The most virtuous wife, the most talented woman: the biography of Yang Jiang

Chapter 14 Mourning Jiangnan · The Hometown of the Dead (2)
When he felt conflicted, Yang Jiang came to ask his father what to do about it.Yang Yinhang was a member of the board of directors of Zhenhua School before, and he knows more about the history of Zhenhua Girls' School, and he is very sure of Mr. Ji Yu's character. His suggestion is: this matter can be done.

After thinking about it, Yang Jiang decided to be the principal, and started preparations.Establishing a school is a very cumbersome task. When Yang Jiang came to work, she had nothing, not even a salary.She began to be busy choosing a suitable place to rent as a school, she needed to choose the teachers of the school, she needed to learn how to make a budget and salary, and she needed to learn how to coordinate the teachers and restrain them. Mr. Ji Yu paid them little by little. Give it to her. Finally, the old headmaster personally handed over the Zhenhua Girls' School's dollar passbook and seal to Yang Jiang, and said, "It's up to you to handle it. I'm leaving."
She felt that Yang Jiang was like a bird learning to fly. If she didn't let go, she would never dare to fly by herself.If she leaves by herself, Yang Jiang will do everything. She believes that Yang Jiang will do well.At that time, Yang Jiang also secretly made up his mind that even if it was "a dog plowing the field", he had to plow it well.

In [-], the branch school of Zhenhua Girls' School, which had been preparing for a year, began to enroll students and start school. Yang Jiang's father recommended several teachers, and Yang Jiang also recommended several people to serve as teachers of various subjects. She is not idle, she teaches the English class of the third class of senior high school.The school's teacher team is basically complete. Some of the school's students are from the past, and some are children from families who fled to Shanghai. From then on, Zhenhua Branch School began to move on the right track.

Yang Jiang is a very responsible person, especially for things she thinks are meaningful.Since she became the principal, she has been conscientious and conscientious. She even spends much less time with her daughter.But looking at the school's students sitting in the classroom again, she felt that she was doing the right thing.She devoted all her energy to running the school and managing teaching, and she has a set of mature and effective management methods.

After half a year, Zhenhua Girls' School has been running in full swing under the hands of Yang Jiang. The smart and capable Yang Jiang has lived up to Mr. Ji Yu's expectations.But she is really tired, not only to be the principal, but also to continue tutoring the children of wealthy businessmen, and also to teach English in the third class of the school, she is too busy.

Because she can't be with her daughter all the time, she just took a rare moment to sing a nursery rhyme to A Yuan and make her laugh. Fortunately, her cousin's daughter is about the same age as A Yuan, and the two children often play together without arguing. The little cousin reads , she sat opposite and listened.

Once, Yang Jiang saw A Yuan staring at the book in the hands of her little cousin. One word, but Ah Yuan holds the book upside down.Yang Jiang later figured out that it was because A Yuan was sitting across from her little cousin when she was reading. She memorized every word carefully, but what she saw was the words upside down.

Everyone who knew the truth hurriedly taught Ah Yuan how to read. The little girl has completely inherited the IQ of her parents. She learns characters quickly and well, and she will never forget what she has learned.

Ah Yuan has been liked by everyone since she was a child. Everyone loves to coax her, saying that she is a cute doll.Yang Jiang felt that Ah Yuan was liked by everyone because she was very sensible, and she could listen to adults' reasoning, and she could understand it very well, and she was also very well-behaved, very self-controlling, and able to control herself.One year, Ah Yuan was ill and had a weak stomach. If she accidentally ate something, her stomach would be spoiled. The children were all greedy. They wanted to eat something, but if their mother told them not to eat, she obediently refused. Again, don't cry or make trouble.

A student brought Yang Jiang a large basket of loquats, which A Yuan had never eaten before. Yang Jiang did not dare to let A Yuan eat them, for fear that she would have a stomachache again. There are still small teardrops hanging, looking at mother eagerly, how can such a child not be loved!

When Ah Yuan was three years old, she saw the word "friend" and called to her mother, "These two "months" are making out!" Yang Jiang was very pleasantly surprised by her daughter's wonderful idea of ​​"two months getting close".Qian Zhongshu was very happy when he learned about it, and his poetry became very popular, so he wrote a poem: "Ying Wu is like a mother who creates like a Weng, and she can understand the characters of friends. I know that the Zuo family praises the charming daughter, but Liu's family is ugly. Tong." Poetry is that her daughter is smart and creative, like her parents, she has both the appearance of Zuo Si's daughter and the talent of Liu Yan, a child prodigy.

Yang Yinhang loves this granddaughter very much, just like he did to Yang Jiang when he was a child.For so many years, with so many brothers and sisters, no one has ever slept in the same bed with Yang Yinhang. When there was no war before, Yang Yinhang’s bed was very big. Ah Yuan slept with him and refused to leave.

There is also a treasure of Yang Yinhang on the bed, which is a small ear pillow wrapped in Taiwanese mats. It was specially made for him by Yang Jiang's mother when she was still alive. Even more as a treasure, but he only sleeps with A Yuan, and always smiles when looking at A Yuan, no matter how much he looks at it, he can't get enough of it.

Yang Jiang's younger brother is coming back from studying at the Vienna Medical University. Yang Jiang felt that the house was too crowded, so she offered to live out. Before moving out, her grandfather and A Fang who was next to her said, "Moving out, there will be no more pain for my grandfather." Yuan suddenly understood, tears fell down in big drops, like beads connected together, half of the big eyes were covered by tears, soaking the knees of grandpa, and the grandpa who rarely shed tears followed I cried, so sad.

At that time, little Ah Yuan was already able to leave and couldn't stay idle. She was always walking up and down the room, her posture was very similar to that of Qian Zhongshu, and she even turned the pages of books in the same way when she was reading. Yang Jiang was surprised. Qian Zhongshu is not always around, when did she learn it?

Under the guidance of her aunt, Ah Yuan has learned a lot of characters, just like her parents, she loves reading books and picks long stories to read, so Yang Jiang buys story books with paintings for her.Once, she bought a set of "The Wandering Child", and Ah Yuan started to read it beside her, but she burst into tears as soon as she read the beginning, looking very sad.Yang Jiang hurriedly comforted her, telling her that this was just a story, and it was just the beginning. After reading it, the ending was good, but Ah Yuan was still very sad, and cried when she saw the book, so Yang Jiang had to hide the book, not to let her read it. It came to upset the daughter.

Many years later, Ah Yuan was already a university professor. One day she told Yang Jiang that she had found out who the original author, translator, and ending of "The Wandering Child" were. Mom hid it, but secretly kept it in her heart until adulthood.

Although she is accompanied by someone, Ah Yuan still likes to play with her mother. Yang Jiang has little time to accompany Ah Yuan because of work. When my mother sat down and opened the book, she would walk away with loneliness written all over her little face.She knew that her mother was going to work and had no time to accompany her. She felt that those books had snatched her mother away. She beat those test papers with her tiny fists, and there were still tears in her eyes. Yang Jiang felt very distressed after reading it.

It's not just those around you who are left out.At that time, Qian Zhongshu was teaching abroad alone, so he was relatively free.In the past three years, the two were together in everything, and they separated like this when they returned to China. He was not used to Yang Jiang not being by his side. He had a habit before. If he was not by Yang Jiang's side, he would seriously take Write a diary, write down everything that happened in a day, and leave it for Yang Jiang to read.

He often wrote letters to Yang Jiang, but received very few replies. Yang Jiang was too busy, so he wrote "Thousands of thoughts are like insects competing to eat away at the heart, and the whole body is like a shadow that wants to follow the shape".In late September [-], he had a chance to go back to Shanghai to visit his family and relatives, but the time was very short. At that time, Yang Jiang was running around preparing for the establishment of the school. He felt sorry for her hard work, but he also supported her in doing so. After all, Yang Jiang is so talented, it's a pity to stay at home.

quarrel agreement

In a lifetime of husband and wife, there is no one who does not quarrel. Some quarrels are quarrels, and the past is over. Some quarrels will become the flavoring agent of life, and people can learn from them to prevent future troubles.The former makes the conflict between husband and wife like a stone in a well, which accumulates more and more, while the latter makes the conflict between husband and wife like water in a deep well, which sinks and becomes clearer.

When Qian Zhongshu came back, there was no place for him to live in the Qian family, because the rooms on Lafayette Road were already packed with relatives. When Yang Yinhang learned that his son-in-law was back, he asked his two daughters to share with him. Squeeze, and then give up the room to Qian Zhongshu.This arrangement made Qian Zhongshu very happy, because with the time to spend alone with Yang Jiang, the two of them had never been separated for such a long time after they got married. He wished that there was such a small room for him to confide in his heart.

Qian Zhongshu loves to read dictionaries since he was a child, but this is the same as Yang Jiang. Yang Yinhang found out about this and said to Yang Jiang: "Hmph! Ah Ji, there is someone who is also reading a book with a single word!" Yang Yinhang admired Qian Zhongshu very much. The two of them were very speculative, had a good chat, and shared many of the same views. Usually, the two of them lacked someone to chat with, so it was inevitable that they would chat for a long time when they got together.

But Qian Zhongshu is a very filial person, every morning he would go back from Father Yang's house to Qian's house to say hello to the elders in the family, but Yang Jiang had to come and return by himself because he was in a state of anxiety about building a school.One day, when he came back, Yang Jiang noticed that something was wrong with his expression. She knew that something must have happened. After asking, she found out that it was his father who wanted him to study in the Department of Foreign Languages ​​at Lantian National Normal University in Hunan. director.

This matter was not a whim of Qian's father. Before that, Qian's father went to Hunan Lantian National Teachers College to help an old friend Liao Shicheng build a school. Qian's father wanted his son to come to him so that he could take care of himself conveniently and have a personality. companion.

Qian Zhongshu didn't want to go, because he really liked the job at Tsinghua University, and the opportunity was really rare.But everyone in the Qian family hoped that he would listen to his father's arrangement, so he was also shaken, so he asked Yang Jiang what his opinion was.

At this moment, Yang Jiang told him that he should respect the truest thoughts in his heart, whether he wanted to go or not, and told the truth to his family members, and let them know what Qian Zhongshu's own hope was.

Whether it is between the elders and the young, or between husband and wife, there will always be disagreements. The way to resolve the differences is very important. It is not right to compromise or insist blindly.

On the ship that just went abroad, Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu had a quarrel. The reason for the quarrel was a bit ridiculous when I thought about it later. It was because of a problem with the pronunciation of the French word "bon". Qian Zhongshu's pronunciation was called "country" by Yang Jiang. Qian Zhongshu was dissatisfied with the accent, and felt that Yang Jiang's reading was wrong, so the two quarreled. Qian Zhongshu also said some radical words, but Yang Jiang didn't let him go.After arguing for a long time, there was no result. Yang Jiang asked a French lady who can speak English to judge whether there was any problem with Qian Zhongshu's pronunciation.

The French lady listened carefully to the pronunciation of Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang, and concluded that Yang Jiang was right and that there was indeed something wrong with Qian Zhongshu's accent, and the quarrel came to an end.But after saying so many hurtful things, the two of them were very sad whether they won or lost. Later, the two discussed a solution to this disagreement, that is, each had their own opinions, the other party would not interfere, and a second answer was allowed.

Although the two people summed up the method through "actual combat" for the emergence of disagreements, but since then, the two people seldom quarrel, and most things are discussed and resolved. Fortunately, most of the concepts of the two people are consistent. .This time Father Qian asked Qian Zhongshu to change his job, Yang Jiang also wanted Qian Zhongshu to express his own thoughts, everyone has the right to make their own choices.

Later, Yang Jiang also asked her father, wanting to hear his advice, but all she got from her father was silence and contemplation. His father's contemplation made her fall into long-term thinking. After all, this is a big event. Qian Zhongshu should You have your own ideas, but you can't forcefully resist the opinions of your family. The best way is to express your position.

Qian Zhongshu decided to listen to Yang Jiang's suggestion and explain his thoughts to his family. Yang Jiang also accompanied him back to Qian's house that day, but he didn't expect that everyone's "group attack" was waiting for them.Qian Zhongshu compromised under the pressure from his family. Seeing the subtle changes on her husband's face, Yang Jiang felt distressed, but there was nothing he could do.

Later, Qian Zhongshu wrote a letter to Ye Gongchao, director of the Foreign Language Department of Tsinghua University, telling him about his resignation, but he did not wait for a reply. Later, he went to Lantian National Teachers College.

A few days after he left, Yang Jiang received a telegram from Tsinghua University, asking why Qian Zhongshu didn't reply to President Mei Yiqi's telegram. Yang Jiang thought about it, and the couple had never received any from President Mei Telegram!Because Qian Zhongshu was still on the road and could not be contacted in time at that time, she could only forward the telegram she received from Tsinghua University to Lantian National Teachers College, Qian Zhongshu's new work place.

This journey took Qian Zhongshu 34 days. After that, he saw the telegram sent by Yang Jiang. He felt very guilty and felt sorry for the importance and expectations of his alma mater. But he also had his own difficulties. Make fun of people!
This matter made Mr. Ye Gongchao very angry, so much so that once he saw Yuan Tongli and said, "Qian Zhongshu is such a proud person, would he be willing to work under you?" Qian Zhongshu could understand Mr. Ye's anger, after all, he did it himself. Less than a year later, his alma mater attached great importance to him and made "special" arrangements for him, so he resigned and transferred to another school.Mr. Ye may think that Qian Zhongshu is proud and has disdain to work under him.But in fact, Qian Zhongshu's respect for the teachers of his alma mater and his admiration for Mr. Ye deeply affected even Yang Jiang. How could he be such a proud person!
After staying for just a few days, it was time to separate again. That day, Yang Jiang was the only one to send him away.The scene of seeing off that day, the two of them have kept in mind for decades...

The half a year that I told Mr. Ji Yu before came soon, Yang Jiang wrote a resignation letter seriously and mailed it to the old principal in Dongshan. Mr. Ji Yu rushed to Shanghai after hearing the news and asked Yang Jiang why he resigned ?Yang Jiang only said that the half-year deadline agreed before had come, and she had completed the "task" as promised, and now it was time to hand in the results.Mr. Ji Yu disagreed and advised her to continue working for another six months. Yang Jiang agreed and agreed to resign during the summer vacation.

Half a year passed, and the final exam was over. Yang Jiang brought up this matter again, but Mr. Ji Yu still didn't want her to go.Talents that have been poached through untold hardships are managed very smoothly by the school, how can they be let go easily?But Yang Jiang in front of him had decided to go, and both of them insisted on their own ideas. Later, Yang Jiang thought of a way, recommended Shen Shu to be the principal, and obtained Shen Shu's consent.Shen Shu is Yang Jiang's classmate, and she is also very good.

During the summer vacation, Yang Jiang held a board meeting and announced her resignation at the meeting.Principal Ji Yu was surprised that there were only a few core figures present, and the chairman did not come, so he asked, "Why hasn't Shen Shu come yet?"
Yang Jiang replied: "She will wait for Mr. Yang Yongqing to pick her up in a car with Dr. Nance."
Mr. Yang Yongqing is the fourth Chinese president of Soochow University, Dr. Nance is a doctor of literature history, and the third foreign president of Soochow University. Both of them are members of the school board of directors. They rarely attend meetings. Mr. Ji Yu Only then did he realize what Yang Jiang's intention was, and immediately asked several core figures to discuss countermeasures behind closed doors.

Later, Yang Jiang was called by three old seniors to talk, and the result was, resign, yes!Everyone will keep her after resigning, so she can't insist anymore.

Although Yang Jiang didn't want to do this, but the old senior's words could not be refuted, so she had to keep her head down and not speak.At this time, Shen Shu and his party also arrived. Shen Shu was ready to take up the post of principal that day, and she had even dressed meticulously.But the process of the meeting was exactly as the old-timers said, resigned, was retained, and could not be refuted.

Yang Jiang did not give up, and asked everyone to resign one after another. In the end, Mr. Ji Yu really couldn't hold back her, so he had to appoint someone else.Yang Jiang finally resigned and has time to do what she wants to do, but her concern for Zhenhua Girls' School has never stopped, and her guilt towards Mr. Ji Yu has always been there, and she still uses the old principal as the prototype Created the short story "Career" to commemorate this respected educator.This old principal who was "alone and made the school his home" became Yang Jiang's lifelong concern, and Mr. Ji Yu was never married. As Mr. Ji Yu himself said: I have married Zhenhua!
Yang Jiang’s experience as a principal came to an end. In name, she did it for two years, but in fact she only did it for one year, and she persisted for half a year and half a year.This experience has brought her a lot of benefits, not materially, but spiritually. She has learned the way to behave in the world, and has also increased her life experience. She has done things that she thought she could not do before, and she has done them smoothly. However, she never gave up her literary dream. That idea has always existed in her heart, and it has not faded in the slightest because of the passage of time.The brightest dream is not because of the joy of success, but the persistence that has always existed.

The principal of Zhenhua Middle School Shanghai Branch is the biggest "official" that Yang Jiang has served in her life. She has tried her best, but modestly believes that "I am a small principal, and I have gained an important experience that will affect my life. I myself Knowing that I am young and ignorant, I have no airs among my colleagues, and everyone gets along very well. But there is always an insurmountable line between them and me, and I cannot blend in with the masses. I understand the meaning and meaning of being a "leader" The "distance" of the masses, make up your mind: I will be among the masses all my life, and I will be one of the common people all my life."

(End of this chapter)