Chapter 5 in the muddy current

Taiming has a gentle personality, so the teachers in the school like him, and he helps Mr. Horiuchi, who is single, to cook. There are many opportunities for daily conversations, so the progress of Japanese is also fast.After graduating from public school, Taiming applied for medical school, but failed, and was admitted to the normal department of the Mandarin school.The four years he spent there had a great impact on him.Although his knowledge is shallow, he grew up as a new generation of cultural people.Among his classmates, there were also students who had great ambitions to study in Japan. Like many graduates of the teacher training department, he was given a mission and was sent to the countryside to be a teacher.On the way to his post, he found time to go home.

Taiming's civilian attire: hats and clothes trimmed with golden brocade satin, and a short sword on his waist, caused a little whirlwind in his hometown.Friends and relatives all gathered to welcome him and celebrate him. It was very lively. Firecrackers and thunderbolts at the door, the old-fashioned congratulations, seventy or eighty congratulators, a large seat, the banquet was set up, and the opium barrel stood up and gave a speech:' The first civil official was born in our village, which is an honor that can rival the previous scholars.Our Hu family has never been so worthy of congratulations. 'In short, the opium barrel is taking this opportunity to let everyone have a few more drinks.Taiming received a new education, and he felt that he was not used to this kind of routine, and he disapproved of such lively scenes in his heart.He didn't stay at home too long, and went to his post in a hurry after socializing.

The K public school he was sent to got off at a remote train station, then changed to a trolley from the sugar company, and arrived at the remote place after the trolley shook for an hour.Most of the students are children from farm families, thirteen teachers and the principal. Taiming arrived at the same time as another Japanese woman who had just graduated from an 'advanced girls' school'.Her name is Hisako Naito. Taiming and Hisako Naito reported to the principal's office. The principal was Japanese. Because of his bald head, he looked a bit old, but in fact he was only in his early thirties. The chief instructor next to him was a Taiwanese of forty-four or five years old. His unclean official dress, with its golden damask trim faded, looked lacklustre.After the principal's routine instruction, the students gathered in the auditorium, and then introduced the new tutor.Taiming stood on the podium, and countless eyes shot at him. Because Taiming was excited, he didn't know what he was talking to the students.When he walked out of the auditorium after the ceremony, the chief instructor said to him: "You are full of energy and eloquent." 'Taiming thought it was teasing him, but felt more embarrassed.

It rained the next day.After class, Taiming stayed alone in the quiet classroom. He looked deeply out of the window at the rain-soaked tung flowers that had fallen on the ground of the campus. The white petals were stained with mud, making them a mess of mud. Suddenly he heard the footsteps of two or three people and looked back, only to see Chief Discipline Chen, Li Xundao, and a substitute teacher surnamed Huang.Chief Discipline Chen approached with a smile and said, "Mr. Hu, how do you feel about the school?" ''Uh, I just came to report for duty, and I don't understand the situation...''Well...everyone is like this at first, but you will get used to it soon. ’ Then he said to Li Xundao: ‘But the “cat” is really insidious. It is said that last night in the principal’s dormitory, a welcome party for Hisako Naito was held with only Japanese faculty and staff. ''After the opening ceremony yesterday, he said that the mainland and Taiwan are "the same as Taiwan" and "the faculty and staff are integrated". Welcome party. "Neitai Yiru" makes people angry when they hear it. 'Except that the Chief Discipline, by having such a conversation with Li Discipline, seems to want to use this to secretly provoke Taiming to recognize the reality and be dissatisfied with the principal."Cat" as they called it was the headmaster's nickname.Taiming didn't take seriously the statement that these three people criticized the principal in a tone that was not like an educator.He was silent, looking out the window, pretending not to hear.Chief Discipline Chen said: 'Mr. Hu, what do you think? 'He turned the conversation to Taiming.Taiming said: "Well, I haven't..." He was vague and perfunctory.The three of them said some dissatisfaction with the principal and the Japanese teachers.Then said: 'You go back earlier too!Well, let's go first...' Leaving this sentence, he walked out of the classroom.Taiming unexpectedly learned of the estrangement between mainland and Taiwanese teachers, and he felt very heavy.Moreover, Taiming was even more embarrassed because Taiming was not recruited to attend the welcome party, which became the direct cause of dissatisfaction with chief instructor Chen and others.Taiming himself was actually not dissatisfied or unhappy about this matter...

Three days later, after class was over on Saturday, Chief Instructor Chen came to Taiming's classroom and whispered to him, "Only our people will hold a welcome party for you tonight. Prepare yourself for his secret tone of conspiracy. It made Taiming feel uncomfortable. Taiming knew that this was a confrontation with the headmaster at the welcome meeting for the newcomer Naito Hisako, and only Japanese teachers participated. Taiming understood its blatant intentions. The wording of "Only us..." carries a special meaning.Only our own actions, through gathering together and other perceptions, gradually took shape, and Taiming felt that this was definitely not a good phenomenon.This is not just a gap between the teachers in the mainland and Taiwan, it will obviously cast a shadow on the mood of the school children.At least, Taiming thinks so.So Taiming said that he appreciates everyone's kindness, so don't do it anyway... He tried his best to refuse and was unwilling to accept it, but the chief instructor thought it was Taiming's modesty, and he said, because everything was prepared, he insisted too much. Ming accepts.

The welcome party was held in Taiming's dormitory.There were six tatami mats in that room, and there was neither a closet nor a paper door. The yellowed surface of the tatami mats showed the standard of living environment. In the mud kitchen connected to the tatami room, there was only a stove and a water tank.Before Taiming moved in, Mr. Huang Daiyong's family of five lived here. When the time came, Chief Instructor Chen rushed in with five or six male and female teachers.Taiming didn't even have any cotton cushions for entertaining guests, but he was so flustered that he didn't know what to do.Taiming, who was about to be entertained, seemed to be on the host's side in an upside-down position.

The wine was brought by them, and the food was ordered by the restaurant on the street. The banquet began, and the female teacher poured the wine for them during the banquet.After drinking for three rounds, the topic of Chief Chen's discipline focused on things around the principal.He used the school janitor for personal use, busying himself with chores such as chopping firewood and burning bath water in the bathtub at home.The chances of business trips are almost exclusively occupied by the principal himself. Occasionally, there are occasional business trips with the consolation of teachers, and almost all Japanese teachers are given priority. The principal exercises his right in this way.Li Xundao listened to these criticisms.But most of the other people just followed his words perfunctorily and didn't pay attention to listen.The evidence is that when a new dish is brought to the table, everyone concentrates on finishing the dish, and the criticism of the principal becomes endless.

Such an atmosphere gradually made Taiming's mood less cheerful.This is not so much a heartfelt welcome to Taiming, as it is a place where everyone eats and drinks under the name. Not long after the empty wine bottles and cups and plates were messed up, Chief Instructor Chen and the female teacher took a step back, and there were four or five people left behind. After the banquet, they were still unsatisfied, and they took Taiming to the street. Taiming got drunk because he was forced to drink, his face was hot, and he felt refreshed when he walked outside and the night wind was blowing.Suddenly he became bold, and there was an impulse in his heart, wanting to express the passionate thoughts in his heart to his colleagues, and Taiming felt that his colleagues only paid attention to the small things in front of them, and their vision was too short-sighted.But the words that came out of Taiming's mouth were fragmented and unconvincing, he didn't say one percent of what he wanted to say.Li Xundao listened: "You are a great citizen (the word "big citizen" is borrowed from a song at the beginning of the Japanese invasion, referring to the lackeys of the Japanese), but..." He pointed out in a teasing tone Said: "However, it is a pity that you are still young. The knowledge you have learned from the books in school cannot understand the real society. If the world is so simple, life will not have to suffer." Unknowingly, the group of people came to a strange place, only Taiming didn't know what it was, it was where the group of people planned to go.Huang replaced the teacher as the leader, and they entered one of them.Charming red curtains hang, a bed is placed in the small room, a silk mosquito net is hung, and a banner-like Fuzhou governor is decorated on it, and the beautiful painted phoenix looks like it is dancing.Standing in front of him was a beautiful woman in a high-necked dress, holding back her voice and smiling provocatively.

Taiming suddenly saw the couplet in a picture of beauties in the West Lake hanging on the wall: "The hero has never forgotten his beauty since ancient times, and the heart of Kui Rui is alone facing the sun." The substitute teacher said to the woman he knew: "Mr. Hu is new at the school." When he introduced Taiming in this way, Taiming interjected: "Miss Yingkui, we met for the first time..." Taiming's words surprised everyone. 'Mr. Hu, how do you know her name? ...' Substitute teacher Huang was always surprised. "The prime minister can know the affairs of the world without going out. ’ Saying this, Taiming just laughed.The girl herself was obviously surprised to be called by her name.So Taiming said that the pair of couplets had the words ying and kui at the beginning of the title, so he knew it.He pointed it out like this, which shows that he has a little quality in this regard.

Then Huang Daiyong sang folk songs with his teacher, taking this opportunity, topics came up one after another.That night, after Taiming went back to the dormitory and went to bed, he thought about the injustice that the Taiwanese teacher felt towards the Japanese teacher, and the opaque atmosphere that had surrounded him since he took office.Hua' dark lyrics and melody, thinking about these and have been tossing and falling asleep.So Yingkui's face unknowingly became the face of Naito Hisako who took office at the same time as him.Thinking of Jiuzi, the young blood felt hot.