Compared with the sad looks of the Qin family's father and daughter, the relationship between Chu Chengmu and Lao Meng was a little more warm than in the past.

Chu Chengmu made a stir-fried shredded pork with green pepper, a tofu and crucian carp soup, and stir-fried a lotus root for Lao Meng. Then he picked up the information that Lao Chu had left at home and started to read it.

What Lao Chu left behind was a kraft paper file bag. In addition to a document proving the transfer of citizenship from citizen to public servant, there was also a brand-new teacher qualification certificate with a vermilion cover. Chu Chengmu flipped through the teacher qualification certificate and registered the information inside.

In the photo, she looked much younger than the old lady in his memory, but her face still looked determined.

Apart from these paper materials, there is also a burned CD in the portfolio.

Closing the teacher's qualification certificate, Chu Chengmu picked up the CD carefully packed in the plastic box and took a look. He saw "Guo Beiyin" written in oil-based pen on the front of the hard plastic box, and "Interview Materials" written on the back.

I walked to the TV cabinet, opened the DVD, and put the disc in.

Not long after, as the DVD started to read, several old men with gray hair and simple clothes appeared on the TV screen.

"You're not eating at home?" Lao Meng said to Chu Chengmu, who was sitting back on the sofa in the living room and watching the TV screen intently while grabbing the food.

"Well, I have a social event tonight, and I'll go back to Yuzhou to eat later." Chu Chengmu nodded and responded after hearing this.

"Then I won't care about you. Don't forget what I told you. Come, Dongci, have some fish soup. Xiaomu's craftsmanship is pretty good." After hearing this, Lao Meng filled a small bowl with a bowl of milk.

He handed the white fish soup to Gou Dongci, who was leaning on the edge of the sofa playing with his handheld game console, and said.

"Thank you, Auntie!" Seeing this, Gou Dongci hurriedly put the handheld device back into his pocket, took the fish soup handed over by Lao Meng, then raised his eyebrows at Chu Chengmu not far behind him and said with a smile.

"Are you looking at me? Are you eating too much of my cooking?" Chu Chengmu noticed Gou Dongci's gaze, glanced at him, and then focused on the TV screen.

"Auntie served this to me! It's not your share." Hearing this, Gou Dongci blew on the milky white fish soup in the small bowl and said with a smile.

"Stop taking pictures of my mother's horses. After drinking the soup, hurry up and start the car. I'm going to go back to Yuzhou after watching this." After hearing this, Chu Chengmu picked up the DVD remote control at hand and adjusted the playback speed to

3 times, he replied without raising his head.

The content on the CD given by Lao Chu is roughly divided into three parts.

The first part is the evaluation of Guo Beiyin by the surrounding villagers when she was teaching in the village primary school. Guo Beiyin is already 89 years old, and naturally there are not many elderly people of her generation left. But fortunately, one of them has hair and

The old man who had lost all his teeth still vaguely remembered how Guo Beiyin came to Duanlong Mountain. With the additions of several other old people, he could intermittently recall Guo Beiyin's decades of coaching experience.

The second part is the evaluation of Guo Beiyin by the students she once taught. This part is not easy to find. Guo Beiyin has retired for decades. The youngest children she has taught are all middle-aged, and the oldest ones are

They have all been buried in the loess. However, the terrain of Duanlong Mountain is remote, and there are more middle-aged people working at home than in other places, so at least a dozen of them came out.

The third part is the students who Guo Beiyin still supports after her retirement. This part is more. It is not limited to the village primary school where she once taught, but also the entire Duanlong Mountain area. Families with difficult conditions have received more or less from her.

In addition, the interview was during the summer vacation, and most of the children had returned from outside. Chu Chengmu roughly counted the number of people, and there were actually hundreds of people.

Although Chu Cheng Mu asked Lao Chu to create this interview CD with a somewhat utilitarian mentality, I really can’t wait to see these old, calm, or childish faces and listen to their chatter.

Chu Chengmu couldn't help but feel a bit of admiration for his gratitude towards the old lady who had written an autobiography for many years but had burned it up.

The DVD lasts for hundreds of minutes. In the last scene, there is a group of mountain people of different ages but equally dressed in simple clothes. They are standing together next to a dilapidated and low yellow mud-walled schoolhouse, lined up according to their height.

The team, together, said to the camera: "Teacher Guo, we will always miss you, thank you for coming!"

Even at 3x speed, it took Chu Chengmu more than half an hour to finish watching the DVD, which lasted more than an hour. Until the last scene flashed by, until the scene with a thick Yuzhou accent

After the Mandarin words disappeared, Chu Chengmu moved his somewhat stiff neck, clicked the eject button on the remote control, and then put away the DVD disc.

Lao Meng didn't know when he had reached Chu Chengmu's side. He looked at his son's expression and then at the TV that had turned into a blue screen. He shook his head gently and said, "We are all teachers, too.

This Teacher Guo, I am not as good as her!"

Seeing that his mother, who had been very strong all her life, admitted that she was not as good as Mrs. Guo, Chu Chengmu smiled, put the DVD back into the box, put away the kraft paper file bag, raised his hand to look at the watch, stood up and said to the old lady.

Meng said:

"A substitute teacher can do this job, but many people can't keep up. Such talents are probably worthy of being called engineers of the human soul! Mom, if there's nothing else, I'll go back to Yuzhou first. When dad comes back, tell him 1

Sound, I took the things."

When Lao Meng heard this, he stood up, stretched out his hand to straighten the collar of Chu Chengmu, and said softly:

"Well, let's go! Don't drink when socializing. The weather has been getting hotter these days. Don't dress randomly just because you're in good health. It will get cooler in a while. Remember to pay attention to the change of seasons, you know?"

"Well, Mom, I'm leaving!"

After bidding farewell to Lao Meng, Chu Chengmu left the community, got on the Land Rover that had been waiting at the entrance of the community, and signaled Goudong to return to Yuzhou.

An hour and a half later, on the top floor of Linjiang Building, Changbin Road, Chongqing.

"Why are you back so late? It's almost 8 o'clock, and I've been hungry for two hours."

We haven’t seen each other for more than a month. Sheng Zhenran’s skin is a bit paler than before. She still has a short, asymmetrical bob haircut. She is wearing a pure white long dress similar to the Vietnamese national costume Ao Dai. In terms of appearance, she looks better than before.

He had lost a bit of frivolity before, and now he was yawning, picking out fish bones with public chopsticks, and asked the big boy sitting opposite him.

"I came here after I went home and helped my mother make a meal. I've been running around outside every day, but I've forgotten to fulfill my filial duty. Can't you arrange a proper dining table here? If you sit on the floor next time, I won't come."

Chu Chengmu sat cross-legged on a soft futon made of straw and bamboo shoot shells. He supported his chin with one hand and held some sweet and sour carp in the other. He glanced at Sheng Yingran, who was also sitting cross-legged opposite him.

A small mahogany desk, he said lazily.

"You can still fulfill your filial piety. My parents have been buried in the ground for many years. Why are you the only one who has so many things to do and it's not enough to install an air conditioner? Then I will get an 8-cent table next time? Look at that thing and

Does it match my overall decoration style?”

After being imprisoned for more than a month, Sheng Zhenran's mentality seemed to be much more open-minded. He was less flattering and cautious in front of Chu Chengmu, and his words were more casual.

Hearing this, Chu Chengmu was surprised at Sheng Zhenran's current state. He glanced at her curiously and said with a smile:

"What? Now that you have recovered from the heart disease, I feel that your whole body has become much clearer. You didn't dare to talk to me like this before."

After hearing this, Sheng Zhenran handed the fish meat with the fish bones removed in front of Chu Chengmu, pursed her lips and smiled, saying:

"Actually, I don't dare to do it now, but I want to give it a try. This time I went in and came out again. Although I was fined a lot of money, it relieved my worries. Before, I was always worried about being dragged down, and I would dream about it in the middle of the night.

Until I was caught, now that I have been caught, I feel more relaxed."

After saying that, Sheng Zhenran picked up the Wuliangye on the desk, filled two white jade small wine glasses with wine, handed one of them to Chu Chengmu, then held the wine glass with both hands, with his back straight and serious.

Said to Chu Chengmu:

"I went in and came out this time, thanks to your promise, Chu Chengmu, thank you!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Chengmu still maintained his posture of supporting his chin with one hand, picked up the wine glass at hand, touched it with Sheng Zhenran, then drank it all, and said with a chuckle:

"Thank you for what I did. This is what I promised you before."

Seeing Chu Chengmu finish the drink, Sheng Zhenran also drank up the white wine in the cup, leaned over again, took the wine glass from Chu Chengmu, filled it with wine again, and then put it back to Chu Chengmu

In front of the curtain, he once again held his wine glass with both hands.

"It was because of thanking you just now, why this time?" Chu Chengmu saw this, but this time he did not reach out to take the wine glass. He just looked at Sheng Yeran and asked lightly.

When Sheng Zhenran heard this, she suddenly lowered her voice, opened her lips slightly, and said softly: "For this cup, thank you for helping me kill Li Jiuge! Otherwise, the trouble I would face would be far more than what I am now!"

Hearing this, Chu Chengmu stretched out his right hand, played with the wine glass in front of him, and said with a smile: "You can't be so slanderous! I called Xu Jiping in the afternoon and said that I was going to kill Xu Jiping, and now he said that I killed Li Jiuge.

?”

When Sheng Zhenran heard this, she just looked straight at Chu Chengmu. After drinking a glass of white wine, she had two small blushes on her face, but there was a hint of brilliance in her dark eyes.

Dazzling look.

Chu Chengmu glanced at Sheng Zhenran's hands still raised high, shook his head in amusement, picked up the wine glass at hand, and drank it down.

When Sheng Zhenran saw this, she knew that this was Chu Chengmu's admission. A few gentle smiles flashed in his eyes, and he drank down the white wine in his hand.

Putting down the wine glass, Chu Chengmu glanced at the 5-liangye wine bottle on the desk and said with a smile: "Are there any other names? If not, I'm ready to eat. I haven't even had lunch yet.

eat."

Sheng Zhenran shook his head when he heard this and said: "No, but if you need someone to drink with you later, I can accompany you."

Hearing this, Chu Chengmu picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish meat with the bones removed from the dinner plate, looked up at her, and asked, "What did you see?"

Sheng Zhenran didn't say anything after hearing this, but pointed at Chu Chengmu's left wrist, which was still holding its chin, with only a green water ghost left.

Seeing this, Chu Chengmu raised his left wrist and took a look. Because he had been wearing the bracelet of ten copper coins from before, the skin at that place was a little whiter than other places. He didn't expect that Sheng Yinran would see it with just one glance.

Saw it.

Shaking his head slightly, Chu Chengmu said: "I am not the kind of person who likes to use alcohol to escape. No matter what kind of feeling I am, as long as it comes from the bottom of my heart, I would rather bear it myself."

After a somewhat belated dinner, although Chu Chengmu didn't want to drink to escape, he still poured some white wine into his white jade glass, sat on the bench near the window, and opened the white gauze in front of the curtains.

, looked down at the long-lasting waterway that was still brightly lit, and said to Sheng Yeran, who was sitting not far from him, "Before, you said that Xu Jing's thoughts were a little complicated, what did you mean?"

Sheng Zhenran shook the red wine glass in her hand, leaned half against the pillar, and placed her still naked little feet horizontally on the long board where Chu Chengmu was sitting. She stretched and said:

"I called him before and he asked me whether the 25% of my shares would really be discounted in the future. If it was determined to be discounted, would he be given priority? I

Apart from discounting 215% of the shares to him, you are the only one left. This brat didn’t have such thoughts before, but now he can neither trust me nor you."

Hearing this, Chu Chengmu thought for a moment, took a sip of the mellow white wine in the cup, and said:

"This is indeed a thing, but I can understand him. Now that Xu Jiping has only been here for a few days, all the burdens have fallen on him, and it is normal for him to be confused. Before, he was not in his position and did not seek political advice.

, now that I am isolated and helpless, it is better to think too much than to think too little. By the way, how did you answer him? "

Hearing this, Sheng Zhenran glanced at Chu Chengmu in surprise and asked:

"Aren't you angry? What can I answer? I told him on the spot that he should take care of my mother's affairs! Speaking of which, I have never understood why you are so fond of Xu Jing. You just said it was for the sake of being a friend.
To be continued...