When Zhao Zheyu rode a mountain bike and arrived in the urban area of Shulan City, it was already getting dark. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As a counselor for the 2012 students of the School of Energy and Power of a university in the south, seeing that more than 200 students are about to enter the third year, they are faced with the important choice of whether to go to graduate school or find a job. Therefore, he decided to use the summer vacation to visit homes by cycling to lead by example and convey to students the belief of perseverance.

Six days ago, he set out from Shenyang, traveled all the way through the city and town, and rode more than 400 kilometers to this remote northeastern town. The bad road conditions that appeared from time to time along the way made Zhao Zheyu suffer enough. Some roads are under construction, others are in disrepair and are full of cracks, and many roads are still muddy dirt roads and gravel roads, which are almost impassable.

In the summer of Tohoku, the rain always falls as soon as it falls. Zhao Zheyu found a place to hide from the rain every time he was soaking wet, and when the rain stopped, he shivered and shivered. After several days of riding, his thigh muscles were already sore, and his left little thumb was numb from holding the handlebar for a long time. And the steep slopes on the road also gave him a lot of headaches. Due to the many slopes, he had to use the transmission frequently, and his right thumb and index finger were out of force, and he couldn't even hold the chopsticks.

On the way the day before yesterday, he was choked by the dust on the road, but he suddenly encountered heavy rain, tired and freezing, and finally rode to the home of the visiting student, and he had no strength to go upstairs. In the end, it was the students who helped push his bike to the hotel. If he hadn't said in advance that he would visit his home, he would have planned to give up.

Zhao Zheyu had a hurried dinner at a small restaurant on the side of the road and rested for a while. When his strength recovered, he made a phone call and informed the student Jiang Zhengze that he was about to arrive.

The cool evening breeze swept across his face, which was extremely pleasant and dispelled the fatigue of the day. The urban area of the small city is not very large, and according to the route Jiang Zhengze said, he easily found the alley where Jiang Zhengze's house was located.

Under the dim street lamp, a young man and a middle-aged man were looking around. Seeing Zhao Zheyu coming, the young man called out in surprise:

"Teacher Zhao!"

"Ah, Jiang Zhengze, you're already waiting for me!" Zhao Zheyu recognized the young man as his student Jiang Zhengze, who had come to visit the home of the small city.

"Dad, this is our counselor, Mr. Zhao." Jiang Zhengze, who was wearing a blue sweatshirt, whispered to the middle-aged man next to him.

"Hello Mr. Zhao!" The middle-aged man nodded and shouted, with a thick northeast accent, which seemed a little funny.

"This is your father?" Zhao Zheyu smiled, turned over and got out of the car. The middle-aged man is tall, wears a cheap T-shirt, and has a face full of wrinkles. The beard was clearly freshly shaved and was clearly deliberately trimmed.

"Yes." Jiang Zhengze replied a little overwhelmed.

"Hello Jiang Zhengze's father, I am Jiang Zhengze's college counselor, Zhao Zheyu." He stepped forward to shake hands with Jiang Zhengze's father. The thick and warm palms are covered with hard calluses and are very rough.

"Teacher Zhao smokes?" Jiang Zhengze's father took out a pack of Chinese from his pocket, carefully pulled out one, and respectfully handed it to Zhao Zheyu.

"I'm sorry, I don't smoke." Zhao Zheyu smiled and waved his hand, "Have you had dinner?" ”

"I've eaten, Mr. Zhao." Jiang Zhengze glanced at his father, looking a little restrained. Jiang Zhengze's father sneered, withdrew his hand, and took out a lighter to light for himself.

For this home visit, Zhao Zheyu selected 11 students who lived in the three northeastern provinces, and told them at the final grade assembly that he would ride through their hometowns and stop by when the time came. Before leaving, he also specially carried out a period of physical training and made full preparations.

Zhao Zheyu parked his bicycle and followed the father and son into a unit building in the community. The small corridor was dark, and some residents had bags of garbage outside their doors. The three of them went up to the fourth floor, and as soon as they entered the door, Jiang Zhengze's father poured him tea.

The house is about 80 square meters, and the furnishings in the home are also very ordinary. In the center of the living room wall, a family portrait hangs upright.

"Your mom is abroad?" Zhao Zheyu looked up at the family photo on the wall, thanked Jiang Zhengze's father for the tea handed over, took a sip lightly, and asked.

"Hmm. She works abroad. Jiang Zhengze nodded, looking a little embarrassed, "It's kind of ...... It is considered the nature of labor export......"

"Ah, that's right." Zhao Zheyu was stunned. Only then did he know that the actual situation of Jiang Zhengze's family was different from what he learned about the phone communication with his parents before.

After a long talk, Zhao Zheyu learned that Jiang Zhengze's grades in high school were originally very good, and his academic performance before college had always been the pride of his relatives, and he was admitted to the university with the first place in Shulan City in the college entrance examination. But after entering college, he spent a lot of time on games, and his grades dropped rapidly, and he became the bottom of his class for a time.

Zhao Zheyu advised Jiang Zhengze not to be too addicted to games, to achieve both learning and entertainment, and talked about future plans, encouraging him to pursue his ideals and explore his own life path. Seeing that the time was not early, Jiang Zhengze's father and son stayed with him for one night, but he politely declined.

Coming out of Jiang Zhengze's house, Zhao Zheyu rode to find the hotel. He remembered that the student he visited yesterday belonged to the type of "soft resistance" to his family, and he always said yes in front of his parents, but he still went his own way. He gave a real picture of the student's school situation to the parents, and worked with the parents to find out the problem that the student was overly optimistic about his learning and future planning.

Later, he also received a call from the student's mother last night. She told Zhao that after he left, the child told them what he was thinking and realized his mistake. He was also very pleased. My home visit was not in vain.

He took a hot shower and lay down on the uncomfortable bed in the hotel. He thought that tomorrow he would cross the border between Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, and that he still had about 500 kilometers to go, and this time he was almost halfway there. He fell asleep in the darkness.

When the sun rises, he will move on.

December 15, 2014

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