Chapter 30
Chen Yusheng had actually seen Zhou Weiliang pestering Jiang Suping, so under his resentment, he wanted to abolish Zhou Weiliang; Tang Shan had murderous intentions towards Zhou Weiliang, but it was not only because the other party was entanglement with the goddess Jiang Suping, but also for other greater reasons.
To put it simply, the defect in Tang Shan's left leg was directly caused by Zhou Weiliang. This happened ten years ago, and it has to start with the early experience of Brother Dongcheng Liang.
No one can tell Zhou Weiliang's family background.
said that he was born in a family of eunuchs, and he was regarded as the third generation of officials or the fourth generation of officials; Another saying is that his father was just a businessman in Fenglin Town, who made some money in his early years, and because he was generous, he was able to show his face on various official occasions.
Judging from Zhou Weiliang's words and deeds, these legends do not seem to be very reliable.
A more accurate and reliable resume is that after graduating from high school, Zhou Weiliang served as a soldier for three years, and after changing jobs, he wandered the streets for another year, and then he was assigned to a remote rural primary school as a teacher through some relationship.
That remote mountain village is at the foot of Nanhua Mountain, so it is called Nanhua Village, twenty miles away from Fenglin Town; The primary school with the ancestral hall as the classroom of the school building is called Huaguang Primary School.
These village names and school names, which cannot be found on the map, have no history and no future, and are destined to be forgotten, and you don't need to deliberately remember them.
There is only one thing worth noting: our protagonist Tangshan was born in Nanhua Village and attended Huaguang Primary School when he was a child.
The conditions of rural primary schools are extremely poor in all aspects, so I will not elaborate on them, after all, this is not a bittersweet meeting. Briefly talk about the size of the school.
There are less than 100 students, distributed in six grades, one class in each grade, and the average class is less than 20 students. The faculty and staff, the principal plus logistics, and even the kitchen staff are counted, a total of twelve people.
Among them, only one of the principals is a regular employee, and the others are called temporary workers in logistics, and the teachers are substitute teachers. The so-called substitute teachers basically did not graduate from junior high school. Most of the teachers don't understand the knowledge that the students don't understand.
Zhou Weiliang came to this primary school and became another regular employee in addition to the principal. And he is the most educated teacher except for the principal. The principal was overjoyed and asked him to teach second-grade Chinese as soon as he heard that he had gone to high school.
Why is it second grade? Because there were more than 30 people in the second grade class this year. The age gap between students is five years, to say the least.
The principal is very interested in Zhou Weiliang. But this favor has hurt more than 30 students.
Many years later, some people summed up the characteristics of Zhou Weiliang's teaching and educating people.
The first feature of Mr. Zhou's teaching is that he does not know the pinyin alphabet. Ah Bo ate it, and when it came to Zhou Weiliang's mouth, it became the ABCD in English.
Others, such as double vowels, compound vowels, and overall pronunciation of syllables, etc., were dizzy for the students to look at, and even more dizzy for Mr. Zhou. The school conditions are poor, there is not even a radio, let alone multimedia teaching equipment, so everyone is dizzy, and there is no other way.
Once there are new words that need to be read by pinyin, Mr. Zhou wrote it out, but pointed to the blackboard with a whip, and he was stunned, unable to speak for a long time, and finally he was in a hurry, suddenly touched his lower abdomen, and sighed:
"Your sister, I'm going to go to the toilet, you read it yourself."
He threw down the whip and walked away. Leave the whole class of students sitting in a daze. Sometimes I can stay until the bell rings for the end of class.
Generally speaking, most of the words that students don't know, and Mr. Zhou doesn't know either, so it's reasonable for people to look up the dictionary. After checking, if the students can spell it out by themselves, you are lucky; If the student can't spell it out by himself, he doesn't dare to ask him, because the respected teacher Zhou will spit on people, and he will scold after spitting:
"Your mother, let you look up the dictionary, and come to ask, is your melon baby a pig's head, huh?"
A group of rural children listened to this phrase, although they didn't understand it very well, but they also understood that it was not a good word; The second thing to understand is that the teacher does not speak the local language.
A villager who used to work outside explained that Mr. Zhou spoke Sichuan when he was angry.
It's just that Fenglin Town is thousands of miles away from Sichuan, why did Mr. Zhou abandon his dialect in a hurry and blurt out Sichuan foul language? Is it just to show his erudition? This is very puzzling.
Later, some people verified that there may be two reasons why Mr. Zhou's Sichuan dialect is so smooth: first, he was in Sichuan; Second, although he was not in Sichuan, he became inseparable buddies with several Sichuan comrades-in-arms.
All in all, when Zhou Weiliang was a soldier, he came and went every day with "day" in his mouth, and later became a teacher, and still "day" is still rising, and the students go up to eight generations and go down to eight generations, and they have to be "day" by him several times a day.
The occasional words that pop up, such as "melon baby" and "hammer", are not understood by the students, so they can only blink their eyes and look like they are sincere in learning.
The second major feature of Zhou Weiliang's teaching is that the texts are interpreted in the local dialect.
This point is also very puzzling, I was angry and scolded Sichuan foul language, and I read the texts seriously and returned to the local dialect. Sichuan local rotation, but there is nothing to do with Mandarin.
The point is that he also reads texts in dialects in a nondescript manner. For example, the "car, train" in the book, under his guidance, the sound of the children reading from the classroom window is:
"The Steam Army, the Fire Army."
The people in the countryside in the fields are illiterate, and they basically don't react when they hear it. Instead, the principal hurried to the door of the classroom and asked loudly:
"Isn't it cars and trains? How did you become an army of steam and an army of fire? What kind of army is that? ”
Teacher Zhou first blamed the principal for being reckless and interrupted his teaching work; Then he despised the principal for not being knowledgeable, and replied very unceremoniously:
"Your sister, you haven't played chess? Haven't heard of a car (ju) horse artillery? ”
The justification is quite reasonable. Because in the dialect of Fenglin Town, there are very few nasal sounds, and the "rook (ju)" in chess does read exactly the same as "jun".
The headmaster opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, so he shook his head and left.
In fact, what the principal didn't know was that he could pronounce "car" as "army", which was not bad, at least he could read it aloud, and it was well documented. What's worse is that even in dialect, Mr. Zhou still can't read many words, and he relies on his tongue to confuse the past.
Often, when Mr. Zhou read an article aloud, the students were all stunned and didn't understand a word.
At this time, the classroom was so quiet that the sound of paper falling to the ground could be heard, and Mr. Zhou was angry at everyone's rotten wood and threw the book:
"Your mother, when I meet a group of stupid melon babies, I will be counted as eight lifetimes of mold."
What he didn't know was that when the students met a Chinese teacher like him, they really fell into eight lifetimes of mold.
The third major feature of Zhou Weiliang's teaching is beating people.
In class, if he is only eight generations a day, it is considered lucky, which means that he is in a good mood today, and he may have won money at the gambling table, or soaked a girl in the village.
More often, if the students questioned or sat in an inappropriate position, Mr. Zhou slapped him, leaving five finger marks on his face, which was usually blood flowing from his nostrils and the corners of his mouth. After the fight, you have to take the lead in the first place:
"Your father, let your mother come to see me after school."
The students all know that although Mr. Zhou can't read the article, there is no obstacle in opening his mouth to speak, and the movement of the tongue is even quite flexible, especially when the Japanese people are up and down for eight generations, they fly back and forth, left and right, and even the Sichuan dialect can be imitated beautifully.
From this, everyone knows that Mr. Zhou is really angry at this moment, otherwise he would not mess up the order of who and who should be seen on that day, and he is not the current fashionable "base person", what is the father of the Japanese family doing? It can be seen that he is already incoherent.
The above three characteristics can be endured by the students. Even if it is beaten, it is nothing, the skin of the rural baby is rough and rough, as long as it does not hurt the muscles and bones, the nose is blue and the face is swollen and he goes home and says that he fell or touched, and it will be intact in a few days, and no parent will care.
Moreover, rural schools do not have the soil for good teachers to survive, but they are cultivated like a cloud. The teacher who beats people, Zhou Weiliang is not the first, nor is he the last; Not the most ferocious one, and certainly not the softest one.
Only one last feature makes the students cry bitterly: fines.
According to the documents declassified by the school later, in the final exam of the first semester, only one student barely passed the Chinese language, with 61 points.
The usual unit tests and the like are even more of a mess, most of the time the whole army is wiped out, and the average score of the class is around 20.
However, Mr. Zhou likes to give students tests, everyone is once a month, and he is once a half month. Sometimes there's a surprise test. Marking examination papers is a difficult task.
By the way, the only student who passed the final exam was named Tang Shan. Mr. Zhou never remembered this person.
Why is Mr. Zhou so happy about the exam? There are two main reasons for this.
First, face-to-face lectures are a difficult action for him, and Mandarin is not standard, so he can only bluff people with half-baked Sichuan foul language; And I don't know a lot of words in the textbook, and I often get by by being confused, and I always feel short of breath in front of students.
Only the test is the easiest, just stand in front of the students. He has no knowledge, but he has aura.
The second reason is crucial: giving students exams can bring him non-operating income.
Teacher Zhou clearly stipulates that those who fail the exam will be fined one cent and one yuan according to the missing scores, and they will be handed in before school on the second day of the day when the test scores are announced. The prince and the common people are in the same way.
Those who couldn't pay the money spat on their faces, beat them violently, and blasted out of the classroom. By the way, I have been going through the eighteen generations of my ancestors every day, and finally I have to meet my parents.
At that time, the vast majority of rural families were not very well-off, and the student children basically had no pocket money, and they were occasionally fined one or two yuan, which was barely able to deal with it.
But most of the students in the class can only barely get more than 20 points each time, and they have to hand over more than 30 yuan every half a month, so they can't barely deal with it.
That year, first of all, the iron things in every corner of the village were taken and sold by the children, as if returning to the era of great steelmaking decades ago.
Then, there were frequent thefts in the village. One of the most sensational cases in the county that year was when several second-grade elementary school children led a cow from the back mountain, walked 20 miles of mountain roads, and sold them along the streets of Fenglin Town.
In addition to his salary, Mr. Zhou can also earn an extra few hundred or even thousands of yuan a month, which he can use to improve his hard teaching life with peace of mind.
If nothing else, he is likely to be here for many years. Because he gradually felt that this kind of life was not bad, except for a little boredom in class, everything else was fine, the air in the countryside was fresh, and the money was richer than most of the people around him.
And he basically did everything he said at school, and even the principal didn't dare to go against his wishes. He was intoxicated by the feeling.
Of course, Zhou Weiliang was only in his early twenties at that time, and he was still a simple young man, thinking about the world too simply.
He has not been a teacher for more than a year. It's not that he doesn't want to do it, it's that he doesn't dare to do it anymore.
Because he found that if you don't do a good job as a mountain village teacher, it is actually a very risky profession.