Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 148 "Selling" Officer
"If you don't go to school, what do you want to do?" Wen Cong looked at the thin child in front of him. There was simply a piece of skin covering the bones. Due to long-term malnutrition, his head appeared abnormally large.

"It costs money to go to school, money to buy books, and money to eat. If I don't go to school, my grandfather can save the money and exchange it for a lot of things." Shuanzi's eyes were firm and he clenched his fists: "I just want to Make money, make more money to treat my grandfather's illness, make more money to make my grandfather's life better, and let him try foreign tobacco!"

Wen Cong shook his head and continued to persuade: "Sir's school doesn't cost money, your worries are useless."

Shuanzi's face froze, and he cheered himself up: "You can't make money without spending money. No matter how good the school is, I won't go to it..."

Before he finished speaking, the uncle suddenly came from behind. He thought that he would greet his grandson with a slap on the back of the head as usual, but he suddenly thought that it would be impossible to let his grandson study and smash his head.

But when he heard such "rebellious" words, he wanted to hold back his anger, but obviously he couldn't do it, so he just kicked Shuanzi's ass.

"Little bastard, what's wrong? I can live for a few more days, and I need you to pave the way for me. Besides, you haven't even grown your hair yet. How much money you can earn when you go out? Thanks to Mr. Cheng's nose, let others go outside." You can eat all the hair you eat, you are living in the blessing and don't know the blessing."

Shuanzi got up from the ground, didn't care to pat the dirt on his body, turned his head and saw that it was his grandfather coming, his face was immediately happy, but after hearing what the other party said, he became a little happy again, but he didn't dare to talk to him directly. Face to face: "Grandpa, why are you here?"

After all, it was my grandson, who was hit by him and hurt in my heart. The uncle walked over to pat the grandson, but unfortunately he still said rudely: "Why, I'm sorry, I'm coming here. The gate of this school is open. Mr. Cheng didn't say anything." Only students are allowed to come in, parents are not allowed to come in, if you don't come again, I don't know that you have plans to hide from me."

Shuanzi lowered his head and looked at his toes, not daring to look directly at his grandfather: "I know it's not easy for you to send me here, but I just want to help the family more, so that you don't have to be so tired, you cough at night , I’m listening, it’s time to take medicine.”

Tao Xingzhi said cheerfully, "I can see it, but let me tell you, it's better to say that he has a hidden vigor than that he is rigorous."

Tell the parents that reading is useful and that reading can make their children become talents. At this time, some parents will definitely ask, if it is really useful, you come back to teach my children to read, why you only take this little money, are you deliberately deceiving my children? How should our teacher answer at this time? "

Shuan Zi broke free from his grandfather's embrace, and said stubbornly, "Grandpa, why are you telling outsiders this? If there is anything else, we can talk about it when we go home?"

Cheng Nuo said with a smile: "In my opinion, it is to give these teachers enough treatment. It doesn't have to be particularly good, as long as they can become the best batch in the countryside. Let them know that although they can't directly study now Official, but it does have great benefits.

"Who told me this is not important, as long as the local people's children can afford to go to school, don't forget our main task." Cheng Nuo wiped his mouth with his arm after drinking the water, and handed the water bag to Tao Xing Zhi: "Compared with traditional education, the cost of new education is higher.

Afterwards, if there are those who generously donate huge sums of money to relieve the victims, they will be given special prizes as a petition to encourage donations.

Cheng Nuo said with a smile: "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, every talent in our Academy of Sciences will not be treated badly. Even if I'm hungry, you won't be hungry."

The current real society is more cruel. There are not many people like the uncle who insists on sending the juniors to study, so Cheng Nuo plans to cultivate their culture courses, and at the same time, he also wants to cooperate with the Chinese Vocational Education Society to let these students have A skill.

When he arrived at the school gate, the uncle suddenly paused, turned his head and looked at his grandson again, hesitated again and again, and finally opened his mouth and said:

Tao Xingzhi retorted: "I don't agree with this point of view. We rural workers should have 'love' for the countryside. It is a spirit of not pursuing luxury and being willing to dedicate to the countryside. Only with 'love' can students not be afraid of it." Only by going with the flow can we bravely go to the countryside, overcome difficulties, and be willing to serve farmers.”

Jiang Jiangzuo, who had recovered, pointed to the telegram and said, "Look down, there are more behind."

"This is who spread the news. I remember not many people told it." Tao Xingzhi leaned on the shovel and asked curiously.

Tao Xingzhi took a sip of the water sac, with a slight reminiscence on his face: "In the past, poor scholars didn't care about tuition fees when they studied, and they could pay a little for tuition fees in colleges to subsidize their families. Now all the land property in the school belongs to the school, and the students Regardless of rich or poor, there is a fee, and there is a fee for board and lodging, and a fee for buying books, which is more than the tuition fee.

After saying this, without giving Shuanzi time to react, he directly took his grandson and bowed to Wen Cong who was beside him, with a farmer's unique embarrassment on his face: "Sir, I don't know what you teach specifically, But the world I have seen must be better than me, I don't know how many times better than my grandson.

As for the aristocratic taste, it refers to the new style of school. In addition to increasing the schooling fees of the villagers, the teaching content is not applicable to the actual situation, and there is a "misalignment" with the needs of the farmers.

Considering that masonry involves technical work, Cheng Nuo did not forcefully intervene, and took advantage of these few days to wander around the disaster area.

People of our generation, to put it bluntly, if there hadn’t been such a flood that washed us so far away, I would have spent my whole life going around our Wangjiaba, and the farthest door I’ve ever been out of would have to be our Jijiba. In fact, I don't want our Shuanzi to be like us, dealing with Huang Kela for generations.

"Home? The Wangjiaba has been flooded by the flood. What kind of home do we have? What kind of home is that grass shed? Anything else, just to win over your dead parents!" After finishing speaking, the uncle left without looking back.

"Telegram? Where did it come from? It shouldn't be from Shanghai. How long have we only been back?" Cheng Nuo stopped, waited until the distance between the two of them was about the same, and asked, "Looking at you, you are still in a hurry." .”

This scene happened to be seen by Cheng Nuo and others on the mound not far away, and they were very touched.

Tao Xingzhi patted the mound of earth firmly to prevent the broken soil from falling again: "I'm not talking about being ruthless to others, but to be ruthless to myself. Such people should not be underestimated in the future, but the ruthlessness is a bit too much. I'm afraid that he will go into a dead end and go astray in the future."

Cheng Nuo strongly disagreed with criticizing teachers: "It would be a bit cruel to blindly talk about ideals and ambitions with talented people. Although others can't control them, we will definitely give those rural teachers enough salary and treatment here. There is compensation, and they deserve it."

When Zhu Kezhen was the president of Zhejiang University, he also lamented that today's higher education is almost exclusively enjoyed by children above the middle class.It is already very difficult for middle-aged people to provide for their children to graduate from high school. As for college students, it costs three or four hundred yuan a year, which is not enough.

After sighing, Tao Xingzhi also spat into his hands to increase the friction, and buried himself in his work, saying, "They all came from a hard life, and now I don't understand his master's thoughts. When I grow up, I will understand someday. But let's talk Come back, Wen Cong went to school to help at such a young age, aren't you worried that the seedlings will grow?"

It was just in time for us to accept refugees and run a school. We were dealing with children, and they thought about helping out. I thought that communication between children is easier than adults, so I agreed to their request.Although Wen Cong usually talks less than Goudaner and the others, he does things more rigorously. "

After watching halfway through, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but said, "Didn't we arrange it? Although we went to the disaster relief under the official banner of the government, we actually operated it ourselves without interfering with each other."

Putting the shovel into the soil, Tao Xingzhi said with emotion: "Although this kid is a bit of a mess, he is still kind and righteous. If you guide him well, maybe he will become a great talent in the future."

"The government's telegram, how can we not be in a hurry. As for Shanghai, I believe there will be news in a while." Jiang Jiangzuo trotted over and handed over the telegram.

Tao Xingzhi asked back, "Then tell me, what shall we do?"

Cheng Nuo was very worried about this phenomenon: "The schools are set up in urban areas, and the collection of tuition fees makes it even more difficult for families below the middle class to send their children to school. The abolition of the imperial examination and the prosperity of the school inevitably carry the meaning of aristocratic education." , which was unexpected in the imperial examination era.”

Cheng Nuo shook his head, sighed, and said, "Mr. Tao, don't you think it's unrealistic to talk about love with farmers? Originally, our new-style education has a bad reputation in the countryside. If we really want to say this, I'm afraid it will increase our reputation." Another big discount."

After saying that, the two continued to follow the victims and dig the foundation together at the new school site.

Due to economic relations, children who cannot enjoy higher education account for more than 90.00% of the whole population.

Tears welled up in Shuanzi's eyes, and he wanted to rush over instinctively, but he didn't dare to step out when he met the uncle's stern gaze, so he could only cry out: "Master..."

Although our elementary school was originally prepared for those homeless children, but later realized that such children only accounted for a part of the rural areas, so we expanded the enrollment quota.But this does not mean that we can take advantage of this opportunity to earn high tuition fees from these parents. "

Even if it is a family of thousands of gold, it is also tight, so there are very few students, which is contrary to the purpose of establishing education.Now that our Academy of Sciences has established a school, we will not follow their old path and have our own plans. "

Hearing this, Tao Xingzhi couldn't help but feel a little happy: "Anyway, it's just spending money. You are the boss, and you get what you say, and you pay for it. As long as you see the account book at the time, don't be blinded by it."

The great man once pointed out this situation when he was young, saying that the teaching materials for rural primary schools completely talked about things in the city and did not meet the needs of the countryside.The attitude of the primary school teachers towards the peasants is very bad, and instead of being their helpers, they have become people they hate.

"Brutally? Why didn't I see that?" After turning the soil up, Cheng Nuo stopped what he was doing and said, "Can you tell from the way he treated the child just now?"

Cheng Nuo took a sip of water from the water bag and said with a smile, "But having said that, besides building a school, I think there are other arrangements in the future, such as building roads, building hospitals, building auditoriums and so on."

Once we have a certain material foundation, we can tell our own people about love. "

The most disappointing thing for farmers is that the rural children who have received the new school education are not only "useless" in rural society, but their lifestyle and values ​​have also become incompatible with rural society.think it is to train talents for another urban society, not for a rural society
Of course, this situation is also the same in later generations. The more books the students read, the more out of place they will be when they return to their hometown in the countryside. It seems that everything does not match the rural society. When I was a child, I was born and raised my own home, but when I grow up, it becomes my hometown. .

Xiong Xiling also asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the President to send the documents for the donation of charity relief personnel from the special award. According to the method of awarding relief for the river and Anhui floods in the third year of the Republic of China, those who donated more than 3 yuan will be awarded special honors or guaranteed awards Appointment and promotion sections.

Faced with this situation, Tao Xingzhi was a little indignant: "I often think about it, looking at the internal methods of rural primary schools, which one is suitable for the poor? Which one is suitable for the countryside? Why don't rural primary schools have busy farming holidays? , but in accordance with the Ministry's order to take winter and summer vacations?
Why is the content of the teaching materials not suitable for the actual needs of rural life, but the same as that of urban schools? Why is the curriculum arranged for a few people to prepare for further education, and does not want to meet the needs of the majority. "

Tao Xingzhi smiled and turned up the soil again: "That may be because I was worrying too much."

With the promotion of new-style education, elementary school education is still difficult to popularize, and higher education is even more disappointing to the common people.

Cheng Nuo shook his head and explained: "You are too idealistic. The countryside is complicated, and it is not always as simple as it is written in the book. Let's use an analogy, if a student who has been in poverty for decades, has you The "love" mentioned, after graduating from university, he returned to the countryside to work as a teacher, with a barely enough salary.

Cheng Nuo said cheerfully: "The child is just like the students. Both of his parents fled and came here. He has suffered a lot along the way. When I first arrived in Beijing, I met their brothers and sisters. I have some fate, and then I gave them to me." I took them in. I always wanted to help me, but I thought they were young, so I didn't let them get involved.

Tao Xingzhi also expressed emotion about this: "Especially those rural primary school teachers who have been baptized by the new education, no longer want to live in the countryside, worry about poor treatment, or cannot find a job for a while, just settle down for a while, and leave when they have the opportunity. .Being in the country but heart in the city, there is no nostalgia for the spirit of the country at all.”

Cheng Nuo was digging the soil by himself, sweating on his head: "He is pretty good. Although his parents are both dead, he still has a grandfather. The other students in our school are all real orphans. There's only one left."

The uncle's eyes were wide open, and he slapped Shuanzi on the back again: "Knowing that our family has such good conditions, why don't we cherish the opportunity given by Mr. Cheng and study hard. People like us, apart from studying , there is no other way out. I don’t want you to be like your father in the future, without even an old grave after death!”

Sure enough, the rest of the content is even more exciting.

"Zhiyuan, Zhiyuan, stop here first. There is a telegram here. Come and take a look." Jiang Jiangzuo, holding the telegram in his hand, rushed here while panting heavily.

Cheng Nuo nodded and said, "Although the primary education we run now is free of charge, there will definitely be losses in the middle. Even if we follow them all the way to middle school and even university, there must be a small number of people who can persist until the end. So in the primary school stage, We must pay more attention.”

Faced with this kind of questioning, Tao Xingzhi was at a loss for words for a while, not knowing how to answer: "You can tell the parents that we chose to come back because of our love for the countryside, and help more children get out of the countryside to see the outside world."

"Eat well, and you don't have to worry about things at home."

And cultivate them in the industry, making them the first batch of high-quality industrial workers in the country, so as to support the development of the industry in the future.

Before he walked up to a few houses, he heard someone shouting from behind.

After receiving the telegram, it was the open letter signed by Xiong Xiling, the person in charge of the disaster relief. It said: "The situation is terrible. The central government only allocates 30 yuan, which is a drop in the bucket. The difficult period is widespread. I hope that gentlemen from all over the country will donate generously. Chengqiu, then the ditch will leave the Li, and I will worship the gift of life and death."

I will take this worthless boy to bow to you today, and I will entrust it to you in the future. I should be beaten and scolded. As a master, I will never say anything, just one request, let him go out and not come back! "

With the two of them taking the lead, the progress of the construction site was very fast. In a few days, it was completely dug, and the rest was the construction process.

Cheng Nuo shook his head and smiled, "I don't think there is any need to worry about this. His sister Wen Hui is always by his side. With this soft flesh, he is still a person, not a machine."

When Cheng Nuo had finished reading it, Jiang Jiangzuo calculated an account wisely: "According to public estimates, there are about 50 people without clothes. Each person will be given a set of cotton clothes and trousers. According to the allowance price, each set is about 150." Yuan, also needs more than [-] million silver dollars, the current financial deficit, how to raise this huge sum of money?
If he hadn't been cornered, how could he have used this trick, and he had also had a good time at the pinnacle of power, so he still wanted face. "

Cheng Nuo nodded and said, "At present, Xiong Xiling's authority is at the same level as Cao Kun, a senior official in Zhili. He has the right to supervise the relief work of the lower-level local governments, and represents the government to perform the role of the national disaster relief administrative agency.

As far as I know, he also donated 500 yuan, and even organized his family to sew hundreds of sets of clothes for the victims. No matter in terms of deeds or heart, he is beyond reproach, we don't need to read jokes. "

Jiang Jiangzuo shook his head and said: "No, no, no, I admire his behavior, but we have put in so much effort and went to disaster relief under the banner of the government. Rounding up, it can be regarded as going to the disaster relief through the hands of the government. It should be some benefits, at least give him a false job."

(End of this chapter)