"The Moon and Sixpence" hits him, moves him, and a whole new world unfolds before his eyes. Gu Hengchuan was conquered by Maugham, and he couldn't wait to find "The Blade", "The Shackles of Life", "The Veil", "Lisa of Lambeth", "The Pen Flower Hairpin Video", "Theater Style", "Love in Florence", "Past and Present", "Casuarina Tree", "British Agent", "On the Chinese Screen", "The Gentleman in the Living Room", "Variations on the Spanish Theme", and even "The Biography of Maugham", piled up on the bedside to read one after another.

Many years later, he read Lin Yutang's The Art of Living, and there was a passage that said, "I think that the discovery of a writer's favorite writer is the most important thing in his intellectual development." Indeed, there are some people in the world who have similar hearts, and one must find a writer with a similar heart to him among the writers of ancient and modern times. Only in this way will he be able to reap the true benefits of reading. Gu Hengchuan thinks so, but it is too utilitarian, we don't study for "benefit".

Lin added, "Su Dongpo said that when he first read Zhuangzi's writings, he felt as if he had been thinking about the same things and holding the same ideas since he was a child. When Yuan Zhonglang met an unknown writer of his generation named Xu Wenchang one night in a small book of poems, he jumped up from his bed and called out to his friend, who began to read the book of poems, and called for it, so the two called for rereading, and re-reading, which puzzled their servants. George Eliot said that when she first read Lussau's work, it was as if she had been struck by an electric current. Nietzsche felt the same way about Schopenhauer, but Schopenhauer was a perverse teacher, and Nietzsche was a hot-tempered disciple, so it was only natural that the disciple would later rebel against the teacher. ”

Maugham is to Gu Hengchuan, just as Zhuangzi is to Su Dongpo, Xu Wenchang is to Yuan Zhonglang, Lu Sau is to Iliot, and Schopenhauer is to Nietzsche.

Reading is reading, going to work is going to work, Gu Hengchuan is very clear-headed, and he can distinguish priorities. People have three insurmountable shortcomings, one is to be hungry from time to time, the second is to add clothes when it is cold, and the third is to lie down and sleep every day.

Gu Hengchuan is silent, he works very hard, everyone sees it, the most important thing is that the things entrusted to him, the preparation work is done in advance, the possible situation is thought in advance, not in a hurry, in an orderly manner, and they don't have to worry about it much. The Academic Affairs Office is always short of manpower, May and June are the enrollment season, registration, consultation, examination, admission, registration, very busy, Gu Hengchuan was called to help, there are not many vacancies left in the library, Director Hu knows in his heart, Director Zou decided to transfer him to the academic affairs studio at the beginning of the school year, and at that time he realized that Gu Hengchuan would not work in the library for a long time.

Gu Hengchuan was transferred to the teaching affairs studio, the nature of temporary workers has not changed, there are no three insurances and one housing fund, the salary is the lowest level, and he is busy, but the book, invigilation, and enrollment are all recorded in the workload, and there are subsidies to be obtained, and the school issues benefits, such as pickled vegetables, fruits, book cards, movie tickets, etc., and he also has a share, which is not without a small supplement for him. Young people have a good appetite, a strong metabolism, braised vegetables and fruits eat quickly, every holiday, Gu Hengchuan goes out to visit the bookstore, watch a movie, feel the pulse of the city, and then return to his nest to continue reading.

Time is like flowing water, the spring semester passed quickly, midsummer came, teachers and students had summer vacation, the campus was empty again, Gu Hengchuan was also idle, and the only thing left at hand was to receive the textbooks for the new semester.

During the long day, it was deafening, and there was only Gu Hengchuan left in the library. The weather was so hot that he wore a pair of shorts shirtless, drank hot tea, wiped himself with a wet towel from time to time, and the ceiling fan whirred and whirred, concentrating on reading.

Following Maugham, Gu Hengchuan began to look for foreign novels to read. He needed a book similar to Xia Zhiqing's "History of Modern Chinese Novels" to guide him and create a bibliography. He was fortunate enough to find Harold Bloom and The Western Canon, with a huge bibliography at the end that made his life seem too short. He was also unfortunate that most of the books were too early for him to appreciate the benefits for a while, and by the time he had enough experience and mind to read them, he was already old.

Greatness and immortality are by no means easy to attain, appreciation itself is also a talent, we are all ordinary beings, and it is also a kind of luck to be able to look up to greatness and immortality.

Reading is a cheap and long-term pastime that can last a lifetime. Gu Hengchuan lived in the stairwell of the library, beggar-thy books, in the best years, full of energy, and without distraction, he was able to concentrate on reading books for a few years. In retrospect, it was the purest and most comfortable time of his life.

That summer was unusually hot, the stairwell couldn't accommodate people at all, Gu Hengchuan lay on the floor in the reading room at night, dealing with it indiscriminately, a few hours before dawn was the coolest, he slept soundly, until the sun shone through the window and woke him up.

Surabaya Middle School is the first to work in the Academic Affairs Office, arranging classes, arranging classes, dividing books, and preparing for the start of school is complicated, and sometimes it is stuck at one point, which makes people have high blood pressure. Fortunately, "the boat is naturally straight to the bridge", there is no hurdle that cannot be passed, and the headache is passed every year, and Director Zou is no longer surprised.

After arranging the teachers, he took the time to go to the library to see how Gu Hengchuan was prepared.

The reading room was full of textbooks, the textbooks were divided according to classes, and there were a lot of new books in the autumn semester, Gu Hengchuan changed the original method, removed all the chairs, and put the finished textbooks on the table in small parts, and most of them were piled under the table, separated by fifteen centimeters, and the class and number of people were clearly written in each bundle. Sharpening knives and cutting wood, Director Zou felt that it was a bit of a waste for Gu Hengchuan to only look at the textbook room, so he could add more burdens and arrange some other work.

Ge Xiangqian, who was originally in charge of student registration files in the academic affairs studio, was listed in the Education Bureau this year, and Director Zou talked to Gu Hengchuan and asked him to take care of this stall.

In recent years, there are often graduated students who go back to their alma mater to open a certificate, make up the file, and meet the emotional hands of the two hands, bite to death and say that they did not get it when they graduated, and the school is responsible, and the office building is not peaceful.

Director Zou called Ge Xiangqian and asked him to hand over to Gu Hengchuan, and take care of any remaining problems in advance. The Education Bureau is borrowed, the personnel relationship is still in Surabaya Middle School, and it is guaranteed that he will return to Director Zou in two years, Ge Xiangqian did not embarrass Gu Hengchuan, and spent half a day teaching him by hand, and left a phone number, and contacted him when he encountered a problem.

Student records and archives are two different things.

Surabaya City is one of the first pilot cities to open electronic student registration for primary and secondary schools, involving registration, verification, transfer, and graduation are all operated on the provincial student registration platform, without paper materials, which is convenient and fast. Gu Hengchuan had contact with computers when he was in junior high school, and he picked it up again after five or six years, which was a bit handy, but considering the average age and actual level of the teaching staff, the operation of the student registration platform was designed to be very "foolish".

The student/file is all paper, from the beginning of high school, one set per person, including student status card, certificate of league relationship, sports qualification card, graduate registration form, graduation into the brown paper envelope, sealed and knocked on the seal, handed over to the student together with the graduation certificate, brought into the university by themselves, lost and not replaced.

What Gu Hengchuan has to do is to issue a blank student status card at the beginning of the semester, urging the head teacher of the first year of high school to arrange the new students to fill in the basic information, paste the photos, collect the number and seal, and at the same time sort out and count the student status cards of the old students in the second and third years of high school, and if there is a class adjustment, they will be drawn out and classified into the new class. At the end of the semester, three more grades of student registration cards will be issued, and class teachers will be urged to fill in the grades, comments, rewards and punishments, and stamp their own private seals. As for the certificate of league relationship, sports pass card and graduate registration form, there is another person in charge, and the deputy director in charge of the grade is in charge, so there is no need to worry about Yokogawa.

Ge Xiangqian reminded Gu Hengchuan that he should keep the student status cards of the three types of students who transfer to another school, study abroad, and borrow and audit, and he may not know when he will use them.

He had already sorted out his personal belongings, put them into plastic boxes that he didn't use, temporarily stacked them in the corner, vacated his desk and cabinets, handed over the door key to Gu Hengchuan, and went to work at the Education Bureau in a dashing manner.

In this way, Gu Hengchuan came to the teaching studio and became a member of it.