Feng Xiao only appeared at the end of the physical education class, and she was accompanied by Tan Hong.
Feng Xiao saw Meng Yao standing in the shade and came to chat with her. As her name suggests, Feng Xiao loves to laugh, as if she has nothing to worry about in her life.
Perhaps because they were similar in age and both girls, Feng Xiao liked to talk to her in his free time. To a large extent, it was because of Feng Xiao that it accelerated Meng Yao's adaptation to Sunshine Elementary School and made her feel less lonely.
Feng Xiao told her many things about the school, including the situation of some students.
Feng Xiao said that Xu Yao was in charge of the school's physical education class this summer, and the students liked to watch him play basketball.
"Of course, I like it too, he's so handsome." Feng Xiao sighed.
Xu Yao has this ability that makes people unable to take their eyes away.
"Tan Hong is not very good. Among all sports, he is only good at running, haha."
Feng Xiao almost never left Tan Hong, and Meng Yao couldn't help laughing.
Feng Xiao had never seen Meng Yao smile so brightly before. She always smiled lightly. Feng Xiao stared at her with a strange expression and praised: "Meng Yao, you are so beautiful."
Meng Yao was stunned for a moment, and his smile dropped a little unconsciously: "...really?"
"Yes." Feng Xiao nodded affirmatively, "It looks so pretty when you smile."
"Thank you." Meng Yao smiled again, but it was not the bright smile just now.
Feng Xiao felt a little pity.
She thought of something and looked at the flying figure on the playground. She suddenly approached Meng Yao and said, "There should be many people chasing Xu Yao in high school, right? He is such a shining person."
Meng Yao didn't expect that she would ask this. She was lost for a while, and many scenes appeared in front of her eyes. She replied: "Maybe, I don't know much about it."
"Definitely, he looks so handsome."
"I'm so envious of his girlfriend." Feng Xiao sighed casually.
Meng Yao turned his head and opened his mouth slightly, but Feng Xiao didn't notice and said to himself: "In May last year, Xu Yao came to school, and I happened to catch him talking on the phone one time, but he didn't say anything special. The content, but the tone was quite friendly. Before hanging up, he said to the person on the other end, "Let's take a rest." Later we guessed it was his girlfriend, because he called her almost every day, and he didn't deny it. . But this year, the frequency of phone calls has been much lower. Before you came, Principal Yu asked him about his girlfriend. He said that he was single and they must have broken up. "
"I don't know what kind of girl can be with him."
Meng Yao listened blankly, her eyelashes trembling when Feng Xiao said about his girlfriend. It's not true that she was disappointed. Meng Yao had accepted many things early, but when she heard it, she still felt a little like she had missed the mark. However, it only took a moment, and soon Meng Yao changed from that feeling of disappointment. detached from the feeling.
"I don't know either." Meng Yao said.
But she had the answer in her heart, because she had thought about Feng Xiao's question many times.
——What kind of girl can be with Xu Yao.
——Excellent, confident, and able to walk side by side with him.
Meng Yao looked at the playground again, his eyes sincere and filled with an imperceptible tenderness.
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Time here moves very slowly, but it doesn't make people feel tortured, but rather enjoyable.
Perhaps because she has not formally attended classes, Meng Yao feels that the current job is quite easy for her and she is capable of it. Treating children requires patience, and Meng Yao thinks she has this.
On the third day after arriving in Yunnan, it started to rain continuously.
It was wet outside the classroom and it was not suitable for students to go out to play. Xu Yao fulfilled his promise during a self-study class and took them to watch a movie.
Meng Yao was puzzled when he proposed to watch a movie last time. The school's facilities were incomplete and there was no projector. She thought about how to watch the movie for a long time. Feng Xiao smiled mysteriously and said to her, "You'll know just when you go and take a look."
Meng Yao was really curious, so he pretended to be passing by and walked towards the classroom. She stood outside the classroom and watched Xu Yao take out his laptop and bend down to operate it.
Meng Yao did not expect that the so-called watching a movie was just that Xu Yao placed the computer on the podium, with the screen facing the students, and played it like this.
A very small and narrow screen, Meng Yao was dumbfounded, thinking about how to look at it. But these children under the podium were very happy and contented. They even spontaneously moved their small stools and sat in the front row, closer to the computer, consciously arranging their positions according to their height.
The movie Xu Yao showed them was the classic "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which Meng Yao had watched a long time ago. Coincidentally, the first time she watched this movie was at school. It seemed that because the class did well in the exam, the teacher rewarded it and showed it during evening self-study time. She must have been in elementary school at that time, probably in fifth or sixth grade.
The difference is that there was a projector in their classroom at that time, and the screen was so big that even if you were sitting in the back row of the classroom, you could clearly see every detail.
The difference is huge.
At this moment, these children had innocent smiles on their faces, but Meng Yao couldn't bear to look at them.
She had to admit that the environment determined too many things.
Before this, Meng Yao didn't feel that her life was very good, and many people around her probably felt the same way.
But when you really see the dissatisfaction and poverty and suffering in a corner of this world, you will find that compared to many people, you are already lucky.
The movie started playing, and a group of children stared at the screen intently. Meng Yao left the classroom gently. She didn't go very far, and stood by the corridor.
The sky was gray and rain was falling. Meng Yao stared at the rain curtain in a daze.
There were footsteps behind him, Meng Yao turned his head and saw Xu Yao also walking out.
Their eyes met, Xu Yao's eyes looked a little pale in the hazy sky. He looked at Meng Yao and was startled. There was no one else here. Xu Yao approached, stood beside Meng Yao, stopped and nodded to her. The distance between them is very close, and if the arc of movement is wider, they can touch each other's arms.
Before, at such a close distance, Meng Yao would have felt like a deer in his heart. But today, maybe because of the scene where the students were watching a movie in the classroom, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and she had no time to think about anything else.
Meng Yao didn't know how to describe this kind of discomfort, it was very complicated.
Maybe it's sympathy, intolerance and other emotions mixed together.
Or maybe I just feel sad.
She pointed in the direction of the classroom, raised her head, and asked Xu Yao softly: "Do they always watch movies this way?"
Such drizzle falls without making a sound.
Xu Yao watched her react quickly, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Occasionally."
He lowered his eyes and looked into Meng Yao's eyes. He should have understood Meng Yao's thoughts from Meng Yao's eyes. Xu Yao moved his eyes away and looked at the rain outside. The weather seemed a bit dreary. He tried to keep his tone light and said: "Most of the time they don't have movies to watch. You may not believe it, but here, having a TV at home is considered pretty good."
Xu Yao's tone was very calm: "The first time most of them saw a movie was probably the year before last."
Xu Yao recalled: "Usually, these children don't have access to this kind of thing. The year before last, I brought a computer, and they happened to see it. They surrounded me one by one, so curious that they couldn't bear to leave even when the school bell rang. I It was completely on a whim that I suggested showing them a movie, but then I realized that there was no projection in the classroom.”
"I thought forget it and stop watching. After all, there were so many people, and the lack of a projection would also affect the viewing experience. But these children looked at me with such expectant and excited eyes, and I couldn't say anything to disappoint them. So here it is. I made do and watched an entire movie.”
""Little Me"." Xu Yao still remembers the name of that movie.
In fact, because of his age, he didn't know what movie to show to these children at that time. He directly searched for "movies suitable for primary school students" on the Internet, and then found this one from the recommendations.
After watching this movie, everyone in the classroom was in tears.
Xu Yao didn't spend much time here. Before him, other teachers in the school, including Principal Yu, would never think of showing movies to students. Last summer, Feng Xiao and Tan Hong joined the school. After that, when Xu Yao was not here, students occasionally watched movies.
But only occasionally.
Tan Hong's computer is an old model. He bought it second-hand when he was in college, and it is already very laggy now.
There was nothing wrong with Feng Xiao's computer, but the school usually had classes and there were very few opportunities to watch movies.
Therefore, these students have only watched movies a handful of times in their lives so far. Xu Yao is like a communicator of hope. Every time he comes, he means that he can add some rich color to the dull life of these children.
"Have you never thought about installing a projector?" Meng Yao asked.
Xu Yao turned to look at her and smiled. He seemed to be thinking about how to word it to tell her that certain things were not that simple to do.
"Meng Yao." Xu Yao thought for a while, and finally chose to speak in a straightforward way, "For many people, having enough food and clothing is what is practical. When the economy is not well-off, a projector The money can be used to provide these children with other more practical help. Such as better diet, extracurricular books, notebooks, pens. Even clothes and new school bags."
Its own strength is small, external funding is limited, and there are too many places where it needs to be used.
So every penny is particularly precious.
At least for now, spending money on a projector is unnecessary.
Meng Yao realized his innocence in his smile.
She forgot that everyone's environment is different and not everyone enjoys the same living conditions.
What seems easy and easy to solve to you may be a big burden to others.
We often seek absolute fairness when doing many things, but in fact, injustice in this world has always existed.
Some people are born in Rome and never lack flowers and applause throughout their lives.
There are also people who are trapped in a corner of the world and have never seen flowers bloom.
The day Meng Yao came to this small mountain village, he sat in Uncle Liu's car and observed the environment here.
To be honest, it's hard to fully empathize without being there. She knew that the environment here was difficult, but she had never experienced it personally. "Hardship" was just a concept to her.
Meng Yao didn't know what the real life of the villagers living here was like, it was hard to imagine. Similarly, in this context, she actually had no idea how far the children in the classroom would go in the future and what kind of life they would live.
Meng Yao himself has grown up so far. Except for his unharmonious relationship with Song Lan and his daughter, his life has been smooth. She has never worried about not having enough books to study. Her family conditions are not well-off, but she is not sad in terms of material things. For Meng Yao, no matter what time, there will always be a path under his feet.
But for this group of children living in remote areas, they may lack this confidence. It is not easy to step out of this small mountain village and change your destiny.
Meng Yao looked in through the open wooden door of the classroom. The children were sitting together, their eyes widened and they kept making exclamations of exclamation. She saw the novelty and envy expressed on every young face.
This envy is for the main character in the movie.
The experience of the little boy named Charlie is really strange and interesting.
The afternoon after the movie ended, the campus was filled with discussions about the movie.
*
It rained for a long time.
It started falling in the morning and gradually stopped in the afternoon before school.
Meng Yao looked outside the classroom and breathed a sigh of relief.
Most of the roads here are dirt roads, and the slope outside the school is the only way for students to go to school and go home. The day Meng Yao arrived was a sunny day and it was difficult to walk. It would only be more dangerous and difficult to walk if it rained.
Although Meng Yao has only been in school for a few days, he is already very popular among the students.
She is beautiful, careful and gentle, and students are willing to get close to her. Moreover, with everyone's help and constantly passing topics to her, she has integrated into this environment very well.
Meng Yao also developed feelings for this group of students.
The last class before school was Meng Yao's. Meng Yao said goodbye to the students after the class. It had rained and the ground was muddy. Meng Yao saw many students bending down and naturally and skillfully rolled up their trousers.
The two boys, Xu Yao and Tan Hong, were responsible for sending the students out of the school. They didn't turn back until they saw them all walking down the slope safely.
Meng Yao was still standing at the door of the classroom, his eyes falling on Xu Yao and Tan Hong, as if in a daze.
Meng Yao was thinking.
From the time she watched the movie, or to be precise, from the time she finished chatting with Xu Yao, she had been thinking about what she could do and what she should do when she came here.
If she only talks about the knowledge contained in textbooks, it doesn't make much sense for her to come all the way here. What these students need is not a dull teacher who can only teach with textbooks.
Meng Yao began to think back on the teachers she had met while growing up, and tried to learn from them how to become a qualified and helpful teacher to students.
She immediately thought of Shen Heyi.
Shen Heyi's words to her and Song Siqi before the college entrance examination are still deeply impressed. During her two years in high school, Shen Heyi helped her a lot and was very kind to her.
Sometimes he even cares about her more than Song Lan, who is her mother.
She also told Song Siqi that she wanted to be as warm a person as Shen Heyi.
In fact, this was the reason why she chose to come to Yunnan in the first place.
Perhaps because he didn't receive much warmth, Meng Yao always remembered the warmth he had received.
For example, Shen Heyi, and Xu Yao.
She has seen the light, so she chases the light and wants to become the light.
