Chapter 21: The Clean Tree
After sitting down, Zhao Shuihe opened his mouth first: "Teacher Ai, I know that you came here because Huzi hasn't been to school for the past few days, and you even went to the mountains on purpose, thank you so much."
"I'm his teacher, and that's what I'm supposed to do," Lemon said.
"This kid, alas, ......" Zhao Shuihe suddenly sighed.
"Mother Yang Hu, is it convenient for you to tell me about the family?" Lemon asked carefully.
"Teacher Ai, you should know everything about our family, right?"
"I just learned a little bit from Mr. Ma."
"The whole town knows about this, and I'm not afraid of being embarrassed."
"That, Aunt Zhao, I'll go outside and look for Huzi," Li Hongye sensibly walked out of the house to avoid it.
There were only two people left in the house, Zhao Shuihe continued to speak: "My health is not very good, after marrying Huzi's father, I have been staying at home and not going out to work, Huzi's father works in a processing factory in the town, and the salary is not high, after giving birth to Huzi, our life is a little poor, but we can still get by."
"Two years ago, a friend of Huzi's father who went to work said that he could make a lot of money by working in Shanghai, Huzi's father was moved, and the friend also helped Huzi's father introduce a good job, considering that Huzi is getting bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more places to use money in the future, I agreed with his father."
"But I didn't expect it," Zhao Shuihe suddenly stopped, lowered his head and was silent for a while before raising his head and continuing: "His father never came back, and he called back in the first few months, and then not only did he not call again, but even his mobile phone number was changed, I inquired with many people, and they all said that they didn't know his situation, and I also went to Shanghai on a special trip, but I didn't find anyone who found him."
After another long silence, Zhao Shuihe said again: "Half a year later, an acquaintance who came back from Shanghai said that he had met Huzi's father, saying that he had completely changed as a person, and he had found a new one outside."
Zhao Shuihe fell silent again, and the expression on his face was extremely sad.
"Have you gone to his father again to ask, maybe someone else misunderstood," Seeing Zhao Shuihe sad, Ai Mengmeng's heart also felt very uncomfortable.
"I don't believe it either, but someone else showed me a picture of him and that person...... Even the child has a ...... After looking at the photo, I still didn't believe it, I asked around and finally got his new mobile phone number, I called him, he only said sorry to me, and it didn't take long for him to send a divorce agreement...... "Zhao Shuihe's expression has become extremely calm, and there are faint tears in his eyes.
Ai Mengmeng looked at him in a daze, she didn't expect it to be like this, she wanted to say two words of comfort, but she didn't know what to say.
After a long time, Zhao Shuihe slowly recovered his emotions: "Teacher Ai, although it is the first time I have met you, I think you are a good teacher, and I am telling you this, in fact, for the sake of Huzi."
"This incident hit him very hard, Huzi's self-esteem is very strong, and his temper is strong, it didn't take long for this matter to spread in the town, some ignorant children made fun of Huzi about this, which made his temper become irritable, I talked to him a lot, but he didn't listen at all, watching him give up on himself, I had no way at all, I was really sad in my heart."
When Zhao Shuihe was talking about Huzi's father just now, she could still control her emotions, but when it came to Huzi, she couldn't control her crying.
"Mother Huzi, don't be too sad, Yang Hu must have been unable to accept it in his heart, so he is like this, and when he figures it out, it won't be like this," Ai Mengmeng stood up, squatted down beside Zhao Shuihe, and comforted softly.
"Teacher Ai, I beg you, help me persuade Huzi, I know Huzi is sad, I see him like this, I feel even more sad, but no matter what I say, he doesn't listen, he's not a bad boy, Teacher Ai, please, help me persuade him well?" Zhao Shuihe cried and was about to kneel in front of Ai Mengmeng.
Ai Mengmeng was frightened, and quickly reached out to hold her: "Mother Yang Hu, don't be like this, I will definitely try every means to persuade him to go back to school."
"Thank you, thank you, Teacher Ai," Zhao Shuihe was pulled back on the stool, but still sobbing quietly.
Ai Mengmeng said a lot of words of comfort to stabilize Zhao Shuihe's mood, and when she walked out of the house to find Yang Hu, she felt that her mood was heavy.
"Teacher Ai, Yang Hu is over there."
Ai Mengmeng walked a few steps and saw Li Hongye coming over, before she could speak, Li Hongye had already guessed that she was looking for Yang Hu, and stretched out her finger and pointed to a thatched house not far behind the brick house.
Ai Mengmeng nodded: "Hongye, you wait for me here for a while, I'll go and say a few words to Yang Hu."
"Okay,".
This thatched hut was not a house at all, it could only be regarded as a tent to be exact, with branches and thatch to form a triangle, and the tent was covered with thick straw and covered with an old sheet, on which Yang Hu lay crookedly.
Ai Mengmeng only saw a single bed in the red brick house just now, which means that Yang Hu is sleeping in this thatched tent.
Seeing Ai Mengmeng, Yang Hu didn't get up to avoid it, but just sat up.
Lemon walked over and sat down beside him unceremoniously.
Yang Hu glanced at her, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
"Yang Hu, don't treat me as a teacher, I'm a few years old with you, if you want, treat me as a friend," Ai Mengmeng looked sideways at Yang Hu.
Yang Hu ignored her and turned his face to the side.
"I just learned yesterday that there was a person who I thought was very good to me who not only hated me very much, but also said that I was useless, and I was so sad that I ran to a place where no one was and cried, and it was a shame to think about it later," Lemon said to herself.
"Actually, what people say is not wrong at all, I am very useless, I don't know how to teach students, and I cause trouble for other teachers," Ai Mengmeng pulled out a straw from the straw pile under her and pinched it in her hand.
Yang Hu kept his face away, but he didn't interrupt her.
"I remember when I was ten years old I had a little white kitten, and I named it Rabbit because it looked like a cute rabbit," a smile tugged at the corner of Lemon's lips, and her thoughts seemed to go back to a long, long time ago.
"It's really cute, but one day it suddenly got sick, my dad and my mom happened to be very busy and didn't have time to take it to the pet hospital, I didn't dare to take it to the hospital alone, I thought it would be too late to take it to the doctor when my parents were empty for two days, but I didn't expect it to die," Lemon Meng's voice lowered.
"It died in my arms, I held it and cried for a long time, and I haven't had a cat since, and I know that no matter how many cats I have, it's not it,"
"I kept calling its name but it would never open its eyes to look at me again, I hated myself to death, hated myself for being so timid, the pet hospital was actually only two streets away from my house, but I knew that even if I regretted dying, even if I hated myself to death, it would never come back."
This is one of the saddest things in Ai Mengmeng's life, she rarely mentions it to others, after so many years, she still feels very sad and sad when she thinks about it.
Yang Hu still maintained the posture just now, but his breathing was much lighter.
It took a while for Ai Meng Meng to calm down her sadness: "Each of us is like a clean tree, and the difficulties, frustrations or unhappiness we encounter are like insects growing on the tree, and if they are not removed, these "bugs" will swallow the tree too."
"It takes three years for a peach tree to bear fruit, and a walnut tree takes six to seven years to bear fruit, and it takes decades for those cypress trees and banyan trees to grow into towering trees, but if there are insects on the trees, those insects may eat up the trees in half a year or even less, you see how terrible this is!"
"Each of us can only rely on ourselves, our own road must be walked by ourselves, we must also be responsible for ourselves, the road may be uneven, there may be many ditches and bumps, but as long as we keep going down, go down, the road will be wider and wider by us, more and more flat."
"I can't actually say these big truths, my dad told me," Lemon laughed a little embarrassedly.
"The sun will come out after a rainy day, and when you're hungry, you'll not be hungry, and you'll always be happy when you're sad, huh...... That's what I said, for now," Lemon laughed.
Yang Hu turned his head and glanced at Ai Mengmeng, wanting to give her a look of contempt, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily raised.
Ai Mengmeng suddenly stood up and got out of the canopy, she looked at Yang Hu and smiled: "The scenery here is so beautiful, Yang Hu, I'll sing you a song, but it's hard for me to sing, but you can't interrupt me, you have to be patient."
Yang Hu didn't look at her again, but Ai Mengmeng ignored him, turned around and opened her mouth to sing:
"The bird led the way, and the wind blew towards us
We are like spring
Come to the garden, to the grass......"
Yang Hu turned his head to look at Ai Mengmeng, she actually sang this children's song that everyone sang when they were children, Yang Hu felt that she was really naïve.
It was naïve, but it was very naïve, like the birdsong he heard lying in the shade of a tree in the woods.
Crisp and beautiful, people's whole heart is quiet and warm.
On Monday morning, Ai Mengmeng stepped on the class bell and walked into the third class classroom and looked at Yang Hu's seat.
To her disappointment, the seats were empty.
Yang Hu still didn't come, which means that those words to him on the mountain didn't touch him.
If it doesn't work once, it's twice, and if it doesn't work twice, then three times...... I believe that Yang Hu will always be moved.
Ai Mengmeng secretly made a decision in her heart.
After greeting the students, as soon as they sat down the students who stood up, they heard a familiar lazy voice at the door of the classroom: "Report!" “
Lemon turned her head to look over, he still had a lazy expression, his whole body leaning on the door frame, but his body was no longer disheveled, but clean and tidy, and his hair was neatly combed.
The smile stretched from the corner of Ai Mengmeng's mouth, and finally spread into a bright and brilliant one, Yang Hu glanced at her, a trace of discomfort flashed on his face, and before she could say "come in", he stepped into the classroom and walked to his seat.
"I want to say something to you before class today," Lemon said, glancing around the students' faces.
"I've never been a teacher before, I don't know how to teach people, and in the past week, I know that my lessons are terrible, and today I want to thank you all in advance for not kicking me out of the classroom."
The classmates all laughed at first, but when they saw that Ai Meng Meng bowed to them very seriously, everyone was stunned.
"I think learning knowledge is not what I teach you to learn, but it should be me and everyone to learn together, I and everyone is not a relationship between teachers and students, but should be friends, let's get to know each other again today, my name is Ai Mengmeng, please take care of me in the future!"
Ai Mengmeng bowed to everyone again, and after the students were silent for a moment, someone took the lead in applauding, and then the applause resounded throughout the classroom.
"Then let's start the class now......" Ai Mengmeng suddenly felt dizzy in her head, and she was a little unsteady on her feet, and reached out to hold the podium.
She felt a little dizzy when she saluted her classmates a second time just now, and this kind of vertigo had appeared twice since yesterday, but it was only a moment before it was better, and she didn't pay much attention to it.
"Teacher Ai, what's wrong with you?" Li Hongye stood up abruptly and asked.
"I'm fine...... Ai Mengmeng wanted to raise her hand, but as soon as she let go of her hand, she felt that her eyes were dark, and her body was weak, and she didn't know anything.