Chapter 6
Since Teacher Zhang's voice and smile entered her heart, the only memory left to her by the distant He Erbao has collapsed.
He Erbao's letters came frequently, and every time she received He Erbao's letters, she didn't even look at them, so she went down the toilet in the bathroom.
Teacher Zhang has now become the most splendid scenery in Li Hongmei's life. She can now see Teacher Zhang every day, and if Teacher Zhang doesn't come to class, she will go straight to Teacher Zhang's dormitory like other girls. Li Hongmei found that Teacher Zhang also has a soft spot for herself, and when she was in class, her eyes often met Teacher Zhang's gaze, Teacher Zhang talked about "Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine", and Teacher Zhang could always talk about boring Chinese medicine theories brightly. When his gaze met hers, there was a momentary pause in Mr. Zhang's words, only she could feel this pause, and when she stared at him with his gaze, she would shake like electricity, such a shake, which made her panic.
When Teacher Zhang's gaze does not meet hers, her mind will be in a state of nothingness, she stares at Teacher Zhang's radiant face, and one of his gestures, she feels that he is so attractive, like a magnet, firmly attracting her whole body and mind. She was drunk for him and fell for him.
She began to go in and out of Mr. Zhang's dormitory frequently, and every time he saw her, he was very enthusiastic, no matter what he was busy with, he always stopped and asked her to sit down, and she sat on Mr. Zhang's small bed full of books.
Of course, every time she came, there was a reason, and she asked him for lessons he had taught during the day, and in fact she understood all those lessons, but it was only a pretense. He naturally told her all that had been told during the day, and he sat in his chair, which was so close to the bed that their knees had inadvertently touched each other a few times, and her face turned red again.
Sometimes when she arrived at his dormitory, he was receiving other girls, she didn't want to just leave, so she sat aside and waited, and there were a few unreasonable girls, who had to wait for her to finish asking questions, and a few times, she just went with them so unwillingly.
One day, if she didn't talk alone with him for a while, her heart would be gone, and she couldn't sit or stand. In the evening, several girls in the same dormitory, the most talked about is their teacher Zhang, some praise Teacher Zhang's beautiful eyebrows, some say Teacher Zhang's eyes, and some say Teacher Zhang's temperament, Teacher Zhang has become a public lover among their female students. She never participated in their discussions, and she listened to them discuss Teacher Zhang in a daze, and her heart was extremely uncomfortable, as if something in her heart had been snatched away by them.
Teacher Zhang also seemed to treat her differently. Every time she went to look for him, she was afraid that someone would disturb her, and often sometimes there was a knock on the door before her ass was hot. As a result, they can't be alone. From then on, every time she walked into his dormitory, he turned off the headlights, leaving only the lamp, and he used a newspaper to cover the skylight at some point for fear of the light coming through the skylight on the door.
He lowered the lamp from the table to the floor, so that the two of them sat in the hut half in light and half in secret, and they talked in a whisper like a pair of underground parties.
More often than not, she didn't have any questions to ask Teacher Zhang, and Teacher Zhang had already seen this, and then Teacher Zhang told the story of going to the mountains with his grandfather to dig medicinal herbs when he was a child. Those were some interesting stories, and Li Hongmei hadn't even thought about it. The young teacher Zhang, carrying a basket of medicinal herbs, followed behind his grandfather, he did not really dig medicinal materials, but took advantage of his grandfather's unpreparedness, so he climbed to the tree to touch the birds' eggs, catch grasshoppers, and once went to poke the hornet's nest, and was stung half dead by a group of wasps...... When Mr. Zhang talks about his childhood, he always smiles.
In the process, Mr. Zhang's door was still knocked from time to time, and Mr. Zhang put his hand on his mouth to signal her not to make a sound, until the knocking stopped and the footsteps left, and they began the topic just now.
It wasn't until late that she left Mr. Zhang's dormitory, she walked downstairs, and when she turned to look back, she found that the headlights in his dormitory had been lit. From this point, it can be seen that Mr. Zhang is different from her. For that alone, she is proud and happy.
In the evening, when the other female students were talking about Teacher Zhang again, she covered the quilt and secretly laughed.
During this period, the infatuated He Erbao came to her once. Just after class that day, a girl told her that there was a man looking for her outside the dormitory, she didn't know who it was, and when she saw He Erbao, she didn't react for a long time. He Erbao was almost the same as before, dressed in a whitish old military uniform and a pair of white pull-back brand sneakers, he stood there with bright eyes, looking at her attentively.
When she came to her senses, she said, "Why are you here?"
He was a little disappointed, but still said: I went to the county for a meeting, and I took a detour to see you.
Instead of leading him to her dorm, she led him around the campus. She spoke to him absentmindedly, thinking about sending him away as soon as possible.
He asked her: Why didn't you write to me?
She said, "Busy."
He also said, "When will I go back to Gushantun to have a look?"
She still said: busy, no time.
Before she knew it, she led him to the entrance of the campus.
During this period, many students looked at them, and his outfit was an authentic peasant dress, and she blushed for him.
Walking to the school gate, she no longer had any intention of moving forward, stopped there and said: I'm very busy now, I don't have time to accompany you, I'm going to class.
He muttered for a long time, but still said: On my way to the provincial capital, I lost my money and haven't eaten for a day.
She frowned and said, "Then you wait a minute."
She returned to the dormitory, took out five yuan from the drawer, and then thought about it and took out two more yuan, as well as two catties of food stamps, and went out. She handed him seven yuan and two catties of food stamps.
He took the money and food stamps, blushed and said, "Then I won't bother, I will pay you back the money and food stamps."
Before he could finish speaking, she had already walked away without looking back.
When she returned to the dormitory, when others asked her who the man was, she said without hesitation: A fellow who went to the countryside to cut the queue.
It didn't take long for him to send a letter, not a word was written in the letter, only seven yuan and two catties of food stamps, she breathed a sigh of relief, and finally broke off a major event, she secretly thanked him for He Erbao's wise approach.
Since then, she has lost contact with He Erbao.
Occasionally, she will think of the days when she used to cut the queue, and when she thinks of these, she will also think of He Erbao, without He Erbao, she would not have her today. She was a little uneasy at the thought of this, but it passed quickly.