"Why are you interested in going out with me today?" Liang Jing asked Chen Ying, who was sitting next to her. At this time, they were sitting in a spacious tour bus with other members of the Love Club. It was a beautiful day, and you could see the towering mountains in the sun from the window. The cold has subsided, the summer heat has not yet arrived, and this is the best season of the year. Their destination this time was the rural primary school opposite the school. It's been nearly two hours since the highway crossed the chaotic urban-rural border, and the tall modern buildings were disappearing in favor of patches of farmland and rows of tall poplar trees on the field paths.

"Recently, I've been feeling so uncomfortable that I want to come out for a walk." Chen Ying looked out the window and said. A lot of black-backed and yellow-bellied swallows are flying and chirping in the air as if they were funny. Several crows stood on the shoulders of the ragged scarecrow. A flock of white-tailed partridges leaned over in search of food, and when someone came and pounced, they all flew away. This is the season of sowing. Someone is placing a black pipe for watering in the ridges. Presumably to control temperature and humidity, the shielding on the plastic greenhouse needs to be put away. Several families in the vicinity gathered together, some stood on the top of the shed and pulled a long rope, and some bent down to roll the straw curtain underneath, and worked closely with each other to complete the busy work of spring.

"What, you quarreled with Qin Hong?" Liang Jing asked casually. After sitting for a long time, it was a little uncomfortable, so she changed her position and faced Chen Ying's side.

"It's none of his business, it's my own business." Chen Ying whispered.

"Isn't there 'impossible' in your dictionary? Why is it so low today? Liang Jing joked.

"Maybe I, like Napoleon, finally met that Waterloo." Chen Ying turned her face, "I have to admit that you didn't choose the class you took with American exchange students, which is quite prescient." That lesson was really ......."

"A double whammy to self-esteem and self-confidence?" Liang Jing helped her finish the second half of the sentence, "But you still have commendable courage, and you have persevered for at least a month." How many Chinese are still in that class now? ”

"Plus I have four more. But I guess one of them will drop out before the midterm exams, and the other two of me can't say for sure, maybe they will run away. ”

"The course is difficult?"

"If you can read 50 pages of an English book in an hour, it's not difficult. The main content of the course is to discuss the development of Chinese and American cultures, and there is a lot of literature involved. ”

"I can relate to that. Even if you read the Chinese versions of these books, if they discuss Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Journey to the West in English, you may not be able to keep up. First of all, we may never have thought about the main points of their concern, and secondly, we don't know how to say a lot of things in English. And if they talk about some of the niche literature in the United States, it will be even more difficult to keep up. If the reading speed after class is not enough, you can only make up for it with time. Many people don't last long and then give up. ”

"That's right."

"Have you considered dropping out?"

"I want to hold on a little longer, and I don't want to just throw in the towel. However, Americans are very cruel, and if they think that what you say is not good, they will criticize or even ridicule them in person, and they always feel very uncomfortable at this time. ”

"They're just very direct, and they say it clearly for good and bad. Rarely consider the other person's feelings. ”

Liang Jing didn't say any more. They had arrived at their destination, and everyone got out of the car one after another, and several students in charge of organizing the organization contacted the principal of the primary school who came to receive them. Others helped carry boxes of newly purchased textbooks, extracurricular books and stationery off the car. Chen Ying saw that Ye Feng and Wang Yi were also in the crowd.

"The two of them are here too?" She asked.

"yes." Liang Jing unloaded a box of books and beckoned to them, "These two laborers don't come, where can we girls move if they only rely on us?" Two boys walked over, sweating profusely.

"Coming?" Ye Feng nodded politely when he saw Chen Ying.

"Well, come over and help." She said with a smile as much as she could.

"Be careful on the road over there, the rain a few days ago caused a puddle in the middle of the road, and there is mud all around, don't slip." Wang Yi picked up the box and said to them.

"Will pay attention, thank you." Chen Ying noticed that Liang Jing quickly glanced over to his side.

Two girls followed behind with a few small bags of clothes and walked towards the elementary school. Perhaps to welcome them, the road in front of the school gate had been cleaned with a large broom made of bamboo, and the stones at the feet of the diaphragm had been carefully picked out. The mottled beams of the school gate are specially hung with a banner with white characters on a red background, which is printed: "Welcome college students and friends to visit our school". More than 20 young people carried things to the designated classroom.

After a bumpy morning, it was past noon by the time they cleaned up. Together with the local elementary school students, they each received a lunch from the cafeteria and ate it in a daze. Several girls screamed in fright when they saw the big wolf dog bolted up at the school gate.

"I'll bring you water." Ye Feng handed Liang Jing two small bottles of water, and she gave one to Chen Ying.

"The conditions are not very good, and you are going to suffer with me again." Liang Jing said and leaned her head on Ye Feng's shoulder. The three sat side by side on a rectangular stone slab that lay diagonally. Wang Yi had finished eating and was playing basketball with a group of children. He divided them into two groups and instructed them on how to shoot and organize the offense.

"It's nice to be able to walk around." He said simply.

"Maybe after staying in the ivory tower for a long time, I think the outside world is very exciting, and I always forget that the outside world is also helpless." Chen Ying closed the lid of the lunch box and said.

"People always see the exquisiteness of jade, but they are reluctant to understand the grinding process of a piece of jade from excavation and polishing to repeated design and meticulous carving." Liang Jing brushed away the long hair in front of her and said, "Everything in the world is like this, the best things are repeatedly experienced, and feelings are the same." ”

"Hmm."

"Qin Hong didn't come?" Ye Feng asked.

Chen Ying shook her head.

"Busy writing your dissertation?" Liang Jing asked.

"That's only part of the story. The law firm he found a few days ago now asks him to go over for an internship every day, just like going to work normally. In addition, I had to prepare for the bar exam, and I read books in the library with me every day after work until closing. I wanted him to have a good rest on the weekend, so I didn't let him come. Chen Ying said.

"Really thoughtful." Ye Feng approved.

"Maybe it's because I'm too young and have a limited understanding of the world, so I'm so troubled when I encounter problems. There is no hurdle that cannot be passed, just stick to it and come over. Liang Jing comforted Chen Ying.