After Niu Tiangou was assigned to Tuhuang Township Middle School, he was taught Chinese in a graduating class in the third grade, plus geography in a class in the first grade.

Tu Huang Township Middle School is located on the north side of Tu Huang Street. It is said to be a street, but it is actually a small village in the middle of the village, and a dirt road in the village naturally forms a narrow open-air vegetable market.

Every morning, nearby villagers come here to catch the market, and before 10 a.m., the road is empty. It is known as the "dew set".

To the north of Tujie and then walk through a section of dirt road is Tuhuang Township Middle School, back to the north to the south, from a distance, the geographical location of Tuhuang Street and the middle school is like the letter "i" - the lower vertical is Tuhuang Street, the upper point is Tuhuang Township Middle School.

With a dirt road from the street, the middle school appears to be isolated, surrounded on all sides by fields and barren slopes, with scattered villages.

The layout of the school resembles a simple courtyard house.

On the north side are the teachers' dormitories and collective offices, with toilets and kitchens at each end.

There are three large classrooms on the east and west sides that have not been repaired for many years, and the white-gray wall plaster has peeled off, like a leprosy head. The walls were covered in gray and covered with cracks like the hands and feet of an old farmer.

In the corners of the classroom and by the window, long cracks the width of thumbs are embedded in the walls, and in some places there are fist-sized holes, which are blocked by students with waste paper; The window glass was badly damaged, and the damage was covered by plastic film or cardboard.

There are six classes in the six classrooms, two each in the first, second and third grades.

On the south side is a large dormitory for students and a teacher's dormitory, and on the other side is a commissary, and in the middle is a rusty, blackened iron gate.

In the middle of the campus is a large playground for student activities, with two broken basketball hoops and a dirty cement table tennis table. Every rainy day, the playground is full of mud and water, and it is filthy.

Niu Tiangou's dormitory is arranged next to the low and simple kitchen on the east side of the north side, it is dark and damp, a small wooden door is nailed with a buckle twisted with iron wire, the lock is opened and pushed open, the wooden door "squeaks" and "squeaks" crumbling, the dormitory is about 9 square meters, and there is a bed, a table, and a chair crammed inside.

The only advantage of living here is that the water is very close, there is a big pond behind the kitchen, through the back door of the kitchen, pick up a bucket of water in two minutes, the school has no running water, laundry and gargling squatting by the pond is very convenient.

It's just that it's not very convenient to go to the toilet, so I have to go through the dormitories and collective offices of other teachers to the public toilet on the west side.

The toilet floor is black and wet, the cement low partition wall is "ruined and broken", and the students squatting side by side during the day can be seen from each other, "fists" and covering their noses "hard" are also turned a blind eye, and maggots in the toilet pit are wriggling and stinking.

There are more than a dozen teachers in the school, all of whom are male teachers, except for a short and thin female teacher in her 40s, and half of them are unmarried "second poles" like Niu Tiangou.

None of the young female teachers wanted to be divided.

Cao Zhengdong joked that the teachers of the school are all "two-cylinder teams", and they are the "stick army" of the hard state, and it doesn't hurt to prepare for classes in the big office shirtless and pants in the summer.

The thin and tall Cao Zhengdong and Su Mohan are classmates, and they met Niu Tiangou when they were in the county normal school, and they took a photo with Niu Tiangou when they graduated last year, and now they have been working together for more than two months, and Niu Tiangou is relatively familiar.

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"Damn, this is a place where there are no maggots!" Cao Zhengdong was eating lunch in the low and narrow kitchen with a dime and a small bowl of Chinese cabbage, while saying strange things, "Don't say that it is difficult to find a daughter-in-law, even if you find a young!" ”

In order to let the young "two poles" teach with peace of mind, the school invited a stunned "master" in his forties to temporarily fetch water in the kitchen to cook in the nearby village.

Niu Tiangou and a group of "two poles" had three meals at school from Monday to Friday, and the older teachers and students went back to their nearby homes for dinner.

The kitchen is both a place to eat and a place for everyone to joke and complain

"Hey, hey, Sichun, right?" A "second pole" who was squatting and eating jokingly continued, "This is a monk's temple, we came here to practice asceticism, do you still want to return to the vulgar?" No way. ”

"I don't think it's even as good as a monk's temple here, there are at least nuns in the monk's temple, and there are female pilgrims who enter the incense, what do we have here?" Another "two-pole" also chimed in.

"Damn, people say 'rabbits don't eat grass by the nest', and I don't even have grass by the nest now!"

Another "second pole" finished eating, put the bowl on the table, and said, "If you want to find a daughter-in-law, transfer away." Now those who have connections and money are all transferred. Didn't Mr. Cao transfer away......"

According to the teachers, Mr. Cao was dignified and had found several objects, but as soon as the girl heard that he was teaching in this ghostly place, she never came back again.

Later, the depressed Teacher Cao somehow fell in love with a female student in her class, who was 16 years old and 10 years different from Teacher Cao.

Although there is a huge difference in age, and the influence of teachers and students falling in love is not good, but the teachers do not think that he is too out of line, as long as nothing happens, the school leaders also pretend not to know, because everyone knows that in this closed rural school, there are no factories and mines around, and it is indeed a big difficulty for young teachers to find a daughter-in-law, how to care? You can't let him be a bachelor in school for the rest of his life, can you?

But things still went a little wrong. After self-study that night, Teacher Cao secretly ran with the female student to a small mound not far to the west of the school to "have an ambiguous relationship".

I didn't want another male teacher at the school to have a little "meaning" to this female student, so I quietly followed behind the small mound and found that the two were obsessed with kissing each other!

The male teacher became jealous, and told several teachers about Mr. Cao's "scandal" early the next morning. Teacher Cao was annoyed and angry when he heard the news, and found this male teacher without saying a word, raising his hand is an ear scraper!

Now it's a big deal. The male teacher who was beaten immediately went to the girl's home, told the parents of the situation, and urged the parents to go to the county education bureau to file a complaint.

After the old principal learned the news, he didn't want to ruin a teacher like this, so he hurriedly pulled Teacher Cao and went to apologize to the parents of the female students with gifts, and finally calmed the anger in the hearts of the parents.

After returning to school, the old principal repeatedly did the ideological work of the male teacher, which "suppressed" the matter, and then it was over.

After another two years, Mr. Cao was introduced to a girl from the city, who was very satisfied with his height and appearance, but proposed that he must be transferred to the city if he wanted to get married. At the age of 28, he couldn't afford to delay any longer, so he tried his best to rely on relationships, drill roads, and make money, and finally transferred away in August this year.

Niu Tiangou took over the Chinese course of the first class of the third grade taught by Mr. Cao.

Listening to the words of his colleagues, although Niu Tiangou sympathized with Mr. Cao, he felt that his previous approach was also a bit out of line.

After all, students are minors, and their minds are not mature enough, even if they "starve" to death, they can't use their own students to "fill their hunger", otherwise, the "teacher" will not really become a "beast" of teaching? This is a matter of principle concerning character and teacher ethics, and it is the bottom line that teachers should abide by.

Now that Mr. Cao has finally been transferred, while Niu Tiangou is happy for him, he suddenly realizes another problem, that is: in the cross-urban and rural erotic love, there is also a problem of living and living environment, that is, there is also an "environmental" condition in the conditions of erotic love.

Due to the difference between urban and rural environmental conditions, beautiful girls in rural areas want to marry into cities with good environments, and beautiful girls in cities are even more reluctant to find a rural boy with poor environmental conditions (including teachers in rural schools), although this young man is tall and looks good.

In such a poor school, the social circle of young teachers is too narrow, and the work of preparation, teaching, reform, guidance, and examination is too busy, and the family is poor.

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After lunch, Niu Tiangou sat in the dormitory bored and smoked a cigarette, and then thought of the class he taught, the third (first) class, and walked around the classroom.

Most of the students have not come home for dinner, there are only a few students in the classroom, their homes are close to the school, and they are quick to finish eating.

"Zhao Xiaoyan." Niu Tiangou saw a little girl sitting in the front row copying something, and reminded, "Don't bury your head too low, be careful of myopia." ”

This Zhao Xiaoyan is very sensible, but Niu Tiangou likes it. After the last time Mr. Zhengdong went to class, he wrote a few rows of words on the top of the blackboard, and when Niu Tiangou came to class to wipe the blackboard, he couldn't reach it, and he didn't even wipe it after jumping a few times, but instead fell on his head and body covered with chalk ash, which caused the naughty students behind him to laugh.

Zhao Xiaoyan, who was sitting at the front, saw it, and quickly moved the stool to the blackboard, and stood on the stool to help him wipe the blackboard clean, saving him from embarrassment.

Zhao Xiaoyan raised her round face and smiled slightly: "Hello teacher!" ”

"What are you copying?"

"Copy math problems." Zhao Xiaoyan sat up straight, "I don't know how to do this question, I asked the math teacher just now." He wrote the process so sloppily that I copied it again. ”

"Just understand it, what else do you copy?"

"Copy it to my cousin, she asked me this question."

"Your cousin? Why didn't she ask the math teacher herself? Niu Tiangou thought that her cousin was a student at school.

"She teaches in our brigade primary school, so she doesn't have time." Zhao Xiaoyan's eyes flashed and she smiled secretly," she said...... She recognizes you. ”

"Oh?" Niu Tiangou was stunned, it turned out that he was not a student in the school, "What's her name?" ”

"Cao Yanfang."

"Oh...... It's her...... She's your cousin? Niu Tiangou looked at Zhao Xiaoyan in a daze, as if she really saw Cao Yanfang's shadow from her face.

Niu Tiangou couldn't help but see Cao Yanfang's delicate face in front of her eyes again, as if she smelled the warm breath on her body, but ...... When he thought that she had written a letter to Niu Dehua when he was in normal school, he felt an inexplicable sense of loss and sadness, and his heart felt tense for a while.