Chapter 250: Ghost Town
The textbooks for the lower grades of Chinese that Xia Xue commissioned Leng Zhong to buy were soon mailed to the town's charity school.
Early in the morning, Xia Xue handed out the new books that exuded the fragrance of ink to each student. The little ones looked curiously at the new book in front of them and flipped through them with great delight.
Since then, Xia Xue has standardized Chinese teaching classes, and has very strict requirements for everyone, and will conduct an exam test every week.
Jacques also asked Xia Xue for a Chinese textbook, and every time he had a Chinese class, Jacques would sit at the back of the classroom and listen carefully like a primary school student. After class, Jacques would also ask Xia Xue about phonics.
Xia Xue is completely in accordance with domestic requirements, and will assign homework to everyone every day, and will take a dictation test the next morning. At first, everyone found it extremely difficult and uncomfortable with their daily work. Later, under the supervision of Xia Xue, I slowly got used to Xia Xue's teaching method.
Every morning, when the sun rises and the branches sway and dance in the glow, you will see a group of blonde children or children of different skin tones, sitting upright in the classroom, reciting aoe and other Chinese pinyin.
In the morning light, Xia Xue held the textbook with one hand behind her back and the other behind her back, wandering between the desks, listening carefully to the children's pronunciation.
Xia Xue looked at the innocent faces in the classroom, and her mind would become trance from time to time, and the appearance of Xiaozhixue Pinyin suddenly appeared in front of her.
Xiaozhi has been smart since he was a child, and he doesn't seem to find it difficult to learn anything. At that time, Xia Xue was also like today, holding books and teaching Xiaozhi to read pinyin one by one, carefully checking his homework. Xiao Zhi is very serious about his studies, and even if there are beads of sweat on the tip of his nose, he doesn't dare to say that he is tired. He was worried that Xia Xue would be angry in everything, so he tried to do his best in everything.
Xiaozhi is the biggest pain in Xia Xue's heart, and he is also the man Xia Xue loves deeply, and he is the man who makes Xia Xue at a loss. Xiaozhi's love for Xia Xue is like cooking oil on fire, hot and crazy, burning more and more, almost suffocating as if he wanted to go mad.
Xiao Zhi's passionate love from the heart often overwhelmed Xia Xue, and she was even powerless to resist Xiao Zhi's obsession with her.
In those countless late nights, Xiaoji erupted into a beast-like wildness, endless, and it seemed that it would never subside. In that special ambiguous moment, no matter how Xia Xue cried and begged, Xiaozhi would definitely not let go of Xia Xue under him easily, and he would do everything he could.
At first, Xia Xue's heart was pleasantly surprised, feeling the hardness and fiery like an iron pestle, as well as the seemingly never-ending strong power, her heart fluttered like a flying immortal.
But later, witnessing Xiaozhi's stormy love, Xia Xue gradually became afraid. In Xiaozhi's ecstatic gasp again and again, she was covered in bruises again and again, and frequently lay on the examination chair in the hospital for treatment, which made her feel ashamed every time.
If the love is too deep, will it be as fanatical as Xiaoji, and even lose reason and grasp? If love is gone, the heat between lovers will become dull and dull, will that kind of day make the heart feel lost?
Xiaoji is Xia Xue's first man, who rescued Xia Xue from years of self-isolation and gave her the taste of love. Xia Xue is a woman that Xiaozhi has loved deeply since she was a child, and she has never changed and will never be lost.
Ask what the world is like, and everyone in the world is bitter.
Xia Xue finally escaped from Xiaozhi, it's not that she doesn't love Xiaozhi, but she feels that she can't do anything about this love.
The hatred mixed in love made Xia Xue unable to let go, and the bitter fruit of revenge that she had planted with her own hands would eventually have to be tasted alone. When two people who love each other love each other so much that they can't love each other, and they get together until they finally have to separate, only a breakup will restore peace in their hearts.
At noon, Jacques asks Xia Xue to participate in the Hidden Cat Contest in the Ghost Town, which takes place in the morning of this weekend, not far from the town.
When Xia Xue heard the word "ghost town", she couldn't help but look at Jacques in horror. Last time I went to see that weird cave, this time I'm going to a ghost town to hide cats, what does this Jacques want to do?
Jacques, are you a horror lover? Or is you particularly interested in supernatural things? Xia Xue looked at Jacques with a smile and asked.
Xia Xue, near our place, there is also an ancient village that has been abandoned for a long time. Today, only a few elderly families live, and most of the houses and grounds have been idle for many years, so it is called a "ghost town". In recent years, in order to revive the popularity of the village, an annual Tibetan cat contest has been planned. As neighbors, we should support the construction there!
Alright then, Jacques, I'll go with you on the weekend. However, I'm afraid I can't participate in the competition, I can be a cheerleader for you and watch you play against others. What changes has that ancient village undergone? Xia Xue asked curiously.
Jacques looked at Xia Xue happily and spoke vividly.
In 1962, a count bought the town for a fortune and did everything he could to make it a unique toy city. Find anything you want here, from Arabian minarets to hotels, from Chinese pagodas to Egyptian sphinxes, cannons, casinos, and more.
In 1968, the town became known as the "Las Vegas" of the time, and thousands of people from all over the world flocked to this huge entertainment center that stayed up all night.
However, due to the overexploitation of the local environment by developers, a sudden landslide occurred in October 1976. Due to the severe damage to the previous natural form of the mountain, a newly built road to the town was completely destroyed.
Perhaps this is nature's revenge on over-exploitation, which has gradually reduced the town to a real "ghost town".
What can be done to revive this ruined town? A few years ago, a few elderly people living in this town suddenly had a whim, why not use those empty houses and grounds to hold a "hidden cat" competition?
So a few years ago, several elderly people posted the news on several well-known websites. Participants must be over 18 years old and the rules of the competition are as follows: participants register in teams of five and pay a registration fee of 125 euros per team. During the official competition, everyone is divided into four groups and dressed in different colors. One person from each group hides at a time and hides himself within a minute. In the next 10 minutes, there will be a search team from the organizer to find each contestant. If the contestant is not spotted within 10 minutes and has to come out of hiding and reach a round cushion in the center of the field, the victory will be won.
After listening to Jacques's introduction, Xia Xue admired those old people with whimsical ideas very much. They love the land beneath their feet, cherish the village full of memories, and strive to revitalize their hometown despite their old age.
Today, this Tibetan cat competition is in its fourth session. Jacques actively signs up for each competition, which he says can taste the joy of childhood.
The weekend came quickly, and Jacques took Xia Xue and the headmistress to the town where the competition was held.
When the organizers announced the start of the race, the team members ran and jumped like rabbits in search of the safest place to hide.
Some hid behind shabby couches, some lay on their stomachs behind a grove, and some climbed into huge garbage bags, and the contestants could do anything to win.
Jacques had tried all the most common ways to hide them, and all of them were discovered by the seekers. You must know that the members of these search teams recruited by the organizers are all football or American football players. These people have well-developed motor nerves, run fast, chase fiercely, and intercept. If you want to escape from their palms, it's definitely not that simple.
Jacques has been coming to this special race every year since he participated in the first "Hidden Cats" competition, but has never won before.
At the first "Hidden Cats" competition, Jacques cleverly dragged an old door panel from the lawn to a large tree. He pressed the door panel against the trunk of the tree and stood upright, leaning sideways against the tree to hold his breath, allowing the door panel to completely cover his body.
Jacques thought this would make it easy to avoid the seeker's eyes. But in the end, it was discovered by searchers. Facing a frustrated Jacques, the Seeker smiled and patted him on the shoulder, calling him the lovely "Mr. Door Panel". Even Jacques couldn't help but laugh.
But at this year's "Hidden Cats" competition, Jacques racked his brains and came prepared. He specially prepared a professional camouflage suit for himself to hide from the sniper. The color of the clothes is a natural color similar to that of the winter jungle, and the whole body is covered with ornaments that are exactly the same as the jungle vegetation, and the Jacques is tightly wrapped from head to toe.
Jacques wore this strange clothes, carefully hiding in a wood, showing only a pair of eyes to spy on the whereabouts of the seeker, and did not dare to come out. The searchers passed by the jungle several times, stopping to look around, but fortunately they did not notice Jacques' existence.
Even so, Jacques did not dare to be careless. He had to run to the round cushion in the center of the field before the seekers noticed him, and he was considered victorious. Otherwise, if he is caught by a seeker in the process of running to the cushion, then he will be declared a failure.
Jacques watched the back of the seeker fade away in the gap between the trees, and then he walked out of the grove in a hurry, and then took advantage of his unpreparedness to sprint a hundred meters and ran towards the cushion in the center of the field.
At this critical moment, the searcher suddenly noticed the movement behind him, unexpectedly spotted Jacques's figure, and immediately turned around and strode towards Jacques.
Jacques exclaimed with his mouth wide open, flailing his arms as hard as he could.
Just as the seeker was getting closer and closer to Jacques, Jacques looked at the cushion that was close at hand, and simply jumped into the air, threw himself towards the cushion, and finally landed firmly on the cushion.
The audience applauded Jacques' beautiful leap as the organizers declared Jacques victorious.
Jacques and his teammates happily danced on the field, and the headmistress let out a feverish scream beside Xia Xue. Xia Xue laughed and applauded excitedly along with the many audience.
Jacques suddenly ran quickly to Xia Xue's side from the middle of the field, smiling. He opened his arms enthusiastically, hugged Xia Xue and the headmistress in his arms, and kept kissing them on the cheeks.
Xia Xue shyly avoided Jacques's kiss, not wanting to turn her head, so she happened to kiss Jacques on the opposite side of her lips.
Xia Xue looked at Jacques with glowing eyes angrily, and stretched out her hands to push him to his chest, causing the headmistress to laugh next to her.
At this time, there was a man from the United States with a beard, hidden in the noisy crowd, and raised a miniature camera to Xia Xue.
Xia Xue didn't notice anyone taking pictures at all. In the blink of an eye, Xia Xue's wonderful and happy moments just now were all transmitted to Xiaozhi's mobile phone.