Chapter 705 : The Meaning of Life
Chapter 705: The Meaning of Life
Clatter!
The chopsticks fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
Su Ruochu paid no attention to it, only excitedly covering her mouth with her hand, staring blankly at the person opposite her.
Chen Fan stood at the doorway.
The two just looked at each other like this.
The air seemed to stop at this moment.
Until Chen Fan opened his arms.
"Ah..."
Su Ruochu finally let out a soft scream, no longer able to control her emotions, and directly ran over, throwing herself into Chen Fan's arms.
"Wuu, why did you come?"
Su Ruochu buried herself in Chen Fan's arms, her face full of excitement and joy.
Chen Fan hugged Su Ruochu and joked teasingly.
"I couldn't contact my girl, of course I had to come and see what happened."
Su Ruochu looked up at Chen Fan, then happily buried herself in his arms again.
"Let go of Teacher Su!"
Suddenly a shout came from the courtyard, startling Chen Fan to quickly look up.
He found it was 3 boys with dark skin and skinny figures.
Su Ruochu quickly broke free from Chen Fan's arms, then turned and smiled at the 3 boys behind her.
"Why did you come out?"
The boy in front, holding a stick in his hand, timidly shouted.
"Don't bully Teacher Su, or we won't let you off."
Su Ruochu walked over to the 3 with a smile, reaching out to rub this child's head.
"No one is bullying the teacher, he's the teacher's boyfriend, who came from the big city today to see the teacher."
"Ah? Teacher's boyfriend?"
The 3 boys lifted their little heads, looking astonished.
Su Ruochu waved her hand with a smile: "Alright. You go to sleep first, I'll tell you more tomorrow."
"Teacher Su..."
"Don't worry, the teacher will be fine."
Before leaving, the 3 little boys couldn't help but keep secretly glancing at Chen Fan.
After the 3 went into the room next door, Su Ruochu grinned at Chen Fan.
"They're children from the school, it's too far from home and inconvenient to go to school, so they usually live here."
Chen Fan walked over, "Is it just you, one teacher, living here usually?"
"Mm." Su Ruochu nodded, "I heard before that if no more teachers came to this school, it would be shut down. I volunteered to apply to come here with the team of teachers."
Chen Fan's gaze swept to the side, seeing the meal Su Ruochu was preparing, his brows furrowed.
"Is this what you usually eat?"
Su Ruochu knew what Chen Fan was worried about, and smiled as she took Chen Fan's hand and coquettishly said.
"No, usually villagers from nearby villages bring meals over."
"Today is because it rained yesterday, so I didn't let the parents come up the mountain."
"Besides, eating noodles is not bad, I like eating noodles the most."
Chen Fan sighed, somewhat helplessly.
"Oh, don't be angry, okay?"
Su Ruochu quickly hugged Chen Fan coquettishly, "I know you're worried about me, but I'm really fine."
Chen Fan shook his head, "Let's not talk about this now, let's eat first."
After saying this, he gave Feng Pojun at the door a look.
"I brought you some snacks."
"Ah? Really?"
Su Ruochu immediately became excited: "That's great. I gave the few bags of potato chips I brought before to the children."
"I've been craving them for a long time."
Feng Pojun opened a suitcase, and Su Ruochu immediately let out an excited cry, but fearing she would wake the children, she quickly covered her mouth carefully, grinning at Chen Fan.
Chen Fan glanced at the pot where the water was already boiling, and casually picked up a few packs of instant noodles.
"I haven't eaten either, let's have noodles together tonight."
Su Ruochu smiled, "It's been a long time since I ate food you made."
Excitedly checking the things Chen Fan bought for her, she then only took a bag of potato chips, putting the rest back and zipping up the suitcase.
Chen Fan made a pot of noodles, and the 3 of them casually had dinner in the courtyard.
After eating, Feng Pojun voluntarily went to wash the bowls and chopsticks, and after finishing, quietly slipped out of the school alone.
In the room next door, Chen Fan was examining Su Ruochu's bedroom.
Next door was the classroom, one big classroom where one teacher had to teach children from 1st to 5th grade simultaneously.
And this room on the classroom side was less than 10 square meters in total, with nothing but a small bed and a broken wooden desk.
Su Ruochu's suitcase was placed in the corner.
Besides that, there was a washbasin, a flashlight, and Su Ruochu's own toiletries placed on the windowsill.
A few small flowers were placed beside it, becoming the only decoration in this room.
Chen Fan looked around, feeling somewhat heartbroken.
He couldn't imagine how Su Ruochu, a girl, had persevered here.
Seeing Chen Fan's expression wasn't good, Su Ruochu quickly walked over and hugged Chen Fan on her own initiative.
"What's wrong with you, are you angry again?"
Chen Fan looked down at Su Ruochu, "Come back with me tomorrow. In this kind of environment, you alone here, it hurts my heart."
Su Ruochu shook her head, pouting.
"You promised me before."
Chen Fan smiled bitterly: "I did promise you before, but I didn't imagine the environment here would be this bad."
"I'm not afraid, I've already adapted in the half month since I came here."
"But it hurts me."
Su Ruochu quickly hugged Chen Fan tightly, "Don't be like this, okay? I'm really fine."
"I like it here."
After saying this, she actively stood on tiptoe and kissed Chen Fan's face several times.
Seeing this girl's careful demeanor, Chen Fan couldn't help but laugh and cry.
In the end, he could only gently encircle Su Ruochu's slender waist.
"Alright, we'll talk about this matter again, now..."
Chen Fan suddenly picked up Su Ruochu by the waist, turned and walked towards the bed.
"Let me check if your figure has gotten thinner."
Su Ruochu blushed and gently pushed Chen Fan.
"The children are all sleeping next door."
The embarrassing thing Su Ruochu feared ultimately didn't happen, Chen Fan just gently hugged her, the two lying on the bed, looking at the night sky outside the window.
One of Chen Fan's hands was mischievously moving along Su Ruochu's collar.
"Wife, the children's canteen has deflated."
Su Ruochu lightly pinched Chen Fan, but didn't stop the actions of a certain person's hand.
"Being improper again."
"Wife, can you tell me why you like it here?"
Su Ruochu withdrew her gaze that was secretly looking at Chen Fan, staring at the ceiling.
"Before coming, my thoughts were very simple, just to accompany senior brothers and sisters to do a teaching support investigation. Go back and write an investigation report and it would be over."
"But after staying here for half a month, I saw many things."
"Do you know? It turns out there are still many children who can't afford to go to school, it turns out that the phenomenon of valuing boys over girls still exists in such remote places."
"The toys and snacks we can easily get, the children here can't afford. Many children haven't even seen a phone."
"But even in such difficult conditions, the children here still want to go to school."
"On my first day of teaching them, looking at the innocent eyes of the children, and the desire for learning in their eyes, I suddenly understood a bit of the meaning of what I'm doing."
Su Ruochu turned her head to look at Chen Fan.
"Thinking that I'm doing something meaningful, then what does everything I've gone through really matter?"