Chapter 1214 Looking Back at Childhood in the South 1 (33)

The story that Xiuxiu's father brought was about a rural teacher who opened a kindergarten.

He probably thought that Zhang Tan also ran a kindergarten and would have emotional resonance with this story, so he wrote it down for him.

The story goes like this:

The morning wind blew away the mist, and the reflection of the mountain was projected in the lake.

When the sun climbed up from the other side of the mountain, the small mountain village gradually brightened.

Teacher Yi stood on a farm vehicle, the vehicle traveled on the dirt road in the mountains, and then chug forward in the green rice fields. There was a banner hanging on the vehicle, and the banner read six eye-catching characters: Everything for the children.

This is a remote mountain village in YC City, Gan Province. Almost all the young and middle-aged people in the village have gone out to work, leaving only the elderly and children behind.

The children have nothing to do, no one to take care of them, and they get dirty all day long.

Teacher Yi is determined to change this situation. He opened the Morning Star Kindergarten and posted a notice at the entrance of the village. Each child costs 60 yuan per month, and it also includes pick-up and lunch.

Some people think it is a good deal, while others disagree, thinking that he is just trying to make money. After graduating from a normal school, he only gets a few thousand yuan a month. He is not as good as those who graduated from junior high school and went to work in Dicheng, where they can earn three or four thousand yuan a month.

Teacher Yi pushed his bicycle away silently. Not long after walking, he met Li Xiang and her father at the entrance of the village.

Li Xiang is 16 years old this year. She just graduated from junior high school and doesn't want to study anymore. She likes singing and dancing, and wants to go out to work and earn money to participate in "Super Girl", but she is too young and has no social experience. Her father is worried that something will happen to her, so he took her back from the train station.

Teacher Yi's old house is simple, but fortunately it is spacious enough. There are tables, chairs and blackboards in the main room, which are used as classrooms for the Morning Star Kindergarten.

Mrs. Yi used to teach in preschool classes, and she will mainly take care of the children of Morning Star in the future. Teacher Yi is an elementary school teacher. She has to go to school to teach, and can only assist her in her free time.

In order to pick up and drop off the children to school, Teacher Yi asked her eldest brother. The eldest brother made a flatbed trailer, which is usually used to transport things in rural areas. During the autumn harvest, bags of rice are transported from the farmland. Every day, he has to tow the trailer from the head of the village to the end of the village, pick up the left-behind children one by one, and send them back after school in the afternoon.

Children in the city ride on spacious and comfortable school buses, but in this small village, they can only ride on flatbed trucks used for farm work.

The salary given to the eldest brother is 100 yuan a month. Teacher Yi feels that it is too little and feels embarrassed. Fortunately, the eldest brother is reasonable and says that he is just helping out and will not delay the farm work at home.

The eldest brother carefully painted the flatbed trailer yellow and made handrails. The trailer instantly changed from being shabby to being a little cute.

In the evening, Li Xiang's father came to visit. His daughter wanted to go out to work. In order to dispel her idea, he wanted his daughter to help in the kindergarten.

Teacher Yi is a very soft-hearted person. Although he wanted to refuse, he finally agreed.

After Li Xiang's father left, Yi's wife couldn't help but complain. What if she couldn't recruit children tomorrow? How would she pay the wages? Besides, she couldn't make much money running a kindergarten. If she hired more people, she would definitely not make any money.

Teacher Yi kept silent. He felt that Yi's wife was right, but he also had a scale in his heart. The dog Dahuang was napping at his feet. He touched the dog's head and went back to his room to sleep.

The next morning, Li Xiang came. She still wanted to work in Dicheng and was very resistant to helping in the kindergarten. Teacher Yi persuaded her earnestly. The two walked at the intersection and rode an electric bike. It was Yi Wencai, a former student of Teacher Yi.

Yi Wencai was very proud. He had worked outside for the past few years and was said to have made a lot of money. This time, he brought a girlfriend from Anhui home. The girl was only 18 years old, but she was pregnant with a big belly and was already nine months pregnant. Because they were too young to get a marriage certificate, they could only hold a wedding banquet first. This time, they came back for this.

Li Xiang stared at the girl, thinking about something. Teacher Yi took her to the entrance of the village and continued to promote enrollment.

At this time, they met several women walking out of the village angrily. It turned out that Yuan Gen, a bachelor in the village, asked someone to introduce a date. The matchmaker brought the girl to Yuan Gen's house, but who knew that as soon as she entered the house, she heard a child calling Yuan Gen dad. The angry girl turned around and left, and she couldn't be stopped. The blind date was naturally ruined. The matchmaker was very angry and would never introduce a date to Yuan Gen in the future.

Yuan Gen had no choice but to watch them leave. He turned back and yelled at a little boy standing against the wall. This was the child who just called him dad. His nickname was Tuo Tuo.

Tuo Tuo shrank into the corner of the wall while being yelled at Yuan Gen. He was very cute.

Tuo Tuo's parents worked in Dicheng and hadn't been home for a long time. They entrusted Tuo Tuo to Yuan Gen's mother to take care of him and gave him 200 yuan a month.

The child almost forgot what his parents looked like. After spending so much time with Yuan Gen, he thought he was his father and called him dad, which led to this joke.

In the afternoon, interested parents sent their children to the kindergarten one after another. There were 15 children in total, and the tuition fee was 900 yuan. However, some people paid on credit. In the evening, Mrs. Yi settled the accounts and only had 530 yuan.

Mrs. Yi said that with this little money, the kindergarten could not survive for a month, but Mr. Yi was very optimistic and asked his wife to prepare better meals. Children are growing up, and they should not only eat well, but also be taught well. Mrs. Yi endured it and said nothing.

Although Mrs. Yi was not satisfied, she still went to the street to buy meat on the first day of school, and cleaned the classroom with Li Xiang. Teacher Yi wrote a few big words in chalk on the blackboard: Welcome children to study in the kindergarten.

Although the conditions were simple, the opening ceremony was very lively. The eldest brother pulled a flatbed cart to the village to pick up the children one by one. When passing by the big tree at the entrance of the village, Tuotuo sat under the big tree, staring at them passing by with envy in his eyes.

The children rushed into the classroom excitedly with their small schoolbags on their backs. All this was so new and exciting to them.

In the simple big house, there was a sound of childish reading that had never been heard before.

At noon, the children ate very deliciously, and the rice was quickly swept away. Mrs. Yi went to her eldest brother's house to borrow food, and her eldest brother asked her to take the whole pot away. In the morning, the eldest brother was scolded by his wife because he delayed farm work by taking the children to school, but he said nothing and continued to silently support Teacher Yi's kindergarten.

In the evening, Mrs. Yi did some calculations and found that the losses were terrible. If they continued like this, not only would the kindergarten not be able to continue, but their lives would also be difficult. Teacher Yi advised her not to just focus on money, but to take a long-term view.

Early the next morning, Yuan Gen brought Tuotuo here, and also brought some clothes to change, saying that he wanted to arrange a full-time care. Because Tuotuo lived in his house, people outside the village thought it was his child, so no one proposed marriage to him.

Teacher Yi was embarrassed. His place was a kindergarten, not a nursery, and there was no full-time care. However, looking at Tuotuo's blank eyes, he couldn't say no, and his heart softened, so he accepted it.

Maybe because he was often hungry, Tuotuo ate four bowls of rice in one breath at noon.

At noon, the eldest brother had a fight with someone in the field. It turned out that the eldest brother had to pick up the child in the morning, so he diverted water to the paddy field, but did not guard it. When he came back after picking up the child, he saw that the diverted water was intercepted by others, and the two had a dispute because of this.

Teacher Yi felt helpless and guilty. Afterwards, he and his elder brother sat in the field and chatted. Although his elder brother kept saying that it was okay, Teacher Yi knew that he could not embarrass his elder brother anymore and had to find someone else to tow the "school bus".

He went around the village and asked around, but no one was willing to do this job. When Shougen's mother heard the news, she said that his son Shougen could do it.

Shougen had intellectual disabilities and was a difficult person in the village. Teacher Yi had no choice but to agree, but Yi's wife was a little worried. On the first day, she followed Shougen's flatbed truck to escort the truck.

The adults disliked and even feared Shougen, but the children were very close to him. They sat on the flatbed truck to cheer for Shougen, and Shougen also pulled very hard.

The Morning Star Kindergarten gradually got on the right track. Li Xiang was responsible for teaching the children pinyin and singing, and temporarily gave up the idea of ​​going to work in Dicheng.

There is one more chapter.

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