Chapter 3 The impoverished Chen family
The silly sister hurried out and went out to work.
There were only three people left at home, and they could only take out their own textbooks.
For the three students, summer vacation is the most boring. These days, there are no mobile phones or TVs. Even the radio at the entrance of the village is played in time to save electricity.
Chen Qi was full of sweet potatoes and took out his complete set of medical school textbooks to look at them.
At the end of the summer vacation, he will be in the fourth grade of the medical class, which is also the last year of the medical school.
These days, the secondary technical secondary school and medical schools are all in a four-year system. After the summer vacation, they will be able to graduate after the first half of the year.
Chen Qi graduated from a master's degree in his previous life and was studying for a doctorate. He has a rich medical theory knowledge. As for the clinical level, after surgery in Xinhua Hospital over the years, there is basically no problem with surgery.
However, the textbooks in 1981 are definitely different from those in 2022. If Chen Qi wants to integrate into this era, he must be prepared in advance.
Basic courses such as Systematic Anatomy, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Pathology, Pathophysiology, Diagnostics, Pharmacology, etc. that have been studied in the first three years of the health school.
Chen Qi, after repeating it roughly, he felt confident.
The general direction of knowledge is still similar, but the knowledge points in 1981 are relatively rough and simple, and of course they are better to remember.
"Pharmaciology" is a bit difficult because the use of medicines in this era is much different from that in later generations. Many drugs were eliminated later, and Chen Qi had never used them and had no relevant experience.
However, the difficulty of memory is not very high. After all, the general direction is still the same. It was just that later generations used upgraded versions of the drugs, and the pharmacological basis was the same.
As for cultural courses such as "Mathematics" and "English" that need to be learned in technical secondary schools, it is even simpler for Chen Qi.
Especially in English, he passed the CET-6 exam in his previous life. Not to mention that he is comparable to professional translation talents, but at least he is more than enough to beat a technical secondary school student.
Chen Qi was completely relieved now and was not afraid of revealing the situation after school started. For him, the only problem was to "keep a little bit" and not even know the questions asked, so that the teacher could not get out of Taiwan.
People with low emotional intelligence are often not popular.
While reading books, Chen Qi also tutored his younger brothers and sisters' homework and helped them prepare the sixth grade textbooks in advance.
Second aunt also joked that they had a bird for studying. This is the shallowness of rural women. I think that making some money means living?
For rural children, taking the technical secondary school entrance exam and college entrance exams in the future is the best opportunity to jump into the dragon gate and get rid of poverty.
Haidong Province has been famous for doing business since ancient times. Although "doing business" is also a way out, it does not discriminate against businessmen.
But Chen Qi comes from later generations. He knows that the rich people in later generations are on the list. 42% have bachelor's degree, 34% have master's degree, doctoral degree accounts for 20%, and junior and high school education accounts for only 2%.
This can be said to be a slap in the face for those who advocate the "useless theory of learning".
The purpose of reading is not only to make you a worker in the 1980s, but also to make your horizons broader, see further, and to better grasp the opportunities of the times in the future.
Don’t blow the wind, because you don’t know anything, you really don’t know how to fly like a pig.
So Chen Qi, the dead substitute teacher, is really good at learning and has to go to school even if he gives everything.
Of course, except for the silly sister, she simply cannot read books, not this material. She is definitely not biased by her parents and will not let her go to school.
Thinking of his elder sister, Chen Qi looked at the sun outside the house. The sun was as strong as the fire. He couldn't bear it indoors. He didn't know how his elder sister was doing.
"Little sister, where have you been?"
While cooking porridge, Chen Hua said, "My elder sister should have gone to the kiln at the entrance of the village to carry bricks."
"Bracks? It's such a hot day? A little girl?"
Chen Qi was so shocked that his mouth couldn't close, and at the same time he felt deeply shocked, and he felt an indescribable sadness.
Is this a big man reading books at home and letting a weak woman do hard work in the scorching sun? Is he still a human being?
"No, I have to go and find my elder sister, little sister, you can take me there."
Chen Hua nodded: "Wait for me for a while, I will cook sweet potato porridge and bring it to my elder sister."
In the countryside in 1981, although they could have eaten food, they no longer starved to death. But if you want to eat a full meal, you are still far from reaching good food. You can only eat some meat during the Chinese New Year and the holidays.
Just like the Chen family, the main food is sweet potatoes, corn and other coarse grains. The rice left in the house is not "late rice", but the hardest and roughest "early rice", which is not eaten by the city people.
If Chen Qi hadn't fainted the day before, he would have been half a sick person, otherwise he would have never eaten sweet potato porridge for lunch.
After Chen Hua poured the porridge into a clay pot, the three siblings walked out of the house and headed towards the entrance of the village.
On high temperatures of 39℃, the three of them were barefoot, and there was no way. Each of them only had a pair of shoes and they were reluctant to wear them.
The road is not a good road. It is either a gravel road, which makes the soles of your feet hurt, or it is a stone road, which is so hot that it is so hot when you step on it.
Before he could walk, Chen Qi felt hot all over and his vest was soaked with sweat. It was hard to imagine how the silly sister and a little girl worked in the kiln in such a high-temperature sauna day.
The red bricks burned from the kiln in Xiaze Village are supplied to several mountain villages in the mountains of Xingtang Commune. The terrain of the kiln is relatively low, so the burned bricks need to be manually carried one by one and piled onto the drying yard.
Chen Qi and his younger brother and sister saw the big chimney from afar and accelerated their pace.
There are many farmers carrying bricks in the kiln. After all, a cash income of 50 cents a day is absolutely tempting for farmers who are deeply involved in the mountains. Of course, the price they pay is to carry at least a few thousand bricks a day.
If you are more powerful, just cover a sack on your body, then tie 100 bricks together with a rope, hold them with both hands, and leave with your back.
If you have less strength, you will carry a shelf made of wood, which can put more than 60 red bricks on it. Although it saves a little effort, it will also have less income.
When the three siblings found the silly elder sister, she was bending over and climbing the hill with difficulty with 60 bricks on her back.
This kind of rural earthen red brick weighs about 2 kilograms, and 60 red bricks means that it weighs 120 kilograms, but the silly sister's own weight does not exceed 100 kilograms.
Under the scorching sun, it can be seen that she was very struggling, and the military-green clothes on her body were completely wet.
In order to save money, she didn't even wear shoes. After walking a dirt road, she would leave a deep footprint.
Chen Hua was the first to cry, followed by Chen Shu, and even Chen Qi, the new time traveler, was filled with tears at this time.
"Sister..."
Chapter completed!