When the class meeting started on Friday, those students really brought cucumbers and eggplants and talked about how to use condoms scientifically and protect themselves reasonably.
A group of children under the stage who knew the situation couldn't stand up from laughter, and Lu Lin remained expressionless the whole time.
In the afternoon, two copies of the review were sent in Chinese and English. It is said that the English copy was specially revised several times by the school committee, and the words and grammar were written meticulously.
The representative of the English class who sent the review touched his head and laughed: "Handsome Pei, the part of the character judgment I wrote..."
"Read more." Pei Zhuo hit her on the head with the test paper: "I'm thinking about something every day."
Everyone was having fun, Lu Lin answered the phone, and walked out quickly after a few seconds of listening.
Pei Zhuo felt that he was not in the right mood, and signaled the students to go back to physical education class, and followed Lu Lin to go out.
"Okay, I see, now I'll go find him."
Lu Lin hung up the phone and stood still for a few seconds, frowning and calling the student to stop, "Where is Yu Xu?"
"Where are you playing on the playground?" The class representative pointed to the southeast corner, "Look there!"
Lu Lin nodded, and hurried over there without saying a word.
A few thin and tall boys were grabbing the ball and dunking there. When they saw Lu Lin and Pei Zhuo coming, they smiled and said hello: "Teacher, are you playing?"
"Yu Xu, come here." Lu Lin said briefly, "Put the ball down."
Pei Zhuo didn't feel right at the moment, he led the students to the corner, and motioned for others to continue playing.
Yu Xu glanced left and right, and said nervously, "Teacher, I haven't made any mistakes recently, have I?"
"Your mother was in a car accident, and she is now being rescued." When Lu Lin said this, he felt his whole body tense: "I will take you to the hospital now."
Yu Xu's face turned extremely pale in an instant, and he clenched his fists and said, "Teacher, did you make a mistake? My mother, she..."
"I'll take him there." Pei Zhuo had already held the key in his hand: "Go and do your class work first, and we'll talk about it later."
Lu Lin responded quickly: "I'll send you the specific address on WeChat."
Pei Zhuo led Yu Xu to the parking lot: "Let's hurry up, let's put other things aside for now."
There was no traffic jam on the road, but there were two traffic lights in a row.
The student was smiling very happily just now, but now his lips were trembling as if his soul had been sucked out of him while sitting in the co-pilot.
Lu Lin called: "Has Teacher Pei left?"
Pei Zhuo put on the Bluetooth headset: "Tell me, I'm wearing the headset."
Lu Lin reconfirmed the location of the hospital clinic with him, and said after a while, "Yu Xu's father... died of cancer two years ago."
Pei Zhuo subconsciously wanted to turn his head to look at the child, abruptly stopped his gaze, took a deep breath and said, "I'll send him there as soon as possible, and pay for the medical expenses as soon as possible."
Lu Lin said with difficulty: "Maybe there is no need for a pad, the doctor said that it is almost on the verge of death."
Pei Zhuo didn't even stop the car, and ran upstairs with the child, and didn't have time to wait for the elevator.
"Hurry up, operating room on the fourth floor, run over!"
A second ago they were joking and chatting in the office, but now the scene suddenly changed to outside the operating room.
"Are you a family member of the patient?" The nurse stopped Yu Xu: "What's your name?"
"Yu Xu, I'm her son." The high school student ran out of breath, "Please save her, please."
The nurse led him over, stepping hurriedly.
Lu Lin hurried over after arranging the school work.
He had just seen Pei Zhuo sitting on the bench when a patient died in the distance, and a child was crying in despair.
"mom-"
Pei Zhuo was also trembling at the moment, and pushed Lu Lin: "You know him well, go and comfort him."
The boy couldn't bear such a fact at all, and cried until the whole floor let out the roar of the verge of collapse.
The driver who caused the accident has been taken away by the police, and other relatives rushed over one after another, and their faces were full of compassion when they heard the crying.
"This child is suffering so much, he managed to get over it, and now his mother..."
"Hey, thanks to the fact that their family has left enough money for college, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to go to high school."
More and more relatives came to help with the formalities, the corpse was pushed to the mortuary for grooming, and the chattering voices gathered like a swarm of mosquitoes, lingering for a long time.
Someone also went to comfort Yu Xu, the boy knelt and cried in the mortuary, kowtowing to the empty corridor.
Pei Zhuo and Lu Lin stood by his side, not daring to leave at this time and not at ease.
His parents are both only children, and now only his grandparents are left in the direct blood line. The relatives and friends who came here are all distant relatives, so they are not familiar with him.
Lu Lin postponed the social gathering on Saturday, and stayed beside Yu Xu without saying a word, knowing that it would be meaningless to say anything more at this time.
Pei Zhuo handed the boy a glass of water and helped him up: "We have to keep a vigil at night."
He rarely faced such life and death situations.
But thinking about it carefully, many students, including himself, encountered such things when they were studying, and most of them were notified by the teacher on their behalf.
To some extent, the teacher is not only guiding them out of ignorance, but also accompanying them on this dark road.
Yu Xu is usually a very cheerful boy. His grades are not good, but he is self-disciplined and obedient. Occasionally, he will come to the office to ask the teachers to answer questions after class.
Today's children are developing fast, and their height has jumped to 1.81.9 meters before finishing their third year of high school. Sometimes it will give people the illusion that they are all in college.
But when it really came to this kind of time, the boy hugged his knees and cried with a haggard face, like a fragile and helpless child.
The child's grandparents rushed over in a hurry, first confirmed their daughter's death certificate with tears, and then hugged their grandson and patted him on the back.
The staff of the mortuary have arranged matters at the crematorium, and are already contacting the site and the car where the coffin is parked.
The corpse was pushed into the ice coffin and carried away. The boy helped his grandparents downstairs, crying silently.
The relatives next to him also prepared to go there. Seeing that the two men were strange, they asked, "Are you his?"
"Teacher," Lu Lin explained, "We are his teachers."
"That's great, please stay with him," the relative said with a sad face, "We don't know this kid very well, and we only meet occasionally during Chinese New Year. Definitely not feeling well."
The crematorium was outside the suburbs, and the wind blew like a knife, stabbing people's cheeks with pain.
According to the rules of their family, they have to stay here for three days and then cremated. The incense burner has to be kept alive all the time, and it can't be turned off until the last day.
Pei Zhuo signaled Lu Lin to accompany Yu Xu to deal with those matters first, then returned to school to put away all the paperwork and objects, and drove over to find them in a hurry.
Relatives came one after another to express their condolences, offering incense and bowing to the ice coffin, and the children next to them knelt on the futon and kowtowed.
Seeing Pei Zhuo coming, Lu Lin whispered, "I'll stay with him at night, you go back and rest."
"It's okay, Lulu is taking care of me at home." Pei Zhuo shook his head: "He is too lonely now."
At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, there were still people in the mourning hall, and gradually the relatives dispersed, and the two old men couldn't bear it anymore, so they wiped away their tears and went upstairs to rest in the room.
There were only the three of them in the silent mourning hall, and two men who helped burn paper money sat outside, speaking with a strong local accent.
At nine o'clock, several students came together.
The young man sat beside him in a daze, wiped the corner of his eyes and got up to meet them.
"Yu Xu, we told our family that we will accompany you these few days."
"Have you eaten yet? Let's help you watch for a while. Can you take a rest?"
Pei Zhuo recognized that there were class leaders and naughty students among the students, so he got up to greet them.
"Teacher Pei and Teacher Lu are here too." Du Zhong heaved a sigh of relief: "We were worried that he would not be accompanied on the way here."
The students all looked serious and bowed to the ice coffin.
Yu Xu knelt back beside the futon and kowtowed when they bowed.
After the ceremony was over, they pulled him back to sit next to him and comforted him softly.
Pei Zhuo sat beside Lu Lin, wanting to shake his hand.
He looked at Lu Lin and sat back, looking at the students hugging each other from a distance.
Lu Lin took off his coat and covered him, and held his hand tightly under the windbreaker.
The two clasped their fingers tightly and did not speak for a while.
"In the future... I'm afraid this will happen again." Pei Zhuo sighed, "It's still very sad."
"I saw off a student who had leukemia and was not cured in the end."
Lu Lin looked at the smoke rising in the night and said, "His mother fainted from crying, and I helped burn the paper money for the rest of the night."
Pei Zhuo shook his hand again, and said in a daze for a while, "After all, I'm a teacher."
"Well, welcome and send."
Lu Lin sat for a while before continuing to speak.
"After that student died, there was an empty seat in the class."
"I always feel that he hasn't left, and I want to ask him to answer questions."
Pei Zhuo lowered his eyes and said, "When my teacher passed away, I also went to see him off."
"I used to see her standing on the podium, with dimples when she smiled."
"Later, I stood by the ice coffin and looked at her, feeling so strange, like dreaming."
They stayed with them in the mourning hall for three days, and the students also stayed with them for three days, but no one left.
In the first two nights, there was no need to guard all night, everyone took turns to change shifts, and divided into two groups to go back to take a bath and rest.
On the third night, several students came to accompany him, as well as strange children from the next class.
Yu Xu was surrounded by them in the inner circle, while Lu Lin and Pei Zhuo sat in the outer circle, quietly spending this long night with him.
At dawn, it was time to say goodbye and watch her being pushed to cremation.
At eleven o'clock or twelve o'clock, everyone was still talking and chatting quietly, and after midnight, there was only the lonely crackling of the fire.
I don't know who spoke first, and said, "Let's sing a song for Auntie."
The students took Yu Xu's hand and led him to the coffin with tears in their eyes.
They accompanied him to see his mother on the last journey. At this moment, they all thought of their own family members, and they choked up after singing a few lines.
"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, there are fragrant grasses and green sky."
"The sound of the willow flute blows in the evening wind, and the mountains beyond the sunset..."
Pei Zhuo stood behind the students, covering his tears with the back of his hands.
Lu Lin clenched his right hand, and his eyes were red at the moment.