If a person takes the initiative to abandon the decent work and comfortable life in the big city, take his wife and children to take root in the poor countryside, pay for 20 years of silent dedication, and plan to stay for a lifetime, will you think he is stupid? Or do you feel that such a noble person can only have a TV series?
But in reality, there are indeed such people. This rough-skinned and malnourished teacher Hu Zhong, his story, is enough to warm this cold winter.
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Twenty years back in time, Mr. Hu Zhong is enjoying a quiet life, he is a high-quality student of Chongqing Normal University, after graduating in 1991, he entered a key middle school in Chengdu to teach, chengdu is the country of heaven, rich in materials, convenient transportation. The couple is a dual-time worker with a stable income.
This year, the two had a love crystallization, a little girl dressed in powder. The arrival of a new life has made this small family happier and happier, and anyone should be envious.
The only thing that made Hu Zhong feel unhappy was that because of the merger of teachers in the school, he was transferred from his teaching position and assigned to laboratory management instruments. At first glance, he left the familiar podium, and his heart felt empty.
A colleague advised him: "This is so good, the work is easy, and the money is not bad for you!" This is a big truth, compared to lecturing in the classroom and working hard to correct homework, the workload after the change of guard is much less, but Hu Zhong still likes to impart knowledge to students face to face, and he believes that this is the role of a teacher.
One day, Hu Zhong saw a report on education in Tagong Township, Kangding County, Ganzi Prefecture, in the newspaper, and just because he took a few more looks, his heart flew to the campus above 3,000 meters above sea level.
In the name of tourism, Hu Zhong coaxed his wife to go on a field trip. After nearly two days of train rides, all the way bumpy tossing and turning, before the wind and dust arrived at the destination: Xikang Welfare School. The school is a boarding school, with 143 students from all ethnic groups and ages in various cities and counties, mostly orphans.
"There is no teacher, we are too short of teachers." The person in charge sighed and said: "Most of the people who come here to teach are volunteers, and the subsidy of 300 yuan a month can be retained?" ”
Hu Zhong set his eyes on the playground, the children running and playing, and their faces had two bright plateau reds. A little Tibetan girl stepped forward and presented Hu Zhong with a white hada, her beautiful eyes flashing, and asking in unskilled Mandarin, "Are you our new teacher?" ”
The child's eyes are clear and bright, full of expectation. Hu Zhong felt the soft Hada on his neck, as if he had a heavy weight, and his heart was shaken.
After returning home, Hu Zhong proposed to his wife the idea of wanting to go to Xikang Welfare School to support teaching, and Xie Xiaojun was very embarrassed: "Our daughter is only a few months old. But looking at her husband's determined expression, the kind woman agreed. This summer, Hu Zhong packed his bags, bid farewell to his wife and daughter, and went to a school 500 kilometers away, becoming the "Abba" of 143 children.
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After her husband left, Xie Xiaojun was worried about her stomach. What if he has altitude sickness? What should I do if I don't have enough to eat and wear? What if I can't work because of the language barrier?
Hu Zhong was on the phone, always smiling and squinting: "It's okay, I'm fine." He didn't want his wife to worry, let her take care of her young daughter alone, he already blamed himself, so he always reported good news and not bad news. In fact, Xie Xiaojun's anxiety had all been experienced.
When he first arrived in Ganzi, because of altitude sickness, Hu Zhong was always dizzy, not to mention that there was nothing good to eat in the local area, even if there was, he could not swallow. The school let him teach the first grade, and the curriculum was not difficult for Hu Zhong, but many Tibetan children could not understand Mandarin, and the chickens and ducks spoke in class, and everyone stared at each other.
In order to overcome the language barrier, Hu Zhong put a lot of hard work, did not understand, and used gestures to draw. He also thought of a clever trick to supplement teaching with "sugar-coated cannonballs".
No matter what ethnic group the children, they all love to eat sweets. Hu Zhong threw in his favor, bought a bunch of colorful candies, listened carefully to the lesson and did the right questions, and rewarded one. In the midterm final exam, in addition to verbal praise, you can also exchange points for candy. Spiritual encouragement and material encouragement go hand in hand, and children are excited about learning.
It's just that this trick is a bit expensive, and Hu Zhong's monthly volunteer subsidy of 300 yuan almost fills the children's stomachs. But Hu Zhongle was happier than anything to see the students' grades improve.
Xie Xiaojun's thoughts about her husband are increasing day by day, when Hu Zhong left, he said that he would volunteer to teach for a year, but after a year and another, Hu Zhong said apologetically: "The children there really need me!" At school, he ate and lived with his students, and they affectionately called him "Abba", because because of this call, he ate Chinese New Year's Eve meals at his home in Chengdu and was unstable, and he hurried back to Ganzi after the year passed.
Xie Xiaojun couldn't help it, she loved her husband and respected his choice, since he couldn't come back, then go find him herself! In 2003, Xie Xiaojun rushed to her husband at Xikang Welfare School with her daughter, who was less than three years old: "I am also a teacher, and I can also volunteer to teach!" ”
Xie Xiaojun graduated from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and is versatile, because he has always played the piano and has a pair of slender and beautiful hands. But in the humble plateau, there is no piano, but there are countless tasks waiting for these hands to do.
After personally going to the school to experience, Xie Xiaojun knew how hard her husband had been in recent years. The school teachers are weak, and after she came, she was both the teacher of the students, the mother of the students, and the school worker.
The local children have a poor foundation, Xie Xiaojun teaches a pinyin one by one, one problem after another, after school, but also to give children food, take them to the playground to exercise. At night, we should wash the children's faces and feet and teach them to tidy up. There are too many things to take care of, even their own daughters can not take care of, can only be left to the parents of the hometown to take care of.
"The water is boiling!" Hu Zhong shouted happily. The school has a big boiler, and every weekend it has to boil enough water to give all the children a clean bath. The boiler was old and difficult to burn, and Hu Zhong volunteered to take on this hard work. Looking at the black gray stains on her husband's face and the sweat on her head, Xie Xiaojun was distressed and admired.
Suddenly, Xie Xiaojun had been teaching here for three years, and her daughter had reached the age of primary school. Hu Zhong asked his wife to go back, "Just have me here!" Xie Xiaojun returned to Chengdu, the new semester began, she is the class teacher of the first year of junior high school, the school conditions are good, much easier than when she volunteered to teach, but how can she let go of her distant husband and those students who cling to her?
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"Teacher, will you come back and teach us?" "Teacher, we are waiting for you!" When Xie Xiaojun woke up in the middle of the night, she could not sleep, and she finally made the decision to go back there and fight side by side with her husband.
Xie Xiaojun applied to the school for a transfer because she learned that a more difficult school had been set up in Ganzi Kangding County, where teachers like her were needed more than the children in Chengdu.
Transferring the working relationship to Ganzi is not volunteer teaching, but really rooted in that remote place, and there is no way back.
Xie Xiaojun did not hesitate, she took her daughter Hu Wenji with her, and went to school with the children in Tibetan areas. Like Hu Zhong, she had to teach every class, and she rotated the shaft every day.
One day Xie Xiaojun had a high fever, took advantage of the noon to go to the clinic to hang up a drip, just wanted to close his eyes and squint for a while, a sixth-grade child came breathlessly: "Teacher Xie, our math teacher is gone, what about the first class in the afternoon?" ”
"How do you know he's gone?" "Everybody saw it, and his stuff was empty!" Xie Xiaojun sighed, the school teachers flow frequently, some young volunteers can not bear the hardship, halfway up to the end of the day will not quit, this semester this class of math teachers have changed three.
When she found someone for a while and a half, Xie Xiaojun could only carry the infusion bottle to the top of the classroom by herself, and when the board book was pulled, the blood flowed backwards from the tube, and she still didn't know.
She didn't tell her husband about these hardships, because she knew that his husband was harder and busier. Hu Zhong went from being a volunteer teacher to the principal of the school, and he was the first to get up in the morning to turn on the lights for everyone, and he was the last to rest after inspecting the campus.
The stubborn students refused to learn, he taught earnestly, bitterly, and even put aside the dignity of the teacher, kneeling on the ground and begging the students to listen to the lectures. Many of the students he has educated have been admitted to key universities, and under his inspiration, they are willing to return from their studies and help the development of their hometown.
From 2000 to 2020, they've been sticking to it for twenty years, with little campus flowing students, and they've been there.
In 2011, Hu Zhong and Xie Xiaojun were selected as the Chinese of the Year. People pay homage to them and call them the blooming lotuses on the plateau.
Some people volunteer to teach for the purpose of evaluating titles, some people volunteer to teach is a momentary enthusiasm, like Hu Zhong and his wife who abandon everything and silently dedicate decades or even the entire second half of their lives, how many people can there be?
Come with a heart, without half a blade of grass. Spring silkworms have love, red candles are affectionate, such a teacher is the most beautiful teacher.
Author: Linglong Xin