Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 616 520
The two wandered around the B&B, and after looking around, they planned to go out for a stroll. After all, there was still an afternoon, and it would be too boring to stay here all the time.

So Li Xiao temporarily changed from a food anchor to an outdoor anchor.

But if it is said that it is going out to play, it is true and there is nothing to visit. After all, it is just a town, and there are no so-called characteristics.

Li Xiao and Chen Xu found a small local temple outside and walked in. The temple was sparsely populated, and there were only two permanent monks, so they were a little surprised to see anyone coming.

Li Xiao and Chen Xu greeted them and walked into a large hall.

The Buddha statues in the store are also common, but the two monks are obviously like a few treasures, telling all the legends about each Buddha statue.

Li Xiao also took the fans in the live broadcast room to popularize science again.

Although the stories told by the two monks were not as humorous and interesting as those told by the tour guide, they were very detailed and their eyes were very pious.

Li Xiao couldn't help being fascinated when he heard this, and by the time he realized it, two or three hours had passed.

Before leaving, Li Xiao looked at the Buddha statue in the middle of the main hall, and bowed deliberately, not for asking for anything, but simply wanting to bow, without distracting thoughts in his heart.

While Li Xiao and Chen Xu were walking out, Chen Xu didn't forget to tease Li Xiao.

"You're fascinated by what you've heard. Why, are you interested?"

Li Xiao glanced at him, "Isn't this the same as listening to a story?"

Chen Xu curled his lips, "It doesn't look like it to me. You don't even know. Before you left, when you saluted the Buddha statue, I felt you. How should I say, pious?"

Hearing his adjective, Li Xiao couldn't help laughing, "Worshiping Buddha must be pious."

Hearing what Li Xiao said, Chen Xu's curiosity arose, "What wish did you just make in your heart?"

Before Li Xiao could speak, Chen Xu continued, "Don't say you don't think about anything. If you don't want anything, you're not a Buddhist. How can you be so devout?"

Li Xiaobai glanced at him, "Don't tell me, I really didn't think about it that much."

Chen Xu obviously didn't believe it, but Li Xiao didn't care whether he believed it or not, it wasn't a big deal anyway.

But I don't know if it's Li Xiao's illusion, he always feels that after coming out of there, he seems to have a different feeling.

Li Xiao shook his head secretly. There is nothing different, but after being exposed to new things, his mood will always change. It's different.

After the two returned to the homestay, Uncle Li saw them coming back, so he walked over with a smile.

"We have to wait a while for dinner. Do you have anything you want to eat? I can ask someone to cook a small stove for you."

Li Xiao smiled, "No, we just want to taste what the cafeteria is like here."

Uncle Li nodded with a smile, then took the two of them to find a place to sit down.

Seeing that it was still early, a few people started chatting.

Li Xiao saw that Uncle Li's surname and appearance didn't seem like a local here, so he asked directly: "Uncle, you don't seem to be a local from your appearance?"

Uncle Li nodded, "Yes, my hometown is in Shandong, and I came here to teach after finishing my studies."

Supporting education? !The way Li Xiao looked at Uncle Li changed, with some admiration in his expression.

The teachers who dare to teach are really admirable, not to mention the difficult environment, and the salary is not high, especially when they come here, they have to overcome altitude sickness, language barrier and so on.

Now XZ has a lot of Sinicization, and it needs to be more developed, but Uncle Li looks like he is 50 years old. When he came to teach, the place here was probably very poor.

"Uncle, this is you." Li Xiao gave Uncle Li a thumbs up.

Uncle Li looked a little embarrassed, and smiled with his lips pursed, "I didn't think about it that much at the time, I just thought about being able to contribute, and thinking about not disappointing the cultivation of the motherland."

Speaking of this, Uncle Li's eyes shone brightly, "Come here to support education, it is the most correct thing I did, I am an orphan myself, and I still rely on the country to study, I know the value and necessity of studying, I I want the children here to receive education as well.”

Maybe this is the teacher, Li Xiao looked a little excited, "Uncle, do you regret it?"

Uncle Li shook his head firmly, "I don't regret it."

After he finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something himself, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"Actually, I regretted it when I first came here. The conditions here are difficult, and I couldn't get used to it for a while. The children I teach are obedient, but they don't understand the language. It takes a lot of effort to talk every time, and even They didn't understand what I said, they flinched back then, and wanted to go back."

At this moment, a little boy ran in from the outside, hugged Uncle Li's waist, rolled his eyes around, and looked at Li Xiao and the others curiously.

Uncle Li also hugged the child, looked at the child very lovingly, and patted his head.

"But looking at the children's eyes eager for knowledge and the substandard 'teacher', I think it's worth it."

Li Xiao has always admired this kind of righteous person, because if it were him, he knew that he would not be able to do it, so facing Uncle Li at this time, he admired him even more.

Seeing that they were silent, the child said at this moment: "Principal, the meal in the cafeteria is ready."

Li Xiao was taken aback for a moment, and then took it for granted. After teaching here for a lifetime, it is no surprise to become the principal.

Hearing what the child said, Uncle Li quickly stood up and called Li Xiao and Chen Xu to the cafeteria for dinner.

The cafeteria is naturally built in the school, and the place itself is not too big, and the school is not too far away, but the temperature outside has cooled down now, and Li Xiao has a car, so there is no reason to suffer and walk there, although he is not afraid of the cold, but He is human and will get tired.

The kid obviously had never seen this kind of RV before. After getting in the car, he looked around curiously, but he just sat there in a well-behaved manner, and didn't want to touch it like other kids. Those who touch that just look at it, and they are taught very well just by looking at it.

Li Xiao saw that he was cute, so he handed him a small doll in the car.

This little doll belonged to those two little girls, and they kept it with them all the time. Before they left, they said that Li Xiao's car was not interesting, so they kept it, and it was a good time to coax the children.

The child first glanced at Uncle Li and saw him nodding, then took it and hugged it in his arms, and then played with the doll in his arms very happily.

After a while, they arrived at their destination. Before getting out of the car, the child took a reluctant look at the doll. He liked it very much, but he was very sensible and didn't make a sound.

Li Xiao smiled, then took out the doll and handed it to him.

"Take it if you like it. It's a gift from my brother."

The child's eyes lit up first, and just as he was about to take it, he looked at Uncle Li as if he suddenly remembered something.

Uncle Li knew the value of this little doll in his heart. Although he didn't spend much time together, he could also see who Li Xiao and the others were. He knew that since they gave it, they really didn't care, so he nodded with a smile. Signal the child to accept it.

That's how the kid accepted it, and smiled shyly at Li Xiao and the others, and said in a low voice, "Thank you."

As soon as they entered the cafeteria, the children inside looked at them one after another. Some of them were young and courageous, and surrounded them, shouting "Hello Principal", but they couldn't help looking at Li Xiao and the others. .

A courageous one asked directly, "Grandpa Principal, who are these two uncles?"

Uncle Li smiled, said nothing, and told them to go back to their seats for dinner, then smiled apologetically at Li Xiao and the others: "I'm sorry, kid, I'm not sensible."

Li Xiao didn't think it was a big deal, it's normal for children to be curious, "They're pretty cute like this."

Uncle Li smiled, "That's right, I always feel the same way."

After finishing speaking, Uncle Li took them to the back kitchen.

There is a set of tables and chairs in the back kitchen, which should be reserved for the chef to eat.

Sure enough, after a while, a woman came in with food in her hand.

Uncle Li said a few words to the woman, and then she left.

After the woman left, Uncle Li smiled at them, "I know you guys are going to broadcast live, so I just went out to eat."

Li Xiao didn't keep him either. After all, if Uncle Li had dinner with them, Uncle Li would feel uncomfortable watching their live broadcast.

Li Xiao glanced at the dishes on the table, most of them were some meat, probably because Uncle Li is not from here, so the dishes are not like the style here, but more biased towards the Central Plains, most of them are stir-fried dishes .

A dish of fried lamb with green onions, a dish of stewed chicken, and a dish of beef soup, all looked steaming hot.

Li Xiao first took a picture of the food with the camera, and then put down the chopsticks.

First, I took a bite of the chicken. The chicken tasted ordinary, a bit woody. It should be that the chicken was older, not so tender, and the taste was a bit heavy.

If the mutton is fried with scallions, the mutton smell is still there.

As for the beef soup, the aroma of the beef is very strong, and the soup is also very fragrant. It should be stewed for a long time.

To be honest, the taste of these dishes is definitely not as good as those restaurants, but it is just a big pot of rice in the cafeteria, and you can't ask for so much. Generally speaking, it is okay, at least there are no dark dishes.

Moreover, Li Xiao observed the back kitchen, which was very clean and tidy, and there were no foreign objects in the dishes. To be honest, it is not bad for a canteen to be made like this.

So Li Xiao spoke out his thoughts and feelings truthfully, neither exaggerating nor belittling, just what should be.

After dinner, the sky here was relatively long and it was still bright outside, so Uncle Li invited them to visit the school.

Several people were walking on the playground, and students kept saying hello to Uncle Li.

It wasn't until a bell rang that the children who were still staying in the playground rushed towards the teaching building in a swarm, and the surroundings became quiet.

Li Xiao looked at this school and felt a little uncomfortable. It is an exaggeration to say that the school is run-down, but it is definitely not good.

The teaching building is a brick and tile building, but it is very mottled, and the walls are cracked in some places, which looks very dangerous. The playground is not so much a playground as it is a land, not even cement, let alone a plastic track. .

And the whole school, apart from the teaching building and the canteen, has only one small toilet, which is still the dry toilet.

To be honest, in this day and age, many rural primary schools are better than the primary schools in this town.

"Uncle Li, how many children are there in this school?"

Uncle Li sighed, "56."

Li Xiao was taken aback. Many schools now probably have more than this few students in a grade.

Seeming to see Li Xiao's surprise, Uncle Li said: "There are few people here, so not many people come to study, and the most important thing is that there are few teachers here, and if there are too many, they can't teach. "

Li Xiao sighed, did not speak but followed Uncle Li into the teaching building.

In the teaching building, the classrooms are full of students. They are doing self-study, the teacher is sitting on it, and the students below are doing their homework.

Uncle Li took them to the principal's office, which was empty, with only a table and a few stools, and the room was not that big.

Several people sat on the stools, and Uncle Li poured them a bowl of buttered tea, then rubbed their hands nervously.

"I don't know if you are used to drinking it, but I was not used to the taste of this thing when I first came here."

Li Xiao could see that he was a little nervous, so he smiled, "I think it's pretty good, not to mention warming up my whole body after a bowl, and it can also supplement the nutrients in the vegetables, how great it is."

Uncle Li also smiled, but kept frowning, looking at Li Xiao repeatedly, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak.

Seeing him like this, Li Xiao had a guess in his heart, so he took the initiative to say: "Uncle, do you have anything to say?"

Hearing what Li Xiao said, Uncle Li gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind, and said, "To be honest, there is indeed something wrong, actually."

Speaking of this, Uncle Li was a little embarrassed.

"Actually, I followed you at the beginning, and I didn't just want you to come to the cafeteria to eat."

Li Xiao already guessed this point. After all, this kind of canteen does not make any profit. Even if he ate it and said it was delicious, wouldn't someone come here to eat it?
However, Li Xiao had some guesses about Uncle Li's purpose of inviting him here.

Sure enough, Uncle Li hesitated again and again and said, "I want to ask you to do me a favor."

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