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Chapter 8

Chapter 1, Verse 7 I give you a child

[China] Zhang Xiaofeng

The little boy walked out of the gate, turned back and waved to me on the balcony on the fourth floor, saying, "Goodbye!"

That was many years ago, and that morning was the second day he had started elementary school.

In fact, I can still accompany him again like yesterday, but I was determined to see him go alone.He has a life that belongs to him, and I can't accompany him. The relationship between mother and child can only be regarded as a borrowed piano. He can play as long as he can, but the borrowed years have a return period after all.

He happily walked out of the long alley, very obedient, neither running nor jumping, with an appearance of following the rules.I stared blankly at the rising sun and wept.

I want to tell people in the whole city out loud that this morning, we gave them a little boy. He didn't know what fear is, but I knew it. I started to fear, did I get involved?

I handed him over to the road, I told him to obey the rules and walk along the sidewalk, but, hurrying passers-by, can you be more careful?Don't hit my child, I handed over my beloved to Zongheng Road, allow me to see him come back safely!

I have never moved my registered permanent residence, we don’t want to go to school across districts, we let our children go to national elementary schools in our district instead of some private star elementary schools, I try my best to trust the education authorities, and I trust my children as a bet—but, School, when I entrust my child to you, what kind of education do you promise to give him?This morning, I handed over to you a happy, honest and enlightened little boy. After many years, what kind of youth will you give me back?

He began to read and read, of course, he also read newspapers, listen to music or watch TV, movies, writers throughout the ages!All kinds of knowledge transmitters!What will my children gain from you?Will we drink it, drink it, or feed it with dross?Will he thus become upright and faithful, or will he learn to be cunning and deceitful?When I hand over my child, when he thirsts for knowledge from the world, what will you give him, O world?

O world, what kind of man will you give me back this morning when I, a mother, gave you her sweet little boy?

【Together with you】

Mr. Lu Xun once said that we are not short of talents, but the soil for cultivating talents.What kind of environment we live in will determine what kind of people we will be made into.From babbling to adulthood, how many times have we struggled with the living environment and how many times have we compromised?One day when we find that the edges and corners of our aura have been smoothed when we were young, when we are used to adapting to the old environment and feel indifferent in the face of new things, will we be alert again to the power of the environment and the horror of the years?Together to create a benign, healthy and vibrant social environment is an important factor to ensure our poetic habitat from generation to generation.When we were children, we wanted to thrive; and as the years went by, we wanted to give our children the brightest smiles they could, blue blue.Let us do one thing only: may we bring food that is indeed wholesome.

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