Chapter Forty-Eight: Yecheng Vocational High School
Junior high school life is over, and I woke up in the last stage, thinking about working hard, and I can be admitted to a middle school like my sister, but it is too late, and the examination room is not ideal, and I was only admitted to the third middle school, that is, Yecheng Vocational High School.
The performance in the examination room is not ideal, because I am a little nervous and stage frightened, I don't finish writing the essay in Chinese, I don't pay attention to the time in mathematics, I don't have time to do the questions that I will be able to do when I get stuck in the question, and if I don't have excellent grades in chemistry and physics, I may not even be able to pass the third middle school.
There are many high schools in the county, and there are only three in the face of the county's enrollment, which are called No. 1 Middle School, No. 2 Middle School, and No. 3 Middle School, and the admission results are in order from high to bottom, which also determines that No. 1 Middle School is a key high school, followed by No. 2 Middle School, and the worst of No. 3.
The forestry system has forestry vocational high schools, and the hydropower system has hydropower vocational high schools, but they are all recruited from the system, and junior high schools are directly admitted to secondary schools, such as normal and health schools, but those are all run by the region, and they have to study in other counties or regions.
As long as the results are online, every high school can be admitted to the university, and the normal and health schools can also continue to apply for the junior college.
Only the third middle school is a special one, as a state-approved vocational skills school, only it can apply for the agricultural school, the agricultural school belongs to the junior college, set up in Yichun, where the regional administrative office is located, after graduation, assigned to work in the township, nominally to guide agricultural production with what they have learned, and is generally placed as a township cadre.
Because of this uniqueness, many students who failed the college entrance examination in the first and second middle schools chose to transfer to the third middle school, hoping to be admitted to agricultural schools from here and solve the problem of going out of the countryside. After these people transfer to another school, their grades are often much better than ours, almost blocking our only way to go on to higher education.
Several high schools, only the third middle school set up a rural area, the reason why it is called Yecheng Vocational School, because the place where it is located is called Yecheng, how the name came from has not been exquisite, not big or small a village, close to the school, there may be forty or fifty families.
Yecheng belongs to Luofang Township, bordering Shangfu Township in the west, the people in the village are scattered, gathered together, slightly disorderly, there is a road through the middle, one end to the east about seven or eight miles to Luofang Township, where Luo City is located, where it is connected with the main road, one end to the west through a new bridge next to the village, about five or six miles to reach the location of Shangfu Township.
Surrounded by open rice fields, the Nanlan River flows down from the west side of the village, after passing the bridge, it turns a big bend, and continues to run through the fields to the east, the water surface is open and the water level is very deep, and I don't know how much bigger than the river under the bath.
When I first arrived at the school, the water was still very clear, and about the next year, the sewage from the paper mill upstream was directly discharged, and the whole river was dyed purple, exuding a pungent smell, fish and shrimp were extinct, aquatic plants were rotting, and even a foul smell was sometimes stinking. But this can't stop our enthusiasm for playing by the river, leaving too many unforgettable memories.
In the past, the Luan River was a mountain forest, the mountain was not very high, it was slightly low, but it was connected into a piece, a wide river flowed into the Luan River, there was a mountain road winding, connecting the mountain people inside, and the scenery in many places was unique and fascinating.
Most of the villages are clustered in the south, the school is in the north, and the road that passes through the village turns and forks in the middle of the village, writing the gate of "Yecheng Vocational and Technical School", and the houses of the villagers rise below facing south.
The gate, which may be five or six meters high, is connected to the tall fence around the school, separating the school from the village and is the main road in and out of the school, in addition, there are three small gates, the north one is connected to the back field, the west is connected to the school's agricultural base, which leads to the bamboo forest by the river, and the east leads to the school's craft factory.
Entering the gate, there is a wide passage, paved with small pebbles, about 100 meters long, and at the end stands a three-storey teaching building, simple and elegant, square, and a national flag is always flying on it.
The teaching building has always been the place where the teachers work, only the class cadres often go, I don't seem to have been in once, the roof of the building is the school's radio room, since the second year of high school, our beautiful deputy class president, has been serving as the school announcer until we graduated.
On either side of the passage next to the main gate, two two-story buildings stand symmetrically, one on the east side for dormitories and the other on the west side for teaching buildings. The west side of the school building used to be a tall auditorium, which was empty and had a large stage.
The north side of the auditorium is the canteen, the canteen is a few rows of staff dormitories to the north, a row of classrooms is connected to the east, and then there is a teaching building, there is a passage between the staff dormitory and the classroom, which is connected to the collective public toilet under the courtyard wall on the north side, and the small door on the north side is next to the public toilet, except for the iron gate due south, all the small doors are open.
Several buildings enclose the campus, very open, bounded by the middle passage, the west is the basketball court, no longer a good bath under the middle school alone, but several lined up together, high school can be regarded as a real understanding of the blue ball, dribbling, throwing blue, cooperation, are here to listen to the teacher's explanation, from the classmates to learn.
The east is a football field, and it may also be the only relatively standard football field in the county, and the third middle school plays football is a traditional advantage, whether it is a student or a teacher, it is to play with the county's joint football team at every turn, and win more and lose less, becoming one of our few honors to show off.
As I learned at Huibu Middle School, it was my father who took me to the school to report and rode a bicycle by myself, but this time the distance was longer, more than 30 kilometers long, and I rode for more than three hours.
The mood is even different, less excited and curious, more helpless and lost, I used to be unable to keep up with my father's speed and fell behind, and now I can't move forward with depression.
Starting from the road at the door of the house, all the way through the Laohui Port, continue to go more than ten miles to reach the slag village, and then get on the only road in Hengdan County, about 20 miles later, enter the Luoshi market town and turn into a road, along the road for more than ten miles, and finally arrive at Yecheng.
In front of the teaching building that I registered, I saw a familiar figure at a glance, it was a female classmate in the bath, I don't know if it was because I saw an acquaintance, or she had grown into a shy girl, the first feeling, I felt particularly youthful and beautiful, and I was particularly kind.
She may have felt the same way, eagerly greeting my father and me, and it was also from that moment that she broke the convention of not talking to girls in elementary and junior high school, and her high school life was deeply connected with her classmates, and she formed a sincere friendship that will be unforgettable for many years.
The Fengxin region is spindle-shaped, with hills and plains in the east, and the county is located in Fengchuan in the east. A highway connects the county seat with Shangfu, called Fengxian.
As the political, economic and cultural center of a county, it is too far away from the western mountainous area, and in this case, Shangfu, which is located in the key area, has become the economic center of nine townships in the mountainous area, and according to the current statement, it is the sub-center of Fengxin.
The sub-center is worthy of its name, because the farms and reclamation farms left by the branch of the Yecheng Gongda Branch are mostly in Shangfu, among which the Dongfeng reclamation farm is the largest in scale and has a transcendent status, and other townships are department-level units, but it is the deputy county level, and under the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Dongfeng reclamation farm has established many large and small enterprises.
Perhaps it is the uniqueness of Dongfeng Reclamation Farm, at that time Shangfuji Town was densely populated, busy trade, there were many song and dance halls, video halls, etc., and many coexisted, and there was a wholesale market, the scale can be comparable to the county, and it was named "Little Nanjing".
Similar to Huibu Middle School and Yuxia Middle School, soon after the school registered, the new teaching building broke ground, and the first row of classrooms between the teaching building and the staff dormitory was selected for the second half of the year.
During the construction period, as in the middle school, the boys were all arranged into the auditorium and lived for several months, which was wide and empty, noisy, and some of the beds were temporarily erected, simply made of bamboo chips, and the beds of several grades were all crowded together to become a long bunk.
The construction mode of the new teaching building is almost the same as that of Yuxia Middle School, except that there is no transept in the middle of the front, only stairs, and the classrooms are more wide, with four classes in one grade, one floor for each grade, and a total of three floors. After it was completed, it was put into use, and all students gathered here to attend classes and study.
The old school building has become a girls' dormitory, and there is always an elderly aunt at the door, staring at the passing boys, for fear that they will trespass. The dormitory on the other side is all inhabited by male students, and the door is open and unguarded.
A row of old classrooms at the back of the new school building, which was also used for third-year girls, was completely open without walls, giving birth to many hazy feelings of mutual care, and the deepest memory is that after a basketball or soccer game between classes, the boys would put their changed clothes at the door, and someone would always help wash them.
Ordinary high schools should be divided into classes according to arts and sciences in the first semester of high school, and as vocational and technical schools, they will also be divided into classes, but they are divided according to different vocational skills, including engineering and art classes, breeding classes, agricultural machinery classes, etc.
In addition to the Gongmei class, the other classes, the curriculum is basically the same as that of ordinary high schools, but there is an additional labor class, to the agricultural base in the west of the campus, to learn fruit tree cultivation, grafting and other technologies, many students grafted seedlings can survive, I don't know what's going on, I haven't succeeded once.
The Gongmei class is different, there is basically no requirement for ordinary high school courses, most of them go to the craft factory next door to learn skills, and being assigned to the Gongmei class is equivalent to announcing the end of their studies, in fact, many people leave the school after being assigned to the Gongmei class.
Of course, we know this, so our class is completely different from other high school liberal arts and science subjects, and there is more sadness about parting, and on the day of the class, many students can't help but hug their heads and cry, and the scene is more than graduation and leaving school.
In our session, the Gongmei class was dismantled and the second class was established, so the parting feeling of the second class was the strongest, and after many years, the students got together, and they would also meet in the name of the second class, and the scene was as warm, which was not found in other classes.