Chapter 182 [Cheng Bai] I'm Not Perfect
All the women and children in Tianqing Township knew that a beautiful girl had come to the township. She dressed very fashionably and always followed the township head.
Cheng Zhiheng's official duties are extremely busy. Although he is just a small village chief, he has a lot of things to do.
When Cheng Zhiheng first arrived, he was often looked down upon because of his youth. The common people did not trust him, thinking that he was barely fully grown, what could he possibly know? Therefore, they simply did not listen to Cheng Zhiheng's words.
At that time, Cheng Zhiheng had just experienced many ups and downs. He was framed and exiled to a backward mountain village from a favored child of heaven. He failed to protect his sister and was separated from his family. Every single thing was enough to make him feel suffocated.
Cheng Zhiheng did not give up and vowed to achieve something great.
Fate brought him here, so he planted flowers on this land.
But Tianqing Township is too backward and must make drastic changes.
Cheng Zhiheng applied for project funding from higher authorities, renovated streets, installed networks, repaired canals, and even went to the fields to do farm work himself... Finally, the people of Tianqing Township saw his efforts and truly respected this young township head.
Cheng Zhiheng is so busy every day that Bai Yinyin hardly ever sees him.
Cheng Zhiheng went to the fields to help his fellow villagers work, and she went too.
But Cheng Zhiheng had been exposed to farm work with his father since he was a child and was very skilled at it. Bai Yinyin had no experience and followed others' example to weed and dug up all the seedlings.
"Oh, Miss, put it down quickly, we can do this job ourselves." The fellow villager cried out in pain.
Bai Yinyin let go of her hand guiltily and walked silently to the edge of the field.
The sun was very strong. Far away from the comfort of the air-conditioned room, Bai Yinyin was sweating all over. Her clothes were sticking to her body and she felt uncomfortable. She sat under a big tree to cool off, hugging her knees and staring blankly.
She could feel that the people here were xenophobic.
Every time she walked on the street, people would point at her behind her back, and even if she approached them enthusiastically, they would just give her a cold shoulder.
She wondered if Cheng Zhiheng had experienced the same embarrassment when he first came.
He should be worse off than me, after all, he still has to shoulder his responsibilities and face uncooperative people.
Bai Yinyin was pulling the grass on the ground, feeling depressed. After coming here, Bai Yinyin realized that she was really useless. Without the halo of her parents, she couldn't even support herself.
She had plucked all the grass around her bare. Bai Yinyin was complaining in her heart, "Why do the grass and the seedlings look so similar? They're not twins!"
My mind is in a mess, I feel depressed and irritable.
Bai Yinyin's forehead was suddenly frozen, and she shuddered. She saw Cheng Zhiheng standing beside her, holding a watermelon, looking at her with smiling eyes.
"Is it hot?"
"Why are you here?"
Bai Yinyin took the watermelon blankly. She hadn't seen Cheng Zhiheng for almost two days.
"I was passing by after finishing my farm work and saw a mushroom growing under the tree."
"Mushroom" himself nibbled the watermelon in a depressed manner. It was quite sweet and icy, which dispelled the sticky heat and was very comfortable.
Cheng Zhiheng squatted down and made mushrooms with her. His arms were strong and powerful under his short sleeves, and the exposed blue veins looked very sexy.
"You've never seen food grow, so it's normal that you don't know what crops are, just like they haven't taken the subway and don't know how to operate it. You see different sides of the world, and there's nothing to brag about or feel inferior about. The meaning of life is to experience life, not to see the same world and do the same things as everyone else."
He was comforting me - this was Bai Yinyin's first thought.
She continued to chew the watermelon, lowered her head and whispered, "But you have seen every side of the world. You are very powerful and know everything."
Cheng Zhiheng threw the watermelon in her hand, which was almost eaten to the skin, aside and gave her a new one.
"The world is so big, how can I possibly see it all? Just like you only see my powerful side, but you haven't seen my defeated and helpless side."
Cheng Zhiheng looked at her, his calm eyes hiding an ambiguous meaning, as if he wanted to persuade her to face reality, "So I am not as perfect as you think."
He has seen all the setbacks Bai Yinyin has encountered in the past few days. He cannot always help her out, and there is really no need for Bai Yinyin to suffer like this for him.
She should find a man who will always take care of her. This man may be in a high position in the government, may be the head of a business, or may be an academic. In short, he should not be someone like him who is trapped in a backward mountain village.
They met at the wrong time. If it had been two years later, without any worries, perhaps Cheng Zhiheng would have been braver.
The sun was too bright. A slight breeze blew by, leaving only the buzzing of cicadas. A drop of sweat fell from Cheng Zhiheng's forehead and down his handsome face.
Bai Yinyin subconsciously raised her hand, wiped the sweat off Cheng Zhiheng's chin with the back of her hand, and murmured.
"I never thought you were a perfect person. I like you as a person, the good and the bad. I like you all the time."
The wind passed silently. The two people squatted under the tree and stared at each other for a long time without speaking again.
Bai Yinyin is an indestructible cockroach, she won't give up so easily.
One day I saw a child on the street. He was wearing baggy clothes that were obviously not suitable for his body. He was squatting in a corner and I didn’t know what he was doing.
"Kid, why don't you go to school?"
Bai Yinyin doesn't know anyone here and is very bored every day. She can even chat with any dog that passes by.
The child looked at her, then lowered his head and said nothing.
"Oh, I see! You're skipping classes, right?! You're still young and don't study hard, how come you're just like me back then?"
The child raised his head curiously and hummed, "You've skipped classes too?"
"Of course, I have definitely done such a heroic thing!" Bai Yinyin was not ashamed but proud of it.
She walked over and squatted beside the little boy, rubbing his knee childishly. "Why did you skip class? As someone who has experienced this, I can tell you that you will definitely regret it later!"
Otherwise, you will be like her, knowing nothing and being a new socialist waste.
The child, wearing rubber sandals, said, "They laugh at me for not having parents and for not being able to afford clothes."
The little boy's parents work away from home and only come back once every few years. He has depended on his grandfather since he was a child. This is the age when his self-esteem is the strongest.
"How uncultured!" Bai Yinyin was filled with righteous indignation. "Come on, I'll take you clothes shopping!"
If parents can’t solve the problem, can’t clothes solve it too?
Bai Yinyin dragged the little boy to the city to buy him several sets of clothes, as well as stationery and daily necessities.
"You have to promise me to study hard." This was Bai Yinyin's condition in exchange.
The little boy seemed a little timid, so Bai Yinyin patted his shoulder and promised, "Don't worry, I'll take you to school in the future."
The little boy's eyes suddenly lit up, and he pursed his lips shyly, revealing a cute dimple.
Later, Bai Yinyin found out that the teachers at the school did not speak standard Mandarin, so she asked the principal if she could come and teach there, offering free teaching.
Of course the principal was happy. The education in the village was too backward and teachers often resigned. It would be great if someone was willing to come.
When a group of children happily called her "Teacher Bai", Bai Yinyin seemed to have found her own value, and now people in the village would also take the initiative to greet her.
I would also ask her, "Teacher Bai, is my child obedient in school? If he's not, just tell me and I'll punish him when I get back!"
Bai Yinyin thought that she was trying to see another side of the world, from the same perspective as Cheng Zhiheng.
But one day during the holidays, when I went to the township government to find him, I saw a woman in Cheng Zhiheng's dormitory.
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