Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 32 High School Begins

1981年9月1日，农历8月4日
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After eating the egg noodles made by his grandmother, Wang Jiankun rode a motorcycle with his father to the county town.

Today is the first day for high school registration.

Originally, he could have registered on his own, but in order to apply to live off-campus, he still had to ask his father to talk to the teacher.

After arriving in the county town, Wang Jiankun took his father to the house he rented.

The house is located on Shuxiang Road near the school, at the end of the road.

Next to it is a small hill more than 30 meters high, on which there are dozens of pine trees and some low shrubs.

The house is a single-story tiled house and was originally used as a place to raise chickens.

The owner of the house may not have good skills in raising chickens, and the chickens would die every time he raised them, so the house was left empty for the first half of this year.

Wang Jiankun found this place when he was looking for a house. He liked the quiet location in a busy city, so he offered 30 yuan a month to rent it.

In front of the house, there is a large yard of more than 100 square meters, enclosed by a half-meter-high stone wall and a bamboo fence. The yard is close to Shuxiang Road.

There is a door at the back of the house, and a path leads to the back entrance of No. 2 Middle School.

Wang Jiankun's plan for this house is to use the front house and the yard as a waste recycling station, and live in the back house himself.

Usually, the door between the front and back rooms is locked, and only you can open the door and go from the back room to the front room.

The house has been cleaned up, and Wang Jiankun also used his superpowers to make a suspended ceiling. Although it is a single-story house, the suspended ceiling can block dust and keep heat.

The house had been cleaned when I came to rent it last time, and there was only one single room in the front and back houses.

Wang Jiankun bought a bed, a desk and a cabinet. The desk in the front yard will be used as the office desk of the scrap yard.

The kitchen was built in the front yard, a small wooden house with a honeycomb coal stove and a wooden table for cutting vegetables.

Wang Jiankun hasn’t bought any pots, pans, or utensils yet, so he doesn’t plan to cook for himself for the time being and will eat three meals a day in the school cafeteria.

After we recruit someone, we will see what he wants. If he wants to live and cook here, he needs to bring his own bedding and kitchen supplies.

There is a well in the yard, which makes using water much more convenient. Some families on this road do not have a well or have dug a well but cannot get water, so they can only go to Le'an River early every morning to fetch water.

Wang Jiankun put the clothes he brought from home into the closet, and planned to buy other daily necessities such as straw mats and bedding at the market after checking in.

After pushing the motorcycle into the house and locking it, Wang Jiankun took his father from Shuxiang Road to Tianyou Road, and they arrived at the gate of the County No. 10 Middle School in about minutes.

At this time, the entrance was crowded with people and cars. Those who came on foot and with a little luggage were usually from the county town or the suburbs. Those who came with two or three people in a family carrying large and small bags and riding in trucks or ox carts were from the rural communes.

Because now you need food stamps or meal tickets to eat at school. Food stamps are generally only available to city students. Meal tickets are obtained by handing rice to the school cafeteria, which will weigh the rice and then issue the corresponding meal tickets.

Therefore, students from rural areas usually bring a month's supply of rice to the canteen in exchange for meal tickets.

Wang Jiankun has inquired about it and learned that starting this year he can directly exchange money for meal tickets, not necessarily rice, so he can be so relaxed. Otherwise, carrying rice to school every month would be exhausting.

Wang Jiankun and his father followed the crowd and walked into the school.

After entering the school gate, there is a small square. Around the square are cinder roads on both sides leading to the playground, teaching building, canteen and dormitory behind the school.

After entering the school gate, people all walked towards the small square because the class schedule was posted there.

Wang Jiankun and his father also walked towards the place where the class list was hung. They started from Class 1 on the left and only saw their own name at the last Class 12. They also discovered that their junior high school classmate Fang Guihua was also in this class.

The ranking should be based on grades. Wang Jiankun ranks first and Fang Guihua ranks fifth. There are 12 students in Class 52.

The reporting process is also written at the bottom. First, go to the classroom to find the class teacher to register and pay the fees. If you want to stay in a dormitory, you will be arranged a place in it. In principle, accommodation is arranged for children who are not in the county. If you do not want to stay in the dormitory, the parents must explain the reason and write down the off-campus residential address to facilitate school management.

Those who want to go to the school cafeteria to exchange meal tickets can go directly to the cafeteria to exchange them after registration. Those who don’t want to exchange them can make their own arrangements and start evening self-study in the evening.

Wang Jiankun arrived early and did not see any students from Zheyuan Commune, so he went to register for Class 12 first.

Walking along the cinder road to the teaching building with his father, Wang Jiankun's ears were filled with the dialects of various communes along the way.

After walking for a while, we saw three teaching buildings with blue bricks and black tiles. The one on the far right should be for the first year of high school.

There were few people outside the two buildings next door. Occasionally, the voices of teachers scolding students could be heard. They should be the second and third year students.

The teaching building has three floors, with four classes on each floor. Class 4 is on the third floor. Wang Jiankun and his father walked towards the third floor.

At this time, there are a lot of luggage placed on the open space in front of the teaching building, and there is usually a parent watching over them.

When I arrived at Class 12, the head teacher and the Chinese teacher were at the podium processing the admission procedures for the students. The name of the head teacher was written on the blackboard: He Shixian, and the English teacher was Liu Xiaoting.

When it was Wang Jiankun's turn, the head teacher asked him to show him the notification letter and household registration booklet, and the 10 yuan tuition fee was to be given to the English teacher Liu Xiaoting.

Wang Jiankun handed the two documents in his hand to Teacher He, and then gave the money to Teacher Liu.

Teacher He checked the name, date of birth and other information. This step should be to prevent impersonation.

After reading it, they asked Wang Jiankun whether he lived on campus. Wang Jiankun said no, so they asked Wang Jiankun's father to fill out a form, stating the reason for not living on campus and his current off-campus address.

Then he asked Wang Jiankun if he was willing to be a class leader, such as monitor or study committee member. Wang Jiankun thought about it and replied that he was not willing to be one, because he was a little young and was afraid that he would not be able to convince others. Besides, he had some other things to do and might not be able to help manage class affairs.

After hearing what he said, Teacher He did not insist on making him a class leader. Generally, teachers would arrange a class leader position for students with good grades, unless the student himself is unwilling or truly incapable of the job.

After filling in these, Teacher He reminded him to come to this classroom at 6: tonight for self-study and class meeting, and not to be late.

At this time, Teacher Liu had also registered and gave Wang Jiankun a receipt.

After putting it away, he told his homeroom teacher and Teacher Liu that he was going to take a look around the campus, and then went downstairs with his father.

Wang Jiankun had already visited the campus when he rented an apartment last time, and this time he decided to take his father to see it as well so that he could go home and tell his family about his impressions of high school.

After leaving the teaching building, we continued walking along the cinder road and came to a large playground.

The large playground is as big as a standard football field, with two football goal frames and no nets. The outer circle is a running track paved with coal slag.

After walking a short circle along the runway, I arrived at several rows of dormitories.

I took my father to see the dormitory. There are a total of 5 two-story dormitory buildings. Currently, 2 of them are for boys and 3 are for girls.

There are 10 rooms on each floor, with 12 people living in each room. They all have bunk beds, just like the ones Wang Jiankun had in junior high school, which are iron-framed wooden beds.

After taking a walk around, I took my father to the cafeteria nearby.

The cafeteria should be newly built. It is a two-story cement-frame house with a flat roof. It has large glass windows and the floor is paved with cement. It is empty inside and there is no place to sit.

Seeing people queuing up to pay for rice in exchange for meal tickets, Wang Jiankun walked forward and asked where the staff member who needed money to buy meal tickets was. The staff told him to go to a window nearby where someone would handle the matter.

I walked to the place the staff pointed out, and sure enough, there were two or three people queuing there.

Wang Jiankun queued up and used money to exchange for 35 kilograms of food for a month. When he heard that there were vegetable coupons that could be purchased with money, Wang Jiankun also bought a 5-yuan vegetable coupon to see what the food in the cafeteria was like.

After touring the campus, Wang Jiankun and his father walked out of the school gate and towards the bottom of the East Gate Bridge, where a market had spontaneously formed.

I walked into the market, found a stall selling straw mats and bought one. Then I visited several stalls and bought a tin bucket, an enamel washbasin, toothpaste and toothbrush, a white towel, a bamboo and wooden clothes drying rack, an aluminum lunch box and wooden chopsticks. I also bought a thin quilt with an army green quilt cover and a matching pillow.

After buying these, Wang Jiankun and his father carried the things and walked towards Shuxiang Road. They opened the door and put all the things on the bed, planning to clean up later.

He took his father out to a restaurant for dinner. During the meal, his father told Wang Jiankun to study hard and not waste his talent. Things at home were on track and he, his grandfather and his mother could handle it.

Wang Jiankun said that he would not fall behind in grades and he would always be the first in all future exams.

His father told him not to be careless, as our county has produced many talented people. There were many vice ministers and even officials in various departments in the Qing Dynasty, and there were many geniuses after liberation.

Wang Jiankun said he would be modest and prudent, and then told his father to remember to arrange for a few things to be done.

One is, when you go back to Fengshan today, remember to go to Master Quan to reconcile the account and collect the money. You can compare the quantity with the number of sets of glass and springs that were delivered.

第二个是9月5号记得去饶州学开车并让程勇每3天派车来一趟把打火机拉走，等到9月15号你买了车就由你自己送。

The third thing was to go to Raozhou to transport the iron bars back home on September 9. The fourth thing was that Wang Jiankun would call Tsinghua every Sunday at noon and ask my father to go to the Tsinghua Post Office to wait for a call. If there was anything, they would communicate over the phone. If my father was unable to go, he would send a telegram.

After dinner, Wang Jiankun sent his father on a truck back to Tsinghua University, and then his father had to walk back to the team.

I have always wanted to teach my father how to ride a motorcycle, but I was too busy before and didn't have the time. Now he may have even less time to drive a truck by himself in the future.

After his father returned home, Wang Jiankun took out a pen and paper and wrote a sign recruiting people to look after the scrap yard.

It said that they were recruiting a scrap collection station manager, working from 8:5 a.m. to 18:35 p.m., six days a week and one day off, age group 30-, primary school graduate or above, salary at least yuan per month.

After writing it, he took it to Dongmen Bridge, found a spot and set it up with wooden sticks.

Soon a lot of people gathered around. Most of them looked at how young Wang Jiankun was and found it a little unbelievable. They thought 30 yuan a month was not a small amount and thought Wang Jiankun was joking.

Wang Jiankun was unmoved and just said that if anyone was interested they could contact him for an interview and if they passed the interview they could start working on the same day.

Several young people in their 20s and some middle-aged people came to him for interviews. After interviewing several of them, Wang Jiankun decided to let a retired soldier named Ye Wei go to take a look at the house that Wang Jiankun rented.

Because Wang Jiankun found that Ye Wei's eyes were very straight, his expression was very peaceful, and his voice was loud and upright. He was not like some other guys in their early 20s who were sloppy and nonchalant. There was an inexplicable sense of contempt in the look in his eyes when he looked at Wang Jiankun.

Ye Wei returned from the army in the south last year. He has a disability in his legs and can only walk slowly without a cane.

He hadn't found a job for more than half a year since he was discharged from the army. Although he had some retirement pay and disability allowance, he had elderly people, a wife and children to support at home, so he was very happy to see this job that did not require physical work and had a fairly high salary. He was also the first person to interview at that time.

In order to take care of Ye Wei, Wang Jiankun walked slowly with him and talked as they walked.

He lives in Wukou and now comes to the market every day to set up a stall to sell bamboo chopsticks and other bamboo products. Rural people will not buy such things, they will make them themselves, so only city people will occasionally buy them, and the business is only for making a living.

My son is over 2 years old. My wife is a farmer at home, and my parents are also farmers.

He also talked about how he joined the army in 73 at the age of 18, and got married quickly at the end of 78 when he went home to visit his family, arranged by his parents, and soon had a child.

I originally wanted to return to the army and apply for retirement, but I didn’t expect that a fierce war broke out in the south not long after I returned to the army, so I had to continue serving.

He continued training after that. At the end of 79, he went to the south with the troops for rotation. At the end of 80, he was injured in the battlefield and his tendon was ruptured, so he retired and returned home.

Before retiring, he had no job because he was only a company-level cadre, and he had even fewer job opportunities because he was disabled.

When they arrived at the place rented by Wang Jiankun, Ye Wei was asked to take a look at the environment and explained that his job content was to help recycle waste and register quantity and price. Ye Wei said there was no problem with these tasks.

Then we talked about the work schedule. We have a day off on Sundays, one day off during holidays, and seven days off during the Chinese New Year. Ye Wei cooks his own meals here at noon.

Seeing that Ye Wei was going to cook here at noon, Wang Jiankun gave him an extra 5 yuan so that he could buy pots, pans, and other cooking supplies, and he would refund any excess and make up for any shortfall.

After discussing these, Wang Jiankun planned to hang up the sign of the waste recycling station and make a few signboards to hang on Shuxiang Road and Tianyou Road.

Taking out the prepared pine boards and red paint from the house, Wang Jiankun began to write the sign.

First, I asked Chieko to design many font shapes, and then I chose a font that seemed to be in line with the spirit of the times and wrote the seven big words "Limin Waste Recycling Station".

This is to be hung in a conspicuous place at the entrance of the courtyard, and there are also several signboards that indicate the direction to the Limin Waste Recycling Station on Shuxiang Road, which recycles waste paper, old furniture, waste metals, etc.

After writing it, I asked Ye Wei to help hang it up, and then asked Ye Wei to promote it regularly, and asked them to send their scraps here if they met any ragpickers. The price is fair and the weight is not bad.

Then he asked Ye Wei to watch here while he went to buy a beam scale, a platform scale, an account book, a pen, ink, etc.

He rode his motorcycle to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy these things and asked Ye Wei to put them away. From now on, they would belong to him.

There is a locked drawer under the desk where I can keep my account books and money for collecting waste. I keep 5 yuan in there every day and make up the difference after I check the accounts with Wang Jiankun in the evening.

It's almost 5:8, so let Ye Wei go home first and come here at o'clock tomorrow morning.

I told him that I would go to school every morning, come back to rest at noon, and come to reconcile the accounts and check the recyclables at 5: in the evening.

Wang Jiankun also locked the door, went to eat, and then went to the classroom for evening self-study.

In Class 12 classroom, Wang Jiankun saw Fang Guihua chatting with several classmates. He walked over to greet him and then joined the chat group.

Those chatting were all students living on campus, many of them lived in the same dormitory. Many of them had already known each other by the afternoon. Wang Jiankun introduced himself.

Although Wang Jiankun is one to two years younger than these classmates, his food has improved in the past two months and he has grown taller, so he does not look small among his classmates.

Fang Guihua asked Wang Jiankun why he didn't see him in the dormitory.

Wang Jiankun found a house outside the school and became a day student from then on.

Fang Guihua actually had a lot of questions to ask, but the head teacher came in, so he had to quiet down.

After the head teacher came in, he first talked about the school situation and teaching arrangements. The first grade of high school has classes from Monday to Saturday, and rest on Sunday. Evening self-study every night is from 6:9 to 9:2, and in winter it is half an hour earlier at . The students have two days off on the last weekend of each month and can go home.

Then the candidates for class leaders were announced, including class monitor Wu Xiaoyi, deputy class monitor Yu Zirun (female), study committee member Fang Guihua, and other subject representatives as well as male and female student life committee members, sports committee member, labor committee member, etc.

Then everyone was asked to line up in the corridor, regardless of gender, and in order of height. Wang Jiankun was of average standing in the class, so he lined up in the middle, with the deputy monitor Yu Zirun in front of him.

Then the head teacher asked every 7 people from the youngest to the tallest to sit in a row. When it was Wang Jiankun's turn, he was in the fourth row. After he went in, he sat at the same table with Yu Zirun.

The seats in the classroom are arranged 232, with two-person tables on both sides and three-person tables in the middle.

At this time, the classroom became lively again, and almost the entire first-year teaching building was filled with the voices of young people, because everyone was getting familiar with their positions and the classmates around them.

Wang Jiankun is rather introverted, especially when it comes to dealing with girls, so he is a little shy. It was Yu Zirun who first approached him to chat and introduced himself.

During the conversation, I learned that Yu Zirun was from Guangfeng County. She was originally going to study in Raozhou City, but her father was assigned to work here, so she came here to study. She was also a day student.

Yu Zirun was about 165cm tall, wearing a floral dress, white sneakers, and a ponytail. I didn't dare look at her closely, but I felt that she smiled when she spoke and had a dimple.

The head teacher waited for a long time before letting everyone quiet down, and then asked everyone to introduce themselves one by one and asked everyone to remember each other's classmates' names.

After the first evening self-study get out of class, the head teacher asked the class leaders to move the books from the Academic Affairs Office. After the second evening self-study class, everyone lined up in turn to get the books.

A total of 8 textbooks were distributed, including Chinese, mathematics, English, politics, history, geography, physics and chemistry, as well as 8 workbooks.

After distributing the books, the head teacher asked everyone to start self-study. You don’t have to attend the third self-study class today. Go home and go back to the dormitory to rest. You have to go to the classroom for morning reading at 6: tomorrow morning.

No one was in the mood to study. Most of them flipped through their books and then went to chat with their classmates.

Wang Jiankun was rather bored. He didn't want to find topics to talk about, and he wasn't very interested in the topics of his classmates, so his classmates gradually stopped talking to him.

He was also happy and relaxed, flipping through his high school textbooks.

While reading, I was thinking about how to solve the communication problem, especially the communication with Peter. Although I left the school address and told him that he could send a telegram, communicating by telegram was not very convenient after all.

He is about to go back, and I don’t know if the next batch of orders can be finalized before he goes abroad.

We have to find a way to solve the communication problem. If I have superpowers, it should be feasible to manufacture some communication equipment.

However, I don’t know much about current communication equipment. Although I know that radio stations can communicate freely, I don’t understand how to use public channels. It would be bad if I accidentally occupied military or already allocated civilian channels.

You need to find someone who knows the business to ask about the situation, and then start making it after you have understood the situation clearly.

The second evening self-study session passed in Wang Jiankun's thoughts. Everyone put their books into drawers and walked out of the classroom. Some people even carried their books on their backs.

Fang Guihua came over and asked Wang Jiankun where he lived and whether he wanted to go to the dormitory and meet his junior high school classmates.

Wang Jiankun suggested that everyone should go to his place for a gathering on the weekend as the dormitory was too crowded and too crowded. Then he told Fang Guihua the address.

Fang Guihua thought this was a good suggestion, as they would all be from Zhejiangyuan Commune and it would be easier to talk to each other. So he said it was settled and he would go to inform other students.

When Wang Jiankun and others were about to leave, they also walked out of the classroom and met Yu Zirun and his father at the school gate. His father came to pick her up on a bicycle, still wearing a Zhongshan suit late at night.

After saying hello to Yu Zirun and his father, they parted ways. Wang Jiankun walked towards Shuxiang Road, while the father and daughter rode their bikes towards Dongmen Bridge to the other side of the river. The road was full of high school students who were just finishing their classes, walking home in groups of three or four.

I returned to the Liming Waste Station, entered through the front door, fetched some water, washed up, and went to bed to rest.

(End of this chapter)