In junior high school, Jiao Bai's main focus was on practicing acrobatics, and his talent was very good, especially in hand color magic, and his parents and grandfather hoped that he would grow up to be an excellent magician. It's just that Jiao Bai himself is not very interested in this arranged life path, he wants to go to college, and then go to the big city to try a few more careers, and then decide which industry to engage in in the future.

But with Jiao Bai's academic performance when he entered the school, it was impossible to get into college, and he couldn't even get into the most ordinary junior college. At this time, the white-haired teacher Jia Zhiwen called several poor students to the office, gave him ideological work, and persuaded him to study hard. If these are still the work of a class teacher, then Teacher Jia's next actions are far beyond the scope of his duties. During the three years of high school after that, Mr. Jia took his retired wife to use his spare time to make up countless lessons for Jiao Bai and others for free, and generally increased the grades of a group of poor students by 100 to 300 points. Among them, Jiao Bai has made the greatest progress, he jumped from a poor student with the lowest grades at the time of admission to the top three in the science school, and scored 654 points in the final college entrance examination, and was admitted to the famous Wanghai University.

Jiao Bai still remembers the shocked expressions on his parents when he took the admission letter from Wanghai University and put it in front of his parents. In their impression, their son's academic performance has always been very bad, although the school organized several parent-teacher conferences in high school, and the teacher personally told them that Jiao Bai's progress was obvious, but they never thought that their son's grades had reached the level of being able to be admitted to a prestigious university. It was on that day that the parents inquired about Jiao Bai's study for the first time, and also learned about the help of Mr. and Mrs. Jia to Jiao Bai during high school.

In fact, Mr. Jia helped Jiao Bai alone, relying on his words and deeds, and strict management, the entire seventh class from the worst class to the college entrance examination, became the first in the average score of the science class, there are more than 30 students who are admitted to the first class, and more than 90 students who are on the second line. If you add the students who transferred to the liberal arts class in the third year of high school, Mr. Jia alone brought out more than 40 students who were admitted to key undergraduates.

Porsche travels through most of the urban area and turns onto a quiet street, which is Yucai Road, which is a teaching street planned by the municipal government, and the first middle school in the city, the second middle school in the city, and the vocational high school are all on this street. After driving less than 100 meters forward, Jiao Bai's alma mater, Wanghai City No. 1 Middle School, arrived. The familiar marble sculptures, the familiar steel fence school gates, everything is the same as before, but with the passage of time, it is more mottled and old.

It was now during the winter vacation, and the janitor did not come out to stop the car, so Jiao Bai was able to drive directly to his alma mater, where he had studied and lived for three years. The interior of the school has changed a lot, the large bungalows that used to be used for student accommodation have disappeared, two student apartment buildings and a laboratory building have been built in their place, and the originally bare playground has been paved with plastic running tracks and artificial turf. Jiao Bai drove around the school, nostalgic for his lost youth, and soon turned to the northwest corner of the school, which was the faculty community built by the school in the nineties, and the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jia was in this community.

Parked the car in the open space outside the community, Jiao Bai took out some gifts from the trunk and walked into the community on foot. After all, it is a small area built at the beginning of the reform and opening up, the design is not very reasonable, the maintenance is not too good, it seems very old now, the road is full of potholes, the white paint painted on the exterior wall of the building has long been mottled, there are many children's graffiti paintings and all kinds of messy small advertisements, and Jiao Bai shook his head when he saw it.

Mr. Jia's home is Room 301 of Building 3, and when he was in high school, Jiao Bai walked on this road countless times, and by feeling, he came to the door. Jiao Bai raised his hand, found the doorbell button in a familiar position on the security door and pressed it. It's just that the familiar music doorbell didn't ring, I don't know if the doorbell was broken, or if the power was out. Helpless, Jiao Bai had no choice but to raise his hand and knock on the door. I thought that Mr. Jia would come over and open the door soon as he did before, but after knocking for a long time, there was no movement in the door. Jiao Bai took out his mobile phone and just wanted to call Mr. Jia to ask him if he was not at home, but when he heard a "click", the door of room 302 next door opened, and a somewhat bald middle-aged man came out and asked suspiciously, "Who are you, are you looking for Lao Jia?"

This middle-aged man Jiao Bai had some impressions, knowing that his surname was Zhang and he was also a teacher in No. 1 Middle School, but he had never taught Jiao Bai. The reason why Jiao Bai has an impression of him is only because he used to be the head teacher of their first class of science, and in terms of academic performance, he has fought many times with Jiao Bai's seventh class.

"Teacher Zhang, hello, my name is Jiao Bai, and I used to be a student of Teacher Jia. Isn't this going back to Chengguan City on annual vacation, I came over to visit Mr. Jia. ”

Jiao Bai greeted politely, stretched out his right hand, and shook it with him.

Teacher Zhang held Jiao Bai's hand, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Jiao Bai, I have a little impression of this name, is it the student who scored more than 650 points in the exam and went to Wanghai University?"

Jiao Bai didn't expect that after so many years, Mr. Zhang could still remember himself, even his college entrance examination results and the school he attended.

"Yes, it's me, Mr. Zhang, do you know where Mr. Jia and his wife went?"

At the mention of Teacher Jia, Teacher Zhang's face became a little heavy, he sighed, and said, "In July, the school organized a physical examination for retired teachers, and Lao Jia was diagnosed with cancer, and immediately went to the hospital, which has been a few months later, and his condition has not improved much, and he has been hospitalized."

Hearing the word "cancer", Jiao Bai's heart sank. In people's cognition, cancer can almost be equated with death, with the current level of medical care on the earth, only some individual early cancers can be cured, once it develops to the middle and advanced stages, it is basically waiting for death.

"Then do you know where Teacher Jia is hospitalized, I want to go and see them."

"It turned out to be in the People's Hospital, when I went to visit him some time ago, I heard his son say that he wanted to transfer to Bo'ai Hospital, saying that the medical level over there was higher, and I don't know if it was transferred, you can call and ask, call his wife or his son."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for telling me this news, these dried fruits will be given to you for a tooth sacrifice, don't dislike it." ，，，

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