After Niu Tiangou cleaned up his luggage and items for school, he dragged out the large bookcase under the bed, found the bobbin nail shell and the cowhide coat, wrapped it in a plastic sheet, and then hid it at the bottom of the bookbox.

Mother Weaver Girl has confessed that the secrets of these two treasures cannot be known to anyone except herself.

After locking the bookbox, he put the bookcase back under the bed, and when he came out, he repeatedly told his mother not to let his sisters and brothers touch his bookcase.

He thought, anyway, the family didn't know about these two treasures, and he didn't need to go to school, and besides, it was not convenient to bring them.

He wants to experience the life of ordinary people, to experience the twists and turns and tribulations of short men in the world in erotic love, and until the last resort, he can't use the energy of treasures, so he should keep them at home.

……

The day before leaving, my mother suddenly said to Niu Tiangou: "Tiangou, after you settle down at school, go and see your uncle when you have time." I heard that he seems to be not far from your school, and the address is ...... Shanyang County ...... Xiaoao Village, Shanao Township, Shanao Township. Since we are so far away, we have not been to your uncle all these years, so you can go and see him on our behalf. ”

"Hmm." Niu Tiangou responded.

Niu Tiangou has four uncles, I heard that because his grandfather died very early, his grandmother's family is poor, and the four uncles only have one earthen house, and the uncle is in his 30s and can not say that he is a daughter-in-law, in a dispute with the villagers, the grumpy uncle injured a villager, escaped, and lived in Shanyang County, where he later settled down.

Yunyang County Normal School is located next to a marginal town in the north of Yunyang County, on the border with Shanyang County.

The year before last, Niu Tiangou met his uncle who came home to visit his grandmother when he visited his grandmother at his grandmother's house.

……

On August 28, Niu Tiangou and Niu Dehua reported to the county normal school together.

They took a car from the township to the county seat, and then from the county seat to a small town.

The town is not big and remote, but it has a unique hot spring resource, so it has a poetic name: Lingquan Town.

Lingquan Town is more than 100 kilometers away from the provincial capital Jiangcheng and more than 20 kilometers away from Yunyang County.

Speaking of the name of this Lingquan Town, there is also a history.

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a goddess - the Jade Fairy, who was the fire master of the Heavenly Palace's imperial kitchen class, she had jade skin and ice muscles, and her heart was pure, and she had privately gone down to get rid of a python essence that was harmful to one party.

Because of her violation of the discipline of the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor sent the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals to arrest her and return her to the Heavenly Court to punish her. Feeling that she was not guilty of going down to relieve the suffering of the local people, she threw herself into the spring to fight to the death, and her immortal body sank to the bottom of the spring together with the treasure fan she carried with her to make a fire, thus giving birth to the hot springs here.

The Southern Dynasty's family Sheng Hongzhi's "Jingzhou Chronicles" cloud: "...... The hot spring winter moon has not arrived, several miles away, the white gas is steaming like smoke, up and down, the shape is sparse; There are also wheels shaped like double laurels, there are jade girls in the past, riding in the car to throw themselves into this spring, now people see the female posture and beauty, back and forth flickering......"

Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, read the "Jingzhou Chronicle" and was attracted by the strange landscape of the hot springs described in the book and the magical story of the jade girl throwing into the spring, so he made a special trip to enjoy and take a bath in the pool, and wrote "The goddess died in the secluded realm, and the soup pond flowed into the river." Yin and Yang are inflamed with charcoal, and the creation of spiritual springs ......"

Hence the name "Lingquan Town".

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Niu Tiangou and Niu Dehua just got off the train with the flow of people at the station, and saw a walk-behind tractor parked not far from the side, and a person sat on it and shouted to the people who got off the train: "Freshmen who have reported to the normal school, please come up!" ”

It turned out that this walk-behind tractor was a "special car" sent by the normal school to the station to pick up new students.

Niu Tiangou and Niu Dehua glanced at each other, walked to the back of the hand-held tractor, hurriedly handed over the luggage, and climbed up.

After waiting for a while, four or five "freshmen" came up one after another, and the driver told him to "sit down" to the back, and then pulled the joystick, and the hand-held tractor started "suddenly, suddenly, suddenly".

Out of Lingquan Town, there are ponds outside, and several bowl-thick iron pipes on the edge of the pond are like dragon's mouths, spitting hot spring water into the pond, the heat wave is rolling, and the mist is steaming.

Driving through the flat cement road by the pond, which is a potholed sand road, the walk-behind tractor began to "suddenly, suddenly, suddenly" emitted black smoke and drove bumpily towards the small hill.

The normal school was built on a hill surrounded by greenery.

After a while, Niu Tiangou and the others took the world's most humble "special car" to the world's most remote normal school.

The school is facing south in the north, and the buttresses on both sides of the courtyard gate are made of red bricks, wrapped in a layer of cement on the outside, and brushed with simple paint such as white ash.

On the east side of the door buttress hangs a wooden sign with black characters on a white background, on the book "Yunyang County Normal School", in addition to the word "school", the remaining six characters are all used in traditional Chinese, standard regular script style, the handwriting is dignified and beautiful, but the brand shows cracks, and you will know that there are some years at a glance.

When I entered the door, I knew that except for a wall at the entrance of the courtyard, the other three sides were connected to the outside world, and the school only had a "door" and no "courtyard".

A north-south gravel road leads straight from the entrance of the courtyard to the school, bounded by this "main" road, with the canteen and tall water tower on the west, and a large reservoir on the west. To the east is a large playground, and further east are small hills with sparse trees.

The whole school "garden" can be described as "East Mountain and West Water", open and quiet.

The school building layout is centered on the large playground, and there are two rows of bungalows to the north, the front row is the auditorium, the back row is the boys' dormitory and the teachers' dormitory and library, and further north, there is a sparsely scattered village in the distance; To the south there are three rows of bungalows, one row is the boys' dormitory, the other row is the girls' dormitory and the teacher's dormitory, the southernmost row is the red brick and red tile classrooms and teachers' offices, and further south, there is Lingquan Town under the hill.

It can really be described as "the sky is vast, the wilderness is vast", five rows of bungalows and a playground, a "door face" in the south, a village in the north, hills in the east, and water in the west as the "wall". A different kind of teacher is in Yunyang!

After Niu Tiangou and everyone went to the Academic Affairs Office to go through the admission procedures, a person in charge of logistics at the school was busy leading them to the largest dormitory in the last row to allocate beds.

Niu Tiangou and Niu Dehua were assigned to a numbered two-story iron frame bed. Niu Tiangou is divided into the upper bunk, and Niu Dehua is divided into the lower bunk.

After a while, some new students came one after another.

After everyone made their beds, they greeted each other and chatted, and it turned out that there were also neighboring counties among them.

The person in charge of the school's logistics enthusiastically introduced that Yunyang County Normal School used to recruit students with high school graduation education, set up arts and sciences, and the duration of education was two years, and trained junior high school teachers; This year, 4 two-year civilian teacher classes are recruited, and junior high school teachers are also mainly trained; In the future, it is necessary to recruit junior high school graduates to enroll, implement the three-year general teacher teaching plan stipulated by the state, and train primary school teachers.

The school now has two grades, 8 classes, and a total of more than 400 students.

Although everyone feels that although the school environment is remote, although the conditions are simpler, but after all, this is a new starting point of life, which means the beginning of a new life.

After all,

Boiling the people's teacher, hard work, the three-foot podium has not been in vain! Enter this door, that is, turn positive, two years of gold-plated, lifelong recognition. Fun, fun, fun!

……

Niu Tiangou and Niu Dehua were in the same liberal arts class.

School life is tense and orderly.

Wake up, do exercises, breakfast, morning self-study, class, lunch, re-class, dinner, evening self-study, rest. Cycle.

However, compared to the original tension of teaching students during the day at home and staying up late at night to review, Niu Tiangou feels that there is no pressure in his current life, and he feels relaxed and happy to learn.

Niu Tiangou was taught by a female teacher, surnamed Tang, in her fifties, not tall, with a round face, fair complexion, a kind face, amiable, and always smiling when she saw the students.

Niu Tiangou saw her during the physical examination interview in the county seat before they came to report.

Teacher Tang speaks standard Mandarin, and her voice is crisp when she lectures, sometimes it is subdued and frustrated, and the weight changes, and sometimes she speaks eloquently, painting sound and color, which makes people immersive, like a spring breeze, and it is these folk teachers who have been teaching for many years who also admire her language art when she lectures.

Therefore, the students love to listen to her classes, and Niu Tiangou is even more fascinated by it.

Niu Tiangou used to like liberal arts, and now he likes Chinese.

In his spare time, he often goes to the library to borrow books on Chinese teaching and writing, and even high school Chinese textbooks to study and study.

……

Two weeks later, Niu Tiangou remembered what his mother had told him to visit his uncle, so he bought two packs of dim sum on Sunday and took a ride from Lingquan Town to Shanyang County.

The car traveled more than ten miles to Shanao Town, Shanyang County.

After getting out of the car, Niu Tiangou walked several miles of thatched mountain roads and asked a few people before finding his uncle's house.

The uncle, the aunt, the cousin, the cousin, and the uncle's father-in-law are all at home.

Seeing that Niu Tiangou came to visit him, the uncle was surprised and very happy, and hurriedly instructed the aunt to light the fire and cook.

The eldest aunt is as tall and handsome as the uncle, and she is definitely a great beauty in ten miles and eight towns, although she is in her forties, she still has a charming charm.

The cousin is slightly taller than Niu Tiangou, perhaps inheriting the inheritance of the eldest aunt, born beautiful, skin like coagulation, and picturesque eyebrows, not at all like a girl in the countryside of the mountain col. Niu Tiangou nodded at her, and she smiled slightly, the smile was as shy and charming as an angel, which made Niu Tiangou stunned.

Seeing this, the uncle hurriedly brought an oil pot, told his cousin to go out to buy some oil, and took his cousin away......

Subsequently, the uncle asked Niu Tiangou about the situation at home and at school, as well as the physical condition of his grandmother.

After eating and chatting with the uncle about the school situation for a while, Niu Tiangou took his leave, and the uncle and aunt kept sending Niu Tiangou out of the village......