Arjun liked the class teacher, Teacher Wu, not only liked her class, but even the way she walked with a limp. Arjun has no mother, and in her heart, she regards Teacher Wu as a mother. She likes to stare at Teacher Wu's lame feet, calculating over and over again in her mind how big a shoe Teacher Wu should wear. In her heart, there is a secret that no one knows.
Teacher Wu also likes this poor student, in order not to make Arjun feel inferior, occasionally, Teacher Wu also asked Arjun to help him approve the examination papers.
On this day, Arjun carried a stack of homework books to Teacher Wu's office. Teacher Wu took Arjun's hand and asked, "Arjun, do you have anything else to do on Sunday except to review your homework?" Arjun shook his head.
Teacher Wu sighed for a moment and said, "I would like to ask you for a favor." How about a trip to Dong Qian's house on Sunday? Dong Qian this child is very smart, but too greedy. It's about to take the college entrance examination, and you are studying your homework together, which may be a promotion for her. Of course, if you don't want to, the teacher won't force you. ”
To tell the truth, Aju is really unwilling, this Dong Qian, usually too vain, except for dressing, almost nothing. But Arjun knew that Dong Qian's mother and Teacher Wu were college classmates and had a good relationship, and looking at Teacher Wu's expectant gaze, Arjun still nodded.
On Sunday, early in the morning, Arjun carried his school bag to Dong Qian's house. But when she returned, she bowed her head, tears swirling in her eyes. Yeah, why are people so different? Dong Qian bought a lipstick for one hundred yuan, and a pair of high heels for four or five hundred. But what about yourself? The tuition fee has not been paid until now, and I really don't know how to open my mouth to my father...
Arjun thought tearfully as he walked until he reached the school gate before drying his tears and keeping himself steady. At this time, she looked up and suddenly found that under the tree a few meters away, there was a familiar figure. It's the father who is coming!
Arjun's father was crouching under a tree smoking a dry cigarette, and when he saw Arjun, he stood up.
Arjun stretched out his arm around his father and asked, "Dad, when did you come?" Haven't you waited a long time? ”
Father shook his head and said, "I just arrived and was about to rest my feet and go to you again." With that, he took out from his arms five hundred-dollar bills with body temperature and told Arjun to pay the tuition quickly.
Arjun did not dare to ask his father how the money came from, looking at his father's old face, Arjun's tears swirled in his eyes again. After saying goodbye to her father, she grabbed the money and ran quickly into the school.
The next day, Arjun handed over the money her father had given her and went to the classroom. I didn't think that when this class was about to end, Dong Qian's mother suddenly came, standing at the door of the classroom, looking angry, she asked Teacher Wu to go out, saying that she had something to say to Teacher Wu immediately. Teacher Wu did not know what had happened, so he arranged for everyone to study by themselves and walked out of the classroom limping by himself.
Aju was worried about Teacher Wu in her heart, through the window, she saw Dong Qian's mother full of anger, and Teacher Wu's look was also very anxious, and from time to time she looked at Aju.....
After class, the students were curious to rush out of the classroom to see the liveliness. Only to see that after Teacher Wu sent Dong Qian's mother away, he didn't say anything, just told Arjun that he didn't have to go to Dong Qian's house in the future, and now it was the sprint stage, hoping that Aju would seize the time to review well. Somehow, Aju subconsciously felt that Teacher Wu's words might be related to Dong Qian's mother coming to her just now. But what the relationship was, she really didn't understand.
A few days later, on this day, Teacher Wu asked Arjun to send the students' homework books to her office after class, but when Arjun went, Teacher Wu was not there. Arjun put the book on Teacher Wu's desk, turned to leave, and suddenly found a hundred yuan on the corner floor. Arjun's heart immediately, throbbing, jumped up: one hundred yuan, enough for more than two months of food expenses!
She reached out and picked up a hundred yuan from the ground, and found that her hand was shaking badly. Her heart moved, she thought about it, reached out, and put the money on Teacher Wu's desk...
The suffocating college entrance examination was finally over, and Arjun was successfully admitted to college. Arjun applied for a normal university, because she saved money by studying teacher training, and because Arjun had always wanted to be a teacher like Teacher Wu, and she wanted to help more poor students like her so that they could all enter the university.
Arjun's college money is astronomical for her family. But fortunately, because of his good character and excellent learning, Arjun received financial support from well-wishers in society, a "sunshine project" to help poor college students, so that Arjun won a scholarship of 7,000 yuan.
The whole summer before going to school, Arjun has been immersed in excitement, she helped her father finish the work every day, and at night she sat under the lamp to collect the soles of her shoes, she had to make a pair of cloth shoes with a thousand layers to give to Teacher Wu, which was a secret she had hidden in her heart for three years, and now she finally had time to implement. Therefore, when the stitches pierced her hands again and again, she did not feel any pain at all, and with each stitch, she felt that her heart was one step closer to Teacher Wu. Listening to the old people, the cloth shoes with a thousand layers of bottoms can bless a good person with peace in life, and Arjun hopes that Teacher Wu will have a safe life.
When the shoes for Teacher Wu were finally made, Arjun's new university life was about to begin, and Arjun held a heavy mille-feuille bottom cloth shoe in both hands and went to the school to find Teacher Wu. Standing in front of Teacher Wu's office door, Arjun was both excited and nervous.
Arjun was about to knock on the door when he suddenly heard a fierce argument coming from inside, only to hear a male teacher say, "Why do you want Arjun to take the bursary?" I don't think she deserves it at all. By protecting her in this way, you are actually harming her. Whether she stole five hundred yuan or not, at least there was a big suspicion. You are appeasing adultery, and sooner or later you will regret it. ”
Arjun was stunned at once, and his head seemed to be hit by a stick. Who lost five hundred dollars? How did you suspect it? What Teacher Wu said next, she didn't hear a word. She suddenly thought of the hundred yuan she saw on the ground in the corner when she came to Teacher Wu's office to hand in her homework book, was it teacher Wu testing herself?
Ah Zhu felt like her heart had been stabbed hard, and she put the shoe she was holding in her hand to the door and ran away crying. Is it necessary to take other people's money because you are poor? Does it necessarily have to be this way to test poor students? Aju was so aggrieved that he hid at home and cried all night.
Since then, Arjun has not gone to See Teacher Wu again.
Four years later, Arjun graduated from college with honors and came to work as a teacher at an experimental middle school. By chance, she met Dong Qian, a classmate from high school, on the street. Dong Qian did not go to college, got married after graduation, and now her children are two years old. As soon as she saw Arjun, she enthusiastically pulled Arjun to sit at her house.
After chatting for a while, Dong Qian said to Arjun: "Arjun, there is something I did wrong at that time, I am very sorry for you, I have been cursing myself in my heart." ”
Arjun asked, "What?"
Dong Qian said: "In the third year of high school, when you helped me make up lessons, I secretly took five hundred yuan from my mother's wallet and bought a pair of high heels that I liked. I didn't dare admit that I took it, you know, my mother was grumpy, and I was afraid she would hit me. I didn't say it until after graduation. ”
Aju listened to Dong Qian's words, his two eyes looked directly at her, and his heart was really like a overturned five-flavor bottle, which tasted anything. She finally understood why she was suspected of stealing five hundred yuan at that time.
Dong Qian tightly took Aju's hand and said, "Thanks to Teacher Wu!" You don't know, at that time, my mother had to go to the principal to sue you, Teacher Wu told her not to be silent, she took out five hundred yuan and gave it to my mother ..... Alas, as soon as I think about it, I feel sorry for you, sorry for Teacher Wu. Dong Qian said, tears incessantly.
Arjun sat there dumbfounded, half-speechless.
Dong Qian wiped her tears and continued, "Later, every time I saw Teacher Wu, I was very sad. The real thief is me! Since then, I have desperately saved up pocket money and not eaten vegetables for half a month. When I finally saved up a hundred yuan, I secretly put it on the ground in the corner of Teacher Wu's office. I think that when Teacher Wu saw it, he would think that he had accidentally dropped it, and he would put it away. In this way, I will feel better in my heart..."
Aju didn't know how she left Dong Qian's house, and the first thing she wanted to do now was to see Teacher Wu.
Coming to her alma mater, Aju suddenly felt a special sense of cordiality in her heart, and she hurried into Teacher Wu's office and saw that Teacher Wu was preparing for class. Teacher Wu raised his head at the sound of the sound, and when he saw that Aju was coming, he was so happy that he immediately stood up, because the movement was too fast, his body was tough, and he almost fell, and Arjun quickly went up to support her.
Teacher Wu took Arjun's hand and said, "There is a word that I have never had the opportunity to say to you - thank you, those thousand-layered cloth shoes, very comfortable." ”
Arjun looked at Teacher Wu for a long time, and suddenly burst into tears. Because not long ago, she learned from the mouth of an old classmate that Teacher Wu's left foot is a prosthetic leg, and the size is larger than the right foot. The thousand-layered cloth shoes made by Aju, Teacher Wu actually can't wear them, they can only be stored in the cabinet...
(Ye Zi) (Caption: Wei Zhongshan)