Yang Xiaowei originally thought that the school she attended was remote enough, but she didn't expect there to be such a difficult school in the world.
Zhang Qinli and her husband put her things at the school gate and went back in a hurry. The two children were still at home.
"Xiaowei, the principal of this school is very nice. You can rest assured and think of a solution slowly in the future. Don't think too much!" Zhang Qinli comforted her before leaving.
The school is built on a rugged road leading to the county seat. The school covers an area of less than 200 square meters and has only one teaching building. The first floor is the teacher's dormitory, and the second and third floors are classrooms. There are four teachers in the school, only one to four. There is no school gate for each grade.
Yang Xiaowei stood at the school gate, holding on to the telephone pole at the door and refusing to let go.
what to do? Do I have to waste my time in a place like this? Resignation, an idea came into Yang Xiaowei's mind. Yes, how cruel it is for a teacher to resign and be unable to be evaluated or promoted within five years. She is not a saint, she also has a sense of honor, and she also needs to be recognized.
"Teacher Yang, come down quickly!" A woman about forty years old came up to help her carry her things.
She was still holding the telephone pole in a daze, as if if she let go, she would be stuck in this quagmire and unable to pull herself out.
The female teacher pulled her back and said, "Teacher Yang, what's the point of having a full meal first? In order to welcome you, we made a lot of delicious food!"
"You guys eat, I plan to resign!" Yang Xiaowei said expressionlessly.
The female teacher shook her head and trotted down the slope at the school entrance. After a while, a male teacher came up. He had dark skin and short stature. He should be about the same age as Yang Xiaowei.
"Teacher Yang, go in first. Our place is actually quite fun, not what you think!" the male teacher said, picking up her luggage on the floor and moving it down.
"Hey, put down my luggage, I'm going to resign!" Yang Xiaowei hurriedly chased after her.
"Resigning also takes many days to go through the formalities. Until the Education Bureau approves it, you still have to go to class!" the male teacher said as he walked.
Yang Xiaowei stopped talking and followed him silently. When they arrived in front of the teaching building, the male teacher pointed to a classroom and said, "You can live here!"
"Okay, thank you!" Yang Xiaowei said sheepishly.
"You pack up first, we'll be cooking soon!" The male teacher put down his luggage and left.
Yang Xiaowei sat on the bed and thought for a moment. The male teacher just now was right. Resignation required approval from the Education Bureau. She hadn't even submitted her application yet. Even if she wanted to resign, there would still be many days left, so she could only reluctantly lay down. Get up.
Yang Xiaowei made the bed, and the male teacher just came to ask her to eat. Although she had no appetite, it was not good not to eat, not to mention that she had nothing to eat now, so she had no choice but to go.
The table was full of food. Although it wasn't big fish or meat, it looked very delicious. Yang Xiaowei suddenly felt hungry.
"Teacher Yang, sit down quickly and don't be polite. You will know after you stay for a long time. We don't have so many rules here. There are just the four of us. We are all like a family!" said a middle-aged man.
"Teacher Yang, this is our Principal Li." The man just introduced.
"Hello, Principal Li!" Yang Xiaowei stood up quickly and said.
"Sit down quickly, sit down quickly, we don't have so many false courtesy!" Principal Yang quickly raised his hand to signal.
"Yes, Teacher Yang, there are only four of us here, just like a family. Don't be too outspoken. We cook and eat together on weekdays!" said the female teacher who first went to help Yang Xiaowei carry things.
Yang Xiaowei felt embarrassed about her behavior of holding the telephone pole just now and lowered her head.
"Teacher Yang, this is Principal Li's daughter-in-law. Her surname is also Li. I usually call them Brother Li and Sister Li. My name is Zhang Tianming. You are welcome to join!" the man introduced.
"Thank you! I made a mistake and was sent here, causing you trouble!" Yang Xiaowei said with her head lowered.
"Teacher Yang, you are still young, and you will encounter many things in the future. Your former Principal Yang told me that you are a little girl here, unfamiliar with the place, and you want me to take care of you. In fact, you are working. , we can do it no matter where we are, as long as we live up to our conscience!" Principal Li said.
Yang Xiaowei was brought to tears by the words of Principal Li. These days, her tears were almost dry. She didn't dare to tell her family about such a big thing, and there was no one to discuss it. In this minority area, No one had ever been so confidant to her, and she couldn't hold herself any longer.
Principal Li's wife Li Yinxia came over, took her head, patted her gently, and said, "Cry if you want, everything will be fine."
When Yang Xiaowei heard this, she cried harder, choked with sobs, and twitched her body.
After a while, Yang Xiaowei gradually calmed down and felt hungry. She took a bite of the food in front of her. It was very fragrant, just like the taste of her mother at home.
After dinner, Li Yinxia asked Yang Xiaowei to go back and clean up the dormitory first. They washed the dishes and told Yang Xiaowei that the school's toilet was outside the school. If she didn't dare to go to the toilet at night, call her.
Yang Xiaowei felt warm in her heart and insisted on clearing the dishes with them before returning to the dormitory.
There is a big mountain in front of the dormitory, blocking the view and making it impossible to look away. As the night gets darker, Yang Xiaowei feels more and more frightened. No, although the people here are very warm, she still has to resign.
When Yang Xiaowei was about to resign, she told her mother that she was not an independent person, and now, in this world, the only people she cared about were her mother and younger brother.
Yang Xiaowei looked at the time. It was around nine o'clock in the evening. Her mother probably wasn't asleep yet. She hesitated for a while and then dialed the phone.
"Mom, I want to resign!" Yang Xiaowei was afraid that she would not be able to say it, so she said it as soon as the call was connected.
"Ah? Xiaowei, what did you say?" Mom thought she heard wrongly.
"Mom, I want to resign!" Yang Xiaowei said again.
"What's wrong? Why do you want to resign suddenly!" Mom asked anxiously.
"Mom, a child in my class fell into the river and drowned. The school said I was derelict in my duties and moved me...to a more remote place." Yang Xiaowei cried aggrievedly.
"Ah? Why should the responsibility be held on you when the student drowned?" Yang Xiaowei's mother was not well educated, so she couldn't understand it for a while.
"Mom, the student ran out during school hours. I am responsible!" Yang Xiaowei said while crying.
"Xiaowei, don't cry yet. The school just transferred you away from that place. It didn't say it would expel you, right?" Mom asked hurriedly.
"No...no!" Yang Xiaowei said twitchingly.
"It's fine if you don't have one. You're just teaching wherever you go, so why would you resign?" Mom said in a serious tone, "Xiaowei, you're just a college graduate. It's not easy to get a job. Besides, it's an iron rice bowl. How many people do you have in the village?" People envy you, but you can’t resign!”
"But...Mom...this school only has four teachers and is more than 20 kilometers away from the town. I have no choice. I can't just waste time here!" Yang Xiao said hurriedly.
"Xiaowei, no matter where you teach, your salary will be the same. Transportation is convenient now. If you endure it for a few years and work hard, you might be transferred out." Mom advised.
"Mom, there is no hope. I can't participate in the evaluation and promotion for five years!" Yang Xiaowei could only tell her mother the school's decision.
"Five years is very fast. You are still young. If you suffer a little when you are young, you will have a better memory later!" Mom continued.
"Mom... I can't do it anymore anyway, I'm going to resign tomorrow!" Yang Xiaowei was determined.
"Yang Xiaowei, your father has always been very happy that you became a teacher. Mom did it for your own good. Look, your brother is working on the construction site all day long. He is exhausted. Have you ever wanted to live like this? I Let me tell you, I worked so hard to give you up, not just for you to do hard work!" Mom was angry.
"Mom, I'm not happy, I'm very depressed!" Yang Xiaowei was also angry.
"How can there be so much happiness in this world, how can life be so easy? Let me tell you, if you dare to resign, don't call me mom again!" After her mother finished speaking, she hung up the phone with a bang.
Yang Xiaowei looked at her phone helplessly. She should have thought that her mother would not allow her to resign. Although she was only a college student, she was already the first college student in her family. Now she would give up her good job. , no one will agree.
Her parents are just illiterate farmers. In their eyes, there are only two kinds of jobs, one is to earn a living for the country, and the other is to work. For her parents, Yang Xiaowei was admitted to the teaching system, which was a great source of pride. There were so many people who couldn't get into the system, so how could she lose it so easily?
Yang Xiaowei sat and thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out what to do? She felt very wronged about Lingling. She opened the door just to let Xu Jiahang go out. Who would have thought that Principal Yang suddenly called him and he went in again, causing Lingling to run out.
Besides, Lingling's matter had a lot to do with her parents, so why were she and Principal Yang the only ones to take the blame in the end? The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She felt that the teaching profession was too high-risk.
The most difficult thing to manage in the world is people. Everyone has their own thoughts. She is not a tapeworm in their hearts, so she doesn't know what they are thinking.
Just as she was lost in thought, Li Yinxia knocked on her door and said, "Teacher Yang, are you asleep?"
Yang Xiaowei opened the door and said, "Teacher Li, what can I do for you?"
"I'm here to ask you to go to the toilet together. The toilet is outside the school, and I'm afraid you won't dare to go!" Li Yinxia said gently.
Yang Xiaowei looked outside and saw it was pitch dark. She really didn't dare to go, so she nodded and went to the toilet with Li Yinxia.
"Teacher Li, are you locals?" Yang Xiaowei couldn't help but ask.
"That's right, our home is in the county town and we only go back on weekends!" Li Yinxia said.
"Oh, you all go home on weekends? Is there no one in the school?" Yang Xiaowei asked.
"No, Xiao Zhang won't come back. His family is out of town! You have a companion!" Li Yinxia said with a smile.
"Oh, that's okay!" Yang Xiaowei breathed a sigh of relief. She was still a little scared that she would have to live alone in this place.
"You should be about the same age as Xiao Zhang. I'll call you Xiaowei from now on! You can also call me Sister Li. Calling me Teacher Li is too foreign." Li Yinxia said.
"Okay, Li...Sister Li!" Yang Xiaowei also felt that this was more cordial.
"Xiaowei, if you have any questions in the future, you can come to me. Don't worry, our school is small, but the students are very obedient. The mountains and rivers here are beautiful. You will fall in love with it!" Li Yinxia said, and they arrived at the school.
That night, Yang Xiaowei couldn't sleep. She didn't know what to do, whether to go or to stay.
The next day, students came to the school one after another. When they saw that there was a new teacher in the school, they all gathered around him curiously.
"Teacher, are you the new teacher in the fourth grade?" asked a little classmate.
"How did you know?" Yang Xiaowei was surprised. She had just found out that she was going to teach fourth grade students.
"Of course we know that the original teacher in the fourth grade has given birth!" another classmate said.
"Oh!" Yang Xiaowei looked at the students in front of her, who were as innocent and lively as ever. Maybe they work wherever they work. Thinking about this, she felt much better.
She walked into the classroom. There were only 18 students in the class. She glanced around and said, "Hello everyone, my name is Yang Xiaowei. I will be your class teacher from now on, and I hope to become your good friend!"
As soon as Yang Xiaowei finished speaking, thunderous applause broke out in the classroom. Yang Xiaowei looked at these children and secretly vowed to make herself shine even in the dark.
Yang Xiaowei had a general understanding of the students and found that the students’ homes here were quite far from the school. They started to get up at 5:30 in the morning to go to school, and there was no one to pick them up because the school had limited conditions and could not provide accommodation. After graduation, they can go to the town to study, and then they can live on campus.
Yang Xiaowei doesn't plan to take new classes. Since they are all day students, safety must be taken seriously. But once she was bitten by a snake, she has been afraid of well ropes for ten years.
Yang Xiaowei focused on traffic safety and drowning prevention, and repeatedly explained it to her classmates. She also decided to remind her repeatedly every day after school that she did not want any more lives to disappear in front of her eyes.
The incident of Lingling's drowning gradually calmed down. Liu Qiaozhen and Xu Benshan took the compensation and instantly became the richest families in the village.
"Qiaozhen, how about we also build a small foreign-style building?" Xu Benshan suggested.
Liu Qiaozhen has never smiled since Lingling passed away. When she heard Xu Benshan say this, her heart felt even more like a knife.
"Xu Benshan, thank you for your ability to speak out. This is the money that Lingling paid for with her life. How could you take advantage of it?" Liu Qiaozhen said loudly.
"Why are you keeping this money if you don't want to spend it? It's really funny. Do you want to burn it to her?" Xu Benshan felt that Liu Qiaozhen was unreasonable.
Regardless of whether Liu Qiaozhen agreed or not, Xu Benshan had already made up his mind about building a small foreign-style house. He then went to Xu Guoqing to inquire about the procedures required for building a house.
