Chapter 275: Riding the Wind and Waves
Although I didn't agree to go to her school to listen to her lectures, she obviously didn't give up the idea of letting me be her student, so she moved the classroom into my yard.
It was the afternoon of the third day after her dinner at my house, and I was still busy with my work in the yard, the canoe had been built by me, and I was doing the final polishing and lacquering work.
I could hear the laughter of a group of children in the distance, and while I was still wondering why so many children were passing by at this time, the door of my courtyard was opened.
I was stunned by what I saw. I saw Huai En leading a class of children into my yard, each holding a small drawing board and drawing paper in their hands, and a small plastic stool in each hand.
This group of children looked like they were probably second and third grade students, and their faces were full of excitement, and they probably had never met a teacher like this, and they were happy to say that they were chattering like a flock of little sparrows in a meeting.
"Teacher Fang, what are you ......?" I asked in confusion as I pulled her aside.
"This is my art class, and I want to take them to a special class to get close to nature and draw something in nature!" Huaien smiled and explained to me.
"You don't have to bring your children to me when you're close to nature, what kind of nature am I?" I glared at her.
"You have all kinds of plants here, isn't that the best material? What better place to draw than your yard? She gestured to my yard disappreciatively, unconcerned about my displeasure.
I was speechless!
"What? You don't want to? Or do you not like children? She asked.
"It's not that I don't want to, it's not that I don't like children! Just ......" I paused. "It's just that my yard is full of vegetables, how can there be so much open space for you to teach!"
"You're afraid that the kids will spoil your dishes!" Huai En looked at me meaningfully, and said a word to break my careful thoughts.
I have to admit that that's what I think, these are all planted by me with great effort, how can this group of hairy children control themselves, and I am naturally distressed if they damage my vegetable patch.
"Don't worry! I had already told them before I came, not to disturb a single plant or tree here, and they all agreed, so I brought them here. Then he motioned for me to look at the group of children.
"Look how well-behaved they are, I let them stand still and they have a mess?"
I looked at it, and sure enough, as she said, thirty or forty children stood in two rows at the gate of the courtyard and looked around, although they chattered endlessly, but none of them ran undisciplinedly.
I calmed down a little and said helplessly to her: "It's all here, it's up to you, but it's best not to have a ...... next time."
Huaien was overjoyed when he heard this, and without waiting for me to finish, he said that he knew and understood, and went to organize the children. Looking at her like this, I dare to assert that there will definitely be a next time.
She arranged a group of children in various gaps in the yard in an orderly manner, asked them to draw things in front of them, and repeatedly emphasized that they should not damage the plants in the yard. Then he explained to them the techniques of painting, what to pay attention to the characteristics of things, what to pay attention to the proportions of things, and so on. I doubt this group of teenage kids will understand what she is saying.
I sighed and didn't have the heart to work anymore, so I dropped the paint bucket in my hand, and helplessly lay on the bench under the pergola and looked at the scene in front of me, always feeling that my courtyard would probably not be quiet from now on.
Seeing the bitter look on my face, Huai En came over to me and said, "Uncle, do you want to learn to paint too?" As he spoke, he handed me the sketchpad in his hand.
"Not interested!" I closed my eyes coldly and tilted my head to the side.
Huai En chuckled and ignored my stubble, and sat down at the stone table. I squinted at her, only to see a vague smile on her face, drawing on the drawing board with a pen, and looking up at me from time to time, I think this girl was probably drawing a picture of me. I'm too lazy either
Ignore her, take care of herself, close your eyes and recuperate.
Who knew that this recuperation was really stunned and fell asleep. When I was woken up by a bee, I found that the yard had become empty, and the children were gone, along with Huai Enju.
I think it's probably because I've been sleeping for a long time, but I'm curious that their departure didn't wake me up, and it seems that it was probably because Huaien specially instructed the child not to make loud noises.
I sat up and saw a piece of paper on the stone table, on which I drew a sketch with a pencil, sure enough, it was me, although it was just a simple line, but the drawing was vivid, and my peaceful sleep was depicted on the paper, which was enough to see Huai'en's talent for painting, not only the oil painting is good, but even the sketching skills are quite solid, I can't help but admire.
In the lower right corner of the portrait, a line of Juanxiu handwriting was written in pencil: "Seeing that you are sleeping peacefully, I have no intention of waking you up, I will take the child to leave first, and I will come back to thank you for lending me the yard, and I will pick a few bunches of grapes to satisfy the child's hunger without your consent, and I will come to thank you again when I am free!" She also drew a cute smiley face on the back of the handwriting. Let my mind unconsciously appear her innocent and lovely face, and I can't help but grin silently.
After a few days, I finally finished my canoe and I could no longer see the coffin. Looking at the fact that after more than a month of labor, a log was made by me to look like it, and I couldn't help but feel very happy in my heart, and I could be considered to have fully comprehended the romantic feelings of Thoreau.
I got a flatbed truck from the factory to transport the canoe to the beach, and Huai En came again at this moment.
When she saw my work again, she couldn't help but exclaim: "Uncle, this is so beautiful, is it about to go into the water?" ”
I nodded, and just as I was about to go out, Huai En stopped me again.
"Uncle, wait!" She circled the canoe and wondered, "Doesn't it have a name?" Isn't every ship its own name? How can it not have a name? ”
I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, this girl is really clear-minded, such a small boat is worth bothering to choose a name?
I didn't want to upset her interest, so I smiled and said to her, "Why don't you give it a name?" ”
Huai En was immediately overjoyed when he heard this, took out a paintbrush from the small bag he was carrying, and solemnly wrote on the front end of the canoe: Riding the Wind and Waves.
"Riding the Wind and Waves?" I wondered in my heart about this imposing name and asked, "Why the Wind and Waves?" ”
"Riding the Wind and Waves is my expectation for you, I hope you will forget the past as soon as possible and find your dreams, starting from this Riding the Wind and Waves, I hope you can take this Riding the Wind and Waves to find your dreams!" She looked at me and said to me in an old-fashioned tone.
Looking at her serious look makes me wonder, riding the wind and waves? I looked at the wood, which was less than two meters long and had been hollowed out, and I was a little unconvinced!
Together with Huaien, I towed the Storm Rider to the dock on a trailer and carefully put it into the water.
I just wanted to go up and try it, but I didn't expect Huai En to be interested, and I climbed onto the canoe first, and I had no choice but to follow her.
Huaien and I took a paddle and carefully rowed the canoe into the sea. Floating on the sea in a boat built by himself, the great joy that rises in his heart is impossible for others to experience.
When the canoe drifted steadily into the deep-water harbor where I used to fish, the tension between Huai and I gradually relaxed, and we looked at each other and smiled happily, I almost forgot the last time I laughed like this.
However, what I didn't expect was that our emotions had just relaxed, and what happened next made me cry and laugh.
Just when Huai En and I rowed the canoe to the deep water, a gust of wind suddenly blew on the sea, although the wind was not violent, and the waves that blew up with the wind were not very big, but because the canoe was originally made of a log, the boat was slender and unstable, and the center of gravity was a little unstable when the sea surface was slightly waved.
When the waves passed over the boat, the boat shook violently
A shake made Huai En suddenly scream, dropped the oars and grabbed the side of the boat, but before the boat could stabilize, the second wave came again, this time the wave was bigger, the canoe shook a few times and rolled on its side, and Huai En and I were suddenly flipped into the sea.
Huai En didn't even have time to scream before he entered the sea. I was shocked, thinking that most of this girl is not used to water. Fortunately, she was not far from me, and I plunged into the water and pulled the fluttering Huaien out of the sea.
At the moment when she came out of the water, she hurriedly brushed her face with her hand, and then opened her mouth and coughed violently, obviously choking on a lot, presumably the sea must have drunk a lot.
Seeing Huai'en's uncomfortable appearance, I suddenly remembered that dark night many years ago, there was once a woman who was like this, I looked at Huai'en's eyes tightly closed and coughed violently, and suddenly my heart was a little sour.
I didn't have time to think about it, and I didn't care if the canoe would drift into the sea, so I grabbed Huai'en's waist and lifted her body out of the sea as much as I could, identified the direction, and swam towards the pier.
Huaien opened his eyes after relieving himself, and saw that he had been scooped up by me and put his arms around my neck. Because she had just choked on water, she said to me in an ominous voice: "Uncle, we ...... Are we going to die? ”
I felt an inexplicable pain in my heart, and regretted that I had not stopped her from getting into the canoe, and although I could have rescued her, she was also frightened.
"No, Huai'en, we're almost there, don't worry, we'll be fine!" I paddled hard and comforted her.
By the time I swam to the shore with Huai En, I was a little out of strength, and Huai En was no better, although she was attached to me the whole time, but the mere fright had made her tremble.
When we finally sat down on the dock soaking wet, gasping for breath and looking at each other for a moment to look at each other's embarrassed appearances, we both burst into laughter.
Huai En laughed and beat my body and said weakly: "Uncle, what kind of broken ship are you?" It's so easy to flip! ”
When I heard this, I suddenly remembered the name she gave to the ship, Riding the Wind and Waves!
I looked at her and tried my best to hold back a smile: "My ship is called Riding the Wind and Waves!" After saying that, I couldn't hold back any longer, and there was another burst of laughter, and we were almost out of breath from laughing.
After I was lying on the dock and relieved my breath a little, I got up and sat up, looked at Huai En, who was still lying beside me, and reached out to pull her up. Only then did I find that Huaien, who was wearing a silk long skirt, was almost transparent because her clothes were soaked all over her body, and the patterns of her underwear were clearly visible.
I hurriedly withdrew my gaze from looking at her, Huai En also found out that there was something wrong with me from my gaze, looked down at my clothes, and was suddenly embarrassed, and her pretty face instantly turned red, and she hurriedly turned around to tidy up her clothes.
But the clothes were already soaked, and how could they be organized, and her turn undoubtedly showed the curve of her back in front of me.
I found out that Huai'en's figure is actually quite good, but I have always treated her as a little girl before, and I didn't notice this.
In fact, she is already a mature big girl, her breasts are towering, her buttocks are already quite large, especially at this moment, her long skirt is completely close to her body, which can highlight her perfect figure, and the small inner lines in the gauze skirt are clearly visible, just a glance makes me a little red-faced.
Seeing her embarrassment, I unbuttoned my shirt and draped it over her and said, "You go home first, and I'll tow the canoe back!" ”
After saying that, he stopped looking at her, turned around and went down to the beach.
"Hey, how do I go back like this?" She stood on the dock and yelled at me.
I glanced back at her and sighed helplessly, she really didn't look suitable for seeing people, so I said: "You go to my house first, my house is closer, there is no one outside at this time, you find a piece of my clothes to change into, and then go back to school!" The key hangs on the pillar on the right-hand side of the pergola! Without waiting for her to reply, she untied the bamboo raft tied to the water's edge, and held the long grass to chase the canoe that was about to float out of the bay.