Chapter nine hundred and twenty third respectable teacher
As soon as the village chief finished speaking, Tang Xiaohong, who had been standing on the stage behind him, suddenly fell backward.
The children sitting on the ground in the audience all exclaimed anxiously: "Teacher!"
When Gu Manman turned around, she realized that Tang Xiaohong was already lying on the ground.
She immediately helped Tang Xiaohong up: "Teacher Tang, are you okay?"
Tang Xiaohong was a little weak and her lips turned white: "I'm fine, don't worry."
She clutched the white stone in her hand tightly, as if she wanted to stand up and teach the children again.
"Can you help me up? I have to continue teaching my children."
Gu Manman couldn't bear it: "Teacher Tang, you are not feeling well, so please stop working so hard and rest."
"No, these children have been waiting for two or three days to attend today's class. How can I delay them because of my fault?"
Tang Xiaohong insisted on teaching her children and stood up holding on to the wall.
The children were also very well-behaved, shaking their heads at Tang Xiaohong one after another, and many of them were already crying.
"Teacher, we won't have class anymore! We won't have class anymore!"
Tang Xiaohong looked serious: "How can this be done! You don't have to worry about me, I'm fine, just continue with class."
After saying that, she started coughing again.
Gu Manman stopped her: "Teacher Tang, teach me here."
"You?" Tang Xiaohong seemed a little stunned.
Gu Manman nodded: "Well, I have a Ph.D., so let me take your place in today's class."
After listening to her words, Tang Xiaohong excitedly grabbed her hand.
The hands held together kept shaking: "Great! Great! The children are also lucky! It's great to have a doctor to teach them! Thank you, thank you!"
"Teacher Tang, don't be polite to me. The person your child should really thank is you. Your great spirit is what we should learn from most."
Gu Manman had a respectful smile on her lips.
Tang Xiaohong nodded and looked at Gu Manman with hope: "Well, I'm embarrassed to say it. You are in class, can I listen here?"
Gu Manman paused: "Huh?"
Tang Xiaohong's eyes were wet, "I have always wanted to study. I was able to study in the city because my parents were doing business in the city. Later, we went bankrupt, and my parents couldn't bear the pressure and were depressed. I also had to bear the responsibility of the family.
I gave up studying to earn money to support my family."
"Later, after my parents passed away, I didn't want to stay in the city anymore, so I came to the countryside. That's when I started my teaching career, but my knowledge was not broad. All I could teach my children was what I learned.
Those two years of knowledge.”
She squinted her eyes, as if recalling: "This teaching lasted twenty years."
In the past twenty years, she has met many teachers who were assigned to the village, but in the end they could not bear the harsh environment and ran away.
After twenty years of wandering around, she was the only one who stayed in the village.
He became the only teacher in the village.
Lifelong teaching.
Tang Xiaohong lowered her eyes: "Although I am old now, my desire to learn knowledge has never changed. I also want to learn more things, so can you let me also attend the class?"
Gu Manman pursed her lips, her eyes already filled with tears.
She nodded without hesitation, holding Tang Xiaohong tightly with both hands.
"Of course! I am so honored that Teacher Tang is willing to listen to my class! Thank you."
She helped Tang Xiaohong sit down below, while Gu Zichen and Li Zichen thoughtfully moved the teachers' seats on the stage to the audience.
"Grandma, sit down!"
Tang Xiaohong shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, this is where the teacher sits! It's very hard to stand up there. I can just sit on the ground with the children."
Gu Manman's eyes curled up, like the crescent moon in the night sky: "Teacher Tang, you have to sit on the chair. This is the teacher's order. Now that you are my student, you must listen to the teacher."
After listening to her words, Tang Xiaohong's face showed a smile: "Okay, okay, I will listen to the teacher."
Gu Zichen and Li Zichen helped Tang Xiaohong sit in her seat, then stood beside them and watched Gu Manman lecture.
Gu Manman coughed dryly and couldn't help but pause as she looked at the words written on the black board.
She glanced at the rag beside her, then picked it up to wipe the fonts on the black board.
But no matter how hard she wiped, she couldn't erase the words on the black board.
Tang Xiaohong sat below and smiled softly: "It cannot be erased. This is not a blackboard, and what I am holding is not chalk."
"Since it can't be wiped off, how did you teach your children before?"
Gu Manman was a little stunned.
Tang Xiaohong responded calmly, without a trace of ripples in her words, as calm as water.
"After class one day, I would take a brush in the evening and erase the fonts on the black board, then wait for it to dry in the sun. The next morning, I would continue to class with the dried black board in my hand."
Hearing her words, Gu Manman was shocked again.
This process is obviously very arduous. You have to constantly wash the black wooden boards and hold them back and forth...
If you are a young man, it is easy to talk, but the main thing is that Tang Xiaohong is still a 60-year-old man.
Seeing Gu Manman's eyes turn red, she quickly said: "Actually, many times, these children will hold the black board for me, so you don't have to worry."
Gu Manman raised her head and nodded, but her tears still fell uncontrollably.
"Well! Let's go to class then!"
She found an empty space on the black board, wrote more complex but commonly used fonts, and formed words and idioms to teach the children.
"Fonts can not only form words and idioms, but also sentences. Today, everyone's task is to form five words and two idioms."
The novel topic immediately piqued the children's interest.
The children gathered together and thought about words and idioms.
Tang Xiaohong was also full of interest: "You said, sea can be made into many words, such as sea, sea, sponge, sea surface... But what idioms can be made out of sea?"
She racked her brains and thought, although she is a 60-year-old man, he is not inferior to any child.
Many children didn't think of the words, but she had already thought of them.
Gu Zichen kindly reminded from the side: "As long as the idiom contains the sea, for example, "people and mountains plus sea", what kind of idiom does it have?"
Tang Xiaohong frowned and thought. Suddenly, her eyes lit up: "There are so many people!"
"Yes!" Gu Zichen clapped his hands, "Grandma is so smart!"
There was also a happy look on her face.
The village chief sighed: "Teacher Tang has been here for more than 20 years, and I have never seen her as happy as she is today."
"Everything will be fine. We will definitely make this village better and let the children here go to school. Of course, there are also adults and elderly people who want to study."
Gu Manman said calmly, they only knew that the children wanted to study, but they missed the adults and the elderly.
Many elderly people of their generation did not have the money to go to school and did not have the ability. In fact, in their hearts, they are also eager for knowledge. If they are given the opportunity, they will never give up any opportunity to learn.