Perhaps stimulated by the meat of wild geese, in recent days, people have been going to the Dongla River to find out, hoping to catch a wild goose and taste it.

In their opinion, the methods used by Wang Manyin and Wang Yanqiang are not secrets. Just get a needle and catch another loach......

In short, just have hands.

It's a pity that people are disappointed, and now there is not even a single wild goose feather in sight on the side of the Dongla River.

The Loess Plateau is just a resting place for geese on their way to migration, and after being frightened, they have already flown further north, so they are stupid enough to stay where they are.

Wang Lianshun saw that Zhao Jianhai couldn't count on it, so he convened a meeting of the members of the second team the next day to discuss the official start of the silt dam.

Without Zhao Jianhai, everyone became very casual.

Of course, the main Xie Shouzheng is talking, and others are constantly putting forward various opinions.

There are two main concerns of everyone: how to ensure that the earth dam will not be washed away, and the second is how to solve the water seepage.

Don't think that ordinary people are stupid and don't know the benefits of silt dams...... The key is to look at the benefits that are not necessarily obtained.

If these two problems are not solved, it is better not to do it in the end.

Xie Shouzheng was very patient, and told the problems of the members one by one, giving everyone a clear explanation.

In the end, no one objected anymore, but there was some enthusiasm for it.

Wang Manyin once again felt that he had underestimated Wang Lianshun's wisdom and responsibility.

The whole mobilization meeting was held from beginning to end, and the people did not say a few words, let alone shout any slogans, and it was easy for the members to agree, and it was from the bottom of their hearts.

It's definitely a capability.

Again, don't take the common people for fools, they have their own wisdom and judgment. As long as the relationship between interests is clearly explained, people can see the tangible benefits, and there is no need to mobilize at all, they will do it spontaneously.

If there is no benefit, it will be natural to grind foreign workers.

The silt dam is really made, and it can bring more than 10 acres of good Sichuan land to the second team.

If the wind and rain are good, it will be nothing. After all, there is a "whether it is enough, three hundred and six", and no matter how much food falls into the hands of the members, there will be a ration.

But in a famine year, this can be life-saving.

However, in the sunny weather of the Loess Plateau, there are too few years without drought and waterlogging. If you really don't have anything to eat, you can only go out to beg for food.

A few years ago, Wang Manyin met Du Laohan who was herding sheep in Shichuan Village by the ditch, and when the two chatted, the other party once said that he had lived more than 50 years old and went out to beg for food almost every year.

For as long as I can remember, I didn't beg for food until the crops in the fields were good for two years.

It's a little better here in Jar Village, but it's not much better.

In addition, the construction of an earthen dam, according to Xie Shouzheng's design drawing, is actually an earth-rock dam.

Explosives and detonators are needed to dig up the earth and stones...... The team paid for it and asked Wang Yanqiang to help contact the purchase.

Nowadays, the management of dangerous goods is relatively loose, which is not a difficult task. As long as you have a certificate from the village, you can easily buy it.

Wang Manyin returned to the village after the meeting, entered the space as usual at night, and went straight to the sweet potato field as soon as possible.

As expected, there were many locusts inside.

There is no way, for the time being, I can only use this stupid method for the time being.

In a month or so, when there are frogs in the Dongla River, catching a few and putting them in the space may be able to solve the fundamental problem.

After catching locusts and feeding the flock of poultry and livestock in the space, he walked to the sidelines.

When I got home, I saw my daughter-in-law sitting under the kerosene lamp, her hands on the abacus beads.

"Manyin, you're back? I'll bring you water for washing your feet. Orchid hurriedly got up and said.

"Don't be busy, I'll do it myself. Why are you planning again? Wang Manyin asked curiously.

Wang Manyin admires his mother-in-law's learning energy very much.

Except for the beginning of the period, he taught some simple glyphs, strokes and pinyin, and then basically in a free-range state, everything relied on the other party to teach himself.

But the orchid has never relaxed on herself.

After two or three months of study, she now has almost five or six hundred Chinese characters, and she is very familiar with the dictionary, so she can basically read through most of the articles.

Mathematics is more convenient, and Wang Manyin only taught how to write Arabic numerals.

As for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, this orchid would have been ...... It's amazing to say, don't look at the many mothers-in-law and aunts in Jar Village who are illiterate, but they understand it in their hearts, and the accounts are very smooth.

The same is true for my own mother-in-law.

Since the orchid learned to use Arabic counting, Wang Manyin handed over the inventory of the consignment point every night.

At first, he checked the accounts, but later saw that there was nothing wrong, and completely became the shopkeeper.

In the past few months, the supply and marketing cooperatives have also sent people to check the accounts, and there has not been a single error.

Now look at what this means, the orchid is starting to do something to the abacus again?

Look at what you can get, why can't you go to heaven!

"Our consignment points are a number of bits and pieces every day, and it's too troublesome to add or subtract from the book...... I've heard that it's more convenient to use an abacus. Manyin, you came just in time, tell me how to use the abacus. I practiced according to the book...... The more I get it, the more confused I become. ”

Unlike later generations, primary school mathematics textbooks of this era had a very detailed introduction to the use of abacus, and the name was "arithmetic".

Wang Manyin came from later generations, and naturally didn't know anything about abacus.

However, in the face of Orchid's expectant gaze, he could only take the textbook head-on. Although I don't know it, according to my memory, my predecessor has learned.

casually turned the page, and the math problems are very characteristic of the times.

"A certain soldier used his rest time to cut the hair of poor middle peasants, and he gave 240 haircuts in the first half of the month and 270 in the second half of the month. How many poor middle peasants do you get haircuts in a month......"

After reading a few topics in a row, Wang Manyin turned to the page explaining the abacus to read, and gradually recalled the relevant content.

It's really easy to get confused at first, because the abacus uses two upper and lower five beads, the top one represents "5", and the lower one represents "1", which belongs to a mixture of decimal and binary.

The lower beads are full of 5 into 1 into the top, and the upper beads are full of 2 into 1. If you are not skilled at first, it is easy to get confused the more you calculate.

The former height graduated from a small school, and the math itself was not bad. It's just that there have been fewer abacus in recent years, and the foundation is still there.

Wang Manyin fiddled with it casually a few times, and really found some feeling.

He wondered if he would take advantage of his daughter-in-law's learning opportunity to pick up the abacus again, so he would not be overwhelmed.

After all, if you let the orchid go down in this regard, it will be easy to be sluggish.

In fact, as long as you memorize the mantra of the abacus, the rest is to practice hand speed and memorize proficiently. To be one heart and hand, it seems that there is nothing rare.

It's as if Wang Manyin once learned Wubi and couldn't remember the roots at first. When typing, I always groped for the keyboard, kept reciting in my head, and typed a word in half a day.

When you become proficient, memory becomes an instinct.

Maybe he doesn't know the root of the word in each key on the keyboard, but as long as he puts his hand on it, he can involuntarily type it.

Without him, only the hand is familiar.

Going to disk, the same is true.

At the beginning, Wang Manyin stumbled, and with the explanation, he also groped for learning, but he crackled the abacus beads.

These two people are also desperate, they don't sleep in the middle of the night, and they sit on the kang and play with the abacus.

If you let the rest of the village know, it's probably time to say that there is something wrong with your brain.

***

Well, if nothing else, it may be on the shelves tomorrow, ask for a first order in advance, I hope you will support it.

Before you put it on the shelf, say a few words from your heart.

Ever since I started the book, I haven't had a good time. At first, no one read this book, and it almost fell out of the eunuch.

Around December 15th, I suddenly started to have a fever, and I couldn't buy an antigen test at that time, so I drank fever-reducing medicine in a daze.

After a few days, the fever subsided, and the key cough did not stop.

Yes, it's been a month and the cough hasn't stopped.

During this period, I took two chest X-rays in the hospital, and both said that there was inflammation in the lungs, but it was not too serious, it was a personal physical problem, and the recovery was relatively slow.

I've taken a lot of medicine, and I'm still taking it, and I don't know when I'll recover completely.

The body is constantly repeating, so I have been writing this book relatively slowly.

Actually, it can't be fast...... I am not a person of that era, for some daily details, I can only check the information and restore it as much as possible.

In fact, I tried to find as many sources as possible to corroborate every detail.

To take the simplest example, some people questioned the price of local chickens, and I found the price from at least a dozen memoirs. The price is naturally not uniform, and it is divided into the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperatives (the supply and marketing cooperatives broadcast the chicken, 3 cents a catty) and the black market price (the price of live chickens in the black market fluctuates from 0.9 to 1.1 yuan per catty).

There is more price information, which will not be sent for the time being. If you have any doubts, you can actually find them on the Internet.

The second controversy was the bride price (a few hundred to a thousand), and many people felt that in those days, the bride price could not have been so expensive.

For this reason, I checked at least hundreds of thousands of words...... Don't think it's bragging, because there are more than a dozen kinds of relevant records that I have at hand, all of which prove that this price has happened.

Personally, I think that the most authoritative records are, of course, provincial chronicles, local chronicles, and county chronicles, and I have found relevant descriptions here.

That's right, it's also recorded in the provincial annals.

And the words used are "general", "universal", "many", ...... This shows that the high bride price is not an exception.

In addition, in the memoirs of many people of that era (I found more than a dozen records on hand), the price of the bride price was also mentioned. There are memories of educated youths who cut in line, and writers write about it, not only Mr. Lu Yao.

There are also people who think that such a high bride price could not be afforded by the peasants at that time...... With this, there's no way to write out how to do it. It's nothing more than exchange, buying, and others.