Traveling back to 1977

Chapter 194 is dry and boring.

Once Huang Ying and the other two are settled, as long as they don't cause any other problems, the family can be considered at peace.

Chen Fan checked the time; it was only 12 o'clock, so he lay down and took a nap.

I woke up feeling refreshed and picked up my things to go to the brigade headquarters.

Instead of going to work, I went to wish Secretary Yang, Yang Xingxiu, and Captain Ye a Happy New Year.

As usual, each person received a set of pottery, which was both beautiful and practical, and in return, they received an order for four charcoal stoves.

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Life that followed was dull and monotonous.

After getting up in the morning, the four women had already prepared breakfast. Chen Fan only needed to eat, and then he went to work. He didn't even have to wash the dishes.

When he arrives at the brigade headquarters, it's not even 6:30 yet. He'll practice his fist and foot techniques and knife skills for half an hour before officially starting work.

The broadcast starts promptly at seven o'clock, then I go to the front yard to teach the veterinary class.

A horsewhip given to him by an unknown parent was hanging next to the blackboard. He had never used it, mainly because he didn't need to. These students were so well-behaved that he couldn't bear to say a word to them, let alone hit them.

The teaching format is usually to first give a brief explanation of the key points, and then let everyone study on their own by reading the book. If there is anything they don't understand, they can discuss it with each other.

After assigning the self-study course content, it was still before 7:30, so Chen Fan returned to the broadcasting station to do his own thing.

Roughly speaking, it involves shaking a spear while practicing horse stance, holding a spear while practicing horse stance, reading and studying while practicing horse stance, and practicing large characters while practicing horse stance.

I waited until 9 o'clock, then turned off the radio and went home.

Sometimes Zhang Cuie would come over to him and ask him for help with difficult problems in her studies.

Chen Fan would usually spend about half an hour explaining it to her, which meant he would be half an hour late leaving get off work.

However, Zhang Cuie never came empty-handed. She would bring either an egg, two pieces of rice candy, or two roasted sweet potatoes, or at the very least, a mixed rice ball wrapped in lotus leaves...

It's a good opportunity to add some morning tea for Chen Fan.

Back at the educated youth settlement, it was either before 9:30 or before 10:00. Since we had just had morning tea, we wouldn't have lunch at this time, so we would busy ourselves with our own things.

For example, leading a few women to make pottery blanks, leading a few women to chop firewood and make charcoal, leading a few women to dig soil in the back to make adobe bricks, leading a few women to chop firewood and clear the house site...

It's not that he wanted to bring it.

No matter what he does, there will always be at least two girls by his side helping him.

At first, he told them to go back to their studies, but they said that Teacher Chen taught them and that they needed to balance work and rest. They said that they were always studying when Teacher Chen was not around, and they would only work with him when he came back.

After checking, Teacher Chen found that this was indeed the case, and had no choice but to accept it silently.

To be honest, he felt awkward at first, but in less than a week he got used to giving orders.

"Xiaoju, bring me the axe." "Xiaodan, dig that hole bigger." "Xiaoying, add more water to the soil." "Xiaojiang, drink some water."

That's about it.

After two hours of busy work, the women had prepared lunch.

He only needs to wash his hands and eat.

After lunch, I take a nap and then go to work at the brigade headquarters at 1:30 pm.

Before his shift started, he could do his own thing again, reading, writing, practicing shooting, gradually increasing his experience points, and feeling quite rewarded.

After broadcasting the announcement at 4 p.m., I would go to the front yard to teach the veterinary students.

At this time, the main task is to answer the questions assigned in the morning. If there is any extra time, we will also explain some practical cases, or borrow some livestock from the fifth team to have practical lessons in the yard.

The main idea is to combine theory with practice. After getting off work at 5 o'clock and returning home, he would first fire a kiln, either with dried clay blanks or firewood and charcoal.

He also followed the process in "Traditional Brick and Tile Sintering" and fired several batches of bricks.

However, what he wanted to fire were blue bricks, but what he produced were blue bricks, red bricks, blue-red bricks, and black bricks.

Black bricks are bricks that have been burned badly; they can only be used as flooring under earthen kilns.

But the most frequently fired items were pottery.

Because charcoal stoves had become a "bestseller" in the Lujiawan production team, and last year Lujiawan had a bumper harvest, most of the commune members' families received a dividend, and there was also a considerable surplus of grain, so they were basically not short of money.

When the commune members saw that the leaders of the brigade headquarters were using charcoal stoves that could be used for heating, boiling water, cooking, and stir-frying, most of those who could afford it were tempted.

When they heard that it was free and any agricultural product could be exchanged, their interest turned into action.

As a result, Chen Fan received a large number of orders, including not only charcoal stoves, but also teapots, wine pots, rice bowls, soup bowls, etc., so much so that the original earthen kiln pit was more than doubled in size.

As a result, his room was overflowing with stuff: white rice, golden millet, bags of sweet potatoes, strips of cured meat and fish sausages, baskets piled high with eggs, crowing roosters and quacking ducks in the yard, and even a few large white geese.

However, the big white goose always liked to bully the two little dogs, Duoduo and Qiuqiu, so Chen Fan made it into roast goose in an earthen kiln. That night, Jiang Lili ate half a bowl less of rice.

If it weren't for his adherence to the principle of only accepting goods of equivalent value and not accepting money, his net worth would probably have exceeded 600 yuan, making him one of the richest people in Lujiawan No. 6 Team!
Of course, it can't be considered a fixed asset, so he always insisted on taking pride in being a proletarian, which made him a rich man.

If he wasn't firing the earthen kiln, he would take his fishing rod to the river to fish.

After slowly recalling the fishing techniques he learned before his time travel and combining them with on-site practice, he successfully unlocked the "fishing and hunting" skill.

So they always have a good catch when they go fishing, and these fish are the main dish they eat every day.

Most importantly, it can increase experience points.

Chen Fan particularly liked this skill. He was even thinking that when spring came, he would go to the wild to find a rabbit burrow and try to catch a few rabbits so that he could start a rabbit farm.

Then they encouraged the brigade headquarters to set up a collective sideline breeding farm and sell all the rabbits to the brigade headquarters.

Private individuals cannot do business with each other, but collectives can spend money to buy personal property. If a rabbit is sold for 1 yuan, they can make several hundred yuan.

Rabbits can give birth every two months, with a maximum of 15 offspring per litter. Even if we assume 10 offspring per litter, and half of them are female rabbits, the litter size increases at least fivefold every two months. In just six months, a litter of 10 rabbits can grow into 750 rabbits.

The actual number will only be higher, not lower. Besides, a rabbit costs more than one dollar, so this deal can earn him at least a thousand dollars!

After firing the kiln or fishing, and having dinner, it was time to study.

He wasn't just making excuses for the girls by having them learn cultural knowledge.

Although he wanted to make excuses, he couldn't be too obvious; he had to do something concrete.

So after dinner and washing up, they would gather in the classroom converted from the reception room to wait for Jiang Lili's class.

Ahem, mainly Chen Fan guided Jiang Lili, and then Jiang Lili guided Huang Ying and the other two with junior high school knowledge. This is called making reasonable use of resources.

Everyone studied in the "classroom" and was not assigned to a room, so they didn't have to worry about being seen or gossiped about.

They studied from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. before going back to their rooms to sleep.

Repeat the process the next day.

Therefore, such days are truly monotonous and boring.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.

Half a month later, the ice and snow on the ground had melted and the ground was dry. Chen Fan took advantage of his work to take the foal out for a walk.

(End of this chapter)