Chapter 162 Will I stay on the island as a teacher?
When Qiyue held the dead mouse and placed it at Wen Susu's feet, the usually gentle and polite elder sister almost fainted from fright.
“Waaaaaaa! Take it away! Take it away!”
"Meow?"
"Hahaha, it's okay, the mice are already dead, July is treating you to a meal."
“I don’t want to eat it!!”
Wen Susu didn't even dare to look at it.
Fang Wei looked at the dead rat curiously. As expected of a rat on the island, it was really big. To most girls, it was a monster.
"July, take it, take it."
"Meow."
They refused to appreciate the dinner invitation, so July took the big rat and went outside to enjoy the meal.
After the rat crisis was resolved, the two began to clean up the battlefield.
Wen Susu took out all the things that were damaged by mice and put them into a cardboard box, which she would throw away later. Among them were several of her paintings. Fortunately, they were all half-finished drafts, so she didn't feel too bad about them.
Fang Wei seemed to be much more distressed than her and picked up the manuscript papers with the corners bitten.
"Sister, don't you want these anymore?"
"No, they've all been bitten. They're just rough drafts, so it doesn't matter."
"It would be a shame to throw it away. I think the painting is very good. Why don't you give it to me?"
Fang Wei took a look and found that most of them were landscape paintings. Even if they were half-finished, they were all very well painted from his point of view. Anyway, he couldn't draw them.
"what?"
Wen Susu was stunned. She naturally couldn't give away the paintings that were bitten, so she smiled and said, "Don't take these. If you want them, I will draw some good ones for you myself!"
"Okay, it's a deal!"
"Thanks to you, otherwise this damn rat would have been hiding in the house and I would have been tortured to death..."
Fang Wei smiled and said, "I was afraid that you would be scared and resign and return to Shanghai!"
"How is that possible! You're so scared that you quit your job just because there were mice. If I tell you about this, you'll definitely be laughed at!"
Wen Susu also found it funny, but she was indeed very afraid of mice. Having grown up in a wealthy family environment, she rarely saw such creatures as mice. The most profound impression she had was when she went to a relative's house in her childhood and was helping to get something from the cupboard. She was caught off guard and frightened by a mouse that suddenly jumped out. Since then, mice have become her shadow, and she would never go to places where mice were present.
Now that she thinks about it, even though there were rats in the teachers' dormitory, she had no intention of running back to Shanghai. Instead, she insisted on staying here to teach. Suddenly, she had a heroic feeling in her heart, and the fear was diluted a little.
Hehehe, I am indeed a pretty great teacher, right?
The only drawback is that such a great teacher is actually afraid of mice... Although she didn't want to admit it, she couldn't help but feel homesick the moment the mice appeared.
She called her mother last night and wanted to tell her about the mouse, but she didn't tell her in the end. Firstly, she didn't want to make them worry, and secondly, her parents didn't agree with her teaching here in the first place. If they knew about this, they would definitely oppose it even more.
Fortunately, there was Fang Wei. For her, what Fang Wei eliminated today was not just the rat infestation, but more importantly, it relieved her helplessness and frustration of being alone in a foreign place.
In private, he called her sister, but it was not just a name. Wen Susu really treated him as her only relative here.
With Fang Wei's help, all the things that were knocked over by the cat and damaged by the mice were cleaned up.
The two of them came out onto the balcony.
Fang Wei looked at the drainage pipe opening attached to the wall.
"Sister, do you have wire mesh in your dormitory? The rat probably came up from this pipe opening. Use wire mesh to seal the pipe opening, and the rat won't be able to get in."
"Hmm... I don't think so. Can I use a towel?"
"Towels can block the water, but drainage also becomes a problem. If it rains heavily, the water on the balcony cannot be drained and will flow into the room."
"But there's no barbed wire in my dormitory. Let's go outside and buy one."
"It won't take much. It would be a waste to buy one. I'll go look for it in school. I think there should be one."
Fang Wei went downstairs and started looking for barbed wire on the campus. In fact, there was some on the other side of the wall, and not much was needed, so Fang Wei simply twisted a piece off.
"Hey! Where did you find the barbed wire?"
"Hey, it was broken off from the school wall."
"…you are destroying public property!"
"That's all for my sister."
The two smiled at each other, and suddenly there was a sense of intimacy that the younger brother got into trouble and the older sister took the blame.
Soon, Fang Wei sealed the pipe. He stood up, clapped his hands, and said with a smile:
"It's done! Now you can sleep well!"
"Haha, there won't be other mice in the house, right?"
"No, if there was, July would continue to work."
Fang Wei raised his wrist to check the time. It was almost nine o'clock in the morning.
"Sister, if you are sleepy, go back and take a nap. You can't sleep well."
“I’m not sleepy anymore!”
It was sunny outside and the mouse had been caught. Wen Susu was excited and looked much more energetic than before.
"If you have nothing to do at noon, why don't you come to my house for dinner? You're free on the weekend anyway, so you can come to the island to play with us if you have nothing to do."
"You are a bunch of little brats. How can I play with you?"
Wen Susu smiled. It wasn't that she didn't want to go play with Fang Weiwei, but she felt embarrassed to eat at his house all day.
Seeing that there was nothing else to do at the moment, Wen Susu said, "Why don't you have lunch at my place today? I'll cook for you personally as a reward for your great work today!"
"Is this true? Can you trust my cooking skills now?"
Fang was suspicious. He still remembered that he came to the dormitory with Cai Ling to cook noodles for her last semester. At that time, Wen Susu really didn't know how to cook anything except instant noodles.
"You underestimate me, don't you? I'm the one who cooked the New Year's Eve dinner at home!"
"Ah? Are you successful enough to prepare New Year's Eve dinner?"
"Well... being able to cook a few dishes is considered a success."
"Okay, okay, okay. Then I will try my sister's cooking at noon today."
Seeing Fang Wei agreed, Wen Susu also became happy.
"Come on, wait for me to change my clothes, and then we can go shopping together!"
...When she's not in class, Wen Susu wears more casual clothes.
When the brother and sister went downstairs, they took all the garbage down together.
July was full by now, and was lazily lying on the balcony basking in the sun, licking his paws and washing his face, looking around curiously at the environment here.
The school was not far from the market. Seeing Fang Wei's bicycle parked downstairs of the dormitory building, Wen Susu stopped riding her bicycle and sat on the back of his bicycle. Fang Wei took her with him and rode out together.
The town's market is much larger and busier than the small pier bazaar on the island.
Wen Susu got off the car and walked away, and Fang Wei followed her pushing his bicycle.
Seeing that she looked like she was going to prepare lunch herself, he didn't offer to help. He let her decide what dishes to cook and what vegetables to buy by herself.
But I didn't expect Wen Susu to be so skilled. She bent down to pick and choose at the vegetable stall, picked out some good vegetables, and then went to the stall to pick and choose and buy a piece of fresh meat.
She was very good at choosing the dishes, but she never discussed the price. She would pay whatever the boss said. After buying the dishes, she even sighed, "Fish is cheap, but meat and vegetables are so expensive!"
It’s not that the boss is cheating her. After all, the meat and vegetables on the island are indeed more expensive than inland...
Fang Wei became the man who carried the vegetables. Wen Susu handed the vegetables to him, and he took them and put them in the cart basket or hung them on the handlebars.
"Sister, do you cook for yourself now?"
"Yeah, most of the time! As long as it's not the last class, I'll make it myself if I have time. Anyway, if I'm eating alone, I just want to keep it simple."
"That's amazing! I remember a few months ago, you only knew how to make instant noodles!"
"Haha, it was hard to learn at first, but later on I found it easy. It's not a very complicated dish and the methods are pretty much the same."
"Then when my sister went home to cook for mom and dad during the Chinese New Year, were they surprised?" Fang Wei asked curiously.
"Of course, I'm going to be shocked!"
"Did they praise you?"
"Well... just a little boast, it's mostly just incredible. Do you know what their biggest reaction is?"
"what?"
Wen Susu said angrily and amusedly, "They think my life here must be extremely miserable! So miserable that I have even learned to cook for myself!"
Fang Wei burst out laughing. Indeed, the environment is different and the attitudes of parents are also different.
Perhaps if it were an ordinary family, seeing their daughter actually buy groceries and cook, their first reaction would be that their daughter has become sensible, but in Wen Susu's family, her parents' reaction was that their daughter must have suffered a lot...
Parents are actually very contradictory. When they educate their children, they always say how much they have suffered, that their children have never suffered since childhood, and that they are not mature at all. But when their children really suffer, they will feel distressed and will say, "Don't do it if it's so difficult. Mom can't bear to see them suffer so much."
In her previous life, Wen Susu taught Class 1 and 2 for only one year before resigning and leaving the school. Fang Wei still doesn’t know the reason.
Now that he had been spending more time with her, Fang Wei could vaguely guess that it was most likely due to her parents' opposition, coupled with her own increasing sense of helplessness as a rootless drifter.
To be honest, if this is really the reason, Fang Wei doesn’t know how to look at this matter.
Simply speaking from the perspective of a student, he naturally hoped that Wen Susu would continue to teach here.
But privately he called her "sister". From an emotional point of view, Lian Fangwei felt a little reluctant to see her suffer here, so naturally he hoped that she could return to a familiar environment for better development.
People are actually contradictory, and no one can be perfect in everything.
"sister."
"Ok?"
"My uncle and aunt should be very opposed to you coming to the island to teach, right?"
"..."
Wen Susu was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Fang Wei. She was silent for a moment, then smiled nonchalantly and asked, "Why do you think so?"
"It's normal. After all, my sister's family is so well-off. If I were your uncle or aunt, I would definitely oppose this."
"Ha! You really are different from the other students in the class!"
"What's the difference?"
"You would think about these things. You look so mature and serious at such a young age!"
Wen Susu didn't want to mention this to any of her classmates, but when Fang Wei asked, she turned around and asked:
"What do you think if I don't teach on the island anymore?"
"..."
Fang Wei remained silent, thinking about how to answer.
Before he could say anything, Wen Susu laughed and said, "Don't think about it! This is impossible! Although my parents don't support it, I still came here. Besides, I will take care of you for three years. If I run away halfway, wouldn't it be too irresponsible?"
"Have you ever thought about leaving?"
"have not thought."
Maybe I have thought about it.
But that was long ago. As her classmates' grades improved and she gained a lot of achievements and precious friendships here, her idea of staying here to teach was no longer shaken, but became even more firm.
Putting aside the nonsense, she also learned how to cook! She never thought she could cook before!
People always mistakenly believe that they are on the road after making a decision, without realizing that it is actually a road that has been predetermined. The fragmented daily life and the people or things encountered will eventually be pieced together to become the day when the decision is made.
Wen Susu raised her slender white wrist and shook it gently, and the shell bracelet on it jingled. It was the bracelet that the Pineapple Island quartet gave her years ago, and she has been wearing it on her hand ever since.
"Look, even if you want me to leave, I still can't bear to let you go~"
"Hehe, that's good."
Fang Wei smiled and asked curiously, "Will you stay on the island as a teacher?"
"Anyway, I will definitely take you all to graduation!"
When she said this, she almost blurted it out, then thought for a while: "As for the rest, we'll see when the time comes..."
"If you don't want to be a teacher anymore, what are you going to do?" Fang Wei asked again.
"I won't stop being a teacher. I will definitely be a teacher. But I might open a painting studio and then I will specialize in teaching painting!"
"After all, you still like painting, right?"
"Hahaha, becoming a Chinese teacher was an accident, but I think I teach pretty well."
Wen Susu laughed, looking very proud.
It’s really good.
(End of this chapter)
