Chapter 12: Hello, Guan Gong!
After Li Qubing hurriedly finished his meal, he rode his bicycle with Guangjun to school.
The road from the village to the middle of the village is still a dirt road, with all kinds of small pits and thin ditches along the way. Sitting in the iron back seat of the 26th car, Li Qubing felt that his butt was no longer his.
"I don't know when this road will be built into an asphalt road." Li Qubing said without saying a word.
"I heard from my dad that it will be repaired after waiting for two months. Every household will have to go out to build roads."
"If you want to be rich, build roads first. Look at how good the slogan says! But we can't get rich even if we build roads here."
"Why?"
"We are not close to the sea or the mountains. There are no mines or resources, and there are no large factories or schools. There are nothing but grain and many people. It's hard!"
For some reason, Li Qubing really wanted to express his feelings to this brother.
Maybe I'm really suffocating.
"According to what you said, we still have to be poor here."
"Isn't it? How tall is the building in Yanjing on TV? Look at our county town, the highest 3 floors!"
"Yes, it would be great if we could have as good as Yanjing here!"
"I think beautifully. By the way, Guangjun, what are you going to do in the future?"
"I, I want to take the technical secondary school entrance exam."
"It's so difficult to get into a technical secondary school entrance exam. What if I can't get into the exam?"
"If I can't pass the exam, I will join the army."
"But you have a rural household registration and have been in the army for two years. You don't arrange work after you come back. What are you going to do?"
"I don't know either. There seems to be nothing to do except joining the army and taking the exam. I'm just going to farm at home. Could it be that I have to plant these acres of land at home?"
"That's right. We must study hard and strive to get through the exam, otherwise we will really have to farm at home!"
"Yes, it's so hard to farm. Those who get up early and go to bed late will become tired in just a few years."
During the two of them, the school arrived.
There is nothing special about it, evening self-study and then sleeping. The fatigue of the whole day made Li Qubing sleep until the bell rang.
Wash and wash and walk into the classroom to welcome the arrival of the new week.
Li Qubing felt very strange because everyone who saw him would stare at him a few times.
Is there something dirty or something wrong with my face? I quickly asked my deskmate: "Xiaodong, see if there is anything dirty on my face?"
Zheng Xiaodong looked at Li Qubing carefully and said, "No."
"Why do everyone stare at me if there is no dirty thing? You seem to be staring at me just now!"
Zheng Xiaodong was suddenly happy, smiled and said, "Hello, Guan Gong!"
A black thread fell from Li Qubing's head: "What Guan Gong? What the hell?"
"You are Guan Gong!"
"Why am I Guan Gong?"
Zheng Xiaodong turned his head and borrowed a girl's small mirror in the second row, and handed it to Li Qubing: "Look in the mirror by yourself."
Li Qubing hurriedly took the mirror and looked at it, "Damn, it's really Guan Gong! You don't need to put on makeup when playing Guan Yu! Your face is red!
Damn! This must have been exposed yesterday! I was already white, but it turned red after it was exposed.
When Li Qubing was still in the mirror, the girls in the second row were also very happy when they saw Li Qubing's appearance.
"Haha, the neuropathy is Guan Gong!"
"Hey, crazy, I heard that the class will organize activities during New Year's Day and ask everyone to perform a show. I see if you can play Guan Gong, then go find a wooden knife, and Guan Gong will play a big knife!"
"You can also find Hu Zhilei, the one in our class. He is also black and bearded. You can be Zhang Fei. Another one, Liu Bei, you three will become sworn brothers!"
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Three women in one play, the ancients really don’t bully me!
Although it was just a few little girls, Li Qubing was also very funny! Fortunately, it was not a university. If it were a university, it would probably be a few girls. It would be girls from all grades watching Guan Gong together! Well, if they were in college, they would have to charge their visit fee. Li Qubing thought hatefully.
"Several female heroes are merciless, I'm here to beg you!"
"Haha, you're still a long-time ward. Are you the second youngest in our class? OK?"
"Okay, let me spare me!"
"Brother Guan, what did you do at home yesterday? Why did you become Guan Gong all of a sudden?"
Li Qubing sighed and deliberately cried poorly and said, "There is no way. The children of poor families have long been in the family. Yesterday, I was really busy in the sun for the whole day."
"Come on, I heard that you are your baby egg, and you don't do anything at home."
"You asked me? Why did you ask me? Are you secretly in love with me?"
Li Qubing ended the whole chat with one sentence. After all, that era was still a conservative era. Moreover, the child who had just entered junior high school was even more conservative. As soon as Li Qubing said this, the whole chat could not continue at all. Moreover, the girl who was told by Li Qubing suddenly turned into red cloth. She quickly lowered her head and did not dare to look up at Li Qubing again.
Li Qubing worked as Guan Gong for half a week. The redness on his face slowly faded on Thursday. Next time, he would definitely wear a straw hat from the morning and could not be Guan Gong anymore.
Through the relationship between Baomin Uncle, Li Qubing quickly found three years of junior high school textbooks.
When Li Qubing got the textbook, the conflict between Li Qubing and the teacher came. Because he did not listen to the class, the first row was under the teacher's nose. Not only did he not listen to the class, but he also read other books in the classroom! This was simply challenging the authority of the teacher.
The head teacher Gu Wei was the first to act. When he took the book that Li Qubing read, Gu Wei was stunned!
A Chinese document for the second half of the semester of the second semester of junior high school.
"Li Qubing, why don't you listen?"
"I know what you said! Listening to it again is a waste of time. Time is a treasure, and money cannot buy time. Wasting time is shameful!"
"...How do you prove that you know what you know?"
"If you pick the classical Chinese and ancient poems in the textbook, I will memorize them!" Li Qubing said it and smacked his lips: "Not only do I have the first half of the semester of the first grade, but also in the second half of the semester. I have finished memorizing them all during the summer vacation, and I have finished reading all the texts."
English teacher, mathematics teacher, history teacher... Li Qubing is once again famous throughout the school!
The life in junior high school is really boring. What Li Qubing did was to pick up the ancient poems he could recite, memorize the words that he could spell but made mistakes when he wrote them, and re-familiar with mathematical formulas again - but the difficulty of these was not as difficult as writing. I used a computer for nearly 20 years in my previous life, and I had too little time to use the pen, so when I first wanted to write something in my notebook after my rebirth, I naturally wrote a pinyin sentence. When I didn’t think anything was there when I wrote it, I took a closer look: Damn, Pinyin! I was suddenly messy!
The brick kiln at home has been burning bricks for a long time. After the bricks in the first two kilns were poorly controlled, there were very few scraps later! Li Qubing's thermometer and hygrometer played a crucial role, so that adults had to discuss with Li Qubing when making any decisions.
As time goes by, the leaves turn yellow and autumn is here.
The afternoon is about to have a busy holiday, and the students' hearts are no longer in class and have already flown to the fields and fields.
After a class in the afternoon, the entire campus suddenly became boiling. Those who packed things, called friends, shouted loudly, voices, sounds of packing things, sounds of bicycles, and sounds of bicycle rings.
Li Qubing's things were packed when he got up in the morning, and there was nothing to pack. When he returned to the dormitory, he picked up his snakeskin bag and started looking for Guangjun to go home together.
The sky in the rural areas in this era is blue, without the misty sky all day in the autumn harvest of later generations; the air in the rural areas in this era is fresh, without the smoky smell of fire during the autumn harvest of later generations; the roads in the rural areas in this era are sparsely pedestrians, without the various vehicles coming and going of later generations; the labor in the rural areas in this era is hard, without the leisurely leisure during the autumn harvest of later generations.
When Li Qubing returned to the brick kiln at home, the brick kiln was usually crowded and the extremely busy brick kiln was left with his family, relatives, friends, and helpers.
The autumn harvest in the Huanghuai Plain is relatively simple, with corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, sesame, and peanuts accounting for the vast majority.
Retrieving corn is a hard work.
When you are picking up corn, you need to drill around in the corn field that is more than one person tall. The irritation and annoying debris of corn leaves, the annoying powder of corn tassels, and the hot weather and dense and airtight fields, you will feel itchy and sweat all over when you are busy for a while.
Cutting corn stalks is a arduous task. Thousands of corn acres of land must be cut down one by one with a snatch shovel (a special tool for cutting corn) one by one. Since the root system of corn is well developed, you should try to get close to the roots when cutting corn, otherwise large roots will be left, which will have an impact on plowing and raking. However, the closer you get, the more developed the root system, the more difficult it is to cut and the more laborious it is.
Transportation is relatively easy. You just need to pull the corn from the field and get home. However, the corn yield is relatively large, and the family has at least 10,000 kilograms. It is also a laborious job to pull it back one by one.
After being pulled home, it is dry. Wear the corn cobs and hang them on the rack to dry. If the weather is bad, it needs to be covered and ventilated to prevent mold.
Threshing is not only hard, but also takes a long time. The corn dissipation in the 1990s was all handmade. When you use a large screwdriver to hold down the row of corn kernels and push it down hard, the row of corn kernels will fall naturally. After pushing four or five rows of corn on a corn cob, you will break down the remaining corn kernels by hand.
Drying is the last process of harvesting corn. Pull the corn kernels into the site and dry them, and then put them in bags.
Chapter completed!