Reborn in 1977

Chapter 365: It Has to Be You

The next day, at 8:00 AM, Chen Fan leisurely finished his breakfast in the guest house cafeteria and walked through the internal passage to enter the internal cafeteria of the Yunhu Health Department.

As soon as he arrived, people recognized him and greeted him one after another.

"Teacher Chen, good morning! When did you arrive?"

"Teacher Chen is in Yunhu! Let's have a drink together tonight."

"You're really keeping secrets well. There was no news at all from the unit that you were coming. Is there another major task?"

Chen Fan smiled and waved back to each of them, "Morning, morning, morning. Forget about drinking. I'm afraid you'll get drunk, and my sister-in-law won't let you in the door. No, no, there's no task at all. It's just a small matter. I came to discuss it with Section Chief Yan and Sister Zhou. Are they in? Section Chief Yan is on a business trip? Sister Zhou is in? Okay, okay, I'll go myself…"

Speaking as he walked, he passed through the Health Department's back garden and went straight into the office building. Chen Fan's raised hand never came down.

It was not easy to get to the Political Work Office. The door was wide open, and several young women were chattering inside.

Chen Fan walked to the door, knocked gently, and said with a smile, "Comrades, good morning."

The office suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked towards the door.

The next second, a scream rang out.

Two women in their thirties rushed over with open arms, "Oh, Little Chen, long time no see!"

Chen Fan was so frightened that he raised his hands, "Sister Qin, Sister Yu, don't scare me. I'm scared."

A girl in her twenties blushed and shouted, "Little brother, come over here quickly. I'll protect you."

A girl next to her spat, "Who can you protect with your small body?"

Saying that, she waved directly to Chen Fan, "Little Fan, come here to me."

Section Chief Zhou, who heard the commotion from the inner office, came out and saw Chen Fan being pulled into the office by Sister Qin and Sister Yu. She immediately shouted loudly, "Sisters, close the door! Don't let him run away. We must make him take one of us away today!"

The office immediately burst into laughter.

People in the other offices around heard the commotion and shook their heads and sighed with laughter, the world is going downhill, and people's hearts are not what they used to be!

Chen Fan was pulled into the door by Sister Qin, and Sister Yu slammed the door shut, but he was not afraid at all.

The first time he encountered them like this, he was a little flustered, but now he was used to it.

Don't say that people are conservative these days. The aunts in the countryside make jokes that even the old men blush. The women in the city units are no different. Those who are not married are a little better, but those who are married, especially those with children, can be considered "tough."

Unfortunately, there was more than one "tough" sister-in-law in this office.

Fortunately, they were just talking a big game, and no one would really take action. In some factories, there were female workers who dared to strip male workers' clothes, which was not called tough, that was really fierce!

After a burst of laughter, Chen Fan took out some small things from his backpack and distributed them to everyone one by one, "Sisters, these are small trinkets I carved myself, especially brought to you as souvenirs."

Everyone took them and marveled at them in their hands.

Sister Qin looked at Chen Fan and said, "You can also carve?"

Sister Yu's eyes were shining, "It's carved too realistically!"

Chen Fan chuckled and said, "Actually, it's nothing. Many people in the countryside know a little carpentry. Carving is similar. You'll get it after practicing more."

Anyway, once he left Nanhugong Commune, few people knew his origin, so he could brag as he pleased.

But then again, there were really many carving masters all over the country these days, and many of them were indeed from carpenter backgrounds. Some excellent carpenters' works could even be exported to earn foreign exchange.

(In the 1970s, the Dunhua Forestry Bureau in Jilin exported Roman warrior wood carvings to Europe)

Chen Fan followed Master Lu Si to learn seal carving. At the beginning, Master Si asked him to practice knife skills with wood first. When he could calmly use the knife on wood, he would practice with stone, so as to progress gradually.

But he didn't expect that Chen Fan, in addition to learning metal and stone skills from him, was also a carpenter who was very familiar with wood. Then, he was also a "kung fu master." The first kung fu he learned was Xingyi Five Elements Knife.

At the beginning, in the freezing cold weather, he used the Five Elements Knife to cut down the miscellaneous woods behind the educated youth courtyard, and smoothly brushed the knife technique to be used freely. Now, he has already reached perfection. Whether it is a big knife, a small knife, a long knife, or a short knife, he can use it freely and easily in his hands.

So, in order to increase the difficulty a little, when practicing the knife, he held the carving books he found from the pile of old books and practiced the carving knife techniques little by little according to the knowledge in the books.

Finally, it took him a week to brush the carving skills to LV5 master level.

This time, he came to the prefectural committee to register for the correspondence university, and it was natural to run some business for Lujiawan. Since he wanted to run business, he had to come to the Health Department, and since he wanted to come to the Health Department, he had to bring some local specialties.

He was reluctant to bring expensive ones, and he couldn't afford to bring cheap ones, so he packed all the small trinkets he had carved before. More than 20 small things the size of chicken eggs added up to only a small bag.

Now it seems that the effect is quite good.

Using a pile of small brain tigers, small prostrate foxes, big flying wolves, big lion jis, small fierce xus… to send these sisters away, Chen Fan wiped the sweat from his forehead and entered the small office inside under the greeting of Sister Zhou.

Sister Zhou is the director of the Political Work Section and the director of the office. On the one hand, she grasps ideology, and on the other hand, she grasps logistics. In the logistics area, she can be said to have absolute power.

If you want to sell live poultry, it must be right to find her.

Turning on the electric fan and serving a cup of hot tea, Sister Zhou sat behind her desk, looked at Chen Fan and smiled, "You came here suddenly today. Did you just come to see us, or do you have something to do?"

Chen Fan said with a smile, "Both, I guess. On the one hand, I came to see you, and on the other hand, I really have something to do."

Sister Zhou rolled her eyes at him, picked up her teacup and took a sip, and said, "Although you didn't agree to Deputy Director Hao to come to work, everyone in our department, up and down, didn't treat you as an outsider. Just say what you have to say, don't be like those people who run relationships and hesitate."

Chen Fan chuckled and said, "What I said is true."

After a pause, he explained the things he wanted to do in the prefectural committee this time, and finally said, "Now that I have registered, I just came to find Sister Zhou to discuss whether I can purchase some chickens, ducks, and geese from Lujiawan."

Sister Zhou nodded without saying a word, "Okay, even the health systems of Guifeng County and Shuanghe County have ordered your goods. Our prefectural committee system will definitely not be left behind. I'll have someone contact the units below and ask them to report a quantity. I guarantee I won't hold you back."

After a pause, she directly skipped this topic, looked at Chen Fan with a smile, "You refused to come to the Health Department to work last time, but now you ran to register for a correspondence university. Why, do you look down on our Health Department and want to go to other better units?"

Chen Fan shook his head immediately, "No, how could I? Sister Zhou, don't slander me out of thin air. Didn't I just say that I registered for a literature major?"

"Oh,"

Sister Zhou nodded suddenly, "Then it can better explain that I didn't guess wrong. Sure enough, every young person has a literary dream in their heart. You want to enter the Provincial Writers Association, or a newspaper publishing unit."

Chen Fan looked at her speechlessly, and decisively gave up treatment.

Seeing his appearance, Sister Zhou couldn't help but giggle.

After laughing, she put away her smile, looked at him and asked, "Okay, I believe you want to take root in the countryside, so will you find a rural daughter-in-law to start a family in the future?"

The corners of Chen Fan's mouth twitched slightly. Why is it either talking about work or talking about daughter-in-law? Can't we talk about something normal?

He shook his head and smiled, "I haven't thought so much yet. The key is to see if the person is suitable. If I like it, a rural daughter-in-law is also very good. If I don't like it, even if it is the children of a cadre family in a big city, I don't want to climb high."

Hearing this, Sister Zhou sighed slightly in her heart, "This is the idealistic thinking of young people. When you grow up, you will know that finding a wife with a good family background and quality is very important for family life."

She looked up at Chen Fan and said seriously, "I'm not kidding you. The girls in our department are all top-notch. No matter inside or outside the unit, they don't know how popular they are. If you really have the heart, I'll be your matchmaker and guarantee you won't regret it."

Chen Fan weakly raised his hands, "Sister Zhou, I'm not even 17 years old yet. I'm still a child. Please let me go."

"Bullshit."

Sister Zhou scoffed, "Don't even mention the countryside, there are plenty of people in the city who hold wedding banquets at 17 or 18. Don't use age as an excuse, I think you're just trying to fool me."

Chen Fan's eyes twitched slightly, and he was about to explain, but Sister Zhou waved her hand, "Forget it, I can't be bothered to argue with you."

Then she slapped the table and shouted loudly, "Xiao Ling, come in."

The girl who had been clamoring to protect Chen Fan earlier pushed the door open and entered, "Sister Zhou, what's the matter?"

Sister Zhou raised her head and said, "Go and tell the guest house to prepare a reception meal according to first-class standards."

As she spoke, she pointed at Chen Fan and said, gnashing her teeth, "This kid doesn't know what's good for him, it's up to you guys at noon, get him drunk for me!"

Xiao Ling covered her mouth and giggled a few times, but when she understood what Sister Zhou meant, a hint of gloom appeared in her eyes, and she forced a smile, "Oh, then I'll go and inform them."

With that, she turned and walked out.

Now, Sister Zhou was a VIP customer to Chen Fan, and since a VIP customer wanted to drink, he naturally had to accompany her.

So, he had originally planned to leave after discussing business, but now he had to postpone his return by another day.

… …

August 21st, Sunday.

Chen Fan returned to Lujiawan after a long journey by car.

In the brigade office, Secretary Yang held the correspondence university admission notice and read it carefully, holding it up to his face.

Captain Zhang next to him kept glancing at it, but his face was quite dissatisfied, "It's just a few lines of words, less than 50 in total, and you've been reading it for almost half an hour, is it necessary?"

Secretary Yang wasn't angry and said without looking up, "Hmph, I've never seen what a university admission notice looks like in my life, what's wrong with looking at it a little longer?"

(The correspondence admission notice really has less than 50 words in total)

Seeing that Secretary Yang was so straightforward, Captain Zhang had no choice but to continue waiting.

Next to them, An Quan, Ye Shubao, Xiao Liewen, Zhang Wenliang, and Yang Xingxiu divided up Chen Fan's correspondence textbooks, each holding a book to read.

After a while, Zhang Wenliang covered his eyes and groaned, "Mom, I can't take it, my eyes are going to go blind."

Yang Xingxiu glared at him and gently snatched the book from his hand, "If you're going blind, don't read it!"

Then, holding the book, she frowned and said with a troubled expression, "I recognize all these words, but why can't I understand them when they're put together?"

Ye Shubao lit a cigarette and said while smoking, "Don't say you can't understand it, I can't understand it either."

An Quan looked at him in confusion, "Xingxiu seems to have graduated from senior primary school, you only attended the literacy class, are you even better than her?"

Ye Shubao's face stiffened slightly, he coughed dryly, and returned to his seat, "Haven't I been learning by reading so many documents?"

Xiao Liewen glanced at him, "If you don't understand, you don't understand, what's wrong with coming from a literacy class, our old company commander also came from a literacy class, it's not embarrassing."

Ye Shubao sighed lightly, it wasn't embarrassing to come from a literacy class, but compared to a senior primary school graduate, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

An Quan put down the book, shook his head and sighed, "I'm also a proper high school graduate, the textbooks we learned back then were much more difficult than the current high school textbooks, but reading these university textbooks still gives me a headache."

He said, turning his head to look at Chen Fan, "Don't laugh at me, I really thought about applying for a literature major before, but after reading your books, I realized that this literature major is really not something I can handle."

Chen Fan raised his head and smiled, "Everyone has their own strengths, although you're not sensitive to literature, you have a good talent in mathematics, and accounting is also your old profession. If you work hard in these professional directions, you still have a lot of hope."

An Quan nodded thoughtfully, "That makes sense."

Then, he spread his hands and smiled helplessly, "It's a pity, I don't have any confidence in the special recruitment exam you mentioned. Even if I want to go to university, I can only wait for next year's enrollment."

Chen Fan smiled slightly as he listened.

Next year?

Hmph hmph, you'll be working hard in just two months!

After a pause, he thought for a moment, and still said, "Brother An, my suggestion is that you should study that set of 'Self-Study Series of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry' carefully. If I'm not mistaken, the Xinhua Bookstore in the prefectural committee should still have this set of books for sale. When we go to the prefectural committee to deliver goods in a few days, I suggest you go with us and buy a set of books back.

Even if it's for applying to a correspondence university next year, you have to prepare in advance. To put it bluntly, you're already 27 or 28, approaching 30, and you still have to work. Your energy, attention, and memory will soon enter a period of decline. If you don't start studying in advance, even if you apply to a correspondence university in the future, you will find it very difficult to study."

After listening to his words, An Quan frowned and pondered. After a few seconds, he said, "Let me think about it. I really need to consider this carefully."

At this time, Secretary Yang raised his head, handed the admission notice to Captain Zhang, who had been longing for it, and said to An Quan, "What's there to think about? You've been stationed in Lujiawan this year, and your performance in all aspects has been very outstanding. The rice harvest has been a bumper one. Lujiawan has never harvested so much grain before."

An Quan smiled modestly, "It's also because the weather has been good this year, and we used hybrid rice seeds. It's purely good luck."

Secretary Yang glared at him unhappily, "Am I praising you? I'm saying that you don't need to worry about anything in all aspects. Now the late rice has also grown up, and looking at the seedlings, you can tell that they are growing very well, just like the early rice.

The breeding farm run by our production team is also gradually getting on the right track under your and Lao Ye's efforts, and now even the sales channels have been solved.

You don't need to focus all your attention on production like you did in the first half of the year. Take advantage of this time while you're still stationed in Lujiawan and not so busy, and think more about your own affairs.

Xiao Chen is right, if you want to improve, you can't stagnate in terms of education. Even Xiao Chen can work hard and make progress, why can't you try harder?"

Chen Fan touched his head, feeling that these words sounded a bit strange.

Why can't I work hard and make progress?

However, An Quan did take Secretary Yang's words to heart. He pondered for two seconds and looked at Chen Fan, "Okay, then when we go to the prefectural committee to deliver goods in a few days, I'll go with you and buy that set of books back."

After a pause, he quickly added, "But if there's anything I don't understand, you have to give me some guidance."

Before Chen Fan could nod, Yang Xingxiu laughed from the side, "You can attend classes with the students in our study group. Xiao'e is giving lectures very well now, all the students can understand, and they are making rapid progress. They have already finished the first volume. Any of the twenty-odd people in our study group can be asked for help."

As a result, An Quan rolled his eyes, "Forget it, I can't afford to lose face by asking those youngsters to teach me."

Hearing this, Yang Xingxiu was slightly stunned and pointed at Chen Fan, "Isn't he also a youngster?"

Chen Fan immediately sat upright, Yes, I'm still a child.

Secretary Yang and the others all looked at Chen Fan, and after a few seconds, they shook their heads together.

An Quan smacked his lips and sighed, "Honestly, who would think of Chen Fan as a child, he's such a monster?"

Zhang Wenliang almost shook his head off. If Chen Fan wasn't an adult yet, then he was already in his early twenties, several years older than Chen Fan.

Looking at the achievements of the two, comparing people is just infuriating!

Most importantly, Chen Fan, except for when he gets new things, like a hunting rifle or a new belt, when he acts like a show-off, his habits and conversation are much more mature than his peers, making people subconsciously ignore his age. No one really sees him as a youngster.

After chatting, all the textbooks were reassembled and returned to Chen Fan, of course, including the admission notice that had been passed around.

Watching Chen Fan pack up his things, An Quan coughed dryly and said to him, "We haven't been idle these past two days while you were gone. Now let me report to you on the progress of our work, and these two tasks require you."

Chen Fan retied the books with rope, looking at him intently, "I know one is to select people to go to the county to work in the cooked food workshop, and also to teach them how to make cooked food. What's the other one?"

A few days ago, they found a courtyard in the county to use as a workshop, and there were also 3 storefronts, which they planned to use as business venues.

These places need to be simply renovated before they can be used. At the same time, he also needs to train the workers in the cooked food workshop. Only by taking multiple measures can he ensure that the cooked food store opens normally as soon as possible.

Besides this, what else requires Teacher Chen to take action?