Chapter 66: The Crown in the County Town
The story of Gesang flower is beautiful, although it is a little sad, but it is still beautiful, and most of the beautiful stories are a little sad. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
But not all stories are rosy.
If a place or a person is poor, then the stories that happen here, and the people here, will not be too good.
Baxiong Township is a very poor, very poor, very poor place.
Most of the middle-aged people here have left the countryside to work in the cities, and many of the women who marry here have given birth to a child, and even not long after they got married, they abandon their families and go to the cities to work.
Those who remain in the countryside are only seriously ill old people, ignorant children, and broken families.
For example, in the sixth grade class of Gesang Primary School, there are a total of 22 children, 16 of whom are parents divorced, or one of them died, or even both of them died, most of them live with their grandparents, relying on subsidies issued by the government every year, and live with one or two acres of land planted by the family, and the annual family income is only more than 1,000 yuan.
Fortunately, the government's policy is very good, life can still go on, Gesang Primary School has also been converted into a public school, nine-year compulsory education does not charge tuition, and each student has a certain amount of subsidies every year.
Zhang Ping also has a formal establishment.
About half a month ago, Zhang Ping, as usual, was in the school with his hands behind his back, carefully inspecting every place.
He was not yet fifty years old, but he was already full of hair, and he looked like an old man in his sixties. In the past 30 years, in order for this school to survive, Zhang Ping gritted his teeth and persevered, suffered a lot, and aged very quickly.
Since the unexpected death of Gesang and his son twenty years ago, he has developed a habit of checking all the facilities and houses at the school every day to make sure they are safe.
But manpower can't win after all, and last winter there was another blizzard, which collapsed a row of classrooms.
Fortunately, there was no one in the classroom at the time, otherwise it would have almost caused a catastrophe.
"Ahem, cough, cough......" Seeing the row of collapsed houses not far away, Zhang Ping coughed violently and bent lower.
Interestingly, whenever he heard the sound of children reading loudly in the classroom, Zhang Ping would feel comfortable and transparent, and even coughing could be stopped.
In the classroom on the other side, there was the sound of children reading, and Zhang Ping naturally stopped coughing.
On the podium of the classroom, there is a very beautiful female teacher, since the teacher Su from the big city in the south came, the school's teaching standard has been raised a lot, and music and art are also offered.
"Knock knock......" he pulled the hanging bell, and the class ended, and a group of children flew out of the classroom like birds.
"Principal Zhang. Teacher Su walked out of the classroom with her homework, nodded to Zhang Ping, and then said to the fallen classroom, "Principal, in a few months, after the summer vacation, there will be new students again, and the classroom will not be enough at that time." I said it, I'll pay for the rebuilding of that classroom, what kind of thing can I do if I keep dragging it out. ”
As he spoke, Su Yun silently calculated the money in his account, and there was really not much left.
The treatment of university teachers is actually very ordinary, only in the two years she taught at the university, her monthly salary was only more than 1,000 points, and later she was rated as a lecturer and associate professor, and the salary was slightly improved, but it was not much.
She is a high math teacher, and her scientific research funds are even more limited, and she disdains to get money from this, plus she has a good family background, and she usually spends money very much, so after a few years of college teaching, there is not much savings.
I spent part of it abroad, and after I came to Gesang Primary School, I subsidized a lot, and if you do the math, the rest of the money in the card may not be enough to repair the house.
As for asking Zhao Zejun for money, Su Yun didn't have this idea, she wouldn't do it unless she had to.
Although the two have not been 'teachers and students' for a long time, Su Yun always has a kind of insistence, feeling that he and Zhao Zejun are independent individuals in spirit, and he doesn't want Zhao Zejun to pay the price for her own choice.
Since I have chosen this path, then all the results and processes should be borne by myself, and there is no reason for others to pay for my choice. Even for Zhao Zejun, this is only a small amount of money.
In the bottom of her heart, Su Yun reserved a little bit of a woman's dignity for herself.
If you don't use Zhao Zejun's money, use your own money, the pressure is greater. She was thinking about how much it would cost in her heart, but Zhang Ping objected first.
"No, no, no, Mr. Su, you came from a big city to teach on a voluntary basis, which has already helped a lot, and you used your own money to subsidize the school before, but this time it costs tens of thousands of yuan to repair the house, and you can't use your money to say anything!"
"Principal Zhang, it's only tens of thousands of yuan, I won't become poor without it, tens of thousands of yuan more, and I won't become a rich man, there is no essential difference. ”
Su Yun smiled, "Listen to me, fix the classroom first, and then talk about the rest, the students can't have no place to study." ”
In big cities, many people who have received modern education and have a certain quality may think that this is biased or even ridiculous.
But in a remote and poor place like Baxiong Township, this is a truth.
As the most basic part of the nine-year compulsory teaching: primary school, if the classroom is not enough, students can not go to school when they reach the age of school, they have to delay for a year, the teaching resources in the township are already very scarce, there are many children, to 8 or 9 years old have not been able to enroll, missed the golden age of learning is still a trivial matter, it is likely that as the age increases, unwilling to study, or after graduating from primary school and junior high school, they have to drop out of school to work.
Therefore, if you can accept an extra primary school student as soon as possible, the fate of this student may change in the future.
Seeing Su Yun's insistence, Zhang Ping hesitated for a moment and said, "Teacher Su, let me be honest with you, in fact, the county education committee received a donation, which should have been sent, but it has been delayed and not given." ”
"Why?" Su Yun frowned slightly.
Her first reaction was that someone had done something wrong with it and had a crooked mind about the money.
But instinctively, I don't want to believe this kind of thinking, whether it is Baxiong Township or the county above, they are too poor, the county is a key poverty alleviation unit, education has always been a priority, who dares to swallow donations with a conscience?
"Teacher Su, don't get me wrong, I estimate that there are difficulties in the county, you said that we are a poor place, why don't you spend money, the Education Commission also has to start from the overall situation, and consider the overall coordination...... Ahem, ahem, ahem......" Zhang Ping said and coughed again.
"Principal Zhang, sit down, I'll pour you a glass of water. ”
"No...... cough cough ...... cough for a long time, Zhang Ping finally relieved himself, sat down slowly, took a few heavy breaths, and then said: "There is still some time before the summer vacation, and it will be farther away from the next semester, so I will go to the county to fight for it, and the county will allocate funds, and we will repair the classroom immediately, and the time will come." ”
"Good...... Then I'll go with you?" asked Su Yun.
"I'll just take a tractor myself. Zhang Ping waved his hand and said: "You are not a formal teacher in the school, and it is not easy to talk when you go, I often run to the county education committee, and I am very familiar with it, so there will be no problem." ”
Zhang Ping has worked in Gesang Primary School for 30 years, and has dealt with the county education committee countless times, and there are too many difficulties of all kinds, not as he said, 'there will be no problem', otherwise it would not have been a donation that arrived a few months ago, and not a penny has been allocated until now.
He had already run to the education committee three or four times before for this matter.
The real reason for not letting Su Yun go with him was the first half of the sentence, 'You are not an official teacher in the school', and you are not even a local.
Zhang Ping knows some of the situation of the education commission, and the locals also know it, but if Su Yun, a foreigner, is present, it will be difficult for Zhang Ping and the county education committee to talk, and the county education commission will not even talk to Zhang Ping.
So Zhang Ping could only go alone.
After sitting on a tractor for most of the day, Zhang Ping finally came to the county seat.
Compared with the township below, the county seat is a big city...... At least in one city, there are residential buildings, government offices and various places of consumption, and there are many cars running back and forth on several cement roads.
The doorman of the county education commission and Zhang Ping were old acquaintances, and when they heard about his intention, they said, "Director Guo and a few of them are eating out and are not here." ”
"When will you come back?" Zhang Ping said, "It's not easy for me to come here, I'll wait for them." ”
"That's not for sure, sometimes I don't come back in the afternoon when I go out. The doorman opened the door to the communication room and beckoned, "Why don't you wait with me?"
"Okay. ”
"Then I'm going to eat in the cafeteria, would you like to come and have some to eat?" asked the doorman.
"I brought my own. Zhang Ping waved his hand.
"Then I'll go, you help me watch it, I'll be back in a while." ”
The doorman walked towards the cafeteria, Zhang Ping took out two glutinous rice cakes from the bag he was carrying, and put cold water in the shiny military kettle that had been grinded, which was a lunch meal.
"Yo, Principal Zhang, why do you eat this? When the doorman came back from dinner, he saw Zhang Ping gnawing on glutinous rice cakes, and said a little ridiculously: "Your monthly salary is also a few hundred yuan, and you are reluctant to eat a working meal for two yuan, it's too picky." ”
Zhang Ping grinned: "Eat the same thing, just fill your stomach." ”
The doorman looked at the glutinous rice in Zhang Ping's hand, shook his head and sighed, and said: "Principal Zhang, you say, why can't a good person like you be a leader? If you come to be the director of the Education Commission, our county's education will definitely be much better than it is now." ”
Zhang Ping smiled and didn't speak.
But the box of Weimen was opened, and while eating the working meal, he said: "Tell me, if it weren't for the fact that Director Guo is the brother-in-law of Deputy County Magistrate Wang, he would have been able to become the director by virtue of him, eating and drinking every day? ”
"What do you mean?" Zhang Ping was puzzled.
The broken building of the Education Commission is still like that, the walls have fallen to the ground, why did the shotguns be replaced?
The doorman saw a lot of the in the organ, and he also complained, saying: "I changed the car, it turns out that the broken car is no longer needed, and I bought a new crown, which is magnificent, and the brother-in-law takes the new female cadres out for a ride every day, no, they drove out again before you came, maybe where to eat now." You say that these people are almost unable to pay their salaries in the schools below, and they still change their cars and go to the restaurant?
Hearing what the doorman said, Zhang Ping had already guessed seven or eight points in his heart, and smiled slightly bitterly.
How is this not the work of a human being? Only a human being can do such a thing, and those pigs and dogs really can't do it.
Zhang Ping waited from 11 o'clock at noon to half past three in the afternoon, just when he felt that Director Guo would not come back today, outside the compound of the Education Commission, a Toyota Crown with a pitch-black body and absolutely magnificent in the whole county slowly drove in.
The crown stopped in the compound of the Education Commission, and the co-pilot walked down a fat man with a smooth and oily face, and two female cadres who were about thirty years old and came down from the back row.
The three of them, including the driver, were all smelling of alcohol, and they could smell it from afar.
Zhang Ping hurriedly walked out of the communication room, changed his smile, and stepped forward to say hello.
"Director Guo, hello, I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”
"Who? Oh, Lao Zhang, why are you here today, what's the matter? uh...... Go in and say......" Guo Youde was full of wine and patted Zhang Ping's shoulder.