Volume IV Martyrdom

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Human life is full of opportunities and challenges, and the development of things is always not subject to human will. The new situations and opportunities brought about by many new things are often unexpected.

Zhu Yushen, a young teacher at Huangzhen Middle School, never thought that before the end of last semester, he and Zhu Ying, a newly assigned female teacher, would be transferred to Yushan District, New District, the city.

Yushan District is located between the county seat and the urban area, and is a new district of the city. The main urban area of Yushan District is on a peninsula that extends into the Yangtze River, and the water surface on the east side of the peninsula is equivalent to an inner lake. The water in this area is crystal clear and the lake is very wide.

The western side of the peninsula is across the lake from the main town. The high-rise buildings in the main city are surrounded by the clear water of this lake, and they seem to be built on the gentleness and foundation of the water. It looks refreshing.

Since middle school, Zhu Yushen has longed for urban life. I remember when I was in the third year of junior high school, I met Zhang Cong in Huangzhen, and he asked Zhang Cong to accompany him around the street a few times. At the end of the street, he saw smoke coming from there, and he asked Zhang Cong if it was a factory in the town.

Zhang Cong said that there was smoke from the earthen kiln where rural people fired bricks. At the time, he was frustrated when he got this answer.

But since he went to the city to study, Zhu Yushen has almost become a city person. The city is very lively, the city is an important town in southern Anhui, is the second largest city in the province. It's noisy during the day, and it's a city that never sleeps at night. After a few years of teaching, he was fed up with all kinds of pollution in the city. So after graduating, I went back to the town to teach. He felt very comfortable.

Now in Yushan District. There are no high-rise buildings in the new district. The population is not very dense, and the pool of clear water keeps the noise of the main city out there. At night, the lights came on, and the two sides of the pool of clear water were brightly lit. These light sources fill the space on the shore of the water, shortening the distance between this shore and the other shore.

At this moment, this pool of clear water seems to have turned into a dark flat land, and people can step on this flat land and rush to the city on the other side of the river in a while.

Everything came in such a hurry. Zhu Yushen didn't expect that after only half a year of marriage, he would have to live in a different environment again. So much so that on the day he got the appointment, he didn't know how to tell his wife Xiao Rong about it after he went home, and he had many concerns.

But what he didn't expect was that Xiao Rong regarded this as a big happy event. She said she had always longed for life in the city. Over the years, she has also experienced a lot of warmth and coldness in the world. Among her circle of relatives and friends, there are many people who have recently moved their families to the county seat.

She could feel that these people had a great sense of superiority when talking about housing and living conditions in front of her. They intentionally or unintentionally stimulated people, and she endured it. Thereupon. She also stored some resentment in her heart.

But the order allowed her man to work as a teacher in the new district of the city, and she could also buy affordable housing for teachers and staff near the school at a low price. And so it goes. After settling down, the couple became pure citizens. From Huangzhen people to directly leapfrog to become citizens, bypassing the county seat, this is a face-saving thing! This will also make others envious.

Xiao Rong told Zhu Yushen a lot of the benefits it brought in one breath, and she said that she could go to the new district to find a class from now on. There must be a lot of job opportunities in the city, unlike Huangzhen, where it is not easy to make some money in the factory.

Subsequently, Xiao Rong posted small advertisements everywhere to spread the news that she wanted to sell the house in the town as soon as possible, so as to raise a sum of money and go to the city to form a new home. Coincidentally, during that time, Mr. Xia Youli's sister's family was about to move from the polder by the river to the town, and they wanted to buy a house in the town.

After the intervention of Xia Youli and his wife, Xiao Rong quickly negotiated the price with them. This was followed by the transfer of ownership and the money, and then to the new district to pay the money and settle the house, all of which was completed in a very short period of time. Before Zhu Yushen could react, his own home in Huangzhen no longer existed, and he had become a person from the new district of the city.

Zhu Ying, a female teacher who was transferred to the No. 15 Middle School in the new district with Zhu Yushen, has also been more excited recently, and she jumped to the new district in less than a semester after teaching at Huangzhen Middle School. At present, the employment situation of college graduates is generally not optimistic, and the graduates of the Normal University need to compete for a teacher in the town under the city, but she is the only one who mixes well.

They came to the new area this time, and it is said that Zhu Ying was looking for a relationship first, and Zhu Yushen was only because of good fate. Because the 15th middle school is a newly built school, a group of teachers needs to be transferred. When Zhu Ying was transferred from Huangzhen Middle School, the decision-maker waved his pen and added another person to make up for it at will, and this good opportunity fell on Zhu Yushen's head. When they got the news, Xiao Yu, Xia Youli and others were quite uneasy, but they were helpless.

Of course, Zhu Ying also took all the credit for this in front of everyone. She looked very proud, which was distinctly different from the gloomy sadness of the other male and female teachers.

Zhu Yushen vaguely felt that Zhu Ying, a little teacher, was not simple, although she was not good-looking, she was very sophisticated and mature in handling things and speaking. At the beginning of last semester, she knew that Feng Jun was accompanied by beautiful women, talented women, and noble daughters, but she rose to the challenge and wanted to establish a relationship with him, an extraordinary person, and her courage was indeed commendable.

It's just that Feng Jun was originally a bastard and a cynical person, so much so that she was ashamed to say such ugly things in front of her in the big office that time.

Zhu Yushen remembered that after Zhu Ying scolded Feng Jun a few words that day, she lay on the table and cried. At this time, Feng Jun was still shamelessly screaming. The other male and female teachers seemed to be very happy, and they all echoed Feng Jun's nonsense.

I really couldn't stand it at that time, so I scolded Feng Jun a few words, and everyone was stunned. Taking advantage of this moment, Zhu Ying got up and ran out. Before leaving, she cast a grateful look at herself. When Zhu Ying came to class that afternoon, her mood was very stable, and she had to admire her strength.

Now, in the 15th Middle School, Zhu Yushen happens to be in the same office as Zhu Ying. There are four people in this office, and the person in charge is Lao Fang, the head of the grade by the window, and Zhu Ying sits opposite him.

Sitting opposite Zhu Yushen was a male teacher in his thirties, his name was Wu Chengnan, a native of the new district. Zhu Ying and Wu Chengnan were back to back, Zhu Yushen sat and looked over, and what he saw was the faces of Wu Chengnan and Lao Fang and Zhu Ying's back.

In the past few days, Zhu Yushen felt very awkward, because almost all of him were unfamiliar faces. Therefore, in the office, he looked at Zhu Ying's back, and a strong sense of intimacy swelled up. Although she hasn't been with Zhu Ying for a long time, she can be regarded as his old friend.

In the new environment, there is also a familiar face that is his wife Xiao Rong. The couple decisively sold the house on Huangzhen Street, but due to regional differences, the sale money was only enough to pay more than half of the money to buy a house in the new district, and the rest had to take out a loan. Overall, their three-bedroom affordable home is not bad. Before the couple came to stay here, they just made it casually, and they could make do with it.

The two of them are currently facing a more serious situation, on the one hand, they have to repay the loan, and on the other hand, they still want to renovate the house and move in again. Then it's the same as other teachers living here.

After Xiao Rong moved to the new area, she went to work in the nearby development zone within a few days after being introduced. Both of them leave early and return late, and they see each other mainly in the evening. The idea is to save more money as soon as possible to change their living circumstances.

Although Xiao Rong works here longer than the factory in Huangzhen, she still told Zhu Yushen that the new district is better than Huangzhen because she earns a lot more money. Even though she only has one day off a month, she has no complaints.

For his wife's hard work, Zhu Yushen sometimes felt deeply uneasy, because he thought of Chen Jing and others. Compared with these people who sit back and enjoy their success, Xiao Rong followed him, obviously suffering a lot. So every morning when they parted, he always felt guilty when he looked at her hurried appearance.

At present, in Zhu Yushen's world, there are only these two acquaintances, but they have limited time with him. Especially on weekends, it is very boring for him to stay at home alone during the day; It's also awkward to come out and walk around with unfamiliar faces. Because of his personality, he felt that it might take a long time for him to become familiar with the unfamiliar faces around him.

So on weekends, he was busy with work and writing at home, and when he was tired, Zhu Yushen chose to go out for a walk alone. He walked along the western shore of the inner lake. The clear water of the river sparkles in the sunlight, and the area bordering the water is a withered thatched meadow, and then there is an artificial green belt.

Zhu Yushen walked carelessly by the lake, his thoughts were like wild horses on the loose, galloping wantonly. Although the past is unbearable, it has to make people think about it at every turn. In this way, he thought about it all the way, and it didn't take long for him to come down a long way.

When he came to a willow forest, he found that the scene before him was so familiar, it seemed that he had been here a long time ago, or had been here in a dream. This willow forest is much larger than the one by the Chishui River in Huangzhen.

At this moment, there are several pairs of men and women scattered in the willow forest, they are either grinding their ears or making intimate movements. A little further on, he found a man sitting on the dead grass in the distance, who held a flute in his hand.

Soon, Zhu Yushen heard the sound of the flute. The sound is melodious and fresh, mixed with the sound of the river crashing on the shore, which makes people feel very comfortable to listen to.

He found a place to sit down, closed his eyes, and pricked up his ears to enjoy this good mood. However, he found that the sound of the flute seemed to be more and more miserable, as if it had become a mournful cry of man. He recalled Wang Danbao's appearance at the willow forest of the Chishui River. (To be continued......)