noffsinger Chapter 127 The 60s (12)
Chapter 127 The 60s (12)
After the children finished practicing their basic skills for the day, Wangyou led everyone to continue up the mountain to identify medicinal herbs.
Few people in the mountains are literate, and given the current special circumstances, many children have never even learned to read. Whether Wangyou teaches one child or a group, it's all the same.
Sometimes when she calms down, she suddenly realizes that the world seems to be full of children, but seeing their eager eyes, Wangyou continues to teach.
However, Wangyou's teaching is not systematic. She teaches whatever comes to mind, haphazardly, and never goes too deep, but she makes sure that everyone can understand.
This makes the kids so frustrated with their homework that they feel like tearing their hair out, but with their parents keeping them in check, they have to grit their teeth and finish it so they can happily come back to find Wangyou the next day.
Sometimes Wangyou would teach them to sing, but due to the circumstances of the times, Wangyou sang very little. As for the people here being able to sing folk songs, not everyone in this era could sing them, but Wangyou had learned quite a few folk songs about mountains and rivers.
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After being refused help again, Lin Fubao was almost going crazy. No one had ever dared to refuse her since she was a child, but her family had repeatedly run into obstacles since coming here, and had to ask other people who had also just moved in for help.
As for why the Lin family moved away from their original village, the reason was that the Lin family had gone too far. Lin Fubao had always been lucky since he was a child. Whenever he went into the mountains, wild pheasants and rabbits would run towards him. After the Lin family discovered this, they began to take advantage of Lin Fubao's good luck to make money.
When they start hunting, they become unrestrained. Their village and the mountains are not very big to begin with, and with the Lin family hunting endlessly, small prey in the mountains are almost nowhere to be seen.
Specifically, Lin Fubao was no longer able to attract a large number of prey when he went up the mountain. As soon as he heard that someone was going to move to Xiangyang Brigade, the Lin family thought about it and decided to move as well. Anyway, they had made a lot of money over the years and were not worried about not having enough money.
The Lin family thought that once they arrived at Xiangyang Brigade, they could once again rely on Lin Fubao's good luck to hunt and make money. However, they did not expect that Lin Fubao's luck would be suppressed by Wangyou here, and he would never have the good luck he used to have.
Of course, it wasn't that I was unlucky. At most, when I went up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables, I found more wild vegetables and picked more mushrooms than others. Occasionally, I might encounter one or two pheasants or rabbits, but it was never as exaggerated as before when there were large groups of them.
After trying many times without giving up, the Lin family finally resigned themselves to their fate and started farming properly.
Wangyou did not comment on this; as far as she was concerned, she never cared about anything that didn't cross her mind.
And so, two years passed in a flash!
In the past two years, a steel plant was built on the back mountain, and many villagers applied for jobs there. Of course, since it was discovered by the people from Xiangyang Brigade, they were given priority, even though there weren't many people in total.
As for Wangyou, the factory manager gave her three positions with a wave of his hand. Wangyou herself didn't want to go to work, since the money she earned from writing was enough for her to live comfortably. As for Zhang Qiling, Wangyou didn't even consider it. The young and middle-aged men in the village also had suitable jobs.
After thinking for a moment, Wangyou informed Captain Chen and then went to the educated youth compound.
The educated youth who came to Xiangyang Brigade were all honest people who didn't cause trouble. Wangyou found three people with good conditions and good character and sold them the jobs at a low price.
In addition, since the construction of the steel plant would definitely cause large-scale environmental pollution, Wangyou simply led a group of children to make a pollution prevention device.
At first, no one believed it, but in the end, the facts proved them wrong. So, two years later, the mountains and rivers here are still beautiful.
As for the blueprints, Wangyou handed them in directly, and naturally received the corresponding reward. After that, Wangyou didn't do anything else messy.
At most, I just made a washing machine because I was too lazy to do laundry, and I made a simple women's bicycle because I was too lazy to walk. The main problem was that riding a 28-inch bicycle was really uncomfortable.
The factory director, Liao, who would occasionally drop by her house, shamelessly smuggled away all the blueprints. The main problem was that Wangyou didn't draw any blueprints for these things, so after Liao found out about these valuable items, he kept pestering Wangyou to draw the blueprints. It was truly unbelievable.
"Wangyou, have you got anything good lately?" Director Liao came to visit again, and as always, he never came empty-handed. This time, he was carrying a string of cured meat.
"No, I'm going to visit my family at the military base soon. My second brother wrote to me saying he's getting married, and as his younger sister, I have to go and join in the fun!"
When are you coming back?
If nothing unexpected happens, they should be back in half a month to a month at the latest.
"That's great! When are you leaving? I'll book your train ticket and make sure you get a sleeper berth!"
"Director Liao, that's great! These are the blueprints for my improved radio. Take them back and let the technicians study them. I'll go find the captain to get letters of introduction for me and Qi Ling!"
Are you both leaving?
"What else?"
"My heart is pounding so hard, I have this feeling that you're never coming back!"
"Pah, pah, pah! That sounds like you're cursing us!"
"No, no, look, I misspoke!" Director Liao realized that what he said was indeed inappropriate, so he stopped talking.
A moment later, the child took the blueprints and left!
"Wangyou, we're meeting your parents, right?" Zhang Qiling ran over and said excitedly.
"I guess so, but who told you about meeting the parents?"
"Grandma Ahua told me that once I've met your parents, I'll be officially your wife!" Zhang Qiling's eyes were filled with an irrepressible smile and joy.
"Then why didn't you tell me?"
"I, I..." Zhang Qiling slapped his forehead. Oh no, had he said something wrong?
Seeing that the person in front of her looked like a wilted eggplant, Wangyou decided not to make things difficult for her. "Go back and pack your things. We'll be staying there for quite a while!"
"Okay!" Seeing that Wangyou wasn't going to pursue the matter, Zhang Qiling happily ran off to pack his things.
Wangyou got several more letters of introduction from the brigade leader and ran into Lin Fubao on her way back.
Wangyou naturally knew that her luck was suppressing Lin Fubao's, and she also knew what good things they had done. She thought that once she left, she might really not be able to come back.
Without her suppression, Lin Fubao's luck will soon rebound. Lin Fubao is a girl who has been spoiled since childhood, so she doesn't have many bad intentions. However, the Lin family's bottom line is too low, so it's better to suppress her.
Therefore, before leaving, Wangyou put a luck-locking talisman on Lin Fubao. This talisman would lock most of her luck, but the remaining luck would be enough for her to live a good life.
As for her family, let's leave it to the cycle of cause and effect. Of course, since the Lin family did evil because of Lin Fubao's good fortune, Lin Fubao herself must also bear some of the karmic consequences.
After doing all this, Wangyou and Zhang Qiling left Xiangyang Brigade in front of the entire village.
Thanks to the train tickets kindly provided by Director Liao, Wangyou and Zhang Qiling felt fine. However, they had to change trains several times along the way before finally arriving in the coastal region.