20 years of teaching

Chapter 79

Lin Feifan said: "I'll go and get one right now. I'm free this afternoon. I'll clean up the gutter, so I don't have to call workers and help the school save some wages."

Principal Shi was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed, "That's a good idea, you go and bring three shovels here now, and ask Shi Xingxi to come here too."

"Okay." After Lin Feifei finished speaking, he ran towards the kitchen, as fast as a gust of wind.

Shi Yuming looked at Lin Feifan's back with a gratified smile on his face. He had never met such an enthusiastic and hardworking young man for many years. He vaguely felt that Jinghu Junior High School would undergo tremendous changes due to the arrival of this young man.

He rubbed his hands, shook his arms a few times, and jumped a few more times, moving his old bones in advance, doing warm-up exercises, and preparing for a big fight.

In Shi Xingxi's room, the door was open, and there was a bamboo bed at the door, half inside and half outside.

Shi Xingxi was wearing a pair of big underpants, with his upper body bare, lying on his back on the bed and sleeping soundly, snoring like thunder.

In the morning, he has to get up very early to cook breakfast, and he suffers from severe lack of sleep. After finishing the work in the kitchen at noon, Shi Xingxi usually takes a nap.

Seeing that Shi Xingxi was sleeping deeply, Lin Feifan couldn't bear to wake him up, so he went sideways from the side of the bamboo bed to look for a shovel, but he couldn't find it for a long time.

The room is only this big, and there is no way to hide such a big thing. The shovel must be placed elsewhere, right?
I had no choice but to wake up Master Shi.

"Master Shi, wake up." Lin Feifan whispered while standing beside the bamboo bed.

Shi Xingxi continued to snore, sleeping soundly.

He yelled several times in a row, and the voice became louder and louder, but he couldn't wake up Master Shi.

He stopped the snoring, but he didn't wake up, and his eyelids trembled frequently.

It seems that he is already awake, and continues to pretend to be asleep, ignoring others.

Lin Feifan said: "Master Shi, the principal asked me to come here and borrow something from you."

Shi Xing sat up happily, looked around and said, "Principal? Where is the principal?"

Lin Feifan smiled and said, "The principal said you have a shovel here, so let me borrow a shovel to clean up the garbage in the gutters of the student dormitories."

Shi Xingxi lay down again with a displeased face, and said angrily, "The shovel is behind the door, take it yourself."

But the door was blocked by the bamboo bed, Lin Feifan knocked on the door and said, "Master Shi, you have to get up."

Shi Xingxi reluctantly got up and moved the bed, and said angrily: "You child, don't come and make noise when I'm sleepy in the afternoon. I have to get up very early in the morning. I have worked so hard."

Lin Feifan took out three shovels and said, "Are you going together?"

"Why? Don't go." Shi Xingxi leaned back, lying on the bed bored.

"Okay then, I'll just take two shovels and tell Principal Shi that you are sleeping." Lin Feifan put down a shovel, picked up two shovels and walked out.

Shi Xingxi sat up again, and hurriedly asked: "Wait, the principal is going to do it together? The principal asked me to go over?"

Lin Feifan turned around, nodded and said, "Yeah!"

Shi Xingxi picked up another shovel and a dustpan, and kept running outside.

"Hey, you have to get dressed before you go. There are so many students in school today, what do you look like?" Lin Feifan shouted.

Shi Xingxi turned around and ran back again, hurriedly put on his pants and jacket, picked up the shovel and rushed towards the student dormitory, not forgetting to turn around and urge Lin Feifan to hurry up.

Lin Feifan shook his head and muttered, "The principal's power is really great!"

……

The two came to the back of the student dormitory, and Shi Xingxi said with a smile: "Principal, you go back and rest, as long as Teacher Lin and I can do this rough work."

Shi Yuming said: "I've already moved my body, the three of us will do it together, hurry up, let's do it."

"Okay!" Shi Xingxi spat on his hands, rubbed them, held the shovel with both hands, and began to shovel away the thickly accumulated soil in the ditch.

Shi Xingxi is generally unwilling to do things outside the scope of this kind of work.

But today he was working with the principal, he was very happy in his heart, and he was full of energy.

Shi Xingxi's face was flushed, and he was extremely excited. He threw the soil and sundries in the ditch far away with one spade at a time, with special effort.

Shi Yuming is not far behind today. Although he seldom does this kind of physical work, his speed of doing things is no slower than Shi Xingxi's.

Seeing that the two elders were working so hard, Lin Fan also put in a lot of effort.

The three of them first cleaned the gutters behind the three houses in the east, and then cleaned all the gutters behind the other houses.

In order to prevent the surrounding sundries from filling the ditch again when it rains, the three of them carefully removed the sundries around the ditch.

After more than an hour, everyone was sweating profusely, and their shirts were soaked with sweat.

Seeing that the long drainage ditch was unobstructed, Shi Yuming was very satisfied, and said that if it was done by a small worker, it would definitely cost a day's wages.

Shi Xingxi took the two of them to the kitchen, and the three of them took turns to rinse under the tap.

Shi Xing happily ran to the room, brought a towel, handed it to Principal Shi, and said with a smile: "Principal Shi, wipe off the water on your face."

Old towels, tattered, black and gray with a little white, probably white in nature.

"Here, you wipe first." Principal Shi handed the towel to Lin Feifan.

Lin Feifei waved his hands again and again, took two steps back, and said, "I don't need it, I'd rather not wipe it, it's cooler."

Principal Shi withdrew his hand, spread out the towel, covered his face, just wiped it twice, quickly tore off the towel, and threw it to Shi Xingxi.

He frowned, disgusted, and blamed: "Why is there a foul smell?"

Shi Xingxi looked at the towel carefully, and exclaimed, "I'm sorry, I took the wrong towel, I used it for bathing."

"You should be chewed by a dog!" Principal Shi was so angry that he punched Shi Xingxi.

Lin Feifan laughed and twitched.

……

Shi Yuming and Lin Feifan came to Lin Feifan's room together, and Lin Youde happened to be carrying a dustpan and broken tiles up the ladder to Dong Qiulian.

"Dad, this is the principal Shi of our school." Lin Feifan introduced.

"Hey, Principal Shi! Fanfan depends on your education." Lin Youde hurriedly got off the ladder, wiped his hands on his trousers, and took out Ashima from his pocket.

"It turned out to be you. Your family is really related to Jinghu Junior High School! Master Lin, you are welcome, I don't smoke." Shi Yuming said.

"..." Lin Youde didn't reply, he looked at his son nervously, he was worried that Shi Yuming would mention his father who passed away many years again like Shi Xingxi.

Lin Youde never told his son about the misfortune that happened to his family back then.

The past is dusty, he never wants to bring it up, and he doesn't want to pass on guilt and hatred to the next generation.

He only wants his son to live happily, instead of being unable to extricate himself from the shadow of the past like him.

(End of this chapter)