Chapter 204 Commune Report
Wen Wan looked up at him, pursed her lips and said, "I won't send it this year!"
When these words were spoken, everyone in the room was stunned.
Zhang Hongying wiped her hands and said, "Why not send it this year? Your father told you the truth. Our family doesn't have anything to offer. You said your family likes bacon, so send some. I also dried a lot of dried and salted vegetables, so send some too. It's not worth much, it just costs some postage. It's a little thought from you and Dongping after all." Although she felt bad about spending some postage, since they were married, there had to be give and take.
Although their family is poor, they are not poor in spirit.
Wen Wan didn't know how to tell them. After thinking for a long time, she said, "My seventh brother told me last time that my father and uncles had been transferred to other jobs back home and might not still be there. It's going to take a while to sort this out. I'll have to wait until they're settled and write to me to find out. It's too far away, and I don't know what the situation is. I'll wait until the letter comes and I know where they've been transferred to."
She didn't know much about Lao Wen being investigated and demoted. After the letter he sent before the New Year, there had been no news. She had no idea what was going on. She decided to write a letter to ask Uncle Xu, and then ask Xu Qingming.
If something bad happened there, he might hide it from her, but he would definitely not hide it from Xu Qingming.
Old Wen, Wen Shihua is now on a farm six or seven hundred kilometers east of the capital.
He married Xu Ruyin when he was twenty-eight, and after two years of marriage, he began to show some tenderness. Now he was fifty. To be favored by a delicate lady like Xu Ruyin, he must have been handsome. Even now, at his age, he stood straight. Beneath his sword-like eyebrows, his eyes, slightly drooping, lacked some of their youthful brilliance, but also showed a depth of time.
He took off the military uniform he had worn for decades and put on a half-new and half-old Zhongshan suit with a jacket inside. He walked forward pulling a rein on his shoulder, and the person behind him held the plow.
At this time, the northeastern region is still very cold, with howling winds, and a white snow will fall as soon as the weather changes.
The Taizhuang Farm where he worked was not the most remote, so the situation was already very good.
After decades of revolution, we suddenly have to go back to the time before liberation and start reclaiming wasteland and farming. Who can not sigh at the impermanence of life?
Many years ago, when he was only a teenager, his entire family died in the war. He fled to the mountains in the southwest and was taken in by a family named Zhang.
The family had no sons, only a daughter. Although the daughter was thin, she had a pretty face. The two were only two years apart in age. They thought of keeping her at home and waiting for her to grow up enough to become a couple.
He was still young and ignorant at that time. He stayed in the Zhang family for several years and grew from a pale and skinny boy into a young and strong man.
He was sixteen and the girl from the Zhang family was eighteen. Eighteen was considered an adult girl and she knew a little bit about everything. She also knew that this boy in the family, who was two years younger than her and was like a younger brother, would be her man in the future.
She had no taboos about this man who was younger but taller than her and very handsome.
She took the initiative, and Wen Shihua was confused and didn't understand. They were not old enough yet, but they crawled into the haystack and rolled together.
Not long after, the higher authorities came to recruit soldiers, and Wen Shihua joined the army.
He was away for many years until he was promoted to the regimental level and went to the capital to study, where he met Xu Ruyin.
Otherwise, it can be said that all men are of the same character and like good-looking things.
Wen Shihua fell in love with Xu Ruyin at first sight and could not forget her.
It was just a coincidence that during the New Year's Eve party, the art troupe came to perform at the army and he met Xu Ruyin again.
Afterwards, just like in many stories, the young and promising poor boy suffered a lot for the person he loved, and finally achieved his goal in a touching way and got the girl.
After getting married, Wen Shihua naturally received full support from the Xu family. In addition, he was a capable man and had made many contributions. At the age of just forty, he became the leader of an army.
His relationship with Xu Ruyin has remained the same for more than ten years, and they are very much in love.
Unfortunately, Xu Ruyin was injured during childbirth and never recovered. Even with careful care, she was unable to recover and passed away early.
While Wen Shihua was still immersed in the pain of his lover's death, a haggard-looking woman brought an honest young man to the military compound.
This was his second marriage, which later caused Wen Wan to leave home in anger.
This was also the root cause of his suspension and investigation.
Even though he acknowledged his son and got a marriage certificate with that woman, it was still a stain that he could not erase.
Since he didn't tell her about these things, Wen Wan naturally didn't know.
Now that we are thousands of miles apart, it is even more impossible to know clearly.
Wen Wan said she would not send the bacon, and Zhang Hongying didn't say anything more. She just told her that if her family didn't mind, she would make a few more pairs of thousand-layer cloth shoe soles when she had time, and asked Wen Wan to make a few pairs of shoes for the elders at home and send them back. Wen Wan happily agreed.
No one knew what was wrong with Lu Dongping that night. He was as enthusiastic as a madman, pressing the man down and tossing him around, almost tearing him apart.
The result of Hu Tianhai's mess was that Wen Wan was unable to get up in the morning and slept until dawn and breakfast was ready.
I have to go to school to register today, and I have to go to the commune in the afternoon to bring back the books.
Wen Wan dragged her weak legs to eat, looked at Lu Dongping hatefully, and didn't speak to him all the way to the brigade.
Lu Dongping knew he was in the wrong and didn't dare to provoke her again.
He felt really guilty when he thought about how she gave up joining the art troupe and the chance to return to the city because of him, but besides feeling guilty, he also felt happy.
In this marriage, he was the one who took most of the initiative, so how could he not be excited to receive such a response?
After registering, Wen Wan went to the commune again to help carry the books back, and went to the commune the next day.
The primary school on the commune side was indeed much larger than the one on the brigade side. It was adjacent to the junior high school, separated by a wall. The junior high school also had a cafeteria. Students who lived farther away could eat in the cafeteria instead of going home. Of course, more often, they brought food and bowls from home, paid a small fee, and had the staff help them cook.
There are several rows of houses on this side of the primary school, each with two or three rooms connected together. Grades one, two and three are located right at the entrance, and grades four and five are located up a slope at the back. The row of houses in the middle is the principal's office, the academic affairs office, and the offices of several teachers in the school.
Wen Wan came to teach the third grade. The previous teacher who taught this class was an old teacher who was nearly sixty years old and graduated from junior high school.
Although it is a commune, the people who come here to substitute teach have low educational levels, especially the older people in their forties and fifties. After the baptism of the movement, those who stay are from families with particularly good financial conditions, but their educational levels are not very high.
The rest have graduated from school in recent years.
This is the case with primary school principal Zhu Jianjun.
He was probably in his forties, with thick, slightly curly hair and a slightly hunched back. He was quite tall, and his personality was quite gentle, but it was hard to describe. Anyway, when he came to hand over the work yesterday, he spoke very politely, but his expression was very serious, as if he could not smile at all.
There is also a principal in the Academic Affairs Office, named Song Dewen. He is about the same age as him, a little shorter, and looks stronger than him. He is a talkative and cheerful person.
On the first day of school, Wen Wan felt that there might be a lot of things to do, so she came very early and arrived at school only before dawn.
The elementary and junior high schools here have classes at the same time. Morning exercises start at 7:30, and then students enter the classroom to start morning reading at 8:00.
Wen Wan arrived at school before seven o'clock, and she and Lu Chun'e separated at the school gate, one heading left and the other right.
When she arrived at the school, she first reported to the Academic Affairs Office.
On the first day of school, Song Dewen also came early, and he had just arrived when Wen Wan arrived.
In the first month of the year, it is only light around seven o'clock, and it is still dark inside the house and you can't see clearly.
Song Dewen took her to her office first: "This is the former third-grade teacher's office. We were in such a hurry. Otherwise, we could have cleaned it up in advance, but now you have to take your time. You can come to the Academic Affairs Office to get chalk, ink, and other teaching aids later. If you have a kettle at home, you can bring one. There is boiled water in the cafeteria behind, you can go there to get it. For today, you can just come here and pour it." After explaining some trivial matters, he gave her a handwritten schedule: "The class schedule is roughly like this. I heard that you also taught third grade last semester. I won't say much about teaching. You are an excellent comrade. You can teach as you wish. This is the schedule left by the former teacher. As you know, the third grade has more books than the first and second grades. You can delete and modify it according to your teaching plan."
He talked a lot, and only returned to the Academic Affairs Office after Wen Wan said she had memorized everything.
On the first day of school, the teacher's duty roster had not been distributed yet, so he had to take charge of the class schedule.
When classes officially start, morning exercises are a must.
Wen Wan put her pocket on the chair, which was barely clean. It was too late to clean it up now because the morning exercise bell outside had already rung.
Her office was separated from the classroom by a three or four meter wide path. Across from the classroom door stood a few poplar trees, their trunks so thick it took two people to hug them, and they looked quite old.
There are only a few holly trees as thick as teacups near the office. Unlike the bare poplar trees, the green leaves on the branches add a lot of vitality to the campus.
There were already quite a few students in the classroom. She took the registration roster and counted them. There were quite a few students, thirty-six.
As the bell rang, students walked in groups of two or three toward the playground, quietly glancing at the office across the street. They had noticed the office door was open when they arrived that morning. Instead of the usual teacher, a very young and beautiful woman stood at the door, talking to the director. Someone with inside information said they were changing teachers this semester, and they wondered if it was the one they had seen.
Wen Wan followed out and walked towards the playground behind the students.
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