Chapter 1, Section 5 Teacher Lan Xin speaks as a model family

The report on the deeds of the moral pacesetters of the Binjiang education system will be held in the theater as scheduled before the winter vacation. In addition to the teachers of the education system, the participants also specially invited the leading comrades of the first door and reporters from the news media, and the number of participants was at least more than 1,000, which can be said to be an unprecedented scale.

You see, slogans such as "Learn from the moral pacesetters" are posted on the walls around the theater, and the two sides of the theater stage have specially invited the city's calligraphers and painters to write gilded red couplets. The upper link is: a happy family chases their dreams, and the lower link is: a harmonious society with the fragrance of flowers.

A long table was put out on the stage, on which a pink tablecloth was laid out, and seven or eight leaders of the Education Committee sat in a row behind the long table.

It has been a long, long time since the education system has held such a conference. This is thanks to the holding of the Binjiang No. 17 Middle School Model Family Advanced Deeds Report Meeting, so that the leaders of the Municipal Education Commission were touched and inspired, so they planned such a moral pacesetter deeds report meeting today.

Lan Xin was scheduled to be the last to speak today. She is a person with a strong sense of time, she came to the venue early and sat in the front row designated for the meeting. Occasionally look at the speeches prepared for her by the school.

Today, Lan Xin is still wearing black pants on the lower body, a very old camel hair cardigan on the upper body, and a pair of flat-heeled black suede shoes on her feet, fortunately, the camel hair cardigan is covered with a half-length black cotton coat, although the material is not good, but in the end it is still relatively new, this may also be one of the few clothes she pressed at the bottom of the box, she matched herself with a long gray scarf, so upside down, she actually wore an intellectual temperament, not to give birth to today's speech.

Originally, she was reluctant to participate in such a meeting, especially reluctant to speak on stage. Outsiders may think that she is too hypocritical, and they don't know how important it is to grasp the opportunity to show her face like this, honor, honor, and how important it is to a public official. But if you are about to stab another person with such an honor, will you shy away from it?

Lan Xin struggled with this for many days, she asked the principal to resign, and she also resigned to the secretary of the school's party branch, but the final result was still to attend. She thought to herself, since she couldn't resist, she shouldn't fight uselessly. But she still found time to make several revisions to the speech written for her by the school. She tried to remove all the empty language, the unrealistic high-pitched tone, and the exaggerated words. She is not a hero, nor is she advanced, she is just an ordinary teacher, a wife with a sick family. She just wants to return to the ordinary, and when she can't shirk her speech, let's talk about her ordinary and happy family life.

When did the conference start, Lan Xin was really a little vague. While listening to the advanced figures on the stage introduce their advanced deeds, she was thinking about her own thoughts. She had only one emotion in her heart, and she felt that Tolstoy's words could particularly represent her feelings at the moment: "Happy families are always the same, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes."

She doesn't know whether she is happy or unhappy in this life, in the eyes of most people, she is unlucky, she can feel the pity and sympathy of the people around her from their eyes, their love, and their small actions. She doesn't feel unfortunate herself, she just feels that life is a little tight, her husband is a little less understanding and tolerant of her, and there is not much else to feel sorry for. Maybe people are born to endure suffering, don't we all live like this? Life is really like a river that doesn't care about it, only knows that it keeps flowing forward and flowing, and people are like this, it seems that they will reach old age in the blink of an eye.

Finally, it was Lan Xin's turn to speak. She straightened her gray hair and walked gently towards the stage of the theater.

The moment she stood on the stage, she suddenly panicked. For an old teacher who has stood on the podium for decades, it is natural that there will be no such stage fright. But today Lan Xin was really flustered. Because she saw a pair of gloomy eyes, she saw that her husband Luo Yuejin was also sitting in the crowd under the stage. At this moment, her mind went from flustered to blank, and she had a brief moment when she wanted to give up speaking and ran straight off the stage. She wanted to get out of this place, far away.

But she resisted her desire to flee and tried to calm herself.

In her hand was the speech prepared for her by the school, and she clutched it tightly, and she felt her sweat glands soak through the paper. She had imagined many scenes, but in any case, she never imagined that when she left home, her husband would be fine at home, so how could he come to the venue at this moment?

After a few minutes of this, she finally came to her senses from her panic. She's going to take an adventure. She gently placed the manuscript paper prepared for her by the school on the podium, cleared her throat, and began to speak amid thunderous applause from the audience.

"Ladies and gentlemen,

Today, the school prepared a speech for me, but I felt that I was too high in the speech. It's so high that I feel like I'm in the Moon Palace, and I feel a little cold from a high place, so I don't want to read according to the script. In fact, I am a very ordinary person, I have done a little ordinary things that can no longer be ordinary, there is nothing that can move the world, and I have been with my husband for decades is some trivial, trivial and ordinary little things. Tolstoy said, "Happy families are the same, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes". My family has experienced misfortunes, my husband was half paralyzed at the age of 41, but my family is happy.

I was born in a rural area, I married my husband as soon as I graduated from university, my husband and I did not have a commitment to the sea and the sea, nor did I have a touching confession, in 28 years of married life, I have not heard my husband say "I love you", but I still feel my husband's concern for me from his subtle actions. He has spent almost his entire life fulfilling the responsibilities of a husband, and I have repaid my husband's simple and profound love with 13 years of long-term companionship and perseverance. It can't be said who pays more or who pays less, every bit is the common contribution of our husband and wife. Feelings cannot be measured by scales, and if you give something, you can get the same amount or even more in return.

In 1984, shortly after graduating from college, my husband and I started a new family, and the following year, we had a baby, and our life was uneventful but undoubtedly happy. Unfortunately, after only 15 years of such life, my husband accidentally fell and injured his lower limbs, resulting in paralysis of his lower limbs. Bad luck struck our happy family suddenly, and I was thirty-six years old. In the face of the sudden change, like a thunderbolt from the sky, I endured the pain in my heart, wiped away my tears, and determined to move forward strongly, becoming my husband's unconscious legs. My husband, on the other hand, was depressed, worried that it would affect me and my children, and that he would have to live a life of financial constraints. I ignored this, and in my heart, how to make my husband recover quickly and suffer less from illness has become my primary responsibility. Since then, massaging my husband every day has become my daily routine. Thirteen years of perseverance have finally paid off, and now, my husband can use a wheelchair, and the "dead legs" of the past have begun to have some sensations, and he can slowly sit up, even if he can only use a wheelchair, and he does not need to lie in bed all year round, this is progress, this progress has given me a better vision, I look forward to the near future, my husband can throw off the wheelchair, walk like a normal person, and even run.

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What is love! Love is not to forget the original intention, a lifetime of promises, never abandon, guard always, with the same true feelings, to curb the changeable suffering, I, blue heart, willing to use a lifetime of perseverance to interpret the connotation of love.

Lan Xin ended her speech like this, originally she was worried that in the process of speaking, the leader might interrupt her speech, or the audience would not be interested and encounter a cold scene, but to her surprise, when she finished speaking, the audience burst into warm applause. This was something she hadn't expected.

In fact, when she did this, she herself predicted that the leader would not like it, and she knew that the leader had leadership considerations, and since it was an advanced deeds report meeting, she could not do so. But she really doesn't have a better way to do both, offend the leader, and there will be no such report in the future, which is exactly what she wants, but the leader will no longer trust herself from now on, and many unpredictable difficulties are waiting for her ahead. And she knows that only in this way will her family be peaceful.

She has long passed the age of pursuing fame and fortune, and she will retire in five or six years, and those honors that she wanted when she was young but couldn't get them are really dispensable for her now. She just wants to live a peaceful life and not bother anyone, so what's wrong with this life? These are the words she often tells herself in her heart.

Yes, during this time, good things happened one after another, but the joy in Lan Xin's heart was decreasing minute by minute, with her intuition, she began to feel uneasy about the current situation, she always felt that there was always a shadow behind her, and she couldn't tell or understand.