At its peak, the Southwest Associated University had more than 8,000 students, but now it is still 1939, and the number of students enrolled is less than 2,000.

Sun Yongzhen and Zhu Guozhen helped the school workers carry the boxes, and the pens and notebooks in them will be distributed to the students tomorrow. There will definitely be some leftover in the gift that can be given to the professors at the school.

Mei Yiqi accompanied Zhou Hexuan to visit the school, and he said as he walked: "The final exam is coming soon, and the students are hurrying up to review." ”

"Then don't bother them, let's go check out the cafeteria and dormitory first." Zhou Hexuan said.

The dormitory is also a mud-walled bungalow, but it is worse than the school building, and the roof is directly covered with thatch. And each dormitory is very large, with a large bunk, which can sleep 40 people. There are no dormitory administrators who choose a bed to sleep casually, and there are even cases where people from outside the school come to sleep here for several years.

The most speechless thing is that the student dormitory does not even have a door, and it is open to enter and exit casually.

Many of the beds have three-tiered cardboard boxes, and Mei explains: "Those are the soap boxes that students bought, and the boxes can hold books and clothes, which are considered to be students' bookcases and wardrobes. The top layer of cardboard boxes is padded with newspapers, and it becomes a desk, on which you can write. ”

"The conditions are tough." Zhou Hexuan nodded.

Although I have seen relevant descriptions in books before, what I saw with my own eyes at this moment still made Zhou Hexuan's eyes sour.

I remember the student dormitory of Southwest Associated University, and there is a very famous Spring Festival couplet.

The upper link is: Huh! Where to put the guns?

The next link is: Oh! People's New Year!

Zhou Hexuan walked around the dormitory, it was almost lunch time, Mei Yiqi took Zhou Hexuan to the cafeteria to eat.

Before they reached the cafeteria, the bell rang for the end of class, and the students rushed over like runners.

When some students saw Mei Yiqi, they stopped and shouted, "Chairman! ”

In fact, Southwest Associated University does not have a president, only the chairman of the school board, but later generations generally regarded Mei Yiqi as the president.

Before Mei Yiqi could nod in response, a student recognized Zhou Hexuan and shouted, "Mr. Zhou is here, Mr. Zhou is here!" ”

"Where's Mr. Zhou?"

"Which Mr. Zhou?"

"It's really Mr. Zhou who is here!"

“……”

Zhou Hexuan instantly became a giant panda, and was watched by the students, he smiled and beckoned: "Let's go to dinner together, don't be stunned." ”

The students flocked to the cafeteria with Zhou Hexuan, chatting while queuing, and many asked him for teaching.

In the cafeteria, there were only tables and no benches, and the students cooked their own meals in wooden barrels and then ate standing around the tables. Everyone didn't dare to fill the bowl because they had to finish it quickly before they had a chance to add a second bowl, and the slow second bowl of rice was gone.

"Dangdangdang......"

The first thing students do when they pick up their rice bowls is not to eat, but to knock on the bowls. There was a clanging sound in the cafeteria, as if it was playing a concert or holding a land and water dojo.

Why knock on the bowl?

Because there is a lot of grit in the rice, and there is even mouse droppings, it is nicknamed "Eight Treasure Rice" by the students. If you want to eat quickly and comfortably, you must knock out the debris in the meal and put it aside with a certain force rhythm, which is a technical job.

Zhou Hexuan also served a bowl of eight-treasure rice, and knocked the bowl together. But his knocking skills are very poor, and it is useless to knock for a long time, so he can only swallow like that, all kinds of sand and barnyard grains are mixed in, and he can only continue to swallow mouse feces when he eats mouse feces.

Today's dish is boiled kidney beans, which are cheap. The taste is hard to say, boiled in white water, there is no oil and gas, and even the saltiness is not enough.

China's pride, but did not dislike the food, they devoured one by one, for fear that the speed would be slow and they would not be able to eat the second bowl. The same is true for female students, in the era when there are no snacks and lack of meat, girls have no qualifications for hypocrisy, and delicate girls can also eat two large bowls.

Mei Yiqi saw that Zhou Hexuan was eating very painfully, and persuaded: "Mr. Zhou, if you can't swallow it, don't swallow it, go to my house and fry a few home-cooked dishes for you." ”

"It's okay, it can't be wasted." Zhou Hexuan gritted his teeth and ate the remaining half bowl of rice, he ate cleaner than the students, at least the students would have a lot of grit and mouse feces left.

The fast classmates had already finished the second bowl and ran to talk to Zhou Hexuan, and at this moment, an air defense siren suddenly sounded in Kunming.

"Run the alarm!"

The students have become so proficient that they have become accustomed to it. Some even ran with rice bowls, not even leaving the vegetable bowls, and were still laughing while running.

Mei Yiqi's complexion changed suddenly, and he pulled Zhou Hexuan and said, "Mr. Zhou, run, the devil's plane is coming!" ”

Kunming began to be bombed by the Japanese army after the fall of Guangzhou, and the Southwest Associated University was one of the main targets of the Japanese bombing.

Zhou Hexuan ran wildly with the crowd, crossing the railway from the back school gate to the wilderness, just find a grave in the forest to take refuge - the school has not yet built an air-raid shelter.

Jin Yuelin greeted and introduced friends while running: "Mingcheng, you are here too, this is Wen Yiduo." ”

Zhou Hexuan couldn't imagine that he would meet Wen Yiduo for the first time, and this was the case, so he smiled and said, "Hello Mr. Wen." ”

"Hello Mr. Zhou, when did you come to Kunming?" Smell a lot and ask.

"This morning." Zhou Hexuan said.

Wen Yiduo was originally very weak, but he participated in the "Hunan-Guizhou-Yunnan Tour Group" last year and has become dark and strong.

At that time, the teachers and students of the three schools were transferred from Changsha to Kunming, and they marched in three ways.

Wen Yiduo is on the road, with a total of 11 teachers and 267 students, as well as 4 military instructors and team doctors, and the whole process is under militarized management, and the leader of the team is a lieutenant general. They crossed the three provinces of Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan, climbed over the Xuefeng Mountain, Wuling Mountain, Miao Mountain, Wumeng Mountain and other lofty mountains, and walked 3,600 miles, which was called a "Long March of the Cultural Army".

Teachers and students are not only in a hurry, but also to practice the teaching practice of "society is school, life is education".

When passing by Wuling Mountain, Wen Yiduo taught the original meaning of the place name of Taohuayuan, instructed students to collect folk songs, and studied the local language. Professor Li Jitong introduced the social situation of rural areas to the students, and Professor Yuan Fuli explained the tectonic deformation of river landforms......

After running for a while, Zhou Hexuan met a few more acquaintances, and he asked, "What about Sicheng and Huiyin?" ”

Jin Yuelin panted and explained: "They are inspecting ancient buildings in Chuankang, not in Kunming. Whew, don't run, just this grave, the tombstone looks very strong. ”

Why do you choose a grave to avoid bombing?

Because there are tombstones as barriers.

Wen Yiduo hurriedly said: "Run further, there is a cave in front, which is safer than in the cemetery." ”

Zhou Hexuan could only continue to run, and soon arrived at the cave that Wen Yiduo said. This place can only accommodate seven or eight people, and it is said to be a cave, but it is actually a large earth pit on the mountain wall.

Zhou Hexuan took out a cigarette and scattered around, and by the light of the match, he saw a few lines of words embedded with stones on the ground, which were probably used by a student to relieve boredom when he was bored when he was dodging the bombing last time.

If you look closely, it is actually two couplets.

The first one is supposed to be the work of a sullen science student.

The link is: How much is life?

The next link is: Love Triangle.

The second couplet is a realistic portrayal, which should have been made by a liberal arts student.

Uplink is: act on the opportunistic.

The following link is: into the soil for safety.

Why did he come to the cave to hide from the bombing, but didn't he just see the opportunity to act and go into the ground for safety?