all, there are many people in the family. Even if the children can be raised, they cannot be well taken care of.
Don’t say that it’s easy to raise children these days. With a mortality rate of over 30%, those who survive are lucky.
Even if they survive, it doesn't mean they are well-developed. There are many cases of malnutrition and delayed development.
Therefore, it is still recommended to have good birth and upbringing.
Whether it is basic health knowledge, laws, or some common sense, knowing is always better than not knowing.
If even only one person out of ten listens, it is good.
Anyway, there are limited jobs, so people can just sit there and do whatever they want. This way they have something to do and can find a sense of their own existence. Once people have a sense of mission, it is difficult for them to become bad.
Xia Zhizhi was busy at home until the end of the first month of the lunar year. Ah Ju went to Hong Kong to do her business and came back. Only then did Zeng Zelan feel willing to let her go out.
Xia Zhizhi took a bus south and went to see Han Youran on the way.
After not seeing her for a year, Han Youran hasn't changed much.
Xia Zhizhi brought her a big bag of food, clothes and daily necessities. Han Youran accepted them without hesitation.
Xia Zhizhi took out another thick stack of letters and gave them to her, asking her to help post them regularly.
Han Youran treated her to a meal, told her to be careful when she went out, and then sent her to the train.
As the train started to move, Han Youran chased after her on the platform and waved his arms.
"Zhizhi, please don't lose contact!"
Xia Zhizhi nodded and said affirmatively: "Don't worry, I will definitely not cut off contact. You have no choice but to play with me!"
This is the true statement. Xia Zhizhi also wants to know what the final outcome will be between Han Youran and Cui Zijin.
The two of them are currently in a long-distance relationship and only write a few letters a year to maintain their relationship.
As for Jiang Xiurong and Tang Mingli, they talked but did not take the next step.
Hearing her say this, Han Youran smiled with relief.
They arrived in Shenzhen without any incident, then smuggled themselves across the border and landed in the middle of the night. Xia Zhizhi took out her imported Mercedes-Benz from the space.
Hearing the noise, the patrol officers came over with flashlights, but when they saw her car, they quickly stood by the roadside and stopped them to investigate without hesitation.
Ah Ju was driving. Xia Zhizhi opened the car window, untied her two big braids, combed her hair with her fingers, and then shook her head to blow towards the window.
Apart from anything else, the temperature here is really comfortable.
Even during the Spring Festival, the temperature was around ten degrees. Xia Zhizhi was not particularly afraid of the cold. With her physique, she would not freeze if she wore a skirt with stockings inside and a coat.
Unlike in the north, not only do you have to wear thick clothes, but you can't leave your hands outside or they will freeze. When the wind blows, even a god would have a big nose.