blowing clouds

Even though most of the university campuses are adults, they will still show childlike smiles for the upcoming holidays. Lin Ji who rushed out of the campus in the crowd is no exception. However, the reason for his happiness must not be the nearly two months of summer vacation. But waiting for the lover at the school gate.

"It's a holiday again!" Lin Ji, who seemed gentle in the eyes of his classmates, flung himself into Chen Xiyang's arms without caring about his appearance, his mouth almost reaching his ears, "It's a pity that he won't graduate until another year."

"Are you tired of studying, or are you an undergrad?" Chen Xiyang took half of the big and small bags from his hand, and messed up his hair.

Lin Ji laughed foolishly: "No, I want to go to work early, and it feels better for two people to make money together."

"Well, you can go to work for me during the holidays, and I will enjoy my leisure at home." Chen Xiyang smiled.

Lin Ji looked around, leaned close to his ear and said, "I'm afraid you'll be bored at home and think about that."

While talking and joking, they arrived in front of the motorcycle that looked like an iron general. The car had burned its buttocks after being exposed to the sun for a long time, and Chen Xiyang slapped it in vain.

When Lin Ji saw the motorcycle, he was eager to try it: "Let me ride it!"

"No need..." Chen Xiyang sat up and felt it for a while, then took a breath, "Daoping in the urban area, there is no need for you, a veteran."

Back home, Lu Yan happened to be humming a little song and serving the last dish of steamed fish: "I'll come back at a certain time, let's sit down and eat."

Lin Ji laughed and pushed away Chen Xiyang who was sticking to him on purpose: "Here it is... Where is my dad?"

"I'm going to order ice cream for you." Lu Yan set the table and chopsticks, "I'm not allowed to eat more than two a day, so as not to cause diarrhea."

Chen Xiyang couldn't help laughing: "You are still young when you think of Aji, do you need to explain it like this?"

"It's not too young." Lu Yan gave them a meaningful look, "Someone has come to match A Ji."

Chen Xiyang immediately changed his expression: "Ah? What did you say?"

Lu Yan snorted and started talking nonsense: "What else can I say? I said that unless the girl can serve as a maid and serve two husbands, she won't be able to marry into my family."

The two knew that the old mother was joking, they looked at each other with a suppressed smile, and happily prepared to eat.

During the meal, the two of them kept making small movements. You snatched a piece of meat from me, and I drank a spoonful of soup from you. Lu Yan frowned: "You two can't sit still like monkeys... Chen Xiyang, A Ji can do whatever he wants when he has a holiday." So, don't be too aggressive to affect your work."

"No." Chen Xiyang hummed and smiled.

He looked perfunctory on the surface, but in his heart he was indeed less excited than when he was sneaking around in the past, but this tranquility obviously does not mean that he has fallen, and it has nothing to do with boredom, but that the relationship between them has taken a step forward. There is a calm and steady look.

Just like after winning a war, the people have to recuperate.

Of course, when it comes to excitement, there is still a lot of passion...

Chen Xiyang originally thought that this summer, he and Lin Ji would be able to enjoy the quiet and elegant happiness as in the past, but it was not as calm as imagined, and it became more memorable and meaningful.

"I rely on!"

In the office, Xu Donghai's eyes were staring like a bull's-eye, and when he got up suddenly, the chair rubbed harshly on the floor, making the hairs of everyone in the office stand on end, and the drowsiness disappeared in an instant.

Xu Donghai didn't have time to apologize, and didn't even realize that he had made a noise, so he greeted Chen Xiyang with gestures: "My brother, my brother! Hurry up and read this email!"

Chen Xiyang walked over inexplicably, and bent down to face the computer screen: "What is this? Isn't it just a letter from the author, "The Golden Phoenix Flying into the Mountain Nest"... The author's name is quite familiar..."

Suddenly, Chen Xiyang, who realized something, suddenly became serious.

The reason why he had an impression of the author's name was because he and Ding Zhaoyan once went to Linshi for an interview together.

This book is the author's new work. As the name suggests, it uses a semi-recorded method to describe several teachers who went to the mountains to support education. What surprised Chen Xiyang and Xu Donghai was that Ding Zhaoyan was among them.

The intention of the author to send this email to their publishing house is also very clear.When writing this book, the author communicated with Ding Zhaoyan many times, and then he wrote the part that belongs to him. The due expenses are given to Ding Zhaoyan.

In fact, it was just to find an excuse to give their old colleagues a chance to meet again.

"Why did this man go to the mountains to teach..." Xu Donghai's expression was half a smile, and at the same time he frowned and gritted his teeth, as if he was proud of his friend, but he couldn't bear to think about what he would suffer in the mountains.

Supporting education, these two words reminded Chen Xiyang of the path that Lin Ji might have chosen at the beginning, and when he recalled Ding Zhaoyan, his inner emotions became even more difficult to express, and he couldn't wait to see Ding Zhaoyan, otherwise Not even breathing well.

In fact, there is no need to say anything or do anything, just a meeting.

"I have to go!" Xu Donghai sat down and stood up again, "This kid doesn't send us letters either. If the author didn't send emails, we wouldn't even know where he is. It's not interesting!"

The area where Ding Zhaoyan is currently located is also clearly written in this email, which is far away, but it didn't make Chen Xiyang feel even a little bit of hesitation in his heart.

"Book a ticket for me too..." After thinking about it, Chen Xiyang let out a deep breath, "I want two tickets."

The two of them went to see Ding Zhaoyan, Mr. Tang wished he could go with them, and would not deny them leave, and Lin Ji was on summer vacation, and his parents had no reason to stop him from going out, so the three of them quickly boarded the car. A train going far away.

Some things need not be stated explicitly, Lin Ji didn't ask why, he could feel that Ding Zhaoyan was also one of the elements that contributed to his happy life now.

The journey of two days and one night is enough for people to think through the problems and memories, so the three of them were silent most of the time. When they got off the train, the gasoline-smelling passenger car stuffed them into their stomachs again. Driving on an unfamiliar road to the stretches of mountainous areas.

There were no twists and turns along the way, and even the road was smoother than they imagined. Gradually, their ears became full of local accents in a foreign language. What they saw in front of them was a sky far bluer than their hometown, and terraced fields like works of art, like precious stones. Transparent and clear mountain stream.This completely unfamiliar picture scroll made them feel strangely close to home. After struggling to communicate with the mountain people, they confirmed that they had arrived at the place.

They haven't had a serious rest for several days, and the three of them don't look much more glamorous than the native mountain people, but no one cares about these things. When they were led into the so-called school gate by a dark old man who claimed to be the principal, they really I was as nervous as a child who came to study in a different place for the first time.

"Teacher Ding is a good guy. He was the youngest among the people who came with him back then, but he insisted on staying until now." The principal's Mandarin is not standard, but he can understand it as long as he keeps his mind on it. Wait in his room, his class will end soon."

Lin Ji asked: "Children in the mountains, don't they have summer vacation?"

After leading them into an earthen house, the headmaster looked back at him and smiled, showing his yellow-spotted teeth: "Boy, you don't understand. A while ago, when rice was harvested and corn was grown, many babies were in short supply during the busy farming season." Classes, I have been busy for a while, so why don't you hurry up and study, what's the summer vacation?"

Lin Ji nodded and smiled embarrassedly.

"Okay, feel free, I have to cook for the dolls!" The principal smiled and waved his hands, and went out.

Chen Xiyang looked left and right, and put down the cowhide bag to be handed over to Ding Zhaoyan on the fairly clean bed.

This is a typical rural house. If the lights are not turned on, the house will be gloomy in broad daylight, but the simple villagers have obviously tried their best to treat the teaching teacher well. The reeds on the roof of the house are newly tied, and the walls His newspaper is also freshly pasted, and someone must renew it regularly. There are New Year pictures pasted at the junction of the newspaper and the newspaper.

In front of the bed is an old wooden table full of mud marks. Apart from the books and homework placed on the table, there are densely packed lumps of dripping wax, revealing a stale atmosphere.

"This place..." Xu Donghai looked around the cramped small world bitterly, "Actually, I could have imagined this before I came here, but it's far less shocking than seeing it with my own eyes. He's the son of the deputy mayor, why..."

Chen Xiyang said: "There must be someone who contributes, and no one forces him, this is what he wants to do."

After that, the three of them waited silently. When the untidy but energetic sound of reading came from outside the room, Lin Ji looked at the remaining two and suggested, "Would you like to go and see how he looks in class?"

Xu Donghai replied truthfully: "I don't know why, I don't dare to look at it."

Chen Xiyang also nodded in agreement: "Just wait here."

They were afraid of seeing the lifeless numbness on Ding Zhaoyan's face and eyes, and they were even more afraid of seeing a gentle smile. It was hard to say which of the two made them feel more distressed.

There is no bell for the end of get out of class here, and the laughter of the children running out of nowhere seemed to come out of nowhere, and they were not prepared, and there were approaching footsteps outside the door. Facing the sun, it seems to have a circle of golden fur.

As if meeting them for the first time, Ding Zhaoyan looked at them calmly, his eyes exuded vitality, and a slightly raised eyebrow flashed across his face, as if he had accepted this unexpected reunion in an instant.

"Yo, why did he ask you to run errands to deliver it?"

Even the voice is the same as before, perfectly matching the voice of a dude.

Chen Xiyang and Xu Donghai walked out together a few steps, they couldn't see any changes in Ding Zhaoyan himself under the sun, the good-looking eyebrows and the curved corners of the mouth were the same as yesterday, as if he had just changed into a vicious old clothes , wearing a pair of black cloth shoes with mud-sole soles.

"Mute?" Ding Zhaoyan smiled.

Without further ado, Xu Donghai stepped forward and hugged Ding Zhaoyan into his arms with an extremely solemn expression on his face. He missed him, felt sorry for him, and admired him even more.

Relatively speaking, the feeling in Chen Xiyang's heart may be more complicated, but he doesn't seem to need any external expression, he only needs to look at Ding Zhaoyan, and at the same time, it is enough for Ding Zhaoyan to look at him.

"It's okay, it's almost done." After hugging for a while, Ding Zhaoyan pushed Xu Donghai away with a smile, looked at Chen Xiyang and Lin Ji who was closely behind Chen Xiyang, the smile in his eyes became brighter , "Let's go out and chat, the air is nice and bright."

It's true that it's bright and bright, and it's true that the air is good. Even if it smells like cow dung and sheep dung, it won't make people frown unpleasantly.

They sat on the stones placed randomly under the big locust tree, watching one after another, big or small, rushing towards the same old cafeteria. Ding Zhaoyan took out the stack of piles until the dirt-made campus was empty. The money came and counted again.

"This guy is nice, he is willing to give the money, now you don't have to worry about buying a new desk."

Although Ding Zhaoyan had a nice smile, the expression on his brows and eyes was that of a big pig farmer who just got rich.

Xu Donghai stood up and took out his pocket, Ding Zhaoyan pushed him down as expected, his strength was much stronger than before: "Sit down, you don't need to take any more money."

Xu Donghai frowned, and Ding Zhaoyan said again: "It's enough to solve the important problems. If you have too much money, it will easily harm the children."

Only then did Xu Donghai give up unwillingly, Chen Xiyang and Lin Ji remained silent, he had to shoulder the responsibility of talking to Ding Zhaoyan, he hesitated and asked: "Xiao Ding, why did you suddenly think that coming here as a teacher?"

After listening to Ding Zhaoyan's answer, he realized that he had sprinkled a lot of salt on the other's wound, but when Ding Zhaoyan answered, his face was full of smiles.

"It's not a whim, Gaopeng's hometown is here, he has always wanted to be a teacher, and I have nothing else to do, so I just came to realize his dream."

Xu Donghai, who knew he had said the wrong thing, lowered his head in a panic. When he saw the cover of the new book, he couldn't help but feel his eyes warm.

"There's no need to keep silent like this," Ding Zhao said with a smile on his face, looking at his best friend, and then at the two brothers who seemed to be stuck together, "I'm very happy, we all realized what we should do most."

A gentle and comfortable wind blew over, and there was a sound like surging waves above their heads.

Ding Zhaoyan's eyes lit up: "Listen, whenever this is the time when the wind blows the leaves, I always feel that he is still by my side."

Chen Xiyang looked up, and the impenetrable leaves seemed to have life, pushing each other to laugh and play, he realized that Ding Zhaoyan would stay here forever, and raise batch after batch of children of him and Gaopeng, like the most Like faithful love, only death can bring it to an end.

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Tomorrow is the last chapter, love you all!