Chapter 209: Considering Going to School
The situation seems to be getting more and more serious.
However, these are still too far away for Jiang Ruonan and the family members in the camp.
It's just that from the few words sent by Song Ping'an, I can learn some about the outside situation.
Probably when he went home for the New Year, he was criticized, and this year Song Ping'an wrote back more frequently. Not to mention that every three or five times, at least a letter came back every month, which greatly soothed Li Shuying's longing for women.
In her letters, it is more common to say what she has done, what she has been praised by the leader, and what credit she has made...... Because Li Shuying didn't know much words, she spent a while in the literacy class opened after the founding of the Xinhua Kingdom. But it still takes a little effort to read Song Ping'an's long essay full of paper, so every time I will habitually ask Jiang Ruonan to help read the letter, and then ask Jiang Ruonan to help write a reply after reading.
I don't know if Song Ping'an expected this, so every time I write those words in my heart, there is always a sense of more or less showing off, and from time to time I ask Li Shuying what she has done, how are Dabao and them...... Jiang Ruonan knew that those words were written to her at all, this naΓ―ve little girl!
Jiang Ruonan laughed at this kind of little girl's trick and didn't care about it at all. After all, being able to compare with her and continue to improve may be a kind of motivation for Song Ping'an, a little girl?
But in the eyes of others, such as Li Shuying, they feel that this is an explanation and testimony of the good relationship between Jiang Ruonan and Song Ping'an, especially looking at Song Ping'an's few words without leaving Jiang Ruonan, Li Shuying and Song Weiguo, the two husbands and wives, and they all agree that this is called the old saying that learn from good people and learn from good people, Song Ping'an has been with Jiang Ruonan for a long time and was also taken by her.
The relationship between the two families has become even closer.
And for Jiang Ruonan, of course, it is not without a little benefit, let's just say that although Song Ping'an is also enlisted, the area is not in a remote mountainous area like them, it is not so isolated from the outside world, and although the place is not close to the rectification center, it can be regarded as heaven and earth compared to them, and they can see more chaos at this time than they hear.
And these things, there is no need for Jiang Ruonan to deliberately ask, Song Ping'an will more or less send some news back in the letter, just say that this time the news of the complete suspension of high school classes, Jiang Ruonan does not know, because Liangcheng High School is still starting classes as always, I think they are too remote here. The atmosphere of suspending classes and making trouble, and revolutionizing lives, has not yet spread here.
But to Jiang Ruonan's surprise, when she went to Liangcheng County again, she saw that the original neat and orderly Liangcheng High School was in a dilapidated state, and the school gate was still new after a few years of repair, and the school gate was full of big newspapers.
Jiang Ruonan was dumbfounded.
The old man who was escorted was full of vicissitudes, his clothes and hair were covered with confetti and dust, and the whole person was dragged forward by the group of young people.
After a while, public officials who maintained law and order stepped forward, but they were dispersed by these young people, who shouted revolutionary slogans such as "Down with Feng Zixiu", and not long after, another group of people came, pulled all the public officials away, and walked along the street with the young people.
It used to be a vibrant county town, but there were no pedestrians on the streets at this time. Or some, like Jiang Ruonan, secretly hid to the side. Some people are sighing, and some people are scolding.
Jiang Ruonan understood in the whispered conversation of these people, it turned out that the old man was the principal of Liangcheng High School, and the leader was a senior high school student in the school...... Jiang Ruonan also heard that a group had been set up above, and now the local government has also begun to actively respond to the call of the central government...... And they are now going to the principal's house after the fight, and completely break all feudal funds......
Some people are lamenting, saying that the principal is a good person and has helped many students from poor families to continue their studies; Some people echoed it, saying that the principal was originally rich, and it was not right to help the poor? Some people also wondered, saying that the principal had been abroad before, and who knew if he was an anti-socialist infiltrator from abroad when he read those books in foreign languages......
Even though Jiang Ruonan had long known how terrible all this was, she had always thought that she was ready, but when she really felt the arrival and occurrence of this storm, she was still so shocked that she couldn't help but tremble all over.
She couldn't hear the discussion of others, what flashed in her mind was the group of young people who were holding the old principal, they were full of vitality and high spirits, they should have been born at the age of summer flowers, but those faces, at this moment, in Jiang Ruonan's eyes and mind, were completely like evil ghosts.
She even forgot what she was going to do in the county seat, and went home in a daze.
When she saw a few children in the family, she finally calmed down a little.
Didn't she already know? Why, then, should we bother with these things?
The ancients said that if you are good, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be good alone.
She is just a small ordinary person who can't be smaller, there is no way and it is impossible to fight against the torrent of the times, and the only thing she can do is probably to be alone.
Fortunately, she has been prepared for a long time, even if there is no space, but as the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, she has money in her hands, and she can't buy those things that are beyond the times in this era, but she can buy general materials such as books and pens.
What a long decade!
"Mom, what are you thinking?" Dabao suddenly walked over next to her, "Grandma Li said that you went to see the school, are you going to register me?" β
"Mom, should I be with my brother too?" The second sister also ran over, grabbing Jiang Ruonan's hand and looking a little nervous.
"School is not fun, big brother and second sister don't go!" On the side, Sanbao, who was still pouting and unhappy when he saw that Jiang Ruonan didn't bring candy, hurriedly ran over with a nervous face.
If the eldest brother and second sister go to school, then there will be no one to play with him at home!
He didn't want to go out and play with Xiaocao's little crying bag!
"School is not for fun, it is for learning!" Dabao glared at Sanbao angrily.
The second sister actually doesn't want to go to school either, she can only come back once a week, and she doesn't want to go to school now at all.
So she didn't speak.
Sanbao hurriedly came to pull her: "Second sister, say it quickly, school is not fun at all, Brother Guofa said that the teacher will punish the blackboard and beat the palm, but it is fierce!" β
"You don't obey to be beaten." Dabao was dissatisfied with his intimidation of the second sister, so he patted his hand, "I'm so well-behaved with the second sister, the teacher won't punish us!" β
He tore Sanbao's hand away, looked at the second sister and comforted: "Don't listen to his nonsense, Brother Guofa said, only if you are disobedient and don't study well, the teacher will punish people, let's be obedient, study hard, take classes seriously, the teacher can be gentle!" β
"Hmm." The second sister lowered her eyelids, raised her head again, and looked at Jiang Ruonan, "But my mother hasn't said whether she wants to send us to school!" β
"That's right!" Dabao also looked up at Jiang Ruonan with a look of anticipation, "Mom, have you ever gone to school?" If you sign us up now, then I can go to school with Lin Jianxin! There is also Brother Guofa, he said that there are a lot of friends in the school! β
Boys are different from girls, although he is also attached to his family, but after all, he is curious, and there are really not many children in the camp, and even fewer can take them to play with them than they are older, and I heard Wu Guofa talk about things in school, why not be curious and yearning?
Saying this, San Bao couldn't help but tilt his head and think: "Really? There are a lot of children in the school, isn't it fun? β
This person is crazy, and he likes crowded occasions.
"Mom, Mom, I also want to go to school with my eldest brother and second sister!" This kid changed his words quickly, and he was still pulling Jiang Ruonan's arm and being coquettish.
Jiang Ruonan finally came back to his senses, and also remembered what he was doing in Liangcheng County.
Isn't it that Chen Sufen next door wants to send Lin Jianxin and Lin Chunli to school, so she came to ask Jiang Ruonan if she wanted to be together.
Lin Jianlin is older than Dabao, and he will be eight years old next year. And Lin Chunli is nine years old, so she should go to school.
It's just that Chen Sufen is a bit patriarchal and thinks that it is useless for girls to study. I was reluctant to let Lin Chunli work at home, so I dragged it out until now.
But she has been friends with Jiang Ruonan for a few months, and she has been more or less influenced by Jiang Ruonan, seeing that Jiang Ruonan has studied in college, it is indeed different from them, not to mention anything else, after marrying a good condition, she can also help her mother's family.
In addition, knowing that the children of their families do not need to pay tuition fees or anything to attend primary schools in the county, and there are subsidies for their lives, and there are also people to take care of them there, Chen Sufen still decided to send the two children to school together in accordance with the principle of cheap and not white.
Thinking that Dabao and Lin Jianxin are not much different in age, if they can go to school together, she can also go to see the children with Jiang Ruonan at that time, so she will come to ask Jiang Ruonan to let Dabao go to school too.
Of course, Jiang Ruonan was not very willing, but Dabao was already six years old, and he was eating a seven-year-old meal. In later generations, this is the best age to enter the first grade of elementary school.
She didn't want to delay the child, but she really didn't worry about the environment of the county, so she had such a trip.
At this time, she was glad that she didn't agree to Chen Sufen.
After all, although it is only a mess of high school closures now, elementary and junior high schools are still attending classes as before, but Jiang Ruonan knows that this storm and the atmosphere of class suspension and revolution will soon sweep all schools.
Don't say anything else, cracking down on intellectuals, posting big-character posters, and insulting teachers as stinky old men, such things will brush up on the lower limit of people again and again in this era of chaos and disorder.
Even if the children's primary schools are all the children of the organization's family members, the children of the workers in the factory, etc., it is difficult for outsiders to penetrate, and the environment is relatively closed, but since they are all in the county, they are like boats in the storm, how long can they last?