The year 2004 was an important beginning for Guangdong Province to start the reform of the new curriculum.

Yun Feng went to No. 1 Middle School to report on July 1. At that time, all the new and old teachers went to Guangzhou South China Normal University in mid-August for training on the reform of the new curriculum standards, and Yun Feng naturally went there.

When the professor of education on the stage was full of interest in the spirit of the new curriculum standards in the education reform, Yun Feng and a group of new teachers also listened to the audience with great interest, and even excited.

The new curriculum standard aims for teachers to be student-centered, heuristic, self-directed and inquisitive. In short, it is hoped that teachers will uphold new ideas and new spirits in education and teaching, abandon the past cramming teaching, no longer engage in strange problems and difficult problems, and turn to the cultivation of students' autonomy, creative spirit and independent thinking ability.

Yun Feng really recognized such a new concept, and after she happily communicated with a new teacher next to her, she turned her head and turned to another middle-aged teacher who came with her to exchange her thoughts and feelings, the female teacher with about five or six years of teaching experience smiled and said nothing, while a male teacher with an estimated teaching experience of ten years behind the female teacher said something that made Yun Feng and the new teacher next to her stunned:

"Oh, these experts and professors are all engaged in research in the university, and they have never been taught on the front line, and they are all theories, one set at a time, no matter how good they are, what's the use? As long as the baton of the college entrance examination is still there, teaching will still revolve around the promotion, and the education reform will pass with a gust of wind. When we go back, we can't play new tricks as we do. ”

Yun Feng's heart seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water, although it could not be regarded as cold, but it also cooled down the warm mood just now, but after all, she had no experience in front-line education and teaching, and she didn't know much about the actual situation at all, so she naturally couldn't understand the words of this old teacher, but she just felt that this male teacher who seemed capable and dignified should be the backbone of the school, and they all had this opinion, but I was afraid that the reality would not be as simple as what the old professor on the podium said at this time. But such doubts were also for a while, and soon Yun Feng began her work and life in No. 1 Middle School.

This year, more than a dozen teachers were recruited into No. 1 Middle School, and there were more female teachers, and later Yun Feng found out that the previous few years recruited were more male teachers, and most of them were single, so the purpose of the school was obvious: as long as these young male and female teachers can settle down in No. 1 Middle School, they will naturally be able to live and teach in peace.

It is no wonder that the school has such an idea, and the teacher turnover rate of Huacheng No. 1 Middle School has always been very high. As the only key high school in a county-level city, it stands to reason that its status in the local area is still very high, and the teachers are also respected by the local citizens, but Lecheng is still a county-level city in the mountainous area of northern Guangdong, and the economy is not developed. Every year, teachers who have achieved a little bit of success have climbed the higher branches, either to a higher level of education administrative units, or to key high schools in larger places, and some to private high schools in developed cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen, in order to achieve greater development and higher incomes.

Yun Feng came to Huacheng No. 1 Middle School, and the original intention was also a phased goal, that is, to review while teaching, and continue her postgraduate entrance examination in 2005. She hopes that Shannan can fly higher, and in the same way, she also hopes that she can fly higher, which is also what Shannan is happy to see. The working atmosphere and working environment of No. 1 Middle School are also suitable for Yunfeng to meet such an ideal.

Huacheng No. 1 Middle School has a single dormitory for all single teachers, and there is a canteen in the school, each meal is three dishes and one soup, two meat and one vegetable, and the food fee for each meal is four yuan, and the taste is not bad.

Yun Feng became a class teacher when he first arrived, in addition to handing over the history class of one or eight classes of high school, he also had to get up at six o'clock in the morning every day, go to the playground at seven o'clock to watch the students' morning exercises, and inspect the morning reading in the class at half past seven. In the morning, she usually has classes for the third or fourth period, and the two classes in the afternoon are also full from Monday to Friday, with 18 classes in a week, and the advantage is that in addition to the first class, she needs to take a look at the lesson plan, and she basically doesn't need to open the textbook to be proficient in other classes. After school at half past four in the afternoon, she can play badminton or climb a mountain with her teachers, or skip rope by herself.

However, the salary is indeed not high, the basic salary is 532 yuan, plus the subsidy for 18 classes a week and the subsidy for being a class teacher, after a month, it is more than 2,000 when it is full, and occasionally it can reach 3,000. Fortunately, the accommodation fee is 30 yuan a month, and the food cost is also low, except for adding a few clothes to myself, there is almost no other expenses.

After her first month's salary arrived, she sent an email to Shanan, copying the figures on the pay slip to him. He wrote back and told her not to be too provincial, but to be kind to herself. She read his reply and was noncommittal, of course she knew his thoughts, he must have thought over there, the salary of coming out of the official job is not as good as his part-time job in college, don't do it, stay at home and wait for him to make good money, she just takes care of the family.

But she doesn't, knowing what he thinks, she also has to have her own pursuit and love of career. She loves him, but that doesn't mean that her whole life exists for his life.

Moreover, with such a small salary, she saved 5,000 from between her teeth in one semester, and was ready to go home for her parents during the Spring Festival. In any case, she has to pay back the family's expenses when she went to college.

In mid-January 2005, it was the day of the graduate school entrance examination, and she hid her name from the school leaders.

After the politics exam on the morning of the first day, Yun Feng was in a good mood, and she was sure that if there was no accident this time, it should be no problem. Originally, if you weren't late for the first test, you shouldn't even have a chance to take the retest.

When she went to eat at the restaurant next to the examination room, she turned on the new Nokia flip phone that Shananan gave her, thinking about the time to look good, and strive to go back to her residence after lunch and rest for a while.

As soon as she turned on her phone, she received a call from her mother, who said that her grandfather had passed away the week before, and that it was not the end of his illness, but that the house was on fire. Yun Feng didn't tell his family about the graduate school entrance examination, just because of the exam, the mobile phone had a small fault and took it to repair, and it was turned off all the time, and the office phone didn't tell his parents, who could have known that something like this would happen in the past few days? Before repairing the mobile phone, Yun Feng called home and asked about his grandfather's situation, saying that he should be able to go back to see the old man.

I didn't expect it to be such a bad news, and I didn't expect that my mother's call came in when Yun Feng was about to take the English test in the afternoon, and there were two professional exams the next day.