Chapter 45 Teachers' Quarters
The forest farm primary school did not live for a long time, and soon after arriving at Yuxia Middle School, the school began to build a new teaching building, taking the dilapidated second junior high school classroom, demolishing the old and building the new, which was quickly put into use in the second year.
The new building was built with three floors, single-sided, with classrooms and corridors wider than those in the bungalows, with four rooms on each floor, one grade on the first floor, and cement railings in the corridors on the second and third floors. In the middle of the school building is a stairwell, and the staircase with concrete pouring rotates upwards.
The front of the stairwell protrudes into an ear room that can be used as the teacher's office, and the room on the third floor is equipped with sound equipment, and when it comes to recess exercises, rhythmic radio gymnastics music resounds throughout the school.
The front transept is arranged upwards, forming a huge protruding wall, on which the four big characters of "Bath Middle School" are depicted with red paint, and below the big characters, is an open book, and on the book is a pen with the lid unscrewed, which means reading and writing.
The wall foundation of the new teaching building is very high, and under the corridor on the first floor is a row of granite steps, about ten steps, and a platform is built in front of the ear room, without steps, independent and abrupt, and a mast stands on it, which is used to hang the national flag.
Four big characters and a book, become the unique logo of Yuxia Middle School, seeking knowledge to explore the unknown learning atmosphere, rich dissolution, the bright national flag in front of the exhibition, and there is an extra patriotic feeling of caring for the world to serve the motherland.
You can see it from afar, you can feel it from afar, so many years have passed, this teaching building is still playing a teaching role, this logo is still there, and now I see it very cordial, and there is still a lot of excitement in the past.
The new school building was put into use, the old school building was converted into a single teacher's dormitory, the boys' dormitory was moved to the first classroom, the third classroom was converted into a teacher's family dormitory, and the auditorium became part of the canteen.
I don't remember much about Linchang Primary School, but what impresses me more is that after my father came home, he lived alone at night. When I came back from the evening self-study and encountered a power outage, the wooden box I brought when I transferred from Huibu Middle School was placed at the head of the bed, and a candle was lit and lit on it.
When the child got up the next morning, he found that a large piece of the wooden box had been burnt and melted into a thick layer on it.
My father knew about this, and he didn't blame it, but he was afraid and called it lucky, the wooden box and the clothes inside, as well as the wooden floor under his feet, which were all dry and flammable, and there were candles to help burn, in case of fire, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Near the market town, the power station is not far away, the power outage phenomenon is much better than my family's remote mountain village, but it still happens from time to time, it is said that the school's power supply and the township ** is a line, special electricity supply, but it can not avoid short circuit, lightning damage and other emergencies, there will always be several power outages a year.
Rural children are stubborn, with a bit of untouched free nature, evening self-study discipline with a certain amount of compulsory constraints, can not leave casually, can not speak loudly, let alone make trouble, two classes for two hours, from 7 o'clock in the evening to 9 o'clock.
Students with strong self-discipline and better academic performance can say that some of them have not been able to improve their academic performance, and it will be difficult for them to come to study with some compulsion from their families. Whenever there is a power outage, there will be bursts of screams, and individual boys will blow the most popular, loudest and sharpest whistle at the moment.
The family dormitory has Mr. Huang's family, it seems that Mr. Liang's family also lives there, as well as the physical education teacher Mr. Liu's family and the English teacher Mr. Lu's family.
There are more people living in the old teaching building, and my father lives in the room upstairs facing the staircase, next door is Teacher Xie, and then Principal Kan. Principal Kan taught us politics, he is a particularly clean and tidy person, the room is lit with mosquito coils all the year round, the wooden board and white wall, the faint fragrance drives away mosquitoes, adding a touch of elegance and quiet.
On the other side of my father's dormitory lived Teacher Zheng, with a white face and a little flesh, and a female teacher surnamed Zhou, like Teacher Zheng, who had just been transferred from Guanxia School.
There are many other teachers, such as the two female teachers mentioned above, one of whom is Teacher Zhao and Teacher Xie soon became a couple. There are also female teacher Liao who taught us English in the third year of junior high school, teacher Luo and male teacher Liao who live in the countryside.
Since moving out of Linchang Primary School and staying in the old teaching building, it seems that one night, the spring breeze of reform has blown into the mountains, and the unchanged school life has begun to be significantly affected and changed.
The first changes are not visible to the older teachers, nor can they be seen by the students, and the first to be affected are the younger teachers, and the changes that occur are also the first to appear in them.
Because the initial change, it was the bell bottoms, the flower shirt dress, and the wavy head formed after the perm, which was considered to catch up with the fashion and follow the trend, and these elderly teachers would not catch up, and the students were poor and did not have the ability to consume.
Song and dance halls and video halls also began to appear, and the small town in the mountains, which had been silent for many years, suddenly became lively and rich. The older teachers won't enter, but the students are different, the lights are flickering, the postures are swaying, the stories are bizarre and fascinating, and only the pocket money of the people is spent, all spent on the tickets.
I don't know when bell bottoms and floral shirts began to appear on young male teachers, and some of their hair was permed into big wavy heads. Female teachers with more perms are available, and some wear bell bottoms, and more often they wear gaudy dresses.
I don't know when the old teaching building began to appear pop songs resounding throughout the building, there was a burst of dance music shaking the floor, the sound came from the inclusion that had just appeared, with two loudspeakers, so the sound was particularly loud, the price was not low, and it was also a high consumption.
Around 93 years, my sister, who graduated from high school not long ago, once worked as a substitute teacher in a bath school for a period of time, and her monthly salary was only more than 100 yuan, but she was willing to spend more than 100 yuan to buy such a tape recorder, which shows how attractive it is.
It's not that youth is wanton and flamboyant, it's not that youth can't be restrained, it's not that it's blindly following and losing oneself, it's not that the three views are not correct and morally damaged, but that the materials in that era were too scarce and the entertainment life was too monotonous.
At that time, there was a popular saying in the office, "a cup of tea, a cigarette, a newspaper for half a day", which can very well explain the monotony of life, which is like this in the office, and it is often the same when you return home.
Lack of spiritual sustenance, loneliness has nowhere to dissipate, exuberant energy has nowhere to vent, lovers, best friends are a little better by their side, far away, can only be sustenance with lovesickness, occasional meeting, inconvenience back and forth, a letter and a phone call, not enough to confide.
The busy minibus provides convenience for travel, but it is not its own special car, there is still a distance that needs to be changed to a vehicle, and the distance needs to be measured by footsteps, and it is not comfortable to crowd back and forth, and it is a mood, so it may reduce most of it.
Correspondence exchanges, a letter may take a few days to arrive, and a person may go to the empty address of the building to replace, stamped with a special postal seal, and it is written that there is no return from this person. The phone bill is expensive, a telephone, the public can not use it casually, a few words in private immediately hang up, if it is a long distance, two or three minutes after the past is dozens of yuan.
Pen pals are a new thing born in this situation, chased by the young people at that time for many years, relying on letters across time and space to dialogue, talk about life and ideals, talk about mood and feelings, unknown identity does not know what it looks like, there is a sense of mystery attracted, but also increased interest, and never tired of it.
A TV, you can watch just one or two channels, you can't interact, it's still black and white, everyone watches, it's hard to meet your taste, you have to compete with others when you encounter your favorite program, you have to compete with others, you have been hated by others, and you can't rob yourself uncomfortable.
The emergence of the tape recorder can be said to be the emergence of the prototype of human-computer interaction, you can listen, sing, record the voice, enjoy it alone, listen to it if you want to, sing it when you want to sing, as long as you are not afraid of affecting others, you can use it as loud as you want. If you don't feel like it's enjoyable, you can also record your own singing voice to entertain yourself and be self-intoxicated.
A tape has become a collection of the times, the larger stores have special counters, there are ** on the stalls, which one of the small shops has them, placed in the most obvious place, arranged neatly, in the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, overseas and other countries, where there are singers, what kind of songs can be bought.
There is only one brand of the cassette recorder, called "Yan Dance", "Yan Dance Yan Dance is a song to a piece of love", which fills TV, radio and every corner of society, which is not a family necessity, but must be a must for young people.
Wavy head, flower shirt, bell bottoms, riding a bicycle, carrying a fluttering girl in white clothes, carrying the "Yan Dance" tape recorder on her shoulder, is a unique melody of an era, but also a unique scenery of an era.
Living in my father's dormitory, when I came back from study at night, I could sometimes hear not only the beautiful pop songs on the cassette recorder, but also the vibration of the floor slabs, and I could feel that they were dancing together to the dance music played by the cassette recorder.