In the morning fog, the village chief who was carrying a bundle of firewood went and returned, raising a red face to greet Qi Yun with a smile,

"Teacher Qi, someone has come to see you."

Qi Yun couldn't help but be surprised when she heard this, she had only been here for two days, how could someone come to see her? But looking at the village chief's honest appearance, he doesn't look like someone who will joke with her. She looked behind the village chief, and behind the headmaster walked a person wearing a dark gray fleece jacket and carrying a large camera bag.

Although Qi Yun couldn't say that she had no opinion on Hong Jian in her heart, her life in the past few days was too much information for her, so that when she saw Hong Jian again, she felt like a world away, and she didn't even have any anger, so she stepped forward and grabbed him, shouting in surprise and joy:

"You've come just in time! Looking forward to you! ”

Pulling Hong Jian was about to go to her dormitory, Hong Jian didn't know when Qi Yun was so enthusiastic about him, he was stunned, but he still coughed, shook off Qi Yun to take her hand, and smiled apologetically at the village chief:

"My stupid girl is here, there must be a lot of foreign appearances, so you can take care of the old ones."

Qi Yun stopped, turned around and opened his mouth slightly in surprise, and asked Hong Jian: "How do you know that I have a lot of foreign appearances here?" ”

Hong Jian glanced at Qi Yun and couldn't help but laugh and not answer. The village chief said honestly and repeatedly: "Teacher Qi is very elf, and we old bones still have to learn from Teacher Qi for advice." ”

Qi Yun suddenly remembered that the two sides had not yet officially met, so he stuck out his tongue and formally introduced them:

"Village chief, this is my brother! My brother is a reporter for China News Agency. ”

He pointed to the village chief and said to Hong Jian: "Brother Ajian, this is the supreme governor of the natural administrative village, the village head, and the leader I need to get close to in the next six months. ”

The village chief was a little red by Qi Yun's good-natured joke, and when he heard that Hong Jian was a reporter from the China News Agency, he immediately showed a look of admiration, rubbed a pair of big hands on the placket of his clothes, and then stretched out his hand to shake Hong Jian's hand. Hong Jian took out a pack of good cigarettes from his pocket, tore open the package, held one in both hands and saluted the principal, and said with a smile:

"This girl didn't know anything except studying since she was a child. When you come to you, you must treat her as your own girl, teach him everything she should teach, and don't be soft-hearted when she should scold. ”

The village chief was naturally humble, and after some politeness, he leaned over and picked up the firewood to say goodbye. As soon as Qi Yun turned around, he picked up Hong Jian and ran to his dormitory, Hong Jian was almost dragged by her, and soon came to the dark and narrow dormitory assigned to Qi Yun. Opening the door, Hong Jian leaned against the door and looked into the door with a flawed look.

The interior furnishings are simple, only a table, a chair, and a bed. In addition to this was a half-old tin stove, and a small fire was frugally lit in the hearth, which made a slight heat float in the dormitory. The stove itself is not large, but due to the long tin chimney, it takes up almost half of the space in the room, which looks quite abrupt.

Qi Yun rushed into the dormitory first, casually pulled the books piled up on the bed, and pushed the open and messy large box that peeked out from under the bed under the bed hard, beckoning and laughing: "Brother Aji, hurry, please come in." ”

Her sudden enthusiasm made Hong Jian feel a sense of vigilance, looked at her, and asked with a slight smile:

"I said, do you really want me to come so much?"

Qi Yun blushed embarrassedly and said curtly:

"Yes, if you don't come, I'll be alone...... I don't know how to move the iron stove. ”

The brutal scoundrel is on the face of the delicate spring, so it is not so annoying. Hong Jian looked around. When his gaze fell on the half-used tin stove, Qi Yun's face turned pale.

"I knew that Brother Ah Jian was the smartest person, and sure enough!" Qi Yun pounced on Hong Jian's sleeve and pulled it: "I know you've walked this way, you're very tired!" But it's too cold in the dormitory...... Brother Aji, you are a person who bravely entered the desert war zone and experienced strong winds and waves, I believe you will definitely not take this tiredness in your eyes! ”

Hong Jian knew it in his heart, but he clasped his hands in front of his chest and raised his chin to look at Qi Yun:

"Don't give me a top hat, I tell you, it's useless! The student dormitories in the mountain villages are all bunks, and your small stove will not play a role at all if you put it in the big dormitory! Also, don't say I didn't warn you, this is a mountainous area, with an early start in winter and very cold winter. It's really the wax moon, I'm afraid that you can't stand the cold if you have a stove. It's cold in the student dormitory, you should report it to your boss, the principal, or find the leader village chief who needs to be close to you, and ask him to install two big stoves in the dormitory. ”

"Hey, you're such a 'why don't you eat minced meat'! To put it mildly, if the principal and the village chief had a way, would they still use my stove to dismantle the student dormitory? Qi Yun angrily pushed a flood arrow, snorted angrily, and said, "I finally looked forward to you, not only did you not help, but you also poured cold water on others." Hum! If you don't help, you won't help, I'm a smart girl who has reached the age of 23, and I can't even handle this little thing? ”

Qi Yun said, and actually personally pulled his sleeves and prepared to dismantle the stove. Hong Jian couldn't help but be stunned when he heard her words, it seems that the hardship of the environment in this teaching location is much beyond his imagination. He looked at the back of Qi Yun who was bending down to extinguish the fire, and suddenly had some suspicions, Qi Yun was pampered by Uncle Qi and his wife in the palm of his hand and in his mouth since he was a child, can she stand this sin?

The movements of Hong Arrow's hand were only one step slower. Qi Yun was already choking on a puff of black smoke and coughing, Hong Jian hurriedly opened the doors and windows, pushed Qi Yun to the window, told her not to hinder herself, and then concentrated on moving.

When Hong Jian was a child, the heating at home was a stove, although he had not been exposed to this thing for many years, it was not a stranger, and Hong Jian naturally liked to disassemble and assemble machinery, so he divided the stove and chimney into two piles neatly, and by the way, wiped every part inside and out with the dry rag handed by Qi Yun. There was a lot of old smoke and dirt inside the stove and chimney, and Hong Jian took it outdoors to clean it up, and when he looked back, he didn't forget to damage Qi Yun:

"With so much staleness, it's no wonder that even a small house can't be heated. What's the use of moving to a student dormitory if you don't clean it up? ”

"I didn't make it out of the dirt." Qi Yun muttered quietly, but he didn't dare to offend Hong Jian for the time being. Especially when she saw that Hong Jian had cleaned up the stove, she smiled even more, made a V gesture to Hong Jian, and praised him angrily: "Brother Ah Jian, you are amazing!" It made Hong Jian shiver, shaking goosebumps all over his body.

Qi Yun ignored him. She giggled and picked up a few chimneys to lead the way, and Hong Jian had to pick up the stove and follow behind. Although Qi Yun walked whistling and panting, his mouth was not idle, chattering and laughing.

The two entered the student dormitory, although Hong Jian had been rolling in the most difficult environment all year round, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he saw such a simple student dormitory. He looked around and found a suitable position to put his head down and install the stove, and Qi Yun worked diligently on the side.

Hong Jian wiped a handful of sweat, and when he looked up, he saw Qi Yun's slightly sweaty side face after running, the movements on her hands were slightly stagnant, and the lines on her face couldn't help but soften a little.

After installing the stove in three or two, the two of them walked towards Qi Yun's dormitory one after the other. Qi Yun tiptoed to look at Hong Jian's face, eating and laughing with bad intentions.

"What are you laughing at?" Hong Jian asked.

Qi Yun suddenly smiled even more happily, "Look at your face, there is a big piece of furnace ash, hehe." ”

Hong Jian couldn't help laughing: "Still talking about me? Take a good look in the mirror to see who has become a big cat. ”

Qi Yun not only didn't think he was angry, but instead stretched out his fingers stained with furnace ash and wiped four black finger prints on each cheek on both sides, leaned over to Hong Jian's face and "meowed", and then reached out to wipe the ashes on Hong Jian's face.

"Go, don't make a fuss!" Hong Jian smiled and dodged his face, but he didn't dodge, Qi Yun still succeeded in imprinting the two encircled "paw prints" on Hong Jian's face.

"Haha! Occupy it successfully! Qi Yun laughed and danced, so lively. Hong Jian smiled bitterly, but he didn't scold her again.

It wasn't until he saw the village chief walking towards them along the village road from a distance that Qi Yun smiled and greeted the principal with a twist. The principal handed over a small jar of home-soaked radish peppers and asked her to entertain Hong Jian for dinner, and said that his second son went to the city to work, and the house was empty anyway, and invited Hong Jian to sleep at his house at night.

Hong Jian hurriedly agreed and thanked him repeatedly. Qi Yun was a little proud, and after the principal left, she patted Hong Jian's shoulder with a big grin and asked him with a smile, "How is it?" I'm a good boss, isn't it? Brother Ajian, you say, is this like a big family? ”

Hong Jian saw that Qi Yun seemed to have regarded the principal and even the entire village as his "own family", and said angrily: "The village chief is good, and it seems that he also treats you as a family, but whether you, a member, can add glory to the big family, it depends on your own." ”

Qi Yun snorted and said, "You still look down on people." ”

Having said that, thinking that I pasted the window of the student dormitory yesterday and moved the stove today, the student dormitory is at least much better than in the past, even if it is not as warm as spring today. She was in a good mood, and she didn't take Hong Jian's sarcastic words to heart.

Back in the dormitory, she took out a small electric cooker, boiled water and waited to cook the noodles she brought from home. While he was busy, he praised Hong Arrow from the bottom of his heart: "Brother Aji, I didn't expect you to stay in the ocean and come back, and you will have a lot of luck dealing with this kind of earthen stove in the village." ”

The boiling water in the electric pot cast a faint white mist over the narrow dormitory, everything seemed warm and soft, Hong Jian remembered the past, and his heart was warm for a moment.

"What do you think? When I first arrived in New York, I rented the worst Harlem district in the city, the house was not heated in winter, and the wind was blowing in the hall, which was not a problem at all, and the most important thing was that the security in that district was quite poor, and the first habitual action when I went home every day was not to take off my shoes, but to check the doors and windows repeatedly to make sure that they were locked, and no one had ever invaded them, so I dared to take off my shoes and change into civilian clothes. Sometimes I was busy with my studies, and I didn't dare to open the door when I asked for takeaway food, so I asked him to put it at the door through the door, and I dared to open the door when I saw the other party walking away from the cat's eye......"

"Haha," Qi Yun actually laughed very heartily, "I thought you went abroad to enjoy happiness, so you ignored me, I was so depressed that I died." Now that I know that you lived so decrepit at that time, I don't know why, but I actually feel like I breathed a sigh of relief. ”

Hong Jian glanced at Qi Yun and couldn't help laughing,

"Since you say so, just let you find your mental balance for once. The worst thing for me at that time was not this, but just arrived in the United States, the language was not good enough to keep up with the course, I didn't dare to sleep until 1 o'clock every night, I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning to memorize English, especially in the winter morning, the water turned into ice, and I had to set 3 ...... alarm clock alone"

"A guy like you who has perseverance and no humanity is afraid that the alarm clock will 'only wake up your fingers', it seems that those days were not ordinary hardships." Qi Yun sighed with emotion, and said viciously:

"Well deserved! Who let you put the good life in the country, but you have to go all the way to other people's land to find guilt! ”

Hong Jian continued:

"Miss Qi Yun, the purpose of I say this is not to remember the bittersweet ones, but to remind you: no matter how miserable I was before, it has become the past. And now it's not me who has to come all the way to suffer, but someone else, what do you say? ”

Qi Yun seemed to have been dumbfounded, and he couldn't say a word, just stared at Hong Jian with round eyes and unyieldingly. Hong Jian smiled embarrassedly:

"If your determination can match your expression at the moment, then I will be relieved. After all, even if the environment is difficult, you can grit your teeth and get through. And once those things are surpassed by you, you will find that all the hardships you have endured have become the heavy wealth of your life. ”

-- All the hardships you have endured have become the heavy wealth of your life? Qi Yun chewed on the meaning of these words, biting his lip lightly with his thin teeth and nodded. She has a small face, her skin can be broken, but she has an indomitable courage. Hong Jian was stunned, and at the end, he heard her blushing and said:

"Brother Ajian, I complained to you at that time and left without saying a word. But after all these years, I know that you are also for your ideals - in fact, you have always been good to me. ”

Hong Jian didn't speak. The noodles in the pot were cooked, and the two of them each served a bowl, and ate each other with a sigh, Hong Jian asked coldly:

"Who is he?"

"Who?"

Qi Yun was puzzled, and raised his head to Hong Jian for confirmation. But when she saw the curling white smoke coming out of the noodles, and the eyes that seemed to be smiling and knowing everything in her chest, she only felt that the blood in her whole body was surging up her cheeks disobediently, and she didn't know what her blushing looked like, so she just scratched the rough table with a hand that didn't serve a bowl.

"What kind of dumb riddle to play, I don't even know what you say......"

She grunted softly, lowered her head to eat noodles, drank a large mouthful of noodle soup, and choked on coughing. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief, and heard the sound of Hong Arrow floating through the side of her low face.

"If I'm not mistaken, it must be the one you called at the train station that day. Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't want to say it. But I have a lot of back in this black cauldron, and I thought you should at least let me know who this black cauldron is for. ”

Qi Yun had a loud alarm in his heart. The noodle soup was too hot and drunk too quickly, and now Qi Yun was sweating thin on his back. But Hong Jian is not bad at all, father and mother, at least mother, if it is not because she believes that the reason why she chose to teach here is because she is happy with Hong Jian, how can she let her leave home? And in fact, didn't she choose such a life path in order to walk the path that that person had walked, so as to better understand his choice, and at the same time prove to him that she can?

Qi Yun secretly raised his eyes from the noodle bowl and looked at Hong Jian, his request was indeed reasonable, and he was indeed ashamed of him. However, he was ordered by her father to send her here to teach, which is equivalent to the status of the minister of the Qin Mission, dare to let him know about his entanglement with Lu Wei? She was very conflicted, and the hand holding the chopsticks subconsciously stirred in the noodle bowl.

Seeing Qi Yun ruining the noodles in the bowl with a heavy heart, and refusing to raise his head with a heavy heart, Hong Jian shook his head and said softly:

"If you really don't want to say it, I won't force you. But if you trust me, I may not fail you. I said in front of your parents that I brought you to know you about the organization you participated in, this is not a lie, whether it is a mistake or a mistake, or anything, after all, without my connection, you would not have been able to go to this small road, not the broad road arranged by Uncle Qi for you. ”

Qi Yun threw a grateful glance at Hong Jian. When they were children, the atmosphere of tacit understanding and trust that the two had was like a spring field after the ice and snow melted, and everything sprouted. Qi Yun is not a person with few words, and the relationship with Lu Wei has never been enough for outsiders, and the desire to pour out in her heart, which has been held back for a long time, exploded, she put the noodle bowl on the simple small table, and said to Hong Jian thoughtlessly:

He ...... It's a classmate from my university. ”

Hong Jian nodded understandingly. Holding the bowl and pointing at Qi Yun with the tip of his chopsticks,

"Looks very handsome, right?"

Qi Yun's face turned red again, she twisted like gynostemma, and said:

"What handsome! If you want to be worthy of my youthful and invincible beautiful girl, he is still a little close. ”

After speaking, he couldn't help laughing, and lowered his head and added:

"Anyway, some girls say he looks ...... Not bad. ”

Afraid that Hong Jian would laugh at her, he hurriedly and hurriedly defended himself:

"I didn't notice that when school first started, though!"

"But when school started, I didn't notice."

Hong Jian lowered his head and smiled, thoughtful. Qi Yun moved her feet in front of the electric stove, and the electric stove that had just been turned off was still red, and the light reflected her eyes shining and her cheeks crimson.