The Most Simple Wish

Dachacun primary school is located in the middle of dachacun, built on a gentle slope, surrounded by several palm trees and banana trees. There was an old fence outside, and a bare wooden pole pointed straight to the sky. Dao Xiaotong said it was a flagpole. There is only one room in the school building, which is not a dry column building. It has only one floor and is made of bamboo and wood.

Unlike Tao Huizhen's imagination, it is not full of the vigor and vitality of the primary school campus in her childhood, nor the atmosphere of hope like the "eight or nine o'clock sun". The school buildings give people a lonely and quiet atmosphere. Standing in the center of the village, it seems that it has been abandoned for a long time.

In the morning, the sun is directly on the Xieshan spire of the school building. Tao Huizhen squints at the school building. The hot sun penetrates into Tao Huizhen's eyes, and a dazzling color halo emerges in front of her eyes. And the school building in the back of the sun, cast a small shadow.

It's worse than expected, but the important thing is to be able to learn. No matter how humble the school is, the school is not a magnificent palace, but a place to teach and educate people. Tao Huizhen is full of eager thoughts. She would like to see the students with a simple image by beating off her hair on her head and spreading it on her shoulders.

Tao Huizhen and Dao Xiaotong live in a small bamboo building, just 100 meters away from the school building. One after another, children have come to school. Around the school, there are paths leading to all directions, from which the children show their heads when the sun rises.

In the shabby schoolhouse, Tao Huizhen met these children. They were of different ages and nationalities. They were from grade one to grade six. Some were quiet, some were noisy, and her eyes were staring at Tao Huizhen, full of curiosity. Then, he kept whispering to each other, but still peeping at Tao Huizhen secretly in the gap between his arms and between his palms, as if comparing Tao Huizhen with them. Want to thoroughly see Tao Huizhen, and some timid.

They seemed to be communicating. When Tao Huizhen came, all the people in the village went to meet her. Tao Huizhen is the only teacher who is willing to teach in Dai township for more than half a year.

Tao Huizhen felt that the children's eyes were many times brighter than any eyes she saw. They were like little black crystal balls. No matter what happened, they could not escape from such eyes without impurities. Although dachacun primary school is quite different from what she imagined, the children in front of her are not different from what she imagined. There is no essential difference between the light in their eyes and the children she saw in the northwest.

Children in Northwest China, looking at the loess slopes, are eager and tenacious. And they are surrounded by mountains, also guessing the outside world. When they were looking at themselves, their eyes overlapped with those of the children in the small mountain village full of loess.

It was a look of inquiry and knowledge. Tao Huizhen looks at them secretly, and wants to go to any corner of the world with them. She no longer looks up at the mountains, but overlooks the earth and China. If she wants to do this, she has to learn knowledge.

"Hey, be quiet. This is the new teacher Tao. He's here to teach you culture. Please call him teacher Tao." Dao Xiaotong went to the Sanchi platform and said in a strong local style.

"Mr. Tao... Hello, Mr. Tao." Students from grade one to grade six of dachacun primary school said in unison.

"Hello, my name is Tao Huizhen. I come from Shenyang, a city in the north. Nice to meet you. The mission of a teacher is to teach and educate people. I'm honored to have the title of "teacher". I want to hand over every bit of what I learned from my teacher to you without reservation. And you have a mission, to learn, to work hard. " Tao Huizhen remembers that in her first year at the dance academy, a teacher made the opening remarks like this. She agrees with the teacher's point of view, so she always keeps it in mind.

Today, she finally said the same thing, facing her students. Just changed a few words. When she said these words, there was a sense of inexplicable pride impacting her. The sense of responsibility and mission flowed in her blood. She didn't know what kind of power it was, which made her gently clench her fist and keep her eyes firmly fixed.

Looking at Tao Huizhen's self introduction, the children in the schoolhouse were confused and gradually climbed up to the small face. One of them impressed Tao Huizhen deeply. She seemed to understand Tao Huizhen's words and made a very small action to straighten the red scarf on her neck

Dao Xiaotong counted the number of students in the class and muttered, "someone didn't come again. Mr. Tao, there should have been 28 students, but only 26."

Tao Huizhen also counted the 26 students and asked, "which two didn't come? I'm here. You can go and have a look at it at home. "

"There are often children who don't come to school. Today, teacher Tao may be here, a few more than usual. Teacher Tao, I'll show you first, then you can teach, and I'll go home to find them. Do you think that's all right? " Tao Huizhen's first day of teaching, there are many unfamiliar places, Dao Xiaotong needs to show her.

Tao Huizhen is not very willing to say that she doesn't want any students to be absent.

There are 28 students from dachacun primary school. The sixth grade students are the least, and the second and third grade students are the majority. In the school, the compound teaching method is used. First teach the senior students, and the junior students listen in, then teach the junior students, and the senior students study by themselves. Every day goes back and forth like this. In Dao Xiaotong's days as a teacher, students can only learn one lesson every day, and most of the time they spent in self-study.

At the beginning, Tao Huizhen asked Mr. Li if these children's learning courses could keep pace with those in the county. In fact, they could not keep pace with each other. They might even fall behind the courses for several months to more than half a year. Dachacun primary school students do not have winter or summer vacation, no Sunday, but the curriculum is still slow.

If the students are divided into classes and taught separately, it is not realistic. Tao Huizhen thinks that at least three to five teachers are needed, each with several children, and several more classrooms should be built. What she can change is still not much, but as long as she is willing to take time, these will be solved slowly. Taking time is the most stupid and effective way. If she can't finish the course in one year, she will study for two years. If she can't finish the course in two years, she will study for another two years

"It's quiet. As usual, we sing a song before class. What song do we sing?" Dao Xiaotong thinks hard that she can sing seven or eight songs, which has been circulating in dachacun primary school for countless times.

"Singing on the golden mountain of Beijing."

"That song is too long."

When Dao Xiaotong heard the students' endless arguments, she seemed determined to pay attention and hesitated very much. There is a song of Dai nationality called "there is a beautiful place". She forgot the lyrics, otherwise she would like to try this song. After a moment's hesitation, she opened her voice

"Please take my song back to your home, please leave your smile to sing!"

Tao Huizhen's eyes suddenly widened, and Dao Xiaotong's voice was like the sound of nature, which was very different from her speech. Tao Huizhen's red face showed a touch of joy when she heard the children sing "tomorrow's song, flying all over the world, tomorrow's smile, will be all over the wild spring flowers". Tao Huizhen swallowed a mouthful of saliva subconsciously, recalling that she was singing this song when she was in primary school.

After singing song and smile, Dao Xiaotong began to give a lecture. There was almost no way for her to give a lecture. She copied it from the textbook, finished a lesson, and then talked about the textbook of the lower grade. She talked about the textbook of the third grade in a row. She also knows that her level is not high, in front of Tao Huizhen a bit restrained said: "teacher Tao, I go to the baby's home to have a look."

Watching Dao Xiaotong leave, Tao Huizhen looks at the school building. There are two empty windows in the corner, and the mottled shadows of the trees come in.

She went to the platform and began her teaching career.

Unlike Dao Xiaotong, Tao Huizhen is more detailed and interesting.

She also went to the podium, to the students, one by one to guide them, at this time, Tao Huizhen found that the textbooks used by the students, are old, like the old newspaper for many years, yellow, exuding a musty smell. Tao Huizhen looked at them one by one, and her heart was shocked. The students sitting here were holding such old textbooks, but they were like treasures.

"What's your name?" Tao Huizhen stopped beside the girl student who impressed her just now.

"Miss Tao, my name is yu'er." Said yu'er.

"She is a member of the learning committee." Said a boy.

"You're in the third grade, aren't you? Yu'er. "

"Well, I am."

"Well, if you don't understand, you should ask me alone. The teacher will explain it to you again. " Tao Huizhen saw that the textbook used by yu'er had been graffiti on it. Obviously, it wasn't made by herself, but when she got the book, it was already like this. Tao Huizhen exchanged her book with her: "yu'er, you can use this and study hard."

"Thank you, Mr. Tao."

Towards noon, Dao Xiaotong came back. She didn't bring the two students who were absent from class. She said that there was no one in the two students' home, so Tao Huizhen had to answer. However, when the students are studying in the classroom, the desks and chairs are in disrepair for a long time, and the "squeaky" sound is harsh, which seriously affects the students' study. She said this must be solved.

"I see. I'll go to find Mr. Li to fix it." Dao Xiaotong staggers out. Li is probably drinking water for the old cow by the stream in the village. She holds the skirt of the skirt in her hand and runs towards the stream. Tao Huizhen feels a kind of resonance with her ordinary and humble figure.

After a while, she and Li came to dachacun primary school together.