Chapter 17: Father's Troubles
"Well, I know, I'll finish writing the words I learned today before I show you. Hong Tao understood very well why his father covered his face with a newspaper, and was more familiar with what he said, which he would always hear in later generations whenever he did something that made his father feel happy, or when he was forced to talk to his father because he did something wrong. But he never understood his father's mood and intention when he said this, and he never took it to heart, and he didn't understand it until he was in his 3o years old and got married.
My father had lived a very unsatisfactory life, and he may seem to outsiders to be pretty good, but after the Gang of Four was defeated, he would be able to resume his job, return to teaching at the university, and become a professor in a few years. Moreover, during the period of labor reform in the factory, he also met many people from other departments in the education system, and his friendship was very good. After these people were reinstated or rehabilitated, many of them became powerful figures in their respective units, and the highest climbers reached the ministerial level as far as Hong Tao knew, and they also gave Hong Tao's family a lot of help in later generations.
But his father himself was not very happy, he was born badly since he was a child, he really didn't hurt his grandmother and didn't love his uncle, he went to college with his own efforts, and then stayed in school to teach. But he has become a stinky old nine again, he can only go to the factory to work every day, and he has to let those workers criticize and fight, not only does he not get the respect he deserves, but he is also looked down upon by many people. At that time, when people talked about intellectuals, they had to add a bad word in front of them! This affected my father's marriage, and no girl was willing to marry him, and finally had to choose to join her mother's family.
In the current view, especially in the city, this matter is not a matter at all, and no one wants to mention it anymore. But in the 7o's, even in a city like BJsh, it was a very self-respecting choice for any man. Although no one in my grandmother's family has ever mentioned this matter, this knot has always been hidden in my father's heart and has not been able to untie it.
In addition, my father's heart is very high, his self-esteem is also strong, and he has a good face. When he was young, he was all delayed, and when he had time and conditions, he had to compete with Hong Tao, and he had no leisure for most of his life, and he had no time or energy to complete his own ideals, although Hong Tao didn't know what ideals his father had, but people always had their own ideals, and his father was definitely no exception.
So the father transferred all his hopes to Hong Tao, he hoped to see his son live better than himself, have the ability, and be respected! To put it bluntly, according to the more popular saying, the father was hit too much when he was a child and in his youth, and he lost too much self-esteem, and then he wanted to desperately go back to make up for it, and he didn't have enough to make up for it, and he also planned to let his son help him find it, as for how much to make up? Hong Tao felt that this thing should not be enough.
"Alas...... Since you have to do it all over again, let's help my father grab more of it. In later life, Hong Tao failed to help his father get back too much respect, he was naughty until high school, relying on his father's relationship and barely admitted to his father's school, but the result was just a graduation certificate, as for how much money he earned after working, those things didn't mean anything to his father at all. Now to be able to live again, he doesn't have any lofty ideals, as for being a scientist, he never thought about it, that thing can only be a child's fantasy before the age of 1o, and then think about it after the age of 1o, either you are a genius, or you are mentally retarded.
With this conversation between Director Bai and Hong Tao's father, Hong Tao's father completely herded Hong Tao, in fact, even without Director Bai's home visit, Hong Tao can achieve this goal, but the process is a little slower, after all, his daily learning progress and homework are real, and the father who is a teacher can completely see from these things whether his son is studying every day.
However, the days of herding sheep were not very easy, Hong Tao forced himself to get up at 6 o'clock every day, and then ran to the school playground to exercise. This is specially approved by Director Bai, Hong Tao's father and Director Bai don't think that it is a good idea for a 4-year-old child to run to a desolate place like Ditan Park to exercise before dawn, but there is no good place in the alley for Hong Tao to exercise, so the school playground is only separated by a wall from Hong Tao's house, and the school playground has become Hong Tao's gym.
Every morning, the school's janitor would open the small iron door on the big iron gate for Hong Tao, and then let him go to the playground to run, push-ups, horizontal bars, and double bars, and only these equipment can be used here.
After exercising, Hong Tao will go to the bathroom on the first floor of the school to take a cold shower, and then go to his grandmother's house for breakfast. In fact, Director Bai and Hong Tao's father did not agree with Hong Tao taking a cold shower, and Hong Tao's mother was even more resolutely opposed, for fear that her son would be provoked by cold water on a cold day, and a cold and fever would be a trivial matter, and it would be very troublesome once he got pneumonia.
The only one who supports Hong Tao's cold shower is Hong Tao's grandfather, he praised his grandson for having the demeanor of his childhood, according to his grandfather himself, he has been on the edge of the well since he was a child, and he has been taking a bath by himself since he was a child.
With the support of the head of the family, Hong Tao doesn't have to be afraid of any parents, let alone Director Bai, grandpa will settle them all by himself, don't be reasonable with this old man, because he is not reasonable at all, if you have the ability, you can do it with him, but he thinks he is unlucky, and he is convinced, otherwise it is useless to talk nonsense.
After breakfast, until lunch, it was Hong Tao's study time. Originally, according to Director Bai's intention, he planned to let Hong Tao audit at least 4 classes a day, but Hong Tao resolutely resisted with his argument about his interest in learning. Hong Tao's father also partially agreed with Hong Tao's view that the most important thing for a child is to cultivate his interest and enthusiasm for learning, rather than how much to let him learn. As long as he has interest and enthusiasm, he will learn no less, if you lose interest and enthusiasm, it is useless for you to learn according to his head every day.
And Hong Tao's father also waved this point of view, he believes that children in addition to the interest and enthusiasm for learning, but also should go more and see more, the term is called to broaden the horizons, only contact more things, curiosity about more things, in order to make children's brains better and smarter. According to his father's theory, he began to take advantage of the Sunday break to take Hong Tao around, such as parks, shopping malls, universities, and even the steel factory where he worked.
Everywhere he went, his father encouraged Hong Tao to ask questions, he could ask anything, and if his father could answer immediately, he would answer, and if his father couldn't answer, then he would ask others, and then answer Hong Tao's question every two days.
Hong Tao has no opinion on his father's way of enlightening the child's intelligence, this is very right, only by seeing more can he be knowledgeable, and the one that is memorized by memorizing is not called knowledge, nor is it called wisdom. But in this way, Hong Tao can be uncomfortable, he is not worse than his father in terms of knowledge, and even surpasses his father in some things, except for things like high mathematics. But he still has to pretend to be naïve that he doesn't understand, and ask his father all kinds of questions, you can't tell your father, I know everything, I know more than you!
But things like, "Why are the wheels of the car round?!Why does the car run??," and how does steel flow out of that big furnace?" This kind of question is asked too much, Hong Tao feels that his intelligence has not risen, but has declined a little, especially his own cheek, at the end of the day, he is about to fold with a smirk, so every Sunday has become Hong Tao's most hated day, but in order to satisfy his father's sense of achievement, even if he is annoyed, he has to continue hard, not only can't he play tricks, but he also has to let himself show his impatience on Saturday night.
"It's really not easy to be an underground party!" Hong Tao felt that he was not without gains, he finally understood how great those spies who broke into the enemy's interior were great, he was still lying to his father, showing his stuff was exposed, basically no psychological pressure, and it was so uncomfortable, those agents, spies or something, all day long with strangers or enemies, how powerful a spirit it was! Hong Tao asked himself, he can't do this industry, he will be tortured into mental illness in less than half a year, don't wait for the enemy to catch him, he will lose himself without a fight.
With the support of Hong Tao's father, Hong Tao only needs to audit 2 classes every morning, whether it is mathematics or Chinese, this Hong Tao chooses by himself, and no one interferes with him. Director Bai once tried to persuade Hong Tao to follow a class as an auditor, so that he could enter the classroom and sit in the back to listen to the class, but Hong Tao refused. He was afraid that this was Director Bai's plan to play the Ming Xiu Plank Road and secretly Chen Cang, and if he listened to it, he would make himself a formal student, and Hong Tao had a very strong grasp of this bottom limit, and getting closer would arouse his strong disgust.
After auditing these two classes, Hong Tao would go to Director Bai's office to read the newspaper, review his homework, and sometimes have to do first-grade homework. It was useless for Hong Tao to oppose this, Director Bai, his father and grandfather all voted in favor, he was alone, and no one listened to him.
In fact, the person who objected the most to this was not Hong Tao, but his little uncle, who was not a good student in school, and was punished by the teacher for standing at the end of three days. It doesn't matter if it's blasted out of the classroom, once you are caught by Director Bai, you have to let the door of the teaching office stand. In this way, the nephew sat in the dean's seat reading the newspaper and drinking water, and the uncle stood at the door of the teaching office.
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