Cai Fen obviously did not expect to meet Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan here. Her first reaction was that she was very surprised, but she immediately realized that this reunion was not necessarily a good thing for the two of them. After all, Gao Xiangyu and herself had given
Zhao Zhiyu caused trouble, and as Zhao Zhiyu's daughter, how could Zhao Shiyan be kind to her?
After thinking about it, she decided to suppress the joy in her heart first and apologized:
"Shi Yan, I haven't formally apologized to you for what happened in Pengcheng. Xiangyu and I have caused you so much trouble..."
"Oh, Director Cai, everything is over. It's all the fault of that soft-boiled man. I don't blame you, hehe!"
"Well, Shi Yan, I'm no longer the coach. Don't call me Coach Cai anymore."
"I'm used to it. In my heart, you will always be my most respected Director Cai."
Zhao Shiyan held Cai Fen's hands affectionately, which made Cai Fen moved.
After the two chatted for a while, Cai Fen understood that Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan were here to conduct social surveys, and Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan also understood the reason for Cai Fen's appearance here.
It turned out that after the prosecutor issued a decision not to prosecute Cai Fen, Cai Fen left Pengcheng and returned to her hometown.
But Cai Fen is also a restless person. After staying at home for a few days, she wanted to find something to do for herself.
She was also an ice hockey coach before, so she asked around and heard that Yuanxi Village Primary School was short of teachers, so she came here and took turns teaching with the original teacher here. And she herself taught an extra class.
Gate Sports.
This is also a common phenomenon in schools in remote areas. Because teacher resources are scarce, a teacher often wears multiple hats.
When Cai Fen came here, she had no organization and only a meager subsidy as a volunteer. She didn't care and regarded it as atonement for what she had done in the past.
"By the way, Director Cai, I heard that you also resigned as the coach of the Huacheng Curling Hall, right? In fact, it's not necessary. You can come back. It's too unfair for you to stay here."
Ling Zhi, who was standing aside, secretly complained, "Don't you often take time off on weekends to avoid going to the curling hall?"
However, complaints are complaints. As long as Zhao Shiyan has nothing to do, he usually goes to the curling hall. However, he has taken more leave recently due to various things such as billiard training and visits.
"And we plan to go to Pengcheng City Penguin Company for internship next semester. By then the Huacheng City Curling Hall will be completely empty. If there are no coaches here, I think the curling hall will close sooner or later."
Cai Fen did not directly respond to Zhao Shiyan's idea of inviting her back to Huacheng. Instead, she was more interested in the internship mentioned by Zhao Shiyan:
"Are you still planning to do an internship at Penguin? Are you going to do an immersive experience experiment? I heard your dad mentioned it to me once."
"That's right. But I haven't dared to tell my mentor about this yet, so...so..."
Hearing this, Cai Fen understood. This girl hadn't decided on this matter yet, so she dared to say that she would be able to go to Pengcheng? It really seemed like something she would do.
"Who is your mentor? Is he here? I'll tell you."
Cai Fen didn't hesitate and thought of helping Zhao Shiyan.
"No, no, no, no, Director Cai, please don't say anything yet. Teacher Lu doesn't know about this yet. If I say it suddenly, he will definitely not agree. It's better to let me talk about it slowly in the future."
Seeing Zhao Shiyan's insistence, Cai Fen nodded, gave up the idea of helping her, and reminded her not to be polite if she needed help.
Cai Fen originally came here to discuss something with the old village chief. She said sorry to Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan, walked to the village chief in the courtyard, and said hello:
"Hello, Village Chief Deng."
"Okay, okay! Xiao Cai, what's the matter?"
"I came here today to ask you about the situation of Xiaofeng's family. Do you know about it?"
"Xiao Feng? Oh, you mean that boy from the old Xu family, right? What's wrong?"
"Xiao Feng is quite different in the class. When everyone gets together to play, he always stays alone in the corner and is not very gregarious. I don't know why he is like this, and I don't think much about asking him.
Talk, I just want to come over and ask you."
"Well, Xiaofeng's child's parents work abroad all year round, and there is really no one to discipline him. Maybe it's because of this that he doesn't have many friends."
"I've been to that kid's house a few times. He can do everything by himself. He doesn't have to worry about cooking, cooking, cleaning, etc. He's also very polite, and he even took the initiative to invite me to stay for a meal."
"Not long after you arrived here, he is still relatively accepting of life. He will be fine after a while, so you don't need to be too anxious."
"That's it."
After Cai Fen understood the situation, he prepared to bid farewell to the old village chief.
"By the way, Director Cai, can you let us visit your place of work?"
"Of course, if it doesn't delay your social investigation."
"Oh, then let me say hello to Teacher Lu first."
After that, Zhao Shiyan went into the room and explained to Teacher Lu that he had met an old acquaintance. Lu Ming did not refuse. He brought Zhao Shiyan here this time and did not expect her to make any contribution to social investigation.
On the other hand, if a local acquaintance can help her get familiar with the village, she can also understand the real situation of the village from another perspective. So after instructing Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan to pay attention to their safety, they were allowed to move freely.
Yao Jun hesitated to speak, feeling that it was against the rules, but in the end he did not say anything.
There are usually very few outsiders coming into the village. After all, the roads are not smooth. Even if the locals go out to the town to buy things, it is difficult to get back and forth in one day.
Along the way, the villagers looked at them with strange eyes, which made Ling Zhi feel quite uncomfortable. Zhao Shiyan, on the other hand, had no psychological burden and walked side by side with Cai Fen, chatting happily.
After a while, the three of them arrived at the northernmost end of the village, and gradually they could hear the sounds of children playing.
After getting closer, a small courtyard filled with sports equipment appeared in front of everyone. Cai Fen explained that it was donated to the primary school here by kind people in the past few years. Unfortunately, now, only the horizontal and parallel bars are barely functioning.
It works, the others are broken.
Ling Zhi looked at the scene in the courtyard and sighed in his heart. The kind people who donated these equipment had good intentions, but they did not consider the subsequent maintenance, so now, these things have become useless.
There are several clean houses at the back of the courtyard, which are fully equipped with tables, chairs, benches and blackboards. This is one of the few places in the village that Ling Zhi feels is decent.
Today is Saturday, and the children don't have to go to school, but this is the largest and most empty place in the village, so the children still gather here to play together.
The girls gathered in a corner of the yard and danced the nine-square grid, while the boys gathered together to play eagle and catch chicks. Since the queue of "chicks" was too long, the girls' territory would be swept away from time to time.
Whenever this happens, an inconspicuous boy in the corner will always forcefully push those disobedient "chickens" aside, as if he is deliberately protecting the girls. And after doing all this
Finally, he ignored the disdainful looks of the boys and stood silently in the corner again.
"Hey! Xiaofeng! Where are you from? If you don't want to play with us, forget it. Don't make trouble!"
The boys were laughing at the unsociable Xiaofeng, but Xiaofeng turned a blind eye and just stared at the girls' jiugongge.
"Well, Xiaofeng, why don't you come and play with us."
A girl with long braids and a blue and white short-sleeved shirt took the initiative to invite Xiaofeng.
Xiaofeng just shook his head and didn't reply.
"Okay, how many times have I told you, don't run so fast, it will be very painful if you fall!"
When the children saw Teacher Cai coming, they stopped one after another. For some reason, they all stared at Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan. Ling Zhi could feel that they were very uneasy.
"Teacher Cai, are they new teachers too?"
"No, no, they are my friends, they just come here to see me."
"call......"
Ling Zhi could feel that everyone was obviously relieved. Also, children of this age are still very close to their teachers. If the teacher suddenly changes, the children will probably worry about whether the new teacher will be stricter than the old teacher.
Ling Zhi didn't know what the children really thought, but at least in his elementary school days, whenever a new teacher came, he always thought so.
However, Ling Zhi's thinking was still too complicated. What he didn't know was that this elementary school only had two teachers including Cai Fen, so there were not many classes on weekdays.
If there are two more teachers, the children's day will be more "fulfilling" than before, which is the result they don't want to see.
After all, it's always nice to have more time to play.
Seeing that they had escaped the fate of extra classes, the children's expressions gradually softened, and they began to ask questions in front of Cai Fen and Zhao Shiyan. Some older boys even joked that Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan looked like a couple.
This made Zhao Shiyan laugh and cry, pinching the boy's little face and calling him a little naughty boy.
Compared to Zhao Shiyan's closeness with the children, Ling Zhi seemed a bit boring.
He felt that he was born with the physique of a far younger child, and he was not handsome either, so it was not surprising that children surrounded the great beauty Zhao Shiyan.
But it doesn't matter, he doesn't like children either.
And just when he was about to find a place to sit for a while, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him:
"Are you really not a teacher?"
Ling Zhi was stunned for a moment, turned around, and saw Xiao Feng, who was standing in the corner inconspicuously before, talking to him.
"Yes, we are indeed not, what's wrong?"
He didn't know if it was his own misunderstanding, but when he just finished speaking, he felt Xiaofeng feel a little disappointed.