After Wang Hongju was transferred to the local government, the local government assigned him to Qionghai Middle School in Qionghai County, Hainan Island, as the director of teaching affairs and a Chinese teacher, according to his academic qualifications and expertise.

Qionghai Middle School, where Wang Hongju teaches, is located on the banks of the beautiful Wanquan River, surrounded by dense coconut groves and banana trees, and the environment is very quiet. The local area is the hometown of overseas Chinese, and the people have always paid attention to education and respected scholars. Wang Hongju was the first truly highly educated teacher in Qionghai Middle School, and he spoke pure Beijing dialect, and his arrival attracted many onlookers. In the position of director of academic affairs, Wang Hongju formulated a series of targeted teaching reforms based on his own understanding of education, especially the Chinese courses he taught, which were lively and lively, and he was good at using easy-to-understand language to turn the articles in the textbooks into knowledge that was easy to digest and absorb. Not only do students love to listen to his lessons, but also teachers. Due to Wang Hongju's strong business and leadership and organizational skills, he was promoted to vice president in less than half a year. Wang Hongju worked very smoothly in Qionghai Middle School, he studied and lived happily with the simple and lovely students every day, and the psychological shadow when he first left the army gradually disappeared.

On this day, Wang Hongju walked back to the office after class, he opened the door of the office, and a person suddenly appeared to surprise Wang Hongju, he never thought that Lin Nanhui, who died in the battle of crossing the sea, stood alive in front of him. When he rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked at the person who came in disbelief, Lin Nanhui had already rushed up with his legs and hugged him tightly.

"Instructor, don't you know me Lin Nanhui?"

"How could it be you? I didn't expect that! ”

Wang Hongju saw that Lin Nanhui was not dead, he was pleasantly surprised and grabbed Lin Nanhui's hand tightly and asked, "Lao Lin, didn't you sacrifice?" I saw you and the ship blown away by the cannonballs, are you a human or a ghost now? ”

Lin Nanhui smiled and said, "Instructor, God won't accept me, I'm not yet dead!" ”

"It's great that you're alive!"

Two comrades-in-arms who shared life and death on the battlefield clasped their hands tightly.

It turned out that during the beach battle, Lin Nanhui, who was already injured at the moment when the enemy's shell hit the sailboat, jumped into the sea with all his might, he was not blown up but was stunned, and when he woke up, the follow-up landing troops had already rescued him. Lin Nanhui, who was seriously injured, spent several months in a military hospital before gradually recovering. Due to the severity of his injuries, two ribs were broken, and he was lame and could not return to the combat unit and had to be demobilized.

Wang Hongju asked Lin Nanhui: "How do you know I'm here?" ”

Lin Nanhui said: "The first thing I thought of after receiving the notice of demobilization was to go to the army to see you and my comrades-in-arms and tell you that I was still alive. The first time I went to the army, I didn't see you, they said that you went to the countryside to carry out land reform, and the second time I went to see you, they said that you had transferred to this school, and they gave you the address. When I heard that you had changed jobs, I really didn't believe my ears at that time, why couldn't such a good comrade as Instructor Wang stay in the army? As far as his ability is concerned, he can be the battalion commander and regiment commander in the future! I'll go around fighting for you. Later, someone whispered to me that it was Li Qiming, the political commissar of the regiment who was engaged in land reform, who gave you a copy to the division chief, and that your transfer had something to do with him, and it was not clear what he said about you. ”

"Lao Lin, if there is no basis for something, you don't want to hear it."

"Anyway, I think your departure from the army has something to do with him!"

"I was so sad when I left the army, I felt like the sky was going to fall! Actually, I'm only now realizing that it's nice to work locally. When I was in college, I had the idea of becoming a teacher after graduation, and I thought that only by building a country with education could China be changed, and now it is Li Qiming who has helped me realize this wish, and I want to thank him! To be honest, I like teaching and educating people very much, and if I were to be asked to go back to the army now, I wouldn't want to go back! ”

Lin Nanhui agreed: "This is true, where is the revolutionary work done!" ”

Wang Hongju said to Lin Nanhui enthusiastically: "Don't leave today, there is a place for you to sleep in my room." In the evening, I invite you to a restaurant for a drink, and celebrate your escape from Lord Hades! ”

Lin Nanhui was happy when he heard it: "Great! I'm fine now, so I'll stay with you for a few more days, and let's have a good chat. ”

Wang Hongju looked at Lin Nanhui and remembered something, he asked with a smile: "Old Lin, what are your plans in the future?" ”

"Hey! I'm a disabled soldier who can't do anything, and now I'm on the government's disability pension. When I think about it, I feel depressed. ”

"I'll find you something effortless to do, would you?"

"What work? Tell me about it. ”

"Our school used to see that the people in the communication room have resigned due to something, and now there is a shortage of manpower, if you are willing to do it, I can approve it." When Lin Nanhui heard this, he was very happy and said: "We brothers are together, I am willing, of course I am willing!" I'll go back to Haikou tomorrow morning to pack my things and come to work the day after tomorrow. ”

Lin Nanhui asked with some concerns: "Instructor, I am your old comrade-in-arms, and I am a cripple, if you arrange this job, others will not say that you are selfish, right?" ”

"Lao Lin, the ancients said that the virtuous do not avoid relatives and enemies. You are a person who has contributed to the Chinese revolution, you should not have any worries! ”

Wang Hongju said: "You don't have to be so nervous about time, I'll leave you this position for a week." Also, don't call me instructor in the future, you have to call me Principal Wang. ”

Lin Nanhui replied very simply: "Yes, Principal Wang!" ”

Wang Hongju smiled and said: "You still call me Brother Wang in private, I listen to it kindly!" ”

Lin Nanhui said: "I still have to go to Haikou to find Gillian and tell her about my work with you." ”

"Alright! I haven't seen her in a long time, and you see her saying hello for me. ”

Lin Meijiao, who was stationed in Haikou with the army's art troupe, often took a hitchhike to Qionghai to visit her uncle during the holidays, and he knew that his uncle had no one to take care of him, so every time she came to Qionghai, she brought her uncle a lot of delicious things. At one point, she brought a lot of sticky cakes. This sticky cake is made with glutinous rice flour and is filled with peanuts and sugar, and is wrapped in two jackfruit leaves. Wang Hongju was full of praise after tasting a few sticky cakes, he thought it was very delicious, and he ate the sticky cakes brought by Lin Meijiao unceremoniously.

Lin Nanhui mocked Wang Hongju and said, "Brother Wang, what's delicious about this rice cake? I've been eating since I was a kid, and I'm tired of it now! Besides, you can buy this on the street, so you can eat as much as you want! ”

"I think the rice cakes brought by Gillian are delicious! I definitely don't get tired of eating! ”

"We have glutinous rice and jackfruit trees in Guangdong, so you can take root in Guangdong and settle down, and find a local wife to make rice cakes for you every day, okay?"

"That's not necessary, as long as Gillian often brings you sticky cakes, I will eat them!"

If Wang Hongju was just joking with Lin Nanhui, Lin Meijiao remembered it, and since then, every time she came, she would bring Wang Hongju some sticky cakes for him to satisfy his hunger.

Lin Meijiao usually comes to visit Lin Nanhui once or twice a month, but she hasn't been here for more than two months recently, and Lin Nanhui, who misses Gillian very much, mutters in his heart, he is worried that something will happen to Lin Meijiao. Wang Hongju saw that Lin Nanhui was unsettled for Gillian all day long, so he comforted him and said that Gillian has grown up and is living in the army, so nothing will happen to her! Maybe it's because there are too many performance tasks and I don't have time to come and see you. But Lin Nanhui's heart is always unsteady.

Lin Nanhui looked forward to the stars and the moon and looked forward to Lin Meijiao, and finally one day he looked forward to Lin Meijiao. On this day, Lin Meijiao still brought some sticky cakes to Wang Hongju, Lin Nanhui asked her why she hadn't come for a long time, and she said that she went to the hinterland of Wuzhi Mountain to give a condolence performance to the garrison troops. Usually Lin Meijiao always talks and laughs when she visits her uncle, but this time Lin Meijiao's mood is not very good, and she looks preoccupied when she speaks. Under Lin Nanhui's repeated questioning, Lin Meijiao said something that surprised Wang Hongju and Lin Nanhui, it turned out that Lin Meijiao was leaving the army art troupe.

Wang Hongju was anxious when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked: "Gillian, does Head Wu know about this?" ”

"It was me who was informed by Head Wu yesterday."

Wang Hongju said angrily: "This guy was kicked in the head by a donkey? Why did he want to clear you out of the art troupe? I'm going to settle accounts with him! ”

Lin Meijiao hurriedly explained: "This is none of the business of Head Wu, he is just the one who informed me." In fact, he was reluctant to let me leave the art troupe, and he was very sad when he informed me to leave the troupe. ”

Lin Nanhui asked: "Gillian, did you make a mistake?" ”

"I didn't make a mistake."

"You are such a good literary and artistic backbone troupe that you don't want it, it's not the decision of head Wu, so who is it?" Wang Hongju did not understand this matter very much.

Lin Meijiao only said: "Because I am the daughter of a landlord and capitalist, I have a bad class background and am not suitable for working in the army." ”

"It's not just that the family background is not good, right? Is there another reason? As far as I know, Chief Wu's father is a rich peasant, and his background has not affected him to be the head of the art troupe! Wang Hongju continued to ask Lin Meijiao.

But no matter how Wang Hongju and Lin Nanhui asked, Lin Meijiao didn't want to say anything more, she said she wanted to go home.

Lin Nanhui sighed and said, "It's okay, it's time for you to go home and take care of your parents." When you go home, you tell me in advance, and I will personally send you across the sea. ”

After sending Lin Meijiao away, Lin Nanhui sulked with a straight face, smoking one cigarette after another, Wang Hongju saw that there were some unspeakable things in Lin Meijiao's heart, did Lin Meijiao offend some people? Or is it what she is running away from? Wang Hongju didn't want to tell Lin Nanhui his conjectures. Wang Hongju wanted to find out the reason for this incident, and that night he wrote a letter to the head of the art troupe, Wu, asking about Lin Meijiao's situation.

A few days later, the head of the regiment Wu replied, in which he told Wang Hongju: "Lin Meijiao was subjected to some political discrimination because of her poor family background, but the regiment did not let her leave the team for this reason. The main reason is that Lin Meijiao, nicknamed "Leizhou Xishi", is too beautiful, and there are many gay men who pursue her, especially because she is afraid that she will offend others after rejecting the pursuit of a certain chief, so her mental pressure is particularly great. I once advised her to marry the chief as soon as possible, but she said that she already had a crush on someone in her heart, and she would not marry anyone except that person! I asked who this crush was? She wouldn't tell me. Our troupe is very much in need of a literary and artistic backbone like Lin Meijiao, many soldiers love to watch her performances, and she proposed to leave the art troupe herself, she said that she wanted to change her working environment. Just in the process of reorganizing and streamlining the team, someone mentioned that Lin Meijiao's family background was not good and she should be among the streamlined personnel, so the regiment made a decision to let Lin Meijiao leave the team. To be honest, Lin Meijiao is a very good literary soldier and a very pure girl, and I feel very sorry for her leaving. ……”

After reading the letter, Wang Hongju knew the reason why Lin Meijiao left the art troupe, and he showed the letter from the head of Wu to Lin Nanhui, and Lin Nanhui only muttered after reading the letter: "What does singing and dancing have to do with family background?" When pursuing Gillian, why weren't those people afraid that she was the daughter of a landlord and a capitalist? It doesn't make sense! ”

Within a few days, Lin Nanhui asked Wang Hongju for leave and rushed to Haikou, he sent his niece Lin Meijiao to the port, and watched the ferry blow its whistle and leave before returning to the company. But what Lin Nanhui and Wang Hongju didn't expect was that Lin Meijiao ran back to Qionghai with tears in her eyes just over three months after returning home, saying that she didn't want to go home anymore. Why? Lin Meijiao told the two of them what happened.