The Most Simple Wish

"The cold wind comes from over there." Mr. Li pointed to a direction at the top of the mountain. He put on a thick sweater that he hadn't worn for many years, and his neck was tightly protected by the collar. He said meaningfully: "this year's winter is very cold. This year's year is also different from previous years. There is a strange smell in the air."

Li is like an experienced Falcon in winter. The smell of danger in the air. Feel the change of the weather, turbid eyes flashed a trace of uneasiness.

Living for a long time, maybe animals and people have an instinct, which is probably driven by experience. Tao Huizhen felt something unknown from Li Lao's expression.

This is Tao Huizhen's second winter in Dai village. Compared with the tenderness of winter at the end of 2006, this winter is not friendly at all. The temperature suddenly dropped below zero, and the air smelled of dampness and frozen soil.

Tao Huizhen put the down jacket she brought from her hometown on Qiuhe. Put on the back hat for her. Without a decent dress, Qiuhe can't get through this winter. She has not experienced such a cold winter, her face is as red as Tao Huizhen's because of the cold.

Three people stood on the slope at the entrance of the village and looked up. At the foot of the grass in this winter has become dark green and then black. Even they can't stand the cold air that keeps falling. Li said that the vegetation in Dai township is rarely updated due to seasons. It was a strange thing in his constant years. The temperature is really too low.

Tao Huizhen stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction of Li Laozhi. The sky at the top of the mountain was gray“ Dachacun primary school also has to find a way to make a fire to keep warm. Mr. Li has to find a way to make sure that the children can't survive this winter without making a fire. "

"Let the kids wear what they can. These children have not experienced what is the cold winter, for them is a severe test. I'm going to repair the school first. It should be firm and airtight. When it comes to making a fire to keep warm, we should prepare some firewood first. There is very little decent firewood in Dai township. "

"Teacher Dao and I went to fix the firewood and keep it in reserve, branches and straw. In a word, there is not much firewood in Dai township. We can get all the things that can burn." Tao Huizhen imagines the way to keep out the cold in Northeast China, and feels the cold air blowing in Dai village. In the subtropics, it's quite wonderful to feel the cold. It's like seeing fish in the desert“ If only there were coal, Mr. Li Tao Huizhen put her hand into her pocket and said.

"How can there be coal here? It's not teacher Tao's hometown. But you should take care of yourself, Mr. Tao. This winter is a test for everyone. The kids still have to rely on you to take care of them. You can't fall down anyway. " Li turned his eyes back from the foggy sky on the top of the mountain. She glanced at Tao Huizhen's face. Her hair was blown to her face and into her mouth in the cold wind. Compared with when she came, her hair grew a lot, but her firm eyes improved. So Mr. Li bowed his head and looked at the autumn lotus, who looked like an honest and adult to observe the distant mountain sky. After patting on Qiuhe's shoulder, Li walked towards the village with a particularly straight step this winter“ I hope it's not too cold to take us by surprise. " Old Li's words were swept into the cold by the wind.

Tao Huizhen pulls Qiuhe: "let's go, too."

When they passed by the canteen at the entrance of the village, they took the latest version of people's daily, which was just delivered by the newsman and smelled of ink. So far, Qiuhe does not have the ability to read newspapers by himself. But even if she was illiterate, when she opened the front page headlines of this set of newspapers, she noticed a different atmosphere.

"Is it snowing? Teacher Although there is no graphic on the front page and the Chinese characters Qiuhe knows are not enough to support her to understand the newspaper, she guessed the core of the event so accurately. This may be due to the recent cold air, people think that snow is also normal. Qiuhe hasn't seen snow yet.

Tao Huizhen pondered "well", and pulled Qiuhe to speed up the pace.

"It's snowing, but it's not Mengla, it's not Jinghong, it's not Banna."

"Could it be Kunming?"

"It didn't rain in Yunnan Province. Now it seems that most areas south of the Huaihe River are snowing. When going out tomorrow, Qiuhe should remember to wear more clothes, put the teacher's down jacket on the outside to keep out the cold and wear a good hat. The doors and windows at home are also closed, and grandparents should try to wear as many as possible. Do you have thick sweaters? "

"Yes. I can do it well. " Autumn lotus clear answer way.

Thinking of the situation at home, she can always do things in an orderly way. Recently, she has redoubled her work. She will finish the work in the afternoon. Deliberately let grandparents see her relaxed. Not because of the extra burden of learning every day, and change the original way of life. This is the state she wants her grandparents to experience.

Learning knowledge and culture has changed Qiu He's outlook on life. Through the contact and communication with Tao Huizhen, and through her experience in dachacun primary school, she knows more things she didn't know before. The vast territory of the motherland, so that she began to yearn for the other end of the mountain, vision is no longer confined to small villages.

I understand that life has more meaning than life itself;

She began to feel proud. China's land area of 9.6 million square kilometers is raising a population of 1.3 billion. She is also among them, inexplicably and strangely;