Chapter 35: Multiple Choice Questions
Ge Yiyi was simply irritable and didn't know why. Lying in the cracked homes of the villagers, I listened all night long to the rats having carnival dances all the time under the pinch of the little demons.
She wanted to quit the next day, sixty days was too long. I went to say goodbye to the old branch secretary, but when I walked in the village, my mind was full of her sonorous oath standing in front of the counselor.
The level of water scarcity in the Gobi is simply outrageous. Every morning when she gets up and washes, she reminds herself several times. Be careful, be careful.
I accidentally swallowed a small mouthful of the water to rinse my mouth, and the taste was salty and bitter, so bitter that my whole body was astringent. She couldn't remember the first time she wanted to quit.
That proud long hair, I've been wearing long hair that has been carefully combed since junior high school. I can't remember how many days I haven't washed it. I didn't dare to touch my hands, and it was very obvious that I could feel a lock of hair sticking.
The grandmothers in the village politely persuaded her to go and fill the water and boil it to wash.
But how can this salty and bitter water be worthy of her long hair that has been carefully cared for for for many years?
The problem is also that grannies never seem to wash their hair, let alone take a bath. Observing carefully, Ge Yiyi found a terrible thing.
It turned out that they all had headscarves around their heads. The hair was all wrapped in a headscarf, but there was no wind, sand and dust. Don't you sweat? Isn't sweating more unbearable?
Didn't the old branch secretary say that she was stubborn? Then I'll show you stubbornly. I'll wait and see, and see what other incentives will force me to quit this side of my heart.
In good conscience, the decision made in front of the counselor will always become more and more vague over time, more and more like a dream illusion. The real and skin-friendly reason is that the twenty pairs of clear and shiny eyes are full of expectation.
Left-behind children are not only short of food and clothing, but also poor in care and spirituality. The first time the children saw her, their eyes sparkled like diamonds.
She didn't even dare to look at her, Ge Yiyi, who had lived in all kinds of admiring eyes since she was a child. For the first time, I really felt that when I looked at the light in the child's eyes, she would definitely be burned to the ground.
The eyes of the children, eager to communicate, are like rubber bands with strong stickiness. Firmly tied to Ge Yiyi's ankles, she had to be careful with every step.
If one of them is accidentally torn off, there will be a weak figure in the Gobi Desert to drive sheep and collect firewood. Since then, he has cut off the idea of getting out of the Gobi Desert, or has become a cheap enough screw in the sweatshop of the south to be replaced at any time.
There was an older child who had dropped out of school and came back from herding sheep, and I heard that Mr. Ge could play a variety of musical instruments. A flute found from an unknown corner of the house that has not been used for a long time and has been full of cracks.
Reverently handed it to Mr. Ge, who smiled and asked him, do you want to learn?
He lowered his head and rubbed the soles of his shoees against the sand with the leaking toes of his toes, and nodded gently: I learned to blow when herding sheep, and I don't feel so lonely.
Teacher Ge was afraid that his eyes were too shallow, so he looked up at the sky. Then he smiled and said, "The crack of your flute is a little deep, and the sound it blows out is not very good."
Give me the flute first, and I'll find a way to process it. I'll teach you to play when it's done, and I'll teach you to play the harmonica when I'm gone.
The older children shuffled away. Teacher Ge stood in front of the classroom for a long time without moving or speaking. No one knew what she was thinking or watching.
The first time to retreat, and the first time to stop. She grabbed her long greasy and sandy hair, sat by the campfire and blew the tune of "outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green and the sky is ......".
Before the song ended, Zhang Saiwen came slowly and clumsily on a tall horse in the moonlight. The sound of horses' hooves stepped on Ge Yiyi's heart every time, and the thunder resounded in the sky again.
No matter how beautiful or ugly, every girl has a hero in her heart. One day, their heroes will come on a high-headed horse, stepping on colorful auspicious clouds with a smile on their faces.
It was at that moment, just like at this moment. The image of the hero who dragged her back to the classroom and woke her up in public in the bottom of Ge Yiyi's heart is beginning to collapse little by little.
Zhang Saiwen laughed and played with his sister when he was a child. I think I know more about girls than I know about myself.
Probably most boys will be silent, insincere, naïve and stubborn when facing the girl they like, and want to do something to attract attention.
Zhang Saiwen said to himself in his heart that Lao Tzu is an advanced version. Be anxious about what she is anxious about, think about what she thinks. You naïve ghosts stand aside. Lao Tzu is the hero of the world!
The hero of the world rode back to the village with his sweetheart. In the only guest house in the township, the tap water is not only not bitter and astringent, but also has hot water.
Ge Yiyi, who was standing under the shower, rubbed the dust on his body and head. While thinking, where did this guy get the money?
After washing clothes and showering, the two climbed to the roof of the guest house to dry their clothes. Inadvertently, two pairs of young hands collided.
Ge Yi retracted with a reserved blushing face.
Zhang Saiwen seemed to be overpowered, and he was numb.
Her white dress fell to the ground and shattered into a mouth, grinning a big gap, and mocking the two mercilessly.
He hurriedly picked it up and went downstairs to rinse it again. She shouted behind her, junior brother, where did you get the money?
He stood on the stairs and disappeared half of his body, turned around and took her skirt in his hand, and said My love fund.
Where did you get your love fund?
My dad gave it to me.
Is it a lot?
Many, many, unfinished, simply unfinished.
Oh turned around and went downstairs. Love fund? She stood on the roof of the guest house and laughed wildly.
In addition to providing clotheslines for guests staying on the rooftop of this guest house, there are several plastic semi-reclining chairs lined up on the other side of the roof.
On a hot day in June and July, the dry heat of the day makes people's blood vessels almost burst. At night, there is a cool breeze and a sky full of stars.
After drying the clothes, he repeatedly promised that he would find a way to rent a car to pick her up and take her back and forth every day at dawn. She agreed to accompany him to sit on the row of chairs, look at the starry sky together, and talk well together.
The starry sky is so beautiful, and there is really no such beautiful starry sky in the heavily polluted south. Of course, there is no such worrying group of left-behind children.
She sat in her chair and told him what she had seen and heard these days, and what she was thinking. said that she had a hard time choosing whether to get a job after graduation or go abroad to get a graduate school diploma.
He asked with a blank face what is the water method?
She said that she had passed the IELTS test first. If you apply for a university graduate school in a Commonwealth country, you will get a diploma from a graduate school in a foreign country similar to that of our graduate school in China.
However, foreign research institutes are credit-based, and it normally takes one to one and a half years to complete all credits.
After finishing speaking, she asked him with a smile, your father gave you so much love fund. Is it enough for a year and a half abroad? If enough, you can also take an IELTS test, let's go to the water together?