After the electricity in the classroom was pulled, Zhang Dongming went to the school finance to pay a deposit of 200 yuan for electricity and coal.

In fact, there is no need for this, at least there is no need to pay this money in advance, but sometimes it is done for others to see.

Then the teachers didn't react to Zhang Dongming's decision to give a few students in their class evening self-study.

Just like Zhang Dongming bought exercise books for the students in their class, they were all voluntary, and this time they just borrowed the school's classroom, and it had nothing to do with them.

If there is anything else, it may be because Zhang Dongming's previous behaviors The school teachers have been used to it, and they are no longer surprised, the principal has never said anything, they follow the mind of the fool.

Of course, not all teachers are like this, some teachers still admire Zhang Dongming very much, and they pay so much for their students, not only them, but I believe that the vast majority of teachers in the world can't do it.

After school, he borrowed Wang Qiang's bicycle, and Zhang Dongming and Bai Dongsheng went out of school together.

It's almost time to prepare, and the evening self-study should begin, before that, he has to go and solve Bai Dongsheng's problem first.

Bai Dongsheng's family is from Liujiazi Village, not far from the township and not too close, twelve or thirteen miles, the road is very easy to ride, and you can go directly to the village along the road.

The sky was getting dark, and on the cold and windy road, the two of them rode their bicycles slowly.

Zhang Dongming actually wears a lot, and his body is not cold, but he doesn't wear a hat, and he doesn't have a hat on his cotton jacket, and in the weather of minus 20 degrees, Zhang Dongming feels that his ears are about to freeze.

In fact, this is okay, no matter how cold the ears are, it will not affect the ride.

What's even more tragic is that when Zhang Dongming and Wang Qiang borrowed a bicycle, they forgot to borrow his gloves, and now they keep changing hands to ride, and their hands are almost unconscious.

"Teacher, give. ”

Bai Dongsheng took a kind of army-green, blackened and torn cotton hat that could only be seen in the seventies and eighties, and took off a thin, blackened white thread glove from his hand and handed it over

"No, you can bring it quickly. ”

Zhang Dongming smiled, but he was sighing in his heart.

He really didn't pay attention to it before, Bai Dongsheng wore such a thin line glove to school every day.

The hat is broken and buried again, but at least it is warm, but in such a cold winter, such a long way, the line gloves that Bai Dongsheng brought are useless at all, no wonder this student's hands are so frozen and cracked.

Then Bai Dongsheng took off his hat and handed it to Zhang Dongming, Zhang Dongming naturally said no, not to mention, his heart was already very warm.

entered the village and arrived at Bai Dongsheng's house.

The dilapidated gates, the collapsed battlements and courtyard walls, the yards covered with weed, the three earthen houses that looked like they were about to collapse at any moment, a single piece of glass and a badly distorted wooden window......

Zhang Dongming guessed that Bai Dongsheng's house might be very broken, but he didn't expect it to be broken to such an extent, not to mention that he hadn't seen it, it was even difficult for him to imagine that this was a family with people living in it.

Entering the room, it was dark, Bai Dongsheng put the study on the stool and turned on the light: "Teacher, you sit down for a while, I'll go find my dad." ”

Zhang Dongming moved his frozen unconscious hands: "No, it's dark this day, and I shouldn't come back for a while." ”

Bai Dongsheng shook his head: "Maybe, I'll look for it." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Zhang Dongming to speak, Bai Dongsheng ran out.

The house was leaking everywhere, the kang was also cold, and Zhang Dongming, who had not yet eased up from the cold, walked back and forth in the house, sighing as he walked.

He had long heard that Bai Dongsheng's father was not alive, and even Bai Dongsheng's mother committed suicide because of this, but he didn't expect that this family would be poor like this.

In the dim room, Zhang Dongming looked at the old photo frames hanging on the wall.

The first one on the left in the top row is a good-looking girl with long braids and big eyes, but this is a very old black and white photo, estimated to be one or two decades old.

Next to this photo is a color photo, the girl is standing on the edge of the flower bed, supporting a little girl who is only about one or two years old, in the photo, the girl is smiling very happily, looking at the little girl's eyes full of doting.

The next two photos are of the little girl, one is about three or four years old, and the other is the six or seven years old, the girl looks very much like his mother, which is the girl in the previous photo.

The second photo on the left in the middle row is a family portrait of Zhang Qirong.

The girl in this photo can no longer be called a girl, she should be called a woman, she is no longer young and beautiful, darker than before, thinner than before, and vicissitudes of life than before.

In front of the woman stood the girl, who was about ten years old at this time, and looked more and more like the woman, with eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, ...... It's all like that.

Standing on the left side of the woman was a tall, black, thin and thin man, the man was holding a little boy of two or three years old, and then except for his head, Bai Dongsheng looked very much like this man.

In this family photo, the two- or three-year-old boy should be Bai Dongsheng, the woman should be Bai Dongsheng's mother who died of medicine a few years ago, the man should be his father Bai Hongshan, and the girl should be Bai Dongsheng's sister who is now working outside for him to go to school.

Zhang Dongming was about to continue looking down when the door rang.

A man in his forties, tall, thin, unkempt, unkempt, sloppy, wrinkled, and smelling of tobacco and alcohol entered the house, and Bai Dongsheng followed suit.

"Yo, you are. My son's homeroom teacher is right, you said that you are so dark and blind, why are you playing? Bai Hongshan said, he had already sat down, and Bai Dongsheng went to the field to cook on the fire.

Zhang Dongming sat down and introduced himself: "I am Bai Dongsheng's homeroom teacher, Zhang Dongming. ”

"The surname is Zhang, the surname is big. Bai Hongshan didn't lift his head, and took out an old laundry detergent bag from his pocket, which contained dry tobacco and rolled it slowly.

Zhang Dongming didn't say anything more, while looking, he was measuring in his heart what kind of person this Bai Hongshan was, and he needed to make a rough judgment as soon as possible.

Bai Hongshan took a sip and smoked a cigarette: "Teacher Zhang, what are you doing today?"

Zhang Dongming said directly: "I came today for Bai Dongsheng's evening self-study, I hope you can agree to Bai Dongsheng to go to the countryside to stay and study at night." ”

Bai Hongshan leaned on the kang head with his back on his back: "This matter, my kid told me two days ago, you watched it in my house, how can you have the money, you can't afford to live." ”

Zhang Dongming explained: "You don't have to spend a penny, you just have to agree." ”

Bai Hongshan slowly spuffed out his cigarette: "That's not a hit." ”

Zhang Dongming looked at Bai Hongshan: "Why?"

Bai Hongshan said impatiently: "That's my son, why, I still need to tell you." ”

Good for a while.

Zhang Dongming's eyes moved away from Bai Hongshan's face, nodded to himself, got up and looked at Bai Dongsheng, who was cooking in the field, and then closed the door of the house, took out five hundred yuan from his clothes pocket and put it on the kang, and said in a low voice: "Promise, the five hundred yuan is yours." ”

Since Zhang Dongming took out the money, Bai Hongshan's eyes have never left the money, hearing Zhang Dongming say this, the whole person was stunned, swallowed his saliva, and his eyes moved away from the five hundred numbers on the kang with difficulty, and looked at Zhang Dongming in disbelief: "You, you are talking to me." ”

Zhang Dongming was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Do you agree?" said and made a move to get the money back.

Bai Hongshan looked surprised, and hurriedly said: "Zhongzhongzhong." As he spoke, he got up and crawled towards the money on the edge of the kang.

When Bai Hongshan was about to get the money, Zhang Dongming grabbed him by the neck and said in a low voice with an expressionless face: "I'll tell you, don't play with me, you can accept the five hundred yuan, and you can't object to your son's self-study at night in the future!"

At this time, Bai Hongshan's heart was all on the five hundred yuan on the kang, and he was not angry or scared at all, and he assured: "Definitely, definitely." ”

Zhang Dongming let go of Bai Hongshan, and saw that he picked up the money on the kang in a hurry, checked the light bulb one by one to see if it was fake money, and only after a while did he put the money into the innermost pocket of his clothes, and flattered him without skin and face: "Teacher Zhang is really a good teacher, admire and admire!"

Zhang Dongming was too lazy to talk nonsense with this kind of person, opened the door and called in Bai Dongsheng, who was still crackling and burning the fire, and said softly: "The teacher said it, your father will agree to let you go to evening self-study, agreed." ”

Bai Hongshan said happily: "Ah, agreed, you will go with you Teacher Zhang tomorrow." ”

Bai Dongsheng lowered his head and just whispered, "Hmm." ”