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Part 3 The Dark Road Chapter 171: A Trip to Shakou Village (3)

After rushing, Long Liexu drove his car to the primary school in Shakou Village. He waited for the car to stop before the children dispersed.

On a wall outside Shakou Village Primary School, I don’t know whether it is praise or satirical, but there is a popular slogan written in white lime, “No matter how poor you are, you cannot be poor in education, and no matter how hard you are, you cannot be hard in children.”

There are two earthen tiled houses and one earthen playground. The school does not even have a wall. These are all about Shakou Village Primary School.

Long Liexu's car was parked in the playground.

As soon as he got off the car, Ren Ziwei ran to a house without even saying a word.

Long Liexue shook his head and followed Ren Ziwei's footsteps to the earthen tiled house. Before Long Liexue's blood arrived, he had already smelled a burnt smell. Then, he saw Ren Ziwei rushing out of the house again, carrying a small earthen pot, which was smoking. Ren Ziwei quickly put the small earthen pot on the ground, and swung around the small earthen pot that was smoking for two times. Then, she didn't know what she remembered, rushed into the house again, and when she came out, she carried a can of water.

With a "wow...", Ren Ziwei poured water into the smoked earthen pot. The earthen pot was no longer smoking. Ren Ziwei let out a long sigh and patted her chest cutely, as if she had completed a major task. When Ren Ziwei wiped out the "fire", she realized that there was another person watching her.

Long Liexu's eyes at this moment are absolutely not serious.

Thinking of her embarrassing appearance just now, Ren Ziwei's face turned red suddenly. She stomped her feet, "Hate, you will watch the fun, why don't you come here to help quickly."

A stream flowed by more than 40 meters away from the school, which was the water source of the school and even the entire Shakou Village. Long Liexu’s task was to go there with Ren Ziwei and wash the small earthen pot.

After all this was done, Ren Ziwei looked at Long Liexue, and Long Liexue looked at Ren Ziwei, and the two of them suddenly started to laugh.

"I can't eat porridge now. I still have classes in the afternoon. It's too late to make it again. You come from afar and can't even have a bite of rice. You won't blame me, right?"

"It doesn't matter. I know you can't buy anything here. I'll bring you some food this time. If you deal with a meal, there should be no problem."

"Eat?" Ren Ziwei's eyes shined with brilliance, "How many have you brought?"

It felt that Ren Ziwei's expression at this moment was like a puppy attracted by flesh and bones. Long Liexu muttered in his heart, it could be that Ren Ziwei hadn't eaten for a long time, but he still had to answer Ren Ziwei's question.

"I brought a lot of them, which should be enough for you to eat in a week, so I put them in the back seat of the car. Maybe you didn't pay attention when you were in the car just now."

"That's great!" Ren Ziwei clapped her hands and jumped up.

Long Liexu shook his head, Ren Ziwei was probably really hungry

There are three large bags of things, yogurt, chocolate, biscuits, candy, ham sausage, jelly, etc. The amount is that, if a girl is, she will definitely not be able to move it. Ren Ziwei looked at those things and her eyes were shining.

"Do you live there? I'll help you move your stuff to where you live."

Ren Ziwei nodded.

Therefore, Long Liexue had the opportunity to visit Ren Ziwei's boudoir here.

Ren Ziwei lived in the smaller one of the two tiled houses in Shakou Village Primary School, which was the one she had just run into. Although it was broad daylight, as soon as she entered the door, Long Liexu still felt that the house was a little dark.

Although it is a tiled house, the house is still separated by wooden boards and separated by two floors. As soon as you enter the door, the wooden staircase upstairs is on the right side of the door. The wooden staircase is narrow, small and steep, almost 90 degrees perpendicular to the ground. Because the house is separated by two floors, the feeling of being a little depressed on the ground floor.

The ground on the ground floor is soil. Because it is not sunny all year round, it feels a little damp and not very flat. A low table can no longer be seen in the paint color. Two small stools with different heights and old appearances, a straw stud, and a cabinet, which is all the furniture on the ground floor. Behind the low table is a earthen stove. There is a board on the side of the earthen stove, and two wooden barrels containing water are placed there. On the other side of the earthen stove, a small window of one foot square was opened. Except for the main door, it is the source of all the light in the room. The light in the small window just shines on the smoked black wall behind the earthen stove. On both sides of the walls in the house, dried corn and peppers were hung with straw ropes.

Long Liexu touched the walls in the house with his hand. Outside the walls that had not been treated, the straw that deliberately mixed in the mud when building the house was strong, and it was a bit thorny. If you pulled it hard, you could pull it out everywhere.

If you have to use one word to describe this place, two words are simple, three words are very simple, and four words are very simple.

Although he was mentally prepared, Long Liexue was still a little surprised. It was hard to imagine that a spoiled girl like Ren Ziwei could live in such a place. If she were herself, there would be no problem with a place a hundred times worse than this one, but Ren Ziwei...

Ren Ziwei saw Long Liexue's question. She straightened her chest, raised her chin, and spoke proudly, "Don't look at me like this. If I say I'm not worse than others, I'm not worse than others. Besides, such a house is still very good in Shakou Village. This school was built by the villagers of the village themselves. This house is also installed for the teacher to live in."

"You're alone

"Long Lie asked.

"No, Teacher Zhou lives here. I'll live with Teacher Zhou after I come here."

"Teacher Zhou?" Long Liexu frowned.

Ren Ziwei twisted Long Liexue's arm and started to feel coquettish, "What are you thinking about? Teacher Zhou is a woman, she is the only teacher here. She is not married yet. Teacher Zhou has taken good care of me these days. You are a coincidence. Teacher Zhou went to the county town early yesterday morning. A relative in her family gave birth to a child and will not come back tomorrow. Come, I will take you upstairs to check it out. I will live upstairs now."

After Ren Ziwei finished speaking, she pulled Long Liexue upstairs. The stairs were very narrow and she could only go up one by one. It was difficult for the two of them to stand together. Ren Ziwei was talking while walking.

"Don't underestimate me. During this period of time here, I have learned a lot of things. I have learned to burn firewood and cook. I have washed my clothes myself. Do you see the wooden barrel downstairs? I have to go three times every morning to fill a bucket of water!"

Stepping on the wooden board, the two of them went upstairs with a cloth curtain to divide the space above into two. Ren Ziwei's bed was temporarily built with wooden boards. On the edge of a window, her wardrobe was her suitcase. The windows upstairs were much larger than those below, and the lighting was better than those downstairs. The walls upstairs were pasted with newspapers. Although they were still simple, they looked much more comfortable than downstairs.

Ren Ziwei drew several colorful cartoon paintings in watercolor on the newspaper on the wall, and hung a purple wind chime folded from paper by the window. The super cute girl's quilt was neatly cleaned by her. On the bed, she also placed a big furry toy dog ​​and lay on the quilt. Although the place she lived was very small and simple, Ren Ziwei's cleaning immediately made this small space warm. Every thing in this small space seemed to have the faint fragrance on Ren Ziwei's body.

"I live here, how about it?" Ren Ziwei turned around gorgeously in this small space. Her expression was not a little aggrieved, as if a princess was inviting someone to visit her palace.

"Yeah, it's not bad." Long Liexu nodded.

"Haha, put those things down quickly. It's very tired to hold them."

Long Liexu glanced at it and placed the food on the box brought by Ren Ziwei.

"What do you want to eat?" Ren Ziwei asked.

"casual."

Ren Ziwei picked a box of chocolate and opened it. She took out a few jelly and yogurt. After thinking about it, she put the jelly and yogurt back.

Long Liexu noticed this detail, but didn't ask much. I remember that Ren Ziwei said before that she seemed to like eating these things the most. But this time, although she didn't have lunch, Ren Ziwei only ate a piece of chocolate.

The two of them met again after a long time, and they had a lot to say at the moment, but here, the sky was blue and white, and the two of them deliberately avoided something. They sat together, and they didn't say that. While eating, they simply talked about some irrelevant topics, talking about skinny monkeys, talking about Fan Fangfang, talking about Xiaopang, talking about Tianhe, and saying everything, but they didn't talk about themselves, and occasionally their eyes were in contact with each other, and they flashed at once.

"Why would I take you to see the classroom here now?" Ren Ziwei suggested.

"Okay!" Long Liexu agreed.

The atmosphere here is very subtle, but the subtlety is long, which makes the two feel a little nervous. Not to mention Ren Ziwei, it is Long Liexue. Long Liexue is sweating in his palms at this moment. Leaving this bed, going downstairs, and going to places with many people is a good choice.

The two of them went downstairs, and the beautiful spring scenery outside suddenly relaxed.

The classrooms in Shakou Village Primary School are larger than those where Ren Ziwei lives now. They are chairs made of blocks of soil and desks made of wooden boards on the blocks of soil. They are so simple that they cannot be simple. There are fewer things here, but there are many blackboards. If you have never seen a classroom with three blackboards, you must come here to take a look.

"There are three grade students sitting in this classroom." Ren Ziwei explained to Long Liexue. "Often they squeeze together in class. This is the fifth grade, this is the third grade, this is the first grade, this is the first grade, every two years, this classroom will have a few new faces."

"You said there is only one teacher here?"

"Well... I only know that Teacher Zhou is the only one here. Teacher Zhou has been teaching here for eight years. In the past, there were two teachers at the most, but those two teachers couldn't stand it after staying here for a year. Teacher Zhou stayed here for the longest time. I heard from Teacher Zhou that the current school is newly built, and the school used to be a thatched house, so it is impossible to attend classes when it rains."

"The conditions here are so difficult!" Long Liexu sighed.

Ren Ziwei was also a little sad, "The actual situation is even more difficult than you thought. Did you see the corn and peppers hanging on the wall downstairs when you were in that room just now?"

"See it!"

"Those things are tuition and fees paid by the villagers here for their children. It's too poor here. They can only pay whatever they have in the fields. In addition to these, Teacher Zhou can only receive six or seven months of salary every year. The other salary is white slips. After saving over the years, Teacher Zhou's white slips have saved up an aluminum lunch box."

Long Liexue was silent, and the good mood he had just cultivated upstairs came here

From then on, looking at everything in front of him, and listening to Ren Ziwei's sad introduction, he disappeared without a trace. Ren Ziwei, who came to the classroom, seemed to have aroused some worries, and as she spoke, her eyes turned red.

"I had already expected that I would be in a difficult place during this winter vacation, but I didn't expect it to be here. In fact, the day after I came here, I just met the children here, and I cried. It was not because the conditions provided to me were poor, but because the children here were very cute and pitiful. There was no breakfast here. That morning, during the break, I was a little hungry, so I scalded a pack of instant noodles I brought with me in boiling water, but before I could eat it, the children who smelled instant noodles from afar surrounded me. They looked at me and asked me, '

Teacher, what is this?’ I told them that this is instant noodles. I remember it very clearly. They were still staring at me straight at that time. Many people were swallowing their saliva. They asked me another question, ‘Teacher, what is instant noodles?’ I gave each child a bite and after eating it, they told me, ‘Teacher, I have never eaten such delicious food.’ Hearing this, I couldn’t help crying. The class in the next one was not in, so I asked them to go home and each person brought a bowl. I taught them how to hot instant noodles. All the two boxes of instant noodles I brought were consumed that day.”

...

"You may not believe that some of the students here don't know what tigers look like after elementary school, let alone other animals. I heard from Teacher Zhou that one year, when a sixth-grade student here took the exam for junior high school, their compositions were all handed in blank papers, because the topic of the composition that year was asking them to write a travel note to the zoo, and none of them had been to the zoo. Many of them had never used a pen for a day until they finished elementary school..."

Long Liexue listened silently, and he didn't know what he should say after listening to Ren Ziwei's words.

In the afternoon, as Ren Ziwei rang the rusty I-shaped steel hanging on the school soil playground, the sound of "clang, clang, clang" spread throughout the mountain village, Long Liexu finally met the students of Shakou Village Primary School.

The youngest students were only six or seven years old, and the oldest was fourteen or five years old. Long Liexu saw a boy about twelve or three years old, wearing a pair of torn rubber shoes left to the soles of the shoes, and carrying a girl of four or five years old. Ren Ziwei told him that the boy not only had to come to school, but also had to take care of his sister and a bunch of housework. Unlike the children in the city, there were school uniforms to wear. The children here were dressed in a variety of clothes. Some of them came directly in adult clothes, and the clothes that were repaired and repaired were long hanging to their knees. Looking at the pair of clear but uncontaminated eyes, Long Liexu did not feel funny, and he felt a little sad.

More than thirty children filled the classroom. When facing these children, Ren Ziwei put away the depression in her heart, and always had a gentle smile on her face.

Long Liexue had already put the things that Ren Ziwei asked him to bring from the provincial capital on the table, a few boxes of pens, a few zippers of pencils, two boxes of ink, and a lot of homework books, erasers and pencil sharpeners. At this time, Long Liexue saw many things that children brought to study, homework books that were ordered by smoke shell paper or rough paper, and pencils made of blackened charcoal...

When the children entered the classroom and saw those things, everyone's eyes were shining with stars. They sat on the chairs built with dirt, looking at the things brought by Long Liexue without blinking. When Ren Ziwei announced that the things on the table were to be sent to them today, all the children screamed in excitement.

"Is this true, teacher?"

"Of course it's true. Didn't the teacher say that a few days ago? We should let each of you have a pen, an eraser, and a few new homework books..." Ren Ziwei said as she pulled Long Liexue to the podium, "The teacher introduced you to a big brother, he was the one who brought these things here from a long distance to you. How can we thank him?"

"Teacher, I'll cook the eggs at home for my brother to eat." A tender answer made everyone laugh.

"I gave this brother the beautiful stone I picked up from the river..."

"My big black family is going to give birth to a puppy, so I'll give my brother a puppy."

"If my brother raises pigs at home, I will go and get pig grass for my brother!"

...

The children's answers are varied.

"No need, everyone just need to say something to this brother with me. Are you ready?"

"It's ready!"

"Thank you brother!"

"Thank you brother!"

In front of Long Liexue, he felt mixed emotions in his heart.

"The classmates and teachers who didn't come here this afternoon have kept their things for them. When everyone saw them, they asked them to come to the teacher to pick up things. Okay, now I'll call the students with the name to pick up things, and everyone has a share..."

In the following time, this simple classroom had never been welcomed by the day it was built, and all the things that were brought to her by the blood of laughter were distributed. For the children in the classroom, many things that Ren Ziwei brought were the first time they tasted. Long Liexue only realized why Ren Ziwei ate so little just now.
Chapter completed!
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