In October, the night in Shanhua Village is slightly cooler.

The villagers at the foot of the mountain were asleep, and the light of Jiang Xiaobai's flashlight attracted a few dog barks, but as he walked up the eastern slope, the dog stopped squeaking, only the crickets in the wildflowers and grass and unknown insects barked from time to time.

Looking up, there are stars in the sky, and a crescent moon is like a hook.

Jiang Xiaobai walked to Li Manman's grave, the incense burned when he came to worship in the afternoon had been burned, but half of the two white candles were still left.

It is estimated that it was blown out by the wind.

He crouched down in front of the grave, took out a match, lit the white candle, and two small pinches of flame swayed in the night wind, as if they would be extinguished at any moment.

Jiang Xiaobai looked at the direction of the wind and sat down near the grave at the upwind outlet.

His body blocked the wind, and the flames of the two candles flew high and burned normally.

He took out another Huazi, lit one and took a sip, and then stood in front of the white candle beside him, as an incense!

Two more were ordered in a row, and then three were combined in a row.

"Manman, I'm coming to see you again!

When I left in the afternoon, I looked back and saw you standing here alone, so I came to accompany you!

Today is the Chung Yeung Festival, well, even if it's almost over, it's not yet 12 o'clock, and it's not over.

I brought wine, and I don't know if you used to drink it, but it's okay, you can't learn! ”

As he spoke, he opened the cap of the Moutai bottle, poured a sip on the ground in front of the grave, and then lifted the bottle himself and poured a sip.

"I don't usually like to drink, but today I kind of want to drink.

If you don't drink much, drink less. ”

He poured a little bit on the ground, took a big sip of himself, and sang softly:

"It's September 9 again,

On the night of Chongyang, it is difficult to get together,

Homesick people,

Drifting outside.

……”

After singing a light song, he said with a smile: "It's not as good as my daughter's singing, but today is the Double Ninth Festival, and I happen to have wine in my hand, so I remembered this song." ”

After saying this, he took another sip of wine.

"Oh, I forgot to give it to you!"

Poured some on the ground.

He talked to himself alone, pouring and drinking wine from time to time, as if Li Manman was really drinking with him.

"Why do you think you're so stupid?"

The corners of Jiang Xiaobai's mouth showed a wry smile, and he said self-deprecatingly: "In my last life, I was a bastard, forcing my wife and daughter to die in the river, a person like me is really not worthy of your liking." ”

"I was able to live a new life, because I came to atone for my sins, because God looked at me pitifully and gave me a chance to make up for my regrets."

As he spoke, tears flowed out of his eyes, and his voice choked: "But...... I didn't expect that I owed not only their mother and daughter, but also you! ”

In a person's life, no matter how much money he owes, as long as he does not die, there will always be a day when he will pay it back. But only the debt of affection can never be repaid.

Jiang Xiaobai said helplessly: "You just left like this, and you didn't even give me a chance to apologize." ”

The wind on the hillside is even stronger.

The night breeze blows, the wild mountain flowers swaying, the sound of swaying, the insects and birds in the grass squeak, and even the sky is drifting gray clouds, blocking the moonlight and the starlight, the sky and the earth seem to be dark, and the night is filled.

Jiang Xiaobai sat in front of the new grave and told sentence by sentence.

"Manman, you're gone, I know you're worried about your students!

I didn't do anything for you when you were alive, so leave these things to me in the future!

I have already told the old principal that after a while I will renovate the school here, so that the children can read aloud in the spacious and bright classrooms, and let them use the new desks and new blackboards.

I will build them a large playground where they can play between classes, and I will build a library with lots of books in it, so that they can swim in the ocean of knowledge just like the children outside.

And then you don't have to worry about the teachers, I tell you a good news, I also plan to build a school, I give the best treatment to the teachers, but I will arrange for each of those teachers to come here to teach for a semester or a year, no matter how many children there are, they will be like a normal primary school, from preschool to sixth grade, there will be at least two teachers for each age. ”

Jiang Xiaobai poured some wine on the ground, took a big sip of his own, and said, "Will you laugh at me for wasting teacher resources?" ”

Waving the bottle in his hand, "No! I want those teachers to come here to precipitate their teaching ethics and teaching ability, and I want them to learn from you and the old principal, and learn how to educate children wholeheartedly.

Teacher, preaching and teaching to solve doubts, imparting knowledge is only the most basic operation, what the teacher really teaches the children should be the Tao, that is, being a person, and in this regard, you and the old principal are role models. ”

"Of course, you don't have to worry about them not being able to stay, I will not only give them high salaries, but also build them very good teachers' dormitories here, so that teachers can live and work here and grow.

You don't have to worry about your children not coming to school because their families are poor.

In the future, children will not only have to pay tuition fees when they go to school here, but they will also have free breakfast, lunch, and scholarships if they have good academic performance.

If you think about it, if the children study hard here, they will get more scholarships than their parents earn from farming at home, and the villagers here will rush to send their children to study. ”

"By the way, I built a primary school in Qingzhou and Jianyang, and it will be called Quest Primary School in the future, your name is Li Manman, I take the road to repair far away, I will go up and down and seek the meaning."

"I will make a statue of you in the playground of the school, engrave your name and profile, and write these two sentences, so that all the students who come to my school in the future will remember you and remember that there was such a good teacher."

"That's all I can do."

"I can't repay you for what happened to me, I'm here to accompany you tonight, and in the future, I will come to see you every year on the Double Ninth Festival!"

After Jiang Xiaobai finished speaking, he poured more than half of the wine on the ground, then drank the remaining sip, put down the wine bottle, and slowly fell asleep against the grave.

That night, he slept soundly. No dreams.

Perhaps, Li Manman also slept peacefully.

The next morning, Dongfang vomited fish white, and Jiang Xiaobai woke up slowly.

I drank a little violently last night, and my head still hurts.

Getting up and patting the dirt on his buttocks, Jiang Xiaobai looked at the grave and said, "I'll go back to school first, make hot pot for the children at noon, and then I'll send you one!" ”

With that, turn around and leave.

He walked calmly, without the melancholy of yesterday.

As a human being, it is impossible to be without emotions, but you can't always have emotions, when you vent the pent-up emotions, you should return to calm.

Jiang Xiaobai arrived at the school playground and saw that the door of Li Manman's previous house was still closed, and knew that Jiang Shan had not gotten up yet.

Thinking that my daughter was tired from walking yesterday, I didn't call her.

He stood in the playground and waited quietly.

didn't disappoint him, and it didn't take long for the little guy to open the door and come out, and the father and daughter met their eyes and smiled.