The Most Simple Wish

In October, Tao Huizhen finally collapsed. She lay on the bamboo bed and couldn't get up. She had a persistent high fever. Her face, naturally ruddy place, more fiery and warm, like a burning flame. And not ruddy place, more pale and dim, dead and rigid.

The flames lit up the pallor, and she fell asleep between the ice and the fire. She frowned and her lips curled up in dry white. She talked in her sleep. The uncomfortable feeling spreads all over the body. Sometimes I feel like I'm swimming outside the body, sometimes I'm squeezed under the boulder and can't breathe.

I don't know how long it took to smell the herbal medicine. Someone gave her some herbal medicine from Dai village and vaguely told her what she had learned. Then he went downstairs. She sleeps in a daze, and in her dream she is still giving lectures to the children.

Doctor Chen left the Dai medicine in the basket downstairs.

Outside the bamboo house, Qiu He and Dao Xiaotong are talking. They looked at each other in Dai dialect and spoke slowly. They could not tell the importance of the situation from their tone. Probably Qiu He has been asking, Dao Xiaotong has been answering. After a while, Qiu he left the door of the small bamboo house.

A few hours later, the village was bustling with people running. Someone is shouting. Someone "pedals pedals pedals" runs on the small hanging foot bamboo building. They looked at Tao Huizhen, who was leaning against the bamboo bed and didn't know it, and her face was full of unhappiness. The people who came upstairs were the parents of the children in dachacun primary school. They didn't come to see Tao Huizhen. Their original intention was to express their dissatisfaction, but when they saw Tao Huizhen's haggard appearance, they hesitated and then turned away.

Tao Huizhen felt that her head was too heavy to ask. Those parents who came in and disappeared in front of her left a trail of shadows beside her.

Why do their faces show anger?

Tao Huizhen raised her heavy head, dragged her body to the eaves and looked out. There are some villagers walking along the village road. Dao Xiaotong is boiling Dai medicine in the open-air kitchen downstairs. Tao Huizhen thought it was for her. There is no sign of the children in dachacun primary school. People passing by are talking. Tao Huizhen still can't know clearly why her parents are angry in front of her.

At this time, the clear voice of dialogue downstairs floated into my ears. She heard the whole story.

It turns out that a few kids remembered that the red wild fruit was very sweet when they went to dachasan with her last time. She also described it as more delicious than the fruit in the city, and she laughed sweetly when she ate it. So after she was ill, the children spontaneously organized to go to dacha mountain to pick wild fruits. Originally, it was a piece of love for the students to make the teacher better, but a few children scratched their fingers and their legs by the branches. So some people are talking about it, and as parents of students, they especially mind.

Tao Huizhen's head sank and nearly fell down from upstairs. She raised her wrist and looked at her watch. She had been sleeping all day and night. It seemed that what they said was yesterday. She can't remember at all. In the corner of the table, there are red wild fruits in the fruit plate, which are obviously overnight. She didn't know if she had taken one.

I'm worried about what happened to the children's scratches. She staggered up the stairs. Li Lao's voice also came from the stairs: "it's not in the way. It's some small scratches. The little boy is active. It's nothing."

"When parents see their children, they will be very distressed. Parents run up, want to vent their feelings, we should understand. Teacher Tao also loves these kids, so we should understand that kind of mood. Of course, those parents are also worried about your situation. They are afraid that you will fall down completely. "

Tao Huizhen stops at the stairway. Old Li's words lingered in her ears, and she savored them carefully. Reflexively, he nodded in agreement all the time. She doesn't mind the parents' reaction very much. Since the students are OK, she can breathe a sigh of relief. She sent the air deep into her lungs and then spat it out. She stares at Li with concern and moves up the stairs step by step.

Li was leaning on a bamboo stick. His hair was white and his face was sweating. He bit his teeth. His body was shaking all the time. He was struggling with his legs and waist. It took him a lot of time to walk up the stairs. He is angry with himself. His old body is more and more useless.

He finally climbed the stairs. Tao Huizhen was silent. Before last year's heavy snow, old Li was still very strong. He also repaired the school building. Just over a year later, he is quite old. It's hard for Tao Huizhen to imagine that a burly figure will gradually die out in the years.

"I'm old. But it's not sad. Everyone will get old. We can't compete with time, we can't compete with the laws of nature. Once it's that time, we should accept it calmly and without complaint. " Mr. Li stands in front of the window. He pressed his chest.

Tao Huizhen's mouth pursed into a straight line. She looked at Li firmly and nodded heavily. Waiting for him to go on.

Old Li shook his head and said, "no one can beat you, Mr. Tao. You have created a miracle in your limited life. They helped the kids

"I'm flattered."

"It's never easy to do education. It's very common to be questioned. I can see that. I can see from my old man's eyes that Mr. Tao hesitated, got bored and complained, but you finally got here. I also questioned you, Mr. Tao. When you first came to Dai Township, I thought you couldn't survive for three months. When I talked about you with Mr. Dao, you heard me. Do you remember? But that's a fact. At that time, no one would believe that the teachers from the city could stay for more than three years. Up to now, some people are still in a trance. "

"We have to be grateful to Tao Huizhen. We are always talking about you in front of us and recalling you behind us. Those children's parents will not really be angry with you. "

"Hold on, day by day, day by day." Mr. Li said with deep meaning.