Reborn in 1977

Chapter 215: Living off the Land

After announcing the situation, they began distributing the rice seeds.

Lujiawan Village had a total area of over 5,000 mu, with nearly 4,000 mu of arable land. Each mu required 5 jin of rice seeds, totaling about 20,000 jin.

Considering the possibility of moldy seeds or other losses, the commune brought over 21,000 jin to the brigade, giving an extra five percent.

It seemed like a lot, but a sack could hold over 180 jin of grain, so it was only 120 sacks. Well, the commune also sent a little extra hybrid rice seeds, hoping they would sow them well.

Each team received 10 sacks, which could be easily transported back with two flatbed carts.

And two of those sacks contained the legendary hybrid rice.

Chen Fan stood in the corner of the threshing ground, holding his homemade drawing board in his left hand and a pencil in his right, the tip of the pencil sketching the scene of seed distribution.

Zhang Cuie rarely missed her studies, but today she joined two girls from Team 5 who were attending the cultural class, crowding around Chen Fan to watch him draw, barely daring to breathe loudly.

Chen Fan didn't mind, turning to look at them and smiling, "Do you like drawing?"

Zhang Cuie blushed and gently shook her head, "I just like watching."

The two girls followed suit, shaking their heads.

After a pause, she added, "Teacher Chen, you're amazing, you know everything."

The two girls nodded in agreement.

Chen Fan smiled and said, "The more you see and learn, the easier things become. For example, drawing involves many mathematical concepts, such as the golden ratio, the golden spiral, the Fibonacci sequence, as well as logarithmic curves, arithmetic curves, and exponential curves. These mathematical techniques can all be applied to drawing.

And drawing, in turn, is very helpful for future studies in mechanical design or electronics, as these fields require drawing skills.

So you see, sometimes learning is a whole; things influence each other. If you're good at math, it will also improve your physics and chemistry scores. If you improve your Chinese, it will also increase your understanding of humanities subjects."

Then he turned around and saw three blank faces.

Chen Fan chuckled dryly and summarized in one sentence, "In short, even if you can't attend the cultural class because you need to earn work points, don't give up on self-study.

No matter how busy you are, you have time to rest. Waking up half an hour earlier in the morning and going to bed half an hour later at night can save you an hour. You also need to learn to improve efficiency and try to use your labor time for learning."

Zhang Cuie looked at him curiously, "How do you learn during labor time?"

Chen Fan smiled and pointed to the drawing board with his pen, "Look, I'm working now, gathering material for the spring plowing report, but that doesn't stop me from chatting with you. So, you can do the same. Collecting pigweed, cooking pig feed, cooking rice, washing clothes, herding cattle, carrying water, and so on, all these times can be used. It's best to carry two pieces of paper in your pocket, where you can copy the content from the textbooks, making it easy to memorize at any time, and also record any problems that come to mind."

Zhang Cuie suddenly understood, and the two girls next to her nodded repeatedly.

After a pause of two seconds, Zhang Cuie asked curiously, "Teacher Chen, is this how you save time for learning?"

Chen Fan shrugged, "Of course."

But in his heart, he sighed lightly. If it weren't for the lack of televisions, computers, mobile phones, game consoles, novels, KTVs… how would he have chosen to learn so many things?

Besides practicing martial arts and shooting guns, which he genuinely enjoyed, and calligraphy, which he was somewhat interested in, the other things were either to pass the time, such as learning veterinary medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, or to improve his life, such as kiln firing, bricklaying, carpentry, and cooking.

It really was to kill time!

Including teaching those students, it was both to hope that they could help him in the future and to find something to do for himself.

Otherwise, turning the radio on and off twice a day would be really boring.

The seed distribution was quickly completed, and the grain seeds that had just been piled up like a small mountain were quickly taken away by each team.

Chen Fan also completed the sketch outline of "seed distribution."

Looking at the somewhat stiff lines, Chen Fan sighed lightly and muttered, "This drawing board is still not good enough."

Zhang Wenliang happened to walk by and, hearing his words, asked, "What's wrong with the drawing board?"

Chen Fan pinched the clip, took the paper off, and shook the drawing board in his hand, "This is made from a piece of wood. First, the board is too hard, and second, the surface is a bit rough. It's a pity that there are no planers for sale in the commune's supply and marketing cooperative. Otherwise, I would buy a set of woodworking tools, and I could make a better one myself."

Zhang Wenliang was slightly stunned, "Oh, you can do carpentry?"

Chen Fan grinned and chuckled twice, "This stuff isn't complicated. Last time, Uncle Huang from our team built a house, and I stayed there for two days, learning a lot from the carpenter."

Zhang Cuie asked from the other side, "Teacher Chen, is this what you said, that it can be connected to mathematics?"

Chen Fan turned around and nodded, smiling, "Not only mathematics, but also physics, especially some structural wooden objects, such as wardrobes, and the framework of houses, can all apply knowledge in these areas."

Zhang Wenliang clicked his tongue slightly on the other side, "It's just carpentry, how is it related to mathematics and physics?"

Chen Fan, "More than that, veterinary medicine, for example, also involves chemistry, otherwise, how could I make them insist on learning cultural knowledge? Without this basic cultural knowledge, even if you recite the veterinary textbooks backwards, you can't compare to an experienced old master like Station Chief Zhou. And your martial arts and gun practice can also be related to physics…"

Hearing this, Zhang Wenliang only felt a headache and quickly raised his hand in surrender, changing the subject, "Do you want woodworking tools?"

Chen Fan was immediately delighted upon hearing this, "Can you get them?"

Zhang Wenliang smiled, pointing at him and saying, "You, you don't recognize Mount Lu's true face, only because you are on the mountain."

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows slightly, "Oh, you can even recite poetry."

Zhang Wenliang chuckled, "What's so special about that? I even got first place in the literacy class back then!"

Chen Fan smiled and nodded, "Not bad, not bad, but it seems it hasn't been used in the right place."

Zhang Wenliang was stunned, "Not used in the right place?"

Chen Fan smiled, "You mean, the woodworking tools are right next to me, but I didn't see them, right?"

Zhang Wenliang nodded, "Right."

Then he humbly asked for advice, "What's that called?"

Chen Fan, "Darkness under the lamp."

Zhang Wenliang curled his lips, "You have no culture at all."

Then he waved his hand, "I'm not going to talk to you anymore. If you want woodworking tools, I'll bring them to you tomorrow."

Chen Fan was a little curious, "Where are you going to get them?"

Zhang Wenliang smiled, "The construction team! All the people in Construction Team 1 are from our Lujiawan. It won't cost anything to get a set of woodworking tools from them. They can just take a set from the unit and then go through the scrapping process."

Chen Fan suddenly nodded, "Living off the land, huh."