50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 57 Literacy Class

When Lao Zhang came back in the evening, he talked about Uncle Liu. Uncle Liu went to the office to apply to be transferred to the south to lead the troops, but Lingdao did not agree.

As a result, Uncle Liu knelt down before his boss in front of dozens of colleagues in the office, bursting into tears. Lingdao scolded Uncle Liu severely, but he finally agreed.

This cost Lingdao a lot of favors. So many troops from all over the country wanted to go to the front line, and there were not enough spots on the southern and northern front lines.

It wasn't easy to insert someone, especially since Uncle Liu had been away from the front lines for over a year. Although he was eventually allowed to go, he was demoted to a lower rank.

Superiors must respect both human feelings and discipline. If you want to break the rules, you will pay the price. But Uncle Liu didn't care at all. As long as he could go to the front line and be a soldier, he would be willing to do it.

As a result, the little fat boy became a half-orphan and could not go home on weekends because there was no one at home.

Although he didn't see the fat boy over the weekend, he still told his daughter about the fat boy's situation.

When she heard that the little fat boy had lost his mother, her daughter's sense of justice exploded: "Oh, the little fat boy is so pitiful. I have a mother, a father, and a brother, but he has nothing."

Sun Zhiwei wanted to correct her by saying that the little fat boy had a father. But seeing the girl's smug look, he didn't want to bother her. After all, it didn't matter whether the little fat boy had a father or not.

"Well, Nannan, remember to take care of the little fat boy in kindergarten."

"Brother, don't worry, I will protect my little fat brother from now on."

Nannan has taken the initiative to treat the little fat boy as her younger brother. That's great. He can already imagine a little fat boy with a snotty nose running after Nannan.

As for whether the fat boy is younger than Nannan, it’s just a small matter and you don’t need to worry about it.

His father had already entrusted the little fat boy to Sun Zhiwei, and Sun Zhiwei had in turn entrusted the little fat boy to Nannan. There was absolutely no problem with the transfer of custody. Haha.

Jokes aside, although the situation in the south where Uncle Liu went is not as intense as in the north, it is still on the front line after all. The combat troops will be in great danger. It all depends on Uncle Liu's luck.

By June, after nearly a year of full effort, Sun Zhiwei had completed all courses for the first and second grades of high school.

Principal Yuan has agreed to let him take the final exam with the second-year students next week. If he passes, he will skip to the third year of high school.

How could he not pass? He had already prepared the cheat sheets and placed the books in his ring space, just to avoid looking bad by skipping a grade, since no one would know anyway.

He had experience in his previous life, such as using a sharpened pencil to write down more than three thousand words on a small piece of paper the size of a palm.

He actually did this for fun out of boredom. With his current memory, he memorized all the content that could be copied. The things that he couldn't copy required calculation and analysis, so cheat sheets were useless.

After three days of exams, Sun Zhiwei received a notice a few days later that he had successfully been promoted to the third year of high school.

Before the holiday, he submitted an application to the school T Committee, hoping that he could be arranged to be a volunteer literacy teacher at the literacy night school in the nearby Xichang'an Street.

The government is currently promoting literacy, but the progress is not going very smoothly in West Chang'an Street.

One reason is that there are very few teachers who can teach, because the majority of the literate population is in colleges and universities, but the teachers and students in colleges and universities are also the first to be asked to leave by factories and the army, and the remaining ones are mostly responsible for taking care of the streets around the schools.

There is only one Normal University Affiliated High School around Xichang'an Street. All the teachers there have been invited, but it is still not enough.

There are tens of thousands of illiterate people in the entire neighborhood, and it will take forever for those dozens of teachers to teach them.

Sun Zhiwei's application opened up new ideas for them, and they simply cooperated with the school's T committee to invite outstanding high school students to teach literacy classes. So, what was originally just his application became a mutual aid activity. Sun Zhiwei caused great trouble for a large number of high school seniors, who were unable to go home during the holidays.

Fortunately, most of those selected were not his classmates, so it was not awkward if he didn't know them.

The school and the community quickly reached an agreement, and Sun Zhiwei was scheduled to take evening classes five days a week.

He had made a lot of preparations in advance for this literacy class, such as literacy cards, literacy songs, rhymes, etc.

On a new Monday night, he brought his props to the community night school location, which was in a restaurant on the street.

Today is the day when a new batch of students arrives. As soon as Sun Zhiwei enters the restaurant, he sees dozens of students, mostly old men, women and young wives.

Adult men all have jobs and usually attend literacy classes directly in the factories and mines where they work. The main target of the street is these people who are at home.

Although Sun Zhiwei was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the bizarre actions of the students present.

The uncles are generally dressed in shorts and waistcoats with large palm-leaf fans, and some heavy smokers even hold a pipe in their mouths.

The aunts all had a small basket filled with thimbles, awls, and needles, and a pair of soles, and were all sewing soles;
The young wives were all kinds of people. Some were bringing their children, some were knitting sweaters, and some were sewing and mending with needles and thread.

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, he took a deep breath. It seemed that his original plan was too optimistic.

With the learning attitude of these uncles, aunts and young wives, it would be difficult to get them to reach the passing standard of 1500 words of literacy.

Halfway through his thought, he encouraged himself again, it doesn't matter, I will go on even if there are no difficulties, and I will go on even more even if there are difficulties, otherwise how can I show my level? So many classmates are coming to the literacy campaign, how can I stand out?

After preparing himself mentally, he walked to the blackboard at the front with the props.

"Dear uncles, aunties, I am today's literacy teacher. My name is Sun Zhiwei, and I am a senior in the Normal University Affiliated High School next door."

"From now on, I will be in charge of our class's literacy courses. You can come to me if you have any learning problems."

"Boy, which grandson are you? Are you my grandson's grandson?" an old man teased.

"Sir, you are absolutely right. My last name and your grandson's last name are exactly the same character."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and wrote the word "Sun" on the blackboard.

"Look, the character on the right is '小', and the character on the left is '子'. '小子', '小子', together they form the character '孙'."

After easily passing the test with the old man, he began to mobilize the students' emotions.

"Dear uncles, aunts and aunties, before class starts, let me tell you a story."

Everyone couldn't help but become more serious when they saw that the young man spoke in an organized manner and didn't get angry at the old man's teasing.

When they heard that the little teacher would tell a story before class, they became interested.

(End of this chapter)