The village primary school is next to the village department, and the yard is about the same width as the village department, but it is several times longer. When the earth was first excavated, there was a hillside several meters wide near the village, which was regarded as a wall separating the village.

There are several caves dug in the back of the school, and there are also places where a few caves can be dug. One of the caves is the teacher's stove room, and there are also people living in it in winter. However, they all cook by themselves, and whoever takes care of who does it, and there is no special cooking. Most of the other caves are filled with debris, and some are empty.

Two rows of bungalows were built in the courtyard. One row is shorter, east-west; One row is very long, north-south. It was all a loess wall more than a meter thick, and some rafters were laid on the top, and then grass was laid and covered with a layer of mud.

The east-west facing house is mainly an office, and there is a two-room classroom. The north-south orientation is mainly classrooms, but there are also one or two offices.

"I went to elementary school at this school. But it's not this yard, it's on the side of the team. Later, the school moved here, and the old school was also taken back by the team. Long Hao walked into the school and observed the school building.

For many years, every day when I passed by the school, I looked at it from the outside, but I never came in, let alone looked carefully. Today, Xu Yi looked around with her and felt very fresh.

"The school has been moving here for more than ten years, and the earthen wall has been repaired several times, and after two years, the house has to be mudded, otherwise it will leak." Xu Yi pointed to the earthen house.

"A lot of glass is rotten?" Long Hao looked carefully, almost half of the windows were pasted with newspapers, and some were pasted with cardboard boxes.

"Yes, after all, they are all children, especially those in the lower grades, who make trouble after class and accidentally hit the glass. The glass underneath is almost completely gone, and it is all pasted with newspaper, and there is a lot of punching on the top. Of course, it was not only the students who took it, but also a lot of it when it was windy and rainy. ”

"Rural children, who have been playing outside since they were young, are used to being wild, which is understandable, it would be nice to be a little older."

"Some parents are embarrassed and come and put the glass on, or they have to lose money. You can have glass, but you can't ask for money if you lose money, you are poor. ”

"How many students are there?"

"More than one hundred and fifty students. The teams that are a little farther away have elementary schools, mainly in the lower grades, so there are fewer people in the lower grades, mainly students from several teams around, and there are about 20 people in each grade. There are more than forty in the fourth grade and more than thirty in the fifth grade. ”

"The higher the grade, the fewer students?"

"A lot of dolls don't read after reading in the team. Even if you go to the village elementary school, most of the students who don't study well don't study anymore. ”

"That's the perception, and it has to be reversed. Are the teaching equipment, including tables, chairs and benches, sufficient? ”

"Not enough. Only desks and stools for senior students can be guaranteed, which is also to ensure the promotion rate. In the lower grades, there are only dilapidated tables and stools, and then there are tables and stools made of wooden planks, and a considerable number of students lie on the earthen platform. ”

"Tutaizi? It's the same as when I was a kid, huh? ”

"Maybe? The other classrooms are all going on, and this one is empty, come in and have a look. ”

Xu Yi took Long Hao into a classroom. There were more than 20 students sitting inside, and when I saw the teacher come in, he also brought the child and a big man, blinking his eyes one by one, which was very cute.

None of these students had desks. In front of each of them was a table made of adobe, covered with newspaper, and some of them were pasted with cement. They also sat on small platforms made of adobe, some of which were covered with newspapers or something, and there was nothing at all, and the bottom of their buttocks was full of dirt.

Long Hao remembered that when he was a child, he also had such a desk and such a stool. In winter, there is no stove, and it is bitterly cold to lie on top of the cement table. I didn't expect that after all these years, it was still like this, which is really sad.

He touched a child's little head, said nothing, and turned and walked out of the classroom.

"Isn't it the same as when you were a kid?" Xu Yi asked.

"That's true, I didn't expect it to be ...... now" Long Hao shook his head sadly.

"No wonder I didn't read for a few days, now I can understand. This is my office, welcome to drop by. Xu Yi walked to a room in the east and west.

Long Hao followed in and looked up.

This is a single room, and there is a half-section of the earthen kang on the inside. It's just that there is no cover on the kang, only half of the worn cotton felt, which can barely sit on people.

There was a dilapidated desk in front of it, and an even more dilapidated stool, which was all the belongings.

On the table were some elementary school textbooks, and a thick stack of homework, followed by red and blue ink and dipping pens.

At that time, it was mainly cheaper to change homework, including preparing for classes, with a dipping pen. Dip the tip of the pen on the barrel and it can be used for a long time. If the nib is bald or broken, just replace it, and you can buy several for a dime.

"The conditions are simple, so let's sit down." Xu Yi pointed to the earthen kang.

"If you don't do it, you can't help it, it's better than standing." Long Hao walked over and sat on the edge of the kang and hugged Yu Yu.

"I've inspected the area, what are your instructions?" Xu Yi picked up the dipping pen inserted in the blue ink box and took another lesson plan.

"Don't dare to instruct, just ...... By the way, how many teachers are there in the school? Can you teach it? ”

"There used to be seven or eight teachers, but now there are only four left, three regular teachers, all young people, and then I, a substitute teacher. It is definitely not available, only the main courses such as Chinese and arithmetic can be offered, and physical education classes are also offered, while others such as art, music, nature, and politics are offered, but they really can't be taken care of, and many times they can only be watched by themselves. ”

"In fact, every course is very important and very useful for children's development. In particular, English classes, although they may not seem to be very useful, are very important for future growth, and they must be offered. ”

"I once suggested an English class, and I was able to substitute it. But the principal said that the junior high schools in the township do not offer English classes, so how can we do it in a primary school? Besides, even if it is opened, can it be replaced? Each grade has at least three or four classes per week, and the fifth grade is a dozen or twenty classes, and it has to replace other courses. No way, really can't help it! ”

"Alas...... Let's take it one step at a time! Let's talk about pulling coal first, you have to have a preliminary budget. ”

"There are few students in the lower grades, so we use a small classroom and set up a stove. The upper grades are all large classrooms, and they have to set up two stoves. In this way, the students alone will have to have seven stoves, and each furnace will have at least 1,000 catties of charcoal, right? This also has to paste the inside of the stove, dare not let go of the fire, mainly in the morning, in the afternoon when it is warmer, do not dare to set, at most burn some livestock dung or something. And you can start to put it when it's the freezest, and it's basically not a fire after the New Year. ”

"It's not going to work. The lower grades also have to be prepared according to the large classroom, what if there are more students? Each stove needs at least one ton of charcoal, and some more must be prepared. Don't stick to the stove and keep the classroom warm. Don't burn livestock dung anymore, let the villagers pick it up and burn it for fire, or use it as fertilizer. The stove was erected on the 1st day of the 11th month of the solar calendar and lasted until the end of March of the following year. If the weather is particularly cold, you can set up a fire ten to twenty days in advance, or you can postpone it by one or twenty days. ”

"Oh, if you count it like that, you need ten stoves and ten tons of charcoal, which you can't pull so much in three years in previous years. By the way, there are also teachers, and in the winter, I am afraid that we will have to have two stoves......"

"Don't merge, one stove per person, and one stove for the stove room."

"That's five stoves again, five tons of charcoal."

"Yes, I'll pull twenty tons, no, twenty-five tons of charcoal."

"Huh? Twenty-five tons? Dora ten tons? That's too much, right? ”

"Not much, you just count the stove, do you have to ask charcoal for cooking in the stove? And those teachers live on campus, right? Do you still need charcoal to burn the kang? In addition, there are the main ones. ”

"The main thing?"

"It's winter, and students who are a little farther away may have to live on campus. In fact, you can live on campus now, but there are no conditions for living on campus. Think about it, once the students live in the school, they have to burn the kang and set up the stove, do they all have to ask for charcoal? In this way, twenty-five tons may not be enough. However, now that the road has been repaired, it can be pulled at any time. ”

"Actually, it's long overdue to live on campus. Of the ten teams in our village, three teams are more than ten miles away from the school, and the farthest family is more than 20 miles. The students of these three teams have to live on campus, and the other teams have to live on campus if their families are inconvenient. It's not just charcoal burning, it's many, many things. Xu Yi raised her head.

"No matter how many things there are, since you have to be responsible, you have to bear them to the end." Long Hao's expression was resolute.