With a piece of candy in her mouth and two marbles, her younger sister, Dandan, stuck her butt out and bounced back and forth into a pit without causing any trouble all morning.
Marbles are a rare thing in rural areas. This is a toy that my grandfather found when he went to the district to change things two days ago. He got a dozen of them for Yang Dongxu at once.
Although full of childhood memories, Yang Dongxu obviously doesn't want to play this now, so he takes advantage of his sister. Not long after arriving at Mr. Zhou's house, several kids from the same village ran over, including Xiao Liang and Xiao Tao.
The older children, such as Xiao Wu and Da Liang, are already able to work. Now the bean sprouts have grown up and the red taro seedlings have grown long in the ground. It is time to double the weeding time, and they are all busy. He grabbed his ears and went to the ground.
In fact, when various bills are no longer a restriction, it will be more profitable to collect some things from the countryside and sell them to the city. But now farmers just want to farm, and looking at the crops in the fields is more expensive than getting a pig from the supply and marketing cooperative. Happy.
Of course there are exceptions. For example, Yang Xu's grandfather doesn't like farming and is very smart. When Grandpa Yang and Dad Yang were busy in the fields, they only went to the district every three or four days. Grandpa left his fields to Grandpa Yang Dongxu and ran to the district every day. Although he lost some weight, he was more energetic. .
Tell Xiaotao and Xiaoliang not to cry when they watch their sister play with her. Then he took out a few more marbles and handed them to the two of them. Then a group of little kids started to split up and play with the marbles very happily.
"I heard that your dad has made a lot of money from trading recently?" Zhou Yiren did not check the homework left yesterday first today, but looked at Yang Dongxu with interest and asked.
When he first taught Yang Dongxu, the child in front of him always brought him some surprises. Sometimes when he spoke, he felt as if he was chatting with an adult. Some words may sound childish, but if you think about it carefully, they make a lot of sense.
So gradually Zhou Yiren no longer treats Yang Dongxu as an ordinary child, and the two of them talk more. In particular, Yang Dongxu began to enrich his knowledge and understand the current social situation through newspapers. In addition, after Zhou Yiren's correct guidance, the conversation between the two became more and more speculative.
"I don't know the specifics. My mother hid them all, and even my father can't find them. There are probably hundreds of them. My little grandpa probably earns more." Yang Dongxu didn't understand why the teacher asked the question as soon as he came up today. This, but still answered seriously.
"It's several hundred, but it's much more money than farming. Do you think it's better to farm or do business?" Zhou Yiren asked with a smile.
"This cannot be distinguished in terms of good or bad. It can only be said that it is necessary or not needed. Or it can be said that one is willing or unwilling. For example, my father feels that doing business is not good, even if it is more profitable than farming. Grandpa and the others I think so too, but my little grandpa likes to run a business rather than farming." Yang Dongxu thought carefully and expressed his opinion.
"Yes, it's a matter of personal preference. When society's freedom reaches a certain level, people begin to choose different lives, different jobs, and different lives according to their own preferences. In this way, various walks of life are gradually divided. As the number of people increases and it begins to be subdivided, the foundation of society will become more stable." Zhou Yiren said with emotion.
Yang Dongxu said nothing and looked at his teacher in confusion, wondering why something was wrong with him today.
"I'm going to write a letter to the First Secretary." Seeing his student's confusion, Zhou Yiren took a deep breath and said decisively.
"Ah!" Yang Dongxu's eyes widened and he looked at his teacher in disbelief.
The first secretary in Zhou Yiren's mouth was naturally not the current top leader of the country in Yanjingzhong, but Secretary Wan, the first secretary of Anhui Province. The revolutionary who was the first to admit that household subcontracting had great courage and wisdom was the reform pioneer of this era.
"Dongxu, this country and this nation in front of us have stood at the crossroads of destiny. Enemies all around are eyeing us. We have missed ten years and there is not much time left for us to wait." Zhou Yiren squeezed the pen in his hand tightly and appeared Extremely excited.
Yang Dongxu's eyes widened instantly, and the hair on his body suddenly stood up. As someone who has experienced this, he understands very well how shocking Zhou Yiren's words and thoughts are at this time. If he didn’t really care about this country and if he didn’t possess outstanding wisdom, it would be impossible to summarize such epoch-making words.
Many scholars of later generations have concluded that if China had not developed rapidly in those ten years of chaos and had just kept its head down and walked, then this country and this nation would have taken fewer detours and paid a lot less price, and the entire country would have also suffered. Can become rich and powerful faster. The passion for national prosperity and strength that has been worn away by the chaotic time cannot be made up for by future generations for decades.
"Teacher, that...that..." Yang Dongxu reacted and didn't know what he was talking about for a moment. He only felt his mouth was dry and kept swallowing. Obviously he knew what his teacher was going to do.
"Don't worry, I don't want to carry the banner of reform, but as a member of this country, she gave birth to me and raised me. I always have to do something for her. I also need to do something for the people. Really If we open up and even encourage this market, its growth will make life much easier for farmers and city dwellers alike."
Seeing the shocked expression on his apprentice's face, Zhou Yiren waved his hands and laughed. He is not a reckless man. Although time is not waiting for me and he needs to do something for this country, he cannot reach a thousand miles without taking small steps. He cannot eat a fat man in one bite. Although he is anxious, he must do it step by step.
"Then you...I..." Yang Dongxu began to regain his consciousness. He was really frightened by his teacher's appearance just now.
If Zhou Yiren takes the lead and rushes forward, even if he is right. Yang Dongxu can still predict the possible tragic life, which may even affect his parents and even the entire Yangjia Village.
"Write an economic article. It doesn't need to be too grand. Just use Wuli Township as a basis and write an article about the current economics." There was no teaching today, so Zhou Yiren directly assigned homework.
Yang Dongxu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He didn't know whether his teacher was carried away by the excitement just now, or whether he forgot that he was only a seven-year-old child and actually assigned such an assignment.
"Write carefully. Although you are young, you have a good brain. Don't deal with me, otherwise I will tell your parents that you are not serious about studying." Looking at Yang Dongxu in a daze, Zhou Yiren proposed the standards for the homework.
Yang Dongxu wanted to argue, saying that he was just a child, but when he met his teacher's gaze, he could only sigh and said helplessly: "I know."
Seeing Yang Dongxu lying on the table, biting the end of his pencil and thinking hard, Zhou Yiren had a smile on his face, and he opened the newspaper without staring at Yang Dongxu and started reading.
As a student, I am good at everything and smart enough. It's just that I'm too lazy, or too unambitious. He obviously had a sensitive sense of smell for many things, but he just lay there unwilling to move, looking like he was ready to eat and wait to die.
Even if it hadn't been for a better quality of life for myself and for my sister to have sweets to eat without crying, I, a student, wouldn't have done so many things. If you can sit, never stand; if you can lie down, never sit. With such a lazy temper, he has a head with great wisdom. Sometimes Zhou Yiren feels that God is playing a joke on Yang Dongxu.
After a few months, Yang Dongxu basically knew all the words he was supposed to teach. He also knew more or less the general environment of the country and the basic situation of society. It's time to squeeze out the results and treat it as a quiz from the past few months of studying.
Regardless of thinking about how the teacher was stimulated by assigning such an assignment today, Yang Dongxu began to think hard and must complete the assignment.
It wasn't just Zhou Yiren who sensed Yang Dongxu's laziness and desire to eat and die. Yang Dongxu also felt that his teacher was squeezing him. The heavy homework every day was not just because Zhou Yiren thought he was smart.
But he had to jump down the hole he dug with tears in his eyes, so Yang Dongxu could only study hard so that Zhou Yiren could not find a suitable excuse to speed up. Therefore, this homework must be completed beautifully, otherwise he may not be able to live in peace in the future. .
At the same time, after being stimulated by his ambitious teacher for several months, Yang Dongxu's idea of being unified behind closed doors and caring about spring, summer, autumn and winter has somewhat changed.
Instead of just working hard and dying, it is also good to use some of your foresight and knowledge to do things that benefit the country and the people. After all, if you propose a direction by yourself, it requires practice and experience many times. And he can save a lot of national resources just by mentioning it.
Thinking about it, Yang Dongxu held the pencil and wrote it out stroke by stroke. If he only writes economic opinions, Yang Dongxu still has two brushes. Recalling the economic systems and economic models in his previous life, there are countless things to write about.
Of course, we cannot write them all out. Proposing a three-year plan or even a one-year plan will be the driving force for the progress of the times. To start a ten-year or even twenty-year plan all at once is to court death. The country does not yet have five-year or ten-year plans. If you write a twenty-year plan, either the manuscript will be thrown into the trash can, or you will go directly to a mental hospital.
Frowning and writing the beginning, Yang Dongxu slowly found his groove, and then wrote faster and faster. When his sister Dandan came to pull him over and said that she was hungry and wanted to go home for dinner, Yang Dongxu had already checked twice.
"Teacher, it's done. I'll go home and eat first." He just wrote an article, which was only about a thousand words. He used to practice calligraphy more than this amount, but Yang Dongxu felt more tired than studying for a week. He handed the things to his teacher, and he took his sister's hand and left the farm tool house.
Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Zhou Yiren took Yang Dongxu's homework over. He took a look at the clean and regular handwriting and nodded. The teaching results in the past few months were good, and then he started to read the content bit by bit.
Watching Zhou Yiren's somewhat stooped body begin to sit up straighter, the look on his face became more and more serious.
