After the heavy rain, the narrow alleys were covered with thick mud. With two feet on it, it was so muddy that it was hard to walk an inch. When the sun came out, the whole village was covered with the smell of grass, like an old wetland, covering the sorrow of the poor countryside.

The artemisia grass on the playground flourished overnight, like a fetish that suddenly emerged from the ground. Under the sun's exposure, it scurried up like crazy, like a shaggy meadow, spreading around the campus, tying two rows of dilapidated classrooms tightly together.

When the lunch break came, after Sun Xiaohong finished speaking, she stood on the podium and announced to the students with a serious face: "This afternoon, the whole school will be cleaned up. Bring your own tools, a shovel per person, don't forget it! She closed her book, stepped down from the podium, and walked back and forth in the classroom as she looked down at the children's handwriting.

As soon as the bell rang for the end of class, the students all walked out of the classroom, they lined up in front of the door, followed by the other classes, and just walked out of the school gate. Sun Xiaohong followed behind them, walking back unhurriedly along the alley.

In a flash, she has been coming to this school for more than two months. During this time, the students have made significant progress in their studies. Today's school is cleaning, and students are asked to bring their own tools. Sun Xiaohong thought that the children were too young to take care of their own things, so after lunch, she hurried to the class, found glue sticks and stickers, wrote the children's names on the stickers with a pen, and then pasted them on the tools they brought. She does this to let the children develop a good habit on a regular basis.

She was busy writing small paper stickers, and Liu Xin walked in with a new shovel. Sun Xiaohong hurriedly called him over: "Liu Xin, hurry up, the teacher will make a small paper sticker for you, and quickly stick it on the shovel." As he spoke, he handed the paper a sticker and asked him to stick it on the handle of the shovel.

"Okay, thank you, teacher!" Liu Xin walked over with a smile, took the shovel off his shoulder, took the paper sticker from Sun Xiaohong's hand, and pasted it on the shovel handle. During this time, he behaved well in the class, with the protection of the teacher, and no one bullied him anymore.

"Put it on well, don't get rid of it! You won't be able to find a shovel then! Sun Xiaohong instructed that she went to write paper stickers for other classmates again. Teacher, don't worry, I won't lose it! Liu Xin said as he pasted the paper sticker on the handle of the shovel. Then he put the shovel in front of the window, and went back to his seat to recite ancient poems.

After a class in the afternoon, all the teachers and students of the school participated in the cleaning. The school stipulates that each class has a responsible area, which class finishes hoeing, and which class leaves school first. Sun Xiaohong and the teachers and students of their class went into battle together, and quickly cleaned up the shared field. Then, the students happily went home early from school and completed their tasks for the first time, with a smug look on each student's face.

The next morning, Sun Xiaohong just entered the classroom, and before she could speak, she saw a classmate crowded in front of her, pointing at Yang Yudong to speak for Liu Xin.

"Teacher, Yang Yudong took Liu Xin's shovel by mistake yesterday afternoon, and he didn't get it back today." Sun Xiaohong waved his hand at him, and the classroom immediately fell silent, and there was no sound of quarrels. Sun Xiaohong glanced at Liu Xin, and then at Yang Yudong: "Didn't I write a paper paste for all of you, how can I still get the wrong shovel?" Tell me, what the hell is going on with you two? Liu Xin saw Yang Yudong stand up, slowly lowered his head, and did not speak, he also stood up in an orderly manner, without any explanation.

Seeing that neither of them spoke, Sun Xiaohong pointed at Liu Xin with her finger and asked, "You lost the shovel, why didn't you say it yesterday, you have to say it today, what's going on?" Everyone listen, let Liu Xin say it first, and then let Yang Yudong say it! The classroom was silent, and the whole class saw that the teacher's face was very serious, and they all stared at them, and no one dared to intervene.

Liu Xin heard the teacher ask him to say first, he touched the back of his head with his hand, his two little eyes rolled around, and he said resignedly: "When I was hoeing grass yesterday, I accidentally lost the small paper sticker on the shovel, so I took the shovel wrong!" When I got home, I realized that it wasn't my own, and I wanted to look for it at school, but the teachers were already off work......

"Yang Yudong, what about you? What's going on with you? Sun Xiaohong looked at Yang Yudong and asked him to speak.

"When I got out of school, I found that my shovel was missing, and after looking for a long time I couldn't find it, so I went home empty-handed. When I got home, my mother asked me why I didn't bring back the shovel, and I said I had fallen behind school. She asked me to go to the school today to look for it, this morning, I went to the school to find several places, but I didn't find anything, my classmates said that my shovel let Liu Xin take it, I went to ask him, he said no, we quarreled! After speaking, Yang Yudong glanced at Liu Xin with slanted eyes, lowered his head, bit his lip, and stopped talking.

"You two have been arguing for a long time, haven't you found anyone's shovel? In other words, if one of you takes the wrong shovel and the other loses the shovel, how can you say that you two should not quarrel? Seeing that neither of them spoke, Sun Xiaohong looked at the whole class, "Yesterday, everyone was hoeing together, let's think about it, when we came home from school, did anyone take the wrong shovel?" ”

The students all shook their heads when they heard this, and everyone was wondering, no one knew where Yang Yudong's shovel was. While everyone was guessing, the old school worker walked to the door of the classroom with a shovel and knocked on the door.

"Teacher Sun, this shovel was picked up by a student on the playground, and the names of the students in your class are written on the shovel handle. The students who are afraid of losing their shovels are in a hurry, no, I will send it back to you! Yang Yudong looked up and saw the shovel in his hand and smiled: "Teacher, this shovel is mine, I thought it was Liu Xin who replaced it!"

"Okay, take this shovel with you, don't be so careless in the future!" After the school worker left, Sun Xiaohong returned the shovel to Yang Yudong. But there is still a shovel that has not been found! She looked down at the shovel that Liu Xin brought, and muttered in her heart: "Who threw this shovel?" Seeing Liu Xin's aggrieved look, she smiled and said, "Put this shovel in the class first, and when class is over, I will go to another class to help you find it!" If you can't find it, don't worry, I'll buy you one and take it back with my class fee. She didn't want to affect everyone's mood in class, so she thought twice and had to decide like this.

When it was time to get out of class, Sun Xiaohong returned to the office and just sat down, and suddenly saw that Liu Xin's father was already sitting on the bench inside, waiting for a long time. Sun Xiaohong was stunned at the time, thinking: Isn't it just a shovel, as for such a teacher?

Luckily, he didn't look angry, and he didn't feel like he was asking her for a shovel. When he saw Sun Xiaohong walking in from outside, he quickly stood up, walked to the opposite side of her and said, "Teacher Sun, how is my son behaving these days?" ”

Sun Xiaohong saw that his attitude was not as strong as everyone said, and it didn't seem that he was here for the child to take the wrong shovel, and she was immediately relieved. She let Liu Xin's father sit on the opposite side, and said with a smile: "Your son has performed well in all aspects during this time, and he has made progress in his studies, but he can't eat a fat man in one bite, take his time!" Did you come to school today to ask him about the wrong shovel? If I can't find it, I'll buy one for him at my class fee. Sun Xiaohong changed the conversation and immediately said something to the point.

"Isn't it just a shovel, I dig in Dongdianzi every day, there are several new shovels at home, and if you lose it, you lose it, and it's not a valuable thing, if you can't find it, don't look for it!" Liu Xin's father said, took out a cigarette from his coat pocket, and handed it over. Sun Xiaohong hurriedly waved her hand and declined: "I don't know how to smoke!" ”

His visit did not scare away all the teachers in the office. It may be that he used to go to the school to make trouble and scare everyone, but now that he has become like this, he is no longer afraid.

"I heard Liu Xin say, you are very good to him, I came here today to thank you."

"What is there to thank for, Liu Xin's progress is the result of his own efforts. This child is a sensible child, and if he is trained well, he will make greater progress in the future. Sun Xiaohong smiled.

"He's improving, it's not as good as the teacher! Why wasn't he so sensible before, but he met a good teacher! This sentence comes from the heart. In this shabby class, whoever picks up is troublesome. But after Sun Xiaohong took it, the whole class had a great change.

"If you want to be a competent teacher, you must first put your conscience in the right position, so that you will not mislead people's children. The children have improved, and it is not that I teach them well, but that they have worked their own. No matter who it is, as long as you work hard, you will have good results. They are all so smart, and with a little effort, they can all use it to improve! I'm their teacher, and of course I'm going to teach them better. Sun Xiaohong said modestly.

"My son is a good teacher! I have served a teacher like you in my life, my Liu Xin has not had a mother since he was a child, and now I will hand it over to you, in the future, if there is anything wrong with him, you will manage him hard for me, and it doesn't matter if you are strict. We, as parents, will never come to the school to trouble you! Liu Xin's father said, raising his hand and giving his thumb up.

"Father Liu Xin, you are too polite! It's my job to manage students. Just put your heart in your belly, and as long as he doesn't do it right, I won't stand idly by. You sit down first, I have a class next time, so I won't tell you! As they were talking, the bell rang for class, and Sun Xiaohong stood up, grabbed the lesson plan, and walked out of the office.