Chapter 116 Got the diploma
So the study time was changed to one hour, and I started studying after dinner. An hour later, Xia Chan and Xia Qi set off, to the fields, ditches, ponds... Xia Qi took Xia Chan everywhere, I visited almost every place with water in the entire commune.
The elementary school was originally supposed to have a holiday in mid-July, but due to the heavy rain, the time was delayed. After the situation stabilized, the school started normal classes, and the final and graduation exams were all postponed.
Today is the day of the fifth grade primary school graduation exam.
When Xia Chan came to school in the morning, her four brothers also came with her, because Xia Chan had already signed them up for the final exam.
The test papers were brought over by the teacher from the commune primary school, and the invigilator was also a teacher from the commune primary school. There was one desk per person, and the teacher walked back and forth, inspecting, and was very strict, comparable to the college entrance examination.
In fact, it is because of distrust and contempt for rural primary schools that I want to find something wrong.
But I'm sorry, I can only disappoint them.
Although this is just a rural primary school, and the teachers’ salaries are not as good as those in commune primary schools, several teachers teach the students very well, and no one does any evil things, especially the fifth grade students, some of whom are already in their teens. Naturally, he understands the truth and knows right from wrong, and it is impossible for him to do anything that would bring shame to the school.
In this era, primary schools only had two main subjects, and only two subjects were tested in the exam. It ended in half a morning. After that, the teachers from the commune primary school marked the test papers and left. Principal Song took care of the rest. .
Xia Chan's four brothers all got good grades and successfully obtained their primary school diplomas. Although they are not considered educated people yet, they have taken a big step towards becoming educated people.
After getting the primary school diploma, it was natural to take junior high school courses. It happened that all the textbooks Xia Chan used before were still there, and none of them were lost. In addition, Xia Chan went to the scrapyard to pick up some books and went to the bookstore. I bought books, so there is no shortage of books at home.
But before going to junior high school, Xia Chan decided to cook a delicious meal to reward her brothers.
So early the next morning, after her brothers left for work, Xia Chan started to prepare. She packed up the crayfish first. The heads of crayfish were not edible anyway, and keeping them would take up space. She didn't ask for the heads. , only took off the crayfish tails, removed the shrimp lines, and packed up almost a whole tub of crayfish tails, which is estimated to weigh 20 to 30 kilograms. It can be eaten to your heart's content.
Then they processed the eels and loaches. After cleaning them, they put a plate of each for lunch, and put the rest on the dustpan to dry, so that they could be dried and sent to Su Yu and Xiao Yunfan.
Dried loach and eel are stir-fried and taste quite good, just like salted fish.
Twenty or thirty kilograms of crayfish could not be cooked in one pot, so Xia Chan cooked them separately, one pot for spicy crayfish, and another pot for garlic crayfish. After the garlic crayfish was ready, she directly used it. I put a few portions in big oil paper bags and planned to give one to the cowshed, the team leader and Qin Hongmei's family when I went down the mountain, so that they could taste it and know that crayfish are edible. In the future, in the summer, their meals will be Just add a dish.
There are a lot of these things in the wild, so Xia Chan is not afraid of others snatching them from her.
Everyone can only eat this thing in the summer, but she can put it in the space to store it, so that she can eat it all year round.
There are many kinds of vegetables this season. Although the vegetables grown in the yard were covered with mud and disappeared, the taro stubbornly grew new leaves, and the vegetables planted by Xia Cicada on the mountain are now growing gratifyingly after the heavy rain. .
Therefore, Xia Chan's family had a variety of vegetables to eat every day. Her brothers had long discovered that Xia Chan had a secret that she didn't tell them, but they all tacitly pretended that they didn't know about it and didn't ask anything about it. Anyway, as long as Xia Chan is fine.
When the brothers came back from work, they washed their hands and faces, walked to the dining table, and were very surprised to see so many dishes on the table.
"Try to see if the crayfish I made is delicious." Xia Chan reached out and picked up a spicy lobster tail, peeled the shell in front of them, took out the meat of the tail, put it in her mouth, and ate it with satisfaction, " The meat is so firm, spicy and delicious! ”
Seeing Xia Chan eating so deliciously, the brothers couldn't help but drool, so they all sat down, picked up their chopsticks and started eating.
The five of them finished both flavors of lobster tails. Except for the few kilograms that Xia Chan packed for others, they each ate several kilograms, and they still felt that it was not enough!
Jin Pengyuan said excitedly, "I didn't expect this thing to be so delicious. Then I will go out with you to catch it tonight."
"Okay, you can all go, but one person has to stay at home to look after the house." There is more power in numbers, and more people will gain more. Naturally, Xia Chan will not refuse, "The four of you have agreed, anyway. Someone has to stay at home every night to look after the house.”
"Okay." The brothers agreed readily.
After finishing the lobster tail, we went to eat the braised eel. The good brothers cheered again and repeatedly said that they were going to catch eels tonight.
Seeing her brothers look so happy, Xia Chan knew that today's meal had gone deep into their hearts. No one was engaged in breeding now, and they could only eat it for a period of time in the summer, but she had space and had nothing to do, so she could take advantage of it. Now when the weather is hot, wash some more and store them in space. When the weather is cold in winter, take them out and cook them directly, so you don’t need to touch the water again.
When going to class in the afternoon, Xia Chan went around to the cowshed and gave the old man a pack of garlic lobster tails. She told him to just peel the shells and eat the meat inside. Then she gave a pack to the captain's family and Qin Hongmei's family each.
The brigade leader's family has a larger population, so his family's portions are larger. Qin Hongmei's family only has four members, so the portions are smaller.
After that, whenever the weather was nice, Xia Chan and her brothers would go out to catch eels and crayfish at night. The brothers were gone for two days, but they couldn't bear to have Xia Chan running around outside every night, so they let Xia Chan stay at home.
Xia Chan handled the crayfish at home. She cleaned the crayfish, took out the tails, and removed the shrimp threads. Then she packed the crayfish one by one and stacked them neatly in the bamboo basket.
There were also eels, loaches, field snails and small snails. She cleaned them all, processed them, and then moved them into the space to preserve them. She didn't need to put them in the refrigerator because they could just be placed in the room.
Xia Chan doesn't plan to sell these things at this season. She will wait until winter when supplies are scarce, or sell cooked food directly, which will make more money.
After the primary school graduation exam, it was summer vacation, and Xia Chan also had summer vacation. However, because the crops were destroyed and the newly planted ones had not yet been harvested, the village was not very busy. The team leader organized a group of strong people in the village. Work to build roads.
(End of chapter)