Son of the mountain
Montenegro is a very remote mountain village. There are no trains here, and even the long-distance bus to the county seat has to climb several mountains to get there. In this remote mountain village, there is a school that combines primary school and junior high school. Chen Ming is a first-year student at this school.
One Sunday in early autumn, this group of children, led by a female teacher, walked out of the mountains for the first time and came to the children's paradise in the provincial capital. The children's paradise is extremely hot, with high-altitude sightseeing cars, small steamboats, electric trains... The female teacher led the children to the ticket office of the small train.
She looked at the price and calculated it carefully: if the seats on the small train were full, it would save five dollars. However, she saw that there were only seventeen seats in the car, but there were eighteen students. The female teacher looked at it.
The children cheered and rushed onto the small train. Although Chen Ming was small and thin, he was very diligent, and he was immediately pushed to the door of the car. The female teacher saw it, pulled him out without saying a word, and Chen Ming stood aside aggrieved.
The train finally stopped and the children got off the train, they were very happy. Everyone pestered the teacher to ask questions, and the teacher explained them one by one, but Chen Ming was not happy. Then, the female teacher selected a few economical and fun games for the students to play. It's time to eat, the children who have been playing for a long time are hungry. The female teacher led the students into a snack bar.
The group of kids had never been to a restaurant to eat. The female teacher arranged them around a large table, and the children sat down one by one. However, no matter how crowded they are, there is only one seat. It's lunchtime and there are no other seats. At this time, the female teacher's gaze fell on Chen Ming again. Chen Ming understood what the teacher meant. Before the teacher could speak, he consciously stepped out of his seat and silently stood on the side of the meal, where the children gobbled up.
The smell of food rushed straight into Chen Ming's nose, and he tried hard to control himself from looking at the table. Seeing that the students had already begun to eat, the female teacher took Chen Ming to a corner and sat down. She asked the waitress for a bowl of boiling water. Chen Ming took the bag from the teacher, then took out dry food from the bag and handed it to the teacher. The two of them ate a mouthful of boiling water.
Seeing that Chen Ming was silent for a long time, the teacher asked softly, "Chen Ming, are you still angry with me?" Chen Ming shook his head very wisely. The female teacher touched Chen Ming's head affectionately, took out a few changes from her pocket and said, "Except for the travel expenses, this is all my salary left, and I can only do it." She looked at the children who were eating delicious food and said, "You are older than them, you must be sensible." When you are admitted to university in the future, I will take you to the real train
When the time comes, I will take you to the best restaurant in the provincial city for a good meal! Chen Ming couldn't bear it anymore. Tears suddenly welled up in her eyes... A few years later, Chen Ming was admitted to university. This time, he really wanted to go out of the mountains to take the train, but the female teacher in the mountain village was so weak that she didn't even have the strength to go to the train station to see him off.
On the day he left Heishantun, Chen Ming came to the female teacher's bed, and he said with tears in his eyes: "I am the son of the mountain. After graduating from university, I will definitely come back..." Chen Ming studied very hard in college. He worked while studying, and he didn't let his family pay him a penny for four years.
When he graduated from university, he did not forget his promise and voluntarily gave up the opportunity to work in the provincial capital and returned to Montenegro as a teacher. For the first time, Montenegro has its own university students, and the simple mountain people are happier than the New Year. Everyone set off firecrackers, hung red lights, killed a big fat pig ... A very grand welcome party was held for Chen.
On this big day, people can't help but think of the female teacher who gave her life to the children in the mountains. Surrounded by villagers, Chen Ming came to a lonely grave surrounded by pine trees on the hillside behind the school.
Chen Ming placed a bouquet of flowers in front of a white pedestal monument. He knelt down with tears in his eyes: "Mom, your Ming'er is back!"
