A courtyard house, equipped with a fishing system, living in an era.

Old Li and Old Yang had been eating Xu Ping'an's food for a long time and were used to it, so they didn't find it particularly amazing.

However, the junior leaders at the Mentougou Coal Mine all looked pleasantly surprised.

"Hey? Director Yang, your factory has changed cooks?"

This question left Director Yang momentarily stunned, and he looked at Li Huaide with a puzzled expression.

Wang Jianxing, who was standing nearby, quickly spoke up to respond.

"No, it's still Chef Xu who's in charge of cooking."

"It's the same young man who cooked for us before the New Year. Not bad, you've improved a lot!"

This exclamation left Li Huaide and Factory Director Yang looking at each other in bewilderment.

It's just like a child growing taller; if you see them every day, you won't notice any signs of them growing taller.

But if you don't see them for a while, they seem like completely different people.

As the main energy supplier for steel rolling mills, coal mines can be said to control the lifeline of steel rolling mills.

So this is the third time they've come to eat here this year.

However, the first two meals were before the New Year, since it was the end of the year and I often went into the city to buy things, so I needed a place to eat.

Although there is a meal allowance for business trips, wouldn't it be better to save the money and come to another company's office for a free meal?

"Has there been significant improvement?"

"You guys eat well every day, you can't even tell anymore. We've been eating dirt in the mines every day, I thought I'd stumbled into a luxury restaurant!"

"Director Yuan, you flatter me..."

Director Yuan laughed and turned to ask Factory Director Yang.

"Would it be convenient to invite Comrade Xiao Xu over? I need to toast him with a drink."

"Convenient, of course it's convenient!"

As he spoke, he looked at Wang Jianxing.

"Old Wang, go and call Comrade Xu Ping'an over..."

Wang Jianxing didn't move, but immediately looked at Li Huaide.

Li Huaide smiled slightly and nodded.

Factory Director Yang almost lost his smile, glancing at Director Yuan out of the corner of his eye, but refrained from making a scene in front of the guests.

Xu Pingan is now quite adept at toasting guests.

We not only drank together, but also ate together!

Most of the time, unless we're discussing something confidential, after inviting everyone over for a drink, we'll all sit down at a table for a meal.

After all, we've already invited them here, we can't just send them away now, can we?

It's not like we're treating each other to a meal at a restaurant.

For an average person, having dinner with their boss might feel awkward!

But ever since he started using cheat codes, Xu Ping'an's mentality has become exceptionally good...

Workers, you're the owners of the factory too!

Whether others believe it or not, Xu Pingan himself believes it.

He had a strong sense of ownership; as soon as Li Huaide invited him to sit down, he readily accepted the invitation…

The meal seemed rather bland and unappetizing to Director Yang.

Xu Pingan was a little surprised. Could it be that his cooking skills had deteriorated?

I tried all the dishes one by one, and they were fantastic, absolutely delicious...

If I can't figure it out, I'll just stop thinking about it.

Let's eat!

After that meal, Xu Pingan became even busier.

After all, he was going to attend a night school literacy class.

After getting off work in the evening, I took a walk around and told my two younger sisters about my new plans...

"Brother, are you going to class too? I'll teach you!"

"Do I need you to teach me? You should study hard yourself, and read more books during the summer vacation so you won't fall behind in third grade!"

Although Xu Pingan had forgotten most of the knowledge he learned in his youth.

But where does the foundation of a bachelor's degree graduate really lie?

Literacy, in general, doesn't require someone to teach you.

Although he can read those traditional Chinese characters but can't write them, doesn't that fit his "illiterate" characteristic even more?

Taking a visit to a night school literacy class now will make things much easier for you in the future!

"Brother, I have excellent grades. I'll go to university and become the first college student in the Xu family!"

At this point, Xu Lian looked up at her elder brother and gave him a fawning smile.

"Brother, you'll support me, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"Go to university!"

Xu Pingan understood her concerns. In this era of male chauvinism, many girls only knew how to read and write...

"Go ahead and study. If you have the ability, I can even support you to get into graduate school."

"Bro, what's a graduate student?"

Xu Ping'an was taken aback by the question; he had assumed Xu Lian knew everything...

But are there graduate students these days? Surely there's more than just undergraduate degrees?

Xu Pingan chuckled, changed the subject, picked up his paper, pen, and notebook, and went out.

"You two eat at home by yourselves, I'll be back later."

As I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I ran into Yan Bugui, who was watering the flowers.

"Going out for a walk in peace?"

"Why are you taking a walk?"

Xu Pingan shook the stationery in his hand.

"Dude, I'm going to a night school literacy class!"

"Hey, you're so disrespectful! Who do you think you are? You're a year younger than my Jiecheng."

Xu Ping'an felt helpless. He noticed that Yan Bugui started trembling again after learning that he would be Xu Lian's teacher next year.

Xu Pingan glanced at his flowers and gave him a threatening look, which finally calmed him down.

"Go ahead, it'll do you good to read some books, at least you'll know a few words!"

After getting past Yan Bugui, Xu Pingan rolled his eyes.

How many words do you recognize?

Don't rush, once the night school starts enrolling students, I'll definitely get a university degree!

Of course, Xu Ping'an is only making empty threats for now; the rest will depend on the specific circumstances.

Three days later, Xu Pingan was "forced" to reach his first deal with the steel rolling mill!

"My friend said he wants 10,000 each..."

Wang Jianxing remained noncommittal: "And what about you?"

"I want a thousand..."

"Ahem... Okay, if anyone asks, just say they were sold for 13,000 each!"

Xu Pingan shrank his neck.

"Anyone else asking?"

"...I just wanted to let you know what's going on!"

"Okay, I understand!"

……

After attending a night school literacy class, Xu Ping'an's Space Hut project was officially suspended.

From June to September, all that was done was lay the foundation.

Of course, the foundation was laid using bricks from the city wall.

For Xu Pingan now, reinforced concrete is still too high-end.

The country now has it, but Xu Pingan can't get his hands on it!

Around the small hut that Xu Pingan had chosen, saplings were already sprouting from the ground.

These are the planting techniques he learned during his spare time at the Changping Fruit Tree Guidance Station...

The staff here work with fruit trees year-round and are very open about their planting techniques.

When he went to learn how to plant fruit trees, the experienced instructor at the training center also taught him some traditional methods for pruning and grafting fruit trees...

And how to use traditional methods to produce fertilizer from manure...

For Xu Pingan, this technology was somewhat of a dilemma – neither particularly useful nor worth abandoning.

Because the orchard he designated was too close to his hut.

If manure were actually used as fertilizer, the smell would be unimaginable...

Why didn't Xu Ping'an want to stay in the space when he only had one acre of land?

Because the smell of chicken manure and pig excrement was too strong.

He would either find a place to dig a deep hole and bury it, or simply dump it outside...

Now that they finally have more space, Xu Ping'an has arranged the ranch far away, and now he wants to use manure around the cabin?

But despite his thoughts, he still studied diligently when it was time to learn...

However, in the end, Xu Pingan still used it.

After all, his little house wasn't even in the making yet, but the fruit trees had already started growing...

On September 1st, when his two younger sisters started school, Xu Ping'an finally received the "literacy graduation certificate" issued by the factory's literacy class.

From now on, Xu Ping'an is also a person with an academic certificate!

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