Yokokawa Three Migrations: Living Elsewhere (6)

The canteen is also in the overall renovation plan, and after completion, it will be tendered and operated by a catering company. It's pretty much an open secret. Upon hearing the news, the owner of the canteen was deflated, the jar was broken, and the quality of the meal was getting worse day by day.

Recently, Gu Hengchuan has not eaten in the cafeteria. In the morning, I was in a hurry, I bought an egg cake or something on the side of the road to satisfy my hunger, went to the noodle restaurant diagonally opposite the school at noon to deal with it, and only replenished my nutrition in the evening.

The money is more abundant than in the past, Gu Hengchuan did not wronged himself, went to the supermarket to buy vegetables after work, and went home to cook a pot of hodgepodge, the staple food was rice. He is very particular about it, pour a little rapeseed oil into the electric hot pot, stir-fry the shredded meat until it is broken, remove the smell of cooking wine, add water, salt to taste, and after boiling, put soy products, mushrooms, green leafy vegetables or something in batches, meat and vegetables are matched, and the nutrition is balanced. He likes to eat shutters, tofu, dried tofu, dipping in spicy soy sauce tastes better, meat dishes like meat skin, usually have no time, only in the New Year to settle down.

Gu Hengchuan doesn't have too many requirements for eating, make a soup base and stew in a pot, the taste is acceptable, use shredded meat if there is shredded meat, soybean sprouts without shredded meat as the base, boiled in white water is also okay, dip more spicy soy sauce when eating. His only extravagant preference is oily skins, which are hard to come by and cumbersome to handle.

After the busy enrollment season, Gu Hengchuan did not breathe a sigh of relief, the plan is not as fast as the change, Director Zou originally told Director Ding that he would move the textbook warehouse after the renovation of the boiler room, but the library started construction first, and all the books and newspapers in the library had to be moved out, and the textbooks were also in it.

Director Zou felt a little heartwarming, and inquired from the side, but it was not Curator Ding who was the obstacle. The boiler room and the canteen are close together, which belongs to the overall renovation, and the canteen cannot be shut down in the middle of the semester, at least until the summer vacation.

Gu Hengchuan began to use his brains to find a place to make a temporary transition.

Director Ding was also worried about this matter, there were more than ten times more books and newspapers than textbooks, and there was no place to place them properly, and in his words, he was so worried that his hair fell out a lot.

Later, Director Fu of the General Affairs Office helped him come up with an idea.

There is an entrance to an air-raid shelter next to the playground, which has been abandoned for many years, the iron gate is rusty, and the key cannot be found. Director Fu asked the electrician to pry open the door, there was a lot of space inside, and as far as the library books could be put down, as much as possible.

Curator Ding had no choice but to pinch his nose and agree.

Director Fu was also responsible, ventilating a week in advance, killing rodents and insects, cleaning inside and out, leaving the bricks in the air, and then laying moisture-proof plastic sheeting, and arranging for people to start moving the library.

In those days, the library was noisy and messy, Gu Hengchuan heard about the air-raid shelter, and he also went to see it, but he didn't say anything.

He was worried that he wouldn't be able to borrow books next, so he said hello to Director Ding, picked a lot of novels and moved them back.

Director Ding was so anxious that he didn't care about these at all. He also knew that Director Zou was a little embarrassed, and asked Gu Hengchuan what the textbook library was going to do?

Gu Hengchuan told him that he would move the textbooks when the books and newspapers were finished. There is a "small black room" in the corner of the office building, which is filled with pipes and weak current equipment, and the teaching materials that are not used for the time being are piled up in it, and the commonly used ones are put in the teaching studio. He reminded Director Ding that there is also a "Yongxi Book House" in the textbook library, which is donated by the late teacher Lu Yongxi, and whether it will be moved to the air-raid shelter for storage.

Curator Ding couldn't look at those books, so with a wave of his hand, he asked Gu Hengchuan to deal with them, and threw them into the "little black room" with the textbooks.

Gu Hengchuan thought about it and reported the matter of the "Yongxi Book House" to Director Zou, who pondered for a while, and asked him to vacate a few rows of bookshelves in the teaching studio, pick some old books that can be seen to fill the façade, and put the rest into the "small black room".

Gu Hengchuan understood what he meant, in case Lu Yongxi's children came to school and asked about the old books donated by their father, they had to have an explanation, there was no "Yongxi Bookstore", and it was good to have "Yongxi Bookshelf".

He hesitated, and by the way, Xinhua Bookstore had already contacted him, and the first batch of textbooks would be delivered in the near future, and the library was being renovated, and he needed to find another place to stack them.

Director Zou had a thought in his stomach, calculating that the construction period might be in time, but Director Ding looked at his one-acre and three-point land very closely, and it was inevitable that he would bump and bump into the book, and most of them would push three or four, although it was a business matter, he didn't bother to talk to this kind of person. In the end, he thought of a way to take care of Yokogawa, "Then use the walking classroom, after the start of the semester, it will be the beginning of the semester, and the walking classroom will not be used for the time being, so let's turn it around first." Pack up the books as soon as possible after receiving them, so as not to interfere with teaching. ”

Gu Hengchuan agreed, feeling that there was no way out.

After the spring semester was collected, the faculty and staff left the school for the summer vacation, the weather was already very hot, knowing that there was a lot of fun in the branches, Gu Hengchuan stayed to work overtime, tidied up the four classrooms on the ground floor, vacated one to temporarily stack teaching materials, and left three rooms to rearrange the tables and chairs, leaving a one-person wide aisle, as compact as possible, so that the junior high school uses one, and the high school uses two, barely fit.

This summer, the campus is under full construction, and there are construction sites everywhere, Gu Hengchuan received a call from Xinhua Bookstore before arriving at the school, and spent most of the day sorting out and counting the teaching materials and making some preparations. Usually he sits at home and reads.

Russian/Chinese and French novels are boring and long-winded, and it is impossible to read, especially Dostoevsky, whose benefits he has not yet appreciated. British novels are more appetizing, Gu Hengchuan "rescued" Walton's "Fisherman's Words" from the library, Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", "Accounts of the Plague Year", Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Dickens's "Great Expectations", Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights", H. G. Wells's "Wells Science Fiction Selection", D. H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers", Oscar Wilde's "Wilde's Bizarre Tales" , "From the Depths", George Orwell's "Animal Farm", "Come Up and Take a Breath", Arundati Lowy's "The God of Small Things", Goldsmith and Sherriden's "Bending to Courtship and the School of Rumors", saved them from the bomb shelter, but unfortunately in a hurry, they only borrowed these few copies, and only read a third of them during the summer vacation.

It's not all fiction, "Stooping to Courtship and the School of Rumors" is a play, and "From the Depths" is a long letter written by Wilde to his homosexuals, which is shocking. It's not all written by the British, Arundati Loy is an Indian/Duc and writes in English.

These books are not as attractive as martial arts novels, but the reading experience they bring to Gu Hengchuan is difficult to describe in words, and sometimes he thinks with regret how happy he would be now if he had studied English hard and could read original English books!

After reading the book, the school library was being renovated, and Gu Hengchuan felt a sense of emptiness and boredom that he had never tasted. Just in the summer, the scorching sun was high, and it was very uncomfortable to go out sweating profusely, slimy and uncomfortable, Gu Hengchuan hesitated for a while, and finally decided to go to school.

The shelves of the original textbook library have now been moved to the teaching studio, and the walls are full of books and textbooks.

After Aunt Cao, Aunt Song, and Aunt Huang retired, two staff members were hired in the teaching studio, both of whom were recruited by the society and introduced by the relationship. The small hole tube printing and examination affairs have been moved to the printing room to work, surrounded by all-in-one machines, printers, and photocopiers. Xiao Zhang's relationship is relatively hard, he stays in the teaching studio to arrange classes, and pushes other things if he can, only selling the face of a few directors.

Xiao Zhang still has a lot of respect for Gu Hengchuan, firstly, he does not regard himself as a "leader" and never catches her errands, and secondly, he is an "old teacher", and many times he has to ask him for advice.

Gu Hengchuan found the old books donated by Lu Yongxi on the shelves, picked a few copies of "The Complete Works of Wang Zengqi", felt that it was a little less, and picked a few copies of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" and took them back to read slowly.