Chapter 112: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
Guo Shucheng said: "Grandpa, let me help you carve wax paper." ”
"You?" Grandpa raised his head, looked at him suspiciously, and said, "No! It's not just about writing Chinese characters. There are a lot of chemical element symbols in it, and there are some special terms necessary for metal materials, you haven't been exposed to these, you must not know how to write, and then you cleverly change a word or two, and a piece of wax paper will be completely wasted. By the way, humble honestly, do you know twenty-six letters of the English alphabet? ”
Guo Shucheng was speechless for a while, and said: "Grandpa, you can engrave one for me, if it doesn't work, you can criticize it again." To be honest, your handwriting is so ugly that when you write it, others think it was written by the farmer who farmed the land. ”
Grandpa smiled embarrassedly and said, "I didn't pay much attention to writing at that time, I always thought that as long as I learned knowledge, I would be fine." What does it matter if the word is good and the word is bad? Perhaps because he was being teased by his grandson, he said, "Okay." You just take a piece of wax paper and engrave it, and engrave a pack of biscuits for you to eat. ”
Guo Zhuocheng sweated wildly, but pretended to be happy and said, "Grandpa, this is decided." Don't use what you use when the time comes, it's too late today, buy it tomorrow to perfunctory me. ”
Grandpa smiled and said happily: "You kid has a good memory, you still remember it so clearly after so many years." Okay, if it's wrong, I'll spank you and you go to bed right away. It's engraved, and I'll ask your grandmother to buy it right away. ”
A piece of wax paper only costs two or three cents, and he can afford this loss.
Guo Shucheng helped his grandfather to the side and engraved it according to the contents of the notebook that his grandfather placed next to him.
At first, Grandpa didn't think anything was wrong, he just thought that his handwriting was very beautiful, and the speed of engraving was much faster than his own. But he was still not at ease, especially when Guo Zhuocheng wrote about the chemical formula of ferrous sulfate, his eyes were staring at him, for fear that he would not understand the English alphabet and scribble. As long as he finds this kind of sign, his right hand, which has already been outstretched, will take away the iron pen in his grandson's hand and do it himself.
Guo Zhuocheng dodged his grandfather's outstretched hand and said with a smile: "Grandpa, don't worry." How could I write the formula of ferrous sulfate wrong? ”
Grandpa was shocked and hurriedly asked, "How can you read this chemical formula?" When did you learn? ”
Guo Shucheng smiled: "I have learned it a long time ago." When I have finished carving this wax paper, I will tell you a shocking piece of news. ”
Grandpa resolutely didn't believe it, and he pointed to the chemistry of nickel and chromium in the notebook for Guo to admit sincerely.
Guo Zhuocheng smiled, pointed to the long list of chemical formulas at the bottom of the notebook with a pen and said: "If you let me read this whole molecular formula, won't you know whether I have studied chemistry or not?" ......, this is the molecular formula of stainless steel. These are the compositional components of impurities in iron ore. ”
Grandpa was surprised and finally put his mind at ease, and happily went to find his wife, telling that the Guo family had a genius.
When Grandma heard this, she immediately put down the needlework in her hand and ran out in surprise to ask if this was really the case.
Seeing that they were so urgent, Guo Zhuocheng had no choice but to put down the pen and wax paper in his hand, and said with a smile that he had skipped a grade to the high school graduating class and had graduated.
The three of them were stunned by Guo Zhuocheng's words, and the most uneasy thing was grandma, who immediately came up with a few high school math problems for Guo Zhuocheng to do. Guo Zhuocheng did it easily. Grandparents, you, me, and you, are full of disbelief in their eyes.
Sister Guo Xianglian is even more starry at her younger brother, I really admire it.
With Guo Shucheng's joining, the speed of grandpa carving materials was naturally several times faster, until grandma was too late and ordered their grandparents to stop, and they cleaned up the study.
Lying on the wire bed laid for him by his grandmother, smelling the peculiar smell of wax paper wafting in the study, Guo Zhuocheng suddenly remembered a real thing in his previous life: since the country announced the resumption of the college entrance examination, the vast majority of candidates have no study materials. Many people's textbooks have been thrown away for several years, and they can't even find a piece of paper, and if they don't have materials, where can they remember what they learned in the past? They were anxious one by one, begging their grandfathers to tell their grandmothers everywhere, and looking for classmates and friends, but they still had no whereabouts.
In the end, it was a printing factory in Huhai City that was anxious for the candidates' urgency, and worked overtime overnight to print a set of "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series" published more than ten years ago, which barely satisfied some candidates near Huhai City and brought hope and self-confidence to the young people who were eager to be admitted to universities. In order to get this series of books as soon as possible, there was a spectacular scene of many families queuing up overnight at the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore, and the printing house was also rushing to print it day and night, but the supply was still in short supply. After hearing the news, many people either sent money or entrusted someone or went to Huhai City to buy it in person, but they could not get it before the college entrance examination because it was too late to print.
At that time, this set of self-study books was reprinted in one edition, and in the end, a total of 7.95 million copies were distributed! No book has broken this record in circulation for decades!
"Printing college entrance examination materials is definitely a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people!" Guo was overjoyed, and at the same time he thought of a better way, "If the rightists are organized and let them print college entrance examination review materials, wouldn't it be a good place for them?" ......, it is really a lot to be able to make money, to be able to settle the rightists who gave my father a headache, and to solve the urgent needs of the candidates, hehe. ”
From now on, we can secretly arrange for intellectuals on the right to collect, sort, and edit the materials for the college entrance examination. In addition, we immediately dispatched personnel to each paper mill to collect and order paper.
You must know that in real history, not only was there not enough paper to print the materials when the college entrance examination was restored, but even the paper to print the college entrance examination papers was not enough. In the end, it was Comrade Xiansheng who used the paper to print the fifth volume of the anthology to print the high school examination papers.
This decision of Comrade Xiansheng not only solved the problem of the candidates' examinations, but also made people feel determined to respect knowledge and talents.
Guo Zhuocheng, who was very happy in his heart, thought: "From now on, I have three more months of preparation time than others, and the more than 70 million copies in Huhai City can be distributed, and I will grab half of them, and 30 million copies should not be a big problem." By the way, in addition to printing and publishing college entrance examination materials, even university textbooks can also be printed, I remember that many people in the third class said that at that time, because they were in too much hurry, almost no one had textbooks. Isn't that a huge business opportunity? ”
Of course, Guo Zhuocheng also has regrets in his heart, because the state now does not allow the existence of private enterprises, only collective enterprises or state-owned enterprises. Otherwise, with the huge amount of 20,000 yuan in his hands, he could have made a windfall with the printing and distributing materials.
The next day, he went to his uncle's house with his grandparents and sister with gifts. The uncle's family received them very warmly and made a hearty Chinese meal with all their might. The uncle's eldest daughter found a boyfriend in the factory, and the two plan to get married next year. Guo Zhuocheng has a good impression of this shy cousin-in-law, but he has learned too little knowledge, and he dropped out of school without even graduating from junior high school, and is now working as an apprentice in a machine repair workshop.
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