Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Entering the provincial capital (revised)

The next day, almost the entire Yangliu Brigade knew that Moer from Shen Laoqi's family and Fu Zhiqing from the educated youth point were dating. The matchmaker was Aunt Chen, and several brigade cadres also went to dinner as witnesses. It is said that the wedding date has been set, and it will be next month.

There was no sign before this incident. A few days ago, people from the Revolutionary Committee came to investigate whether Fu Mingze and Wang Qiutong had an improper relationship. In the blink of an eye, Fu Mingze was dating Shen Moer and was about to get married.

At first, the villagers didn't dare to believe it. They just thought that it was just like the Revolutionary Committee that time, someone outside was spreading rumors. Who knew that when they asked Aunt Chen and several brigade cadres, it turned out to be true!

For a while, there were many different opinions.

Many people were optimistic about them and thought that they were a perfect match, but there were also many people who said bad things behind their backs.

Some said that Shen Laoqi and his daughter had no taste, and after much selection, they chose an educated youth who had no background, and that he would still be bullied in the future. Some said that Shen Moer was not calculating and only knew to pick a good-looking one, and that as her life got worse and worse, she realized that a good-looking man could not be used to make a living. Of course, some people also said that Fu Mingze looked cold and indifferent, but they didn't expect that he was a coward who only lived off others.

Especially the other members of the old Shen family, they all felt that their things were taken away by the educated youth from outside. After all, the yard of the old seventh family, when Shen Moer was going to get married in the future, it was possible that it would fall into their hands, so they belittled Fu Mingze behind his back.

Tian Fang even cried out for injustice whenever she met someone, saying that she had good intentions to introduce a nephew with good conditions to Shen Moer, but the nephew did not appreciate it at all and turned their two families upside down. They thought that they, the father and daughter, had high standards, but in the end they found an educated youth, and the poorest one among the educated youth. The people

at the educated youth site were also shocked, especially Zhang Zhiqiang.

You know, in order to win the favor of Shen Lingling, he did countless jobs for Shen Lingling and saved money to buy things for her. He had been striving for this for more than a year, but he only recently became a little closer to Shen Lingling.

As for Fu Mingze, he had been in the countryside for less than a year, and he had only been close to Shen Moer for the past few months. As a result, in such a short period of time, they were already dating and were going to get married next month.

In particular, the day after the rumor spread that they were dating, Shen Moer gave Fu Mingze a rattan box. The box was stylishly made and had a lock. It was obviously worth a lot of money. Even all the shabby things Fu Mingze had might not be as valuable as this box.

This made the male educated youth, especially Zhang Zhiqiang, jealous.

In order to win the favor of the girl, they not only had to help with the housework, but also had to save money to buy gifts. But what happened to Fu Mingze?

He helped build the new house for a few days, and was treated to a feast. During the autumn harvest, Shen Moer also worked on her own, and Fu Mingze didn't do much more. As for giving Shen Moer gifts, Fu Mingze was so poor that it was impossible.

Even so, Shen Moer bought things for him and sent them to him.

Comparing goods is useless, and comparing people is really infuriating!

Zhang Zhiqiang's eyes when looking at Fu Mingze were extremely complicated, full of shock, doubt, jealousy, anger, sadness... In short, in Zheng Jiamin's words, people who didn't know would think Fu Mingze had abandoned him.

Shen Moer was fine, compared to Fu Mingze being questioned for being a gigolo, she was at most suspected of only looking at the appearance of the person she dated.

But in fact, this was also the truth.

So even if someone said something in front of her, Shen Moer would admit it openly: "Yes, I like Fu Zhiqing. He has ideals, ambitions, and knowledge. As you said, he is also good-looking. What's wrong with me choosing such a good person as my partner?"

If someone said that Fu Mingze's conditions were not good, Shen Moer would be surprised and say: "He is indeed not rich, but isn't it normal to be poor? We are all proletarian brothers and sisters, especially since we are all from poor and lower-middle peasant families. Who can say that he is not rich? Have you never been poor? Poverty is not scary, but being content with the status quo is. We should be self-reliant, work hard, and strive to build socialism as the leader said. I believe that in the near future, everyone will get rid of poverty and live a prosperous life! "

The member who wanted to secretly sneer: "..."

I heard that when people become teachers, they will gradually become more talkative and more fond of preaching. Not to mention, Shen Moli has been a teacher for a short time, but her problem of talking a lot and liking to preach is really serious.

They just want to say sour words to hurt people, but they never thought that they would be subjected to ideological education?!

Not long after, no one dared to go to Shen Moli to say anything.

However, Shen Moer found it strange that Shen Lingling, who used to complain in front of her whenever there was something going on, was very honest this time and didn't say a single unnecessary word in front of her. Instead, when a gossiper once said something in front of Shen Moer, Shen Lingling even "spoke up for her".

At that time, when Shen Lingling said something like "love is free, emotional matters cannot be measured by money, and our Moer is not such a vulgar person", Shen Moer almost suspected that she had a problem with her brain.

Soon it was the day to go to the provincial capital to participate in the competition.

Early in the morning, Shen Moer washed up, had a simple breakfast, and went out with Shen Shaoyuan.

Because there were two little ones, it was impossible to ride a bicycle, and Shen Moer had to take the two children to the commune on the brigade's donkey cart as usual.

Shen Shaoyuan was still a little worried, so he stood at the door and gave instructions for a long time before riding his bike away.

Shen Moer turned and walked towards the courtyard of the brigade headquarters, and saw that Chen Dama, Chen Zhuangzhuang, and his wife Li Xinmei were all there. The three adults surrounded the naughty child Chen Maomao, and gave him instructions again and again. They told him to listen to the teacher outside, to follow Teacher Shen closely and not to run around, otherwise he would be in trouble if he got lost, and to be careful if he met a beggar and couldn't come back. They were just to tighten Maomao's skin before he went out.

On the donkey cart, Zhou Zhaodi was alone, holding a tattered little bag, and looked at Maomao with envy as he was scolded by his parents.

When Maomao saw Shen Moer, he was relieved and immediately said, "Teacher Shen is here, we are leaving, you guys should go back!"

Then he got out of the parents' "encirclement" and climbed onto the donkey cart.

"This stinky boy!" Aunt Chen scolded, and pulled Shen Moer to tell her for a long time, telling her not to be soft-hearted, to scold and beat her on the way, and not to feel embarrassed, until Shen Moer agreed one by one, she finally let go.

When the donkey cart started running, Maomao was extremely happy, looking as happy as if he was enjoying the vast sea and letting fish leap and birds fly high in the sky. However, Zhou Zhaodi turned her head to look at the Chen family standing on the village road and looking at them from afar, and hugged her knees in depression.

Shen Moer touched her head and said nothing.

When the donkey cart was halfway, Maomao suddenly shouted, "Brother Fu Zhiqing, it's Brother Fu Zhiqing!"

Shen Moer turned to look at the village road and saw Fu Mingze riding a bicycle and catching up from behind. The morning wind blew his shirt up, as if he was in front of her in the blink of an eye.

Uncle Liu had heard Maomao's call, and the donkey cart gradually slowed down.

Fu Mingze tightened the brakes, supported the bike with one foot, looked at Shen Moer and explained, "I was late for leaving home because of something. When I arrived at the brigade headquarters, you had already been out for a while, so I borrowed the brigade commander's bike."

In fact, he had not said that he would come to see her off in the morning. Shen Moer was used to being independent and did not think she needed to be seen off when she went out to do something. But she was very happy that he caught up with her.

Unfortunately, the two little kids beside them stared at them with innocent eyes without hesitation and with great curiosity. In front of them, Uncle Liu, who didn't say a word but obviously pricked up his ears, couldn't say much. Fu Mingze reminded them of some precautions on the road, and then took a net bag of red-skinned oranges from the basket and stuffed them into Shen Moer's hand: "You can eat them when you have nothing to do in the car."

After saying that, he looked at Shen Moer deeply, then turned the car around and rode back.

The donkey cart started running again, and Uncle Liu flicked the whip, as if talking to himself, saying: "This kid is quite caring!"

Maomao also winked at Zhou Zhaodi.

Shen Moer just thought that she was deaf and blind, and neither heard nor saw anything. She very calmly opened the net bag and distributed an orange to each of the three people. When the two little ones were busy eating the oranges, she couldn't help turning her head and looking in the direction of the village and smiled.

The donkey cart took them all the way to the bus stop of the commune.

This time, they still took a bus from the commune to the county first, but when they arrived in the county, they didn't have to go to the city first like last time. Instead, they took a bus directly from the county to the provincial capital at the bus station.

A total of seven children from Jiangbei County entered the finals, and Liuqiao Commune accounted for four of them, one second prize, three third prizes, and the other three winners, two from Dongfanghong Primary School, and one from Xinxiang Commune Primary School, also third prizes.

This time, there were seven students, four team leaders, and a leader from the Education Bureau who went to the province together.

The team leader of Liuqiao Commune was the outgoing Mr. He, who was also an old acquaintance of Shen Moer. On the way from the commune to the county, he caught up with Shen Moer and Shen Shaoyuan and praised them, saying that Liuqiao Commune had never achieved such good results in such a city-wide competition.

When they arrived at the county bus station, Mr. He took the initiative to ask people for news. Soon, he not only got the news, but also got the ticket. He led Shen Moer and the others to find the bus to the provincial capital.

It was still early, the bus door was open, and there was no one on the bus.

Teacher He was immediately happy: "We who come from a long way are the first to arrive. It's just right. This bus takes nearly six hours. We come early, and our tickets are in front, so we can sit more comfortably."

The four children chattered and sat in a row. Shen Moer and Teacher He sat in the row behind them.

Not long after, other passengers who bought tickets came on one after another. When most of the people were on the bus, the people from Dongfanghong Primary School and Xinxiang Commune Primary School came late. They

were also acquaintances. The leader of Dongfanghong Primary School was Teacher Dong who I met last time. As for the leader of Xinxiang Commune Primary School, it was Teacher Hu who looked down on Yangliu Brigade Primary School and had a dispute with Shen Moer.

The man who had been talking to Teacher Hu was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses and with an extremely serious expression.

Teacher He quietly told Shen Moer that this man was the leader sent by the County Education Bureau, the deputy director of a department of the Education Bureau, Ke Hongwen.

When he came up these few days, the front row was already full, with only seats in the back row left.

When Teacher Hu saw Shen Moer, her expression suddenly became unhappy, but she did not continue to walk inside. Instead, she stood in front of Shen Moer and the others and said, "Teacher He, it's been five or six hours on this journey. Why don't you switch seats with Deputy Director Ke? Oh, by the way, Teacher Dong is also in poor health. So who is that, from the Yangliu Brigade, right? You should also switch seats with Teacher Dong."

Her tone was so matter-of-fact that Shen Moer almost laughed out of anger.

Ke Hongwen refused immediately: "These two are Mr. He and Mr. Shen from Liuqiao Commune, you take a seat, I bought a ticket for the back row, I will sit at the back." He nodded and walked forward with his luggage bag.

Mr. Dong stopped in his tracks, although he did not look directly at Shen Moer and the others, but he was obviously moved by Mr. Hu's suggestion.

Mr. He was embarrassed, mainly because he was a young man, and he should take care of the female comrades who were traveling with him. It was okay to change seats, but if he moved to the back, he would not be able to take care of the two students he brought with him.

Just when he was about to stand up in a dilemma, Shen Moer tugged at his clothes and said with a smile: "The leader said to sit according to the seats on the tickets, so let's sit according to the seats. Otherwise, we will make a mess later and cause trouble for the ticket seller. Besides, the students are still here. As the leading teachers, our primary task is to look after the children, don't you agree, Teacher Dong?"

Teacher Dong paused slightly. Although she wanted to sit in the front row, she couldn't say that she had to sit alone in the front row and leave the two students in the back row just for her own comfort, right?

She forced a smile and said, "Yes, the leading teacher's primary task is to look after the children. Let's go."

Teacher Hu suddenly felt embarrassed and sneered, saying, "You really are from the village. You don't even understand the ways of the world."

Shen Moer smiled and asked loudly, "Teacher Hu from Xinxiang Commune Primary School, is it because your eyesight is poor that you can't see the location of the ticket? Do you need us to help you check?"

The front row of seats had been filled for a long time. Teacher Hu was blocking the aisle, squeezing Shen Moer and the others to give up their seats. The passengers in front, behind, and on both sides saw it.

They all rushed to buy tickets early to grab the front row seats. In fact, they could empathize with Shen Moer and the others. When they heard Teacher Hu so confidently asking others to give up their seats, they had already rolled their eyes in their hearts, thinking that this person was really shameless, using other people's seats as a favor.

When they heard Shen Moer say this, many people couldn't help but burst out laughing. It's true that this girl is quite shameless.

There were even more shameless passengers who muttered softly: "Wow, she's actually a teacher."

Teacher Hu was immediately embarrassed and blushed. Without saying another word, he hurried to the back row.

The student from Xinxiang Commune Primary School sighed deeply as he watched his teacher fleeing in panic.

It happened again. It happened the last time. He provoked the pretty teacher of Yangliu Brigade Primary School for no reason. Today, he was mocked by the passengers on the bus. It was really embarrassing.

As the only student who entered the finals of Xinxiang Commune Primary School, his mood was really complicated at this moment. Although he won the competition, he had to experience the embarrassment for the second time while others only experienced it once.

On the way to the provincial capital, Teacher Hu did not do anything strange. Of course, the Jiangbei County team did not have any contact or communication.

The only contact was when they stopped to use the restroom. Teacher Hu raised his chin and snorted coldly when he saw them. Then, the naughty student Chen Maomao snorted back in the same way. Then Teacher Hu's face became worse.

It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived in the provincial capital. The Lingjiang City Education Bureau arranged a car to wait at the provincial capital bus station. The twelve people from Jiangbei County were the last to arrive. As soon as they got on the car, the car started and took them directly to the guesthouse.

The competition was tomorrow morning, and they had to stay in the guesthouse for one night.

After completing the check-in procedures with the letter of introduction, Shen Moer led the two children to the guest room. The province had booked a six-person room for them, and each student participating in the competition had a bed. Probably because they were from the same county and were both female comrades with two children, Shen Moer and her friends were grouped together with the teachers and students of Dongfanghong Primary School.

When entering the room, Shen Moer took the initiative to say hello, and Teacher Dong responded indifferently. Shen Moer didn't care, and said to Maomao and Zhou Zhaodi, "Find a bed and put your things away, then take a towel to the bathroom to wash up, and then we'll go for a walk nearby."

The two little ones' eyes lit up immediately.

Along the way, they had seen the wide streets and tall and imposing buildings of the provincial capital through the car window, but unfortunately the car took them directly to the guesthouse, and then they were taken into the room, so they had no chance to take a closer look at the provincial capital.

They thought they would wait for the competition in the guesthouse, but Shen Moer actually said she would take them for a walk around the area!

You know, this is the provincial capital, a provincial capital that their parents and grandparents have never been to. If they walk around the streets of the provincial capital, they can brag about it for at least ten years.

Well, children also like to brag!

Teacher Dong leaned against the bed and looked at Shen Moer with a disapproving expression: "Teacher Shen, they are here to participate in the competition. Nothing is more important than the competition. It's better to sharpen your weapons before the battle. At this time, you should let them stay in the guesthouse and talk to them about the precautions for the competition instead of taking them shopping."

After a pause, she said earnestly: "As long as they work hard enough, they will have plenty of opportunities to do it themselves in the future. Come to the provincial capital."

She said this sincerely. Shen Moer nodded and thanked her. As Maomao and Zhou Zhaodi's eyes gradually dimmed, she said, "Teacher Dong, no matter how much painting techniques I teach them, they can only be a well-behaved gardener. Real painting is actually their perspective on the world and understanding the world, so I think it is more important to broaden their horizons than to improve their painting skills."

"However, thank you for your sincere advice."

After that, Shen Moer urged Maomao and Zhou Zhaodi to wash up.

Teacher Dong was silent for a while and didn't say anything more.

Maomao and Zhou Zhaodi were looking for something new. When they saw the running water in the bathroom, they were so excited that they screamed. Fortunately, the two children were obedient and soon lowered their voices. Then they happily washed their hands and faces.

Shen Moer also washed up, and then the three masters and apprentices left all the useless and worthless things in the guesthouse and went out hand in hand happily.

In the guesthouse, Teacher Dong also asked the two students to wash up. After they were done, she asked them to take out paper and pen to start practicing.

The two students looked at each other, with a bit of loss in their eyes.

Although they were all children from the county town, they had never been to the provincial capital. In fact, they also wanted to go out and stroll around the streets of the provincial capital and see everything in the provincial capital up close.

Unfortunately, their teacher is not the beautiful teacher Shen.

Teacher Shen is so amazing, her students even won a second prize, why doesn't she come to teach at Dongfanghong Primary School?

The two naughty kids were madly complaining in their hearts.

Teacher Dong, who felt the emotions of the students, looked at the branches of the sycamore tree outside the window and pursed her lips.