In August, all the hens in the chicken farm are mature and can lay eggs steadily. Every month, they can earn 300 yuan by selling eggs to the supply and marketing cooperative, and 400 yuan by selling duck eggs. Just by selling eggs, Shanggou Village can earn more than 8,000 yuan a year.
Su Ye asked Liu Gang to catch a few chickens as snacks, and Liu Gang got in the mood and made beggar's chicken.
When the village postman came to deliver the admission letters, everyone had their mouths full of greasy food and was tearing golden chicken in their hands.
Su Ye checked the admission notices and was overjoyed. They had received 11 admission notices in total over the past few days, and today's batch should be the last one.
Eleven out of the twelve students passed the exam, which was better than they had expected. She quickly gave half of the clean chicken to the postman and said, "Thank you very much. I'll share your good luck with you!"
The postman smiled and said, "I know that many students in your village have taken the college entrance examination. As soon as I have the notification letters, I will deliver them to the village."
The road to Shanggou Village is far and difficult to walk, and the mountain road is winding, but the postman loves to go to Shanggou Village. The students in Shanggou Village are very hardworking. The luck of all the literary stars in the county may be gathered in this village! Chairman Mao said to study hard and make progress every day, and they are actively responding to his call.
Every time he came to deliver the notice, Su Ye would give him something, either eggs or fine grains. He refused to take Su Ye's half of the chicken, "No, I'm leaving."
Su Ye happily told He Meimei, "We will hold a banquet in the village to celebrate for them."
This is the result that can be achieved by everyone working together as one. They have to study and work hard. The crops in the fields have a good harvest and they have been admitted to university. Su Ye is very pleased. They are more hardworking and diligent than she imagined.
Shanggou Village had 11 college students at once. Even Secretary Ma was shocked when he heard this. He couldn't believe it and asked Ma Gensheng again, "Is this our village?"
Even if the ancestors' graves were smoking, they would not be able to produce more than a dozen college students at once, but Teacher Su did it. Although these college students were all educated youth who went to work in the countryside, as long as she stayed in Shanggou Village, would Shanggou Village still have to worry about producing college students
Su Ye decided to hold a wedding banquet for the students. Niu Cuihua arranged to kill the big fat pigs raised by the educated youth dormitory in the back mountain. There were 20 fat pigs in the pen. One was killed during the harvest in June, and three more were killed this time. The pigs raised by the students were particularly fat. They were willing to feed them good food, such as sweet potatoes, sweet potato vines, corn, and potatoes, so that the pigs were fat all over.
Niu Cuihua ate it once and found it so delicious that she could not forget it and kept thinking about it. When she took a bite, it sizzled with fat, half fat and half lean meat. Before the famine, even the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city could not find pork of such good quality.
The university students' buffet lasted for three days, and the whole village was filled with the aroma of meat. When people ate pork, they felt a real sense of happiness.
Zhou Yi distributed the first subsidy for the village at the banquet. Each person could receive a 120 yuan college student allowance and a 10 yuan train ticket compensation. He also gave the students a lot of cloth coupons, cotton coupons, and soap coupons used by city people so that they could solve their living problems.
These bills were some small benefits that Shanggou Village received in exchange for supplying eggs to the supply and marketing cooperative. Bills were not needed in the countryside, but they were very useful in the city. The things Zhou Yi distributed to the students made everyone envious, and they thought in their hearts: It would be great if their family could have a college student!
As long as you get into university, you don't have to worry about anything, the village will cover all the expenses.
Su Ye poured a cup of tea and said to the students, "At the beginning, you chose to go to the countryside with me. Today, most of you have been admitted to universities. I have finally lived up to my promise to you last year. There will always be separations in life. This journey ends here for the time being. I wish you a bright future. Work hard to absorb cultural knowledge in university and become a useful talent for the country and society!"
Many students felt tears welling up in their eyes after hearing this and couldn't help crying on the spot.
What do they mean by "this journey ends here temporarily"? They thought to themselves that they would follow Teacher Su for the rest of their lives, and wherever she is, they will go! Even if they go to college, they will return to Shanggou Village after graduation!
Lin Yuan said this, and Su Ye shook his head, "That won't work. After you finish college, you should go somewhere more useful."
What makes Su Ye happy is that all the eleven students applied for science and engineering majors, including agricultural engineering, agricultural machinery, agricultural water conservancy, electrical engineering, electronic information, energy and power... They are all scarce professional talents in the motherland and should not be trapped in this small place of Shanggou Village.
Those students who applied for agronomy can continue to do research with Ruan Ruliang after they finish their studies. Although Ruan Ruliang is just an ordinary retired secondary school teacher, his academic achievements are better than many professors.
Liu Gang couldn't help but ask Su Ye: "Teacher Su, after we leave, what will you and Teacher Ruan do?"
Liu Gang applied to the best agricultural university in the country, but he decided to stay. Su Ye had taken a two-year leave of absence, so he also wanted to take a two-year leave of absence. He knew how difficult it was to be Mr. Ruan's assistant and how precious the knowledge he could learn from him was.
He often went to the laboratory of X University with Ruan Ruliang, and met many college students majoring in biology and agronomy. Liu Gang had learned some basic things very well, but they did not understand them. There were college students every year, but there was only one teacher Ruan. What would Ruan do with his three meals a day if he left
Su Ye said, "You don't have to worry about this."
She planned to go to her alma mater, No. 1 Middle School, and select another batch of graduates to supplement the blood. Students who have studied in high school absorb and accept cultural knowledge much faster than ordinary people. Teacher Zhou Yihe and his team worked hard to eliminate illiteracy, but after almost a year, they could only basically eliminate illiteracy, and it would be difficult to improve further.
Last year, Su Ye had to rely on promising big things to trick students into going to the countryside. But things are different now. The village has everything it needs, and it is easier to recruit outstanding graduates to go to the countryside.
After the autumn harvest, Su Ye went to the middle school once.
The principal got a headache when he saw Su Ye. Not only had he kidnapped three excellent teachers, but now he was actually planning to come and ask for graduates every year.
"Didn't you have 12 students going to the countryside with you last year? Isn't that enough?"
Su Ye said happily, "How could that be possible? They all got into college this year, 11 out of 12."
"Principal, our Shanggou Village is developing very well now. I can't guarantee anything else, but the welfare benefits for graduates going to the countryside are definitely much better than those in factories in the city. Several of us are from No. 1 Middle School, so when there are benefits, students from No. 1 Middle School will definitely be given priority."
This makes it seem like going to a poor mountain village is actually a good thing. The principal called someone to inquire about the test results of Qingxi County in the neighboring city. He heard that Shanggou Village really had 11 college students this year. He was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time.
All the students who followed her to the countryside last year have become successful, so she allowed Su Ye to mobilize the educated youth to go to the countryside at school.
Su Ye gathered the graduates and gave a simple speech. She said, "Of the 12 students who went to the countryside with me last year, 11 were admitted to universities this year. The village committee gives each university student a monthly subsidy of 10 yuan to cover round-trip tickets during winter and summer vacations, as well as daily subsidies of cloth coupons, soap coupons, and cotton coupons. The students who go to the countryside will receive college entrance examination guidance from me, as well as teachers Zhou Yi, He Wenqing, and He Meimei."
"Shanggou Village is a provincial-level high-yield grain pilot village with a high level of mechanization and good welfare benefits. Chairman M said that there is a broad world in the countryside, and educated youth can do a lot there. Shanggou Village needs you very much.
Go to the countryside to build a new countryside for the motherland and realize your dream of going to college. Shanggou Village welcomes everyone."
There were still many students in the first grade who knew Su Ye, and they signed up very enthusiastically, and the form was filled up in no time.
In the famine years, the fact that people could have enough food to eat was attractive enough. Moreover, after going to the countryside, there were teachers to tutor them, and they could take the college entrance examination. If they passed, there would be many welfare subsidies in the village. Even if they failed, it would not be a loss, as they could have enough food to eat. This was a pie in the sky!
Now the enthusiasm for the movement of going to the countryside has increased greatly. Everyone knows clearly where the situation is good and where it is not. Last year, a group of students went to the countryside, and they never heard a single bad word about Shanggou Village, which shows that it is indeed good.
After the presentation, everyone's enthusiasm for signing up was unprecedentedly high. Su Ye selected a group of students with good physical fitness and the ability to endure hardships to go to the countryside, and recruited a total of 50 people.
After Su Ye recruited students to go to the countryside, He Meimei said with a sigh: "I'm a little surprised that so many students were recruited."
Although in her heart Shanggou Village is good in every way and it is like her own child, people outside do not know whether it is good or not.
This group of students gave up the opportunity to work in the factory and came to the countryside. These days, being a worker is more glorious than being a farmer. It is not easy to get this group of "intellectuals" to give up their city household registration and come to the countryside. But when she thought about the situation being the same last year, she couldn't help but shook her head and laughed.
The situation was even worse last year. Shanggou Village was still extremely poor at that time, but didn’t Liu Gang, Li Ming and others come
The new batch of students were shocked for a long time until they went to the countryside. Teacher Su really did not fool them.
They lived in a spacious new dormitory. Not only could they have enough food every day, but they also had fine grains every now and then, and sometimes had meat on weekends. They were so happy eating that their eyes sparkled as they looked at Su Ye.
Senior Brother Liu Gang asked them to sign a confidentiality agreement, which prohibited them from leaking experimental data, revealing the situation in Shanggou Village to their families, or discussing Shanggou Village with anyone.
Only after signing did they realize the special thing about this village. This small village actually has several large farms, supplying eggs and meat to the supply and marketing cooperatives and provincial government agencies every month. More than half of the arable land in the village is experimental fields. The village and X University have a joint laboratory, and their teachers are actually R&D personnel who hold several scientific research patents.
The production brigade in the village also had a very high level of mechanization, with tractors, internal combustion engines, and electric motors. There was no illiterate villager that I met on the road, and even the elderly could write a few big characters tremblingly.