One day in July a year later, Oh Dao went on a business trip to Jeju. Walking out of the train station, he suddenly saw a person in front of him who looked like his student Kan Wenyuan, so he shouted:

"Kan Wenyuan."

"Teacher Wu, why are you, it's so unexpected to meet here." Kan Wenyuan looked back and saw that it was his university teacher Wu Dao, and he was also very surprised.

"yes, it was so unexpected, I didn't expect to meet you here. Didn't you stay in the Northwest to live, this time you are going home to visit your family, why didn't Mina come back with you? Wu Dao said.

"Mina is dead, I killed her."

"What's going on? Let's not talk about it here, it's time for lunch, let's find a place to have some food, meet again after a long absence, and have a drink or two. ”

"It's okay, there are too many sad things, and I want to use wine to drown my sorrows."

Wu Dao and Kan Wenyuan found a hotel, and after entering, they chose a window seat to sit down, Wu Dao ordered food and wine, and said to Kan Wenyuan:

"You just said Mina is dead, what the hell is going on?"

"It's a long story, and it all started when I met Mina. After I arrived in the northwest, I became a teacher in a remote township middle school in Gaochang County. The first time I went to such a distant place, I quickly became ill and became seriously ill. The teachers at the school were very concerned about me and took me to the health center to see a doctor.

There I met Mina, the nurse who gave me the injections. The first time I saw her, I was amazed, I had never seen such a beautiful girl. What's even more commendable is that Mina is not only beautiful, but also very kind, and I heard that I am a college student from the mouth, and she cares for me even more.

The health center is very close to the school, and I later recovered, but I still often visit Mina at the health center and ask her out for a walk. ”

"It's really a coincidence, my graduate supervisor Tian Mo asked the teacher that when he met his ex-wife, he was also in the hospital. As in your case, Mr. Tian was also sick and hospitalized, met a female nurse, and then began to pursue her, and eventually got married. ”

"What happened to Mr. Tian in the end?"

"They later divorced."

"Why?"

"There are many reasons, the main one is that life is not in sync, and the outlook on life is too different. Later, they divorced because the female nurse cheated and became pregnant with someone else's child. Mr. Tian only found out after the birth of the child, and immediately decided to divorce.

In fact, the responsibility for the failure of their marriage does not lie entirely with the woman, and Mr. Tian himself also has a lot of responsibility. What happened to you and Mina? ”

"I wrote a lot of poems to Mina, and she was very moved and accepted my pursuit. But she told me that she had congenital heart disease, that she might not live long, that she wouldn't be able to have children, and that it would cost very, very much money to have surgery. The reason why she has never had a partner is because of this disease. ”

"Why didn't you tell me about it before? If I had been told earlier, we could have figured out a way to operate on Mina and cure her. ”

"I had a pact with Mina not to tell anyone about her illness. Besides, Mr. Wu, you are not a very rich person. ”

"Does Mina's death have anything to do with her illness?"

"It mattered, so to speak, that she died of this disease. Although Mina accepted me, her family refused to accept me, and told Mina that if she was with me, they would cut ties with her. For the sake of our love, in order to be with me, Mina stole the household registration book from home and got a marriage certificate with me.

If Mina and I come to the east, it will be difficult for her to adapt to life here, she has made such a big sacrifice for me, I should also think about her, so when I was about to end my one-year volunteer teaching, I decided to stay in the northwest and was admitted to a high school in Yingyuan County as a teacher.

That summer, Mina and I went back to Qicheng for a wedding, and then went to Yingyuan County. Before leaving home, Mina left a letter for her family about marrying me. ”

"So, you're eloping?"

"Yes, Mina made a very big sacrifice for me. At that time, she thought that after a while, her family would forgive her and accept the fact that she was with me. We imagined it well, but then things turned out differently. ”

Kan Wenyuan was talking, and the waiter served the wine. Kan Wenyuan drank a lot of wine, Wu Dao asked him to eat more, but he only cared about drinking.

"How did you do when you arrived in Yingyuan County?" Wu Dao said.

"After we arrived in Yingyuan County, I went to the high school where I applied for the exam. According to the regulations of Yingyuan County, newly recruited teachers in urban middle schools must go to township schools for three years to train before they can return to high school.

However, there are also many teachers who do not go to the township, but stay in the high school. After I reported to the high school, the principal said that there was a shortage of Chinese teachers in the school, so I could stay in the school and work instead of going to the township for exercise. Kan Wenyuan said.

"That's a good thing."

"Mina and I also think it's a good thing. Mina's health is not good, and it is naturally much better to be able to live in the city than to go to the township. Moreover, after all, the urban area is more prosperous than the township, and life will be more convenient.

After knowing that we could stay in the city, Mina and I hurried to rent a house outside, paid a deposit, and just waited for the official start of work. Who knows, only one day later, the principal of the high school changed his mind and asked the academic affairs office to notify me to go to the township middle school for exercise. ”

"How can it be reversed?"

"Mina and I also find it difficult to understand that our house is rented and it is inconvenient to return it. I approached the high school principal and asked why, and she only said that the county stipulates that new teachers must go to the township for exercise, and that it is also a good thing to go to the township for exercise. ”

"This is obviously not true, and if it were, it wouldn't have been said the day before to let you stay."

"Teacher Wu, what you said is right, I later heard from another newly admitted teacher that the principal of that high school attaches great importance to the graduation school of the newly hired teacher, and if he graduated from a key university or other better colleges, he will stay directly and do not need to go to the township to exercise, on the contrary, if the graduation school is not good, and it doesn't matter, he must go to the township to exercise.

The president didn't know much about the universities in the eastern region, and probably subconsciously thought that the universities in the eastern region were better than the western ones, and I graduated from the universities in the eastern region, so she decided to keep me at first.

Later, she looked up Fangzhou University on the Internet and knew that the school I graduated from was very poor, not as good as the universities in the western region, so she regretted it. ”

"It's not hard to understand that now is an era of academic qualifications. What happened to you guys? ”

"Mina and I quit the house we had just rented, took our luggage, and went to work in a very remote township middle school. The location of the middle school was originally the seat of the township government, but a few years ago, the township government moved to a more prosperous place, and the neighborhood of the middle school has been depressed since then, and post offices, banks, health centers and other institutions have moved away one after another.

After the township government moved out, the office compound was vacant, and the original campus of the school was very dilapidated and needed to be improved, so the township government gave the vacated courtyard to the school.

Because the surrounding environment is getting worse and worse, the school is losing students, and the teachers are all thinking about transferring away, and the school is declining day by day in a vicious circle, and there are more than 1,000 students at first, and when I went there were less than 400 left. ”

"That's the reality of a lot of remote schools."

"Yes, in the three years I worked, every year there were students in my class who transferred to schools in the city, and students who dropped out and went home. The number of students in each class at that school was very small, with a minimum of five or six people and a maximum of only two dozen people.

There was only one Han class in each grade of junior high school, and the principal asked me to teach Chinese, history, and ideology and morality in the first year of junior high school, and the class I taught had 23 students in the first year of junior high school, which was quite a lot. Mina works as a nurse in the school clinic. ”

"Are you still used to life?"

"There are no dormitories in the school, so the principal helped me and Mina rent a yard near the school, and Mina and I bought a lot of groceries and a TV. There is a large vegetable patch in the yard, and Mina and I grow a lot of vegetables, and life is very comfortable, like a paradise. ”

"It's really enviable to live like that."

"We also had a lot of difficulties, first of all, water. The water coming out of the faucet is very cloudy, and it is often mixed with ants, mosquitoes and other insects. I was disappointed, but Mina didn't care about that, she told me to put the water in a bucket to settle and wait for the water to get clean before boiling it for cooking.

After winter, the supply of tap water gradually decreases, from a full-day supply to two hours a day, and the volume of water is also very small. The faucet in Mina's house was in the kitchen, where there was no heating, and the doors and windows were very dilapidated and not tightly closed, and the water pipes often froze and had to be thawed before use, so we often didn't get enough water.

To do this, we had to save more water, and Mina also came up with a way to put the snow in an iron bucket, heat it on the stove, and wash the clothes with the melted snow water. Although this kind of life is very hard, we do not feel how difficult it is, but taste happiness and sweetness from it. ”

"Listening to your description, I can imagine how happy you were at that time."

"In addition to the water, the transportation is also very inconvenient. After the township government moved away, the bank and the post office also moved away, and the postman did not go to the school, and we had to pick up the school's mail and letters by ourselves, and the courier did not send anything to the school.

If we want to withdraw money or send and receive mail, we have to go more than ten kilometers away, and there are rugged mountain roads in between. Mina and I bought a bicycle and I often take her on winding mountain roads. ”

"It's a really beautiful picture, and it would be nice if it could be painted. Is your work still going well? ”

"Although I teach very few students, I work hard every day to make sure that every student learns something useful. I took a lot of books with me, so I lent them to the students. I am very pleased that there are several students in the class who have a high talent for writing.

Later, a library was built in the school, and the principal asked me to take care of it. Under my tutelage, two students also won prizes in essay competitions in the Autonomous Region. ”

"Looks like you're a good teacher."

"However, it is funny to say that later the superiors came to assess the basic education, and I and the other teachers worked together to cheat. The library is also part of the assessment, and there is also an art room, and in addition to these hardware, there are a lot of assessment materials to prepare.

At the beginning, the school assigned the preparation of materials to a young teacher who asked him to give up teaching and devote himself to this job. But in the first two months, I went back and forth, all the useless work, and countless pieces of paper were wasted, and I only completed less than half of it in the past few months. Seeing that the assessment was approaching, the school asked me and several other teachers to participate in the preparation of assessment materials together.

At first, I thought that preparing the assessment materials was just to make up some written materials, if I was asked to do it, it would be very easy, but when I really started to do it, I found that things are far from being so simple, and the written materials only account for a small part of the assessment materials, and the most important thing is the student record.

The number of students reported to the county by the school is more than 200 more than the actual number, and what is even worse is that this is not a problem of one year, but the problem of false reporting of the number of students for more than ten consecutive years, and there are more than 1,000 students cumulatively. ”

"Why misrepresent the number of students?"

"Actually, the reason is very simple, because the school funds are distributed according to the number of students, and if you overreport the number of students, you can get more funds. The actual students in the school have relatively complete files, and the more than 1,000 students who don't exist at all not only have no files, but also don't even have names.

All we have to do is falsify the student records of these students who don't even exist. All township middle schools in the county are subject to the assessment of the higher authorities, and almost every township middle school has a situation of misrepresenting the number of students, but the degree is different. ”

"How did you falsify your student records, you can't make them up out of thin air, right?"

"Of course, you can't make it up out of thin air, because every student has to have very detailed information, and they also need photos, which are not made up out of thin air. The principal approached the principals of three other township middle schools in the neighborhood and exchanged information with them, thus obtaining information such as photos, names, ages, grades, and home addresses of nearly 2,000 students. ”

"That's a really good idea."

"But it's still very troublesome, because the student information of other middle schools cannot be used directly as a student registration file, because the students in each middle school are mainly from their own township, and their home address must be changed to their local village.

Not only that, the number of boys and girls should be roughly the same, but the number of school records replenished each year should also match the number of false reports in that year.

It was a very difficult task to complete the student records of more than 1,000 non-existent students. We spend all our free time every day falsifying school records, often working overtime at night, and we don't get rest on weekends, even on National Day. ”

"Fakes aren't that easy to make."

"Not only that, after the library was built, I was also in charge, at the beginning there were a lot of borrowing, but later many class teachers felt that borrowing books affected learning, so they did not let the students in the class borrow books from the library. In addition, I had to falsify the school records, and I didn't have time, and the library was actually closed.

Still, I had to make up enough borrowing records, and when the higher authorities came to evaluate them, the library was a must-see, and a room full of books was placed there, and no one asked how many books the students had borrowed, and how much was written on the borrowing records.

I am very disgusted by such a blatant fake, but such a fake has to be made, 'everyone is drunk and I am sober, and the whole world is turbid and I am clear', and the final outcome is exile.

In the face of such a reality, I often wonder whether it is 'everyone is drunk and I am awake' or 'everyone is awake and I am drunk alone'. If I were alone, I might choose not to fake, but with Mina by my side, I have to think about her in everything I do.

Since you can't tell whether you're awake or drunk, let's think you're drunk. Later, the school successfully passed the assessment. ”

"In the face of reality, we all have to learn to compromise. In fact, not only primary and secondary schools, but also universities, a few years ago, Fangzhou College did not lack fraud, and I also participated in some. ”

"Yes, you have to learn to compromise so you can survive."