The primary school in the village is located in a red mountain orchard at the east end of the village. These Hongshan fruit trees were planted by Teacher Li in the first year he came to our school.
At that time, he had just graduated from normal school. Like all young people who have just stepped out of school, they are passionate and passionate, and they also have beautiful dreams. He, who lives in the city, did not obey his parents' wishes and returned to them. Instead, he chose the path of “supporting education”. His parents didn't understand, his relatives at home didn't understand, and his girlfriend, who studied art and graduated with him, didn't know how to accept his choice.
During the day, sometimes we have art classes, and Teacher Li takes a group of us children to the orchard for class while the principal is away. In the spring, he painted with us the furry grass in the bushes that looked like bunny ears; in the summer, he competed with us to see who could draw more lively grasshoppers and grasshoppers on the grass; in the autumn, when the delightful fruits covered the branches, we Together with him, we drew the red mountain fruit by chance. The difference is that sometimes we draw a few red fruits, and sometimes we draw an entire fruit forest. Next to Teacher Li's red mountain fruits, there is always the slender back of a girl in white.
Once in class, we couldn’t bear the curiosity, so we discussed it together and recommended Wang Ergou, the most chatty person in the class, to ask Teacher Li. "Who do you think the person in the painting will be?" We stood next to each other, standing behind Wang Ergou, whispering. After a while, he was pushed behind Teacher Li by us. Before Ergou could speak, Teacher Li suddenly turned his head. We were startled. In the panic, some fell down and sat on the grass, and some lay on top of another classmate. Teacher Li turned around, squeezed Ergou's plump face with his hands, and then grabbed his hands and pulled him up from the grass.
"Teacher, let's play throwing handkerchiefs with you! Okay, classmates?"
"Okay!" the students said in unison. As soon as I turned around, I forgot all the questions I wanted to ask the teacher.
After school in the afternoon, the students still didn’t want to leave. Some naughty and courageous ones shouted "Goodbye, Teacher Li!" when passing by the teacher's dormitory. Some even put their bicycles aside, tiptoed under the teacher's window, kicked up their feet and sneaked into Teacher Li's room. Looking around. The afternoon sun shines brightly on the window glass. It became increasingly difficult to see clearly. Those who were timid just pushed their 28-year-old bicycles and watched from a distance, giggling secretly from the side. The girls held the car with one hand and covered their mouths with the other, fearing that Teacher Li would overhear them if they made a little noise.
"The teacher is not in the room"! I don’t know who shouted something. The birds and beasts dispersed.
In the morning, as soon as we left home, we heard singing from the school loudspeaker from a distance. That big speaker that only broadcasts gymnastics can also sing such a graceful song. This is really something that makes us excited. So, everyone rode their bikes and took the nearby trail. The already narrow path became increasingly crowded. One by one, the little lunatics rushed to school as fast as they could. There were also stupid guys who were so impatient that they lost their composure and were deliberately pushed into the field next to the trail by another classmate.
"What song is Teacher Li playing? It's so nice!"
"I haven't heard it either. Let's ask the teacher when we get to school later."
"What's happened to these children recently? Why are none of them late suddenly?" The principal paced back and forth slowly at the gate of the school. From time to time, he would use one hand behind his back to lift the reading glasses on his eyes. At this moment, the large speaker hanging on the railing outside the studio on the second floor quietly overlooks the playground in front of him. Only the red ribbon, which I don’t know when it was tied, was dancing gently in the warm wind of early spring.
When summer came, a big thing happened in the school. What big thing can we little kids do? Of course it’s about our teacher Li.
The girl in white next to the red mountain fruit came out of Teacher Li’s painting!
That day was Friday, and the principal was not there in the afternoon as usual.
In the Hongshan fruit forest, there are already bright red mountain fruit flowers one after another, and white flower buds like small torches one after another. When Teacher Li went home to visit relatives, he brought us a new toy from the city - a Walkman. When "Katyusha" gradually spread over the Hongshan fruit forest, all the bees and butterflies in the village seemed to flutter together. I just don’t know if these bees and butterflies are curious about the sweet and smiling red mountain fruit flowers, or are they here to listen to this wonderful "Katyusha".
It was Wang Ergou who discovered the girl in the painting first. When she walked gently into the Hongshan fruit forest and walked quietly behind Teacher Li, I swear, all our classmates held their breath. But Ergou was not the only one who was dumbfounded. Really, even honey and butterflies!
"Teacher Li——Lao——"! The whole class of us shouted Teacher Li almost in unison.
The teacher turned around in surprise, then smiled with great surprise. That was the brightest smile we have ever seen from Teacher Li. Together with the sun that day, it lit up the entire Hongshan Fruit Forest.
? (Proposition assignment? April 3, 2019? Yu Chenggang)