Xu Qingzhi looked at the person in front of him, and the face gradually overlapped with the one in his memory.

He has lost his youthfulness and become more mature, but his distinct facial features have not changed.

Even the gentle tone of voice is the same.

She said, "Long time no see."

For her, having gone through three worlds, it has indeed been a long time since we last met.

But for Zhou, they had met again when they were in college.

Every New Year, the two would wish each other Happy New Year.

Wang Yanmei and Xu Fuqiang went to the inner room to get chairs and asked people to sit down.

And Xu Qingzhi was reminded of some memories of junior high school when he met his old classmates.

She was one of the few children from the countryside in the class. The head teacher didn't like her because she was from the countryside and her parents were poor, unlike the parents of city children who understood her. The head teacher never greeted her or gave her any gifts. In the third year of junior high school, the head teacher moved her to a seat at the back door of the class.

Xu Qingzhi's parents have been like this all the years he has been studying.

They still believe that teachers are there to teach and educate, and never imagined that some teachers actually need to be flattered in order for children to have a better life in school.

Because the teachers in the village primary school never treat students differently because of these reasons.

That was the time when she felt the most inferior. Jinna took the lead in not letting others play with her. Other female classmates did not dare to cause trouble and stayed away from her. The family conditions were difficult, the clothes were worn out, the shoes did not fit, etc.

The education she received since childhood taught her that when she sees a teacher, she would bow politely and say "Hello, teacher", even if she met her head teacher.

But the head teacher always looked at her with disdain, and later simply hinted to her that she should be more careful when her parents came to the next parent-teacher meeting.

She completely changed this habit, no longer saying hello to the teacher, and pretended not to see it when she saw it. She also did not tell her parents about the parent-teacher conference, saying it was not a big deal.

Since other female classmates were unwilling to play with her, she also stayed away from them. She kept to herself and focused on her studies.

She was just moved to sit at the back door. During class, the students in the back row were always noisy. Sometimes the words the teacher wrote on the blackboard were reflected by the light from the window and could not be seen clearly, so she could not listen to the class well and her grades dropped a lot.

Later, Yu Zhou took the initiative to move his seat to the last row and sat next to her.

He would explain the questions to her, tell her to be confident, that it was okay to not have friends, and that it was not shameful to eat in the cafeteria alone.

He also used his own pocket money to buy her some new clothes.

On her birthday, he gave her a birthday cake for one person.

That was her first time eating birthday cake.

At that time, Xu Qingzhi discovered in the following period of time that every time she went to the cafeteria to eat, even though there was no one around her, Yu Zhou would always follow her from a distance.

The embarrassment of her going to the cafeteria to eat alone seemed to be resolved.

She is not afraid because someone is with her.

In her most difficult times, he was such a white moonlight.

The budding heartbeat of youth is always hard to express.

Later in high school, they were in the same school but in different classes.

He went to Kyoto for university, and she stayed in the provincial capital.

Sometimes he had an early day off and would come to see her when he passed by the provincial capital.

He never said that he liked her, but Xu Qingzhi was indeed moved. However, that feeling had faded away as the two of them drifted apart.

Seeing each other again now is more like meeting friends after a long separation.

She should also be calm.

Jiang Xiao secretly talked about this matter in the small group of three people, and also posted a message.

"He said he was a classmate from Qingzhi High School, but when I looked at his eyes, I felt something was wrong."

Wen Siran: "Is he also your teacher's subordinate?"

Jiang Xiao: "No, I've never seen him before. He should be sent by the higher-ups. He might be at the same level as my teacher. He looks quite young and has a bright future ahead of him."

Although Wen Siran was reluctant to admit it, he was indeed similar to his sister Wen Shanshan in some aspects, such as being gossipy.

Wen Siran asked again: "What about now? What are he and Qingzhi doing?"

Jiang Xiao: "There were so many people around, I couldn't hear clearly from far away. But it looked like the two of them were having a good chat, Qingzhi even had a smile on her face, she didn't smile so happily when she first saw me."

Huo Fengyan: "Ask Qingzhi to reply to my WeChat message."

Jiang Xiao: "Please, we are so far away and there are so many people here, how can I call out? This is so embarrassing."

The sunny day before suddenly changed, dark clouds appeared, and a tiny raindrop fell on the tip of Xu Fuqiang's nose.

The villagers were experienced and immediately picked up targets and bamboo brooms to harvest the rice.

This is half-dried rice. We can't let it get wet by rain. If it rains heavily, it will be even worse. The rice will be ruined.

The people Zhou Zheng brought also quickly joined the team to harvest rice.

Two people held targets and gathered the rice into a pile, and three or four people surrounded it and quickly swept it with bamboo brooms.

These six tons of rice have to be harvested into several piles, so everyone works separately.

The young man, who didn't feel the raindrops at first, could clearly feel a raindrop falling on his face when he looked up.

The rain was not heavy at this time, with only a few raindrops falling from time to time, so the rice harvesting process had to be urgent and fast.

After a pile of grain was gathered, four people would pull open a corner of a colorful striped rainproof cloth, and cover the rice underneath.

Xu Qingzhi went to the side of the house and picked up a few bricks to press down the building.

The six tons of rice had to be harvested and covered with tarpaulins before the heavy rain arrived.

The fellow villagers were experienced and their movements were so swift that it seemed as if they were working at twice the speed.

He gathered the rice raking one scoop at a time, running in small steps.

Looking at the small teams who had never done farm work before, they started working in a hurry, and soon everyone was gasping for breath from exhaustion.

The fellow villager who was working nearby smiled jokingly, "You young people are not in good health. You are very weak. You are not as strong as me who is almost 60 years old."

This is a serious matter. Which man can stand being called weak?

Especially Bian Chang, he immediately swept the rice with the broom in his hand, and his movements were so fast.

Practice what you preach and prove yourself to be worthy.

Finally, within two or three seconds of the heavy rain starting to pour, the last pile of grain was covered with a waterproof sheet.

Everyone hurried to the eaves to take shelter from the rain.

The rain began to pour down heavily, almost blurring people's vision, and the world in front of them became misty.

Heavy rain is always accompanied by strong winds, so it is possible that the waterproof cloth was blown over by the wind.

Only Xu Fuqiang was standing in the rain, picking up bricks and pressing the waterproof cloth more firmly with a big wooden stick.

Xu Qingzhi felt distressed when he saw this and shouted, "Dad, it's raining too hard, come back soon and stop it."

Xu Fuqiang didn't listen, and worked in the rain for a while before running back. Seeing his daughter's frown, he knew that he had not responded to her just now, and explained guiltily: "Hey, if the wind blows it over, it will be a pity for the rice, so Dad wanted to compact it."

Xu Qingzhi felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

I just remember that when she was a child and the road had not yet been built, her father borrowed someone else's truck to transport their own rice, and the truck overturned on the way and he broke his waist.

He was in so much pain that his grandmother told him to take a rest for two days, but he didn't listen. The next day he went out to help others harvest rice just for a few dozen dollars a day.

Sometimes she really gets angry. Why is her father so stubborn and so disobedient?

If the rice is rotten, then just throw it away. It's no big deal. Why does her father have to do this in the rain?

She thought so, and when she entered the house, she told her father so.

No matter what, your health always comes first.

Xu Fuqiang, however, had a rare serious look on his face and taught him, "Qingzhi, food is the most important thing for the people, and food must not be wasted. The rice was grown with great difficulty, and it would be a pity if it went bad. It's okay for Dad to get caught in the rain, but you're an adult, and you shouldn't catch a cold easily."

Then he added, "If it wasn't raining today but it was raining knives, then Dad would definitely not care about the rice. Don't worry, Dad understands."

Xu Qingzhi felt helpless and angry, but was instantly amused by her father.

Wang Yanmei stepped forward to smooth things over: "It's all because of this horrible weather. This is the most annoying thing about drying rice. It's like this every year. It's sunny before the rice is dried, but it starts to rain. Believe it or not, it won't take half an hour for the rain to stop again."

Xu Qingzhi thought about it and realized that he often encountered this situation when he helped his family dry rice.

As the sun was shining, the raindrops came.

Every time we rush to harvest rice, it is extremely urgent and the whole family has to join in the fight.

After a while, the heavy rain stopped without a trace and the sun shone on the earth again.

(End of this chapter)