I Had a Home In 1982 Chapter 51

   Chapter 51 51. The Arrival Postman

  The ten houses of Tianya Primary School now have leaking roofs.

   Big confusion has been fishing and drying seaweed for the past few days.

   The seaweed he picked up is called Daye seaweed locally. Wang Yi researched it, and the scientific name should be Daye seaweed. The leaves are quite large and grow in the shallow sea.

   But the big confusion is that fishing for seaweed is not a shallow sea fishing. The seaweed is deeply rooted and cannot be pulled out by manpower.

  He picked it up on the river bank. The leaves of these big-leaf seaweeds are large and numerous, and they will be swept into a ball in the weather with strong wind and waves, and then they will be uprooted and photographed on the shore by the waves.

  The big leaf seaweed is called seaweed but it cannot be eaten, so it can only be dried to repair the seaweed house.

   Most of the local houses are covered with this kind of seaweed.

When building a house, a great worker will smooth out the dried seaweed, cover it on the roof piece by piece, then cover it with broken fishing nets, and then use small heavy objects such as stones as weights to hold it down. Cover the seagrass layer, and continue to cover the fishing net on the seagrass layer.

The    is covered layer by layer, so the roof of the seaweed house is very thick.

   When cleaning up, find the water leak and damage, uncover the seaweed layer by layer, and replace the seagrass layer in the damaged area.

  I don't have enough big leaf seaweed from the big confusion. It's no problem to make up for Tingtaoju. It's delusional to want to fill up the roof of the school.

   Boldly stepped on the ladder and climbed up to see and found that the buildings in the entire campus classroom were severely damaged and aged, and minor repairs were useless, and had to be renovated and overhauled.

  In this way, the militia team came to work not only to repair the roof, but also to fish for large leaf seaweed, and they had to provide the raw materials themselves.

   Boldly report the situation to Wang Xianghong.

  Wang Xianghong came to Wang Yi: "Mr. Wang, we underestimated the difficult situation of reopening the school, and the roof of the school building has to be repaired!"

   "It can be used without repair." Boldly added, "Then use plastic sheeting to cover the gap and compact the big leaf seaweed, it should be able to last for two years."

   Wang Yi asked, "What does the branch secretary mean?"

  Wang Xianghong said: "Education is a long-term thing. Since we have reopened the school and you have returned to your hometown to engage in education, we must take a long-term view and simply repair the school in one breath."

   "So I propose to skip the culture class this week, and take the labor class first, and let the students pick up the big leaf seaweed, and then renovate the roofs of all the school buildings in batches, what do you think?"

  Wang Yi said: "I think the idea of ​​Party Secretary is very good, but it can be better, that is, the roof needs to be repaired, and the doors and windows need to be repaired!"

   "Not only repairs but also renovations. Renovation is done like in the city. There are blackboard paintings and book corners in the classrooms, so that the children of the Wang family can study with dignity!"

   Wang Xianghong and Bold were stunned.

   The two looked at each other and winked together.

   Then Wang Xianghong said: "Mr. Wang, your starting point is good, but you made the mistake of left-leaning adventurism. We don't have that condition."

  Wang Yi said decisively: "If there are no conditions, we will create conditions. If there are difficulties, we will solve them. The great man said that he dared to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky, so don't we dare to change the school?"

  Wang Xianghong turned his hands behind his back and asked, "Mr. Wang, you need books in the book corner, colored chalks for making blackboard newspapers, and glass for repairing doors and windows. Where do these things come from?"

Wang Yi said: "I will be in charge. I will mobilize my college classmates and let them support the construction of our school together! And the father of my classmate in Shanghai may have promised me that he is willing to help us develop a new era school in the countryside. He kept his promise!"

   Wang Xianghong stared at him and asked, "Can it be done?"

  Wang Yi said: "Absolutely!"

Wang Xianghong made up his mind and said, "Okay, when I went to the county to report information to Teacher Wang last time, the officials of the Education Bureau said that the State Council had issued a notice called "Notice on Several Issues Concerning Strengthening and Reforming Education in Rural Schools". "

"There are a lot of things in the "Notice", one of which is that students should not be allowed to live in dilapidated houses, and they should be allowed to study healthily and happily in the sun. I think this is consistent with Teacher Wang's suggestion, then I will as soon as possible. Go to the county and see if you can apply for some funding."

Wang Yi said: "Secretary of the Party, in fact, building a school is not a big project, there will be difficulties but not many, so I don't think students need to pick up seaweed, right? The first is to delay study, and the second is that the seaside is very dangerous due to the wind and waves. of…"

   "What's the danger here?" Wang Xianghong interrupted him, "If it wasn't for the cold weather, these cubs would have jumped into the water one by one to fish and catch shrimp."

   "As for the delay in studying, I can't say it. Anyway, there are three afternoon labor classes a week, so it should be taken as early as possible."

   boldly said: "I see it."

  Wang Yi looked at the coast under the mountain.

   Shocking waves hit the shore.

  Spray rewinds.

   There are already children who do not go to school fighting and shouting.

   These days, fishermen's children are raised as cats and dogs, as long as they can survive.

   However, Wang Yi still made a request for safety reasons. Only in sunny weather, the students took half the afternoon to go to the beach to pick up seaweed, and they still had to study in the windy weather and in the morning.

   He just used candy cubes to build up the students' interest in acquiring knowledge. If he does not study for a few days, this interest will soon dissipate.

  The students went to school normally in the morning. Wang Yi set up a timetable and started teaching them arithmetic.

  In the afternoon, the students went to the coast of the island to pick up big-leaf seaweed according to the combination of large and small.

The coastline of Tianya Island is very long. There is a coast around the island, but there are very few beaches. There is only a small bay between the second and third groups called Crescent Bay. This Crescent Bay has a circle of white sandy beaches, and the rest are reef beaches. .

   They went to a reef beach, and some seaweed with wild pieces was scattered on it, and the students rolled up their trousers and started to pick them up.

   Lao Huang, who was in the crowd, looked at it, and also lowered his head and dragged the seaweed back with his mouth.

   It dries pretty fast.

  Wang Yi attended the labor class with the students. The students asked curiously, "Mr. Wang, why don't you go hunting for hogweed?"

   Wang Yi, who asked this question, was confused: "Is it necessary to catch hogweed in labor class?"

  Wang Xinzhao said: "The most hogweed is harvested. Because pigs are raised in the school, we have to hunt hogweed to feed the pigs."

   Pigs in school?

   Isn't the school raising students? !

   He asked the students, but the students couldn't explain it. They all said that the school would raise pigs.

   Just as Wang Dongxi came over, Wang Yi asked, "Document, I heard from the students that the school wants to raise pigs?"

   "Yes," Wang Dongxi answered bluntly, "but we don't have pigs in our team right now. We'll catch two pigs for you when we buy them."

  Wang Yi was stunned: "What's the point of this?"

Wang Dongxi smiled and said: "This is the case on our outer islands. The conditions in the outer islands are too difficult and the work points are too few. Before, the teachers could not be supported, so after the application of the leaders of the commune, all outer islands except for the team collectively can support the teachers. Pigs can also be raised by the school for two pigs for the group."

   "These two pigs are subsidies given to teachers by the commune, and these two pigs are raised by students, so students have to hunt for hogweed in labor classes."

  Wang Yiyi thought that it would be good to be a teacher when he came back. The salary was 63 yuan, and the team also gave him work points for strong labor. In addition, he was allowed to raise two pigs!

   This is a proper annual income of more than 1,000 yuan.

  According to what he learned from chatting with the team members, this income is already top-notch income, and they mention it with the same awe and envy as ordinary people in later generations mention the million-dollar annual salary!

  Wang Dongxi was leaving after he finished speaking.

  Wang Xinzhao asked strangely: "Uncle Six, are you here to tell Teacher Wang when you can raise pigs?"

   Hearing this, Wang Dongxi patted his head: "Oh, look at my pig brain! Mr. Wang, you go to the wharf, Comrade Zhang Youxin from the county post and telecommunications bureau is calling you!"

   Wang Yi was stunned.

   Zhang Youxin's work clothes are still in his hand.

   Hearing Wang Dongxi's words, Wang Zhuangyuan laughed: "Brother, our school just wants to raise pigs, you see you have a pig brain..."

  Wang Dongxi tightened his waistband and pulled out the belt to chase after him.

  Wang Yi first went back to Tingtaoju to find the work clothes, and after thinking about it, he took out two ballpoint pens. Pens and hard books are popular in this era, but ballpoint pens are also commonly used.

  An oil tanker was parked on the pier, Zhang Youxin stood at the bow of the boat smoking a cigarette with Wang Xianghong and scolded Fang Qiu.

  Wang Yi ran over with Lao Huang, Wang Xianghong beckoned: "Mr. Wang, Comrade Zhang specially wants to see you, are you and Comrade Zhang still friends?"

   "Not a friend," Zhang Youxin hurriedly waved his hand, "a good friend! A comrade-in-arms with an extraordinary revolutionary friendship!"

   Wang Xianghong was stunned: "What kind of comrades are you two?"

   Zhang Youxin smiled and said, "A comrade who fought with a transport ship thief together."

  Wang Xianghong was bewildered, he didn't know that this was a man with a mouth full of trains.

  Wang Yi went to the pier and handed the tooling to Zhang Youxin to thank him, and then handed him two ballpoint pens:

"Brother Youxin, I want to thank you for your help last time. These two pens are gifts that my classmates in the capital gave me when they learned that I was a teacher. I think you are a postman and often have to sign. I'll give you two."

   Zhang Youxin said: "Comrade Wang Yi, you are polite to me. You helped me last time. You helped me a lot. How can I ask you for it - uh, this is an oil pen, and I also have one."

   He often uses pens, mainly pencils and pens. Ballpoint pens are relatively scarce in Wengzhou City, a non-manufacturing area, and some units even use brushes now.

   For the postman, both pencils and pens are not good signing tools. The pencil marks are easy to be erased, the pen is easy to leak ink, and the nib is easy to damage.

  Wang Yi took this into consideration, so he gave him two ballpoint pens.

   Zhang Youxin also has a ballpoint pen, which he put in his jacket pocket. The shape is very similar to that of a pen, and it has a beautiful layer of red porcelain on the outside.

   This is naturally very precious, he is not willing to use it, and usually puts it in his pocket to add temperament to himself.

   So he rejected Wang Yi's gift, Wang Yi said, "You can use mine like this, you see, it's more convenient to put the refills in and out, and you have to unscrew the cap and screw it back on every time you use it."

   These two ballpoint pens are bullet-point press pens that can be seen everywhere in the market for 22 years. The overall shape is streamlined, like elongated bullets, with soft rubber pads below, and each one costs only 50 cents.

   As a gift, Wang Yi must give it away!

   He demonstrated it. The nib of the ballpoint pen was pushed and squeezed with the thumb and snapped.

   Zhang Youxin is very novel to read.

  Then he patted his head and went through the newspaper, and quickly found a piece of "Oriental Morning Post" and handed it over: "I know what you are, you are not an oil pen but a mechanical pen, look at it, is this it?"

  Wang Yi looked down at the newspaper and read: ""Linking Economic Indicators to Implement Cadre Responsibility System - Cadres of Chunguang Commune are used for work and conscientiously grasping production"..."

   "Not this, not this!" Zhang Youxin said.

  Wang Yi wondered: "The Publishing Bureau requires the publication of more and better comic strips with modern themes? Is this to support the construction of our school?"

   Zhang Youxin took the newspaper and looked at it, and quickly turned it over: "This is it, watch this advertisement news."

   On the advertisement page at the bottom of the newspaper, there is a large line of characters:

   "The 1982 National Office and Consumable Materials Shanghai Fair Welcomes National Consumer Comrades", the picture below includes copiers, desk lamps, printers and various pens.

   The one that occupies the C position is a straight ballpoint pen with a pressing cap above it. The introduction says:

  The advanced automatic pen from West Germany, you can press the cap to retract the pen tip, press it when you use it, and retract it when you don't use it, which relieves you of the trouble of accidentally leaving handwriting.

   (end of this chapter)

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