Chapter 3 Yang He
Uncle Xinhua was stunned: "Why send medical treatment to the countryside?"
"The medical conditions in Qiming Township are not good, right? Uncle Xinhua, you are now the second-in-command of the hospital Take the lead, organize some people, bring some injections, medicine, etc. Well, it’s not difficult for you, Uncle Xinhua, to go to Qiming Township to do physical examinations, treat simple illnesses, and train doctors at health stations.”
“ Eh-?" Lu Xinhua couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
“I believe that when Uncle Xinhua returns to Qiming Township in this manner, the villagers will definitely welcome him very much.”
Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Uncle Xinhua was admitted to the medical school after returning to the city. From this point of view, it can be regarded as being trained by the villagers in the past few years! This is called - the prodigal son returns with gold!"
"That makes sense!" Lu Xinhua suddenly felt happy, and then he suddenly realized and stared: "What kind of prodigal son can't exchange for gold when he returns home? No matter how big or small he is, he is asking for a beating!"
After that, he said to his mother again Said: "Sister-in-law, look at Your son really has nothing to worry about. I have to go to the dean. That’s all.” Then go quickly, don't delay the business, this time I will really cause trouble for you."
Just as Lu Xinhua left, another head popped up at the door of the ward: "Zhou Zhi, I found you. . Auntie, are you here?”
But it was Zhou Zhi's deskmate in school, Yang He.
Zhou Zhi’s grades in school are pretty good, but he is still a naughty and activist.
In today's small counties, even the best middle schools have only so much teaching quality.
But it’s okay now. In the future, compared with schools in big cities, the gap will widen.
Zhou Zhi’s class has one liberal arts class and three science classes, one of which is liberal arts and the other three are science.
Although the class division was only officially made in the second year of high school, in Zhou Zhi and his middle school, the class division was just a small adjustment, and most of it was decided from the first year of high school.
Zhou Zhi is in class two. In fact, in the second year of high school, it will become science.
Zhou Zhi prefers liberal arts, but just looking at the results, the two subjects are relatively average.
The reason why I chose to study science classes is because of the very popular saying at the moment.
Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry, and you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world.
The fundamental reason is that it is not easy to find a job after studying liberal arts.
The overall limitations of teaching standards have resulted in the current Jiachuan Middle School having several average subject teachers in each class.
For example, Li Dashan, the Chinese teacher in Class 2 of Zhou Zhi’s science class, except for his beautiful chalk blackboard writing skills, his professional skills are really so-so.
Zhou Zhi didn’t listen much to Li Dashan’s lectures. He had already mastered what he should learn, read and know. Chinese class was the time for him to read Jin Yong Gulong, which he borrowed from street bookstalls. .
However, his Chinese language scores still basically remain the first in the school.
In fact, Li Dashan didn't care much about Zhou Zhi, because even he himself had not read through "Historical Records" and "Zizhi Tongjian".
As for Zhou Zhi, this child’s foundation in ancient Chinese literature comes from the first person in the education system of Jiachuan County, the child’s fourth cousin-in-law, Su Ancheng.
Su Ancheng attended a private school when he was young. He graduated from the Nanjing Institute of Education before liberation and was the first serious college student to graduate from Jiachuan.
After liberation, Su Ancheng served as the first director of the Education Bureau of Jiachuan County. The education business in Jiachuan County in New China was basically started from scratch and planned step by step.
The big families in Gujing Township attach great importance to education. The Wang family, Liu family, and Su family had a fierce dispute after liberation, which almost led to a fight.
It’s not about fighting for land or water sources, but about fighting for primary school sites.
Finally, the fourth cousin expressed his opinion that the Su family will take out the private school so that we don’t need to build it anymore and turn it into a primary school on the spot!
This allowed Gujing Township Primary School to be located near the Su family.
Su Ancheng is now over eighty years old, and his skills in classical Chinese, brush calligraphy, and even ink painting are all top-notch.
After his father discovered his son’s talent in this area, he asked him to study with his fourth cousin for a while.
Fourth Cousin definitely had his own way of educating Zhou Zhi. He did not give specific guidance on learning. He only taught Zhou Zhi one thing, how to study.
The result is that Zhou Zhi’s reading volume is terrifying. After reading the books at home, he spends time in Xinhua Bookstore every weekend. He has such a wide range of knowledge, especially his Chinese skills, that his teacher Li Dashan does not dare to confront him. .
On one occasion, Li Dashan went to the city for a meeting and directly asked Zhou Zhi to teach "The Peacock Flies Southeast" in his class.
All the students in the two classes were fascinated by it. Xu Youzhi, the head teacher of the first class, passed by the classroom and stopped to listen.
As a result, he finished two classes in one stop. After Zhou Zhi left the classroom, Xu Youzhi reached out and patted his shoulder and asked him if he wanted to transfer to the liberal arts class.
But at that time, Xu Youzhi was just talking.
Yang He was a boy from the countryside and was Zhou Zhi’s deskmate. He felt it was an honor to have a deskmate like Zhou Zhi, so the two became good friends. The county now has ten districts, many primary schools and three middle schools.
But now there are only two middle schools with high schools, namely Jiachuan County Middle School and Majie Town Middle School.
Among the big ones in Jiazi, the primary school in Jiachuan County has the highest teaching quality. The students there will basically enter the junior high school of the county middle school, occupying the vast majority of the enrollment quota.
Therefore, children of the same class in junior high school are basically from small towns. They have been classmates since the first grade of elementary school and are very familiar with each other.
As for primary schools in other towns and villages, only a very small number of very outstanding students can be admitted to the junior high school of the county middle school. There are only a dozen or so in one class.
But high school is different. High school has a large class with more people than a junior high school class, and some junior high school students will be lost in the high school entrance examination.
In Jiachuan in 1991, if the children of many families studied well, they would go to technical secondary schools if they could, because this would allow them to start working a few years earlier.
There are also a few students with poor grades who will be squeezed into the high school section of Majie Middle School.
Therefore, in the high school in the county, there are more students from the township and several other junior high schools.
Students from the countryside live on campus and study in the evening; students from the city study day out and do their homework at home in the evening. Naturally, they were divided into two groups.
But Zhou Zhi is a special case here. He has best buddies among his classmates in the city, and he also has best buddies among his classmates who live in the countryside.
Zhou Zhi particularly appreciates the qualities of those classmates from rural areas.
Take Yang He as an example. The boy’s father, Old Yang Tou, was also a legend back then. He opened a silk and satin shop in Jiachuan County at the age of twenty, wearing a silk shirt and leather shoes. Mahjong is played with silver dollars and gold bars.
Forty-nine years ago, in my hometown of Baimi Township, I bought 200 acres of land to welcome the new China.
The old man got married very late, and there was a twenty-year age gap between Yang and his mother. He didn’t have Yang He until he was in his forties, and Yang He didn’t have Yang until he was fifty.
After Yang He was admitted to the county high school, his family could not afford the money. According to Yang He's sister-in-law, it was better to just stop studying and go home to farm the land.
In the end, Yang He reported to his old father and divided the family between his brothers, and then gave his share of the real estate to the eldest brother, who would support him in continuing his studies.
You can’t blame your brother and sister-in-law for being cruel, as they don’t have any money left in the family.
The salary of urban cadres is less than 100 yuan. In rural areas, they can ensure that you have food to eat and clothing to wear, but they really cannot guarantee that you have money to spend.
What’s more, the brother-in-law and sister-in-law also have children of their own.
It’s already good to be like Yang He and his brother and sister-in-law.
As far as Zhou Zhi knows, there is far more than one classmate like Yang He in the school.
These students have such poor foundation that they can hardly get into the county high school. Except for a few, most of them have average academic performance.
But they all have one characteristic, that is, they are very serious and hard-working. After evening self-study, they went to the toilet to continue studying under the street light and were caught by the teacher. More than one or two.
Compared to these classmates, the monthly salary of Zhou Zhi’s parents and the income of his mother’s extra money add up to three hundred. Although there is a grandma at home, the expenses for the favors sent to her are quite a lot. But it can definitely be called "generous".
Also, even if the salary is just that, as the county industrial and commercial director, no matter how honest my father is, he still receives a lot of welfare and labor insurance from the company and small gifts he receives during the holidays.
For example, every year when lychees are on the market, there is absolutely no shortage of lychees at Zhou Zhi’s house.
Zhou Zhi will take some to evening self-study and share them with the students who attend evening self-study.
And because he controls the kitchen and dining table at home during holidays and weekends, Zhou Zhi often takes advantage of his position to invite classmates who live on campus with whom he is close to have dinner at his home.
Grandma and my mother are both from rural areas, and they both like fun and children.
Especially like rural children.
And, uh, girls.
My mother complained more than once that during the holidays at home, there were more thoughtful guests than those who came to visit grandma.
Zhou Zhi likes the countryside. He used to go to his uncle's house during holidays. Later, after he made friends in the countryside, he likes to go to his classmates' houses in the countryside during holidays.
I usually go there for a week or two, and I like to help with the work, but it’s not about good conduct, it’s just curiosity and interest. On the contrary, I learned a lot of rural skills from my uncle and classmates from the countryside.
Zhou Zhi admired the qualities of Yang He very much. The first time he went home with him, he saw him put down his schoolbag and say hello to his parents, brother and sister-in-law as soon as he entered the door, then poured water for Zhou Zhi, and then picked up the broom. Then I started cleaning the courtyard room.
After cleaning, I picked up a load of millet and went to the grain station to thresh rice. I was really busy from the moment I walked in and didn't stop for a minute.
At the age of seventeen, carrying a 100-pound bag, Zhou Zhi could not catch up after walking up the field.
(End of this chapter)