branch plum blossom

Chapter 26 It was him
The dewdrops in the morning rolled down from the weeds on the roadside, fell onto Baimei's liberation shoes, and climbed onto her trouser legs.

Baimei sniffed, sneezed heavily, blew her nose, threw it into the paddy field by the road, and continued to walk away quickly.

Today is her duty, so she has to get to the classroom early.

"Baimei."

A crisp and clear voice came from behind.

Baimei stopped and looked back, and immediately jumped up with joy.

Bai Yuan was carrying his schoolbag and running towards him quickly.

"Bai Yuan, did your mother pay your tuition?"

Baimei held Baiyuan's hand, she couldn't express how happy she was, it seemed that Huo Xiulian was still a bit human after all.

"No."

Bai Yuan shook her head.

"My mother said that she has no money, and our family's money should be reserved for my younger brother to study and marry a wife."

"Then, who paid the tuition for you?"

Baimei quickly searched in her mind for someone who could do this good deed.

"It's my grandma."

Bai Yuan unconsciously touched the schoolbag on her back with her backhand, with deep gratitude welling up in her eyes.

She will never forget what happened when grandma Ma Yifang called herself to her place that night.

That day, after Baimei left, Ma Yifang secretly called Bai Yuan into her room at night.

"Yuan'er, it's not that grandma doesn't help you, it's that grandma doesn't have any money either. Your grandpa passed away not long after retirement and didn't leave you any money. Do you really like studying?"

Bai Yuan stood in front of Ma Yifang, lowered her head, bit her lower lip, clasped the dirt between her nails with her hands interlaced, and said nothing.

"Yuan'er, you child, everything else is fine, but it's stuffy, twisted and twisted. If I ask you something, you can just say what's on your mind. If you say it, I won't do anything to you like your mother Tell me, do you want to study, or do you not want to study?"

Ma Yifang looked at the tearful eyes under the white round thick bangs, and couldn't help but sighed a long time.

"Yuan'er, come here, don't be afraid, just tell me."

She pulled the timid Bai Yuan over and said softly.

"Tell me, do you want to study?"

Ma Yifang lifted his round white bangs and clipped them to the top of his head.

"The bangs are so long that they cover the eyes."

"Yuan'er, do you want to study or not?"

Ma Yifang asked again softly, she felt that she was running out of patience.

"think."

Bai Yuan raised his eyes, looked at Ma Yifang, and murmured this word softly in his throat.

"That's good. Do you want to study or not? You have to tell me so that I can help you."

Ma Yifang patted Baiyuan's head lightly, smiled, got up and opened the old suitcase, and after a little hesitation, took out the jade token her parents left her.

"Yuan'er, you should go back first. In a few days, I will sell this jade token to someone and I will be able to pay your tuition. Not only can you pay this semester's tuition, but future tuition should not be a problem. , but, you must never tell your mother that I gave you the money, do you understand?"

After Ma Yifang told Bai Yuan to go back, Huo Xiulian's voice was already yelling at Bai Yuan to wash Bai Xingwang's feet outside the house.

"Bai Yuan, you stinky girl, where did you die? You don't do anything serious when you're full all day long... Come and wash Wang'er's feet, taking him to sleep is a waste of time..."

Bai Yuan nodded slightly at Ma Yifang and left.

Ma Yifang's words and actions made her feel that there were thousands of dawns of life shining warmly on her frail body.

Within a few days, Ma Yifang secretly gave her a sum of money to pay her tuition.

Huo Xiulian asked her how she had the money to pay for the school, and she told a lie that she had planned in advance.

She told Huo Xiulian that it was the teacher at the school who saw her good grades and felt that it was a pity that she did not study, so she applied to waive her tuition.

Bai Yuan was usually like a mouse in Huo Xiulian's eyes, she didn't have any doubts about Bai Yuan's words, she just thought, why is it so unfair, how can this stupid girl enjoy free tuition?

"Hahaha, Baiyuan, that's great, we can go to school together again."

After Baimei learned the whole story, she felt relieved. She no longer felt sorry for Bai Yuan. On the contrary, they could fight side by side and work towards the goal together.

It is enough to have a confidant in life.

At that time, Baimei and Baiyuan, who were immature and immature in their maturity, regarded each other as their unswerving confidants in this life.

However, the world is unpredictable, many years later, whenever she thinks of Bai Yuan, Baimei can't help but feel sore in her heart.

"Oh, Bai Yuan, I almost forgot when I was so happy, I'm on duty today, hurry up, I'm going to be late."

Baimei woke up from her joy, she dragged Bai Yuan and ran towards the school quickly.

"Hahaha."

"Hahaha."

The moist Baijiagou wakes up slowly in the morning light, and two cheerful figures jump in the light of the sun, rushing towards the ideal.

"Students, your math teacher has something to do at home, and it will be delayed for a month. This is your substitute math teacher, Teacher Chen."

Zhang Gan, the Chinese teacher in charge of the class, left everyone in the class after the morning reading and announced the news to everyone.

"Hi everyone, my name is Chen Shihao, you can call me Teacher Chen."

A man with elegant glasses strode up to the podium, his eyes swept the group of children confidently.

"Hello, Teacher Chen!"

Along with her classmates, Baimei stood up and bowed to salute the new teacher on the podium. When she raised her head, her eyes inadvertently touched Teacher Chen on the podium.

This look is so familiar.

Baimei was sure that she had seen him somewhere.

Where is it?
ah!By the way, he is the one who gave me the big grass carp in the town!
"Oh, that's great!"

Baimei couldn't help standing up and yelling.

"Baimei, what's the matter? What's so good?"

As soon as the head teacher turned around and walked to the door of the classroom, he was startled by Baimei's sudden cry.

Baimei was instantly surrounded by the curious eyes of her classmates.

"Oh, it's nothing, I mean, I'm the representative of the mathematics department, and that one met a new teacher, and just took the homework collected yesterday to the new teacher."

Baimei's mind is very flexible, and she can easily fool her.

Baimei spent this day in excitement.

She felt that she might have been hit by some lucky star while she was sleeping.Otherwise, how could there be two surprises in one day?One is that Bai Yuan can go to school again, and the other is that the fairy glasses exuding the atmosphere of the metropolis really came to him like a fairy.

Baimei giggled while cleaning the classroom.

"Baimei, why don't you leave, you're on duty today?"

"Yes, Mr. Chen. Chen."

Bai Mei was taken aback by Chen Shihao who suddenly appeared in the classroom.

For some reason, Baimei always felt that calling this elegant and bespectacled male teacher a little wronged him. She thought he should be called the most handsome teacher in the world.

She weakly and shyly thought of the word handsome, and her face couldn't help but feel slightly hot.

In those days, in rural areas, it was rare to use fashionable words such as "handsome" and "beautiful" to praise people. Anyone who used such blustery words would definitely be ridiculed.

"What's the matter, is there something on my face?"

Seeing the way Baimei was thinking when looking at him, Chen Shihao unconsciously reached out and touched his face.

"Oh, no, no, no, I'm looking at the blackboard behind you, it doesn't seem to be wiped clean."

After finishing speaking, Baimei took the blackboard eraser and erased it on the blackboard before her face turned red.

"Oh, then, you will go to my office later and bring over the homework I approved today, and send it to everyone tomorrow morning."

Chen Shihao looked at her, and walked away without saying anything.

Baimei did a good job of hygiene, carried the homework from Chen Shihao's office and put it on the desk on the podium, locked the classroom and hurried home.

Bai Gui is coming back today, she has to go back quickly to help Qin Yulan cook.

"Baimei."

As soon as he walked out of the school gate, Chen Shihao followed.

"Teacher Chen?! Where are you going?"

Baimei is very strange. Although their school is a central elementary school, it is still some distance away from the town. Apart from a small post office, a small grain station, a pork station and a sanitation station, there is nothing else around. Where are you going?
"Go home!"

"go home?!"

"Aren't you living in the staff dormitory of the school? Are you from us?"

Baimei stopped, turned around and looked at Chen Shihao suspiciously.

If he is really from here, then she will take back her previous fascination with him.

"No, I'm not from here. My home is in another county. I'm going to college in another city. I'm going to a relative's house."

"Oh, then, Teacher Chen, goodbye."

Bai Mei breathed a sigh of relief, bowed politely to Chen Shihao, and ran away quickly.

After running for a while, she stopped and turned her head to see that Chen Shihao was following leisurely.

"Baimei."

Chen Shihao stopped her.

"where do you live?"

"Baijiagou."

"Oh, that's just right, I'm going to Baijiagou too."

"Your relative is from Baijiagou?"

Baimei suddenly felt that the distance between herself and Chen Shihao had suddenly changed from a thousand miles to only one or two kilometers.

"Yes, his name is Chen Xianlin, he is my uncle."

(End of this chapter)