Chapter 16: Two Teachers
Director Bai went to the kitchen to help Hong Tao put the kettle on the stove, and then watched Hong Tao hold an iron tong with great effort, open the stove door, and then adjust the fire door to the state of pulling out the fire.
Sealing the fire and pulling the fire are two more professional northern folk terms, mainly used in the operation of the stove, and may be used less in the south. In this era, whether it is heating or cooking, ordinary people generally use coal-burning stoves, and liquefied petroleum gas is rarely there, let alone natural gas.
At this time, the furnace was generally divided into two types, burning honeycomb coal and burning briquettes. The shape of the general household is similar, but some small parts in the furnace are slightly different, the stove that burns briquettes can burn honeycomb coal, but the stove that burns honeycomb coal cannot burn briquettes without modification.
Northerners and southerners are very different when it comes to burning stoves, southerners use a very small stove that can be carried around, moved in when it is in use, and put outside the house when it is not in use, so as not to run the gas. The stove of the northerners was very large, heavy, cast iron, and could not be moved at will, so in order to prevent gas, a chimney with white iron sheet was added to exhaust all the smoke in the stove to the outside of the house.
In addition, northerners are accustomed to making the furnace burn all day, in order to save coal, they will use the movable air inlet under the furnace and the movable gas outlet under the chimney to adjust the coal burning in the furnace to a slow smoldering state, which is called sealing the fire. When you need to use it, as long as you open these two movable dampers and take out a small lid inside the stove, you can let the furnace fire return to the burning state in about ten minutes, which is called pulling out the fire.
"Don't worry, I eat at my grandmother's house, and I usually don't play with fire. Hong Tao knew what Director Bai wanted to say next, so he quickly took the words and blocked her mouth.
"What about your mother, she's a doctor, is she late off work?Always on duty?" Director Bai let Hong Tao choke back with a word, and he didn't care, since she saw this child today, she has been choking a lot, and she is almost used to it.
"My mother went to the mountains and went to the countryside to be a barefoot doctor, and my father went to the factory to work and reform, and it was not easy for both of them, they were hard and tired outside all day, so I had to ask Director Bai, if you could add less blockage to my father, you would be less blocked, after all, you are also peers, and it will be very uncomfortable if you don't let you teach, and you have to do physical work, no one feels good, what do you say?" Hong Tao took a small bench and sat against the wall, tilted his head and said to Director Bai.
āā¦ā¦ You can worry about your parents, you are a good boy, but you seem to have a big prejudice against the teacher, the teacher did not come to your house to complain, and you have nothing to complain, I will not tell your parents about the incident that you were sent back by the police in the afternoon, you can rest assured. "Director Bai is already on the verge of going berserk, this bastard kid has taught her three times and twice, and she can't say anything, it's really deceitful.
"That's good, that's good, I don't have any preconceptions about teachers, on the contrary, I trust you more than anyone else, so I'm willing to have an equal dialogue with you, try to tell the truth, the truth. It may be that the two of us see the problem differently, so it is very easy to communicate with friction, and when my father comes back, I will re-consider you as a teacher, and then all you hear will be good and obedient. Hong Tao reiterated his point of view again, and he could also understand that no matter how open and honest Director Bai was, it was impossible to get used to this way of talking in a short period of time anyway, and it had to be cultivated slowly and let her get used to it.
āā¦ā¦ Can I read your father's book?" Director Bai was completely speechless, and endured it for a long time before he could endure this breath.
"Yes, it just so happens that you also teach mathematics, and my dad is not only a peer, but also a subject. Hong Tao took a newspaper to read, and he didn't have any worries about his father's pile of books being read by outsiders, he knew his father, these books were all professional books, and his father didn't have any political cells, let alone any political remarks, and he was not afraid of people reading them.
"The teacher is much worse than your father, your father teaches college students, and the teacher doesn't understand much of these advanced mathematics, analytic geometry, etc. Director Bai casually took a few books and flipped through them, and quickly put them back, I'm afraid she really can't understand them.
"There is a specialization in the art industry, you ask my dad to do high school algebra and he may not be able to do it right, in terms of contribution, you are bigger than him, you and he are like people who build tall buildings, you are responsible for laying the foundation, he is responsible for the ground construction. How high this high-rise building can be built in the end depends on how deep and firm your foundation can be, even if my dad has the ability to do it, he will be busy in vain if he lacks a good foundation! Therefore, you are the boss, and my dad can only be the second. I think it's reasonable that the salary of a primary school teacher should be the highest, the salary of a middle school teacher should be a little lower, and the salary of a university teacher should be the lowest, don't you say?" Hong Tao felt that it was a bit too much for him to squeeze this Director Bai this day, and it would also affect her feelings, so now she has to pat her ass, and it's not too late to sharpen her gun.
"Heh, you think long-term, and you need to reform teachers' salaries, so you don't want to be a scientist at all, but become the director of the education bureau." Director Bai finally saw a smile on his face, and it was always a very comfortable thing to be praised by others.
"My dad is back! Teacher! Whether I can be happy in the second half of my life depends on you! Please, please! There must be a lot of kind words, a lot of good words! This pile of newspapers was specially brought back by my son to show my father, you say yes!" Hong Tao suddenly heard the sound of a bicycle in the corridor, immediately stood up, put the newspaper back in his hand, and then arched his hand at Director Bai, sat back on the small bench, lowered his head and stopped talking.
"Hong Tao, what are you doing with water here? Why don't you go to grandma for dinner...... You...... You're Teacher Bai, what are you...... Is our family Hong Tao in trouble again!" Hong Tao's father had not yet entered the house, the voice came in first, and after the door opened, as soon as he saw Director Bai, he immediately recognized it, and then listened to the voice that was originally in a good mood and immediately lowered down.
"Oh, Teacher Hong is back, don't worry, Hong Tao didn't get into trouble, I'm not here to sue, I want to discuss with you about Hong Tao's future education, do you have time today?"
āā¦ā¦ Oh...... , There is time, there is time, is he running to the school to listen to the class to cause you trouble, my child, the nature is a little wilder, this is mainly to blame me, I am too busy with work, neglect to discipline him...... "Hong Tao's father still did not completely put his mind at ease, the teacher's rhetoric he understands, generally go to the home to visit the child is to say that there is no problem with the child, to stabilize the parents, and then slowly expose the short.
"Teacher Hong, we are all doing this, I won't say anything kind to you, I really didn't come to complain to Hong Tao today, he was in my office all day today...... Looking at the textbook, it's very good, I want to talk to you about his future affairs, Hong Tao, should you avoid it!" Director Bai also knew that Hong Tao's father was still suspicious, emphasized his intention again, and helped Hong Tao tell a small lie, and finally glanced at Hong Tao, and issued an eviction order instead of Hong Tao's father.
"Dad, teacher, I'll go to grandma's house first, there is still water sitting on the stove, you keep an eye on it. Hong Tao lowered his head, muttered, and opened the door very honestly and obediently and walked out.
"Your son, what should I say......" Director Bai looked at Hong Tao's unlucky virtue now, and remembered the way he talked to him this day, and couldn't help sighing, she was a little unsure whether she should tell this lie for him.
Hong Tao didn't know what Director Bai and his father said, and he didn't hear a word! But the two of them talked for a long time, and they had finished dinner at their grandmother's house, and their father hadn't come over to eat until after 7 o'clock, and his father didn't show up at his grandmother's house until about 7 o'clock, and ate the food left by his grandmother, and then dragged Hong Tao home on the pretext of checking his homework.
"Teacher Bai said, your homework is done well, Jian yƬ Dad asked you to go to elementary school a year early, are you willing?" Hong Tao's father did not check Hong Tao's homework, but picked up a newspaper on the table and flipped through it, and asked Hong Tao by the way.
"Yes, I like to go to school!" Hong Tao tried to make himself smile brightly, but he was not very happy in his heart, although Director Bai did not let him enter primary school immediately, but he still told his father about early enrollment, and it was early to enroll a year earlier!
According to his own mouth, more talking, and nosy character, after going to school, there will be conflicts with other students, and when the time comes, his brother-in-law will not be able to be a bodyguard for him at the door of the class every day, and he must be beaten first, no matter how he retaliates afterwards, the pain on his body will not be reduced at all.
"That's good, son, today is your dad and I have been the happiest day in the past few years, dad is not afraid of hardship, you see dad's fingers, they were all washed for you when you were a child, with Director Bai's words today, your dad I think it's worth it." You're too young to understand me, but I'm going to say it anyway, and I'll tell you every year until the day you can understand it. You must study hard, and you can only be productive when you grow up, and you must be more capable than your father and me!" The father held up the newspaper and blocked it on the table, separated Hong Tao's sight, and said something that Hong Tao should not have understood.
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