Chapter 39 Fengyuan Elementary School
His father's schooling experience may have made him a little skeptical or unsure about the role of reading, and he often heard him say, "Who knows what the policy will be like in the future?" ”
Therefore, he did not pay close attention to our study, and I have the impression that he urged us to work and taught us a lesson when he caused trouble, but he never urged us to study, nor did he scold us for our academic performance.
It wasn't until I was in middle school that this phenomenon began to change. Reading was still useful, and at that time he received policy care and became a full-fledged teacher. He began to value our academic performance, and it was because of his supervision that my academic performance in junior high school improved by leaps and bounds.
My mother was the only one who looked forward to my father, and she never urged us to study. There is no motivation without pressure, and in primary school, my academic performance was mediocre, but my qualifications were good, and I did not go downstream.
The primary school I attended was called Fengyuan Primary School, which was located in the Shixiang team, where the brigade headquarters was located, and on the hillside behind the village, a vacant lot was carved out, and a row of bungalows was built, and there were about seven or eight classrooms, and in front of each classroom was a wooden pillar and a corridor was erected.
The chalkboard was pasted with mud, smoothed with lime and painted with black lacquer. The desks are made by local carpenters, and they are quite exquisite, with open drawers that can be used to put school bags, and the stools are long, and a desk seats two people.
There are not many students, one class per grade, twenty or thirty people in each class, five-year school system, complete curriculum, in addition to Chinese, mathematics, art, music, physical education and other courses.
There are not many teachers, it seems that there are only five or six, each with a grade, all of them are class teachers, and they are not formally assigned, all of them are substitute teachers hired by the brigade. Some have graduated from junior high school, and some have even only graduated from elementary school.
Only his father was a college graduate, probably because of this, he has been the principal of the elementary school. In addition to my father, two others later became full-time teachers, one was a graduate of the branch of Yecheng Gongda, who should have graduated a few years before my mother; One was a junior high school graduate, who later became a private teacher and then a full-time teacher.
During elementary school, depending on the conditions of someone's house, it can be roughly seen from his schoolbag that the schoolbag in good condition is a yellow satchel, which is basically the same as the current military satchel. If the conditions are poor, they will sew a cloth bag from coarse cloth at home, which is a schoolbag.
There are still very few people who can use shoulder bags, most students use cloth bags, girls often use flower cloth, and boys often use white or indigo cloth. In my memory, my sister used a satchel, and the children of the neighbor's eldest sister used a cloth bag.
Because of my father, I entered school at the age of five, and it was completely for fun, two years in the first grade and two years in the second grade. The grades should be good, since entering the third grade at the age of nine, I have not missed a grade, and I was successfully admitted to junior high school.
Not every rural child can go to school, and the teachers at that time will also visit their homes, but the content of the home visits is often to mobilize parents to let their children go to school, the traffic is inconvenient, the roads are muddy, and they are all walking, very dedicated and very hard.
At that time, students had to pay tuition fees to go to school, and rural families did not have a good life, and some people felt that their children were not the material for studying, and they were reluctant to spend this unjust money, and sometimes they would drop out of school in the middle of study.
By the time they get through ideological work, they often have delayed the normal age of going to school, so the ages are uneven, some are already teenagers when they enter school, and some are already seventeen or eighteen years old when they graduate.
There are even fewer who can go to junior high school, I have two female classmates in primary school, both of whom have good academic performance, and one of them has always been the first in the class, although they were both admitted to junior high school, but their families did not let them go.
Towards the end of elementary school, our class received a note with a note about the time to meet in the class, and at the end there were two repetitions of "Remember, remember", which we all remember very clearly.
The note was written by these two female classmates, perhaps they already knew their fate and wanted to leave some good memories when they graduated.
I was too young, and I was a rural child, I didn't think of a party at all, the teacher never organized it, and maybe none of the previous graduates had such a move, they all went home as soon as they graduated, and those who continued to go to school continued to go to school.
I don't know how they came up with such an idea at such a young age, and how they could have such guts. Because during primary school, male and female classmates never interacted or spoke, otherwise they would be teased by other classmates, which shows the intelligence of the two.
At that time, I didn't know the sadness of parting, the preciousness of classmate friendship, and I didn't go later, and I can't remember what I did after I went. I guess I didn't go, I was too playful, and after a short period of surprise, I should have been ignored or forgotten.
My father has a very high prestige in the school, although I have never seen him beaten and scolded and corporal punishment, but every student is afraid of him, and when they see him, they stay away.
Several teachers are very dedicated, the school's teaching performance has been very good, for several years in a row, the promotion rate is 100%, at that time is very difficult, other rural schools are difficult to do this, many students can not get into junior high school, can only go home to farm.
I remember when I was in elementary school, the school attached great importance to extracurricular activities, and a playground was leveled in front of the classroom, because it was leveled out of the yellow earth, and it was muddy on rainy days, so outdoor activities could not be carried out.
The playground can accommodate all teachers and students to do recess exercises, and at that time it was still the seventh set of broadcast gymnastics, with eight movements and eight beats, and the familiar rhythm accompanied it for seven years. A simple blue ball rack was erected on the playground, and a pole was made of wood, and a blue frame was installed on it, and there was only one frame and only one blue ball.
The weather was good, and the students played basketball ball, siege games, skipping rope, kicking keys, and playing boards on the playground. Siege is to draw a square city on the ground and divide it into two factions to attack. The board is a "board" that is folded into a square with waste paper, placed on the ground, and won if it is turned over.
There are few extracurricular reading materials, and all of them are villain books, and parents of students with better family conditions will buy them for their children, which is very popular among students. Villain books are carefully treasured, and unless the relationship is particularly good, you have to exchange gifts to borrow them.
From the villain's book, we see many heroic stories, many mythological fairy tales. The most impressive thing is the villain book that tells the story of Sun Wukong and Yue Fei, with vivid illustrations, and a few short sentences at the bottom, which are very vividly depicted.
I am the only boy among the four sisters, my father still has a patriarchal mentality, and he is more used to me, I have never been afraid of anyone during school, not even my father, and other teachers have not been afraid.
There is only one blue ball in the school, which is generally kept in the teacher's office, others dare not enter and dare to take it, but I dare to enter and dare to take it.
Because my father is the principal, and because his prestige is really too high, I hold this only blue ball, and no one dares to complain, so I am particularly willful, dominating who can play and who can't.
A student instigated the daughter of the village party secretary in the same class to snatch my blue ball, and the village party secretary had a higher prestige in the village, but others did not dare, but she was not afraid, and really provoked me and asked me to hand over the blue ball to her.
She was a year older than me, taller and stronger than me, and when she saw that I didn't agree, she spat on me, and I fought back angrily, but I couldn't knock her down, but she didn't fight back, and she never provoked me again, and as the only person who challenged my authority in elementary school, she was recorded in the history of my memory.
Heaven and earth are not afraid, there was a period of time when my father had something to do, and my cousin Yiyang, who was reviewing at my house, went to school to take classes instead of him, because he criticized me in class, and ran to the teacher's office in anger to chase him, but he couldn't chase him, and he picked up his lesson plan and threw it into the toilet.
Other teachers can't help me, after my father came back, he heard about it, and invited me to eat a meal of "fried meat with bamboo shoots", childhood fearless, a lesson, did not care, still stubborn, ignorant, play more and learn less, with the last period of primary school, until graduation.
Every autumn, the school also organizes a sports day. Usually students from the fourth grade and above participate, but when I was about to enter the fourth grade, I had a serious illness, and since then my body has collapsed, and it is difficult to show strength and majesty.
This serious illness is due to nosebleeds, which are common in children, and the parents didn't pay much attention to it, and used some local methods, thinking that it would stop naturally after a while. As a result, my nosebleeds continued to flow late into the night, and I was already pale and almost fainting.
My parents were in a hurry, so they asked the tractor of the brigade to be sent to the township health center, but the health center still couldn't stop after emergency treatment, and immediately found a way to send it to the county people's hospital, at this time I was already in a coma.
At the beginning, my parents wiped off my nosebleed with a towel, the whole towel was stained red, my parents were scared and heartbroken, my father told me, don't let the blood come out again, swallow it in my stomach, I swallowed a lot, and then all the blood clots that came out were black.
At the county hospital, I didn't know how the bleeding stopped or when I woke up, but I did know that the hospital gave me a blood transfusion. This serious illness, I don't know the cause, so my body is very weak for a long time.
In the children's competition, I can't compare to others, no one calls me "commander" anymore, and the status of the child king is handed over. My friends began to move away from me, and one day, they even found that they had grown taller and stronger than me, and I finally tasted the loneliness of not having a playmate.
This damn illness caused me to encounter setbacks for the first time in the ups and downs of the "Huan Hai", which had a serious impact on my character growth: my competitive heart was seriously frustrated, I once had low self-esteem, and I developed an introverted and taciturn character.
Primary school is an important stage of ideological enlightenment, and textbooks play a vital guiding role, and it is the characters and stories in it that make our minds gradually enlightened. There are no ideological and moral education classes in primary schools, and Chinese textbooks are not only knowledge textbooks for literacy, sentence formation, and composition, but also textbooks for socialist ideology and morality.
The characters involved in the textbook are clearly divided into friend and foe, reflecting the ideological and political requirements of the country at that time. The most objective manifestation of ideological enlightenment is that in our speech and demeanor, there is a distinction between "good people" and "bad people".
At that time, class struggle was still being emphasized, and the class characteristics of the characters in the textbooks were obvious and clearly divided, with capitalists, landlords, and spies being the standard "bad guys," and workers, peasants, and the People's Liberation Army being the standard "good guys."
We are all proud to be "good guys" and hate "bad guys" to the core, and the heroes in "good guys" are idols admired by our partners. We learn from Lei Feng to do good deeds, and pick good deeds that do not leave a name.
We aspire to be little heroes like "Wang Erxiao", hoping that the enemy will appear and lead the enemy into the encirclement. We worship "Liu Hulan, Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun", and learn their appearance in the game, heroic and unyielding.
We love the great man and regard him as the sun in our hearts, and his portrait is always hung on his chest and carefully treasured. We love Tiananmen Square in Beijing, which is the holy place in our hearts.
We sang the song: "I love Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the sun rises on Tiananmen Square, great leader, guide us forward!" Spend a carefree elementary school time.
We all have clearly set our own example in our hearts, fantasizing about becoming like them as soon as possible, and hoping to grow up quickly in our fantasies.
This is the small mountain village where I was born, in spring a hundred flowers are on fire, red rhododendrons are all over the mountains, in summer the eyes are full of green grass and trees, and in autumn the rice waves are golden and red leaves are flying and the melons and fruits are fragrant, and in the winter the light frost is all over the ground and frozen into the edges and snow, a quiet and peaceful.