The Fiery Era: Starting from Longxugou

Seeing that even with land, life was still difficult, Zhao Shi'an's desire to cultivate high-yield crops grew stronger.

By using space breeding, the seeds cultivated can not only improve the lives of families, but also benefit the whole country. Even if the yield increases by only 1%, it can feed many more people given the large population of the country.

Agriculture was in the mutual aid society era at that time. The primary cooperative system had just begun to be promoted. Most farmers and vegetable growers worked independently. After paying the grain tax, the rest was their own.

Agricultural taxes are also low, mostly around 10% to 15%.

With high-yield seeds, the profits from farming will inevitably increase significantly.

Even at the primary stage of society, the family's harvest can be even greater.

In the primary cooperative, land was contributed as shares plus labor points; the more land and the more people a family had, the more dividends they received.

The family's 2.2 mu (approximately 0.8 hectares) vegetable plot is considered above average among vegetable farmers in Longxugou. With the high-yield vegetable seeds they provide themselves, their income can be significantly increased.

In this way, he will have to pass the college entrance examination this year, study at the university for more than half a year, and bring some high-yield vegetable seeds home. He can also explain it by his own research results or the new varieties of the school.

The promotion for the beginner's club has already begun, and it is estimated that by the end of the year, they will also be transformed from a mutual aid club into a beginner's club.

If you wait until your senior year of high school to take the college entrance exam and go to university, it will be a bit too late.

Compared to grains, vegetables, which have a shorter growth cycle, are obviously much easier to cultivate. If space breeding is used, the results will be even faster. After the family achieves high yields and increased income, not only can they help the surrounding vegetable farmers live a better life, but they can also gain fame. It will also make future research much smoother.

Zhao Shi'an thought it was feasible more and more, but before that, he had to understand what high school students learned in this era.

A batch of vegetable seeds also needs to be placed in the space for planting, so that it will not interfere with studying or affect breeding.

Having made up his mind, Zhao Shi'an lay down on the warm kang (heated brick bed), pulled the tattered quilt around him, and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, it was his younger sister who was calling him to get up.

"Big brother, get up and go to school right now!"

"What time is it?"

Zhao Shi'an opened his eyes, saw the little girl, and asked.

"I don't know, my second brother asked me to call you, he just left!"

Zhao Xiaoyue shook her head.

"knew!"

As Zhao Shi'an spoke, he sat up and crawled out of the warm quilt. His family was so poor that they didn't even have a calendar, let alone a clock. He could only go to school by feeling. After going for a long time, he had learned from experience.

After putting on his shoes, Zhao Shi'an pinched his little sister's cheek. The little girl had very little flesh on her cheeks, so they felt rather ordinary to the touch. Her face was sallow, her chin was a bit pointed, and her hair was dry and yellow. She was a real "yellow-haired girl".

Looking at his younger sister, Zhao Shi'an felt a pang of pity and stuffed the egg he hadn't eaten at lunch into her hand.

"Big brother, what's this?"

Zhao Xiaoyue felt something in her hand, looked down and found it was an egg, and looked at her older brother with great surprise.

"Here you go, don't tell Mom, I'm going to school."

Zhao Shi'an gave her a word of advice, patted the little girl's head, and then turned to go to school.

"Big brother, let me take you!"

Upon hearing her older brother's words, Zhao Xiaoyue quickly hid the eggs in her arms and ran out.

"Alright, alright, let's go home now! We'll be at school soon if you take me any longer."

Zhao Shi'an looked at the little girl who had followed him all the way and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Then you go to school, big brother! I'm going home."

Hearing her older brother's words, Zhao Xiaoyue reluctantly stopped walking.

"Alright! Let's go back now!"

Zhao Shi'an waved to the little girl and walked quickly towards the school.

After walking a few steps, No. 11 Middle School came into view.

The distance from home to school is very short, only five or six hundred meters. He has never attended a school this close in elementary school, let alone high school.

The full name of No. 11 Middle School is Beijing No. 11 Middle School. It is a complete secondary school, including junior high school and senior high school.

Founded in September 1950, the school was the first public full secondary school established after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

No. 11 Middle School can be described as a school specifically established for children from poor families.

As early as February 1950, the mayor of Beijing announced in his annual work plan report that:

"It is proposed to establish a municipal middle school in the outer city where the working people live in large numbers and there is no municipal middle school."

In June, the Municipal Bureau of Education decided to establish a new ordinary middle school in the southern part of the city, with the school site located in the Yaowang Temple.

In September of the same year, No. 9 Middle School was officially established.

In its early days, the school had only six classes, including four junior high classes and two senior high classes, with a total of less than three hundred teachers, students and staff.

Now, more than three years later, the junior high school has increased to more than a dozen classes, with an average of three or four classes per grade, while the senior high school has increased to seven, with three classes in the first year of senior high school and two classes each in the second and third years.

Thinking of this information, Zhao Shi'an walked closer and saw the school gate. It was an old temple gate made of gray bricks with a black wooden frame and no other decorations. There was only a school sign with white background and black characters, which read: Beijing No. 11 Middle School.

There is an old locust tree on one side of the entrance, with its branches stretching out diagonally.

Upon entering the temple gate, the bell and drum towers stand silently on either side, and the shadows of old locust trees sweep across the blue brick path.

The front yard is small, and you can see the whole thing at a glance. Several rows of red brick bungalows and classrooms are neatly arranged. They are all converted from the halls of an old temple, and white paper is pasted through the wooden window lattices.

After passing through the front yard, you arrive at the middle yard, which is the playground and the main activity area for students.

The playground is several times smaller than a standard 400-meter track, and it was only after the teachers and students worked together to level and spread lime that it was built.

The playground was an earthen playground, without cement or a plastic track, but it was covered with a lot of cinders and had two simple basketball hoops.

After passing through the middle courtyard and arriving at the back courtyard, the "May 1st Hall" came into view.

This is the auditorium, the venue for important school events.

Zhao Shi'an arrived at the Wuyi Hall, where the vermilion plaque gleamed in the sunlight!

It is said that the name of Wuyi Hall was inscribed by the then deputy mayor and historian when the No. 11 Middle School was founded.

The two-story building to the east of the auditorium houses the school's library and physics and chemistry laboratories.

The main building of Yaowang Temple is a three-section main hall. After entering the school, the front hall, the east and west side halls, the south side bungalows and the middle hall are all junior high school sections.

The east and west courtyards of the central hall belong to the first and second year students.

The side hall on the west side of the rear hall belongs to the senior high school students. It is the quietest place in the school and is very suitable for preparing for the college entrance examination. The high school teachers' offices are also located here.

After the tour, Zhao Shi'an had a clear understanding of No. 11 Middle School.

Zhao Shi'an returned to the Intermediate People's Court and went straight to the classroom, where he ran into Wang Zhijie again.

"Hey, Shi'an, you're here? How did it go? Did you take a nap at noon?"

"She's asleep, don't worry! She definitely won't doze off this afternoon."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Shi'an made a solemn pledge.

"That's good! We have Russian class this afternoon, and everyone's Russian isn't very good to begin with. If we fall asleep in class, the Russian teacher will definitely be even angrier!"

"Ugh! Russian is hard to learn, and the teacher's lectures sound like an old monk chanting sutras, just a constant buzzing. Even if you're not sleepy, you'll get sleepy listening to it."

Zhao Shi'an was startled upon hearing this. He had almost overlooked the fact that Russian was the primary foreign language learned in this era. He was only so-so at English, let alone the more difficult Russian.