Reborn in 1977

From the descriptions of Master Qiu and Master Ma, Chen Fan derived several key points.

First, the correspondence university only cares about the level of knowledge, and nothing else!

This is very important to Chen Fan.

Don't think that after the resumption of the college entrance examination, the higher authorities explicitly canceled the political review, and even repeatedly demanded that local authorities not set up barriers.

But in the implementation of the above, that's another story.

In fact, with Chen Fan's current position in Lujiawan, it is not difficult to ask Secretary Yang for a political review certificate, and he will definitely give it.

At that time, it will be the college entrance examination, and Chen Fan has cultivated at least 20 college students for his Lujiawan. What a weight this is?! If he dares not give it, he will be ashamed to death without anyone else saying anything.

It's just that Chen Fan himself is most afraid of trouble. He didn't want to go back to college in the first place, so why bother to get this certificate and toss it around?

However, for the convenience of future life, he wanted a university diploma to gild (zhuang) himself (bi), then the correspondence university with the simplest procedures would be very suitable for him.

Originally, he was thinking about waiting a few years before applying for correspondence courses, but he didn't expect to have them now, which is really a surprise.

Secondly, is the flexibility of learning.

You don't need to go to class, it won't have much impact on your life, you only need to go to the correspondence point to take the exam at the scheduled time.

This is simply a tailor-made training program for him!

He doesn't want to stay in a school for 4 years, then get up early every day, go to bed late, discuss with classmates, and fight in the classroom or library…

Thinking of this kind of bitter life, Chen Fan felt a little shuddering.

What? Lying flat?

Who dares to lie flat among the first college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination???

Are you afraid that no one will teach you a lesson, or do you think there is a lack of "nosy" people?

This year's college entrance examination students are the most diligent students in the past 5000 years, there is no one!

If you lie flat among them, it is like a firefly in the dark night, so distinct and so outstanding.

The study committee member will talk to you, the class leader will chat with you, and even the student union cadres will make a duty roster, and persuade you one by one in line. If this doesn't work, there are still N people waiting to chat with you until you turn over a new leaf, and they will show a gratified smile, and feel happy from the bottom of their hearts for saving a "lost teenager"!

You said your grades are good?

Oh my god, your grades are so good without studying, wouldn't you become a scientist immediately after studying? Then hurry up and study!

Therefore, the self-study mode of correspondence university is particularly friendly to Chen Fan.

I close the door and serve a cup of tea, do you know whether I am burying myself in hard reading or enjoying flowers and listening to music at home?

As long as I pass the exam, and pass every subject, it won't take long before I get a university diploma, then Chen Fan will be a serious college student, and no one will know that he is actually just a salted fish!

This is also the main reason why Chen Fan is reluctant to leave Lujiawan. If he goes to an outside unit, everyone may want him to shine and heat day and night, and illuminate their future, just like those ten days in the health department, he was almost used as a mule.

But here, he is the Dinghai Shenzhen, the confidence. As long as he is here, everyone will feel confident. As for the usual work, no one cares whether he is sleeping or touching fish.

Finally, is the gold content of the diploma.

With the current gold content of correspondence universities, full-time students will only admire and not despise.

These days, correspondence universities are mainly aimed at people who have not been recommended to universities, and who are too old, or who want to continue to improve their education. It cannot be said that it has nothing to do with whether they can get into a university, it can only be said that it has almost no relationship.

And those who can get a graduation certificate are extraordinary. Think about it, even self-study can pass all the exams. If you enter the school, wouldn't you be a top student?

Even some unit leaders like to use graduates from this kind of correspondence university the most, because their learning ability is really strong.

How many people dare to despise this kind of talent?

So, this correspondence university, he is determined to go!

Chen Fan was full of reverie, and had lunch with Master Qiu and Master Ma, and then together with the leaders of the brigade headquarters, sent them to the carriage to the commune.

Master Qiu grabbed Chen Fan's hand, with a face full of reluctance, "You must come to the county town when you have time. After you come, go to the construction company to find me. Even if I am not there, the director of logistics is my nephew, and he will arrange it for you!"

Chen Fan blinked, glanced at Master Ma, and muttered in his heart.

Why didn't he mention this yesterday?

However, Master Ma's apprentice is the general manager, and Master Qiu's nephew is the director of logistics?

Isn't this sending performance to Zhang Wenliang and the others!

He was about to speak when Master Ma, who was already sitting in the carriage, opened his drunken eyes and said, "Old, Lao Qiu speaks, just likes to be roundabout, I am different, I say what I have to say. What, Teacher Chen, when will the novel written for our construction workers come out?"

Chen Fan "ah"ed, and said with a serious face, "Don't worry, we will take the first draft to the county in two days, and we will also ask the two masters to correct it."

Today and tomorrow are enough for Chen Fan to write a few novels to deal with it, which is not a problem at all.

Master Qiu's face was black because of Master Ma's words, but when he heard this, he immediately smiled, "I won't help you, you are young, it's almost the same if you help me. But, let me tell you, as long as your novel is well written, I will let my nephew send you a batch of gifts, I guarantee you will like it."

Chen Fan's eyes lit up, hey, there are unexpected surprises?

Master Ma was not to be outdone, "The gifts given by his nephew are also approved by my apprentice. I'll let my apprentice approve more good tickets for you later. I know that your Lujiawan raises so many chickens, ducks and geese, so you are definitely not short of money, but you must not have many tickets. Our construction company has so many tickets that we can't use them all, and we will give them all to you when the time comes!"

After speaking, he lay back and snored loudly.

Master Qiu was also drunk and hazy, glanced at him disdainfully, hum, is that all?

Then he waved to Chen Fan and Secretary Yang, "Goodbye."

Then he lay back and fell asleep.

Secretary Yang looked at the carriage going away, couldn't help wiping the sweat from his forehead, turned to look at Chen Fan, took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to him, "Here, for you."

Chen Fan came back to his senses, looked at Secretary Yang, then looked at the paper in his hand, took it and opened it, and asked at the same time, "What is it?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw three big characters at the top of the letter paper, "Letter of Introduction".

This letter is nothing else, it is exactly the one issued to him, introducing him to the prefectural committee to register for the correspondence university.

Secretary Yang smiled, "I could see just now that you must want to apply for this correspondence university, so, I have prepared the letter of introduction for you in advance, the date is written the day after tomorrow, and you will go to the county with Lao Ye and the others, and transfer there."

If Chen Fan were to go to college, or go to another unit, he would definitely not be happy. Now Lujiawan's breeding sideline has just started to improve. What if something happens after Chen Fan leaves?

As long as Chen Fan doesn't leave, he can agree to any other conditions. Just now, when he heard Chen Fan say that he would not leave even if he got a university diploma, he was also generous and took the initiative to prepare the letter of introduction, so as not to wait for Chen Fan to ask for it.

Ye Shubao also came over at this time and said with a smile, "Last time I approved 50 catties of food stamps for each of you, a total of 150 catties, and you took them in your hands, and you didn't return them later, so I won't approve food stamps for you this time."

He was talking about the time when he went to the prefectural health department in May to compile books.

Chen Fan grinned and smiled, "No need, no need, there are still a lot."

Not to mention local food stamps, he has 300 catties of national food stamps, all of which were sent by "Jiangnan Literature", so he doesn't lack food stamps at all.

At this time, Zhang Wenliang approached Chen Fan with a flushed face, and the smell of alcohol made him take two steps back, and couldn't help covering his nose, "How much did you drink?"

"Not much, just over a catty."

Zhang Wenliang waved his hand indifferently, grinning and smiling, "I absolutely don't doubt that you will be admitted to the correspondence department of Jiangnan University. You must treat us when you become a college student!"

Chen Fan looked at the letter of introduction in his hand, but pouted, and said with a face full of disgust, "Actually, I didn't say that I must sign up. Although Jiangnan University is okay, it is just a correspondence department after all,… Alas, forget it, since the letter of introduction has been prepared, then I will go and see."

Then, before Zhang Wenliang stretched out his hand, Chen Fan quickly turned sideways, folded the paper again and put it in his pocket, patted his butt and walked into the brigade headquarters.

The group of people behind looked at each other, and for a while, they couldn't tell whether what he said was true or false?

Could it be that he stayed in Lujiawan and didn't leave because he wanted to be recommended to go to college? But does Lujiawan have a recommendation quota?

Everyone looked at each other, we don't know!

…

Chen Fan still didn't return to the educated youth compound after all. He took a nap in the broadcasting room to sober up, and before he could leave, he was pulled by Secretary Yang, Captain Zhang and the others to the dam.

A group of people walked north along the dam, their eyes fixed on the rushing river water not far away.

Chen Fan looked at the opposite bank of the river, and frowned slightly, "How wide is this river?"

Zhang Wenliang glanced around casually and said, "This is the middle section, one of the widest spots. The people from the water conservancy bureau measured it last year – 568 meters, a bit narrower than the 620 meters at the water intake."

He pointed to the far front, "The bend ahead, near Teams 1 and 12, is even wider, I think it's 598 meters, or maybe 589, I can't remember exactly. But your section in Team 6 is relatively narrow, only 400-something, less than 500 meters."

Beside him, Xiao Liewen stood with his hands behind his back, still clutching his tobacco pipe, and said softly, "This river is also a tributary of the Yangtze River. There's a fork near Team 9, where the river width is similar to here, and it leads directly to the Yangtze. Then, following the river, you can reach Yunhu Lake and Gufeng County, but it's a much longer route than going by land."

As he spoke, he brought the tobacco pipe in front of him, filling it with tobacco shreds, and said, "There are three such rivers in Gufeng County, each with two or three distributaries. The distributaries are narrower, only a hundred or two meters wide.

These tributaries and distributaries, plus the main stream of the Yangtze, are all key monitoring points. Every year during the flood season, Gufeng County is practically submerged in water, full of dangers. All the commune members along the riverbanks have to be on duty, and we can't afford to be careless.

Otherwise, if a breach occurs in one place, the water will pour in endlessly, flooding not just a small area, but the entire commune, or even several connected communes. At that point, everyone will be in deep trouble."

Zhang Wenliang had already sobered up. He took off his straw hat, wiped his sweat, and instead of putting it back on, he used it as a fan, walking forward as he said, "One sentry post every half kilometer, the militia platoon is the main force, but relying on the militia alone isn't enough. Each post needs at least two groups rotating shifts, one group on day duty and one group on night duty. With three people in each group, that's six people per post. The entire levee stretches halfway around, over a hundred kilometers, so we need to deploy at least 700 or 800 people to guard the levee.

The sentry posts are built and dismantled every year. We were busy with the double harvest a while ago, and these past few days we've been building small water towers and burying water pipes. We haven't had time to build the sentry posts yet. Luckily, the small water tower was completed and sealed this morning. We'll rest for half the afternoon, and tomorrow we have the whole day to build the sentry posts. Then, the day after tomorrow, I can go to the county to sell ducks."

Chen Fan was about to ask why they didn't build permanent sentry posts. He remembered seeing permanent sentry posts made of brick and tile when he went to the levee as a child.

But then he remembered that there were hardly any brick and tile houses in the entire Lujiawan, so he didn't say anything. As for building with adobe bricks, the humidity by the river was too high, and they would probably become dilapidated in a few years, making it too costly, so it was naturally not a good idea.

Ye Shubao opened the collar of his shirt, revealing the white undershirt underneath. He was also frantically fanning himself with his straw hat, "Just wrap a few straw mats around, then get some rice straw and mud to build a roof, it doesn't take much time. I think this weather is strangely hot, it might change, and I don't know if it will rain heavily tomorrow."

Chen Fan adjusted the brim of his bamboo hat, looked up at the sky, and silently calculated in his mind, "There will probably be a heavy rain tonight, and it will be sunny tomorrow, so it won't affect the construction."

Everyone turned to look at him. Secretary Yang looked strange, "What, are you from the Imperial Observatory, able to observe the stars at night and the clouds during the day?"

Chen Fan lowered the brim of his hat and said calmly, "What's so hard to predict about that? Since the double harvest started, Lujiawan has had a heavy rain almost every week, always between 10 PM and 12 AM, ending at 4 or 5 AM. Only once did it rain for two hours in the afternoon.

Today's weather is exactly the same as the previous times it rained heavily. If it doesn't rain tonight, that would be strange."

Everyone was speechless and turned to walk forward.

They thought he could really predict things, but that was it?!

Chen Fan was very happy, though. It would definitely cool down tonight after the heavy rain, and he could get a good night's sleep.

After walking for a while, Xiao Liewen suddenly said, "No, we have to arrange for people to be on duty on the levee tonight."

Chen Fan was stunned. Was it that urgent?

There was going to be a heavy rain tonight!

At this time, Secretary Yang and Captain Zhang also reacted, stopped, walked to the river, and stared at the water in a daze.

Zhang Wenliang stopped fanning himself, put his straw hat on his head, put one hand on his hip, and pointed to the river not far from his feet, saying, "The water level is already very high, only about 10 meters from the top of the levee. If there's a lot of rain tonight, the water level will definitely rise."

"More than that."

Ye Shubao frowned and said, "We're in the middle reaches here. If it rained heavily upstream the past two days, the water level will rise and definitely rush down here. If the water level rises too fast and the flow rate is high, something bad might happen."

After discussing it, the leaders decisively decided to move the levee duty time forward.

But they didn't even have sentry posts yet, what should they do?

Secretary Yang was experienced and commanded calmly, "Old Zhang, you go back to the brigade headquarters now and use the loudspeaker to tell each team to send people to build the sentry posts. Remember to remind them that there might be a heavy rain tonight, so make the materials solid. If they haven't prepared the materials yet, use waterproof cloth to build a shed, but there must be someone on duty."

Captain Zhang nodded, said nothing, and turned to walk back.

Secretary Yang looked at Ye Shubao again, "This is the first day on the levee, and it's so rushed. You go and inform each team to get some good food for the people on duty as a reward, and the brigade will pay for it."

Ye Shubao nodded, but didn't leave immediately, "I'll follow along and take a look first, then I'll go back and notify them later."

Secretary Yang said "Okay" and didn't say anything else, turning to continue walking forward.

Chen Fan followed behind them, wondering what he could do? Continue writing reports?

Then he looked up and saw seven or eight children splashing around in the rushing river water in front of him, with a few others sitting by the water's edge, splashing water and laughing.

Seeing this scene, he immediately prepared to shout.

But before he could shout, he heard Xiao Liewen yell, "Get out of the water! You kids swimming, who told you to go in the water? Get your butts up here now!"

His voice carried far, and the children didn't dare to be naughty, obediently swimming towards the shore. Those who were already near the shore also climbed onto the levee naked.

Chen Fan looked at the few still in the water and couldn't help but quicken his pace, ready to jump in and save them at any time.

But after a few seconds, his eyes were filled with curiosity. These kids were really something, like loaches in the water, able to dive a dozen meters at a time. In no time, everyone was ashore.

Worthy of being kids raised by the water.

But praise aside, they still needed a beating.

Secretary Yang took the lead, running forward in big strides. Soon he reached the children, and without saying a word, he raised his foot and kicked, one, two, three...

The children were beaten, but they didn't cry, just stubbornly stuck out their little ding-dongs, their mouths pouting high.

Secretary Yang saw that they were still not convinced, and slapped each of them on the bottom, "Get back home, and if you dare to come to the levee again, I'll break your legs. Get out."

The children immediately ran towards the village below, their butts sticking out, laughing and giggling.

Zhang Wenliang seemed used to it, his face with a bit of complexity, and said softly to Chen Fan, "Most of the children in Lujiawan can swim, but as the old saying goes, those who drown are the ones who can swim...

He turned to look at the rushing river water, "In this river alone, one or two children used to be taken away every year. The old people said it was the water ghost looking for someone to replace it so it could escape. The previous secretary didn't believe in superstition, and one year he forcibly ordered that children were not allowed on the levee for the entire summer, and sure enough, no one died that year. Later, Lujiawan had a rule that children were not allowed on the levee during the months of July, August, and September. This is Team 4's area, so Secretary Yang is so angry."

Chen Fan suddenly understood. Secretary Yang was from Team 4, and if the people in his team didn't follow the rules, it would not only be a loss of face, but more importantly, it would be a great safety hazard, so it was natural for him to be angry.

He pondered for two seconds and asked curiously, "Then why limit it to only 3 months, why not simply ban children from going into the water?"

Zhang Wenliang smiled and said to him, "That won't work either. We have a lot of water here, with rivers, lakes, and ditches everywhere. Whether it's for fishing or guarding the levee, how can you do it if you can't swim? Besides, people can always have an accident. If you fall into the water while walking and you can't swim, and there's no one around, are you just going to wait to die?"

Chen Fan thought that made sense. Although it's said that "those who swim well drown in water," you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You still have to learn, but you have to manage the risks. By prohibiting these children who haven't grown up yet from going into the water during the months of July, August, and September, when the current is strongest and the water level is highest, you can keep the danger to a minimum.

This way, it doesn't affect the children here from learning survival skills, and it avoids tragedies from happening. It seems that the previous old secretary was also a wise man.