Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 89
Maybe it was stimulated by the wild goose meat. In recent days, people have been going to the Dongla River to look for it, hoping to catch a wild goose and taste it.

In their view, the methods used by Wang Manyin and Wang Yanqiang are not a secret.Just get a needle, catch a loach and finish the job...

In short, as long as you have a hand.

It's a pity to let people down, and now you can't even see a wild goose feather by the Dongla River.

The Loess Plateau is just a resting place for wild geese during their migration. After being frightened, they have already flown further north, so how could they be so stupid as to stay where they are.

Wang Lianshun saw that Zhao Jianhai could not count on him, so he called the members of the second team for a meeting the next day to discuss the official start of the check dam.

Without Zhao Jianhai, everyone became very casual.

Of course, Xie Shouzheng is mainly speaking, and other people continue to put forward various opinions.

There are two issues that everyone is most concerned about: how to ensure that the earth dam will not be washed away, and the second is how to solve water seepage.

Don't think that ordinary people are stupid and don't know the benefits of check dams... The key point is that the benefits may not be obtained.

If these two problems are not resolved, the last few months of busy work will be in vain, so it is better not to do it.

Xie Shouzheng was very patient, and explained the problems of the members one by one, making it clear to everyone.

In the end, no one objected anymore, and instead, there was some enthusiasm.

Wang Manyin once again felt that he had underestimated Wang Lianshun's wisdom and responsibility.

From the beginning to the end of the whole mobilization meeting, people did not say a few words, let alone shouted any slogans, and easily got the members to agree, and it was from the heart.

This is definitely a kind of ability.

Again, don't treat ordinary people as fools, they have their own wisdom and judgment.As long as the interest relationship is clearly explained, and people see the real benefits, there is no need to mobilize from above, and they will do it spontaneously.

There is no benefit, if you can grind foreign workers, you will naturally grind foreign workers.

The check dam is really completed, and it can bring more than ten acres of good Sichuan land to the second team.

It's okay if the weather is good.After all, there is a "is it enough, three hundred and six", no matter how much food falls into the hands of the commune members, there is still a ration.

But in times of famine, this can save lives.

However, the weather on the Loess Plateau is so bad that there are too few years without drought or flood.If you really have nothing to eat, you can only go out to beg for food.

Years ago, Wang Manyin met an old man Du who was herding sheep in Shichuan Village by the river ditch. When the two chatted, the other party said that he lived to be more than 50 years old and went out to beg for food almost every year.

As far as I can remember, only two years have passed since the crops in the fields were harvested well.

The jar village is a little better, but not much better.

In addition, the construction of an earth dam, according to Xie Shouzheng's design, is actually an earth-rock dam.

Explosives and detonators are needed to excavate mountains to collect soil and stones... The team will pay for it, and ask Wang Yanqiang to help contact and purchase it.

Now the management of dangerous goods is relatively loose, which is not difficult.As long as you have the certificate from the village, you can easily buy it.

Wang Manyin returned to the village after the meeting, took advantage of the night to enter the space as usual, and went straight to the sweet potato field immediately.

As expected, many locusts were chased inside.

There is no way, at present, we can only adopt this stupid method temporarily.

In another month or so, when there are frogs in the Dongla River, catching a few and keeping them in the space may solve the fundamental problem.

After catching the locusts, he fed the poultry and livestock in the space before Shi Shiran walked to the sidelines.

When I got home, I saw my daughter-in-law sitting under the kerosene lamp, scratching the beads of the abacus with both hands.

"Man Yin, you're back? I'll bring you footwashing water." Lan Hua hurriedly got up and said.

"Don't worry, I'll do it myself. Why are you making plans again?" Wang Manyin asked curiously.

Wang Manyin admires her mother-in-law's enthusiasm for learning.

Except for a period of time at the beginning, he taught some simple fonts, strokes and pinyin, and later he was basically in a free-range state, and everything was taught by the other party.

But Lanhua never relaxed her demands on herself.

After two or three months of study, she now has almost five or six hundred Chinese characters, and is very familiar with the dictionary, and can basically read most of the articles.

Mathematics is easier, Wang Manyin only taught the writing of Arabic numerals.

As for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, this orchid can already...it's amazing to say it, although many women and aunts in Guanzi Village are illiterate, but they understand it in their hearts, and they can calculate all accounts smoothly.

So does my mother-in-law.

Since Lanhua learned to use Arabic counting, Wang Manyin handed over the inventory of the consignment points to the other party every night.

At first, he reconciled the account, but later he saw that there was nothing wrong, so he completely became the shopkeeper.

In the past few months, the supply and marketing cooperative has also sent people to reconcile the accounts, and there has been no mistake.

Now look at the meaning, Lanhua started to attack the abacus again?
See if you can get it, why not go to heaven!

"Every day at our consignment point, there are odd and small numbers. It is too troublesome to add, subtract, and subtract in a notebook... I heard that it is more convenient to use an abacus. Manyin, you are here just in time. Tell me how to use an abacus. I practiced according to the book... the more I got confused, the more confused I became."

Different from later generations, elementary school mathematics textbooks of this era have a detailed introduction to the use of abacus, and the name is "arithmetic".

Wang Manyin came from later generations, so naturally he knew nothing about abacus.

But facing Lan Hua's expectant gaze, he could only bite the bullet and take the textbook.Although I don't know how to do it, according to my memory, I have learned it before.

Turning a page at random, the math problems are very characteristic of the times.

"A certain soldier used his rest time to cut hair for poor and lower-middle peasants. He cut 240 people in the first half of the month and 270 people in the second half of the month. How many haircuts for poor and lower-middle peasants in one month..."

After reading several questions, Wang Manyin turned to the page explaining abacus and read, gradually recalling the relevant content.

It is really easy to get confused at the beginning, because the abacus uses upper two and lower five beads, the upper one means "5", and the lower one means "1", which belongs to the mixture of decimal and binary.

The lower bead is full of 5 and enters 1, and the upper bead is full of 2 and enters 1.If you are not proficient at the beginning, it is easy to get more and more confused.

The predecessor graduated from high school, and the mathematics itself is not bad.It's just that I have used abacus less these years, but I still have a foundation.

Wang Manyin fiddled with it a few times casually, and really found something.

He wondered if he should take advantage of his daughter-in-law's opportunity to learn, and pick up his own calculations again, so that he can't overwhelm himself with too many skills.

After all, if the orchids are allowed to compare in this respect, it will be easy for Huo Gang to lose his strength.

In fact, as long as you memorize the formulas of the abacus, the rest is to practice hand speed and memorization.It seems that there is nothing rare to achieve the unity of heart and hand.

It's like Wang Manyin once learned Wubi, but he couldn't remember the roots at first.When typing, I always fumble with the keyboard, constantly recite in my mind, and type out a word for a long time.

When you are proficient, memory becomes instinct.

Maybe he doesn't know the root of each key on the keyboard, but as long as he puts his hand on it, he can type it out involuntarily.

Without him, only familiar with Seoul.

The same is true for planning.

At the beginning, Wang Manyin stumbled and staggered. Along with the explanation, he also fumbled to learn, but he crackled the beads of the abacus.

The two couples were considered dead, and stayed up most of the night, sitting on the kang and playing with their abacus.

If other people in the village knew about it, it would probably be said that there was something wrong with their brains.

***
Well, if there are no accidents, it may be on the shelves tomorrow. Please make a first order in advance. I hope everyone will support it.

Before going on the shelves, say a few words from your heart.

From the beginning of the book, I have not been smooth.At the beginning, no one read this book, and the eunuch almost lost it.

Around December 12th, I suddenly started to have a fever. I couldn't buy an antigen test at that time, so I drank antipyretics in a daze.

A few days later, the fever subsided, and the key point was the coughing that didn't stop.

Yes, it's been a month and the cough hasn't stopped.

I took two chest X-rays in the hospital during the period, and they all said that there was inflammation in the lungs, but it was not serious. It was a personal physical problem, and the recovery was relatively slow.

I took a lot of medicine, and I am still taking it now, and I don't know when I will fully recover.

The body keeps repeating, so I have been writing this book relatively slowly, and I don't have a single chapter in hand.Stay up all night tonight to see if I can catch two chapters.

In fact, I can't get up soon... I am not from that era. For some daily details, I can only check the information and try to restore it as much as possible.

In fact, I tried to find as many materials as possible to support every detail.

To give the simplest example, some people questioned that the price of local chicken is too expensive. I found the price from at least a dozen memoirs.Naturally, the price is not uniform, and it is divided into the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative (the supply and marketing cooperative broadcasts the chicken with a big loudspeaker, 3 cents per catty), and the black market price (the black market live chicken price fluctuates from 0.9-1.1 yuan per catty).

There are more price information, which will not be released for the time being.If in doubt, you can actually look it up online.

The second thing that caused controversy was the dowry money (several hundred to one thousand). Many people thought that at that time, the dowry could not have been so expensive.

For this reason, I checked at least hundreds of thousands of words of information... Don't think it's bragging, because there are more than ten related records I have sorted out, all of which prove that this price has happened.

Personally, I think that the most authoritative records are of course provincial chronicles, local chronicles, and county chronicles. I have found relevant descriptions here.

That's right, there are also records in the provincial annals.

Moreover, the words used are "general", "universal" and "many"... This shows that the bride price is not an exception.

In addition, in the memoirs of many people of that era (I found more than a dozen records), the price of the bride price was also mentioned.There are memories of the educated youth who jumped in the queue, and there are writers, not just Mr. Lu Yao.

Some people think that it was impossible for farmers to afford such a high betrothal gift at that time... Well, there is no way to write out the operation method.It's nothing more than changing, buying, and others.

(End of this chapter)