Later, Canglong asked Mr. Xiao Liu where he caught himself, and Mr. Liu said with a smile that she thought she had caught a big fish, but she didn't expect it to be a big living person, and it sank like something, if it weren't for the help of a few old people in the village, she couldn't pull it up alone.

However, she didn't ask why Canglong fell into the river and why he was covered in injuries, but at Canglong's request, she took Canglong to the calm waters.

Canglong looked at the water for a few minutes, and then went back with Mr. Xiao Liu, the two chatted very happily, when returning to the house of Hu Lao Chinese Medicine, Canglong found that Mr. Xiao Liu was blushing all the way, and from the words around him who seemed to understand or not, Canglong heard the reason.

Teacher Xiao Liu eats a hundred meals, and each family takes turns to entertain her for a day, but this time it is the house of Hu Lao Chinese Medicine, and he smells a refreshing fragrance as soon as he enters the door, which makes people have an urge to drool.

The three of them sat at the table of the Eight Immortals, eating deliciously, and even Canglong, who had special requirements for food, also chewed several bowls, and even made an exception to drink wine with the old Chinese medicine doctor.

With Teacher Xiao Liu here, there will never be a shortage of topics, and even Teacher Xiao Liu has a soft spot for this medicine and wine, and after drinking at least two bowls, his face is flushed and a little drunk.

The whole mountain village entered the night peacefully, there were no neon lights, no noise of vehicles, just natural melodies.

"You're the only one in your house?" Canglong asked suddenly.

"My son and daughter-in-law are working in the city, and my grandson is studying in the city, so I think I should go to college next year." The old Chinese medicine doctor replied, with a faint satisfaction on his face, and as he spoke, he looked at Canglong and Teacher Xiao Liu again, and said with a smile on his face, "You have all reached the age of talking about marriage, it's good to get married early, parents can rest assured." ”

The meaning of the words was to match Canglong and Teacher Xiao Liu, which made Canglong suddenly embarrassed, and Teacher Xiao Liu's face turned even redder.

It wasn't until after eating that Canglong took a flashlight to send Teacher Xiao Liu back, but the two didn't say anything until they returned to school, and Teacher Xiao Liu said, "Teacher Cang, do you really want to leave tomorrow?" ”

"Well, the New Year's Day holiday is only three days, and today is already the second day, and besides, if I have this kind of thing, if I don't go back, they will have to worry." Canglong said lightly.

However, Teacher Xiao Liu showed a little disappointment, but immediately showed an intoxicating smile: "I'll call you tomorrow morning, just in the township to catch the market, I also want to buy some stationery, come with me then." ”

"Okay." Canglong nodded, there was no one to lead the way, and he estimated that he would not be able to leave this mountain village for three days, let alone return to Dongning.

After the two separated, Canglong did not go back to Hu Lao's house to sleep, but came to the waters where Mr. Xiao Liu fished him up, and with the guidance of Mr. Xiao Liu, Canglong recalled the last moment of his consciousness to let go, and then stripped naked and jumped directly into the river.

The biting coldness came into his body, if it wasn't for drinking the medicinal wine, it is estimated that he would be shivering, especially the wound, soaked by the river, and it hurts his heart, but Canglong still couldn't help diving into the water, and about ten minutes later, Canglong returned to the shore again, but there was an extra black pistol in his hand.

"Old man, I can't leave you here." Canglong got dressed, and then wiped the already wet desert warriors.

At the last moment of his consciousness, Canglong threw the gun into the river, this was for fear that the person who fished him up would call the police when he saw this thing, and he was not afraid of anything if the gun was injured.

Returning to Hu Lao's house again, Canglong was lying on the wooden bed, drunk, and soon fell asleep, until the next day he was still asleep, he felt that someone outside called him, but when he got up, he found that it was Teacher Xiao Liu, and a few children in the village.

Canglong looked at his watch and found that it was only five o'clock, and the genius was slightly bright, with a strange expression: "Do you want to leave now?" ”

"yes, let's go now!" Teacher Liu still has a happy smile on his face.

Teacher Xiao Liu is wearing a pair of liberation shoes, which looks a bit like a rural girl, but this does not affect her temperament, and even has a different flavor, she still has a pair in her hand, obviously for herself.

"We used to go to school, and we had to get up at four o'clock, and we had to rush to school at five o'clock after eating." One of the children said in broken Mandarin.

"Hmm!" Canglong nodded, changed out of his liberation shoes, and then said goodbye to Old Chinese Medicine Hu Lao, and several people set off.

The long mountain road is extremely rugged, and even very steep in some places, and when passing the road that can only be passed by one person, Canglong was surprised, because on one side of the road is a cliff, and on the other side is a cliff, and falling down is definitely dead or alive.

But neither Teacher Xiao Liu nor this group of children who were at least twelve years old did not look timid, but passed very skillfully.

"Did you all go to school on this path before? Aren't you afraid? Canglong asked strangely.

"Yes, this is the only way to go to our Niujiamiao Village, and we are used to it." One of the children smiled, as if the road had not left fear in his heart.

Canglong shook his head, but Teacher Xiao Liu said with a solemn face: "This kind of road is very dangerous, there have been a few children who went to the countryside to study and came back, because they were really tired, and they didn't pay attention here."

Hearing this, Canglong's face changed, his question just now was actually worried about this, at this moment he suddenly thought of Teacher Xiao Liu's reason for running the school, which was not only for their knowledge, but also for their safety, but Teacher Xiao Liu never told him, and even when it came to the reason for running the school, it was just a sentence of "happiness", so understatement.

"Compared to her, I have lived in vain for more than 20 years." Canglong said to himself in his heart, what Teacher Xiao Liu did touched him a lot.

But he said nothing, and he looked at the children again, only to find that their young faces were full of heaviness, as if they had experienced those dangerous scenes.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of the students of Class 9, and thought of those children in the city, compared to these children who were less than twelve years old, what was their little suffering? In order to study, they have to walk more than ten miles of mountain roads every day, and these mountain roads can be dangerous at all times.

Canglong looked at these immature faces, and didn't know what to say for a while.

The five-day market is the largest trade from the mountain villages of Mawang Township, seeing that the New Year is about to be celebrated, the mountain people take all kinds of mountain goods down, in exchange for some things needed for the New Year, and the market that Canglong has seen is different, the mountain people are not trying to get money, but in exchange for what they need, because they never thought that they could make a fortune by selling things here.

When Canglong they came to the township market, it was already more than seven o'clock, more than ten miles of mountain road they walked for nearly two hours, Canglong also verified the function of the pair of liberation shoes, walking such a mountain road, such a dozen yuan of liberation shoes, is the best and most practical, for the mountain people, they want more is not good-looking, but practical and cheap things.

"There is a car to the county at ten o'clock in the township, about two hours, and when you get to the county, you can transfer to the city and eat something before leaving, the snacks here are a must." Teacher Xiao Liu smiled, and then handed Canglong some money, and joked, "This is the fare, you can't get in the car without money, rich people." ”

Canglong smiled helplessly, it was really difficult for him to get money in the countryside, he didn't refuse, because he needed it, but he held it very tightly when he took the money.

Following Mr. Xiao Liu, Canglong experienced a different flavor of the market, there are no luxurious items here, but there is everything, especially the snacks on those stalls, which makes people have the urge to drool.

After Ms. Liu bought the things she wanted, she bought a string of rock sugar gourds for each child, and then sat down in a stall and ordered a few bowls of dumplings.

Several children seemed to like to eat dumplings very much, and after a while, a big bowl was almost eaten, and even the soup was not left.

Later, Canglong learned that these children's holidays are every time they catch the market, and Teacher Xiao Liu will only bring a few children over each time, which is also for safety, and Teacher Xiao Liu does not only bring children with good grades over, but takes turns to bring them to the market.

However, Mr. Xiao Liu picked up the dumplings in his bowl and divided a few of them, but in the end there was only a big bowl of soup left in his bowl. ”

As he spoke, Mr. Liu drank the soup by himself, but the children were silent, even if they were still young, they could tell whether the soup was delicious or the dumplings were delicious.

At this moment, if Canglong had a camera, he would definitely take pictures of them, and the children did not speak, but they silently remembered it in their hearts.

Canglong shook his head, gave half of the dumplings he hadn't touched to Teacher Liu, and whispered in her ear, "You can't fool me." ”

Teacher Xiao Liu smiled slightly, but did not refuse, but said, "You are quite good at caring about people." ”

A few people were eating dumplings, and suddenly a few people came over and greeted Teacher Xiao Liu warmly, the grade was probably only in their thirties, they were sitting on another table in the stall by themselves, from their conversation, Canglong heard that these people were all teachers in other villages.

Seeing them coming, Teacher Xiao Liu seemed to have something to discuss with them, so he said something to Canglong and sat down.

From their conversations, Canglong learned some things, these volunteer teachers, like Teacher Xiao Liu, have been running schools for children in the mountain villages for a long time, and none of them have teacher qualification certificates, so the township will not allocate funds to them at all.

But not every volunteer teacher has a family without worries like Teacher Liu, and not only do they not get the funding, but sometimes they have to invest their own money.

But they have been insisting, every summer and winter vacation, other teachers can enjoy the vacation, but they can't, because they have to use the vacation to work, most of the money earned from the part-time job, most of them are invested in the next semester of the school's expenses, although the various mountain villages have pooled money into it, but this is not enough.

However, the most difficult thing for the volunteers is not the money, but the problem of the students going to junior high school after graduating from the sixth grade.

The township said that they were running schools illegally, and that any child who did not graduate from the primary school in the township could not enter junior high school, and this was the problem they were most worried about, because they were almost desperate about this problem