Chapter 21 high school days

I have been in junior high school for two and a half years, and I am graduating in the spring.I had no choice but to go to Zhengyi High School nearby.The grade has changed, but the address of the class has not changed. It is still on the bank of Daming Lake with beautiful mountains (fake hills) and beautiful water. In the summer of this year, the Senior High School Attached to Shandong University was established.Shandong University is the highest institution of higher learning in Shandong Province, and its principal is Wang Shouzhang, the former Qing champion and head of the Shandong Department of Education. He is famous for his calligraphy.Because the number one scholar is a "rare breed", he is quite respected by ordinary people.

As soon as the attached high school was established, because it was a golden signboard, it immediately became famous in Qilu.I also seemed to have a little ambition at this time, and I was no longer as timid as before. After some consideration, I immediately decided to give up Zhengyi and take Shanda High School. Shanda High School is a branch school of arts and sciences, and the location of the liberal arts school is located in Baihezhuang, Beiyuan.There are many lotus ponds here. In spring and summer, the scenery is beautiful and charming, green willows greet the ground, red lotus reflects the sky, mountain shadows are blurred, lakes are shimmering, and cicadas are noisy on the top of trees in the pond of frogs singing.My uncle once wrote a poem in which he praised Beiyuan: "Cauliflower fragrance is exhausted when poplar flowers fall, and young willows support the cold pond. The sound of frog drums speaks to people: This is Biqin Township." It can be seen how he feels about Beiyuan. .I also verified a small but interesting thing here.Some people say that the reflection of Qianfo Mountain, which is tens of miles away, can be seen in the lake.Some people say that this is an overseas legend.But I saw the reflection of Foshan clearly on the water surface of the lotus pond in the south of the school, which fully proves that this statement is true.

This new high school is worthy of its name.First of all, the teaching team can be said to be a very short-term choice. Almost all the teachers are well-known figures in Shandong middle school circles.Mr. Wang Yu, a teacher of Chinese language, has a long history of family education and is well-educated. He is a writer of the Tongcheng School of Wen Zong. He has written a collection of essays and later became a teacher of Qingdao University.The English teacher is Teacher Liu, who graduated from Peking University. His English is very good, and he is a teacher in No. 1 Middle School.The math teacher is Mr. Wang, who is also a teacher in No. 1 Middle School.The teacher who taught history and geography was Mr. Qi Yunpu, a teacher at No. 1 Middle School. He was eager to learn and often bought new books from Japan. He was probably the only one who was as familiar with the academic situation in the world as he was.The teacher of ethics is Mr. Ju Simin, the principal of Zhengyi mentioned above.The teacher who taught logic was Mr. Wanyan Xiangqing, the principal of No. 1 Middle School.In addition, there are two teachers who teach Confucian classics. One is an imperial scholar or Jinshi in the former Qing Dynasty. Because of his old age, he lives with his grandson, so I can't remember the name clearly.I can't remember the name of the other, because he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and he said, "What about our Great Qing Dynasty." So the students called him "The Great Qing Dynasty."The two teachers taught books such as "The Book of Books" and never brought any books to class. The Four Books, Five Classics, and the annotations of this article are all memorized by heart.

Primary and middle school students like to call their teachers nicknames, and there is no malice in it. I am afraid that this is the case in ancient and modern times, and it is the same in the north and the south.The "Great Qing Dynasty" mentioned above is just one of them.We have a "supervisor", who may be equivalent to the later director of discipline. He often lives in the school and seems to have great power, but his popularity is not good.Because he was bald and hairless, the students called him "Liu Bald" behind his back.The English teacher surnamed Liu, the students still like him very much, but because he is too short, the students gave him a very harsh nickname called "X Gen", X stands for a word that I can't write .

In the first year of the school's establishment, five classes of students were recruited, one class for the third grade, one class for the second grade, and three classes for the first grade, with a total of less than 200 students.Because the school is too far from the city, all students live on campus.Meals are arranged by the students themselves, and the person in charge is elected.Because it is necessary to fight against profiteers, the shrewdness and ability of the person in charge has become an important condition.Sometimes profiteers steal meat at night, and the person in charge must patrol at night, which is hard work.When encountering such a person in charge, the quality of the food will immediately improve significantly, and he will be supported by all the students, so he will be elected consecutively, and his studies will inevitably be affected.

The school atmosphere is relatively good, the quality of students is relatively high, and students study hard.Because there are only boys and no girls, it saves a lot of trouble, and there are no "scandals" and other rumors. "Liu Bald Dan" is not highly regarded. Although he doesn't learn, he has skills. He dominates the students, uses carrots and sticks at the same time, and wins and praises at the same time.Except for the fact that our third class "fighted" an English teacher from other provinces for a small reason, nothing happened again.It is located in the green bushes, with the aura of Foshan in the distance, and the beauty of the lotus pond in the near.

As for myself, as mentioned above, I have a little "little ambition" in my heart, probably because of my high scores in the entrance examination, so I was appointed as the monitor of the third class by the supervisor as soon as I entered the school.In the classroom, my seat is the first table from the left in the first row, which marks the difference.In terms of academic performance, because I have a little foundation in both Chinese and English, others cannot compare with me.It is not difficult to get high marks in other subjects, as long as you memorize the texts before the exam.Chinese and English must be well-educated, and it is not acceptable to grind your guns in front of the battle and cram for a while.In the Chinese class, the first essay given by teacher Wang Yu was "After reading "Xu Wenchang Biography", to my surprise, I won the first place in the class. The teacher's comment was "It is also concise and accessible".This was quite a surprise to me.As for English, due to the situation I mentioned above, I dominated the class and was honored as "English master" (students jokingly translate it as greathome).In the first semester, I took the first class in the first class.It was the first time in my life that I was on this throne, and while it was no accident, I was a little smug.

But it's not over yet.Wang Zhuangyuan didn't know where he got the inspiration from, and he stipulated that anyone who ranked first in the first class with an average score of 95 points or more would be rewarded extra.Of course, there are five first-class first-class students in five classes in the school; however, I am the only one whose average score exceeds 95 points, and my average score is 97 points.So the father-in-law of the number one scholar wrote a couplet, and also wrote a fan, calling me "brother Xianlin", which really flattered me.The couplets have been lost, only the fans are still preserved.

Everyone has vanity; I am the only one who dares to make exceptions.So I really set up a "big ambition", and I must not roll off the throne, that would be too embarrassing.I bought the anthologies of Han, Liu, Ou, and Su and read them hard.The little pocket money I saved went as far as Maruzen Bookstore in Japan, where I used the method of "C.O.D." (C.O.D.) to buy original English books, and I continued to study.The result is that "Heaven pays off," I took four exams in two years, and I got four first-class exams, which greatly satisfied my vanity.I don't want to lie, I am by no means a hero, "have big ambitions", I have never said "a man should be like this", I am a very mediocre person.

When the time came to 1928, I should be in the third grade.However, when the Japanese invaders created the "May 3rd Massacre" in Jinan, when they killed the Chinese diplomat Cai Gong, they sent troops to occupy Jinan.The school was closed, and teachers and students from other places fled one after another.I lived in Jinan, so I had no choice but to stay and served as a quasi-subjugated slave for a year. In the second year, 1929, the bandit warlords of the Feng dynasty left long ago, and the new warlords of the Northwest Army and the Kuomintang came.I don't know where the old champion has gone.The director of the Education Department replaced new figures and established the only high school in the province: Shandong Provincial Jinan High School. On the surface, it felt like a "changed world". vernacular.The lineup of teachers is still very strong, but most of the original old teachers have disappeared. Instead, a group of teachers from other provinces have been replaced, mainly from Shanghai, especially the Chinese teachers.Maybe it's because the school has grown in size. I don't know all the teachers in the school as well as I did in the Beiyuan era.Now it's blurred and blurred, and I can't tell Zhang San Li Si.

Because I have been studying for two years, and I am in the third grade as soon as I enter school.Of course, there are many teachers; however, the strange thing is that I have forgotten the names of all the teachers in English, mathematics, history, geography, etc., and the ones I can remember are Chinese teachers.Most of these people were well-known writers at the time, such as Mr. Hu Yepin, Mr. Dong Qiufang (Dongfen), Mr. Charetti, Mr. Dong Meikan and so on.I respect them all, even though some gentlemen didn't teach me. When I first entered school, my Chinese teacher was Mr. Hu Yepin.He rarely spoke Chinese at all, and wrote two sentences on the blackboard in almost every class: What is "modern literature and art"? What is the mission of "modern literature and art"? It is proletarian literature.Its mission is revolution.As a young revolutionary, Mr. Hu has no scruples and goes forward bravely.Openly set up a table in the student area to recruit members of the Modern Literature and Art Research Association.I am an activist, became a member, and wrote an article "The Mission of Modern Literature and Art", which I plan to publish in a planned publication. The content is completely forgotten now, and it is nothing more than some superficial revolutionary slogans.Mr. Hu's extreme actions attracted the attention of the Kuomintang, and they planned to arrest him. He fled to Shanghai, where he died two years later in Longhua, Shanghai. In the middle of the semester, Mr. Dong Qiufang took over Mr. Hu's teaching post. He was very different from his predecessor. He taught lectures carefully and corrected students' compositions carefully.He wrote composition topics, which were very peculiar. He often wrote four big characters on the blackboard: "Write it casually", which means that students can write whatever they want to write.Once, I wrote a rather long composition about how my father died in my hometown and I went home to attend the funeral. Teacher Dong obviously appreciated this composition and wrote a few words in the blank space on each page of the composition. Eyebrow criticism: "One rhythm, another rhythm." This is really exactly what I want. I write articles, good or bad, I attach great importance to rhythm.This is my personal hobby, but Mr. Dong made it clear, exaggerating a little bit, I am almost grateful.He also wrote a long comment at the end of this composition, saying that Wang Lianbang, a science student, and I were the best in the class and even the whole school, and my vanity was once again satisfied.The reason why I have been able to keep my pen and ink in my life despite the different research directions all my life, and I am still called a writer today is inseparable from the influence and encouragement of Teacher Dong.Great teacher, I will never forget it. I don't remember how the list was posted in high school.Anyway, in the two exams in the last school year, I got two more first-class exams, plus four in the North Garden, a total of six consecutive exams.If he said he was unhappy, that would not be the truth; but he didn't feel that he was anything special. By the summer of 1930, my high school days were over.I was 19 years old. If young friends ask me what experience and know-how I have, I answer: no.If I have to say something, then I can only say two commonplaces: "There are roads in the mountains of books and hard work is the path, and there is no limit to the sea of ​​learning and hard work." The words "diligence" and "hardship" are my tricks. .To say nothing is to say nothing; but to say nothing is to say nothing. Written on August 25, 1998