The Fiery Era: Starting from Longxugou

"Shi'an is right. The Soviet Union is the big brother, so learning Russian will be more useful."

"That's true, but Russian is just too difficult to learn!"

"Take your time! Take more notes during morning reading, and you'll definitely master it someday!"

When it comes to foreign languages, although people believe that Russian has a brighter future, they are deterred by its difficulty in learning it!

Ding-a-ling! As the school bell rang, all the students returned to their seats.

The math teacher arrived in the classroom and began the lesson. Zhao Shi'an listened to the lecture and took notes.

While learning about this era, I also wanted to better get used to vertical writing and traditional Chinese characters.

After the lesson, Zhao Shi'an noticed that the math teacher was basically just reading from the textbook, with little to no additional information. He recalled that it was the same when he was in high school; the first year focused on building a solid foundation, and additional knowledge was only introduced during the senior year review sessions.

After thinking for a while, he put away his math book and picked up his Russian book to review.

When Zhao Shi'an was getting the books, he observed the students' reactions. Despite their constant complaining, the students were actually very attentive during class.

As soon as the math teacher left, everyone picked up their Russian books and started reviewing.

After the third lesson began, the students listened very attentively.

After listening for a while, Zhao Shi'an felt as if the sky had fallen.

When he arrived in this era, he realized that the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian had absolutely nothing to do with English or Chinese Pinyin. Not only did he have to learn it all over again, but there were also trills, hard sounds, soft sounds, and so on.

The Russian alphabet is called the Cyrillic alphabet, which has 33 letters, nine more than the English alphabet.

He looked at the completely unfamiliar alphabet as if it were a book written in heaven, and he couldn't even guess its meaning based on the English letters.

If it were just these things, it wouldn't be so bad. What really gave him a headache was that Russian nouns are divided into masculine, feminine, and neuter genders. A single word has to change into six different forms based on six cases, and verbs also have to be conjugated according to tense and person.

I experienced firsthand the torment the original owner endured while learning Russian.

Zhao Shi'an suddenly felt that English wasn't so difficult anymore.

Memorizing English words only requires remembering the spelling and pronunciation, but now, to memorize a Russian word, you also have to remember three or four variations, which is really too difficult.

The students, who had mentally prepared themselves before get out of class, were mostly sighing and complaining when the class finally ended!

"Damn it, this is too difficult! Shi'an, let's go out for some fresh air!"

Wang Zhijie grumbled and threw his Russian book on the table, then got up to leave.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Shi'an got up and followed. The two went to the restroom, wandered around the playground, and only returned to the classroom when the school bell rang.

Not long after I sat down, the Chinese teacher arrived.

"Class, today we continue with 'Xiao Erhei's Wedding.' Last lesson we talked about Zhao Shuli's writing style. He was a native peasant writer who wrote about real people and events in the countryside, and he was known as the 'Yam School.' Today we will…"

Upon hearing the teacher's words, Zhao Shi'an quickly took out his Chinese textbook. He remembered the article the teacher mentioned; he had studied it in his modern history textbook. Its author, Zhao Shuli, was a representative of the "Yam School." He never expected that his novel would be used as a textbook in this era.

Thinking of all this, he flipped to the table of contents and found that the first article in the next semester's Chinese class was Chairman Mao's two articles, "In Memory of Norman Bethune" and "The Direction of the Youth Movement," the third was Wei Wei's "Who Are the Most Lovable People," and the fourth was an excerpt from "Xiao Erhei's Wedding," which they were currently studying. In addition, there were excerpts from "The Petrel" and "How the Steel Was Tempered."

Looking at the table of contents, which is full of the sense of the times, and listening to the teacher's lecture, Zhao Shi'an understood that the reason why "Xiao Erhei's Marriage" could be included in the Chinese textbook was because of the anti-feudalism and the freedom of marriage advocated by the new society.

After the Chinese class, school was over.

Zhao Shi'an looked at the sky and realized that it was still early. He had planned to finish reading all the books for the other subjects before considering skipping a grade, but then he remembered that he still had work to do in the fields. So he packed up his things and said goodbye to the group of classmates who were studying in the classroom.

"Zhijie, Yongfu...you two study, I'm leaving now!"

"Okay, go ahead and get busy! Finish your work quickly so you can continue studying!"

"Shian, keep going!"

"Okay!"

Zhao Shi'an said goodbye to his classmates and left the classroom.

High school students in this era finished school early. There were only nine classes a day: one morning reading session, four regular classes, and four classes in the afternoon. There was no evening self-study session, and school ended at six o'clock.

Apart from morning reading, each class is 45 minutes long, with a 10-minute break between classes. There is a long 30-minute break in the morning, which is used for doing radio calisthenics.

Compared to his high school days, he is undoubtedly much more relaxed now.

Although this era had a single day off per week, and modern times have a two-day weekend, how can we expect to have two days off per week when we're all in high school? Especially for seniors, getting half a day off per week is already considered good.

After leaving school, Zhao Shi'an went straight home. Apart from a willow branch he had casually planted at noon, there was nothing else in his room.

At this time, family members should all be working in the fields, so it's a good time to go home and take some seeds to cultivate in the space.

While breeding, they can also earn money to improve their lives by selling vegetables and fruits.

As a transmigrator who inherited the original owner's memories, even though I adapted to life in this era, who wouldn't want to live a better life?

Since the family were vegetable growers and the original owner was a high school student, a highly educated individual, they could easily cultivate a batch of early-maturing melons and fruits under the guise of cultivating early-maturing varieties, and then sell them at a high price, which would undoubtedly improve the family's living conditions.

Public-private partnerships haven't fully started yet, so there's no risk in doing this.

Thinking of this, Zhao Shi'an quickened his pace considerably.

When I got home, I found Tian Fusheng still weaving baskets in the yard.

"Uncle Tian, ​​are you busy?"

"Shi'an is back. Your uncle and your grandpa are in the fields."

Your father told me to tell you that there's not much work to do in the fields, so you don't need to go after school!

Upon seeing Zhao Shi'an, Tian Fusheng relayed Zhao Youtian's instructions.

"Hey! Uncle Tian, ​​you're busy, I'm going home first!"

"middle!"

As he spoke, Tian Fusheng continued working with his head down.

Zhao Shi'an arrived at the door, pushed open the half-closed door, found the bamboo basket containing vegetable seeds, took it down, and then took out small packets of folded old newspapers and a small cloth bag. The newspapers contained vegetable seeds, and the cloth bag contained beans and peanuts.

The early spring vegetables have already been planted, and about a third of the seeds have been used.

Zhao Shi'an looked at the various small bags and cloth bags made of old newspapers in the bamboo basket and put them all into his space. It was more troublesome to organize them outside, but it was much more convenient to put them in his space. He controlled the small bags with his mind and opened them, and all kinds of vegetables were clearly visible.

Soon he collected three or four of each of the common vegetable varieties, including cucumber, pumpkin, green beans, sesame seeds, peanuts, soybeans, cantaloupe, mung beans, peas, chili peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, loofah, bok choy, radish, water radish, and winter melon.

After collecting the seeds, Zhao Shi'an took some spring water from the farmhouse courtyard in the space, soaked half of the seeds, and planted the rest directly in the space.

He wanted to use a control group to see the effects of the spring water first, in order to prepare for the next breeding!