It took about five minutes for Xie Jinling to finish her breakfast.

Lin Ye ate faster than Xie Jinling, and when Xie Jinling drank the last sip of soy milk, Lin Ye had already packed up his own bowl and chopsticks.

At around 7:20, the four of them set off on time from Diaojiaolou.

There is only one school in the entire Qian Jiang Wushangling Village, and it takes about half an hour to walk from the stilted building where Xie Jinling lives to this school.

Due to the rain last night, the sky seemed to have been washed, and it looked extraordinarily clear and blue. The pavement paved with small gravel is a little slippery, and there are still crystal drops of water hanging on the branches and leaves of plants and trees on both sides.

There is a natural fragrance of earth mixed with grass in the air.

Xie Jinling, Lin Ye, Sang Linyang and Jian Yi walked in the same row.

Lin Ye is on the far left, Jian Yi is on the far right.

Xie Jinling and Sang Linyang are in the middle.

Xie Jinling thought of the dream that Lin Ye mentioned to him while having breakfast, so she asked aloud, "What was the dream you were going to tell me just now?"

"Forgot." Lin Ye's tone was loose and casual, as if he had really forgotten the content of the dream.

Seeing him like this, Xie Jinling didn't ask any more questions.

After all, after a person wakes up, as time goes by, the brain will automatically delete unnecessary useless memories, and the content of the dream will naturally become more and more blurred.

I will forget, but it is a very normal situation.

Although Xie Jinling felt that Lin Ye hadn't forgotten all the contents of the dream, but since Lin Ye had said so, it was naturally impossible for him to continue asking.

At this time, Sang Linyang, who was walking on the right side of Xie Jinling, said to Jian Yi on the other side: "Mr. Jian, when you arrive at the school later, Mr. Li will assign you some specific courses."

Jian Yi nodded slightly, and hummed calmly.

From the surface, he seems to be listening to what Sang Linyang said seriously, but in fact, he is a little absent-minded.

Probably because of the influence of the absurd dream last night, the more Jian Yi went to school now, the clearer the contents of the dream became to him.

Because at the beginning of that dream, he and Xie Jinling went to school together. Although the road they are taking now is completely different from the road he imagined in his dream, he has never actually seen the school in Shanglingzhai.

But the closer she got to the destination, the more Jian Yi would think of the details in the dream that he and Xie Jinling met to go to the school, and then unconsciously recall the later development in the dream, and... the last sentence Lin Ye said talk.

A boy with no name and no grade...

This sentence is like a strange magic barrier, spinning in his mind.

Jian Yi frowned, forcing herself to withdraw her thoughts from that ridiculous dream.

He looked past Sang Linyang, and glanced at Xie Jinling from the corner of his eye.

While walking, the breeze blew, and the feather pendant on Xie Jinling's earlobe swayed gently in the wind, like a brightly colored landscape.

Twenty minutes later, the four of Xie Jinling came to the school.

The school in Shangling Village is not very big, it was transformed from the most common stilted buildings here. The first floor is the classroom for students, and the second floor is the teacher's office.

Bamboo is used to form a fence outside the stilted building, and a shed for shelter from the rain is built on the fence. From the gate of the fence to the door of the classroom, there is a Lesser Dao paved with bluestone slabs, and the other parts are covered with thick sand as a small playground.

Because Jian Yi just came to work, she is not familiar with the class process and various arrangements in the whole school. Mr. Li is responsible for explaining to Jian Yi in detail, while Xie Jinling needs to transfer the content he has done before to Jian Yi.

As the deputy of the patriarch, Sang Linyang naturally had to listen on the side.

So among the four, only Lin Ye was inconvenient to be present because of his status.

At this moment, around 8:10, the students in Shangling Village start class at 9:30 in the morning, and there is still more than an hour before the first class.

Lin Ye walked around the classroom on the first floor by himself, and then came to the "small playground" of the school.

He stared at the small playground made of fine sand, and after a few seconds, he felt that it was a bit boring to wait like this, so he quickly thought of something, and went out to find a branch from outside.

He stood on the bluestone pavement in the middle, first checked the height with his eyes, then squatted down, and used the long branch to draw a picture on the sand.

Lin Ye first drew a Q version of Xie Jinling, and then next to the Q version of Ling Ling, he drew a Q version of himself, and let the two Q version villains hold hands together.

If it weren't for the inappropriate timing and location, Lin Ye would actually prefer to paint the two Q-version characters as kissing each other.

He really wanted to kiss Xie Jinling, wanted to kiss Xie Jinling's forehead, the tip of his nose and his lips...even more...

Lin Ye doesn't think it's shameful for him to have such ambiguous thoughts. After all, if he doesn't have desire for the person he likes, it's not normal.

Thinking about it this way, Lin Ye looked at the two Q version of Lin Ye and Q version of Ling Ling holding hands on the sand, but finally couldn't hold back, and changed the Q version of himself on the right side to sideways, and the movements were based on holding hands, and then A Q version of Lingling's cheek on the left is added to bow her head and kiss.

This time, Lin Ye was pleasing to the eye, and the corners of his lips rose slightly.

However, as he watched, he unconsciously recalled the scene of him kissing Ling Ling on the swing in his dream last night.

Just when Lin Ye was trying to restore the details of the time in his mind, he was suddenly interrupted by a pure and clear voice——

"Brother, what are you drawing?"

Lin Ye paused for a moment, then raised his eyes subconsciously, only to find that it was a little boy about eight or nine years old.

The little boy has a small braid, wears a small Miaojiang costume, wears a small silver ring around his neck, and carries a small schoolbag sewn with cloth.

At this moment, the little boy is lowering his head, looking curiously at the Q version of unimportant person he drew.

Lin Ye coughed lightly. Considering that it might be bad for children who are a few years old to see this painting, he quickly erased the Q version of Xiao Xie Jinling and Xiao Linye with a branch, and made up a random excuse: "The characters in the cartoons I drew."

"No." The little boy immediately shook his head, pointed at the Q version of Xie Jinling that was not completely covered by the sand, and said solemnly: "This is obviously Teacher Xiaojin."

Because only the earrings worn by Teacher Xiaojin are made of feathers and gemstones.

The little boy raised his round eyes, and looked seriously at Lin Ye who was squatting beside him: "Brother, why did you lie to me that it was a character in a cartoon?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Lin Ye to answer, he shook his head at Lin Ye, frowned and corrected him disapprovingly: "The old man said that lying is wrong."

Lin Ye: "..." This is a white lie, okay?

The little boy said again: "But brother, you draw really well." He saw at a glance that the cartoon figure was Teacher Xiaojin, and he asked, "The taller brother next to Teacher Xiaojin was drawn by you, brother." alone?"

"It's me." Lin Ye couldn't help but take a few extra glances at this little boy who wasn't even as tall as his waist. This kid has good eyesight, and the mandarin he speaks is pretty standard for his age.

From this look, he should be the kind of elementary school bully in the class.

Hearing Lin Ye's confession, the little boy immediately revealed a look that was true: "Brother, why did you kiss Teacher Xiaojin?" He asked again, his childish voice was full of curiosity.

"..." Lin Ye was silent.

This little boy is very good at grasping the key.

Facing the bright eyes of this little boy, Lin Ye really wanted to tell this little boy who was a little kid that he liked Teacher Xiao Jin, so naturally he wanted to kiss Teacher Xiao Jin.

But in view of the fact that if he really said that, it might mislead the little boy's view of thinking, so Lin Ye had to put on a serious expression, and said very seriously: "You are still young, there are some things that you can't ask too much."

The little boy nodded half-understood, and said in a cute and warm voice, "Okay then." He reached out and gently tugged on Lin Ye's clothes, and said to Lin Ye with full eyes: "Brother, can you teach me how to draw? "

"Yes." Lin Ye readily agreed, and he gestured for the little boy to squat beside him: "I'll teach you how to draw SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick."

The little boy squatted down next to Lin Ye, and asked innocently, "What are SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick?"

"They live at the bottom of the sea, and they are a very loving couple, just like your father and mother." Lin Ye said without changing his face.

When the little boy heard it, Yuanyuan's eyes sparkled instantly, as if he had been aroused with strong interest, he couldn't wait to urge him: "Brother, teach me how to draw quickly."

Lin Ye gently stroked the little boy's hair, and then began to draw SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick on the sand.

SpongeBob SquarePants and Pai Daxing are not like the Q version of the characters, there are few lines, and there is no need to pay too much attention to proportions, so Lin Ye drew them quickly.

After watching the whole process of Lin Ye's painting, the little boy's black pupils were filled with admiration. He also wants to learn to draw. When he grows up, he wants to draw the great rivers and mountains here, and also the outside world to show his parents.

"Brother, you and Teacher Xiao Jin are both so good! They both know how to draw!" He will become even better than this brother and Teacher Xiao Jin in the future.

Lin Ye is very useful, he likes to hear this praise, mainly because the little boy put him and Ling Ling together. He handed the branch to the little boy: "Come on, you take it, and now you are drawing by the side."

The little boy took the branch, a little confused: "That's it?" How is this teaching...

Lin Ye paused for a moment, met the little boy's dazed eyes, and was about to speak when he heard Xie Jinling's voice: "You should hold his hand and take him to draw together."

Lin Ye turned his head to look at the classroom, and saw Xie Jinling leaning slightly against the classroom door, his eyes fixed on his side, with a slight smile on his delicate face.

I don't know how long stood there, and how much saw.

He didn't even notice.

Xie Jinling guessed what Lin Ye was thinking, and replied, "I just came down."

But in fact, when he was on the second floor, he had been standing in front of the window near the direction of Lin Ye. Lin Ye came to the school with him, so Xie Jinling would naturally pay a little attention to him.

He saw the whole process of Lin Ye drawing on the sand, from the Q-version of the two holding hands at the beginning, to SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick at the back, he saw everything in his eyes.

At this moment, looking at the one big and one small squatting on the ground, Xie Jinling felt a strange warm current inexplicably. He walked over and looked down at Lin Ye's sand painting.

The two animated characters in the painting instantly reminded him of his days in Cheng Lin.

Lin Ye raised his head, looked at Xie Jinling who was standing next to him and was seriously looking at his painting, and asked with a light smile, "Is the painting okay?"

Going around, after three years, what Xie Jinling had said was spoken again from Lin Ye.

The corners of Xie Jinling's lips curled slightly, she nodded slightly and said, "Very good."

On the second floor, Jian Yi saw Xie Jinling go downstairs early, and thought that when they were talking just now, Xie Jinling's gaze was always looking out of the window intentionally or unintentionally. Out of some subtle heart, Jian Yi walked over to Xie Jinling The window seat where stood before.

And when he stood here and looked out the window, he happened to see Xie Jinling and Lin Ye smiling similarly.

At this moment, Jian Yi's heart seemed to be lightly pricked by a thin and sharp needle, accompanied by a slight tingling pain, which quickly reached his nerves, causing him to have a feeling called jealousy mood.

Yes, jealousy.

Before meeting Xie Jinling, Jian Yi never thought that one day he would have this kind of jealousy. At this moment, he wanted to rush down immediately, pull Xie Jinling to his side, and want to hold Xie Jinling tightly in front of Lin Ye. hug.

But all this...not yet...

Jian Yi's hand hanging by her side tightened.

His eyes fell on Xie Jinling's side face, and an indiscernible emotion flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Between him and Xie Jinling, there are not as many memories of high school as between Xie Jinling and Lin Ye. But now that he has come here, Jian Yi doesn't plan to do nothing, watching Xie Jinling and Lin Ye approach step by step.

He wanted to try harder.

At least there can be no second regrets and regrets.

After making up her mind, Jian Yi soon thought about it.

Before officially taking over the class at noon, Jian Yi called Xie Jinling who was about to leave with Lin Ye. He glanced indifferently at Lin Ye who was standing beside Xie Jinling, and then said to Xie Jinling in a calm and cold voice, "Can I talk to you alone."

Xie Jinling didn't speak, but a flash of thought flashed across his eyes.

Jian Yi followed up and said, "It's about some questions about the students."

Hearing what he said, Xie Jinling raised her eyelids, stared at Jian Yi with shallow pupils for a few seconds, and then nodded slightly: "Okay." After answering Jian Yi, he looked at Lin Ye: "Go back first."

Naturally, Lin Ye couldn't leave first: "I'll wait for you."

When Xie Jinling and Jian Yi walked towards the stairs, Lin Ye, who was standing there, looked at the backs of the two of them, his dark eyes narrowed slightly.

On the second floor, Xie Jinling stopped first and asked, "What do you want to say to me?"

Jian Yi asked first: "What should I call you now?"

He is now an official teacher in Shangling Village. Although Xie Jinling doesn't need to assist Mr. Li as before, he can still be regarded as a part of the school.

So in this way, they are actually colleagues.

Jian Yi didn't want to call Xie Jinling by his full name anymore, that would sound too strange and alienated, and would invisibly distance him from Xie Jinling.

Regardless of the others, at least in terms of address, it can no longer be as unfamiliar as before.

"You are the same as everyone else, just call me Xiao Jin." Xie Jinling didn't care about these names, it was just a trivial matter to him.

"Okay," Jian Yi nodded, and the coldness between his brows became warmer, "Xiao Jin." He called Xie Jinling, and the corners of his lips curled into an imperceptible arc.

Noticing this change in Jian Yi, Xie Jinling glanced at him thoughtfully: "Compared to before, you seem to have changed a lot, but it seems like nothing has changed."

When Jian Yi heard this, her lips moved slightly, and she was about to say something, but Xie Jinling dismissed the topic indifferently: "By the way, what did you just say about the students?"

Jian Yi said: "There are fifty children in the class. I don't know the individual situation of each child. If I have any questions, can I ask you?"

"Of course." Xie Jinling originally thought that Jian Yi came to him specifically to find out about something bigger, but it turned out that it was just something he had tacitly agreed to: "If you want to know, you can ask me anytime."

Jian Yi's expression moved slightly: "Anytime?"

"So you're so picky about words?" Xie Jinling gave Jian Yi a strange look.

He took a step forward, raised his eyes and looked at Jian Yi carefully, there was a kind of scrutiny in his amber pupils, as if he wanted to penetrate into Jian Yi's heart.

Seeing that Xie Jinling's eyes were filled with only him, Jian Yi's Adam's apple moved slightly, and she slowly explained in a slightly deep voice: "I just want to make sure."

Hearing what Jian Yi said, Xie Jinling didn't continue to struggle, but added to what she just said: "I mean during normal work and rest time, as long as I'm free, you can come and ask me."

Upon hearing this, Jian Yi's eyes, which were always calm, softened with a few delicate and quiet light, and her thin lips also raised a very shallow arc: "Okay."

……………

Originally, there was only one Mr. Li in Qian Jiang Wushangling Village, but now that Jian Yi has come to be a support teacher, Xie Jinling no longer has to go to the school on Tuesday and Thursday as before.

On Wednesday, at around 8:30 in the morning, Xie Jinling and Lin Ye left Shangling village together.

Lin Ye was going to Xialing to buy clothes, and Xie Jinling was going to Shanglingkou to wait for the graduate students who came to the village.

Originally, Sang Linyang was supposed to wait with him, but because there are two days left until Guzang Festival. Guzang Festival is a big festival that happens every thirteen years on their side. The closer the festival is, the more things need to be prepared. Sang Linyang is tall and strong, so he was dragged to help Guzang.

When Xie Jinling arrived at Shanglingkou, it was almost eleven o'clock.

Before six o'clock this morning, he went to help get the red cloth for Gu Zang's sacrifice. As a result of not getting enough sleep, he was a little sleepy at the moment.

According to the itinerary, those graduate students should arrive after a while. After roughly estimating the time, Xie Jinling decisively climbed to an old pagoda tree that she used to like to rest on.

April is the season when the Sophora japonica is in full bloom. The wild white Sophora japonica exudes a very pleasant fragrance under the breeze in the mountains.

Xie Jinling sat on the branch, smelling the refreshing fragrance, closed her eyes and began to catch up on sleep.

As for the Big Goudan and Er Goudan who came down with him...

Big Goudan didn't know where to go to play, and Er Goudan wrapped his body around the branch next to him, and fell asleep with him.

It's just that Xie Jinling hadn't slept for long when she was woken up by loud voices.

"I'll go! Why is this mountain so high? It's hard to walk!" Wang Siyuan carried his luggage, with an expression that he was exhausted before he started walking.

"It's been said that Qianjiang Wushangling Village is in the deep mountains, didn't you know it before you came here?" Wang Xingze gave him a big Byakugan.

"If you know it, you know it, but that is completely different from seeing it with your own eyes!" Wang Siyuan looked at the winding mountain road ahead and swallowed, "I think I might need a cow."

"Didn't the Sui patriarch in Xialing say that the cow is useless now, so you can only walk." Wang Xingze glanced at the suitcase at Wang Siyuan's feet: "Besides, you know that the road here is difficult to walk, and you still carry such a big suitcase .”

From Wang Xingze's point of view, Wang Siyuan is purely seeking guilt for himself.

"My suitcase is full of useful and good things!" Wang Siyuan emphasized seriously. He glanced around, looked at these original tall trees and grass nearly one meter high, and said seriously: "The main reason is that there must be a lot of poisonous insects in this kind of place, we have to live here at least for a while." During the week, insecticides, electric mosquito coils, and mosquito swatters are absolutely indispensable!

"But I saw that when you packed your luggage, you clearly put in toner, essence, eye cream, mask, moisturizer..."

"Stop, stop." Wang Siyuan raised his hand and directly interrupted Wang Xingze who was about to continue, "As a delicate pig boy, skin care is essential."

"Come on, I see that you use so many of these things, and your skin is not as good as brother Yu's." Wang Xingze himself felt very angry, why did he have a twin brother who loves skin care so much.

"Just like Brother Yu, can you compare..." Wang Siyuan looked at Lu Huaiyu beside him, his eyes flicked across Lu Huaiyu's handsome and perfect profile, and he sighed: "Oh... this person is really angry when he compares himself with others. dead."

Originally, with his appearance, he would be a handsome guy no matter where he went, but as long as there was Lu Huaiyu by his side, his handsome guy effect would not work. Those girls' eyes were all around Lu Huaiyu.

When they were in school, there were so many seniors who confessed their love to Lu Huaiyu that they couldn't count on ten fingers.

He also really wants to be liked by many beautiful little elder sisters.

"Give up, Wang Siyuan, the little elder sister prefers to be a sister with you." Because we can discuss the secrets of skin care with each other.

"Fart sister! I'm such a man!"

Lu Huaiyu was used to the daily confrontation between the two brothers. At this moment, he just looked down at the time indifferently.

Eleven thirty.

According to the agreement, the person who came to pick them up at this point should have already arrived.

Seeing Lu Huaiyu checking the time, Wang Xingze also realized this problem. He looked around carefully, and then looked at the mountain road ahead, but there was no one except them.

"The Miao family who were responsible for picking us up into the village must have forgotten the time." On the mountain roads like Shangling, no one took care of getting lost.

"Wait a little longer." Lu Huaiyu said.

Hearing what Lu Huaiyu said, Wang Siyuan simply lowered the trolley of the suitcase to the bottom, and then sat on it directly.

While sliding the suitcase left and right with his feet, he said expectantly: "I hope the person who picks us up is a pretty little elder sister, preferably one with a sweet smile who can call me elder brother." Kind of."

Wang Siyuan was talking vigorously, when in the mountains and forests where the wind and birdsong echoed, suddenly came this very pleasant voice...

"I'm afraid it will disappoint you."

This is a pleasant and clear male voice, not too deep, but also not too clear, like a clear spring flowing slowly in the mountains in summer.

There was a faint smile in that casual tone, which fell on the eardrums of people, and there was a kind of magnetism that made the roots of the ears slightly itchy.

Almost at the moment when the voice fell, Lu Huaiyu and the twin brothers surnamed Wang looked in the direction of the voice.