Chapter 2 A rural woman's confession "I didn't...
"Didn't I tell my family that I was coming back to see my parents? I heard that they had returned to Peking, but after I came here, I found out that my father and mother were divorced, and only my father came back..."
At this point, Ouyang Yuan tightened his chopsticks and said, "He remarried the daughter of an official. When I went to their house, the woman promised to arrange a job for me on behalf of my father and told me not to bother them in the future."
Ouyang Yuan poked at the food in his lunch box and said, "My grandfather used to be a teacher at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The job of librarian was given to my father for my grandfather's sake. If they hadn't divorced, the job should have been passed on to my brother. Now it's being given to me as charity."
Ah, this...
Li Daohua regretted asking. She had originally wanted to see if Ouyang Yuan had any special methods so that she could give it a try. Even if she couldn't find a job as good as Ouyang Yuan's, it would be fine to have a temporary one to fill in for her.
As for this sacrificial working method, she felt that she could not try it.
Because of the past ten years, most of the staff and teachers of Beihang University were assigned to the countryside in Henan Province, including Ouyang Yuan's family, and they were separated.
After going to the countryside, they were not allowed to move around or communicate freely, so they lost contact. It was not until 1978 when the regulations were no longer so strict that they resumed communication.
Before coming to Peking, Ouyang Yuan only knew that his grandfather had passed away, but he didn't know that his parents were divorced.
"My brother doesn't know about this yet." Ouyang Yuan was retired due to illness thanks to Li Sanzhu. It was not easy for him to return to the city at this time. He either had to pass the entrance exam to study or use connections.
Due to the relationship in their family, Ouyang Yuan's grandfather passed away and his father didn't care about them, so the only way left for them was to study hard, so his brother and sister were still in the countryside.
It was also because of his father's incident that after he had dealt with the affairs in Peking, he immediately went to bring Li Daohua to Peking. He didn't want to become a person like his father.
Because of time constraints, he couldn't go look for his family, so he just went back to Henan Province and brought Li Daohua back.
Although he kept in touch with his family, transportation at that time was different from that in the 21st century. The further into the countryside one went, the harder it was to find them. If one was not a local, one would not know the place at all.
Even though Ouyang Yuan has a job in Peking now, his family is actually not as good as Li Daohua's. At least Li Daohua's family doesn't have such a mess.
Beihang University was an absolutely good school in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, comparable to Peking University and Tsinghua University.
After Meng Guimin got to work, he took all his letters from the mail room.
When he saw the letter from Li Daohua, he took a long time to read it. During this period, people's ideology was still very sensitive.
Are there people like Huang Lai Di in the article? Of course there are. There were in the past, and there will be no fewer in the future.
But their school is a place for teaching and educating. It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to cultivate a person. If the teachers’ ethics are gone, it will be difficult to teach good students.
Meng Guimin asked others who Huang Laidi was.
"It seems to be Mr. Zhao's wife, right? Is she the Huang Laidi or Aunt Huang from the library?"
It matched. Meng Guimin saw that the Huang Laidi in the letter was indeed from the library.
"Which teacher Zhao?"
"Zhao Sucheng, Teacher Zhao."
"Go and get him."
Zhao Sucheng had just finished class and was about to answer students' questions when he heard that the principal was looking for him.
In the principal's office, the two sat on the sofa, and Meng Guimin said, "Has Teacher Zhao's wife had any conflicts with anyone recently?"
Zhao Sucheng was stunned for a moment, thinking about it, "Isn't it? My wife never said she had a conflict with anyone?"
Meng Guimin said in a gentle tone: "Although we are teachers, we are also members of society just like our fellow workers, peasants and soldiers. There is no distinction between high and low occupations, and we are all contributing to society."
Zhao Sucheng nodded: "You are right."
"We should pay attention to the ideological and cultural construction, especially the family members. No matter how busy you are at work, you should not neglect your family members. When you have nothing to do, you can spend more time with your family members."
Some things should be said only when they are mentioned, otherwise it will be ugly if they are said out loud.
Zhao Sucheng was full of thoughts when he left. When he returned home, he usually sat at his desk and didn't let his family disturb him.
But today, for the first time, he called Huang Laidi, who was knitting a sweater, over and said, "What nonsense did you say again?"
Although Zhao Sucheng appears gentle and intellectual in public, he is actually autocratic at home and no one can refute him, no matter if it is his wife or children. If they talk back to him, they will be slapped in the face.
After the children grew up, those who got married rarely returned to their parents' home, and those who got married rarely came back to see them. Only Huang Laidie came back after work to serve him.
"I didn't say anything. I was knitting in the building today."
"You didn't say anything. Will the principal let me take care of you? I don't know you yet?"
Zhao Sucheng glared at him, and Huang Laidi shrank his neck and whispered, "I just had a quarrel with that new country bumpkin recently, and she accidentally fell down and wanted to blame me."
After hearing this, Zhao Sucheng understood that someone must have gone over to complain.
Normally, he doesn't care what Huang Laidie does outside. Sometimes, her behavior is beneficial to him, such as extorting something from other people's homes.
But it’s different now. Her behavior has influenced him, and it’s a bad influence.
"You should go and apologize to her. We are just neighbors. How can this be embarrassing?"
Huang Lai Di muttered to herself but didn't dare to refute. Only after they left the house did she dare to curse inwardly. She would not apologize. No one knew about it anyway. If he asked, she would just say that she had apologized.
The Peking Daily has many sections, which include not only articles written by the newspaper editors themselves, but also official documents or readers' contributions.
Five days after Li Daohua submitted her article, an article titled "Confession of a Rural Woman" was published in the Beiping Daily.
Rural areas, women, and confession, these words together instantly capture the reader's curiosity.
In the 1970s and 1980s, there were very few educated people, and even fewer educated women in rural areas.
In rural areas, many men cannot even guarantee that they can receive an education, let alone women who are not valued by their families.
At that time, most of the female college students came from well-off families, and the very few who did not came from poor families were also incredibly talented.
College students at that time didn’t have cell phones or anything like that, and all they did was read books. Newspapers, a rapidly updated media, were also an important source of information for them.
They also saw the article.
Many people felt the same way. Most of them had been to the countryside during that decade and knew how difficult it was to come to Beijing from the countryside.
Some people have suffered discrimination in one way or another, but most people just endure it in silence.
One is inferiority complex, and the other is the idea that one should not look down on young people because they are poor. After all, they have been admitted to university and have a promising future.
In addition, Li Daohua puts himself in a low position in the article and puts Huang Laidi in a high position, as if they were Huang Shiren and Yang Bailao. The writing is very vivid and makes people feel extremely involved.
When the students from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications saw that the incident happened at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, they began to ask around whether it was true.
The person was beaten and hospitalized, and it sounds like it should be too easy to inquire about it.
Huang Laidi went to work as usual today. The work of a librarian is not easy. In the days before computers, they had to manually record the borrowing and returning of books, sort out the library books, and revise the damaged ones in a timely manner...
At this time, both the library and the bookstore are crowded with people, and they are basically busy all day long. The library is better, as the main crowd is mainly teachers and students from the school, so there are not so many people.
Her daily job is to organize books and put the returned books back to their original places according to the labels.
Strangely, she felt as if someone was always staring at her and whispering today, but when she turned around, everyone around her was looking down, reading seriously.
When she left the library, she finally found out the reason.
In the library, everyone doesn't want to disturb other students who are reading, but it's different outside the library.
When some excited and outgoing classmates saw her coming out and confirmed that she was Huang Lai Di, they said righteously: "Farmers are not country bumpkins, and Peking is not your home. You are trying to restore feudalism!"
Well, a hat fell down and made Huang Laidie dizzy.
Li Daohua did not say these things directly in her writing, but words are magical and can be extended.
Huang Lai Di is indeed timid in front of Zhao Sucheng, but he will definitely attack hard in front of others.
"Who do you think you are? A good dog doesn't block the road!" She came out to eat, and now that someone was blocking her way, she was naturally angry.
As educated people, these students were too shy to curse and just argued with reason. However, their faces turned red when they were pointed at and cursed at and watched by so many people.
"How dare you curse me!"
"What's wrong with me scolding you? I haven't hit you yet."
Soon, more and more people gathered here. Ouyang Yuan passed by here and was stopped by his colleagues to watch the fun, because one of the parties was their colleague.
It was already afternoon when Li Daohua heard about it. Both parties involved in the quarrel were called to the school to investigate.
"What a pity." When she thought about the scene, she felt it was worth watching.
At night, Huang Laidie was heard crying and yelling in the building, cursing Li Daohua.
Li Daohua knocked on the door and the person who came to open it was Zhao Sucheng, with a fierce look on his face.
"What are you doing? Can't you let me have a rest?" Through the crack in the door, Li Daohua saw Huang Laidi slumped on the ground with a clear slap mark on her face.
Zhao Sucheng changed his standing angle to block Li Daohua's sight: "Sorry to disturb everyone's rest...that article..."
"I wrote it." Li Daohua held his head high and chest out, almost asking, "What? Hit me?"
If he dared to hit her, she would be merciful if she didn't blackmail him into bankruptcy.
"I'm really sorry. I didn't expect her to say that to you. She is uneducated and can't speak. I apologize to you on her behalf and I will discipline her well in the future." Zhao Sucheng began to play the emotional card.
"Hey, that's not necessary. You hit her and she scolded me. I suspect you are using her as a tool to kill her.
I am from the countryside, I am honest and simple, I don't have any bad intentions, I am telling the truth, if I say I will report it, then I will report it, please stop hitting her, otherwise I will report you for hitting someone, I am also very tired, writing a letter requires stamps."
Zhao Sucheng finally understood why his wife hated Li Daohua so much. This guy was really annoying.
Although he was so angry that his teeth itched, Zhao Sucheng could only smile and say, "Don't worry, I won't beat her and won't disturb everyone's rest."
After hearing his assurance, Li Daohua turned around, and the person who was eavesdropping behind her pretended to be busy. When she returned home and closed the door, he started chirping behind her again.
"This little girl is really amazing. Teacher Zhao's whole family fell into her hands. Isn't it said that she came from the countryside and can't read a single word? This girl even made it to the newspaper."
"Tsk, you are just listening to Huang Lai Di's nonsense. I have also read the article she wrote. It is definitely not something that can be written by someone who can't read a single word. You'd better be careful next time. This country bumpkin is not to be trifled with."
She didn't need to remind him, everyone around him knew that they hadn't taken advantage of Zhao Sucheng until they saw him.
Ouyang Yuan was counting the accounts at home. The Chinese New Year was only a month away, and he wanted to see if he could send something home this year.
Not only does it need to be sent to his mother, but also to Li Daohua's parents.
In fact, it would be best to go home, but going home is too expensive and they don’t have that much money.
When Li Daohua came in, she saw him writing and drawing on paper. Even the books in the house had been distributed by him. These books could not be bought in many other places.
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