Not long after the establishment of the people's commune, Qian Shulan finally got the literacy class she had been looking forward to.
At noon that day, the sun was blazing brightly, and the members of the cooperative were all standing crookedly in the threshing ground, wearing straw hats and holding palm-leaf fans. The children hid under the shade of the trees, pointing at them and covering their mouths, laughing at them for standing foolishly in the sun.
The hot weather made everyone irritable. Some people tilted their heads to look for Wang Shouquan and Qian Minghua, but they didn't see them at all, so they complained, "Why haven't they come yet? What's the matter?"
"Who knows? They've been busy all day. We just got home and hadn't had time to eat when we heard someone beating a gong to start a meeting."
"Are you trying to do something weird again?!"
One of them looked around and saw that no one else was around, so he immediately shouted, "What are you talking about? Are you trying to kill yourself? Be careful if the militia hears you or they'll flatter you!"
Others also shut up and dared not complain anymore.
Wang Lide and others arrived. He immediately stood on the temporary platform, holding two bamboo boards in his hands and knocked twice, "Members, after my efforts, our Wangjia Village Production Brigade can finally open literacy classes again. Members who can't read are welcome to sign up. This is a great thing. It is a good thing for our great Chairman M to take care of our poor and lower-middle peasants. Please sign up!"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone looked troubled and obviously had no interest in the matter.
Qian Shulan sighed secretly while standing in the team. Although she was very happy to hear the news, she was really not interested in Wang Lide's eloquence. How could such soft words encourage them
Wang Lide saw that the team members were not enthusiastic, so he continued, "If there are less than 50 people, this literacy class cannot be held. Please sign up enthusiastically."
"What?" Qian Shulan couldn't help but exclaimed. Even if all of their family members joined, there would only be a dozen people, far from the fifty quota.
Wang Lide asked a teacher to help record the people who registered. This list had to be reported to the Education Bureau. If the number of people was not enough, the literacy class could not be held.
In the past few years, it was only possible because of Chairman M's advocacy. Now, it has become less popular in recent years. We are busy with production and steelmaking all day long, so how can we have time to manage literacy classes
Even the Education Bureau was afraid to guarantee the approval of the class after hearing about their team's positive learning spirit. He went to the Education Bureau more than ten times, and the leaders above were so annoyed by his nagging that they finally agreed to hold the class as long as 50 people from their production team signed up.
This agreement was conditional. The teacher's subsidy had to be paid by their team. In the past, the literacy class teacher's subsidy was issued by the Education Bureau. But now it was no longer possible. No teacher in their Education Bureau was willing to go to the countryside.
Wang Lide, who had returned from the county, found the brigade secretary Wang Shouquan again. Wang Shouquan asked him to announce at the meeting that if they could recruit 50 people, they would add another private teacher.
That's why this happened.
Qian Shulan asked all the family members to sign up. But there were conditions for this registration. Children who were already in school could not sign up. So, Zhengguo had to be excluded.
Then there are only eight people left: Wang Shouren, Sun Daqin, Wang Shouyi, Li Chunhua, Zhou Xuemei, Xiaomei, Xiaohe and Qian Shulan.
Children under ten years old were not allowed to enter because they were too young and they were afraid they would make a fuss in the literacy class.
Seeing that everyone looked uninterested, Qian Shulan became anxious. She had finally got the opportunity to run a literacy class and couldn't afford to lose at this last minute.
So, she stepped onto the stage, picked up the bamboo stick in Wang Lide's hand and started beating him.
"Beat the bamboo clappers, the bamboo clappers are ringing, listen to me, members.
Beijing is good, Shanghai is rich, but if you can't read, you can't make it.
Advanced team, high work points, not as good as temporary workers in the county,
Commercial grain, high wages, and everyone praises the fish every year."
Her singing and fighting style quickly attracted the noisy crowd. Everyone looked up at her.
Qian Shulan was only half-baked at playing the bamboo board. She had learned a few tricks from others because it was fun. Seeing that everyone's attention had been focused on her, she immediately put away the bamboo board and showed everyone a look of deep sorrow, "My fellow members, our Tai production team is really backward. A few days ago, I found a temporary job for our fourth child in the city. Do you know what the conditions are?"
Everyone pricked up their ears to listen. Many people in the village were quite jealous of the fact that the Wang family could find a temporary job in the county town. It was not that no one wanted to ask Qian Shulan for information. But everyone was afraid of Qian Shulan's temper, and they were afraid that they would not get any information and would be scolded by her instead.
Later, some people asked her daughters-in-law indirectly, but they didn't know the situation at all, so the villagers naturally couldn't get any useful information. Now, they finally got to hear some inside information, and everyone was curious about what she would say.
“One of the conditions is that you must have a certificate of completion from a literacy class.”
Everyone finally understood why Qian Shulan wanted her son and daughter-in-law to study. It turned out that she wanted to find them jobs. But it was not easy to find jobs in the city.
Everyone was a little skeptical.
Seeing that they didn't believe her, Qian Shulan immediately changed the subject, "Let's not talk about work for now, let's talk about children. Who doesn't want their children to be successful? In the future, they will be able to go to junior high school, senior high school, technical secondary school, or even college." She paused and said, "But, don't you think about it? If you don't even want to learn to read, how can your children get in? There is an old saying that goes, a dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse's son can dig holes. Another thing is that a hero's father will be a hero. What does this mean? It means that we parents are the best role models for our children."
Some people were somewhat moved by what she said. Some actually signed up. Some were interested in the job, while others agreed with what she had just said.
Qian Shulan leaned over and looked at the registration form. It was not even half full. She counted and there were only a dozen or so. It was far from enough.
Qian Shulan frowned and rolled her eyes. Suddenly, an idea struck her. She shouted, "Members can go and mend shoe soles by the oil lamp as long as they sign up!"
As soon as she finished speaking, several more women came over.
So sad that they still couldn't get 20 people. Qian Shulan slapped her thigh, gritted her teeth, and shouted again, "As long as everyone comes to sign up, our family will give everyone 10 pieces of fruit candy. The quota is limited to 50, and there will be no more. This opportunity is rare, please hurry up and sign up." Damn it, she finally understood that if there is no benefit, don't even think about getting these people to sign up.
What? As soon as they heard about this good thing, those who were originally going to leave immediately rushed over to sign up.
There were too many people coming and they were moving so fast that they almost pushed the teacher in charge of registration to the ground and almost knocked over the desk.
Looking at the huge crowd of people, Qian Shulan jumped down from the stage and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Damn it, she was the unprofessional speaker. She spoke for a long time with a dry mouth and her clothes were soaked, but only a dozen people signed up.
When it comes to fruit candies, there are hundreds of them.
Well, after all, she was still suitable for selling milk in the terrace square. Thinking about her past life, the familiar advertising words, "Handsome men and beautiful women passing by, come and have a look, buy a box of milk and get six eggs for free." She felt a little embarrassed.
Qian Shulan shook her head, shook the image out of her mind, took out the key from her pocket and handed it to Wang Shouyi, asking him to go home and get it. The fruit candy was placed on the bedside table in her room. She had just bought two kilograms yesterday. She bought it specially to coax the children. As long as the children behaved well, she would reward them with one every day. Of course, she would not give more than that. Eating too much candy would cause tooth decay. After all, toothpaste was too difficult to buy in this era. Brushing teeth several times a day was not realistic.
Wang Shouyi was a little reluctant, "Mom, are you really giving it to me?"
Qian Shulan glanced at Wang Lide, then leaned over to Wang Shouyi and whispered, "Your third grandfather said that if there are less than 50 places, the literacy class cannot be held. Mother must make sure you get your certificates of completion. When the time comes, I will get you all to work as temporary workers in the city. What's the point of farming in the countryside? You can't earn more than 70 yuan a year even if you work yourself to death."
Wang Shouyi lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
When he looked up again, he took the key silently, turned and left.
Li Chunhua followed with her child in her arms. Sun Daqin was standing in the crowd and was almost angry to death. This old lady was really stupid. She actually gave away the candy for free. Her son couldn't eat more.
Soon, Wang Shouyi came back with a sack in his hand.
Qian Shulan waited until the fifty places were filled before she took out the notebook and called out the names one by one. When she called out a name, she gave that person ten pieces of fruit candy.
Soon, only a few dozen pieces were left out of the two kilograms of fruit candies.
Wang Lide was a little speechless about his third brother's wife's behavior. Learning to read and write and getting candy as a gift! His eyes almost popped out of his head. He wanted to stop it, but his wife said, it doesn't cost you money, why are you so anxious? If you don't give gifts, can you get enough places
Wang Lide thought about how his third brother's wife was determined to get it done, and he realized that there was no reason for him to stop her.
Wang Lide took the application form from Qian Shulan and said with a smile, "I'll go and deliver it tomorrow. I think the teacher will be from our school. We must not cause trouble to the higher-ups."
Qian Shulan didn't care about it, as long as she could get a certificate of completion, so she asked the question she cared about most, "When is the exam?"
Wang Lide thought for a moment and said, "In the past, we were able to organize an exam at the end of the year. This time it should be possible as well."
After hearing this, Qian Shulan was ecstatic.
After Wang Lide submitted the list, the Education Bureau quickly approved it.
The next day, the team notified the people on the list to go to the literacy class at the primary school in their production team.
The time is 7-8pm. One hour of class time.
On the first night, less than 20 people came, most of them carrying things.
Some came to sew shoe soles, some came to make hemp ropes, and some came to knit sweaters.
Only the Wang family came here to study, and they not only had textbooks, but also paper and pens.
In the first class, Wang Lide was worried that the teachers were too young to teach the adults, so he came to teach the class himself.
Who would have thought that these people would be so perfunctory? He felt quite frustrated that he was not taken seriously.
Qian Shulan was afraid that he would get angry. These people were just there to make up the numbers, so if they didn’t want to learn, then they didn’t have to.
Qian Shulan pulled Wang Lide aside to ask, "If someone from above arranges for you to take the exam and the result is too bad, will they not allow you to take the exam in the future?"
Wang Lide nodded. "Of course. If the pass rate is low, the higher-ups will definitely not allow it."
Qian Shulan thought to herself that there were only four months left until the end of the year, and the Great Steel Production Campaign was about to begin, so she definitely wouldn't have time to learn to read.
That is to say, with only a few days of study time, the pass rate is expected to be very low.
At least Li Chunhua and Sun Daqin, who have always been at the bottom of the list, will definitely not get a completion certificate.
Qian Shulan gave up on Li Chunhua and Sun Daqin directly. The main reason was that Li Chunhua was too stupid and could not remember anything.
She wrote a new word a hundred times a day, but still couldn't remember it by heart on the eleventh day. Qian Shulan was really impatient. Sometimes, she had to admit that some people were illiterate by their own ability.
As for Sun Daqin's poor performance in the exam, it was purely because he did not listen to her and was hypocritical.
She was worried about Sun Daqin's temper. Even if she found a job for Sun Daqin, she would still have to clean up after Sun Daqin when she arrived in the city, so she just went with Sun Daqin.
She could only place her hopes on the eldest and the third. At least they were not as hopeless as the other two. Especially Wang Shouren's attitude was very upright.
Ask him to write a new word a hundred times, he will never hesitate, even if he is tired or sleepy, he will finish writing the word before going to bed. No matter how smart he is, this attitude makes Qian Shulan happy.
Early in the morning every day, Qian Shulan would wake them up to study and urge them to do their homework.
Since Wang Lide didn't assign homework to them, she assigned it herself.
If they still couldn't remember a new word after writing it a hundred times, she would ask them to write it a hundred times every day, and when they remembered it, they could stop writing it. They were so tired that their fingers began to tremble.
Not only did they have to write more often, Qian Shulan also asked them to test each other while working to deepen their memory.
For example, "Make a sentence using the word 'help.'"
For example, "What is 12 plus 89?"
. . .
After a period of time, these two people have made a lot of progress compared to before.
As for Xiaomei and Xiaohe, one is as excellent as ever, and the other is quite smart but too lazy and unwilling to study.
Qian Shulan asked Xiaomei to urge Xiaohe to study together, and Xiaohe was not as bad as before. The key is that this child has a very good memory, both short-term and long-term memory are very good. For a new word, she can still remember it on the third day after being taught once without any review in between.
Wang Lide, who taught them, said it was a pity for these children.
Qian Shulan thought to herself, it's not just Xiaohe who is unlucky. Xiaomei's learning ability is also good. Although she is not as amazing as Xiaohe, she is also very talented. The key is that she is also very hardworking, which is much better than Xiaohe's three days of fishing and two days of drying the net.
It's a pity that everything was delayed just because she was a girl.
However, Qian Shulan couldn't bear to see the two children's talents wasted, and promised them that as long as they studied hard, she would give them a dowry in the future and let them marry off with honor.
As for work, Qian Shulan would try her best to help them find it, but such things were hard to come by. She couldn't make any promises in advance, and could only promise what she could do now.
Perhaps her words were too powerful, and both of them worked harder than before.
Qian Shulan couldn't help but sigh. Girls really mature earlier than boys. Even at such a young age, they already know the importance of dowry.
She looked at Wang Shouyi's homework book. After her intensive study, he had made significant progress. Maybe he could really get a certificate of completion by the end of the year.
There will be a famine next year, and all classes from universities to primary schools will be suspended, let alone these literacy classes.
Therefore, this assessment at the end of the year is their only chance in the past few years.
She must seize this opportunity to get a few more temporary workers into Lao Wang's family.
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