Part One of the Substitute Teacher Series: from Farmer to Principal

Ma Jianguo found the fulcrum of his life on the three-foot podium of a substitute teacher. From the youth of "writing a love letter and tearing it into pieces" to the calmness of "being the principal of Daming Middle School", his story is filled with the wisdom of survival of "finding a new way after the ideal is blocked"; Zhu Xingmin used a motorcycle to carry the passion of love, but due to a car accident His "crazy love" and "unexpected death" ended abruptly, just like the regrets of countless ordinary people in that era who "finished their lives before they could understand"... These lines of fate are intertwined, forming a profile of an era: the struggles, persistence and hopes of ordinary people are never ordinary. The warmest undertones in the story are those "down-to-earth" details of life: the warmth of grandma cooking corn and roasting potatoes for the educated youth; the reality that "planting rice seedlings is more difficult than hoeing for the production team"; the poetry of reading poems around the fire in winter; and the youthful throbbing of "motorcycles galloping on the asphalt road"... There are three articles in the substitute teacher series.