This donkey meat meal adds a joyful atmosphere to the whole school, and you can feel the satisfaction of a bowl of donkey meat in the happy smiles of the students in the smell of meat in the air.

Everyone was happily eating donkey meat, only Ma Zhongguo squatted in a corner, silently smoking a dry cigarette and watching the students who came and went with donkey meat.

Lin Ping led Ah Suo to Ma Zhongguo's side, and Ma Zhongguo saw that Ah Suo was a little flustered and stuffed the dry tobacco gun under his buttocks.

Ma Zhongguo looked at the two and asked, "Why are you here?"

Lin Ping smiled and just wanted to open his mouth to speak, Ah Suo preemptively raised the instant noodles in his hand and said, "Grandpa, eat!

Ma Zhongguo was a little stunned and said, "Aren't you going to eat donkey meat?"

Lin Ping smiled and said, "I don't want to eat it." ”

Lin Ping and Ma Zhongguo already have a deep friendship, seeing Ma Zhongguo so uncomfortable, Lin Ping also felt the same feeling, and he couldn't eat the donkey meat of this old donkey. And the sensible Ah saw that Grandpa Ma didn't eat it, so he didn't eat it either. So the two brought a few packs of instant noodles from the commissary to find Ma Zhongguo.

"I don't eat, I don't go hungry. Ma Zhongguo shook his head with a smile, and then said, "You guys eat." ”

"Grandpa doesn't eat it, and Ah Suo doesn't eat either. Ah Suo stubbornly raised his head.

Lin Ping also smiled and persuaded: "People are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic." Teacher Ma, how can you have the strength to teach the children in class in the afternoon when you don't eat?"

Under the persuasion of Lin Ping and Asuo, Ma Zhongguo agreed: "Okay." ”

So, the three of them came to the room to soak the instant noodles in the rice bowl with hot water, Ma Zhongguo looked at the students with smiles on their faces, felt a little better in his heart, smiled and said with some self-comfort: "The old donkey contributed to me during his lifetime, and he contributed to the students after his death, it is really worth it in this life." ”

But as he spoke, Ma Zhongguo's eyes were a little moist.

Then, Lin Ping, Ma Zhongguo and Ah Suo ate instant noodles in the diffuse aroma of donkey meat, and the taste of instant noodles overshadowed the aroma of donkey meat around them, which made Ma Zhongguo feel a lot better.

After eating instant noodles, I went to the faucet next to the room to brush the rice bowl, and there was a long queue in front of several faucets, all of which were students waiting to brush the rice bowl.

Seeing that the students' faces were full of happiness and unfinished, Lin Ping smiled and asked, "Delicious?"

One student hurriedly replied, "It's delicious!"

Another student also replied, "It's all delicious!"

"No, no, no, donkey meat is better than pork, it's so delicious!" said another student with a look of aftertaste on his face.

Lin Ping said: "This is Teacher Ma's donkey, you can eat donkey meat, shouldn't you thank Teacher Ma?"

"Thank you, Mr. Ma!"

"Thank you, Mr. Ma!"

So the children shouted and thanked Teacher Ma.

Ma Zhongguo looked at this group of lovely students and smiled kindly, he could make the children eat well, seeing them so happy Ma Zhongguo was also happy, and Ma Zhongguo's uncomfortable mood because of the old donkey being eaten was also eased a little.

At this time, suddenly a junior child opened his mouth and said, "If only Mr. Ma had donkeys die every day, then we would have donkey meat to eat every day!"

After the child finished speaking, the atmosphere in the air calmed down.

And the little boy also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and smiled wryly and said, "I...... I'm just talking about it casually. ”

Then he was so frightened that he ran away.

Ma Zhongguo squeezed out a smile and said as if comforting himself: "It's okay, child, Tong Yan is unscrupulous." ”

Lin Ping also smiled helplessly and didn't speak, he could understand this little child. It's like when I was a child, I said "If only I could celebrate the New Year every day", the New Year, when Lin Ping was a child, had a very big attraction for Lin Ping, as soon as he entered the wax moon, Lin Ping often asked his parents and grandparents: "When is the New Year?"

Since the beginning of the month, adults have been annoyed by Lin Ping's question.

However, when I grow up, the taste of the New Year will fade, the people's living standards and quality will be greatly improved, and there is no difference between the New Year and the New Year in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, at most it is a few days of vacation, deadly traffic and endless banquets. I no longer have the sense of anticipation that I had when I was a child.

But this child's unintentional words didn't know why they deeply stabbed Ma Zhongguo, but Ma Zhongguo didn't blame him, just like he said, the child's words are unscrupulous.

Ma Zhongguo has already seen that not everyone in this world can understand the good of others, and not everyone will consider the pain and suffering of others when they are enjoying. It is human nature to consider from one's own vested interests, especially for adults, let alone an ignorant little doll.

After brushing the rice bowl, Ma Zhongguo limped to the room, and Lin Ping and Ah Suo also followed.

Ma Zhongguo said to Feng Chunxiu: "Qingmei,, can you pack up the bones of the old donkey for me, as well as the donkey's hooves and donkey skins." ”

After hearing this, Feng Chunxiu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go and bring it to you." ”

Feng Chunxiu took the donkey skin with a few traces of blood and the donkey's hooves and brought it to Ma Zhongguo and said: "This donkey skin hasn't dried yet, or it will be dried again, or put it in the room for you to dry on the stove, there is still a smell of blood." ”

Ma Zhongguo gently touched the donkey's skin, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

"What about the donkey bones? give them to me, I'll bury them." Ma Zhongguo asked.

Feng Chunxiu said: "That...... We are also going to use donkey bones to make soup for the children one more time in the evening, so you can see if we can finish the soup before giving it to you. ”

Another woman also said, "The good things are in the bones of donkeys, so it's a pity to bury them like this." ”

Ma Zhongguo smiled indifferently: "Okay, let it contribute the last bit of value." ”

In the evening, after eating, Ma Zhongguo came to fetch the bones of the old donkey, the bones of the old donkey were all broken, and the bone marrow in it was boiled into a pot of donkey bone soup full of essence at dinner, and the nutritional value may be higher than the donkey meat and donkey broth at noon.

Ma Zhongguo took out a sheet cloth from his arms, and then Feng Chunxiu piled the collected donkey bones on it, Ma Zhongguo carefully picked up the four corners of the sheet, and then shook it gently, and then tied the four corners into a burden.

Ma Zhongguo hugged the burden in his arms and said to Feng Chunxiu and the others with a smile: "Thank you." ”

Feng Chunxiu and the others looked at Ma Zhongguo's somewhat sad smile, and suddenly something was touched in their hearts, and they said one by one: "We and the children should thank you." ”

Ma Zhongguo smiled, and then leaned over and slowly limped out of the room with the bones of the old donkey in his arms.