The graduation season came very quickly, after the graduation thesis defense, the students began to go their separate ways, and there were always students absent from the graduation banquet later. For example, Yang Ling, she only went back to school once during the defense, and left directly after the defense, and she didn't have time to take a graduation photo.

Geng Hao helped send away batches of classmates, and in the end, only the four boys in his dormitory remained at school.

The eight-person dormitory is very spacious, with only four people left. At night, when the lights are turned on, the empty dormitory is lit up, and a few neat suitcases and backpacks are placed next to their beds, and there are only beds left for covering.

A few people put together the two tables, gathered in a circle, put some braised vegetables, peanuts and melon seeds bought from the shop downstairs, and the expensive liquor that He Fang brought from home, and spent the last night like this.

"It's ten o'clock now, and you're gone in two hours. He Fang pinched two peanuts, pointed to one of his roommates, Zhang Feng, and then to another roommate, Huang Shan, "There are still four hours, and you have to leave." ”

The two men looked at each other, were silent for a moment, and grinned in unison.

"Mouse, are you going to leave for the place where you teach tomorrow?" Zhang Feng looked at Geng Hao.

Geng Hao was silently eating braised vegetables, when he was suddenly asked, and nodded: "Gather and set off at half past eight tomorrow morning." ”

"For the sake of Yang Ling, I don't want the top 500 and go to the ravine, and I don't know if it's worth it. ”

When he thought of this, he was wronged for Geng Hao. Zhang Feng and Huang Shan kicked him at the same time, glaring at him angrily. If it wasn't for where he instigated, where would Geng Hao have thought of this stubble?

Knowing that he was at a loss, He Fang didn't speak again, he lowered his head, and ate by himself, still having a grudge against Geng Hao's irrational behavior.

"It has nothing to do with Yang Ling. ”

Geng Hao clarified lightly, as soon as he picked up the cup, Huang Shan touched it for him, and he drank all the small cups with a light smile.

"I just want to go back to the mountains and find my original intention. I've always wanted to teach, but I didn't have the opportunity, but this time I finally made up my mind to go once, which is a dream come true. Wait for half a year to come back, and then look for a job. ”

"In order to realize the dream, what he said is quite noble. He Fang couldn't help but spit out again, "It's already difficult for our fresh graduates to find a job, and you are still delayed for half a year." ”

"It's not your idea yet, you're talking a lot of right now. Zhang Feng scolded, patted Geng Hao's shoulder and said, "That's good, go to the west to teach, and you can get a place for the research institute, and it's good to come back and go to graduate school directly." ”

"Well, although you have always wanted to be employed, it is good to go to graduate school and add value to yourself. Huang Shan agreed.

He Fang also frowned: "Geng Hao, it turns out that you still have this idea? I thought you were only focused on employment, if you want to go to graduate school, then it's right to go to teach." Actually, there's nothing wrong with taking the test yourself. ”

They quickly planned a life path for Geng Hao. Geng Hao was very grateful to his brother for his concern, but he really didn't think of relying on this way to get a place in the insurance research institute. Besides, Baoyan needs to teach for one year.

"Let's talk about it. ”

"Whatever you want, I hope everyone will get better and better in the future, and don't forget each other. Huang Shan said his greetings and raised his glass, "I hope that in five or ten years, when we meet again, we will have fulfilled our dreams." ”

The whole class of them is from all over the world, and if they want to get together again in the future, they may really have to have a class reunion.

Several people bumped into each other, full of ambition.

Geng Hao raised his head and drank his wine, looked at the lamp on the ceiling, and still believed that in ten years, he would be a successful business elite with a harmonious family.

Time passed bit by bit.

"When the time comes, it's time for me to go, you keep drinking, don't send me, there will be a period later. ”

Zhang Feng got up and hugged them one by one. Pulling the suitcase and opening the bedroom door, he waved his hand at the door, and it closed with a bang. Completely cut off the idea of seeing off the people in the house.

The remaining three people began to comment on Zhang Feng's ruthless behavior, and couldn't help but rise to accusations of Zhang Feng's other problems, and finally recalled the scene when Zhang Feng and they first met.

After another two hours of chatting, Huang Shan got up and drank the last glass of wine, put the wine glass heavily on the table, smacked his mouth, wiped the wine stains from his mouth, and turned around to pull the suitcase.

"It's two o'clock, I have to go. The two of you should rest early, you don't need to send it, there will be a period later. ”

Like Zhang Feng, Huang Shan simply said goodbye, turned around and disappeared at the door of the bedroom.

The iron door of the dormitory opened and closed, and the stools and wine glasses were vacated one after another, and the stools were still hot, and the people on the stools were already on their way to the station. In the end, only Geng Hao and He Fang were left.

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The next morning, Geng Hao and He Fang got up from the bed, washed with cold water, and left together with their suitcases.

Geng Hao stopped at the door of the dormitory, pulled the doorknob, and looked back at the dormitory where he had lived for four years. All that remains is the iron frame of the high and low beds and the seats, and there are remnants of their former figures in every corner. Geng Hao slowly closed the door of the dormitory, with mixed feelings in his heart.

"Mouse, stay safe along the way. If you come back and find it difficult to find a job, and there is a place where you need a brother, just say it. ”

He Fang made a final request to Geng Hao and got into the taxi. Today, Monday, He Fang still has to go to work, and he has to go first. Geng Hao watched the taxi disappear around the corner, stood on the side of the road with his luggage, and really saw his college life come to a successful end.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Geng Hao got on the school bus and was sent to the train station along with other college students who had applied for volunteer teaching. Two hours later, he boarded a train with his classmates to West City B.

The moment he got on the train, he felt the same as Geng Hao taking the train to school in his freshman year, and the station was like a node in his life.

The destinations are remote, and the train traffic in the west is not as dense as in the developed areas in the east, so they have to transfer in the cities of the major transportation hubs. Although there were only two trains that could be picked up, fortunately they only stayed for three or four hours in the middle of the trip, and they sat in the waiting room and passed. Unfortunately, they had only been tortured for twelve hours, and they were so uncomfortable that they couldn't get a good night's sleep in a hotel or something. The thought of another thirteen-hour hard-seat ride on the horizon made some of the girls lie on their suitcases in despair.

The train went all the way to the west, and Geng Hao looked out through the train window, witnessing the changes in the outside world. The terrain is constantly rising, from the flat river to the undulating hillside to the peak, and every now and then you will enter a long tunnel and fall into total darkness.

Geng Hao came out of the mountains, and every time he passed through the alpine tunnel area, he would feel familiar. Some people have rarely seen such mountains because they have lived in the plains since they were children, and they will always look out of the window, and they will take pictures with their mobile phones or cameras to record them when they find it novel.

Seeing that some people were interested in the mountains, several children from the mountains began to tell strange stories from the mouths of the old people in the mountains. The uncle and grandfather sitting next to him heard it, and they also had a stomach full of experience stories, and after being aroused by these college students' interest in storytelling, they unconsciously joined the storytelling camp and temporarily opened the story meeting, which added a lot of fun to the journey, and the fatigue brought by the journey was also swept away.

After several exchanges, the relationship between everyone has become much more familiar, and several people who have gone to the same county and village have formed a deep friendship, planning how to share weal and woe in the future.

Geng Hao is introverted, and he goes to a village alone, so he saves the idea of looking for teammates, and after giving up the window seat to a girl who loves to sleep, he sits on the seat in the aisle, holding a martial arts novel and reading it with relish. From time to time, when I get tired of watching, I listen to the novelty stories in the story club. Regarding the stories in the mountains, Geng Hao also has a belly, and he also listens to the older generation.

When they arrived in the city, they separated in several waves, and each of them formed a group and took a train to different counties. City B is a poverty-stricken city, and there are several national-level poverty-stricken counties under it. Geng Hao and his three classmates were from the same county, and they sat in the station and waited for another five or six hours.

The train station in City B is small and shabby, and there is a miasma of smoke everywhere. The summer is hot, and there are many people in the waiting room, and the heat is seriously accumulated, even if you sit still in place, your body is covered with layers of sweat. I enjoyed the coolness and even cold of the air conditioner on the train, and then took a sauna in the waiting room, up and down, alternating between ice and fire, and my body was really uncomfortable. What's even more uncomfortable is that the waiting room is not well ventilated everywhere, and the smell emanating from the bodies of hundreds of people is covered in one space, constantly fermenting, which is unbearable.

At the station, some people began to be unbearable, not only girls, but also some boys began to explode and curse the harsh environment of the station in a low voice. Geng Hao has long been accustomed to enduring such a waiting room, but the heat on his body is unbearable, so he can only find a way to calm himself, and at this time he decided to use the set of idealism, firmly believing that his heart is calm and naturally cool. But the noisy environment and the heat brought by the high temperature made him unable to calm down at all, so he could only wring his eyebrows and waiting for the time to leave.

At this station, there are only three ticket gates, and they can watch each other leave. Due to the harsh environment, the anxiety of the near teaching point is nothing, and everyone only hopes to leave the waiting room as soon as possible, so they look at the people who set off first, and the people who set off later are always full of envy. But when they were really about to set off, while breathing a sigh of relief, they fell into a deeper apprehension.

The city-level railway stations are like this, so what is the county? Not to mention, they have to go to the countryside and go to the village.

Geng Hao, the four of them got on the bus in the penultimate wave.

This time the journey was not so long, it only took two hours to travel, and at 5:42 p.m., I heard a report from the train, "Huangyang County, arrived."

The four of them helped each other to remove their heavy luggage and get off the train. Their only girl's box was the heaviest of them, and a boy named Zhang Nan asked curiously, and the girl said that it contained a lot of books and materials. The boy shouted in admiration. Another boy named Sun He was in the same class as the girl, explaining that the girl was a standard academic bully.

For people who are used to reading, they will never forget to bring a few books with them wherever they go, and Geng Hao is the same. It's just that he stayed in the library to borrow books for four years in college, and he didn't buy many books at all, so naturally he didn't have many to bring. What's more, his monthly living expenses are very limited, and it is difficult to squeeze out money to buy a few books.

The temperature in Huangyang County is not very high, it is hot and humid, and it should have rained before. The skin feels a little sticky when it comes into contact with the air.

Someone from the local government received them and told them to take a day off in the county before going to the township. The person who received them was called Huang Ran, only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, a small hair, a shirt, a suit and pants and black leather shoes, short and a little fat, and a very pleasant smile.

Huang Ran chatted with them very enthusiastically, asked them about their student days, praised them for their courage to come to remote villages to teach, and also introduced the recent situation in Huangyang County. Huangyang County has recently had five consecutive days of heavy rain, and it only stopped today.

"It seems that your arrival has brought blessings to our county. ”

Huang Ran said so. A few of them were embarrassed to say a few polite words. Geng Hao thought of the college student back then, he couldn't remember his name, but he always remembered his influence on him, and he always felt that he was lucky to meet him. I also hope that I can be a blessing to someone.

The streets in Huangyang County are not wide, and the main street is only the width of two cars running side by side. The van made its way along the hillside driveway, its windows open and the fresh breeze from the vehicle poured into the vehicle, keeping them cool for a while.

"The air here is so nice. The only girl among them stuck her head to the window and couldn't help but sigh.

When he was on the train, Geng Hao learned that her name was Liu Fengya, and she was a person who lived in a big city since she was a child.

"Our small place is not as good as the big city, the only thing that is better is that the air quality is better. Huang Ran joked with a smile.

Liu Fengya nodded: "After all, it hasn't been polluted much." ”

On one side of the road are high mountain cliffs and on the other side are deep ravines. There is no fence on the other side of the ravine, and if you lose control a little, you can slide directly down the mountain. After a few minutes of driving, the car in front suddenly formed a long queue and stopped in place, with its rear lights on.

"It's blocked again. The driver was irritated and helpless to tell them what was going on.

"A few hours ago, it was still passable when I came. Why is it blocked again. Huang Ran used the local dialect to communicate with the driver.

Fortunately, their dialects are not very different from Mandarin, but some of the pronunciation and intonation are different, and Geng Hao and them can still understand it easily.

"Dig a little bit and now it's time to clear the road again. Wait a minute or two. ”

The driver turned off the car, and there were already two or three cars lined up behind.

"It's raining heavily in the past two days, and it's a landslide, and it's being cleaned up in front, so we have to wait. Huang Ran, who was sitting in the co-pilot, turned his head and explained the situation to Geng Hao.

Several people said they had understood the cause and effect.

"Is there a landslide?" asked Liu Fengya worriedly.

"No car passed by here when it slid and it didn't hurt anyone. Huang Ran replied enthusiastically.

"There are no injuries here, there is a village in Zhongling, and the landslide buried a family. The driver was like a Bai Xiaotong, telling them about the damage in the past two days, "We have a big flood in the river there, which flooded people's houses, and there were a lot of pigs floating in the river below, and one person was drowned." I heard that there is another family, when they sleep at night, the water lifts them up before they react, but fortunately, they have a big life. It also broke our bridge. It's raining heavily. ”

Liu Fengya's eyes widened when she heard these things, and it was the first time she heard about the serious consequences of natural disasters so closely, and it was a little difficult to accept for a while.

"This time the rain was heavy. Huang Ran nodded in acknowledgement.

Geng Hao was silent and sat quietly. I remembered the past when my parents died in a mudslide.

In mountainous areas, the most feared thing is to encounter heavy rain, which will cause landslides and mudslides at every turn.

"We spoke in tongues just now, do you understand?"

Just when they were bored, Huang Ran began to chatter with them, and by the way, he dispelled the gloomy atmosphere just now.

"You understand, you speak Mandarin very similarly. Liu Fengya was very lively, and then replied.

"Really? haha. Huang Ran laughed heartily twice, "They all say that our dialect is Huang Puyu." However, if you go to the countryside, you may not be able to understand it. ”

"Is it? In the same county, the dialects will be very different?" Liu Fengya continued to ask.

Huang Ran nodded: "Big deal, you can't understand some counties at all, and I, a local of Huangyang, can't understand it." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the driver next to him said a bunch of words that people didn't understand half a word. The four of them looked at each other.

"Big brother, are you from Taoping?" Huang Ran asked the driver tentatively.

"Well, from Taoping Mo Village. The driver saw that they were all blinded, and he felt a sense of accomplishment, and laughed happily, "I just asked you if you can understand what I said." ”

Geng Hao had two big heads, and finally took the initiative to ask: "Is this what Taoping Mocun said?"

This morning, he received a notice from the school on the train that he was arranged to Mo Village, Taoping Town.

"Authentic Taoping Mocun dialect. "The driver was playing a charter ticket.

Geng Hao's skull hurt even more.

The classmates who were traveling with him noticed Geng Hao's strange appearance and couldn't help but laugh at it.

"Geng Hao, shouldn't you just go to Taoping Mo Village?"

"Young man, are you going to Taoping Mo Village to teach?" The driver's eldest brother's eyes lit up, and he asked before Geng Hao.

Geng Hao smiled reluctantly: "Yes, I'm going to Taoping Mo Village." ”

"That's really a coincidence! My name is Jiang Weiguo, and my son's name is Jiang Lake, and I will go to Mocun Primary School. "My son is 10 years old, in the fourth grade, and he's mixed up at school all day." Mocun Primary School doesn't have a good teacher, they all graduated from junior high school, I'm still worried about what my son will do when he studies, now there is a serious teacher, he is still a college student, and there is hope now. ”

Suddenly, he was pinned on high hopes, Geng Hao was a little at a loss for a while, and said a few words modestly, saying that he had not yet taken up his post and did not know what the situation was.

"It's okay, I'm definitely going to trouble you more in the future, let's add a contact information. There is no one I am familiar with in Mo Village, and there is Lao Huang in addition to me who runs cars in the city. If you have any questions, call me, that's all. ”

The driver took out a PHS from his pocket and smiled to exchange phone calls with Geng Hao.

He was black and yellow, lean, with only a few sparse hair left, like weeds in the fields, and his face was wrinkled, and he looked forty or fifty years old. Laughing all the time, the loose skin is piled up with a bunch of folds. His smile was very sincere.

Geng Hao couldn't refuse, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

"You report your number, and I'll add you. The driver said enthusiastically.

Geng Hao hurriedly reported his phone number.

"It just so happens that I also save it, they are all from a county and a university, and they can often contact each other and take care of each other in the future. Zhang Nan next to him took out his mobile phone very seriously and wrote down Geng Hao's phone number.

The other two people also felt that this was the reason, and they also saved Geng Hao's phone.

"Yes, save them all, and outside, multiple friends take care of them. Huang Ran happily watched them exchange contact information.

Geng Hao's hand holding the phone tightened, feeling very helpless. He generally rarely adds other people's phone numbers except when necessary.

The mobile phone vibrated for a while, and Geng Hao saw a string of unfamiliar numbers.

"I called you, look at it, my name is Jiang Weiguo, you can save it. The driver's uncle eagerly glanced at Geng Hao's mobile phone screen.

Geng Hao agreed, hung up the phone, and pressed the button with his fingers quickly, saving the driver's phone. Jiang is Uncle Guo.

Then the phone vibrated again.

"I've called you too, Zhang Nan, the south of the south. Zhang Nan said with a smile.

Geng Hao hung up the phone again and saved.

"Sun He, two red He. Sun He followed and dialed the phone.

Geng Hao saved repeatedly.

"Liu Fengya, the phoenix of the phoenix, the elegant elegance. ”

Geng Hao sighed secretly and saved.

Looking at the four extra strange calls in the call record in an instant, Geng Hao didn't know how many times he could call in the future, and even, there would be no second time in his call record list.

The three of them saved each other's phones again.

"You can also remember my phone number, and if you have any problems here, you can also call me in the future. Huang Ran saw that they were almost saved, so he added a sentence in a hurry.

Everyone nodded and turned on the dial pad.

In a pleasant atmosphere, time passed quickly, and the car in front began to start. The driver, Uncle Jiang, lit the fire energetically and stepped on the accelerator.

The landslide is really serious, the road is not wide, the rolling earth and rocks are piled up on the road into a hill, and the construction crew has just cleared a narrow road to let them pass quickly.

It was supposed to be a twenty-minute journey, but because of one or two landslides and destroyed the road, it took almost an hour to enter the city. The already gloomy sky also darkened, and it looked even more gloomy.

The small town is backed by the mountains, they go around the city road from a national highway behind the city, and the terrain in the city is also different from high and low, with long and short slopes up and down, which is a very significant small town in the mountains.

Geng Hao looked at the street outside through the van, Huangyang County is similar to his small county town, there are no high-rise buildings, the buildings on the left and right sides of the road in the small city are only five or six floors at most, the old white-faced houses are the majority, the road is also potholes, and there is road construction on both sides. The successive stores are also small, with a variety of gray store signs, and some small shops and snack shops are greasy and dirty to the naked eye.