Education must be oriented toward modernization, the world, and the future.

This was President Deng’s inscription to Yanjing Jingshan School. Later, many schools followed suit and painted this passage on their exterior walls.

For example, there is a line of words on the outer wall of Jinyi, which removes "Education Essentials" and leaves only "Facing Modernization, Facing the World, Facing the Future."

The eight words "Lichao Primary School" have changed even more, leaving only the four words "future-oriented".

Standing on the edge of the outer wall, looking at these eight words, Yu Dong couldn't help but nodded.

The so-called teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and local conditions is too far away from students in places like Lichao Village to face the world and face modernization. Instead, "persisting in learning and facing the future" is more suitable for them.

Living in a mountain village, insisting on studying is the best way for them to change their future.

"The sunflowers in the green garden are waiting for the morning dew. The sun is shining brightly in the spring, and everything is shining."

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"When hundreds of rivers reach the sea from the east, they will return to the west again. If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be miserable."

Suddenly there was a loud sound of reading in a certain classroom, and it was the popular "Long Song Xing".

Read it once, then start a second time.

Yu Dong was not familiar with primary school textbooks and did not know what grade he was learning "Long Song Xing" in. However, the difficulty of this poem was not low, so he should be in at least the fourth grade.

He turned to the others accompanying him and said, "You guys wait outside for a while, I'll go in and take a look first."

The security captain nodded and said nothing. Nothing should happen to Yu Dong at Lichao Elementary School.

Yu Dong walked gently into the school courtyard with his hands behind his back. The sound of reading reverberated in the courtyard and became louder. He could also clearly hear that the sound of reading was coming from the classroom in the southwest corner.

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Heading towards the classroom in the southwest corner, Yu Dong walked straight over.

There were about twenty or thirty students sitting in the classroom, and every student was sitting upright and reading hard.

Standing on the podium was a little girl not many years older.

Perhaps to make herself look more dignified, the little girl tied her hair up behind her head and wore a gray tunic suit.

This outfit is in sharp contrast to the little girl's age.

After the students read "Long Song Xing" several times, the little girl pressed her hands, and the students slowly stopped reading and looked up at their teacher.

"Classmates, "Long Song Xing" is a song that sings about life. The whole poem sings about life starting from the sunflowers in the garden. This is called "supporting things to rise" in writing, which means to mention other things first to cause them to rise.

The words chanted..."

Listening to the little teacher on the podium explaining "Long Song Xing", Yu Shu smiled. It was obvious that the little girl was not particularly familiar with this poem.

It's not that her interpretation just now was wrong, but what she said was too scripted.

For primary school students, especially primary school students in Lichao Primary School who do not read much, they must not understand what the primary school teacher just said.

Not to mention that the students don't understand, it's obvious that the little teacher himself probably doesn't understand much either.

She just conveyed what she saw to the students without breaking it down.

This teaching method is definitely not good, but this little teacher cannot be blamed.

Nowadays, the country is short of teachers. Not to mention places like Lichao Village, which is located in the mountains and has very poor conditions. Even in some towns and villages, primary schools with conditions a hundred times better than here still have a bunch of bastard teachers with poor moral standards.

Not to mention, a lot of professional knowledge is simply not up to the mark.

Last time I went to a junior high school in a town below Jinling to attend a class, a junior high school biology teacher didn't even know there were dromedary camels in the world.

The biology teacher told the students in class that one of the two humps of a camel stores food and the other stores water. The remaining two humps raised their hands and asked him: What about the dromedary camel?

The teacher was surprised: Where in the world are there dromedary camels?

During the last chat, Yu Liang treated this matter as a joke to Yu Dong.

It's just a joke, but it's a heartbreaking reality.

A junior high school biology teacher in a township can still make such a stupid mistake, let alone those in rural schools.

Relatively speaking, the performance of the little girl in front of me was quite good. She only told the students what she knew. She would not show off what she didn't know.

The little girl spoke very slowly, seemingly leaving time for the students to take notes.

After explaining the structure and technique of the entire poem, Lin Lan was about to explain the meaning of each line of the poem to the students in detail when he saw Yu Dong standing outside the window with his hands behind his back.

When she saw Yu Dong, she felt that Yu Dong looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him.

She must have seen it somewhere, this feeling is very strong.

Which student's parent are you?

But she knew all the parents of the students in the class, whether they were parents, brothers or sisters. Besides, Yu Dong didn't look like a rural person.

Although it is inappropriate to judge people by their appearance, the person standing outside the window exudes the aura of a cultured person.

The person with the highest level of education that Lin Lan has come into contact with is their principal Zhang Yueying, but even Zhang Yueying does not have this kind of temperament.

Seeing that Lin Lan noticed him, Yu Dong smiled at her.

Lin Lan became nervous for no reason. She was clearly standing on the podium now, but she felt like she was back in school, and Yu Dong standing outside was his teacher who took the exam.

The lecture, which was originally smooth, began to become stumbling.

After a few minutes, she breathed a long sigh of relief after seeing the people outside the window leaving.

Yu Dong saw the little girl's nervousness, so he took the initiative to leave, and happened to go to other classrooms to have a look.

There are five grades in Lichao Primary School, and each grade is in the same class. The five classes now have different classes, such as arithmetic, Chinese, ideological and moral character, society, and nature.

After looking around, Yu Dong didn't see Zhang Yueying either.

After finishing the circle, the class was over. Yu Dong walked back to the class taught by the little girl. He heard the little girl assigning homework to the students: "Give it to Li Ting when you come tomorrow morning. Let's finish the get out of class."

After saying that get out of class was over, Li Lan came out holding the teaching aids and saw Yu Dong face to face.

"Who are you looking for?" Lin Lan asked.

Yu Dong smiled and said, "Is your principal Zhang Yueying here?"

"Sister Yueying." Lin Lan's eyes suddenly looked a little lonely.

Seeing the change in Lin Lan's expression, Yu Dong had a bad feeling, "Did something happen to her?"

"Sister Yueying is hospitalized. She has never been in good health. She fainted several times last month. She was unwilling to go to the hospital even though we asked her to. In the end, her father came to pick her up."

Yu Dong frowned, "What about now? What's her condition now?"

Lin Lan shook her head, "I don't know. Last week I received a letter from Sister Yueying. She wrote to me when she first entered the hospital. I haven't received a letter from her in the past two weeks."

"Did she say what the disease was?"

"No, she just said there was no big problem, reassured me, and told me to take good care of the students."

Yu Dong knew that Zhang Yueying should have said that she was not seriously ill in order to appease the little girl. According to Zhang Yueying's character, in order to reassure the school, she must write letters frequently, but it has been two weeks, and the school has

I haven't received Zhang Yueying's letter, which shows that the situation is very bad.

When he came to Lichao Village this time, Yu Dong always felt flustered.

In the last life, after seven or eight years of correspondence between the two of them, there was suddenly no news from Zhang Yueying. Yu Dong thought about many possibilities, and naturally also thought of some extreme situations.

This year, it has just been seven years since they graduated from college.

Seeing Yu Dong in a daze, Lin Lan asked: "Do you know Sister Yueying?"

"Yeah." Yu Dong nodded heavily, "She and I are friends."

Lin Lan looked at Yu Dong curiously. She had never heard Sister Yueying talk about friends. Ever since they met, Sister Yueying seemed to have focused all her energy on school.

Except for one pen pal.

After Sister Yueying finishes her work in the evening, no matter how late it is, she will sit at the table and write letters.

I wrote almost every night, but very few were sent.

Lin Lan once curiously asked Sister Yueying: Why do you always write letters but never send them?

Zhang Yueying just said: Not all letters must be sent out after they are written. Some letters are written to another person, but they are meant for yourself to read.

Lin Lan didn't know much about Sister Yueying's pen pal. She only knew that they were far away from each other and had never met.

Could the man in front of me be Sister Yueying's pen pal?

But if he is Sister Yueying's pen pal, how can I feel that he looks familiar? Sister Yueying has never met him.

Looking at it this way, it shouldn't be the case.

After thinking wildly for a while, Lin Lan said, "If you want to find Sister Yueying, you may not be able to do anything about it now."

"Do you know which hospital she is in?" Yu Dong asked.

Lin Lan shook her head, "I don't know, Sister Yueying didn't tell me."

Yu Dong sighed, as expected, she had the character of a veteran. She probably didn't want people from the school to find her.

But since it was her father who took her back, she shouldn't have gone too far, and she would most likely be in Jiangcheng. I can't find out anything now, so I'll have to go to Jiangcheng to look for her later.
To be continued...