Chapter 11 Reminiscences

This is a partitioned housing from an old classroom. The pen is about 20 square meters www.biquge.info each room, a total of three. In the middle is a spacious living room with landscape paintings and calligraphy hanging on the walls. On the south side, under the window, there is a large table, on which a rectangular white enamel tea tray is placed two thermos flasks with plum blossom patterns. There are four glasses in a porcelain dish next to it. It is covered with a hollowed-out white braid. Immediately against the wall on the table was a duck-egg-green vase with a bouquet of budding fuchsia plastic flowers in it, and next to the vase was a half-sized black semiconductor radio.

Two rattan chairs are placed symmetrically next to the table. Dad was sitting on the rattan mat at this time, drinking tea and chatting with Uncle Zhang. Liu Ye sat down on a small wooden chair far away from them and secretly looked at the house.

The room to the west was clearly a bedroom, and through the beaded curtains, there was a neat bed, and next to the bed hung two brown-and-red wood-framed glass frames side by side on the snow-white wall, full of photographs.

The room on the east side is divided into two, and by the door is the kitchen, where Aunt Zhang is busy and from time to time there is the sound of stir-frying, and the smell of meat that makes people drool.

The other room may be Uncle Zhang's study. Because I just saw him enter through the hidden door, and then came out with a thick copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in his hand, saying that he wanted to lend it to his father.

On the corner to the right of the gate stands a semi-new Phoenix bicycle.

"Xiao Ye, drink some water...... "Uncle Zhang was about to stand up and pour tea for Liu Ye, when Aunt Zhang "Come and eat!" The voice interrupted, and Yan Ye looked up, a short and fat woman with short hair in her forties, wearing a floral cloth apron, walked out of the kitchen, this woman's rough and ordinary appearance was in stark contrast to the elegant temperament of Uncle Zhang, Liu Ye suddenly remembered a sentence that his grandmother often nagged, "There are good men, there is no good wife, Lai Han marries a flower Didi."

Aunt Zhang skillfully put winter melon stew, fried pork with edamame, scrambled eggs with chili, tomato soup and a plate of cucumbers on the folding round table.

"Come, Lao Liu, Xiao Ye come and sit." I don't know when, Uncle Zhang has an extra bottle of wine in his hand.

After Uncle Zhang and his father gave in for a while, his father was finally pressed to the "upper seat" by him. "You're welcome, the round table is not divided into upper and lower seats." Uncle Zhang said while pouring wine for his father.

Seeing that Uncle Zhang was gracious, Dad took a sip of wine and said embarrassedly: "Principal Zhang, you can do it yourself, I don't know how to drink." ”

"Then you're welcome, eat more vegetables." Uncle Zhang seemed to remember that his father was a driver and couldn't drink, so he didn't force it.

He said to his father while serving vegetables to Liu Ye, "Alas, I am very happy to see Xiao Ye today, Lao Liu, let's drink as much as we want." Old Uncle Zhang tilted his neck and drank a glass of wine happily.

"Xiao Ye, this is your old Aunt Zhang, I haven't seen it." Uncle Zhang pointed to his wife beside him with chopsticks. Aunt Zhang smiled honestly at her father and said, "I have been married to Lao Zhang for two years. ”

Liu Ye's eyes widened in confusion and quietly listened to the conversation between Uncle Zhang and his father.

"Lao Liu, my life is not easy!" After two glasses of wine, he talked more.

"After graduating from university at the age of 21, I was assigned to City A No. 1 High School as a Chinese teacher. At that time, it can be described as 'high-spirited, in the prime of life', full of beautiful vision for the future, full of confidence in life, and also has a brute strength of 'newborn calves are not afraid of tigers', Chairman Mao's old man's teachings are always in mind 'the world is yours, and it is ours, but in the final analysis, it is your ......' This sentence is so kind and real! With the teachings of Chairman Mao and his old man, we must also do revolutionary work well, worthy of the party, worthy of the country, and worthy of Chairman Mao! ”

Old Uncle Zhang suddenly put the cup heavily on the table and rubbed his eyes with his hands, "We wanted to use what we have learned and pass on knowledge to students, but who knows, when we come to school, we see the real situation, students don't go to class for half a day and half a day, participate in social labor, go here today to reclaim wasteland, hoe there tomorrow, go to irrigation the day after tomorrow, and harvest the day after tomorrow." In short, the students have too many extracurricular activities, and their studies are almost abandoned. I teach the sophomore graduating class of high school, and I really can't get used to it, so I secretly write a diary and complain. I wrote two limerick poems that day, and ******, just because of the two poems, did I break the law? It's been twenty years, I, alas......" Old Uncle Zhang choked up a little.

"What the hell did you write?" Dad interjected.

"I wrote, alas, I remember it until I die! ------ school should be the sound of books / Students should swim in the sea of books / When will the farmland become a classroom / Who will change the pen for a hoe. There is another song: Green silk is still / Ambition white-headed / Ideal is covered with dust / Time flies / When can the goshawk flap its wings and fly high/In which year can students sail? These two limericks changed my life! ”

Seeing his father's shocked expression, he continued: "One of my students exposed me, and that student was the president of our class, and he was very positive. At noon on a Sunday, he came to see me with a pound of braised pig's head meat, half a pound of braised tofu, and a bottle of Erguotou. I have a problem with this man, I can't control my tongue when I drink too much. I took advantage of the strength of the wine and showed him the two limerick poems I had written. Who knew that two days later, he would betray Lao Tzu! In order to join the party, he did such unscrupulous means, I really 'admire'! Old Uncle Zhang shook his head bitterly.

"It's really a bedbug from swallowing melon seeds, and there are all kinds of benevolent (people)! And what about later? Dad interjected.

"Later, I was suspended for inspection, put on a **** top hat, hung a sign and pulled to the cement platform next to the school playground, and criticized in front of everyone. On the stage, I was tied with my hands behind my back, bowed my head and confessed, and the teachers and students in the audience chanted slogans, insults and insults were endless. That humiliating feeling can only be truly experienced when you are in it!

"Later, I was dismissed from public office, and since my actions did not qualify as anti-****** charges, I was not imprisoned. Later, the rebels were tired of fighting me, and in other words, there was no freshness, and there was no oil and water, so they let me go. They pointed the finger at the old headmaster who supported teaching. The old principal was miserable, he was originally sick, and he was criticized by them and collapsed on the stage many times. And they woke him up with cold water. This originally strong man finally couldn't bear the double destruction of body and mind, and chose to hang himself.

"After burying the old principal, I left this sad place and came to Town B. I lived incognito there. To make a living, I worked as a mason, a cleaner, and eventually bought a donkey and worked as a porter at a small town porter. I've been doing it for more than ten years. Three years ago, the party rehabilitated me, restored me to work, and paid me a large amount of back wages. Last summer, I was appointed as the vice principal of this middle school by the higher authorities, and I really have hope for my career, and the days are getting sweeter and sweeter! "Our party is a great, glorious, and correct party, and if there is a mistake, it will be corrected, and with this change, my destiny will be turned upside down. To be honest, after more than ten years as a porter, I am really not used to sitting on the rostrum and speaking to so many teachers and students! It's good if it's been a long time. Human adaptability is strong, 'survival of the fittest'! He took a piece of meat with chopsticks and sent it to his wife's bowl, "After decades of singles, now I finally have a family!" ”

Old Uncle Zhang suddenly raised his head and stared at Liu Ye and said, "Xiao Ye, remember, Old Uncle Zhang is the 'Lizao' chapter, not the 'bow chief' Zhang!" I had to change my last name at that time. ”

Since then, Uncle Zhang has become Principal Zhang in Liu Ye's heart.