"Poplar, your letter. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info," the cell's instructor shouted. I couldn't believe it, and secretly wondered: I just came in yesterday, why did I receive a letter from my family today?

Yang Shu received a letter on the first day he entered the labor camp, and naturally he wrote a letter and sent it home the night after knowing that he had an accident, which should be a reply from his parents.

Tearing open the letter from his parents, the contents of which made Yang Shu silent for a long time:

Dear Poplar,

Your letter has been read by me and your mother. I called your homeroom teacher and instructor, and after learning about your situation, we felt deeply remorseful.

For two years, I haven't even been clear about your situation at school, and I want to say that you were originally extremely clever and able to take care of yourself independently since you were a child, so you never asked.

I'm here to say to you: I'm sorry.

Originally, the fifth uncle planned to go to the labor camp and bail you home for education. I stopped it, the man should have been tempered and not afraid of wind and rain in the future. People want to progress, and they can progress anywhere. Man will fall, and he can fall anywhere. Letting you study since you were a child is to let you maintain your conscience, on the premise of not forgetting your original intention, act at the opportunity, get higher day by day, judge the situation, and advance and retreat freely.

My mother and I are very pleased to see that you have been able to apply traditional culture in the past two years.

I think that the books that let you read at the beginning were not read in vain, but you can still see the opportunity, and borrow the child to play, "Three Changes", "Lao Zhuang", "Four Books", "Yanzi Spring and Autumn", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Thirty-six Strategies", "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and other classics are all used vividly!

Therefore, if you have the conditions to read in it, you must not forget to stick to making reading notes. You have studied the history of the sages since you were a child, and now you have experienced such things and reviewed them again, and you want to have a different taste.

What is bad today may be good tomorrow. What is good today may be bad tomorrow. Sun Monkey was pressed for 500 years to help Tang Seng Xitian learn scriptures, you say that 500 years is a good thing? Or is it a bad thing?

When you come out of the prison for a year, you have to be like him, restrain the arrogance and arrogance in your heart, wipe it diligently from time to time, go all the way west, and return to the truth.

The world changes, people's hearts are impermanent, the use of classics is the lowest performance, and self-cultivation and prudence are the true classics. May you always keep your conscience and never forget your original intention.

Parents are all right, don't think about it.

Love your mom and dad dearly

Yang Shu shouted that he couldn't believe his father, who was originally strict and serious, and he also had a bit of a scholarly charm when he ridiculed him, and it seemed that the method of chasing his mother was also clever.

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A labor camp is equivalent to a small school, a place for general production, study, psychological counseling, queue training, and ideological reform.

There are more than 300 people in the center, most of whom are criminal offenders, and they are doing some burning, killing, looting, and abduction. The accommodation was a rectangular room, with a bunk bed in the school, two windows, and a large square table with peeling paint against the wall. The room was lined with a number of planks that had cracked in wood, taking up two-thirds of the open space. In the center of the room, facing the door, there is a calligraphy and painting of "being a new person". To the left of the door, there is a blackened floor with a stinky trash can on it.

On the night of Yang Shu's first day in the cell, he was inevitably taught a lesson by the formula of "thunder, rain, and train", and he couldn't squat when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet.

Before going to bed for a few days, I was "driven by a train" once. It is an unwritten rule here for old people to bully newcomers. Of course, if your fists are hard enough, you have the capital to gain a foothold.

Poplar can't beat others, he can only be beaten by others. I wonder if I should go crazy once and play a subversive prison break. But thinking about the admonition and earnest eyes of his parents, he can only be obscene, and he can't do it.

Get up early in the morning to run and exercise, study cultural and ideological courses in the morning, go to Nanpo Farm to pick tea in the afternoon, and still "drive the train" in the evening.

In just one week, the poplar tree was already covered with dark wounds. Under the attention of Yang Shu, the psychological counselor will select three or four inmates for psychological counseling and treatment every day. This kind of perfunctory and superficial psychotherapy has no effect on the inmates, but they enjoy it.

In the second week, it was finally his turn to counsel him......

"Poplar, how do you feel in a week?"

"It's okay, it's okay!"

"Well, it's fine. Is there anything you don't get used to? ”

"Get used to it!"

"Well, just get used to it. Do you have any other comments or suggestions? ”

"No, no!"

"Well, it's good if you don't. How about signing this transcript? ”

"I'll sign it, I'll sign it!"

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How dare Yang Shu say that it is not good, how dare not get used to it, and how dare he have any opinions and suggestions. However, he saw with his own eyes that after a fellow inmate complained about it, he was locked up in a small dark room to "reflect on his mistakes".

When I came back from the counseling session, I was really traumatized psychologically, lying on the bed, thinking: This is not the way to go. And this pointless coaching should be a mandatory requirement from above in order to check work performance.

Subconsciously, the thumb of the right hand dragged the chin, and the index finger rubbed back and forth on the bridge of the nose......

So, Yang Shu finally wrote back to his parents. The letter describes the changes in the state of mind and guidelines for myself and the other 7 roommates, which is almost exactly the same as the content and format of the psychological counseling written by the counselors.

Because Yang Shu found that all the correspondence of the inmates, the psychological counselor would check them one by one and process them.

After reading the letter, the counselor in his heart didn't know Poplar's careful thoughts, and he understood it at the moment. Since then, Yang Shu has one more identity in the labor camp: assistant counselor.

From then on, under one person, above ten thousand. There is nothing to do day and night, and under the banner of "transformation and upgrading", I am looking for people to chat and chat.

Yang Shu is a person who does not like words, and he has learned in books since he was a child, and the truth that those who know do not speak, and those who say too much will be lost, does not mean that he cannot speak and cannot speak.

Now, his job is to be able to say and be able to say. It is also the assistant counselor in this half a year that has laid the most real foundation for his psychological control, ideological changes, and human nature analysis in his future experience of pickling girls, studying, working, and starting a business.

This kind of life makes Yang Shu have the feeling of the ancient eunuch "Gonggong Hai", and everywhere he passes, he is repeatedly looked down upon. The poplar turned a blind eye, heard but did not hear, and still went his own way, with a look of humiliation in every way, I would rather die than give in.

If it's just counseling for inmates, it's fine. Later, some counselors and prison guards complained about unfair treatment, why they were not promoted after so many years, and what they did without merit and hard work...... Poplars can also quote scriptures and sort them out one by one. Since then, he has confirmed the name of "Hai Gonggong". The inmates went from contempt at the beginning, to jealousy, to envy, and finally to conquest. Everyone sees the poplar tree with respect and courtesy.

Yang Shu leaned on the Taishi chair in the counselor's office and sighed: It's still a little cultured, besides, I'm still a rogue and educated.

The inmates in the labor camp come and go, with people coming in almost every week and leaving every week. Yang Shu has been doing the work of a mental counseling assistant inside, and he is very idle. After a long time, Yang Shu finally understood why the counselors acted in a perfunctory and casual manner. Although I face different people every day, the questions are the same, and the answers are all routines. I also understand that the counselors have been working for three or five years, and they are still counselors, and there is no possibility of promotion and salary increase.

Yang Shu summed up that there are 4 types of people, and the answers he gave were almost inconsistent. Despite this, Yang Shu did not dare to slack off, and wrote down carefully, this is the guy he eats.

Knowing Yang Shu's treatment in the labor camp, his father would send some books every month to let Yang Shu relive the classics that he had memorized since he was a child.

Yang Shu sighed: "A classic is a classic, and every time you read it, the feeling is different." Especially after this experience, I can better appreciate the meaning of the classics. ”

Half a year passed quickly. Yang Shu used to go to the dormitory every night for psychological consultation, the next morning to write a summary of the cultural class, and in the afternoon when the inmates were picking tea, he hid in the office to read.

During the Chinese New Year, most of the inmates took leave to go home to reunite with their families. Yang Shu stayed in the labor camp because his counselor did not return home, which greatly touched the counselor, claiming that it would be good if his son had half of you in the future. In fact, Yang Shu is afraid that others will take advantage of it, and once he goes back, it will be ten days and a half months, what if someone else robs the guy who eats himself.

Of course, it is not that Yang Shu does not want to go home, but to go back in such an identity, with the customs and words of the countryside, it is better not to go back. lest others ask about themselves and make their parents even more embarrassed.

In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. Although the weather was cold, it could not stop the joy of the New Year, red balloons were put on the treetops in the labor camp, red lanterns were hung under the eaves, and thoughts seemed to have turned a page, and the age of the poplar tree was like a tree in the cold wind, unconsciously adding an annual ring. The sound of firecrackers came from the distant countryside one after another, as if I could smell the strong smell of fireworks and gunpowder, thinking of my parents in the dim light, looking forward to their reunion together, I felt a little lonely.

After the seventh day of the new year, the inmates came back one after another. For a few days, there were outside condolence groups to perform and publicize in the labor camp, and to Yang Shu's surprise, the prince and Ma Shu came to see him once during the Spring Festival.

As soon as the three of them met, they exchanged pleasantries.

"I can study in it with peace of mind, and I will be a good man when I come out." Ma Shu said with concern. After a pause, he learned the tone of an adult again, pointed to the sign on the wall, and joked: "Be a man again, do you hear it!" ”

Yang Shu looked at Ma Shu weakly, and replied softly: "Okay! will definitely live up to the mother's entrustment. ”

Ma Shu was a little surprised by the change in Poplar's tone: "Okay! I dared to tease the main palace. It seems that the small life inside is quite comfortable. Forget it, you'd better fend for yourself! ”

Afterwards, Poplar took them to the office for tea. When they learned of Poplar's status in the labor camp, the prince and Ma Shu looked at each other as if they had seen a dinosaur that they had never seen before.

According to Ma Shu's words, it still looks rustic, but he never suffers. Later, the prince simply came directly to play with the poplar tree for a few days, and did not return home until the Lantern Festival.

Life is still going on as usual after the year. The only thing that has changed is that the anecdotes and miscellaneous histories that my father usually sent have quietly become textbooks for the first, second, and third years of junior high school. Yang Shuna didn't know it, but his mother still hoped to take the high school entrance examination after he came out. I secretly thought that my mother was really clever, but I was afraid that my father was still in the dark. My father doesn't care if Yang Shushen doesn't take the college entrance examination, let alone the high school entrance examination, according to my father's tone, reading is not for exams. It is used to cultivate virtue and mind, practice and application, and use it to experience the process.

It's good now, there are no other books to read, only textbooks to relieve loneliness.

Exam-oriented education, that is definitely tailor-made for poplars. Poplar has its own unique method of reading, although the IQ test is not high, but it is absolutely unbeatable in exam-oriented education alone. From childhood to adulthood, the test results have always been full marks in double subjects, the first place in the township.

There is a special thing about his personality, even if he doesn't like textbooks, once he picks up a book, he will be very focused.

Poplar's eyes were focused, holding the textbook in his left hand, his right thumb supporting his chin, and his index finger rubbing the bridge of his nose. In less than an afternoon, the syllabus of the entire textbook of the first volume of mathematics and the list of major and minor sections of each chapter were clearly understood.

I saw the poplar painting on a piece of white paper, and a large and small table of contents of the outline and each chapter had come out, and I saw that the various knowledge points under the frame were added to each small table of contents very logically and orderly, which seemed to complement each other.

Poplar doesn't do questions since he was a child, only questions; There are no exam papers, only exam papers. This is also due to the fact that his father is a teacher, so he can do it so arbitrarily. Even once in the exam papers of his classmates, all the answers were 9, and he scolded his father for being insidious and cunning.

Other students are doing the question: 2+2=? 4-2=？ 2x2=？ 4÷2=？

But the poplar is: 2=? (Answer by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.) For example: 2=2÷2x2+2-2) first has the result, then the process, and finally the problem.

Even for liberal arts topics, poplar has its own set of methods: the provenance method. Give the answer first, then find the source, and finally come up with the question.

"Everything has a way, any way has a law, any law has a beginning and an end, and everything has an end." This is the truth that Yang Shu has understood since he was a child in the history of the sages, drawing inferences from one another, and the changes are endless.