Yamakawa

Xia Youqing spent a few days looking around the neighborhood, and they also went to the Luobu Village Scenic Spot and the Bazhou Museum.

Then they crossed a desert and came to a small remote village.

"Baby, the conditions here are relatively simple. If you feel uncomfortable, just tell me." Xia Youqing was really worried about Xie Qiujie's physical condition, and Xie Qiujie had been running around with him for the past few days, causing a lot of wind.

"You seem to have misunderstood me," Xie Qiujie said, "I'm not that delicate."

While talking, they had already arrived, and in front of them was a simple and dilapidated elementary school.

Because Xia Youqing suddenly saw a public welfare activity, after buying a few boxes of extracurricular books to donate, he temporarily decided to come to this elementary school with inconvenient transportation to do volunteer work.

The headmaster was an older man with an amiable face. He greeted them with a smile and thanked them. Then he took them to the teacher's office and introduced them to the general situation of the school and their work.

The principal said: "There are about 150 students in the school, most of them are left-behind children, and their families live far away. The work content is what I just told you. The accommodation conditions here are relatively poor. Thank you for your hard work."

Xia Youqing smiled, "No, no, unfortunately, it's really hard for you to stay here for more than ten years."

"There is always a need for people in the village. I am also very relieved to see this group of students learn something and go out to live a good life." The principal took a sip of hot tea, "Back then..."

Xie Qiujie sat next to Xia Youqing, watching the principal talk about the situation over the years, and then he caught a glimpse of a young man holding a lesson plan and walking to another desk in the office.

It should be one of the few teachers here.

Xia Youqing asked: "Principal, can you show us the room first, pack up our things, and we can get back to work as soon as possible."

The principal slapped his head, "Oh, I'm sorry, people tend to forget things when they get old, and I talked with you so much that I almost forgot about it."

Xia Youqing: "It's okay."

The principal looked around and saw the man just now, "Mr. Su, do you have class later?"

The man raised his face, with a straight nose and slightly upturned Danfeng eyes. It was a flamboyant and heroic face, with a bit of indescribable tenderness.

It's different from Xia Youqing's aggressiveness when he doesn't smile, but when he smiles, he will suspend.

Xie Qiujie inexplicably felt that he might have experienced very sad things, obviously his face should be a young man full of flamboyance and wantonness.

The man said, "No."

The principal beckoned to him, "Teacher Su, here are two volunteers who are temporarily staying in the empty teacher's dormitory. I still have something to do. Please take them there."

The principal stood up and said to Xia Youqing: "The conditions are really not very good. I have wronged the two young people. You can live in a room with bunk beds. That room has been empty before. We sent someone to After cleaning, it is still clean, but the tables and chairs are a bit old."

"I still have some work to do, so I won't take the two of you there." The principal introduced the young man beside him, "This is Teacher Su, who came from the mainland to teach. He will take you to the dormitory."

"It's okay, you can go to work." Xia Youqing stood up, then looked at the people around the principal, was stunned for a while, and hesitated: "...Su Qing?"

Su Qing smiled: "Xia Youqing, long time no see."

The principal was also taken aback, "Do you know each other?"

Su Qing explained: "Almost, principal, don't you still have a job, go get busy and leave it to me here."

"That's good, since you know each other, it's easier to get along with each other." The principal smiled, "Then I'll get to work, and it's time for students to have lunch soon."

Xie Qiujie couldn't help asking Xia Youqing, "Your friend too?"

"Well, haven't I been to Tibet before? I met him while traveling in Tibet," Xia Youqing explained to him, and then said silently with lips: "I also took pictures of him and his boyfriend, and later I heard that his boyfriend Died in a car accident."

During that time, Xia Youqing was silent for a while when he saw the news on the Internet, because he had seen how much they loved each other, but God failed to fulfill his wish.

Later, I heard that Su Qing stopped being a game anchor after being discharged from the hospital, and after that, Xia Youqing never paid attention to this matter again.

Su Qing smiled: "Photographer Xia, we are also destined, and we can meet in such a remote place."

The two shook hands, Xia Youqing said: "The essence of fate is unexpected."

Xie Qiujie looked at Su Qing.

Su Qing looked at Xie Qiujie, then at Xia Youqing, Xia Youqing added, "My boyfriend, Xie Qiujie."

Su Qing looked at Xie Qiujie quietly for a while, as if thinking of someone, smiled lightly, and stretched out her hand, "Hello."

Xie Qiujie shook hands politely, "Hello."

Su Qing saw that the suitcases of the two were still on the side, "I'll take you to the dormitory first, and it will be lunch time later, you can go to the cafeteria for lunch after tidying up."

The room is very simple, with a bunk bed, two sets of old tables and chairs, a wardrobe, and a separate bathroom, but it is also clean and bright.

Much better than when Xia Youqing once slept in a tent as a volunteer in Guizhou.

Xie Qiujie was about to climb up the bunk to take a look, and just stepped on the stairs, when Xia Youqing hugged her waist and hugged her down.

Xie Qiujie caught a glimpse of Su Qing still there, and whispered, "What are you doing?"

Xia Youqing: "Honey, let's sleep on the lower bunk together, and the upper bunk won't be made."

Xie Qiujie looked at the single bed, "I can't sleep."

Xia Youqing pulled him to make the bed, "I can sleep well, squeeze to keep warm."

Xie Qiujie wanted to say that there was heating, and the room was quite warm, but the single bed was a bit cramped, and Xia Youqing felt wronged and felt uncomfortable sleeping in the squeeze.

Xia Youqing tilted his head and kissed him sideways, and said with a smile, "Don't struggle."

"..." Xie Qiujie didn't look at him, and made the bed with a dull face.

Su Qing stared at them for a while, then said, "Clean it up, I won't bother you anymore, I live at the opposite door, just knock on the door if you have something to do, and I'll take you to the cafeteria after the tidying up."

Xia Youqing smiled: "Okay."

After tidying up, Xie Qiujie went to knock on Su Qing's door.

Su Qing opened the door, surprised for a moment, "You are so fast?"

Xie Qiujie was puzzled: "The room is quite clean."

Xia Youqing seemed to understand his surprise, a little funny, "We didn't do anything else, just tidy up."

Su Qing: "..."

It made his thinking less pure.

"I think too much." He smiled, "I'll take you to the cafeteria."

The cafeteria is not big, the three of them finished their meal, and in the afternoon Xie Qiujie and the two of them officially started working. The job content is very simple, helping with cleaning, helping the cafeteria with the kitchen, playing with the students in activity classes, and moving wherever they need to go.

It gets dark very late in Xinjiang.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Xia Youqing was called to move things. Xie Qiujie watched the sunset with the students on the playground, and was dragged by the children to the cafeteria for dinner.

"Brother, are you also our school's new teacher?"

"You and that tall brother are so handsome, and Teacher Su is also very handsome."

"Brother, what do you know? Teacher Su teaches us Chinese. He teaches us very well. We all like him."

Maybe everyone has a good impression of good-looking things, even if Xie Qiujie is a bit cold, he is surrounded by a group of bold children chattering, he thinks it is funny, looking at the children's innocent appearance and finds it cute.

He said, "No, my tall brother and I came here as volunteers, not teaching."

He sat at a table with a few children to eat, and the children said, "Are you going to leave in a few days?"

Xie Qiu nodded.

"Oh, that's fine." The kid was a little disappointed.

Xie Qiujie found that these children are really sensible, so sensible that it makes people feel distressed, and he has never been good at comforting others, so he changed the subject and said: "Why do you like Teacher Su so much?"

"Because he is handsome!" said a child.

Xie Qiujie is funny, children's thoughts are really simple, they can say whatever they have, and they have no bad intentions.

"He's good at teaching, he's very patient, and he explained things clearly to us!"

"Sometimes he will send us home. My home is far away from the school. I usually live in the school and only go home on weekends. But Teacher Su always goes to see the desert alone. He sits on the sand dunes for a long time. It looks very... ...looks sad."

"Yes, he also likes the necklace around his neck very much. Sometimes he touches the necklace when he changes his homework."

Xie Qiujie thought of Su Qing's appearance, he always felt that he should not have such a personality before, and he didn't know what to say.

He saw the kid sitting opposite him eat the vegetables he didn't want to eat, and then smiled and shouted: "Hello, Teacher Su."

Xie Qiujie turned his head and saw Su Qing standing behind him, "Alicil, picky eater again."

Alisil smiled obediently, "Mr. Su, I ate it, and I'm not picky this time."

"Can I sit here?" Su Qing asked Xie Qiujie holding a plate.

Xie Qiujie: "Sit down."

Su Qing said, "Where's Xia Youqing? Why didn't I stay with you?"

Xie Qiujie noticed that there was a red rope hanging around his neck, and replied: "I was temporarily called to do other work."

Maybe these are the students in his class. When Su Qing came, the children who were picky eaters just now seemed to have become obedient, and they would eat the food in the bowl.

Xie Qiujie is not very good at talking, just eating silently and paying attention to their lips.

Suddenly, a beautiful little girl ran over not far away. She didn't eat any food, and ran up to Su Qing with tears all over her face to complain, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Teacher, teacher, he scared me by telling ghost stories to scare me" I, teacher woo woo, are there really ghosts in this world..."

A curly-haired boy chased after him with a look of bewilderment, "Hey, don't cry, don't cry, you asked me to tell you a story, why are you suing the teacher?"

While sobbing, the girl said, "...the story you told this morning is not like this! You can just tell ghost stories, but you just pretended to scare me!"

Xie Qiujie saw a little helpless look on Su Qing's face, took out a tissue to wipe the little girl's tears, and said softly, "Taniguli, don't be afraid, ghosts have nothing to be afraid of."

Xie Qiujie found an indentation on the ring finger of his left hand, which was the mark left by wearing a ring frequently.

The girl was still sobbing, and her big eyes were full of tears, "But the ghost looks very scary, and it's very scary. The ghosts in the stories can harm people."

Su Qing rubbed the little girl's head, "Not all ghosts can harm people. They are just demonized in the stories. The ghosts you are afraid of now may be people that others want to see day and night, so they are not What a terrible thing."

Timur asked curiously: "Teacher, why do people still want to see ghosts?"

Su Qing smiled, "It may be someone that that person likes or can't let go of."

Xie Qiujie suddenly felt that he was very gentle, the kind of tenderness that was so gentle that he could tolerate everything, but also deeply sad, and a little indescribably lonely.

A group of students who were eating asked, "Does that ghost look like us, because grandma often said that grandpa will protect me in places where I can't see."

"Teacher, are there really ghosts in this world?"

Su Qing smiled softly, "I don't know if there are ghosts in the world, but the teacher hopes there will be."

"Why? Teacher, aren't you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid, because there is a person inside that I want to see day and night."

The children were still asking questions curiously, and were taught by Su Qing to eat well.

Xie Qiujie suddenly remembered that Xia Youqing once told him that Su Qing's boyfriend died in a car accident, so the person he misses day and night, hoping that ghosts exist, is probably because of his boyfriend.

Xie Qiujie suddenly felt a little indescribably sad, as if he had seen Su Qing's pain of losing her beloved in these few words.

Su Qing turned back to continue eating, saw Xie Qiujie looking at him, and smiled, "What's wrong? The food in the cafeteria is not good?"

"No, it's delicious." Xie Qiujie came back to his senses, "I was just thinking about what you said just now. I think you are very good at teaching students, so the students like you."

Su Qing lowered her head to eat, chewed the mouthful of rice slowly, and said, "Actually, I was also afraid of ghosts before. I'm the kind of person who is afraid of ghosts and likes to scare others. It's a bit of a bad taste, but I'm not afraid anymore."

He didn't say why later, but the word always seemed to be sad later.

Be silent for a while.

He also said: "I didn't like getting along with children before. My partner used to joke about asking me to teach, so I came here. Now I think it's good to be a good teacher."