Chapter 7: I'll Do It
The next day, Xiao Qianjing stepped out of the house in the early morning sunshine, walking on the way to school, he had already forgotten the unpleasantness that happened in the class yesterday, and now he was thinking with joy about the beautiful campus, spacious classrooms, and clean desks, which he had never seen in the rural elementary school before, and what he had longed to have.
Walking into the classroom, there were already many students in the class, he went straight to his seat and sat down, carefully took out the book and put it on the desk, opened a book and smelled the faint ink fragrance from the book with satisfaction, and the white paper and black words were so pleasing to the eye.
"Mei Qianjing, it's early, you're so early!" Li Meimei didn't know when she stood at the desk, greeting him with a smile, the early morning sun shone on her through the glass, as if she was wearing a golden coat, so beautiful that she forgot to speak for a while. When he reacted, his face turned red and he said in a panic: "You... You're also... Early! ”
"Haha..."Seeing Xiao Qianjing's face flush, she laughed out loud.
Teacher Zhen walked into the classroom, put the book on the desk and clapped his hands, "Okay, the students are in class!" ”
"Hello teacher!" The whole class stood up and said hello. Only Xiao Qianjing was still sitting there and didn't move, if it weren't for Li Meimei, who was at the same table, he would have been sitting.
"Hello students, sit down, today is the first day of school, since you arrive at school, listen to the class, don't think about playing anymore! In this Chinese class, we will learn the text "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother", and the students turn the book to the first page. "On the podium, the teacher is explaining the text in detail, with a full voice and color. Xiao Qianjing was stunned in his seat, he was a little overwhelmed by what had just happened, it turned out that the school in the city had to stand up and ask the teacher hello during class! No one said to him! He turned his head to look at Li Meimei next to him, if she hadn't pulled herself just now, maybe the other children in the class would laugh at herself like yesterday! He has a low self-esteem for himself, maybe he just came to this strange place from the countryside! I don't understand anything, I don't dare to speak, I don't dare to do anything else, I have to be careful in everything I do, for fear of doing something wrong or being different from others and causing other people's jokes.
He spent the morning carefully observing what other children were doing and how they were doing, so that the teacher didn't listen to what the teacher said. After school at noon, Xiao Qianjing lay on the kang and thought about what happened in the morning, and felt a little stupid. In the afternoon, Xiao Qianjing was still observing what other children in the class were doing, and he was relieved to find that it was the same as in the morning, but he wasted nothing in the afternoon and didn't listen.
"Okay, class. Mei Qianjing went to the teacher's office for a while. On the podium, Teacher Zhen announced the end of class. He followed the teacher out of the classroom with anxiety, thinking to himself, "Did I not listen carefully to the class this day so that the teacher found out and was going to be scolded!" Following the teacher to the office, Teacher Zhen put the lesson plan on the table, turned his head and said to him with a smile:
"Qianjing, come and sit here!" The teacher pointed to the chair next to him. "Are you still used to coming here? Can I understand what the teachers are saying? How are you getting along with your classmates? ”
"Whew..."He finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it turned out that it wasn't for that incident.
"Teacher, I... I..."
"Don't be nervous, speak slowly." The teacher said with a smile.
"I can't understand a lot of them, and I can't understand what the teacher says." The teachers in the class all spoke Mandarin, which was different from their hometown, and he did not understand a lot of it.
"It's okay, you've just arrived in a new environment, and it takes time to get used to it, whether it's talking or changing your living environment. After a long time, it will be good to take it slowly, and if there is anything you don't understand in the future, come to the teacher, and the teacher will help you. The teacher paused, and then said, "The teacher doesn't know if your previous school spoke your hometown dialect or something else, but the teacher here requires the lecture to be in Mandarin, so you have to adapt to it as soon as possible, and talk to other students in the class in the future, don't be shy." Xiao Qianjing kept nodding. The teacher talked to him a lot that day, and in the end, the teacher saw that it was too late and he didn't worry about going home by himself, so he rode a bicycle to send him home, and in the yard, Mr. Zhen talked with his parents for a long time before saying goodbye and leaving.
The world of children is really not as complicated as that of adults, they are all very simple, they like it, they like it, and they don't like it. Since Mr. Zhen talked to him, Xiao Qianjing began to try to contact with other children, and after a long time, he became familiar with other students in the class, and other students often came to play with him. When I was in class, I was able to listen to the teacher's lectures carefully, and I often went to the teacher to ask if I didn't understand, and I actively completed the work after going home.
Outside the window, the snow was drifting, and it was winter again, and I recalled that I was still sitting around the fire with other children and teachers in the countryside last year, and the teacher was telling stories while baking the fire, and the roof suddenly collapsed so that a group of children squeaked, and sometimes the stove fell, and the smoke filled the whole room, and the people who choked couldn't breathe. How fortunate I am to be able to sit in a warm classroom in the city and go to school, and I wonder if the village school is still the same as it used to be.
After half a year of study and life, Xiao Qianjing has also changed a lot in talking to people, communicating with people is no longer a dialect, although Mandarin is not very standard, but it is much stronger than before, it can only be said that the environment can change a person, but I also want to thank Mr. Zhen for his selfless help.
"Okay, after class, tomorrow will be the winter vacation, and the teacher will send the winter vacation homework to the students later, don't be greedy for fun during the holidays, you must finish the homework, and the teacher will check it when the school starts." Teacher Zhen announced the news of the winter vacation on the podium, and there was a burst of cheers below.
"Alright, get all your stuff and go back! Students, happy New Year, the teacher will give you an early year, let's see you next year! "The teacher sent the homework to the students one by one.
"Teacher, Happy New Year!" "Happy New Year, Teacher!" The class suddenly chattered. Out of the school gate, Xiao Qianjing ran home quickly.
"Mother, mother, I'm back, we're on vacation!" He said excitedly, "Mother, are we going back to grandma's house for the New Year?" ”
"Got a holiday today? We may not be able to go back this year, and your father is afraid that he won't be able to finish the work. Mother said.
"Ahh If you don't go back this year, what will your grandparents do! He said anxiously.
"Your father has already let acquaintances bring the money and things for the year back to the village, and you can go back to see your grandparents after the summer vacation next summer!" Seeing that he was anxious, his mother hurriedly comforted him and said.
"Oh! Then I must go back next summer. He was a little disappointed and said that although it was good to be able to spend the New Year in the city, he wanted to spend it with his grandparents even more.
"Okay, I'll take you back next year, did the teacher leave homework during the holidays?"
"Well, the teacher gave me an exercise book, and I'll write it tomorrow."
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the sky is rarely clear, the moon is very bright, and a silvery moonlight is scattered on the ground. This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was left with his parents and him, and the house seemed a little deserted, and his mother brought the prepared meal to the table, which was more sumptuous than any Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in previous years. He can't wait to move his chopsticks, the delicacy once a year, and when will he not move at this time. The family sat together, the mother poured a glass of wine for the father, gave herself and Xiao Qianjing juice, raised a glass and said with a smile, "It's the New Year, our Jingjing is a year older." ”
"It's the New Year, our baby did well in the exam this year, and my father didn't send you to the school in the city in vain." Father took a sip of wine and said happily.
"Eat quickly, the food should be cold again," his mother urged him to eat quickly.
The more my father drank, the happier he became, and he talked more than usual, and kept talking about his future plans like his mother. The mother also happily agreed, and the meal was eaten for more than an hour. After dinner, my father and mother went to play cards with the people in the yard. He played with the other children in the yard for a while, and when he was sleepy, he went back to sleep, and asked his mother to wake up in a daze, saying that he was going to see the fire and fireworks, and after getting dressed, he went to the yard to see that he went back to the house in a daze, and the next day when he fell asleep, the sun had risen.
"Happy New Year, this is your New Year's money, you can't spend it indiscriminately!" When his mother saw that he had woken up, she handed him a piece of 10 yuan.
"Thank you, mother!" He happily took it. I quickly got dressed, washed my face, didn't eat breakfast, and ran out to play with my classmates after saying hello to my mother.
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Qianjing saw the rumored Yangge and stilts for the first time, people were dressed in colorful clothes, beating gongs and drums all the way, and the onlookers crowded the whole street, so it was not lively. Every day he knocked and beat until the fifteenth day of the year, and on the fifteenth night, his parents also took him to see the lantern festival, colorful, all kinds of colorful lanterns filled the park, he was dizzying, he never knew that the lights could make so many tricks, and his parents let him spend a different New Year in the city. In the past, there were so many activities in the countryside, people spent Chinese New Year's Eve just like the end of the New Year, this does not enter the city and never knows how wonderful the outside world is, just like the story of the frog at the bottom of the well written in the book, do not jump out of the well and never know how big the sky outside is. If only his grandparents could come to the city, then they would be able to see a lot of great things, and he couldn't wait to think about it. (To be continued)