"Mr. Lu, this is the school you opened?"

In a corner of the shantytown of Jinshan Port, Pei Chu stood in front of the sewage-strewn lane, looking at the simple and dilapidated wooden house in front of him, his eyes full of surprise.

"Yes, yes, this is it." Lu Xiping's voice sounded next to Pei Chu.

"This ...... It's too shabby, isn't it? ”

Pei Chu was a little incredulous, after he came back from Liu Sixi's side, he followed Lu Xiping all the way to the school he opened to help.

He thought that Lu Xiping was dressed decently, and since it was a school opening hall here, not to mention a certain scale, at least he should be able to see it.

Just looking at the place in front of him, he couldn't help but be a little stunned.

Except for a wooden board erected at the door of the wooden house, and a few small characters written on it with a brush - Xia Gong School, Pei Chu couldn't see that this place looked like a school anymore.

This dilapidated wooden house is a few points worse than the one he and Fang Yunhu live in now, the walls around it are all built with thick wooden planks crookedly, there is wind leaking on three sides of the four sides, and the thatch on the roof has been lifted in many places.

The only thing that can be seen a little is that the four places are relatively clean, although they are shabby, but there is no strange smell like some of the summer workers' residences.

"It's a little more rudimentary!" Lu Xiping's tone was also a little helpless, and he was a little embarrassed to say, "This is my temporary place to stay, and it is always useful to use it as a school." ”

Saying that, Lu Xiping led the way first, led Pei Chu towards the wooden house, and pointed to the left and right as he walked, "The left is the classroom, and the right is where I live now." ”

"No wonder this Mr. Lu doesn't dislike me and Uncle Fang, it seems that the conditions are really bad."

Pei Chu thought in his heart, and at this moment, a sound of reading with a child's voice came from the wooden house.

“…… Like Lan Sixin, such as the prosperity of pine. The river is endless, and the deep and clear are reflected ......"

Pei Chu followed Lu Xiping and walked to the wooden house, and at a glance saw the scene in the classroom from a hollow window, seven or eight thin children, reading to a light white wooden board. There were men and women, and Pei Chu noticed that there was even a dark-skinned Negro child.

The pale white wooden planks are densely written in charcoal, with the square characters of the empire and the federated language like grass insects.

There were no desks, chairs or benches in the classroom, and the children sat on the floor, and one or two of them were reading while holding a twig and copying the words on a light white wooden board in a small sand table in front of them.

After Pei Chu and Lu Xiping approached, the children inside seemed to hear the movement, and immediately got up from the ground one by one, rushed out of the small door next to them, and shouted excitedly: "Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu!" ”

"You're here early today!"

Lu Xiping greeted many children with a gentle smile, and then turned to Pei Chu and said, "These are the children of nearby dock workers, I see that they are not taken care of on weekdays, so let them come to me." I have no other strengths, so I can only teach you to recognize a few more words, but I don't know how long I can teach them......"

"I see."

Pei Chu probably understood Lu Xiping's intentions, this was his temporary residence, but he saw that the children around him were unattended, so he took them in and turned them into a school to teach people to read and write.

"Mr. Lu, is this big brother also here to read and write with us?"

A girl wearing a coarse cloth robe and combing two small buns glanced at Pei Chu timidly, and then asked Lu Xiping promisedly.

"Yes, this is your brother Pei Chu." Lu Xiping smiled pleasantly, reached out and gently stroked the little girl's bun, "Xiao Cai'er still remember what I taught the day before yesterday?" ”

"Yes." The little girl nodded seriously, then stretched out her fingers, as if one by one: "Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate......"

"Sir, sir, I remember too!"

"Me too!"

Before the little girl could read a few words, a few black little ghosts next to her squeezed up and shouted happily.

"Good, good!" Lu Xiping had a bright smile on his face, and said softly, "Now let's continue to review yesterday's class, and I'll teach you federal language later." ”

"Good!" All the children listened to Lu Xiping's words, and after answering in unison, they went into the classroom one by one.

Seeing the children enter the classroom, Lu Xiping turned around again, smiled and said to Pei Chu: "Achu, you have also seen that many places are dilapidated, I will ask you and me to repair them in the past few days, I am afraid that it will rain in a while......"

"Achu, what's wrong with you? As he was talking, Lu Xiping suddenly noticed that Pei Chu's expression was not quite right, and he suddenly said a little strangely.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing! ”

Pei Chu took a light breath and squeezed out a smile on his face, "Mr. Lu is a good person!" ”

"The young are young, and the young are the young."

Lu Xiping shook his head and chuckled, and pointed to the clothes on his body as he spoke, "You take a look around first, I changed this outfit." This person depends on clothing, and the Federation can't get rid of this custom. If you don't wear this, they won't even let you in. ”

Seeing Lu Xiping turn around and enter the room, Pei Chu stood in place, quite touched for a while.

Although he has the experience of growing up as a left-behind child, the two worlds and different times can be said to be a teenager who does not know sorrow in comparison.

What really feels the difficulty of life is after becoming a force worker in this world.

But there is work and food in Jinshan Port, and the experience is not so deep, until now he sees these children cross-legged on the ground reading and reading, he really feels how helpless and sad the people at the bottom of the world are.

At the same time, he felt that there was a strong spirit in the people of this era infecting him.

Liu Sixi gathered the young man from Jinshangang to practice martial arts with him, maybe there were other ideas behind it, but at least Pei Chu could feel that Liu Sixi's original intention of hoping that Xia Gong would not be humiliated by the outside world was definitely right.

And Lu Xiping, a teacher who also doesn't know the origin, is willing to take the initiative to lead a few children and teach them to read and write after a short stay in Jinshan Port.

What the two of them did made Pei Chu feel heartfelt.

In a trance, he seemed to feel as if these people had come out of the textbooks he had read.