Reborn in 1977

Having walked so far and encountered such a matter, Secretary Yang didn't want to continue further.

He put his hands behind his back, turned around and walked back, saying, "Coming out for a walk, and a whole bunch of problems pop up. I'm not looking anymore, let's go back and call all the team leaders for a meeting."

Ye Shubao followed him, "It's almost 4 o'clock. We still need to set up the sentry post later. How about calling them over tomorrow morning?"

Just then, from the village of Team 4 not far below, Team Leader Zhang's voice came from the loudspeaker, "Hello, hello, hello, all team leaders, please pay attention, please pay attention. Those who are not at home, quickly find someone to notify them. I have something to say. Just now, Secretary Yang, Team Leader Xiao, and Team Leader Ye went up the dike to take a look. The water in the river is still quite high.

Also, Teacher Chen predicts that there may be heavy rain tonight. Ah, there may be heavy rain tonight, so the flood control work must be stepped up. Quickly build the sentry posts and arrange for people to be on duty on the dike…"

Hearing the voice from the broadcast, Chen Fan's face darkened.

I was just guessing based on past experience, why did you put me on the radio?

Can't I even make a joke?

His face darkened, but the entire Lujiawan was in an uproar.

On a slope in Team 6, Jiang Lili, supporting her hoe, couldn't help but look up at the direction of the loudspeaker, her face full of surprise.

Yang Ju had already run over, her eyes wide, "Xiao Li, Teacher Chen can also predict the weather?"

Jiang Lili shook her head blankly, "I don't know."

Huang Ying also came to join the fun, wrinkling her little face and trying hard to remember, "Does Teacher Chen have any books about the weather in his study? I can't remember."

Liu Dan ran over and said softly, "I remember there are a few books about agricultural proverbs, are they in there?"

The four girls babbled, forgetting to work.

The others weren't much better either, discussing one after another.

"Teacher Chen can also predict the weather?"

"My father-in-law can also predict the weather. He said this morning that there might be rain in the next few days, but it's not as accurate as Teacher Chen, pinpointing it to tonight."

"Your father-in-law relies on experience. Teacher Chen must be different. How old is he, what experience could he have? I'd say he mostly learned knowledge in this area."

"That makes sense. As the old saying goes, 'The scholar doesn't go out, but knows the affairs of the world.' Isn't it just looking at the weather? It's nothing for Teacher Chen."

"The day before yesterday, I was still saying that Teacher Chen can repair the small water tower and get running water, that's knowing geography. Now I know that he also knows how to predict the weather, that's knowing astronomy above and geography below. He can also lead the production team to make money, can he be compared to Zhuge Liang?"

"How should I put it? If it rains tonight, Teacher Chen is Zhuge Liang. If it doesn't rain tonight, then his cultivation is still a bit short, he needs to study for two more years…"

"That's still better than you."

"Oh my, thank you for the compliment, you actually compared me with Teacher Chen!"

"Tui, what a shameless person…"

…

Zhang Wenliang couldn't help but laugh when he heard the voice from the loudspeaker, "Ah hahaha, if there really is a heavy rain tonight, Xiao Chen, you're going to be famous."

Chen Fan's face was full of helplessness, "Just arrange the work, why did the team leader drag me in."

Secretary Yang's face also lost its seriousness at this time, grinning and laughing, "So, this broadcaster really can't just pull someone over and expect them to do a good job, let alone just turn on a machine and be done with it.

What can be said and what cannot be said, there are all kinds of things to pay attention to. Ah, although Xiao Chen made this prediction, and it is very likely to come true, but you can't say it so openly."

Xiao Lie was smoking a cigarette, and was also choked just now, and has been laughing and coughing, "This Lao Zhang, I'm afraid that when the meeting is held, no one will listen to his work arrangements, and they will all pester him to ask how Xiao Chen calculates the weather."

Ye Shubao also shook his head with a smile, but defended Team Leader Zhang, "Frankly speaking, my mind is now full of Xiao Chen's prediction that there will be a heavy rain tonight. If I were to notify it on the radio, I might also say it out of my mouth, it's not surprising."

Secretary Yang and Xiao Liewen next to him actually nodded, "That's the truth."

After a pause, Secretary Yang continued the previous topic and said, "The matter of the team leader's meeting should be resolved today, and we can't wait until tomorrow. It's a bit late now, but if you ride a horse, it won't take an hour to rush over from the forefront. We can rush back to notify now, and the meeting can start at about 5 o'clock. After an hour, they will go back at 7 o'clock. The sky is not completely dark yet. Last month, they were still in the fields and hadn't finished work, so it's not too late."

Seeing Secretary Yang say this, Ye Shubao didn't say anything more, nodded and quickened his pace forward.

More than ten minutes later, the group rushed back to the brigade headquarters.

As soon as he entered the office, Ye Shubao smiled at Team Leader Zhang, "Lao Zhang, you've caused trouble for our Teacher Chen."

Team Leader Zhang was flipping through last year's flood control materials. Hearing this, he looked up at Ye Shubao, then at Chen Fan. Only then did he react, "Oh, oh, you're talking about Xiao Chen predicting heavy rain, right? That's not a big deal. The weather forecast is broadcast on the radio every day. How many times have you seen it be accurate?!"

Xiao Liewen returned to his position, pulled out a chair and sat down, and said with a smile, "It's okay if it's not accurate, but I'm afraid it will be accurate. In the future, everyone won't listen to the weather forecast and will ask Xiao Chen to calculate the weather. He is a living immortal."

Hearing this, Team Leader Zhang finally understood, and slapped his forehead, "Oh my, I forgot about this. I just thought that the commune members were convinced by Xiao Chen, so I just dragged him in."

Looking at Team Leader Zhang's apologetic eyes, Chen Fan waved his hand with a smile, "It's okay, anyway, as long as I randomly spout a few times, they will know that I can't calculate accurately, and they won't look for me again in the future."

Secretary Yang sat down in the innermost position and grinned and smiled, "Isn't your Teacher Chen's 'invincible golden body' going to be broken?"

Chen Fan chuckled, "What invincible golden body do I have? Who in the entire Nanhugong Commune doesn't know that I can't even farm? If anyone wants to win against me, they can compete with me in transplanting rice seedlings and harvesting rice. I guarantee it will be foolproof."

As soon as these words came out, the office burst into laughter.

When the laughter stopped, Chen Fan said seriously, "It just so happens that all the leaders are here, I have a suggestion."

Secretary Yang turned to look at him, "Speak."

Chen Fan, "It's like this, just now I heard Third Brother Hu say that our flood control sentry posts have to be built every year and dismantled every year."

Hearing this, Ye Shubao interrupted him and said with a smile, "That's indeed the case, but it's not troublesome. Flood control is always in the summer. Just plant a few wooden stakes, and then surround them with straw mats, put a few wooden sticks on top, and cover them with straw mats, and press them down with rice straw, that's the roof. Such a sentry post is convenient to build and convenient to dismantle, it doesn't take much effort."

Chen Fan looked at him, smiled and said, "What I mean is, now we can make our own red bricks, so why not build permanent sentry posts?"

Permanent sentry post?

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, and the office fell into silence.

They all knew that the so-called permanent sentry post was actually a brick house. After it was built, it could be used for decades. No matter what, living in such a house was definitely more comfortable than a straw shed.

Not to mention anything else, summer is the season with the most thunderstorms, especially the flood season in July, August, and September, with almost one thunderstorm a week.

Under strong winds and heavy rain, those temporary straw sheds hardly play much of a role. It is common for heavy rain to fall outside and light rain to fall inside. People in the shed are like soaking in water, and it is difficult to fall asleep.

If it is replaced with a brick house, this situation will not occur. At least there will be a place to stay.

It's just that the cost of building a brick house is too high. It was indeed impossible to build it before, but now we can burn our own red bricks, and then ask the commune and the water conservancy office for a batch of cement, wouldn't we be able to build a permanent sentry post?

At this time, Zhang Wenliang suddenly said, "Although we can burn our own red bricks, it is still unlikely to build a permanent sentry post."

Chen Fan turned to look at him and asked curiously, "Why?"

Zhang Wenliang lit a cigarette and said with a smile, "Because every year we will reinforce and raise the dike. For example, last year we picked soil for a few days and filled it on the outer dike slope to reinforce the dike.

But in a short period of two or three years, and at most five or six years, there will be a major repair, which not only requires reinforcing the dike, but also increasing the height of the dam to prevent possible major floods.

Therefore, the height of the dike is not constant, but will increase by a portion every few years. If the sentry post is built into a permanent project, I am afraid that after a few years, the sentry post will be lower than the dike, which is not conducive to observing the water level for flood control."

Secretary Yang and the others were about to nod when they heard this.

At this moment, Chen Fan spread out his hands, smiling as he said, "This problem is easy to solve. You just said that the dike's height is increased every few years, so how much is it increased each time? Estimate a number, and then based on that number, make the sentry post into a stilted structure. Make the height of the stilts underneath a bit higher, even three or four meters above the dike. That way, it can be built up, and wouldn't it be easier to observe the water level when it's higher?"

Zhang Wenliang was stunned upon hearing this. Stilts? Was that even possible?

Xiao Liewen also became interested and asked Chen Fan, "Can houses also be built on stilts?"

Chen Fan laughed and picked up a pen from the table, then drew a schematic diagram on a piece of paper. "It's very simple, just like building a small building, except there are no walls underneath, only a few pillars. Then, prefabricated slabs are placed on top of the pillars, so the prefabricated slabs become the ground, and then the house is built on top.

The sentry post is built on the inner slope, and in front, a staircase is built, connecting the staircase to the dike's surface. If the dike's height needs to be increased, it's just a matter of filling soil on the dike's surface, which won't affect the sentry post at all.

Also, didn't each team store a lot of flood control supplies? After building a permanent sentry post, the stilted space underneath can also be used. Just enclose the four sides, lay a floor on the bottom, and build it into a stepped shape. This creates a warehouse where supplies can be stored, making it convenient to retrieve them at any time."

Secretary Yang and the others squeezed behind him. After listening to him and looking at the schematic diagram on the paper, they immediately understood Chen Fan's idea.

Ye Shubao's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands, saying, "This is a good idea. Actually, the simple sentry posts we built also serve as storage for supplies, but the sheds are too small to store much. If it's built into a brick house with such a large space underneath, then a lot more things can be stored."

Captain Zhang also nodded slowly, turned to Chen Fan, and said, "Although the dike is raised every few years, it's not raised too much each time, at most about half a meter. Sometimes it's even just 'one shovel' of soil. Only when there is a particularly dangerous situation that only happens once in a hundred years will it be raised by more than one meter the following year. A height of three or four meters probably won't be filled for thirty or forty years, so it should be enough."

Xiao Liewen smiled while smoking, "If we can get cement from the water conservancy bureau and the commune, it would be good to build the sentry post into a permanent structure, saving us from building and dismantling it every year, which would be more convenient in all aspects."

Thus, in a few words, the suggestion was adopted. It seemed that everyone could foresee the outcome, having accurately predicted that Chen Fan's suggestion was reasonable.

Only Zhang Wenliang touched his head, feeling a bit disgruntled. He was still too young. He wouldn't speak first next time!

While everyone was chatting about the permanent sentry post, Ye Shubao called each team and finished notifying them in a short while.

Chen Fan didn't participate in their flood control meeting, mainly because he didn't know anything about flood control except for the suggestion of the permanent sentry post. Since he couldn't help, there was no need to stay and waste time, so he went straight home.

…

That night, in the educated youth courtyard, Chen Fan was sitting on a chair, instructing Jiang Lili on how to write a short essay. "Look, your grammar is still not right, it's 'Chinglish'. Do you know what that means? It means that Chinese people can roughly understand it, but foreigners basically don't understand it…"

At this moment, he noticed that the sky outside suddenly lit up.

Chen Fan was stunned and got up to walk to the door, looking at the dark sky above his head.

Jiang Lili quickly followed, first looking outside, then looking at him, "What's wrong?"

Huang Ying and the other two also looked up from their books, looking at the two of them in confusion.

Chen Fan suddenly held up three fingers on his right hand, bending each finger down one by one while saying, "Three, two, one."

Just as the four girls were feeling inexplicable, as Chen Fan's voice fell, a roar suddenly came from the sky.

Rumble…

A loud thunderclap frightened the girls, turning their faces pale.

Two seconds later, a cool breeze blew, and then the wind became stronger and stronger, even causing a whistling sound.

Jiang Lili finally reacted, "Ah, it's going to rain heavily."

Huang Ying quickly ran to the door, jumped over the threshold, ran out, opened her arms to greet the cool breeze, and then turned to look at Chen Fan, her face full of surprise, "Wow, can you really read the weather?"

Yang Ju and Liu Dan also followed out, circling around outside to "welcome the wind."

Chen Fan's face darkened, "What 'reading the weather'? It's been sultry and windless since noon today. It would be strange if there wasn't a heavy rain in this kind of weather."

The hilly area has uneven terrain and a lot of water vapor, so sultry and windless weather rarely occurs. Generally, when this happens, most of the time it's a sign of an approaching rainstorm. Experienced farmers can also predict rainstorms through this, so it's not surprising.

Jiang Lili suddenly giggled. Seeing Chen Fan looking over, she quickly suppressed her laughter and whispered, "When we were working today, many people said that you were Zhuge Liang, able to predict everything. Uncle Huang Wu even said that if it really rained heavily tonight, he would ask you to calculate when he could have a son."

Huang Ying, who was outside looking for the wind, couldn't help but curl her lips when she heard this, but the next second, she shook her head and smiled helplessly.

Uncle Huang Wu in Jiang Lili's mouth was her own father. There were five sisters in the family, she was the eldest, and the youngest sister was only five years old. The family was already extremely poor, but her father had no other ideas and still wanted a son.

Not to mention Lujia Bay, people in other production teams in Nanhugong community knew about this. Chen Fan naturally knew about it long ago, so what could she do?

Chen Fan's face fell, "I really don't have that ability."

Then he looked at Huang Ying and said with a smile, "But, you can go back and tell your dad that whether you have a son or a daughter, the decision doesn't lie with the woman, but with the man."

Huang Ying was stunned when she heard this, and then her eyes lit up, "Really?"

Because of the matter of having a son, her mother had always been unable to hold her head up at home, and had been drinking folk remedies that her grandparents didn't know where they found, and was often deliberately made difficult and given the cold shoulder. If not being able to have a son was unrelated to her mother, she shouldn't suffer anymore, right?

Chen Fan thought about it, but it wasn't good to explain to her what chromosomes were, mainly because she and her parents wouldn't understand, so he simply said, "There's a saying you always know, right? Men are the seed, and women are the land."

Huang Ying's face immediately turned red, and she couldn't help but turn around and want to escape, but she still stood in place, gently nodding her head.

The other three girls stood aside, although they felt that it was unrelated to them, their faces were already red at this time.

In fact, there are definitely a lot of explicit jokes in the countryside, especially when arguing, all kinds of messy words can pop out, and they have heard a lot. At that time, they thought it was interesting to watch the excitement.

It's just that that was other people, and Chen Fan, in their eyes, was simply the embodiment of perfection, so suddenly talking about suggestive jokes naturally felt very different.

Chen Fan turned a blind eye to their reaction, and said to himself, "You have to think about it, since ancient times, you reap what you sow. When did it become the 'land's' turn to choose? Your dad has always been giving female seeds, so he can only give birth to girls, how can you blame your mother?"

Huang Ying suddenly realized, that's right, you reap what you sow, you can't plant a cucumber and want a watermelon, right?

She secretly made up her mind that she must go back tomorrow and explain this clearly to her father, especially her grandparents, and never let her mother drink those messy folk remedies again.

At this time, the sky lit up again, the purple light almost illuminating the entire world.

Chen Fan quickly beckoned them to come into the house, "Come in quickly, the rainstorm is about to come down."

After Huang Ying and the other three ran into the room, there was another thunderclap in the sky.

Then the strong wind howled, blowing the opposite cedar forest back and forth, making rustling sounds.

Seconds later, a few raindrops fell first, and before they could seep into the soil, the torrential rain followed, connecting the entire world into a vast expanse of white.

Chen Fan was watching the rain happily, when he heard Liu Dan shout loudly from behind, "Ah, I know!"

He immediately turned to look at her, "What do you know?"

The other three also stared at Liu Dan.

Liu Dan raised her right hand and said confidently, "I know how you knew it was going to thunder just now."

Seeing that Huang Ying and Yang Ju didn't seem to understand, she said anxiously, "It was just now, Teacher Chen stood at the door, held up his hand and counted three times, and then it thundered."

Hearing that it was this, Huang Ying and Yang Ju couldn't help but let their faces fall.

Liu Dan was still full of confidence and said, "Because the speed of lightning is faster than the speed of sound, Teacher Chen saw the lightning first, and then calculated that the thunder was about to arrive, so he could predict it."

Chen Fan turned to look at the rainstorm outside and sighed quietly. This girl's reaction arc was really long enough. But he also felt a little gratified that she had at least learned the junior high school physics knowledge.

Huang Ying, Yang Ju, and Jiang Lili looked at each other, then looked at the confused Liu Dan, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.