Keep the cold and embrace the moon
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Huang Ling
A group of ordinary people, in a small mountain village called "Jieling", are doing extraordinary things. - Caption
The book "Skywalker" begins with Zhang Yingcai, a high school graduate who came to the remote Jieling Primary School and became a private teacher through the special care of his uncle who was the director of the education station. In Jieling Primary School, before Zhang Yingcai came, there were three private teachers, Principal Yu, Deng Youmi and Sun Sihai, each of whom received a meager salary of seventy yuan, but with extraordinary courage and perseverance, they seriously taught and educated people, and insisted on sticking to the three-foot podium.
Their greatest ideal is to change from private teachers to public teachers and live a better life. In the anticipation of day and night, they finally looked forward to the good news of the turnaround. However, the matter of turning right is another twist and turn, when there is only one place to turn right, three people with the same disease pity each other, push each other, no one wants to turn right alone and leave the other two...
With hoes in one hand and textbooks in the other, they sowed the seeds of knowledge in the hearts of the students, and blossomed into beautiful flowers of the soul in that barren land.
Holding this book, there are many plots that make people cry!
In the eyes of the children of Jieling Elementary School, the most luxurious and delicious meal is oil and salt rice made of leftover rice; teachers and students actually beat barefoot in order to save shoes; poor Ye Biqiu, when the first menarche came, could not even afford to buy toilet paper...
The harsh geographical environment cuts off the connection between the villages around Jieling and the outside world, but the innocent feelings of teachers and students are constantly separated! The three private teachers in the school often use their meager salaries to help students as much as they can.
After reading the book, there were three plots that shook my soul and could not be forgotten for a long time.
The first plot: Zhang Yingcai's uncle Wan Station Manager brings a regular quota, and four private teachers, including Zhang Yingcai, have to participate in the vote to decide who the only opportunity is given. You know, such an opportunity was not easy to come by, Zhang Yingcai did not heed his uncle's kind advice, did not vote for himself, but wrote the name of Principal Yu. Zhang Yingcai thought that with his vote, plus the vote cast by Principal Yu for himself, Principal Yu would definitely win. However, the unexpected result appeared, the four people still got one vote each, and it was obvious that Principal Yu voted for Zhang Yingcai. A few simple people showed noble sentiments at key moments.
Give the most ardent thing to people, just ask, how many people in the world can do it? Principal Yu of Jieling Primary School, Deng Youmi and Sun Sihai did it.
The second plot: After a long period of hard work, President Yu saved a thousand yuan, which he planned to use as the cost of his son Yu Zhi's future university studies. Who knew that at the beginning of the school year, when the thunder and lightning were combined, a boulder that rolled down smashed the classroom, and the village chief sat idly by, so that the children would not study in the open space, principal Yu used all the money for the maintenance of the classroom. You know, in the homes of private teachers who only receive a few tens of yuan in salary every month, this is a hard-won sum of money! As a private teacher, all languages will seem superfluous, and even the most beautiful words cannot fully express Principal Yu's enthusiasm for rural education and children!
The third poignant plot is because of Deng Youmi. When Deng Youmi knew that the opportunity to turn right was coming, he handed over all his savings from twenty years of thrift to the Education Bureau, and the first one became a public teacher. Principal Yu and Sun Sihai, pouring everything they had, could not come up with tens of thousands of yuan to pay the money for the conversion, Deng Youmi looked in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. When Xia Xue's parents took 100,000 yuan to donate money to build the school, Deng Youmi did something and reached an agreement with the township construction team in private, leaving 20,000 yuan as a commission, and secretly paid money for Principal Yu and Sun Sihai. The hateful thing is that the contractor of the township construction team did not use all the remaining 80,000 yuan to build the building, but cut corners and did the tofu slag project. The matter was revealed, and Deng Youmi was dismissed from public office.
In the eyes of some people, Deng Youmi is mercenary and morally corrupt, and he should not privately move public funds. But things always have a context, he listened to the village chief Yu Shi's "point dial", only to make this decision, in addition, he used all the twenty thousand yuan for the other two private teachers in the school to turn regular, he did not embezzle a penny. No one could think of such a "stupid" thing, but Deng Youmi did it!
This book tells the pain and tiredness of private teachers, and also tells the difficulties and helplessness in the process of rural education development. The book recounts the simple Principal Yu, the fateful Sun Sihai and the lamentable Deng Youmi, in addition, there are those who live with the teachers in the boundary ridges that also make my emotions rise and fall: Principal Yu's wife, Ming Aifen, was originally a private teacher, because she lost her qualifications, she fell ill when she took the regularization examination, and finally collapsed in bed, just when she saw that she could fill out the conversion form, she closed her eyes and left this world that made her miserable for a lifetime Student Ye Biqiu has a persistent pursuit, using her free time to obtain a university diploma when she was a nanny in the city; Wang Xiaolan, Sun Sihai's "lover", suffered all her life and finally died in a struggle for political rights; even the "old village chief" who has long been buried in the soil, and the Biqiu mother who was laughed at by everyone as a "female amaranth" also made me cry.
These stories make people shocked inside, but also let people have a kind of enlightened thoroughness and sobriety, but also let people from the inside to the outside to be baptized, gradually become stronger.
The flag-raising ceremony of Jieling Primary School has no formal accompaniment music, no decent flagpole, but it is always carried out solemnly: Deng Youmi and Sun Sihai, two teachers, play the national anthem with their flutes in the gentle breeze, Principal Yu raises the national flag that has long been worn out, and the children shiver in the cold winter, but still stand with the teachers in the morning light to raise the sacred flag...
These private teachers are the "Skywalkers" of Jieling, and they are the soul of Jieling. Teachers have to send their boarding children home every weekend, they have gone through hardships, twenty miles over the mountains are small problems, and sometimes they encounter wild dogs or wolves, which is the real horror. Once, a teacher asked a girl to go home alone, the child was surrounded by a group of wolves on a tree, fortunately, Principal Yu led the villagers to arrive in time, otherwise the consequences were unimaginable.
The author's "Skywalker" is these touching private teachers, and the director of the education station in the book, Wan, once told Zhang Yingcai such a sentence, you can't touch the people of Jieling, once you get hooked, you will be addicted. That's right, I may also be addicted to the people of Jieling, they are sentient and righteous private teachers, although their lives are so bitter, but the affection is very deep. They do not care how harsh life is on them, still selflessly pay, as the book says, private teachers are to teach students as their own children, their lives and everything around them are integrated, they are heartfelt, or excited, or sad, sometimes cheerful, sometimes slow, singing: "Our life is always full of sunshine!" ”
Xia Xue, a volunteer student, left the beauty and purity of youth on the mountain of Jieling. The beautiful and lamentable poems under the glass panel record the touching years. The snow falling from the boundary ridge purified her soul, and the homework books that were carefully reviewed were the testimony of her personality. There was also Luo Yu, who originally only wanted to do a show, but he did not expect to be barefoot in the cold classroom, and finally had to go back to the provincial city to rest because of asthma, and finally returned to Jieling in another way, concerned about the development of Jieling.
The Jieling Primary School in the book is one of the thousands of rural primary schools in China, and it is as bland as other rural primary schools, with scorching sun in summer and snow in winter. Groups of children from the village walked in and out of here. There are only three or four private teachers who have remained in the classroom for decades, who have no organization and rely only on the meager income given by the township and village governments; they are outspoken, do not understand the sleek world, refuse to compromise, typical good face, impatient, but have to make money after class, in order to slightly supplement the family, improve the students' food; they love the children who are hungry for knowledge, and they also love the land that is quietly cultivated; they are old-fashioned, and they wear gowns for decades. But they will also sit romantically on the playground covered with snow, playing the flute to express their chest feelings and vent their emotions...
The image and firm gaze of Wei An are the pictures of the hero fixed in the picture frame, reading the story in the novel, the mood of the five tastes and miscellaneous chen cannot be calmed for a long time, and I still want to see the scenery around me and touch the feelings around me at the same time. You know that among us, there are teachers who give up honors, help others regardless of remuneration, are selfless, and there is no shortage of high-quality people who silently do those little good deeds.
In fact, the so-called poison of the boundary ridge is not the brilliance of human nature, giving people a brilliant and bright, such as lan rumei, like a lotus like a chrysanthemum, full of sweet fragrance, spreading in the crowd.
Dear friends, let us follow their footsteps, nurture flowers with sincerity, and surge love with a smile to start a new journey!
(About the author: Huang Ling, a national kindergarten teacher, a woman who likes to write and draw.) ）