Chapter 400: Knowledge Changes Destiny

Yinchuan, Ningxia

The early spring sun shines on the ground, adding a touch of warmth to the desolate ground. On a barren loess hill, a young man of about twenty-four or five years old, dressed in a gray mountain suit and carrying a yellow backpack, carried a huge black handbag in his hand, bulging and not knowing what it contained.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking at the sun that had begun to set, the young man put down the handbag in his hand and let out a long breath, took out a dark green military kettle from his backpack, drank a large sip of water, and after a while took out a map from his arms and looked at it carefully, before he muttered to himself: "Well, it seems that it should be almost there, judging from the situation marked on the map, there should be three miles to go, so you should be able to feel the halfway up the mountain before dark!" ”

After resting for about ten minutes, the young man, who felt that his strength had almost recovered, picked up his handbag again and began to hurry.

It was getting dark, and the young people finally rushed along the path to this small village called Banshantun before dark, and when the young people arrived at this small village, there were already more than a dozen anxious-looking men gathered at the entrance of the village, and they rushed over as soon as they saw the arrival of the young man.

"Hello, are you Teacher Yan?"

"You must be Teacher Yan sent by Qili, we have been looking forward to you for a long time!"

"You've finally arrived, and if you don't come again, we'll go out to find you!"

The gossip greeting made the young man who had been on the road for a day suddenly feel warm, and he said with a smile: "Hello everyone, I am the teacher sent by Qili, and my name is Yanchun." From today onwards, I will live and work with all of you here, so please give me a lot of advice. ”

"Okay..... well," an old man wearing an octagonal hat that could no longer see the color of the old man shed two cloudy tears with excitement, "Our village baby finally has its own teacher!" ”

The old man grabbed Yan Chun's hand and said excitedly, "Teacher Yan, everyone in the village calls me the third uncle, and you can also call me the third uncle." From today onwards, I will hand over all the children of the village to you! Saying that, the third uncle stretched out his hand and made a gesture behind him, "Children, you all come here and have seen your Teacher Yan." ”

As soon as the words fell, more than 20 children came from behind, some of them were twelve or thirteen years old, and some were only four or five years old. It's just that they all have a common feature, that is, they are all dressed in tatters, dirty little hands and small faces, they are all standing behind the third uncle, and their dirty little faces look at Yan Chun with a timid expression, and there is a look of longing in their eyes.

The third uncle smiled at these children and scolded: "You troublemakers, haven't seen your Teacher Yan soon, call Teacher Yan good!" ”

The children timidly came to Yan Chun and shouted obediently: "Hello Teacher Yan! ”

"Okay, hello classmates!" Yan Chun also smiled and greeted the children.

"Teacher Yan!" The third uncle in front of him spoke, "In the future, if these little troublemakers disobey your discipline, you will be scolded and beaten when you should be beaten, don't be polite." If anyone doesn't listen to you, tell me this old man, and the old man will clean him up! ”

At this time, someone from behind spoke, "Third uncle, Teacher Yan has just arrived, and you haven't let people in yet, and you don't even let people drink saliva, which is not kind." ”

"Oh, yes, yes, yes...."The third uncle slapped his thigh violently and said with a smile: "Look, everyone, I'm old and confused." Come on, Mr. Yan, please come into the house, there is nothing to entertain in the small country place, that is, a little self-brewed corn wine, Mr. Yan, don't dislike it. ”

Yan Chun knew that this reception banquet could not be pushed no matter what happened after arriving at a place, and after hearing this, he smiled and said, "Third uncle, you are too polite, I have to ask you to take care of me when I first arrived." I'm going to have a few toasts to you tonight! ”

Yan Chun was about to bend down and lift the backpack in his hand, but was stopped by the third uncle, "Teacher Yan, just hand over the bag to these little rabbit cubs, you and we will go and have a few drinks first." ”

After speaking, the third uncle kicked a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy in the ass and scolded: "Aguli, you stupid, do you even want me to teach you such a thing as carrying a bag?" Why don't you help Mr. Yan carry the bag to his house! ”

This young man named Aguli hurriedly picked up Yanchun's two backpacks and was about to go to the village with another companion, when suddenly Aguli screamed, his steps were unsteady, and he almost fell to the ground.

"Hahaha...."Everyone laughed, "Agul, you haven't eaten today, why can't you even lift a bag?" ”

Aguli, who blushed, pointed to the backpack and said unconvinced: "This bag is too heavy, I can't lift it!" ”

A man in his thirties walked over and mentioned it unbelievably and said in surprise: "Eh, it's quite heavy, no wonder Aguliti can't move!" ”

Yan Chun on the side explained with a smile: "Here are all textbooks, homework books and some tools given by the government to the children, of course they have to be sunk." ”

"Oh! That's right, now the government has finally paid attention to us ordinary people! ”

"That's it, we haven't had a teacher in Banshantun for many years, and now the government has finally sent someone here, now it's okay, even the textbooks are here, it's still the government!"

Listening to the gossip of everyone, Yan Chun didn't say anything, just looked at the dilapidated earthen houses around him and the pungent smell of burning with cow and sheep dung from time to time, and heard a sentence from a young man at the graduation ceremony of the normal school: Knowledge changes fate!

It was late at night, and Yan Chun, with a hint of drunkenness, sat on a simple small bench, in front of him was a small square table, on which was a dim oil lamp, behind him was a small wooden bed, and next to it was a small stove, which was his shelter in this village.

Yan Chun took out a thick book of letter paper and a pen, and began to write letters on the letterhead.

Xia: Today is the place where I taught at the first school I came to after graduating from Chahar Normal School, which is a remote mountain village next to Yinchuan, Ningxia Prefecture. There are only about 100 people in this village, and the lack of water is the first problem I encountered after I came here, and the order of the water used by the people here is like this, in addition to drinking water, it is generally used to wash the face and then the vegetables, and then to wash the feet at night, and finally to the pigs or livestock that are kept at home to drink.

It is very difficult for people here to go to the county (that is, Qili) once in their lives, and ordinary people will nest in this small place within a radius of more than 20 miles for a lifetime, and when I first saw this scene, I couldn't imagine that there was such a poor place in the world.

At night, when I saw the longing in the eyes of the children when they first saw me, my heart seemed to be pierced by something, and I felt that my heart was suddenly touched by something, dear, can you understand my feelings?

We were the first batch of students to graduate from Chahar Normal School, and when we graduated, Chairman Su personally attended our graduation. Chairman Su is really young, it seems that he is less than thirty, but it is he who has carried the safety of tens of millions of people in the four provinces of Chahar with his young shoulders. Before, I didn't understand the difficulty of being a provincial chairman, but when I looked at the longing eyes of hundreds of young and old people and two dozen children in the village today, I immediately felt the responsibility on my shoulders, and I really couldn't imagine that if the comfort of tens of millions of people in the four provinces of Chahar were pressed on my shoulders, I would collapse immediately.

I still clearly remember when Chairman Su gave us the words "knowledge changes destiny", all of us more than 300 graduates did not understand the mood at that time, and now I finally understand that in these poor places and in the eyes of children and adults, learning knowledge can indeed change the fate of their families and even a village's old and young ancestors for generations, and they have condensed their future happiness in those thin textbooks.

My dear love, do you understand my feelings? When I heard the words of the third uncle: I handed over all the children in the village to you. When I said this, I clearly saw the flickering tears in the eyes of the third uncle, he was pinning the future fate of Banshantun on me!

Ah Xia, maybe you will never imagine the poverty of the children here in Zhangjiakou, how eager they are to see the sky outside. Today I was drunk, the third uncle took out all the more than a dozen catties of corn wine brewed by the whole village a year to entertain me, a substitute teacher who came from afar, this is the wine that more than 100 people in their village have saved for a year, usually they don't even have enough to eat, these wines are still praised by the whole village to wait until the New Year to drink.

I was drunk tonight, I got myself drunk, I was afraid that I would see the longing eyes of my children and my third uncle again, and I was afraid that I would live up to their expectations.

Dear Xia, just tonight I had a bold idea, your class of girls' normal school will graduate in two months, would you like to take root here with me after graduation to educate the children here? Of course, I also know that this requirement is too harsh for you, with your conditions, you can stay in Zhangjiakou or find an easy job in any city, my request is too unfair to you, you can completely refuse, even break up with me, I will not have half a complaint.

But I decided to put down roots here, and I wanted to change the fate of the children here.

My dear, the night is already deep, and my wine is beginning to rise, so let's write here first, I will always love your Yanchun!

At 11 o'clock in the evening on February 9, the 27th year of the Republic of China

Yan Chun, who had written the letter, took out an envelope, put the letter in the envelope, and slowly glued the seal with saliva.

The dim oil lamp reflected the young man's figure in a flickering light, but it was particularly conspicuous....... R