Reborn in 1977

After arranging things for Huang Ying and the other two, as long as they didn't cause any other problems, the home could be considered settled.

Chen Fan looked at the time; it was just past 12 o'clock, so he lay down for a nap.

He woke up refreshed and went to the brigade headquarters with his things.

He wasn't going to work, but first to wish Secretary Yang, Yang Xingxiu, and Team Leader Ye a Happy New Year.

As usual, he gave each of them a set of pottery, both beautiful and practical, and in return, received orders for four charcoal stoves.

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The following days were monotonous and dull.

After getting up in the morning, the four female comrades would already have prepared breakfast. Chen Fan only needed to eat; after finishing, he would go to work without even having to wash the dishes.

When he arrived at the brigade headquarters, it wasn't even 6:30. He would first practice his boxing, footwork, and swordsmanship for half an hour, waiting for work to officially begin.

At seven o'clock sharp, he would start the broadcast and then go to the front yard to teach the veterinary class.

The horse whip given by an unknown parent hung next to the blackboard. He had never used it, mainly because he didn't need to. These students were so well-behaved that he couldn't even bear to speak harshly to them, let alone hit them.

The teaching format was generally to briefly explain the key points first, and then let everyone read and study on their own, with unclear points to be discussed among themselves.

After assigning the self-study content, it wasn't even 7:30 yet. Chen Fan would return to the broadcasting station to do his own things.

This mainly involved practicing stances while shaking the spear, practicing stances while holding the gun, practicing stances while reading, and practicing stances while practicing calligraphy.

At 9 o'clock, he would turn off the broadcast and get off work.

Sometimes, Zhang Cuie would run over to ask him about difficult problems in her studies.

Chen Fan would generally spend about half an hour explaining to her, which was equivalent to delaying his quitting time by half an hour.

However, Zhang Cuie would never come empty-handed. Sometimes it would be one egg, sometimes two pieces of rice candy, sometimes two baked sweet potatoes, and at the very least a lotus leaf-wrapped assorted rice ball…

Just right for Chen Fan to have a morning tea.

Returning to the educated youth spot, if early, it wouldn't be 9:30, and if late, it still wouldn't be 10 o'clock. Since he had just had morning tea, he wouldn't eat lunch at this time, and would instead busy himself with his own affairs.

Such as leading a few female comrades to make pottery blanks, leading a few female comrades to chop firewood and burn charcoal, leading a few female comrades to dig soil in the back to make adobe bricks, leading a few female comrades to chop firewood and clear the homestead…

It wasn't that he wanted to lead them.

No matter what he did, there would always be at least two girls following him to help.

At first, he told them to go back and study, but they said that Teacher Chen taught them to combine work with rest. When Teacher Chen was not around, they were always studying. Only when Teacher Chen returned would they follow along and work together.

After checking, Teacher Chen found that this was indeed the case, and was left speechless, able only to silently accept it.

To be honest, he felt very awkward at first, but it only took less than a week to get used to the days of directing people.

"Xiaoju, bring me the axe."

"Xiaodan, dig that pit a little bigger."

"Xiaoying, add a little more water to the soil."

"Xiaojiang, have some water."

That was about it.

After busying themselves for two hours, the female comrades would have prepared lunch.

He only needed to wash his hands and eat.

After lunch, he would take a nap, and at 1:30 in the afternoon, he would go to work at the brigade headquarters.

Since it wasn't time to work yet, he could do his own things again, reading books, writing, practicing his spear, gradually increasing his experience points, feeling quite fulfilled.

At 4 o'clock, after finishing the broadcast, he would go to the front yard to teach the students in the veterinary class.

At this time, the main thing was to answer the questions assigned in the morning. If there was extra time, he would also explain some practical cases, or directly borrow some livestock from Team Five and hold practical lessons in the yard.

The main focus was on combining theory with practice.

At 5 o'clock, after getting off work, he would return home and start a kiln, either with dried pottery blanks or charcoal.

He also followed the process in "Indigenous Brick and Tile Sintering" and fired several kilns of bricks.

It's just that he wanted to fire blue bricks, but what came out were blue bricks, red bricks, blue-red bricks, and black bricks.

The black bricks were the damaged bricks, which could only be used as flooring at the bottom of the kiln.

But what he fired the most were still pottery.

Because charcoal stoves had become the "best-selling product" of the Lujiawan Production Team. Lujiawan had a great harvest last year, and most of the commune members' families received a bonus and had a surplus of grain, so basically they were not short of money.

When the commune members saw that the leaders of the brigade headquarters were using charcoal stoves that could be used for heating, boiling water, cooking, and stir-frying, most of those who could afford it were somewhat tempted.

When they heard that it was free and any agricultural product could be exchanged, the temptation turned into action.

So Chen Fan received a large number of orders, not only for charcoal stoves, but also for teapots, wine pots, rice bowls, soup bowls… to the point that the original kiln pit had more than doubled in volume.

As a result, there were so many things in his room that they couldn't be stacked anymore: white rice, golden millet, bags of sweet potatoes, strips of cured meat and fish sausage, baskets full of eggs, crowing roosters in the yard, quacking ducks, and even a few large white geese.

However, the big white geese always liked to bully the two little dogs, Duoduo and Qiuqiu, so Chen Fan used the kiln to make roasted goose, and Jiang Lili ate half a bowl less rice that night.

If it weren't for his adherence to the principle of only accepting equivalent materials and not accepting money, he would probably have exceeded 600 yuan in wealth and become the richest man in Team 6 of Lujiawan!

Of course, not counting fixed assets, so he always insisted on being proud of being a proletarian, so he was a rich man.

If he didn't fire the kiln, he would take his fishing rod to the river to fish.

After slowly recalling the fishing skills he learned before crossing over, and then combining them with on-site practice, he also successfully activated the "fishing and hunting" skill.

So every time he fished, he would have a lot of harvest, and these fish were also the main dishes they ate every day.

Most importantly, he could gain experience points.

Chen Fan especially liked this skill. He was also thinking that when spring came and the flowers bloomed, he would find a rabbit's nest in the wild and try to catch a few litters of rabbits back, so that he could run a rabbit farm.

Then he would encourage the brigade headquarters to run a collective sideline breeding farm and sell all the rabbits to the brigade headquarters.

Private individuals cannot do business with each other, but the collective can spend money to purchase personal property. At that time, selling a rabbit for 1 yuan would earn him several hundred yuan.

You should know that rabbits can give birth to a litter every two months, and a litter can have up to 15 rabbits. Even if you count 10, and then discount half for female rabbits, that is, it increases by at least 5 times every two months. It only takes half a year for a litter of 10 rabbits to become 750 rabbits.

The actual number will only be higher, not lower. Moreover, a rabbit is worth more than one yuan no matter what, so this business can earn him at least a thousand yuan!

After finishing the kiln or fishing, after eating dinner, it was time for study.

He was not just perfunctorily asking the girls to study cultural knowledge.

Although he really wanted to perfunctorily, he couldn't be too obvious. He should always do something practical.

So after eating dinner and washing up, they would gather in the reception room, which had been converted into a classroom, waiting to listen to Jiang Lili's class.

Ahem, mainly Chen Fan would guide Jiang Lili, and then Jiang Lili would guide Huang Ying and the other two in middle school knowledge. This was called making rational use of resources.

Everyone was studying in the "classroom" and not arranged in the rooms, so they were not afraid of being seen and gossiped about.

They studied from 8 o'clock until 10 o'clock in the evening before returning to their rooms to sleep.

The next day, they would repeat the same thing.

Therefore, such days were really monotonous and dull.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.

Half a month had passed, the ice and snow on the ground had melted, and the ground was also dry. Chen Fan took the opportunity to go to work and took the pony out for a walk.