Tropical Highway

It has only been ten years since the establishment of Renqing Village Primary School, and the school building is still relatively new.When Zhai Lan walked into the school gate, it was just after school in the afternoon, the school building was completely empty, and only a few senior students were still playing on the playground.

Zhai Lan approached the students on the playground and asked about Li Feimu. There was no need to describe it. The students all knew "Teacher Li from Chengdu". After asking Zhai Lan, they knew that it was Li Feimu's cousin, and a tall kid volunteered to take him there.Zhai Lan was so happy that he didn't have to find his way, so he quickly followed behind him.

There are only a hundred or so students in the school, and the teachers share a big office.Maybe because school was over, only Li Feimu and another female teacher in her forties were left.

"Come?" Li Feimu looked up at him, and continued to correct his homework with a frown.

Zhai Lan nodded: "I'm bored, so I just said I'll come find you."

Li Feimu said he was bored, and pushed a few homework books and a red ballpoint pen in front of Zhai Lan.He knew the other party's abacus at a glance, sighed, and resigned to his fate, and began to help with corrections.

Simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, it is not difficult for Zhai Lan to change it, so he can distract himself from chatting with Li Feimu: "You Zhen called me."

"What about Tenzin?"

"Yes, it's pretty stable now."

Li Feimu smiled: "That's great. He can take Tenzin to Chengdu as planned. When he sees his sister, Tenzin's attitude will be more positive. After all, he really spends too little time with his parents."

Zhai Lan looked at Li Feimu in surprise.

Zhai Lan is not the only one who has changed. In his memory, one of the reasons why Li Feimu chose to support teaching a year ago was to keep his research after returning to school.Looking at it now, it seems that he has really started to devote himself to the identity of a teacher from the original reluctance. Otherwise, how could he run more than ten kilometers for a student who is about to drop out of school to persuade him to go back to school?

So he deliberately joked: "Brother Fei, will you continue to be a teacher in the future?"

Li Feimu's pen tip stopped when he changed his homework, and hesitantly said, "Not necessarily."

"I thought you liked it."

"I don't like it, but I don't hate it." Li Feimu replied thoughtfully, "I didn't feel that I had enjoyed too many good resources invisibly before, so I couldn't help but do something for the current students, such as persuading them to study more, giving They improve lives ... too much personal emotional investment, in fact, I am not suitable to be a teacher."

"Is this all thought of in the past year?"

"Well, no matter whether I will continue to do this job in the future, I will probably thank Renqing Village." Li Feimu smiled as he spoke, "Xiao Lan, don't blame me for being long-winded, I think everyone will encounter similar experiences. .”

Zhai Lan thought of the starry sky behind the mountain of Sera Monastery, and let out a "hmm" in a daze.

There are only a few homework books, and they will be corrected in a while. Zhai Lan piles them up neatly, and is about to ask about dinner, when Li Feimu suddenly looks at him: "Xiao Lan."

"Eh?"

"You and You Zhen, have you known each other for a long time?"

Staring at his expression, observing whether there is any mystery behind Li Feimu's words, Zhai Lan replied after ruling out any doubts: "I met him on the train. He was in my lower berth."

"Then you played with him in Lhasa?" Li Feimu wrote "I don't believe it" all over his face.

"Believe it or not." Zhai Lan rebuked him, "But none of us thought that it would be such a coincidence that the person he was looking for was your student... Looking back now, there are still traces to follow, but I really It’s hard to think in that direction. In Lhasa, we just walked together, basked in the sun and chatted—he was very nice.”

Li Feimu: "It can be seen."

If I can make a special trip to Tibet for my friend's younger brother, I'm afraid I'm hesitant no matter how close I am.

He stopped asking and changed the subject: "Then how long do you plan to stay in Linzhi? Is there any place you want to go?"

"You won't take me to play with you like that." Zhai Lan mercilessly exposed him, "Anyway, I'm here to relax. You're busy. At worst, I'll sign up for the tour group myself."

Li Feimu scratched his hair embarrassingly: "I'm sorry, Xiaolan, it's almost the end of the term..."

This is his last month in Nyingchi, and Li Feimu must have a lot of emotions to digest.Zhai Lan lay on the desk and asked for a while, "Go back in May?"

"It was the original plan." Li Feimu added, "If you don't want to wait for me, you can leave at any time, and I will see you off."

It's better to go back with You Zhen.

A short line of words came to mind, and Zhai Lan couldn't deny that his heart was immediately moved.

But then I thought again, why leave so quickly?The next time he enters Tibet may be a few years later, the opportunity is rare, and it is not impossible for him to play alone.Somewhat one-sided and You Zhen's anger, as if willfully proving "I'm not the only one with you", Zhai Lan was almost laughed at by his childishness.

Finally, he said to Li Feimu: "It depends on the situation."

You Zhen returned to Renqing Village with Zeren Tenzin two days later.

There were many examination items in the hospital, and several results could not be released on the same day, so I waited another day and night.The process of convincing Tenzin was not so difficult, and the breakthrough progress mainly relied on Baima Yangjin.

After the initial screening, Yang Jin made a video call to You Zhen and asked him to show Tenzin his phone.The chat between the two became more and more excited, You Zhen couldn't get in the conversation, so he just hid aside and smoked a cigarette.

When he came back, Tenzin returned the phone to him, and after a long silence, he agreed to go with him.

After getting all the results and finding a doctor to confirm that Tenzin's condition is acceptable to fly, You Zhen bought a plane ticket for a week later, then took him back to Renqing Village, and went to the school to handle the transfer procedures.

This is not an easy task. Tenzin's student status and what to do after going to Chengdu have to be negotiated in different places.

In the end, at the suggestion of the principal, he chose to suspend his studies first. When Yang Jin contacted the primary school in Chengdu, Li Feimu would help him complete the remaining procedures.

Tsering Tenzin was like a marionette the whole time, You Zhen thought that he might not be very happy, so he skipped many words of comfort.

An 11-year-old is no longer a child, and he should always be given time to overcome himself.

Thinking of this, I can't help but think of Zhai Lan.

You Zhen was dizzy from the sun that day, and Zhai Lan didn't reply after sending a text message.Now he is standing in the school, during class time, there is no one in the corridor, but You Zhen suddenly has a premonition that Zhai Lan may be close to him.

He knew that Li Feimu had taught several grades, including English and mathematics, which was considered normal in the village primary school.There are only a few classrooms. He originally wanted to find Li Feimu, but after passing through two classrooms, he heard a familiar voice——

"...So here we have to add one, it's not 4, it becomes 5."

At the back door of the classroom, You Zhen saw the young man on the podium clearly through the glass window, and couldn't help but laugh.

Zhai Lan is giving a math class to a group of children.

The blackboard is full of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division calculations. I may be afraid that the explanation is not detailed enough. In some places, the vertical formulas of pen calculations are specially listed.Zhai Lan's handwriting is very beautiful, it is not neat, but the general idea is concise and easy to understand.

He is an amateur teacher who can only speak logic and cannot explain "why".Fortunately, Zhai Lan is very patient. After each question, he has to ask "Is there anything I didn't understand" several times, and then repeat it from the beginning after the students below raised their hands. appearance.

You Zhen's eyes were sentimental, and his smile was accompanied by the sunlight leaking into his pupils, gently swaying away like water.

Just standing in the corridor and listening to half of the class, when the bell rang for the end of class, Zhai Lan looked at the unfinished topic and chose "Definitely next time", telling everyone to go to rest quickly.

The children were all playful, and upon hearing this, they cheered and flocked outside, and the noise and hustle and bustle instantly filled the corridor.

There really isn't a single question asked.

It would be a lie to say that he was not disappointed, even though Li Feimu had warned him not to demand this group of students by his own standards before coming here.Zhai Lan took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and picked up the blackboard eraser.

Halfway through the calculation, Zhai Lan turned his head and sneezed: "Ah-"

"Is your nose uncomfortable?"

He looked towards the door in surprise: "You Zhen! When did you come back?"

"An hour ago?" You Zhen walked into the classroom, took the blackboard eraser from Zhai Lan's hands naturally, and pushed him aside by virtue of his height, "I want to talk to you when I'm done with business—go sit down." Teacher Xiaolan, it's time for a class."

Zhai Lan only took half a step back symbolically: "I thought you would go straight away."

"I promised you."

He was talking about peach blossoms, but Zhai Lan didn't immediately give a positive answer on the phone.

You Zhen's words were too ambiguous, like some kind of promise, and also like a hint, he didn't have much experience in the world and dared not accept the move, lest he misunderstood something and all hopes would be dashed.

"... Oh." Zhai Lan pretended to look out the window.

When the blackboard is wiped, the chalk dust spreads in the air, giving the light a shape.

I didn't witness it with my own eyes, but You Zhen's efficiency is so high, and he must have the stability of an adult when he is busy, which makes Zhai Lan feel that there is a huge gap between him and him.

At the beginning of love, Zhai Lan was vaguely sure that he "liked" her, because Lhasa was too much like a dream.When they got on the high-speed train and arrived at Nyingchi, the air became humid, and at the same time, it was also contaminated with flying thoughts, dragging them to condense into water droplets and falling into the soil, repeatedly beating Zhai Lan on what is reality.

The reality is that he is less than 20 years old, and You Zhen is already capable of being alone.

I didn't think it before, but now I realize that they are much worse.

"Zhai Lan?" You Zhen wiped the blackboard, wiped off the chalk dust from his palm, and asked him funny, "Are you tired? Why don't you talk all the time? It's not that easy to be a teacher."

"Yeah." Zhai Lan answered blankly, sitting on the first row of desks and looking at You Zhen, "I was thinking."

"Thinking about what?"

"Is falling in love an easy thing?"

When Zhai Lan asked about You Zhen's confusion, his eyes were almost empty.He has too many uncertainties and worries. He likes the few times in Tibet, which makes him even more afraid of returning to his hometown.

At least here, as long as he closes his eyes and pretends to be deaf and dumb, he won't be able to see the gap between him and You Zhen.

After returning to Chengdu, if he still wants to keep in touch, then Zhai Lan will inevitably have an intersection with Youzhen's circle of friends, hobbies, career, and life. Can he adapt?

You Zhen stepped off the podium, he seemed to want to support the table with one hand, but after looking at his palm, he chose to sit beside Zhai Lan.

"Why do you think it's simple?" You Zhen asked him.

Zhai Lan shook his head.

There was You Zhen's white fingerprint on the desk, Zhai Lan looked at his wrist, the birthmark was almost invisible under the sunlight.He opened his mouth, but before he could speak, he was cut off by You Zhen.

"It's easy to like someone." You Zhen said, "But I find it very difficult to fall in love, especially for someone like me."

There was a "buzz" in my mind, and a sentence that the other party revealed accidentally or intentionally while riding the motorcycle surfaced at this moment. At that time, Zhai Lan couldn't turn the corner, but now he fully understood what You Zhen meant.

But he couldn't tell if he was happy: "What do you call a person like you..."

"I thought you saw it?"

Zhai Lan didn't answer, but stared straight at You Zhen.

Why are the eye circles a little red?

You Zhen raised his right hand slightly, as if he wanted to touch something but put it down quickly, he tapped the table twice lightly, the sound was muffled, but it inadvertently relieved his inexplicable sourness.

"Oh, it's just..." You Zhen buried his head and finally avoided Zhai Lan's gaze, "I like boys."