In 1992, a small village owner became the richest man in the village by owning a car.

Chapter 532 Students as
The old man is the teacher Yang, Yang Naigang, mentioned by Yu Dawei.

He was also one of Dawei's former teachers.

However, compared to before, the old man now has a lot more white hair and many wrinkles on his face.

As far as Yu Dawei knew, Teacher Yang had two sons. The elder son worked in another province and the family had moved to another place. He only came back during holidays. The younger son worked in the county town and came back to the village more often.

Teacher Yang's home is next to Yujiatun, in front of Xianfengtun. There is a Xianfeng Primary School there, which is under the jurisdiction of Minquan Village and is the only primary school in Minquan Village.

Teacher Yang seems to have been transferred from Xianfeng Elementary School back then, but for some reason she was never transferred back.

Above the gate of the preschool, there is a wooden sign that reads "Preschool" in red paint.

Yu Dawei looked up and glanced at the classroom with a touch of reminiscence before calling to his eldest son, Yu Muyu, and leading his wife into the classroom.

Despite the relatively outdated facilities at Heshan Elementary School, the classrooms are spacious enough that even twenty or thirty parents standing at the back of the classroom won't feel crowded.

As Yu Dawei stepped in, a scent of wood and a slight dampness filled his nostrils, followed by a strange sense of familiarity washing over him.

He was all too familiar with the smell in the classroom. Every time he came to Heshan Elementary School, especially when he walked into the classroom, he would always remember the days when he was the king of the class when he was a child.

The back wall has no windows, only the south side has vertical wooden windows. A preschool classroom has as many as four windows, and between two windows there is a load-bearing wall, and the outside is covered with standard rectangular tiles.

The area on the north wall without windows was painted white at the top and green at the bottom, with several portraits of celebrities hanging on the white wall.

Yu Dawei glanced at it and saw that the paintings on the wall seemed to have been changed. There were four portraits in total, all framed in wooden frames: one of Galileo, one of Newton, one of Einstein, and one of Beethoven.

These portraits depicted the same people Yu Dawei attended school, but it seems Principal Zhang reframed them and replaced them with new ones.

Looking straight ahead, there is a rectangular lectern made of cement. In front of it is a lectern table, slightly larger than a desk, with partitions on three sides. On the lectern table are two boxes of chalk, a rag, and a blackboard eraser.

In addition, there were a few bits of chalk scattered on the table, as well as fine white chalk dust floating on it.

The lectern is yellow all over and looks very new.

Above the podium, on the west wall, which is three meters high and eight meters long, there is a huge blackboard! Although the blackboard does not cover the entire wall, it is large enough, occupying at least two-thirds of the entire wall surface.

There were some words written in chalk, but the handwriting was crooked and messy. There was also a small turtle drawn next to it. I don't know which student drew it.

The blackboard looks very old; there are several cracks around the wooden board, but the writing area is still usable, which is probably why it hasn't been replaced.

Above the blackboard is a small red flag of the motherland, slightly smaller than normal, flanked by two sentences spoken by the great teacher.

They were all framed with beautiful wooden borders, the lettering was gold, and the background was green.

The text on the left reads: Study hard.

The words written on the right are: "Strive for progress every day." Everything is brand new, which is something Yu Dawei specifically mentioned when he donated to the school. Other things can remain the same, but the banner of China and the creed of education must be replaced.

We need to make children feel what they should be doing most during their student years.

We should study hard and strive for improvement every day.

Yu Dawei made a substantial donation to the school a few years ago. Principal Zhang was so happy at the time that he wanted to promote Yu Dawei's donation, since it was unprecedented for an individual to donate to the school since its inception!
And each donation is a large sum!

The desks and chairs in the preschool classrooms today are all new; the old desks and chairs are simply unbearable to look at compared to the current ones.

The paint on the old tables had long since peeled off, and some tables even had several holes in them, or cracks all over them, making it easy for pencils to fall into the tabletop.

The original benches weren't the individual kind, but rather long benches for two people to sit on, which is the kind Yu Dawei sat on when he went to school as a child.

So when Yu Dawei donated money, he also instructed that some of the original tables that could be used should be kept, and those that couldn't be used should be chopped up and used for firewood.

As for those old-fashioned long benches, throw them away! Throw them all away!

Back when I was in school, I was fairly strong and healthy. There was a skinny boy next to me who was quite tall but had very little flesh. If he stood up, my chair would tip over in my direction if I wasn't careful.

Because I'm heavy, sometimes if I sit a little too far out, the long bench will get stuck.

Sometimes, because of this, Yu Dawei would often scold his deskmate, to the point that if he didn't stand up after class, Yu Dawei wouldn't dare to stand up beforehand.

In addition to tables and chairs, Yu Dawei also set up a book corner for each class.

Yu Dawei glanced at the preschool's book corner and saw an old table in the corner of the south window near the blackboard, with a yellow cabinet on it.

There were some books standing upright on the cabinet. Yu Dawei felt that there must be more than just a few books inside the cabinet.

The books were retrieved by Yu Dawei from the scrap metal recycling markets in the town and county. Han Jingfan also helped with this task, collecting a lot of old books before delivering them to the school.

The books come in a wide variety of categories, including novels, comic books, and all sorts of other books. As long as you can read and want to read, you're guaranteed to find something you like.

Yu Dawei didn't have many other ideas; he simply wanted to ensure that children who loved reading had books to read, just like Han Jingfan back then.

The school has a reading corner where they select promising students who truly love reading.

When most parents came in, the children followed suit and rushed into the preschool class.

Some parents, being shrewd, secretly brought their children to sit in the front row. After arranging seats for their children, they felt at ease going back to the back of the classroom to chat with people from the same village.

Yu Dawei didn't care too much. The blackboard was big enough, his own child wasn't nearsighted, and it was just a preschool class, so it was actually similar to He Huihui's kindergarten in town.

(End of this chapter)