Chapter 45 Tang Wei's Advice
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Su Yichen hurriedly welcomed Tang Wei into the room, and there was a chair in the room. Su Yichen asked Tang Wei to sit down, and then he was about to find a teacup and tea or something. Tang Wei smiled and stopped Su Yichen. He also knew that Su Yichen had just arrived, and even if he found the teacup, there was no boiling water in the room. Moreover, he came here to meet the new teacher who took over him, and to do a job handover for Su Yichen.
"Go to my side. You have to clean up your house and add some more things. By the way, if you don't mind, you can use some things in my house. Anyway, I'm leaving soon, so I'll just treat it as helping me."
Su Yichen smiled and said thank you. He didn't have any obsession with daily necessities, not to mention that he really wanted to buy some items when he first came. Tang Wei was sincere and he had no reason to refuse.
Who would have thought that Su Yichen agreed readily, which made Tang Wei feel very fond of him. You should know that people nowadays are not as good as before, with people being prepared for each other, and there are many calculating and politeness, but there are much less pure interactions. Su Yichen's attitude made Tang Wei very happy. He stood up with a smile and patted Su Yichen on the shoulder, and called him to his house.
Tang Wei's dormitory and Su Yichen were on the same floor. They were only a few rooms apart. The structure in the dormitory was basically the same, but compared to Su Yichen's room, Tang Wei was much more messy. There were a lot of things piled up in the room, and a thick stack of textbooks and homework were placed on the table. When he entered the room, he pulled out a chair and asked Su Yichen to sit first. Tang Wei brewed two cups of tea. After sitting down, he took out a pack of cigarettes and took it out to pay for Su Yichen.
Su Yichen smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he didn't know. Tang Wei didn't care, so he stuffed it into his mouth and lit it himself, and took the ashtray on the table.
"Teacher Xiao Su is very young, this year..."
“I’m 24 this year.”
"24? Haha, I'm so young. When I graduated from college, I was almost the same as you now." Tang Wei sighed a little emotion, as if he remembered his youth in Su Yichen.
After taking a sip of cigarette and dusting the ashes in the ashtray, Tang Wei began to introduce Su Yichen to the teaching situation of physics in junior high school. While speaking, he also took out a few physics teaching books from the table and handed them to Su Yichen, asking him to read the contents in the book to explain in a more intuitive way.
Junior high school physics is basically very basic, and these textbooks can be said to be very shallow for professionals like Su Yichen. However, Su Yichen still listened very seriously to Tang Wei's explanation. After all, knowing that theory is one thing, but it is another to teach students, especially older children in junior high school. Tang Wei has a lot of experience.
Moreover, when looking through the textbooks that Tang Wei gave him, Su Yichen also found that Tang Wei, as a teacher, was very serious and responsible. Some key parts of these textbooks were specially marked with red pens, and some notes were also written in some places. The content should be some key points in the lecture.
There are three classes in the junior high school level every year. Junior high school physics starts from the second grade of junior high school. In other words, Su Yichen wants to teach six classes in the second grade and third grade. It seems that there are many classes to teach, but in fact, although junior high school physics is a must-have course for the middle school entrance examination, the teaching level is not heavy as a secondary class. Each class has two classes per week. In this way, the total sum of all is only 12 classes per week.
However, since the school is a bilingual school, it is necessary to use English to teach, Tang Wei asked Su Yichen about his English ability. When he heard Su Yichen smile and talk about a short leverage theory in very fluent English, he nodded with satisfaction and praised Su Yichen for a few words.
"Then there is no problem. In fact, the students in our school are still very good. It is not difficult to teach physics in junior high school. When I left, I will leave all these textbooks and textbooks and some previous lesson preparation records for you. You can take them back and refer to them. I think it will take them to get started smoothly in no time."
"I'm really grateful to Teacher Tang." Su Yichen was very grateful for Tang Wei's generosity.
"What do you thank you? There is no need for this at all. They are all worthless things. Besides, it's useless for me to take them away. Besides, I won't be a teacher in the future..." Tang Wei waved his hand, and a few pieces of ashes fell on the table along the swing of his arms. He didn't care. He twisted them directly on the table with his fingers, and then rubbed them on the ashtray for a few times.
When Su Yichen heard Tang Wei say that he would not be a teacher in the future, Su Yichen was a little surprised. However, it was the first time we met, and Su Yichen was not convenient for him to ask about his private affairs. At this time, a ringtone for the end of get out of class came from outside. Seeing that it was already noon, Tang Wei smiled and stood up to invite Su Yichen to go to the cafeteria for dinner, and then introduced him to his colleagues at the school.
The school treats teachers very well. The faculty and staff have their own canteens, and meals are free, but they need to use the faculty and staff’s identity card to swipe on the terminal. When the identity card was handled by the Academic Affairs Office, they had already completed the ID card for Su Yichen. They followed Tang Wei into the canteen, swiped the card to pick up the plates serving the rice, and then went to the self-service pickup table to make meals according to their preferences.
During lunch, Tang Wei took Su Yichen to meet with the teachers from several classes in the grade. The teachers were quite friendly to the arrival of Su Yichen, the new teacher. Even though there were a few people who were relatively introverted, they at least met Su Yichen politely on the surface.
There are two types of teachers in the school: one is Chinese teachers like Tang Wei, and the other is foreign teachers hired by the school. Compared with ordinary Chinese teachers, those foreign teachers are much higher in terms of treatment and income. Moreover, they rarely interact with Chinese teachers except for work, but have another small circle.
Regarding these, Tang Wei also reminded Su Yichen and even told him about the situation of the foreign teachers. However, Su Yichen found that when Tang Wei commented on the education of those foreign teachers, he showed a very dissatisfied expression on his face, and even a little contemptuous.
In the afternoon, Tang Wei took Su Yichen to visit the teacher's office, physics laboratory, computing classroom and classrooms of each grade, and specially arranged for Su Yichen to listen to his class to help Su Yichen get into the role as soon as possible. After a whole day, until the evening, Tang Wei, who had explained all the situation in the school, asked Su Yichen what else he needed to know.
To be honest, Tang Wei’s introduction was very comprehensive and almost everything was covered, which made Su Yichen very grateful. Seeing that it was getting late, Su Yichen took the initiative to invite Tang Wei to dinner to express his gratitude. Tang Wei refused a few words, but in Su Yichen’s determination, he had to agree with a smile. However, since Su Yichen was not familiar with the nearby area, the place was chosen by Tang Wei. This is a small restaurant not far from the school. Although the place is not big and it doesn’t look very good outside, the food is quite unique.
After ordering a few side dishes, ordering a few bottles of beer, the two of them chatted while eating. After a few glasses of wine, Tang Wei, who already had a good impression of Su Yichen, also started talking and chatting with him from all over the world.
After chatting for a while, Su Yichen learned that Tang Wei was a master's degree in physics in a prestigious university. What's even more surprising is that Tang Wei was studying astrophysics in college. How could he go to a private middle school to be an inconspicuous junior high school physics teacher? Even if this is a bilingual middle school, what if Tang Wei is, Tang Wei can stay in the university, or go to the observatory and have some similar research institutions.
"Haha, I went to the observatory after graduation, but what happened?" After finishing the wine in the cup, Tang Wei lit a cigarette and smiled bitterly: "Astrophysics is actually a dream I have had since childhood. I still remember when I was very young, my father was holding it on my knees and listening to him pointing to the stars in the sky and telling me the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. At that time, I was thinking, how did those stars come from here in the sky? What are there on those stars? Is the Milky Way really drawn out by the Queen Mother? Do the Seven Fairies, Cowherd and Magpie Bridge really exist?"
Tang Wei's thoughts seemed to float to the distance. His eyes seemed to pass through time and space and return to his childhood era. At this moment, Su Yichen also remembered a familiar scene in his childhood. It was a summer night many years ago. In the yard, his mother sat under the grape trellis and put on autumn clothes for Su Yichen and his brother. Su Yichen, who was only 7 years old, lay on the lap of his father Su Zijian. His sister Su Yiyun sat on the side with her hands holding her cheeks, listening to her father pointing at the brilliant starry sky in the sky, telling stories for them. Su Zijian started with the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and slowly the formation of the moon, the influence of the rotation of the earth and the moon on the tides, the difference between meteors, planets, stars and galaxies, and then talked about the mystery of the birth of the universe...
These memories are hidden deep in Su Yichen's heart. He still remembers that his father asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up. His original answer was: "I want to be a scientist!"
Tang Wei took a sip of cigarette and continued to say, "Later I grew up slowly. After reading, I realized that myths were just myths. There were no seven fairies, no cowherds, and no magpie bridges in the sky. However, I did not lose interest in the mystery of the universe. On the contrary, when I was in elementary school, a book called "Flying to Sagittarius" by Mr. Zheng Wenguang made me intoxicated, because this book determined my future path..."
Tang Wei talked about his later experience. He was interested in astronomy and physics. He was finally admitted to a key university with excellent results when he graduated from high school. A few years later, he obtained a master's degree in astrophysics. After graduating from university, Tang Wei, who was full of energy, decided to devote his life to the research work he loved, but reality gave Tang Wei, who was longing for the future, and Tang Wei, who was assigned to the observatory, soon discovered that there was no opportunity for scientific research in his place.
As a cold yamen, the observatory is almost a forgotten corner. Not to mention astrophysics research, due to insufficient funds, it is difficult to maintain equipment, and the monthly salary is only enough to eat. When facing the old equipment that cannot be carried out normally at work every day, Tang Wei and his colleagues are almost useless. They rely on a newspaper and a cup of tea to spend the whole day. Such days are grinding the sharp Tang Wei to a bitter end.
There are three kinds of unfilial things, and no descendants are the greatest. As the age grows, the family is also anxious about Tang Wei's marriage. After introduction, Tang Wei married a girl a few years later. Although the two parties had a wonderful life after marriage, Tang Wei was soon exhausted by the cruel reality with the birth of the child. Social development brought high prices, but Tang Wei, who works at the observatory, received only enough monthly salary for living. How can he talk about the large expenses of raising children and the education of the future children? Apart from having a bright master's hat on his head, Tang Wei achieved almost nothing as he was about to get married. Finally, under the pressure of life, Tang Wei decided to resign, picked up the textbook and took a teaching certificate, and then he came to this middle school to become a junior high school physics teacher.
A master's degree in astrophysics became a physics teacher in junior high school, which was indeed useless for Tang Wei. However, in the face of the pressure of life and the considerable teacher income, Tang Wei still gave in. He has been a junior high school physics teacher for nearly ten years, and he has improved his family life through his income in the past ten years. On the surface, Tang Wei, who has a house and a car, has achieved success in his career, but in Tang Wei's heart, his pain and helplessness have always tortured him.
"Brother, do you know that I stand on the podium every day to teach students, and I feel so awkward! I think I am a veteran master student who abandons my ideals and becomes such a middle school teacher? I have been doing it for so many years!" Tang Wei poured himself a glass of wine, raised his head and wiped the wine marks beside his mouth, and laughed again: "It's fine now, my child has grown up, and the money he saved is enough for him to finish college. Without any worries, I can also pursue my ideals with peace of mind. This resignation has been planned long ago. My wife and children are both abroad. After selling their house in Shanghai, they will reunite with them abroad, and then find a university to start over. I don't believe it anymore. I, Tang Wei, have lived a coward in my life?"
Tang Wei's words were endless complaints, but they also had deep helplessness. For a moment, Su Yichen didn't know how to persuade him, so he opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.
"Brother, I'm more than teenager than you. Today I'll give you a piece of advice." Tang Wei, who had a blushing face, slapped Su Yichen's shoulder hard and said loudly: "There is a political saying that economic foundation determines superstructure. In my opinion, without the economic foundation, all the ideals, careers, and scientific dreams are all fucking bullshit!"
Chapter completed!