Rust II

Weekends always go by so fast, and no matter where you are or what your circumstances are, it doesn't seem to have the slightest effect on its staggering speed.

For example, right now——the students in City C have not even recovered from the sea of ​​questions, and a new round of cruel torture has already blown their faces with wind and rain.Even the X Middle School, which has been leading the province in terms of performance for decades, couldn't help being lifeless and complaining on this gloomy Monday morning.

Not to mention in such bad weather.

Before the end of the first morning reading, Lin An discovered the absence of the demon king Xu Yuan.

The class is full of more than 40 people, neatly but feebly reading the classical Chinese that I just taught last week. Behind the vertical Chinese textbooks, there are faces covered with pimples in different shapes. After completing the homework of various subjects, some people are already drowsy, giving up on themselves and closing their eyes tightly.

Lin An walked around the classroom, closed the door and went out, and tried to call Xu Yuan's phone number left on the class contact list again, without any surprise, no one answered.

Peng Chunlin, the mathematics teacher of the first class in the morning, came from the other side, saw him standing in the corridor at the stairs, and greeted him with a smile: "Morning, Teacher Lin."

"Morning." Lin An put down the phone and smiled at the other party.

"Why are you frowning, why, have you been infected by those little bastards in your class?"

Lin An shook his head, smiled wryly and said, "Xu Yuan didn't come." He looked at the number in the contact book, "The phone doesn't work either."

"Oh..." Peng Chunlin pondered for a moment, then smiled indifferently, "It's normal."

Lin Anlue was taken aback.Although he has only been in X Middle School for a few days, he has also heard that Peng Chunlin, who is nearly half a century old, is a well-known strict teacher in the school. He even gave her a nickname behind her back, "Master Miejue".

Seeing that he was silent, Peng Chunlin raised the glasses on his nose and asked, "Why, don't you believe me?"

Lin An raised his lips and smiled: "No."

Peng Chunlin sighed, shook his head and said, "Oh, you young people, you still have too little experience. Why do you care about her like this kind of child? Her family doesn't care. Anyway, if you mess around in school now, the future society She will not lose any of the sweetness. This kind of student is not a good class at all. You, you must slowly learn to relax and adjust yourself. For weeding, we should pay more attention to those in the class who are truly good-natured and love to learn.”

As he said, he lowered his head and flipped through the small test paper in his hand, "Here, there is a guy named Jiang Qixun in your class, and there is a small boy, Zhou Tao, look, the test questions in our math group last week, he They are first and second again, and looking at the last two additional questions, the adaptation of last year's National Mathematical Olympiad is also correct!"

Lin An smiled, these two boys are the top science subjects in their grade, it is not surprising that they can get high marks in the exam.

Peng Chunlin shook the test paper, flipped to the last page again, and continued: "Come on, look at this Xu Yuan again, darling, it's amazing! It's almost a blank paper! I don't even bother to write the name, ABCD is all filled in randomly, like this Student, oh, it’s better not to come, otherwise I’ll lose a few years of my life if I see you in class and get annoyed.”

Lin An smiled wryly, knowing that what Peng Chunlin said was ironic, if he really gave up completely, how could he speak repeatedly in front of him to criticize the other party?

Lin Jing was silent for a while, remembering that he had stayed in Xu Yuan's family book last week but finally had an appointment with the parents who never returned, and said softly: "I will talk to her again."

Peng Chunlin smiled when he heard the words, raised his wrist to look at his watch, and said, "Okay, the bell is about to ring, I'll go in first, Mr. Lin, thank you for your hard work."

Lin An nodded, watched Fang Jianlang's back disappear behind the corridor, Fang turned around and left the teaching building, and returned to his office.

Feng Ping was immersing herself in correcting the dictation of the morning hall that had just been received. The window behind her was open, and a few scattered drops of rain fell on the window sill, bringing the chill of early autumn.

Lin An put the umbrella away and hung it in the corner next to the file cabinet, turned around and opened the seat and sat down.

Feng Ping heard the movement ahead, stopped writing and raised her face, "Mr. Lin, are you back?"

Lin An turned back and smiled at her politely, and asked after a short pause, "What's the matter?"

Feng Ping met his gaze head-on, and for some reason, her face suddenly became slightly hot, and she said with some embarrassment: "No...it's nothing, oh yes, Director Chen called just now. Picked it up for you...you don't mind, do you?"

Lin An looked at the telephone on the edge of the table, and saw the other party's slightly nervous look, he couldn't help but smiled in relief: "It's okay, what did he say?"

Feng Ping paused, and her originally shy face suddenly became weird. She hesitated for a while, and when she spoke again, her tone was a little subtle.

"He...he asked you to go to the laboratory building behind Luohan Garden after finishing your work at noon," he said, looking at the thin and handsome man in front of him, and continued: "Yes... I want to discuss it with you. Let me tell you about Xu Yuan's parents inviting you to dinner at night..."

Lin An was taken aback for a moment, but before he could speak, Feng Ping smiled at him inexplicably, "Mr. Lin, you... take care."

After finishing speaking, he bowed his head and continued to bury himself in the unfinished work.

In fact, Feng Ping felt a little sympathetic to Lin An. The parents of the students invited the teacher to dinner for nothing more than a few purposes. It was nothing unusual. Although she didn't have much experience, she had never eaten pork since she was a child, and at least she had seen pigs run away.But if Xu Yuan was involved in this matter, and director Chen had to be the one to make the connection, it would be unusual.Feng Ping silently broke into a cold sweat for Lin An in her heart. The curiosity that had nowhere to vent had forced her to imagine several scenes of cruel and heart-abusing drama without stopping.

At quarter past eight, the get out of class bell rang on time, and the preparatory music for morning exercises began to reverberate in every corner of the school. The cheerful and lively rhythm and sonorous and powerful music finally brought a trace of youthful vitality to the resentful X.

The energetic voice of the person in charge of the sports group appeared on the radio in each classroom and office——

"Attention all teachers and students, all teachers and students! Due to the bad weather today, the original flag-raising ceremony and radio gymnastics have been changed to indoors. Teachers of all subjects are requested to cooperate with the organization, and the head teachers of all classes please return to their respective classes as soon as possible... ..."

Lin An sat on his seat, the stack of textbooks in his hand remained untouched.

Feng Ping got up and closed the window, tidied up the desk casually and prepared to go out.Chinese teacher Jiang from class 2 asked for leave today. As a newcomer to the second group of Chinese, she naturally couldn't let go of such a rare opportunity to practice, so she discussed with Jiang Yuefang early about the replacement class. Now that the broadcast is broadcasting, she immediately With 12 points of energy, he proudly took the lesson plan that he had prepared for a whole weekend and rushed out the door.

Lin An still sat quietly in his original position, his eyes fixed on the exercise book spread out in front of him dully, uncharacteristically, he did not respond to the deafening march in the room.Feng Ping stopped in her tracks and called him, "Teacher Lin?"

Lin An moved his hand on the edge of the table and came back to his senses.

Feng Ping saw that something was wrong with his face, so she couldn't help showing worry and concern: "Mr. Lin, are you okay? Is there something wrong?"

Lin An smiled, moved his stiff fingers, and started to clean up the table, "It's okay."

Feng Ping said "oh", and she became happy again in a blink of an eye. Xu was full of expectations for her first preaching and teaching in her life. Don't you want to go back to the opposite building too? Let's go together?"

Lin An paused mechanically and blindly, looked up at Feng Ping, whose eyes were shining brightly, for a while, and then replied: "...OK."

Feng Ping appeared to be very positive along the way, talking nonsense, as if she had no scruples at all. Under her influence, Lin An's tense emotions also gradually relaxed.

He returned to City C after more than ten years. Many things can no longer be compared with the past, ranging from street snacks and restaurants to high-rise buildings in the city. Earth-shaking changes have quietly taken place, although the essence of teaching and educating people has not changed, and the economic levels of all parts of the country are also scrambling to get closer and developing like a raging fire, but today's C City still makes him unavoidably give birth to a trace of self-consciousness. A complete strangeness in my heart.

Feng Ping and he walked to the steps of Teaching Building No. [-], closed their umbrellas and called him a few times.

Lin An withdrew from the memories that kept circling in his mind, and smiled at the other party embarrassedly.

"what happened?"

Feng Ping knew that he was distracted, so she waved her hands generously and said, "It's nothing, Mr. Lin, you should hurry back to class, the flag-raising ceremony is about to begin." Then she blinked suddenly, and lowered her voice, "And... Come on tonight!"

Lin An was taken aback, and then realized that the other party was referring to the dinner at Xu Yuan's house at night, and couldn't help but smile slightly, "...Okay, thank you."

Feng Ping parted ways with him on the first floor, and Lin An climbed up several floors by himself, and stopped only at the entrance of Class [-] and [-] of Senior High School.

Under the leadership of the radio and Peng Chunlin, the students stood up unsteadily. Lin An went around to the back door, and habitually searched the classroom with his eyes. Seeing Xu Yuan's figure.

The little girl's exaggerated and cool hair had been dyed back to black at some point, and it was draped over her shoulders obediently and softly. After a while, she seemed to sense the surprised gaze cast on her by the door, and turned her head casually, waiting to see the girl standing in front of her. Lin An at the door couldn't help but curled his mouth, and then rolled his huge eyes towards the sky.

Lin An looked away, closed the door and stood in the corner, not paying attention to the other party's blatant provocation, and silently supervised the students' indoor morning exercises.

In fact, there are huge differences between X and the school he worked for in many aspects, but no matter how the style changes, at the point of the flag-raising ceremony on Monday, the two schools, like all other schools, have a striking similarity. For example, children sing the national anthem with ambiguity that is comparable to monks chanting scriptures, or school leaders’ weekly speeches that are comparable to foot wraps.In short, after 20 minutes, few students could remain fully awake, and most of them were stumbling around in a daze.Xu Yuan, who has always been known for being "unrestrained and unrestrained", even disdains to hide her repulsion and disgust for such empty speeches. As soon as the national anthem was sung, she opened the stool and sat down. move up.

Without Xu Yuan's spoiling and making troubles, Lin An's next class will be very stable and smooth. 45 minutes passed in a flash, and when the get out of class bell rang, he glanced under the desk and saw that the other party's head was still firmly nailed to the desk, without any sign of moving.

He closed the textbook, and softly announced the end of the get out of class to the students who were staring at him expectantly, then turned around and went downstairs, walking towards the office alone.

Director Chen made an appointment at around 12 o'clock in the noon, which was the lunch break for all the teachers and students of X High School. Lin An sat behind his desk for a long while, and took out the basic student registration handbook that was stored in the cabinet beside him.

This handbook was issued uniformly at the beginning of the school year for students to fill out by themselves, in order to allow the school and the teachers to get a general understanding of some basic conditions of the students, so that they can find students who need school assistance in time.

Lin An stared at the layer of kraft paper wrapped outside, hesitated for a moment, and turned it over gently again.

One page, two pages, he looked at the names above one by one aimlessly, as if he didn't want to let go of every corner, until he really had nothing to look at, and finally stopped his sight on the last one. column.

Student name: Xu Yuan.School position, blank.On-duty position, blank.Awards record, blank.Previous attendance records are also blank.

Lin An's eyes paused for a moment, and then continued to move to the right after a few seconds.

Parent's name: Father, Xu Zhong.

He looked at this extremely ordinary name motionlessly, but his eyes seemed to freeze.

Lunch break is coming soon.

Lin An rushed to the laboratory building as scheduled. Chen Jianliang was preparing for the chemistry experiment class in the afternoon. Seeing Lin An appearing at the door, he greeted him casually: "Mr. Lin is here? Come, come in quickly, you're welcome, just sit down. "

Lin An nodded, went in and chose an open space to sit, Chen Jianliang came over afterward, took off his gloves and sat down beside him, looked at him for a while, suddenly smiled and said: "Mr. Lin, I really can't tell." He said With a thumbs up, he continued: "It's amazing, it's not easy!"

Lin An frowned and didn't answer.

Chen Jianliang smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Don't be nervous, I just wanted to chat with you casually. After all, a few words can invite Xu Yuan's family to come forward. I, Old Chen, have been around for so long, and I have only met him." You are such a one."

Lin An was taken aback.

Chen Jianliang had made a joke, but suddenly he became serious. He thought for a while, as if he was thinking about how to speak next, and after a while, he continued hesitantly: "I also got to know Xu Yuan The child's recent situation is mainly due to the misunderstanding between her and her deskmate during the entrance exam last time. The other party's parents refused to compromise and insisted on an explanation here. You should have tried to talk to Xu Yuan, I Is there any use for asking, out of the question?"

Lin An fell into an abnormal silence when he heard him mention the Xu family. Chen Jianliang waited and saw that he didn't answer, and continued: "I guess it's useless according to her previous style, so you would think I also fully understand that I brought her parents here to have a talk in order to find a solution to the problem."

Lin An remained silent.

Chen Jianliang looked at his lowered eyelids for a while, and then continued: "But Xiaolin, although interviewing parents is a common method when we carry out education, in many cases, we have to learn to make a preliminary judgment in advance. For example..." Chen Jianliang paused until Lin An raised his eyes to look at him, and then he continued, "What is the origin and identity of the other party."

Lin An's lips were tightly closed, and Chen Jianliang chuckled, "Of course, I don't mean to blame you for mishandling it. The Xu family promised and provoked the dinner tonight. Besides you and me, we also invited Xu Yuan's parents at the same table. It can be seen that they I'm not an unreasonable person, I came here to remind you that no matter how easy it is to deal with in the world, it can only be properly solved by taking the right medicine, and rushing to the doctor for an emergency will often only backfire."

Chen Jianliang looked at the other party with gentle eyes, and asked him: "Mr. Lin, you can do a lot in teaching at a young age. I believe you should be a smart person. Can you understand what I said?"

Lin An smiled, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Thank you for reminding me, Director."

Chen Jianliang patted his trouser legs, and said in a relaxed tone: "Okay, you finish work early this afternoon, I will come to you at six o'clock, and we will go there together." He regained his relaxation and made a slight joke. "Mr. Xu is a generous person. He specially chose the best hotel in this area. Mr. Lin, you will be lucky tonight."

Lin An smiled, said goodbye and went back to the office for a while, then got up and walked around the class.

Xu Yuan had been extremely quiet all morning, ignoring anyone who provoked her, and just lying on the desk to sleep and hold her breath.

Lin An stood by her desk for a while, and reached out to open the family contact book that she had casually placed next to the pencil case and hadn't handed it in.The large analysis statement I left in the other party's notebook last week has obviously been read, and the word "Xu" was scribbled and perfunctory in the blank space at the bottom.

Lin An stared at the word silently, for a moment, he seemed to be insane.

At six o'clock in the evening, Director Chen appeared outside the office of the second language group on time. Lin An came out wearing a coat. Chen Jianliang couldn't help but nodded in appreciation, and boasted: "Mr. Lin is indeed handsome, no wonder the lesbians in our school Everyone loves to talk about you in private, saying that you broke the false rumor that there is no handsome man in X, haha, Teacher Lin, have you heard it?"

Lin An shook his head.

During the conversation, the two went downstairs. Chen Jianliang took him into the car that had been prepared earlier, put on his seat belt and started the car, and then said: "Mr. , fascinated a group of young girls who just came to practice, haha, Mr. Lin, when you meet him later, you can secretly compare."

Lin An forced a smile. He once met Xu Guang, Xu's eldest son, during college, and got along with Xu Xin for quite a while, and Xu Zhong, as their brothers, naturally wouldn't be too bad. go.

Therefore, although what Chen Jianliang said now was a joke, he would not have the slightest doubt.

Old things were constantly being brought up, Lin An sat in the car, his sensitive nerves suddenly became dull, he quietly listened to Chen Jianliang's jokes from time to time, but his eyes were looking at the receding street scene outside the window, and he became more and more silent.

Not long after, the car stopped at the International Hotel next to the Olympic Sports Center.Chen Jianliang parked the car, and under the guidance of the lobby staff, walked into the pre-booked private room with Lin An.

Before the people from Xu Yuan's side arrived, her parents at the same table were already sitting on the sofa in the cubicle.Xu Shi had never been exposed to such a big ostentation, and the two of them changed their previous righteousness when they were asking for an explanation at school, and became inexplicably short of breath and guilty.Seeing Lin An and Chen Jianliang appear at this moment, they immediately stood up and greeted them.

Chen Jianliang greeted each other kindly, sat down and had a sip of tea and greeted each other a few words.

After a few gossips, he gradually brought the conversation to the main topic of the dinner.

As Xu Yuan, who was strongly accused of serious faults in morality and behavior, was not present yet, so Chen Jianliang, as a school representative of improper education, firstly reflected and analyzed Xu Yuan's wrong behavior.

Lin An sat on the other side of the short table without saying a word from the beginning to the end, staring at the delicate and intricate carvings on the edge of the table without making a sound.

The parent of the other party has obviously been successfully bluffed by Xu Yuan's battle, coupled with Chen Jianliang's persuasive temptation, no longer the fierce attitude he had when he made a big fuss in Lin An's office before, no matter what Chen Jianliang said, he followed behind and nodded in agreement. .

The voices of "Yes yes yes" and "Yes yes yes" kept ringing in Lin An's ears, grabbing his drifting thoughts in time.

Seeing that the groundwork was almost done, Chen Jianliang poured another cup of tea for both parties, and began to pull back the conversation.

He and Xu Guang used to be high school alumni, so they had some contact with Xu's family on weekdays, and Xu Yuan just studied in X middle school in recent years, which added a bit of acquaintance.

He smiled, and said in a chatty manner: "Xu Yuan, this child, is actually just showing her teeth and claws on the outside. The environment she grew up in is like this, and it will be difficult to change it in a while. But I believe she is still kind in her heart." , but sometimes the way of expression may not be correct. But this is also understandable, her parents died unexpectedly when she was in elementary school, her uncle has always been taking care of her, adults are usually busy , For those who are in business, it is not uncommon for her to be away from home for a few days, but after a long time, this child will become a wild person, occasionally unable to stop the car, so the school shouldn't be too harsh on her."

The parents of the other party nodded their heads like garlic, rebellious youth and early death of parents are definitely the easiest match to win sympathy.After Chen Jianliang finished speaking, he laughed, and continued: "The child is in adolescence and has a sensitive mind. Few people in the school know about these things, and she herself is unwilling to speak out. When I speak out today, I hope everyone can take a step back and understand each other. Just a moment." Then he motioned to Lin Anyi who was sitting next to him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin An, I think you are already familiar with each other, so I won't talk nonsense. Teacher Lin, what else do you want?" Did you tell Classmate Zhou at home?"

As soon as the words fell, the eyes of the three people turned to the corner where no sound came out.

However, Lin Anzheng stared at Chen Jianliang who turned his face with a look of astonishment, and opened his mouth after a while, asking:

"...You just said that Xu Zhong has passed away?"

Chen Jianliang was slightly surprised by his abnormal behavior, and after a moment of surprise, he nodded, "Yes."

Lin An's face suddenly turned pale, and it took a long time before he asked the next sentence, "Then... who is Xu Yuan now..."

Chen Jianliang frowned, and just about to answer, an extremely hearty voice sounded outside the half-open door.

"Brother, it's here? Hey, you really know how to choose a place, happy to meet you, tsk tsk, this name is really tailor-made for us! It's suitable for meeting Xiaolin!"

Hearing the movement, Chen Jianliang patted Lin An on the shoulder beside him, "Here we come." He got up and walked towards the door.

Lin An couldn't help but tremble when he heard a very familiar voice outside the door.He sat there until the waiter's smiling voice sounded behind him.

"Mr. Xu, please."

Lin An numbly stood up from the sofa, stood still for a few seconds, and then slowly turned around.

Suddenly, the handsome face that often seemed to be smiling in memory suddenly jumped up from the bottom of my heart that had been silent for a long time.

Xu Xin stood beside the waiter with simple and elegant makeup, and looked at him lightly.