I stood up and looked at the little girl in front of me, who looked like she was about nineteen years old, "I am, who are you?"

"I'm an old girl, Xiao Cai. ”

I hurriedly got up and stretched out my hand, "Hello, hello." ”

She suddenly became shy, and instead of holding my hand, she put her hand upside down, "Where did Teacher Zhang come from?"

"I'm from L City. ”

"You really look like a star in a TV series. ”

"Really?"

Xiao Cai lowered his head and hummed, "Then I'll help my mother mow the grass." ”

I said a few words without a head, and I was stunned to figure out what she was going to say to me.

In the afternoon, some old men and women in the village sat in the corner of the wall with small mazza, some breaking corn cobs, some doing needlework, but they kept gossiping.

"What are you doing, boy?"

As soon as I heard them call me, I walked over and crouched on the ground, "I'm the new teacher." ”

"How many days are you coming?"

"I'm going to be there. ”

"Don't talk big about it at a young age, the old man has lived for seventy years, and no teacher can stay for more than a month. The fastest, come in the morning, leave in the morning. ”

I couldn't talk to them together, so I came to Uncle Cai's house early, Uncle Cai's house was very clean, but I didn't know what smell there was in the house, it was particularly bad. Since there was no one at his house, I was embarrassed to stay in the house, so I waited at the door for them to come back.

Miss Cai was the first to come back, she looked at me excitedly and asked me to tell her stories about the city, and asked me where I had been, and when I talked about Longdu, her eyes were full of stars, "I really want to go! I have only seen it on TV, I haven't really been there yet." ”

"Then you're going to go, who won't let you?"

She looked into the distance and sighed, "I'm going to marry Erhuzi from the neighboring village next month." ”

I look at her as nineteen, and it stands to reason that she is not of the legal age for marriage, "How old are you this year?"

"Next month is just eighteen. ”

"It's not legal age to be so young, right?"

"We don't care about that here, let's just set up a banquet, and the relatives on both sides have a meal, and we will be married. ”

Maybe there are local customs in each place, and I don't want to interfere too much.

In the evening, Miss Xiao Cai did it, and I was in charge of life. Seeing that there was no one around, I directly used the Red Flame Spell to make the fire become very strong in an instant, and the water in the pot instantly boiled.

"You're so good at making a fire!"

I watched her pinch the little rabbit with her dough, the little tiger and all kinds of other animals, the eyes of the small animals are made of dates, very delicate and beautiful.

"You've got such a good hand. ”

"If you do it blindly, everyone in our village will do it. With that, he put the lifelike little animals on the steamer.

"Is this what we're going to eat for the night?"

"My dad said, you came here for the first time today, this is the best thing to entertain guests in our village, and you are your own person after eating these. ”

In the evening, when Lao Cai came back, he poured me a cup of loose white, and asked Xiao Cai to get me a bag of peanuts in a small package, and then took a yellow light and took a small bowl, which was filled with yellow sauce. Later, I learned that the 100 yuan I gave to the teacher every month, because I didn't want it, the village chief gave Lao Cai, and Lao Cai agreed to join me.

After eating, Lao Cai drank a little too much, and Lao Cai's wife took a flashlight and asked Xiao Cai to send me back to school. I looked at the dark night sky outside, and said no, Lao Cai woke up in a drunken dream, "I must send it, I must send it, if I don't send it, the village chief will blame me for neglecting Teacher Zhang." ”

It was difficult to resist the enthusiasm, Xiao Cai walked in front with a flashlight, and I followed behind, taking two steps, "I can see it, you go back!"

"No, let's just walk while you tell me the story of Longdu, okay?"

"Then you send me to school, do you dare to go home alone?"

"Then why don't you dare? There are no bad people in the village. ”

The little girl is really heartless, I have the heart to tell her a few ghost stories, but the words are still on the lips, if I really tell it, it won't be bad, and it's not good to cause a psychological shadow to the little girl.

Xiao Cai sent me to school, and I said you should go back! She said that she still wanted to hear me.

"It's a long time coming, I won't leave tomorrow, you can come over when you have time, I'll tell you okay? Go back quickly, lest your parents worry." ”

After Xiao Cai left, I followed her and didn't go back to school until she got home safely.

I lit a kerosene lamp and looked at the time on my phone, it was only seven o'clock in the evening. Long nights, no sleep. I don't have a TV, even a radio, and I don't dare to play on my mobile phone, but without the Internet, there's nothing to play. So I moved a chair and leaned back on it and watched the sky and count the stars.

Suddenly, I remembered what Xiao Jie told me that the Xuandu Conference in two months later would make me practice diligently. I meditated on my mind, according to the constellations in the sky, and drew a talisman in the air in my hand, and a golden spell flashed in the sky and disappeared in an instant. Since it works, practice it a few more times. After practicing the mantra, you will begin to meditate and run the big and small days. Two powerful true qi converged in the position of the dantian, forming a golden Tai Chi pattern.

"This door is really exquisite. ”

I said this to myself, and I felt as if someone around me had seen all this, and I stood up vigilantly and looked around, could it be that I felt wrong?

"Five Heavenly Spirits, Red Lotus Karma Fire. ”

A rain of flames fell overhead, illuminating the surroundings and nothing out of the ordinary.

"Receive. ”

The flames disappeared, so as not to set the surrounding woods on fire.

I just hovered cross-legged ten centimeters above the ground, my eyes closed, staring at it with my breath closed.

It wasn't until the next morning, when I was drenched in an autumn rain, that I opened my eyes and felt refreshed. I braved the rain to go to Lao Cai's house, Lao Cai was burning the fire, Xiao Cai and her mother were boiling porridge and noodles.

Seeing me come in, Lao Cai stood up, "Teacher Xiao Zhang, I thought you wouldn't come in such a heavy rain, and I was about to ask Xiao Cai to bring you food in a while." Look at it, it's all wet, take it off quickly, roast it in front of the fire, don't catch a cold. I obeyed and took off my coat and shirt and hung them on a chair by the stove.

Xiao Cai looked at me directly, and Lao Cai patted my arm, "Teacher Xiao Zhang is okay! I thought you were very thin, but I didn't expect it to be full of pimple meat!"

After breakfast, I put on clothes that were not dried, the old dishes made me not have to go to school today, such a heavy rain must not have children, it is better to rest for a while, wait for the rain to stop, I insisted on leaving, he took down a straw hat from the wall, let me use the rain.

When I walked to the school with my straw hat on, I noticed several children walking barefoot in the direction of the school with plastic sheeting. That little foot must be uncomfortable in such a cold weather, stepping on the mud.

When I went to school, there were already four or five students in the classroom, the oldest looked to be eight years old, and the youngest was estimated to be about four years old, all with their own small benches.

By about eight o'clock, there were already seven or eight people in the classroom, and when I looked outside, it was estimated that there would be no more people. I was ready to start lecturing, and it was my first time as a teacher, and I was still a little apprehensive.

"Morning classmates, I'm your new teacher, just call me Teacher Zhang. ”

I picked up the chalk and wrote my name on the blackboard, "Students, who is the class leader?" In the theater, it is said that there is a good storytelling, and it is too difficult for me.

There should be textbooks for teaching, and I went back to the office next to me, and I didn't find anything, and I came back and asked them, "What about your textbooks?"

Finally, a little boy bit his finger and said, "No." ”

At this time, I found that the classroom was full of little boys, and there were no little girls, could it be that this village also favored sons over girls?

"Today, we don't learn knowledge, you are all from the same village, and I am from outside. I'm your teacher now, you're my student, you know my name, I don't know your name yet. As I spoke, I pointed to one of my nearest classmates, "Starting with you, write your names on the blackboard in turn." ”

Although the classmates were reluctant to talk more, they were very obedient, after I finished speaking, he stood up and took the chalk, and wrote his name crookedly, and then the second and third, all the time, lined up to write, I silently remembered their names, and the penultimate one stood there for a long time, but did not write.

"Why don't you write it?"

"I can't read. ”

"That four or five-year-old classmate just now can write, you look older than them, why can't you write?"

"Teacher, I really don't. ”

"Then you tell the teacher what your name is, and the teacher will help you write it, but you have to study hard by yourself and remember your name. ”

"My name is Cai Genqi. ”

"Do all of your village's surnames be Cai?"

All the classmates nodded, "Our name here is Cai Village." ”

Actually, I'm a bit of a deception, I don't know how to teach students at all, it's really like telling a story, telling them about the outside world, looking at their starry little eyes, and the surprise of hearing incredible things, these children are really cute.

At noon, they left the little bench here, and I looked at the crooked names on the blackboard and suddenly had an idea.

"Teacher Zhang, it's time to eat. ”

Xiao Cai walked in wearing a hat and carrying a cloth bag. I asked her to wait for me in the next room for a while, I first took a picture of the names on the blackboard with my mobile phone, and then wiped it with a dirty cloth under the blackboard.

When I returned to the office, Xiao Cai had already taken out an aluminum lunch box, a box of rice, a box of shredded potatoes and beans from his bag.

"Have you eaten yet?"

Xiao Cai nodded and handed me the chopsticks. I took the chopsticks and sat down in a chair at my desk, where she stood and looked at me.

"If you have something to do, go back first! When I go to your house in the evening, I will bring the lunch box. ”

"No, I'm fine. ”

"Then you can sit on the bed for a while!"

Xiao Cai sat on the bed and touched the sheets, "Ah, the sheets are so dirty, I'll wash them for you when it's good." ”

"Thank you so much, by the way, Xiao Cai, how many children are there in your village? ”

"About a dozen households!"

"Boys and girls?"

"It's just that boys and girls usually help out at home, and then, like me, when they get old, they get married. ”

"I listen to you talk and talk as if you have also studied. ”

"I didn't, these were all taught to me by my brother, who was the first college student in our village. ”

If girls are counted, how many school-age children are supposed to go to school?"