I was seven years old that year.Hearing mom and dad talking, mom said, Teacher Yu has been here, and Teacher Yu told Liansheng to go to school.So my father took me to school, and my father took my hand and handed me over to the teacher. My father said, teacher, I will leave the life to you. The smiling one is Teacher Yu.He was in his twenties at that time, wearing an old homespun jacket, and his hair was shaved short.Teacher Yu stretched out his hand and grabbed me. Dad said, your name is Teacher Yu.I called Teacher Yu.In fact, I used to be called too teacher. The children in our village all went to school before they went to school. We watched Teacher Yu in class outside the classroom. When Teacher Yu was in class, there was often a ray of sunlight shining on his face. Teacher Yu’s eyes are sometimes squinted. When we are chattering outside, Teacher Yu will wave to us, and we will stop making noise. We sit on the ground outside the classroom and watch the sparrows in the open space in front of the school. Flying around, flying up and down, they actually found the wrong place, this is not a threshing ground, there is nothing for them to eat.At this time, we will hear Mr. Yu's abacus, the sound of crackling, Mr. Yu said while making the abacus, one on one, two on two, three on three, four on four, we laughed lowly.Now I am going to sit in the classroom. When I walked into the classroom, I looked back at my father. My father waved to me, go, go, he said.

In fact, I also know some other things about Teacher Yu, for example, Teacher Yu's name is Laoqi.I heard from my father that when Mr. Yu was not a teacher, everyone in the village called him Laoqi. Later, when Mr. Yu became a teacher, everyone called him Teacher Yu, and no one called him Laoqi anymore. What's more, Teacher Yu doesn't have a wife.I often hear grandma and mother talking about this matter. Grandma said, Teacher Yu should find a wife too. Say, why not.The strange thing is that grandma and mother usually have different opinions on many things, but when it comes to the teacher finding a wife, their ideas become completely the same.But my father and them are not in agreement. My father said that grandma and mother have long hair and short knowledge. My father said, how can a person like Teacher Yu get married so casually? Do you think he is an ordinary person? My father said .I can see that my father is yearning for the teacher. My father once told me that he also wanted to study when he was a child, and he might also want to be a teacher like Teacher Yu, but if he was not allowed to study at home, he would not be a teacher. .There are many people like Dad in the village, and they value the teacher very much. Sometimes when women want to introduce a partner to the teacher, they will say that their hair is long and short-sighted, and they are short-sighted, etc., so they introduce the partner to the teacher. , always come forward by the village head.So I always wondered if Mr. Yu was very old. In fact, Mr. Yu was only in his twenties, but the men in the village would get married when they were twenty. After a year of marriage, they would all be fathers. , so I feel that Teacher Yu got married very late.

Our school was built in a field by the canal, there were no houses around, it looked lonely, there was only one classroom, a straw hut, where students from grade one to grade four sat, and there was only one teacher, of course he It's Teacher Yu.At that time, we didn't know much about how educated Teacher Yu was, where he studied, and what he graduated from.Some of our classmates said that Teacher Yu graduated from high school, and some students said that Teacher Yu graduated from junior high school. Sometimes I objected to them. I said, Teacher Yu is a college student. How do I know? Actually, I don’t know at all, but I That is to say, Mr. Yu knows many things, he is like a big dictionary, we can learn a lot from Mr. Yu.

At that time, children like me were sitting in a mess in the classroom, some of them were a little older than me, some were a little younger than me, we were all making noise, and when we were throwing books around, Teacher Yu walked in , he looked at the earthen stove at the back of the classroom and asked, who is on duty today? The students said, Zhao Liansheng. Zhao Liansheng is me. I carried a bucket and walked through the mulberry field. If it was spring, we would go to pick mulberry dates, but this may not happen in spring. Maybe there were no mulberry dates at that time, so I didn’t stop. After crossing the mulberry field, I came to the river.This is our Grand Canal. When a boat passes by on the river, the waves will get big and hit the shore. I will step back and the water will not wet my shoes. If I look at something on the boat, The water will splash on my shoes, and the shoes will get wet. Teacher Yu said that if you often walk by the river, there is no way that your shoes will not get wet.What is there on the boat, sometimes there will be a puppy, it barks loudly at me on the shore, and I bark at it a few times, so that it doesn't know who I am, it will stop barking, crooked Looking at me from a distance with my head squinted, I would throw a piece of mud over when I was happy, but the mud always fell into the water, and if it couldn't be thrown into the boat, the boat passed.Sometimes it is a fleet, one ship is connected to another ship, and there are more than a dozen ships connected together. I never knew why they went together in the past. The appearance of each ship is the same. People are similar in appearance, and there are also children. They always look very small. Later, I realized that this is because of the distance, just like when I had the opportunity to stand on the top of the mountain and see the people at the foot of the mountain. They were walking like ants.Teacher Yu said that the canal can flow all the way to Hangzhou. I don’t know what Hangzhou is, and I didn’t look in the direction of Hangzhou. I just scooped a bucket full of water by the river. Big, but I have strength.

When I carry water, the women in the mulberry field will talk to me, sometimes my mother will be there, and sometimes other women will talk to me when she is not, oh, she said, even giving birth to you is strong have to come.Liansheng, she said, are you teacher Yu there? Yes. Your Teacher Yu can speak Mandarin, she said, right?of course. Like on the radio, she said. of course.Lacquer (eating) rice is said to be crazy (eating) rice. If there were several of them, they would all laugh together.Hee hee hee.Hey hey.Crazy rice.Crazy rice.Hee hee hee. In fact, you guys are funny. At that time, I thought to myself, you are the kind who don’t go to work for three days.

The so-called not going to work for three days was when he laughed at farmers who could not understand Mandarin. The announcer who reported the weather said that he would not go to work for three days. There is a long story behind it. Woolen cloth. Then they stopped asking me anything, and they talked about Teacher Yu themselves, as if they knew Teacher Yu very well.Belong to cattle. No, the ox is twenty-eight, does he look that old? Hee hee. Or you can ask him yourself.You go ask. There was a woman who sang a folk song: the horoscope is written like eyebrows, Yang Wulang became a monk when he became a monk, and he met his master on Mount Wutai.

Brothers meet Yang Liulang. I carried the bucket into the classroom and lifted it up, and the water in the bucket was poured into the big iron pot. The students hurriedly put the rice they brought into the big pot to steam. I don't know how to use matches to light a fire in front of the clay stove. I lit it a few times, because the mulberry branches used to make firewood are damp, and the smoke came out of the stove and filled the classroom. Teacher Yu coughed. Teacher Yu knocked on the table while coughing, students, Teacher Yu said, students, class is over. This is our elementary school.