Ever since the first time she brought a student to my yard, she had brought all the students from her other classes in the same way. Although I protested seriously, she didn't take my protest seriously at all, and I didn't bother to say anything more after many times.

But I can tell that her students love this art teacher. It's no wonder that Huai En is beautiful, gentle and casual, and has a childish heart, which can naturally win the love and support of children, which makes me worry about whether she can control these naughty children before The idea is redundant.

When there are no classes, Huai En will always find some reason to appear in my hospital. No matter what I was doing, she was chattering around me like a little sparrow.

If she looks for me in my courtyard and doesn't see me, she will go to the beach to look for me, for I will only appear in these two places.

If I picked up stranded clams on the beach at low tide, she would take off her shoes and carry her skirt, and would jump up and down with me on the wet beach, shouting happily like a child when she found her target, as if everything in this world was new to her.

If I was rowing and fishing, she would stand on the pier and put her palms in brackets to her lips and call me uncle, and if I ignored her, she would keep calling until I was so annoyed that I rowed the canoe to the shore.

She jumped onto the boat with a smile on her face and took the oars from me, and the control of the Wind and Waves was in her hands. In her words: "I'm the captain, you're my first mate, you should listen to me!" ”

Time is like an endless hourglass, passing without disturbance, only leaving a trace of imprint in the falling leaves and the gradually chilling sea breeze, which makes us suddenly realize in a casual moment that autumn has been so deep.

Although we have never forgotten the past, just like the tide that emerges in front of us from time to time, if I am willing to let go of my obsessions, I can live a quiet and peaceful life, which is my new understanding of life.

Loneliness is sometimes enough to make people feel moved, and only at this moment, the once tragic memory can be like the ebbing tide, not chasing, not keeping, all that remains is a bare scar, as long as you don't touch it, it doesn't hurt, like deep and shallow footprints on the beach, the next time the tide returns, it will erase the traces, and become clean again.

Although Huai En told me that her home was in the county seat, she rarely went home, even on Saturdays and Sundays or during school holidays.

Every now and then, she would come to me, or pester me to play at the beach, or talk to me in my yard with nothing to do. In fact, she was talking almost all the time, and she could even talk about endless topics throughout the day, and she was always in high spirits, which made me wonder if there was anything about this girl that could bother her!

It was another weekend, and I had just gone out with a bamboo basket on my back this morning, and I met Huai En who came to me. I've long been accustomed to her coming, and I've gotten along with her very well these days.

Although I could feel that Huai En seemed to have developed an inexplicable sense of dependence on me, in my eyes I had always regarded her as the little sister next door, and I was reassured that I didn't see anything wrong in Huai En's eyes. Maybe she really thinks of me as an amiable elder, as she always calls me uncle.

Huai En looked at me and smiled, and naturally followed me to the beach, as if I had the impression that this girl had always been smiling.

"I guessed that my uncle was going out at this time, and sure enough, I guessed correctly!" Huai En looked at my face with her cute head sticking out. Seeing that I ignored her, she reached out and pulled my sleeve. "Uncle, do you think I'm smart?"

"Let go!" I pretended I didn't have a good airway.

Huai En pouted at me, and said indifferently to my attitude: "Uncle, what are we going to eat today?" ”

"I guessed that you would come to eat again today, and sure enough, I guessed correctly, do you think I'm smart?" I reached out and flicked a finger on her forehead.

Huai En grinned, and simply grabbed my arm: "I'm bored, you also know that I don't have any friends here, I only know you, uncle, I won't come."

Find who else can you go to! ”

Huai'en's words suddenly reminded me of a question in my heart: "Miss Huaien, can I ask you a question?" ”

"Huh?"

"Why don't you go home during the holidays, why are you still staying in school when the other teachers have gone back? The county seat is not far from here! I asked.

"I don't want to go back!"

"Why?"

"If you don't want to go back, you don't want to go back, how can there be so many why?" Huai En looked a little impatient.

"If you don't go back, won't your parents miss you?" Her answer made me wonder a little.

"I'm so old, what's there to think about!"

"And what do they do?"

"Uncle, are you annoyed? How to nag like my mother! Huai En gave me a blank look and pouted.

"I'm annoyed, isn't it? Then don't follow me, go back to your school! "I feigned anger and tried to pull my arm back.

But I didn't succeed, Huai En hugged my arm to death, but my purpose was achieved.

Huai En immediately showed a smile, and said flatteringly: "Okay, okay, let me tell you that it's not possible!" I'll die of boredom if you drive me back! ”

"My dad is a professor at Provincial University, and my mom is a surgeon at a hospital. As soon as I went back, they would let me quit my teaching position, and always told me that I wanted to study in the United States. Huai En's expression became innocent as he spoke.

Only then did I realize that she was reluctant to go home to escape the incident.

"Huaien, do you want to listen to what your uncle has to say?" I think I need to enlighten this stubborn little girl.

Huai En looked at me with wide eyes and nodded, looking like he wanted to know what I was going to say.

"Although I don't know why you are so resistant to studying in the United States, I can understand the reason why your parents did this, it is true that you have a high attainment in the field of art now, and I have also seen your paintings, although I don't know how to paint, but I know that you should have quite a good talent.

You studied oil painting, oil painting originated in the West and prevailed in Europe and the United States, I think your parents probably want you to go to the top palace of oil painting art to further your studies, only in that atmosphere maybe you can break through the original cognition, in the art comprehension to a higher level.

You should understand their hard work, and you should maintain a passionate attitude towards your own pursuit of higher artistic talents.

Even though there are many paths in life, we can't experience every one, but there are obviously better choices in front of us, and there is obviously a better scenery on one road, why don't we choose it! ”

I pretended to be the deep of my elders, and I really wanted to enlighten her in my heart, and these words were also my words from the heart, with analysis and enlightenment, emotional encouragement and rational exhortation, I think she should be able to understand.

It's just that I never thought that my tirade would leave me speechless with just one rhetorical question.

She listened to my words, first fell into a short silence, then looked up at me and said, "Uncle, since there are many paths in life, we should choose the best one." But with my understanding of you, you are definitely not an ordinary person who only deserves to live such a simple life, and you obviously have a better choice, but you are living a life of fishing and growing vegetables here, as long as you find a job a little bit, the income is higher than selling fish and vegetables, why would you choose such a life? ”

I was stunned for a moment, almost choked up for a long time, I thought my words would inspire her, but I ignored my own living negative teaching material. From Huai'en's point of view, I was exactly as she said, and she didn't know that I actually had another identity. Of course, I didn't plan to tell her about it.

"Actually, I understand everything you say!" Huai'en's voice became a little silly. "But who can understand what is on my mind......" her tone became inaudible.

"You can say what you have on your mind, and others don't listen to Uncle, I listen!" I patted her on the head and made a comforting gesture, as for what she said, I think it was mostly because I was nostalgic for my familiar living environment and didn't want to go to an unfamiliar environment.

As for what kind of study and what kind of life, I don't think she realized what it meant to her.

"I ......" Huai En glanced up at me, and stopped talking, his eyes flashed hot for a moment, but quickly returned to flatness.

"Forget it, don't say it! No one will understand! Her mood became low.

I sighed secretly, I didn't expect that she, who usually looks cheerful and lively, would also have the sorrow of a girl. It's just that this sorrow seems to be not enough for outsiders.

It's just that the appearance of the next person makes me seem to understand the little girl's thoughts.

By the time we reached the beach, the tide had receded, and there were already outsiders picking up the seafood left on the beach on the bare beach.

It's late autumn, and you're already feeling a little frozen on the barefoot beach. I was going to dissuade her from going down to the beach, but apparently I couldn't stop her. In fact, the moment she saw the beach, she had already swept away the heavy thoughts just now, and she became heartless again.

They didn't listen to me at all, but they took off their shoes and socks before me, rolled up the warehouse pipe, and ran to the beach, which couldn't help but make my head a little big.

I had just gone down to the beach, and Huai En had already run a long way away, and he was still bouncing and waving at me. The movement she made undoubtedly caused everyone on the beach to look sideways, and she was very beautiful, which attracted the attention of others, but she herself was unaware of it.

I looked at her butterfly-like silhouette and smiled unconsciously. Somehow, as long as I'm with this silly girl, this inexplicable smile of mine will hang on my face from time to time.

At this moment, I suddenly heard Huai En screaming, and I looked at it, only to see Huai En in front of me squatting on the wet beach somehow, looking at me with a painful look on his face, and calling me in a miserable tone: "Uncle! Come and save me! ”

When I hurriedly came to Huaien, I saw that the soles of Huaien's feet were oozing red blood.

I was shocked, knowing that she had probably stepped on something sharp, and when I held her feet up, I couldn't help but be shocked, only to see that a fragment of a broken mussel shell was deeply embedded in the soles of her feet, and the fragments had been stained red with blood, and I couldn't see it clearly if I didn't look closely.

Huai En hugged his ankles with both hands, and sat on the beach without caring about the wet sand.

I pinched Huaien's instep, looked at Huaien, and quietly pinched the fragment and pulled it out.

Looking at the wound on her foot that was inch long, I couldn't help but feel a little stunned, seeing the wound that was bleeding from herself, I didn't have time to think about it, I took off my coat, took off my close-fitting vest, and tore the vest into several strips of cloth with teeth, and I didn't care about Huai'en's howl, and wrapped the wound on her foot as quickly as possible.

"Uncle, will I die!" Huaien looked at the blood she was bleeding on the beach, and asked me with teary eyes, her expression pitiful.

I was still in an anxious mood when I heard her words, and I wanted to laugh a little unkindly, this stupid girl, how can she think of death when she encounters something!

"Don't worry, it's still far from death, or you won't die!" I glanced at her and said with a slight teasing.

"Really?" She looked at me with wide eyes, as if she wasn't quite sure.

"If you're still on the ground and can't get up, you may have to amputate your leg later!" I squinted at her as I dressed.

Huai En was shocked when she heard this, and she struggled to stand up, but she stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately, I quickly helped her.

"You're so afraid of death, I won't see if you can't walk well in the future, are you a rabbit?" I carried the bamboo basket on Huai'en's back, and Huai'en on my back, raised my head and sighed and walked to the shore.

"Uncle, you, how do you know that I belong to rabbits?" Huai En twitched on my back, and his tone was aggrieved like a child who had been robbed of his sugar by others.

I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, feeling that this stupid girl is really a rabbit.