During the day, Cheng Jingbo went to class, and Bai Ziren was idle in the room, flipping through a book for a while, and quickly checked the time. Only ten minutes later, she took snacks to kill time, but after eating for a while Hui's tongue was very salty, and he frowned after taking a sip of the bitter tea.
She was a little absent-minded, and planned to go out for a walk to see the world, but soon remembered his advice, saying that she should not go too far, especially not to go into the mountains alone, so she could only give up and walk around the yard.
The sun was warming, and at some point nine rows of grids were drawn on the cement road in the yard, and the numbers were written respectively. After looking at it, she jumped on one grid and played rock-paper-scissors with her left and right hands. The left hand won. If you win, you jump single grid, if you lose, you jump double grid.
After playing for a few minutes, someone came over with a smile and said, "Hello."
Bai Ziren raised his head and saw Xu Luoshan standing in front of him. He was a little embarrassed and withdrew his right fist.
"Actually, you can go to listen to Teacher Cheng's lecture. Some students still stand at the window and take notes while listening."
"He didn't let me go," she said.
Xu Luoshan was slightly startled, as if he was surprised that Teacher Cheng's fiancée was so obedient, and then said: "Maybe he forgot to mention it."
"Can I really go?"
"Yes, but the classroom is very small, there are many people, there is no fan, and it is very stuffy."
"Okay, thanks for your suggestion."
After Xu Luoshan went upstairs, Bai Ziren went to change a piece of clothes and went to school alone.
Although I had some premonitions beforehand, when I saw the teaching building of Jishan County Primary School, I was still very touched. I can’t just use the word simple to describe it, it is crude to be precise.
Sure enough, there was a row of students standing at the door of Cheng Jingbo's classroom listening to the class. They were very hardworking and held things like wooden boards and bricks in their hands, which could be used to write on a notebook. Bai Ziren saw one of the boys writing strokes on the blackboard. Everything is memorized.
Bai Ziren quietly stood at the end, looking at the people behind the podium.
He was drawing a parabola with chalk, with equations written on the side. He was teaching mathematics, and the students below listened carefully.
She quietly admired his every move, looking at this familiar yet strange man.
What is familiar is him himself, what is unfamiliar is his appearance as a teacher.
His voice could not be heard very clearly, because the cicadas outside were loud, and she was the last one in the team outside the door, the distance was too far, but this did not hinder her interest in seeing him, she leaned against the wall, turned her head Watch him lightly toss down the last bit of chalk, turn a page, pause for a while, and speak again.
A class is very long, and there is a ten-minute break in the middle. She deliberately avoided it, walked to the corner of the corridor, so that he would not see it, and then went back to the same place after continuing, only to find that there was already a little girl with braids After taking her place, she scratched her head, a little guilty, how could she have the nerve to take up precious resources? Just as she was about to leave, the little girl squeezed forward, making room for a small space without a sound.
"Thank you." Bai Ziren said.
"You're welcome, but how old are you?" The little girl's big eyes were full of doubts.
"twenty four."
Well, it's a shame to say it.
Unexpectedly, the little girl didn't laugh, but nodded and said to her: "Learning never stops."
After speaking, he turned his head and listened to the class.
Bai Ziren kept his seat and continued to look at the blackboard. Cheng Jingbo was teaching geography, and he drew the seven continents by hand.
The little girl was very surprised, and said softly: "The painting is so beautiful."
Bai Ziren smiled, the compliments in his heart were the same as those in his mouth.
The little girl hurriedly followed the teacher to draw together, and Bai Ziren took a peek at it, and saw that she was drawing crookedly, looking messy and messy.
Another half an hour passed like this, and when it was the last ten minutes of chatting time, Cheng Jingbo said that questions were welcome, and they could ask anything.
Soon some students raised their hands, stood up and said, "Mr. Cheng, you teach philosophy. I would like to ask, is it the job of a philosopher to think about the big questions of life at home?"
Cheng Jingbo explained to the students: "Your question is very good. Here you can mention Sartre. He once rejected the Nobel Prize because he wanted to be a free person. He was blind in his later years and still chose to stand. In front of the Arab workers, he used practical actions to fight for their interests, and his job was not as simple as sitting at home and thinking behind closed doors."
The second student asked: "Teacher Cheng, what do you think of unfairness?"
"Why don't you ask me how I think about fairness? Emperors, generals, traffickers, and pawns, we are all the same in the end. Time is limited, there are endless things to do, wishes that cannot be fulfilled, countless mistakes, and life and death cannot be understood."
The third student asked: "What is the meaning of life?"
"Many philosophers have been asking this question for a hundred years, and there is no unified answer. However, meaning is given by people. Anyone who wants to find it will definitely find one, because you always have something you value in this world. It can give you You are motivated to help you resist fear and disappointment, but it doesn’t matter if there is no meaning, and you don’t need to be particularly distressed if you can’t find the answer, because we exist by ourselves, and like everything else, whether it has meaning or not is in operation.”
Cheng Jingbo added: "Of course my answer may not be correct, it's just for reference."
Another classmate stood up, blushing, and asked cautiously: "How should I pursue the girl I like?"
This time, Cheng Jingbo thought for a long time, and said sincerely: "I have very little experience in this area, and it is difficult to provide a wise solution. Why don't you ask other teachers?"
The students laughed.
"Then how did you catch up with your fiancée?"
Bai Ziren outside was taken aback, why did his students know about it
Cheng Jingbo bowed his head, turned a page of the book with his hands, and said lightly: "It's a coincidence, we fall in love with each other, and it will happen naturally, and there is no process of chasing."
These words fell into Bai Ziren's ears and penetrated into her heart, and she couldn't recover for a long time.
Only after class was over did she realize the truth, he was lying, she was the one who pursued him, and she initiated it from the beginning.
The students filed out, and Cheng Jingbo was the only one left in the classroom. He cleaned up the podium first, put the chalk back into the box, then turned around and wiped the blackboard, then walked to the window and put down the blue curtain. , the whole classroom went dark.
Finally turned around and saw an elderly student sitting in the first row.
"I have a question." Bai Ziren raised his hand.
"What's the problem?" He leaned over to look at her, speaking softly.
"How can you make the person you like happy for the rest of your life?"
"It's the easiest problem I've ever had." He looked at her and said, "Just stay with him."
"..."
He patted her on the head and said to her: "get out of class is over, if you have any questions, go home and give you private tutoring."
He took her by the hand and led her out of the classroom.
The sunshine outside was just right, and Bai Ziren suddenly wanted to run, so he proposed to go to the playground, and Cheng Jingbo accompanied her for a run.
When they were resting under the tree, they saw two students sitting on the ground not far away. One of the girls rolled up her trousers, as if she had been bitten by a mosquito. The other boy looked closer, turned around after a while, and waved at them. waved.
Cheng Jingbo took Bai Ziren over, and when he got closer, he found that the girl sitting on the ground had a huge lump on her ankle, which didn't seem to be bitten by a poisonous mosquito.
The girl with braided hair looked up to see Bai Ziren, laughed haha, and pointed out the truth: "So you are not a student, you were brought by Teacher Cheng."
The boy with tanned skin criticized her: "What time is it, why don't you care about this?"
The girl looked at the lump on her ankle again, it was extremely itchy, and she wanted to reach out to grab it, but was stopped by Cheng Jingbo.
"You haven't washed your hands, how can you catch them?" he said.
"What should I do? It was a small piece two minutes ago, but now it has become so big."
"I'll take you to wash it." He reached out and pulled the little girl up.
Soon, they arrived at the public pool behind the cafeteria. Cheng Jingbo took a basin of warm water, found a piece of soap, and gently washed the lump on her ankle. The boy standing in the basin bent over and pressed his hands together. On the lap, eyes watching without blinking.
Bai Ziren also watched intently, somehow, she felt that Cheng Jingbo was much gentler to the children here than to those college students.
But she is not envious, she has enjoyed this treatment before.
"Get salt water and wash after you get home." Cheng Jingbo stood up and went to wash his hands.
"Thank you, Teacher Cheng." The two children said in unison.
Bai Ziren smiled and asked, "May I ask what your names are?"
The girl said: "I am Wang Yiqi, and he is Song Feng."
Song Feng was a somewhat rigid boy, he nodded towards Bai Ziren, not curious about her appearance, and didn't ask much.
Cheng Jingbo and Bai Ziren sent them back. Wang Yiqi's home was not far from the school, and they arrived soon. Song Feng was different. His home was on the top of the mountain. When he reached the foot of the mountain, he insisted not to let them go up.
"We'll take you halfway up the mountain, and then come back." Cheng Jingbo said.
Song Feng scratched his hair at a loss, and couldn't bear to refuse the teacher's kindness any longer, so he said yes.
Bai Ziren vaguely guessed his concerns, maybe he didn't want others to see his house, but this mountain road is a bit difficult to walk, Cheng Jingbo still hopes to send him a little longer, and show her the scenery by the way , after all, she suggested in the morning, can you go up the mountain to have a look, but he said that you can't do it alone.
When they got to the middle of the mountain, they bid farewell to Song Feng, and they turned back the way they came.
The scenery here is not very colorful, but the advantage is that the trees are shady and it is very cool. Bai Ziren feels in a good mood, and even walks lightly. She almost slipped by accident, but fortunately Cheng Jingbo clasped her waist.
After Bai Ziren stood still, he smiled at him.
"What are you laughing at?" He also smiled.
"I like the way you stand behind the podium."
"real?"
She nodded and continued, "It's a good thing my high school philosophy teacher wasn't you, otherwise I wouldn't be interested in studying."
"When did you become so talkative?"
"I'm serious. To be honest, I just stood outside the window to watch your lecture, and I really want to get close."
"Now you can be close," he said.
There was no one around, she took his hand, and slowly intertwined with his fingers, the sun passed between their fingers, she saw a faint light around his slender and clean fingertips, she could see I was fascinated, and a strand of affection emerged in my heart.
"What should I do? I seem to like you more and more."
Her voice was so soft that he didn't hear it.
There was no class in the afternoon, so they went to the sports store in the county after lunch, and he bought her a pair of sneakers.
"I bought a tennis racket so that I could practice my arm strength against the wall," Bai Ziren said.
He knew that when he was away, she needed to pass the time, so he picked another basketball for her, and she could take it to play on the school basketball court.
Grab the bag, walk out of the sports store, and continue walking. A small bookstore appeared in the field of vision. Bai Ziren was very interested, and dragged Cheng Jingbo in to have a look.
There is only one row of bookcases in the ten-meter-square bookstore, with a total of five floors. Most of them are classic literature. Bai Ziren stopped in front and slowly selected. Cheng Jingbo was accosted by the bookstore owner and did not look this way.
Bai Ziren's eyes fell on a book in the middle of the second floor, and she could tell which book it was just by looking at the spine. She thought it was fate, she reached out to take it down, and picked two other books at random, and went to check out together .
She handed it directly to the bookstore owner, but when Cheng Jingbo approached to see what the title was, she covered it with her hand.
The bookstore owner said with a smile: "The little girl likes to buy some love cheats, so that her boyfriend can't see them."
Cheng Jingbo smiled, let her keep it secret, and stopped watching.
The boss was very considerate and gave her a brown paper bag, wrapped the book for her, and handed it to her.
They went to the grocery store and the snack bar again, bought some supplies and food to go back.
In the evening, when Cheng Jingbo was cooking as usual, Xu Luoshan came to borrow aged vinegar. He smelled the delicious smell, lifted his spirits, and asked him, "What delicious food are you doing?"
"Astragalus pork ribs soup, for her." Cheng Jingbo said and glanced at Bai Ziren who was sitting on the table eating biscuits.
"Teacher Cheng is really a twenty-four filial boyfriend, you are very lucky." Xu Luoshan said to Bai Ziren.
Bai Ziren just smiled, after all, he was a little embarrassed.
Xu Luoshan is a smart person, he won't ask her how long she will stay here, and he won't make a joke of them living together. After receiving the old vinegar, he went back to his room.
Bai Ziren remembered something, and asked Cheng Jingbo curiously: "Mr. Xu, is he married?"
Cheng Jingbo said while chopping vegetables: "He was engaged, but not yet married. He will go back after teaching here for two years."
"Then will his fiancee come to see him?"
"I don't know about that."
Bai Ziren admired Xu Luoshan a little. It's really hard to be in a long-distance relationship for more than a year. A useless person like her came here after a few days apart. In Xu Luoshan's eyes, it was probably a matter of laughing. Here, Momo felt a little ashamed, but when he looked up and saw the handsome appearance of someone holding the spoon himself, he felt that it didn't matter, as long as he was happy.
Twenty minutes later, Bai Ziren drank the delicious pork rib soup, sweating all over his body, and cooling down instead.
After eating, Cheng Jingbo helped her brush her dusty leather shoes, and then hung them outside the door.
Back in the room, he saw her take one of his clothes and put it in the washbasin, planning to wash it, so he walked over to stop her.
"Give these to me, and you go eat some fruit."
Bai Ziren shook his head and insisted, "How can you do all the housework by yourself? I will also share, otherwise it will be too boring."
As she spoke, she brushed over his shoulder flexibly, took it out and washed it.
As a result, people passing by knew that there was another person in Teacher Cheng's cold room, and would help with the laundry. They were overjoyed, and secretly called Bai Ziren a little snail.
Before going to bed, Bai Ziren asked Cheng Jingbo to read the last two chapters of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" as usual.
After Cheng Jingbo finished reading, she found that Bai Ziren had a sad face, knowing that she was sad because of the ending.
Just now when I read about the moment when Yunniang and her son parted forever, the young son cried loudly and told his mother not to leave. She was already in tears. If he knew that she would be like this, he would not read this book.
"If this story is fiction, I won't be sad, but it is true." She sighed.
"It seems that next time I can only read you comedy."
She thought for a while and then asked: "Is that sentence that admonishes couples in the world the truth?"
The original words are: "Advise couples in the world not to hate each other, nor to be too affectionate."
"No, it's because of the times." He took her hand and kissed it. "We are different from them. If we don't have deep affection, what's the point?"
She understood what he said.
The person you really like comes once in a hundred years, and no one will be reconciled to it, no matter how deep your love is.