6. Generous remuneration

At the end of the semester, Zhao Yuanqing was busy. But the harvest was not small, and in the end, Zhou Liangwu rewarded them with 20 buckets of rice each, in addition to the wages allocated to the two of them. In other words, this semester they each received 120 buckets of rice. A total of 240 buckets of rice is paid. At the price at that time, 10 buckets of rice could be sold for 4 pieces of Koyo, and 240 buckets of rice was equivalent to 96 pieces of Koyo. In addition to half a year's living expenses, there are more than 60 yuan that can be saved, which can be regarded as considerable savings.

The winter break began, and the little ones were idle. Qian Shulin began to teach Qian Long's martial arts, he is also a person who has learned martial arts for five or six years, he has to move and move, and he has a posture, and he is a decent master. Qian Long had studied it before, but it was not formal. Now I have been to school, and I am in my 10s, so I have to study hard. And Qian Feng and Zhao Zhizhen, the two sisters also played.

Zhao Yuanqing said: "If you want to learn, study seriously, don't be greedy, it's good to learn some martial arts to defend yourself in the future."

And Zhao Yuanqing himself set up a carriage and took Qian Doudou to play around the village. said that it was a play, what was fun in the winter, in essence, it was to find clues to his son. How can the two of them put their minds at ease? Where can a 5-year-old child go? It can be said that I have searched all over the ten miles around Zhouzhuang and Qianzhuang, but there are still no clues.

7. Have a happy New Year

Zhao Yuanqing and his family changed their itinerary and went to the town and the county seat, it was time to purchase New Year's goods. Also bought some clothes for a few kids. Qian Doudou also bought new clothes for her brother and sister-in-law.

The New Year is really lively, and every household sets off firecrackers. There are only a dozen households in the whole village, and the sound of firecrackers is still endless, but the sound is too small and short, while the Qian family is a big firecracker, which is loud and long. This adds a lot of joy to the mountain village.

On the evening of the thirtieth year, Qian Shulin raised his wine glass and said loudly to Zhao Yuanqing and his wife: "Welcome to your family to enter Qianzhuang!" I wish you all success and success in the New Year! ”

Qian Doudou said: "Brother and sister-in-law! What do you say about entering Qianzhuang, we are originally a family, these more than half a year, thanks to the help of my brother, we have been able to run a successful school, thank you brother and sister-in-law! With that, she quickly returned to the right room and took out two bags, took out one and gave it to Qian Shulin and said, "Brother! This is for you! He handed the other one to Sun Fuling and said, "This is for Qian Long and Qian Feng." Sister-in-law, please accept it on their behalf! This is not over, Zhao Yuanqing hurriedly took out a red envelope from his body and said to Qian Shulin: "Brother! This is for you, please take it! ”

Qian Shulin didn't know what was in the red envelope, but when he got it in his hand, he knew that it was Guangyang, about 10 yuan. Hurriedly pushed away Zhao Yuanqing's hand and said, "Yuanqing! What are you doing? ”

Zhao Yuanqing hurriedly said: "Brother, this is a little bit of our heart, meaning, meaning!" Just take it! There's a lot more to do in the future! ”

Qian Shulin said: "Brothers, brothers and sisters, this is the way to help each other, you're welcome!" Qian Long and Qian Feng still want you to care! In that case, I'm going to have to give you a gift. ”

Sun Fuling saw that their brothers and sisters were so polite, so she said: "I accepted the clothes I bought for us, and I won't thank you." In the future, everyone is a family, so don't be polite. It's polite to save and live happily! ”

Sun Fulin's words are like a summary, say it well, live happily!

8. Increase the number of teachers

The first happy thing of the new year is: Zhao Yuanqing and his family went to Zhou Liangwu's house to visit the door, which can also be said to be a New Year's greeting. Zhou Liangwu told the two of them that the newly recruited teacher could come to work next semester. Zhao Yuanqing was so excited that he forgot to ask about the new teacher, so he came back with Qian Doudou. The two of them remembered this on the road, and Qian Doudou said: "It's okay, don't you know when school starts!" ”

The second pleasant thing is that there are several new students who have been studying for about a year and have heard that the new school is good. Anyone who comes should be welcome.

The third happy thing is that Zhoucun Primary School has attracted the attention of the government, saying that it is going to send teachers to teach at the school. Whether it's possible or not, it doesn't seem like a bad thing;

The fourth pleasant thing is: Zhao Yuanqing ordered the textbook at one time. This saves a lot of effort than rushing to buy textbooks everywhere. The school opened on the 16th after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Of course, as the principal, Zhao Yuanqing went to the school by himself to make preparations for a few days.

On the first day of school, the new teacher arrived early. But very young, he is only 17 years old, he is a native of Han Village, a neighbor village of Zhou Village, called Han Xiaowei, graduated from primary school and could not afford to return to his hometown to farm in middle school, and he seems to be a little related to Principal Zhou, and was recommended by Principal Zhou. It is okay to teach elementary school after primary school, and it is not a problem to teach first and second grades. Zhao Yuanqing thought it was very good, so he arranged for him to take Siyi (2), so that the two classes would not have to attend only half a day. The schedule of courses has also increased. Zhao Yuanqing introduced him to his lover and began to sign up.

The registration time for the last semester was long, and the registration for this semester is only scheduled for one day. The registration is tight enough, because the charge is to deliver rice, and it must be a bucket of quantity, and then put it into storage, and the workload is still very large. The registration is managed by Mr. Qian, and the command and transportation are all managed by Mr. Han. Mr. Zhao operated it himself. It's just that the number of second-year students has reached 45, which is enough for Mr. Zhao's hard work.

Everything is working normally after the start of school, but it is still busy.

Running schools in rural areas must be integrated with the needs of peasants. For example, it is very important for agricultural development to seize time and seize the sky during the busy agricultural season. Schools should not be held behind closed doors, but should be closed for agricultural holidays. The most important thing for elementary school students to go home and help plant seedlings is that they are a child's specialty, and they can plant seedlings quickly and well. If you ask an adult to do this work, you will hear the sound of chirping and shouting about lower back pain. Children will say that we also have back pain! Adults will say, "A frog has no neck, and a child has no waist." ”

Children have waists, but they recover quickly, so it's good to take a break. Children don't have to bend over to plant seedlings, and the waist is also labor-saving. Originally, it didn't hurt the waist, and even if it was injured, it recovered quickly. That's why there are children who have no waist. Therefore, during the rice planting season, if the school does not have a holiday (generally not), then the students will also ask for leave, and if there are more students on leave, the class will not be able to continue. The school is busy with agricultural holidays, which is in line with the requirements of the times and meets the needs of rural areas.

During the school holidays, Zhao Yuanqing is also operating their three acres of paddy fields (one acre is dry land), which is their welfare, and they also have to work hard. They also have Sunday and evening hours to take advantage of. Growing plants such as vegetables in dry land can improve your life. If you do it well, you can not buy a small dish for a family. A few more chickens, and that's even better.

The living standards of the peasants are not high, and they are generally not outdated for festivals, and there are very few people who buy fish and meat to eat. Poor families don't necessarily buy fish and meat even if they are out of fashion. But if you are diligent, you can raise chickens and kill chickens, catch fish and kill fish, and raise pigs to kill pigs. Pork can't be put and must be made into bacon. The bacon in the mountains is smoked by hanging in front of the stove. It can also be smoked with firewood and bran pickling. It's fragrant, there aren't many people like this, and Qian Shulin's family is this kind of family.

Schools are formalized, but new problems will arise. Zhao Yuanqing said to Qian Doudou: "Now three classes are okay, what if there are four classes and five classes?" "It's called planning ahead.

Qian Doudou said: "This is a big problem, you have to ask Principal Zhou for instructions as soon as possible." ”

Zhoucun Primary School can no longer be run until the third grade. First, there are no teachers; The second is that there are no classrooms. For example, in the fall of 1942, one class was recruited, and the original two classes of the first grade were promoted to the second grade or two classes. From the second grade to the third grade, it was originally a class, and now it is still a class. At this time, there is one class in the third grade, two classes in the second grade, and one class in the newly recruited first grade. So what if there are four classes and only three classrooms? Where else can I put a class?

Originally, three classes and three teachers were nervous enough, but now it is even more tense when there are still three teachers in four classes. It turned out that the government said that a teacher was coming, but there was no news. There are three teachers in the school, what about the fourth class? Zhao Yuanqing and Qian Doudou discussed: We have to ask Principal Zhou, Zhou Liangwu said: "In this way, on the one hand, try to build two more bungalows; On the other hand, move a class to the word hall first, the word hall is small, and it can only seat more than 20 people. As for the lack of teachers, Zhou Liangwu said: "It is a fact that there are fewer teachers, let's recruit another one!" ”

In July 1942, the school was closed, and in order to continue to enroll students in the second half of the year, Zhou Liangwu agreed to use the summer vacation to build two more bungalows next to the school. The funding aspect is up to the school itself. At the end of this semester, the school has savings again. Zhao Yuanqing publicly expressed his support for the school, and he did not want school awards this school year, and contributed to the school to build classrooms. This news touched the people of Zhou Village and the side village of Zhou Village, and the villagers of the side village all said that Principal Zhao was a good person, and Principal Zhao's reputation was greatly enhanced.

9. Karma

On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender. But it also heralded the beginning of a civil war. Some people ran down Mount Emei to pick peaches and launched a frenzied attack on the people's revolutionary base areas, and the people began to endure the disaster of the civil war again.

After Zhoucheng Primary School built two classrooms, two more teachers were recruited, but because the space was too small, it was impossible to run another fifth grade, so the students would drop out of school after graduating from the fourth grade. Or go farther away than Zhou Village to study in high school. Among them, Qian Feng and Zhao Zhizhen went to the town. And Qian Long went home to farm.

In September 1947, two sisters, Qian Feng and Zhao Zhizhen, both entered Pingle County Girls' Middle School. Qian Long is 17 years old, he looks sturdy, and he is also a big boy who is comparable to his father. The martial arts are not bad, and Qian Shulin has no kung fu to teach. Of course, martial arts is only the role of the master to lead the door, and the practice has to rely on oneself to practice and innovate by oneself.

Zhao Yuanqing said: "Big brother! Why don't you let Long'er go to Dada Temple to study for another two years! ”

As an uncle, he only has the right to suggest, and the decision is still in the money forest. Qian Shulin discussed with Sun Fuling, but Sun Fuling had no opinion. Just said: "Let him be!" ”

In this way, Qian Long went to Dada Temple again to apprentice and presided over the Yongxiu Sect. Like my father, I became a lay disciple. Of course, not everyone can do it, first, there must be a relationship, Qian Shulin's master has gone, and the new host Yongxiu is also recognized; Second, there is a fee, this is easy to do Zhao Yuanqing.

The saddest thing was that on April 7, 1948, a remnant of the Kuomintang army was defeated and fled into the mountains, passing through Qianzhuang to rob them. Qian Shulin resisted with two hits, injured several of them, and provoked a small leader, bang, bang! Two shots were fired at Qian Shulin. Immediately Qian Shulin died, and Sun Fulin saw that her husband was shot and did not hide, so he rushed up with a kitchen knife and cut at the leader. The knife was the opponent of the foreign gun, and Sun Fulin was also shot twice by the leader! Hearing the gunshots, the whole village ran away! How can you manage so much, it matters to save your life!

The leader arrogantly said: "Who else dares to stand up against it!" Lao Tzu is fighting in the front, what is it to eat a few grains of your grain? Come, come, come! Stand up if you are not afraid of death! At the same time, he said to his subordinates: "Hurry up! Hurry up! It's troublesome after a long time! In the end, he snatched a lot of food and others, and hurried away.

When Qian Long rushed back after learning the news of his parents' killing, he didn't know where they had gone? I saw my uncle and aunt all there to help clean up. The bodies of Mom and Dad have been moved into the right room and covered with large banana leaves. It was not only the Qian family that was robbed, but the most serious one was the Qian family. Isn't it a tragedy that two living people were killed? But there is no place to find someone to judge, which is really sad and sad!

With the help of Zhao Yuanqing and his family, Qian Long finally buried his parents. I can't go to learn martial arts, so I work as a farmer at home. Qian Feng did not return to school for the time being, and asked for leave from the school.

Zhao Yuanqing and his family discussed: What should I do with this family? In the end, Qian Doudou said: "It seems that I can only resign and quit!" My brother and sister-in-law are gone, and I have to take care of the two families! If I were still working, there would be no way to solve the problem of eating for all of us! ”

Zhao Yuanqing said: "Doudou! My brother and sister-in-law's misfortune must be overcome! We should make some sacrifices, I agree with your resignation, it will be hard for you! As for the school, I'll figure it out! ”

The school also took a few days off for this purpose. Both main teachers are on leave, how can the school still hold classes? After dealing with the matter, Zhao Yuanqing returned to school. The first thing he reported to the principal Zhou Liangwu was that Qian Doudou couldn't come to class: "Brother Zhou! My wife is responsible for taking care of our family's life, and I can't come to class anymore, so I can resign! Excuse me! ”

Zhou Liangwu didn't feel strange when he heard these things, a home that had just been destroyed, it was not possible to take care of it without a woman, he just thought for a while and said, "Isn't Qian Feng in middle school?" I don't have to go to middle school, so I'd better go back to our school and become a teacher! ”

Zhao Yuanqing thought for a while: Alas! Yes! The home is gone, what books are you still reading! Why don't you come to school and work? So Zhao Yuanqing said: "This is a good thing, but Qian Feng is still young (14 years old), can he do it?" ”

Zhou Liangwu said: "Okay, okay! If it doesn't work, it has to work! And your uncle with him! Her aunt, Mr. Qian, will also help. ”

Just such a young female teacher came to Zhoucun Primary School. As the saying goes, three years of teaching teach yourself. This means that starting to become a teacher is a process of teaching and learning by oneself within three years, and constantly improving. Later, Qian Feng became an excellent people's teacher, which is a later story.

On April 15, Qian Long suddenly found a burden at home, and he ran to his uncle's house and asked, "Auntie, is this your thing?" ”

Qian Doudou looked busy and said, "It's not ours!" She beckoned to Qian Long and said, "Show it to me!" ”

Qian Doudou took the burden and opened the first layer, and found a note, she picked up the note and read it, which read: These two heads are the villains who killed your village, and everyone else was killed! This is a "gift" for you. Just deal with it after watching it!

Qian Doudou felt scared when he saw the words! It turns out that the bag is a dead man's head! But she opened it with trembling hands, and the head seemed to have been cut off with a knife, and the neck was covered with lime, but the head was clearly visible. Qian Doudou was not present at the time, so she asked Qian Long to call the villagers, and many villagers were surrounded at once. Someone said, "Yes! It's those national soldiers who grab food! ”

"What a national army, it's a bandit!" Some people said angrily. An old man said, "Alas! It seems that these two are their officials! ”

"That's right! It is! Another old man chimed in.

Yes, these two are their officials, and one of them is the one who shot and killed Qian Shulin and his wife. Qian Long hated it to death, took out an old woodcutter from the kitchen, and in front of the villagers, split the two heads into several pieces, and then threw them into the stream not far from the door with the burden. But the note was secretly left by Qian Doudou.

In the evening, when Zhao Yuanqing came back from school, Qian Doudou told her husband what happened during the day. Zhao Yuanqing said: "It's really heaven and earth! The revenge of my brother and sister-in-law can be regarded as revenge! ”

Qian Doudou said mysteriously: "Husband, look at the words on this note." Zhao Yuanqing took it and watched it a few times. Qian Doudou said: "Husband, have you found anything?" ”

Zhao Yuanqing glared at Qian Doudou and said, "A note, nothing else!" ”

Qian Doudou took out another note and gave it to Zhao Yuanqing and said, "Husband, look at this again!" ”

Zhao Yuanqing took the note and read it again. "Ahh Ha ha! Isn't this a note left by the person who took Zhibao? Qian Doudou said, "Take a closer look!" ”

This attracted Zhao Yuanqing's attention. He took the two notes and looked at them against each other, and said cautiously: "It seems that these two notes were written by one person, right?" ”

Qian Doudou said: "What like! It was written by one person, and it must have been written by one person! The couple seemed to have picked up some treasure, and they were happy for a while.

Zhao Yuanqing said: "Doudou! You keep both notes safe, and you're not far from finding Zhibao! ”

Qian Doudou said: "If you want to find it, you can't find it, didn't people say it, tell us not to look for it, ten years later, it will naturally give us a healthy son, from this matter, this is a great person, a very trustworthy person, will definitely not hurt Zhibao, we should believe in people!" ”

Zhao Yuanqing had no choice but to nod and acquiesce.