When I returned to the school dormitory, the bed was covered with all kinds of bedding, and there were not many people left in the dormitory, next to my bed lay a boy who was slightly fatter than herself, Mu Zhen sat down on her bed and asked in a low voice, "What's your name?"

"Xue Changliang, what about you?" Xue Changliang smiled and replied to Mu Zhen's question.

"Mu Zhen, we'll be in the same bed in the future!" Mu Zhen made a little joke to the new classmate.

"A hundred years of repairing the same boat, a thousand repairs can sleep together, we have been repairing for a thousand years!" Xue Changliang responded with a smile, Mu Zhen didn't expect that the person in front of him was more humorous than himself.

"The two of us are really fateful, where did you study in the second year of junior high school?" Mu Zhen felt that this boy should also come from another school, otherwise why didn't he find his classmates next to him?

"It's in this school! I've been in this school. Xue Changliang was afraid that Mu Zhen would not be able to hear clearly, so he repeated it twice.

"Then don't you have any original classmates in this class?" Mu Zhen still felt a little strange, because the two beds were leaning against each other, only the two of them, and he didn't know who was in the same bed?

"There are many! He's one. Then he pointed to the boy who had just come in at the door.

Mu Zhen looked back, wasn't this the thin boy who was fighting for a bed with him when he first came?

"Oh, your original classmate, what's his name?" Mu Zhen immediately thought that although he had a little unpleasant relationship with him just now, he didn't know his name yet?

"Liu Chaogang, his home is not far from here, don't look at him so thin, but he has a lot of strength, I heard that his family has been martial arts for generations, just like him, he can stomp on a brick!" Chang Liang said and smiled mysteriously.

"No wonder he's so cross-handed?" Mu Zhen muttered in a low voice.

"What are you talking about?" Xue Changliang asked in surprise, and then explained: "He is not arrogant at all, and he is very righteous, no matter who he is dealing with, he will not rely on martial arts to bully people! After a long time, you will understand him!"

"You have a good relationship with him!" Mu Zhen felt that Changliang and Liu Chaogang had an indescribable relationship.

"Of course, he is very good to me, I sleep in this bunk, or his idea!" Xue Changliang affirmed Mu Zhen's guess.

"It's time to eat!" a classmate who called for dinner greeted the people in the room, and a symphony of porcelain jars colliding sounded in the dormitory.

Just as everyone was busy eating, a small classmate was turning over on the bed, as if looking for something, and looked so anxious that his face was red.

"What are you looking for?" asked Liu Chaogang.

"I can't find my meal ticket, I was still in my pocket just now, why can't I find it now?" said the little classmate a little crying.

"Let's take mine to buy food first, it's still too late, if it's too late, it's too late!" Liu Chaogang said and handed his meal ticket to the little classmate.

The conversation between the two immediately attracted the attention of the classmates who heard it, Mu Zhen looked at Liu Chaogang's sincere expression, and immediately dissipated his disgust for him, replaced by admiration and appreciation for him.

In the evening, when everyone sat in the classroom, they saw the head teacher, Mr. Zhang Jingrui, he had gray hair, medium height, although he was older, but he had a baby face, handsome and white, if it wasn't for gray hair, no one thought he was a person over half a hundred years old.

Teacher Zhang Jingrui just arrived in the classroom, looked around all the students in the classroom, and then stood on the podium and started his first political and ideological class.

"This year I am your homeroom teacher and your math teacher. The composition of the students in our class is divided into two parts, one part is from the second grade of junior high school, and the other part is from last year to continue studying, but no matter which part, what are we sitting here for? Everyone must be clear, first of all, we are here to study, here, not I want you to study, but you want to study, as for the students who have just entered the third year of junior high school, needless to say, especially those who stayed last year, even more so, let me talk about my personal experience. Forty years ago, at that time, the family was very poor, unlike now, everyone can eat enough, and the family also has the conditions to let everyone study, that year and month my four brothers, I am the eldest, because the family is poor, my parents can't afford to support our four brothers to study, the year I graduated from junior high school, my parents persuaded me to help my family work after graduation, to supplement the family, in order to study, I went on a hunger strike, at that time I only had one belief - I want to study, but my family can't help me, so they let me continue reading, and it is at my insistence that I can become everyone's homeroom teacher, otherwise I can only work at home now, and I will not stand here to study and live with everyone. Now that the conditions at home are good, there are almost no families who can't afford to provide for students, so our concept must be changed, come here is not who wants you to study, it is you who want to study, you must turn 'I want to read' into your own concept, into your own motivation for learning. I have been teaching for 30 years, and in the past 30 years, many of my students have made small achievements in different positions, and their motivation back then was the same as what I just said, just a few simple words - I want to study!" Teacher Zhang Jingrui stopped at this point, he looked around the whole classroom again, and then said to a student sitting in the front: "Niu Guoqing, please stand up and let everyone know!"

Niu Guoqing stood up and turned back, Mu Zhen noticed his face, his dark face, with the black mustache on his lips, it seemed that he was much older than the rest of the class.

Teacher Zhang waved his hand and motioned for Niu Guoqing to sit down. Then he continued: "This Niu Guoqing has been out of school for three years, in these three years he has not only participated in all kinds of labor in the countryside, but also followed his family to do small business, in his father's words, he has suffered a lot, once followed the villagers to the rural land more than 200 miles away from home to arrange a car to pull goods, the blisters on his feet hurt so much that he couldn't walk. This is such a classmate, his father brought him to me this summer, saying that he wants to go to school, he wants to study, what motivates him to study, I guess I don't need to say that everyone can understand, yes' I want to study's motivation, from the heart, most of us are from the countryside, parents are looking forward to their children in the future to have a career, the future to jump out of the farm, if you come here still do not know what you are doing, I will tell you now, you want to study, it must be from everyone's heart, you want to read, no one forces you, if any student says that you do not want to study from the heart, but to mix a graduation certificate, you can go home now and wait, when you come to get the graduation certificate, there is no need to live here！”

Teacher Zhang's words resonated with Mu Zhen, I want to read, just like the shepherd boy Hu Guoqing on the river embankment, he also wants to study, what kind of disaster his family is facing, Mu Zhen does not know, only knows that his father is sick in bed, Mu Zhen has countless heads in front of him, he seems to see Hu Guoqing's father sick in bed helplessly, and at the same time think of Wu Xiaojuan from Binhu Middle School, she is also a classmate who wants to read and read good books, but she has been treated extremely unfairly. There are many people who have the idea of reading books, the key is not only this "I want to read", the most important thing is the way and lasting motivation, "I want to read" is just the original intention, maybe everyone's starting point is that I want to read, I don't know which philosopher said, what I want is the result, and more importantly, the process, this process is what we do every day in school. Mu Zhen can't forget the last days of Binhu Middle School, at that time, he didn't want to study, but he was coldly treated, misunderstood, not to mention the troubles caused, and the incomprehension of his classmates, even his friends around him gave indifference, where he saw people's coldness and ruthlessness, and it was because of this that he transferred to this school where everything started from scratch. In the afternoon conversation with Hu Guoqing, Hu Guoqing had a clear direction and goal, that he wanted to be a doctor, to treat diseases and save people, but what about himself? Just by reading a few more books, he dreamed of becoming a writer and writing excellent works that encouraged, infected, and guided people.

In Mu Zhen's field of vision, countless literary masters flashed, Lu Xun with a mustache, Guo Moruo with polite eyes, and Shu Qingchun with a furrow on his forehead.

Teacher Zhang's words were finished, and the last sentence "I want to study" became a topic before the dormitory break.

"Everyone is here to read, but reading is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, if everyone reads at the same level, then where is there any champion, leader, so I want to read, it doesn't mean that I can read good books. "The student who spoke was very loud and passionate.

"Of course, there are differences between people, just like five fingers stretched out, the length is different, reading does not mean that he will be able to become a talent in the future, become a great talent, but reading provides you with an opportunity to become a talent!" It seems that this voice also agrees with the mention just now.

"Everything is done in a way and a way, and now the goal of studying is the same, that is, to go to higher education and go to high school, but due to the different ways and methods, it will be a mistake and a thousand miles wrong!" The speaker fully affirmed the point just now.

"Hey, hey! Everyone is reasonable, I agree with everyone's statement, but there is one thing that makes me different from everyone, today Mr. Zhang told us that I want to read, is to let everyone stimulate motivation, full horsepower, not let everyone talk about the results, if everyone knows the results, then do you still need to work hard? It was Liu Chaogang who said this, this passage made Mu Zhen feel that his words were as super steel as his name, as hard as steel, more than the hardness of steel, to the point, I want to read, these four words are to ask everyone to become motivation, not to talk about the result, this is Mr. Zhang's original intention, but also what everyone has to do, how can there be results without motivation, how can pie in the sky be smashed on the heads of people who do not actively fight for it?

"I agree with Chaogang said, we only focus on power, as for the result, we have to wait until the end to see, this is like a 100-meter race, in those ten seconds, everyone wants to rush forward, everyone wants to rush to the first place, the same effort, the same idea, let everyone riveting forward, this is the role of 'I want to study', but there is one point if you don't run hard, you will not even have a result, then it is not even worse!" The person who said this seemed to know Chaogang, Mu Zhen looked back in the dim light, and the person who said this turned out to be the classmate who came in with Liu Chaogang when he first came.

Mu Zhen did not speak, he was not familiar with his classmates, and secondly, he had his own ideas, he thought that the current "I want to study" as he sat in the classroom and thought, the key is the way and method, different from the 100-meter race, the 100-meter race is very short and easy to persevere, and more importantly, the hard exercise process paid for the 100-meter run, that is the part that everyone does not see, the process of this exercise, contains a lot of content, and it can also test everyone's perseverance and check everyone's overall level.

Everyone was still arguing, and finally the argument became less and less, the dormitory fell silent, and everyone fell asleep for the first time in the dormitory of the third junior high school of Qingcheng Middle School.