Persevering Love by Fan Zemu

After I finished lunch that day, Xiaobei came over and said to me, Teacher, let me take the tray over for you. OK, I said. She glanced at me and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

From that day on I often saw her smile. Shallow. Like the clearest and quietest water in a stream. She showed her teeth when she smiled. They were not very neat, but they looked good.

Xiao Xu is my classmate, and I am an intern in this warm elementary school. I always spent a class in a daze on the podium, and then came down disgraced with my book in hand to ask the instructor for advice. The children in this class are very noisy, like a plate of sand that can never be gathered together.

After a few days, I became the class teacher. It's terrible, I don't know when to let students do their duty and when to line up for meals. Xiaobei told me that after breakfast and dinner, the students on duty would have to sweep the floor. At noon, they just had to ask everyone to clean their seats. Before each meal, she helps me organize the team and then takes the students to the cafeteria to eat.

Xiao Bei is wearing a red windbreaker, black pants and exquisite boots. Sophisticated and decent. What a pretty pupil, I thought.

One morning, Xiaobei suddenly asked me, she said, "Teacher, does my hair look good when tied up?" I felt that this Xiaobei was a bit inexplicable today, and I said I didn’t know. She looked at me and said I tied it myself. I said oh, I know. Does it look good? she asked me. It looks good, I said a little impatiently. Before coming to the internship, our teacher told us not to get too close to primary school students, otherwise it will be difficult to control them.

Xiao Xu and two others sat in the back row to listen to my class. My classes are still so bad. A few students are even playing chess, a few are studying things outside the window, and many more are making small movements. I started the class helplessly, not knowing where to start adjusting my discipline.

Xiaobei still helped me organize the team. She always told me in a timely manner when there were many questions that I didn’t understand. Sometimes I would sit in the back and listen to the class and she would come over and smile at me. I told her to listen carefully in class, and she smiled mischievously. I think she's been acting weird lately.

On the way to eat, I was alone behind the huge team. Xiao Bei squeezed out of the crowd and she came next to me. She said, teacher, who do you like best in this class? I frowned and said I didn’t like anyone, it was too noisy. If you had to choose one, who would you like? Xiaobei looked at me questioningly, her expression was really distressing. I said still no. snort. A shadow passed over her face. At this time, my classmate was also nearby. He smiled at me ambiguously, and I suddenly felt that Xiaobei was really weird. I said you go back to the team quickly. She raised her head, looking very stubborn. I was very annoyed. If I told you not to go in, you would not eat. She looked at me pitifully. I shouted loudly, did you hear me, and asked you to go back to the team? I found that I was really angry. Then I saw her silently squeezing into the crowd with her head lowered and her hands in her trouser pockets.

After the music class, I walked out of the music classroom with two primary school students in the class. One told me that she liked Jay Chou very much and said she had his autograph. Another one said that she likes Li Yuchun very much and has her star movies. I said I also like Jaylen very much. Wow, the teacher also likes Jay Chou, the primary school student cheered. At this time, Xiaobei came over and said to the two students, let's go to do rubber band dancing. The two students were called away by her. I was in the middle of the conversation and felt very angry.

Many parents came to visit their children on Wednesday and bought a lot of snacks. Xiaobei clamored for me to buy snacks for her. I said what if every student was like you. If you buy one, you will get a second one. She said no, there won't be a second one. I suddenly felt that Xiaobei was not as lovable as before, and I even felt a little disgusted. I said no matter what, as long as I don’t want to buy it, just ask your dad to buy it. She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly looked at me angrily, tears falling. She held my hand and said, "Teacher, it's just once. Even if you buy me snacks every week, it's only been two weeks, and you're almost gone." Her tears suddenly became violent. I stood caught off guard.

Several of my classmates came over and said wow, Teacher Fan is so charming. I felt as if my face was burning. I vented all my anger on Xiaobei. I said what your parents usually teach you, and then I left angrily.

Another lesson, but still so bad. I shook my head and walked down. Xiao Xu smiled at me. I walked out of the classroom with her. We walked to the office. I met Xiao Bei on the corridor. She looked at me angrily, then pulled Xiao Xu away.

I asked Xiao Xu, what did Xiao Bei say to you. She smiled slyly at me and said it was nothing. I said you tell me and I’ll treat you to dinner. She said I just won’t tell, but I don’t mind if you treat me to dinner. I said forget it.

I am familiar with the work in the class a lot. Xiaobei no longer helps me organize the team and rarely talks to me. But she still often turns to look at me during class. Sometimes I laugh bitterly.

After class one day, the instructor happily said to me, "You have made great progress in the past few days, and your ability to control students is getting better and better." Now students like to listen to your class more and more. I spoke very humbly and felt very happy.

One night Xiaobei came over and said to me, "Teacher, I am sick." I said what's wrong with you? She said I felt weak all over and maybe I had heat stroke. When I touched her forehead, I could tell there was heat stroke. I said there is nothing unusual about you. She said playfully that you should accompany me to the infirmary. I said I would ask my classmates to accompany me. She said I want you to accompany me, and then she reached out and held me. I told you to stop messing around here and go back to class. You're not sick. If you are sick, go after class. She said no, I want to go now. At this time many students came out and watched us. I completely lost the grace that a trainee teacher should have. I yelled at her, "If you keep doing this, I'll call your dad tomorrow." Let him see how you are doing in school? My voice was so loud that the surrounding sounds suddenly dropped.

She lowered her head stubbornly, tears falling like broken beads. I thought in my heart, what happened to this child? Really.

I feel very lucky that Xiaobei will not come back to cause trouble again. He just smiled when he saw me, and there was sadness in his eyes, which made people feel like there were endless tears.

Xiao Bei fell ill on the day our internship ended. Her mother came to ask for leave for her. She was stunned the moment she saw me, ah...you...are the trainee teacher of Xiaobei's class. I said yes, I was surprised she was so excited. It's so similar..., no wonder Xiaobei kept saying it. What are you talking about? I asked confused.

Really like her dad, she said looking at me, with a large amount of sadness in her eyes. ah? I thought I heard wrong. She said that if you weren't younger than him, you would be exactly the same. Xiaobei told me several times that there was a trainee teacher who looked like my father, but I never had time to take a look. Her father died of cancer the year before last.

Xiao Xu was also stunned. She said that Xiao Bei is really distressed and she has always been helping you. Several times when I entered the classroom, I heard her saying, "Don't make noise in Teacher Fan's class, or I won't get along with you." I was walking with you that day, but Xiaobei told me not to go with you. She said she didn't want to see you with other women.

I feel like my mind is going blank. Xiaobei's figure appeared in my mind so clearly and sadly. The sadness accumulated in her eyes, her pitiful eyes, her smile, her stubbornness, her expression when she was injured, and her crying and helpless look are all vivid in my mind. She followed her "father" so heartbreakingly, but I was so cruel.

2. Misty Rain in Jiangnan

Author: Lu Youqing

It is difficult to travel to Jiangnan in May, but it is always foggy and rainy, which adds to the beauty of Jiangnan. A veil of mystery. Although it was windy and rainy, I could not resist the temptation of Jiangnan. I still braved the heavy rain and wandered in the ancient town of Jiangnan. It seems that because of the rain, Jiangnan looks even more hazy and charming. From a distance, the small bridge and the flowing water of the house are lightly covered with a layer of gauze, like an ink painting; the pink walls and black tiles are entangled by the soft canal, and the lines are so graceful that even a portrait of the human body is inferior to it. The fluttering raindrops slid down obliquely in the wind, making the town more primitive and quiet.

Standing on the small bridge in the south of the Yangtze River, soaked in the rain from the south of the Yangtze River, the hustle and bustle of the world and the distracting thoughts of the heart are dripping with the rain, and flowing into the distance along the canal. My hair was wet, my clothes were wet, and my shoes were filled with water, but my heart was very happy.

In the ancient town of Jiangnan in the mist and rain, you can see the misty water town from a distance, and hear the rain falling silently up close. The elegant garden is still so majestic in the rain. The exquisite brick and stone carvings, winding bridges and corridors, and the rockery and lotus pond are even more rustic, fresh and natural. Stepping in the quiet alleys of the ancient town, stepping on the clear and bright granite roads, smelling the aroma of oil from the stalls, listening to the melodious cries of Wu Yue's soft words, lingering in this ancient town, I feel nostalgic for the past. . Why doesn't it make people's hearts intoxicated? Why doesn't it make people's hearts attracted?

It’s time to leave, but the sentimental rain still keeps falling. The people from Jiangnan stayed with the guests and said nothing, only a light rain rustled down. It seems to be saying to me: "Stay!" "Stay!" The rain in Jiangnan is sentimental, and Jiangnan in the rain is even more loving. She is like a gentle and beautiful embroiderer, weaving the green on both sides of the Yangtze River with rain silk, weaving the spring of the Yangtze River, and weaving the picturesque waterside customs of the South of the Yangtze River; she also embroiders the poetic rhyme of the South of the Yangtze River with love silk, The embroidery shows the elegance and beauty of Jiangnan and the tenderness of generations of Jiangnan people. I really can’t let go of Jiangnan, the rain in Jiangnan, let alone this colorful, picturesque and misty rain in Jiangnan!