Chapter 010
School office.
Lin Xiaohan sat down at the desk and continued to wait for people to sign up.
Chuxia still looked like she had nothing to do. After sitting down at the table, she raised her hand to cover her mouth and yawned loudly. Then she lay down on the table and went to sleep.
“…”
Lin Xiaohan couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
When I woke up from a nap in early summer, it was almost time to go to work in the afternoon.
She stretched her arms and looked out the window to relax. Then she looked at Lin Xiaohan blankly and asked him, "Is anyone here to sign up?"
Lin Xiaohan didn't want to admit that Chu Xia made fun of him.
But he folded his arms and remained silent for a while, then replied, "No."
Chu Xia hadn't fully recovered yet, and spoke mostly on instinct, muttering subconsciously, "You're still so arrogant even though you didn't..."
The mouth runs in front and the brain chases behind.
After he finished speaking, his mind cleared up, so he quickly smiled and said, "I'm not talking about you."
Lin Xiaohan: “…”
He endured it, looked at Chu Xia and said, "Tell me, how do you know that no one came to sign up?"
Chuxia pursed her lips and thought about it, but didn't answer him.
She thought that if she said it with her mouth, it would only take a few words, but if she did it another way, it would naturally increase the time she spent with him.
So Chu Xia stood up and said, "Come with me."
As she spoke, she picked up her schoolbag and slung it over her body, then turned to look at Lin Xiaohan, waiting for him to stand up.
Lin Xiaohan looked at her for a moment, reached out to grab his schoolbag and stood up.
He walked up to Chu Xia, closing the distance between them. He lowered his eyebrows and looked at her for a while, then asked, "Why do you want to partner with me so much? What are you thinking?"
She had done nothing since morning. He originally thought that she just wanted to be lazy and do nothing, so that she could just sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor when he finished his work.
But now it seems that this is not the case. She is just waiting to see him get humiliated, waiting for him to ask, and then naturally go with him to do this thing.
She could obviously go recruit students on her own, but why did she insist on waiting for him and joining him?
Because Lin Xiaohan is tall, Chu Xia feels pressured when he looks at her like that.
She pulled up the corners of her mouth and forced a smile, "Why are you so suspicious? I'm a fool with only love in my mind, what can I plan? I just feel that the team has handed this matter to us, and we have the responsibility to work together to get it done. When you wrote the enrollment announcement this morning, I told you that it was useless, but you didn't believe it. I think you will definitely not believe what I say now, so I want to take you to understand it in person."
Lin Xiaohan: "I can also go there alone to understand the situation, get answers, and solve the problem."
Chu Xia: “…”
Lin Xiaohan: "Don't even think about sitting back and reaping the benefits. If I'm the only one doing the recruitment, the team leaders will know about it. Just think about how much your hardworking and down-to-earth image will be discounted in their minds. I will never be the one who suffers."
Lin Xiaohan: "So, don't play tricks on me with your little tricks."
Chu Xia: “…”
Lin Xiaohan stared at Chu Xia in silence for a while, "So, what are you planning?"
Chuxia felt like sweat was coming out of her head because of his stare at her.
She thought for a while, then swallowed her breath and said, "I'm tired and don't want to be Han Ting's follower anymore, but he still comes to me for everything, which is very annoying. I want him to hate me and stay away from me. He is kind and righteous to everyone, but he hates you, so I want to..."
Lin Xiaohan: “…”
His eyes became more gloomy and oppressive.
Chu Xia met his gaze, pursed her lips, and dared not say anything further.
Lin Xiaohan suddenly sneered, retracted his gaze, turned around and walked out.
Chu Xia watched him go out. Her stiff body softened instantly and she let out a long sigh of relief.
This is really difficult.
Is there anyone else in this world who can resist Han Ting's magnetic field?
Or she could look for someone else.
It was early summer and I was feeling depressed.
Suddenly, I heard someone say at the door: "Go, what are you still standing there for?"
Chuxia raised her head and saw that Lin Xiaohan, who had left, had returned.
She reacted quickly, said "Oh", and hurried out.
Walk to the gate of the yard and lock it.
Lin Xiaohan said: "I don't want to be friends with you or have any relationship with you, nor do I want to help you solve any problems. I just want to save time and solve the problem quickly. By the way, I am also very happy to see Han Ting unhappy."
Chu Xia understood and nodded, "I know."
Then she assured: "Don't worry, I will definitely not hold you back at work."
After locking the key, Lin Xiaohan put it away and said, "Then stop beating around the bush and hiding it. It's just a waste of time. Tell me the reason you know. Why didn't anyone sign up?"
Chuxia didn't think about it anymore.
She looked at Lin Xiaohan and said, "This matter needs to be discussed from two perspectives. The first is from the perspective of the child. For example, did you want to go to school when you were a child?"
Lin Xiaohan looked back at Chu Xia and said, "Think about it, what can you achieve if you don't go to school and become illiterate?"
Chu Xia smiled awkwardly, "You are part of that small minority. In fact, most children don't want to go to school and just want to play. Take Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai, for example. We all know them. They just want to be hutong urchins. Going to school is like their life. They were forced to go to school by their families since they were young. Then they skipped school every now and then to go out and play. They were crazy all over the city."
Lin Xiaohan: “Continue.”
Chu Xia: "The second is from the parents' perspective. In the city, it is normal for children to go to school when they reach a certain age, just like drinking water and eating. Even if the family conditions are not good, parents will find ways to save money for their children to go to school. But it is different in the countryside. Every family in the countryside has many children. Children are labor for them. They have to work for the family when they are four or five years old. Most of their families are very poor, and they have children mostly to give birth to one more person who can work in the fields, not to make their children successful. Studying, which costs money and has no benefits, is not within their consideration. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, poor people in the countryside had no books to read. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, schools were opened to promote literacy, but there must not be many people going to school, and later the schools were closed due to the revolution. After all this, naturally no one wants to go to school anymore. Of course, there are still some who continue to go to school, but there are not many in total."
Lin Xiaohan turned his head and looked at Chu Xia, "That makes sense, and it's worth thinking about."
Chu Xia smiled at him and said, "My mind is not full of love affairs anymore."
Of course Lin Xiaohan saw it.
If she was still as confused and stupid as before, he would never ask her to join him.
Chu Xia said so much just now, and everything was well-founded, so Lin Xiaohan was happy to continue discussing with her.
After discussing the actual situation, the two discussed the enrollment strategy.
In fact, there is no particularly effective solution. We can only find someone to persuade them patiently, try our best to change their ideas and concepts, and let them know the benefits of reading.
After a brief discussion, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan went to look for children of school age in the village.
These children do not go to school and are too young to work, so they naturally gather in groups and scatter around the village.
They were all adults leading the younger ones, and they would gather in groups outside, playing while picking grass for pigs, collecting firewood, or collecting manure. In addition, there are also people who raise pigs and sheep.
The pig grass and firewood and manure that were collected could be used at home or handed over to the production team. If you hand it over to the production team, you can credit some of the small work points to your family.
The same is true for raising pigs and sheep.
If you raise the production team's pigs and sheep, you can also earn work points.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan first found a group of children by a small river in the village.
There were about ten children, the oldest looked eight or nine years old, and the youngest only three or four years old.
They played in the mud together by the river, wearing straw hats woven from willow branches on their heads.
The boys competed in mud wrestling, making tanks and thatched houses, while the girls used mud to make clay dolls with pigtails. Their hands, bodies and even faces were covered in mud.
Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan walked over to greet them.
When the girls saw them, they smiled shyly and were too embarrassed to say anything.
There were two naughty boys who looked at them and asked, "Do you want to play with us too?"
Chu Xia smiled and said, "We are not here to play."
Lin Xiaohan asked them again: "Captain Liang said on the loudspeaker this morning that our brigade's primary school will reopen starting this year, and everyone can go to school. Did you hear that?"
He was afraid that no one would understand everything he said and that it might delay things, so he specifically went over the enrollment notice with Liang Youtian and asked Liang Youtian to speak for him.
A dozen children, some louder and some quieter, answered, "Yes, I heard it."
Chu Xia then asked, "Then why didn't you go to school to register?"
The answers given by the children were naturally the same as what Chuxia said.
The two little monkey-like boys said, "Who wants to go to school? We are not stupid."
Can going to school be as fun as playing in the mud here?
At school, you have to study, be disciplined, and get spanked on the palms by the teacher.
Lin Xiaohan looked at them and said, "It's stupid not to go to school. Reading and learning can make people smarter, and can also help them gain a lot of knowledge and understand a lot of truths. This way, they won't be fooled or bullied."
The little boy raised his fist and said, "I have this, no one dares to bully me."
The other kids all started laughing, and one kid said, "He's really good at fighting..."
Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan talked to them for half an hour but didn't get any positive feedback.
They looked for two other groups of children and got the same results.
After searching for three groups of children, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan went to look for adults.
Of course, they did not disturb those who were working, but continued to wander around the village, looking for those who could not go to work due to poor health or old age.
Of course, I don't look for those who can only lean against the wall to bask in the sun.
I was looking for those who gathered together to chat, sew shoe soles, or play chess with stones on a chessboard drawn on the ground.
And when I found two groups of such people, I got the same result.
They all waved their hands and said, "We don't understand these things. Go ask someone else."
The topic wasn't even started yet and he was dismissed.
Although I was mentally prepared, I still couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
In the slanting light of the setting sun, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan were walking on the way back to the educated youth point.
Chu Xia turned to look at him and said, "Let's go back and have dinner first, and then go to each other's house after dinner?"
Lin Xiaohan hummed, "The final decision still lies with the parents of these children."
Chu Xia thought for a moment and said, "These people have lived this way for generations. It is difficult to change their thoughts and ideas with just a few words. This work is much more difficult than we imagined."
Lin Xiaohan naturally felt it as well.
But he didn't say anything discouraging. He just said, "If there are difficulties, we have to solve them. No matter what, we have to recruit students and open the school. I don't want to go back to the fields and throw manure."
Chu Xia stared at him for a while, "You don't even pretend, aren't you afraid that I will report you to the captain?"
Lin Xiaohan smiled indifferently, "I'm not afraid, because they believe in my character."
Chu Xia: “…”
What kind of character do you have...
***
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan went back to the educated youth site together and cooked and ate together.
Of course, my mouth was always busy, and I discussed many arguments to persuade parents to let their children go to school.
The two of them finished their meal, washed the dishes and left the kitchen, just as the others were returning from work.
Just like at noon, Chuxia avoided their gaze and pretended not to see them, and went straight into the dormitory.
She and Lin Xiaohan planned to take a break, and wait until everyone had finished dinner and had some free time and mood before going to their homes to talk to them about their children's schooling.
She doesn't care at all what Han Ting and the others think of her now.
She hoped that Han Ting would have a grudge against her and never pay attention to her again. Otherwise, as she was his brother, he would always ask her to do "righteous" things that would sacrifice herself for others.
Chuxia entered the dormitory, sat down beside the bed, and thought about enrollment again.
Naturally, there is also the issue of recruiting students in the novel. She gave the opportunity to be a teacher to Su Yun. After the team leader Liang Youtian agreed, Su Yun and Lin Xiaohan began to recruit students.
Because of their poor relationship, Su Yun and Lin Xiaohan recruited their own people separately.
In the book, they also encountered the problem of difficulty in recruiting students.
Su Yun had not yet adapted to life in the countryside, and didn't know how to communicate with these country people. She couldn't speak at all, so she was troubled by this matter.
Especially when she saw that Lin Xiaohan had recruited people first, she felt even more pressured.
So she found Han Ting, and Han Ting came forward to help her solve the problem.
Although Han Ting himself did not like going to school and was even more disdainful of being a rigid and dogmatic good student, and was not liked by the villagers in the village, it was easy for him to solve this problem. He just went to the villagers' homes and said a few words casually. There was nothing special about it, and the villagers nodded and sent their children to school to register.
Maybe this is the power of the male protagonist. He can easily accomplish anything he wants to do.
Chuxia took a deep breath and leaned back on the bed.
Lying there for a while thinking about the contents of the book, she thought of her own face again.
So she lay back with her head tilted back, trying to reach under the covers and pull out the mirror.
She took the mirror and lay down, looking at the mirror directly.
As soon as she looked at her face in the mirror for a while, she was suddenly stunned.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that the face in the mirror seemed clearer.
The light in the room is a little dim, so it should look blurrier.
Chuxia suddenly sat up from the bed, walked to the window, and looked at her face in the mirror carefully in the light from outside.
It's not an illusion, it has indeed become clearer.
Chuxia couldn't help but feel happy, her eyebrows and mouth corners all curved up.
She couldn't see any expression in the mirror before, but now she can see a smile.
My heartbeat started to speed up uncontrollably.
Chu Xia pursed her lips and thought - it turned out that getting close to Lin Xiaohan was useful.
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