In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 46: Half a pound of food and cents a day, worse than cattle and horses. Are you interested?
"You are the only one who knows the preparation process of that thing. I don't. The principal arranged it. The school is counting on you from now on."

Kang Yi was about to leave after he finished speaking, but was stopped by Xie Wei.

"Director Kang, I only have a limited knowledge of chemistry. You know the situation of the experimental class. We spend all our time in the chemistry lab and have no time to do homework for other subjects."

Xie Wei tried hard to make a bitter face and looked at Kang Yi pitifully.

"Don't talk about useless things. This is arranged by the principal. If you are not happy, go find the principal!"

How could Kang Yi let Xie Wei go!

To what extent are other department heads trying to poach people?

He originally thought that the Chemistry Department had no chance of winning over Xie Wei, but he still didn't give up hope.

Now Xie Wei has delivered it to himself, with the principal's endorsement.

How could I not grab this incredible wealth right in front of me?
Unless you get kicked in the head by a donkey.

Do not!
Even if you get kicked by a donkey, you can't stop a talent like Xie Wei from pursuing chemistry.

Chemistry is Xie Wei's future.

"How about we discuss this? I'll write down the formula I've figured out and the effect I need to achieve, and you can help arrange someone to do the experiment?"

Experimenting with various recipe proportions takes a lot of time.

Xie Wei couldn't wait to do various experiments, but even after countless experiments, there might not be any results.

"Is that so? But, the Chemistry Department has few students. Don't you know that the Chemistry Department enrolled students in the classes of 77 and 78 mainly for teacher training?" Kang Yi also looked embarrassed, and immediately suggested: "How about you find a few students with good foundation from the experimental class and let them work with He Yang and others?"

Nima!

Looking at Kang Yi's face, Xie Wei wanted to punch him.

This guy not only has plans for himself, but also for the people in the experimental class.

However, a dead Taoist friend is worse than a dead Taoist friend.

Just don't trap yourself in endless chemistry labs.

"It's okay to ask classmates for help. We also learn chemistry in the experimental class anyway. But this is a school project. If the students are in the laboratory every day, they have to use other time to study and do homework..."

"Just state your request."

This time, Kang Yi was generous.

"How about a pound of food subsidy per person per day, fifty cents?"

Xie Wei tentatively proposed a price that was even lower than that of cattle and horses.

"Half a pound of food, two cents."

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Two o'clock in the morning.

The all-night study room is still brightly lit.

Most of the students who were studying there left.

"Ha~"

After doing a basic differential calculus problem in the study room, Yao Xinwei kept yawning.

He had wanted to go back to sleep early. Several people in the dormitory were studying hard. When he felt sleepy, he went to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water and then came back to continue working. He was too embarrassed to leave.

"Bang~"

Yao Xinwei was holding a pen and doing a question. When he encountered a difficult step and had no idea at all, he could no longer suppress the sleepiness and hit his forehead on the desk.

"No, I can't bear it anymore~ I have to go back to sleep."

Even though his head was hit, he was still very sleepy. "What about you guys?"

"I'll finish this question."

Li Chuangxin answered.

Feng Ke looked at Zhang Jingyan and he also wanted to go back to sleep.

Zhang Jingyan, who was reading "Basics of Chemistry", didn't even raise his head.

Feng Ke sighed, "Old Five, you go back first. I think I can hold on for a while."

The others didn't even raise their heads.

If you don't have the talent of the class monitor, you have to work harder than the class monitor.

Yao Xinwei didn't want to go back. He really couldn't hold on any longer.

The first thing he did when he returned to the dormitory was to shine the flashlight on Xie Wei's bed, and it was still intact!
"Nima, you really don't want us to live!"

All sleepiness disappeared instantly.

In despair, Yao Xinwei unscrewed the cap of the wine bottle on the table, and without caring that Xie Wei had not come back yet, he pinched a few slices of pork head with his hands, drank two sips of white wine, and let the spiciness of the wine stimulate himself to sober up.

He gritted his teeth, turned around and went back to the study room.

"Didn't you go back to rest? What are you doing here again?"

Looking at Yao Xinwei who had returned, Feng Ke asked.

"The squad leader hasn't come back yet..."

"..."

The corners of the other people's mouths twitched, and their sleepiness disappeared instantly.

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"Hey, there's pig's head and wine!"

Less than two minutes after Yao Xinwei left, Xie Wei returned to the dormitory.

The lights in the dormitory were turned off early.

Through the lights in the corridor, I could vaguely see what was going on inside the dormitory. As soon as I opened the door, the aroma of pork head and white wine entered my nose.

"These guys haven't come back yet? The school has just started, and they are already so noisy? I don't want to hang out with them, I'm going to sleep!"

Xie Wei found that there was no one in the dormitory.

In the 78 years without any nightlife, where else could they go except the all-night study room?
It would be a big deal if we were caught holding hands in the woods at school.

It was late. After Xie Wei washed up in the washroom, he was too sleepy to wash his feet. Anyway, he was not at home and could not hear his mother Liu Mei's scolding.

As my father Xie Jianguo said: Washing feet is not as good as washing bedding.

Xie Rou was even lazier: It was better to turn over the bed than to wash it. Without touching the pork head and wine on the table, Xie Wei climbed onto his upper bunk, and within a few seconds, he began snoring.

At four o'clock in the morning, Zhang Jingyan and his friends finally couldn't bear it anymore.

When he returned to the dormitory and saw Xie Wei coming back, he had no appetite to eat meat or drink. After hastily washing up, he also went to sleep.

But they didn't sleep for long before they were awakened by a scream.

"Fuck, this bastard Xie Wei, is he really going to kill us? He sleeps harder than a dog and wakes up earlier than a chicken? My damn bad mouth has really come true, he is a fucking rooster that never crows!"

It was almost seven o'clock, and Yao Xinwei, feeling the urge to urinate, got up in a daze and went to pee.

Just after I came back from peeing and was about to go back to sleep, I turned my head and saw that I was no longer sleepy: the quilt on the upper bunk bed opposite Xie Wei, who didn't have a mosquito net, was already neatly folded...

When I touched it, the bed was cold.

"Nima..."

"Get up and recite English!"

The eldest brother Zhang Jingyan said with red eyes and gritted teeth, trying to resist sleepiness.

At this moment, Xie Wei, sweating profusely, was running towards the school from the Songhua River.

The times cured his insomnia and his mobile phone addiction.

In this era, you have to go to work on time every day.

Before going to work, I have to review. My biological clock has been formed long ago. No matter how late I go to bed, I will wake up automatically when my mother Liu Mei calls me at the beginning and when the time comes.

Exercising a lot of energy?

As a compliance with national policy, Xie Wei went to school with a salary.

The energy consumed by running five kilometers every day can be kept up intermittently at home. Whether to run or not depends on whether the hens my mother raises lay eggs.

When you go to school, you must insist on physical exercise, otherwise you will not be able to bear it when you are assigned to those lost units after graduation.

The straight-line distance from Harbin Institute of Technology to Songhua River is less than 4 kilometers.

After leaving the school, go directly to Anfa Street, and then follow Anfa Street, which was built in 1910, to the riverside. The actual distance is exactly 5 kilometers.

Don't ask Xie Wei how he knew that.

I went there in person to take my child to register.

The current Anfa Street is somewhat similar to what Xie Wei remembers, except that there are no tall buildings around it, there are not so many vehicles on the street, and there are not many students from Harbin Institute of Technology jogging on the roadside in the morning.

At this stage, after discovering that the original owner was in very poor health, Xie Wei consciously exercised and developed a habit of eating well in the morning, eating full at noon, and eating full at night.

The school’s daily food ration is 1 kilogram per person.

Can't finish it.

I couldn’t finish it!
I found out yesterday that with 2 taels of food coupons and 6 cents per kitchen in the morning, I could have a big bowl of noodles without any whistle and with quite a bit of oil.

Add a boiled egg, 5 cents.

Can't you afford a salary of 55 yuan?

You can’t spend it all, you can’t spend it all.

Along the way, I was wondering how the noodles in Yizao Canteen were, whether they were as delicious as the fried egg noodles cooked by my mother or the dandan noodles, zhazha noodles, and vegetarian pepper noodles sold in the state-owned restaurants in Chengdu.

My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Run 25 kilometers in 5 minutes, exercise for ten minutes, and then run back, which is exactly one hour.

"It's so hot..."

"It's so hot..."

Xie Wei, who was sweating profusely, was still outside the dormitory when he heard the poor English and almost laughed out loud.

Not laughing.

Holding it in.

Nowadays, most schools don’t even have an English teacher.

Some schools offer Russian language courses, but the Russian teachers used to be cleaning toilets.

Before the college entrance examination, those who can recognize all 26 English letters are considered to have a good foundation in English.

Otherwise, the English test would not be excluded from the total score of the college entrance examination, and it might even be omitted.

"Good morning, are you reciting English?"

After adjusting his mood outside the dormitory to make sure he would not laugh, Xie Wei entered the dormitory and greeted his roommates.

Several people widened their eyes when they saw Xie Wei, who was wearing a vest with a red five-pointed star and the words "Serve the People" on his chest and blue shorts, and was sweating all over and emitting white mist.

Damn it, aren’t you going to study?

"Squad leader, are you going for a run?"

Feng Ke couldn't believe it.

"Yeah, exercise in the morning, sweat, and you'll be energetic all day long."

Xie Wei nodded.

After saying that, he took his toiletries and the thermos and left the room.

Li Chuangxin couldn't hold it in any longer: "Only one pound of food a day, more than half of which is coarse grains. If you exercise, won't you starve to death in school?"

"Is the squad leader's family a landlord?"

Tang Long was also speechless.

"Before he entered university, he was a technician. As far as I know, the lowest-level 13th-level technician earns 55 yuan a month..."

Yao Xinwei said faintly.

"..."

Everyone fell silent.

How to compare?
They just want to ask: How can studying on an empty stomach compare with someone who eats meat every meal?
"Oh, guys, there are experiments in the chemistry lab that need help. The subsidy is half a pound of food coupons, 20 cents a day. Are you interested?"

At some point, Xie Wei came back and stuck his head out of the door and asked the silent people in the dormitory.

(End of this chapter)