Pencils, pens, stationery boxes Jiao Shoufeng When I was in elementary school, I didn't know how to cherish pencils. Every time I write, I always sharpen the tip of the pen very finely, and I can sharpen the pencil several times when copying a lesson. I don't like to use a short pencil, so I just throw it away with half of it, and I ask my dad to buy a new one. After asking for this two or three times, my father asked me, "What about the pencil tip you used?"I said, "Throw it away." Dad said, "In the future, if you want a new one, you will have to exchange it for the old one." "Then I don't dare to throw it away, to see if it's still long, and I don't dare to take it to my dad to change it. It was only an inch long, so I took it to my dad, thinking that I could always get a new one this time. He took out a pencil sleeve, put it on the tip of the pencil, and said to me, "Look, isn't it still possible to write?""I took it back and used it for a few days, this time it was only the size of a peanut kernel, and then I took it to my dad for a new one. I pouted, upset, and muttered that Daddy was too picky. When my father heard this, he smiled and said to me, "Don't look at the pencil as small, it was made after the labor of many workers' uncles." We should all cherish the fruits of other people's labor. Besides, how many students in the country should produce more pencils a year if they don't save pencils like you. "I was ashamed to hear my father's words, and I never threw pencils around again.
Almost everyone in my class had a stationery box, but I didn't. I asked my dad to buy me one too. Dad said, "Okay, Daddy will make one for you." "The next night my father came home from work, borrowed a small saw and a file, and made me a stationery box out of a wooden plank. After it was done, it was also cut out with flower paper and pasted on the lid of the box. I took it and looked at it, and I was very happy. After her sister Lingling went to school, she always argued with her father to buy her a fountain pen, but her father didn't buy it for her. Dad said, "You're still young, you don't need a pen, and when you're older, Dad will buy it for you." But Lingling still kept thinking about writing with a pen. Once, she picked up a pen on the road, came home and played with it, and later put it in her school bag. The younger brother told her to give it to the teacher, and she said, "Dad won't buy me a fountain pen, and won't I use one if I find one?"Dad found out, so he said to Lingling, "The things you found should be returned to others." Quickly return the pen to the owner, and if you can't find the owner, hand it over to the head teacher. Even if we find a penny, we have to think about returning it to others. He also told Lingling that it was inconvenient to use a fountain pen in the first grade, and when the teacher said that she needed to use a fountain pen, she must buy one for her. And he said, "Don't you love fountain pens?" If in the future, when you can use a fountain pen, you accidentally lose the fountain pen, and others will not return it if they pick it up, how do you feel? Now the student who lost the pen should wish someone would return it to him immediately! When my sister heard this, she immediately took out a pen and handed it to the teacher. [Notes].
Jiao Shoufeng: Jiao Yulu's eldest daughter.
*: "Family style and family motto"**