Chapter 47: Junior High School Boys

Rural children, many people study very hard, under the guidance of their families, hoping to change their fate through reading, and the idea of changing their fate is very simple, so simple that they just want to solve the "commercial grain", and they no longer face the loess with their backs to the sky.

However, at that time, the admission rate was too low, even if it was promoted to junior high school, most of them would be eliminated, and even fewer would go to university or technical secondary school after high school. There is a saying to describe the college entrance examination at that time, called "thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge", which could not be more appropriate.

Other people's efforts, because of my father's implementation of the policy, I entered junior high school soon after I solved the problem, at that time did not feel anything special, people are still rural, go home still have to do all kinds of farm work.

Life has not changed much, but the mood has been very different, two or three months after leaving, I followed my father to study again, although there were more constraints, but my heart had a solid support.

The superiority of the teacher's children returned, and the father was no longer the head of a school, which could not be compared with the elementary school days, but he said goodbye to melancholy for a short time, was less afraid of interacting with classmates, and was less restrained in contact with teachers.

Just entered the middle school under the bath, the position of the first and third classes of junior high school has not yet been hot, and the midterm exam was ushered in, the results were not ideal, ranking in the class in more than 30, more or less ashamed, for the first time I had a sense of honor, and felt that such results could not be worthy of the identity of the teacher's child.

My father was not satisfied, but he did not blame him, and perhaps after the implementation of the policy, I felt the warmth of the organization again, and his opinion also changed, and he encouraged me to study hard.

I still remember what he said when he persuaded me, which probably meant that I had been doing well in my studies, and that I had done well in the elementary school and junior high school exams, and that the teachers at Huibu Middle School regarded me as a good student and showed reluctance when I transferred to another school.

This reminds me of the exam when I was promoted to junior high school, and my father attached great importance to it and reminded me how to write an essay before the exam. Elementary school is usually a narrative, and he speculated that he must have written about something he had experienced, so he specially tutored him.

After the first trip of my life, I went to Shangrao Lead Mountain and Ninghai, Zhejiang, to visit my eldest uncle and fourth uncle, as a winter vacation homework, I handed in an essay, which was written as a travel experience, and my father, who was a Chinese teacher, felt that the writing was very good, and explained it as a model essay in class.

My father said to me that if it was such an essay, I could write it according to it, and then it seemed that it was arranged for the exam at Qingshu Elementary School next door, and the last essay seemed to be different from what my father said, but I still rewrote that essay, I don't know if it was off topic, but it doesn't matter anymore, because I was successfully admitted to junior high school.

There seems to be a magic in my father, as long as he says, I will listen to him from childhood to adulthood, and as long as he puts some hopes or requests to me, I can basically do it, this is the case when I was a student, and it is the same after I go out into society.

For example, when I served in the army, he hoped that I would be admitted to the military academy, and after being admitted to the military academy, he hoped that I could write a thesis. The only time I didn't do it happened in Baunder Middle School, and I changed my fate from then on.

My father's encouragement and the sense of honor that appeared for the first time brought me pressure and motivation, and from then on, I began to listen carefully and concentrate on my classes. It seems that my mind is completely open, and I can understand and learn what the teacher teaches in class as soon as I listen to it.

Even if it is the most boring political science class, biology class, and history and geography to memorize, even if the teacher just reads the board and reads it according to the book, I can memorize it, and I can memorize it as long as the teacher asks questions in the next class, and I have become one of the teacher's favorite students.

This makes me feel quite strange, because this phenomenon has never been encountered before, in the second year of junior high school, the score improved again, jumped to the fifth place in the class, although not very hard after class, but has been stable in the top five since then.

By the time I was in the third year of junior high school, perhaps in order to motivate, or maybe I had always had such thoughts, my father began to put forward expectations for me, and he advised me to work hard and strive to be directly admitted to Gao'an Normal School.

Admitted to the normal school to become a teacher, is the fastest and most effective shortcut to solve the problem of commercial grain, this is also the most urgent desire of many students from the rural background, too popular, but the most difficult to test, often the top few in the school, can be admitted.

Many talented rural children, whose academic performance is one of the best in the school, the first choice is to apply for Gao'an Normal School, I don't know how many geniuses are mediocre, and since then they have stepped on the three-inch podium and spent their lives.

My father's intentions were good, but he didn't know enough about the young man's nature, and I took my father's encouragement as a requirement, thinking that he would definitely fill in the Gao'an Normal Volunteer for me when I went to school, which made me particularly disgusted.

Junior high school is young, the influence of social responsibility is too great, the school is impacted, the teachers are fragile and powerless, those "gangsters" in front of the teacher unscrupulously shouting too much, and often hear some rumors of the teacher's responsibility, including being "lectured" in the society.

The female English teacher who taught us in the third year of junior high school is young and beautiful, and her image is amiable, and I like her classes very much, so my English scores have always been good, and my scores in every exam are the top few.

Later, some of my classmates said bad things about her, thinking that she was frivolous and had a bad style, but I actually believed it in the case of hearsay, and I hid a little loss in my heart, and gradually became disgusted with her, and my English grades declined.

So I had a misunderstanding about the teaching profession, listened to social rumors, and learned that my father's idea was for me to become a teacher, and I completely lost my interest in learning, and my grades began to waver, sometimes dropping significantly.

My father still didn't understand, thinking that the foundation was not solid enough, so he won me the opportunity to take a year off from school, and encouraged me to continue to work hard and strive to be admitted to Gao'an Normal School once, and after I listened, I was even more disappointed, and I took a year off from school, and my grades did not rise but fell.

I have such a heart, it does not mean that other students are also like this, many children from rural areas, they study very hard, very hard, very conscious.

The cedar forest behind the school, the rice field in front, the canal next to it, and the grass and beach by the river, it is common for them to come in twos and threes, holding textbooks and reciting them carefully.

The boarding students of the school, similar to the Huibu Middle School, live in a collective dormitory, eat a can of dried vegetables brought by the family, the dormitory is crowded and damp, scabies is epidemic for a period of time, it is very contagious, and almost every boarder is infected.

Regardless of the cold or heat, every morning at four or five o'clock, many of them have already gotten up, lit candles in the classroom to endorse books, and after the evening self-study, they will stay to review, and do not go back to the dormitory to sleep until late at night.

Counting up, they sleep no more than six hours a day, and some even less than five hours, insisting every day, no matter the wind, rain or thunder.

Even the social climate has not had an impact on them, and "the children of poor families are in charge of the family at an early age", so you can imagine how strong their desire to get out of the countryside and get rid of poverty is.

I followed my father to eat in the cafeteria, no longer had to eat dried vegetables all week, and lived in the teacher's dormitory, which was really "born in sorrow and died in peace", and the short-term comfort made it difficult for me to work as hard as theirs.

Sometimes when my father went back, I would even bring hot food from the cafeteria to the dormitory and share it with them, sometimes naughty, and even sleep with them at night, and my classmates advised me that the dormitory was dirty and would get scabies.

At my father's request, every morning, I would run along the road in front of the school until I reached the main road leading to the county seat, then to the bridge, and then to stretch before going back to school.

During the period, I often met a female classmate in the class, she was the first in our class, her home was near the school, she was a day student, in junior high school, there was still a 38th line between boys and girls, she never spoke, and she never said hello after meeting.

There is also a girl in the class, like her, her grades are always among the best, their family conditions should be good, their parents are state workers, one of them was admitted to the normal school, and later returned to Yuxia Middle School to teach, the other was admitted to the university, and started a family abroad.

When I asked her why she worked so hard in junior high school, she replied that she didn't want to be worse than others. Maybe another girl thinks the same way, simple reasons often become life-changing beliefs.

Among the male classmates, more should be to get rid of the fate of the countryside, I have a classmate, academic performance is average, but very hard, sleep the latest and get up the earliest, never see him play, maybe it is with such thoughts.

Hard work is rewarded, these rural students, some of them were directly admitted to medical schools, normal and other secondary schools, individual a few points worse, there was a policy at that time, after paying a certain amount of money, you can be enrolled as a commission trainee, after graduation, the same assignment of work, a few of them got rid of the fate of the countryside, the youngest son of the Wang family next door, it is through the commission training, into Gao'an Normal study.

Some of them were admitted to the first and second middle schools, and many of them were admitted to universities, one of them was admitted to Zhejiang University, and when they served in the army, they happened to be next to our company, and they met by chance and learned about their college life, which had a great impact on my final entry into the military academy.