Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 140 Getting Ready
Yang Xiaotao got straight to the point, obviously he didn't want to accept this favor, and planned to exchange it with benefits.

Lou Xiaoe also became serious when she heard this.

Looking at Yang Xiaotao with eyes, she felt panicked in her heart, she was showing kindness like this, why is this person so ignorant?

However, thinking of the answer Yang Xiaotao gave earlier.

She also used it.

This is very hurtful, but it is true.

Between the two is impossible.

A moment of silence.

Until Lou Xiao'e opened her mouth to break the silence.

"This dictionary is for you!"

Lou Xiao'e didn't make any request, didn't say a word, put the dictionary on the table, turned and left.

Since he wants to exchange benefits, I don't want to. He accepts this kind of favor, and he has to accept it if he doesn't accept it.

This is conspiracy.

Just to make him unhappy.

Lou Xiaoe left gracefully.

Behind him, Yang Xiaotao looked at the dictionary on the table, then at Lou Xiaoe who was going out, and vaguely guessed something in his heart.

She was easing the relationship, or showing favor to him.

It's for the future.

But after a while, Yang Xiaotao stood up again,

I feel that my over-interpretation is a bit unfounded, at least the current Lou Xiao'e is not the successful strong woman later, at this time, she is just a young woman who has set foot in society.

Country people talk, 'literacy class' one, no experience.

Picking up the dictionary, Yang Xiaotao flipped through it for a while, then looked behind the house.

Yang Xiaotao really doesn't have any feelings for Lou Xiao'e now. He just wants to get the hybrid corn thing done quickly.

Women's business, don't worry.

……

It wasn't long between Lou Xiao'e entering the middle courtyard and leaving, but it made the caring people in the courtyard think about it.

Although the two of them didn't go too far, and Yang Xiaotao didn't close the door, it just left outsiders speechless.

But no one knew about the dirty compound between Xu Damao, Lou Xiaoe and Yang Xiaotao. At this time, Lou Xiaoe entered Yang Xiaotao's house, and there was nothing in it that ghosts would believe.

You must know that Lou Xiaoe had a quarrel with Xu Damao yesterday.

A gleam flashed in Jia Zhang's triangular eyes, and he had an idea in his heart.

Silly Zhu stood at the door, holding a radish in his hand, crunching and biting, looking at Yang Xiaotao, feeling uncomfortable.

Both of them are bachelors, but Yang Xiaotao has at least met a woman, and he...

"This year, I must find a wife!"

Silly Zhu secretly made up his mind, glanced at the door of Jia's house, and added in his heart, "Find a wife who is prettier than Qin Huairu."

When Lou Xiaoe returned home, Xu Damao was still sitting on the stool and was angry.

Lou Xiaoe walked directly to the bed, she was not hungry, let alone explain.

The meal was not cooked, and the two of them did not speak.

Xu Damao's face was gloomy, and he wanted to yell at Lou Xiao'e twice, but he didn't have the confidence at all.

Firstly, he had to rely on the Lou family to take care of him, and secondly, he was not clean at all, so he let the Lou family know and sent someone to investigate, so he couldn't afford to go around.

Therefore, facing Lou Xiao'e, Xu Damao was afraid and respectful, and loved and hated at the same time. He was not at all comfortable and comfortable with the little widow, and did not have the feeling of a big man.

"Yang Xiaotao, you just wait for me, look at the opportunity, if I don't kill you, I am your grandson!"

Xu Damao felt ruthless in his heart, turned his head to look at Lou Xiaoe and immediately changed his expression, "Ezi..."

After Lou Xiaoe left, Yang Xiaotao hurriedly finished his meal, and then threw himself on the desk.

He took out his notes and began to translate each word into the dictionary.

This dictionary is far from the later generations that have several interpretations for a word, most of which are translated with a Chinese word.

Therefore, some words can be used by Yang Xiaotao, but some words need to be associated with other words based on existing words to find similar explanations.

The study time is always very long for some people, wandering outside the textbooks, unable to remember a word in their minds.

But for those who can devote themselves wholeheartedly to it, time is like passing by, too fast, and it is already late at night before watching it.

Yang Xiaotao's speed of looking up the dictionary was not fast, and he had to explain some words by himself, so after midnight, he only solved one-tenth of the vocabulary.

However, it is this one-tenth word explanation that gave him a further understanding of Mendel's article.

It can be seen from the existing data that Mendel did not only study peas, but also experimented with corn.

And this is what he needs most.

Xiaowei was bouncing on the table, and now she can absorb the energy of the light at night, which is more direct than moonlight.

"Whoa!"

Xiaowei's voice sounded, interrupting Yang Xiaotao's train of thought.

"It's twelve o'clock. It's time to sleep!"

The next day, the workers in the workshop discovered that the books Yang Xiaotao read today were a bit small, and he was still muttering words that he couldn't understand.

But those who know know that Yang Xiaotao is memorizing words.

English words.

Yang Xiaotao is learning a foreign language, which surprises those familiar with it even more.

Is learning a foreign language useful these days?

it works!

For their workers, the promotion to the eighth level is the end.

If you want to continue to climb up, you have to be an engineer, a ninth-level engineer.

However, if you want to be an engineer, you have to understand blueprints, design, and draw.

However, most of the drawings used in China are copycats from abroad, and if you want to understand them, you must know a foreign language.

Therefore, everyone looked at Yang Xiaotao with more respect.

As for jealousy, that doesn't exist at all.

Getting them to read is more difficult than machining workpieces.

What's more, I still read foreign language books.

Wang Fa and the others were also delighted. They also wanted to have an engineer in their team, which would be their bragging rights in the future.

As for the workshop director and deputy factory manager Xu, they paid special attention to it after they found out.

If this is true, it will be the first self-trained engineer since the transformation of the rolling mill.

Significant.

The two quickly reached a tacit understanding and fully supported Yang Xiaotao, even if more investment was needed, it was worth it.

Naturally, Yang Xiaotao didn't know what the two of them were planning, and he didn't understand why the people around him suddenly respected him. They all looked at him with a taste of admiration.

If they found out, they would definitely be disappointed. Yang Xiaotao hadn't thought about the engineer yet.

Maybe wait until the eighth-level fitter and then consider it.

He just wants to memorize this dictionary now, so that he doesn't have to interrupt his train of thought while reading.

Just like being forced to memorize words and memorize new classes in the previous life, even if it is rote memorization, I have to memorize it.

However, this "beautiful misunderstanding" did bring a lot of convenience to Yang Xiaotao's work. There are fewer tasks assigned in the workshop, and even those who ask questions after get off work also control the time. They will not disturb him after 05:30 and let him Have more time to study.

In this way, a week passed, and the time came to March.

In the past few days, there have been rumors in the courtyard that Yang Xiaotao and Lou Xiaoe's old relationship has rekindled.

After Yang Xiaotao heard this, he didn't have to think that it must be the fault of the Jia family.

Isn't it just to confuse him?
Seduce married women, play hooligans just because they have a little money, come to the door in the middle of the night, and so on.

Yang Xiaotao didn't have time to pay attention to these things, and after the task at hand was over, he would look for an opportunity to clean up these beasts.

As another person involved, Lou Xiaoe also acted as if nothing had happened.

No explanation at all, no anger, just go with life.

The two people remained silent for a while, which intensified the rumors, and the people in the yard looked at them with amusement, as if they were real.

Seeing this, Mrs. Jia Zhang got even worse, besides gossiping in the yard, she also went to the alley to talk nonsense when she was free.

Of course, she suffered a lot, so she wouldn't say it out loud, but just mentioned it in a vague way, making it hard to grasp.

Gradually, more and more people knew about it, and Yang Xiaotao's reputation became a talking point again.

Yang Xiaotao had heard about these things, but he didn't pay attention to them.

Apart from reading, Yang Xiaotao did not forget about Yangjiazhuang.

Before returning to the city, he knew that during this period of time, the village was starving and the villagers were half-starved.

It's okay for adults to say it, but the old, weak, sick and children will suffer accordingly.

All he can do is try his best to help the village tide over the difficulties.

With the money on hand, I bought a lot of coarse grains, prepared some vegetables and meat, and spent more than half of the credits I got, mixed in the goods, which was not conspicuous.

When Yang Shitou entered the city, he brought the things back together.

Of course, this made the people in the yard even more jealous.

Especially Jia Zhang, who wished to swear a few words outside Yang Xiaotao's yard every day.

She also knew that some things should not be scolded, so she said lightly, focusing on the origin and destination of these things.

Many people in the yard heard this, and their faces were full of jealousy.

Even Yi Zhonghai's face was full of gloom, as if these things should not leave the courtyard.

Yang Xiaotao didn't bother to respond to this.

They still have food in this courtyard at least every month. Let them go to the countryside for two years to try?

How do you know the difficulties in the world if you don't experience the suffering of others?
A group of people who don't know the suffering in the countryside, what qualifications do they have to say about him?
What's more, things belong to him, and it is Yang Xiaotao's freedom to give it to whomever he wants, and no one can control it.

Taking advantage of the weekend, Yang Xiaotao called Zhou Peng and Zhou Kui to his home, and the three of them started tidying up the vegetable garden under the command of Uncle Chen.

In the future, this will be the experimental field for hybrid corn.

Uncle Chen and the others were very puzzled that Yang Xiaotao didn't grow vegetables and corn, but Yang Xiaotao insisted blindly, and they couldn't help it.

Yang Xiaotao just said something, and didn't explain too much, after all, this matter seemed unbelievable to them.

Dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, mice give birth to mice, how can there be a hybrid of dragons and phoenixes?

Even if there is, it is also a mule. What does this have to do with corn?

The few people had no choice but to follow Yang Xiaotao's request.

The matter of Yang Xiaotao planting corn spread like wildfire.

This time the people in the compound were even more energetic, because they were standing on the air vent with Lou Xiao'e, but now the wind was high and the waves were turbulent, and everyone looked at him like a fool.

Mrs. Jia Zhang became more and more arrogant, sitting in the group of wives, she couldn't speak a sentence.

Looking at Yang Xiaotao with even more disdain, there was a faint feeling of joy in his heart.

The same is true for the people in the courtyard. They thought that Yang Xiaotao would continue to work on the vegetable garden this year, and that he might be able to change it after he got a good relationship, which can be regarded as reducing the financial burden.

But this kid directly changed to planting corn. When he grows up, should he change to cornmeal?
People say that Yang Xiaotao doesn't know the seriousness, but what they think in their hearts, it is estimated that people like Jia Zhang must be very happy.

Of course, some people tried to persuade Yang Xiaotao not to grow corn, but vegetables would be more affordable.

Yang Xiaotao just shook his head, and they couldn't do anything about it, this is their own place, play by themselves, what can they say?

Even Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong sighed when they saw each other, let alone the third master Yan Fugui.

He can't wait to grow it himself, what a great place, if it is handed over to him, he will definitely be able to grow a lot of vegetables and exchange for more money.

Now Yan Fugui came home from school, and every time he went to the Intermediate Court to take a look, when he met Yang Xiaotao, he tried to persuade him, but Yang Xiaotao didn't listen at all.

Over time, Yan Fugui lost interest.

It's just that the appearance of hating iron can't make steel, those who don't know think they take more care of Yang Xiaotao.

In fact, I just can't bear the pain.

(End of this chapter)