Chapter 1244 The Returnee's Notes 318
These few dilapidated tile-roofed houses were exceptionally clean. By the classroom window, there were several chipped porcelain bowls, and small yellow flowers tremblingly opened their petals, as if tentatively.
A gust of wind blew, and it closed up again.
This place is still too remote. Only Teacher Gao teaches here, and there are only about fifty students, including both older and younger children, all of whom are taught in one classroom.
Because there was only one large classroom, the remaining tile-roofed houses were used as sleeping quarters for Teacher Gao and for the students.
There was also a small kitchen. Xie Ning only saw an old woman wearing a headscarf. One of her eyes was grayish-white, and only her other eye could see color.
When Teacher Gao arrived with Wang Ze and Xie Ning, he first glanced at the two of them curiously before approaching them and revealing a smile that didn't seem very friendly.
Because she didn't smile much, Teacher Gao knew that this was Grandma Yu expressing great kindness.
In the past, Teacher Gao had brought people here before. Sometimes they were volunteers who came to teach in rural areas, and sometimes they were people from the sponsors who came to investigate. Every time, Grandma Yu would put on such a smile, hoping that those people could see her kindness.
But sometimes she was afraid, because the children in the village were afraid of her, including the children at school, because she looked very fierce. People can't help but judge by appearances first.
However, the people that Teacher Gao brought back this time weren't very afraid of her.
The girl also gave her some kind of band-aid and told her to put it on the open wound.
So when cooking for Xie Ning and the others, she made a point of giving Xie Ning an extra piece of tofu. She didn't touch the eggs, as those eggs were reserved for the children to supplement their nutrition.
Xie Ning and Wang Ze circled the small school several times but didn't find anything amiss. They decided to wait until night to check, since Teacher Gao had said that the ghost always came to him at night.
If the ghost is too afraid to come because of the two of them, then the two of them will go directly to Teacher Gao's student's house with him.
Speaking of this student... Xie Ning waved to the distance, and the little girl who was putting an egg on the little boy's plate paused, whispered a few words to her younger brother, and then ran towards Xie Ning.
"Hello...Teacher, what can I do for you?"
The little girl didn't know Xie Ning and Wang Ze's identities, but calling them "teacher" couldn't be wrong.
Moreover, Xie Ning looks a lot like Teacher Gao, especially the way he looks at people.
"May I have your name?"
"My name is Qiu Lu, which is the name my mother gave me."
"The sunflowers in the green garden, waiting for the morning dew to rise with the sun, it sounds beautiful."
Qiu Lu smiled shyly. Although she only vaguely understood what Xie Ning said, she did not refute him. Her "Lu" was not morning dew, but the road. The aunt next door said that when her mother was holding her, her eyes were always fixed on the road in front of the door.
So her name should be Qiu Lu, but her elders said it didn't sound like a girl's name, so they called her Lu.
She didn't know why her mother gave her such a name, but she had long since lost all memories of her mother.
The only image of the mother I could piece together was from the words of the aunt next door, and that mother was completely different from the mother my father spoke of.
Xie Ning chatted with the little girl for a while and learned that the child's birth mother had died young, dying in childbirth while giving birth to her younger brother.
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