It was the first time that Jiang Youtao saw two books in one small world.
Her desire to eat melons suddenly increased.
But unfortunately there was no time at this moment, as the students in her class had to do morning exercises today and she had to go and watch them.
Adjustments were made after the start of the new semester. Jiang Youtao now teaches Chinese to Class 1, Grade 8, and is also the head teacher of Class 1, Grade 8. The classes of Class 1, Grade 7 were given to two new teachers this semester.
They also came in after taking the exam. One was a fresh graduate from high school, and the other was a sent-down youth from Helegou who had been here for many years. Both were male teachers who took their teaching job very seriously, and were completely different from Lin Manrou and Gong Xubo.
When Jiang Youtao arrived at school, it was already bright. Students of all grades stood in the playground and slowly ran under the command of the only physical education teacher in the school. As the class teacher, Jiang Youtao had to run with them.
She ran the entire race without blushing or getting nervous, which was in stark contrast to the students who were panting.
It was only 7:15 at this time, and the students went to the cafeteria to eat.
Before the winter vacation, Principal Huang went to the higher authorities to attend several meetings. During the vacation, the school carried out a lot of rectification.
The school has changed a lot. The door on the left side of the school that had been closed for a long time was opened. There was a large courtyard inside with two rows of rooms on both sides. One was used as a girls' dormitory and the other was a boys' dormitory. In the middle was the cafeteria.
The new semester stipulated that every student had to live on campus unless their home was in the commune. Each student had to pay a bundle of firewood to the school every week, and each student had to hand over five kilograms of coarse grains to the school every week.
Having a canteen and dormitories is undoubtedly good for students, as they have more time to study and their safety is greatly guaranteed. But for teachers, it has both advantages and disadvantages. However, as role models, these disadvantages are nothing to them. As long as the students are good, their hard work is worth it.
Now that students live on campus, they have to attend morning and evening self-study classes. In addition, the burden on her shoulders has become heavier. For example, now, when students go to the cafeteria to eat, she still needs to watch them eat.
It will be their turn after they have finished eating and returned to the classroom for class.
Fortunately, as teachers, their food subsidies are all subsidized to the school, and the chef invited by the canteen is Chef Lu who prepares rural banquets.
She didn't do anything fancy with the students' dishes. After all, the school had limited funding, and the best she could do was just to fill the children's stomachs.
The teachers' meals are different, as Chef Lu cooks them in different ways.
Just like today's breakfast, corn steamed bread with rice bran porridge, it is soft and the soup is thick, which gives them a strong sense of fullness.
When Jiang Youtao arrived, Gu Nianwei had already prepared food for her. Jiang Youtao sat down and started eating. Other teachers came over one after another.
In the blink of an eye, the two small tables in the teachers' cafeteria were filled with people.
After eating and drinking, the study bell rang. This study class was Jiang Youtao's.
After her hard work last semester, she has already made up some of the key Chinese language knowledge of the first grade of junior high school, Class 1, Grade 8. Now during morning self-study, everyone reads the text very consciously.
Jiang Youtao paced slowly in the gap between the desks.
Students these days start school late, and most classes are populated by students who are sixteen or seventeen years old. They are about the same age as Jiang Youtao, but because Jiang Youtao traveled through time from the future, as an adult with a mature soul, her every move is filled with mature charm.
She has a strong sense of age boundaries and is never frivolous in class. She never scolds students when they make mistakes, let alone sarcasm. She just teaches over and over again, but after class, she can still get along well with her students.
As time went by, even the most mischievous students in the class did not dare to make trouble in front of her. Students were willing to tell her about their worries or problems that they could not solve, and she became one of the most popular teachers in the school.
After finally finishing the last class of the morning, Jiang Youtao walked back. Gu Nianwei had already gone back to prepare dinner, and Xu Manqiu followed her into the house.
After dinner, Jiang Youtao lay on the kang and finally had time to eat melon quietly.
There were two books on a bookshelf. Jiang Youtao clicked on the first book, "My Adoptive Father's Youth".
This book begins with the adopted daughter's self-narration. Her adoptive father adopted her when she was ten years old, along with her two younger brothers.
The adoptive mother was infertile and raised the three siblings as her own children.
The article enters the main text after the prologue in the first chapter. The first thing it talks about is that the heroine Yu Hongmei's father died of excessive drinking. Her mother, who loved her father deeply, remarried before even celebrating the seventh day after her father's death.
Jiang Youtao closed the book with a snap.
Well, she knew who Du Yuanzhou had adopted. The one who could adopt Yu Daya's three siblings must be a big nemesis. Yu Daya was not a child who knew how to repay a favor. She had more twists and turns in her mind than an adult.
A child that has 800 minds. It is useless to be nice to such a child. One bad thing you do to him/her will offset all your goodness to him/her.
She directly clicked on another companion copy, which was written from the perspective of the heroine He Shuli.
The opening scene is He Shuli living alone in a nursing home.
She was eighty years old and would not live long. Before her death, she often thought of her ex-husband, Du Yuanzhou.
They met at the age of 16, got together at the age of 18, and she became pregnant at the age of 19. At that time, Du Yuanzhou was an electrician, and the national power industry was just starting out, and failures often occurred.
When He Shuli was six months pregnant, it was already the coldest time of the year. The winter was exceptionally cold and snowy, and the county's power supply failed. As one of the few technicians in the county power supply bureau, Du Yuanzhou went alone to repair it, but a blizzard hit at night and he was trapped on the mountain.
When they were cold and hungry, it was He Shuli who went to look for him wearing a cotton jacket and carrying a basket. If she had gone a little later, Du Yuanzhou would have died.
Du Yuanzhou was saved, but He Shuli's baby was gone. The six-month-old baby was already formed and moving, but after the miscarriage, He Shuli's belly stopped moving. The doctor said she was injured and could not get pregnant again.
Du Yuanzhou treated her very well and didn't care that she couldn't have children. In order to avoid Du Yuanzhou's mother's constant nitpicking, he took the initiative to request to be transferred to Zao Township, but not long after he arrived, he was pestered by Yu Daya's three siblings. Du Yuanzhou's kindness was a good thing and a bad thing, just like pitying Yu Daya, which was a bad thing.
Because after Yu Daya successfully moved into her house, she spent the money earned by her adopted father, Du Yuanzhou, and enjoyed the care of food, clothing, housing and transportation provided by her cheap adoptive mother.
She graduated from college, and her two brothers betrayed Du Yuanzhou. She became more powerful and tried to seduce Du Yuanzhou while she was buying groceries, and she happened to run into him.
Old Du was a gentleman and he rejected her verbally on the spot. Yu Daya felt that it was a great loss of face for Du Yuanzhou to refuse a young and beautiful girl like her, so she slandered Du Yuanzhou wantonly.
It is said that Du Yuanzhou raised her as a child bride so that he could have children through her belly when she grew up.
Du Yuanzhou never dared to believe that the child he raised would use such vicious words to slander him. At that time, self-media was developed, and Yu Daya relied on the lies she wove to be reported by the media, and she became the object of public sympathy.
Major official media also commented on this matter.
Du Yuanzhou lived a life that was worthy of heaven and earth, and even more worthy of Yu Daya's two siblings. Yet, he was slandered by Yu Daya. He went from being a praised person to being a beastly adoptive father. He was devastated.
When he was once again besieged by bad media, he stated what he had said countless times but no one believed, and then he banged his head against the wall.
He Shuli helped him collect the body, stood in front of the stage, and fought back against Yu Daya's actions bit by bit.
The couple had said those words countless times before, but no one believed them and no one listened. They just stubbornly listened to what they wanted to hear. But after a life was lost, some people were willing to listen, and more and more people who knew the truth stood up to refute Yu Daya.
Later, public opinion completely reversed, and those who slandered Du Yuanzhou before accused Yu Daya for being ungrateful and she became the one that everyone wanted to beat up. There were even people who spontaneously came to lay flowers in front of Du Yuanzhou's tomb.
Yu Daya was also sent to prison for defamation, and her two younger brothers were accomplices who testified against her and were also punished to varying degrees.
But what's the use of all this? Du Yuanzhou is gone, and he will never see his injustice cleared. She sold everything that could be sold at home, came to a small border town in the southwest, and lived in a nursing home here, where she lived for more than 20 years.
This is also the place Du Yuanzhou had always wanted to visit but never got to. That good old man had spent his whole life giving to others. He wanted to travel to the southwest, and had been studying since the reform and opening up, but he never got to come until his death. He had to support three college students, how much energy and money it took!
After being reborn, He Shuli stopped Du Yuanzhou from adopting Yu Daya and her two siblings. Relying on the foresight, she started a snack business with southwestern characteristics, made money, opened a store, and never raised children again in her life, but they sponsored many children in the southwestern mountainous areas.
Those children wrote to them every year, affectionately calling them Dad and Mom. Those children were much more grateful than Yu Daya and her two siblings. After graduation, they would visit them often.
It can be said that in He Shuli's book, she and Du Yuanzhou did not have many regrets.
Jiang Youtao closed the book after reading it.
Compared with her adoptive father's youth, that book is like a fictional fairy tale. It seems touching at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it seems to be full of falsehood. He Shuli's book is obviously much more real.
She asked the melon-eating system: [ Tongzi, how come there is two copy of book in the small world No. 8? ]
Melon-eating system: [ You have read the self-rescue scene of the small world No. 8. ]
Jiang Youtao raised her eyebrows, not quite understanding, and the melon-eating system continued: [ The adoptive father's youth is the main text, and not being a resentful adoptive mother is the means for the No. 8 small world to save itself. ]
Jiang Youtao understood, but she still had a question: [ Is there really nothing going on between Du Yuanzhou and Yu Daya? ]
The melon-eating system answered decisively: [ No, he is really a good person, a good person in every sense. Most of what is told in the book "Adoptive Father's Youth" is also true, and it is true that he supported Daya and the others. Everything that happened in He Shuli's book appeared after the book "Adoptive Father's Youth" was written. ]
[ That incident was also the reason why the No. 8 small world was unstable and even on the verge of collapse. ]
Then Jiang Youtao understood. In other words, the opening of He Shuli's book was the collapse report of small world No. 8, and she didn't need to read it anymore.
Jiang Youtao sincerely lamented that good people don't get good rewards, and then she was glad that she stopped the loss in time after knowing the true face of Yu Daya's family, otherwise Du Yuanzhou's fate might very well be her tomorrow!
This incident also taught Jiang Youtao that sometimes, kindness should not be expressed casually.
In the afternoon, Jiang Youtao and her friends went to class or school. When they arrived at the gate of Yard No. 1, He Shuli just came out of the house.
She smiled at Jiang Youtao and the others, and both sides nodded, sending a friendly signal.
Walking out onto the street, Yu Daya and her two siblings were wandering hand in hand.
They have lost their parents and their grandparents don't care about them. During this period of time, they have been begging for food from all over the place.
Are they pitiful? They are indeed pitiful. Anyone who sees these three pitiful siblings will feel pity for them.
But their natures have been corrupted by Zhang Shuixiu.
She is selfish by nature and can never see the good in others. She can magnify the slightest bad thing done to her by countless times.
Coveting one's adoptive father is a sign of the corruption and loss of one's worldview and morals.
As a normal man, was it wrong for Du Yuanzhou not to have any feelings other than family affection for the child he raised? Was it wrong for him to reject her? Should he suffer such a cruel revenge from her?
And her two younger brothers, who clearly knew the truth of the matter, still stood on her side and made up a lot of things to discredit Du Yuanzhou.
These three siblings are bad from the very beginning.
Jiang Youtao, along with Gu Nianwei and Xu Manqiu, walked past Yu Daya without even looking at her.
Yu Daya looked at their backs, eyes full of shock. How could they be so heartless! The three siblings were so pitiful, how could they ignore them!
Too bad, it turns out that all the kindness she showed to the three siblings was just an act! Stinky old woman!