Lao Tzu is a toad

Chapter 11

In the afternoon, the opening ceremony for new students was held in the gymnasium. On the way to the gymnasium, Li Feng kept telling Zhao Jiadi how it was unwise not to attend English class, and how bright and charming that young and beautiful English teacher was, from overwhelming the country to ruining the country and the people again. When Chen Yuluoyan closed the moon and was ashamed, he basically uttered all the beautiful words, which made the guy spittle and mouth dry. Zhao Jiadi didn't respond, just wondering if the old principal would say it at the opening ceremony. What to say, Ma Xiaotiao, who had skipped classes to the end on the first day of school, looked skeptical. This time, Shen Han, whose outlook on life, values ​​and love had parted ways with Li Feng, also made an exception to agree, and suddenly aroused Ma Xiaotiao's interest and decided to go his own way. In the next English class, I must go to see the beauty. Among the crowds going to the gymnasium, Zhao Jiadi saw the lonely figure of the old principal very sharply. The school leaders accompanied him, which gave Zhao Jia the first strange feeling, as if the smiling old Maitreya Buddha had no demeanor when he met alone, and walked desolately in the crowd with his back, instead, he had a desolate and heroic mood.

"That's the principal of our school." Zhao Jiadi pointed to the old man in the distance.

"What? Just that hunchbacked old man?" Li Feng's eyes widened. He had never had face-to-face contact with an old man like Zhao Jiadi, so naturally he didn't have any special feelings. Most of the business tycoons with billions of dollars of wealth thrown into the crowd are still the same as Zhao Jiadi, inconspicuous and unassuming.

Because the old headmaster walked slowly, he was always bumped by excited students, the old man didn't take it seriously, and walked slowly, Shen Han immediately rushed over, trying to help him in this school. The leader of the vice principal and deputy secretary was covered in cold sweat, the old principal squinted his eyes and turned to look at Shen Han, smiled, shook his head slightly, and continued to walk alone.

Shen Han scratched his head and carefully followed behind the old man.

"This sycophant." Li Feng muttered.

Ma Xiaotiao wore mp4 earplugs and ignored him.

Each class has a row of male and female students. Zhao Jiadi chose to sit in the last seat again. Many people carry MP3s or even PSPs, and at least one or two magazines and newspapers. For fear of falling asleep, they stepped into the classroom from the first day. The school has experienced countless dull and boring ceremonial gatherings. No one expects to hear new things on such occasions. Now I am afraid that even kindergarten kids know the truth of shooting the first bird. Sure enough, the very rigid leader Speeches, very boring freshman speeches, more than 2000 people were dazed and drowsy, and Zhao Jiadi, who took part in the ceremony with his copy of "The Road to Serfdom", took the time to observe the enemy's situation and found that the counselors had no time to pay attention to the absent-minded students , and then found painfully that his class was a tragic existence with the most scarce resources of beautiful women. He specially looked at Zhou Xiaoman's class, and sure enough, the comparison made it look like a cloud of beautiful women. Zhao Jiadi sighed and continued to read, hinting that There was Yan Ruyu in the book, he didn't see the old headmaster who didn't sit on the rostrum to speak, and walked around all the college classes in a low-key manner.

At the end of the opening ceremony, he finally walked to the rostrum in a leisurely manner, frightened several school leaders who had been informed that the principal would not be on stage, stood up suddenly, and hurriedly gave up their seats. More than 2000 young men and women in the audience finally had their seats. Some people raised their heads, wanting to know what happened, but they saw an old man who looked like a doorman stepping on a pair of cloth shoes, took a microphone by himself, and walked to the podium. There was no speech script, no host announcement, and he coughed twice. In a calm voice, he said: "Dear colleagues, students, I don't want to speak on behalf of anyone today, but as an old man who has taken root in this school for 50 years and is about to leave this school, I will talk to more than 2000 people. Freshmen say a few words."

The old man's voice was not loud, but it was heard clearly in the ears of everyone in the gymnasium.

All of a sudden, there was a lot of discussion in the audience, and they were all whispering.

The old man held the microphone in one hand, and the other hand was still behind his back. He wore thick old pedantic glasses, stepped on a pair of cheap rubber-soled cloth shoes, and dressed in a rustic hat. He ignored the noise from the audience and continued: "We are in There is an inaccurate name for the school district of Yangpu, Yangpu University City. This land has Fudan University, Tongji University, the Second Army University, and the University of Finance and Economics. I’m not sure, that is to say, if someone asks about our school, after he finally hears your explanation clearly, he will suddenly understand, oh, it’s the university that went to Tongji and the Second Army University. Or wait one day You go shopping in the magic metropolitan area, and you can’t wait for the bus. If you take a taxi to Yangpu University City, the driver must also not know such a place, so you have to say, master, why don’t you send me to Tongji University first? .”

The audience roared with laughter.

The old headmaster also laughed, but the rostrum, which was full of chatter and laughter, was completely silent, and everyone was silent.The old man gently took off his glasses, wiped them with his shirt, put them on and continued: "So frankly speaking, this is not a university where you can win applause and envy by just saying it. I don't know that among the more than 2000 students How many of them came here triumphantly, feeling that they can be happy and happy after being sad about 81, and I don’t know how many of them came here with their heads down, just getting a diploma, and then they went to the society, giving Fudan students, Peking University and Tsinghua students Doing odd jobs, running errands, serving tea and water, etc. In this regard, I, an old man who entered the school when he was 20 years old and never left, still wants to say something from the bottom of his heart. There is only one end in a person’s life, but there are many There is a starting point, starting from the birth of the mother’s womb is the first big starting point, and no one can change this. Next, primary school is promoted to junior high school, and junior high school is promoted to high school, which are two new starting points. After that, many children regard high school and university in advance as the key to life. It’s the end, it’s all irresponsible, after the age of 18, you don’t have to be responsible to your parents, but at least you have to learn to be responsible to yourself, I remember this saying, it was one of your seniors who told me when he was drunk What he said: Even if he is trampled like a puddle of mud, he still needs to pinch a dog’s tail flower. If I remember correctly, he comes from a poor county, and he owes tuition fees every year, and then he relies on him to get scholarships at school I saved it up by working four handymen and tutoring for one yuan and one yuan for two vacations. He said this to me on the day of graduation, and I paid for the drink. Now, this university is broken from the library during the four years of college. The guy who has borrowed 512 books in our school record may be my leader after he leaves the National Development and Reform Commission and comes to Shanghai again in ten years or so.”

This time the laughter was much sparser.

The old principal smiled, looked around at the more than 2000 immature faces in the audience, and said: "I don't ask you to borrow more than 100 books a year like that senior, I think about 30 books a year is almost enough, of course it must be a textbook To be honest, the books that the university desperately wants you to read are not very useful. The works that you are willing to read, chew and reflect are the spiritual wealth that will affect your life. I am an ordinary The son of a farmer, who was admitted to university with difficulty at the age of 20, and began to be a teacher at the age of 26, teaching and educating people to this day, has only proved one thing, even if it is a toad, it can enrich itself for decades, sooner or later The day when I jumped out of the pond and ate swan meat. This swan meat can be full of peaches and plums, it can be embraced by beautiful women, it can also be the glory of the family after success, or it can be a great financier. I have a clear conscience and no regrets. I have been waiting for the day when you feel that you have not felt guilty about yourself. Maybe after hearing this, many students will ask, why do you ask us to work hard for such an inconspicuous school? Yes, this school has no Chinese Universities are flooded with buildings, and there are not a few masters who have been ignored by Chinese universities for many years, why?"

The old principal paused, pointed to himself, and then to the audience, "It's up to you."

The audience was silent.

The old man regained his relaxed smile and said, "Okay, I'm sorry for wasting so much time listening to music and reading newspapers. The meeting is adjourned."

Zhao Jiadi had already closed the famous economics book when the old principal spoke the first sentence, and listened to it verbatim.

He knew that the senior the old principal talked about was one of Zhao Sanjin's very few friends who could make friends with each other. He joined the National Development and Reform Commission eight years ago, had ups and downs, and finally rose to the top.Zhao Jiadi didn't understand the ups and downs of the period, and he didn't know the magnificence behind that man, but he was sure that it was reasonable for such a man to make a fortune. He got up and took the plastic chair and left the gymnasium. A true new alumnus, Zhao Jiadi is silent, this is the real life, everyone progresses or slides according to the inertia, more of them are frogs that gradually die in boiling warm water, so ignorant that they don’t even have the desire to jump out Bong.

The old principal still left the venue separately from a large number of school leaders, but this time he was accompanied by a beautiful woman dressed as an office OL. The woman, about 30 years old, was very good and elegant. Zhao Jiadi could only vaguely see a stunning profile and a slender back. .

At that moment, Zhao Jiadi's heart was pounding wildly, and he finally bumped into the 80+ goddess.

(End of this chapter)