1979 The Life of Idle Fish

Chapter 470 "I want to go to school"

After returning home from the red wall, Luo Tao suppressed his excitement because he knew that as long as he discussed it above, his chances of passing would be very high.

After a brief chat with his family, he devoted himself passionately to his creation.

Luo Tao stopped the pen in his hand after several family urgings for dinner, and got up to eat.

The little girl pulled Luo Tao's shirt while he was eating, holding the iron rice bowl tailor-made for her, and made her cutest request to Luo Tao, "Dad, please feed me, okay?"

Luo Tao touched his mouth, turned to look at him, and teased her: "Dad, what if I can't agree?"

"Huh, then I'll ignore you."

Harmful!This girl can turn over a book faster than she can turn over a book.

The whole family was laughing.

"People say there's no businessman without treachery, but you, you girl, are even more mercenary than me." After all, fathers should be more realistic.

"Come on, dad feeds you."

Luo Tao now adheres to the principle of raising his son if he is poor and his daughter if he is rich. If Xiao Shiyue made this request, Luo Tao would definitely punish him first and then consider whether to feed him.

However, the precocious little October would not come up with such a childish idea.

Now he is a complete little adult, and he is becoming more and more disciplined in doing things. He is not like a five-year-old child at all. Even if he is said to be ten years old, people will believe him.

Not only is the little guy as tall as a big kid, he also has a very mature face.

At this time, he was eating quietly at his seat and watching what happened at this moment.

"Little October, come and eat some meat." Su Guilan served some vegetables to her precious grandson.

"Thank you, grandma." I politely thanked grandma Su Guilan, and then started chewing.

Everything went on peacefully. After dinner, the brother and sister were very sensible and helped Luo Tao clear the stool for eating.

After doing this, Luo Tao took them to the study room to read for a while.

After eight o'clock, Zhu Lin took them to wash up.Then the rest of the time will be entirely decided by Luo Tao.

Whether it is the second hand or the minute hand of the clock, it turns very fast.The heat of the day also gradually disappeared with the thickness of the night.

It was particularly quiet at night. You could faintly hear the steady exhalations of Zhu Lin and the children next door, and from time to time you could hear the cries of the grasshoppers raised by his father, Luo Shaoyi.

The white light of the desk lamp gradually lengthened the figure of the diligent writer sitting at his desk.

Until darkness swallowed up the study room, Luo Tao turned off the light and fell asleep.

The next day, in the afternoon, nothing exceeded Luo Tao's expectations. Sure enough, he received a call from his superiors and asked him to go to the red wall to give a defense, that is, to discuss collective measures with some professionals.

This day was extremely extraordinary, but then again, "People's Daily" published an article signed by a fisherman.

Once it was published, it instantly became a topic of conversation for ordinary people in the streets and alleys when they gathered together after dinner.

No matter how stormy it was outside, Luo Tao no longer cared. In the past two days, he had pushed countless newspapers to request interviews with him.

In his heart, he longs for the attention of others, but after receiving attention, he also longs for the quietness of the past.

This is something that he, a man in his decades, is gradually contradicting in his heart.

Fortunately, those decades of his life did not live on as a dog, and he quickly understood his place.

Not suitable for specific work, not suitable for politics, and not suitable for being a public figure.

Because he is a real person, he doesn't really pretend to be himself.

On July [-], Luo Tao once again published the short story "I Want to Go to School" in the Youth Daily under the name of a fisherman, which he had painstakingly written for several days.

The content is based on what Luo Tao saw and heard in Liangjiazhai as the material and background, and added a lot of investigation materials by relevant departments in the past few years, and wrote nearly ten thousand words eloquently.

The names of people and places were hidden.

Luo Tao reasonably integrated the situations of Liang Lan's family and Liang Jinhua's family, creating a heroine who was filled with tragedy and misery from birth to recruit her younger brother.

Writing about sadness and sorrow are not what Luo Tao wants. What he wants more is to bring hope to people.

Because of this, I cleverly wrote myself and Zhu Lin into it, and turned the two into a pair of passionate young people. After graduating from technical secondary school, they were assigned to be teachers in the village where the younger brother was recruited. They knew the situation of recruiting younger brothers. .

In the days that followed, the two of them took turns doing the job of recruiting their younger brother's parents. Unfortunately, the parents who recruited his younger brother were both stubborn, and the family also had certain financial difficulties.

Even so, the two of them did not give up on letting Zhaodi go to school. They made a major decision, that is, the two of them funded Zhaodi's schooling with their own money.

In this way, the 12-year-old Zhaodi went to school.

A pair of young people who are passionate and full of love, the two of them finally came together because of this.

Their names are: Zhen Weida and Zhong Guo.

The article calls on people across the country to pay attention to grassroots education, to ensure equality in education, and not to deny children access to education.At the same time, we also hope that high-level officials can formulate some policies that are beneficial to education for all, and that local governments should implement nine-year compulsory education in accordance with policies.

And strongly condemned the nation's thousand-year disease - the preference for sons over daughters.

When Luo Tao was checking information, he saw an incident. In a large village in the northwest with a population of 2000 people, not a single junior high school student was born in 20 years. From this incident, it can be seen that our country's basic education was very backward in the 80s.

There are as many as one million children out of school in the country every year, and the number of illiterate people is hundreds of millions, accounting for one-tenth of our country's total population. If the country did not open literacy classes and implement simplified Chinese characters, illiteracy would only be higher.

Special era, special product.

Nine-year compulsory education was born under such circumstances.

The publication of this novel immediately caused an uproar in Sijiu City.

On that day, everyone from all walks of life in the capital, farmers, workers, businessmen, and intellectuals, held in their hands an article and novel "I Want to Go to School" written by the fisherman.

On July [-]th, "I Want to Go to School" became a sensation across the country, and all newspapers and magazines everywhere published the novel.

Senior leaders even asked education departments in various places to study this novel.

Since then, the name of the fisherman has really spread all over Kyushu, and despite the investigation by reporters from China and Taiwan, the sales of newspapers across the country have increased by [-]% compared to previous years because of the novel "I want to go to school".

"Youth Daily" sold nearly 600 million copies nationwide in three days, setting a record for the highest sales since the "Youth Daily" was first published.

For a while, "Luoyang paper is expensive".

At this point, even the most ordinary people can casually say this when chatting with others: What is most important in the future?Talent.

Or else: there is nothing you can do if you are poor but education.

Zhong Guo: I am a people's teacher... No child can be left behind in the education team.Zhen Weida: I am a girl, and I also want to enjoy the right to education granted to me by the state.

"The land is thin and planted with pines and cypresses, and the poor family is studying."

There have been explosions all over the country in the past few days. Suddenly, there has been a big discussion about basic education across the country, which has overshadowed the topic of reforming the economy that people used to pay great attention to every day and every moment.

Before this matter was over, Youth Daily made another big splash. It made its own decision without consulting Luo Tao in advance and published an article to evaluate the influence of "I Want to Go to School" on the future. This is normal.

According to this normal human process, abnormal things tend to appear at the end.

Sure enough, at the end of the article... it means that they will pay Mr. Fisherman 1 yuan as royalties.

1 yuan is not high in the eyes of rich people, but for grassroots people and the current writer circle, it is big news.

Ordinary people: Writing a novel can make a household worth ten thousand yuan?
Writer: I only get six yuan per thousand words now, while he only pays one yuan per word. The difference is a thousand times.No, I object.

Everyone wrote articles one after another to denounce this kind of behavior. The collective consensus was that the holy land of the literary world had been corrupted by capital, and the Youth Daily had also fallen into depravity, and the relevant departments were required to investigate strictly.

But surprisingly, no one stood up and accused the novel "I Want to Go to School" of being wrong.

People who know Luo Tao in the writer circle have used various channels to advise Luo Tao not to make blind noises with Youth Daily, and to keep a low profile and not to establish himself as a target for attracting attention.

However, someone advised Luo Tao to follow suit. This person was none other than Lu Yao, who had not shown up for a long time.There is also Wang Shuo, who is unruly and has never been welcomed by traditional literature.

What happened to Wang Shuo now, and the online novels that emerged 20 years later are somewhat sympathetic. Fortunately, both of them were finally accepted by the times.

As the old saying goes: It’s better to clear things up than to block them.

Blacksmith need its own hardware.

Luo Tao accepted their advice and would think about it seriously.

Then he felt very at ease and accepted the royalties, which were enough to leave his name in history.

"Youth Daily" is not afraid of accountability from above, so what should I, an ordinary citizen, be afraid of?
As soon as the news came out, the literary world exploded, and people accused Luo Tao of his faults. It was also because of this smokeless battle that people all over the country knew that Luo Tao was the fisherman, and the fisherman was Luo Tao.

This made people all over the country fall in love with the name Luo Tao even more. Not only did he have a business acumen, he was also so talented, and more importantly, he had great love.

For the fierce reaction of his colleagues, Luo Tao still adopted the old routine of the past, ignoring and stepping on them, allowing them to yell and criticize, and when they were tired of shouting, they would know to rest.

Luo Tao said he was helpless about the pursuit of celebrities by ordinary people. He did not expect that people are so crazy about chasing stars nowadays.

However, there was no bad situation like smashing doors or anything.You just can't go out shopping or wandering around. If you are recognized by someone, you will be surrounded by people on the inside and outside.

Not only Luo Tao enjoys this kind of treatment, but even his family members are not immune to it.

Once when Su Guilan went to buy groceries, someone shouted: "This old lady is from Luo Tao's hometown."

Su Guilan, who was always lively and showy, was frightened by the sudden crowd. She didn't want any food, threw it away, took a shortcut and ran home.

"Sister, why are you running away?"

When she got home, she vividly described the scene she encountered that morning to her family.

"There are huge crowds of people, and the black crowd is rushing towards me... If I hadn't been quick-witted, I would have been blown out of my mind by them.

As Taoer often said, people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong. "

This is all done by people in the capital, and people from other provinces are even crazier. They don't know Luo Tao's contact number, so they keep calling the youth magazine and let them convey their love for Luo Tao on their behalf. .

Someone once exaggeratedly described that during that period, the youth magazine's phone number was hit six times by readers from all over the country.

There are even rumors that Luo Tao even paid for a telephone for the youth magazine.

These are all nonsense and should not be believed at all.

Although I didn’t blow up the phone, I did break a few.In this regard, Luo Tao did not have time to spend money to buy them new telephones.

People who knew Luo Tao's home address wrote letters one after another. In the past, the Luo family used small mailboxes to receive letters, but now it is different. The postmen and comrades put a sack at the door of the Luo family.

It takes almost two or three days to collect a sack.

This incident made the postman sigh with emotion, saying that it was the first time in his life that he had encountered it. He had heard other people say that such a thing happened before, but he had never encountered it.

The time came to mid-July.

Hundred Flowers Courtyard.

The little girl rode a wooden horse carefree in the shade of the courtyard and watched pomegranate and crabapple fighting.

The adults listened to the drum book and then went about their own business. Father Luo Shaoyi was fighting crickets with his grandson Xiao Shiyue, also called crickets. These things only started to chirp in August and are not yet mature in size.

But it doesn't dampen the two's interest in playing.

The female comrades in the family make shoes and children's clothes, and my mother Su Guilanjue's children should wear the clothes made by them.

Otherwise, it’s picking peanut seeds and garlic seeds. This is Sister He’s favorite job. She is more enthusiastic about garden work than cooking.

Today they are picking jujube cores to make jujube steamed buns.

The whole family is looking forward to the jujube paste steamed buns that have not yet been made.

As for Zhu Lin, she was extremely lazy and very strong, competing with Luo Tao for the right to use the study room.

Yong Luo Tao once said to her, "You should be glad that you were born in a new era now. If you were in the old society, you wouldn't necessarily get married, and you wouldn't be able to do anything as a female celebrity."

At this time, she was practicing calligraphy seriously, and Luo Tao was forced to sit on the Arhat bed and read letters from readers.

When he read a letter that he thought was good, he would lie on the small coffee table on Luohan's bed and write a reply to his readers.

He was very excited at first. Looking at the letter in the sack, Luo Tao thought that this was the kind of treatment only Shuke and Beta could enjoy.

As time went by, Luo Tao's passionate excitement was gradually drowned by the sea-like letters.

Replies to readers are not as frequent as at first, but are selective.

If readers and friends who like him find out about this, I don’t know if they will want to beat Luo Tao to death.

Even though Luo Tao has this shortcoming, he still takes a lot of time to carefully read every letter from readers and friends.

The content of the letter is very strange, just like life, every day is different.

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