The Most Simple Wish

After singing "let's swing the oars", Tao Huizhen said to her students, "when we sing songs before class, we should add some dance movements, as long as it's a simple hand dance movement. It's not difficult for you. Next time the teacher teaches you, let's have a math class."

"Mr. Tao, today is Monday. It's time to raise the five-star red flag." Monitor Bai Junmao raised his hand and said.

Tao Huizhen subconsciously took a look at the flagpole outside the door. It was made of a wooden pole. It stood alone but straight. She looked back and asked, "where is the national flag? Let's go and raise the national flag first. "

These children have no weekends, and their study is uninterrupted. As the weeks go by, the concept of time tends to blur. On Monday, it's very important to raise the national flag, which indicates a new beginning. Once again, it lashes the students to study in a better state and welcome the new day. At the same time, the five-star red flag is rising. Although it is behind the Castle Peak, it also echoes with the five-star red flag all over the country and flutters in the wind.

Therefore, Tao Huizhen believes that it is necessary to raise the national flag. It is rare for students to remember this solemn ceremony. How long has it been since she took part in raising the national flag? I'm afraid it has been several years. She also misses the days of being a young pioneer and running like a happy child with a red scarf. Sometimes, she will dream of childhood, but wake up will immediately realize that it is a long time ago.

"The five-star red flag is there." A student actively ran to the back of the classroom, where there is a dusty bookshelf, at the top of the bookshelf, the flag rolled into a scroll.

The student stood on tiptoe to take down the flag, carefully blowing the dust on it, and the whole line of students stared at him, as if for fear that he would damage the flag. Wang Keyuan said that the national flag is a symbol of a country, and everyone has the obligation to protect and cherish the national flag.

Li also said to them, what is the symbolic meaning and spirit of the five-star red flag? To see the five-star red flag is like seeing countless martyrs throwing their blood at their heads, as well as seeing the determination of the unity and great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! But Mr. Dao didn't tell them the story of the five-star red flag. In fact, Mr. Dao seldom told them something profound.

Dao Xiaotong just firmly remembers what others have told her, and tries her best to fulfill it. Li and Wang ask her to arrange the students of dachacun primary school to raise the national flag and sing the National Anthem every Monday, so Dao Xiaotong regards raising the national flag as the most important thing in her life.

Once the five-star red flag was torn, and Wang took it back to the county. They didn't raise the national flag for several weeks. Bai Junmao still remembers the days when there was no national flag. Teacher Dao felt like she had a knot in her heart. She always looked at the flag pole outside the window unconsciously. Every Monday morning, she would say, "Oh, I can't raise it today."

Monday without flag raising ceremony is depressing, and nothing is more exciting than the red flag flying on the flagpole, just like the eagle flying in the valley.

About four or five weeks later, Wang Ke Yuan brought a brand new five-star red flag to dachacun primary school.

A flat area outside the school building is usually used as a playground. In fact, it is not completely horizontal here. In order to meet the rainy season, the playground is actually a slow slope. When it rains, the rain can flow from the slow slope to the ditch. The flagpole stands close to the bamboo fence and points straight at the blue sky.

Twenty eight students spontaneously divided into boys and girls, standing in two rows. The monitor Bai Junmao took the national flag and walked towards the flagpole. He hung the national flag on the lifting rope. The students immediately raised their right hands over their heads and saluted the national flag.

Tao Huizhen looks at the children's dry cheeks. They stare at the national flag. The old red scarf and dirty skirt fall into Tao Huizhen's eyes. There is a little wind blowing by and caressing the children's hair. Their ambition is the whole world behind the Castle Peak, but at this time, the five-star red flag has become their belief.

When watching the national flag, they try their best to inject their spirit and dream into the national flag which is about to fly in the wind.

Tao Huizhen wore a white shirt without any stains. She involuntarily went to the students, one by one for them to arrange a red scarf, each finishing a good, she used to encourage the eyes to look at that student, students look back at her eyes, very warm.

"Get up, people who don't want to be slaves!"

As Bai Junmao waved the five-star red flag and pulled up the lifting rope, the children skillfully sang the national anthem. Their immature timbre stirred in Tao Huizhen's heart. In Tao Huizhen's mind, in addition to the children's singing, there is also a sound played by brass instruments and orchestral instruments, which reverberates in her mind, majestic.

Tao Huizhen forgot to salute. She stood among her students like a mother. She looked up and watched as the five-star red flag slowly rose and began to hunt in the wind, in sharp contrast to the blue sky.

Some of the children in dachacun primary school are red as cherries, and some of them are dirty. They look up at the bright five-star red flag. They are attentive, devout and full of pride. They squint as if they are looking at the bird that they set free. It floats and flies freely at the top.

I don't know when, Li Lao and Dao Xiaotong also joined the camp of the flag raising ceremony. They stood at the last side, paying attention to the bright five-star red flag and saluting.

Dao Xiaotong learns from others and raises a wrinkled palm over her head. She looks at the national flag with a bright smile on her mouth. Tao Huizhen guesses that she vaguely sees the skyline of Beijing and Shanghai.

Her hands seem to have been in the water for a long time, full of wrinkles, but she doesn't care about her image at all. Like the children, she has only five-star red flag in her eyes at this time, and she stands straight and fearless.

That's all.

Li Lao's voice is sonorous and powerful, full of pride to sing the National Anthem completely, turbid eyes have been raised to the top of the flag to stay for a long time, and then left satisfied.

Every time the national flag is raised, Mr. Li will not be absent. When he leaves, he will not say a word as if he came. At this time, it's time for him to go to the foot of dacha village to cut wild vegetables.

Tao Huizhen purses her mouth tightly, and the lingering rhyme of the national anthem is still playing in her ears. She looks out at the playground. Several Dai villagers in dachacun village are watching outside the fence. Their awe makes Tao Huizhen look up at the national flag again. It's floating vigorously.

And above, it was the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning.

"Mr. Tao... The red scarf is a corner of the five-star red flag, but my red scarf is dirty and can't be washed clean." Yu'er holds Tao Huizhen in her arms and says that she is only in the third grade. Every member of the learning committee is the best helper and most dependent on the teacher. Yu'er is no exception to Tao Huizhen. She held Tao Huizhen in her arms and began to cry.

A few children were infected and surrounded by Tao Huizhen. They looked at Tao Huizhen with dependent and sticky eyes.

The children's red scarves are wrinkled, and some of them have been infected by pen water. These red scarves, like the textbooks they used, were collected by Wang Ke Yuan from the students of the County Central Primary School.

Tao Huizhen winked at yu'er: "although the red scarf is dirty, it is still bright. The spirit and symbol it represents will not be buried because it is dirty. In the future, it will be OK to pay attention to it. Why does yu'er cry so much? "

"Teacher Tao..." yu'er buried her face in Tao Huizhen's waist and rubbed it.

"Mr. Tao, I heard that you used to be a dancer. You came to Dai township for us and gave up your career."

"Teacher, I heard that you are not used to eating and living in Dai township. You have worked hard, teacher."

Listen to the students, you say a word, I say a word, Tao Huizhen hold the arms of the jade more tightly, she does not need any thanks, let alone give up what, give up what. This road is her willing choice, if you do not let her do so, it is difficult for her.

She is not urging herself with compassion, she is educating for the sake of education. Education is not a matter of emotion, but a hard core, fundamental issue in human development. She just hopes that every child of the right age can have the opportunity to learn and no longer be confused.

"Teacher." Wu Huiyan opened her palm. There was a small paper bag in her palm. She opened it carefully in front of Tao Huizhen. There were two transparent rock candy in it. She said happily: "that day, the chair collapsed and I fell down. My mother saw a big piece of blue on my leg. She wrapped three pieces of rock candy for me. I had one piece in my sleep yesterday. It's very sweet. Here's one for you."

Three pieces of rock sugar.

Tao Huizhen murmured and kept repeating this sentence. When she was as old as Wu Huiyan, she also contained rock sugar. That kind of sweetness is as sweet as honey. It can be sweet to her heart. But now, she can't think of that kind of sweetness. The same rock candy, in different environment, different age, taste will change.

Wu Huiyan's hand stretched forward all the time. The two pieces of rock candy were as precious as two diamonds. Similarly, it has considerable weight in Tao Huizhen's eyes.

Tao Huizhen once again felt that what she can do is not much, just a little tiny things, but fortunately, she knows that in other places, there are people like her, making the same small efforts. If all the weak changes are superimposed together, the change will be infinite.

If a torch is ignited at a certain point in the depth of the mountain, the light it emits is very small, which is not enough to illuminate the huge valley. However, a torch is also lit in every valley. From the distant space, these torches can illuminate the whole earth.

Tao Huizhen takes a piece of rock sugar from Wu Huiyan's hand and puts it on the tip of her tongue. It's really sweet.

"Wu Huiyan, do you still have pain in your leg?" Tao Huizhen asked.

"It doesn't hurt. Just eat rock sugar. "

A Liang's dark eyes, always staring at the two pieces of rock candy, he gazed at Tao Huizhen's mouth, imagined the sweet taste, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, sour said: "I wrestled, my father will not give me a bag of rock candy."

"Your father is not willing to give it to you, is he? Rock candy is a good thing. " A student rubbed his face and said.

"Nonsense, I don't have rock candy at home." A Liang looks back at the student.

Tao Huizhen stared at the five-star red flag flying overhead in a daze, thinking about today's course in her heart. After a long ideological struggle, she made up her mind to say, "can the teacher buy you something delicious? Let's go to the buffet now. A Liang, you will lead the way. "

There is only one canteen in the village. On the side of the entrance of the village, it is at an angle with the stream flowing through dachacun. It is ten minutes' walk from dachacun primary school.

One of the straight roads to the village, Tao Huizhen looks at the banana trees and palm trees on both sides. On the day she first came, Dai people welcomed her with songs and dances along this road. At the entrance of the village, she saw Li's old yellow cow tied to a tree, its tail beating mosquitoes and flies.

Twenty eight students crowded into the small canteen, looking forward to the small food on the shelf. Tao Huizhen saw Wahaha and prawn sticks on the shelf and asked the students, "there are 28 students in our school. Now each of us wants to buy a bottle of Wahaha and a bag of prawn sticks. Wahaha costs 1.5 yuan a bottle and prawn sticks costs 1 yuan a bag. How much does it cost the teacher? Who knows? "

Yu'er was the first to say, "it's 70 yuan."

When she was an actress in a small dance company, her salary could only support her daily expenses. The money in her hand is the rest of her travel expenses when she came to Dai township. She took out two pieces of fifty yuan from her small wallet and handed them to the boss. She gave them to the children. These children hold small food in their hands, tightly around tao Huizhen's side, "teacher, teacher" is affectionate.

When Tao Huizhen put away her wallet, she glanced at the notes left in it and secretly calculated how long it would take. So she thought, if it is in Shenyang, the money can not be spent so carefully, so she thought of Wenxiu, a little sour in the heart, she felt hurt Wenxiu's heart this time. She guessed that Wenxiu had probably returned to Australia by this time.

Outside the canteen, corresponding to the winding mountain road leading to the county, there is a small hill with green grass on it. Tao Huizhen and the children of dachacun primary school are sitting here, looking down at the stream and blue sky and white clouds. Little guys are not willing to eat big, but small, small taste, satisfaction at the moment with them.

When they discussed what was behind the mountain, Tao Huizhen sat down on her knees and listened quietly with her chin on her knees. As the wind blows, her hair covers her forehead. The children beside her sometimes look far away and sometimes look at Tao Huizhen with sticky eyes. This scene is exactly what Tao Huizhen had dreamed of.

Before she did not come to Dai township as a supporting teacher, she had many dreams that she was connected with her students. A pair of clear eyes like the current stream, looking at her, calling her teacher.