Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

Delightful!

Gu Siwei was in a really good mood at the moment. Even though he was braving a little snow, he had a smile on his lips. He stepped here and patted there with satisfaction, as if he had done something extraordinary. of.

After turning around, Gu Siwei came to the door of a house.

"Fourth dimension, fourth dimension, what's going on outside with such heavy snow? Come inside."

"Teacher Tang? Didn't you go home for the New Year?" When Gu Siwei saw the person who greeted him, he smiled and came to the door of his yard.

This is a teacher from the school. His surname is Tang. What is his real name? Gu Siwei was a little stuck for a moment. People are like this. If a name is not used all the time, most people just can't remember it. Now everyone in Zhuangzi calls this Teacher Tang. , as time went by, no one remembered the real name.

Teacher Tang was one of the first teachers to come to Zhuangzi. He had been persecuted before and did not get his treatment right away. Later, when the Sixth Team came to find a teacher, they just said that Teacher Tang, who was in charge of food, came over.

Teacher Tang smiled and waved to Gu Siwei: "Home? What home? This is my home~!"

Gu Siwei saw that Teacher Tang was so polite, so he walked into the courtyard. The courtyard where Teacher Tang lives now is still the courtyard that the original villagers did not want. After simple repairs, it was given to the new teachers.

As soon as he reached the door of the house, Gu Siwei saw another woman who was about ten years old and about the same age as Teacher Tang emerge from the house. Gu Siwei was stunned for a moment when she met her.

Teacher Tang introduced Gu Siwei: "I love you."

"Hello!"

Gu Siwei greeted this person politely, but deep down he was murmuring: Didn't Teacher Tang's lover pass away long ago? Where does this come from?

But this is a family matter, and Gu Siwei has to keep it in mind if he has any questions, otherwise he would just open his mouth and say it, which would be a fool's errand.

Before Gu Siwei could ask, Teacher Tang started to explain.

Only then did Gu Siwei realize that this person was living together with Teacher Tang. She was a widow from the village where Teacher Tang was sent to the countryside. This person was also a hard-working person. After she got married, her father-in-law died in the first year. After her husband died in 1998, everyone in the family thought she was a lost star and kicked her out.

I was driven out and wanted to go back to my parents' home. It was fine at first, but it didn't take long for my nose to be different, and my sisters-in-law to say weird things.

Next, Teacher Tang took over and the two of them lived together.

It was also because of this that Teacher Tang and his sons and daughters working in the county were also unhappy. The sons and daughters felt that Teacher Tang had embarrassed them. He had made them suffer before, and now he married such a young stepmother. He embarrassed himself, so one can imagine his attitude towards Teacher Tang.

It's normal for Gu Siwei not to know, because this happened two days ago. Not to mention Gu Siwei, I'm afraid some of those quick-talkers on Zhuangzi don't know about it.

Now Gu Siwei knows that this girl's name is Yu Huizhen, she is just twenty-four years old this year, almost twenty years younger than Teacher Tang.

"Huizhen, give Director Gu a glass of water." After Teacher Tang finished speaking, he said to his embarrassed wife next to him.

well!

Yu Huizhen responded and turned around to pour water for Gu Siwei.

Gu Siwei said quickly: "Sister-in-law, no, no, no, I just came over after dinner at home, so don't bother."

After saying that, he signaled to Teacher Tang to stop falling. After hearing this, Teacher Tang said to his wife: "Then stop falling."

"How are you preparing for the New Year?" Gu Siwei asked.

Teacher Tang said: "We are almost ready."

As he spoke, he pointed at the things piled in the corner of the room: "Some of them were bought by me myself, and some were given by parents at the school. Logically speaking, I shouldn't ask for them, but everyone is too polite. I had to give some back to others, and there were fish caught in the river outside.”

Hearing what Teacher Tang said, Gu Siwei took a look and found that the things piled on the ground were indeed rich, and nodded secretly.

"Is there anything I'm missing? If I knew you were here to celebrate the New Year this year, I would have given you the two temporary houses in front of me," Gu Siwei said.

Before the Chinese New Year, Lao Han built a batch of temporary houses here. They were very simple things, not much better than the prefabricated houses of later generations. They were intended to be used by the workers and soldiers who came to work next year. Once they were built, After that, Gu Siwei took out several rooms for these teachers to stay temporarily.

Teacher Tang laughed and said, "There's no rush. I'm thinking that I can just move to a new home next year. Why bother going through it twice?"

Gu Siwei did know that Teacher Tang was originally divided, but he showed his style and gave it to a young teacher who just came this year.

Teachers come and go, and the ones who have stayed at Zhuangzi the longest so far are Teacher Tang, Teacher Li, and Teacher Chen. Teacher Li and Teacher Chen both have families and families, so during the Chinese New Year, He must have gone home to celebrate the New Year. Gu Siwei didn't need to ask, because a few days ago he saw two teachers getting on the boat with large and small bags, ready to go home.

"Oh, Teacher Zhong is back?"

Thinking of this, Gu Siwei remembered that the only young teacher recruited this year was named Zhong. He was in his thirties and early twenties and was a physical education teacher.

"Well, the young man couldn't stay any longer, so he went back on the third day of the holiday. This time when I went back, I heard that my family had announced a daughter-in-law. I don't know what happened. The young man just had a bad background, but everything else was pretty good. "Teacher Tang seems to have a good impression of Teacher Zhong.

Gu Siwei laughed and said: "Even if you have a good family background, you won't choose the school that Zhuangzi goes to."

After hearing this, Teacher Tang said: "I see, in a few years, teachers from outside will rush to come to our village."

Teacher Tang has listened to countless high-pitched talks about education as the basis of a century-old plan. His ears are almost calloused, but what is the actual situation? The actual situation is that education comes first when it comes to verbal matters, but when it comes to spending money, education cannot keep up.

But after arriving here, Teacher Tang was shocked by the investment in education from the Sixth Team, and was also shocked by the courage of this young man Gu Siwei.

When the villagers all lived in adobe houses, they directly used wood to build strong wooden classrooms for the school. In winter, stoves were burned in the classrooms. Both the classrooms and the teacher's office were warm. .

In the past, almost none of the students he taught had frostbite on their hands when winter came, but few children here had frostbite.

Now that there is money in Zhuangzi, the first thing to be built is still the school. Beyond the school are the houses of the teachers' families, and the villagers all line up behind the teachers.

Not to mention the remuneration, now Teacher Tang can proudly say that even if the teachers in the city don't have enough to eat, the teachers in our sixth team can still eat rice with fish and meat every meal.

Teacher Tang felt that it was impossible to run education poorly with such enthusiasm. Because both Principal Hu and Captain Gu in front of me are the kind of people who really put education first.

"Come here quickly, we will have to choose the right one then." Gu Siwei laughed twice.

Gu Siwei is a person who has seen the world. For example, he comes from an ordinary family, and his friend Chen Shangli comes from a large Chinese family in Nanzhou. If there is no space to help, Gu Siwei knows that even if he is fifty tied Together, they are not as good as Chen Shangli.

There is no way, the education he received since he was a child is much better than the education that Gu Siwei received. Since he was a child, Chen Shangli has been able to skillfully use Chinese, English, Malay and other languages, and can speak several dialects such as Mandarin and Cantonese, and Hongquan. There are two or three kinds of boxing techniques including Tongjiquan.

Let's put it this way, everyone can have some martial arts skills. As for music, forget about it. He has been studying Guqin and Violin for seven years, and he also knows a thing or two about the Four Treasures of the Study and antique utensils.

Chen Shangli is familiar with "Great Learning", "Han Feizi" and other pre-Qin schools, and he can also make simple opinions on European history, literature and art, etc., as he modestly said.

What does Gu Siwei know?

Oh, know a craft for a living, program machines.

What Chen Shangli has received since he was a child, in Gu Siwei's view, is the real education. It is not a cramming teaching, but learning and knowing, and applying what you learn. This is the foundation of education.

Gu Siwei's blueprint has not yet been unfolded. If it is unfolded, let's put it this way, as long as the school does not collapse, Gu Siwei believes that the children in the sixth team will always come out.

Do not believe? If you don't believe it, take a look at the Qian family, the Qian family of Qian Xuesen and Qian Lao, and see how many outstanding people they have produced in history. Why do talented people always appear after so many generations? It's not education, it's luck.

Regarding education, Gu Siwei can be said to be quite far-sighted, but his foresight can only be for the people around him. He has no big ambitions, and he is not in the mood to care about people outside his own small circle.

"That must be a choice!"

Teacher Tang nodded solemnly after hearing this, and then asked another question: "But, are the children here with too heavy a workload?"

Gu Siwei said: "Is this too heavy?"

Teacher Tang said: "Not only is it heavy, but it's also a bit deep!"

Gu Siwei said: "Education is not a happy thing for most children. Children's nature is to play. But it is impossible not to do this. For ordinary people, they are happy in the past ten years when they were young, and they have been happy since they were in their twenties. There will be plenty of time to cry in the next few decades.

The things taught in schools now are not deeper, but shallower.

In my vision, the main task of the school is to divert children from Zhuangzi. Children who can learn from Zhuangzi will go up to serve their family and the country. Industry can also make them worry-free about food and clothing for a lifetime. As long as these children can understand the ways of the world and be kind and down-to-earth, it is also good.

So, you don’t have to worry about this. If you can learn it, there is one way. If you can’t learn it, just take another way."

Teacher Tang couldn't help being stunned when he heard what Gu Siwei said, but after thinking about it, he nodded.