The female teacher from the Electric Power and Water Conservancy College was hurt by Teacher He's words. Her face felt hot and she couldn't breathe, feeling choked in her chest.
She said: "There are teachers in our school who can assemble radios. If they just dismantle a radio and put the parts together to make it look good, it's nothing special. It's a real talent to really understand the principles."
Yes, in her opinion, Su Ye was just using a trick to fool people. Maybe Su Ye bought a radio at a high price, disassembled it and brought it to school to show off.
But her words were quickly drowned out by a wave of even more enthusiastic exclamations in the classroom.
The radio Su Ye made could not only receive signals, but also the signals of the harbor radio station. When the lewd music from the other side of the strait came from the radio, the atmosphere in the classroom was pushed to the highest point. The students clapped their hands vigorously, wishing they could clap until they broke.
Su Ye thought that he had to be worthy of the reward of two kilograms of pork. After showing off, he had to finish it. Only by seeing things through to the end can he be a good teacher.
Su Ye asked them: "Do you want to know how the radio is made?"
The children said in unison: "Yes!"
So under everyone's scorching gaze, Su Ye picked up a piece of chalk and drew a simple radio circuit diagram and circuit board diagram, listing the basic concepts involved one by one. The densely packed schematics and formulas filled an entire chapter on the blackboard.
After Su Ye briefly explained the physical concepts on the blackboard, he said to the students:
"This is the whole principle of the radio. Electricity, current, and circuits are what you are learning now, and electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic waves are what you will learn in secondary school, high school, and even college in the future. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it now. From now on, study hard and you will master more and more knowledge. All of them are trivial."
At this point, Su Ye looked at the unusually enthusiastic gazes in the audience, and the idea of "sustainable development" flashed through her mind. What if she could earn more pork belly
Strike while the iron is hot!
She changed the subject and said, "Students who have spare time can continue to study this problem. The teacher is free during breaks, and you are welcome to ask questions. Although the teacher cannot guarantee that every one of you will be admitted to a technical secondary school or university, at least I can guarantee that every one of you will have a radio that you made yourself before you graduate from junior high school."
After Su Ye finished speaking, she was so moved that she was willing to sacrifice even her own break time. She is such a selfless and touching teacher!
Take advantage of every opportunity to earn food... Oh no, take advantage of every opportunity to cultivate the pillars of the country.
The children happily took out their notebooks and copied down everything on the blackboard stroke by stroke. The seriousness revealed on their young faces, as if what they copied into the notebooks were not formulas, but dreams.
In this era, resources are limited and talent is extremely scarce, resulting in uneven quality of teachers. Many teachers have not even finished high school and come to teach in high schools. Not to mention the ability to answer students' questions, it's good enough if they don't corporally punish students. If you meet a good teacher, you are lucky.
Teacher He, who had been outside the classroom, was moved after listening to the class. He thought that the new teacher, Teacher Su, was not only talented but also hardworking.
He looked at the children's backs as they carefully took notes, nodding his head in satisfaction. He looked at the stubborn teacher with disdain, and without saying a word, he put his hands behind his back and walked away.
Teacher He's impolite behavior made the two women's faces pale. Especially Gao Anna, who even made the teacher lose face. She was embarrassed for a moment. The information provided by her cousin was not reliable at all!
Gao Anna blushed and kept apologizing to the teacher, who sent her out of the school.
After class, Fang Zhou and Liu Qiu rushed to find Gao Anna. They said indignantly, "Anna, let's go find the principal with you!"
After seeing the formulas written all over the blackboard by Su Ye, Gao Anna realized that Su Ye was still quite capable. She gave up the idea of going to the principal. However, she was humiliated too much by Teacher He, and Gao Anna's refusal was mixed with a strange taste:
"Forget it, stop making a fuss. I'm already a teacher at No. 5 Middle School, and we're in the same line of work. We'll see each other every day in the future. It would be so embarrassing if a fuss was made." After saying that, Gao Anna also left the school.
Fang Zhou and Liu Qiu had extremely bad impressions of the new science teacher.
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After school, office.
During the lunch break, the teachers had gone to eat, but Su Ye's desk was crowded with several children. She patiently answered their questions and sent them away one by one. In the end, there were still three stubborn ones who stayed by the desk like little tails and refused to leave, constantly trying to pester Su Ye with lame questions.
She took a look and knew that they were probably the ones who contributed the two kilograms of pork belly. Su Ye had enough patience to treat the food contributors.
The questions they racked their brains to ask might seem ridiculous to other teachers, but in Su Ye's eyes, these were not boring and childish questions at all, but a great opportunity to earn rewards! Su Ye would never give up on any student.
Su Ye taught them how to draw circuits with great piety, stroke by stroke, until they left the office satisfied.
The teacher in the office was originally worried about the new teacher, but now he was relieved. He joked, "Teacher Su Ye is very dedicated."
Su Ye smiled. Her class was the last one in the afternoon. Su Ye packed up her things and went home to accept the reward.
Two pounds of pork belly, what a wonderful thing this is...
On the way home, Su Ye passed by the bamboo pole in the yard where bacon was drying. Under the faint sunlight, the bacon, which had been drying for several days, had gradually dried up, and its edges and corners became clear after the moisture evaporated.
This time, Su Ye didn't have to watch other people drooling, because she had pork of her own. After Su Ye returned home, she took out a clean bowl to hold the pork belly.
Su Ye negotiated with the live broadcast room. Wait, she couldn't just eat pork. She also missed the taste of fish, beef, chicken, duck, goose... Pork must be eligible to be exchanged for these meats.
After counting the possible foods she could eat, Su Ye thought more and more about it. Just as she was about to come up with this idea, a pound of pork belly appeared in the bowl.
The quality of the pork belly is as good as ever, the meat is fresh and plump, and the fat shines white in the sun.
Su Ye was so hungry that she almost wanted to eat the pork raw. She washed the newly bought knife, cut the pork into chunks, marinated the meat with spices made from pepper, star anise, nutmeg and cloves, and finally tied a straw rope through the pork belly.
Su Ye did not make a big fuss about displaying the bacon and drying it in the yard. She decided to keep quiet and eat the meat. How could a "poor person" like her afford to buy meat? This question was hard to explain, so she simply gave up.
So Su Ye hummed a song and hung the pork belly to dry near the window, where sunlight came in every day and the air was ventilated enough to cure the bacon.
Su Ye smelled the rich aroma of the bacon, and his mind was filled with beautiful images of eating bacon during the Chinese New Year.
The well-cured meat has a shiny fat part and a fresh and chewy lean part. When the cured meat is steamed, the oil from the cured meat will drip into the rice, making the rice grains fragrant. Only when you live this kind of life can you have hope.
Su Ye swallowed his saliva, cooked himself a bowl of spicy noodles, and took a nap contentedly.
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Weekend, family compound.
Su Ye didn't have to go to class, so He Meimei came to find Su Ye to pick wild vegetables and go fishing together to improve her food. He Meimei probably thought that Su Ye had eaten all the food and might starve to death because the school hadn't paid her salary yet, so she enthusiastically took her with her.
Su Ye had no shortage of food for the time being and was not very interested in wild vegetables, but when she saw a long line of people holding winnowing baskets waiting for her, Su Ye had no choice but to follow them.
A woman with a pot-shaped bun on her head enthusiastically pulled Su Ye's hand and said, "Hey, you are still embarrassed! I know you scholars are shy. But we are just going to work and improve our lives."
During the social gathering last weekend, everyone knew that Su Ye had found a teaching position at No. 1 Middle School. However, most of the people who were willing to extend an olive branch to Su Ye were military wives from the countryside. Correspondingly, they were also very poor.
As the year drew to a close, food became increasingly scarce, and it was difficult for everyone to save some good food for the New Year. Many people turned their attention to wild vegetables and fish in the river in an attempt to supplement their food rations, and even the wives of soldiers were not immune.
Su Ye was shocked to realize how generous the Women's Federation director was in cutting two kilograms of pork to make dumplings for everyone.
Seeing how hard everyone's life was, Su Ye even felt ashamed for having the audacity to eat an extra dumpling from the director's share.
The sisters-in-law sang the Yangge and walked to the riverside in the suburbs. The women bent down and turned over the dead grass on the ground. They wanted to dig up a kind of wild vegetable that was not easy to be found.
An experienced military wife told Su Ye, "Use a hoe to dig down and you'll find roots of Houttuynia cordata in the soil. Houttuynia cordata is frost-resistant and can grow deep in the soil. It's crunchy and can be used to make pickled cabbage. I've never been to a rural area, so I don't know where it grows!"
The fishing tools they brought were also very simple, just a pole and the fishing line was made from the lines of broken fishing nets.
However, there are also some people in the military compound who live a superior and wealthy life.
Those petty-bourgeois military wives in the city would go to the city to watch movies and plays on weekends, or go fishing in the suburbs...
For example, Li Hongli, Gao Anna, and the daughter-in-law of the Li family who was drying bacon in the yard and was dressed in Soviet style.
Su Ye rolled up his sleeves to dig wild vegetables, and noticed that they were fishing by the river. It seemed that they had arrived early, and there was already some catch in the bucket.
The rural wives were immediately embarrassed. Their husbands usually held similar positions, and none of them was worse than the others. However, their living conditions were still far behind. If they secretly came to dig wild vegetables on weekends to improve their lives, it would be embarrassing if the news got out.
Some women were so embarrassed that they pretended not to see it and continued to dig vegetables, but they secretly hid the watercress they had dug with great effort behind their backs. Some others shamelessly walked forward to offer wild vegetables.
However, Li Hongli didn't like these wild vegetables. She said, "They have a strong taste. I don't like them. You can keep them for yourself."
After Li Hongli learned about Su Ye's despicable behavior that squeezed out her cousin's spot, she used to dislike her, but now she is simply an eyesore.
Li Hongli disliked Su Ye, and also disliked this group of poor military wives. She didn't respond to a word, with a cold and indifferent look on her face. The rural military wife who kept talking next to her looked particularly embarrassed.
The soldier's wife blushed and said, "Am I too annoying? You continue fishing. I'm going to dig wild vegetables."
Gao Anna didn't like Su Ye very much either. In her eyes, Su Ye had taken the place that should have belonged to her. She looked at the broken fishing rods in the hands of the people, the lonely rods without even a float, looking extremely poor. She said hello:
"Teacher Su, your fishing rod is too broken, and even the fishing line is not intact. How can you catch fish? Do you want us to lend you one?"
"I apologize to Hongli on your behalf. She has never eaten anything fishy like this since she was a child. She would rather starve to death than eat it. Thank you for your kindness."
She kept asking to borrow a fishing rod and apologizing, and she also said that she would rather starve to death than eat the food, which showed that she was disgusted. The other poor military wives were so embarrassed that they blushed and prepared to find another place to dig wild vegetables.
Su Ye took back the rejected Houttuynia cordata and patted his broken fishing rod.
They are all here to improve their lives, so who is nobler than who? When Su Ye saw that they were fishing, he knew that they also needed food to eat.
Su Ye suddenly remembered that she still had some fish in the live broadcast room that had not been redeemed, so she tried to contact the live broadcast room. After getting a reply, she smiled and picked a vacant spot with her fishing rod in hand and squatted down.
Su Ye patted his fishing rod and said, "No thanks, my fishing rod is great, it's perfect for fishing."
Su Ye looked at the fish in Li Hongli's bucket. There were only two small ones, about two inches long. It looked like a good harvest. But compared to hers... it was still a little bit off.
Su Ye leisurely threw the broken fishing line down, and soon the fishing rod shook. He Meimei reminded Su Ye in surprise: "Quick, quick, quick, there's a fish!"
Su Ye's good luck caught a fish so quickly. Li Hongli and her friends had been squatting for almost a whole morning, but the three of them only caught two fish.
Su Ye picked up a half-grown fish and cast it out leisurely.
A minute later, another military wife shouted happily, "Here it comes again! Su Ye, hurry up and bring it up to have a look!"
Under everyone's attention, Su Ye caught another fish. This fish weighed half a pound and looked plump.
"Ah, Su Ye, can you see if there are any fish?"
…
“Again!”
The wives of the soldiers shouted until their voices were hoarse. Bringing Su Ye to go fishing was a good idea! She seemed to be born for fishing, and the fish loved to run to her rod.
He Meimei and the others were almost screaming crazy, staring at Su Ye with envy and jealousy. It seemed that the fishing rod had never been idle since she sat down, as if all the fish in the river were caught by Su Ye's rod.
Su Ye fished for an hour, and there were about ten fish in the bucket. According to the market price, one catty of pork is equivalent to three catties of fish, and there were about three catties of fish in the bucket. Although three catties is not much, the fish are small, so there are about ten fish in total.
Under everyone's shocked gaze, Su Ye released all the small fish, which were less than the length of a thumb, back into the river, then handed the bucket to his people and said, "Let's divide these fish according to the number of people."
The other military wives poured out compliments of shock, surprise, and envy like water, and the compliments made people blush uncontrollably.
Su Ye carefully tended to his broken fishing rod and said calmly, "No, no, it's all thanks to this good rod. As soon as I held it, I felt it was pretty good."