Chapter 2 Report to the Education Commission

1.

Out of the Hushan Town Government compound, I walked in the direction of Hushan Middle School in the spring.

Toyama Middle School is located in the southeast of the town, and it takes about ten minutes to walk from the town hall. In spring, winding paths weave through the village houses. There are few pedestrians in the village, and occasionally you can see a few elderly people enjoying the shade of trees and children playing in the streets.

Toyama Junior High School is no stranger to Spring, having spent three years of junior high school here five years ago. It's been five years, and every time I pass by bus from town, I can't help but look in the direction of Toyama Junior High School in the spring. After all, the youthful dreams of an ignorant teenager once sprouted, took root, and grew in that place...

When I stood at the gate of Toyama Junior High School again, I suddenly felt as if time had stood still. Five years have passed, and nothing seems to have changed at Toyama Middle School. On both sides of the gate are still there when I went to school in the spring, and I don't know who wrote the eight big characters of "study diligently and revitalize education", but after a long time of repeated painting, the thick paint is a little mottled and peeled off; the school sign is still the same piece, after several years of wind and rain washing, several of the black paint handwriting has been illegible; inside and outside the campus are full of crazy growth of half-human weeds; everywhere people feel a sense of decay and baldness.

It was the time of the students' summer vacation, and the campus was very quiet, and there was no one in sight, only the tireless cry of Zhizhi hidden in the leaves of the tung tree.

In spring, I walked alone in the familiar and unfamiliar campus.

Passing by the former classroom, Spring deliberately leaned on the window to look at the desk he used when he went to school. The familiar desk is still there, but it has become more dilapidated, the desktop is uneven, it seems to be carved with mottled traces of time, and a thick layer of dust has fallen on it.

Time seems to have returned to the youthful youth, vaguely, on the desk of the classroom seems to be a thin figure who is studying hard...

An inexplicable sourness suddenly surged into the heart of spring, eroding the heart of spring little by little.

Joy, sadness, regret, loss, gratitude, nostalgia... All kinds of thoughts came to my heart, and tears gradually blurred the eyes of spring.

In the spring, I felt a faint pain in the whirlpool of memories, and my mood couldn't be calm for a long time...

2.

The row of houses in the middle of the campus is the office of the town education committee, and on the wall is a long wooden sign that reads "Hushan Town Education Committee". In the distance, there is an office with the door ajar, and spring walks slowly along the overgrown flower path.

Looking through the crack in the half-open door, there were three people sitting on the sofa in the room, also playing poker. If you look closely, the three people inside actually know each other in the spring. The oldest in the middle of the sofa was transferred to Hushan Middle School as the principal when he was in the third year of junior high school in the spring, and his name was Liu Wenhua. The short and fat middle-aged man on the left is the homeroom teacher of the spring junior high school for three years, named Song Xiuwen. The youngest young man with glasses near the door was from the same village as Spring, named Feng Shu, who used to be a private teacher in a village-run primary school, and taught Spring for a few years in elementary school.

Haru stood at the door of his office and hesitated for a moment, facing his former teacher, who didn't know how to speak.

"Hey, why are you here?" Before Spring could figure out how to say hello, Feng Shu suddenly looked up and saw Spring standing at the door of the office, and immediately stood up with a surprised face and casually opened the half-hidden door.

"Oh, I'm here to report, I just went to the town government, and I said that I was asked to go to the town education committee..." Spring didn't expect that Feng Shu would have an impression of himself after not seeing Feng Shu for a few years, so he hurriedly responded with a smile, but Spring omitted the title of Feng Shu.

It's not that Spring is rude, but because Spring and Feng Shu are the same generation in the village, and Spring hasn't figured out for a while, should Feng Shu be called "teacher" or "brother"? On this occasion, it seems that calling Feng Shu "brother" or "teacher" is a bit out of place. Calling "brother" is too close, and calling "teacher" is a bit raw. So Spring had to omit the title of Feng Shu, but fortunately Feng Shu didn't seem to care.

"Really, come in quickly. Feng Shu smiled and beckoned Spring to come into the house.

"Hello Principal Liu! Hello Teacher Song!" As soon as he entered the house, Spring hurriedly greeted Liu Wenhua and Song Xiuwen.

Liu Wenhua and Song Xiuwen responded with their mouths, and then casually threw down the cards in their hands, but Spring still saw the surprise on their faces.

Obviously, Liu Wenhua and Song Xiuwen have no impression of Spring, a former student, at all.

"Our students who graduated from Hushan Middle School were admitted to Huxian No. 2 Middle School and Dongzhou Normal College in college. We are from a village, his name is Chun..." Feng Shu was busy introducing, and it seemed that he had a relatively good understanding of the situation in spring.

"In the spring, I graduated from our school in '88. Without waiting for Feng Shu to finish his introduction, he hurried to the interface in the spring, afraid that if Feng Shu couldn't call his name, it would make both of them very embarrassed.

"Welcome, welcome. Liu Wenhua, director of the town education committee, said and stood up and stretched out his hand towards spring.

"This is Director Liu of the Town Education Commission..." Feng Shu was busy introducing behind Spring, who respectfully shook hands with Liu Wenhua.

Liu Wenhua had just let go of Spring's hand, and Song Xiuwen immediately reached over.

"Ms. Song was my homeroom teacher for three years in junior high school. Spring affectionately shook Song Xiuwen's outstretched hand.

Song Xiuwen is not tall, with a stocky physique, a square head and a round face, white and clean, and a rich appearance.

"Oh?" Song Xiuwen was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to have a sudden realization, with a smile on his face, and the hand holding Spring shook it a few times.

Spring confirmed from Song Xiuwen's somewhat stunned expression that he really didn't have any impression of himself, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart. Three years have not been able to make the homeroom teacher who gets along day and night remember him, and I don't know if this is my own sadness in the spring.

3.

Spring took out the dispatch order from his coat pocket and handed it to Liu Wenhua with both hands.

Liu Wenhua took it and looked at it, then opened the drawer and put it in.

"Spring, isn't it?" Liu Wenhua beckoned Spring to sit down, and Song Xiuwen and Feng Shu also sat down.

"What kind of major are you studying at Dongzhou Normal University?" Liu Wenhua asked Spring with a smile.

"Art education. Spring sat up straight, and replied to Liu Wenhua respectfully, just like answering a teacher's question in class.

"Hey, this is an unpopular major. There is not a single professional art teacher in our town, and there is a big shortage of art teachers in county schools. How can you get it back?" Song Xiuwen suddenly interjected with a smile.

Spring scratched his head with a slightly shy smile, Song Xiuwen's question is really difficult to answer. I can't tell Song Xiuwen the truth, it's because my family has no money and no power, and I can't find the temple gate even if I want to give gifts, so I was assigned back to Hushan Town, right?

"I am a trainee of the orientation committee of our county education bureau, and I must return to the county to participate in the unified distribution after graduation. Spring frowned slightly, turned his head and said to Song Xiuwen in a false way.

"It's not bad to come back, even if it's to contribute to the education of my hometown, we will have professional art teachers in Hushan Town from now on. That's it, Xiaochun, according to the work plan and arrangement of the town education committee, you have to go home for the time being and wait for the assignment notice from our education committee. In the past few days, there will be new teachers to report, it is estimated that there will be more than ten people, and the town education committee will be uniformly deployed. Our town has a total of a middle school, a central primary school, eight village-run primary schools, many schools with a large geographical span, several schools are still in the mountains, and after all the new teachers arrive, the town education committee weighs and distributes. Every year, new teachers are assigned, and everyone is scrambling to go to a school with better conditions, and there are a lot of jobs that I, the director of the education committee, can't do well..." Liu Wenhua said to Spring with a seemingly understated smile.

Spring nodded while listening, and through the successive experiences and insights in the morning, Spring's mind was somewhat enlightened. On the issue of distribution, I don't have the ability to compete with others anyway, so it's better to look away a little than to get entangled in my heart. Since they have all been distributed back to their hometowns, then you can divide them as you like, no matter how you divide them, they are all on the one-third of an acre of land in Hushan Town, and where to work is not the same?

4.

In the spring, he was the first batch of orientation committee trainees of art majors in Huxian County.

In 1991, in order to solve the problem of the shortage of teachers majoring in music and physical arts in the education system, the Huxian County Government and the Education Bureau signed an agreement with Dongzhou Normal University for the orientation of music and physical arts.

In fact, the orientation committee trainee refers to the fact that the university clarifies the student's whereabouts after graduation through the contract when recruiting students, and the training fee during the study period is provided by the entrusted training unit to the training unit according to the prescribed standards. The entrusting unit and the training unit, and between the entrusting unit and the entrusting student, shall sign the entrusted training contract, and the entrusted student shall enjoy the same treatment as the enrollment in the national plan during the study period and after graduation.

The recruitment of entrusted trainees by colleges and universities is an important reform of China's enrollment plan and graduate allocation system. It has played a positive role in encouraging institutions of higher learning to tap their potential, train more talents, and better meet the society's needs for high-level specialized personnel.

I graduated from Huxian No. 2 Middle School in July 1991, but when I filled in the college entrance examination before graduation, I hesitated, and I didn't know how to choose for a while. At that time, although his academic performance in Huxian No. 2 Middle School in the spring was not particularly outstanding, it should be no problem to be admitted to an ordinary university. However, at that time, the younger brother in the spring was going to enter junior high school in the same year as him, and he had to board in junior high school, so the family's expenses would naturally increase. The two brothers' school tuition, book fees, accommodation fees, living expenses and other expenses add up, which is not a small amount in a year, which will undoubtedly increase the financial burden of the parents, and will also make the already poor family even worse.

Considering the practical difficulties of the family, Spring resolutely chose to be a trainee of the Art College Orientation Committee of Dongzhou Normal University without tuition fees and free room and board. Fortunately, this art college orientation committee training class is the first time, the requirements for professional courses are not too high, mainly to look at the results of the cultural courses of the college entrance examination, in the spring with the top high scores, as expected.

The four of them sat around and talked for a while, and it was Liu Wenhua and the three of them who asked questions and answered in the spring.

"Xiaochun," Liu Wenhua raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said to Chun with a smile, "It's almost eleven o'clock, and it is said that the new teacher should get you a meal of wine when he reports to the Education Commission." But later, I will go to the town government to report to Deputy Mayor Feng, who is in charge of education, and I will not keep you today. The next time I come to the town education committee to get the order, I will have a drink with other new teachers to catch the wind bar! Okay?"

Spring understood that Liu Wenhua was sending off guests implicitly, so he got up and said goodbye to the people in the house.