C45 Meeting Officially

"Qiuhe, your name is Qiuhe, right?" Tao Huizhen broke free from her long memories. She looked at the large-eyed girl in front of her. The golden afternoon sun shone on her long hair. Her entire body seemed to be covered in a layer of golden light.

The girl seemed to have forgotten where she was in an instant. She held the bamboo basket in her hand. Time stopped. The rays of sunlight shot straight into her eyes. She rubbed her eyes and looked again. The woman from the church who came from the city. It was like the rising sun. Reality and reality appeared on the narrow road in front of her house. She was like an uninvited guest in her life, suddenly appearing beside her. It was like a dream. Qiu He stared at Tao Huizhen. Her thoughts drifted into the unknown.

She needed some time to adapt to what was happening in front of her.

Tao Huizhen quietly waited for Qiuhe's answer. At the same time, she affectionately said, Slowly moving her eyes, she sized up every place where Qiuhe lived. A careful taste. It was a scene that overlapped with what Elder Li had said. The shed wall skin showed how old the old residence was. There were obvious traces of rain on the wall inside the door. Let Tao Huizhen know. During the rainy season, there would be a leak in the house of the Qiuhe family. She looked at the window. The narrow atmosphere blew against her face. Tao Huizhen experienced the arrival of the night. There was no light in the cottage. The air was hot and humid. When the autumn lotus laid flat on the bed, it looked like it was about time.

It was a house that made people sigh, a courtyard that made people feel lonely. On the opposite side of the path, the sound of a bell could be heard. The chirps of birds and the gentleness of the wind. Tao Huizhen experienced the life of poverty of an orphan for many years. It slowly unfolded in front of her.

Qiu He held a bamboo basket in her hand. The wild vegetables were about to spill out. The white duck cawed. The girl's face froze. All of this was like a realistic oil painting in the countryside.

The girl in front of him was the spiritual pillar of this place called home. She was also the living support of her grandfather and grandmother. Tao Huizhen thought. Elder Li and Officer Wang had visited this place many times before. The result was not satisfactory. It was not a simple task to remove the mental support of the two elders. He had to face some choices. If there were other ways, she wouldn't have done it. But compared to the fact that Qiuhe could read, Tao Huizhen's choice was much simpler.

"I am, I am Qiuhe. " Qiuhe suddenly replied.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Tao Huizhen could finally walk in from the open courtyard door. The yard door was exposed to the wind and rain. It was almost slanted. Tao Huizhen said to Qiuhe, "My name is Tao Huizhen. I came to Dai Village from another place. I've been a teacher at your Da Tea Village Primary School for a year and a half. We met last night. Your Peacock Dance was very wonderful. "

" I know you. " Qiu He looked at Tao Huizhen from a close distance. She looked at her from every angle.

"Is that so?" Tao Hui Zhen felt a little sunburned. She used her hands to block the sunlight. Her gaze fell on Qiuhe's face. She seemed to not care about the sunlight at all, and her handsome face turned dark from the sun. Her large eyes, which were disproportionate to her face, seemed to be covered in a layer of water. The water was actually flowing.

"Yes, I know you. The first day you came here, I knew it. The villagers went to welcome you. I felt. . . You will change a lot of things here. You are the teacher of those kids. That group of children started from that moment. It was the illusion that the outside environment gave them. How could they know my happiness? They don't understand anything. In the end, they're still a bunch of kids who haven't grown up yet. "

Tao Huizhen's gaze was filled with astonishment. Her lips trembled slightly. She couldn't help but smile. This was indeed the kind of girl she could imagine. All of her characteristics. . . All of them were in line with Tao Huizhen's previous imagination. Short hair, mature, unconventional, neither servile nor overbearing, and powerful words. All of these traits. Only when they appeared on her body would it seem natural.

The reason why Ah Liang drummed the Lil 'Elephant's Foot Drum for her, what Ah Liang said to her, and where she went. Tao Huizhen already didn't really want to know. Those meaningless things didn't need to be asked by a mature person.

The child was not a fish, so how could she know the joy of a fish? Qiuhe had no culture. However, she easily explained the point of view contained in this sentence. She didn't expect that there was such a person in the Great Tea Village. She was different from all the other girls in the village. No matter what, Tao Huizhen couldn't imagine that this sentence came from the mouth of a thirteen or fourteen year old girl. She had truly amazed her.

"Yes, you're right. I'm very ashamed, you know me so well. But I only heard about your situation today. Qiuhe is a person who relies on her grandpa and grandma, right? That must not be easy. "

" Do you want to sit down? I'll bring the duck's wild vegetables over. It has been a long time since it has eaten. It's the time to lay eggs. "

"No need, you can be busy. I'll just take a look. The pole, That's all for now. The courtyard seemed to have been intentionally isolated. There were no lights to illuminate it. The house at night was even darker than the courtyard, right? Qiuhe would be very busy every day, right? It seemed like. . . It seems like you need to do everything well before it gets dark. "

"I'm already used to it. I learned to work in the dark. I can do whatever I need to do in the dark. I do what I do every day. Then I'll take care of my grandparents and sleep. I'll put the glutinous rice that I want to eat the next day into the pot and soak it. I was washing my hair in the cold water. Wash my feet with warm water. All of this must be done in the darkness. Finally, I will be at this corner of the courtyard, right here. . . Dance of the Peacock. I don't care how others look at me, because I always dance by borrowing the starlight. No one will pay attention to me. You're right, at night in the yard, It's much brighter than my house. Dance, actually. I really want to go outside and dance with everyone's drums and gongs, because I think. . . The accompaniment is for me, Qiuhe, even though it's not. . . But no one could stop me from dancing with that sound, my ears are very sharp. I'm very satisfied with that feeling. It's like using a free musician. "

Tao Huizhen nodded her chin slightly. She thought about the feeling of Autumn Lotus dancing under the starlight at night. She even raised her head to look at the sky of Dai Village. There were also countless footprints on the ground. "When you dance in the yard, there is no accompaniment? That is to say. . . Your accompaniment sounds in your heart, but to put it bluntly. . . You are humming by yourself and singing with your heart? What kind of accompaniment is usually for the Peacock Dance? " Tao Huizhen asked curiously.

"Sometimes it's the Phoenix-Tail Bamboo under the Moonlight, sometimes it's the Golden Peacock, and sometimes it's the folk ballad of Dai Village. It can't be called. " Qiu He answered fluently.

Tao Huizhen looked down at a row of round bamboo sieves under the roof. The tea leaves on the sieves were still green, which was one of the steps of the tea made by the people of Dai Village. It was called suntan. Without changing the color of the tea leaves, they evaporated the moisture in the leaves.

"Did you make all of this?" Tao Huizhen asked, "Are you the only one managing the tea fields at home? Are you tired? "

"I'm tired. What do you want to do by coming to my house today?" Qiuhe asked.

"Do you want to go to school? Qiuhe. " Qiuhe's words were straightforward, and Tao Huizhen did not hide her intentions.

"I want to go. "

"I'll talk to your grandparents and ask you to go to Big Tea Village Primary School to study. Your family doesn't need to spend a single cent. As long as you study well. You're already at the age of studying. I came here to ask you to study. "

" It's useless. "

"Why?" Wang Yao asked.

"Old Man Li has been here before, and there are also the men in the county town, as well as Dao Xiaotong. But they are unable to convince my grandfather and grandmother. It seems like they don't have a good idea either. I also know that I can't leave. Qiuhe is the pillar of this family. I can't abandon Grandpa and Grandma. "

Tao Huizhen looked at the beam of the old house. All of her conversation with Qiuhe had been stirred up in her mind. Tao Huizhen puffed out her chest and said, "Qiuhe, do you believe me? Let me try. It's not too late for you to start reading now. With an intellectual culture, you will become even more outstanding. "

Qiu He looked at Tao Huizhen's reddened eyes. She swallowed her saliva and said with a choking voice, "I still don't know how to write my own name. "