One of the four pests is rats. In order to urge the entire population to fight rats, each household is required to hand in a certain number of rat tails. On the way to school, I saw some shops hanging

One of the four pests is rats. In order to urge the entire population to fight rats, each household is required to hand in a certain number of rat tails. On the way to school, I saw some shops hanging a few or even a dozen rat tails tied together on the beams. I heard people with many hanging rat tails standing at the door to show off to others, saying that their homes had recently been busy. Several rats were killed and a few more rat tails were saved. The Great Leap Forward of 1958 not only eradicated the four evils, but also eradicated illiteracy. If I only saw and heard two things about eliminating the four pests with my own eyes, then in literacy, I was a teacher who actually taught a student. I don’t remember who took me to my literacy target’s home for the first time. I just remember that her home was behind Ximen Hewan Street, more than a mile away from Ximen Primary School. As soon as you enter the door, you can see a crib in the middle of the room, with a small baby sleeping in the crib. Later, every time I went to her house with my schoolbag on my back after school in the afternoon, she asked me to sit on a small stool not far from the rocking bed, and I took out the literacy textbook in my schoolbag. She took out her literacy textbook from the crib, sat opposite me, put one hand on the crib, gently rocked the sleeping baby next to her, and held the textbook in the other hand. I pointed to the words in the book and taught her to read them. When I read them once, she would read them again. After teaching a few words, she said she wouldn’t recognize them today, but would recognize them next time, so I went home with my schoolbag on my back. Just like this, I went to her house several times, but then I left before I finished teaching the words in the thin literacy textbook. I was ten years old that year, and she must have been in her twenties at the time, because I had never seen her have a child older than the baby sleeping in the crib. Time flies, and now fifty-six years have passed. If she is still alive, I wonder if she will still recall the things that happened when she was literacy, and remember that there was a young enlightenment teacher like me...