For some, the night was a long one.

The rising sun hit a small isolated village in the depths of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and the sound of roosters crowed from far to near, rising a burst of smoke, but this small village, which is particularly peaceful on weekdays, is like being covered with a cloud of ash.

The primary school next to the small village for three whole years is not so much a primary school as just three small earthen houses, simple blackboards, and desks of different shapes, which are all made up from every household in the village.

There is a somewhat empty yard, erected a small homemade basketball hoop, which is the only decoration, but it gives people a crumbling feeling, and the suffocating poverty has become the biggest shadow of this poor mountain and bad water.

And the only female teacher here, for these people who face the loess with their backs to the sky, is the existence like a god, and completely respects it in their hearts, because even though they don't know a single word, they all understand a truth, that is, only by reading can these children who have no future step out of this cold.

For three years, this beautiful woman has lived in this poor mountain and bad water for three years, even if she has not left the New Year, her love and persistence for this group of children from the bottom of her heart, everyone in the village sees it, so even the famous shrew and widow Zhang in the village, when she sees this city woman with a pale face, she will squeeze out a warm smile.

Perhaps for these honest peasants, this woman from the big city has completely changed their view of city people, because from the clear eyes of this woman, they have never seen any discrimination, but a kind of sincerity that even they feel is simple.

Although this beautiful woman who has been in this kind of place for three years, no one has a crooked mind, perhaps for these people who have no life but survival, this woman is the green lotus that comes out of the mud and is not stained, and can only look at it from a distance, and she doesn't even dare to shake hands with this woman, for fear that she will be contaminated with the darkness of this world.

In addition to knowing that this woman is from a big city, the people in the village don't know anything about this woman's past, and no one is stupid enough to ask, for fear of touching a scar, and they don't even know the full name of this good-looking woman, only know that this woman's name is Yinling, so the old people in the village call her Lingzi, the older generation respectfully calls her a bell teacher, the young people call her Sister Ling, and the children will surround her and call her Yinling.

And she, no matter who she is, is that clean smiling face, no matter the wind or rain, normal classes, even if she has a cocoon on her feet, she will go to the town to buy books for the children with a meager salary, this is her, so kind that people can't help but feel sorry for her, so for such a feudal village that excludes outsiders, no one has ever treated her as an outsider, and her status is even higher than that of the one-eyed village chief.

But since a Dongfeng off-road vehicle came to the village, everything has changed, this woman who will smile every day and night does not smile, but sheds tears for the first time, only a middle-aged man in camouflage came down from the car, a phone call made the one-eyed village chief who guards the calf completely shut up, the young people of the village are not used to it, four or five of them are easily overturned by this man who is not strong among the northerners, and even the hunters who dare to go up the mountain to hunt wild boars in the village are planted in the hands of this man.

Everyone was desperate, and they could only watch the car stop in front of the elementary school, and the woman cried into tears, and after learning that the woman had to leave tomorrow, this night became the most difficult night in the village.

Today, she put on the light blue dress when she first came, her hair was scattered on her shoulders, she was originally thin, and her figure looked more slender when the wind lifted her long skirt, who could have thought that this weak woman supported this small school, three years like a day.

The man in camouflage guarding the door got up and looked at the woman, a rough-skinned face showing a hint of emotion, but also a little helplessness

As the gatekeeper of the Guo family for nearly 20 years, Xu Huasheng knows this woman very well, for such a woman who was born in such a greenhouse and has never suffered a little bit since she was a child, even if she has not been wronged at all, he can't imagine how much suffering she has suffered and how many grievances she has suffered after living in this kind of poor mountains and bad waters for three years.

That beautiful and ethereal face looks like it has lost its brilliance and brightness, and her incomparably fair skin looks a little yellow, after all, no matter how beautiful things are, they can't survive this kind of poverty and destruction, but the only thing that hasn't changed is that her eyes are still as bright as they were three years ago, and they are as clear as they were three years ago, just like the holiest thing in the world, which is full of stubbornness that has not been polished off for three years.

Xu Huasheng knows very well that Guo Yinling is this kind of person, a child who loves to drill horns, but is never bad, and is congenitally kind.

The redness of the woman's eyes made Xu Huasheng a little unable to look directly, perhaps because he knew what this woman who yearned for freedom more than any bird would go through next, but as his position, he had to ensure that this bird would never fly away from his palm.

"When Qingzhu and Qingzi arrive, you leave with them. Xu Huasheng said to her.

She didn't answer, just looked around at the place where she had lived for three years, and where she had left countless smiling faces so deep that she would never forget, which was what she thought was salvation.

A bald child poked his head out at this time, not very old, about seven or eight years old, with a smiling face with a flushed face, but his big eyes were swollen, and waved at her at the door of the school, squeezing out a smile on his face that only a child can have.

She recognized this child, whose nickname was Sichuan, and his father died on the mountain, and his mother abandoned the two old men and a child and ran away, leaving an environment that a child could not accept, but fortunately, the people in the village were quite sympathetic to this fatherless and motherless child, and did not let Sichuan starve to death in the winter, so this child who grew up eating a hundred family meals was extraordinarily sensible.

The next scene made Guo Yinling, who thought she had shed all her tears, burst into tears, and the sixteen students of the entire Hope Primary School all appeared at the school gate, all of them looked at her with big watery eyes, tears were rolling, but they didn't want to fall down if they bit their lips tightly.

Maybe even a person with a strong heart like a stone has the softest place, maybe these clear eyes in front of her are her softness, three years, she likes such a group of children, if there is that opportunity, she especially wants to take these children out of this poor place, to see the outside world, but obviously, she does not have that opportunity.

Xu Huasheng didn't expect such a group of children to appear for a while, and his heart was full of unbearable, and the leading Sichuan glared at Xu Huasheng fiercely, in the eyes of the children, Xu Huasheng was the bad guy who took away Sister Yinling.

This hateful look made Xu Huasheng a little embarrassed, maybe if this kid had this ability, he would swallow him directly.

"I want to give the kids one last lesson. Guo Yinling looked at Xu Huasheng and said.

Xu Huasheng looked at Guo Yinling like this, and finally nodded and said, "I haven't been unsympathetic to that point." ”

Guo Yinling still looked at Xu Huasheng coldly, and did not repay his gratitude for Xu Huasheng's compromise, but said sarcastically: "Only people who don't talk about love will talk about the word love." ”

Xu Huasheng was full of bitterness, knowing that no matter what he did, he was the bad guy, and in the end he had to get out of the way, and said to the child who looked at him with jealousy and hatred: "Child, if you really hate me so much, when you are older, come to the capital to find me, my name is Xu Huasheng, remember this name." ”

Sichuan rolled his eyes at the man who felt good about himself, trotted towards Guo Yinling, and the rest of the votes also smoked this inexplicable stinky man one by one with bad intentions, and walked into this hope primary school that left too many deep memories for them with a bitter face.

Xu Huasheng stood in place and looked at the backs of this group of children, in fact, in his heart, he did not dislike this group of children, but he liked the dirty little boy a little, but his heart was full of regrets, because he knew that he was destined to play the role of a bad guy in the life of such a group of children.

The sound of reading came from the classroom, and no one could have imagined that in such a place where birds don't, it was a thing that was infinitely gratifying to be able to hear such standard Mandarin, but after Xu Huasheng noticed the crying in this voice, he only felt that everything had changed.

He generally understood why, why Guo Yinling would stay in such a small place for three years, he slowly raised his head, looked at the sky, and looked at it.

When the sun sets, there will be a starry sky here that will never be in the capital again, and even the Milky Way can be seen, Xu Huasheng thought like this, inexplicably a little emotional, life and death in this kind of place, even if it is forgotten by such a so-called rivers and lakes, what can it be?

On the path leading to the stockade, a small black dot appeared at the end, and a black Hummer H2 like a heavily armored monster came over menacingly, and the engine let out a roar, completely breaking the peace of the stockade.