"Oh, you don't need you, you just go and watch Yuancheng and Yuansheng learn. I'll do the housework, you go quickly. Zhong Ling waved his hand to drive away Geng Hao.

Geng Hao insisted: "They are doing exercises, and I will wait for half an hour to check, and if they are idle, they will be idle, and I will help." ”

"Oh, I don't need to. ”

Zhong Ling was very polite, she didn't want to tire this excellent college student teacher at all, she only thought in her heart that such a college student was holding a pen in his hand and doing some cultural things, where was he carrying water and carrying rough work? Geng Hao, a young and vigorous young man, was still a little useful, and under Zhong Ling's obstruction, he still lifted the bucket and wanted to pour it into the tank. Zhong Ling saw that he had already done it, so he had to give up and quickly became the commander, so as not to let Geng Haobai do the work.

"Just pour a little bit, I'm going to brush this jar. ”

Geng Hao understood the request and poured a part of it. Zhong Ling took a greasy dried loofah scoop from the stove, put it in a basin and washed it with dish soap, and then went to brush the water tank. This time, Geng Hao wanted to help again, Zhong Ling had already bent down and brushed up without saying a word. Geng Hao waited for her to finish brushing, and helped move the water tank to get out the dirty water inside.

"This water tank is the most troublesome, but fortunately I have your help, otherwise I would be exhausted. Zhong Ling sighed, and told a few people from the Mo family, "You can't eat much water, don't save too much every time, just use it." Usually remember to cover the lid, there is also a water scoop, and you can't put it in the jar, and it is buckled on the lid when not in use. If you put it in a jar, it will grow moss, and you see that you have grown a piece here. ”

Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng raised their heads and watched, Mo Fengshou smiled stupidly, and responded to the words over and over again.

After Zhong Ling finished disposing of the water tank, he asked Geng Hao to carry a few buckets of water back, and added the water in the water tank to four-fifths. Then I started cleaning from the stove, and after finishing the stove, I went to wipe the bedboard, and I tossed it a lot, and I didn't take a break, and I sighed in my mouth when I was tired, "It's not okay to have only big men at home, and I won't even live a few days." ”

With Geng Hao's help, Mo Fengshou was also helped to rest in the shade under the eaves outside the door. Zhong Ling lifted the whole bed, took all the futons out of the door, and put them on the bamboo poles for drying clothes. Later, Geng Hao and his tutoring group were also kicked out. It wasn't until noon that all of them returned to the house. The room has been cleaned and tidy, the air seems to have changed, and the whole is brighter.

Because Zhong Ling was here, Geng Hao and the others didn't even have to go to the garden to pick vegetables. Only Mo Yuancheng followed Zhong Ling to point out the location of the vegetable garden, and then informed the neighbor aunt not to cook. After eating, Geng Hao helped Zhong Ling send several baskets of dirty clothes to the river to be washed.

"We haven't been here since my cousin died, and I would have come up a long time ago if I knew that a few of them would have been like this. Zhong Ling was very melancholy and guilty, turned his head and began to praise Geng Hao again, "I've worked hard for you today, and I've been helping." It is really a blessing for students to have a good teacher like you. ”

In the face of daily praise, Geng Hao was embarrassed to answer. When I returned to the house alone from the river, I saw a clean and tidy area when I entered the door, and my whole mood was much better. Mo Fengshou moved back to the cleaned bed from the stool, didn't smoke, didn't speak, just sat in a daze, as if sighing. Even Geng Hao didn't notice much when he came in.

Geng Hao sat down at the table, Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng handed him the exercises they had done, Geng Hao took out a red pen from his pocket and corrected them carefully one by one. After grading, they emphasized their mistakes.

By the time the afternoon class was over, at three or four o'clock, Zhong Ling had already dried the washed clothes. Although every piece of clothing on the bamboo pole is shabby, it is no longer smelly and crumpled, and it finally has the meaning of living a normal life.

Before Geng Hao left, he made an agreement with Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng that if the house was still as clean as today when he came next week, then he would consider coming to make up lessons for them during the holidays, until Mo Yuancheng learned how to read and write. But if he comes and the house becomes a kennel again, then he won't come. Mo Yuancheng and Mo Yuansheng wrote down the words very seriously, and nodded that they could.

Principal Huang said that education is not only about preaching and solving doubts, but also about many aspects, and helping them develop excellent character is also one of them. Geng Hao knows that there is really little he can do, but it is good to be able to help a little.

On Monday, Mocun Primary School carried out Geng Hao's first flag-raising activity here, and Geng Hao's first week of coming was missed, and it rained in the morning of the second week. After graduating from high school, Geng Hao did not participate in the national flag-raising activities in the university, and the flag-raising activities were generally completed by the school's national flag guards, and the scene was basically them. After a four-year absence, this time I stood under the national flag as a teacher, and my perspective and feelings were different from those I had when I was a student. I can't help but sigh about it, the passing youth student days.

More than 30 people from Mocun Primary School lined up neatly, standing under the national flag, and a cold and very vocal female voice on the school radio announced the process: "The first item, raising the national flag, playing the national anthem, the Young Pioneers saluting, and all the teachers and students saluting with new attention." ”

The bright five-star red flag rose to the accompaniment of the national anthem, like a fiery red sun, gradually shining on the entire Mocun Primary School. The Young Pioneers of the third and fourth grades wore the same bright red scarves around their necks, and performed the Young Pioneers' salute in a proper posture, their eyes were ignorant, and they did not understand the meaning of doing so, but they knew that this was a particularly sacred and noble thing. The five-star red flag seems to have such a magic power, when watching it gradually flutter, you will unconsciously have a force in your chest, a power to go on unswervingly.

"The second item is to play the national anthem, and all teachers and students sing the national anthem. ”

The sonorous national anthem sounded again, and all the students began to sing the national anthem in unison. At a young age, fearless, and the immature singing voice is unusually loud. In short, compared to the first high school students, they did a much better job in this link.

"The third item, speech under the national flag. ”

With the encouragement of President Huang, Geng Hao slowly walked under the national flag. The speech under the national flag is the turn of each teacher, this week was supposed to go to Principal Huang, Principal Huang said that he is a new teacher, and it is also good to speak under the national flag again at the end of the semester to encourage and encourage students.

Standing under the national flag, Geng Hao looked around, full of happy and young faces. When he was a student, he spoke under the national flag as a class representative and an outstanding student, and he also gave various speeches on various occasions during his college years. The speech was not a difficult task for him, but it was the first time that he addressed an elementary school student. With a serious expression, he tried his best to show a kind smile, and then he took a breath and began his first speech at Mocun Elementary School in a loud voice.

"Hello teachers and students, I am Geng Hao, and the topic I want to talk about today is, "Why Do I Study......"

The golden sun is rising, the air is starting to heat up, and this is the golden hour of the morning. Geng Hao used his hands and spoke every word and sentence to the flowers of the motherland below. He didn't need to read the manuscript, and he didn't panic when he forgot the words, so he naturally picked up another sentence. But in my mind, I kept thinking of the scenes where I studied hard at the beginning, and Mo Yuancheng and the brothers were serious about literacy. Reading, education, can really change lives.

"Hopefully, you can also change your life by reading. On the other side of the mountain, there's a wider sea! Thank you, and I'm done. ”

Geng Hao bowed, and fierce applause broke out very cooperatively. Geng Hao pursed his lips and smiled and stepped off the stage, his eyes swept over the little faces, and he had already guessed in his heart. The first and second grades are more cheering, and the third and fourth grades seem to have listened to it. Many years later, when Geng Hao looks back on his life process and looks for the source of this road, he always thinks of this moment, the first time he made a speech under the national flag. For many students, his speech was the first and last one to listen to Geng Hao.

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In the blink of an eye, the test day is ushered in. Principal Huang took the handwritten draft paper to the village committee a day in advance to enter and print. Because the people in the village committee were busy and they were busy using computers during the day, Director Mo handed over the matter to Geng Hao, and asked Geng Hao to enter and print out the papers by himself when there was no one in the village committee after work. was afraid that he had a problem, so he asked Zhong Xiu to accompany him. Everything is looking for Zhong Xiu, Geng Hao is very embarrassed. Moreover, the village committee has been busy lately, and it is already half past six after work, a full hour later than usual.

"It's really bothering you, making you work overtime in disguise. Geng Hao half-joking, trying to make the atmosphere not so stiff.

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry anyway, and I've had dinner. ”

Zhong Xiu checked the computer and made sure that everything that should be saved was saved, and there were no other problems, so he gave up the place to Geng Hao. This is the only computer in the whole village of Mocun. Zhong Xiu sat on the stool next to her, continuing to organize her information and finances. Before he could start, Zhong Xiu reacted to something and got up to look at him.

"Do you want water? I'll pour you a drink." ”

Geng Hao hurriedly refused: "No need." ”

Zhong Xiu didn't insist either, and continued to sit down and do his own thing.

The hall of the village committee fell silent for a while. The door of the hall was wide open, and behind the long cabinet facing the door, two people sat side by side, both buried in their work. In the empty hall, there was only the sound of ceiling fans, the crackling of keyboards, and the sound of pen tips rubbing against paper. The sunlight reflected on them gradually turned warm, then a little more depressed, and finally darkened. The light of the computer screen was particularly abruptly reflected on Geng Hao, but Zhong Xiu couldn't see it at all.

"Smack"!

The hall lit up. Geng Hao was startled by the dazzling light, and when he turned his head, he saw Zhong Xiu rubbing his shoulders and coming back from the direction of turning on the light, and finally sat on the stool tiredly, and glanced at his computer screen, which was already a roll.

"You're almost done?"

"Well, just check it again at the end. Geng Hao sat back, his body stiffened and didn't look like his own, he gently turned his head and moved twice, kneading his shoulders, and glanced at the desktop in front of Zhong Xiu, the information was all arranged in different categories, and it seemed that it was nearing the end, "Your business is also finished?"