14. Childhood
In the morning, it was drizzling.
In the rain, the old apricot trees in the yard appear more luxuriant, and the colorful flowers in the garden are more and more delicate.
Drops of rain are ticking and falling from the branches and leaves, from the apricot fruits, and from the petals, singing happily about the cool summer days that belong to them.
On a lazy rainy day, Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan got up later than usual, heated up yesterday's meal, and the two of them ate a little bite, and then leisurely went their separate ways.
It's time to go to school, and the rain happens to be a lot lighter, almost drizzle.
After the rain, the weather was a little cold, Tang Wan wore a jacket outside her short sleeves, brought an umbrella, locked the door of the house, and did not ride, and walked towards the school with Zhang Dongming.
Before entering the street, it was all dirt roads, and many places on the road were flooded, Tang Wan walked cautiously in front with an umbrella, and Zhang Dongming followed slowly in the back, occasionally saying hello to someone he knew.
When I got to the office, the other teachers didn't come.
Zhang Dongming hummed a little song while flipping through the language books at will, the final exam was about to begin, Tang Wan had nothing to do, went to class, came back and fetched a pot of hot water, poured half a cup, and drank it slowly.
"Go to my class?" Tang Wan said.
"Okay, let's go. Zhang Dongming got up, nothing happened, and he was also dry in the office.
The two of them came to the class, and a total of about a dozen students came.
Normal.
Rural schools are not like those in the city, and most of the students ride a few or more miles to school, so they can't come to school when it's windy or rainy.
In this case, if less than half of the students come, the school will not be in class, and the students will basically be dismissed when the rain stops and the weather clears.
At this time, there were only a few people in the class, and naturally there was no learning atmosphere, and the students were playing in twos and threes, and there were also two or three reading, but they were not so serious, and chatted with other students from time to time.
"The teacher is not in class today, is he?"
As soon as Tang Wan and Zhang Dongming came in, they asked with a smile with Lu Ye, a very thin and small boy.
This student's name is He Fulai, his family is also in the countryside, his father is the deputy director of the township police station, He Fulai has a very good relationship with Lu Ye, Zhang Dongming can always be seen on the court, and then he is quite able to fight, and he has been educated by Tang Wan every time, but every time he has a hippie smile, Tang Wan has no way at all.
"Hmm. Tang Wan nodded with a smile and sat down on the empty seat: "After a while, when the rain stops and the sky clears, school should be over." ”
"yes!" He Fulai turned his head to Lu Ye next to him and a boy in the back seat, "I'll go to the game hall in a while." ”
Tang Wan said helplessly: "Usually, it is more difficult for a few of you to learn a little bit of practice than anything, and when you talk about playing, one is more energetic than the other." ”
He Fulai and the boy in the back seat both laughed twice, while Lu Ye pouted, looking very arrogant.
Zhang Dongming smiled and asked, "Who in our class is the best at playing the game?"
"Huh?" He Fulai's small eyes turned back and forth twice, looked at Zhang Dongming, and then glanced at Tang Wan, seeing that the head teacher didn't react, he smiled and said: "Then it must be me and Ma Hongxu, but if you want to talk about the King of Fighters 97 alone, it must be Lu Ye's power." ”
"Really?" Zhang Dongming looked at Lu Ye: "I can also hit 97, when will I try it?"
"Huh?" He Fulai was surprised: "Isn't Mr. Zhang good at basketball, and he also plays game consoles?"
"Yes, I used to play when I was in school. Zhang Dongming smiled and looked at Lu Ye: "What's the matter?"
"Okay, who's afraid of whom. Lu Ye didn't wait to see Tang Wan, and his attitude towards Zhang Dongming was still very good: "Why don't you get out of school in a while?"
"Okay. Zhang Dongming said briskly.
"No, no, Mr. Zhang, you play basketball very well, we really don't believe it when you play game consoles, and we want to challenge Lu Ye, um. . . Ma Hongxu didn't come today, so you have to pass my level first. He Fulai said.
"Hehe, okay. Zhang Dongming responded with a smile.
Zhang Dongming and He Fulai were chatting about the game here, but Tang Wan didn't say anything.
Regarding the issue of students' education, she and Zhang Dongming also discussed it when they had nothing to do, and she did not necessarily agree with many of Zhang Dongming's views, and it was even difficult to understand, but she now wanted to see the effect.
Besides, this is different for her, she doesn't want to care about these anymore, and she can't care about students like Lu Ye He Fulai, as long as there is nothing else to fight or even beat the teacher, she will be thankful.
"Zhao Xiaoli, how is the review?"
Tang Wan asked a girl sitting in the first row on the north side, a girl with short hair and big eyes, a long aura, and looking at physics.
Although there is Lu Ye's case, Zhao Xiaoli has always been the best and hardest working student in Tang Wan's class, and she is also one of the students that Tang Wan cares about the most.
Listening to Tang Wan, Zhao Xiaoli's family is in Dongtun Village, the family conditions are not very good, her parents are farming, there is a younger brother who is in elementary school, and there is a grandfather in his seventies.
This is also the reason why Zhao Xiaoli was unable to go to the city to study.
No way.
Children from poor families, but perhaps it is precisely because of this that students like Zhao Xiaoli know more about changing their destiny through hard work.
Then at the age when love first opened, although Lu Ye always said that he liked Zhao Xiaoli and kept chasing her, he never did anything particularly excessive, so that it really affected her studies.
This is also the reason why Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan both like Lu Ye, a student, although the two have different expressions.
"Bai Dongsheng, if you don't understand anything in the future, just ask Zhao Xiaoli more, it's okay. ”
Tang Wan said to a boy sitting in the back row of the classroom, who was thinner than He Fulai, and then dressed very shabby, dirty, and sloppy.
This Bai Dongsheng and Tang Wan have also mentioned to Zhang Dongming several times that they are the most serious students in their class except for Zhao Xiaoli, and they are also the students with the most difficult family conditions in their class.
Bai Dongsheng's parents are also farming, but his father is not a day at all, the family is poor, and then in the fourth grade of primary school, his mother died of medicine in a fit of anger, and now there is a sister who works outside, and the money earned can barely support the family.
Listening to Tang Wan, if it weren't for Bai Dongsheng's sister who had always insisted on letting this younger brother go to school, Bai Dongsheng would have dropped out of school a long time ago, and it was too difficult for the family, and Bai Dongsheng's tuition for half a year was still paid by Tang Wan.
The reason why Tang Wan said that just now was because Zhao Xiaoli studied better than Bai Dongsheng in the class, but because of Lu Ye, a famous "thorn" in the school, not to mention the class, there were few boys in the school who dared to tease Zhao Xiaoli and didn't even dare to talk to her more, which naturally included Bai Dongsheng.
For Zhao Xiaoli, who is dedicated to studying and has good grades, this is not necessarily a bad thing, but for Tang Wan, who is willing to help Bai Dongsheng improve his academic performance, she has always been helpless.
Just like now, as soon as she finished saying this, she saw Lu Ye and He Fulai throwing a warning look at Bai Dongsheng.
Tang Wan smiled bitterly and glanced at Zhang Dongming, Zhang Dongming didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded.
The drizzle outside was still falling, and in the classroom, Tang Wan and Zhang Dongming had been chatting casually with these students.
For the students, Mr. Zhang is okay, it has always been like this, there are not many teachers' shelves. To the surprise of these students, today's homeroom teacher is much more accommodating than usual, much more kind, some talk and laugh, and even a little less like the homeroom teacher.
They were still a little scruples at first, and they couldn't let go, but the head teacher kept talking and laughing, and then what they said, the head teacher didn't look angry at all, so they gradually liberated their nature, and they were noisy and chattering.
For Tang Wan, she has been teaching these students for a year, and only she knows what she has experienced in the past year, and she is also very happy that she has a rare or finally opportunity to chat with the students so easily.
As for Zhang Dongming, it should be similar to Tang Wan, at least in some thoughts and moods, it should be close, or understandable.
"He Fulai, Qi Lili, you two sing well, sing two songs to everyone?" Tang Wan smiled.
As soon as they were singing, these students became more lively, urging one by one, and it seemed that they both knew that these two sang well.
He Fulai stood up first, and said confidently: "Whatever song you want to hear, whatever you say, I will sing it." ”
"The sea!"
"The sea!"
"The ...... of the sea"
It seems that this is He Fulai's famous song, and the students, including Tang Wan, are clamoring for him to sing this song.
He Fulai looked disgusted: "This song is too old-fashioned, I won't sing it for a long time, I'll sing you a "Xingqing", have you heard it?"
Tang Wan naturally heard this song, she has Jay Chou's "Jay" album tape just released at the end of last year, and I listened to it two days ago, not to mention Zhang Dongming, but most of the other students said they hadn't heard it.
"No, you guys, you haven't heard of "Xingqing", Jay Chou's, the most popular now, you guys are really, hey~, what are you telling me to say......"
He Fulai said in a smug voice, while Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan were laughing on the side, until Lu Ye couldn't help but kick this "pretending to be endless" second goods, and the singing finally sounded in the classroom-
"Riding the wind ~ wandering by the blue sky ~
A cloud ~ fell in front of my eyes ~ Pinch into your shape ~ Follow me with the wind ~
Eat the sorrow one bite at a time~
……
Hand in hand ~ one step, two steps, three steps, four steps looking at the sky ~
Look at the stars ~ one, two, three, four in a line ~
Back to back ~ silently make a wish ~
Look at the stars in the distance ~ Do you hear the ......"
In the classroom, He Fulai sang affectionately and affectionately.
Then don't say it, the singing is really good, and it's not ordinarily good, in Zhang Dongming's opinion, this He Fulai is quite talented in singing.
That's just the way it is.
Whether in the city or in the countryside, it does not mean that children have to go to university, nor does it mean that all children are suitable for studying.
Just like He Fulai, he doesn't study well but sings well, and just like Lu Ye, he doesn't study well but plays well.
Of course, this is not to say that they can rely on this to eat in the future, but to say that everyone has their own suitable and good aspects.
As a student, it is of course best to be able to study, and the teacher will try their best to guide in this direction, but it is not a big deal if you don't study.
There are many paths in life, everyone has their own one, as a teacher, there is only so much you can do, and the rest is only blessings for students.
And this may be the reason why Tang Wan is like this today.
He Fulai finished singing "Xingqing", and sang his famous song "The Sea" in everyone's enthusiastic applause.
Then the girl named Qi Lili also sang two songs "Crying Sand" and "I Do", and she sang well, and she also received warm applause from everyone.
"We've been singing for a long time, the teacher should also come to a song, do you say yes? ”
"Yes, teacher, teacher, you can also do a song. ”
"Or Teacher Zhang can come to a song. ”
"Chorus is OK too......"
After the first few songs, the atmosphere in the classroom was a lot more lively, and most of the students were completely relaxed.
Tang Wan smiled and said generously, "Okay." ”
"yes, teacher, you're so handsome, oh no, hehe, it's so beautiful. ”
Among these students, He Fulai was the most naughty and lively, and he was not embarrassed after saying this, and then saw that the teacher was not angry at all, and the others couldn't help but laugh along with him.
"Teacher, what song are you singing?" asked He Fulai again.
Tang Wan thought for a while: "Just sing "Childhood", doesn't the school always play it." ”
"Good. ”
"Okay, okay. ”
"Yes can ......"
The students have never heard the head teacher sing, this time, they all have little faces, and they can't wait to look at the head teacher, even Bai Dongsheng, who has not spoken much, and Lu Ye, who has never waited to see Tang Wan, have also come to their senses.
Looking at the students in front of her, Tang Wan smiled, and then the singing gradually sounded-
……
On the banyan tree by the pond~I know that I am crying for summer~
On the swing next to the playground ~ only butterflies stop on it ~
On the blackboard ~ the teacher's chalk ~ is still twittering and writing ~ Waiting for the end of class ~ Waiting for the end of school ~ Waiting for the childhood of the game ~
……
This is the first time for the students to listen to the head teacher singing, at first they were very curious and looking forward to it, and then as soon as the head teacher spoke, they found that the head teacher sang so well, they were all stunned, with their chins wide open, stunned to watch, stunned to listen,
Zhang Dongming also listened to Tang Wan sing for the first time, which was really good, and then unlike Luo Dayou's hoarse version of "Childhood" that was played all day long in school, Tang Wan sang this song a lot fresher and smarter, and it sounded like something else.
……
There is everything in the welfare society~ that is, there is no half a dime in the pocket~
Zhuge Shiro and the Devil Party ~ Who grabbed the sword in the end ~
The girl in the next class~Why hasn't she passed by my window yet~
Snacks in the mouth ~ comics in the hand ~ childhood of first love in the heart ~
……
I always have to wait until before going to bed~ to know that I have only done a little bit of homework~
I always have to wait until after the exam~ to know that I didn't read any books that I should read~
An inch of time is an inch of gold~ The teacher said that it is difficult to buy an inch of time~
Day after day, year after year ~ Confused childhood~
……
Tang Wan sang, always with a faint smile on her face.
Her soft gaze skimmed over the students in front of her, and slowly looked over the empty seats in the classroom.
There are students who didn't come today, students who haven't been here for a few days, students who haven't been here for weeks, and students who have stopped studying......
She remembers each of these students, which seat each student sits, whether the student is naughty or honest, whether he is obedient or disobedient, how he has made her angry, what mistakes she has made, and how she has disciplined.
At this moment, at this moment.
When the scenes of her relationship with those students came to mind, every picture was so clear and vivid.
She didn't know why she remembered it so clearly, she never deliberately remembered it, she really didn't.
However, she remembered.
Unconsciously, silently, I remembered it.
Just like the innocent smiling faces in the classroom at this time, she really doesn't have to remember it, because she knows that she won't forget.
……
No one knows why~the sun always goes down to the other side of the mountain~
No one can tell me ~ if there are gods living in the mountains ~
How many days ~ always face the sky alone in a daze~
It's so curious~ it's so fantasizing~ it's such a lonely childhood~
……
Dragonflies fly over in the sun~patches of green rice fields~
Watercolor crayons and kaleidoscopes ~ can't draw that rainbow on the horizon ~
When will ~ be able to have a mature and grown face like a senior classmate~
Looking forward to the holidays ~ looking forward to tomorrow ~ looking forward to growing up in childhood ~
……
Tang Wan's singing ended.
In the classroom, the students burst into warm applause.
Headed by He Fulai, everyone applauded, amazed, and strongly asked Tang Wan to come back to another song.
Tang Wan didn't sing anymore, but she kept talking and laughing with the students.
She covered it up so well that the students didn't see any difference in her.
Of course, even if she didn't cover it up well, these students might not be able to see it, and they might at most be a little curious about how the head teacher suddenly became so good.
Zhang Dongming was on the side, looking at Tang Wan, who was talking and laughing with the students.
He knew what Tang Wan was thinking, and he knew it when he saw her talking so much with Ma Hongxu in the office a while ago.
He probably could understand Tang Wan's mood, but he didn't expect that Tang Wan's emotions would be so strong, and he didn't expect her to express her inner emotions in this way.
It's a bit of a surprise, but when you think about it, it's reasonable.
In the laughing classroom, Zhang Dongming's eyes were a little stunned.
He found that this girl was indeed beautiful, beautiful from the inside out.
The rain stopped, the sky cleared, and school was out.
said that he would go to the game hall with Lu Ye and He Fulai to learn 97, and on the way from school, Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan walked with these two people, basically Zhang Dongming and He Fulai were talking.
At the fork in the road, Tang Wan was about to turn around.
He Fulai said goodbye to her. Tang Wan also responded with a smile, then glanced at Zhang Dongming, the two exchanged glances, and Tang Wan said more.
"Lu Ye. ”
The three of them didn't take a few steps before Tang Wan shouted from behind.
The three of them turned around, Tang Wan raised her arm and made a fist clenching motion towards Lu Ye, and said with a smile: "Come on!"