Traveling back to 1977

Chapter 257 On-site Teaching
Chen Fan returned to the broadcasting station with the documents, while Zhang Cuie was still sitting in front of the radio, studying diligently from her books.

Upon seeing Chen Fan enter, she immediately stood up and greeted him, "Teacher is back."

Chen Fan smiled and nodded. "How's the reading going? Do you have any questions?"

Zhang Cuie lowered her head shyly, picked up the book, and said, "I can't understand most of it."

Chen Fan smiled, pulled out a chair and sat down. "It's good that you don't understand. If you could understand it at a glance, there would be no need to study it, right?"

Zhang Cuihua grinned awkwardly, and when she saw Chen Fan reach out, she quickly handed him the book.

Chen Fan, holding the book, asked, "What parts don't you understand?"

Zhang Cuie quickly went to Chen Fan's side, flipped the book to the place she had marked, and said, "Here, and here, and here, and here..."

Before she could finish speaking, Chen Fan waved his hand and said, "Don't rush, take it one at a time."

He then carefully explained the difficult points in the book to her.

He taught veterinary medicine, guided Zhang Cuie's junior high school courses, and Jiang Lili's high school courses. His teaching skills had already reached LV5, which was one of the advanced skills on the skill board, even higher than his most dedicated martial arts.

In fact, he put less than a tenth of the effort into teaching martial arts, but there was no other way. Some skills are easy to upgrade, while others are not, so he could only accept it reluctantly.

Under the halo of Level 5 teaching skills, Chen Fan could not only explain various knowledge points in a simple and easy-to-understand way, but also the comprehension and acceptance abilities of all the students who received his direct guidance were multiplied. As a result, Zhang Cuie's accumulated problems were all solved in no time.

Taking the book back from Chen Fan, Zhang Cuie looked at him with shining eyes, "Teacher, you are so amazing! I couldn't understand the questions no matter how hard I tried, but after you explained it just once, I understood everything."

Chen Fan calmly waved his hand, "That's why I'm the teacher and you're the student."

Zhang Cuie was speechless. "Teacher, do you lack the traditional virtue of humility?"

The thought had barely crossed her mind when she quickly shook her head, dismissing it. The teacher is just that amazing; he's simply stating the facts. How can you say he's not humble?
It's all wrong to think about it!

Chen Fan noticed the changes in her expression and was a little puzzled. Just as he was about to speak, the broadcast ended, and Zhang Cuie immediately went to turn off the machine.

Chen Fan quickly stopped her, "Wait, there's a notice to read, you can learn it from it."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Cuie quickly stood to the side, her eyes filled with anticipation as she waited to see Chen Fan's performance.

Chen Fan turned off the radio, turned on the microphone, and said into the microphone, "Comrades, comrades, that concludes today's broadcast. Thank you for listening."

In each team of Lujiawan, everyone was waiting for the broadcast to end before preparing to do their own thing. But when they heard Chen Fan's voice, they all stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction of the loudspeaker.

In the educated youth's assigned field of Team 6, Huang Ying straightened up, turned to look at Jiang Lili, and called out, "Lili, did Teacher Chen tell you what announcements were going to be broadcast today?"

Jiang Lili stood up, shook her head blankly, and turned to look in the direction of the loudspeaker. "No."

Yang Ju looked at her, then at Huang Ying, and said, "Teacher Chen didn't tell me either."

Liu Dan raised her hand to wipe her sweat, breathing slightly heavily, "I don't know either."

Huang Ying said, "That must be a last-minute notice."

Yang Ju said, "Let's listen to what Teacher Chen has to say."

On the threshing ground atop the slope of Team 9, Team Leader Zhong Zihong looked at militia squad leader Wu Fengfei and asked curiously, "What important event has happened in the team again?"

Wu Fengfei shook his head. "I saw Company Commander Zhang yesterday, but he didn't say anything."

Zhong Zihong thought for a moment, "It must be something to announce. If there's nothing else, the broadcast will be turned off as soon as it ends, and Teacher Chen won't say anything else."

Wu Fengfei looked around, then leaned closer to him and whispered, "Captain, don't talk nonsense. Teacher Chen is very responsible. Why would she run away right after get off work?"

Zhong Zihong couldn't help but roll his eyes. "I didn't expect someone with such thick eyebrows and big eyes like you to have such ulterior motives."

Wu Fengfei felt wronged. "Captain, how could you say that? I was doing this for your own good!"

Zhong Zihong: "You dare to slander me and defame Teacher Chen, and you even say it's for my own good? I don't believe your lies."

……

After Chen Fan finished reading a sentence, he covered the microphone with his hand and turned to Zhang Cuie, saying, "The purpose of this sentence is to attract the attention of the commune members. Otherwise, everyone will think that it's the same as before, that the broadcast will end and the phone will be turned off. Their attention will not be here. If you just read the notice directly, some people may not hear it clearly."

Zhang Cuie suddenly realized and nodded repeatedly.

Then, looking at Chen Fan with a puzzled expression, she asked, "So, you deliberately paused now to give them time to react?"

Chen Fan said, "No, I'm teaching you why you should do this." He then coughed, took a sip of water from his teacup, and continued speaking to the document, "Now, I'll be broadcasting an announcement. Please listen carefully."

The document contained a moderate amount of information, so he naturally couldn't just read it aloud.

Secondly, the commune's documents were sent to the brigades of several production teams, and the format of the documents was standard official documents. If they were simply read aloud, most of the commune members would neither understand them nor have the patience to listen. Therefore, he needed to extract his own insights from the documents and then broadcast them to the entire brigade.

Chen Fan quickly scanned the document and continued, "After the commune leadership applied and the higher-level leadership studied the matter, it has been decided to pilot the reopening of the farmers' market..."

He summarized the contents of the document in concise language and then broadcast it.

Even so, he was still worried that some people wouldn't understand, so after broadcasting in Mandarin, he repeated it again in the Nanhu dialect.
"Simply put, rural markets are going to be restored, but they will be a little different from before. The old rules will be disregarded. Starting next month, the first Sunday of every month will be market day."

Why Sunday instead of the first or fifteenth of the lunar month as before? This is for the benefit of our fellow villagers.

Think about it, during the first two market days, weren't the town residents more generous with their purchases? They bought things for just a few dollars or a dozen dollars without hesitation. But the town's businesses are closed on Sundays, so if the market wasn't held on a Sunday, they wouldn't have time to come.

Therefore, the timing needs to be adjusted accordingly to allow time for town residents to go to the market, which is also to make it easier for our commune members to sell more goods.

……

In the brigade headquarters office, Secretary Yang heard the voice coming from the loudspeaker and couldn't stop smiling. "Little Chen is something else. I forgot to remind him just now, and he explained it himself over the loudspeaker. It saves the people below from always coming to ask me why the time was changed."

Zhang Changjiang chuckled and said, "Otherwise, why would we make him the broadcaster? The job of a broadcaster may seem simple, but it's not simple at all. Just this bit of flexibility and adaptability—how many people in the whole brigade do you think can do that?"

Within each squad, there was also much discussion about the information broadcast through the loudspeaker.

"I was just thinking, why not set it to the first or fifteenth of the month, but instead choose the first Sunday of every month? There's no precise date, how can anyone remember it? But after hearing what Teacher Chen said, I think it's better this way."

"It's definitely good. If it weren't Sunday, people from all the workplaces wouldn't have a day off, and there would be far fewer people buying things. It's much better than this kind of arrangement."

"You have to admit that the leaders of the commune are really capable; they even thought of this."

"It's good, but the dates are hard to remember. If you miss them, you'll lose a lot."

Just then, Chen Fan's voice came through the loudspeaker again.

"Considering that some members may not know the dates, we will announce it again on the loudspeaker the day before each market day to remind everyone so that they will not miss the market."

Chen Fan covered the microphone with his hand and whispered to Zhang Cuie, "You need to remember this: mark the reminders on the calendar the day before each market day."

Zhang Cuie nodded repeatedly, holding her notebook as she wrote down Chen Fan's words.

After a few seconds of pause, Chen Fan continued, "Besides the change in time, the location has also changed. In the past, several teams would take turns to hold the market, but from now on it will be fixed at Team 5 of Ganjiacun, which is where the market was held the first two times. Moreover, the site will be re-planned and initially divided into three areas. One is the cooked food area, which is a special area planned for people who want to sell cooked food. In the future, if you want to sell turtle meat, steamed buns, or noodles, you will have to set up your stall in the cooked food area."

One is the agricultural products area, which is where the goods used to be sold in farmers' markets, but now they've been relegated to designated areas. The last one is the industrial products area…”

Upon hearing this, the entire brigade erupted in cheers.

"An industrial goods section? Does that mean there will be industrial goods in farmers' markets in the future?"

Do you need a ticket?

"Since it's a farmers' market, you shouldn't need a ticket, right?"

"That's hard to say. What industrial product doesn't require a ticket?"

This time, Chen Fan didn't deliberately leave room for others to discuss. Instead, he said directly, "The industrial products zone is the area where various industrial product units in the town sell their products. They sell industrial products produced by our Nanhu Commune itself. The sales of these industrial products are also divided into two parts."

Most people lost interest after hearing what was being said over the loudspeaker.

"Ha, how many kinds of locally produced goods are there?"

"Besides the items from cotton mills, weaving mills, and shoe and clothing factories, which are somewhat interesting, what items do other units have?"

"Cardboard boxes, toilet paper, fertilizer, pesticides, cement, matches, coal, bricks and tiles—you're going to move all these things over there to sell?"

"These things are only useful for pesticides and fertilizers, but there's no need to buy them at the farmers' market. What can't be bought between government entities? If the government can't buy them, private individuals certainly can't."

Chen Fan, unaware of the murmurs among the commune members, continued without pausing, "There are two parts: one requires ration coupons, and the other is for unplanned products that don't require coupons. That's the plan for restoring the farmers' market."

The first market day after the farmers' market reopened will be on May 1st, which happens to be a Sunday. We will notify everyone in advance, so please be prepared.

(End of this chapter)