Reborn in 1977

Chapter 336: A Book for a Jin of Oil

As soon as Zhang Wenliang entered the door, he saw Captain Yang and Chen Fan sitting on the sofa, smoking and chatting.

He walked over with the things he was carrying and said loudly, "Good news, good news! I'm here to deliver good news to you."

As he spoke, he placed the two items on the coffee table, sat down on another armchair, and patted the armrest, "Your furniture here is really good."

Chen Fan took out a Yulan cigarette and handed it to him, smiling, "When you get married, I'll give you a set of this sofa."

Zhang Wenliang shivered immediately, put the cigarette in his mouth, and shook his head repeatedly, "Me, get married? I don't even have a girlfriend. What marriage? Are you crazy?"

Chen Fan and Captain Yang looked at each other and couldn't help but chuckle.

Zhang Wenliang lit the cigarette and looked at them inexplicably, "What are you laughing at?"

Captain Yang immediately pointed at Chen Fan, "I'm laughing because he's laughing."

Chen Fan's expression stiffened slightly, and he glanced over. "I didn't expect you to be that kind of captain?!"

Then he coughed dryly and smiled at Zhang Wenliang, "I'm laughing because fate is a funny thing. You never know when it will come. Maybe your girlfriend is right beside you, but you just haven't realized it yet!"

Hearing this, Captain Yang laughed even harder.

These words were already obvious enough, but he didn't know if Battalion Commander Zhang could guess it.

Zhang Wenliang, however, changed his expression, "That's as good as saying nothing."

Then he pointed to the package on the coffee table, "Hurry up and open it and see what our edited book looks like."

Captain Yang looked at him, "Huh? The book you guys edited? Did you participate too?"

Zhang Wenliang leaned back with a smug look on his face, "Labor is labor, I worked so hard to do the demonstrations, even if my name isn't in the book, you can't say I didn't contribute, right?"

Hearing this, Captain Yang couldn't help but nod slightly and give him a thumbs up, "That makes sense!"

Chen Fan moved the package over, tearing open the packaging while staring at the large jar, "What is this?"

"Oh,"

Zhang Wenliang leaned forward, tapped the ashes into the ceramic ashtray, and said with a smile, "Didn't you publish a book? This is the team's reward for you. We just pressed some rapeseed oil these past two days, so we filled up 10 jin and brought it over."

Chen Fan's eyes lit up immediately, "Newly pressed rapeseed oil? Great, the oil at home is almost gone, so this is perfect to replenish it."

Hearing this, Captain Yang couldn't help but feel exasperated, "You're wasting too much oil! The average quota for city dwellers is only 4 liang a month. You've only eaten half a year's worth of 11 jin of rapeseed oil, and it's almost gone?"

Chen Fan tore off the paper seal little by little, revealing 10 books and an envelope inside. He picked up two books and placed them in front of Zhang Wenliang and Captain Yang respectively, while smiling,

"There are still three or four jin left, isn't this planning ahead? Although it's only been half a year, it happened to be during the New Year, so we used more for frying New Year's goods. The city's quota increases during the New Year too, plus there were a few more people later, so we used a little more oil."

Then he turned to look at Zhang Wenliang, who was picking up a book to read, and smiled, "I've published a book now, isn't 10 jin of oil a little too little?"

Captain Yang decisively remained silent. One of the extra people was his own daughter. When Yang Ju moved in, besides bringing her own rations, Chen Fan provided all the other food. Although Chen Fan voluntarily and actively provided the vegetables and oil, she was still taking advantage, so he naturally couldn't say much.

When Zhang Wenliang heard Chen Fan's words, he couldn't help but turn to look at him, "10 jin of oil is too little? One jin of oil costs 8 mao, 10 jin is 8 kuai. You want more?"

After a pause, he pointed to the book on the coffee table and said, "Okay, I'll make the decision. One book for one jin of oil."

Without saying a word, Chen Fan took back the book from Captain Yang's hand, and together with the book in his hand and the books on the table, he pushed them all in front of Zhang Wenliang, "It's a deal!"

Zhang Wenliang looked at the books in front of him, then raised his head to look at him, "So decisive?"

Chen Fan nodded, "Yeah, you said it, one book for one jin of oil, so why wouldn't I trade?!"

He had already seen that the book was priced at 0.26 yuan, while the price of oil was 0.8 mao. Those with urban household registration used food ration books for quotas, and those who exceeded the quota needed oil coupons.

Using a book worth 2 mao 6 fen to exchange for oil worth 8 mao, even an idiot would know what to choose!

At worst, when the book is released, I'll spend money to buy it back from the Xinhua Bookstore!

As a result, Zhang Wenliang was stunned by him. Did he not care about his own work so much?!

However, after a two or three second pause, when he came back to his senses, he immediately slapped the stack of books, "Okay, it's a deal!"

When he came, Secretary Yang gave him the task of asking for as many sample books as possible. Like last time when "Jiangnan Literature" sent over sample copies, the brigade headquarters only received one copy, and it wasn't even convenient to take it out to show off.

So this time, he must get more copies, at least 6 copies. In addition to keeping one for himself, he must also give one to the commune and the other 4 production teams.

Well, now he's overfulfilled the task, and maybe he can give two copies to the health center and other "friendly units"!

Captain Yang looked at the two of them with a wry smile, "It's clearly a great happy event, but you guys have turned it into a business deal. I haven't even read the book yet."

As he said, he got up and took a book, sat down and continued reading.

The first thing he looked at was naturally the cover. The most eye-catching thing was the title, "Common First Aid Manual for Sudden Injuries and Illnesses", printed on the book cover in two lines.

At the bottom was the line "Edited by the Yunhu District Health Department of Jiangnan Province."

Chen Fan also took a book in his hand and first looked for the list of the editorial board.

However, he couldn't find it.

At this time, he remembered that this era emphasized collectivism first. Even if the work was individual, it would generally not be reflected in the publication information. Only the unit where the person was located would be published.

Thinking of this, Chen Fan couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly.

Well, he was worried that his name would be on it, which would make him too famous, attracting "study groups" from all over the country to come to Lujiawan to learn, or inviting him to give lectures.

After all, this kind of thing was a normal operation in this era. Didn't some commune members who raised pigs well get invited to other communes to give guidance? If his name was really on the book, it would be strange if no one invited him.

But now there was no need to worry. People only knew "Yunhu Health Department", and no one would know him, the small Chen Fan.

But, within the health system, this secret could not be hidden.

Any medical innovation would definitely cause a sensation in the industry. As long as professional medical staff learned the "Airway Foreign Body Removal Method", they would definitely know Chen Fan.

It's just that being famous within the system and being famous outside the system are two different concepts. The latter is going out of the circle, becoming a celebrity in the whole society, while the former represents an "industry expert."

This also has advantages, that is, it can be unknown within the health system, but limit the fame within the system, and will not disturb his life because of "going out of the circle."

Perfect!

He thought it was perfect, but Zhang Wenliang felt embarrassed, "Oh dear, why did they even take a photo? This isn't good."

Chen Fan turned to look at him, unable to resist blinking.

Could the smug expression on your face be any more obvious?!

Captain Yang also saw it at this moment, looking at Zhang Wenliang with a face full of surprise, "Wow, this book really has your part in it!"

Chen Fan's eyes darted slightly, and he opened the book in his hand, immediately recognizing that the demonstration pictures were of Zhang Wenliang and Zhang Juemin themselves.

This should have been taken by the photographer hired by the health department when they were doing teaching guidance at a certain unit before.

He immediately became interested, holding up the book, looking at the photos for a while, and then at Zhang Wenliang, grinning and saying, "Not bad, not bad, they should give the photographer an extra drumstick, he photographed our Company Commander Zhang very handsomely."

Zhang Wenliang tried hard to control his expression, but he couldn't stop smiling, "Don't say that, don't say that, whether I'm handsome or not is secondary, the key is to be able to make a small contribution to the country's health cause, and I'll be satisfied."

Chen Fan couldn't help but laugh out loud.

I didn't expect that I wouldn't become famous, but Zhang Wenliang might have a chance to become famous in the future. When he goes out in the future, maybe someone will point at him and guess if he is so-and-so from that book.

Just thinking about it is interesting.

After a brief look, Zhang Wenliang put the book away, picked it up, and said, "I'll take the book back to the brigade headquarters."

Chen Fan quickly stood up, "What's the rush? You can go back after eating. Anyway, your home is in Team 5, it won't delay anything."

Zhang Wenliang shook his head and walked out, "This is a great happy event for our Lujiawan, we must report it back as soon as possible,"

He turned to look at Chen Fan and smiled, "I'm definitely going to eat this meal, I'll be back after I deliver the book. After all, it was just our speculation before, Secretary Yang and the others are still waiting at the brigade headquarters for a definite result."

Captain Yang was about to say, wouldn't it be enough to make a phone call to the brigade headquarters from his house?

As a result, Zhang Wenliang had already strode out, as if he didn't want to delay for a second.

He turned to look at Chen Fan, and the two couldn't help but smile at each other, both guessing what Zhang Wenliang was thinking.

He can't wait to go back and show off!

Before Zhang Wenliang returned, the loudspeaker broadcasting the county's news suddenly emitted a burst of noise, followed by Zhang Cuie's broadcasting voice, "Attention, comrades, attention, comrades. Now, a temporary message is being inserted, now, a temporary message is being inserted. Great news, great news, the 'Handbook of First Aid for Common Sudden Injuries and Illnesses' written by Teacher Chen Fan, a member of our team, has been officially published by Yunhu Health Publishing House..."

Zhang Cuie's voice echoed in the sky above Lujiawan, and almost everyone looked up in the direction of the loudspeaker, listening attentively.

The message was broadcast 3 times in a row.

When the broadcast ended, the entire Lujiawan suddenly boiled over.

"Teacher Chen has published another book! Last time he wrote an article that was published, and this time he created medical skills that are being published. Amazing!"

"I said it when he went to the prefectural committee last time, Teacher Chen is the reincarnation of the Star of Literature. See, he's published another book."

"But this time it's a medical book, what does it have to do with the Star of Literature?"

"What do you mean it has nothing to do with it? They're both books! As long as it's a book, it has something to do with it!"

"You can't say that, there's still a difference between medical books and articles. I'd say it's because Teacher Chen himself is willing to learn and work hard. I heard that he's only been studying medicine for less than half a year, and he can publish a medical book. What does that say?"

"What?"

"It shows that Teacher Chen is smart!"

"Tch, did you need to say that?!"

...

Just when everyone in Lujiawan was discussing and praising, Secretary Yang and Captain Zhang also rode their bicycles straight to the commune government.

They had lived in Nanhutun for decades and were the helmsmen of Lujiawan. In addition, Lujiawan had been in the limelight a lot in the past six months, so naturally there were people who knew them. When these people saw them, of course they had to say hello.

"Secretary Yang, where are you busy going?"

Secretary Yang was already riding slowly, and when he heard someone say hello, he immediately stopped, propping one leg on the ground, and laughed, "Isn't this because the book that Teacher Chen went to the prefectural committee health department to guide the compilation of has come out? I'm going to send a sample book to Secretary Qian of the commune."

Captain Zhang was not to be outdone, smiling and saying, "Teacher Chen is responsible for overall planning, and Zhang Juemin and Zhang Wenliang from our team also helped a little, but the photographer from the health department took pictures and printed them in the book. Look at the trouble this caused. Teacher Chen didn't even get his name on it, but they put people on it, taking advantage for nothing."

A group of people immediately crowded around.

"Oh dear, the book that Teacher Chen went to the prefectural committee to teach them to compile last time is out? Where is it? Can we take a look?"

"There are also photos of people from your team? Isn't that like getting a lot of free photos?"

Secretary Yang naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity to show off. He immediately took out a sample book, opened it, and held it up for everyone to see, "See, the two demonstrators are Zhang Juemin and Zhang Wenliang from our team. They were just going along to do odd jobs at the time."

"I know, I know, they went together at the time, I saw them get on the bus at the station."

"Is what's written in this book true? If something is stuck in your throat, can you just hug and shake it a few times like this?"

Hearing someone question, someone next to him immediately said, "Haven't you heard? Teacher Chen saved someone using this method. If it didn't work, would the prefectural committee health department have invited Teacher Chen to guide the writing of the book?"

That person immediately smiled sheepishly, "I'm not doubting, I just think it's too simple."

Then he quickly said, "But it's already been published, so it must be true."

Someone wanted to reach out and take it, but Secretary Yang quickly retracted the book with a whoosh and stuffed it into his bag, then waved his hand to shoo people away, "You can't touch this, this is a sample book, it's going to be sent to Secretary Qian as a souvenir. If you want to see it, go to the bookstore and buy it yourself."

After saying that, he directly pedaled his bicycle and sped out, with Captain Zhang closely following behind, heading straight for the commune government compound.

There were still people discussing behind them, "Are they selling it in the bookstore now?"

"The sample book has only just been sent, it shouldn't be that fast, right?"

"Who cares, we'll know if we go to the bookstore to take a look. If they don't have it, we'll suggest that they stock it."

"That's right, I definitely want to buy a copy of this book."

"I also took a look just now, it talks about first aid methods for some common emergencies. No one can guarantee a lifetime of peace, it's better to master some first aid knowledge."

"That's right, that's right, let's go together."

A group of people talked and walked towards the Xinhua Bookstore, and the further they went, the more people there were. The news that Teacher Chen had published a book also quickly spread throughout Nanhuzhen.