The electric bell rings after school.

The children were as if they had springs installed, and they all became lively. Xu Shuangjiang watched them giggle and pack their schoolbags, furrowed their eyebrows and sorted out the textbooks and handouts, sniffed softly, opened the classroom door and walked out.

"Frost. ”

Through the window, Xu Shuangjiang only saw Chen Chi's upper body when he was in the classroom, and at this moment, his overall image from top to bottom made Xu Shuangjiang really stunned. He wore a pair of blue and black jeans, and the cuffs of the pants were splashed with yellow mud, which seemed to have been rubbed in a hurry when they were half dry, but instead spread around the mud, which was very eye-catching. The hiking boots were covered in mud and grass, and even the upper of the shoes had a dry brown stain left by the mud being scraped away, and it looked like he had sunk his whole foot in the mud somewhere, and tried to rub the mud in the grass by the roadside.

His backpack was particularly drummed, and he was almost ready to catch up with the marching bag. In one hand, he was carrying a large red plastic bag, which was round and round, and it felt like it was either a pear or an apple.

It's like carrying some fruit to a relative's house to fight the autumn breeze.

Xu Shuangchuan and Chen Chi stood at both ends of the white wall between the two windows outside the classroom, looking at each other, his face was still so clear, and he raised his eyebrows and smiled, except for a little mild and depressed, it was not much different from before.

In the classroom, the sound of children fighting and moving desks and chairs and sweeping the floor came out, and Xu Shuang immediately came back to his senses.

"Frost. Chen Chi came forward in two big steps.

Xu Shuangchuan was in a trance, she knew that Chen Chi was more mellow and methodical than her in diplomacy, but how could he suddenly see her, he was still as kind and easy-going as before, as if most of the year they had quarreled and divorced had been edited out by him.

"Is there something wrong?" asked Xu Shuang in a faint voice.

"I ...... Looking for you. Chen Chi's gaze wandered over her face, her throat was a little strained, and she couldn't help but say, "You seem to have lost weight." ”

Xu Shuangchuan nodded: "Thank you." She didn't have any expression on her face, and her speech increased slightly, "I'm teaching here, it's not very good to visit, and I don't have the conditions to receive people, the nearest accommodation here is in the town, and it's most convenient to go to the other side by water, are you here by boat?"

"Yes. Frost ......"

"Then I'll talk to the fourth grandfather who is holding the boat, and ask him to come back and pick you up after sending the child. Xu Shuangchuan raised his eyes and explained, "The boat is small, and there are many people, so it will be divided into two trips." Hurry up on your way, it shouldn't be too late to get to town. ”

He returned at this time, and it was dark when he arrived in the town, and the last bus three kilometers away couldn't catch up, but Xu Shuangchuan wasn't ready to remind him too clearly, anyway, there were still wild horses waiting under the grizzled bus stop sign, and besides, there was nothing for men to rob.

"Frost, I have something to talk to you about. Chen Chi lowered his head, stared at Xu Shuang's eyes, and said with a sincere expression.

"Hee-hee-hee. Two little children pushed and leaned out at the door of the classroom.

Because there are some students in each class who want to take a boat, Principal Miao stipulates that after the last class of the day, all students are not allowed to leave the classroom, and after the students on duty are cleaned, the teacher will lead everyone to the school gate, where the students will be diverted, and those who go to the mountain village will walk the mountain road on their own, and the seven students who cross the river on the opposite bank will be taken to the bank by Principal Miao.

Xu Shuangchuan still has a bit of prestige, she doesn't speak, and the children don't dare to run out by themselves.

"Teacher, we're done. ”

"Okay, everybody line up. Xu Shuang glanced at Chen Chi and explained, "You go out with us and wait on the shore." During the time when the fourth grandfather was ferrying back and forth, there was something just right to talk about. ”

"Frost ......"

"Call me Mr. Xu. ”

The students flocked out, and Xu Shuangchuan immediately turned around: "Have you brought all your homework homework?" Don't forget to be in school, check if your shoelaces are tied?"

"Bring it. "Tie it up. The children babbled.

While it was bustling, the senior mixed class on the second floor also came down noisily.

"Teacher Xiao Xu," Principal Miao greeted, looking at Chen Chi behind Xu Shuang, "This is ......"

"Principal Miao, this is my ......" Xu Shuangchuan turned his head to glance at Chen Chi, and wanted to say that this is my ex-husband.

Chen Chi was shrewd, and only looked at Xu Shuangchuan's slightly embarrassed face, so he smiled heartily, stepped forward and stretched out his hand to shake it: "Principal Miao, hello, my surname is Chen, Shuang...... Teacher Xu's husband. It just so happened that there was a holiday these days, so I came over to see Mr. Xu. ”

"Hello, hello. Principal Miao hurriedly shook Chen Chi's hand. All the children raised their heads and looked curiously at Chen Chi, a stranger.

Xu Shuang pursed her lips and didn't make a sound. When she contacted the volunteer teacher, they were not divorced, and they were married on their personal information.

Aunt Guo pinched the point and turned out from behind the teaching building, and she must have made dinner and just finished feeding Xiao Hei the forage. This is Aunt Guo's daily routine, and as soon as school is over, she must accompany the students out of school. Xu Shuangchuan reluctantly introduced to Chen Chi: "This is our Principal Miao's wife. ”

The principal and his family were very considerate and said, "Teacher Xiaoxu, don't come out, you go and settle down first." ”

"It's okay, he'......"

Without waiting for Xu Shuangshui to continue, Chen Chi continued: "I will not affect Teacher Xu's work. ”

Xu Shuang's sentence "He is about to leave" did not have a chance to say it. She kept a smile on her face, didn't say anything, led the students in her class as usual, and followed Principal Miao's team out.

In fact, she knew in her own heart that Chen Chi came from afar like this, in the name of her husband, if she couldn't stay for a few minutes, she would take the fourth grandfather's boat back the same way, and see how strange it would be in the eyes of others.

This night, it seems that he was the only one to accept.

Xu Shuang landed at the school gate and watched the children form a team up and walk up the mountain road, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw Chen Chi standing next to her with a large bag, thinking in her heart, there is still a way, after talking, let him go around the back mountain, walk and ask, and he can go to the town in the middle of the night. She groaned, glanced to the other side, and bumped into Aunt Guo's smiling face: "Teacher Xiao Xu, you hurry up to the house to rest, and we will have dinner in a while, I will wait here for our old seedlings." ”

Xu Shuangchuan smiled, glanced at Principal Miao and the bouncing children who were leading the way downhill, and then looked at the boat quietly moored by the river, after all, he couldn't give Chen Chi a bad face in front of everyone, and forcibly booked the boat of the fourth grandfather for him.

"Aunt Guo, then let's go in first. ”

"Shuangshuang, do you live here?" Chen Chi looked up at the old locust tree, then stared at Xu Shuang's door, and said with a smile, "I just came in, and I was thinking about where your dormitory was." ”

Xu Shuang didn't say a word, opened the door, and went straight into the house.

Chen Chi stepped on the bluestone and was about to cross the threshold, when he suddenly stopped his steps and said embarrassedly: "My shoes are dirty." ”

Xu Shuangchuan pursed her lips and said stiffly, "Come in." ”

"In the morning, after passing a wet mud road, the car was stuck in ......," Chen Chi explained, stepping into the house, his vision darkened, and he couldn't help but sigh.

When he approached the school before, the school was very impressive. In addition to the playground floor is sassy, relatively simple, the teaching building looks new, the exterior wall is pasted with white wall bricks, it is very clean, two floors, the stairs are in the center, there are four classrooms on each floor, the door is a yellow wood door, the window is an aluminum alloy window, the whole outline is neat and spacious.

Chen Chi heard the sound of the students reading, came to the window, and saw Xu Shuangchuan pacing in the classroom with a book in his hand at a glance, so smoothly that he couldn't believe it when he had been walking around on the road before. He waited outside, and at that time he looked inside the classroom, and the dozen or so desks and chairs were relatively new, probably replaced when the school building was built. A rotary head electric fan was installed above the podium, and the rest of the facilities were not available, although in general there was no appearance of passable, but it was okay.

Because of this initial impression, Chen Chi had a relatively high expectation of the teacher's dormitory.

At this moment, his eyes touched the yellowed curly wall, and then swept the black and hard dry mud floor, and looked at the single bed in the corner of the house, in winter, the thin white mosquito net looked out of place, but this bed was the brightest corner of the room, Chen Chi recognized at a glance that the pink green quilt cover was used in Xu Shuang's boudoir. A thin nylon rope was pulled out from the bamboo pole of the mosquito net next to the bed and tied to the wooden grille of the window lattice, and a set of lilac cotton sweaters, pants and underwear bras were placed on the rope.

Xu Shuang walked over with a wooden face and put away his clothes, lowered his head and folded them hastily.

“…… Did you do it?"

He looked at her back and said softly, "Hang it up." ”