A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

Chapter 114: It is really impossible to take the back door openly

After buying the notebook and pen, Shen Jiaren went down from the second floor of the supply and marketing cooperative and came to the first floor.

Su Hongmei looked at Shen Jiaren who was walking down the stairs, and waved her hand while shouting, "Xiao Shen, come here."

When Shen Jiaren heard someone calling her, she wondered who it was. After all, there were more people in the supply and marketing cooperative and the noise was very noisy. Shen Jiaren really didn't hear who was calling her.

Shen Jiaren turned her head and looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was Su Hongmei. Shen Jiaren quickly responded and walked towards Su Hongmei.

Su Hongmei saw Shen Jiaren walking towards her slowly and hurriedly shouted, "Xiao Shen, hurry up."

Seeing Su Hongmei's anxious face and her urging her, Shen Jiaren thought that something important had happened to Su Hongmei, so she quickly took a few steps and walked up to Su Hongmei.

Su Hongmei saw Shen Jiaren finally approaching her, and she angrily slapped Shen Jiaren on the back and said, "You kid, why don't you answer when I call you? Why don't you respond even after I call you so many times?"

Shen Jiaren felt the remaining force from Su Hongmei's pat on her back, but she was thinking, isn't it said that force is mutual? I'm constantly shrinking my shoulders in pain, why does it seem like Sister Hongmei doesn't feel anything at all about her hand?

Su Hongmei saw that Shen Jiaren was still daydreaming, so she hit her on the back again, "Kid, why are you distracted when you're talking? Hurry up and come back to your senses!"

Shen Jiaren came back to her senses this time, and touched her back where Su Hongmei had patted her, and said to Su Hongmei, "Sister Hongmei, be gentler, be gentler, it hurts, it really hurts, doesn't your hand hurt?"

Su Hongmei looked at Shen Jiaren's face twisting constantly, but her hands kept touching her back, and replied with a smile, "What's the pain? Sister, I'm not using any strength."

"Ah!!! Sister, you haven't used your full strength yet? If you haven't used your full strength yet, then when you use your full strength, will I be knocked down by you?"

Su Hongmei saw Shen Jiaren grimacing in pain, making faces, and still making jokes to her. She knew that she really couldn't bear the strength of her hand. "Okay, stop making jokes. Next time I hit you, use less force.

Stop talking so much, I've forgotten the serious things.

"Serious business? Sister, I can't go back to the village now, what serious business can I have?"

"You are so talkative. I have never seen you talk so much before. Stop arguing with me. Let me think about it. What do I want to talk to you about?"

When Shen Jiaren heard this, she immediately laughed and said to Su Hongmei happily, "Sister, take your time to think about it. I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative to see what else I can buy."

"Buy? Yes, I remember now. My sister said it was the one from Xinhua Bookstore. She called me just now and asked me to tell you when I see you that they have a new batch of information, some kind of supplementary material, and asked you to go take a look when you have time.

I said you happened to be in the county town in the next few days, so you can go directly there. She told me to go directly there after receiving the message, and she would not leave so many for you, so you can go and choose by yourself.

After hearing this, Shen Jiaren was surprised and said, "Sister, when did you call? You didn't even mention this when we met this morning?"

"Just now, you were shopping on the second floor and I was tidying up the counter on the first floor.

Oh, don't waste time, just go over there quickly. The fact that my sister called me means this matter is quite important and urgent, otherwise she would have sent someone to tell her the truth.

Don't go shopping at the supply and marketing cooperative. What are you shopping for? If you want something, tell me and I'll leave it for you. When you come back from the bookstore, you can just pay and take it back. "

Shen Jiaren thought about it and decided that this was a good idea. She also remembered where she put the egg cake and peach cake she bought last time, so she said to Su Hongmei, "Sister, I want a shaqi ma and some biscuits, and some fruit candy."

“How much?”

"Take one pound each and try them first."

"Okay, then you can go now. I'll pack your stuff and put it in the supply and marketing cooperative. Remember to pick it up at the supply and marketing cooperative after you're done shopping, or I can deliver it to your place. After all, you've been living in town for the past few days, haven't you?"

"Ah? Send it to my place? I'm staying at a guest house, so I'll pick it up. It's on my way."

"Okay, I said I'd go to the guesthouse to give you some face. Since you don't want it, then come and get it. I'll leave it for you until tomorrow at the latest."

Although Shen Jiaren was curious about what Su Hongmei meant by stretching her face, she was too embarrassed to ask, "Yes, thank you, Sister Hongmei."

After saying that, Shen Jiaren left the supply and marketing cooperative and walked towards the Xinhua Bookstore.

When Shen Jiaren arrived at Xinhua Bookstore, she didn't know if she was mistaken or if it was really the case, but she felt that there were more people in the bookstore than usual.

Shen Jiaren was just about to stroll around the Xinhua Bookstore, looking for Su Hongmei's sister Su Qiumei, but after she had taken a few steps, someone patted her on the shoulder. Shen Jiaren was so frightened that she jumped a step, because in their countryside, it was not customary to pat people on the shoulders from behind. Although it felt like the person was patting her arm, because the arm was very close to her shoulder, Shen Jiaren was really scared.

Su Qiumei saw Shen Jiaren so panicked and even jumped a step, and quickly waved her hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Xiao Shen, it's me, Su Qiumei, Su Hongmei's sister.

Don't worry, I tapped your arm, not your shoulder, don't worry. Don't worry."

Shen Jiaren turned around and saw that it was Su Qiumei. Plus, Su Qiumei said that the photo was taken of her arm, and she felt that it was mostly her arm, so she didn't say anything.

Shen Jiaren patted her heart and said to Su Qiumei, "I would be really scared to death. How could someone suddenly pat someone from behind, and the place where they patted was so close to the shoulder?"

Su Qiumei said to Shen Jiaren embarrassedly, "I'm so sorry, I didn't expect to scare you like this.

I was afraid that tapping your shoulder would really scare you, so I tapped your arm instead, but I didn’t expect it would scare you too.”

Shen Jiaren looked at Su Qiumei apologizing to her with an embarrassed look on her face, and did not pursue the matter any further. After all, she had been trying to avoid the issue, but she did not expect that the avoidance was successful. She was still startled by the suddenness.

Shen Jiaren was too embarrassed to say anything else and asked directly, "Sister Qiumei, do you have something to talk to me about?"

"Oh, yes, didn't you ask me to buy high school materials last time? You also said that if there was any, I would keep some for you. This time, because we may be selecting rural teachers and workers, peasants and soldiers universities, we have brought back a large batch of materials. Do you want some?"

Last time I asked you to leave your contact information, but in the end you just took the information and left, so I called my sister and asked her to contact you.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, thank you, Qiu Meimei."

"Are you taking the rural teacher selection exam? We have the information here. If you want it, I'll keep a batch for you. If you don't want it, I'll give it to someone else.

This batch of materials is more popular than the materials from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. Because I don’t know what you think, I left you a copy of the high school materials that came back at the same time, and a copy of the teacher examination materials. "

"Ah! Sister, did you leave me a place for teacher selection?"

"Of course. This teacher selection is the hottest topic in our town. Previously, it was just a simple selection among the educated youth and villagers. But then someone started a fuss, saying that every village had to select teachers. People in some villages reported it to the town's Education Bureau, saying that there was an unfair deal. So now the Education Bureau has issued a notice on this matter. The town will have a unified selection, and then draw lots to assign candidates to each village. So now this teacher information is very popular."

"Ah? Has this been changed to a unified selection?

How can we select students in a unified way? After all, I remember that in addition to being proficient in Chinese and mathematics, we also need to have a talent. If we have a unified assessment, how can we select talents? "

"Hey, girl, you are still very stubborn

What? Can’t we select candidates if we require talent?

What is talent?

Being able to recite poetry is also a talent, because it can praise Chairman Mao and the Party.

Being able to sing is also a talent because it allows one to sing about the Party, the people, and the Chairman.

As for musical instruments, the number of people who know how to play them is much less now, after all, playing any instrument or singing is not allowed at weddings or funerals.

Tell me, what is left of this talent now?

When Shen Jiaren heard Su Qiumei say this, she felt that it was right. After all, at this time, being able to speak Mandarin and sing was really a talent.

After all, poetry recitation is indeed more common nowadays, and other talents are basically specially recruited from art troupes, so what else can there be.

Besides, if he really had other talents, he would have joined the art troupe long ago. Why would he still be working as a rural teacher? After all, rural teachers have to participate in spring ploughing and autumn harvest on a daily basis. If he has to take part in these two most difficult activities, why would he care about daily farm work?

So, if there is really a choice, I would definitely choose the more relaxed art troupe rather than becoming a rural teacher.

"So there are so many people in Xinhua Bookstore today. Is it not my illusion? Or is there just too many people?"

“Yes, there were a lot of people, all lining up to buy information. Both relevant and irrelevant materials were sold.

Besides, a batch of information just came back and is lined up here.

Those who line up are basically here to buy materials. I don't know if there are people who don't line up to shop here, because there are usually not many people here.

Oh, stop talking about useless things. Do you want the teacher exam materials?

"Sister, I don't want it. I really don't want it. I just want high school and things related to high school."

"This kid, why are you so stubborn? You still need high school information. You've already been sent to the countryside, what can you do with high school information?

Look at the middle school in our town, it's almost disbanded. There are movements all over the place, not to mention the students, even the teachers are being criticized and there are only a few left. Why are you so stubborn?

Be a teacher first, don't work so hard like being an educated youth, just teach first, and then do it slowly later. "

Shen Jiaren saw that Su Qiumei's voice was getting lower and lower, and the more she spoke, the closer she spoke to her ear. Shen Jiaren felt the gazes around her and felt embarrassed, so she pulled Su Qiumei and wanted to go outside.

When Su Qiumei saw Shen Jiaren's action, she pulled Shen Jiaren over and walked to the back of the library. As she walked, she said to one of the waiters, "My sister is here to see me. I'm going to the back for a while. Can you help me take a look?"

"Okay, go ahead and I'll watch over you."

Shen Jiaren nodded to the sister and smiled, then was dragged by Su Qiumei's arm to the back of Xinhua Bookstore.

Shen Jiaren felt the force with which Su Qiumei was pulling her, and couldn't help but sigh silently in her heart, they are really worthy of being sisters. This strength, this power, and this posture of pulling people away are really exactly the same as elder sister Su Hongmei's. It can't be said that they are almost the same, but they are almost the same.

After Shen Jiaren was dragged to the backyard, Su Qiumei turned around and asked, "What's wrong? What do you want to say? Do you want to go out and say it?"

"I didn't say anything. I just felt a little embarrassed as more and more people gathered around us, so I thought we should just go outside and talk. It would be more convenient this way, and we wouldn't have to talk so quietly."

When Su Qiumei heard what Shen Jiaren said, she burst into laughter and said, "Is it because I was talking close to your ear and my voice was getting lower and lower, and you feel embarrassed?

There are more and more people around us, are you a little embarrassed? "

Shen Jiaren touched the corner of her clothes, straightened them and said, "How could that be? I just wanted to make it easier for us to talk."

Su Qiumei looked at Shen Jiaren's increasingly red face and neck, and stopped teasing her. Instead, she said to her, "It's okay. Our place is small, and that's how we do things. If there's something a little bit wrong, basically everyone will know about it.

Because either your relative is here or that relative is there, any job vacancy or personnel change will basically be noticed quickly.

Otherwise, why do you think so many people bought the information we just received yesterday? Is it because our staff are efficient?

Neither. They said that there were too many buyers, all of them were relatives. Apart from each person keeping one for himself, the rest basically had to be sold.

What I just said to you outside is known to everyone and has been widely publicized.

Especially the announcement at the entrance of the Education Bureau, which has been copied and circulated countless times.

It's nothing, don't panic.

Shen Jiaren felt really embarrassed when she heard Su Qiumei say this. Normally, she was also a kind of cattle and horses before. Although she couldn't say that she had seen the world, at least she was not panicked when meeting people and things. However, no matter how calm she was, she couldn't stand the increasing number of people surrounding her. Their ears were almost sticking to her face, and some were even waiting for her to say something.

To be honest, Shen Jiaren really felt a little embarrassed. After all, this was a disguised form of taking the back door. With so many people watching her taking the back door, Shen Jiaren really couldn't go on.