old lily no spring

Gecun Middle School is the only middle school in this township, and children from the surrounding villages and towns usually come here when they are in junior high school.A considerable proportion of children go out to work after finishing junior high school, leaving less than half of them in high school.The turnover of teachers here is relatively high, because many teachers have sharpened their heads and transferred to middle schools in urban areas, and the remaining teachers said helplessly, "We are either old, weak, sick and disabled, or we are desperate." As a last resort, I applied for the quota of supporting teachers to the higher authorities.

The arrival of four supporting teachers from E University is the big news for this middle school. You must know that Gecun Middle School has not had any students who have been admitted to E University since the school was established.The tall and bookish Lei Guangguang, the fashionable and lovely Baishuang, and the sporty Zhuchrome all attracted the scrutiny of the registered student He's parents, and the most eye-catching one among them was Lu Songhan.

It cleared up after the rain today, and the temperature has picked up a lot. Song Han changed into a formal short-sleeved matte white shirt and breathable and comfortable black commuter pants. She was going to go out in leather shoes, but Bai Shuang reminded her, "Maybe today Stop walking." Then I changed into a pair of casual flat peas shoes.

Song Han's facial features are not the type that immediately catches people's attention, but there is an indescribable indifference and calm temperament all over his body.With her permed hair casually pulled back into a ponytail, Song Han earnestly assisted Mr. Liu, the head teacher of a certain class in high school, to sign up for a job. His eyes were suddenly attracted by a name on the sign-up list: Ge Hua.

I heard from Bai Shuang yesterday that the Ge family and his wife didn't want their second daughter to go to high school.She asked Teacher Liu, "Mr. Liu, will any of the students on the high school admission list drop out?"

The desolation on Mr. Liu's side was in stark contrast to the bustle of the junior high school. He took a sip of tea from the glass cup whose rim was soaked with tea stains and said, "Yes, there are plenty of them." He was in his forties, Introduced enthusiastically to the new support teacher with a local accent, "As long as the boy wants to study, his family will support it. For the girl, it is normal for the poor family not to study. After getting the junior high school diploma, they will go out to work."

Wearing a T-shirt in the style of Hailan House, which was stuck to the back with sweat, Mr. Liu picked up a fan beside him and started to attract attention, "Actually, there are a few students in our school who can pass one of the exams every year. They really have to study hard, and the children who can catch up with it There is still hope. But parents have their own accounts. Instead of studying in high school for three years and college for four years, they have this time to let their children go out to work and earn tens of thousands of dollars a year. Hundreds of thousands in seven years is not a small thing. The numbers are enough, enough to build a three-story building in the village and add a small car.

"If you really get out of school, you can find a job in the city for thousands of dollars. I'm really not talking nonsense. Some of my students have earned more than me as a teacher after dropping out of school. It's not for the stable and retirement salary. I I want to go out." He spit tea foam on the ground, then smiled and looked at the support teacher of E University, "You are different, the school is good, you live in a big city, and you are young."

Song Han pointed to the name "Ge Hua" on the registration booklet, "I recognize this student, we are currently living in her house. Will she drop out of school too?"

"Yo?" Mr. Liu raised his eyebrows, "His family still decided not to let the second girl go to high school?" He had a clear expression on his face, "I heard that you will live there? How much is it a month? "

Songhan suddenly felt that she was being grabbed by a strong power of gossip, "500 yuan." But she still thought about the girl who was astonishingly tall and too thin, "Do you know how this child's grades are?"

"I took junior high school for a year, and my grades are above average among more than 200 people, ranking in the top 30. But it's not bad to take time off from time to time to help the family and still pass the exam. Ge Hua is just too tall. He gestured for the height difference with his hands, "It's too tall, that's taller than many boys, and it will take a lot of effort to get married in the future."

Ignoring Teacher Liu's habitual gossip, Song Han was still curious about Ge Hua's family background, seeing that her family's conditions are not that bad, "But I think her family should be able to support her in studying."

"The conditions are all right, but you have to level a bowl of water, don't you?" Teacher Liu stretched out three thick fingers, "His boss, Ge Yanzi, is also a student I have taught, and he is in the top [-] in the city in the high school entrance examination. Our teacher They all advised her father that the child should go to high school, but her father said that after renovating the house, he owed debts and it was really difficult, so he sent the eldest son to work in a relative's shop in the city." He took another sip of tea and cleared his throat. "The eldest didn't study, so it makes no sense for the second to study. Then what will happen to the third child? His children are too close in age, and they all have to go to high school and college, and it's not enough to sell everything."

So, a flat bowl of water means that you don’t want to go to higher education?Song Han was still surprised that he didn't see Ge Hua this morning, and she didn't see her sign up, thinking that this child will not be sent out to work by his family, right?

The adaptation work on the first day was annoyed by the family's dropout story. Lu Songhan frowned sullenly and assisted with the start of school.On the way from Gecun Middle School to Ge's house, several people saw her appearance, and Bai Shuang thought she was having an argument with her "boyfriend" again, so she patted her on the shoulder, "Are you okay? Arguments are common, If not, just chill him for a few days."

Song Han also had a good impression of her cheerfulness, so he murmured, "It's that Ge Hua. I heard that her sister's grades are also very good, but her family didn't allow her to go to high school, and now this child has dropped out of school. I think it's a pity, but also I want to go back and persuade her parents to give their children more opportunities."

"We live in Ge's house, so let's not interfere with other people's family affairs." Lei Guangguang is the chairman of the student union of the college, and he is more sophisticated when considering issues. "Besides, it's not compulsory education."

Song Han stopped and looked at Lei Guangguang's mature face, he lowered his eyes, then raised his head, "What do you think?"

Song Han nodded, "I see." She didn't need to discuss with others when she decided on her own.

Before I reached Ge's house, I heard Wu Fang's sharp scolding from inside, "It's not good to ask you to serve a plate. Are you deliberately making the family lose money to anger me?" There was a muffled sound of beating.A few young teachers walked into the courtyard at a faster pace, and saw Ge Tianbao sitting under the vines in the courtyard smoking silently, while his wife was holding a broom in her hand and throwing it on the body of her second daughter, Ge Hua.

There were already several red marks on Ge Hua's white arms, and the cropped pants that didn't fit her legs looked like cropped pants, and there was a red mark on her calf that was still oozing blood.She clenched her fists and said nothing, letting her mother vent her anger fiercely.Among the four children in the family, her temper is the most weird and stubborn in the eyes of her mother.In fact, she has mastered all kinds of housework, and is also serious about her studies. She and her mother started to quarrel because of the name she got when she registered for household registration. The mother pointed to the tallest second child and said, "This girl is called Ge Zhihua."

She refused, and talked back to her mother at the police station, "I don't want my name to be Ge Zhihua." She didn't like this name. The unconscious stubbornness of the [-]-year-old child did not know where it came from, and he always felt that things like daimyo couldn't just be stamped casually.Crying and fussing, she made her mother Wu Fang very embarrassed, and finally the household registration police came forward, "Then get rid of that knowledge, and call it Ge Huaxing?" The female policeman thought for a while and persuaded her mother, "Know painting and know painting, It’s not so easy to say, Ge Hua has slipped too much.” She also turned to Ge Hua, “That’s right, why do you need to know ‘Huaer’, you are that painting.” That was Ge Hua’s favorite sentence since he could remember talk.

So after sister Yanzi and younger sister Ziwei recognized their names in a daze, Ge Hua finally had a name he recognized in the household registration book.This incident is like a rift between mother and daughter. Over the years, mother Wu Fang has always insisted on calling her nickname "Zhihua", and every time, Ge Hua would correct her, "My name is Ge Hua".When my mother is in a good temper, she will just give her a look and say "stubborn".Something really went wrong, this incident was the breaking point of her beating the child.

Seeing her second daughter gritted her teeth and said nothing, Wu Fang beat her harder, "Aren't you angry that your family won't let you go to high school? You have the ability to get the first place in the city, and I'll pay you for it. Your eldest sister won't Or did you pass the 45th place in the city? She didn't go, you want to be beautiful!" The speed of the broom swing became faster and faster, and Ge Hua's legs couldn't help trembling under the whipping, but his feet were firmly planted. on the ground.

"It's not that you don't know that the family conditions are poor. Four children are studying, four, I will provide you with food, drink, and junior high school..." Wu Fang's voice heard the four people in front of the yard. Finally, it stopped abruptly, and the action of the broom that was being held above the head seemed to be about to shoot a javelin at any time.

Song Han stepped forward and pulled Wu Fang back, "Mom Ge Hua, what can I say to you?" She looked at Ge Hua, the tall and thin girl buried her head even lower.

Wu Fang had no choice but to put down the broom, "No, Teacher Lu, you don't know that this kid has a stubborn temper and is not solid at work. The first day I went to work at the hot pot restaurant, I smashed two bowls, and even knocked over half a bucket Bottom material. This is a relative’s shop, if outsiders—”

"It's normal, who doesn't accidentally drop a bowl and knock over things when doing housework?" Song Han held back his stomach full of complaints, "Calm down, let me talk to the child."

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Ge Hua didn't want to be beaten in full view, nor did she want to be dragged into her room by Song Han to "talk".She sat uncomfortably on the stool brought by Song Han, and saw her squatting on the bedside flipping through the huge travel bag, "I hope I brought it. Oh, my other luggage can only be sent by EMS, and it will take two days to get there." Here we go."

"Looking for iodophor? I have it." Baishuang quickly found the potion and handed it over. Songhan said "thank you" gratefully, and then used a cotton swab dipped in iodophor to gently wipe the most serious wound on Ge Hua's calf. .

Ge Hua still didn't let go of her clenched fists, and she looked down at the ground with her whole body tensed, until a burst of irritating coolness came from her calves, and a breath of relaxation came out of her nostrils.

"Does it hurt?" Song Han asked Ge Hua.

The girl held on for a few seconds, finally bit her lip and shook her head, "It doesn't hurt." When she said this, her nose was sore.She is not a child who loves to cry, the more severely she was beaten and scolded since she was a child, the less likely she will cry in front of others.

At this time, Bai Shuang opened a bag of Oreos and stuffed a piece into Ge Hua's mouth, "Come on, let's eat together. It won't hurt if you apply the medicine while eating."

A tear fell on the black biscuit, and Bai Shuang panicked, "I don't like it, okay, let's not eat it."

Song Han gently hugged the girl's head in his arms, touched the head that had been stiff for a long time, the hair on the fingertips was so hard that he poked his hand, "It's okay, don't be afraid. I will go and persuade your parents to let you read it." High school." She wiped away Ge Hua's tears and coaxed her with a smile, "Is it because I rubbed the medicine that hurt you?"

Ge Hua shook her head, "It doesn't hurt." She has long been used to this kind of pain.I heard people say "drug resistance", but she has "beat resistance".Song Han's gentleness gently pushed away her scabbed soft underbelly.Ge Hua felt that this was embarrassing, and she was not used to being hugged. She sucked her nose hard and pushed Song Han's hand away, "It's okay, I'm going downstairs."

"Wait a minute." Song Han grabbed the slender wrist, "There is a piece on the face that needs to be handled carefully." She held down the girl who was 1.8 meters high, and when she sat down, she almost reached her shoulder, "Hey, you How did the head grow?" Zhilan is her high school classmate, and she has always been worried about her height of only 1.6 meters.Even though her family has been paying attention to giving protein supplements of various milk cereals since she was a child, it is a pity that the stubbornness of DNA cannot be overcome.And Song Han's height is 1.6 meters [-], which is not bad among southerners, but it is much inferior to Ge Hua.

Ge Hua's cheeks were also smeared with medicine, Song Han told her, "Don't touch it, and don't touch the water for a day or two, the scars are not good-looking."

After the girl left with a blushing face, Song Han packed up the medicine bottle and returned it to Bai Shuang. "This aunt is really real. Her daughter is so old, and she still beats her in public. This child is so pitiful."

Song Han took out a piece of paper and slowly wiped the tip of her thumb that was stained with the potion, "It's very sad." Her pale yellow eyelashes curled up slightly, and anger flashed in her eyes, "When it comes to Ge Hua, whether it's her parents , is still a teacher who once taught, but she opened her mouth to say that she is too tall to marry in the future. Her desire to go to high school was ignored." Song Han felt a little stuffy in her chest, and after sitting for a while, she said, "I'm going out for a walk. Walk."

When he walked downstairs to the yard, the pigs in the side pigsty made a "grunt" sound, and Wu Fang was scooping a large spoonful of feed into the pond.Sensing someone behind her, she turned her head and saw that it was Teacher Lu, with a few deep forehead lines embedded on her face, and her skinny cheeks seemed to have shifted, making Song Han realize that she was smiling.

Song Han nodded, "I'll go to school, you don't have to wait for me for dinner and you don't have to stay."

The phone in his hand vibrated a few times, and it should not be noon on Zhilan's side.After turning on the phone, it turned out to be her, and Zhilan asked, "Is the data capacity enough? We use voice."

Enough is enough.Song Han deliberately charged 1000 yuan for the phone bill, just to make it easier to contact Zhilan.After putting on the earphones, the voice of his girlfriend who had just settled down in London complained and acted coquettishly made Song Han feel better.But Zhilan felt that Songhan was not paying attention, so she asked her what's wrong?

Songhan recounted what happened today, and Zhilan on the other end persuaded her, "After all, it's not compulsory education, it's family affairs. You can help one, but you can't help everyone."

"But I'm just not happy, why?" She thought of her father who divorced in order to seek a child, "I'll take care of it."

Zhilan knew her personality, "Okay, okay, you take care of it. But don't waste my time."

"Huh?" Song Han was puzzled.

"The time you reserved for me is mine." Zhilan sighed, "What should I do, it's only been two days, I miss you so much."

Song Han laughed, "Then please ask our Miss Zhilan to count down the Christmas holiday." After she hung up the voice, she immediately jumped to the page of the mobile calculator, and after repeated calculations twice, Song Han made up her mind.

But persuading Ge Tianbao and Wu Fang is not an easy task.The couple opened their mouths about "difficult" and closed their mouths about "not easy". Either the family's debt to renovate the house has not been paid off, or the truck that Ge Tianbao borrowed money to buy does not know when it will pay back.Song Han listened for a long time, and finally asked them a question, "What if Ge Hua's high school expenses are funded by me?"

The couple froze, Wu Fang realized first, "But even if we are admitted to university, we still can't afford it."

"I will continue to provide financial support after I am admitted to university." Song Han said firmly, "You also know that Ge Hua is a tall child." Even if she is not happy, she will poke at the couple's concerns, "It will be difficult to find a partner in the future. It is better to go to high school first, and it would be better if you are admitted to a university. Even if you have a high school diploma, you will have a wider future." Although she still doesn't know what the "outlet" in her mouth refers to.But the effect was unexpected. Ge Tianbao and Wu Fang looked at each other for a while, and then looked at the support teacher who had known each other for less than two days in disbelief, "But you are just a college student."

Song Han waved his hands, and the pair of pure eyes under the curved eyebrows were extremely cold and sharp at the moment, "You don't have to worry about the cost, I just ask you if I am willing to sponsor my children to go to high school or even university, do you agree?" She couldn't argue His imposing manner calmed down the two middle-aged men.

"Then...how embarrassing is this, Mr. Lu." Ge Tianbao's hands were clutching his knees and he didn't know how to put them down.

"It's okay, my ability is limited, if I can help one, it's one." Song Han said.