Chapter 4: Lao Cai and his students
Liu Nian is seventeen years old this year, this is his second junior high school, and he has stayed in elementary school for a year for some reason, and he is not small.
In fact, Liu Nian is still quite young in the class, and there are many people who repeat grades for three or five years, plus rural children generally go to school late, and many children are only in the first grade at the age of eight or nine.
So there are sixteen or seventeen-year-olds in the class, eighteen or nineteen-year-olds, and even twenty-somethings.
Most of the children in rural areas are raised free-range. Adults are busy in the fields all day long, and in their leisure time, they are crowded into a bunch of cards or idle play, who has the spare time to discipline the children.
Besides, the level of education is low, and those who graduated from primary school are all with high diplomas, and they are still expected to let them educate their children? They let the children play, and when they think about it, they will at most shout: "Get out of the house and do your homework!" Just know how to play! ”
Play is the nature of children, how many know how to learn, which class does not have a few students who score a few points in a test?
Some parents see that their children are not studying well and there is still endless farm work in the fields, and they wish that their children would drop out of school early, not only to save money, but also to have more labor at home.
Of course, most parents are still full of infinite hope for their children, if they can't learn in one year, then two years, and if they can't do two years, then in three years!
There is always a time when you can learn well after repeating a grade year after year, right? As you grow up every year, you will always understand some reason, right?
Generations of old peasants have worked hard from generation to generation, with the most simple wish, hoping that their children can leave the agricultural community and that their children can have a good life.
Liu Nian also thought about it, but he couldn't control himself. When listening to lectures, I always want to fiddle with something in my hand, or I grab a pen and knife in my hand and turn around, or I lift a page of the textbook, rub my index finger and thumb, roll it into a paper tube, and then take it out and roll it up again......
The eyes seem to be staring at the blackboard, but the brain doesn't know where to run.....
Lao Cai went to class two minutes early
“…… We learned grammar numerals in the first year of junior high school, what are numerals, it is very simple, it is one, two, three, four, five...... One hundred, two hundred ......".
Liu Nianzheng lowered his head and fiddled with the playing cards he had just bought under the table, and shouted without raising his head: "Two hundred and five!" ”
The quiet classroom suddenly turned on, and the students instantly laughed back and forth!
Lao Cai exploded all of a sudden, stretched out his arms and gritted his teeth and pointed at Liu Nian and shouted: "You roll over for me, you roll over for me!" "I look like I can't wait to swallow Liu Nian alive.
Liu Nian hurriedly shook his wrist, threw the playing cards into the depths of the hole, and when he stood up with his head drooping, he said to his peers anxiously with his throat: "Help me hide the cards!" Help me hide the cards! Then he reluctantly stepped up to the podium.
"Two hundred and five! You're two hundred and five! You don't need to work hard to study, you can answer the call, can you use this mind to study? All day long, thinking about evil and crooked ways! If you return two hundred and five, you will be two hundred and five! Your dad is also a two-hundred-and-five! ”
The more Lao Cai spoke, the more angry he became, he reached out and grabbed Liu Nian's sideburns, and lifted his hair vigorously. Liu Nian raised his toes, grinning with painful teeth, and screamed lovingly.
Liu Nian was unconvinced, but he didn't dare to argue, and he was indignant in his heart: "Isn't two hundred and five a number!" Isn't two hundred and five a number! ”
After Lao Cai cleaned up Liu Nian, his anger still did not subside, and he pointed to the side of the podium: "You roll the corner of the wall for me to stand!" Liu Nian drooped his head and stood listlessly in the corner.
The old man let out a sigh of relief, muttered a few more words, and then continued his lecture.
Liu Nian was a little restrained, not very comfortable, standing alone in the corner in front of everyone's eyes, this is not a glorious thing after all.
Liu Nian lowered his head, crossed his hands on his chest and kept rubbing his thumbs, and couldn't help but sneak a glance at Lao Cai again: Oh, Lao Cai is not interested in him at all now, he doesn't even squint at him, this is a forgotten corner.
Liu Nian slowly relaxed, scratching his scalp for a while, and scratching his arm for a while. When you're tired of standing, you should either rest with your back against the wall, or rest on your heels and toes back and forth to relieve your sore legs.
It was really boring, Liu Nian looked around, and Sanjin was listening to the lecture intently in the first row. Li Jiran in the third row is a little sneaky, according to Liu Nian's experience, he should be reading a novel, and in the last row, Tian Zhuang is talking from ear to ear.
It turns out that the teacher is standing on the podium, and your little movements can usually be seen, regardless of whether you are too lazy to pay attention to you.
Lao Cai often said: "I treat each of your children fairly, I don't like you much because I study well, I hate you if I don't study well, I don't have any selfishness as a teacher, it's all for your good ....."
Liu Nian once believed it. It's just that today he vaguely felt that what Lao Cai said might not be like that, and even teachers couldn't treat every student fairly.
Most teachers like to learn from obedient classmates, but they just don't say it.
In fact, Liu Nianzhi didn't care much about what the teacher thought of him, and he forgot about Lao Cai's words when the bell rang.
How do you get off class or old money? What about physical education? Say no, there will be no more.
Lao Cai still habitually arrived at the meeting early and threw the textbook on the desk. With his hands behind his back, he paced the podium.
"In this lesson, we review the spring snow ........ in Qinyuan"
"Ha ......" laughed under the podium: "Teacher, you have reviewed this lesson several times!" ”
Lao Cai touched his head and smiled shyly, Lao Cai also has cute times.
Lao Cai was a little confused, and the hair of a man in his fifties was about to fall out, and his head was surrounded by sparse gray hair. Sometimes I can't forget where I am reviewing when I open the textbook, so I just start from the beginning.
Later, the classmates got used to it, and he just listened to it, and the whole class was repeaters, and he had studied this textbook several times, and it was all a review anyway.
Lao Cai's proudest time is in class. Holding the textbook in one hand and gesturing with the other, he read aloud with his nasal voice and the strong taste of Mengyuan County, Shandong:
"....It is a pity that the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty are slightly inferior to the literary talents, the Tang Dynasty and the Song Ancestors are slightly inferior to the coquettish, and the generation of Genghis Khan only tries to bend the bow and shoot the eagle! In the past, a few romantic characters still look at the present! ”
At this moment, Lao Cai was full of worship and excitement.
"Hehe" Lao Cai looked proud
"Mao..., what is his old man's realm? What Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Sect, Song Zu, what Genghis Khan, what are they! Only I'm the real merryman! ”
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"Hey, Tian Zhuang, don't you know how to hold paper in your mouth?" Tian Zhuang tore up a lock of paper in class, held it in his mouth and blew it, splitting the horn to disturb Lao Cai's interest.
"Tian Zhuang, do you know where the paper came from?"
Lao Cai didn't wait for the field to speak, and then he laughed badly: "The paper is made of wheat straw, and it is a donkey who presses the wheat in the field, and the donkey pulls it when it presses the field, and the donkey is directly pulled onto the wheat straw!" ”
The podium suddenly laughed back and forth, and Lao Cai also smiled proudly: "You still put it in your mouth, do you taste the smell of donkey?" ”
There was another burst of laughter from the podium. Lao Cai is also becoming more and more proud.
Tian Zhuang was not annoyed, and laughed along.
After everyone laughed, Lao Cai straightened his face and looked at Tian Xiang: "Do you think it's okay to make a fool of yourself and make everyone happy?" The monkeys at the zoo also make everyone laugh, who treats it as a human? The clown of the circus, squeezing his eyebrows and making people smile, that is the character? ”
"That's cheap!"
There was silence in the classroom, only Lao Cai's voice echoed.
Tian Zhuang, who was not smiling at the hippie either, lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.