tired spring return

Retiring in the bamboo forest, I will never forget it in my two lives.

Patriarch Zhu did what he said, finished speaking, and left on his own.

Pei Minzhi didn't say a single word from the beginning to the end, but that shambling old figure gradually brought his always distracted sight into focus.

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the patriarch opened the courtyard door, he saw a silent tall figure waiting there.The man leaned against the wall slantingly, his eyes were loose and silent.There is no extra emotion, a face that exudes coldness, arrogance and alienation unabashedly, condensed with frost that will not melt for thousands of years.

But overnight, this person was indeed quite different from the one Elder Zhu had seen yesterday.He had put on clean robes, shaved, and combed his hair carefully.

It turned out that he was so young, the patriarch was secretly startled.I just feel that that kind of youth is extremely disproportionate to the vicissitudes of life in him.

Seeing him approaching, the man stood up straight and tried his best to show an imperceptible polite smile.

"Uncle Zhu, does the village need a teacher?"

"That's natural. Those of us in the village are not afraid of being poor, let alone suffering, but we are afraid that we will not see hope if we are so ignorant for generations."

The patriarch's old eyes couldn't hide surprise and anticipation.

"However, have you thought about it?"

"Think about it."

"Okay, okay! Then I, the old man, thank you for the whole village!"

Speaking of which, the patriarch tremblingly wanted to bow to Pei Minzhi.

Pei Min knew where he was willing to accept it, and with a frowning expression, he hurriedly helped the old man up.

The patriarch held Pei Minzhi's hand tightly with his skinny fingers, and said excitedly: "My good boy, you don't have to worry about the rest, I will take care of everything...

Pei Zhizhi walked a long way until Minzhi, and he could still hear Zhu Bo's sighs.

"From now on, these dolls in our village finally have hope!"

The patriarchs are old and strong, and their work efficiency is extremely high.Within three days, the Zhujia School, which was remodeled from the old ancestral hall in the village, was officially listed.

Because all enrollment is free, almost all school-age children in the village are here.Children as young as six or seven years old, and teenagers as big as teenagers crowded the spacious and bright hall to the brim.Pei Minzhi roughly calculated that there were more than thirty people.

Because the children here have never had the opportunity to go to school, no matter how old or young they are, they are temporarily arranged in a classroom and receive Pei Minzhi's enlightenment education, focusing on literacy.

At first, the whole village was dazzled by the great news, but soon after the good times, they found that the new teacher had a very strange temper.

He doesn't seem to care about anything, almost indifferent, just casual.

Since they want to open a school, they completely stand by and watch.I don't care about all the preparations and preparations, and I don't come here leisurely until the time for the official start of the class is almost over.

Since there is no source of income at all, he is now a husband but refuses to charge any fees.Although they accept the wheat, vegetables and other remunerations sent by each household, they don't care about how much they send, and everything depends on their own economic conditions and intentions.

It's not just these two things that are weird.

It didn't take long for people to discover that although this Mr. Pei was young, he had a handsome face that people would never forget.But he is extraordinarily taciturn, and he is polite to everyone but rejects thousands of miles.Even in class, facing the innocent children, the expressionless cold face never showed the slightest warmth.From beginning to end, he was unsmiling and very strict.

But he is very patient with learning. Although the children have different receptivity, he can teach every child tirelessly.One person disciplines so many monkey-like children with all his heart and has no complaints.

All in all, this person obviously has a warm heart, and he is doing great good deeds tirelessly, but he is as cold and indifferent as if soaked in frost.

The children were a little afraid of this cold teacher in their bones.Only one boy named Chen Xiaogen was an exception.

The seven or eight-year-old child seemed to like him very much.No matter how bad Pei Minzhi's face was, or how he deliberately turned a blind eye to him, this child was always sticking to him relentlessly.

He is thin and small, much shorter than most children of the same age.The clothes on his body are not tattered, but they are also slightly shabby.The skin on a small face is rough and dark, and it looks like a wild child who has grown up in the sun all day long.It's just that this unattractive child has a pair of exquisite big eyes.

When those eyes flickered at Pei Minzhi for the first time, Pei Minzhi's heart trembled violently uncontrollably.

Delicate and slender eyelashes, slightly brown pupils, at first glance, it looks like a certain person, someone that he dare not think of for a moment...

His eyes were bright when he was listening to the class, and he kept chasing Pei Minzhi all the time.

On the surface, Pei Minzhi was avoiding that scorching gaze without any trace, but secretly she couldn't restrain herself from wanting to take a second look.Sometimes he couldn't hold it anymore, he could only hide in the corner, staring into those eyes from afar, as if his soul had been sucked away.But that was just an ignorant child. While he was ashamed of his behavior, he couldn't help but use those eyes again and again to let himself fall into the dream he had imagined.

From then on, the child seemed to feel something in his heart, and he was completely attached to himself.Not only like chasing him in school, watching him, even after school.Unlike other children, he ran away like a wild horse and disappeared. He was either in a hurry to play or to go home. Instead, he sat obediently on the stone steps in front of the school, waiting patiently for someone.

Every time Pei Minzhi waited for all the children to leave, packed up the books, tables and chairs in the school, then closed the doors and windows, walked out, and walked towards his dilapidated house alone.

At this time, Xiao Gen would always come out from behind him with a rag bag on his back, quietly following his footsteps.He didn't speak, and Pei Minzhi ignored him, just like this, a big and a small, one after the other, walked from the east end of the village to the west end.

Until Pei Minzhi entered the gate of his own courtyard, and when he turned his head again, Xiao Gen'er had already stopped far away.He never walked in the door without his permission.Pei Minzhi lit the fire and cooked on his own, with the clanging sound accompanied by the rising smoke, he prepared a simple meal in a short time.Whenever he brought the bowls and chopsticks to eat, a small furry head would definitely appear outside the fence in the yard.

Pei Minzhi waved to him, motioning for him to come and eat together.

He happily ran in the door, and he was neither polite nor picky. He picked up the bowl and chopsticks that Pei Minzhi had prepared for him, and gorged himself.When he was full, he would stand up and bow to Pei Minzhi upright, and then run away with his rag bag.

When there was no class in the afternoon, Pei Minzhi thought he wouldn't come.Unexpectedly, when it was time for the meal, as soon as the steaming hot meal was served, the little head appeared outside the fence on time.

After a long time, Pei Minzhi got used to preparing two sets of bowls and chopsticks to eat with him.

The two were silent and got along very well.

Pei Minzhi had gotten used to this silent way of getting along a long time ago, and didn't notice anything unusual at all.Until one day, he accidentally heard other children chasing after Chen Xiaogen's buttocks, calling him a little fool, a little dumb, and then suddenly realized that this child had never said a word to him!