On December 6, Niu Tiangou finished his 13-day correspondence study and returned to Beihe Town Middle School.

Putting down the satchel, Niu Tiangou went to find the cadres who came to the class to learn about the situation in the class during this time.

Because he held a meeting of the class cadres the day before he participated in the correspondence study, he carried out all the tasks to the people, and asked the class cadres to take their own responsibilities and not let any problems occur in the class.

He was most worried about chaos in the class when he was away.

When he came to the student's dormitory, the class leader happily told Niu Tiangou: "Teacher, in the past few days of your absence, our class's learning discipline, cleanliness and hygiene, wall newspapers, board newspapers, and ball game exercises have all been praised by the school. ”

"Good, good." Niu Tiangou smiled happily.

Seeing the class teacher smile, the study committee member said: "Vice Principal Hu said in his speech at the conference and morning exercise that the head teacher of our class is not there, but the performance of the students is much better than when the head teacher is there. Teacher, are you praising our class or criticizing you? ”

"It doesn't matter if you criticize me, as long as we all do things in the class together." Niu Tiangou smiled lightly. I thought to myself, Vice President Hu's speech is either praise or criticism, if you want to criticize people, who else can he be.

Anyway, he didn't expect Vice Principal Hu's dog to spit out ivory from his mouth.

When I got out of the student's dormitory, I met Principal Zeng, who enthusiastically called Niu Tiangou over and said to him with a serious face: "Teacher Niu, a few days ago, I received a letter from a principal surnamed Lei in Yingxiu Town, Jingsha County, asking me about your situation, and I truthfully introduced your situation to him. Do you have a connection over there? ”

Yingxiu Town, Jingsha County? It seems that there is a girl named Lei Xiuyun who keeps in touch with him, but he didn't expect this girl to be careful and touch the situation to her school.

"Hmm. Thank you. Niu Tiangou gratefully said to Principal Zeng.

Two days later, Niu Tiangou received a letter from Lei Xiuyun to meet him.

Niu Tiangou took out the photo Lei Xiuyun sent to him again, looked at it carefully, and decided to meet her.

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A few days later, Niu Tiangou stepped on the bus to Jingsha County.

According to the introduction in the letter, Lei Xiuyun is the same age as him and is a private teacher in a village primary school in Yingxiu Town.

To be honest, Niu Tiangou is willing to find a private teacher who at least has a common language. lost Cao Xiufang, and he still regrets it.

After arriving at Jingsha County Station, it was already noon, and according to the agreement, he stood at the gate of the station with a backpack and a magazine in his hand.

After a while, a plainly dressed girl came up to him, looked at him, and asked, "Are you ...... Mr. Niu, right? ”

"Hmm. ...... are you" Niu Tiangou glanced at the girl and was stunned, why is this girl not like Lei Xiuyun in the photo?

"I'm Lei Xiuyun." The girl smiled, saw Niu Tiangou's expression, and asked generously, "What, isn't it like that?" ”

It doesn't seem to be quite like it, Niu Tiangou feels that "this" Lei Xiuyun is not "other" Lei Xiuyun, and the Lei Xiuyun in front of him is not like Lei Xiuyun in the photo. Lei Xiuyun in the photo is young and beautiful, with a lively expression, but Lei Xiuyun in front of her is obviously a little old, as if Lei Xiuyun is her eldest sister.

Nima, how can there be such a big gap between the people in the photos and the people in reality?

Niu Tiangou was a little embarrassed and smiled disguisedly, but he still had some doubts in his heart. Could it be ...... Did she borrow a picture of her sister or someone else? It can't be, right? But there is a gap between Lei Xiuyun in front of him and the person in the photo.

Where this gap is, Niu Tiangou can't say clearly for a while.

"Let's go get something to eat first." Coming back to his senses, Niu Tiangou didn't think about anything for the time being, since he came by appointment, he had to talk to others, this is the least respect for others, besides, his stomach is really hungry.

When he came to a small restaurant, Niu Tiangou was about to order, Lei Xiuyun looked at the menu hanging in front of him, and whispered beside him: "It's too expensive, just eat it." Then, without waiting for him to reply, he instructed the waiter, "Let's have two bowls of hot dry noodles." ”

It seems that this Lei Xiuyun is considerate, she is a diligent and thrifty girl, who retains the life nature of the vast majority of private teachers, without the slightest pretentiousness.

"You...... Wrote a letter to the principal of our school? Eating hot dry noodles, Niu Tiangou suddenly asked.

Lei Xiuyun stopped his chopsticks and looked embarrassed: "No...... Oh, probably my uncle, who is the principal of our town's middle school, who is always concerned about me, and knows that I am in touch with you. I asked him about the transfer of teachers between counties, and he said that if it was ...... If we can do it, he can find a relationship to transfer you over, and it is not difficult to enter the county seat, and then arrange you in the town middle school. ”

"Why haven't you found a boyfriend yet?" As soon as the words came out, Niu Tiangou felt a little abrupt and impolite, but he didn't know what was going on, he just wanted to ask.

"What about you?"

Lei Xiuyun raised his head and asked rhetorically, he seemed to think that this was inappropriate, thought about it, put down his chopsticks and said: "How can I tell you, my parents have been urging me to ask about this in the past few years, and relatives and friends are also helping to introduce them, and there are a lot of matchmakers, but it is really difficult for me to choose between work and marriage."

"The salaries of private teachers in our village are all raised by their own villages, and after female teachers marry in other villages, they basically have to lose their jobs as teachers and follow their in-laws, and their in-laws cannot arrange to continue teaching. In this case, we female private teachers have only two choices, either marry and give up their jobs in another village, or give up their marriage and stay in their original village to teach.

"I've been teaching at the village primary school since I was 16 years old, and I've been teaching for almost 10 years now, and I can't afford to lose my job, so I ...... It has been dragged on until now. There are more than a dozen female private teachers like me, who have been dragged until they are twenty-six or seventeen years old, in our township alone. ”

Although there was an exchange in the letter, I didn't expect her to speak so bluntly and sincerely when we met for the first time, without the slightest concealment.

Niu Tiangou has been a private teacher, knowing these situations, male private teachers can find a girl from another village to marry, continue to stay in the village to teach, after the female private teachers marry to other villages, the village generally will not keep their "jobs", will immediately arrange someone else to take over their work, the situation is the same everywhere.

Being a private teacher is hard, and female private teachers are helpless in addition to hardships.

"Then you haven't thought about taking the teacher training exam?" Niu Tiangou asked.

"Tested." Lei Xiuyun shook his head with a wry smile, and said with a slightly astringent face, "The whole town can only take one person every year, how can it be so easy?" Besides, the teaching tasks in the school are also heavy, so how can teachers have time to review their homework? ”

"You also have a very tight grasp of the teaching tasks of the village primary school here?"

Of course, the township organizes students to participate in an examination competition at the middle or end of each year, and they are ranked according to their test scores, and the teachers at the bottom of the ranking are criticized by the leaders at the conference, which affects the reputation of the school.

"Especially now that the town education team has transferred a new leader, every time the town's teachers' meeting is held, he says: there are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach. Isn't that funny? ”

Niu Tiangou smiled, he had also heard this, the person who said this had a good intention, it was to motivate the teacher, but this was a bit too much, and it was actually difficult to do.

"The person who says this is an idiot who has never taught."

Lei Xiuyun seemed to be very disgusted by this: "According to this, there are no patients who can't be cured, only doctors who can't treat diseases; There are no prisoners who can't be reformed, only prison guards who can't be reformed. Is this possible? No matter how high-level a doctor is, he will be powerless in the face of terminally ill patients; No matter how good the ideological work of the prison guards is, there are also prisoners who have entered the palace for the second time after education; no matter how patient the teacher is, he will be helpless in the face of stubborn students. ”

Unexpectedly, Lei Xiuyun not only has a straightforward personality, but also is very talkative. Where is this dating, it's clearly about teaching.

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Early the next morning, Lei Xiuyun rode to the hostel to deliver Niu Tiangou.

Yesterday afternoon, Lei Xiuyun led Niu Tiangou to walk around the county, and in the evening, he took care of him like a big sister and washed him, watched him sleep, and helped him take care of his pillow towel and cover the quilt, and then took the door and left, and rode to a relative's house on the outskirts of the city.

Speaking from the heart, Niu Tiangou felt that she was careful and thoughtful, a good girl who would be considerate and take care of people, and she had a straightforward personality, eloquence, and good at communication, but compared with Cao Xiufang, he always felt that she seemed to be missing something, and as for what it was, he couldn't say it for a while.

Now seeing that she came to see him off so early, and there seemed to be a slight morning dew on her hairline, Niu Tiangou was very moved, walked up to her and kissed her.

She stood still, just blushing.