Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and Anna and the teachers in the office gradually got acquainted. There is a Chinese teacher Wang Saiying in the fourth grade, who used to have a good relationship with Li Mei's mother, and now she takes good care of her. Anna quickly became familiar with the school environment and became comfortable with her new job. I got up late that morning, and thinking that it was her turn to be on duty for the grooming inspection at the school gate, she washed up indiscriminately and hurried to the school.

To get to school, you have to cross a river beach. The river beach is about ten meters wide, but the water is not deep, reaching the knees in summer and only the ankles in winter, and it often freezes. A few hundred meters away, there is a bridge leading to Guò. But the adults and school students who come and go every day like to take a shortcut, put some rocks into the river beach, and just step on the stones.

Usually Anna takes Xiao Ni to walk the bridge. Today, Xiao Ni does not go to kindergarten, and time is tight, so Anna follows the example of others and takes a shortcut.

The creek has frozen, but the ice is not yet large enough to support an adult's weight. Anna stepped on a slippery stone, cautiously walked halfway, and when she raised her foot to step on a stone, a voice came from ahead: "Teacher, wait a minute!"

Anna looked up and saw that it was a boy named Xu Bing in Class 41.

The boy looked taller than his classmates, but during class, Anna obviously felt that he was out of place with his classmates, and he was very silent, and his classmates on the side never seemed to pay attention to him, so he was very impressed.

"The stone ahead is a little loose. I'll give you a cushion, okay you can do it again. ”

Xu Bing put his schoolbag on the ground, ran to the side of the road and picked up a smooth stone, came back and paddled under the stone that Anna was going to step on, stepped on it with his feet again, felt stable, and said, "Okay! I almost slipped down just now. ”

Anna smiled and said, "Thank you Xu Bing." ”

The boy looked embarrassed, turned ashore, grabbed his schoolbag and ran in the direction of the school.

Anna crossed the stream to school, and when class ended, the teacher in the office began to talk about self-employment again.

At this time, the state began to encourage the commodity economy. Although it is still the dream of most people to have an iron job in a state-owned unit, self-employed people are not new, and various professional households have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Teachers also talk about these things when they are chatting. Some people envy it, some people look down on it, and they feel that it is still the iron rice bowl that has a sense of superiority.

The first 10,000 yuan household in Luoping County was a specialized grain grower surnamed Liu, who boldly contracted several hundred mu of land last year, and this year sold more than 100,000 catties of commercial grain to the state, and its annual income is said to have reached nearly 20,000 yuan. This became explosive news locally.

"I heard that Lao Liu also hired short-term workers to help him farm. Many people came to Lao Liu and cried poverty, telling him to ask for fifty hundred and let Lao Liu carry forward his revolutionary style. "Mr. Hu, who teaches mathematics, usually pays attention to this aspect, and likes to talk about these things in the office after class.

"He has 10,000 yuan and takes out 510,000 to help others, it's like plucking a hair from a cow, what?" another teacher took over.

"Hey, Teacher Sun," Teacher Hu turned his head and asked the person who teaches ideology and morality, "You say, we have worked hard for 30 years, and this night we are back before the liberation! Lao Liu hires short-term labor, is this exploitation? The state allows this?"

The ideological and moral teacher must read the county newspaper every day, and said: "A few days ago, the newspaper was published, and the county government asked Lao Liu to attend the county's rich conference to introduce the experience of making a fortune. I don't think it's a problem, the policy shouldn't change!"

Teacher Hu sighed, "Alas, people can buy four or five houses in the city with a year's income, and our dead salary is not as good as a fraction of others." Just a few days after the salary was paid, I was worried again, and there were a lot of places to use money at home......"

"Hey old Hu, why did I hear that you are doing accounts for others outside?" asked the ideological and moral teacher.

Teacher Hu was drinking water and choked.

"What nonsense! Don't talk nonsense, the impact is not good......"

While Anna was listening on the side, she saw Teacher Wang Saiying push open the door and beckoned to her, and hurried out.

"Li Mei, are you free for the next class?" she looked a little anxious.

Anna nodded: "I don't have a class next class." What's wrong?"

"My mom fell and went to the hospital. I'm going back. Didn't I hear you say last time that you had taught Chinese before? How about you help me go to the top of the class? My class is ready, you can just follow the handouts. ”

Anna knew she didn't want to take time off work to deduct money.

After being here for so many days, she also knows that the school is not strict in this regard. If the teachers have something, they will be replaced in private, and it is very common for you to help me today and I will help you tomorrow. Seeing that she was in a hurry to leave, she agreed.

"Class 41. ”

Teacher Wang Saiying stuffed the handouts into her hands, turned around and hurried away.

Before the class started, Anna hurried over the handouts.

……

There are more than forty students in the 41 class. When the bell rang, Anna went in with a smile on her face and stood on the podium.

Anna has given music lessons to this class twice. The students liked this young, beautiful and easy-going music teacher, who did not ask them to sit up straight and put their hands behind their backs as other teachers did. I was a little excited to see her suddenly come to Chinese class.

In this class, I learned ancient poems, Wang Wei's "Weicheng Song", Anna took the class according to the lecture notes, and when she read it, she saw Xu Bing sitting in the corner of the back row, and casually asked him to read it.

Xu Bing didn't seem to expect that he would be named to stand up and read the text, with a panicked expression on his face, he stood up helplessly, holding the book, staring at the text, opening his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound.

The classmates on the side began to whisper, showing expressions of wanting to watch a good show.

Anna was slightly surprised. Seeing that Xu Bing seemed to be very nervous, he smiled and encouraged: "Don't be nervous. It's okay to read it wrong. The teacher will help you correct it. ”

“…… City...... Rain ......"

Xu Bing finally stammered two notes, and the class burst into laughter.

"Mr. Li, his nickname is stupid big man! He has repeated a grade for several years! He can't read! He has a bad brain! He is often dragged to the door by the teacher and punished!" a naughty boy shouted.

"Quiet!" Anna stopped, "it's very uncultured to call a classmate unfriendly! I hope I won't ever hear you laugh at any of your classmates in this tone!"

The smile on Anna's face disappeared and her tone became stern.

The students fell silent and stopped talking.

Anna looked at Xu Bing, saw that his face was blood-red and his head was hanging down, so she asked him to sit back.

After class, Anna subconsciously glanced at Xu Bing, saw him sitting alone in his seat, and found herself looking at him with a look of shame in her eyes, and bowed her head deeply.

Anna returned to the office and couldn't help but ask a teacher sitting next to her about Xu Bing.

"Oh, that stupid big guy in Class 41!" the teacher said in a nonchalant tone, "I have a problem with my brain and have low intelligence." Should have graduated a long time ago, but now I am still repeating a grade. He doesn't know how many times he has been taught a set of pinyin, and he still learns it in a mess. Recognize the simplest one as two. This semester, the principal originally persuaded him not to study, but his mother came to the school to cry and beg, so he was left behind. According to me, this kind of pig brain is still reading, just drag it back, go home and help his father raise cattle!"

Anna remembered the scene in the morning, and always felt that he should not have had intellectual problems as the teacher had said. But the average normal student, no matter how stupid he is, after so many years of study, should not recognize one as two.

Anna came home in the evening, still thinking about what had happened in class during the day. Before going to bed, a possibility suddenly came to mind.

The student, Xu Bing, most likely suffered from dyslexia. Only in this way can we explain why he has such a poor study schedule.

……

When she arrived at school the next day, Anna specially called Xu Bing out at the end of class.

Xu Bing's head kept down.

"I'm sorry yesterday, but the teacher didn't know about you, so he called you up to read aloud. The teacher apologizes to you. ”

Xu Bing slowly raised his head and looked at Anna in disbelief.

"In a word, you already know how to memorize. But it's very difficult for you to read or write it down. Or a line of words, which I knew clearly, blinked my eyes, and felt that it was not the original word again. Do you have such a situation during your studies?"

"Teacher...... You...... How do you know ......" Xu Bing stammered.

Anna smiled, "Believe me, your intelligence is no worse than your classmates, and you may even be better than them in some other way." You just can't coordinate your vision and hearing, plus you're stressed, so it's getting worse and worse. I have a friend who had the same problem as you when he was a child. But after correction and treatment, he is now a very good architect. If you believe me, the teacher is willing to help you, and we will learn slowly in the future and try to help you improve this situation. ”

Xu Bing nodded vigorously.

"Teacher Li, Teacher Li!" Anna was talking to Xu Bing when someone was shouting behind her, and when she turned around, she saw that it was another teacher.

"Principal Li is looking for something wrong with you, so I'm calling you over!" the teacher shouted.

"The teacher still has something to do, so that's it for now. You put too much pressure on yourself to believe in yourself, you are not stupid than others. When the teacher goes back, think about how to help you. ”

Xu Bing's eyes were a little red, wiped his eyes, turned his head to the classroom, took two steps, and suddenly turned back and said, "Thank you, Teacher Li!"

Anna smiled, "It's fine. You go to class. ”

Anna watched Xu Bing enter the classroom, turned around and came to the principal's office.

Anna knocked on the door and entered, where Principal Lee was bending over the stove with an iron rod and stabbing the coal stove. Seeing Anna coming, he put down the iron rod and motioned for her to sit down.

"How's the class going?"

Anna didn't know what she was going to talk to herself. I don't seem to have violated discipline, except for helping Teacher Wang Saiying take a Chinese class that shouldn't have been taken yesterday. lest she knew about it. I didn't have anything, I was afraid that I would not be good to Teacher Wang Saiying, so I said carefully: "...... OK. The colleagues are very well taken care of. The school is like a big family......"

"That's good. Mr. Li, I called you here today because I have a heavy task to hand over to you. ”

Principal Li had a smile on his face, "The county organizes the Shuxin Literary and Art Show, and each school will have a collective program to participate in the competition, and the excellent programs will be selected and sent to the city to participate in the general performance, and the city leaders will attend at that time." The task of putting on a show in our school is left to you. Xiao Li, you are new to the city, this is a heavy test for you! Our principal Ge said that as long as our school program can be selected to win awards in the city, we will consider helping you become a regular. How, do you have faith?"