Hearing Weng Chenggu's words that sounded like his last will, Ah Sheng and several other students and assistants had tears in their eyes.

"teacher!"

"Okay, stop being such a little girl. I know my body and my illness. Do you think I don't know anything by hiding my medical reports and lying to me?"

Weng Chenggu said, smiling with relief, "Ah Sheng, I am luckier than many people to be able to meet the person I have always wanted to meet in the last stage of my life. God has been very kind to me."

"So don't feel unfair, and don't feel sorry for me. When you go to Peijia Village tomorrow and meet Ade, no matter how he treats me, remember not to be impulsive. It's because I've let him down and his parents."

"I just want to see him more in his last days, and I will be satisfied. If possible, it would be even better if I could see him get married and have someone to take care of him for the rest of his life."

As if he was thinking of some beautiful picture, there was even a hint of longing smile on the corner of Weng Chenggu's mouth, which made Asheng and other students and assistants feel even more sad for their teacher.

What can we do?

The regrets and mistakes of the past that can never be made up for, the misunderstandings and unsolvable knots in the heart, are all the pains caused by those special years.

Countless families died as a result.

What happened between Weng De and their teacher is nothing more than a microcosm of the entire society.

"Teacher, we got it. Don't worry. When we get to Peijia Village, we will ask the village chief to let you stay in the village to recuperate. Peijia Village is just outside Shennong Mountain, so it can provide geographical convenience for our work this time."

"When the time comes, my fellow apprentices and I will go into the mountains to survey the geology and look for mineral veins. You will analyze and guide us based on our exploration logs. Do you agree?"

"If you don't agree, we also don't agree with you staying in Shannan and not going back."

Weng Chenggu also knew that Asheng and the others were actually worried about him, fearing that he would follow them into the mountains despite his sick body.

He actually knew that at this stage, his physical strength was no longer enough for him to conduct on-site geological exploration of the earth's veins.

But the matter of the gold mine is also of great importance. The main reason is that this gold mine has already been discovered and mined by a criminal group, and the higher-ups are taking this matter very seriously.

There were more than just his professional surveying team. He volunteered to come. A small part of them was here to determine on the spot whether there really was a gold mine, and the rest was just to see if there was any hope of finding Wengde.

Now he actually met him, and he met the person he wanted to meet on the first day of arrival. What could be more exciting than this?

"If you don't want to go into the mountains, then don't go into the mountains."

Seeing that the teacher agreed, Asheng and the others were very happy.

*

Weng Deke didn't know that he was about to meet an old friend.

Zhuo Wei, Yu Xiaowei and others were also surprised to see the bustling construction site in the village that was in full swing.

After learning that this was a school being built, the three public security comrades were stunned.

The people in this village are so poor that there are only a few brick houses, and most of them are made of mud, but they actually understand the importance of education.

The whole village gathered their strength and started to build their own primary school.

"Village Chief Pei, after you built this school, will there be any teachers?"

The village built its own primary school. Although it was for the sake of the children, but in such a remote and poor place, are there any teachers willing to come here?

Moreover, the school was built by themselves and is not under the jurisdiction of the Education Bureau. Can the higher-ups assign teachers to it?

After several years of major movements, there is now a shortage of teachers everywhere.

Zhuo Wei is very worried about the future of the school in Peijia Village which has not yet been built.

"Yes, Weng De is our school's first principal and part-time teacher."

Pei Mingzhi immediately said as a matter of course.

"Ah?" Zhuo Wei, Yu Xiaowei and Kuang Wei were all stunned.

Hasn't Weng De been with them all the way here?

When did Weng De agree to be the principal of Peijia Village Primary School? How come they didn't know?

"And the little girl you just met, Alai, is also a teacher in our village primary school."

"There are not too many children in our village now, so two teachers are enough for now. If there are not enough in the future, we will go to the commune and ask the higher-ups to assign teachers to us."

"Wait, Village Chief Pei, let me ask you, is the Alai you mentioned the same person as the Alai I know?"

Zhuo Wei finally reacted.

When he reported the case, Weng Debu said that he escaped with a young man named Alai among the mountain people.

However, because they never had the chance to see Alai from beginning to end, although Zhuo Wei also heard Mo Yan and Village Chief Pei calling the little girl Alai, Zhuo Wei and others did not know that the original young boy Alai was actually a girl.

Therefore, the two Alais were not connected together.

Now I heard that Weng De was going to be the principal here and teach the children, and I also heard that the little girl named Alai was also a teacher.

Zhuo Wei suddenly had an idea and asked.

"If Comrade Zhuo is asking whether this Alai in our village is the same Alai who was with Weng De before, then yes, that's right."

"Ah? It's true! But, shouldn't he be a teenager? How did he become a little girl? Also, didn't Weng De say that she went back to the mountains? There was such a big forest fire a few days ago, Weng De thought she had died a long time ago, but unexpectedly, she was in Peijia Village. What's going on? Didn't Alai go back to the village where her own people lived in Qinhou Mountain?"

Pei Mingzhi did not tell Mo Yan whether Alai's original identity as a mountain villager should be concealed, but he still discussed it with Alai himself.

Although the household registration system is not very strict nowadays and you can basically register as long as you go, but if you really want to investigate, if a person who has never appeared before suddenly appears in your village, you still have to explain his origin.

After all, the population will not increase on its own.

Therefore, rather than making up all lies, half-truths and half-falsehoods are more likely to convince people.

So Alai had already discussed this with Village Chief Pei in private.

As for the other people in the village, they had already learned not to talk nonsense about things they didn't know.

Now that Zhuo Wei asked about it, Pei Mingzhi naturally recited the lyrics he had already agreed on with Alai.

"Alai is originally a girl, but the mountain people live in the mountains every day and make a living by hunting. They usually dress like teenagers. Teacher Weng came from outside and probably didn't know this. He always saw Alai dressed like a teenager, so he thought Alai was a boy."

"As for what you said about not going back to Qinhou Mountain, that's not true. This girl said she was unlucky. She was really unlucky. After Teacher Weng was rescued, she left him in our village and couldn't wait to go back. As a result, she fell into a big pit in the mountain halfway. It was because of this deep pit that she was protected from the fire after the mountain fire started."

"The fire was about to reach us, so we prepared to dig a firebreak, but Niuniu's mother found the girl in the pit. Now we have rescued her."

"You can tell whether it's fate or not. For two consecutive times, both Teacher Weng and Alai were saved by our village. Then Alai decided to stay in our village. After all, the wildfire was so big and it burned from her home. Needless to say, the situation over there was pitiful. So she just settled in our village."

"As for Teacher Weng, after Alai escaped from danger, she asked our village to send someone to Qinhou Mountain to look for him. She was afraid that Teacher Weng would think she was dead, so she asked him to come to Peijia Village to reunite after hearing the news!"

"What a coincidence! Today I went to the government office to collect public food and register Teacher Alai's household registration. I met Comrade Zhuo at the state-owned restaurant. You brought Teacher Weng back directly. How great!"

Zhuo Wei thinks it’s pretty good.

But aren’t there too many coincidences?

How come it just happened to be a coincidence that the people from Peijia Village happened to be there?

But if you ask him to point out what's wrong here, Zhuo Wei can't say it.

But the public security experience and intuition told him that things here would definitely not be that simple.

Right now, until anything is clarified, we can only listen to it this way.

Anyway, I can’t go back to the commune today, so I have to spend the night in the village.

Zhuo Wei and the others exchanged glances and understood what each other wanted to convey.

That is to take advantage of the opportunity of staying here overnight, preferably during dinner, to find out as much useful information as possible in a roundabout way.

"I can see that the people in Peijia Village are in such good spirits that they are not seen in other villages. They are energetic, kind and enthusiastic."

When Pei Mingzhi heard the compliment, he nodded without hesitation and said, "That's right. The people in our village are famous for their enthusiasm and kindness."

The famously enthusiastic villagers: …

We thank you, village chief! Don't brag too much about this obviously untrue boast! It will be embarrassing if you are exposed!

"I see that the children in your village are very brave. Their pet is actually a little tiger!"

Zhuo Wei suddenly threw out this sentence tentatively.

Pei Mingzhi was stunned for a moment.

Has Xiao Baibai been discovered?

Well, he just knew that no matter how soft and cute it looked, a tiger was still a tiger. How could it be mistaken for a cat?

"Oh, that's Niuniu's little playmate. It's a sick tiger that's not in good health. Comrade Zhuo has also seen it. It looks completely different from other tiger cubs. Its fur color is wrong. It must have been abandoned by its mother tiger."

"We saw it when we went to the forest to collect firewood. We couldn't just watch it die. All living things have spirits, and it's a living being after all. So we brought it home. Niuniu has been taking care of it since it started drinking milk. The little guy doesn't think he's a tiger. He's very affectionate with Niuniu, and meows every day. He thinks he's a cat. In that case, we can just keep him. It won't cost much food. Comrade Zhuo, don't you agree?"

Zhuo Wei: …

You call such a strong little tiger a sick tiger?

It is a white tiger for sure, and it might have really been abandoned by its mother.

But if you say that the tiger mistook itself for a cat, there is no way Zhuo Wei would believe it.

This little guy looks harmless now, and it won’t even take three months. Why don’t you try it?

Do you believe it can eat people?

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