In September 1987, the brand-new Yimeng Railway Primary School and Railway Middle School opened.

In order to welcome the first batch of students, He Rulan and her colleagues have been preparing for more than half a year, cleaning the house, numbering tables and chairs, and the most difficult thing is to pull students.

Before there was no railway school, in the first two years after the establishment of the new line, all the children of railway workers were scattered in primary and secondary schools in various districts, and a small number of hard-related people sent their children to key schools, and the vast majority of unrelated workers could only send their children to the school closest to their homes.

Due to the particularity of railway work, many workers do not have time to pick up and educate their children, especially the children of dual-income workers who are left after school and no one cares about them.

Most of the teachers in local schools can't understand the uncertainty of the working hours of railway workers, and their children's poor academic performance always complains that their parents do not manage and educate them well.

These concepts can not be said to be completely unreasonable, in the past railway workers, there are indeed not many people who have received professional education and higher education, and those who can receive professional training in the railway are basically the backbone of the business of the unit, and college students are even rarer, and the vast majority of employees have an average education, that is, graduated from junior high school.

In this environment, railway people not only do not have time to supervise and manage children's learning, but also do not attach importance to learning in the concept, anyway, they can take over their parents' classes in the future and work within the railway system, and learning has become a casual thing.

Although everyone has known for a long time that the railway school is going to be established, many employees do not plan to transfer their children to the railway school, firstly, they are too lazy to go through the transfer procedures, and secondly, they also doubt the quality of teaching in the railway school.

Since the railway school is located in the heart of the railway living area, it is very convenient to pick up and drop off the children, even if there is no one to pick them up, the children can safely walk along the sidewalk and return home without having to cross the road.

This has largely attracted parents of students in the lower grades, so the first grade of which He Rulan served as the class teacher was basically full of new students as planned, with a total of two classes of forty students each.

The fewest number of students was in the fifth grade, and it was planned to recruit two classes of 30 students each, but none of the classes were full, only five students were transferred back to the railway school from the outside school, and the other seven students were just picked up by their parents from their hometown, and the class was 12 students, and the teachers of the fifth grade were idle.

During the graduation internship, He Rulan taught Chinese classes for three months, and she was a third-grade student at that time, so she was not stage frightened when she gave a lecture on stage, but she had not thought about arranging her to be the head teacher.

"Teacher He, it must be Director Wu Xianqi who asked you to take the head teacher when he saw that you were stable and old!" Wang Xuejiao joked.

"I didn't have a homeroom teacher when I was an intern, and I was really a little inexperienced. ”

"It doesn't matter, experience is slowly explored, I think your character is suitable for being a class teacher. Gu Mengmeng said slowly.

Wang Xuejiao teaches third-grade mathematics, she speaks clearly, I heard that she was very good at mathematics when she was in school, and it was more than enough to teach third-grade mathematics.

Gu Mengmeng is different, her academic performance is average, and she can enter the railway school, it is also because her father and the principal are familiar with each other, so she is arranged to teach art in the school, with few class hours, and it is a sub-class, there is no pressure, and she can do what she likes in her spare time, she is still very satisfied with this arrangement.

He Rulan shouted hoarse in the first class, she really didn't expect that the first-grade children were so difficult to bring, because many children had not been to preschool, many of them could not count well from one to ten, and the big ones cried during class, the small ones screamed, and there were actually two children who peed their pants.

He Rulan was about to collapse, she finally understood that Gu Mengmeng and Wang Xuejiao heard that she was taking the first grade, and they cast sympathetic eyes at her, this work was indeed not done by people.

There are not a few children who have not received enlightenment education, just holding a pencil taught them half a class, not to mention writing and arithmetic, and Zhang Yumei, the math teacher who took a class with He Rulan, cried twice angrily.

It's useless to get angry in a hurry, six or seven-year-old children teach three points and seven points, He Rulan went to the railway hospital opposite to prescribe some throat lozenges, the fat sea soaked in the jar, drank cup by cup, and then "shouted" in class, after a whole week, classroom discipline was barely on the right track.

Before He Rulan became a teacher, she didn't have a deep understanding of the word "hard work", but now she finally knows what it means to burn herself and illuminate others, and she has only been a teacher for half a month.

The eldest girl, who had just turned twenty years old, nagged at the students all day long, and Wang Xuejiao laughed at her like an old hen all day long, protecting the students everywhere.

The students held the pen in an incorrect posture, He Rulan taught them one by one, the students wrote below, He Rulan walked around them in rows, and observed who wrote in the wrong posture and who wrote unneatly, and He Rulan immediately corrected it.

When I was in the normal school, the teacher said that the first grade is an important time period for laying the foundation, and if the foundation is not well laid, it will affect the students' future learning habits and grades, which He Rulan remembers very clearly, so she would rather be tired and talk a little more, and not let a child lose at the starting line.

Since the beginning of school, He Rulan has not returned home once, until the National Day holiday, she hurriedly bought a big chicken cigarette for her father He Laohan, and bought a pair of cloth shoes with loops for her mother, He Rulei's Three Kingdoms characters complete set of pictures, He Ruyun's ribbon hairpin, filled with a canvas bag.

Big bags and small bags rushed to the train station, there were so many people at the train station, probably they all wanted to go home for the holidays, He Rulan regretted not coming to buy train tickets a few days in advance, the people who bought tickets lined up in a long line, and the cars were about to enter the station, but what should I do?

I really can't do it but buy tomorrow's tickets, He Rulan was in a hurry, and suddenly heard someone shouting, "Teacher He!"

He Rulan looked back, it was Zhuge Huaizhi, it turned out that it was the peak of railway transportation before and after the holiday, Zhuge Huaizhi came to help maintain order, and also did voluntary consultation and convenience services, I heard that He Rulan did not buy a ticket, Zhuge Huaizhi promised to help send her on the train, and then find the conductor to make up the ticket.

"Then I'll help you, the people's teacher, board the train home first!" Zhuge Huaizhi joked.

He Rulan also smiled, "Fortunately, I met you, I still plan to buy tomorrow's ticket and go back!"

In the interval between waiting for the train on the platform, He Rulan asked Zhuge Huaizhi about his study, why didn't he go to her to make up for the class? Zhuge Huaizhi told her about his transfer to Duanshang Station, and asked to go to the school to ask her for help when she encountered a problem, and He Rulan readily agreed.

The train slowly drove out of the platform, He Rulan looked out of the window, Zhuge Huaizhi's slender figure was moving away, He Rulan found for the first time that Zhuge Huaizhi's dark blue railway suit looked a little handsome.