Chapter XXV. Temporary Work

1.

When he returned to the office in the spring, Li Ze called out to him: "Xiaochun, just now Principal Zhao called you, can you ask what is the matter?"

As he spoke, Li Ze pointed to the grass-green telephone on his desk.

When I was cleaning Li Ze's desk just now, I saw this grass-green new telephone with many buttons, and when I was cleaning it, I just gently blew the dust on the telephone, and I didn't dare to use this phone at all.

I saw this new type of telephone in the university in the spring, but I never used it, and I didn't know how to use it, and I was afraid that I would accidentally break which button in the spring, so I didn't dare to wipe it with a rag when I was cleaning.

In fact, when I was in my twenties, I only used the phone once in the spring.

It was the summer vacation of 1991, and after the college entrance examination was over, he received a verbal notice from his classmates in the spring, asking him to go to Huxian No. 2 Middle School to get the university admission notice. In order to verify the truth of the matter, I rode my bicycle to the town's post and telecommunications office in the spring, which at that time did not have a program-controlled telephone, and still used the old-fashioned hand-cranked telephone. After queuing for a long time in the spring, and waiting for more than ten minutes, the switchboard operator finally connected the phone of Huxian No. 2 Middle School, and the spring shouted into the microphone for a long time before confirming the authenticity of the message from the homeroom teacher.

The first phone call in my life cost two yuan in the spring.

When I was in college, because I didn't have a phone at home, I had to transfer the phone to the village branch at the switchboard operator of the town's post office, and I had to ask the village party secretary to pass the phone, which was troublesome and costly. Therefore, there has been no opportunity to contact the phone in the spring.

This new type of program-controlled telephone has really not been used in the spring.

Now Li Ze asked himself to call Zhao Zhiqiang, and he was stunned for a while in the spring.

The telephone will not be used at all in the spring, but this spring can't be said, and it's a bit embarrassing to say it.

"Let's go for it! The number in the principal's office is 8888. Seeing that Spring had been standing still, Li Ze realized that Spring didn't know the phone number.

"No, Mr. Li, I'd better go to the principal's office, I still have something to do with the principal. Spring had an idea and told Li Ze a lie.

Li Ze answered, didn't say anything, lowered his head and was busy packing up the newly received teaching materials on the table. Spring also turned around and went out.

2.

When I arrived at the principal's office, Spring knocked on the door, and with Zhao Zhiqiang's "Please come in", Spring pushed the door into the house casually.

There are two rooms in the principal's room, a large desk is placed in front of the door, and Zhao Zhiqiang's fat body sits on a high-backed chair behind the desk. In front of the desk, there are pots of bright chrysanthemums of various colors, and the office is surrounded by several filing cabinets and a circle of low rattan chairs, and several portraits and quotes of celebrities hang on the wall.

Spring entered the door, Zhao Zhiqiang smiled and pointed to a rattan chair in front of the desk, motioning for Spring to sit down.

"Xiaochun," when the spring was settled, Zhao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "That's the case, have you arranged your own dormitory, desk, etc.?"

"Yes, Principal Zhao, it should all be arranged. Spring said respectfully, "Director Li said you have something to do with me?"

"That's right," Zhao Zhiqiang said, "Today is August 29th, the student enrollment is September 1st, and on the afternoon of August 31st, the first year of junior high school students will come to the school to arrange accommodation, and you must be the head teacher." This also involves the division of freshmen into classes, the arrangement of room and board, etc., in short, there will be a lot of things, and Director Li Ze will arrange them in advance. If you are exposed to such a complex work for the first time, if you don't know how to do things, ask more, watch more, be diligent with your mouth and legs, and I believe that you will quickly adapt to this environment. ”

Spring listened carefully and nodded in response.

"There is still a temporary job that you need to take time to do," Zhao Zhiqiang looked at the spring, and said with a smile, "You see that the slogan at the gate of our school has not been changed for several years, and there is no teacher in the school who can write art characters before, so it has not been changed for many years." Take the time to rewrite the slogan, preferably before school starts. The new semester is new, so that students and parents can also see the changes in our school in the new semester. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Zhiqiang handed Spring a piece of paper.

Spring took a look at it, and it was written with eight big characters on it: "erudition, prudence, discernment, and dedication".

"These are my selected eight words, which will be used as the motto of our school in the future," Zhao Zhiqiang waved his hand and continued, "You can write it on both sides of the school gate, four on each side." I let the logistics do the preliminary work such as cleaning and painting the wall, and you can let the logistics buy how many board brushes and paints you need. ”

Spring nodded, took the note, and said goodbye to Zhao Zhiqiang.

Out of the principal's office, Spring suddenly felt as if there was a faint sense of urgency running through his body, like a clockwork full of clockwork, and an invisible force was pushing him forward involuntarily.

3.

Two days later, on the afternoon of August 30, Spring spent more than a day successfully completing the task assigned by Zhao Zhiqiang.

The snow-white walls, the generous and decent black fonts, and the exquisite border decoration patterns, after the skillful painting of spring, the gate of Toyama Middle School gives people a completely different and refreshing feeling.

Spring lit a cigarette and squatted at the gate, looking at his masterpiece with a relaxed face.

In the process of spring work, Zhao Zhiqiang also happily came to inspect several times, and each time he praised him again and again.

While working during the day, the spring used two nights to repaint the long school sign in the dormitory, and rewrote the big characters of "Hushan Town Central Middle School in Huxian County" in Song style art characters.

provoked Chen Haiping to complain for a while, saying that there was a smell of paint in the dormitory, and he couldn't sleep, and he was indispensable to coax Chen Haiping with good smoke and good words in the spring.

In the early morning of August 31, when the brand new school sign was re-hung at the gate of Toyama Middle School, the teachers who came and went saw it, and everyone praised the spring.

Zhao Zhiqiang heard his wife Tan Yan, who came home from the night shift, talk about it, so he ran to the school gate happily and saw the brand new school sign hanging on the side of the gate.

Zhao Zhiqiang had surprises in addition to appreciation, he didn't expect that Spring was such a caring person, took the initiative to undertake the work outside the task, and did it perfectly.