After sending away a female student who was with Zeng Bixian in the printing room, Section Chief Zhu paced to Zeng Bixian's side and warmed up with an official voice.

"Teacher Xiao Zeng, have been coming to our school for a while!

"Hmm!"

"As a school leader, I still don't care enough about your new colleagues, if you have any inconveniences and grievances in your life, work, just come to me, I will definitely make decisions for you!"

"Thank you, Section Chief Zhu!"

"Teacher Xiao Zeng, I am here at the end of this year to reward outstanding teachers with meal coupons, food, oil, cloth tickets, I specially sent them to you, so that you can have a little more comfortable this Spring Festival this year. Come, you're welcome, take it!"

After speaking, Section Chief Zhu took out a handful of red, green, and green tickets from his pants pocket with one hand, grabbed Zeng Bixian's right hand that was pressing on the mold with one hand, and stuffed the ticket into Zeng Bixian's hand with his own words.

"Thank you, Section Chief Zhu, I don't need it, I really don't need it, you can give it to someone else!"

Section Chief Zhu took Zeng Bixian's hand and said with a smile on his face,

"Teacher Xiao Zeng, look at your hands, they are full of ink, I'll help you wipe them!"

"No, no!"

How could the right hand not be pulled out as if it was clamped by a pair of vices, Zeng Bixian was so anxious that her face was flushed, and at this moment, a boy's voice suddenly came from outside the door,

"Section Chief Zhu, Section Chief Zhu, Music Teacher Chen is looking for you everywhere, you go to the office quickly, Teacher Chen is waiting for you!"

As soon as he heard that Mr. Chen was looking for himself, Section Chief Zhu, whose expression had changed greatly, hurriedly let go, put the tickets in his hand into his pocket, scratched his head and said,

"Teacher Xiao Zeng, someone is looking for me, I will go first, remember that if there is any difficulty in the future, although come to me, I am not only a section chief, there is still a place for me to speak, I am waiting for you to answer questions anytime and anywhere. ”

After saying that, Section Chief Zhu hurriedly opened the door of the printing room and hurriedly left, accompanied by Section Chief Zhu's figure disappearing into the night, Zeng Bixian took a long breath, I really thank Mr. Chen for finding Section Chief Zhu at this time and resolving his embarrassing situation. After walking to the door, he was about to lock the door, suddenly a pair of strong hands against the door, a tall figure quickly flashed into the room, turned around and plugged in the latch lock of the door, Zeng Bixian recognized it as Huang Cheng at a glance, it seems that the shout outside the door just now was sent by Huang Cheng, Zeng Bixian was surprised and delighted!

"Huang Cheng, how did you know I was here?"

"I met Huang Lihua in the bicycle just now, and she said that Section Chief Zhu was looking for you with bad intentions, and she asked me to come to you!"

"Isn't that music teacher Chen looking for Section Chief Zhu?"

The corners of Huang Cheng's mouth were crooked, and he smiled playfully,

"Don't look for it now, I'll look for it later!"

Zeng Bixian didn't understand, and continued to return to the table to complete her printing work, while Huang Cheng helped sort on the side, and after watching for two minutes to know how to operate the mold, Huang Cheng took off his coat and replaced Zeng Bixian, who was tired and out of breath, and vigorously printed 8 large and small test papers page by page. The boy still has a lot of strength, and the blank papers have turned into test papers full of ink in a blink of an eye, and seeing that more than 400 test papers are about to be printed, the two looked at each other and smiled.

Maybe it was the ink on his hand that hit his forehead when he wiped his sweat, and on his face, Huang Cheng's sweaty face made Zeng Bixian smile, and hurriedly took out the men's handkerchief that had been cleaned and was ready to be returned to Huang Cheng, and stood beside Huang Cheng and raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat hanging on his face and behind his ears. Motionless and looking down at Zeng Bixian, who was exhaling like an orchid from a short distance, Huang Cheng suddenly felt that his blood was spurting, and his whole body was hot, and he reached out to grab Zeng Bixian's little hand that was wiping sweat between his neck, both of them seemed to be slightly stunned, Zeng Bixian hurriedly pulled out his hand, but he didn't expect Huang Cheng to hold on tightly, and he directly put Zeng Bixian's palm on his face,

"Your hands are so cold!"

"It's almost finished, let's go home, I'll get the rest tomorrow!"

As soon as the words fell, the only light bulb hanging from the ceiling was extinguished for no reason, and now it was about ten o'clock in the evening, the school turned off the power uniformly, and there were only two lonely Huang Cheng and Zeng Bixian in the dark printing room, Huang Cheng still held Zeng Bixian's hand, Zeng Bixian's heart beat very hard,

"There's a power outage, I'm going home!"

"Okay, I'll send you home!"

Huang Cheng let go of Zeng Bixian's hand,

"No, it's getting late now, you should go home early to take care of your mom and grandma!"

"My mother was taken by my father to Wuhan for hospitalization the day before yesterday, and there is only my grandmother at home, and now my grandmother has long been asleep!"

As he spoke, it was pitch black, and the sound of two people's stomachs rumbling suddenly came from the silent small room, it turned out that neither of them had eaten dinner, and they were already hungry at this time, and their hearts were close to their backs. Zeng Bixian remembered that there were two leftover flower rolls from noon in her schoolbag, and a bottle of chili sauce given by her colleagues, so she found a spacious place and sat on the ground. The bright moonlight spilled in from the window made the two of them adapt to the darkness in front of them, except for a few turtledoves crying in the distance, everything was silent, and the pendulum of time seemed to stand still, Huang Cheng looked at Zeng Bixian in the night light and asked leisurely,

"Teacher Xiao Zeng, I have always wanted to ask you, why are you so good to me and my family, do you like me?"

"I have a boyfriend, why should I like you?"

"Then why are you so nice to me?"

"Am I nice to you? Maybe I just think we're both the most pathetic people in the world!"

Huang Cheng looked at Zeng Bixian puzzled,

"Don't you know? This seems to be an open secret of the whole school, I am an abandoned baby who doesn't even know who my biological parents are, 21 years ago I was thrown by someone next to the garbage heap at the entrance of Jihong Middle School, it was my adoptive mother Zeng Teacher who picked me up and raised me, my adoptive mother is very good, but I don't know why I'm afraid of her, maybe because her character is born bland, joy, anger and sorrow are invisible, I don't feel a mother's closeness in her, she doesn't smile, she goes home in addition to work is to read, I study hard, and try to do the best in all aspects is to make her identify with me as a daughter, proud of me, but rarely can see this smile on her face。 I'm still very afraid of her, and I always think that the reason why she picked me up and raised me may be just out of a kind of pity for the abandoned cat and dog on the roadside!"

"Why didn't you leave her after graduating from college and come back here to work and become her colleague!"

"No matter how cold Teacher Zeng is to me, I love her from the bottom of my heart, I can't forget her nurturing grace to me, without her, there would be no me in this world, my life is given by her, I must spend the rest of my life to be filial to her, so I said I want to go back to Jihong Middle School as a teacher, she was very angry, she didn't want me to return to this small city, she felt that I should go to a broader world to display my talents, and realize her unfulfilled dreams for her, but I'm not interested, I just want to stay by her side, even if she may not need it!"

"It's a good thing you're back, otherwise we might not know each other in our lives!"

Zeng Bixian smiled slightly, patted the dough crumbs on her chest and stood up,

"You don't know me, but you know someone else!

Huang Cheng stood up suddenly, and couldn't help but hug Zeng Bixian,

"I just want to know you, Mr. Xiao Zeng, I like you, maybe you think I'm lying, but I really dream of you every night, really, I don't know why?"

Feeling holding his body trembling slightly, Huang Cheng's heartbeat like a drum came from his chest close to his ear, there was silence all around, it was needed, it felt so good to be hugged, Zeng Bixian remembered in her head that on the way to school for the first time when she was a child, her mother walked in front, carrying a new schoolbag full of joy and joy Zeng Bixian trotted two steps and stretched out her right hand, ready to hold the left hand of her mother who was swinging back and forth in the air, when her warm little hand touched her mother's cold big hand, her mother instinctively retracted her hand, looked back at Xiao Zeng Bixian and said, "Walk well, don't look around!" Xiao Zeng Bixian never dared to take the initiative to ask her mother for any physical contact from now on, it feels good to be hugged tightly in her arms like this, as long as someone needs herself, even if she is not her own relatives, as long as she has the feeling of being loved, then she is not an abandoned baby, not a person who doesn't even want her parents.

Zeng Bixian thought, thinking about involuntarily hugging Huang Cheng's waist against Huang Cheng's chest and crying silently, the two hugged each other I don't know how long it took, after Zeng Bixian's mood calmed down, Huang Cheng sent Zeng Bixian home, although he was speechless all the way, but from each other's eyes, the two saw each other, when they were about to arrive at the school staff dormitory building, Zeng Bixian stopped Huang Cheng and persuaded him to go back early,

"Huang Cheng, go home early and rest, you have to go to school tomorrow, what happened in the printing room just now, let's forget what we said! I'm a teacher, you're a student, we can't forget our identity at the moment, I hope you study hard at the moment, and when you grow up and graduate, let's think about the future, okay?"

Huang Cheng stared at Zeng Bixian, nodded, got on his bicycle and disappeared into the vast night.

Walking lightly to the door of her house, the faint yellow light from the glass window let Zeng Bixian know that her mother had not slept yet, and her mother would not go to bed until twelve o'clock in the evening every night to correct her homework or prepare for class, and now the watch on her wrist showed half past eleven, Zeng Bixian quietly opened the door and tiptoed to prepare to go directly to her bedroom, but she didn't expect her mother to sit on the sofa in the living room expressionlessly waiting for Zeng Bixian to come in.

"Mom, haven't slept so late?"

Zeng Bixian, who was startled, didn't wait for her mother to open her mouth and took the initiative to ask,

"Why did you come back so late?"

"I'm printing the mid-term exam papers in the printing room, so it's late!"

"The lights go out at 10 o'clock, how can you print if there is no electricity. ”

"By 10 o'clock it was almost printed, and then I ate something, so it was late!"

"Xiaoxian, don't think I don't know, you have been going to Huang Cheng's house very often recently, and now there have been rumors about the two of you in the school, Huang Cheng's family background is more complicated, not what you see, stay away from Huang Cheng in the future! There are many students from difficult families in the school, not every one of them you can help, just do your own job!"

"I know, Mom, I'm going back to sleep!"

"Well, get some rest early!"