Chapter 038: Regret
After another three months, it was mid-June.
Tomorrow is the high school entrance examination, and the third-year students are gone.
This is the first batch of graduates sent away by Niu Tiangou, and he doesn't know how the students will do in the exam.
He is not worried about the conscientious and responsible class leader and the smart and clever study committee member, because the academic performance of the two of them is the top in the class, and it should be no problem to take the key high school or technical secondary school, but what he is most worried about is the four or five students with upper middle grades, especially Zhao Xiaoyan, whose test scores are very unstable, and it all depends on the effect of on-the-spot performance.
Standing in the empty classroom, thinking of the lively and lovely students who used to get along day and night, Niu Tiangou felt a faint sense of melancholy in his heart.
Alas, when the teacher may be like this, the student is very tired and annoyed when he is there, and once the student leaves, he feels like he has lost something, and he is at a loss.
The two semesters drifted by like white clouds, the students were gone, the classrooms that were a little crowded in the past seemed empty, and Niu Tiangou was quietly immersed in the silence of being afraid of people.
He didn't dare to look at the seats of those students, he was afraid to think of them again, especially the seat in front of him, for fear of thinking of the lovely girl with a round face and bright eyes, Zhao Xiaoyan, who and her classmates might never return to this classroom.
From then on, those students became a group of hurried passers-by in his life, never leaving a trace again.
As a teacher, he can only sincerely wish them all a good level in the exam.
Out of the classroom, Niu Tiangou suddenly saw Niu Dehua coming in from the school gate and was taken aback.
"Teacher Niu!" Niu Dehua shouted at Niu Tiangou from a distance.
"Yo, how did you have time to go to the countryside?" Niu Tiangou hurriedly quipped.
Since Niu Dehua graduated and was assigned to the county seat, everyone has been busy, Niu Tiangou has not met him yet, but he didn't expect his kid to come today.
"What, your school doesn't have a holiday?" Walking to the front and seeing that there were still students in the playground, Niu Dehua asked.
"The third grade is over, and only the first and second grades are in class."
"Oh. Our school was all closed yesterday because of the high school entrance examination tomorrow, and the school has to vacate the classroom to arrange the examination room. Niu Dehua said, "I don't have a proctoring task, so I want to go home and rest for a few days today." No, I just got off the side of the road and came to see you. ”
"Come and see our school, it can't compare to your city school, right?" Niu Tiangou smiled while leading Niu Dehua to the dormitory.
"Everywhere you talk, we don't eat chalk ash the same." Niu Dehua said busily "modestly".
"I'm here to ask you something." When he came to the dormitory, as soon as he sat down, Niu Dehua asked, "After you were assigned here, did Cao Yanfang come to look for you?" ”
"Cao Yanfang?"
Niu Tiangou was stunned, thought for a while, and said, "Oh, she came once." It seems that she asked about her cousin's academic performance, and said...... I didn't care about introducing me to a friend, I guess she was joking with me. What's wrong? ”
"I heard she's married." Niu Dehua seemed to be a little sorry.
"Huh?" Niu Tiangou was taken aback, "I haven't heard of this." He seemed to remember that more than a month ago, when the review was intense, Zhao Xiaoyan had taken a day off, saying that he was going to a relative's house to drink wine, and he also blamed Zhao Xiaoyan for a few words.
"You, you." Niu Dehua seemed to point Niu Tiangou with his hand reproachfully, as if he didn't know what to say.
After a pause, Niu Dehua said: "Do you remember that before graduating from normal school, I told you about Cao Yanfang's letter to me?" In the letter, she said that her family introduced her to a boyfriend who worked at the grain station, and she was reluctant to ask me to introduce her to a teacher. If I hadn't looked for the girl in the city, I'd have accepted her. I wanted to introduce you to her, but you said, 'Forget it.'"
"Later, I wrote back to her and introduced her to your situation so that she could have time to contact you later. I think it should be no problem for her to come together with you, and at your level, to help her review for a period of time, and to be admitted to the county normal school, which will not only help her, but also fulfill you...... Alas, I didn't know that she came to you, but you didn't care, and it was in vain that I wasted my kindness. What an idiot you are! ”
"She seems to be telling me to introduce me to some other private teacher." Niu Tiangou explained.
"You're so stupid! When she comes to you, she just says, 'I want to marry you, are you willing?', of course, she can only find a reason to test you tactfully. You should take the opportunity to take the initiative to contact her, talk more, communicate more, and then tutor her well, and you will definitely be able to 'stick'. I didn't expect you not only to not take the initiative yourself, but also to take her initiative seriously, isn't this tantamount to silently rejecting others? Will other girls come to you with a cheeky face? ”
Niu Dehua stared at Niu Tiangou and continued: "Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if she really wants to introduce you to others, you have to contact you first, right?" Maybe you like it? Even if you don't like it, you should communicate with Cao Yanfang more, 'sincerity, gold and stone are open', isn't love just 'talking'! You, don't look at the study of a set, you are really not good at communicating with girls. ”
Niu Tiangou thought about it silently and felt that Niu Dehua made sense. This kid is so brainy, why didn't he think of that?
It's still a matter of emotional intelligence, it seems that his emotional intelligence is more than one and a half points lower than this kid.
"I guess," Niu Dehua speculated, "Cao Yanfang may have really been a little interesting to me, otherwise she wouldn't have the audacity to write to me." But I introduced you because I talked about a friend, and her self-esteem was frustrated; Later, she took the initiative to find you, but you didn't take it seriously, and her self-esteem was frustrated again; In the end, under the urging of the family, he could only get married hastily. ”
After listening to Niu Dehua's words, Niu Tiangou began to slowly feel a little regretful.
Why was he so slow to react in front of Cao Yanfang at that time? Why didn't you take the initiative to find her later?
But...... It doesn't seem wrong to think about what you're doing. She wrote the letter to Niu Dehua for the first time instead of herself, then what she loved in her heart must be Niu Dehua instead of herself, although she is short, but she can't have no self-esteem, like Xie ×× in the normal school, she went to confess to other girls in vain, and finally ran into a gray nose, right?
Besides, even if she later found herself out of sincerity, it was forced by the "situation" and forced to be helpless, she must still pretend to be Niu Dehua in her heart, secretly in love with Niu Dehua, and she didn't want her future daughter-in-law to worry about other men in her heart.
But...... Niu Dehua's kid is indeed a talent, and the girl is indeed very face-saving with him.
Everyone has a heart for beauty and vanity, not to mention a girl who loves beauty like flowers.
Was it wrong for her to choose Niu Dehua in the first place? Since she changed her first choice, why can't she tolerate and believe in her second choice?
How many girls haven't had two or three boyfriends now? Do these people snub or even doubt the girl's second or even third choice because it was not their first choice?
Alas, choosing a different girl is actually choosing a different lifestyle. Niu Tiangou then felt that he had lost the best lifestyle choice.
He knew that there were no factories and mines around the rural middle school, not even a collective enterprise, and it was almost impossible to find a girl with a job; It is easy to find a rural girl who has no job, but the hard work in the fields will drain all her precious study energy.
And Cao Yanfang is a private teacher, he has the ability to tutor her to be admitted to the county normal to become a public teacher, so that he has a lot of energy to devote to learning, besides, Cao Yanfang has always been the lotus fairy in his heart, when he thinks of her, he has an inexplicable freshness and warmth.
Thinking of this, Niu Tiangou's heart ached, and he couldn't regret it, just like a priceless treasure that he had silently thought about day and night that should have belonged to him suddenly fell into the hands of others.
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After sending Niu Dehua away, Niu Tiangou was very confused. Originally, he wanted to go home with Niu Dehua, but he was afraid that his mother would talk to him about him and the peony girl again after he went back.
The last time I went home, my mother also said that Miss Peony was still waiting for him, and as long as he nodded, he would get married immediately.
He went back to his dormitory and sat and smoked for a while, not knowing what to do.