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In 1975, after Li Yulan graduated from Zaozhuang Normal School, she really returned to Chiping and was assigned to work as a Chinese teacher in Wuguantun Lianzhong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoA year later, Wang Puji also graduated and was assigned to Chiping Zhaoguantun Middle School, where he majored in physical education, so he naturally became a physical education teacher.

At this time, in Chiping County, the vast majority of educated young students have been "dismissed" by a variety of students, recruiting soldiers and workers in different ways, and being extremely poor and sick for various reasons. The vast earth left only a sad and scornful empty shadow. The catastrophe of "**" for many years has ravaged the whole country, the clown who has brought disaster to the country and the people is in a dying struggle, and the whole country is surging and uneasy in a dead silence and dullness.

The land of Chiping in front of Wang Puji and Li Yulan is a more solemn and desolate scene, and what permeates their hearts is a more lonely and bitter thoughts.

The only thing that can make them feel warm and comforting is that in the past few years of settling in the queue, the changes in their thoughts and feelings have enabled them to sincerely kiss the hot land under their feet, embrace the land of Chiping, and melt the simple, sincere, enthusiastic and tenacious character potential of the people of Chiping. The sense of pathos is fleeting like a glimpse of a frightening flood, but another heat wave is surging up, and it is this heat that burns their hearts, burns their personalities, and triggers the magnificent radiation of their life and youth.

They have not forgotten the earnest words of He Zhishu of the Party branch of the He Pan Brigade before they left for school: "Puji, when you finish your studies, you have to come back again, come and teach us these dolls so that they can grow." "They always remember the scene when they got on the bus, and the villagers were reluctant to hold hands and send each other off.

Director Liu of the Chiping County Education Bureau once said to them earnestly: "Our education in Chiping is worrying! Some old teachers are dying, sick, and falling, and there is a shortage of people on the education front! In many places, there is even a phenomenon where primary school students are helpless to teach primary schools and middle school students to teach middle schools. You are a rare new force in education in our county! Chiping's education can't be wasted any longer! Chiping is looking forward to you! ”

Chiping's earnest call to the land deeply moved the two of them, and turned the originally helpless choice into an ideal and pursuit that has never been lost on the difficult journey, and the blood of youth is surging again. Obey the arrangement of fate, everywhere you go is the way!

On the dirt road outside the campus of Wuguantun Lian Middle School, the two breathed in the fragrance of flowers in the field and walked side by side.

In the dark blue night sky, the stars are shining.

Li Yulan looked at Wang Puji and asked, "Puji, guess what I'm thinking?" ”

"Huh?" Wang Puji was stunned.

"I'm thinking, maybe it's fate, it's destined that we and Chiping already have an incomprehensible fate."

"Yes," Wang Puji nodded thoughtfully, "The classmates are gone, but we are back, what is it if it is not fate?" Now that we're back, what I didn't say, we have to live a good life, and we have to do a good job. Where doesn't the loess grow trees? If it's a mountain, there must be stones! ”

Wang Puji's sonorous and powerful words made Li Yulan feel very down-to-earth and a great comfort. She pursed her lips and smiled: "Then, let's use the two of us as Chiping stones." Hey, Chiping is short of stones! ”

Whatever happens is inevitable, and this is the inescapable iron law of life and fate.

In this way, the two of them threw themselves on the grassroots education front in Chiping County like a paving stone with the enthusiasm of the educated youth when they went to the countryside. Naturally, they settled in Chiping, where their bitter love for several years finally came to fruition. Needless to say, in addition to the warmth and harmony of their home, everything else is not the same as the current newlywed warm nest, and its simplicity, roughness, and shabby are unimaginable for today's young people.

Wu Guantun and Zhao Guantun are about six or seven miles apart, and for the convenience of work, the two of them set up their simple new home in the campus of Wuguantun Lianzhong Middle School, where Li Yulan is located, and borrowed a teacher's dormitory.

The morning in the countryside was wet, and the fields were filled with soft gauze air, and every morning, they had to get up early, hurriedly grab a few mouthfuls of food, and Wang Puji would spread his two long legs and gallop towards Zhao Guantun like a vigorous ostrich, where the students were waiting for him to go to class!

Wang Puji taught physical education, and he was a physical education teacher in more than a dozen classes in the school, explaining the essentials, demonstrating and demonstrating, counseling and protecting. When the sun set, he sent off the last student, packed up the venue and supplies, and began to return to Wuguantun.

That dirt road with weeds, how much work have you carried in Puji! The cold comes and the summer comes, the spring blooms and the autumn is fruitful. You are silent, but you truly record the trajectory of the last educated youth who worked hard and tried his best to repay the people who once raised him.

A year later, their son, Wang Yan, was born. Looking at this descendant of the educated youth who fell to the ground in their second hometown, the little couple burst into tears, unable to tell whether they were happy or worried......

In order to help them solve some difficulties in life, the organization coordinated and transferred Li Yulan to Wang Puji's school, and the small family of three people also moved to Zhaoguantun.

And Li Yulan, who was bent on doing her best for Chiping's education, entrusted her son who was waiting to be fed to her mother-in-law in Jinan, and then came to ask the school leaders for help.

Wang Xingzhong, the principal of Zhaoguantun Middle School (who was the director of education at the time), looked at the delicate and dignified female teacher in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a lot of respect in his heart. He has heard of Li Yulan's character and business ability, and Li Yulan's arrival is undoubtedly a great blessing for their degree.

He had the heart to put this piece of good steel in the position where it was most needed, but he was a little hesitant because ......

Li Yulan seemed to see Wang Xingzhong's thoughts. She smiled brightly: "Director Wang, if there is any work you assign, I will do my best to complete it." ”

Wang Xingzhong said: "At present, the most lacking thing in our school is English teachers, which is directly related to the teaching quality and reputation of the school. You...... Can I take English lessons? ”

Li Yulan said frankly: "My major is Chinese teacher training. I have almost forgotten all this English. ”

Wang Xingzhong pondered for a while and said solemnly: "Teacher Li, I really hope that you can pick up this burden. Anyway, you're a regular teacher! ”

"Okay, I'll do it." Li Yulan saw that Wang Xingzhong said this, so she readily agreed.

How easy is it to say? At that time, the level of teachers during the "**" turmoil was already good if they were able to do the work of their profession, let alone teach foreign languages in a different way? It's easy to say that it's easy to say, but if you don't do it well, can't you do it? Anyway, it's an ordinary school in a remote rural area, fooling around!

However, Li Yulan never thought about it like this, let alone did it. Maybe she just thanked the leaders for their care and trust; Perhaps she felt a behavioral impulse germinated by feeling the barrenness of rural education, or perhaps it was to repay the land that raised her, or perhaps it was a kind of resistance and struggle of vitality after her ideals and aspirations were squeezed by reality......

In any case, Li Yulan is indeed sincerely devoted to this work. She collected the only few crumpled English books in the school, and went to the county seat and Jinan to buy reference books for self-study and teaching of English.

She teaches in school, teaches middle school, day and night, chasing stars and catching the moon. In order to correctly grasp and improve the listening and reading ability of English, when the school funds could not be solved, he cut back on food and clothing, and bought tape recorders and teaching tapes at his own expense. You must know that the combined salaries of her and Wang Puji at that time were only more than 60 yuan!

Of course, Wang Puji fully supports Li Yulan in all this.

Hard work pays off. After a stage of hard work, Li Yulan is unexpectedly free to sway freely in the English class!

Li Yulan and the old classmates of the educated youth talked about learning and teaching English back then, and said with deep feelings, it was really a duck to the shelves at that time! Especially those damn words, dead or alive just can't remember, muttering and writing and scratching all day long, tired and brain-hurting!

Hard work pays off. After Li Yulan taught for a year, Zhaoguantun Middle School achieved outstanding results in the county's English unified examination and ranked among the best.

The teachers in the school are happy, the students are happy, and Wang Puji is even happier. He stumbled and learned to say to Li Yulan in English, "Wish you...... wish you......" can no longer be said.

"You don't want to come to this set of 'Visyou', or let me give you 'Whishy'!" Li Yulan's face also turned crimson with joy, and she interrupted him with a giggle.

"Okay, let's work together 'Harrow Shaouki, Ftagagoda Yekivbelyot (study hard, go up every day)!" Wang Puji learned Russian in middle school, and this is the only thing he remembers and what he says when he is happy.