Ye Wei took two steps back, not daring to look into Bai Shu's eyes like a student who couldn't hand in his homework.

"It's not difficult, it's good to be proficient if you do more."

Bai Shu slowed down the movements of his subordinates, repeated the steps just now, and spoke in a much softer tone.

"I used to take students, I was very good to them, almost responsive, but they looked down on me at all."

Bai Shu lowered his eyes, his attention was focused on the rubber shoes in his hand, and his words were full of helplessness: "Those children just see people serving dishes, they don't like the kind of teachers who seem indifferent and high-minded, at least they respect them."

"Later, I also changed, thinking that it would save me a lot of trouble if I became like that, but the students would still pat me on the shoulder and say, 'What are you pretending to be?' You're even more annoying like this! ’”

Ye Wei stood next to him, listening to him tell his story while watching him make rubber shoes. Bai Shu is like an ordinary person, but he gives people an invisible pressure.

"But when I watched the news before, didn't you say that you were very loved by students?"

In order to appear less embarrassed, Ye Wei could only find the right time to continue the topic.

Bai Shu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, raised his head to look at Ye Wei, and lowered his head again: "What's the difference between the authenticity of the news and hearsay?" I can't make such a big mistake and the principal says, 'I thought he would have such a day', right? The greater the contrast between me and before, the less he has to do with it. ”

Ye Wei nodded, not knowing what to say, maybe he had heard about Bai Shu's deeds, so he felt that it was difficult for him to deal with.

"Actually, you can ask me a lot of things." Bai Shu's gaze was still on the rubber shoes: "What I heard from others doesn't mean anything."

The moment he heard him say this, Ye Wei's heart fluttered non-stop, as if he had done something unsightly and was discovered.

Bai Shu's tone of voice seemed to be talking about a very daily trivial matter, Ye Wei held back for a long time, and finally replied weakly: "I'm sorry..."

Hearing him apologize, Bai Shu finally raised his head and glanced at Ye Wei, seeing that he was extremely serious, his face turned red, and he couldn't help laughing, and the whole person became relaxed.

"Don't do that, I don't mean to blame you."

Bai Shu put his hand on Ye Wei's shoulder and made a little effort: "People are like these rubber shoes, add the upper, and then remove the extra part." If it is broken, it can be repaired, and if it can't be repaired, it will be destroyed, after all, this thing is not a small pollution to the environment. ”

Ye Wei nodded blindly, took the heel from Bai Shu's hand, covered his head and applied viscose to it, and then pasted the leather, making a mess. Bai Shu suddenly became patient and taught him hand in hand.

But Ye Wei didn't think it was good, he would rather be corporal punishment if he didn't agree with him in the army, so it was really uncomfortable to cut the flesh with a blunt knife.

"My speed is not very fast, the work requirement here is 50 pairs of rubber shoes a day, according to a pair of 10 minutes, it takes at least eight hours, most people can't do it without overtime."

"It's my job to teach you, and it's my job to get the yield done, so you need to be fast."

After seeing that Ye Wei could complete the work independently, Bai Shu left with the next sentence.

Working until half past five in the afternoon, Ye Wei followed everyone from the factory to leave, perhaps because the rubber shoe factory was not very toxic, and when he went out, he was nauseous and dizzy, and he almost fainted.

Before the labor reform, Ye Wei thought that life in prison would be very difficult, but he never thought that it was similar to work here, basically an eight-hour work system, and the output could be completed. Three meals a day are fully guaranteed, and there is time to rest after dinner.

Unconsciously, half a month passed, and the five people in Liuyanwan were taken back to their hometown to be reformed through labor, and one person was released after completing his sentence, leaving only himself, Bai Shu, Uncle Ba and a man who had not dealt much with him in the whole room.

It is said that the man came relatively late, after the eighth uncle and Bai Shu, because he seemed to have a more perverse personality, others called him an old monster.

The old monster doesn't usually deal with people much, but he seems to be very aggressive, and his eyes are always sneaky, and he looks at anyone with defensiveness and inadequacy.

The old monster is around thirty years old, and his body is much thinner than that of the eighth uncle, but it looks much stronger than Bai Shu. Because he doesn't feel very likable, there is not much communication between the two.

Compared with the old monster, Ye Wei's focus is more on Bai Shu. Every day after dinner, Bai Shu sat cross-legged on the bed and read, reading at a very fast speed, and the books he read were different every day.

The prison will pay a symbolic salary every month, only about 30 yuan, and as soon as you get the money from others, you will buy some delicious food. But Bai Shu never broke his vows, and he was always the same, and all his savings would be used to buy books.

But the speed of buying books is far from keeping up with the speed of his reading, at first Ye Wei was curious about where these books came from, but later found out that someone outside the prison would buy books for him and send them, and he didn't know who it was.

What makes Ye Wei even more strange is that Bai Shu, as a former mathematics teacher, basically hasn't read books related to mathematics or even science, and most of the books he sees are philosophy, education and some psychology books.

"Brother Bai, why do you never read professional books as a math teacher?" So Ye Wei did ask such a question.

"Mathematics is my major, but it's not my life's pursuit. Although I will never be a teacher again, my life's pursuit is education. ”

Bai Shu answered Ye Wei's question with these two sentences, but from Ye Wei's point of view, he really didn't understand the meaning behind Bai Shu's words.

Ye Wei thought that from now on, he would stay in this room tepidly for fifteen months and then leave, until one thing changed everything.

……

One gloomy evening, after dinner, the sunset was only afterglow, and a dazzling orange was gathered in the middle by two gray smoke clouds, bringing a touch of special to the black, white and gray sky.

Approaching the Spring Festival, it is the season when the air becomes ice. Most people can stay indoors and never go outside, after all, the indoor is heated.

Because there had just been a heavy snowfall the day before, after finishing work, the prison guards arranged for four people, including Ye Wei, to sweep the snow in the compound.

The snow is arranged early in the morning, and every time the snow comes out of the room, the people go to sweep it. But since the other six inmates left, no newcomers have come in, and the entire compound has hundreds of square meters of cabbage fields, and it is early in the morning for the four of them to finish their work.

The space allocated to individuals was arranged by the prison guards, and there were equal amounts of everyone by size, but half of the old monster's area was a vegetable patch, which was more difficult to clean.

Bai Shu played his usual style, and the speed was amazing, and the cleaning was completed before eight o'clock. Ye Wei estimated that he had worked in the army a lot, and his speed was quite good, and he was ready to return when it was close to nine o'clock.

Turning his head and seeing that the eighth uncle was still cleaning, he was a little reluctant to go, so he pulled the broom and followed. After sweeping in the ice and snow for several hours, Ye Wei's hands and feet were already frozen and unconscious, just thinking that everyone could finish and leave together.

At this time, Bai Shu walked out of the room, brought two pairs of gloves and a hat, handed one pair of gloves to Ye Wei, and the other pair of gloves and hat to the eighth uncle, and then prepared to leave.

"Yo, selfish ghosts are pretending to be good people?" The old monster's yin and yang strange voice sounded on the side.