my autistic boyfriend

Chapter 70 The Grimace on the Mountain

The so-called dormitory that Sheng Zhaoxi lived in Matou Village was a small brick room where the villagers found piles of debris next to the classroom where the children were in class.

The villagers knew in their hearts that she would not stay here for long, and sooner or later she would be sold to another village's daughter-in-law.I didn't bother to arrange it for her.

There is no mattress, a broken straw mat spread on the wooden board, plus a thin blanket is all the belongings in the house.

Sheng Zhaoxi had never lived in such a place before, and she used to book the best local hotels wherever she went.Sleeping on this hard wooden board for the first night, it was hard to fall asleep. In the second half of the night, half asleep, she felt a wet touch on her legs, and she touched a furry thing with her hand.With a flashlight, a gray thing got out of the bed.

When she realized it was a mouse, she woke up from fright, and quickly shrank into a ball, not daring to close her eyes all night.

The dark night always makes people feel powerless to be swallowed up. At that moment, she just wanted to escape and leave this ghost place immediately.But when she thought of Xie Yu and those poor girls, she couldn't move.

Sheng Zhaoxi can't be called a Miss Jiao, but she has never experienced hardship in material life.She came here with heroic pride.But a mouse knocked her heroic image down.

You are not allowed to bring your mobile phone into the village. Sheng Zhaoxi sat on the bed except for a flashlight given to her by the children.She has nothing.

The flashlight glowed faintly by his side, illuminating the strange and simple places around him.There were intermittent whimpers similar to those of small animals outside.

Sheng Zhaoxi cried for nothing, she missed the bright lights at home, Qin Jing urging her to go on a blind date, and the hot milk that Jin Siyu made her every night before going to bed.That's how it went until daylight.

On a new day, the crowing of chickens and the barking of dogs in the village and the fragrance of the soil finally made her seem to come alive a little bit.

Sheng Zhaoxi stood guard in front of the classroom, watching the children walk into the classroom one by one with their small backpacks on their backs.

Children in mountainous areas do not have fancy schoolbags, but bamboo baskets are their schoolbags.In addition to the textbooks with missing pages, there are only pens and pencils left, as well as hoes and machetes.

Some children even pick some pitcher plants along the way to feed the pigs.

On the first day of class, Sheng Zhaoxi saw the children carrying a lot of straw, reeds, and barley husks. During the break, a few senior children gathered in the lawn to pick and choose what everyone had brought.

Sheng Zhaoxi asked what they were doing, but they all refused to tell in a mysterious way.

In the evening, when Sheng Zhaoxi returned to the dormitory after eating, he found a "pillow" on the bed.She picked it up and molded it, but it was hard and a bit sticky, and there was a rustling sound inside.The bright red and green flower cloth is full of herbs that the children have memorized.

A real buckwheat herb pillow.

A note was pressed under the pillow, with a few words crookedly written on it. "Thank you, teacher, don't leave, teacher."

Later, Sheng Zhaoxi found out that this is the custom of the children in Matou Village.Every time a new teacher comes, they will make a pillow with their own hands and give it to the teacher.

This is a particularly impoverished mountainous area. Although the state is willing to support it, it provides additional subsidies to encourage young teachers to go to the countryside to teach.But the female teachers dare not come, and the male teachers will leave after a short time.

Just like bad money drives out good money, here, ignorant and backward culture drives out advanced civilization.The children who have lost their education continue to grow into the main force of ignorance and backwardness.The whole mountain village is caught in such a vicious circle.

It is precisely because the children here are often in a state without teachers, so every time a new teacher comes, they are very excited and cherish it.Children's minds are not as complicated as adults, and they can only use this little mind to keep the teacher.

Sheng Zhaoxi felt warm and guilty in his heart.The unintentional hope she brings to them is also a doomed disappointment.

Perhaps it was because the smell of herbs had killed snakes, insects, rats and ants, Sheng Zhaoxi was never visited by mice afterward.After a few days, the planks also became less rigid.

Her adaptability is higher than she imagined, but her task is not to really teach.She had to go, taking five other girls with her.

On the ninth night, Sheng Zhaoxi suffered from insomnia after the meeting with the girls.

Tomorrow is the last day of the appointment, and she still doesn't know Xie Yu's whereabouts.The mission ultimately failed.

Sheng Zhaoxi got up from the bed in the "dormitory" in the dark.With a flashlight in hand, sit on the front steps of the classroom and look at the stars.

The night in the mountains is very dark, and the stars are also very bright.

She suddenly couldn't help thinking of Jin Siyu, the child of the stars, who was also the brightest star in her ordinary years.Now he turned into a star, hanging far away in the sky.

Sheng Zhaoxi imitated the way he used to pray, and made the sign of the cross with his right hand on his chest under the starry sky. "Ayu, please bless me in the spirit of heaven to find out Xie Yu's whereabouts."

When she closed her eyes and prayed, she heard the intermittent whimpering again.This time it was louder and lasted longer.

Sheng Zhaoxi was so frightened that she subconsciously wanted to run back to her room.

Between flashes and flints, her steps faltered and stopped at the door of the room.This is not the sound of a beast, this is the cry of a woman...

She followed the sound and walked up the mountain. Matou Village was built on the mountain.The villagers live at the foot of the mountain, and Hope Primary School is built halfway up the mountain.And Sheng Zhaoxi heard the voice came from the mountain.

"Is anyone there?" Sheng Zhaoxi emboldened herself. "Answer someone's words to me."

Every time the crying stopped, she lost her way.

The mountains and forests in the middle of the night made Sheng Zhaoxi fall into a huge sense of insecurity. In an instant, all the horror movies he had watched from childhood to adulthood flooded into his mind.

"Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva." Sheng Zhaoxi chanted unconsciously, resisting the urge to run back, and continued walking deeper into the forest.

After walking for nearly 10 minutes, I finally saw the shape of a wooden house in the night.

Sheng Zhaoxi took a deep breath and approached, the door of the wooden house was locked.There was a window on the side, and she shone in with a flashlight.The wooden house was empty, only a pile of straw, and a broken enamel bowl stood by the door.

The light from the flashlight was too weak for Sheng Zhaoxi to see clearly.He took another step forward and lay down on the window sill.At the same time, a black figure flashed, and a face with disheveled hair and no facial features suddenly appeared in front of Sheng Zhaoxi.It was almost close to her face through the wooden fence.

"Ah!" Sheng Zhaoxi screamed, and the flashlight fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)