Maybe when women reach this age, they have a strong desire to talk.

In the aroma of coffee, Su Shanyue, like the pipa girl in Bai Juyi's works, began to tell her experiences in the first half of her life: "I was born in 1982 in a remote rural area northwest of Baiwan, more than 20 miles away from the nearest town.

Land. My family is very poor. We have to work hard in the fields all year round to make ends meet. Once there is a flood or drought, we have to rely on loans to survive. I am the second eldest child in the family. I have a sister above me and another below.

A younger brother and a younger sister. What is the specific reason for having so many children? I guess it won’t be difficult for you, Principal Xu, to come up with the answer, right?"

Xu Shengzhou nodded. This situation was still relatively common in some places that favored boys over girls in the 1980s and 1990s.

"In order to give birth to a boy, not long after I was born, my whole family went into hiding and fought guerrillas, so I had a sense of drifting and instability since I was a child. It wasn't until my younger brother was born four years later that we returned to our hometown.

My house was demolished and my livestock was taken away. It was almost a blank land. But I was able to return home and finally feel stable. I just faced sky-high fines and had to pay numerous fees for farming every year.

, my family became even poorer. In the blink of an eye, I was already 6 years old and ready to go to school, but my family couldn’t afford the tuition and miscellaneous fees of 3.5 cents. It was my second uncle who was a private teacher who paid for me, and I was lucky enough to enter the village.

The school gate."

Su Shanyue took a sip of bitter black coffee and continued: "You should know the 'big-eyed girl', right? It's the famous "I want to study" photo. In fact, she and I are almost the same age and live in

The place is also a neighboring county, and the situation was similar at first, with unkempt hair, dirty and patched old clothes, an exercise book made of straw paper, and a pencil as long as a cigarette. Even if it was finally whittled down to the length of a little finger, I couldn't bear to throw it away.

Because she couldn't afford a new one. But the difference is that after she became famous, countless well-wishers helped her, while I always only had a second uncle who was a private teacher."

Xu Shengzhou said: "Your second uncle is a good man."

"My second uncle is indeed a good person. Sometimes my aunt scolds him badly because of this, and even scolds him in front of me on purpose. But when I want to pay, he still secretly gives me the money.

Or he handed it over for me without saying a word. Three years ago, when I was still studying for my Ph.D., he passed away from stomach cancer. I didn’t even have time to formally treat him to a meal, and invited him to visit the capital.

Say thank you! But he is always proud of me and often proudly tells people around him: 'My niece is a doctor!' My second uncle is indeed a good person, but good people don't live long!"

Xu Shengzhou didn't know how to continue.

"It is precisely because the opportunity to study is hard to come by, and compared to raising children at home, going to the fields, and hunting pig weeds, studying in the classroom is simply heaven. Therefore, I have cherished the opportunity to study since I was a child and firmly believe that 'knowledge changes destiny'.

I have always been ranked at the top of the school, which is another key to my ability to continue studying. At the end of the fifth grade, I took the second place in the town's national examination and was successfully promoted from a village primary school with backward teachers to a junior high school in the town."
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Xu Shengzhou praised: "Awesome!"

"Are you awesome? I think I'm pretty awesome, too." Su Shanyue smiled slightly, "At that time, there were a lot of people in rural areas, and there were also a lot of children. There was a village primary school in every village, and there were four to five hundred people in each national examination.

There is also a joint middle school in several nearby villages. The teaching level of the joint middle school is very poor and the management is very chaotic. The students are basically all male. They study in the joint middle school just to get a diploma so that they can recruit soldiers. The middle school in the town is

It's obviously more formal, but the town is more than 20 miles away from home. Our family was so poor that we didn't even have a bicycle at the time, so we had to walk back and forth, so I started living in school when I was eleven. I would wash rice by myself and put it on the school stove.

Go up and steam it. Sometimes you forget to add water after washing the rice, and you will be hungry at noon."

Xu Shengzhou sighed: "Now eleven-year-old children have to be driven to and from school by their parents!"

"So, the children of the poor have already become the masters of their families." Su Shanyue continued what she just said, "Every day, I eat hard brown rice, with black pickles brought from home, and sometimes I see meat dishes cooked in the canteen, especially

The big, greasy meat made me drool with greed! But at that time, my parents only gave me a few cents per week as pocket money, mainly to buy some paper and pens. How could I have money to buy meat and vegetables? There was one time when I was really

I couldn't bear it any longer, so I bought a portion of braised pork. I almost swallowed my tongue when I ate it. After eating it, I felt so distressed that I shed tears for several days. Hahaha!"

Xu Shengzhou said: "Nowadays, children don't eat fat meat because they are afraid of getting fat."

"Three years of junior high school, although I changed to a new environment, I still focused on my studies, and my grades were always among the top three in the school. In the blink of an eye, it was time for the high school entrance examination. It was different then. Now, no matter whether my grades are good or not, the first choice is the key high school.

At that time, the first choice for middle school teachers with the best results was the Secondary Normal School. Tuition and miscellaneous fees were free of charge. After graduation, you could be assigned to work as a teacher in a rural primary school, and you became a employed person. My second uncle worked hard all his life, and finally got there.

We reluctantly switched from private to public and solved the problem of establishment. As soon as we graduated from the secondary school, we became public and had establishment. Do you think it will attract people?"

Xu Shengzhou nodded, after all, the end of the universe is the establishment.

"Of course there is another good option, which is health school. After graduation, you can directly work as a doctor or nurse in a health center, which also solves the problem of staffing. However, I heard that going to health school requires you to learn anatomy, blood, flesh, and corpses. Many people are afraid and are unwilling to apply.

.The second is the key high school. Then there is the technical secondary school. After graduation, you can be assigned to work in factories, but at that time, various state-owned factories were already in a recession, and there were not many people applying. Finally, there was the ordinary high school, where everyone was just dawdling.

Those with a bachelor's degree are almost the same as now." Su Shanyue brushed the hair around her cheeks and continued, "I was just a rural girl at that time. I had no knowledge at all. I didn't know the difference between a middle school normal school and a key high school. There were many problems at home.

I had no money to support me in high school. Since everyone said that the Normal School was good, I decided to apply for the Normal School. After applying for the first test, I was successfully admitted!"

Xu Shengzhou said: "Those who help themselves, God will help them!" At the same time, he was a little curious. Logically speaking, people who graduated from secondary school should basically be engaged in basic education in the countryside. How did she transfer to the capital and get a doctorate?

Su Shanyue immediately solved the mystery: "After graduating from the middle school normal school, I returned to a village primary school in our town and became a teacher. It was not far from home. Later, I also saved money to buy a bicycle, which made it easier to travel back and forth. At that time, I just

When I was seventeen years old, some rural children in my class started studying late and repeated a few years of grade. They were almost my age. Many people said to my parents: 'Your second daughter has finished her studies! She will be blessed in the future!'

I was very proud at first, but one day on the way to school, I suddenly thought: Do I have to be like this for the rest of my life?" Su Shanyue shook her head firmly, asked and answered: "No, I

No! But besides being a teacher, what else can I do? I don’t have the brains or the ideas to run a business and make a lot of money. After thinking about it, I decided to continue studying because I believe knowledge can change destiny. What a coincidence.

Coincidentally, at that time, we were catching up with the expansion of university enrollment and allowing high school equivalent academic qualifications to be considered. I taught and reviewed at the same time, preparing to take the college entrance examination. It turned out that I was quite talented in reading, and I was admitted to our Baiwan Province in one test.

A normal college in the city.—Oh, it’s now also renamed Normal University.”

Xu Shengzhou said: "At that time, the university had just started to expand its enrollment, right? Even though it had expanded its enrollment, there were still not many undergraduate students. Unlike now, you can get an undergraduate degree with a score of more than 400. At that time, those who could get into the undergraduate degree were the top people.

You graduated from a middle school normal school, reviewed by yourself in your spare time, and still passed the college entrance examination, which fully shows that your reading talent is really great!"

"Thank you, Principal Xu, for your commendation! But I can only boast in front of others. In front of you, it's just a trick." Su Shanyue seemed to have thoroughly investigated Xu Shengzhou, "At that time, I didn't know that there was a commission.

, and I didn’t want to go back to the village and be the king of children, so I had to resign when I got into college. To be honest, although my family didn’t understand it at first, they were still supportive of me going to college. They simply believed that I could go to college after studying in a normal school.

If you become a teacher and go to college, you will definitely become a high official. In this way, I started my college career. During the four years of college, my thoughts and horizons have broadened a lot. I know that outside the mountains, there are not only mountains, but also the sea and the world.

, and prosperous. Because of my outstanding academic performance, I was recommended to study as a graduate student at this school during my senior year."

After listening to her narration, it feels like the autobiography of a successful person, or an inspiring march. No matter what setbacks are encountered, she can always cheer up, refuse to settle for mediocrity and comfort, and continue to move forward. But Xu Shengzhou knew that,

After this passionate overture, there must be a turn of sadness, otherwise there would be no such haggard and lost middle-aged woman in front of her.

Sure enough, Su Shanyue's face turned dark: "After graduating from graduate school, I was already twenty-five or six years old, and I was considered an old girl in the countryside. Fortunately, graduate students were still relatively scarce at that time, so I successfully entered a key high school in the provincial capital of Baiwan.

I found a teaching position with a very good salary. Many of my colleagues around me graduated from famous schools, such as your Beijing Normal University, as well as East China and Huazhong Middle School. According to common sense, my life in the second half of my life will become very simple, nothing more than eight

Words: Teach and educate people, get married and have children. No one thought that I couldn’t do such a simple thing well."

"Oh?" Xu Shengzhou waited for her to continue talking.

Su Shanyue took a sip of the black coffee that had become colder and more sour: "Let's talk about marriage first. Maybe all the reading talents in our family have been absorbed by me. My brother is so stupid that he didn't even finish junior high school.

He couldn't continue studying, so he had to drop out of school. But he was the youngest in the family, and his parents were very partial to him and were reluctant to let him go out to work. He was at home every day doing nothing, doing nothing. Before and after I graduated from graduate school, it happened to be the time for him to get married.

At that time, the woman knew that his family was poor, indolent, and had no formal livelihood, so she either refused to agree, or asked for a high betrothal gift. Principal Xu, you may have heard that Bai Wanxi’s high betrothal gifts in northwest China are famous throughout the country.

The woman was always asking for 200,000 or 300,000 yuan. Where could my parents find it? My brother was getting older every day, and I had just arrived in the provincial capital to work. After much deliberation, the idea came to me.

First of all, it means that if I want to get married, the man must give a gift of about 300,000 yuan. Haha, I am so old and look like this, and I have a younger brother. A graduate degree is a deduction in a small place, and another 300,000 yuan is required.
Chapter completed!