Chapter 179: Female Supporting Character in the Period Literature (14)
Chapter 179: Female Supporting Character in the Period Literature (14)
Lu Changqing arranged a class schedule, with classes held normally from Monday to Friday. If there was bad weather, students would stay at home and not attend classes.
Classes start at 9am, and because some children have to go home to help with cooking, she only arranges two classes in the morning. Classes start at :pm, a total of three classes, each lasting minutes, with a -minute break in between.
Now there are only two subjects: Chinese and mathematics. Ruan Tang wanted to teach something else but was rejected by Lu Changqing.
In extraordinary times, it is better to be cautious.
Ruan Tang frowned as she looked at the schedule that was either Chinese or math, "How about music? Teaching some red songs is better than just these two subjects every day."
Actually, Ruan Tang wanted to teach some art and have the children draw some chicks and ducks, but looking at the thatched hut with scarce supplies, she thought it best to teach something that did not consume paper and pens.
Lu Changqing said seriously: "Red songs are allowed, but only red songs, and other songs are not allowed to be taught randomly."
Lu Changqing knew the talents and skills that the author had given to Ruan Tang. As a rich second-generation, she had attended international classes since junior high school and also studied abroad in college, so her spoken English was very strong.
At present, living in the mountains, she naturally dare not expose her talent in front of others. But it is different after the reform and opening up. With her English and the background of the Lu family, she may be able to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Unfortunately, in order to reflect the industrial saccharine sweet pet setting of strong men and weak women, domineering men and pampering women, and men pampering women, the plot directly has Ruan Tang give up her job after graduating from university and go home to take care of the baby.
Do you think this is the end?
Not long after Ruan Tang returned home to take care of the baby, she began to feel a little uneasy. She found an opportunity to ask Lu Shaofeng if it would be very hard for him if she didn't work and stayed at home every day.
Lu Shaofeng looked at Ruan Tang lovingly and tenderly, saying, "Wife, you are responsible for being beautiful, and I am responsible for making money to support the family."
Then Ruan Tang in the plot looked so happy that she was bubbling with happiness, and felt that her greatest luck in life was to marry the man in front of her.
Lu Changqing didn't want to delve too much into whether Ruan Tang was happy or not, but she knew that the author and her beloved son Lu Shaofeng must have been happy.
After the simple classroom was set up, the free class of Changlin Brigade was ready to officially start.
Lu Changqing was responsible for teaching Chinese and social practice classes. These practical classes were added by her later and mainly covered some basic knowledge about farming and breeding. Ruan Tang was responsible for teaching mathematics and music.
The two of them worked together quite happily. The days passed quietly in this routine manner and it was August, the hottest month.
The yellow peach saplings have already been planted, and the corn will be harvested in the next few days.
Although the village primary school does not have a summer vacation, Lu Changqing still gives the children a holiday during the busy farming season.
The children had to go to the warehouse to help shell the corn, while she had to go up the mountain to participate in the honorable labor of breaking the corn.
As for the chicken farm, Lu Changqing was still very relieved because Du Hongmei was helping her look after it.
How did Lu Changqing and Du Hongmei become acquainted? It all started when Ruan Tang started teaching at the chicken farm.
Maybe it was because Ruan Tang had to come to the chicken farm to attend classes, and there was no one at home to argue with Du Hongmei, which made her feel bored.
So as long as it was not raining and the road was easy to walk on, Du Hongmei would bring a stool and a pot of water and sit at the back of the children to listen to the class.
Sometimes she would come to chat with Lu Changqing, and after a while, the two became familiar with each other.
Thinking about Du Hongmei's ending in the plot, Lu Changqing asked Du Hongmei what her plans were for the future.
After all, the child will be born eventually. If the child stays at home doing nothing every day after birth, the third son of the Ruan family will definitely divorce Du Hongmei with his filial piety.
Du Hongmei felt that there was nothing to plan. Ruan Tang had already started earning work points, and after she gave birth to the child, she would naturally have to go to the fields to earn work points like before.
Lu Changqing asked Du Hongmei if she was willing to raise chickens with her, and she could take her.
There will definitely be more than two hundred chickens in this chicken farm. When the number of chickens increases, she will not be able to handle sweeping the chicken manure every day by herself.
Du Hongmei was naturally happy that she didn't have to work hard in the fields under the sun.
Lu Changqing also made a request to Du Hongmei, asking her to learn to read with those children. She would have to cooperate with the supply and marketing cooperative in the future, and it would not be enough to just know how to write her own name.
At the end of September, the team leader asked Lu Shaofeng to bring back another batch of chicks.
Because Lu Changqing raised the first batch of chicks very well and few of them died, the team leader who had been agreed to select breeding personnel decided to use this batch of chicks.
Since the participants had to provide the chicken feed themselves, only twelve households signed up in the end.
The team leader took out sixty chicks, gave five to each of them, marked them, and let them take them back to their homes to raise. After a month, the two who survived the most and raised the best could go to the chicken farm to help.
Lu Changqing built a fence in the bamboo forest to separate the newly brought in chicks from the first batch of chicks that were already quite big.
The first batch of chickens had already started eating snails and earthworms. In order to make it easier to cook chicken food, the team leader got an iron pot with cracks on the edges from somewhere.
In order to be selected, Du Hongmei served the five chickens as if they were her ancestors.
Those five chickens were pretty strong. After a month, none of them died. In the end, Du Hongmei and a lady named Zhang Suhua passed the selection.
The weather began to turn cooler in November, and as the first batch of chickens were about to start laying eggs, Lu Changqing and her colleagues began to prepare wheat straw and corn straw for the chickens to use as nests.
As for Du Hongmei, she gave birth to a baby girl weighing more than five kilograms at the end of October and is now on maternity leave at home.
At the end of November, the chickens finally started laying eggs.
Because they are the first batch of eggs, the eggs are relatively small and do not look particularly good.
The villagers were extremely happy, especially the team leader. When he saw the thirteen eggs that Lu Changqing put in the bamboo basket, he finally let go of the worry that had been hanging in his stomach.
Although Lu Changqing and her colleagues are willing to feed the chickens and keep them well fed every day, since these chickens are laying eggs for the first time, they cannot lay eggs every day at present.
Five days later, there were less than a hundred eggs in the bamboo basket.
Although the number of eggs is still a bit meager, the team leader still took Lu Changqing to the county government with great excitement and reported the good news that the chickens at the Changlin Township chicken farm had started laying eggs.
On the third day, the leaders organized people to conduct a field investigation at the chicken farm.
On the sixth day, rewards were delivered to Lu Changqing and the team leader, each of them received a thermos, a pen and a notebook.
When there were about 300 eggs, Lu Changqing picked out a dozen larger ones, took the team leader and a letter of introduction stamped by the county government to find the person in charge of the supply and marketing cooperative to discuss cooperation.
The person in charge was also very honest. He said frankly that the larger eggs in the county were 4 cents each, while the ones brought by Lu Changqing could only be sold for 3 cents. If he bought them, he could give them 2.3 cents each if the quantity was large, and cents each if the quantity was small.
The eggs from chicken farms nowadays are like Schrödinger's eggs. It is hard to know how big they are unless they are laid from the chickens' butts.
Lu Changqing only asked the person in charge to come to the village to pick up the eggs in half a month, and then determine the selling price based on the number of qualified eggs.
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