The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

Chinese pinyin does not yet exist, or it has but has not yet begun to be popularized across the country, so the method Mr. Zhou taught Yang Dongxu to recognize characters is a Chinese character, a Chinese character.

Even as a former junior high school student, Yang Dongxu would be beaten every day. There is no way that these are all traditional characters, not the simplified ones that it is used to. There are 30 Chinese characters per day, most of which Yang Dongxu can understand more than half of them, and the rest are memorized like students’ characters, more than a dozen a day There are always one or two new words that you can't understand, and if you don't know it, you will be beaten, and your palms will be hot every time.

Another thing is writing. Yang Dongxu's handwriting in the previous life was not very good-looking. Later, with mobile phones and computers, it is common to not write a word all year round, let alone writing on wooden boards with a brush in water.

So at the beginning, every word of Yang Dongxu was "flying and dancing", as big as it wanted. Traditional Chinese characters have many strokes, and it is impossible to write them without writing bigger ones, so Yang Dongxu's palms began to suffer again.

Mr. Zhou does not have the kind of humanized education thought that the children are still young and can take their time. Nowadays, people generally think that children should be educated strictly since childhood, just like a small tree that is slightly inclined when it is young will definitely be crooked when it grows up.

Strict teachers produce excellent apprentices, and filial sons are born under the stick. This era is very marketable. So from the beginning, Mr. Zhou was very strict with every stroke and every stroke. If he couldn't do it, his left hand would suffer directly. As for his right hand, he could only use it to continue practicing calligraphy.

I don’t know if it’s the real effect of typing, or Yang Dongxu’s little hand doesn’t have the muscle memory of the crab-like calligraphy in later generations. After more than half a month, his left hand was almost swollen into a steamed bun. How much is Yang Dongxu’s brush writing? Start looking a little bit.

Writing with a calligraphy brush has passed the test, and writing with a hard-tipped pen is also on the agenda. You don’t need to think about fountain pens, which are the standard equipment for intellectuals in this era. Hero cards, or Parker pens are now luxury items.

If you are a teacher or an official, if you wear one on your chest, it is the mark of an intellectual, and if you don't have two, you are definitely a great intellectual. As for the other three, sorry, you are a pen repairer.

That's right, repairing pens is also a profession in this era, and it is also a skilled worker with high professional skills, which is beyond the competence of ordinary people.

Since there are no pens, even if there is ink, it is a luxury. Therefore, pencils are used instead of hard pen calligraphy. A penny can last for several days. Those pencil tips in my sister’s schoolbag that are almost uncontrollable are the best choice for Yang Dongxu .

At the beginning of the Three-Character Classic, after the Thousand-Character Essay, an ancient poem is written every day, and some classical Chinese essays will be written within a month. For some simple chemistry, only some element names and characters are taught, and the reaction formulas are memorized by themselves.

English is not very popular in China now. The first choice is Russian. Even if they have fallen out with the big brother in the north, there are far more people in China who can speak Russian than English.

There is no problem with the endorsement, the child's memory is good, and Yang Dongxu, who is in his forties, has a mature mind, the Three-Character Classic, and the Thousand-Character Classic are all side dishes. It saves time even more.

He doesn't want to be a scientist in chemistry or something, and Mr. Zhou is not a teacher in this field, so he can barely memorize the formulas. As for the movement of various elements, molecules and atoms, or chemical experiments, they will be put aside first.

Russian has become Yang Dongxu's nemesis, the kind of tongue rolling, or various trills, almost made Yang Dongxu's tongue knot on the first day. Moreover, Mr. Zhou doesn't have any elementary school textbooks in Russian, and it turns out that the thick Marxism-Leninism directly killed Yang Dongxu.

"Read this paragraph over again." Zhou Yiren pointed to a Russian book that looked like a ghost drawing, and clicked on a paragraph in it.

Yang Dongxu took a deep breath and shook his tongue a few times, as if warming up his body before doing gymnastics in physical education class. Then one after another, like a fool who couldn't control the pronunciation of his big tongue, exploded in the room.

"Four words are wrong. Here, here and here." Zhou Yiren raised the bamboo board in his hand and hit Yang Dongxu's head four times.

I don’t know if it’s because Zhou Yiren is too free to feed cattle, or he hasn’t taught students in 1989, and his enthusiasm for education erupts like a volcano. Ever since he first agreed to teach Yang Dongxu, Yang Dongxu began to regret using it as a student. This trick is to pull relationships.

Now there is no time to think about how to build a relationship. Finishing his homework every day without getting beaten has exhausted all his energy. Especially after seeing his progress, his parents actually sent a fish, a chicken, sanzi and fruit, which are extremely high-paid four-color gifts in the countryside, and he was in the mixed doubles mode of the teacher and his parents.

"You are very smart, but you don't pay attention. You think about those messy things in your mind every day. How will you go to university in the future?" Read each wrong place ten times, and found that there is no mistake. Ask Yang Dongxu to copy this paragraph ten times with the tip of a pencil, Zhou Yiren said with a bit of resentment.

Yang Dongxu is very smart and can be admitted to university, this is what Zhou Yiren said to his parents. It was also the reason why his parents gave Zhou Yiren the four-color gift.

It's a pity that rural people don't have a long-term vision, although they hope that their son can go to university and eat the commercial food in the city. But I don't want to delay the work in the field, so the four hours at noon every day is already squeezed out by Yang Dongxu's parents. At other times, he needs to take care of his younger sister, so he cannot interfere with his parents going to the field.

Every time I think that my students don't spend most of their time on study, but bring a little girl with a runny nose and mess around with a bunch of little kids, Zhou Yiren gets angry, but the current countryside is like this, Yang Dongxu's mother can't It's not a child, even the grandpa doesn't stand by him in this matter, so he can only bear it when he is angry.

But Yang Dongxu is indeed smart. After teaching for so many years, especially those students who taught at Yenching University, it can be said that they were all the top students in China at that time, and no one was found to be smarter than Yang Dongxu.

That child learned to read on the first day, and could remember more than half of the 20 new words in a few minutes? And remember almost all of it the next day? Although it can't be read when written, it has nothing to do with being smart.

So Zhou Yiren taught 30 characters on the second day, and Yang Dongxu managed to memorize them. On the third day, he directly increased to 50 characters. In less than a week, Yang Dongxu could barely read some classical Chinese by himself. Don’t say he has seen such a smart student. , he had never heard of it before.

So all kinds of teaching began to double, and the speed continued to increase. He wanted to see where the limit of this smart boy was. If Yang Dongxu knew that he wanted to be smart first, and leave a good impression on Zhou Yiren, he was afraid that he would think he was stupid and would not teach him. The result is self-defeating and the classwork increases geometrically, will you want to cry but have no tears?

In fact, Zhou Yiren wronged Yang Dongxu. It wasn't that he was not serious about his study, but he was very serious about his studies. But he really hadn't learned Russian in his previous life, and he knew a little bit more English than Russian.

But Zhou Yiren obviously couldn't think of this, he just felt that Yang Dongxu was so smart when learning Chinese characters, but Russian was so difficult, he was cheating. Even if Chinese pronunciation is learned faster because of the living environment, the speed of learning Russian can't be compared with the speed of a snail and a rabbit, right? In an instant, Yang Dongxu's study turned into a hell mode, and his palms were burning all day long.

After Yang Dongxu finished copying the Russian, Zhou Yiren pointed to the side with the bamboo board: "Read these, and then tell me how you feel."

What Zhou Yiren was referring to was a stack of newspapers. Since a district commissioner named Chen Weimin came to Yangjia Village in a hurry to deliver them over a month ago, his life has improved to a certain extent now that the atmosphere has improved, and a large number of newspapers have been delivered every week. Heap, that special commissioner would come over from time to time to have a chat with Zhou Yiren by candlelight.

This commissioner is a student of Zhou Yiren, who said that the wind direction has changed and Zhou Yiren can return to Yanjing, so he has been running more diligently recently.

However, out of prudence, Mr. Zhou decided to wait and see for the time being, and did not submit materials, or contacted some former colleagues and friends to wait a little longer, which made Yang Dongxu heave a sigh of relief.

After reading all the newspapers, Yang Dongxu folded the newspapers and put them down to look at Mr. Zhou.

"Tell me how you feel." Zhou Yiren stood up and walked around the room a few times, stretching his aching body.

"That... seems to be setting up a special zone." Yang Dongxu scratched his head and said.

"Oh." Zhou Yiren was stunned for a moment, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, walked to the newspaper in a few steps, opened a newspaper and looked at it for a while, looked at Yang Dongxu with bright eyes and asked, "What is the basis of your feeling?" ?”

Yang Dongxu was a little dumbfounded for a moment, what evidence did he have? The establishment of a special zone is still a memory he dug out from the depths of his mind because he worked in a state-owned enterprise in Shenzhen in his previous life.

Once a leader of a state-owned enterprise came to conduct an inspection, so the leader gathered all the workers for a nonsensical knowledge training. At that time, the training was basically just scratching the beard and eyebrows, including the development history of Shenzhen's establishment of a special zone.

"Didn't the newspapers say that we want to reform and develop the economy? To develop the economy is to do business. To do business, you must choose a place to do business, right?" Yang Dongxu had no choice but to bite the bullet.

The newspapers that Zhou Yiren showed him were not just recent ones, they dated back to the beginning of last year. So Yang Dongxu has an impression of some general things, so he can only make up and organize them.

To be honest, apart from heavy schoolwork and corporal punishment. Zhou Yiren is a qualified teacher, and a teacher with a long-term vision. His teaching never sticks to textbooks, and sometimes extends to some social environments at that time. For example, reading newspapers to make a summary is to allow Yang Dongxu to combine his studies with the actual situation in China now.

"What else?" Yang Dongxu's words brightened Zhou Yiren's eyes.