Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

This autumn rain fell intermittently for seven days, extinguishing the fire in the earthen blast furnace, making it impossible to produce steel.

The city organized citizens to go to work as needed and to go back to school as needed.

After receiving the notice, Han Zhaozhao went back to school and checked in, then asked for leave from his teacher to go home and study on his own.

At first the teacher didn't agree, saying it was impossible. The semester was almost over and we hadn't had classes for many days because of the national steel-making campaign.

Classes have resumed, and the new leaders are all worried about what to do with the upcoming midterm exams?

If a student asks for leave at this critical moment, what will the teacher say to you?

"Han Zhaozhao, this is a school, we have to follow the rules, you don't think this is your home, do you? You can come if you want or not?

If you don't take school seriously, why spend the tuition? Is it easy for your grandma to make money?

It would be better to save the money and buy two pounds of pork belly, so that the whole family can enjoy it!"

The old teacher is a Tyrannosaurus. Why didn’t I realize before that he has such a sharp tongue?

"Teacher, I love going to school. If you don't believe me, just look at the records. I completed the most firewood tasks in our class!

I've been looking forward to the start of classes for a long time, but there's nothing I can do about it? Woohoo, I don't want to do this either.

There are only two of us left in our family. My grandmother is bedridden from a work-related injury and cannot move. She really needs someone to take care of her.”

The teacher was embarrassed for a moment, then immediately put on a stern face and lectured, "Who doesn't have difficulties these days? If we have difficulties, we must find ways to overcome them, and we can't not come to class!"

Han Zhaozhao had no choice but to show her ability to the teacher. She asked for an on-site test and did the test papers of various subjects in the two semesters of the first grade one by one.

After marking the test papers, I looked at the results: an average of 99 points in each subject! The teacher's face changed drastically, and he was extremely entangled.

"With your ability to study independently, you can go straight to the second grade!"

Han Zhaozhao was standing in front of the teacher, pretending to be a coward. When he heard this, he suddenly looked up:

“Really, I can skip grades?

Teacher, there is actually one thing I haven’t reported to you yet. I have also learned all the third-grade knowledge by myself…”

Han Zhaozhao was secretly delighted, thinking that maybe this time she could save two years of time attending classes with a bunch of little kids!

"Stop! Han Zhaozhao, you are really good! Do you think you can fly to the sky just by giving you a pole?

In all these years that I've been teaching, I've never skipped two levels!

I will report this matter to my superior and see if the principal approves it.

Let's put aside the issue of skipping a grade for now and settle your request for a long vacation today."

In the end, the teacher approved her a long vacation.

However, she was also forced to promise to complete her homework on time. Niu Xiaoyun would bring her homework back every day, and after she finished it, she would hand it in to the teacher.

In addition, she also had to attend the midterm and final exams on time. Han Zhaozhao agreed to all the conditions proposed by the teacher.

Although the teacher did not say it explicitly, she understood that teachers also need teaching results.

After putting all his textbooks into his schoolbag, Han Zhaozhao went home before the school was over. Just kidding, the old lady's chamber pot was still waiting for him to fetch!

Since then, Han Zhaozhao began to study at home while taking care of his grandmother.

The school had only been open for three days when something strange happened outside. The members freed up their hands and started the autumn harvest. When they entered the field, they found that the crops had sprouted!

This won’t do! This is the people’s food for the whole year ahead! All the agricultural cooperatives are anxious. From the 80-year-old lady to the 3-year-old baby, everyone is rushing to harvest!

The city's higher authorities are also anxious! If the farmers can't collect the grain, the grain station will have no grain to collect. Without grain, how can the grain station supply millions of urban residents? This is a sign that the whole nation will starve!

The government then called on students and factories to allocate manpower to go to the countryside to help the members harvest grain.

All the half-grown children like Niu Xiaomin were organized to go to the countryside.

Young children like Niu Xiaoyun, who were in the first grade, were left behind to continue their classes.

The teachers are also worried that the children have just entered school and have not yet developed good study habits. If they are allowed to relax, they will really go crazy!

Every night, Niu Xiaomin, Xiao Sanzi and other half-grown children would come home lazily, with blisters on their hands.

Xiao Sanzi secretly complained to them: "Isn't it funny? There are so many people working in the fields for the autumn harvest, but there are no tools!

There was only one sickle for every five or six people, and everyone had to pull the millet and sorghum with their bare hands.

Damn, there was a village that was even more outrageous, where people even had to pull corn by hand. The roots of the corn stalks were so big that if you pulled out eight or ten stalks, all the steamed bread in their stomachs would be gone.

Humph! This is treating people like animals!

Look at my hands. We have nearly 30 acres of land, and even after half a year of planting and harvesting, we haven’t ruined it like this!”

Niu Xiaolian was exhausted and said listlessly: "Why are you complaining? Don't you see that the girls in the village do the same thing?

We will only follow them for a few days, seven or eight days at most, and when half of the food has been harvested, we will go back to the city and do what we need to do!"

Xiao Sanzi stopped talking. Being born in a city is more than a hundred times better than being born in the countryside, especially for girls. They are really not treated as human beings!

Niu Xiaomin had a sullen face and didn't say a word since he entered the door. Han Zhaozhao glanced at him, not understanding whether this honest boy was tired or what.

He nodded to Xiao Sanzi: "What's wrong with Xiaomin? Why aren't you talking?"

Niu Xiaolian shook her head: "Nothing, I just feel bad seeing so much food wasted!"

How should she respond to this?

Niu Xiaomin only saw the miserable conditions in a few villages, and that was just the beginning. He didn’t go out to see that there was so much food being wasted across the country!

Otherwise, if there is a severe drought in the next three years, at least half of the people in the country will starve to death!

Almost half of the people in the alleys were gone, and almost all of them were sent to the countryside to harvest the crops. Large factories with large trucks also provided transportation support.

People were driven to the countryside before dawn and returned to the city after dark. The children also went to the countryside every day, the adults went to the far suburbs, and the younger students went to the suburbs. The whole city was mobilized and the harvest began vigorously.

The autumn harvest is really an exhausting thing. Getting up early every day, staying up late, and being so busy that you don’t even have time to eat is really exhausting.

I heard that the school has sent back more than a dozen injured and sick students, and the hospital is running out of beds again during this period!

Niu Xiaolian murmured in frustration: "It's so tiring, so tiring! How could a child in the city have ever suffered such a hardship?

Many people can't even use a sickle or a hoe, and if they get distracted for a moment, wouldn't it be easy for an accident to happen?"

Han Zhaozhao was thinking that it would be good to exercise more now, because these students would be the main force going to the countryside in a few years!

Han Zhaozhao no longer cared how much grain was harvested in the countryside. He staged a show and made some noise at night, and hid another 1,000 kilograms of grain in the basement.

When her grandmother heard through the window that her granddaughter had bought food again, she felt relieved and her shoe-making efficiency increased!

Han Zhaozhao was busy taking care of her grandmother during the day, and took every opportunity to ask the old lady for guidance in making cotton-padded clothes.

After several days of hard work, a warm and thick cotton jacket was finally completed.

When Han Zhaozhao gave the cotton-padded jacket to her grandmother, her grandmother was so moved that she smiled like a child who got candy and insisted on getting out of bed to try it.

"Hey, it's really warm! But it's a little too big, like a coat, so it wastes a bit of cotton!"