Teacher Xiao Zhong's adventures in the countryside

Mornings in the countryside are awakened by animals.

When Zhong Yiqiu was woken up by the chicken for the first time, he sat up in a daze, the room was pitch black, and he looked at his watch with a dim light from the window, it was only 3 o'clock, and felt incredible.

Did the chicken get the time wrong?

When he woke up again, it wasn't just chickens. He felt that there were countless chickens, ducks and geese holding a poultry party next to his ears. The cheers and shouts one after another made his dizzy head, which was already dizzy after drinking, feel like it was going to explode.

He got under the pillow and wanted to continue to sleep, but he had another nightmare when he was half asleep and half awake. He dreamed of a sticky and wet mollusk wrapped around his body, which made him sit up in shock.

Wang￣Wang￣Wang￣

Looking down, a khaki dog was lying on the edge of the bed with its front legs raised, licking his hand with its tongue.

Seeing him sitting up, the dog became even more excited, twisting its buttocks vigorously and leaning towards Zhong Yiqiu, Zhong Yiqiu stroked its head, the confusion just now was gone, the head still hurts faintly, and it didn't realize where he was all at once .

I just remember drinking last night, could it be that I got drunk?Zhong Yiqiu was a little annoyed, she didn't do anything on the first day, she drank in a daze.

The room that can be seen at a glance is not Uncle Yi's room last night, it must be the dormitory assigned to him.

It's not too big, but it's very clean. There's a desk and bed next to the door. The bed still exudes the fragrance of wood, as if it's newly made.

The desk was covered with a brand new blue tablecloth, which was dyed as bright as the blue sky after the rain by the unbridled sunlight.

Attracted by the bright color, Zhong Yiqiu stretched out his hand and touched it lovingly. Between the sun and the blue, his thin and white hand looked like a mysterious snow mountain.

Such a beautiful sight was only admired by a dog, pressing his hand and licking his fingers.

When Uncle Yi came in, he saw Zhong Yiqiu smiling with his arms around the dog's head. He was a little surprised. Although the child was polite and thoughtful when we met last night, he always felt a little cold.

Perhaps it was because there was a pair of red phoenix eyes that seemed to be as long as the standard in the book, which made his eyes look alienated.

Seeing Uncle Yi appearing at the door, Zhong Yiqiu couldn't close his expression in time, and greeted with a smile, those slender and indifferent eyes bent from a sharp and high-spirited bow to a bright and soft moon, slightly melting the strange ice.

Uncle Yi smiled and pushed the door straight in.

Uncle Yi said that this room is a dormitory specially cleaned up and allocated to him. Deying Primary School is connected to the brigade headquarters, because most of the teachers are from the surrounding villages, and they live and eat at home. The school did not have a special dormitory for teaching staff.

Later, teachers from long distances and others with special circumstances were recruited. A few years ago, this yard was specially built behind the brigade headquarters as a dormitory, and it was also the logistics office area of ​​the brigade headquarters.

The yard is not big, but there are eight rooms on both sides of the northwest side. Uncle Yi and two other teachers live there now. Because it is summer vacation, one teacher has gone home, and the other has something to do these days.

"The brigade will distribute food for you. You can eat with us. The three of us usually cook together." Uncle Yi spoke a lot more casually, without the politeness he had when we first met last night.

"That's great, I don't know how to cook." Zhong Yiqiu rejoiced, and then silently added, "I know how to wash dishes."

"Haha, okay! We are short of a dishwashing person." Uncle Yi laughed.

"The bed and desk are newly made, and the room has been tidied up briefly. See if there is anything else you need, and I will add it to you." Uncle Yi has a disability on his left foot. Although it is not serious, he is tall and thin, and Slightly hunchbacked, he looks lonely when he walks.

Zhong Yiqiu got out of bed, straightened her clothes and followed his footsteps around the small room, saying, "It's already fine."

Next to the foot of the bed and against the wall was a large dark-brown wardrobe, which was almost half the width of the bed, and even felt a bit oppressive. Zhong Yiqiu took a closer look and found that the wardrobe was double-layered, with double doors on the upper and lower sides. On the opposite side of the cabinet door is a dark golden copper sheet, which is carved like a crane. The crane's neck is gracefully bent into a handle, and the corners of the cabinet are also carved with delicate hollow patterns.

Uncle Yi said: "This cabinet is an old thing, it is my grandma's dowry."

Zhong Yiqiu was flattered, "It's so precious, it's too wasteful for me to use it."

"It's nothing valuable. These old things in the countryside are worthless. They used to be piled up in old houses. There used to be a pair of them. The old house leaked and was damaged by rain. They were chopped up and burned as firewood."

Zhong Yiqiu has been required to speak Mandarin since he was in high school. Although he still speaks his hometown dialect in life, it is inevitable that he cannot change it for a while, so he mixes it up. Unexpectedly, when Uncle Yi heard him speak Mandarin, he also answered him in standard Mandarin.

This is rare in rural areas.

Zhong Yiqiu thought, Uncle Yi didn't seem to have stayed in this rural elementary school all the time, he spoke and acted like he had seen the world outside.

Uncle Yi went on to say: "I washed it in the spring and dried it for a few months. It looks okay. It's just for you to use. Don't dislike it."

Zhong Yiqiu hurriedly thanked her sincerely: "How could you dislike her, she is so beautiful."

Uncle Yi laughed, "That's fine, are you hungry? Wash your face and eat."

Breakfast is corn porridge and steamed buns. The leftovers from last night were hot. The dishes on a hot day did not go bad after being left overnight.

Uncle Yi said it was because it was placed in the well in the vegetable garden. There is a decades-old well in the vegetable garden behind the yard. The well water is warm in winter and cool in summer. Neither will go bad, and it will work better than a refrigerator.

Zhong Yiqiu has never been a teacher, and his major is not a teacher. Since the assignment notice, he has been worried that he might not be able to teach well. When he arrived here, everyone was so enthusiastic and even more disturbed. After deliberating for a long time, he finally talked to Uncle Yi.

Uncle Yi smiled and replied: "Don't worry, elementary school is easy to teach, and I have never taught it before. If I have time these two days, I will talk to you about how to prepare and give lessons."

Putting down the bowl, he continued, "Here, even good teachers don't want to come. It's not easy to snatch you to our school."

Zhong Yiqiu was stunned, why are you still robbing?

Uncle Yi saw that he was still a child with his eyes wide open and his mouth slightly open, and explained with a smile: "You probably don't know, there was a meeting in the town last month, and it was said that a college student teacher would come down. That's a college student, or a famous school in the country, just add up all the teachers in our town, how many can there be? Not a single one!"

"At that time, there were a total of 12 principals in the whole town, including the township primary school. All of a sudden, the quarrel broke out, and there was a fight."

Zhong Yiqiu is not only dumbfounded now, but the initial uneasiness about not being able to teach has completely developed into panic.

"There was no result in the quarrel until the end. Originally, no matter how we rob it, it would not be our school's turn. But, if luck comes, it can't be stopped. Guess how it was decided in the end?" Uncle Yi put it off.

Zhong Yiqiu stopped eating, put his hands on the edge of the table and was wandering. Hearing what Uncle Yi said, he raised his hand to eat and wanted to follow his words to ask how he decided. When he looked down, he saw the yellow dog lying on the edge of the table with its forelegs raised. Sticking out his tongue and licking his chopsticks with relish...

"Wangwang, get down!" Uncle Yi shouted loudly.

The dog wrung its tail and jumped down aggrievedly. Uncle Yi went into the kitchen and changed the chopsticks for Zhong Yiqiu, "These principals, those who give gifts give gifts, those who entrust relationship, those who cry poor, the situation in our school belongs to the team that cries poor, The noisy leaders couldn't bear it, so they had to draw lots in the end, and whoever caught it would win."

Zhong Yiqiu thought it was quite funny to think of her own fate written on a note and being caught by these principals.

"That day, the lottery started at 9 o'clock, and Principal Zheng rode his bicycle to the town at 7 o'clock, but you said it was a coincidence that the bicycle broke down halfway..." Seeing Zhong Yiqiu listening intently, Uncle Yi took out a storytelling tone, " There is no car repairer on the main road, so he can only push it, and when he arrives, the meeting will be held long ago!"

Zhong Yiqiu cooperatively asked for advice: "Then what should I do?"

Uncle Yi smiled and said: "Who would have thought that after everyone caught them, there would be one left for him, and they would open the ones after they had caught them, and no one would find them. I was so stupid at the time, hahaha..."

Zhong Yiqiu also laughed, not expecting such a drama.

The midsummer morning was already scorching hot, so Uncle Yi moved the tables and chairs to the shade of the trees in the yard to give Zhong Yiqiu a make-up lesson, and explained the situation of the school in detail.

Deying Primary School runs from the first grade to the sixth grade, and there is one class for each grade. There are about 50 students in the first grade every year, and the number becomes smaller as it goes on, until there are only [-] students left in the sixth grade.

Zhong Yiqiu had heard about the education situation in rural areas before, but he never thought that only half of them had completed elementary school.

"Including me and Principal Zheng, there are 11 teachers in total, and some teachers lead two or three classes." Uncle Yi sighed.

Zhong Yiqiu doesn't know how to be a teacher, and he doesn't want to be a teacher at all. His major in college is physics. Although he doesn't have a grand ambition to become a physicist, at least he likes to study his major. Pursuing the final result in exploration is an interesting career. He sometimes thinks that maybe he just likes the process of exploration and pursuit, and has nothing to do with any major.

As a teacher in a rural primary school, he didn't know what would be interesting, but now, even such an uninteresting thing is a rare opportunity.

"I will go to work the day after tomorrow. The teachers will have a meeting first, and school will start on the 1st." Uncle Yi said.

"What subject do I teach?" Zhong Yiqiu asked, grabbing back her thoughts of running around.

"I'll make a decision after the meeting. In the past two days, you can look around first, and tell me if you need anything."

"No, it's already very good." Zhong Yiqiu said gratefully.

As a result, the slap in the face came too fast, and at night he realized that he needed too many things!

Zhong Yiqiu fetched water from the well in the backyard to take a bath. Moss grew beside the old-fashioned well, and there was no pulley to shake the water. The iron bucket was tied to a rope and thrown down, filled with water and then brought up again. The stones next to it were very slippery. I can only use all my strength in my hands, and it turns red from the hemp rope.

Although the room has a concrete floor, he was afraid of water stagnant if he got wet in the shower, so he had to take advantage of the dark to wash by the well.

It was the first time he took a bath in the open air after growing up. His whole body was tense, and he rushed to pour the water with a bucket. Even in summer, the cold well water with the chill of the ground made him shiver a little.

The mat on the bed was not very hot, and he turned off the light and lay down to prepare for sleep, only to realize that he couldn't sleep at all!

The backyard vegetable garden is as big as an acre of land, and there is a small lotus pond. At night, it is like boiling water. Crickets are chanting scriptures, cicadas are singing, frogs are arguing, and there are all kinds of unknown insects. Yelling and persuading...

The various sounds lurking in the dark night not only did not make the atmosphere lively, but made people inexplicably afraid.

The window was facing the courtyard, Zhong Yiqiu dared to close the window only after turning on the light, and ran back to bed as fast as possible.

It cuts off most of the small animal symphony outside, and at the same time cuts off the slightly cool night wind in summer. The room is as stuffy as a steamer, and I'm sweating all over after taking a shower.

What was even more frightening was the mosquitoes, which came in hordes and menacingly, trying their best to harm the only person in the room.

Zhong Yiqiu was afraid that she would be carried away by the army of mosquitoes, but she didn't dare to open the window, so she could only hold a book and chase away the mosquitoes all night, and she didn't know if she fell asleep or not.

Early the next morning, he put on a mosquito bag all over his body and asked Uncle Yi with a blushing face if he could add curtains and mosquito nets.

Uncle Yi patted his head and said he forgot about it, and went to find someone to buy it today.

Zhong Yiqiu scratched his neck and wanted to pay, but he said nothing, so he couldn't help but dragged on.

After breakfast, Uncle Yi went back to the village to find his six sons to make curtains for Zhong Yi in autumn.

The six sons live in the middle of the village, just him and his mother. His grandfather has been a carpenter from generation to generation. Although he is only 23 years old this year, he is already a well-known master carpenter.

He made the new bed and table in Zhong Yiqiu's room.

A few years ago, his father died of esophageal cancer, the eldest sister married to another town, and the second sister married in Zhengjiazhuang next door. He was the only strong laborer for the two mothers, who only planted more than ten acres of land.

But he has a handicraft. When the farming is slack, the nearby carpentry work is too busy. The life at home is considered good in the village.

"Sixth son, do you have anything to do this morning? Do me a favor." Uncle Yi walked into his yard and asked.

Liu Zi's family is the only one in the village that has built a yard. His father built it when he was alive.

The six sons just got up and were squatting on the stone mill at the door of the kitchen to drink cornstarch. Hearing what Uncle Yi said, he stood up and said with a smile, "Uncle, you can arrange it, and I will do it for you."

He is not tall but strong, because he often does carpentry work, his arms are particularly muscular, but he has a baby face, which is lively and lovable.

While entering the room to move a stool for Uncle Yi, he asked, "What's the matter? As long as you say it, I can do it, haha."

"Install a curtain for the new teacher. It hasn't been installed in the room before. Do you need to install bars and hooks first? Do you know how?" Uncle Yi asked.

"Is there anything wrong with that? It's simple. I'll go right after I eat." Six sons didn't think so.

"I haven't bought the curtains yet. If you're not busy, help me out and buy the necessary parts together with the curtains, and then buy the mosquito nets." Uncle Yi said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll wait. It just so happens that Second Brother Xiao came back today, and I'll go to the town to pick him up." The six sons agreed.

"Second brother Xiao doesn't know the way back? I want you to pick it up! I see you, just run to play!" The mother of six, Zhang Hongying, came out holding a bowl and scolded.

"Don't say that, you should play, where can you find a child as good as Liu Zi." Uncle Yi took her words and explained.

"When will it be good to marry a daughter-in-law!" The sixth mother curled her lips and glared at him with resentment.

As soon as the daughter-in-law was mentioned, the six sons pretended not to hear, and ate with a snort.

Uncle Yi is also afraid of this topic. As long as he talks about his daughter-in-law, being a mother will never stop, so he quickly stood up and prepared to go, "I'll go back first, the sixth son remember to buy it for me, and I'll give you the money when I come back. By the way, go to the brigade to install it."

Liu Zi said simply: "Okay, I'll go when I get back in the afternoon."

As soon as Uncle Yi walked out of the yard, he came back and added, "Remember to buy plain ones, young people in the city don't like fancy things."

"Oh uncle, I see that you are worried, you still don't believe my vision!" Six sons were dissatisfied.

Zhong Yiqiu took a lunch break and stayed up almost all night last night. After eating at noon, he was so sleepy that he couldn't hold on anymore. When he woke up, he saw that it was almost 3 o'clock, so he quickly got up.

Uncle Yi was beating mung beans in the middle of the yard. The mung beans that had been picked were dried and had to be shelled with a wooden stick.

When it was hot, he was soaked in an undershirt.

Zhong Yiqiu wanted to go over to help, but didn't know where to start, so she squatted beside Uncle Yi and suffered from hysteria.

"Get up, don't squat here, it's gray and itchy." Uncle Yi stopped him.

Zhong Yiqiu was a little dazed for a while, his mother was like this at home, he was not allowed to do any work.

Don't stand here, there's a lot of smoke

Don't sweep the floor, do your homework

Bring dirty clothes back from vacation, don't wash them yourself

Don't carry coal with your father, let your sister do it

...

The neighbors in the compound know that the youngest son of the Zhong family is more expensive than the girl. When he was in elementary school, all the male students in the class played horseback riding and fighting. He looked like a mud monkey. They ridicule rejection.

The night before he came here, his mother said to him in tears, "Be patient, at most two years, and mom will get you back even if she tries her best."

But, what can you do when you go back, what can you do?Zhong Yiqiu didn't know.

Hearing what Uncle Yi said now, he became even closer, chattering about all kinds of things about Uncle Yi Mung Dou.

"Uncle Yi, aren't you at home, you need to eat these tomatoes quickly, they are all overripe." Someone shouted from behind the house.

Zhong Yiqiu stood up suspiciously, why did the voice come from the backyard, how did the person come in?

Before I could figure it out, I saw a strong black guy coming in from the corner of the three walls with a big bag under his arm.

With his pair of strong arms bare, Liu Zi sucked on big tomatoes and stared at Zhong Yiqiu.

"You son, come in through the backyard again!" Uncle Yi taught him, "Sooner or later, you will attract the thief."

The six sons laughed and said: "No, no, the courtyard wall is so high that no one else can climb over it," and then asked Zhong Yiqiu, "Are you a new teacher?"

Zhong Yiqiu pulled the corner of her mouth to say hello...

"It's so white, whiter than a big girl!"

Zhong Yiqiu: "..." The corner of her mouth was pulled back again.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, have you bought everything yet?" Uncle Yi quickly turned away.

"Okay, okay!" The six sons didn't notice anything wrong, and greeted Zhong Yiqiu, "Which room do you live in, I'll install the curtains for you."

Zhong Yiqiu led him in, and the six sons opened the big snakeskin bag they brought. Inside were a mess of small parts and two paper bags. He took out the paper bags and unfolded them on the floor of the room, yelping.

Zhong Yiqiu took a closer look, one was bright red and the other was pure white. He looked at the pile of water red or rose red, and murmured in his heart, these curtains are too ugly!

Pick it up and shake it off, it feels soft and I don't know what kind of fabric it is?

wrong!This doesn't seem to be a curtain, but a mosquito net!Zhong Yiqiu's heart skipped a beat, how could a big man use a mosquito net of this color!

"My God, this white one is filial piety cloth! How do you make curtains?" Liu Zi exclaimed beside him.

Zhong Yiqiu: "..."

Uncle Yi: "..."

He put his hips on his hips and said viciously, "Who are you asking! Your eyes really didn't disappoint me!"

"No, no, I didn't buy this!" Liu Zi waved his hands in horror in denial.

"It's not who you are!"

"It's Brother Xiao!" The sixth son shouted aggrievedly.

Zhong Yiqiu: "..."

Brother Xiao?Have you heard it somewhere?