Chapter 86 (1/2)

Three months had passed.

Time flew fast. In recent months, Lin Wenxi had worked very hard day and night, but his body was much better than before. He taught Chinese, mathematics, English, music, labor, and physical education for more than one hundred students of this school, and had already become very popular among students. In these three months, besides Huang Xiya who contacted him three times, no one contacted him, including his father.

On this day, Lin Wenxi sat silently in the bamboo forest, stroking the only high-end electronic organ that the president had applied to superiors for a long time. When the wind blew through the bamboo, the bamboo shadow cast on the wall. Lin Wenxi played the organ, singing gently. “You will feel love, hatred, and forgiveness. Life will not only be full of sadness. The lover can’t take away your paradise…”

It was said that people born on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month were lucky boys. Magpie Bridge blessed them. Their love affair would be smooth and stable, and they would be happy all their lives. But there was also another saying, the Chinese Valentine’s Day was the day of separation. If they were born after midnight, they would have an unsmooth love affair and encounter misfortunes. Lin Wenxi was born at midnight on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. And this Chinese Valentine’s Day was his eighteenth birthday.

Over the years, Lin Wenxi celebrated his birthday with parents almost in the same way. His mother Huang Xiya would cook some dishes and buy some drinks. His father Lin Ziwei would rest at home on this day no matter how busy he was. When he was a child, Lin Wenxi always thought that his father loved him. But when he grew up, he began to wonder why there was no birthday cake or candles for his birthday every year, but there was a bunch of beautiful red roses.

Sensible Lin Wenxi was angry about that. So one year, he shook off the petals and enjoyed a footbath with petals. At that time, his father and mother had come into the bedroom early. By the time his father came out in satisfaction, only stems were left. Fortunately, his father seemed to be in a perfect mood. He only asked Lin Wenxi to write Everlasting Hatred ten times. So Lin Wenxi wrote a note and put it in his father’s bedroom. It said, “On the seventh day of July when none was near, at midnight in Long Life Hall he whispered in her ear.” His father was angry, but he couldn’t blame him. Later, Lin Wenxi felt that he had learned something that night.

Lin Wenxi didn’t remember the real sense of celebration of his birthday. He only remembered that when he was four or five, an elder brother played games with him. They pretended to be a wife and a husband. “Why I can’t remember.” Lin Wenxi sighed again, lying on his side with the calendar. “I just need to remember the happiness at that time; I needn’t recall all the details.”

The next day, it rained so heavily. The Chinese Valentine’s Day happened to be the first day of the fifteen days summer vacation. This also meant that Lin Wenxi’s teaching career was coming to an end. Several days ago, Hong Xuan had called to tell that he would pick up Lin Wenxi in the afternoon of the next day of Chinese Valentine’s Day.

At the end of the second class in the afternoon, parents were crowded on the steps of the school gate, waiting in line for their children. At ordinary times, they had already rushed into the courtyard, chatting in groups about how to educate children. However, they heard that the new teacher came from a famous university, so this time they waited quietly with farm specialties in their hands to show their respect to the new teacher.

Lin Wenxi wanted to refuse all the gifts, but he didn’t know that the villagers in this small village were so forthright that they thought he only accepted expensive gifts when he refused. They anxiously asked him if their children behaved badly. If so, Lin Wenxi could punish them severely. Some parents even pulled the child over directly and slapped him in public, scolding him for not listening to the teacher. Lin Wenxi pulled over the innocent child and helplessly received gifts one by one. They were all delicious delicacies that he and his playmates loved when they were children.

“Oh, God, I’ll completely recall my childhood.” Lin Wenxi looked at each student with a happy and slightly bitter smile, thinking in mind.

“Erniu has with good memory and can remember knowledge quickly. He must be very promising when he grows up.”

“Yumei is good at hand-making. She can make all the origami I teach them.”

Lin Wenxi talked about every student with their parents. To everyone’s surprise, Lin Wenxi had remembered every student in the past few months. He also remembered their preferences and advantages.

“The children are obedient and well-behaved. Xiaofeng is a little naughty and likes fighting, but as long as I reason with him, he will obey and not bully the junior children. Besides, he’s good at sports. He has a good physical body and can do sports in the future.” Lin Wenxi grabbed a taller, dark-skinned child and wiped his nose with a smile.

“Oh, Mr. Lin, don’t get your hands dirty. My boy is very naughty. You can beat and swear at him if he doesn’t listen to you. You needn’t treat him too well.” Xiaofeng’s mother smiled, twisted her child’s mouth and scolded, “How kind Mr. Lin is to you. If you bully your classmates again, I’ll break your leg!”

A child next to him cried and sobbed. “Mr. Lin, he doesn’t bully the junior class but bully us. Www…”