Chapter 214 Rural Teacher
"Rural Teacher" doesn't look like a science fiction novel in terms of its title, and even more so in its beginning.
The opening chapter is the last lesson of a rural teacher. Severe liver pain left him with no other strength. From the subsequent description, we can see that the teacher has esophageal cancer.
Feng Jingyuan frowned. It wasn’t that the content was poorly written, but it was just beyond his expectation.
"Why do I need to use a lot of pen and ink to describe this small mountain village at the beginning of the chapter?" Feng Jingyuan thought silently in his heart. He felt a sense of alienation when he lived in the countryside as a child.
It's like this. When people see familiar things, they either feel familiar or strange.
Under the emphatically described small mountain village, it is vividly seen on the paper that the entire mountain village has been "abandoned". The strong laborers go out to work, leaving only the elderly and left-behind children in the mountain village.
Students' families also have their own difficulties. Liu Baozhu's mother ran away with money, and his father was decadent, drank and gambled every day, beat and scolded his children, and almost beat him to death once; Guo Cuihua's mother was a lunatic. They stab people with knives and set houses on fire at night...
Indeed, every remote mountain village has one or two lunatics, some male and female, mostly female. explain.
People in the entire village do not work because they know that the county will control them.
The author's wording is very precise. "The mountainous area where he is located is one of the poorest areas in the country. But poverty is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is the people there's numbness to the status quo."
In the village People "cut into pieces" the tractors that were assigned to each household under the production quota system. You have a wheel and I have a steering wheel. They were cut into pieces while the tractor was still alive and could go to the fields to work. This was not only the cruel thing, but also the factory. We came to help the poor and installed a water pump for free. As a result, the whole village sold the water pump and only got 1,500 yuan. After a big meal, there was nothing left.
These incidents gave Feng Jingyuan a basic impression of this village. It was a numb village, so numb that he no longer cared about the future of the next generation.
Not only is it numb but also ignorant, because to build the Laojun Temple at the head of the village, the roof beams of the school must be lifted. You must know that many students are far away from the school, and their food and accommodation are in the school. On the roof, what do students use to protect themselves from wind and rain?
“This author knows how to write novels. He used the school beams to repair the Laojun Temple...”
"In the small mountain village where I used to live, I would not send my children to school even if I had the opportunity, because if I did, the family would lose a strong labor force."
"Why do you still have more children if you are poor? Because there is almost no cost to give birth. The older ones can help take care of the younger ones, and the older ones can help with the work. The poorer they are, the poorer they are.” Eye.
The teacher used to have a girlfriend named Xiuxiu in the village, but later she followed Erdan from the same village because Erdan made money. However, Xiuxiu died of dystocia because Erdan was willing to spend a lot of money to host a banquet, but was reluctant to send Xiuxiu to the hospital because people in the village were like this and never went to the hospital for childbirth.
[Later he heard that compared to Erdan’s mother, she was lucky. It was difficult to give birth to Erdan, and Erdan's father learned from the midwife that it was a boy, so he decided to keep the baby. So Erdan’s mother was put on the back of a donkey and made to walk in circles, and she forced Erdan out. According to people who saw it at the time, there was blood all over the yard...]
"This article should not be published in "Science Fiction World". It should be published in "Flower City" and "Harvest". If it doesn't work, it can be published in our "Tinmen" literature." Feng Jingyuan thought to himself.
There is a standard for good writing, which can let readers experience the world of many expressions through language. There is no doubt that Feng Jingyuan felt the ignorant and numb villagers in the mountainous area.
The rural teacher has early-stage esophageal cancer and can be cured with only about 20,000 yuan, but his meager salary is all used to subsidize his children.
Although I don’t understand why this article is published as science fiction, and it’s not science fiction at all so far, I understand why this rural teacher wants to teach students even if he doesn’t risk his life. First, his teacher was also a rural teacher, who introduced him to new things and saved his life.
Secondly, if he doesn't teach, these students may never have access to this knowledge in their lifetime.
"The background of the era should not be modern, but earlier, around 2000." Feng Jingyuan briefly analyzed prices, which was also a way to divert his attention.
Soon, Feng Jingyuan knew why this article was a science fiction novel.
The perspective jumped to the Star Wars in an instant -
Yes, it is very exaggerated, the Star Wars lasted for 20,000 years, 50,000 light-years away from the Blue Star!
The final result of the battle between the Carbon-based Federation of Life and the Silicon-based Empire was that the Carbon-based Federation won and expelled the Silicon-based Empire to the top of the first spiral arm of the Milky Way, which is also the most desolate place in the Milky Way.
"Silicon-based empire, is it a robot empire?" Feng Jingyuan has read a lot of science fiction novels, and this was his first reaction.
Because the war lasted for a long time and resulted in the death of a lot of life in the galaxy, the Carbon-based Federation decided on a major policy in the future to preserve as many new creatures in the galaxy as possible.
But to prevent the silicon-based empire from "leapfrogging", the carbon-based federation wants to clean up the first spiral arm.
Feng Jingyuan roughly understood that star leapfrog is the only way for large-tonnage warships to carry out short-distance and rapid attacks in the interstellar world. Therefore, the meaning of the carbon-based federation's cleanup is to destroy all stars within a range. Form an isolation zone.
But if you want to retain all stars with life, the workload will be too much. Therefore, the Carbon-Based Federation must conduct civilization screening on all stars and only retain and protect stars above the 3c civilization.
Although Feng Jingyuan seemed to be no different from a rural teacher in the previous interstellar war, the Carbon-based Federation began to conduct civilization screening, which gave him a vague guess. After all, he still remembered the recommendation: The pledge to save the world. question.
The scene of the story turned back to the small mountain village. The protagonist, the teacher, was already dying. He also knew that his end was approaching. He vomited blood and swallowed all the remaining painkiller pethidine. Take it, because you won’t need it anymore.
In fact, for his level of esophageal cancer, pethidine has no effect at all, but it is better than nothing.
The children all cried and begged the teacher not to continue talking. They could just talk again tomorrow.
If it really can be postponed until tomorrow, then there can be one more lesson tomorrow, the teacher thought, but his body told him that this was the last lesson he could give to the children.
Feng Jingyuan no longer held the magazine with both hands, but with one hand holding the magazine and the other half holding it on his mouth and chin. It was obvious that his emotions were also aroused.
Actually, if you take away his hand, you can look at you. His lips are tightly closed, which still brings back some memories of the old man.
(End of this chapter)