Chapter 277: Captain
Chapter 277: Captain
Huai En returned my clothes the next morning.
When Huai En came, I was inflating four car tires with an air pump in the yard, which I bought early in the morning at the auto repair shop in the town.I thought about fixing a few tires on both sides of my canoe so that it wouldn't tip over.
Huai En handed me my clothes, she seemed to have forgotten the embarrassment of yesterday, she showed her cute little canine teeth and said to me: "Uncle, thank you yesterday, here, your clothes!"
The clothes must have been rewashed by her again, because I smell a faint fragrance on them, and I have never been in the habit of adding spices to clothes.
I was just about to reach out to take it, but Huai En's hand retracted again, she looked at my hand and said, "Uncle, your hands are too dirty, let me put them back in the room for you!" After speaking, she turned to me Yingying smiled, turned and entered the house.
It's just that her expression changed when she came out. She stood at the door and asked me with a strange expression: "Uncle, where are my clothes?"
I smiled secretly, thinking that you girl is really big-hearted, and I only think of your clothes now.
I pouted towards the courtyard wall on the west side of the wall, Huai En followed my motion and looked over, her fair face flushed red!
Some of my fresh laundry was hanging on a line by the courtyard wall, as was her long dress and two other pieces of gear.
When I was doing laundry this morning, I saw Huai En's clothes and I didn't intend to help her wash them. After all, she is a girl who has nothing to do with me. How could a girl's underwear be touched by a man casually.
But thinking about when she will come to pick up her clothes, and I have maintained a tidy living habit since I was released from prison, I always feel a little uncomfortable to leave some dirty clothes unwashed.
Thinking that she kept calling me uncle, probably because she regarded me as an elder, she probably didn't think there was anything inappropriate about my behavior, so she washed her clothes together.
"Uncle, you...how are you..." Huai En was shy and embarrassed, but he didn't know what to say, so he stopped abruptly after saying a few words, stomping his feet in frustration.
I saw that she was ashamed like a monkey's butt, and I was too embarrassed to make fun of her, so I pretended to be nonchalant and continued to beat my tires.
"I did the laundry for you in the morning, and you can take it back when it's dry!" I lowered my head and deliberately didn't look at her, and said in a very normal tone.
Huai En did not reply to my words, but remained silent for a long time.
Curious, I looked up at her, only to realize that she had been looking at me, but the moment I looked up, she lowered her head in a little panic.
"What? You're not going back yet? Are you going to have no class today?" I knew she was still shy about the clothes, so I turned my eyes away and asked while busy with the work in hand.
"Not in the morning, only in the afternoon, only in the afternoon!" Her voice was still a little unnatural.
"Then it's really easy for you as a teacher. You don't have a few classes in a week. Did you become a teacher because of your relationship?" I saw that she still couldn't let go, and said jokingly.
Sure enough, she was brought out of the emotional environment just now by my words, and she immediately protested: "Who asked for connections! I am a high-achieving student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts! Taking an elementary school art class is still using connections? Other schools can't hire me." How are you here? If I didn’t come to help the poor, I wouldn’t have come!”
She said with a slightly unfair expression, as if she had forgotten the embarrassment just now.
I didn't mean to say these words, but after listening to her words, I became a little curious. With her innocent character, she can't tell lies, and I have seen her paintings before, so her skills are unquestionable. Doubt.So why did she come here to be an art teacher in elementary school?She said it was poverty alleviation, but this reason may not be sufficient.
"Miss Huai En, can you tell me why you came here to be an elementary school art teacher?" I immediately asked the question in my heart.
"Didn't I just say that in order to help the poor, I will be a support teacher!" She walked up to me and squatted next to me and said casually while watching me work.
"Did you not have another job before this?" I asked.
"No, I just graduated last year. After graduation, I traveled around alone. No, I met you when I traveled to Tibet!" She replied with her big eyes turned upside down and looking at me.
"Then why did you come here to teach again?"
"What's so strange about this? Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I came here when I saw the recruitment information sent by the principal!" Her tone was casual, as if it was a matter of course and nothing to be surprised about.
"Then you can't teach here all the time, isn't the country training you, a talented student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, for nothing!" I asked the question in my heart in a joking tone.
Huai En held his face in his hands, and said absent-mindedly: "My father originally wanted me to study in the United States, but the school there has not been confirmed yet, and I don't really want to go, so I came here!"
Only then did I understand that it seemed that she came here to teach on a whim, and she will probably leave soon. She is indeed not suitable to stay in this small place, and she can only be buried here.
"Why don't you want to go?" I asked.
"If you don't want to go, you just don't want to go. There's no reason for it. It's so pitiful to be a stranger in a foreign country. I don't want to go!" She pouted and said.
"Your father is also doing it for your own good. If you don't go, don't you violate his expectations of you!"
"Of course I know that he treats me well, and I don't want to disobey him, so I can only pray that the school over there won't accept me!" She said with a sly smile on her face. "You said that if I write that I am a bad girl in my profile, or write something that attacks the United States, will they reject me?" She seemed to be suddenly interested, and looked at me with interest.
I sneered, glanced at her and said, "If you don't want to go, talk to your father. Do you think you can write the materials as you want? They all have to be notarized by your university in China, okay?"
Huai En was immediately discouraged when he heard the words, sighed and drooped his eyelids in frustration.
"Don't talk about it, uncle, what are you doing?" Huai En probably didn't want to be disturbed by this matter, so he immediately changed the subject and asked, pointing at my four fully inflated tires.
"Stable my canoe!"
When Huai En heard the words, his drooping eyelids instantly lifted up, and his eyes glowed again.
"Uncle, let's go now, I'll get it for you!" She looked at me with hope in her eyes, and she could see that she was also very interested in my canoe.
I glared at her and said angrily, "You didn't drink enough seawater yesterday, did you? Do you want to try again?"
Huai En stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "Uncle, haven't you improved it? It shouldn't capsize the boat. Come on, let's try it now!" He said, holding up two tires and urging.
I looked at her innocent and childlike appearance and smiled wryly to myself, feeling that the scar was healed and I forgot the pain, as if I had forgotten that I was still asking if I would die yesterday, and today I was eager to try again.
Shaking her head helplessly, it seems that she won't be reconciled if she is not allowed to indulge her addiction again.As she wished, she picked up the other two tires and the prepared rope and went out.
I fixed the four tires on both sides of the canoe respectively, and laid a layer of bricks in the cabin to increase the draft of the canoe, so as to achieve the effect of stabilizing the body of the canoe.
With yesterday's lesson, the improved Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves is indeed much more stable, and can still float steadily on the sea even when there is wind.
Yesterday's accident didn't cause any psychological shadow on her at all. After I was ready, I jumped into the canoe first.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief when the canoe paddled into the deep water and was still stable in the waves no less than yesterday.
Huai En was even more excited, paddling in the water non-stop.
"Uncle, we succeeded!" Huai En rowed the canoe to the center of the bay, and shouted to me excitedly. The sea breeze blew her hair up, making her look full of endless vitality.
I looked at Huai En who showed an excited face, and couldn't help showing a smile.
"Uncle, from now on, I will be the captain of the Riding the Wind and the Waves, how about you being my deputy captain?" She opened her teeth and waved her hands, as if she had found some treasure.
"Okay, I will be Miss Huai'en's first mate from now on!" I said with a smile.
"First officer? So the first officer is called the first officer! It sounds amazing!" Huai En was as happy as an innocent child, with a fascinated expression on his face, as if we were really going to explore an unknown world. .
This morning we floated on the sea until noon. Although the autumn sun was still dazzling, the sea breeze felt cool.I fetched the fishing net on the bamboo raft and cast it in the bay, while Huai En was in charge of rowing the boat. Every time the net was collected, Huai En would be excited and hurried to help me catch fish from the net.Seeing her happy face, I think this is an experience she has never had before.
At noon, Huai En and I carried a bag of fish and shrimp in a net, and returned to my yard contentedly. I personally cooked two of my best dishes with the freshly caught fish and shrimp, and asked Huai En to taste it. Needless to say, Huai En , very saving face, the two dishes were eaten by the two of us with rice, Huai En said to me, "Uncle, can I still eat your dishes in the future?"
I saw her greedy face and smiled without saying a word. To be honest, I don’t want to have too much contact with her. One is that I still prefer a lonely life by myself, and I don’t want to make any changes. Worrying that something I can't predict will happen again, that feeling of being out of control scares me, even though she keeps calling me uncle and seeing me as an elder!
"Can you do it, uncle?" Seeing that I just smiled and didn't answer, Huai En looked at me with a begging expression like a baby.
I sighed, nodded helplessly and said: "Okay, if you want to eat seafood, come to me, and I will make it for you!" But I secretly prayed in my heart, hoping that there will be no more things that scare me!
Seeing that I finally agreed, Huai En immediately showed excitement, got up and said goodbye: "Uncle, I have class in the afternoon, I'll go back to school first!" After speaking, he wanted to leave, but I stopped him again.
"Take your clothes back, do you still want me to send them to school?" I glanced at her sideways and said angrily.
Huai En's face flushed slightly, she glanced at me shyly, walked quickly to the wall, wrapped two underwear into her skirt, and ran out of the yard quickly.
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