Located in the deep mountains and old forests, Qingshi Pai is a small mountain village with only forty or fifty households. The villagers' houses are basically adobe houses from the 70s and 80s, dilapidated and dilapidated, black and mottled, like old people in their last years, lonely and desolate scattered in various mountain cols, which has a taste of paradise. Xu Wenming's home, Qingshan Primary School, is located on a mountainside next to the village, on high ground, with an unobstructed view of the whole village.

While Xu Wenming was busy with Zhang Luo's tea and fruits, Xu Wenlong silently looked at Qingshan Primary School in front of him. Built of rubble and unpainted, it was a grade higher than the adobe house, but there were a few glaring cracks in the wall, which should have been caused by the sinking of the foundation, and the corrugated roof was old and old, with a thick layer of moss, and the scattered cracks revealed the black and rotten rafters. The playground is not big, but it is flat and clean. The ground is paved with fist-sized pebbles and surrounded by thick pine fences, presumably to prevent students from accidentally falling to the foot of the mountain.

"How? Is it still solid? Xu Wenming, who came out with a wine bottle and fruit point, pointed to the playground and said proudly, "I fenced the fence, and I paved the ground!" ”

"Yes, it's solid!" Xu Wenlong kicked the sturdy fence with his foot and asked in surprise, "You did it all alone?" How many rocks and how many trees do you have to cut down? ”

"Hehe, that's nothing, just spend more time and a little more energy!" Xu Wenming said helplessly, "In fact, there is no way to do it, if you don't do this, the students will slide to the foot of the mountain if they don't pay attention, which is very dangerous." As for the playground, when it wasn't paved before, it would be watery and muddy every time it rained, but when it was sunny, it was dusty and choked, making the students miserable, so I ......"

"I know that there are not many students in the school, and there are not many office funds," Xu Wenlong said with his hand touching the pine wood, "but you can report to the top and report the situation to the organization, and it shouldn't cost much to build a fence and lay some colored bricks." ”

"Alas, that's what I said, but you don't know......" Xu Wenming said with a wry smile, "Forget it, let's get together rarely, let's have a good drink, don't talk about this." ”

Xu Wenlong smiled and sat down at a desk on the playground.

"Lotus white, produced in this county, five yuan a bottle. It's not high-grade, but it's the kind of wine we used to like to drink. Xu Wenming raised a bottle of liquor in his hand, unscrewed the cap and poured it into the big bowl, and then pointed to the dried mountain fruits on the table and said, "It's all sent by students." They often stuff the wild fruits they have picked into my room one by one, and if they don't want to, they can't eat them, so they have to dry them. ”

"Isn't that student very nice to you?" Xu Wenlong looked at a plate of chestnuts, raisins and dried bayberry and said. I think he himself once gave wild fruits to the teacher.

"Almost, okay." Xu Wenming replied, "It's really popular when you're sensible, but making a fool will make you angry and miserable." ”

At this moment, Xu Wenming's wife Shui Xiu, a straightforward and warm-hearted woman, walked out with the scrubbed Li Jing and Yang Yingying. As soon as she saw the bottle of cheap liquor on the table, she couldn't help but pull down her face and shouted, "You can also get this kind of wine?" You treat your good friend like that? Don't you still have two bottles of good wine at home? What's more, they also brought their own two bottles of Moutai! ”

"Hey, hey, hey...... Those bottles of wine...... Those bottles of wine ......," Xu Wenming said to his wife, scratching his head.

"I want to give it away again! I said, why don't you give up? How many times have you run to the county seat for this inconsequential thing? How many leaders have you found? The legs are thin, and the skin of the mouth is worn out, but what happens in the end? Isn't it a bamboo basket for water? Shui Xiu poked her husband's forehead and counted mercilessly.

"You...... How can you say that? Before...... Didn't you give them gifts before? This...... This time, ......" Xu Wenming's face was red and white, and he looked at his angry wife in front of him for a while, and then looked at Xu Wenlong, who was at a loss next to him, and looked extremely embarrassed.

"What about this time? It's not all for nothing, do you really think a few bottles of wine will be able to settle them? You're still a teacher, you can't even think through this! ”

"Why not give it a try? Wouldn't it be a great thing if it did succeed? Besides, things are man-made, there will always be a way! I don't believe they're going to keep it like this! Xu Wenming held his head high and said with confidence.

"Wake up, you, I think it's going to be done in the Year of the Monkey!" Shui Xiu pouted and said disdainfully.

Seeing that Xu Wenming and his wife were arguing, Xu Wenlong was not good at mixing with their family affairs, so he could only gently persuade Shui Xiu: "Forget it, sister-in-law, let's still drink this kind of wine, this wine brand is old, the taste is mellow, and it is comfortable to drink." ”

"Look, look, this is called a good buddy, a good brother! It's like you, you don't understand the truth at all. Xu Wenming happily grabbed Xu Wenlong's hand, and said to his wife proudly with his head sideways.

Shui Xiu just wanted to sarcastically mock her husband, but saw more than ten women and daughters-in-law of different ages carrying wine jugs and fruit plates, laughing all the way up the mountain, so they glanced at him and greeted him warmly with a smile.

These women are plainly dressed and outdated, but they are well-proportioned, ruddy, and have the dexterity and health peculiar to the mountain people, and because they have little contact with the outside world, they appear particularly shy and restrained in front of strangers. They put the wine pot and fruit plate on the elongated desk in turn, chatting with Xu Wenming and his wife one after another, and looking at the beautiful and innocent Li Jing and Yang Yingying with curious and envious eyes, and then said goodbye one by one, biting each other's ears and chattering down the mountain.

"Cook, hurry up and cook. It's getting late, so don't starve your guests. After sending the women away, Xu Wenming hurriedly urged his wife. He feared that she would rehash the old story and entangle it, and the two of them would once again be in an endless dispute.

Shui Xiu is actually a reasonable woman, just now she was just angry for a while, so she quarreled with her husband, and now when she thinks about it carefully, she feels very uneasy in her heart. So she smiled apologetically Xu Wenlong, picked up her son, who was less than three years old, and walked to the kitchen.

Li Jing and Yang Yingying were fine, and they were also excited and shouted to help together. Shui Xiu's repeated persuasion was fruitless, so he had to give up and let them follow him into the kitchen.

Xu Wenlong and Xu Wenming were naturally happy to be quiet, sitting on the playground happily, bathing in the warm afternoon sunshine, with all kinds of sweet wild fruits, you came and I poured liquor back and forth, and talked about their experiences with great interest.

After chatting for a while, Xu Wenlong took a sip of wine and asked with a casual look, "Have you encountered anything difficult?" Are you having trouble in life? ”

"No, what's the difficulty?" Xu Wenming smiled awkwardly and hurriedly replied, "Although my salary is not high and my life is a little tight, I can finally cope with it." ”

"Then you ...... with your sister-in-law just now"

"Well...... Hehehe...... Actually, it's nothing, come and come, drink and drink. Xu Wenming picked up the wine bowl and hurriedly changed the topic, "You don't think I'm very small, do you?" But also, almost everyone in society now says that when a teacher's abacus is loud, it is very stingy! ”

"How so? If I thought you were a very small person, would you come all the way to you? ”

"I knew you weren't going to be like anyone else!" Xu Wenming smiled, then shook his head and said quietly, "Actually, how do they know the treatment of being a teacher and what it's like?" Especially the teachers in the poor mountainous areas! ”

"As long as you have a clear conscience, why bother with the shortcomings of others?" Xu Wenlong comforted, "Let's talk about your gift, if you don't mind." ”

"Well, well, it's a long story." Xu Wenming sighed, hesitated and pointed to the dilapidated classroom and said, "See? Cracks in the walls, ventilation on the roof, and a dilapidated house. I usually get to class with fear and trepidation, let alone rainy days. ”

"It's really dangerous, human lives are at stake, in case ......," Xu Wenlong nodded in response.

"Since the winter of last year, I have been reporting to my superiors, asking for the demolition of the old and the construction of new classrooms as soon as possible, so as to provide a safe and secure learning environment for teachers and students."

"It hasn't been done until now, so you want to give a gift to the relevant departments!" Xu Wenlong said in surprise.

"So what's the solution?" Xu Wenming said with a sad face, "Several departments are pushing around like kicking a ball, either saying that they are not in their own hands, or that they are short of funds, and they still need to think carefully, and they want me to go back and wait slowly, and send me out in a few words." The reason for this is that in fact, they still want to withdraw and merge the school, and move all the students here to Xujia Village to complete the primary school. ”

"How does this work?" Xu Wenlong said in surprise, "Not to mention the small children and the great danger, even young people now feel struggling to go back and forth for dozens of miles of mountain roads every day." ”

"They said they could consider boarding."

"That's not going to work! Can children in Grades 1 and 2 take care of themselves? ”

"This is also a reason, and the main thing is to pay for food!" Xu Wenming said gloomily, "According to the cheapest two yuan a meal, it will cost 100 yuan a month, do you think the people here can afford it?" It's just a few families, and most families are still powerless. So they thought about it and didn't make a final decision yet. ”

"It's really going to give them a headache!" Xu Wenlong said mockingly, "Demolition of the old and construction of the new requires funds, and the amount is large, estimated at least about 300,000." The withdrawal and merger of schools also have to consider the management problems and life problems of students. It seems that your school is really a hot potato in their eyes, it's hard to throw away, and you can't eat it! ”