atypical rebirth

Chapter 44

Meng Zheng was indignantly sucking on the yogurt.He felt that Shen Duqing was acting weird recently.

But Meng Zheng thought about it again, isn’t it true for adolescent children, their minds and emotions change a lot, Shen Duqing has already been considered a relatively stable personality, there is no sunny and rainy for a while, but recently he has been influenced by the girls in the class, It's just that I like to take care of people.And Shen Duqing is willing to take care of him because he treats him as one of his own, otherwise Shen Duqing would not pay attention to him!

It's a little touching to think about it.

Since Shen Duqing likes to be a caregiver—adolescent children will indeed like to regard themselves as adults at a certain stage, and like to play roles such as caregiver, guide, and decision maker—Meng Zheng, as a mature and decent adult, must of course satisfy Shen Duqing is gone!

In just the time it took to drink yogurt, Meng Zheng finished his psychological training and became very calm.

He threw the empty yogurt bottle into the trash bag, then took out a piece of draft paper, and started to write.

"What are you writing?" Shen Duqing asked curiously.

"Draft a contract." Meng Zheng took his hand away, signaling Shen Duqing to read it for himself.

It has been a year and a half since Meng Zheng was reborn, and the Meng family's family situation has improved a lot.Meng's father can still earn money by doing what he likes every day, and his mentality is young.Meng's mother is even more so. She is currently teaching herself the knowledge of fashion design, and she is also learning embroidery from Grandma Meng. Her motivation to study is even stronger than that of Meng Zheng.Meng’s mother said that she wished she could have 48 hours a day, otherwise she always felt that there was not enough time to study.

Besides, Grandma Meng is also a capable person.

During the winter vacation, when the weather was the coldest but also when the rural people were at their leisure, Grandma Meng took a few older ladies from the same village who had a good time, and took them to make small shoes and small clothes. Sold in my aunt's craft shop.These old ladies are not as good as Grandma Meng in terms of aesthetics and technology.

In Grandma Meng's words: "When Duo Duo was just born, I made the little cloth shoes for Duo Duo. When Duo Duo's mother walked out with her in her arms, everyone would praise the shoes for their beauty! As for them? Well, The shoes they make for their granddaughters are just a few pieces that can be sewed casually." Of course, this was said in private, Grandma Meng is arrogant, but she still understands the world, and she is not easy in front of outsiders. speak ill of others.

The embroidery work of these old ladies is indeed not as good as Grandma Meng's, but one thing, they are obedient. Grandma Meng said that they should embroider like this, and they will never embroider like that.What's more, no matter how poorly they embroider, but because they started needlework in elementary school, their foundation is actually much better than that of girls in Meng's generation.

Under Grandma Meng's instructions, the finished products embroidered by these old ladies according to the pattern she gave, at least they can be sold in the store without any problem, the only difference is the price.For these old ladies, they have to save a dime. Grandma Meng takes them to make money together. If they can earn three to five yuan, they think it is very good. If they can earn three to fifty yuan, they will Grandma Meng must be confessed and called the God of Wealth!

Grandma Meng didn't want to make this matter bigger at the time, she just wanted to make a little money from the people she made friends with, but since she knew that she could make money by doing embroidery with Grandma Meng, those old ladies in the village who knew a little embroidery They all like to stay at Meng's house.These old ladies also consciously brought their own benches, tea, and melon seeds. Some even brought some charcoal to light up the stove. Can Grandma Meng drive them out?

In this way, Grandma Meng unknowingly created a "Embroidery Studio for the Elderly in Houshan Village".

"At first, I thought that only a few old ladies from good families would work with my old lady, and it would be fine to just say something about the remuneration. But now that half of the village's old ladies have come, I think it's better to draw up a contract." It's better." Meng Zheng said with a smile, "With the contract, let's follow the contract to avoid trouble in the future."

How many rural people like Grandma Meng can understand the contract?Don't talk about Grandma Meng, Dad Meng can't even understand it.But regardless of whether they understand it or not, Meng Zheng is here to prepare first. If something happens in the future, the Meng family will definitely take care of it.Meng Zheng didn't intend to fiddle with the contract, he would make a few copies when it was drawn up, and send it home for Meng's mother to read to the old ladies, and if he was willing to accept the contract payment, he would put his fingerprint on the contract.

"No wonder you've been searching for examples of various contracts on the Internet recently, so you're doing this." Shen Duqing said in a low voice.At a certain moment, a trace of inexplicable complex emotions suddenly arose in his heart.

If I had to make an analogy, it would be like...

He and Meng Zheng were running on the long track with no end in sight. Meng Zheng was always running ahead of him. He felt that this could not go on like this. He was determined to catch up with Meng Zheng. When he got closer and closer to Meng Zheng, thinking that he was about to catch up, he suddenly realized that while he was chasing with all his strength, Meng Zheng was running ahead with ease.This meant that once Meng Zheng got serious, he still couldn't catch up with him.

Look, while Meng is studying, he can also make career plans for his family.

He can't do that.

They are obviously the same age, but recently Shen Duqing often examines himself, as if the gap between him and Meng Zheng is really huge.It seemed that this gap could not be offset by him preparing a cup of yogurt for Meng Zheng.It seemed that Meng Zheng was already a mature and reliable adult, while he was still a child who needed help from adults.

No wonder Meng Zheng has been taking care of him as a child.

Shen Duqing sighed inwardly.

However, he didn't want to admit defeat!

He will not be jealous of Meng Zheng, nor will he tell Meng Zheng, you are running too fast, stop and wait for me.

The more outstanding Meng Zheng is, the more he admires him, and at the same time, the more fighting spirit will be aroused in his heart.

He has to work harder.One day, he will catch up with Meng Zheng!

With such thoughts in mind, Shen Duqing took out the math test paper and started working hard.

During class in the afternoon, Teacher Xu suddenly appeared outside the classroom and greeted the teacher.The two exchanged a few words at the front door, when the teacher suddenly said, "Meng Zheng, come out, Mr. Xu has something to do with you."

Meng Zheng was taken aback for a moment.Teacher Xu is Shen Duqing's uncle, he thought that Teacher Xu came to look for Shen Duqing, but he didn't expect that it was him.He and Shen Duqing exchanged glances, quickly left their seats, and ran out of the classroom.

Teacher Xu put his hand on Meng Zheng's back, took Meng Zheng to the principal's office, and said as he walked, "There is a reporter coming to interview you, so you don't have to worry. Whatever the reporter asks, you can answer according to your heart." .”

"Interview with me?" Meng Zheng asked.

"That's right, you are an advocate of Candlelight Action!" Teacher Xu said with relief.

Candlelight Action is an action to share resources between urban and rural schools.Teacher Xu once asked Meng Zheng to write an article on this matter, and the name of Operation Candlelight was selected from the article submitted by Meng Zheng.At that time, Meng Zheng wrote at the end of the article: For children living in remote areas, a piece of candlelight is equivalent to the sun.

Last semester, Shuangxiu Primary School shared resources with Longshan Primary School, and Yahe Junior High School shared resources with Longshan Junior High School.After a semester of experimentation, in the final exam, the average score of Longshan School has improved significantly in the big rankings of the entire county.This proves that the whole plan is feasible. With real cases, the Education Bureau will naturally give the green light all the way. Now the approval of various aspects has come down. Starting from this semester, the beneficiaries of the Candlelight Action will expand to the entire Ruiyang City, many Township schools can share resources.

Candlelight Action has been listed as a key project of this year by the cultural and educational department of the municipal government.

As a result, there has been more publicity about this matter.The mainstream media got involved.

Meng Zheng rubbed the tip of his nose in embarrassment: "I just said something at the beginning, how can I bear the name of an advocate! Even if I want to interview, I should interview those teachers who shared the courseware!"

Teacher Xu smiled and said, "Don't be nervous."

Meng Zheng thought to himself, he wasn't nervous, he really just felt like he didn't do anything.

There are several people sitting in the principal's office.The principal, surnamed Zhao, is a serious woman in her 50s.When Meng Zheng was standing at the door calling the report, Principal Zhao showed a rare smile and smiled at him.Besides the principal, there were several strangers sitting in the office.Looking at the logos on the equipment they were carrying, Meng Zheng was taken aback. He didn't expect this to be a reporter from the provincial newspaper.After he was reborn, he was going to be interviewed by the provincial newspaper!

After all, they are reporters who are the official mouthpiece, and the questions prepared by the reporters are relatively straightforward. They first listened to Meng Zheng tell the story of why he came up with the idea of ​​the candlelight operation, such as details such as Meng Zheng skipping a grade, Mr. Xu sending materials, and Meng Zheng writing test papers. Ask more detailed.This reporter pays great attention to the excavation of the inner world of the interviewee.

Meng Zheng originally wanted to give all the credit to Mr. Xu, Principal Zhao and others, but considering his current biological age, if what he said was too official, it would seem a bit fake. People who don't know would think that Teacher Xu prepared an interview script for him!Meng Zheng changed his perspective and focused on his family.

He purposely said in a childish tone that if his parents had had the opportunity to study, his mother might have become a diplomat, and his father could have become an excellent senior technician.However, they were all delayed by local education.This is the regret of the individual, but also the regret of the whole society.

As he spoke, Meng Zheng remembered his experience before he was reborn, and suddenly a lot of true feelings arose in his heart.

Urban and rural resources are shared, educational resources are balanced, and the enrollment rate of rural children has increased. This is something that everyone can see.But there are still some feelings that are settled deep in the heart, which can't be accurately described except for the parties who have had similar experiences like Meng Zheng.

Before being reborn, Meng Zheng was first admitted to a key county school, then successfully entered a key university, graduated successfully and stayed in a big city to work, and successfully found a job with a good annual salary... In the eyes of many people, Meng Zheng is a talented player.But Meng Zheng himself never thought of it that way, he always thought of himself as a hard-working player.

Maybe when he was twelve or thirteen years old, in the second stage of middle school, he once regarded himself as a genius.But as soon as he entered the county key point, he found that he was far inferior to his classmates.80.00% of the students in key counties are from the county, and only 20.00% are admitted from the townships below.As one of the 20.00%, Meng Zheng's spoken English is not standard, he has no calligraphy, piano and other special skills, he has never touched a computer or eaten at McDonald's, his socks have been washed and faded, and the lining of his clothes is stained. And there are holes...

His only advantage is his good grades, but he is not as good as these kids in the county.Even the grades he was proud of gave him some blows. He was admitted to the county key with the No. 1 grade of Longshan Junior High School, but he could only be ranked after two or three hundred in the county key.As a result, Meng Zheng's mood was inevitably affected.

However, Meng Zheng has been influenced by his parents since he was a child. Both Meng's father and Meng's mother are very optimistic. He has learned a lot from his parents, so this bad mood did not make him collapse, but turned into a driving force for progress.But he remembered the feeling that he couldn't compare to others when he first entered school.Even though he redoubled his efforts in studying later, his grades gradually went from two to three hundred in his grade to the top one hundred, then to the top fifty, and even to the top ten... He still couldn't forget the kind Can't compare to other people's depression.

When Meng Zheng first started working, several seniors in the same office were very satisfied with him, and once said to him: "Meng Zheng, it is rare to see a down-to-earth young man like you now." Being down-to-earth, isn't it because deep down that you feel inferior to others, so you have to work harder and work harder?

As a result, having that depressive experience didn't seem to be a bad thing for Meng Zheng.

But Meng Zheng couldn't help but say that he was sorry.

In the depths of his heart, he was actually very envious of those heaven's proud sons who had been outstanding all the way.

This is why, when the reborn Meng Zheng met Shen Duqing in the bookstore, it was the first time the two met, but his first impression of Shen Duqing was very good.Because, at first glance, Shen Duqing was the kind of city kid from a very good family, who piled up a lot of educational resources to make him outstanding beyond the imagination of the kids in the countryside.

Meng Zheng, who was in his adolescence, was deeply envious of this kind of excellence and longed for it.

Of course, he gradually came to know later that Shen Duqing also had his own unknown pain.If Shen Duqing's parents were still alive, he would definitely be simpler and happier, but he would still be equally outstanding!

Such Shen Duqing was probably the existence Meng Zheng yearned for the most in his adolescence, right?

However, Meng Zheng was reborn after all, he was far away from his true adolescence, and those yearning emotions only left a faint trace in his heart, no longer strong and vivid.But because of this yearning he once had, he is still very willing to guard Shen Duqing, just like guarding his childhood dream.

Recalling his experience, Meng Zheng sincerely wants to thank his parents. They gave him a lot of love, taught him to work hard, and taught him to face everything calmly, so he still walked out of his own way after a short period of frustration. .But there are still many people who will always feel inferior because of a momentary inferiority complex, and then completely lose themselves.

Meng Zheng sighed in his heart, sat up straight, and said to the provincial newspaper reporter: "In my opinion, what poverty brings is not old clothes and dilapidated houses, but inner inferiority. Poor education brings The impact of the children is not the failure of the high school entrance examination, the failure of the college entrance examination, but the weakness of the spirit."

"When a child walks out of the countryside, when he finds himself far behind the children in the city, he obviously has a bigger platform, but he will be at a loss."

"Some people may say that everyone is the same. After encountering a bigger platform, everyone will be at a loss. But adults have a stronger ability to adjust. Adolescent children are different. They are in a three-view formation. Important stage, this is a very sensitive period, and their ability to bear it is not yet strong. If a child has too much low self-esteem during this period, then this low self-esteem is likely to accompany him for life."

It's actually quite funny to hear a teenager like Meng Zheng refer to his peers as "them".However, none of the adults present laughed.Meng Zheng's words sparked their thinking.

"Because of the lack of educational resources, even if many children in the countryside put in [-]% of their efforts, their final grades are still far inferior to those in the city, and this is really shocking. Only when educational resources are balanced Only then can everyone’s hard work be rewarded, and the children’s spirit of studying hard to change their destiny will not be let down.” Meng Zheng said solemnly.There is a lot of injustice in this world, but at least when it comes to education, Mengzheng hopes it is fair.

When Meng Zheng returned to the classroom, everyone curiously asked the teacher what he was looking for.

Meng Zheng didn't want to be too high-profile, so he fooled everyone else, but he told Shen Duqing the truth.Shen Duqing asked happily: "A reporter from the provincial newspaper? Do you know the number of the newspaper? We need to buy more copies!"

Meng Zheng's mood was a little heavy at first, probably the sequelae of recalling his previous life, but seeing Shen Duqing's happy look, he couldn't help but laugh along with him.He stretched out his hand and stroked Shen Duqing's hair vigorously.

Meng Zheng thought, he really likes Shen Duqing, he just likes to see Shen Duqing's appearance from tiptoes to fine hair!

Shen Duqing snorted, and stretched out his hand to cover Meng Zheng's eyes.

"What are you doing!" Meng Zheng asked.

"Don't look at me like an old hen looking at a chicken!"

"Huh?" Meng Zheng pressed Shen Duqing's hand.

Shen Duqing hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you always treat me like a child?"

"No?" Meng Zheng said rather guiltyly.

Shen Duqing rolled his eyes and said, "I suddenly remembered that although neither of us have birthdays, mine is in February, and yours is in July. You are younger than me. Call brother to listen!"

The Meng family never had the habit of celebrating birthdays, so Meng Zheng did not celebrate his birthday.In Shen Duqing’s words, he celebrated his birthday when he was a child, but later he read a saying in a book that the child’s birthday was the mother’s day of suffering, and his mother was gone. But it's birthday.

"……not called."

"Why not? I'm still a few months older! You really still treat me like a child, right?"

"The trick is no use for me."

"You're so stingy, you don't even call me brother." Shen Duqing deliberately made an unhappy look.

In order to maintain the dignity of adults, Meng Zheng decided to unilaterally pull Hei Shen Duqing for a second.

After school, Ren Feng and Yuan Fang came to play with Meng Zheng and Shen Duqing in the third grade with badminton rackets.They first went to pick up Ban Miaomiao from Teacher Xu, and then the five of them went to the badminton court together.When Meng Zheng and Yuan Fang were one-on-one, Shen Duqing and Ren Feng sat aside, playing with Shen Feizhuo and chatting one after another.

Ren Feng said curiously: "There is something wrong with you today, usually you are rushing to form a team with Meng Zheng."

Shen Duqing looked around and saw that Shen Feizhuo was jumping up and down cheering for Meng Zheng, not paying attention here, so he lowered his voice and asked Ren Feng for advice: "Then what, let me ask you a question... If Yuan Fang insists that you call him a name you don't want to call him, will you be angry?"

Ren Feng said without hesitation: "No!"

Memories automatically began to flash in the crazy mind.These boarding students can sleep in on Sundays. Children of this age are short of sleep. When it comes to Sundays, everyone can't wait to sleep until noon.But Yuan Fang was more obedient, sleeping until eight o'clock at most, and went to the cafeteria to buy food after washing up.Ren Feng, Guan Xiang, and Zhou Wenxing couldn't get up under the covers, so they handed over their meal cards to Yuan Fang and asked him to help bring the meals.

Yuan Fang can also joke now, pinching his meal card and smiling wickedly, he said nastyly: "Let me bring the meal? All right, call me nicely. Whoever calls me the best, I will bring the second canteen to him." Beef Noodles!"

The food in the canteen is just like that, only the beef noodles in the second canteen is a treasure in the world.

Guan Xiang was the first to shout at the top of his voice: "Brother!" In terms of age, Guan Xiang is no younger than Yuan Fang.But at a time like this, who cares about age, call me brother first!If you can exchange for a bowl of beef noodles, it's worth it!

Yuan Fang responded with a smile.

Ren Feng saw that he was one step behind, and it would not be good to call him brother, so he immediately threw away all his morals, and shouted heartbreakingly at Yuan Fang: "Husband! Husband! Husband! Husband bring me beef noodles!"

Guan Xiang: "..."

Zhou Wenxing: "..."

Yuan Fang: "..."

Zhou Wenxing and Guan Xiang looked at Ren Feng with extremely shocked eyes, despising Ren Feng's shameless behavior.However, when the contempt was over, they quickly imitated the example, scrambling to shout at Yuan Fang: "Husband, you are the best! Husband, you are the best! Husband, you are mighty and majestic!"

On that Sunday, Yuan Fang brought delicious beef noodles to all three roommates.

Tsk, after all, he is a husband, so of course he should treat his wives better.

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"Damn, you don't want Meng Zheng to call you husband, do you?" Ren Feng asked tactfully.