September 1 is the day of the start of the new semester of the school.

Going to primary school at the age of nine is relatively common in the local area. If you have an older birthday, you can go to elementary school at the age of 8.

In the 80s, the primary school was a village school, except for a particularly small village where there was no school, basically every village had a primary school, a junior high school in the entire township, and a high school in the entire county, and the school system was five years of primary school, three years of junior high school, and three years of high school.

Zhangjiazhuang Village Primary School is just behind the village in a row of houses, a school office, three teachers, and three classrooms. There is one classroom for grades 1 and 3, one room for grades 2 and 4, and one room for grades 5. There is a basketball hoop on each side of the courtyard, and there are several table tennis tables made of cement slabs in front of the classroom.

Zhang Muyang and more than a dozen and a half children sat in the first-grade classroom, sitting in the front two rows, and the third-grade students sat in the back two rows, back to back. There are two blackboards in the front and back of the classroom, where the teacher finishes the lecture for the first grade, arranges some homework, and then goes to the other side to teach the third grade.

The school is in my own village, so there is no sense of mystery, but sitting in the classroom, it feels quite fresh.

The tuition fee will be collected after a few days, Zhang Muyang seems to be here to make soy sauce, Lao Zhang told the principal, you can go to school for a few days, you will be registered first, and you will talk about it in the future.

The principal is actually very reluctant to do this, because once the student registration is done, if Zhang Muyang does not take the exam, he will memorize the average score, and if he takes the exam, the score will not be good.

Now people are accustomed to nine-year compulsory education, and there is no threshold for upgrading all the way from primary school to junior high school. At that time, this was not the case, from the first grade to the second grade of primary school to high school, there were strict promotion exams, and one of the subjects of Chinese and mathematics could not reach 60 points, so I did not want to upgrade. It is more difficult to move from primary school to junior high school and junior high school to junior high school, and there is a proportion. In Zhang Muyang's township, there are more than 120 junior high school students every year, and the proportion of high school students reaches 10%, which is a record high.

There are many repeating professional households in the village, who have been in primary school for six years, seven years or even eight years, but the result is that they still graduated from a small book, and finally they can't afford to sit on the cold bench and work in the fields.

The teachers of the school are all from the village, and there are regulations for repeating grades, and the relationship between people at that time is not very easy to use, and the principal of the school is notoriously serious and serious, and the school's grades have always been among the best in the township, and it is also quite prestigious.

The school is not big, but it is the main way for the children in the village to get out of the countryside and into the wider world. The carp jumps over the dragon gate, this is the cornerstone of your initial start.

Now it seems that there should be a lot of children at that time, each child has five, six, seven or eight, eleven or twelve, first, there are not so many seats in junior high schools, and secondly, it was not compulsory education at that time, and going to school is the cultivation and selection of people's intelligence, you are not the material for studying, don't waste resources, what should you do, more children in rural areas, especially in remote rural areas, accepted the reality earlier, and broke off the idea of having their own golden house in the book as early as Su Yan Ruyu, and entered something like "herding sheep - earning money - building a house - marrying a daughter-in-law - giving birth to children - herding sheep or the closed-circuit cycle of "working-earning-building-marrying-marrying-having children-working".

Don't think so, no matter how cruel and helpless they were, this is the reality they have to face.

Relying on one's own hands to support oneself is never ashamed, and others are not qualified to talk about it.

Many people have become bookcases, workers, teachers, and families, and they have not jumped into the dung pit of "going to work, earning money, buying a house, marrying a daughter-in-law, giving birth to children, and going to work".

It's all in the manure pit, don't laugh at others because the dung in the pit isn't fragrant enough.

We now think that this is indeed the case, and we don't think it's strange. However, if you have been through that time, you will know how big the gap is between people.

It's not strange to laugh at poverty and not at prostitution. When people's value orientation is consistent and unified, it will be agreed that if you don't become the object of ridicule and ridicule, you have to cater to it, or do better and be more outstanding.

It is true that knowledge changes destiny. The most realistic channel, you graduate from junior high school, admitted to the primary secondary school, your hukou can move out of the countryside, after graduation is the public food, every month the state will issue you food stamps, the family can pay less than a mouthful of public food. Jump out of the farm, and you can be considered a qualified carp.

You are admitted to high school, even if you are not admitted to university, you are eligible to apply for the public sector, and if you are admitted, you can also serve a public job.

If you are admitted to a junior college or undergraduate, you will definitely be served an iron rice bowl, a copper rice bowl, and a golden rice bowl.

I'm afraid, I only read the books of the sages, and in the end I didn't get out of the exam, and I became a useless nerd in the countryside.

Becoming a nerd means that you can't beat others and scold others, but you can't catch up with others in your work, and you are inferior to others everywhere, like Kong Yiji, you eat people everywhere, you are bullied by others, shivering in the cold wind, and you are like a cicada.

Zhang Muyang doesn't understand this, he should go to school, he can't go to school, he sits in the classroom hungry and reads, and he catches up with himself to go out into the field to find something to fill his stomach?

In addition to fish and shrimp, there are also frogs in the water, and frogs are now wild animals and cannot be caught. Not at that time, I caught a frog and put it in the straw pile to light a fire, so that none of it could escape, and the frog leg tube was better than any meat.

After the autumn harvest, patches of soybean sprouts sprout from the abandoned pile of bean leaves on the edge of the threshing floor yard. Turning over the bean leaves that cover it, if you are patient, you can dig a basket in the afternoon.

When it rains, patches of small mushrooms grow in the thatched meadow, one is no bigger than a fingernail, and it is particularly delicious to stew in soup, but you should hurry up when you pick them, and as soon as the sun comes out, these small mushrooms will retract.

Even if you can't catch a fish, you go around in the reed bay, you can't say that you can pick up one or two goose eggs, duck eggs, the geese and ducks raised by the village people are not only at home to lay eggs, there are often eggs in the reeds by the water, geese and ducks also have to play crazy, the stomach can't hold back and is not where to go.

Besides, my sister will teach herself literacy and arithmetic if she has nothing to do, and she has long been familiar with those Chinese pinyin and Xiao Jiujiu, so what is the point of coming here to sit and sit?

I still have to pay textbook fees, tuition and miscellaneous fees, and I have to pay firewood in winter, this matter is the most tangled, there is not even a flashlight on the four walls of the family, and I have to pay a lot of money, what do I do to go to school with a loss-making business? You see my cheap master, I didn't eat two meals at home, and what I teach is free, this is so hard.

As soon as he sat in the classroom, Zhang Muyang let his mind fly, his little brain turned fast, and the teacher was still preaching the code of discipline on the podium, and he fell asleep.

As a village primary school ranked first in the township, the school discipline requirements are first-class strict, Zhang Muyang's behavior of sleeping in class on the first day is a manifestation of extreme disattention to learning, and great disrespect for the teacher, giving a very bad example to the new students, and punishing him for standing in a class.

The next day, the penalty stood for the morning. Zhang Muyang was speechless, I didn't want to sleep, I was really sleepy, and I couldn't help it.

Zhang Muyang later summed up his biological clock, 9 to 10 a.m. is the most sleepy time.

Sleeping in class has become a proof that Zhang Muyang is not enterprising, does not abide by discipline, and does not respect teachers at school.

It doesn't matter if you go to school hungry anyway, it's a joke.

On the third day, Zhang Muyang didn't go to school, how good it was to sleep at home. The teacher also said that if he didn't get enough sleep at home, he went home and went back to sleep.

Zhang Muyang went to school for two days, and it came to an end. Later, I remembered that the teacher drew a bowl on the blackboard at that time, and as everyone's art homework, Zhang Muyang drew several pages of paper, picked a good one and handed it in.

Forget it, I didn't pay the money anyway, and I couldn't read it anymore when I went, so I should herd the sheep and herd the sheep.

As soon as school ended at noon, Zhang Qingguo and Xiaoying gave the sheep to Zhang Muyang first, and then went to school themselves. One is just looking at two and also looking, anyway, there is rhubarb, it doesn't take much effort.

The lonely Zhang Muyang spends most of his time with the blue sky and white clouds, except for herding sheep, he is practicing, and then he thinks about his master.

This cheap master, if it is really unreliable, said that he would come once a week, but he has not seen anyone for almost a month.