on Monday.
After Su Ye got three meat buns from the canteen, he found that he only had two kilograms of meat coupons left. Su Ye was dumbfounded and thought to himself: This little bit of meat won't last until next week.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. At this time, letting Su Ye taste the feeling of not being able to eat meat for a month would be more painful than killing her.
Su Ye couldn't save up enough meat coupons for 40 kilograms, so if all else failed, he would just make do with a suckling pig weighing about 20 kilograms.
However, the piglets were not as fat as the big pigs, and it was a pity to take the meat away halfway. But if we didn't take a whole pig, Gu Xiangqian knew exactly how many meat tickets there were at home, and Su Ye didn't dare to make meat out of thin air.
In order to collect 15 kilograms of pork, Su Ye came to the office early in the morning and diligently asked the teachers of the high school graduating class for lessons one by one.
"I plan to compile a list of test difficulties, but I don't teach high school students very often, so I need to collect feedback from students. Teacher Liu, can I help you with a chemistry class?"
"Mr. Xu, can I take your math class for one period?"
"Teacher Fang—"
Su Ye stretched out a pair of Erkang hands and kept harassing the teachers of the graduating class.
Junior high school teachers have very little time. After May, science classes have been suspended for the sake of graduation exams. Now Su Ye can be considered to have very little time.
The teachers of the graduating class were all scared when they saw her working so hard. I have seen teachers who took the initiative to stay and work overtime, but I have never seen such a motivated teacher who took the initiative to do other people's work.
Mathematics teacher Xu couldn't help but praise: "Thank you, Xiao Su. However, I'm still free for the time being..."
The chemistry teacher hurriedly stretched out his hand, "Hey—no, no, no."
He brushed his clothes gently and said with a smile: "Xiao Su, do you think our Class 1 is suitable? I want to learn how to teach from you."
After hearing from the students in Class 2 that Su Ye taught chemistry very well, Mr. Fang wanted to learn from her. He saw that Su Ye's notes were rich and detailed, down to every chemical experiment and equation. He could say without hesitation that after memorizing this material, he would not have to worry about the chemistry exam in the college entrance examination.
It's just that Su Ye is a junior high school teacher, and he is a senior high school teacher, so they are not related at all, and Teacher Fang couldn't bring himself to make such an abrupt request. It would have been fine if he was too embarrassed to ask for an exchange before, but now that the opportunity has come, why wouldn't he seize it
Su Ye said modestly: "No, no, I am too tolerant. I am the one who needs to learn. Teacher Fang, let's communicate with each other."
As soon as Teacher Fang finished speaking, the other teachers said, "Xiao Su, I'll leave it to you. I do have something to do on Friday afternoon."
"Xiao Su, you are such a helpful comrade. I wanted to take a leave this afternoon, but you really helped me a lot!"
Su Ye filled in her schedule one by one. When she saw that the week's classes were almost full, a teacher hurriedly said:
"Xiao Su is so diligent and serious. Are you interested in taking a math class in the second year of high school? I also want to learn from you."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but shake his head and laugh when he saw this scene. For a moment, he really wanted to dissuade everyone from bullying honest people. But how could Su Ye look like an honest person
Zhou Yi could only attribute it to Su Ye's abundant energy and unwillingness to let herself idle. This female comrade's ideological realm was too high... her energy was more abundant than that of men.
If Su Ye knew what he was thinking, he would probably feel ashamed. They didn't get enough energy, they were so hungry that they looked pale and thin, and they even staggered when they walked. Naturally, their energy was not as good as those who ate meat every meal.
Fang Zhou and Liu Qiu were stunned for a moment when they saw this scene.
If Su Ye was just a braggart, and didn't have the talent to take on that job, they would still feel more at ease. But the ability Su Ye had shown during this period was enough to make people take back their sour thoughts.
They thought to themselves: They were all the same group of people entering the university, but after one semester, why is the gap between them getting bigger and bigger
Su Ye took on six classes, and the entire leisurely morning became busy. After finishing her junior high school class, she returned to the office to rest for a while, and then immediately rushed to the senior high school class. She was so busy that she was spinning like a top. After two days, Su Ye's backstage only gained three pounds of pork belly.
Su Ye wiped the sweat from her forehead, knowing that she had already squeezed out all the rewards for attending classes, and she could no longer take shortcuts and exchange hard work for rewards.
On Wednesday morning, Su Ye opened the backstage as usual, took a look at the amount of pork belly, and was stunned!
After not checking the backstage for one night, she discovered that there were fifteen pounds of pork belly on it.
Together with the meat coupons she had saved up over the past period of time, Su Ye was able to collect 50 kilograms of pork in one go. She was so happy that she almost dropped the pen in her hand. She was as happy as if she had drunk a cup of Coke in the dog days of summer.
Could it be that the people in the live broadcast studio suddenly discovered that she was indeed an excellent teacher and gave her additional rewards
After all, Su Ye still had some self-awareness and was not that thick-skinned. This idea was just a thought.
He Meimei, who was standing by, blushed and said to Su Ye happily, "Su Ye, did you listen to me? What were you thinking about just now? You were distracted."
Su Ye pulled back her thoughts, she coughed lightly and said: "I'm not thinking about anything, what did you say?"
"Lu Siyuan is not a bad student by nature. He made me really angry last weekend, and today he came to school to apologize to me. Many classmates in our class have also returned to class. I felt relieved when I saw that they were all back..."
After hearing this, Su Ye was suddenly stunned. Wait, these 15 kilograms of pork belly couldn’t be... contributed by these students, right
Why did they get so much pork belly as a reward
Why did she work so hard to prepare exam materials for junior and senior high school graduating classes, but only get 15 pounds of pork belly, and was so busy like a top teaching classes that she only got 3 pounds, and then they lost 15 pounds of pork belly when they came back to class
Su Ye was really depressed for a few minutes.
No wonder so many people like to save Feng Chen, she thought quietly.
Su Ye said seriously: "It's good that you're back to class. You're a good kid if you're back."
He Meimei thought so too. She nodded in agreement, "You're right!"
Su Ye didn't think so before. She believed that if you don't like to study, you can't force it. For people like Yang Chenxing, they are smart, but Su Ye's admiration is like admiring a graceful narcissus. If the narcissus grows crooked, she will just help it up with regret, but let it go if she can't help it up.
Wouldn't it be better to use the time in the United States to help smart and hardworking pine trees like Chen Ziming, Qian Xiaohe, and Yang Xue? They can take root even in adverse conditions, and can grow explosively with just a little fertilizer, which is very rewarding.
But this time, I didn't expect that the forced melon could be sweet? Su Ye fell into deep thought.
After school.
After lunch, Su Ye took her lunch box to the public tap to wash it. She carefully wiped the water stains on the lunch box with a towel, and just as she turned around, she saw a row of male students wearing sailor shirts.
Yang Chenxing scratched his head, and several students shouted in unison: "Teacher Su, please give us some advice!"
Su Ye couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
Yang Chenxing pulled Su Ye to explain: "They want to apply for the art troupe. There is a military art troupe. What do you think, Teacher Su? They have been training hard for some time, and I want to help them."
Su Ye said bluntly: "Not very good."
Yang Chenxing was speechless because of the teacher's straightforward words. He asked: "Really?"
Su Ye shook his head and said, "Apart from the talent I mentioned last time, there are many other problems.
I know you like to chase fashion, but this job is not for ordinary people. I won't talk much about the art troupe. As far as I know, the art troupe has to get up before dawn to train every day, and the physical training must be in accordance with the standards of the army. In the first few years, you have to submit a report before you are allowed to leave the military area. Can you tolerate it?"
Su Ye lived in the army and was influenced by the art troupe. It was a famine era, and supplies were in short supply everywhere. Soldiers were subsidized with eggs and pork, but they only had eggs, and they were all as thin as monkeys. Their welfare benefits were not good at all.
Yang Chenxing whispered to Su Ye: "They don't have good academic performance, so they definitely won't be able to get a diploma."
Art troupes and cultural troupes are recruiting people recently. If you get into these places, you don’t have to work in a factory. These days, if you get a stable job in these two places, you can either be an artist, dancer, or soldier in the future, which is a popular job.
"Who said that?" Su Ye glanced at him politely.
"Let them come to class, and I'll make sure they get their diplomas."
Yang Chenxing was choked again, he stammered: "Teacher, you can't guarantee it, they don't like to study at all, they are only interested in this, well, since Teacher Su is unwilling to help, forget it-"
Why bother tricking them into going back to school
Su Ye walked to the front of the row of students, looked around, and memorized their faces in his mind.
After a while, she said seriously, "If I say I can, then I can. Go back to school. I can't guarantee that the art troupe or cultural troupe will accept you, but I can guarantee that you will get your diploma and have the opportunity to go to college."
After Su Ye finished speaking, he turned and left, leaving a group of students looking at each other in bewilderment.
…
After school, Su Ye returned home and ordered his own food and pork with great interest.
Fifty-one pounds of pork and one hundred and twenty-three pounds of fine grains!
The time to go to the suburbs on the weekend to "improve life" has come again! However, thinking of the fame she had gained the previous two times, she didn't want to cause such a sensation.
Su Ye turned his gaze to Gu Xiangqian and came up with an idea.
She asked with a smile: "Xiang Qian, are you free this weekend?"
Although Gu Xiangqian is still on leave to recuperate, he is a man who cannot sit idle. If he cannot participate in training, he will go to teach the students, working diligently and determined to squeeze out every bit of energy from his body.
Gu Xiangqian said, "I'm going to lead the team to do shooting training this weekend. What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"
Su Ye thought about it and then whispered something in his ear.
She told Gu Xiangqian that her parents who had starved to death appeared in her dreams and she was worried that they didn't have enough food to eat, so she told Gu Xiangqian in her dreams that he had good luck recently and if he encountered a wild boar, he should bring it back.
Gu Xiangqian was a staunch materialist, so naturally he did not believe these words.
On the contrary, after hearing these words, he looked at Su Ye unexpectedly, and after a long while he said, "I'll take you to the canteen to eat meat dumplings after I get my salary."
Su Ye was getting anxious. What was the temptation for her to go to the canteen to eat meat after getting her salary
Gu Xiangqian was not poor. His salary in the army was in the upper middle class, far exceeding that of ordinary people. If he had not encountered the three-year famine, he would have been able to eat meat every meal. However, Su Ye wanted to eat meat every day.
Su Ye asked Gu Xiangqian to promise to bring the wild boar home, and Gu Xiangqian readily agreed.
…
Saturday.
Gu Xiangqian led the soldiers to the deep mountains for shooting training. It was a cloudless day and it was so hot that people were sweating.
When the sun was about to set, Gu Xiangqian did not see the wild boar that Su Ye had mentioned. Thinking of this, he laughed at himself: How could he actually believe Su Ye's unfounded dream
The deputy company commander led the team to leave the training ground, and he stayed behind to clean up the training ground and record some data.
When the entire team had almost disappeared, a fierce-looking, strong and round wild boar came out from the deep mountains, roaring. Its limbs raised a cloud of sand as it ran. From a distance, it seemed to weigh as much as two hundred kilograms.
The soldier who was collecting the shells was still happily picking them up. Seeing this scene, my heart almost stopped beating.
He was so panicked that he even forgot to run and just stood there beside Gu Xiangqian in a daze.
Gu Xiangqian pulled out a wooden magazine from his waist, loaded the chamber neatly, held its recoil with his left hand, and pulled the trigger to fire three bullets in succession.
The wild boar was hit by one bullet, but it continued to run wildly. It was hit by two more bullets and suddenly fell down a hundred meters away, bleeding profusely.
Gu Xiangqian put away the smoking wooden warehouse and walked over to take a closer look.
I didn't expect it to be a wild boar, but unfortunately there was no bowl, and the gushing pig blood spilled all over the floor. Gu Xiangqian thought about it and emptied the water in the kettle, filling it with pig blood.
The young soldier felt very distressed when he saw this scene, and he also followed suit and poured water and collected the pig's blood.
After receiving the pig's blood, the young soldier finally had time to react, "Oh my god, Gu Lian's reaction is so fast and his skills are so agile! If it were me, I would have been pierced through by the wild boar."
Gu Xiangqian stared at the dead wild boar without saying anything.
…
When Gu Xiangqian carried the whole pig to the cafeteria to get his meat ticket, he received countless envious glances from people.
The only eyewitness at the scene, the young soldier, described the incident to everyone after he came back. He described in vivid detail how majestic the wild boar was when it came down the mountain, with its lightning speed and terrifying lethality. However, it was shot dead by Captain Gu Sanmukang who was a hundred meters away.
The wild boar was no bigger than a copper coin at a distance of 100 meters. If they were there at that time, could they have brought the wild boar home as easily as Gu Xiangqian did
Gu Xiangqian's deeds inspired the soldiers who had just started learning shooting, and their blood boiled after hearing them.
Gu Xiangqian led the team in training and ended up killing a wild boar. Isn't this a heroic act of eliminating pests for Comrade Nong
Food is so precious nowadays, how much food can a wild boar waste for nothing! This incident spread throughout the military region that day.
Wild boars destroy agricultural production and have always been hated by everyone. Killing wild boars is considered to be a way to eliminate harm for the people and is glorious and just. Especially now, when it is a time of shortage of crops, Gu Xiangqian brought back a wild boar and became the object of envy and admiration in everyone's eyes.
When Yao Chunyu heard the news, he admired Gu Xiangqian even more.
When she heard that Gu Xiangqian had received a hundred kilograms of meat coupons in the canteen, she was even more envious. Although the Yao family had no worries about food, it was very difficult to eat some pork, because there had been no pork supply in the market for a long time. Even the biggest leaders could not afford one kilogram of pork every day, let alone ordinary people
Although young people in later generations always clamor for losing weight, when they really have no fat or water in their stomachs, they will understand how delicious pork is.
When Yao Chunyu heard that Gu Xiangqian had received a hundred kilograms of meat coupons, he couldn't help but think of Su Ye, and couldn't help but sigh that she had such a good life.
She didn't have to do anything, just stretch out her hand and she would have food to eat, and she could eat meat thanks to Gu Xiangqian. The glory he earned with his life made her enjoy the glory for most of her life. According to Su Ye's lazy habit, the wild boar that Gu Xiangqian had hunted with great effort this time might not be enough for her to squander.
Yao Chunyu herself was sent down to the countryside. She was in her prime years but had to suffer so much. She had the chance to become Gu Xiangqian's wife before...
…
Gu Xiangqian received the pork and saw the basin of red pig blood. His eyes flashed and he remembered something.
He asked Chef Yang in the kitchen for a pound of shank bones, two pounds of pork belly, and some pig intestines to take home. Pig intestines stuffed with blood can be made into delicious blood sausage, and sausage casings stuffed with pork belly can be made into Chinese sausage.
When Su Ye was preparing lesson plans at home, he already knew that Gu Xiangqian had returned on the wild boar's back.
She heard footsteps and turned around to see that Gu Xiangqian was coming back with a string of meat and a bag of ribs in his left and right hands.
"You're back? Why are your hands covered in meat? Where did you come from?"
Gu Xiangqian pursed his lips and said, "Today I encountered a wild boar and brought it back."
Su Ye praised him generously: "Xiang Qian is awesome! Quickly fry a pound of pork ribs to satisfy my craving. I haven't had meat in two days."