Chapter 89 People are very smart

Perhaps they are stimulated by the goose meat. In recent days, people have been going to the Dongla River to look for it, hoping to catch a goose and try it.

In their view, the method used by Wang Manyin and Wang Yanqiang is not a secret. All they need to do is get a needle and catch a loach...

In short, as long as you have the hands.

It's a pity that people are disappointed. Now there is not even a single wild goose feather to be seen by the Dongla River.

The Loess Plateau is just a resting place for wild geese during their migration. After being frightened, they had already flown further north. How could they be stupid enough to stay where they are?

Wang Lianshun saw that Zhao Jianhai could not count on him, so he convened a meeting with members of the second team the next day to discuss officially starting to check the dam.

Without Zhao Jianhai, everyone became very casual.

Of course, Xie Shouzheng was the main one talking, and others kept putting forward various opinions.

There are two issues that everyone is most concerned about: how to ensure that the earth dam will not be washed away, and the second is how to solve the problem of water seepage.

Don't think that ordinary people are stupid and don't know the benefits of check dams...the key is that you may not get the benefits just by looking at them.

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

However, facing Lan Hua's expectant gaze, he could only bite the bullet and take the textbook. Although he didn't know how to do it, according to his memory, his predecessor had learned it.

This couple was pretty awesome. They stayed up most of the night, sitting on the kang and playing with the abacus.

If other people in the village knew about it, they would probably say there was something wrong with their brains.

If the beads on the bottom are filled with 5, they will advance to 1, and if the beads on the top are filled with 2, they will advance to 1. If you are not proficient at the beginning, it is easy to become more and more confused as you calculate.

Once you become proficient, memory becomes instinctive.

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

"A soldier used his rest time to give haircuts to poor and lower-middle peasants. He gave 240 haircuts in the first half of the month and 270 people in the second half of the month. How many poor and lower-middle peasants did he have haircuts in total in one month..."

In fact, I tried to find as many sources of information as possible to support every detail.

As expected, a lot of locusts swarmed inside.

Jar Village is slightly better, but not much better.

My body keeps going back and forth, so I have been writing this book relatively slowly, and I don’t have a single chapter on hand at the moment. I will stay up late tonight and see if I can write out two chapters.

There is more price information, which will not be published for the time being. If you have any doubts, you can actually look it up online.

Things that are of no benefit, if you can make a fool of yourself, you will naturally make a fool of yourself.

Years ago, Wang Manyin met old man Du who was herding sheep in Shichuan Village by the river. When the two chatted, the other man said that he had lived for more than fifty years and went out to beg for food almost every year.

In the end, no one objected anymore, but the enthusiasm seemed to be rising.

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

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

As far back as I can remember, it was only two years when the crops in the fields were good that I didn’t beg for food.

Wang Manyin fiddled with it a few times and really got a feel for it.

However, the weather in the Loess Plateau is so bad that there are very few years without drought or floods. If you really have no food, you can only go out to beg for food.

To give the simplest example, some people questioned that the price of local chickens is too expensive. I found the prices from at least a dozen memoirs. The prices are naturally not uniform and are divided into supply and marketing cooperative purchase prices (supply and marketing cooperatives loudspeaker broadcast chicken collection, 3

cents per catty,) and black market prices (black market live chicken prices fluctuate between 0.9-1.1 yuan/catty).

Things have not been going well for me since I started the book. At the beginning, no one read the book, and I almost dropped it.

Wang Manyin came from a later generation and naturally knew nothing about abacus.

"Man Yin, are you back? I'll bring you foot-washing water." Lanhua stood up hurriedly and said.

Mathematics was easier. Wang Manyin only taught how to write Arabic numerals.

The same goes for the abacus.

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

My predecessor graduated from a high school and was pretty good at mathematics. I just used the abacus less in recent years, but I still have a good foundation.

From the beginning to the end of the entire mobilization meeting, no one said a few words, let alone shouted any slogans, and the members easily agreed, and they spoke from the bottom of their hearts.

Nothing but familiarity with your hands.

Wang Manyin stumbled at the beginning, but as the explanations were given, he also fumbled and learned, and the beads on the abacus began to crackle.

But Orchid never relaxes its requirements on itself.

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

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

After all, if you let orchids compete in this aspect, your husband will easily become weak.

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

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Well, if nothing else happens, it may be on the shelves tomorrow. Please place an initial order in advance. I hope everyone can support it.

Before it goes on the shelves, let me say a few words from my heart.

In more than a month, when there are frogs in the Dongla River, catching a few and raising them in space may solve the fundamental problem.

"Our sales agency collects bits and pieces of numbers every day. It's too troublesome to add, add, and subtract using a book... I heard it's more convenient to use an abacus. Man Yin, you're here at the right time. Tell me how to use an abacus.

I practiced according to the instructions in the book...the more I practiced, the more confused I became."

At first he checked the accounts, but later when he saw that there were no mistakes, he completely became the hands-off shopkeeper.

Ever since Orchid learned to use Arabic counting, Wang Manyin has handed over the inventory of the consignment points to the other party every night.

But in times of famine, this can be life-saving.

This is definitely a skill.

He wondered whether he could take advantage of his wife's opportunity to learn and pick up abacus again, pretending that he had too many skills and was not overwhelmed.

"Don't be busy, I'll do it myself. Why are you starting to make an abacus again?" Wang Manyin asked curiously.

In the past few months, the supply and marketing cooperative has also sent people to verify the accounts, and there has been no error at all.

The same goes for my mother-in-law.

After catching the locusts and feeding the poultry and livestock in the space, he Shi Shiran walked to the side of the field.

If you need to use explosives and detonators to dig into the mountains, collect soil and stones... the team will pay for it, and ask Wang Yanqiang to contact and purchase it.

As for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, this orchid can do it... It sounds amazing. Even though many aunties in Gujing Village are illiterate now, they know it in their hearts and can calculate all accounts smoothly.

Now look at what this means, Lanhua is starting to attack Abacus again?

See what you can get, why not go to heaven!

After a few days, the fever subsided, but the key point was that the cough never stopped.

It doesn't matter if the year is good and the weather is good. After all, there is a "three hundred and six" question, and no matter how much food falls into the hands of the members, there will still be a certain amount.

There is no other way, we can only temporarily adopt this stupid method.

Except for a period of time in the beginning, when he taught some simple glyphs, strokes and pinyin, later on he was basically in a free-range state, relying on others to learn everything by themselves.

In fact, as long as you memorize the abacus formula, the rest is to practice hand speed and memorization. It seems that there is nothing difficult to achieve when the mind and hand are united.

Wang Manyin admired his mother-in-law's enthusiasm for learning.

In fact, I can’t get up quickly... I am not from that era. For some daily details, I can only look up information and restore them as much as possible.

During this period, I had two chest X-rays taken in the hospital. They both said that there was inflammation in the lungs, but it was not serious. It was a matter of personal constitution and the recovery was relatively slow.

Again, don’t treat ordinary people as fools. They have their own wisdom and judgment. As long as the interests are clearly explained and people see the real benefits, they will do it spontaneously without mobilization from above.

It's like Wang Manyin once learned Wubi, but couldn't remember the root characters at first. When typing, he always fumbled with the keyboard, reciting it in his mind, and it took him a long time to type out a word.

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

Xie Shouzheng was very patient. He explained the problems of the members one by one and explained them clearly to everyone.

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

For this purpose, I checked at least hundreds of thousands of words of information... Don't think it's bragging, because I have more than ten related records on hand, all of which prove that this price happened.

Around December 15th, I suddenly started to have a fever. I couldn’t buy an antigen test at that time, so I drank antipyretics in a daze.

If the check dam is really completed, it will bring more than ten acres of good river land to the second team.

I took a lot of medicine, and I am still taking it now. I don’t know when I will fully recover.

The second thing that caused controversy was the price of the bride price (a few hundred to a thousand). Many people felt that in that era, the bride price could not be so expensive.

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

If these two problems are not solved, and you end up working in vain for several months, you might as well just quit.

I turned a random page and saw that the math questions were very characteristic of the times.

In addition, when talking about building an earth dam, according to Xie Shouzheng's design, it is actually an earth-rock dam.

Yes, it is also recorded in the provincial annals.

Moreover, the words used are "general", "common" and "many"... This shows that high betrothal gifts are not an exception.

In addition, the price of betrothal gifts was also mentioned in the memoirs of many people of that era (I found more than a dozen records). There are memories of educated youths who jumped in line, and they were written by writers, not just Mr. Lu Yao.

Some people think that such a high betrothal gift was impossible for farmers to afford at that time... In this case, there is no way to write down the operation method. It is just exchange, purchase, and other things.
Chapter completed!