A teacher friend told me this story:
Mr. Xiaowen is a teacher of a small rural primary school, and the back of the school is close to the mountain, so there are many mineral resources, and there are small coal kilns mined by private mining around the area, and there are also state-owned mining enterprises. The parents of the students are either farmers, migrant workers who go out to work, or coal miners, and the third type of family has the best conditions.
Teacher Xiaowen took over the fourth grade homeroom teacher shortly after joining the work, and according to normal requirements, he organized a class parent-teacher meeting to promote home-school contact and help him get acquainted with the children in the class as soon as possible. At the usual parent-teacher meeting, Xiaowen smoothly entered the child's speech, as always, the theme of the speech was "My Ideal". The children were eager to try, and they spoke very positively, some said they wanted to be doctors, some said they wanted to be pilots, some said they wanted to be scientists, and some said they wanted to be mayors and governors, and the atmosphere was very happy and harmonious. But the speech of a child named Xiao Qiang broke this calm.
Xiao Qiang is a simple child, although the grades are average, but the heart is sunny, hardworking, never lie. When it was his turn to speak, the child excitedly held up the hard hat of the miner's father, put it on his head very formally, and confidently said that I would be a glorious mining worker, so that the winter in the whole city would no longer be cold.
Teacher Xiaowen clapped excitedly because he felt that this was a successful education case and would also be a shining moment in his teaching career.
But the whole classroom could only hear the echo of his applause alone, no one applauded with him, and the whole room fell into silence, when a black man like an iron tower next to the child slowly stood up, raised his wide palm and gave Xiao Qiang a huge slap, and the crisp sound of the slap was accompanied by a hysterical roar: "Lao Tzu has been a coal sunspot for a lifetime, for you to eat and drink for you to go to school is not to let you be as unremarkable as me." After saying that, the parent went away, leaving only the tearful Little Qiang crying and shouting: "I am not a miner, I am a scientist, I am a scientist..."
Teacher Xiaowen told me that in fact, the benefits of the mine in those years were still good, Xiao Qiang's family belonged to a wealthy household in the village, and the family had an income of 80,000 or 90,000 yuan per year, and should have had a carefree childhood. After that incident, Xiao Qiang changed like a person, no longer communicating with his classmates, always looking at the children playing on the playground silently in a daze. Classmates in the class said that his father broke his leg when he said he was playing hard.
Later, the child's father transferred the child to a private school with a high fee for boarding, where it is said that the results are better, since then, Teacher Xiaowen rarely sees Xiaoqiang in the village, and on weekends, he accidentally encounters Xiaoqiang's family members who ride a bicycle to send him to the township training class.
Everyone likes to listen to fairy tales, hear here, according to the media chicken soup text script should be: eat bitterly, the party is a good person, the child's cold door hard reading has since changed the fate, admitted to a prestigious university to become a great figure. But we end up living in a real, real-life outcome that often doesn't have any drama.
Teacher Wen saw xiaoqiang again ten years later, that day the middle-aged teacher Wen took the child to the newly opened playground to row, and when he left, he was called "teacher" by a boss-like person. Teachers and students reunited and chatted happily, the ideal of that year is now just a joke with a smile, Xiao Qiang did not become a scientist after all.
After leaving the village primary school, he went to the private school until he graduated from junior high school, and every year the tuition, meal, accommodation and vacation training classes had to spend 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, although he had studied hard, and even gave up his favorite football and comics, his grades could only be reluctantly admitted to a private high school.
However, his father suffered from liver cancer due to long-term alcoholism and overwork, coupled with the cost of studying over the years, the family could no longer support him to go to high school. In order to see his father, Xiao Qiang dropped out of school and went to work with the young people in the village to work in the field construction site, because Xiao Qiang had a simple and kind personality from childhood, liked sports, always worked hard at the construction site, could do heavy work and never picked, and was always willing to help others. Soon he was assigned some technical work and some grass-roots management positions, and then he came into contact with more people, some co-workers followed him to undertake some small projects, and now he is also a little famous in the ten miles and eight townships, and there are projects he contracted in this playground.
Xiao Qiang told Teacher Wen that his father died not long after he came out to work, and on his deathbed, he also asked him to get ahead, he had suffered a lot over the years, and he had made a lot of money, but now he couldn't figure out how to get ahead, and the happiest days when he was a child were in the village primary school. Xiao Qiang asked Teacher Wen: I am now like this to humiliate my father, right? The teacher said: Your father will be proud of you in the spirit of heaven.
When parting, Xiao Qiang let the workers catch a small goldfish in the small lake of the amusement park and put it in a plastic bag and hand it to Teacher Wen's child, saying: Take the small fish home to live a good life, Teacher Wen's children took the small fish to the small lake and put it back in the lake, saying to the dark man that it was already very happy.