Chapter 153, Higher Primary School

Although the house is a grass house, it can be inside, with basins, washcloths, desks, beds, and quilts stuffed with a thick bed of cotton wool.

The other children in the school were envious! Their beds were all wheat straw, and it was uncomfortable to fall asleep.

Li Shucheng has seen their beds, and he has also seen how to do them. The wheat straw is dried first, then put it in a damp place to regain moisture and become soft, form a ball and use the wool to weave into a mat. This is how it is laid, and so it is that it is covered.

Once Li Shucheng also wanted to help them make a cover, but the old man of the Yang family stopped him. At that time, the old man Yang said, "There is no blessing that can not be enjoyed freely, and there is no hardship that cannot be endured", and if you can help once, you can help for a lifetime? Not only their family, but also so many people in the nearby village. How many generations have come, just like this, they won't freeze to death, and waiting for their own money to buy is the right way.

Looking back, Li Shucheng thought about it, it is true, it is precisely because they are poor that they will study hard. In addition, if there are more things to give, it is not a hint to them in their hearts, they don't have to work hard, and the point of doing more is not too much, which is becoming a lazy person.

Once the human heart is impacted, it is unknown whether it will become good or bad, and if the ideological consciousness cannot keep up, it will only become a bad thing in the end. For these low-level people, how high can their ideological consciousness be? Even the old man Yang who persuaded Li Shucheng actually moved his heart when he heard that Li Shucheng sent the bed. But after living for a lifetime, he who was about to enter the coffin was also able to understand it, and he stopped his thoughts at the last moment.

"Do you want to have a bed like this?" asked Li Shucheng, looking at the children.

The older children looked at each other, not knowing how to answer for a while, but the younger children were screaming one by one.

"If you want to, then study hard. Li Shucheng said, "Although I can't send you to the city to study and become an official in the future, the school will hold some farming and breeding courses in the future." You have learned how to farm and harvest more food, how to raise chickens and pigs well, and how to cure your illness, and then you can earn your own money to buy it. ”

"Learn now!" cried a little bit, who didn't really understand it.

Li Shucheng looked at him and smiled, "You also want to learn, this is difficult to learn, are you afraid?"

"Eat eggs, eat eggs!" said the little one. Speaking of chickens, he thought of eating eggs, and as he spoke, he sucked his mouth and began to drool. The school's chicken farm was built, and although there were not many chickens, each child could still eat an egg every two days.

However, it is basically impossible to get rich in farming and breeding, and even if the city under the mountain, although it is called a city, a considerable number of people are also farmers, and how many people can buy it? But it is possible to work hard for a few years, and to have food and clothing.

The mayor's son should have been taught a lesson by the mayor when he came, and he didn't dare to be naughty when he came to the school, and he didn't show a superior attitude, so he quickly integrated in.

And after Li Shucheng went to class every day, he took a hoe and Jiang Mingyue to go up the mountain to plant tea trees, and after a period of time, the slope behind him was full of plants.

"Brother Li, the tea you planted is too thin. In the evening, sitting under the camphor tree and pulling home, Boss Yang said.

"There are not many tea seedlings, so they are scarce. Li Shucheng said, "Some of them are still local teas, and this tea can grow into a tree, and it can only grow when it is rare." Anyway, the territory is large, and there is no problem of waste. ”

"How many years will it take to grow up!" Yang Lao Er said.

Tea trees grow slowly, but people grow fast, four years have passed in a trance, and the older ones are fourteen or fifteen years old, and it is time to graduate.

Other children are limited by family conditions and can only go home to farm, or go to the city to find things to do, and the mayor's children and several landlords' children are able to continue their education and go to the city to take exams.

"You have studied in the academy for several years, and you may be worse than other students in Mandarin, but you are much better at mathematics than others!" Li Shucheng laughed, "When you take the exam, you can definitely get in." No one in the town has ever been admitted to the Upper Primary School before, and you will definitely surprise people this time. ”

"This higher primary school used to be called Bishan Academy, but it has a history of more than 100 years. More than ten years ago, Xu Tianxu took thirteen juniors to the provincial capital to take the middle school examination, and all thirteen juniors were admitted, and they were the top thirteen. This time the reputation has been greatly enhanced, and people from all places close to Yunnan and Guangxi have come to study. It's not easy to take the exam in the current higher primary school!" said to Li Shucheng after the children left. He graduated here before, and after graduation, he found a relationship and became a junior official in the county government for a few years, and then went to the town to become the mayor.

"It's okay, come forward and encourage me. Li Shucheng said, "Otherwise, when they talk about how difficult it is to take the test, they will be under a lot of pressure in their hearts, and they are afraid that they will not be able to take the test well." ”

The High School Hall, between two peaks on a fifty or sixty meter-high mountain in the north of the city center, stands on the mountain and looks down, and the small town at the foot of the mountain does not occupy one-fifth of the field of vision. On another hill next to it, there is the only temple in the vicinity, although it is called Crystal Temple, it is a Buddhist temple. There are five monks in the temple, and they are not high-ranking monks, and they don't argue about any Zen machines, this temple is a place to burn incense and pray for blessings.

At the end of the exam, all five children looked relaxed. Li Shucheng smiled: "How about it?

"It's so easy!" said the mayor's son, "I wanted to hand in the paper for a long time, and I was afraid of leaving a bad impression on the teacher, so I checked it three times, and it was so boring that I sat in a daze." ”

The mayor slapped him on the back of the head and scolded: "If you have time, you won't check it a few more times, if you are careless and can't pass the exam incorrectly, see if I don't smoke you to death!"

"Forget it, don't fight now. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "When the scores come out, if you don't pass the test, you will play again, and he will remember it if you have a good meal." Then study hard for a year and come back next year. ”

"Teacher Li, don't you advocate stick education?" said the mayor's son.

"Well, I don't generally advocate stick education. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "But for those who are naughty and mischievous and always test the edge of the bottom line, stick education is still effective." What should I do if my child is disobedient and naughty?

However, he finally escaped this beating, and all five children were admitted, and their rankings were quite high, and the teachers in the higher primary school specially asked them to ask questions.

And these teachers were also shocked, these five students not only have good arithmetic, but also know the knowledge of physical chemistry. You know, they don't offer physical chemistry courses in their higher primary schools, not because they don't want to open them, but because they can't find teachers who understand them.

"Does your teacher come or not? It doesn't matter if he doesn't come, I'll go with you, such an important talent, if only he could be invited to come to the school as a teacher. Said the dean of the Higher Primary School. Although the courses of Chinese arithmetic are okay, no one knows physical chemistry, and for the sake of the future of the school, the dean has been considering these two courses.

"Mr. Li is also here, but he probably won't be here. The mayor's son said.

"Your name is Liu Xinglong, right? Tell me why your teacher won't come?" said the dean, "Teaching here is much better than teaching in the town, at least in life." ”

"That...... Our school was set up at the expense of Mr. Li. Liu Xinglong said, "And the students' clothes were also made by him with money to buy cloth." ”

"Huh?" the dean was shocked, and sighed after a while, "Your teacher is really not ordinary! ”

"Dean, I'm just teaching for fun. Li Shucheng said, "I really want to guard the students for the rest of my life, I feel too tired." After teaching them for the past few years, I can't hold on anymore. Fortunately, they graduated a batch, and then I will choose a few to go back to the school to be teachers, so that I can relax. As for the problem of the school teachers you mentioned, I think it is better for you to cultivate them yourself. In this way, he studied on his own, and then every once in a while he went up to us and I explained to them. ”

"If that's the case, I'm afraid we won't be able to start classes for a short time. The dean said.

"Actually, it's not that hard. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "As long as they have a foundation in arithmetic, they can start classes while learning, just some conceptual things, just understand it." ”

"In addition, I donate five thousand oceans to your school. Li Shucheng said, "You can use this money to buy a house, rent it to businessmen to open shops and collect rent, buy land and collect grain, you can also have an income, and in the future, if you have good grades in school but have no money to go to school, you can appropriately reduce or exempt tuition fees." "These oceans were changed when Li Shucheng went to the provincial capital, a total of 10,000, and more than 100 have been used so far.

"This is great!" said the dean excitedly, "Teacher Li, you don't know, every year there are some good students who can't be accepted because they are poor and can't afford to study! If you have this money to buy some shops and fields, and make some progress every year, then these students will be able to continue studying!"

"Okay, I'll send you money tomorrow. Li Shucheng said.

Three boxes of oceans were delivered, the school was boiling, and a few days later, a monument was erected in the school, describing the donation of the ocean. However, at this time, Li Shucheng had already gone home, and when Liu Xinglong and the others came back from vacation, they came back to visit Li Shucheng and talked about it, and Li Shucheng only knew.

"The stele is placed together with the two steles donated before, but teacher, you have donated so much money, how can the stele be the same size. Liu Xinglong was upset for Li Shucheng.

"It's all donations, it's all kindness, and kindness doesn't have big or small. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Besides, the two tablets erected in front, the first record is the opening of the school, which is from scratch, without their donations, there can be no school; the second record is the reconstruction of the school, the school was destroyed in the war a few years ago, without their donation, it is impossible to run the school again." In addition, there are usually donations to the school every year, but these are not major events for the school, and they have not yet found the inscription. ”