Chapter 31 Seeking knowledge and believing in religion, living in poverty and happiness
Besides, after the divorce, Sister Yun's heart was greatly hurt, looking forward to the future, helpless, and discouraged. Her only hope is that she hopes that her son Huzi will become a talented student and grow up soon. She was afraid that her parents would complain that she was married to Wang Xiaofeng, and she didn't go back to her parents' house, so she still lived in her own house and lived alone with Huzi, and the family was silently busy in the fields. The people of the village could no longer hear her singing and laughter, let alone her beautiful dancing; Even her beloved and often proud fashions, gold rings, necklaces, and gold earrings, are no longer worn, but she does not discard or sell them, but puts them back in jewelry boxes and locks them in the cabinet as a memento of her beautiful love in this life. Even I am here, and she rarely comes. People knew about her misfortune and were depressed, and they no longer invited her for cultural and entertainment activities. She disappeared from the stage, from the crowd, from all joyous occasions.
But people often see Sister Yun appearing in school because her son Huzi is in school. It is said that she is her son's guardian, and she can call Huzi with her surname Zhang, but she doesn't, she still calls Huzi and Wang Xiaofeng surnames, and takes the name Wang Hu. She sent Huzi to school, and if there was no urgent work in the fields at home, she would not go home. When the class bell rang and the students entered the class, she stood under the window outside the classroom, watching Huzi go to class while quietly listening to the teacher's lecture. She listened to Chinese, mathematics, and general knowledge classes with relish. The school is in this village, and the teachers know her, and often warmly invite her to sit in the office, but she refuses to go, and still stands outside the classroom window, and every stop is a class. After a long time, the teachers could see that she was listening to the class and learning to read and write with the students. Recalling Sister Yun's past scenery and today's loneliness, everyone sighed sympathetically, and complained about Wang Xiaofeng again.
One day, Sister Yun stood outside the window of Wang Hu's classroom and listened attentively, my brother Liu Lin saw it, immediately walked over, patted her on the shoulder, and said: "I often see you standing outside the classroom for a long time, motionless, are you concerned about Wang Hu and want to see how he attends class?" Or do you want to learn some cultural knowledge yourself? Sister Yun turned around and suddenly saw my brother, a little panicked for a while, and a little shy, and said embarrassedly: "I'm coming to see Huzi in class." I wonder how this kid is learning? My brother said: "I learned from their homeroom teacher that Wang Hu is a good student, very obedient, disciplined, very serious in his studies, and his grades are also very good. You can rest assured. If you have something at home, you can go back and get busy; If it's okay, there's still some time before school, so you go to the office and sit and wait. Sister Yun hurriedly said, "No, no, I'll just stand here and wait." If you have something to do, go and get busy, and leave me alone. After my brother finished a class, he saw that Sister Yun was still standing under the window outside Wang Hu's classroom, so he came over and said, "Sister Yun, do you have something on your mind?" Do you want to come to the lectures and learn some cultural knowledge? When Sister Yun saw that my brother was talking about the central matter, her face immediately turned red, and she said in a hurry: "Think, why don't you want to?" It's just that I'm so old, I'm sorry. My brother said, "There is no age limit when learning culture." Haven't you heard people say that you live to learn all the time. How old are you? I'll figure it out for you and get you a seat in the classroom. "Sister Yun was very surprised and said;" Can you? I'm not a student. My brother said, "It's all one village, what's not to do?" I told the principal that you can sing and dance, and that you can help the students in their class with recreational activities. Sister Yun was happy and said, "Okay, I can teach the students in the class to sing and dance, and by the way, I also want to follow them to recognize a few words and learn some cultural knowledge." You know, I didn't go to school, and I envy you people who read. I would like to take this opportunity to learn and learn by myself. Anyway, I have nothing to do when I go home alone, and I am idle when I am idle. ”
My family and Sister Yun's family are close neighbors with a house, and the two families get along harmoniously and have a close relationship. My brother knows that Sister Yun has divorced Wang Xiaofeng, and now she is living alone with her son Wang Hu. Sister Yun's words made my brother feel sympathetic and very sad, so he decided to help her. He thought for a moment and said, "If you want to read and write, that's a good thing, and I think the school should support it." Let's do this: I'll talk to the principal, and I'll get in touch with the teacher in their class, and I'll give you another seat in the back of the room, and I'll find you a set of textbooks, and you'll be in the classroom when it's time for the lesson. In this way, even if it is windy or rainy, it will not be delayed. Sister Yun was very grateful, but thinking about the actual situation of her family, she said: "I still have to do housework and farming, so I can't come to class every day, so I can only take time to come." Isn't it okay for me to take a seat in the classroom? My brother said, "You are not a student at school, don't think about these disciplinary systems." If you have work in the field at home, you will be busy at home, and when you have time, you will come to school to listen to classes. I explained this to the principal and teachers, as long as it does not affect the class of students. You don't have to worry about these things. Sister Yun thanked her again and again, and promised to come to the school to listen to classes and learn cultural knowledge when she was free.
When Sister Yun returned home, she was so excited that she didn't sleep well all night. She never dreamed that when she was a child, she was at the right age to go to school but did not get to school, and for many years she followed her mother to learn housework, needlework, and her father to learn to farm, harvest, and when she grew up, she went to the propaganda team to learn singing, dancing and acting, and finally married high school student Wang Xiaofeng, and unfortunately divorced, for which she suffered a lot of hardships and experienced ups and downs in life. She thinks that it is all caused by lack of culture, and she has always envied people who are educated and educated. Now at this age, it is really a great fortune to be able to come to school and study at this step! The next day, Sister Yun arranged things at home early, came to school with Huzi, and sure enough, I saw my brother holding a set of textbooks in his hand, standing in front of the classroom door with Huzi's homeroom teacher waiting for her. My brother handed her the textbook and explained a few more words, and then he and the homeroom teacher brought her into the classroom, arranged her in a separate seat at the back of the classroom, and explained the situation to the students. Sister Yun thanked her repeatedly.
Since then, Sister Yun has become a special student in Huzi's class, and whenever she has free time, she goes to school to attend classes, rain or shine, and no longer has to stand outside the classroom to listen to lectures. She was very grateful to my brother and to the principal and teachers of the school. Sometimes I teach the students in my class to sing and dance. She was more active and serious in her studies, and she made rapid progress, and with the words she had learned from me in the propaganda team before, she would soon be able to read newspapers and villain books.
Sister Yun has always believed in her heart that Wang Xiaofeng divorced her, in addition to Miss Mei's reasons, another reason is that she is illiterate, uneducated, and unable to help him in business and realize his life ideals, which made Wang Xiaofeng begin to dislike her, and finally empathize and abandon her. It was a flaw that made her feel like a dwarf. She had a desire to learn about culture early on, but she couldn't find the right opportunity. Now that my brother and the school have given her this rare opportunity, she must seize it and work hard to make up for this shortcoming.
After school, Sister Yun accompanied Huzi home and taught Huzi to cook and do housework together. In the evening, Huzi did her homework, and she also did her homework together, and when she encountered problems, the mother and son discussed and solved them together. If there is something in the field at home and she wants to stay and work, she can't go to the class, so she tells Huzi to listen to the class carefully, learn all the content of the teacher's lectures, memorize them, and teach her when she goes home from school, Huzi is like her teacher. Her homework is often more serious and neat than her son's. She not only studied Chinese, but also mathematics, and studied both subjects very seriously and steadily.
After getting married, Sister Yun once hoped that Wang Xiaofeng would teach her to learn culture, but Wang Xiaofeng always considered his own personal future and family economic problems, and never had time to teach her. As for her, she also spent her main energy on farm work, family life, and supporting Wang Xiaofeng's work and career, and she did not take the initiative to fight for it. Now she finally understood: "Wangshan runs a dead horse, and it means that people are fake." "Learning culture depends on oneself to be proactive, we must seize all the time to learn, squeeze out all the time to learn, and we can't passively wait for others to teach. Everyone has their own ideas, their own affairs, and no one will take the initiative to teach her, not even those who are close to her. Most people in the world are hindsight, and it is too late to understand the reason. However, as long as you want to learn, are not afraid of hardship, and are not afraid of difficulties, there is still a remedy, that is, "it is not too late to make amends". Sister Yun is like that.
After more than a year of study, she has learned three or four thousand Chinese characters and is already able to read extracurricular books. When she has nothing to do, she finds some storybooks she likes to read, which she finds more interesting and meaningful. During this time, she not only learned the homework taught by the school teachers, but also read many extracurricular books, her favorite is the story of Liang Zhu, the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the story of "The Legend of the White Snake", and the story of the Little Mermaid in "The Daughter of the Sea". These books gave her great inspiration, education and comfort, so that he no longer felt lonely, lonely and helpless, and then he thought about it and sighed. She often closes the book after reading it, and compares her love with Wang Xiaofeng with the protagonist in each book. She believes that it is not wrong for her to love Wang Xiaofeng, pay for him, and marry him; In order to save Wang Xiaofeng, it is not wrong to agree to divorce him, and continue to take care of his tutors for him, and endure hard work, loneliness and loneliness; Because all this she did was for her sincere love for Wang Xiaofeng. Giving everything for the people you love is deserved, worthwhile, and without regrets. Just like Zhu Yingtai, Weaver Girl, White Snake and Little Mermaid, selfless dedication to the people they love. She believes that her love for Wang Xiaofeng will be recognized, loved and praised by the broad masses of the people in the future, just like them. Thinking of this, her sad and disappointed heart will feel a little warmth and hope.
On Sundays, the school is not in session, and Sister Yun has another important activity schedule, no matter how big or urgent the work at home and in the field, she does not do it, does not do homework, does not read storybooks, she always arrives on time to the Jesus Church in the town, sits with those hunched over and all kinds of believers, listens to the church teacher explain the Bible, and learns to sing the church songs. Her singing voice is still beautiful and beautiful, but with a more mournful charm. Sister Yun is also a devout Jesuit, and she often works with the faithful to do good deeds, donate money and materials, and support those who have suffered disasters and live in poverty.
Once, I went home to see my grandparents, and I went to see Sister Yun by the way. When she saw me, she said to me very seriously and solemnly: "Sister, do you know? I am now busy, in addition to working in the fields and at home, going to school, and going to the Jesuit church in the town to read the Bible, sing religious songs, and believe in Jesus. After believing in the religion, I have a new understanding of love. Now I think that love is compassion, charity, fraternity; Compassion for all living beings is the highest state of love. I was surprised and incomprehensible: how could a young man in the new era of reform and opening up be so obsessed with Jesus? As the saying goes, love is selfish and should not be shared or shared with others; How could Sister Yun be associated with the Jesus Church and have such an ideological understanding? Investigate further, what does Sister Yun mean by this? Is it that she is now divorced, living alone with Huzi every day, lonely, and now believing in Jesus, stressing purdue for life and compassion, she gradually forgot Wang Xiaofeng, and turned her love for Wang Xiaofeng to practice and culture, and turned to love for the vast number of people in need? Like the monks and nuns in the temple, eating fasting and reciting Buddha in order to transcend? Thinking about Sister Yun's thoughts and behaviors since her divorce, this is about the case, which is in line with the content of doctrinal propaganda. So I nodded silently in approval. But I can't help but have infinite worries, thinking that it is not normal for Sister Yun to have this kind of thinking and understanding, and she should try her best to pull her back and rekindle the flame of love.
More than two years have passed in a blink of an eye, Huzi is already in the fourth grade, and Sister Yun followed Huzi to start studying the fourth-grade course. She knew more words and read more books. In addition to the common primary school textbooks and story books, there is also a "Bible" on the case. There were few traces of sadness on her face, and occasionally she showed a slight knowing smile. It's just that after this marriage change and the devastation of the years, her flower and moon appearance are gradually withering and discoloring. She cut off her long, curly hair, and only kept short hair that reached her ears. Wear loose and wide cotton clothes, no jewelry, no grease powder, and face the sky. Every time I see her, I can't help but think of Sister Yun, who was like a flower in the past, brightly dressed, good at singing and dancing, enthusiastic and lively, and had a clear distinction between love and hate, and her youthful and romantic love stories.
In order to reawaken Sister Yun's pursuit of love, I have introduced her to several objects, two of which are divorced, but they have formal jobs in the county organs, in my opinion, the conditions are very good, but she doesn't want to look at any of them. The last time, she resolutely said to me: "Sister, don't waste your time anymore, you just introduced the county magistrate and the secretary of the county party committee to me, and I won't look at each other; For my heart is dead, and my love is exhausted; A heartless and ruthless person, how do you ask her to fall in love and love people? I'm a devout Jesuit now, and I can't deceive people. "I know very well that Wang Xiaofeng's ruthlessness has broken Sister Yun's heart, and she has completely lost her heart to love; I don't have to waste any more time.