wake up daydreaming

"Have you decided yet?"

"Is this your final decision?"

"May I take the liberty to ask, what are your plans after you give up my company's offer?"

Chen Yuqian couldn't remember how many calls from hr he had received recently.

Every day, the college is urging fresh graduates who have not signed the tripartite agreement to register their whereabouts after graduation, which is used to calculate the employment rate and admission rate. Chen Yuqian, who has no plans to study in graduate school, has rejected all the offers from big factories that he got in the spring recruitment .

The counselor was the most surprised. He rushed to Chen Yuqian's dormitory and saw no one. He was anxious and called his parents.

Chen Yuqian had no classes in the last semester, and would go back to towns in T city almost every week.When the counselor called, Li Li and Chen Tengfei were also in their hometown.The primary school for the children of migrant workers at the gate of the village has only a three-story teaching building. The playground is made of concrete. Near the iron fence are two ping-pong tables that have been washed and faded by the rain and the sun. They used to be the only ones in the entire campus. entertainment and sports facilities.

Li Li and Chen Tengfei stood outside the fence and looked in, as if they were waiting for children who were about to leave school. Their son was not in the teaching building, but at the other end of the playground. The large inflatable ocean ball pool with an area of ​​about [-] square meters was crowded with people. The lower grade pupils playing in the water, and Chen Yuqian, who was pacing around the pool, was almost hoarse: "Don't forget the movements taught on the shore just now, children!"

The children laughed and poured water on Chen Yuqian. Every time after class, his shorts and white round-neck T-shirt would be soaked. He also knew that it is a child's nature to love to play, so he continued to verbally educate him: "Weekend Where can't I go to play at home during the summer vacation?"

After all, the children still like this young teacher who appears every afternoon every week and gives all kinds of answers.Chen Yuqian's thoughts now are completely different from when he first came to practice. Realizing that the skill of swimming cannot be improved quickly, he can only keep nagging, reminding them not to get close to unfamiliar waters.The towns in the south are densely covered with water networks and the water conditions are complicated. Even Chen Yuqian himself dare not go wild swimming. These children who do not live in high-rise commercial buildings have no parents to supervise them during the long vacation and do not have much homework. The tragedy of running wild in the streets and falling into the water happens almost every year.

After class, Chen Yuqian had to take these children to take a shower like a duck.The location is a small bathhouse run by a local behind the school.

It was originally provided for those migrant workers who live in poor living conditions to wash up at night, and the fee is charged per visit. After reaching a cooperation with the school, only students are accepted at this time of the week.Chen Yuqian also changed his clothes and pants, and his shoes were flip flops. Then he went back to the playground to drain the water from the pool with the cleaner, and rolled up the plastic sheet to prevent it from taking up space.

During the period, Chen Yuqian once again heard the cleaning staff discuss whether the swimming pool next door could be built before school starts in September.In February, the school received a donation large enough to renovate classrooms and establish scholarships, and the donor also rented the vacant lot next to the playground for a small swimming pool and new bathrooms to better standards.

Chen Yuqian looked at the pit that had already been dug out outside the iron fence, and then looked at the school gate filled with children's noise after school: "It should be possible. After the summer vacation, the construction team can work during the day."

After Chen Yuqian finished packing, he left the school gate, and the gate was no longer crowded.He approached Li Li and Chen Tengfei, and smiled at Lin Sang and his sister.The siblings would deliberately delay their return home this afternoon every week, at first standing in a completely different place from his parents, and then slowly getting closer to communicate with each other while waiting.

Chen Yuqian naturally picked up sister Lin Sang's schoolbag and helped her carry it for a while.My sister asked him expectantly if he would give swimming lessons to her class this semester. He rubbed his sister's head and said that he would not be able to officially join the job until next semester, and he would take some culture classes then.

The younger sister was so happy that she walked and danced, but her brother was not so happy.The information about the shortage of teachers in this school, low quality and high mobility was all revealed to Chen Yuqian by him. This young man who is good at observing words and emotions once longed for a teacher like Chen Yuqian to descend from the sky, but now he is so disturbed.

Especially since he eavesdropped on a phone call just now.What the other party meant was that the university that Chen Yuqian attended was very good, and the graduates from there would not think it would be a good choice to become a teacher in this kind of school. Li Li also sighed and said that he was Knowing that his son had passed the teacher qualification certificate test, he also thought that he wanted to take the qualification test, but never expected that he would go back to his hometown to support teaching.

Even Yu Zhou didn't support his idea for a while.Once or twice a month, he would come back with Chen Yuqian. One night, grandma heard the argument between him and Chen Yuqian, so she called Li Li and Chen Tengfei to come over. The family was in the kitchen Negotiating around the dinner table, the elders were able to know that the school's swimming pool and scholarship were donated by Yu Zhou.

"I can accept my limitations now, so I will try to break through in my field and redistribute as much wealth as possible, but I know that I can improve the situation of one school, I cannot improve the situation of all schools. Yes. I, I am not a saint, in fact no one can be a saint." Yu Zhou's persuasion won the nod of approval from Li Li and Chen Tengfei.Salary and remuneration are not what they are most worried about. What they are afraid of is that Chen Yuqian will not be able to accept the gap in reality in the future, and when he thinks about the opportunities to stay in big cities that were once readily available, he will feel annoyed and worthless.

"You don't have to be so idealistic," Yu Zhou seemed to be looking at some extinct creature, "You obviously have many ways to go."

Lin Sang also used a similar expression.At the corner about 3 minutes away from where he lived, he asked Chen Yuqian if he would meet better students if he went to a school in the city as a teacher.

Chen Yuqian looked at the parents on the left, then looked down at the two children on the right, and asked, "What kind of student is good?"

Lin Sang hesitated for a moment, then said, "At least I'll listen to you in PE class, it's not so noisy."

Chen Yuqian smiled, thought for a while, and told him the story in the textbook: "There are many fish on the beach after low tide, facing death under the scorching sun. A boy as old as you took the fish one by one. He picked it up and put it into the sea, and people passing by asked him why he did this, there were so many fish, no one cared at all, and he kept on moving, saying to the sea, this one cares, this one also cares..."

Lin Sang did this reading comprehension, but like many other reading comprehensions, he didn't memorize the answer. Hearing Chen Yuqian talk about it at this time, he didn't feel suddenly enlightened.Lin Sang's younger sister was also ignorant, and was about to ask what the story meant, when a white cat suddenly jumped out from nowhere, circling around Chen Yuqian's legs to be intimate, with its tail raised high.Sister Lin Sang suddenly understood, and said happily: "Xiao Zhou cares too! Xiao Zhou also wants to eat fish!"

Chen Yuqian sent the siblings to the door of the rental house, Xiaozhou followed them into the house, and ate two mouthfuls of cat food mixed with broth and rice in a porcelain bowl in the corner.He only teased the cat for a while, then waved his hands and walked home with his mother.

No matter how slow his pace is, Li Li and Chen Tengfei can always slow down and fall behind him, looking at the 23-year-old son who is just a young man in front of him, very much like him saying that night: "But I There is only one path in front of me..."

"I saw it." He said to Zhou, "It's like the first day of school, in the dormitory, I saw that there was no straw mat under your mattress, so I went to buy it with you."

Yu Zhou, who has always been eloquent, fell silent.As parents, they wanted to say something at this time, but found that what they said was pale.

"I saw it," Chen Yuqian said, "I can't pretend I didn't see it."

"...You really haven't changed at all." Yu Zhou also raised his hands in surrender, twitching the corners of his mouth, and said with emotion, "You are the suffering Chen Yuqian."

Li Li hurried to Chen Yuqian's side, took his son's arm, and told him that the counselor had called just now.

Chen Yuqian was stunned for a moment, Chen Tengfei walked to the other side of him, cleared his throat, and solemnly declared: "We have expressed our opinion to your counselor, and we will not interfere with your decision."

Chen Tengfei added: "Of course, you still have to think carefully, and you can't easily—"

"Hey, we agreed to respect, and respect is enough! Why are you so reasonable." Li Li frowned, and dismissed Chen Tengfei's long-winded words.

Chen Tengfei couldn't hold back his face anymore, and asked Li Li: "Who usually has more truths, and your online classes, I can hear cocoons in my ears."

"you--"

Chen Yuqian's parents were arguing with each other, but he was caught in the middle, but he was laughing, trying to persuade him to be reasonable, but Li Li pushed his son to his side instead.

Chen Tengfei was isolated and helpless, and he refused to be sullen, so he said indiscriminately: "If Yu Zhou is here, he must be more reasonable than you."

"Yu Zhou, you still have the nerve to mention Yu Zhou!" Li Li still wanted to confront Chen Tengfei, but the conversation turned as fast as his emotions, and he asked Chen Yuqian, "By the way, will Yu Zhou come back with you next week? "

"Ah, Yu Zhou..." Chen Yuqian's voice dissipated in the evening wind, and they walked together on the way home, with red clouds, green camphor trees on both sides, and three long shadows.