At the beginning of 1992, during Deng Xiaoping's journey of several thousand kilometers through Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Shanghai, which lasted more than a month, this great man and chief architect of China's reform and opening up made a series of deafening new views while conducting investigations and inspections, which were later collectively referred to as the "Southern Tour Speech."

"Reform and opening up should be bolder, dare to experiment, and not be like a woman with small feet. If you see it, you will try boldly and break boldly. The spirit of the chief designer's "Southern Tour Speech" quickly spread throughout the country. The campus of Liangzhou No. 2 Normal School is not calm at this time. "Emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts" is becoming a trend of thought, sweeping all corners of the campus.

"Go to the sea! Go to sea! ”

The school began to establish the tertiary industry, and the Liangzhou Second Division Bamboo Mat Factory came into being. Some talented young teachers are full of passion and are ready to fly southeast to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to pursue their life ideals. Another part of the teachers decided to base themselves on their posts, erase their face and self-esteem, and start a second career. Poverty is no longer the natural fate of intellectuals, and it is not a shame to rely on the labor of both hands to become rich and well-off.

"Rice noodles, rice noodles, a big bowl for one dollar, delicious and not expensive!"

"Spicy hot buns, spicy enough, six cents a piece, worth the money!"

"Fresh peaches, five cents a pound, if you want to buy it as soon as possible, you can't miss the opportunity!"

After the evening self-study, all kinds of stalls were set up on the campus avenue, and some well-mannered teachers began to sell enthusiastically. The students are interspersed with it, as if entering a lively night market. At the age of growing your body, it is normal to eat something at night and replenish your energy.

Watching the teachers who were inspiring on the podium during the day become operators and waiters at night, the students were really uncomfortable at first. When I buy something, I never buy it from my substitute teacher, and I always feel a little embarrassed. In fact, since these teachers dare to set up stalls and dare to take the first step, they have already carried out fierce ideological struggles and have long put their face out of the way. At this time, he enthusiastically called the names of the students in his class and shouted at his business. In this way, the students have no shyness and worries, and take the initiative to take care of their teachers' business.

"Socks, tie, shampoo! Soap, towels, toilet paper! Absolute quality, absolutely low price, beyond your imagination. ”

Weng Quanhai, who is in the third class, also began to be a seller in his spare time. He went to the wholesale market in the city on weekends to wholesale some daily necessities, and was active in various dormitories in line with the principle of lower prices of similar goods in campus stores and small profits but quick turnover. He thought that emancipating the mind was not only a teacher's business, but also a business for all of us, and I could also use my spare time to work and study.

Some professional teachers have used what they have learned to run various tutorial classes in schools, such as martial arts, sanda, guitar, piano, painting, calligraphy, etc. Some students from Class 5 signed up for the Sanda class, and some students signed up for guitar training......

"Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom." In the face of the sudden "boom" of the campus economy, Zhao Hongyi can't turn around his thoughts for the time being, he always feels that in a sacred campus, too many things mixed with money seem to be a bit abnormal, in fact, he can't say a meridian. The normal school he cherishes and longs for should be the kind of bookish and moral article...... Personally, he thinks that the smell of books and copper is incompatible.

However, people are people in society, and individuals can only better adapt to reality without being able to change it. The days are still passing day by day, and after a lot of excitement, the campus night market after the evening self-study gradually begins to fall into the cold. Perhaps it was the beginning of school control, perhaps the limited purchasing power of everyone, or the temporary disappearance of the enthusiasm of intellectuals, in short, most of the food stalls on the campus, except for a few food stalls set up by the teachers' families, have been quietly closed, and the campus has returned to its former peace.

Zhao Hongyi's family is not financially well-off, but the financial aid from the normal school can already make his life run normally, and he is not very interested in such things as "getting rich".

Zhao Hongyi's greatest interest is still reading. In the past nearly a year, through the school library, he systematically flipped through the four great Chinese classics and some world classics, read Lu Xun's "Morning Flowers and Sunset", "The Scream", and "Two Heart Collections", and read the excellent works of some contemporary Chinese writers. His excellent schoolwork, coupled with the nourishment of literary works, made him more radiant and full of youthful vitality.

Zhao Hongyi has now grown to a height of 1.68 meters, which is in stark contrast to less than 1.5 meters when he first entered the school. Although he has grown taller, he is still relatively thin, and his classmates jokingly call him the "reed stick" in "The Contractor".

Classrooms, reading rooms and student dormitories have become the standard three-point line for Zhao Hongyi, who loves this minimalist lifestyle. Regretting that the books in the school library were too old, he longed to read newer books, especially novels by contemporary writers who had won the Mao Dun Literary Award, such as "The Funeral of a Muslim," "The Ordinary World," and "The Young Son of Heaven." It's a pity that these books are difficult to borrow from the school library, and the price is expensive, with an average price of about 10 yuan, which is enough for his living expenses for 10 days.

What to do? Zhao Hongyi wants to work and study to realize his dream of studying. A classmate introduced him to a family in Xiguan Street in Liangzhou City on Sundays as a tutor, 4 times a month, 2 hours each time, the tutoring subject is the sixth grade of primary school, and the monthly fee is 20 yuan. He only needed to cross the river, the distance was not too far, and the price was acceptable, so he agreed without thinking.

The student Zhao Hongyi tutored was a sixth-grade boy named Liangliang, who lived in a small two-story building on Xiguan Street, with good family conditions, his grandparents retired, and his parents both worked in the Liangzhou County Government. This child is very smart, and his learning foundation is not too bad, but because his parents are usually busy with work, he doesn't ask much about learning, and he is doted on by his grandparents, and he has a lot of fun, and he doesn't work hard enough on learning, and every time he takes an exam, his language score hovers between 70 and 80 points, which makes his parents very anxious and want to find a tutor to improve their grades.

Zhao Hongyi and Liang Liang were very happy when they met for the first time. In response to Liangliang's lack of concentration, he started with storytelling. For Zhao Hongyi, who has read a lot of books and is full of stories, storytelling is his strength. This trick worked very well, and soon stimulated Liangliang's interest in learning and won his trust and favor with Zhao Hongyi. For Liangliang's language tutoring, he pays attention to starting from words, requiring Liangliang to write the right words, understand the meaning of words, understand the gist of the text, and cultivate Liangliang's interest in reading through an appropriate amount of extracurricular reading, especially for some error-prone links; He attaches great importance to the construction of the knowledge tree of each chapter, so that Liangliang can focus on the logical relationship of the knowledge points of each chapter, so that it can be fully understood. After each tutoring knowledge, Zhao Hongyi will test Liangliang, and the test questions are designed from easy to difficult, giving him a feeling that he can pick peaches with a jump, and making him feel the joy of progress and success every time.

Liang Liang quickly fell in love with the young governess. People say that interest is the best teacher, and Liang Liang, who is already very smart, has improved his academic performance by leaps and bounds. In the mid-term exam, he scored 89 points in Chinese and 94 points in mathematics, and in the final exam, he scored 94 points in Chinese and 100 points in mathematics. Liangliang's grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother admired and thanked Zhao Hongyi very much, and the salary also rose to 25 yuan per month, and at the end of the semester, Zhao Hongyi was given an additional 50 yuan red envelope, and hoped that after Liangliang went to junior high school, Zhao Hongyi could continue to tutor.

Zhao Hongyi's bookshelves soon had "The Funeral of a Muslim" and "The Ordinary World".

"In February and March 1975, on an ordinary day, the thin rain was sprinkled with snowflakes one after another. The season is almost stinging, and of course the snow will never remain, and often disappear without a trace before it can hit the ground. The cold and long winter of the Loess Plateau seems to be coming to an end, but the truly warm spring is far from coming. ”

As soon as he walked into "Ordinary World", Zhao Hongyi was no longer reluctant, he felt that Sun Shaoping was simply his incarnation. Zhao Hongyi seems to have entered the ordinary world, feeling the ups and downs of Sun Shaoping.

As far as the eye can see, the barren land is inhabited by peasants who are eager to eat white buns. Standing on that hillside, singing Xintianyou, the high-pitched voice seems to be able to penetrate the sky, that is, the life on this land, which has created the arrogance of the people in northern Shaanxi. Sun Shaoping, the son of this land, struggles with poverty, and he wants to break through the sky and create his own life.

When he was in high school, Sun Shaoping, who was no longer ordinary, felt inferior because his family was poor, and he always couldn't hold his head up in school. Hunger tormented it, and it was the books that brought him spiritual comfort. He was scared and didn't want to be poor, but he didn't lose himself, he had a momentum and didn't want to surrender to the cruel reality.

"For we are birds that fly freely, so let's fly! Fly to the bright mountains behind the dark clouds, fly there, to the blue cape. Only the wind dances, and I am the company. Tian Xiaoxia's shout evoked Sun Shaoping's precipitated dream. Zhao Hongyi never felt that Sun Shaoping was very poor, what he shouted was the power of dreams, and that power could overcome all hardships. Sun Shaoping has always shown an aggressive attitude of a conqueror, he faces life with a smile, no matter how hard the work is, how can he ever give up, even if life is ordinary, he can live a wonderful life.

For a period of time, Sun Shaoping occupied almost all of Zhao Hongyi's brain, and his emotions fluctuated with the twists and turns of Sun Shaoping's fate, happy or sad...... If there was a book that could change people's minds and three views, Zhao Hongyi would not hesitate to say that this is "Ordinary World".