"A person like Professor Chu has actually fallen to the point of guarding the library in the county town. Alas." Qin Ying sighed as she spoke. Both Professor Chu and her parents were sufferers affected by this era.
"Mom, I want to give my teacher a gift. Can you help me think of something suitable?" Su Qingyun saw her mother's expression and knew that she was thinking about her grandparents again, so she quickly changed the subject.
Qin Ying really thought about it, "Didn't you say Professor Chu likes to write? How about giving him a nice pen?"
"Okay, I think it's good." Su Qingyun's eyes lit up.
"Then I'll leave the pen issue to Dad. I'll be going on another trip with the motorcade in two days." Su Aimin promised, patting his chest.
Su Qingyun nodded, "Then Dad, please help me take a look, and I will give you the money when the time comes."
"What money are you giving me? What belongs to Dad is yours."
"No, that won't work. This is a gift for the teacher, so of course I have to pay for it myself." Su Qingyun disagreed, "I still have a lot of my own bonuses."
Seeing his daughter like this, Su Aimin felt a little jealous. As a father, he was not even as important as a new teacher in his daughter's heart. She had never bought him a gift before.
Qin Ying looked at Su Aimin's secretly pouting face and knew what he was thinking. She was helpless. How could he be so petty at such an old age?
She made a gesture to her daughter, and Su Qingyun understood immediately.
"Yunyun, where is the birthday present you bought for your father?" Qin Ying deliberately asked Su Qingyun.
Birthday present? Su Aimin raised his head suddenly, his eyes bright, "What gift?"
Su Qingyun ran back to the room and took something out. "Dad, this is a birthday present I bought for you. You just happened to be going out with the team, so I gave it to you in advance."
She unfolded the clothes in her hand. It was a very thick and warm cotton coat. It was stuffed with a lot of cotton and the material was also the best. Just this one piece cost Su Qingyun a lot of money.
"Dad, it's cold now. If you go out with the car, it will be even colder. So I bought you this coat. You can wear it in the car and it will definitely keep you warm."
"Why buy you a birthday present, kid? It's so fancy." Su Aimin scolded, but her face was already as happy as a flower, and she couldn't hide her happiness.
In rural areas, only the New Year is important, and birthdays are unimportant days. At most, people will have a bowl of noodles on their birthday, and if they are well-off, they will add an egg. Even if the birthday is celebrated, it means that they are one year older.
Su Aimin hurriedly stood up, took off his coat, and put on his clothes. He straightened his clothes, put on a serious expression, and asked the mother and daughter expectantly, "How is it?"
"Great spirit!" Su Qingyun gave a thumbs up, giving her father a lot of face.
"I think it's good too." Su Aimin's face was about to break with laughter. He took a few steps in the room. "Not bad. I will wear this next time I go out in the car."
He looked so heroic and confident, as if he was going to the battlefield rather than following a car.
The mother and daughter couldn't help but burst out laughing.
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As the year draws to a close, the village is filled with a festive atmosphere. Every household puts up blessing characters and couplets, and everyone has a happy smile on their face. Everyone believes that no matter how the year went, they must be happy during the New Year, otherwise they will be unlucky throughout the new year.
In this kind of atmosphere, Qin Youfu couldn't be happy at all. He was thinking about school matters in his mind. He couldn't eat or sleep well, and he was thinking about this matter all day long.
"Why are you up so early in the morning?" Qin Youfu's wife, Aunt Guifen, saw him sitting at the gate, lost in thought, and asked in confusion, "Are you still thinking about school?"
"How can I not think about it? The day is getting closer and closer." Qin Youfu said irritably.
"Did you go to the town yesterday and ask for some teachers to be assigned to us?"
“Yes.”
"several?"
"Just two." Qin Youfu felt even more worried after saying this. What would they do if they had to build such a big school and divide the teachers into two?
"So little?" Aunt Guifen also frowned.
"That's why I'm worried. Where can we find so many teachers?" Qin Youfu scratched his hair worriedly.
"If it really doesn't work, one teacher can just teach more classes. There is no other way." Aunt Guifen gave him advice.
"No," Qin Youfu rejected outright. "The purpose of establishing this school is to avoid the old way of teaching, where one teacher handles everything. This is not conducive to students' education, and the teachers can't manage everything."
"What should we do?" Nothing worked, nothing worked, Aunt Guifen was at a loss.
"Hey!" She suddenly seemed to remember something and exclaimed, "Didn't Qingyun give you an idea before? Why didn't you do as she said?"
"Her idea was good: to find educated people in the village to train other teachers, but we got stuck at the first step. We couldn't find anyone."
"I originally wanted to have a teacher sent by higher-ups to teach us, but they haven't confirmed the teacher yet, so I'm at a loss as to who to send."
Although their Luoshui Village is not a particularly remote and poor place, how many serious high school graduates are willing to be assigned here to be a rural primary school teacher?
Qin Youfu guessed that the reason why the list had not been finalized was that they couldn't find anyone willing to come.
Aunt Guifen thought for a moment and said, "Isn't that Mr. Li at the east end of our village good enough? He went to a private school and his handwriting is truly beautiful. Didn't he write all the slogans for the village? Why don't we ask him for help?"
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