When I was in primary school and junior high school, my parents and grandparents in my hometown didn't pay as much attention to the education of the younger generation as they do now. In my impression, about half of children of the same age can graduate from primary school, and less than 10% of children of the same age can graduate from junior high school and then go to junior high school or high school.
Even after graduating from junior high school, that is, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, he is still a minor according to the law. Of course, in our rural areas at that time, boys of fifteen or sixteen years old were already big boys and qualified laborers; The girl of fifteen or sixteen has grown into a big girl and is ready to find her husband's family.
My junior high school classmates Xiaojun and Daguo suddenly dropped out of school at the end of the first grade. At that time, students dropped out of school for various reasons.
If you really can't learn, just sleep in class and make trouble after class. Parents see that their children are not cut out for school, and it is a waste of time and food to continue to supply them. Simply give the order to drop out of school! Go home and fix the earth! For example, Xiaojun is two years older than us because he goes to school two years later. Xiaojun obviously entered puberty earlier than a bunch of us, and his height was 1 m 75. Perhaps it is because his family conditions are good, his nutrition is good, and he walks like a tiger. Unfamiliar students often mistake him for a teacher. When they saw him, they slipped away from the wall. When he dropped out of school, he was just sixteen years old, because his orchard was open and he went home to be a fruit farmer.
Some students drop out of school because their families are really poor and can't afford tuition, books and other miscellaneous fees of more than ten yuan per semester, such as big countries. Guo just turned fourteen when he dropped out of school. He is a black and thin boy, who looks only a teenager. In fact, his academic performance is good, he studies hard and is willing to work hard, and he is often praised by teachers. Unfortunately, his family is too poor. He is the boss of the family, with a younger brother and a younger sister below. His mother lay on the heatable adobe sleeping platform for half a year. Her health seems to be very bad. No matter whether it is hot or cold, she will have difficulty breathing, flushed like a cotton tube, and her mouth is like that famous painting "Scream", and she can't breathe for a long time. When we all thought she would stop breathing,
Daguo said that his mother could die at any time, and even barefoot doctors who have been practicing medicine all their lives agree with this view. A group of people in charge of family planning in the village tried to take her away several times because they could not receive the fine from his family. They thought it was not impossible to take her away, wait for redemption and bear a bad name. Naturally, they are not afraid to bear this notoriety, because first of all, they took away his grain, destroyed his doors and windows, and took away the bony black cow. Last time they used excavators directly, it was the first time I saw such a huge high-tech machinery. As soon as the accelerator exploded, the smoke covered half the village. Someone commanded this behemoth and pushed it to the crumbling city wall, gatehouse and two of the three northern houses in the big country.
Regardless of other people's blocking, the great power ran into the house desperately, chanting about his mother who had already fallen into a coma. A group of aunts, with too many cooks, took over the big country's mother, rubbed their chests and back, clenched their teeth and tossed for a long time. A voice came slowly from the depths of her chest, like walking through thousands of waters in Qian Shan, through bumps, mud and swamps, tired and stubborn, innocent and pitiful.
Bulldozers pushed into the east and west three north houses, leaving only the middle one crumbling.
Unfortunately, the big country has become poor, not to mention the difficulty of sending him to school, and the livelihood of the whole family has become a problem. The father of a great country is locked up in the village, and it is impossible to bring him back without money to redeem him. Mother is so weak. Although she struggled to live hard, she was even in a precarious state. Her brother and sister are still young, twins, as if they were only two or three years old. The master gives a bite all day, and Hezekiah wants a bite, like a wild child who is nobody's business.
In this way, a big country with good grades and hard work dropped out of school.
Of course, there are also some reasons why girls drop out of school. Now it seems impossible and incredible.
At that time, rural women were generally engaged early, basically at the behest of their parents. The so-called benefits of this are shared by both men and women.
On the woman's side, the daughter is engaged, and it is not yet time to get married, because she is too young. How to maintain this quasi-in-law relationship is just a gift, because the man wants to marry someone else's daughter, which belongs to the requester, and what he gets will naturally be lost. The new wife must behave well before she enters the door. This so-called good performance is a gift.
The gift is not given casually, although many people don't blame it, but this gift is not a polite thing, but a real kind of chicken, duck, fish and wine. If you send it often, the woman's family will naturally be happy, which is also a great burden to the man's family. The bride hasn't gone through the door yet and spent a lot of money. If anything goes wrong in this marriage, it will be a waste of water, losing the wife and losing the soldiers. The master is in the folk. As long as you have confused, doubtful and thorny questions, there will be experts to answer your doubts and solve your difficulties. The method is what our ancestors said.
The so-called two festivals are Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival; The so-called must send, that is, people can't arrive, and the ceremony must arrive! Sometimes, a man or young man goes out to work or has something temporary, so he can't give gifts to his future mother-in-law's house in person, so he has to entrust his brother or younger brother to complete this mission instead of his brother. As for other time points, such as the autumn shower, the birthdays of his parents-in-law and fiancee, and other occasions of celebration, as long as you want to give gifts, excuses are easy to find.
Young people, especially young men and women who have been secretly in love, will be as eager as Sanqiu one day. The young man wants to go out with his fiancé e, so that he can get along alone, exchange feelings and get to know each other better. You can run to the prospective mother-in-law empty-handed and say I'm going out to play with your daughter and my fiancee. See if this prospective mother-in-law will give you a good face. Maybe there will be a few words at home. Are you afraid to go? The probation period is not over yet, even a hairy son-in-law How dare you flatter your future mother-in-law? I can only work obediently, compare endurance with his cow, drive with his donkey, so tired that my back aches, and even my fiancee has no chance to hold hands.
If you carry two roast chickens, add two bottles of wine, take out a catty of sugar and put it in front of your prospective mother-in-law, you can't wait to call your parents by holding your hand, and quickly instruct your daughter to freshen up and follow my good son-in-law to the streets! Is the gift useful? Yes, no, giving gifts means that you know how to be polite and know how to give gifts, that your parents know how to give gifts, and that you value gifts.
On the other hand, the man's family, marriage has been fixed, can only be a clear goal, as to whether it can be successfully married into the family, the in the mind is really uncertain. If this girl is still in school, if her grades are not bad, once she is really admitted and flies to the branches to become a phoenix, then she will really draw water with a sieve. Gifts are given and human feelings are established. Finally everyone flew away. Isn't that a big head, and dogs like it when they bite urine? The man naturally doesn't want this to happen. what should he do ？ The most effective way is to let the girl drop out of school, take a radical approach, completely break the girl's hope of success in her official career, and stick to the farmland. Only when she reaches the age, the horn rings, the sedan chair is lifted, and she worships the heavens and the earth and enters the bridal chamber, then everything will be fine and the dust will be settled.
Many of my junior high school female students dropped out of school for this reason, and now it is ridiculous to think about it.
Because of different family circumstances, Xiaojun and Daguo dropped out of school and embarked on different life paths.
Of course, no one's road is smooth sailing, and every family has a difficult experience, especially in the rural areas of that era, and the road to life is more tortuous.
When I graduated from junior high school, I received Xiaojun's wedding invitation, which was the first invitation with my name on it. At that time, I felt like a child. I had to open my mouth and reach out to my parents for every penny I spent, and Xiaojun had already started his own life.
I personally attended Xiaojun's wedding, which was the first time in my life. I had a separate seat at the party, and someone came to propose a toast to me. Looking at Xiaojun wearing a three-piece suit and shiny shoes, with a happy face and being able to deal with guests calmly, I can't help but think of his funny appearance at school, the way he scratched his head when the teacher asked questions in class, the way he slept in the last row of the classroom every day, and the way he committed suicide for a broom in the senior classroom. I think maybe Xiaojun dropped out of school
After marriage, Xiaojun and his wife did not inherit their father's technique of planting orchards. They went directly to the county seat, rented a facade room and started the business of selling breakfast. Steamed buns, fried dough sticks, biscuits, grinding bean curd, cooking porridge, mixing cold dishes, small facade, many styles, busy all day. When I led my classmates to expel our Chinese teacher in the second year of high school, their eldest daughter, my niece, was born. I took time off to see it once. The little guy's pink face is full of cuteness. Her father, my 19-year-old and 4-month-old elementary school junior high school classmate, now a small boss with a calm face and a small army ordering brine and tofu, stood up and wiped his hands on the apron around his waist, grabbed my hand and said, Brother, study hard and I will work hard to make money. Let's work together!
Looking at his serious appearance and his big niece in the crib next to me, I felt for the first time that "everything is inferior, only reading is high" is not so absolutely reasonable.
My college entrance examination ended and Xiaojun's twin sons were born. At this point, Xiaojun was already the owner of a small restaurant. Although the hotel is not very big, it is clean and tidy, and it employs four or five little girls as waiters. Xiaojun shook a small notebook for me and I looked at it. It turned out to be a second-class chef's certificate. I can't help laughing. I, a young man who dropped out of school early, am also a certified man!
Xiaojun handed me a cigarette, and I waved my hand and refused. He lit it in his mouth, took a deep breath and slowly spit out the faint smoke. I plan to open another store later this year. This shop is a little small. Not now, when the second child comes, the family planning fine will be more than 30 thousand, and everyone who wants to register will have to pay 20 thousand, so the money will not be taken out. Let's talk about it next year and try to open two stores at once!
I patted Xiaojun on the arm. It's nothing. There are plenty of opportunities to make money. People are the most important. With people, there is everything!
Xiaojun waved his hand with a cigarette to show his approval of what I said.
Later, I went to school and worked in other places, and my contact with Xiaojun became less and less. I just heard that the couple later engaged in greenhouse vegetable cultivation, livestock breeding, contracted a large area of farmland and started sightseeing agriculture. Each of them was very successful and accumulated a lot of wealth. Because of their strength, rules and integrity, they were elected to CPPCC and became glorious members of CPPCC. Xiaojun's two sons and one daughter got married earlier. Now Xiaojun has three grandchildren and a granddaughter, plus a grandson and a granddaughter. It can be said that he is young and has enjoyed the happiness of the people.
On the other hand, big countries have a rough road. After dropping out of school, I worked in a brick kiln factory Nowadays, many young people can't remember the brick kilns in the countryside before, and they can't understand how heavy the work there is. I worked in a brick kiln factory for a month myself, so I am more or less qualified to comment on the situation there.
My qualification is that talking is better than nothing. One is that time is too long and many memories are blurred. Second, working there for a short time is just a glimpse of the leopard, and it is impossible to have a comprehensive understanding of the whole; Thirdly, I was young and a student, so I couldn't do manual work, just running around to do some assistance, and my experience of labor intensity was not so profound and strict. If there are any inaccuracies or omissions, please ask teachers and friends with relevant experience to correct them.
If you want to make it clear that the work of the kiln factory is arduous, you must first write down a "paper" topic: How is the red brick practiced?
How did a pile of ordinary soil or clay become the most important building material for high-rise buildings and bridges and culverts? What did this pile of soil experience after such a gorgeous turn?
Suppose there is a pile of mud, let's find him abnormal and talk about those things in the kiln factory!
Zhang San, sleeping in the arms of Mother Earth, was shoveled onto the conveyor belt by a roaring excavator. After a bumpy ride, Zhang San fell into the feed inlet, happily mixed with some pulverized coal under the blending of water, slipped out of the discharge outlet at the other end and stumbled all the way into the brick making machine. Zhang San, who was smashed into pieces, was brutally stirred by a rough roller impeller, and barely compounded together under strong thrust, and was pushed to the cutting table like toothpaste. A smooth skateboard with equidistant steel wires broke Zhang Sanhe and his friends into eight pieces without any emotion. After the head was pinched and the tail was removed, the baffle was pushed horizontally, and Zhang Sanhe and his seven friends were pushed onto the bamboo raft.
Then there will be a pair of powerful big hands to lift their eight brothers and put them on the long-awaited queue. At this time, the action was gentle, and Zhang San felt the happiness of being cared for. In a short time, Zhang San's side was lined with brothers and sisters of the same size. There was a thin, dark figure who pulled up the row of cars. A trip rope that had been worn for a long time and could not tell the material and color, slipped over his shoulder and head and hung on his chest. His cat's waist was bent low, his front legs were hunched, his hind legs were pedaled, his arms were bulging with blue veins, and the trip rope was pulled into his chest.
Zhang San, sitting in the platoon car, is leisurely and carefree, which is related to the freedom of citizens to visit the city. After a bumpy dirt road, the platoon was pulled to a big threshing floor, and it was too late to wipe the sweat. The little black boy immediately moved Zhang San and his brothers and sisters down one by one, put them on a long pedestal and packed them neatly. Here, Zhang San will spend a long day in the sun.
Time flies, and after a few days and nights, Zhang San feels refreshed. He used to be wet and tired, and Zhang San felt seriously dehydrated. Fortunately, he doesn't like water very much, so he doesn't feel pain. The girl at the foot has probably kept a posture for a long time, showing signs of backache and leg pain. What is even more exasperating is that she came to a dog, ran and smelled it all the way, and suddenly stopped in front of her, probably smelling the familiar smell, and raised one hind leg to play happily on her, which made her sick and miserable. Why hasn't it rained these days?
Zhang San despises this girl very much.
Rain?
If it doesn't rain, you are a brick and a useful object. If it rains, you are a pile of mud!
Trouble!
Zhang San hates his neighbors a little and hopes to leave here as soon as possible.
Early this morning, Zhang San slept soundly, dreaming that her sister married a big black in an adjacent pile of bricks. The big black one is obviously two laps bigger than Zhang San, and it seems that two Zhang San and one Zhang San can't compare. Zhang San is very puzzled. Isn't it standardized production? How can he be so different?
Zhang San, who was wondering, felt that someone had touched him, and quickly bid farewell to the Duke of Zhou and turned to reality. Transfer cars are one after another, end to end, and many people are moving these bricks to the car in full swing. Soon it was Zhang San's turn, and a rough hand, together with his sister at the foot, lined up on the transfer car.
Soon, the car will be full.
It's another bumpy ride. Zhang Sanhe and his brothers and sisters were transported to a huge building. This building is like a giant tortoise. The tortoise opened eight small doors on each side of its body and entered the small doors. There is a huge space inside. Zhang Sanhe and his brothers and sisters are piled up in this space in a certain order, and there is a little distance between them. Then, the kiln door was sealed and it was dark inside.
Dude, are you scared?
In the darkness, a timid girl's voice sounded around Zhang San.
Shit! If it wasn't for the girl at my feet, how could you be with her again! Zhang Sanyi is sick at the thought of his dog's urine!
Afraid of what? Isn't it black? You have been lying in the dark for millions of years, and you are still afraid of the dark!
That's true. Maybe I'm used to staying in the sun these days and suddenly I can't adapt.
Melodramatic!
Zhang San lamented bitterly.
The next morning, Zhang San vaguely heard firecrackers outside in the dark, and then he became hot-headed and caught fire!
The burning coal whizzed down from the top coal drops. There is no water in Zhang San's body, and his body temperature is still rising, showing no signs of stopping. The blazing flame flushed Zhang San's surroundings.
Dude, I'm hot. Are you hot?
That girl accosted Zhang San again.
Nonsense, it's not just that you don't bake me. I can't heat up if you are hot!
Zhang San is too lazy to pay attention to this sister. The smell of dog urine was forced out by the hot air and spread all over Zhang San. Zhang San felt sick and vomited.
Dude, you're blushing. Are you embarrassed?
Sister looked at Zhang San, flushed, and asked jokingly.
Women are 500 ducks, quack quack annoying. Zhang San's heat is uncomfortable, so naturally he won't have a good temper. I'm afraid the temperature will be around 1000℃, Zhang San thought and looked at his sister.
My sister is red all over, emitting bright red light, shining like a crystal ruby. Zhang San suddenly found that the girl was not very ugly, and even some girls next door felt it.
It's okay, sister. It will take a minute, usually more than ten hours, and then the temperature will slowly drop. At that time, we will be transformed, no longer fragile adobe, but red bricks with a steep increase in value.
Dude, you know so much!
Sister's little face is redder and looks shy, but Zhang San's eyes are straight.
After about a week, the temperature in the kiln gradually dropped. Although it was still hot, it was not so exaggerated. Zhang San has had a good time these days, and his feelings with his sister have further warmed up. It has reached the point where we are inseparable and meet again after a long separation. Zhang San thinks that if this is the case, staying here for a lifetime is also a very happy thing.
The kiln door was still open, and a group of naked men stood there, looking at the new bricks in the kiln, and could not help but give a cheer.
The transfer car pulled over and the two brothers and sisters were loaded into the car one after another. Occasionally, defective products with cracks, incomplete combustion and charring will be thrown away. Zhang San quietly looked at people's movements, suddenly looked at the bloated sister, and some inexplicable panic.
Sure enough, my sister was picked up and thrown on a pile of abandoned unqualified bricks. One of the middle-aged people, who looked smart, shouted, "Old Sun, can you still be such an old fool?" There is coal burning in the geosyncline, isn't there? You've been filling it up. Why don't you fill yourself up along the stove? "
Old head is also a face of Meng circle, find out my sister from the abandoned brick crib, toss and turn it in my hand, muttering in my mouth:
I shouldn't. I have seen ghosts. Why are they all at the bottom? It's too much.
Seeing this scene, Zhang San's grief came from this and he screamed at the top of his lungs. Sister, it's all my brother who hurt you, not my poor skills, but my love's fault. Others are excited, so are you! The flame of love burned you! Sister, Zhang San, I'm sorry!
The distant mountains were silent, and people were doing their jobs, sweating like rain. Who can notice what a new brick Zhang San is crying about!
This is the original material of the paper How Red Bricks are Made. Of course, we are not talking about the firing process of red bricks. This paper focuses on the experience of dropping out of school in big countries.
Because when I was working in a brick kiln, I had popularized some machines and automatic and semi-automatic production technology. At this time, the labor intensity was actually not as heavy as the legend. Except for the hard work of getting out of the kiln and loading it, other types of work were acceptable. Even so, the big country is too thin, and he can only do some light work. What kind of job? It is Zhang Sangang who was dug out of the wilderness and sat in the mixing station on the conveyor belt. The big country managed the mixing station for thirteen years, until the country cleared up the unqualified small coal mines and the kiln factory where he worked closed down. He had to wait until he was thirty years old to start learning, but it was too late.
Without education and physique, there will naturally be no satisfactory income. Others earn dozens of dollars, and big countries can only earn dozens of dollars. Others earn hundreds of dollars, and big countries can only earn hundreds of dollars. Others earn thousands of dollars, and big countries can only earn thousands of dollars. For more than a decade, big countries have been alone in that broken house, doing boring work with a meager salary.
When the kiln factory closed down, the big country lost even its meager income. At that time, his son was just born and looked in poor health. He has been ill for two days, and his daughter-in-law has some mental health problems. I heard that the big country at that time was either in the hospital or on the way to the hospital. Ordinary people can't help shivering when they hear the word "hospital". And poor countries like big countries will soon be heavily in debt. Of course, this so-called "high" is only relative to the specific situation of his family, because it is impossible to borrow a lot of money in such a big country. There is a simple reason. I'm afraid that if you don't pay in the future, it will become a mess and a dormant account.
Being alone in a cabin for more than ten years, family changes and stimuli have occurred one after another, and the brains of big countries have also gone wrong. He often wanders alone in the middle of the night, talking to himself and no longer communicating with others.
Big countries like to write brush characters, and write emotional sentences on yellow grass paper with a semi-bald brush.
When the weather is fine, he will ride a worn-out Jin Lu brand 28 heavy bicycle that he has been riding for nearly 20 years. Except for the bell, it rings everywhere. He will arrive at the township government station early and park his bike at the gate of the township government. Every time a person goes in and out, he will hold someone's hand and seriously tell them "to serve the people", "three disciplines and eight points for attention" and "Lei Feng is a good comrade", and others will ignore him.
Of course, his inexplicable behavior will certainly bring natural consequences. He was detained, he was re-educated through labor, and he was given an unwarranted lesson by unknown people. When he was lying alone in the street with a painful face, bleeding spleen and broken leg, people around him were unfamiliar faces. Maybe he thought of the serious problem of "not taking the needle and thread of the masses"
Big countries are like cockroaches that can't be killed. It lives humbly and stubbornly.
He has no education, no diploma and still has no strong physique.
He tries to think of a better idea, but "this better idea" is like a joke, and he is the content of this joke.
He is not Don Quixote, but he dreams of learning from Don Quixote and bravely fighting windmills alone.
Life is really not as tenacious as described in the book.
The big country finally left with regret. At the age of forty, almost no day was spent in comfort.
I have been writing this question and answer for nearly three days. It was originally a question that could be explained clearly in a few words. Because the hook caused some past events, I unconsciously wrote more, made a lot of deletions in the writing process, and tried not to digress to explain the problem!
Therefore, it is still an open point of view, and everything is absolute! When minors enter the society, their life paths will vary from person to person. Although there are successful examples, there are more bumps and setbacks. If there is a full-fledged opportunity, we still won't give up!