Seventy Little Heads

Chen Zhengguo pulled out the plug with a "boo" sound, and put it under the tip of his nose, only then did the faint fragrance of medicinal materials come out.This made him a little surprised. It didn't smell like ordinary plasters, as long as it sticks on, it can't wait for a few days and nights, but the smell is very light.

It looks really good?

Chen Zhengguo found a small piece of bamboo, and gently picked it out, and a small lump of light green paste was picked out.Ordinary plasters, no matter what they are used for, are basically dark brown or reddish brown. The kind with a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine, is it a light green medicine?I have never seen it before.

If it weren't for the ointment, Chen Zhengguo really couldn't tell.Go up to it and smell it carefully, then apply it carefully on the arm, and it will be wiped off immediately. It should be said that the light green ointment is absorbed by the skin directly.

"Xiao Zhang, Xiao Zhang."

"Reporting head, please give instructions." A boy of eighteen or nineteen came in with a snap and obeyed.

"There is something here, let you run."

Chen Zhengguo thought for a while, and re-copied the usage of the medicine written by Wang Xuan, then plugged the small bottle with the original stopper, and handed it to Xiao Zhang along with the newly copied instructions. "Send this to Dr. Chen, let him see the note and he will know, go."

"Yes!

Goudan put a broken sickle without a handle into the burning stove, and took it out when it was red hot. The sandal strap was broken, and it was red hot. It burned on the broken gap, and the plastic melted quickly. , Carefully pinch it with your fingers directly, and the melted plastic on both sides will stick together.

I can continue to wear it again, but the place where it is patched together is ugly, and the black piece is as hideous as a scar.Wear new ones and mend them until they can no longer fit your feet.When I was young, I could bare my big feet, but now I can't go to the county town barefoot.

"You are just a shoe. If you can make a pair of iron shoes, it is called wear-resistant."

"Haven't you heard? When you break your iron shoes, you will also wear your iron shoes."

"Do you want to put more chili?" Wang Xuan didn't ask him for this anymore, and changed the subject.

"Yes, yes." Putting on the sandals, Goudan threw the broken sickle into the bucket, making a whining sound and emitting white smoke.

Goudan rushed to Wang Xuan's side, "Have you done so much?"

"Do more, we won't have time to go to school in the future. Uncle has to go to the field every day, so it's not a problem to just fish it out and eat it."

Wang Xuan pickled the radish sprouts, bamboo shoots and picked wild vegetables. "It's just that the coarse salt may not be enough, so I have to buy it."

"I'll go later, run back and forth, hurry up."

The big vat is eaten at home. The sour pickles have accumulated for many years, and they continue to be used after eating. Now I don’t know how many years, and the taste can’t be removed even after soaking in water for a long time.

"We have to take the small jars to school to eat, no, there are glass jars, pickled peppers, and pickles."

Glass jars are hard to come by. I don’t know who threw them away so extravagantly. Wang Xuan picked them up, washed them, and used them directly to pack pickles and pickles, pressing them tightly.

"Since we have to prepare, let's go into the mountain tomorrow."

The two of them had no idea what it would be like to go to the county town. Don't look at the dog's sideways sideways, in fact, going to a new place is no different from other children's anxiety. The county town gave them a not so good impression.

"When our commune will run a middle school again, we won't worry about it."

After two days, Goudan still didn’t go to Chengshanli, because the friends asked them to go to school to get their graduation certificates. Primary school graduation certificates are also important diplomas. Many village cadres now have primary school graduation certificates. .

Of course, there was no comparison between that time and the present. There were quite a lot of Goudan at his age who graduated from elementary school and got a diploma.It was just a bunch of them laughing and joking going together, some were there to watch the fun, some had dropped out of school long before they graduated, and they just played with Goudan.

"I almost forgot about this, wait a minute, let me tidy up first."

Goudan ran into the house, put the things in his hand directly into the baby, and said to Wang Xuan, "I have been thinking about the ready-made things, but I almost forgot the time to collect my graduation certificate, and I don't know about the admission notice." Do not come back."

That's right, I haven't even received the admission notice yet, so Goudan is very confident that he and Wang Xuan will definitely get in, that's how confident he is.

Two graduating classes, the number of people is not too many, the whole campus is empty after the summer vacation, their arrival adds some popularity.

The young class teacher stood on the podium, his mood fluctuated a little. "I have been in our school for two years, and I will be your head teacher in the second year. To be honest, being the head teacher for the first time is quite stressful, especially if you are in the graduating class. I am really worried about something big. Look at you, right? Everyone is taller and stronger than the teacher, I'm really afraid that if you have a bad temper and fight with the teacher, the teacher can't bear it with his small body."

Those who sat in the classroom below roared with laughter, thinking that what the teacher said was very funny.The teacher is from the town next door, maybe he has been studying since he was a child or something, anyway, he is tall and thin, and he is a serious junior high school graduate.There are some people in the family, so I arranged to come over to teach the elementary school students, but the teacher may have a gentle personality, or it may have something to do with his age, and he doesn't like to put on airs as a teacher.They have a good relationship with Goudan.

"Don't laugh, the teacher is telling the truth. Today is the last time the teacher will speak to you on the podium. Some students may continue to study, but most of them may directly work at home. No matter what, don't do illegal crimes. No matter where you are, if you are worthy of the country, the people, and your parents, that’s enough.”

The teacher on the stage spoke with deep affection, and the audience listened carefully.Usually, the head teacher is impatient when he talks about the truth, but in this last class, everyone listened carefully, and no one was distracted and fell asleep.

In the end, I was inexplicably sad. There were still female students wiping tears in the classroom. This may be the last time they will be little girls. Be someone else's wife and mother.

The classroom was very quiet, "It's my first time as a head teacher, I don't have much experience, but the teacher will continue to study. Well, that's it."

"Now the graduation certificates will be issued. The teacher will read the names and come up one by one to receive them."

"Zhu Lili, Liu Jiagen... Wang Xuan, Li Daniu..."

One by one, they came up to receive their graduation certificates, and opened the small red notebooks, all of which had the same style. Looking at the handwriting, they could tell that the homeroom teachers had filled in their names and classes by hand.But they still look at each other, which is very strange.

For later generations, the primary school diploma is really not worth talking about, but for the present people, it is a treasure worth cherishing for a lifetime. It is an object that witnesses their education and their short childhood, youth, and growth.In the future, the column of their educational level can be filled with "graduated from primary school" instead of "illiterate".

The teacher looked at it with a smile on it, and then opened a yellow envelope. "Now I'm sending everyone graduation photos."

"Wow."

The children in the village are so old that they have never had a photo taken. They said that they need someone to take a photo of their graduation certificate, and each person will pay [-] cents.The whole class plus teachers of various subjects, school leaders, etc.

In this way, many people still can't afford it, and there is nothing they can do.It's difficult to eat, and I really don't have a penny in my pocket, even if I pay a few cents, I can't get it out.Some people go back and grind with their parents. In the end, most of them are handed in. There are still a few who can't pay it anyway. Sometimes I don't know how they got together the tuition fees for the past few years.

In the end, those who didn't pay the money, of course, didn't have a group photo, holding their graduation certificates and keeping their heads down.

Goudan and Wang Xuan took the opportunity to take a lot of photos. In addition to group photos, photos of the two of them, solo photos, photos with the class teacher, and photos of several good friends.

The homeroom teacher was scared to death. At that time, he pulled him and said that he needed money to take pictures, so he was worried that they would be in trouble if they didn't have the money to pay.

Goudan can only take out the money in his pocket and tell him that he can pay it. Seeing that the head teacher has a bad expression, he hastened to say that the money was mailed by the previous benefactor. The teacher's expression is better, but I still advise him not to waste too much money. Money, in the future, if you have money, it will be the same if you shoot in the city yourself.

In fact, the money is Goudan's own money, and it has been kept in the "baby" for a long time. They don't even want the money given by Chen Zhengguo, so Chen Zhengguo sent them some old clothes and some candies by mail for a long time.

The money for taking pictures is calculated based on the number of pictures washed out. Those partners who want to take pictures but have no money will come to take pictures with Goudan and the others. Anyway, they don’t want pictures, they just want to have an addiction to taking pictures.Of course the master was not happy, but he took all the shots, and there were quite a few of them.

So in the end, Goudan and Wang Xuan took the most pictures among all the people.

"Send the graduation group photo first." The head teacher read the list one by one, and those who paid the money at the beginning wrote down the list.Now go up and get it again.

This mobilized people's emotions, photos, they have never taken photos since they grew up.One by one, whoever goes up to get the bag first, the people next to him will come up to see it, and they all huddle together.I watched with gusto.

In the photos, everyone looked tense, their faces tensed, and some even closed their eyes.Some just opened their mouths like idiots.

Excitedly looking at himself in the photo.

The head teacher on the stage said: "Now I will continue to post personal photos." The master who took the pictures handed over all the photos to the head teacher.At that time, the class teacher will identify and send it to his students. The master has already collected the money before, so there is no need to make a trip.

This is the first time that the school organizes students to take pictures, and it will be considered a long-term cooperative relationship with the masters of the photo studio in the future. The school has a batch of graduates every year.

Those who paid for a single photo or a group photo of three or two people never shut their mouths. Looking at their own photos, they cherish it very much, and others are reluctant to see it.He repeatedly said, "Don't get flowers, don't get flowers, you can't hold them directly, they will be spent, your fingers are sweaty." and so on.

When it’s Goudan’s turn, he just used another letter to pretend it. There’s no other way. There’s still a rubber backing of the photo inside. You can take it to a photo studio and have another photo washed. come out.

Some of those who took pictures with Goudan also paid for it, some didn’t, and those who didn’t then went to the Goudan table and rushed to see themselves inside.

"Haha, close your eyes."

"Ouch, I don't even know when you put my shoulders on your shoulders."

"That's right."

"Wang Xuan shot it, it looks great."

"I'll take a look, too." A little girl came over to have a look.

"What's the matter with you, let's go."

Wang Xuan liked the photos of him and Goudan very much. He never thought that there was such a good thing as taking pictures. He was more nervous than everyone else, so he took a single photo of himself and Goudan, and a group photo of them. , and all the group photos with the class teacher were put away.

Just show them the group photos with their good friends, "Don't grab them, look at them one by one, I'll put them on the table, you can look at them, but you can't grab them."

After the bustle and bustle, when everyone had gone home, the head teacher called Goudan and Wang Xuan over. "Your grades are out, you can get in, but are you really ready for further education?"

"It's your benefactor who funded you, have you been in touch recently?" This is what Goudan said, anyway, the head teacher didn't know that they didn't take Chen Zhengguo's money.

"Yes, yes, and we wrote to him."

The teacher in charge nodded, "That's good." He liked these two students quite a lot, maybe because of their young age, he didn't find Goudan's mischievousness unacceptable, anyway, Goudan and Wang Xuan's grades were very good.As a teacher, he definitely prefers students with good grades. This always makes him have a good relationship with Goudan. At least, Goudan has been in school for the past few years, and among all the class teachers he likes the most.

I have never scolded or punished him for no reason, and it looks better in comparison.

Back home, Wang Xuan stopped doing housework, spread the photos on the bench, and looked at them one by one.

"It's so beautiful." The posture of loving it, "I don't know which dirty handprint is on this one. Really, it's so easy to get scratched. I heard that there are plastic ones in the city, which can prevent it from getting wet."

"You put the baby inside, don't you have a lot of boxes there, you can't stand the tide, and you are not afraid of being damaged by mice and cockroaches."

"That's right. Take a look, this one, your collar is not done properly, it's all stuck in your neck."

"Yes." For taking pictures, you must wear the clothes you think will be the last, and you must be beautiful.

When Li Si came back, looking at his son's graduation photo and diploma, he smiled so hard that his teeth could not see his eyes.

"You can be regarded as a cultural person of our Li family. Neither your grandfather's father nor grandfather had ever read a book. When we were young, we herded cattle for the landlord's family. Neither did your father and my uncles."

Jinbao and Yinbao of the uncle's family, although one year older than Goudan, but their brains are not good enough, and they are still in the fourth grade.I heard that you always fail the exam. Now if the teacher and the principal think that you have not studied well, they will not give you a promotion, and you will have to repeat the grade.There's no use crying.

If the two of them hadn't looked at their age, they would probably have to stay in the third grade. It's not easy to graduate.

It is rare for Li Si to be elated. He has always been dominated by others for so many years. Now his son is doing his best and graduated at a young age.

Li Si saw hope. He didn't have many sons, but they were useful.With this graduation certificate, my son can say that he is also a half-literate person when he goes out.