Chapter 50 Teacher Niu
In the end, Liu Zhiyi packed up her things with Fang Wei, Cai Ling, A Sheng and others, and went downstairs with her schoolbags.
This is the last class of the day.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun shines obliquely on the campus, casting long shadows on the buildings. The golden light penetrates the sparse clouds, creating a mottled light and shadow effect.
The chirping of cicadas is accompanied by the occasional chirping of birds on the branches. The air is filled with the unique scent of summer, occasionally mixed with the smell of burnt earth and the faint woody aroma of distant trees.
There are many trees in the school, but these trees are not landscape trees. Most of them are mango trees, and the mangoes they produce are edible.
Every year in May and June when mangoes are ripe, many teachers and students go to pick them to eat. The school doesn’t care. As long as you don’t fall, you can pick mangoes, but you can’t climb up the tree to pick them like monkeys.
Fang Wei still remembers the taste of mangoes in school, just one word - sour.
It’s not all sour, sometimes I can taste something sweet. When I get it, I feel like I have won a prize and I am busy showing off to my classmates.
Mango is a late-ripening fruit and is usually picked before it has time to ripen on the tree. The mangoes are green when they are just picked and students and teachers do not take them home to eat. Instead, they are placed in drawers and left to ripen.
Because people are not allowed to pick the mangoes from the tree, the mangoes at the top of the tree are allowed to ripen naturally, which is when they become available to insects and birds.
Later, the economic conditions on the island improved, and gradually no one wanted to eat these sour mangoes anymore. The ripe mangoes fell from the trees and covered the ground. Probably when Fang Wei graduated from high school and started working, all the mango trees at Baitan Middle School were cut down and replaced with more beautiful landscape trees.
But the sour taste in his memory is still remembered by Fang Wei to this day.
Unfortunately, it is September now, which is not the season for mangoes to ripen, but he should be able to eat them in May or June next year.
……
It feels amazing to wander around the campus instead of staying in the classroom during class time.
The boys and girls in the class who had just entered school and were having their first physical education class didn't know where to gather, so they gathered around Fang Wei, the class monitor, holding their schoolbags and curiously watching their classmates from other classes taking physical education classes.
The school is not big and the sports facilities are quite simple.
There is a 200-meter track and field field, which also serves as an outdoor venue for daily exercises or meetings; there are two basketball courts, the paint on the wooden boards of the basketball hoops is almost peeling off, and the lines on the concrete floor are blurred; and under the shade of a row of large mango trees, there are four concrete ping-pong tables; as for a badminton court, there is definitely none. If you want to play badminton, just find an open space and pick up a racket.
Even so, for most of the students in the class, these sports facilities in the school are still relatively new. After all, their elementary school, which had only about 30 to 50 teachers and students in total, did not have these things.
Xu Cailing was curiously watching the students playing basketball on the basketball court. They were probably in the second and third grades of junior high school, and were much taller than the elementary school kids like them. The sound of the basketball hitting the concrete floor was heard, and they were dribbling, running, passing the ball, and shooting. The young girl was itching to shoot a few basketballs as well.
"Wow, that guy is so bad. I saw him miss three times!" Xu Cailing complained to Fang Wei in a low voice.
"It's not that easy."
"Isn't it just throwing it out that will hit the target?"
"...?"
In addition to basketball, she also watched others running, skipping rope, long jumping, playing table tennis, etc., and she looked very interested.
As for Liu Zhiyi, she was not interested in these. She looked around with her schoolbag in her arms, and when she saw a quiet corner under the shade of a tree, she hurried over, blew away the dust on the edge of the road, and prepared to sit down and rest.
The girl was about to sit down, her waist already bent, she looked up and saw a burly man in a vest who looked like a "physical education teacher" walking towards their class, she quickly stood up, holding her schoolbag and went back to the crowd.
Liu Zhiyi guessed correctly. The sturdy man wearing a black vest, meters tall, with broad shoulders and a strong waist was the physical education teacher of their class.
He has a rather rugged appearance, with thick hands, feet, waist, back and neck, but his head seems very small. I don't know if it's because of the visual effect or if his head is small to begin with. A thin whistle string hangs on his thick neck, and the red whistle swings beside his strong and somewhat scary chest as he walks.
The physical education teacher’s surname is Niu, and as his name suggests, he really is as strong as a bull!
Among students, Teacher Niu has a nickname, Big Water Buffalo.
In fact, those who have raised cattle and farmed at home know that although the big buffalo looks strong and scary, it is actually very gentle in temperament.
That’s what Teacher Niu is like.
However, his appearance really doesn't make people associate him with the word gentle...
……
Seeing this burly man walking towards their class with a fierce look on his face, the boys and girls in Class 2 were frightened by him and prayed to Mazu, hoping that this big guy would not be their class's PE teacher! !
He is so strong, he must have physically punished students a lot, right? !
His hands can really pull my ears off!
If I get kicked by him, will I have a chance to see him kneel down and beg me not to die? !
It’s a pity that the busy Mazu Goddess has no time to care about the trivial matters of young boys and girls.
The strong man stood in front of the students in Class 2 who were standing in a messy formation and said loudly:
"My last name is Niu, and I will be your physical education teacher from now on."
"..."
It was Fang Wei who first woke everyone up. After he shouted "Hello, teacher", some of the frightened people hurriedly shouted "Hello, teacher"
"Who is your squad leader?"
"Teacher, I'm the class monitor, my name is Fang Wei."
Teacher Niu nodded and drew on the roster in his hand with a pen. Perhaps because his hands were too big, the pen looked particularly small in his hand, as if it would break if he applied the slightest force.
"What about the sports committee member? Has he been elected?"
Teacher Niu looked up at everyone again, his eyes sweeping over the faces of a group of boys in their class.
At this moment, a delicate voice sounded in his ears:
"Teacher Niu... I am the sports committee member, my name is Xu Cailing."
"??"
Fang Wei almost couldn't help laughing out loud. He had been observing Teacher Niu's expression. When Xu Cailing stood up and said that she was the sports committee member, Teacher Niu's rough face seemed to have a big question mark, which was quite incredible. Upon hearing this, Teacher Niu shifted his gaze from the boys in Class 2 to the little girl in front of him.
She is not tall, but not too tall for a girl of the same age; she has tan skin, so I guess she helps a lot with housework; she has a short ponytail and delicate features, and is quite pretty and cute; but...
You have such thin arms and legs, and you say you are the sports committee member?
Isn't there any boy in your class willing to be the sports committee member? Why did you choose such a little girl to be the sports committee member?
"What's your name?" Teacher Niu indeed didn't hear it clearly just now.
"Xu Cailing!"
At first, the girl was quite afraid of him, but Xu Cailing could clearly see the suspicion on Teacher Niu's face, which aroused her stubborn temper. She spoke much louder than before. She had already won the election to be the sports committee member, so why couldn't she be the sports committee member?
"Was it your class teacher who chose you, or did you volunteer to be the one?"
"I volunteered to take the position! I think I'm suitable!"
"..."
Hey, the little girl has a bad temper.
Teacher Niu smiled and didn't take it to heart, but he didn't ask any more questions on this topic.
It didn't matter to him who was the physical education committee member, as long as the job was done well. It was quite rare for a girl to take the initiative to be the physical education committee member, but he was just surprised. After all, it was the first time in all his teaching life. In fact, there were many girls who were physical education teachers like him, not to mention many outstanding female athletes.
"Today is the first time we have physical education class, so I won't ask too much of you. But next time you have physical education class, after the bell rings, you can't line up in such a mess. What are you doing? Why don't you put your schoolbags away? Are you waiting for the end of school?"
As soon as Teacher Niu finished speaking, everyone quickly took action and threw their schoolbags by the wall.
"Xu Cailing, go and organize the team."
"it is good."
After putting away her schoolbag, Xu Cailing hurried over to organize the team. After all, she was elected as the sports committee member with a very high number of votes in the class, and everyone was very cooperative with her work.
Soon, Xu Cailing arranged everyone into four rows, with two rows of girls in the front and two rows of boys in the back. After everyone was lined up, she stood in the first row, in the first seat.
Teacher Niu watched silently, also a little surprised. It seems that this little girl is very active and has a good relationship with her classmates. She also has some organizational skills.
"Alright, spread out a little bit, everyone stand with their arms outstretched, fingertips just touching."
"..."
"Warm up first, and follow the movements with me."
"Wrists, ankles, neck, waist and legs..."
After warming up, Teacher Niu said:
"Xu Cailing, take everyone to the playground to run six laps."
"it is good."
Then, starting with Xu Cailing, who was the first person in the first row, everyone followed her, from the shade of the tree beside the wall, all the way to the track of the athletic field, and began running in circles.
For Xu Cailing, this level of running is as easy as eating and drinking.
Two hundred meters per lap, six laps is only one thousand two hundred meters. If she didn't have to lead the team, she would run as fast as she could and finish the race in no time.
In order to take everyone's pace into consideration, she had to slow down her pace, and look back while running to see if anyone had fallen behind.
Even though it was already past four in the afternoon, the sun was still hot and the loess track on the athletic field was emitting heat.
The boys were fine, but many girls could hardly bear it after running six laps.
The most obvious one was Liu Zhiyi. She was fine when she ran the first lap, but when she started to run the fourth lap, her steps became a little heavy. Her delicate body was staggering as she ran. The weather was extremely hot, and her forehead was covered with sweat. She had to wipe the sweat while running, otherwise the sweat would flow into her eyes and sting her with salty sweat.
Xu Cailing slowed down a bit and followed her.
"Zhiyi, are you okay?"
"Hu-hu-"
Liu Zhiyi almost didn't have the strength to speak, so he shook his head to indicate that everything was fine.
She looked at Xu Cailing, who looked relaxed and as if she was taking a walk, and deeply felt the gap between them, which was like the Mariana Trench.
She really wanted to ask Cailing, don’t you feel hot? Don’t you feel tired? Don’t your calves feel sore... We are both girls, so what cells are Cailing’s body made of?
After all, it was just a physical education class, not military training or anything like that. There was no rule for everyone's running. Soon, the slow students fell behind, and the fast students gradually ran to the front of the team.
But no matter how it changes, Xu Cailing is still at the front of the team. This shows that the girl is intentionally taking everyone's speed into consideration!
Anyway, when it came to the last lap, there were only boys in the class left around Xu Cailing, and the girls who were originally in the front of the team all fell behind.
Maybe everyone chose her as the sports committee member just for fun at the beginning, but after running these six laps, no one doubted the girl's ability anymore.
The girl was running at a leisurely pace when a familiar figure appeared beside her. She turned her head in surprise:
"The little bee is flying pretty fast. It seems that your running these days is effective!"
"..."
Fang Wei rolled his eyes and said, "You still have the mind to make a joke!"
Is there any pear blossom that runs as fast as you?
(End of this chapter)
