Chapter 5: Foolish Citizens
Ma Yunyao is different from her brother, her brother is poor, and he is young-hearted, and he likes to argue with others. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info usually teases the pillar, bullies the pillar, and has fun with the pillar, but in fact, he just wants to show off. But Ma Yunyao won't. Ma Yunyao thinks Zhu Zi is a very interesting boy.
On the pillar, Ma Yunyao fully comprehended the fun of the Chinese language.
Low eyebrows and pleasing to the eyes - in front of people, the pillar is always with low eyebrows, and rarely speaks. Especially in front of the Ma family, the pillar's eyebrows drooped more and more, and sometimes his head was hooked and his back was shrugged, looking very obedient. Master Ma likes the look of the pillar the most, and often praises the pillar for being loyal and honest when he looks at it. Ma Yunming refused to admit Master Ma's praise, saying that he was stupid and stupid. Ma Yunyao felt that the low eyebrows were indeed pleasing to the eye, but it also revealed a somewhat servile appearance.
Dumb like a chicken - Before seeing the pillar, Ma Yunyao always felt that "dumb like a chicken" was an exaggeration of expression, slightly derogatory. No matter how stupid people are, how can they be like wooden chickens?
But the pillar is the best in the middle. The silent pillar is not smiling, with a straight face, and chatting is the most boring object, and she rarely talks to him. But taking him as the object of observation is not a matter of interest.
When the pillar was fine, he always squatted in the corner of the wall, and the change of posture seemed to be a difficult thing for him, and he squatted without moving, often squatting for an hour or two, like a statue, and like a meditation master. Occasionally changing is the gaze, sometimes looking far away, sometimes lowering. Occasionally, there is a slight smile on his face, but the smile is very stiff, condensed there, silly, and a little weird. Like a dull stone man, his cheeks are vividly chiseled.
Ma Yunyao always felt that the pillar at this time, the "Yuan Shen" must be out of the body, and he didn't know where he secretly ran to play.
Ma Yunyao prefers to watch the pillars squatting on the dam, before the bamboo forest, under the rising sun. When the breeze blows, the bamboo shadow is swaying, the morning dew is dripping, and only the shadow of the young man does not move at all, just like a print, and like a silhouette.
Ma Yunyao thinks that "stupid chicken" is sometimes quite tasteful.
Ma Yunyao has a very good female classmate named Juanzi. She is the daughter of the Zhang butcher's family, who sells meat. He is two years older than Yun Fang and is sixteen this year. The two used idioms to describe the pillars. What Ma Yunyao said is: low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, wooden and silent, tall and big, and dumbfounded. What Juanzi said is: strong and healthy, ingenious, hard-working, and suitable for his family.
The same person, in the eyes of two people, saw a different scene. Juanzi thinks that the pillar is a rare boy, and the pillar works, and it is a top man. When the farm is busy, pick the grain, others pick up to sixty or seventy catties, but the pillar can pick two hundred catties, it is a famous scenery on the village. The pillar is also very good at hunting, hunting pheasants, hares, and fishing. He also knows a lot, weaving bamboo baskets, straw hats, sewing clothes, and he often picks herbs with Master Cha......
Juanzi said: Bashu is now fighting everywhere, who knows which day it will come to the town. At that time, whatever the poor and the rich, everyone became pitiful. What is most important, the most important thing is to eat well. A man like Zhu who can work and hunt and catch fish is a treasure, and he can defend himself in troubled times. The pillar people are honest, they don't talk to girls much, and they don't make trouble, the days are too peaceful, and the men and women weave are not afraid of a bad life.
Juanzi's words reminded Ma Yunyao of something: she didn't seem to have seen the pillar lie, nor had she seen the pillar cause trouble. The pillar has a good temper and is willing to be obedient. The stone of the pillar was thrown very well, and I saw him shoot down a bird. He is also very good at climbing trees, and once his kite was hung on the nan tree, and he climbed up to pick it up......
"Well, that makes sense. But you know what? The pillar didn't even know Sun Yat-sen and Duan Qirui. I don't know Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, not to mention Japan, the United Kingdom, ......"
Juanzi interrupted Ma Yunyao's words: "What's the use of knowing? If you know, you won't know either. I know, you haven't been to ...... either."
Ma Yunyao was choked by Juanzi. She thought angrily that the daughter of the small family could see the broken things in front of her. What about the pillars? Ma Yunyao suddenly remembered what Lu Xun said: All foolish citizens, no matter how healthy and strong they are, can only be meaningless materials and spectators for public display. So, Ma Yunyao suddenly had a scene in front of him: at the entrance of the vegetable market, the executioner was slaughtering the revolutionaries. The simple and strong pillar and Juanzi were watching the excitement with the child, the pillar had a smile on his face, very stiff, condensed on his face, silly......
Ma Yunyao suddenly felt that the pillar was the image representative of the "stupid people" in China's current countryside, so she happily installed it as an alias for the pillar. On that day, Ma Yunyao suddenly became interested in the study of Zhuzi: people said that China's backwardness had a lot to do with the stupidity and ignorance of the peasants, and the market and greed of the small citizens. Is it possible for a new generation like Pillar to change?
Ma Yunyao's school was originally a private school. Later, Shiosho funded the school, turned the private school into a school, and invited teachers who had returned from studying in Japan to teach the new school. Xinxue emphasized a new atmosphere and advocated freeing students from miscellaneous books and scriptures, so many new courses were added: history, geography, arithmetic, foreign Chinese, and even tailoring......
Because the town is small and there are not many wealthy families, there are not many people who come to sign up. And running a school always requires a certain number of students, and the defense of men and women in small places is not as important as in big cities, so this school recruits both men and women, and it is also the first to open up the atmosphere.
In the beginning, although the men and women of the upper and lower grades were in the same house, they had to sit separately, and a cloth curtain was tightly separated in the middle, so as to prevent the men and women from getting along day and night and feeling each other. There is no such initiative for students in the lower primary schools and in the lower grades because they are generally young.
But what good is a curtain? It only increases the inconvenience of walking, and provokes the students of the upper primary school to disturb all day long, and they must be as "equal" as the students of the lower primary school. Later, the curtain disappeared.
The new school is different from the old school, and advocates that there is no class in education, so that more people have the opportunity to receive education, and children who have no money can afford to go to school. It doesn't matter if you can't afford the tuition, you can pay the grain. It doesn't matter if you can't afford to pay the grain, you just have to be willing to work, which is the so-called "change of school". As a result, the number of students in the school gradually increased, and the number of children from poor families gradually increased. Even, the children of some large tenants have picked up their schoolbags and started to read and write.
This school year, the school has carried out the "persuasion" activity with great fanfare. In order to allow more peasant children to study and be taught, the school also assigned the task of "persuading some students to learn".
Ma Yunyao, who received the task, was the first to think of the pillar.