The twilight is getting thicker and thicker, and the crumbling sunset hanging halfway up the mountain blooms with the last rays of light with a hint of warmth.

Shining on Wang Xian's fair and delicate cheeks, the eyes that looked at Yi Shuihan in a daze were exceptionally clear, shining, and with a little soft warmth.

The last ray of sunlight disappeared, the breeze blew on his face, with a slight chill, Yi Shuihan took a deep breath of the air with the smell of earth and grass and whispered: "Let's go down the mountain......"

It's just that when he turned his head, Wang Xian had already retracted his gaze, she smiled and nodded, and got up from the grass.

It was getting dark, and they quickened their pace down the mountain.

"Wangwang~" Seeing that his master had finally returned, Ahri tossed up and wagged his tail vigorously.

Yi Shuihan and Wang Xian only remembered at this time that they had left Ahri down the mountain.

Looking at Ahri who was gnawing on his trouser legs to vent his dissatisfaction, Yi Shuihan smiled dumbly, bent down and hugged Ahri.

Ahri stopped at this time and nestled obediently in Yi Shuihan's arms.

"The scenery on the mountain is beautiful, thank you for taking me to that place!" Yi Shuihan turned to Wang Xian and said, "It's a little late now, let's go home early!"

"Hmm!" Wang Xian nodded, standing in front of Yi Shuihan prettyly.

Yi Shuihan waved goodbye, and then hugged Ahri and gradually walked away, Wang Xian looked at his back and his eyes were shining.

When he returned to the dormitory, Yi Shuihan finished revising the students' homework and washed up a little before lying down to rest.

The next day, Yi Shuihan was woken up by the crowing of the rooster as usual, and as soon as it was dawn, he got up.

Grab an aluminum face from a dilapidated washstand, go to the school's only faucet to get water and start washing.

"Morning, Mr. Yi~" Behind him, Mr. Chen also appeared with a chicken nest head.

"Morning, Mr. Chen. Yi Shuihan brushed his teeth and replied inarticulately.

Looking at the Yi Shuihan in front of him, who was completely different from the image when he came, Mr. Chen couldn't help but sigh with some admiration.

When he first came, although Yi Shuihan was dusty, his cold and handsome appearance and decent dress made him look incompatible with this shabby mountain village.

At that time, he looked more like a pride of heaven who was well-dressed and pampered.

Looking at his appearance, Teacher Chen guessed that this handsome guy was just a whim, and he couldn't stand it if he stayed here for a few days.

But to his surprise, two full months passed, and he gradually integrated into this small mountain village.

Cloth clothes and sparse food, thatched room soil steps...... The young man did not complain in the slightest, and lived happily.

This mentality makes Mr. Chen a little admired, not everyone can stand this hardship, let alone a young man in his twenties.

At this time, looking at Yi Shuihan, it seems that he is a native of the mountains.

In order to make it easier to take care of the extremely short hair cut by the village master, the skin that was somewhat dry and dark by the mountain wind and dust, and the clothes and pants that were so shabby that they were covered with dust......

It's just that the increasingly resolute and cold face and dark and deep eyes make Mr. Chen clearly know that he doesn't belong here after all.

"Where's the old principal?" Yi Shuihan rinsed his mouth and asked with a smile, "Are you going to a new school again?"

At this time, the three-story school building has been built, and desks and utensils are being added to it, and it will not be long before they can move to the new school.

"Yes, early in the morning has passed, this is the old principal's lifelong wish, how can he not care!" Teacher Chen sighed.

More than two months have passed unconsciously, and the time for Yi Shuihan's plan to teach has passed, but he is a little reluctant to give up this land and this group of children.

For more than two months, he felt the original charm of the mountains and the simple innocence of the children, which made him feel a responsibility that he had never felt before......

Wait until you move to a new school, and then leave...... Yi Shuihan told himself silently.

In some dimly lit classrooms, the rough, cracked blackboards were full of writing.

"Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening breeze blows the willow flute, and the sunset is ...... outside the mountain"

The children followed Yi Shuihan and learned the lyrics word by word.

The children's pronunciation may not be accurate, but everyone is very serious, and their thirst and persistence for knowledge are presented in their dark and clear eyes.

"The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, know half of the ......" Yi Shuihan was in class, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of a seventy or eighty-year-old man at the door looking inside.

Yi Shuihan stopped teaching and walked out of the classroom suspiciously: "Uncle, what's the matter with you?"

The old man told Yi Shuihan that his son had just died, and that this was his grandson Tu Can, who was unwilling to come to class because he couldn't pay the tuition, and that he didn't have enough money to save and didn't know if he could add potatoes to pay for the tuition.

The old man's hands were swarthy and cracked like sun-dried mud, and he trembled to open the change wrapped in his handkerchief, and behind his unmajestic back, there was a boy with a stubborn expression with his head down.

Yi Shuihan looked at the old man's pleading expression and the stubborn boy, and gently stopped the old man: "Uncle, you can take this money...... Just have these potatoes, and the students have to eat them anyway. ”

"Let's go, let's go to class!" Yi Shuihan took the boy's head and walked into the classroom, the boy was still a little stubborn, but he was still pulled in.

Enrollment was originally what the old principal had to do, but at this time, he was not in school, so Yi Shuihan made a decision for him.

Yi Shuihan believes that if he had made the same decision here at this time, the school itself was for poor students, and it was the purpose of the school to let children in the nearby mountains go to school.

And after the resumption of classes, there was another pair of bright and serious eyes in the classroom.

Potatoes were received in the morning, and the students naturally had potatoes for lunch.

"It's time to eat!" Yi Shuihan called out to the group of students who were playing.

Students who live close to home can eat at home, but students who live far away can only eat at school.

After school in the morning, Mr. Chen also went to the new school, so he cooked lunch for the children.

A bowl of white rice, a few slices of potatoes, and a small green vegetable are their lunch.

The children were gulping down what was already a hearty lunch for them.

Yi Shuihan also sat on the side and ate lunch like them, but there were almost no potatoes and small greens in the bowl.

He thought about giving the children a little more, a little more, and in the end there wasn't much left of him when he was left alone.

While eating, a small figure appeared in front of him, Yi Shuihan looked up, but it was the little boy Tu Can in the morning.

He took two pieces of potatoes from his bowl and put them in Yi Shuihan's bowl, Yi Shuihan looked at his stubborn boy and smiled shyly, and then walked back to his place.

Yi Shuihan was about to pick up the slice of potatoes, and more children got up and sandwiched the potatoes in their bowls into his bowls.

Looking at the more and more potatoes in the bowl, Yi Shuihan's eyes were a little moist, and the innocent and simple smiling faces of the children in front of him became a little blurred.

Perhaps he will never taste the potatoes of that day again, and the children, like angels, make him forget that he is in such a barren land......

(End of chapter)