Chapter 7 Section VI

After school started, Tian Chou brought pots, firewood, and yams to school to cook.Because there are too many students cooking, after school, a corner of the school playground is filled with smoke.The stoves are all made temporarily. Pick up three bricks and surround them perpendicular to each other. Put the pot on top of them and start a fire.As soon as the yams were cooked through, I turned off the heat and slowly peeled and ate them.After eating, wash the pot, take it back to the dormitory, and lock it in the box.Tianchou was very excited while reading "The Cowboy" and other books while cooking.There was no light in the dormitory, so he went to the toilet to watch at night.

Saturday afternoons are all voluntary labor.Although the landlord's manor is large, it is far from adapting to the rapid increase of students, and the funds for building the school are limited, so many tasks can only be completed by the voluntary labor of students.Digging, bulldozing, and laying stones lasted until the afternoon. When the work was over, the students scattered like wild animals and ran home desperately.The meal I ate in the morning was exhausted after half a day's work, and I became hungry halfway through the run.The winter was fine. When they saw the vines in the field, the students scattered all over the ground and plucked the vines to satisfy their hunger.Spring and summer can't do it.Wu Mingbiao, Xie Qingsheng, Wu Yaojun, etc. were all older than Tianchou, and they ran very fast.Tian Chou couldn't outrun them, so he had to invent some new ways to deal with them. For example, when the road was about to turn, Tian Chou would stare at the inside of the turn from a long distance, and cut in a straight line. There is no way, we have to compete with strength.The rest of the people also slowed down and waited when they saw that Tian Chou couldn't run out of time.Sometimes when it was very late, the two of them would drag Tianchou between them and run away.

Students have to do farm work when they go home.The situation of each family is different, so it is impossible to go back to school in a unified way, and basically go their own way.Sometimes Tian Chou followed suit for a while, and then came to make an appointment with someone, who had already left, and had to walk alone, so he couldn't resist the vicious dogs and schoolchildren on the side of the road.Those students saw that Tian Chou was sweating, embarrassed, and not as tall as them, so they came to snatch what Tian Chou was carrying.Tianchou was filled with righteous indignation and fought back desperately, but he was often defeated. Not only was he robbed of meat, oil, and money, but he was also beaten to pieces.Seeing Tianchou running away with snot and tears, these elementary school students instigated the dogs to chase Tianchou, and shouted: "Big nose, hit Ciba, beat him and feed his old father." The dog was big and fierce, jumping up faster than Tianchou Gao, some were able to bite the wooden stick in Tianchou's hand, pull Tianchou down, and snatch the wooden stick away.Tian Chou couldn't beat the students, so he vented his hatred on the dog and beat the dog desperately. When the dog was beaten and barked and fled, Tian Chou often felt the pleasure of revenge.When the students saw the dog being beaten, they came to chase Tianchou.Tian Chou had already lost his back basket and had no worries, so he saw the opportunity, slapped one of them with a club, and ran away in a hurry.So he chased after him, and he ran away, stones and tiles flew on Tianchou's head.After Tian Chou fled away, he felt the pleasure of that slap again, which was very refreshing.Thinking of the meat, oil, and money that were robbed made me miserable.In this way, he made an enmity with the primary school students on the roadside.After all, the opponent has all kinds of advantages in terms of timing and location. At the beginning, Tian Chou lost more than he won, but later he would lose every battle, and he was afraid of that road.

Sun Pingyu and Chen Fuying lost their carrying baskets several times. When they learned about the situation, they told Tianchou not to go home on weekends. Sun Pingyu would carry yams and firewood to school whenever he was free.Sun Pingyu is busy with farm work and has almost no time during the day. At night, he is also busy carrying dung and potatoes.Only one night when there were few things to do, I carried the yams and sent them to school.At dawn, I rushed to school sweating profusely. Tianchou looked on, feeling really sad and ashamed of his incompetence, so he went home every week and carried yams and firewood by himself.At this time, Sun Pingyu and Chen Fuying asked Tianchou to go to make an appointment early. When the appointment was not available, Sun Pingyu told his son not to go, and waited for him to finish his work before sending him off. When it was dark, when the farm work was finished and the farm tools were too busy to collect, they went Put the basket on your back, pull the sky and run away.Sweat flowed down his hand, onto Tian Chou's hand, and then fell to the ground.In the dark night, ferocious dogs kept rushing, and as soon as Tian Chou heard the barking, he knew the shape, coat color and ferocity of the dog.Sun Pingyu hid his son behind him, and beat the stone in his arms following the sound of barking, the dog retreated, and the father and son walked away again.The dog barked in front, and Sun Pingyu hid his son behind him, beat the dog back and left.Sun Tianchou's tears ran down his cheeks, he didn't dare to make a sound, and he didn't dare to wipe it with his hands, for fear of being discovered by Sun Pingyu.The clothes are taken off after a week of wearing, and changed into the clothes left at home by Chen Fuying to wash and dry in the spare time of the previous week.Tian Chou didn't dare to drop tears on his clothes, otherwise Chen Fuying would know when he took off his clothes next Monday, so Tian Chou had no choice but to swallow all the tears with his tongue.

After fighting off groups of dogs, I passed through villages and walked for thirty miles. I could see the lights of Buckwheat Mountain Middle School.Sun Pingyu stopped and said, "Fugui, there are no dogs left this time. You go alone, and I will have to carry dung on my back. To order buckwheat tomorrow, I will save my journey." Because as soon as he answered, he would cry, so he took the back basket and left after carrying it.Sun Pingyu stood on a high place, his figure towering in the dark sky: "Don't be afraid, walk slowly, I'll watch you here." Tian Chou burst into tears and didn't dare to answer at all. After a while, Sun Pingyu said again: " Go slowly, I'll look at you." The more he said, the more Tianchou's tears kept flowing, so he had to wipe them with his hands, or leaned his head forward, and dared not answer. After a long time, Sun Pingyu became worried and asked "Fugui, where have you been?" Tian Chou had no choice but to answer, but when he didn't know how to answer, tears welled up.Sun Pingyu heard it, and his words trembled: "Fugui, wait." Knowing that his father was exhausted, Tian Chou cried, "You don't need to come, I will go." He wanted to control his crying, but Always can't, he hates himself for being incompetent, not the kind of man he yearns for.Sun Pingyu had strode over, took the basket and dragged him away.No matter how dark the night was, Tian Chou could look up and see the huge teardrops on the tip of his father's nose.Tian Chou repeatedly persuaded his father to go back, but Sun Pingyu refused.Sometimes Sun Pingyu freed his hand to wipe the tears from his face.

When we arrived at school, Sun Pingyu stopped, wiped away his own tears, and wiped away the tears from Tianchou's face, told Tianchou to wash his face in the ditch, and then stood still to watch Sun Tianchou enter the school.As soon as Tianchou entered the school gate, he couldn't control his tears again, so he hurried to the dormitory to put down the basket, turned around and chased him out.  Sun Pingyu began to run back hastily.Tian Chou was heartbroken, and chased after him in tears, passing one mountain after another, he just wanted to stay with Ding's father forever.After chasing to the place where they broke up at first, Tian Chou dared not go any further, because there was a dog in front of him, and Sun Pingyu would find out if the dog barked again.Tianchou stood down and saw his father's footsteps going further and further away, his back becoming more and more blurred, tears streaming down his face again.

The dog barked, and Tian Chou heard the sound of his father yelling at the dog, the sound of the stone thrown to hit the dog falling to the ground, and the sound of the dog being hit and barking.The barking died down.Soon, the dog barked again in the distance, and Tian Chou's tears came down again. It wasn't until the dog barking stopped far away that Tian Chou felt that his father had gone far away.Only then did he calm down, thinking about his father's return, he would be busy carrying dung all night, and it would be non-stop from morning to night tomorrow.His tears couldn't stop again, and he patted his chest and swore: he must let his father live a good life, repay his kindness thoroughly, and even if he dies, he will be buried beside his father and stay by his side forever. 

Tianchou is still at school and still good at writing.His composition is honest, he writes whatever he wants, and he never catches the eyes of the head teacher and Chinese teacher Ren.Mr. Ren has a set of formatted "composition methods": "see the big from the small" in everything.For example, from helping an old man to cross the road, we can see social morality; from picking flowers in the garden, after being educated, recognizing mistakes, going to the gardener to admit mistakes, and seeing the virtue of correcting mistakes.Students flocked immediately.Teacher Ren was overjoyed and lamented that the students' composition had improved.I took the student's "good composition" and read it up and down on the podium.In the composition, how "I" helped the old man cross the road and was praised by the teacher; how "I" picked the flowers in the garden and apologized to the gardener.Others were copied from the composition papers, such as "Our Beijing Jingshan School" and "Shanghai XX Middle School".Teacher Ren also took the podium as a "good composition" and recited it.And the "bad composition" must be pointed out, because everyone copied the composition, so the "bad composition" was naturally only Sun Tianchou's.Teacher Ren took Tian Chou's composition and read a paragraph, and the students laughed when they heard that what was written was something unrefined, such as potato buckwheat, hoe and nail palladium.After Mr. Ren finished reading, he also laughed when he saw that the students knew what "bad composition" was.Only Tianchou wrote that his father sent him to Buckwheat Mountain Middle School at night, and both father and son wept. He was indeed moved, and there were tears in his eyes. , I will go back to my father, and a pinch of loess will always be with him." He said to Tianchou: "I thought that Zhu Ziqing wrote about the affection between father and son, and no one can surpass him. Your article has surpassed him. "But still did not list Tianchou's composition as a good composition, but after reading the "good composition" of "fighting the gangsters on the train", he said Sun Tianchou's "bad composition" with a stern voice: "Man Yingxu died in battle, wrapped his body in horse leather and buried his ears, and Sun Tianchou wrote a composition, crying, how decent? And not only he was crying, even his father was crying too, the two of them, haha! Absurd!" The whole class burst into laughter laugh.Teacher Ren said again: "A man wrote a composition that a little girl can write, and he has no fighting spirit at all! Look at the composition of the student in front of him: he bravely fought gangsters on the train, and after being killed by gangsters, he covered his wounds and was poor. Chasing after him, he insisted on arresting the gangsters. This is like a man. This composition is not very good. The fighting essays we wrote during the Cultural Revolution were full of fighting spirit. In one of my essays, A hundred exclamation marks were used! Can you write such an essay? Students, what is the difference between a good essay and a bad essay?" The student immediately replied: "A good essay is about catching gangsters on the train, and a bad essay is about two people on the train. We all cry." Tian Chou couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and said, "A good composition is writing that both of you cry, and a bad composition is writing about catching gangsters on the train." Teacher Ren was furious, and gave Tian Chou a hand when he got off the stage A slap across the face, and picked up Tianyu, fined him and stood in front of the podium, cursing: "The first time you messed up an English class, the school will expel you, I protected you, you have become more courageous, and openly messed up my class!" Class is here." Tian Chou was so angry that he really wanted to arrest Teacher Ren!This is the gangster!A thief who steals two pennies does not do much harm, he is a small gangster; but a teacher who teaches bad students does more harm, and is a big gangster!He wanted to "catch gangsters in class", and then wrote "I caught gangsters in class", and showed it to Mr. Ren, wondering if it would be a good composition.Thinking of this, he burst out laughing.

The whole class was taken aback.Teacher Ren couldn't help being taken aback, and asked sharply, "What are you laughing at?" Tian Chou wanted to hide it first, and just said that a certain life was ridiculous, and it was over, but he thought that the father and son had been humiliated too much just now, and it was time for revenge, so he Answer truthfully.Teacher Ren didn't finish listening, and when he came down, he kicked Tian Chou and scolded: "Expulsion! Expulsion!" Then he slapped Tian Chou and told the whole class: "You testify to me." The principal has gone.Tian Chou stood where he was, thinking that he would inevitably be fired this time.He suddenly hated reading, under the hands of this group of teachers, how could this book be read!It will only tame me from a great man to an ordinary man.Genghis Khan bent his bow and shot the eagles to dominate the world, so why study?My grandson Tianchou can shock the world even if he doesn't study.

Just as Qin Guang was finishing get out of class, he saw Tian Chou standing in front of the classroom in a state of embarrassment, and asked what was the matter, and Tian Chou answered.Qin Guangchao said: "You are absolutely unrighteous! You were almost expelled last time. Hurry up and apologize to Teacher Ren, and I will help you intercede." He took Tian Chou to the principal's house.Teacher Ren is reporting Tianchou's crime to the principal, and the students are helping him to commit the crime.Seeing the two people coming, they both stopped.Qin Guangchao immediately ordered Tianchou: "Apologize to Teacher Ren." Teacher Ren said: "I don't accept any apology, principal, and my attitude is clear: If Sun Tianchou is not fired, I will not attend classes. I have worked hard on the platform for 30 years. , was falsely accused of being a big gangster! The dignity of the teacher! Where is the teacher? If things go on like this, the school will not be a school, and the country will not be a country!" The principal pondered for a while, and said: "I will listen to opinions, first I will listen to your opinions, and then I will listen to grandchildren. Tianchou argued, Teacher Qin and Sun Tianchou go back first, and I will call someone later." Qin Guangchao had to take Sun Tianchou to his dormitory, and taught him severely: "Your father has suffered so much in agriculture, you should work hard for him. He is competitive. How dare you not live up to this level! These old teachers are full of peaches and plums, and we have to respect them three points, how dare you provoke them. Now if you provoke them, there is a 99% chance that you will be expelled I'll see where you go!" After a while, a student came calling, and Qin Guangchao said, "Go to the principal and have a good attitude. You must promise the principal that you will publicly admit your mistakes to Teacher Ren. I will go to Teacher Ren and tell you I regret it, I have to publicly apologize to him and see what he says." Tian Chou went to the principal's office.The principal looked very ugly, and asked Sun Tianchou, "What else do you have to say?" Tianchou wanted to admit his mistake, but seeing the principal's expression and questioning like this, he wanted to expel me and left.Then he said: "I didn't say anything." The principal thought that Tian Chou was going to admit his mistake, but he didn't expect such a sentence, so he slapped the table and said, "You really didn't say anything? Then I will really fire you!" Tian Chou said: "Then I will Say." So he told the whole story and said, "Principal, how can there be a garden or a road in Buckwheat Mountain? Who in our class has seen a train? Writing about catching gangsters on the train is a good composition, and writing that both father and son cry is bad. Is there such a reason? Pile up a hundred exclamation marks, and you really have fighting spirit? If it is true, my mind can swallow the pride of Emperor Qin, Han and Wu." The principal said: "You show me the composition." Tian Chou took it When the composition came, the principal read it, bursting into tears, and said: "I can catch up with Zhu Ziqing." Then he folded the composition and put it in his bag, saying, "It was the fault of it, so it was confiscated." This article is silent.The principal said: "The teacher is wrong in the front, you are wrong in the back, and you are completely wrong in the end. You should always respect the teacher. If you don't respect the teacher, you should be expelled. If the matter is very bad, I am afraid it will be irreparable. You should go to Teacher Ren and admit your mistake. See what he says, if he insists on expelling you, I can't help it." Tian Chou ran to find Teacher Ren, and when he saw that Qin Guangchao was still there, he came back and waited.After a while, I went back and saw that Qin Guangchao was no longer there, but the principal had already arrived at Teacher Ren's house, and the two sides were talking.Tian Chou had no choice but to come back.

After running a few times, the principal was still there.When the principal left, Tian Chou knocked on the door, Teacher Ren opened the door, saw that it was Tian Chou, and said, "What are you doing here?" Tian Chou said, "I've come to confess my mistake to the teacher." People are still smart and still make mistakes?" He closed the door.Tian Chou had no choice but to come back. Just as Qin Guangchao came back from looking for the principal, he called Tian Chou to his dormitory and said, "You are in serious trouble. I will speak for you, but he will ignore you. The principal will speak for you. Teacher Ren You don’t let go. What else do you do?” Tian Chou had no choice but to come back and worry.When I was hungry, I took out the antimony pot from the box, picked some yams, and brought them to the playground to cook. When I saw the principal, I went to Teacher Ren's house again.Tian Chou was suddenly very grateful to the principal.  After Tian Chou finished eating the yams, the principal passed by the playground and said, "Come here." Tian Chou followed him to his house.The principal said: "There is only one solution: Teacher Ren will expel you from class, but not from school. Teacher Qin is your cousin, so you can go to his class. This is Teacher Ren's magnanimity to you, and forgive you. You have to confess your mistakes to Teacher Ren. At the same time, at the school assembly, publicly apologize and admit your mistakes to Teacher Ren.” Tianchou hurriedly said, “Thank you to the principal.” I don’t want to go back and forth a few times, I don’t know where it fell. Do you still have the manuscript?” Tian Yu said: “I can still recite it.” The principal said: “Then you go back and rewrite a copy, I can’t return that copy to you Yes." Tian Chou agreed.Knowing that Teacher Ren spared himself, he went to find Teacher Ren.Teacher Ren opened the door and let Tianchou in, but Sun Tianchou admitted his mistake, but he didn't reply.When Tian Chou saw that he seemed to be seriously ill, Cai Ming was very angry with Teacher Ren and felt deeply ashamed.At the end, seeing that it was late at night, Tian Chou took his leave. Teacher Ren didn't raise his eyes, and never answered a word.It was only when Tian Chou left the house that he thought: It seems that everyone has their own opinions.Teacher Ren firmly believes in his composition concepts, just like I firmly believe in my own composition concepts. Who will attack my own composition concepts, isn't it like me hitting Teacher Ren's composition concepts?It seems that Mr. Ren is judging the composition based on his deep-rooted concepts, rather than deliberately embarrassing himself.It seems that things in the world are less difficult to unify and more contradictory, and it is impossible to insist on uniformity. Because the principal did not agree with Teacher Ren's request, he worked hard and meticulously on Teacher Ren's work. Considering Teacher Ren's difficulties, Tian Chou could no longer be allowed to be in Teacher Ren's class. Unable to admit his mistakes to Teacher Ren alone, the principal arranged to admit his mistakes to Teacher Ren in front of all teachers and students at the school assembly.The principal announced that Sun Tianchou would be given a warning, expelled from the teacher's class, and transferred to Teacher Qin's class.Only in this way can Tian Chou have a glimmer of life and continue to study.And from then on, the whole school knew that Sun Tianchou had an extremely incompetent father who was still crying to his son in his thirties. Tian Chou was wearing a double-breasted dress sewn by Chen Fuying, and a woolen jacket woven by Tian Zhengfen. This woolen jacket was seldom worn even in Fara, not to mention school, so it was surprising.And because the students hated double-breasted clothes and thought they were worn by rural people, they all yearned to wear Chinese tunic suits.Like Wang Xunjie, Yue Yingxian, Wu Mingbiao, Xie Qingsheng, etc., their fathers work in the unit and their families are good, so they all buy Chinese tunic suits to wear.Even Zheng Chaobin, whose father Zheng Yuanshun was in agriculture and whose family was worse off than Sun Tianchou's, bought Chinese tunic suits to wear.Tianchou's double-breasted clothes are already contemptible, but wearing a woolen coat is even more contemptuous, calling Tianchou "the one in the sheepskin coat".In addition, Sun Pingyu is clumsy and doesn't know how to cut hair. Every time Tianchou comes back, he sees that Tianchou's hair has grown, so he makes his own decision, picks up the wool scissors and clips it.The ear area is easy to deal with, just cut it off, and Sun Pingyu can't repair it on the top, so he just doesn't move it.This kind of hair is like a pot lid on Tian Chou's head. The students have never seen this hairstyle, so they have to name Tian Chou's hairstyle now: "toilet lid." The Sun family has a characteristic: doing things in their own way, doing things on their own, and not for outsiders opinion shifted.Sun Jiangcheng was stubborn all his life and had few friends.The same is true for Sun Pingyu.But the two generations of father and son are just stubborn, without arrogance or arrogance.Sun Tianchou is even worse, not only doing his own way, but also contemptuous of those around him, the more the other party ridicules, the more he does the opposite.Soon after arriving at school, he was regarded as a heretic. In the middle school, some students from Qiaomaishan Street thought that Qiaomaishan was advanced and rich, and despised the students from other villages.Tianchou studied in Fara, and because his family was in Heiliangzi, he was despised by Fara's students as "from Liangzi".Now when I go to Buckwheat Mountain, I am despised by the students of Buckwheat Mountain as "on the mountain" and "old mountain man". Let's say that when Sun Tianchou came home that day, he pulled his horse out to let him go. Just as he got off the black beam, he suddenly felt that something was pouring mud on him, and he suddenly fainted.After an unknown period of time, Sun Tianchou dreamed that an old man with white beard and kind face came to drive away the ghost, helped Sun Tianchou to get up, said that the ghost had gone, and told Sun Tianchou to return home.After Sun Tianchou woke up, he still remembered the dream, so he got up and went home.Someone saw Sun Tianchou sleeping on the road, and hurried back to tell Sun Pingyu and his wife that the couple was shocked and rushed over, and Sun Tianchou had already woken up.Busily asked Sun Tianchou what was going on, and Sun Tianchou said.Asked the horse, said the horse had gone home.Sun Pingyu and Chen Fuying finally felt that this was very strange.Reminiscent of the weird things Sun Tianchou saw before, he was quite puzzled.When Sun Tianchou was young, he saw a scarlet snake blocking the way. Sun Tianchou took a detour to ask Sun Jiangcheng to see it. Sun Jiangcheng had never seen such a blood-red snake, so he frightened the snake with a bamboo stick from a long distance away.After hearing this, Chen Fuying ran back to see, some women said it was an old dead soul, they just burned some paper to congratulate, and Chen Fuying burned the paper, and soon the snake disappeared.