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Chapter 119 Biography of Niu Tianci (13) - Take the diploma

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In the third grade, Tianci's enthusiasm for going to school is not so strong.Whether it is good or not, he has learned to ask for leave.A little headache, or a little rain, forget it, not going.A day at home is also a different feeling. So what made him slack was that everything in school was not on the right track. One day, the next. He couldn't concentrate, so he became more and more sloppy.This school is experimental, and everything is an experiment.According to the director, there may be several changes in a year, and each director always has a new way of doing things when he arrives. Yesterday, the husband said that the class should be arranged well, and today the new director came and said that he should rush in for class.This director pays attention to handwork, that director pays attention to music, and another director tells everyone that everything is the same, just mess around.Sometimes the duplex system is tried out, two or three shifts work together, and no one knows what to do.Sometimes the grouping method is tested, and the groups are grouped according to talent, but the group just after being divided is not counted.The policy of the director is different, and the teaching methods of the gentlemen are also different.It is common to change one gentleman a year, and it is not uncommon to change three or four gentlemen a year.A gentleman has a different temper and a different method. Some say that the schoolbag should be hung by the side, while others tell it to be carried behind the back.Tianci put his schoolbag on his head once and no one cared.Books are often changed, and the tone of reading is often changed.It's all experiments.The relationship between the husband and the students is also different. This gentleman loves these children, and after two days, that gentleman loves those children. There is no standard for good or bad.The skills of the teachers are different, but they show their power in the same way. Some teachers teach music with a natural hoarse voice, and their singing is worse than that of a frog holding their necks, but students are not allowed to laugh.Some are as fat as pigs and teach games, and even think that the students are not running fast, but he himself never moves.Some have black mud on their necks to teach students cleanliness, and some are sleepy one day and teach students to be good at homework and hard work.

Tianci didn't know what to do, so he had to be careless.Every time before the summer vacation, it becomes even more lively. A large number of normal students come to practice, and a teacher changes at one o'clock.How can everyone care about studying, just waiting to give nicknames to the gentlemen.Some interns came staring from a long distance, and when they got to the podium, they shouted loudly before the students sat down, and even explained the principles of education and psychology to the students, until one o'clock.Some trembled as soon as they came on stage, like lizards that had eaten cigarette oil, and said "I" one after another.Everyone didn't dare to laugh, Mr. Ji Ren was watching from the sidelines.After everyone's internship is over, the students will also understand that gentlemen are only two or five eyes.

What's more, every gentleman wants the students to respect, but the gentlemen scold each other: Mr. Zhang tells the students in class that Mr. Li is immoral; Mr. Li says that Mr. Zhang is an idiot.When the gentlemen have a movement as the director, it is very lively: the students have to write on the slips of paper according to the slogans that the master made up, and the students have to go home and tell their parents to support Mr. Wang or Mr. Zhao.There may be several times a year, and each time students don't have to go to class for a week or two.The students don't know who is good and who is bad.Everything is in a hectic and complicated situation, and no one can figure out what's going on.Only one thing is fixed, the student fees are getting higher and the students are getting more and more. There are many "fees": gardening fees, game fees, travel fees, lecture fees, manual fees... The higher the fee, the more students there are.Yuncheng is a trading city, and businessmen who earn a little money want to raise their sons, and turn from businessmen to officials in order to add glory to their ancestors; a school that spends a lot of money must be a good school, so they all scramble to come here.As for the school, you have to show your grades to increase your credit.Except for the gentlemen making troubles, just to hold a meeting, and there will be a fee for the meeting.Sports games, family gatherings, fun fairs, graduation parties, and exhibitions must be held every year as usual.Their meeting is indeed better than other places, the uniforms are complete, the students have fleshy faces, and the tricks are bizarre.This is a good opportunity for the old ladies and daughters-in-law of the students to come to play for a day. They admire those gentlemen, especially their own children, to participate in one or two sports or entertainments-that little "fee" is not in vain!Little Liu'er can perform "cock crowing", and Er Gouzi salutes with three fingers, becoming a boy scout!Before and after the meeting, no one looked at the schedule anymore. One day of drawing, one day of drawing, one day of handicrafts, one day of handicrafts, a good artist would draw for everyone, and the teacher would also write the students' names on the composition. Whoever copied it.Godsent is fine.Without him in sports, his legs don't keep up.Without him, Youyi's face is not decent.He can tell stories, but when he gets on stage he panics, he doesn't put on airs like other people.There is nothing about him, he just hangs out with some "vagrants" casually, or has classes in the classroom, and when he returns home, he performs for the four tigers, which is very popular, but he has no status in school.He gradually got used to it, and he didn't care about it.His nose is curled, and he despises everything, just like a student: he doesn't care much about everything, and he doesn't rush forward, he just messes around.We have to hold meetings in school, and we have to go to meetings outside school.Advocating domestic products, national skills, national medicine, and national language must be advocated by elementary school students.They carried lanterns, they ran, they shouted slogans, they raised flags, they didn't know what was going on.Tianci doesn't like to attend these meetings because his legs can't bear it.But he must go.Those who look decent, or those that have been painted by hand, don’t have to go; the teachers take special care to protect the pillars of sports games and entertainment parties;He didn't understand why he had to go, to be crowded and cold and heat and run errands.He would like to tell a story or listen to a story quietly, but he has to go to the place where the man is yelling, crush the lantern, blow the paper flags and yell dry, and it's over.These meetings are even more embarrassing than those at school: when the school has a meeting, he can go to the library to read pictures and stories to his heart's content, which enriches his heart.Meetings outside the school have no effect other than running sore legs and turning into dirt monkeys.

In the midst of all this fuss, the motherly rules he'd normally rebelled against became lovely.He didn't like to wash his face since he was a child, but after such a long training, he didn't like turning himself into an earth monkey.He hated his mother forbidding him to talk and laugh loudly, but shouting in the street made him even more disgusted.He did not want to be restrained at home, and in the chaos of the streets called him love of order.The bondage of the family made him lonely, and the clamor of parties in the market also made him bewildered.He didn't know what to do, he just felt lonely, and he had to be so-so, and only so-so could deal with the past day.He no longer wanted to ask the bottom line, he just went where he had to go, he carried the lantern and raised the flag, it didn't matter.

The same is true for his classmates, he plays when he likes to play, and falls down when he doesn't play.If someone bullies him, he will find an opportunity to retaliate; if he cannot retaliate, he will come up with many revenge plans that cannot be carried out.They just like to call him: Kidnapper Legs, Flat Brain!He also went to look for their characteristics carefully, using slapped ears, crooked noses, etc. to resist; when it was difficult to find, he had no choice but to use it, the cheating leg is your father! "They gave you a piece of handmade paper today and asked you for it tomorrow, or they asked you to keep a small painting yesterday, but today they said you robbed others. He understands the boundaries, whose things are whose "Don't touch other people's things, and don't allow others to touch your own. However, if it's not too dangerous to damage other people's things, such as throwing dirt on a hat or throwing a book on the ground, it is possible to do it. Everyone agrees. Taking pride in dirtying other people's things, whoever has a richer father will be more daring to do so: "I'm sorry!Pay you! " is their most proud slogan. Those college students are even more amazing. They have watches on their wrists, leather shoes on their feet, and fountain pens on their chests. His mother forbade children to be so extravagant. He envied them very much, and he no longer looked down on bricks and tiles, which made Si Huzi very sad. Si Huzi never thought of the use of watches in his life, and Tianci often complained to him: "People They are all wide and have watches on their hands! "

What's more, those handsome students can go to the gentlemen's room and joke with the gentlemen at will, but Tianci has never had an intimate word with the gentlemen, and the gentleman never holds his hand or pats his head.Naturally, he would not care about these things, but after all, his nose had to be rolled up high to maintain his dignity. Envy and contempt are a natural couple.He hated people having watches, and at the same time he looked down on Lao Hei's children.He longed to play with them, but when the time came he could not be with them again.At first, he loved their freedom, bare feet, and oily backs; now, he thought they were wild, dirty, and meaningless.They smell bad, their smudges turn into butterflies, and they can curse people; and he is a student of the affiliated elementary school.He no longer treasured their wild experiences.What he knew, they didn't know.They went to catch dragonflies and pick crickets; he would buy dragonflies and crickets with money.The more money you spend, the bigger and more biteable crickets you get.Who of his classmates doesn't have a few jars of crickets, and who cares about the "Old Mizui" and "Bangertou" he caught?He can no longer run with them, he is wearing a snow-white uniform, and their legs are bare, what if his classmates see him?What if Mr. sees it?They even catch flies!Didn't Mr. say that flies can infect diseases?When they caught kittens and puppies, they might be skinned. Didn’t your husband say that animals should be cherished?He would really like to kill a small animal, but he has to pretend to be kind, he is a student!He doesn't really know anything, but he has a lot of truth: he got it from his husband and classmates.These principles are absolutely correct.It is "cold stupid" to bring a snack from home to school to eat.Buying in school is the truth.Seeing Lao Hei's children nibbling old corn, he swallowed hard and refused to eat it, they don't understand hygiene!At school, compared to those with watches, he was very small, and compared to the children of Old Hei, he felt that he was great.

When he was about to graduate, he felt even more extraordinary.Those with octagonal heads, it is said, have to repeat their grades; others can graduate with diplomas.Tianci knows that graduating is not a difficult task, he must understand: the past four years have passed so precariously, there is nothing unusual about him.But compared to the one with the octagonal head, he felt that after all he had something tricky in his heart; the octagonal head only got five points for the calculations!The teacher said: If the design of the eight-lens head is very good, he will be allowed to graduate, but he just got five points.Forty-five points from God!Besides, the Chinese score is 75 points!Dou Xigong, he picked up one that others didn't want, and he got sixty points!He must be able to graduate.Even his mother respects him, a student who is about to graduate!He needs a pair of leather shoes, a tube of iron pencils with clips, and a box of twelve colors!Mom agreed.Mom has to go to graduation; so does Dad!Tell Dad to put on a silk coat. "Did Dad ever graduate?" he asked Mom.Mom had to tell the truth: "Dad never went to school." Tianci looked down on Dad a little bit: "Dad's Chinese didn't score too much!" Kind of poor.

He just didn't dare to provoke Si Huzi.One is because of their usual relationship, and the other is because Si Huzi took advantage of his weaknesses. "My brother asked you," he still used the language of a few years ago, "Where is Shanghai?" "Shanghai? It's not far from Tianjin!" "You don't know, it's over, it's over!" "So what if you don't know?" Si Huzi counterattacked. "Wait until I get the Chinese language," Tianci said, turning the corner. "No one likes to read your stinky Chinese! Let me ask you, when it rains, who will carry you back? Tell me!"

"We two brothers!" God-given Zhezizi, knowing that it is dangerous to have no one to carry it when it rains heavily. "It's over, it's over," Si Huzi deliberately imitated the enemy's language. "Don't play tricks with me; if you're not happy, throw your hands behind your back and throw it in the river to feed the bastard. I don't care if I graduate or not! Where is Shanghai, what a nonsense!" "Anyway, anyway, end It's gone!" Tianci nestled back. "Don't get used to it, you big boy!" "You are the garlic, the single-headed garlic, the garlic sprout!"

"Go, go, ignore me!" "I don't care about you!" Tianci went to scratch Si Huzi's tickle, but Si Huzi didn't smile.Tianci was ashamed, but knowing that Si Huzi was not really angry, he also admitted in his heart that he was a little pretending.From then on, he no longer showed his knowledge to the four tigers and showed his identity.He had to sincerely treat Si Huzi as a friend.Sihuzi knew everything about him.Really graduated.On the day of the graduation party, Tianci was extremely excited.I put on new leather shoes, and a pen that sprang out of lead got stuck in my breast pocket.Walking is very hard, in order to increase the noise of the leather shoes; it is a pity that the toes of the kidnapper's feet often touch together, and the leather on the toe of the shoe is bumped into two small pieces.While urging mom, while urging dad, go to the meeting.He didn't feel that the school gave him anything, but he loved the school very much today, and the school gave him a diploma today-even his father didn't get it!Si Huzi stuck out his tongue at him again at the door.

The schoolmates in the same class were also all dressed neatly, almost all wearing leather shoes, listening to the sound of leather soles.Although the octagonal-headed one failed another grade, he still put on his leather shoes, as if watching others graduate was his greatest joy.The prefect—a little white fat man—holds a piece of paper, looks at it, murmurs, looks at it, and mumbles again, his face turns red and white; he is about to "answer".Tianci led his mother to see the grades.Dad saw his composition - seventy-five points. "Is it okay to write?" Mom asked in a low voice. "Not bad." Dad calculated in his heart: "Seventy-five cents, seven cents and five cents, almost one tael: more important than a dollar!" Tianci didn't dare to point out his bean craftsman, although he also scored sixty points, but he didn't do it himself, he felt a little guilty.He looked for the math paper, but he couldn't find it, and the ones with a score of less than sixty were not displayed. He was very grateful to the gentlemen.The alumni also led their parents to look at the grades.The parents shook their fans and looked slowly, "It's okay!" Nodding; the paper was taken upside down, and the students hurried over to correct it.The student's attitude is also very comfortable, pointing here, looking at that, secretly put a jelly bean into his mouth, put it on his cheek, and chew it when it is soaked, so as not to make a sound. There is a meeting.Graduates sit in the front, parents in the back.On the stage are the president of the chamber of commerce, the principal of the normal school, and other important figures.The gentlemen sat around the audience, as if the students were taught by the president of the chamber of commerce. The national anthem and the school anthem were all sung in unison, and they even bowed to the national flag.The old man Niu had already taken off his straw hat, but when he saw others bowing with hats on, he quickly put them on again.Before the old ladies stood still, they had already bowed, so they had to sit down again.The one holding the child couldn't stand up at all, and the child was blocked by the shadow wall in front of him, unable to see anything, and cried anxiously.Several old ladies from the neighbors helped to comfort him, and then he stopped.In the stands, the director of the attached primary school is reporting.The director was wearing a western suit, rolled his eyes upwards, and gave a report for 40 minutes, to the effect that these graduates will be the pillars of the country in the future; but graduation is only a stage in the course of study, and knowledge is endless... He sat down, The head teacher stood up.He spoke in a very low voice, as if impatient to talk to elementary school students.But he also talked for 30 minutes: studies are never-ending, graduation is just a period... the president of the chamber of commerce.The applause was particularly intense.The chairman said amazing sentences in the Four Books and Chinese terms: "Learning and then not knowing enough, whether it is a bank manager or an ancient sage, it is the same. It is the same whether it is in the water and land docks or commercial ports. Live You are the magistrates and managers of the future, but you have to know, and then you don’t know enough. The same is true for learning, and the same is true for personal property. Those who have 10,000 can earn 5,000; Earn 8,000; if you put together a piece, you can get more than 20,000!" The audience applauded like thunder, and even the children cheered up. The president took the opportunity to turn a corner: "Propriety, honesty, and shame are the four dimensions of a country! Everything must be based on the principles of sages, The sage's principles are like the rules set by the chamber of commerce!..." He spoke for more than forty minutes. Tianci listened and ate jelly beans.The air in the room became more and more stuffy, his eyes closed slowly, and his teeth automatically chewed on the jelly beans.There were five or six speeches under the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, but he didn't hear them.Suddenly he heard: "Niu Tianci!" He was elbowed on the side, and he woke up: "I didn't eat jelly beans!" "Get your diploma!"
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