Chapter 3 The impoverished Chen family

The silly elder sister hurried out of the house to go to work.

There were only three people left in the family staring at each other, and they could only take out their textbooks one after another.

For the three students, summer vacation is the most boring. These days, there are no mobile phones or TVs. Even the radio broadcast at the entrance of the village is broadcast in timed intervals to save electricity.

Chen Qi was full of sweet potatoes, and took out his whole set of health school textbooks to read.

The summer vacation is over, and he is about to enter the fourth grade of the medical class, which is also the last year of the medical school.

The technical secondary health schools these days are all 4-year. After the summer vacation, they will study in the first half of the year, and then go to the hospital for an internship for half a year before they can graduate.

In his previous life, Chen Qi graduated with a master's degree and was studying for a Ph.D. He has a lot of theoretical knowledge in medicine. As for the clinical level, after years of surgery in Xinhua Hospital, the surgery is basically no problem.

But the textbooks for 1981 and 2022 are definitely different. If Chen Qi wants to integrate into this era, he must prepare in advance.

"Systematic Anatomy", "Microbiology", "Biochemistry", "Physiology", "Pathology", "Pathophysiology", "Diagnostics", "Pharmacology" and other basic courses learned in the first three years of medical school .

Chen Qi went through it roughly, and he has a bottom line in his heart.

The general direction of knowledge is still the same, but the knowledge points in 1981 are relatively rough and simple, and of course they are easier to remember.

"Pharmacology" is a bit difficult, because the medicine of this era is too different from that of later generations. Many medicines have been eliminated later, and Chen Qi has never used it, and has no relevant experience.

However, it is not too difficult to remember. After all, the general direction is still the same, but the upgraded version of the drug is used in later generations, and the pharmacological basis is the same.

As for the cultural courses such as "Mathematics" and "English" that the technical secondary school also needs to learn, it is even easier for Chen Qi.

Especially in English, he passed the CET-6 exam at least in his previous life, not to mention a professional translator, but at least he is more than enough to beat a technical secondary school student.

Chen Qi is completely at ease now, and he is not afraid of revealing his secrets after school starts. For him, the only problem is to "keep it in check", and don't ask questions that even the teacher doesn't know, so that the teacher can't get down.

People with low emotional intelligence are often not popular.

While reading, Chen Qi also helped his younger siblings with their homework and helped them preview the sixth grade textbooks in advance.

Second Aunt also joked that they have a good use of reading. This is the superficiality of rural women, thinking that earning a little money is life?

For rural children, the best opportunity to get rid of poverty is to take the entrance examination for technical secondary school and university in the future.

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 is from later generations. He is a person on the rich list who knows later generations. 42% have a bachelor's degree, 34% have a master's degree, 20% have a doctor's degree, and only 2% have a junior high school or high school education.

This is a slap in the face for those who advocate "study is useless".

The purpose of reading is not only to make you a worker in the 1980s, but also to broaden your horizons, see farther, and better grasp the opportunities of the times in the future.

Don't let the wind blow, because you don't understand anything, you really don't know how to fly like a pig.

So the father of Chen Qi's dead substitute teacher was really discerning, and he gave everything to send his own children to school.

Of course, except for the silly elder sister, she just can't read books, not this material. It's definitely not that her parents are partial and don't let her go to school.

Thinking of the elder sister, Chen Qi looked at the sun outside the house, the sun was as fierce as a fire, and he was too hot indoors, wondering what happened to the elder sister.

"Little sister, where did eldest sister go?"

Chen Hua cooked the porridge and said, "Elder sister should have gone to the kiln at the entrance of the village to carry bricks."

"Bricks on your back? Such a hot day? A little girl?"

Chen Qi was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. At the same time, he was also deeply shocked, with an indescribable sadness.

I, an old man like me, reads at home and lets a weak woman do coolies under the scorching sun. Is he still a person?

"No, I have to go to elder sister, younger sister, you take me there."

Chen Hua nodded: "Wait for me a while, I'll cook sweet potato porridge and bring it to my eldest sister."

In the rural areas in 1981, even though food was already available, people no longer starved to death. But if you want to eat a full meal, it is still far from a good meal, and you can only eat a little meat during the Chinese New Year.

Just like the Chen family, the staple food is sweet potatoes, corn and other coarse grains, and there is not much rice left in the family. It is not "late rice", but the hardest and roughest "early rice", which is not eaten by people in the city.

If Chen Qi hadn't fainted the day before and counted as a half-patient, otherwise it would be impossible to eat sweet potato porridge for lunch.

Waiting for Chen Hua to pour the porridge and rice into an earthen jar, the three brothers and sisters walked out of the house towards the entrance of the village.

In the high temperature of 39C, all three of them were barefoot. They had no choice but to have only one pair of shoes, which they were reluctant to wear at ordinary times.

The road is not a good road, either it is a gravel road, and the soles of the feet hurt when walking. Either it is a stone road, which is terribly hot to step on.

Not long after walking, Chen Qi felt hot all over his body, and his vest was soaked with sweat. It was hard to imagine how a little girl like a silly elder sister would work in a kiln in such a hot sauna day.

The red bricks fired by the kiln in Xiaze Village are supplied by several mountain villages in Dashanli, Tang Commune.

Chen Qi took his younger siblings and saw the big chimney from a distance, so they quickened their pace.

There are many farmers who carry bricks in the kiln. After all, the cash income of 50 cents a day is absolutely attractive to farmers who go deep into the mountains. Of course, the price they pay is at least thousands of bricks every day.

Those who are stronger, put a sack directly on the body, and then tie 100 bricks together with a rope, support them with both hands, and walk away.

Those with less strength will carry a wooden frame on their back, on which more than 60 red bricks can be placed. Although it saves a little effort, the income is also low.

When the three brothers and sisters found the silly eldest sister, she was carrying 60 bricks, bent over, and struggling to climb the slope.

The weight of one piece of this kind of rural red brick is about 2 catties, and 60 red bricks means that it weighs 120 catties, but the silly elder sister does not weigh more than 100 catties.

Under the scorching sun, it can be seen that she is very strenuous, and the army green dress on her body is completely soaked.

In order to save money, she didn't even wear shoes, and she would leave a deep footprint when walking on a dirt road.

Chen Hua was the first to cry, followed by Chen Shu, and even Chen Qi, a new traveler, had tears in his eyes at this time.

"Sister..."

(end of this chapter)