Chucheng

The buds are about to bloom, and a poem is written with a black pen below: Plum blossoms can still be proud of the bitter cold, why can't I laugh at the wind and frost!Signature From: Lin.

After the intense and fulfilling three-day exam, the afternoon is the graduation ceremony organized by the school. For most students, junior high school is the last stop of their study career. After graduation, they will return to the countryside to participate in labor. Some of them have Those who are well-connected may go out or be arranged to work as apprentices in factories; only a small number of people will continue their studies in high school or technical secondary school.But in any case, this may be the first important separation in their lives from ignorant children to adolescents.

On the playground in the middle of the school, the students of each class have already been seated according to the class order, and the rostrum is also decorated with red curtains, and a banner is drawn on the second floor of the teaching building facing the playground, which reads: Graduation of the class of [-] At the graduation ceremony, popular songs were played from the tweeters, and the whole campus was filled with a relaxed festive atmosphere.

The meeting was followed by speeches by the principal and teachers of each grade, and speeches by student representatives.As one of the representatives, Wei Guo, the squad leader of Class 1 of the third grade of junior high school, made his speech as follows:

Dear teachers and students, hello everyone!

Time flies, and before we know it, our three-year junior high school life is coming to an end.Three years ago, I became a junior high school student in Chucheng Middle School. My alma mater showed me another world: here is dense trees and green grass, where teachers are elegant and scholars are diligent!

There are teachers who are both teachers and friends here, leading us to soar in the palace of knowledge, teaching us the principles of life and doing things, and guiding us in the direction of life; Sweating profusely on the playground, cheering for success together, and crying for separation together.

Three years, three years of growth.Thank you teachers for caring for us in every possible way like parents. Please allow me, on behalf of all the graduates of the class of [-], to say one more thing to the teachers—thank you!Meeting you is our greatest luck. No matter where we go to the ends of the world, we will remember the exhortations and entrustments of the teachers in our hearts. The campus is also the warmest harbor in our hearts!

Classmates, we are about to graduate from our alma mater. No matter where we go in the future, we will have the same imprint, that is, Chucheng people!Maybe some of us will stay in the countryside, some of us will work in the city, and some of us will continue to study in high school and university. Please don't forget the more than 1000 days and nights we have been together, and don't forget that we are immortal friendship!

Finally, I would like to end my speech with a poem by one of our classmates:

left the classroom, put down the pen

I came to this uncultivated land

The wild grass that can't be seen, so deep, so dense

Pick up the hoe, bury my fantasy past

new life is about to begin

I must have the courage to overcome difficulties

Although I have nothing now

But as long as you work hard, you will definitely have the sweetness of harvesting fruits

Never see the flag waving in the wind again

The red sun held up by the oriental weeds

But it rises with the flag in my heart

I can no longer see the bright smiling faces of my classmates

memories in that mind

But it is so kind and beautiful

leading the ox, carrying the plow

i came here

Facing the blue sky, let out a long cry

Let the depression go away with the sound waves

Although the school door is closed to me

But the water is growing and the flowers are red

The pace of life has not stopped

The moon broke through the dark clouds, and the fish jumped out of the moon

Lightning scratches the dawn

New betrayal under new conditions

A new rise in a new environment

Looking at the thin morning light in the east

I swing my hoe into the soil

can you hear me friend

This ordinary voice?I believe--

You must be able to hear it, because——

what communicates us is

like electric waves

friendship

The teacher and classmates applauded warmly for Wei Guo's speech, and they all whispered to each other, who wrote this poem.Wei Guohe looked at Xu Yanbing in the crowd with a smile, tears were rolling down her flawless face - after Mr. Zheng's communication, her parents finally agreed with her to finish her high school entrance examination before ending her studies - she understood, Read this poem of hers at the graduation ceremony, which is Weiguo's support, encouragement, and commitment to her!

The graduation ceremony was finally over, and the students all went back to their dormitories to pack their luggage and go home. In the empty campus, only the radio was singing the tear-jerking old song repeatedly:

I want to walk the crooked river

You are crying in waves

I'm leaving the trickling river

you're chasing me every whirlpool

Ah... the small river in my hometown, listen to me

I'm going to find seeds to keep you by my side

flowers of happiness

Ah, the small river in my hometown, listen to me

I go in search of knowledge to get by your side

A bountiful harvest

Xiaohe in my hometown, don't be sad

I will be back

I will be back

you wait for me

wait for me

wait for me

Small river

(End of Part [-])

bus encounter

In Shenzhen in March [-], there was no winter haze at all.

The bus was driving slowly, and Chen Jie couldn't help feeling dizzy as he watched the green trees receding row by row outside the window.In the ten years after graduating from junior high school, his family's poor situation has not changed. During this period, there have been more factories along the coast, and young and middle-aged people in Chucheng Village have gone out to work to improve their family's economic situation. Suffering in the study career of high school, university, and graduate school.It has been seven or eight years since he left his backward hometown Jingzhou to study in other cities. Lanzhou in Northwest China and Guangzhou in South China are the largest cities in their respective regions.During this period, due to poverty, he was not able to travel around the country like other classmates to leave his travel footprints, but compared with those folks who struggled in the farmland of his hometown, he can be regarded as a person who has taken root in a big city up.The verdant trees and bustling crowds in Shenzhen are fundamentally different from their hometown in Jingzhou, Lanzhou and Guangzhou: the four seasons are distinct in the hometown, the summer is long and hot, and the winter is cold and humid; From any corner of the city, you can see the grey-yellow rough hills, like a man in the northwest; Guangzhou, as a distribution center for migrant workers from the south, is more crowded and messy than Shenzhen.Although he also came to Shenzhen to see his sister Chen Min during his postgraduate study, perhaps it was because of his sister that he had an inexplicable feeling of intimacy with the city of Shenzhen. Running between the rental house and the talent market at two o'clock and one line, the wide road, the shaded street trees, the clean bus, and the hurried passers-by all stimulated his blood that had been calm for half a year, and made his mind Full of energy and strength!

Originally, Chen Jie thought that he was not a pessimistic person. In school, he was a long-distance runner. It was common for him to run 1.7 kilometers at a time. It was not a problem to run [-] kilometers occasionally. He also played football well. Together, he is willing to be a loyal listener, and occasionally "golden sentences" can emerge to enliven the atmosphere.But in the past year, a series of life changes made Wei Guo, who hadn't seen him for two or three years, say that he seemed to be a different person, and he was no longer the young man with a smile everywhere he went.Wei Guo has his reasons for saying this. Since they were in the same class in junior high school, Chen Jie has a gentle personality. No matter what others say, he listens politely with a smile on his face. He has never seen anyone become popular. Face, his popularity is the best one.However, when Chen Jie came to Shenzhen this time, there was a hint of bitterness in his smile. For Chen Jie, during the three years of studying in Guangzhou, he realized more and more that his home was no longer the one he used to be. The port where he docked, the time came when the family needed him, a [-]-meter-five man, to take over from his father Chen Zhuping.In the past three years, with the persistence of his family and his own perseverance, he finally completed his postgraduate studies, but his father, Chen Zhuping, could not wait until he could really work and be able to support a family.As an honest farmer, Chen Zhuping works at sunrise and rests at sunset. The farmer likes to drink some small wine, and the farmer smokes more vapes than ordinary people. In the end, he died early because of the pain caused by his favorite.As the only male in the family, Chen Jie was called "other people's child" when he was in school, but as he read more and more books, rumors about him began to spread in front of and behind the village. Studying by himself, disregarding his precarious family and long-sick father. Later, even Lin Yi's father began to spread in the village as a prophet: Don't look at Chen Jie reading such a book. I can go back to the countryside to stroke the tail of an ox.

Indeed, because some families in their Chucheng Village did not send their children to high school or university, these children helped the family live early, saved expenses and earned money for the family, and built buildings soon after.In the past ten years, the two children of the Chen family have been studying, and the house is still made of earthen walls and black tiles, and even the back wall has to be supported by several thick tree poles to prevent it from falling down.Because of Chen Zhuping's illness and the studies of the two children, the Chen family has become one of the poorest families in the village.As the only famous college student in his hometown, Chen Jie is now a master's degree graduate. He knows that he can't take a wrong step, otherwise, if it's not him, his family may never be able to hold their heads up in the village.

More than ten years have passed, and the economy in the inland city of his hometown has not improved much. After finishing his father's funeral affairs, Chen Jie handed over the family's one-acre and three-thirds of Susukida to his mother to take care of.