Forest Kindergarten

The sky was gray, the car windows were washed clean by the heavy rain, and the water marks like small streams blocked the line of sight, making it impossible to see the scenery outside clearly.

There were not many people in the car, and they were all carrying large and small bags.At every stop, someone gets off.The minibus driver glanced at the boy sitting in the last row in the rearview mirror and asked, "Are you going to Zongshan?"

Zongshan is the terminus of this bus route. Generally, the driver will not go there if there is no one else. The weather is bad today, and I ran slowly. I even met someone who was going to the terminus. I had to be told by my wife if I came home late.

The boy was in his early 20s, fair and handsome, and he walked to the front row with a big bag on his back and sat down: "Yes, I'm going to Zongshan. How long will it take?"

The wiper was frantically brushing, and just after it was cleaned, within a second, the front screen was soaked by heavy rain again, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

Seeing that he was polite, the driver put aside the unhappiness in his heart and chatted with him: "In half an hour, the next stop will be. You look unfamiliar, aren't you a local?"

Boy: "No."

Driver: "What are you doing in Zongshan? Do you have relatives?"

Boy: "I'm here to teach."

The driver looked him up and down again: "Where are there kids going to school in Zongshan? Did you go to the wrong place?"

The boy took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked at it: "That's right, the contact person asked me to go to Zongshan Village."

Driver: "Then it may have happened again in the past few years. Is there someone to pick you up when you arrive at Zongshan Station? With such heavy rain, you have to walk for more than an hour to reach the village after getting off the car."

Boy: "The contact said the village chief will come to pick me up."

The driver nodded: "In the past few years, there have been several support teachers in the town, all of whom are just like you, young people, I didn't say that, you young people are impatient. In the past few years, the longest one stayed for 20 days. In the countryside, the kids in your city have never suffered, and you can't get used to it..."

The boy didn't refute, just smiled and listened to his complaints.

"Look at your delicate skin and tender flesh. My brother told you to make a bet. I run this line every three days. I guess the fourth or fifth time at most can pick you up to the train station." That is half a month. back.

The boy didn't want to make any bets with him at all. He frowned and said, "Let's see the situation first. If there is a child who needs me, I will stay."

The rain has subsided, the dirt road is muddy, the car is bumping badly, the wipers have slowed down, and the front windshield is clean and bright after being washed. It is just after twelve o'clock, and the sky is cloudy, but it is not difficult to see the scenery clearly.

The boy looked out of the window, and the CMB was walking through the mountains and forests. His eyes were filled with colorful greens, brown and green wet with muddy water, emerald green of the upper shoots, spring green and dark green with overlapping branches and leaves, and moss on the ground and tree trunks. Green, half a person's tall wild grass green in the depths of the forest.

Nature always has its own way to make the colors on the canvas complicated but organized.

The brakes of minibuses are old, and drivers are always used to depressing a few times in advance to reduce the speed of the vehicle, and then depressing deeply at the end.The car swayed forward and stopped.

The boy got out of the car with a big bag on his back, and the slightly cool fresh air rushed over his face.Although the rain was a little lighter, it still wet his head and shoulders in an instant. He trotted for two steps and ran into a shed made of wood and thatch by the roadside.

The rain dripped down the thatched beaded curtains. The boy took his mobile phone and wanted to contact the village chief, but found that there was no signal at all.

He waited in the shed for a long time, but no one came to pick him up.

He dug out an umbrella from the bottom of the big bag, walked out of the shed under the umbrella, and looked forward along the not-so-obvious road, which stretched crookedly up the mountain.

"One hour..." He muttered to himself, and walked forward.

"Ye Kong, what are your plans?" the classmate asked him.

"No plans." Ye Kong shrugged.

"You don't really want to go to a place where the birds don't shit, do you?"

Ye Kong: "To be honest, I'm still looking forward to it. A person can come and go freely, and can do what he wants to do."

The classmates didn't say anything anymore, Ye Kong is always so special, if you say it well, you are special, if you say it bad, you don't fit in.He is an orphan, and he finished college with a full scholarship, and signed up for teaching support on the eve of graduation.

He is kind and gentle, and treats everyone very well, so he was not excluded because of his background and uniqueness.

Ye Kong carried all his belongings on his back, and walked towards Zongshan step by step.The rain became lighter and lighter, and then slowly stopped.He climbed to the top of the mountain on hands and feet, washed his hands at a small spring, and planned to continue down the mountain.

The ground where I was squatting was covered with mud, and my sports shoes had been wet for a long time, and the soles of my shoes were stuck in the mud.The muddy water and weeds glowed with a faint golden light, and his side was also warm.

The sun is out.

He stood up, drilled out of the woods, and looked around, the entire forest sea in early summer was glowing with golden light, the clouds behind the light were light gray and blue, the sky was clear and high, and a rainbow emerged from a distant valley, spanning to a faraway place. far mountain top.

Down the mountain road, you can see several residential buildings and patches of farmland, which should be Zongshan Village.

Magnificent, full of vitality, natural and quiet.

"This is what I want!" Away from the city and away from the crowds.

The irritability that had arisen from the rain and fatigue just now disappeared, Ye Kong took a deep breath of the earthy air after the rain, couldn't hide his smile, and walked down the mountain.

After walking for another hour, I walked on the path among the rice fields. There were farmers weeding in the fields. The mid-season rice had just been transplanted, and the green and short seedlings were very cute.

The farmer shouted to him: "I haven't seen you! Who are you looking for?"

Ye Kong shielded his forehead from the sun with his hands: "I'm a new teacher! Where is the village chief?"

"Teacher? I didn't hear that the teacher is coming!" The farmer pointed to the village in the distance: "The first house at the entrance of the village is the village head's house. Go and ask!"

The village chief, in his 60s, was baking potatoes in the courtyard. He was taken aback for a moment when he saw that his body had dried up with mud and water and turned into a stranger with dirt hanging on his body.

Ye Kong: "Excuse me, are you the village chief?"

Village head: "I am, who are you?"

Ye Kongxin said that it's fine if you forgot to pick me up, and asked who I am?

"My name is Ye Kong, and I am the teacher sent to help teach."

"Oh oh oh! I know, I know!" The village chief put down the fire stick and stood up to greet the gate of the courtyard: "Why are you here?"

"..." Ye Kong's smile froze on his face, and the dirt on his face fell straight down, "I'll teach the children..."

The village head: "The town told me that you are not coming, what's the matter? You came so far away by yourself? Come in and sit down!"

Ye Kong entered the house, and he didn’t feel embarrassed to sit on the dirt on his body. The village head poured him a bowl of water: "There are only two children in our village, and one in the next village. I thought I would send the three of them to the town to study. .”

"Only three children?" Ye Kong asked.

"Only three, the one in the outer village is ten years old, and the one here in Zongshan

One is six years old and the other is only two years old. "

The village head looked at Ye Kong with some concern: "Teacher, the son's parents have gone to the city, and no one cares about them. If you go to the town to go to school and go back and forth forty miles, you usually have to live in the town, and you have to pay for it." There is someone following them, the village is short of manpower, how can we find someone to take care of them? If you stay, they don't have to run away."

The village chief looked at him eagerly: "Don't worry, if the town doesn't give you money, the village will squeeze out money to pay you. Zongshan is a place with beautiful mountains, rivers, people and people, and the vegetables grown are also delicious. You won't treat the little one badly." Teacher Kong is yours!"

He thought of something, and shouted: "Oh, my potatoes!" He rushed to the yard, picked out the potatoes wrapped in tin foil from the clay oven with a fire stick, peeled them and handed them to Ye Kong: "Taste it, dip it in salt eat."

Ye Kong broke open the soft baked potato, dipped it in salt and took a bite, it was fragrant and hot, probably because he was hungry, he took a few bites and couldn't stop eating.

"Is it delicious? Don't choke, drink some water. After eating, I will take you to see where you live." The village chief said it very naturally, as if Ye Kong had agreed to stay.

Ye Kong nodded: "Thank you, village chief." He really didn't want to leave.

The village chief took him through the village, which was small, with about a dozen households.

Going to the root of the mountain, through a sycamore forest, there is an old house behind a weedy clearing.

"You live here. It was originally prepared for the teacher. The water and electricity are connected and cleaned. It is a little far from the village, but it is usually quiet." The village chief opened the wooden door with a clatter, took off his shoes and placed them at the door.

Ye Kong threw his shoes, coat and bag at the door. The two-story wooden house is suspended below, and rough cobblestones are padded under the wooden pillars to prevent water and moth.

The door panels of the room can all be removed, and the lighting is very good. The evening sunlight shines in softly, and fine dust can be seen flying in the halo.

Ye Kong fell in love with this place immediately, and turned the wooden house up and down with a little excitement.

"The village is relatively simple, and Teacher Xiaokong will be wronged."

"Village chief, this place is very good, beyond my imagination, I like it very much." Ye Kong said sincerely.

A small black head protruded from the gate, Ye Kong waved at him, the village chief turned around and called: "Fei Ya, come here!"

The five or six-year-old girl climbed onto the floor, ran over, hid behind the village chief, and left a string of small muddy footprints on the floor.

The village chief picked her out: "This is our village's cub, named Fei Ya, who is six years old this year, and she has a two-and-a-half-year-old brother named Fei Miao..." Fei Ya broke free from the village chief's hand as soon as she struggled, Running upstairs, the village chief yelled: "You bastard, come down for me!"

Fei Ya ignored him, and he couldn't catch up, sighed: "Teacher, don't mind, Fei Ya's parents have both gone to work in the city, and her grandma watched her and her younger brother alone. Cub, used to being wild..."

Fei Ya poked her head down from the stairs on the second floor and made faces at the two of them.

Ye Kong smiled and said: "It's nothing, this kind of innocence is rare."

The village head didn't understand these words: "In the future, I will trouble the teacher to teach them well."

Ye Kong bowed to him: "You are welcome, just call me Xiaokong. I will ask you to take care of me in the future."

He had dinner at the village chief's house, washed up, and when he returned to the wooden house, the sky had turned dark blue, the stars couldn't wait to shine, and there were no lights in the countryside. He played the flashlight given to him by the village chief, and opened the wooden door. The black shadow rushed over!

"Who!?" He was so bold that he kicked on his shoes and chased after him, but the black shadow disappeared.

Maybe it's a small animal in the mountains, he thought.Sit at the door and pat off the soil on the bag, take it into the house, and close the door.

Looking back, a pair of big eyes gleamed in the darkness.

Ye Kong supported his body that was leaning back and almost fell, and called softly: "Fei Ya?"