"Did you tell them before you decided to go to graduate school?" Ning Youguang asked softly.
"No." Li Yanran cried and shook her head. Then, an expression of disgust appeared on her thin face, "Ever since I got the admission notice from our school, they often brag in our hometown, saying that I was admitted to Beijing.
I'm from a prestigious university. After I graduate from university, I will have to live in the public family, and I will also marry an official. I really..."
——"When I was very young, I vowed that I would leave my hometown and never live with my parents. I could give them money, but I would not live with them. If I live with them, I will
Crazy.”
Li Yanran almost said the word "crazy" through gritted teeth.
"Are you a left-behind child?" Ning Youguang asked.
"Yes, teacher." Li Yanran nodded, "Since I was born, my parents have left me at home and asked my grandparents to take care of me. They worked in Jiangsu and then set up their own factory. Later, they
My younger brother was born there, and he lives with them all the time, and goes to school there."
"Why do they want you to go back to your hometown in Jiangsu?" Ning Youguang asked again.
"In recent years, when the economy has been in recession, they closed down their factories in Jiangsu and returned to their hometown to set up factories." Li Yanran answered.
Ning Youguang asked again, "How is your relationship with your brother?"
"Not very good." Li Yanran looked very cold, "Before my parents went home to set up a factory, he only came back with my parents once every year during the Chinese New Year. I wasn't familiar with him, and we didn't know him well after he came back.
We often live together, I was a boarder in high school."
Ning Youguang was silent for a while and said, "With your grades, there is no problem at all in taking the postgraduate entrance examination."
"I think it's okay." Li Yanran has always been confident about her academic performance, "so I must go to graduate school."
"Your decision is also a good one." Ning Youguang's words were full of support, "As for your parents... they don't support you. Can you afford the tuition for your graduate school period?"
, Li Yanran lowered her head with a sad face, "I will work hard to save money from now on. Even if they object and don't give me tuition and living expenses, I will still finish graduate school with my own efforts."
"I'm glad that you didn't give up on your perseverance just because you encountered difficulties." Ning Youguang looked at the sad student with admiration, "There is something I hope you will consider."
"What's going on?" Li Yanran raised her head in confusion.
Ning Youguang asked with a smile, "You said your family doesn't agree with you going to graduate school, right?"
Li Yanran nodded without knowing why.
"I am also a member of your family, and I agree." Ning Youguang chuckled, "Once a teacher, always a father. I don't have such a big face to be your 'father,' but I think 'family' can still be
of."
Li Yanran's eyes turned red instantly.
Ning Youguang continued to smile and said, "Would you like me, a member of your family, to help you share your tuition fees?"
"Teacher Ning..." Hot tears slid down Li Yanran's cheeks.
…
When it gets completely dark.
Ning Yougang and Li Yanran slowly walked out of the woods.
"Teacher, what natural process can best describe the entire process of people's spiritual growth?"
"It's probably the process of a caterpillar turning into a cocoon and turning into a butterfly."
From the grove where the sound of frogs was heard, Ning Youguang's gentle voice was like the falling flowers above their heads.
"All of us are like caterpillars. The suffering and trauma in life have made us grow thorns. We keep covering up and avoiding the wounds with indifference. We feel that we only need to hide the wounds and pretend that nothing is wrong.
It looks just fine.
We think that the appearance of being covered in thorns is our true self. Few people have the courage to stop and seriously wrap life and trauma around themselves, transform from it, notice from it, and undergo the transformation of their souls.
Every pain and setback is an opportunity for us to grow.
Everyone needs to experience the dark night of the soul and the package of loneliness in their life.
When we have endured all kinds of pain and made up our minds to change our lives, the day will come when we transform from cocoons into butterflies.
Pain is life's best teacher.
When we have suffered pain, setbacks and troubles, we will seek various ways to accept, comfort and heal these imperfect moments in life. This is when we gain spiritual growth and have a stronger heart."
"Teacher, I hope I can become stronger soon." Li Yanran's voice regained the vigor she should have at her age, because her future has been brightened, "When my heart is strong, I will become stronger."
I hope I can become an indestructible person."
Ning Youguang chuckled and said slowly, "Many people think that a person with a strong heart is the 'most indestructible person with a heart of stone in the universe', but the fact is exactly the opposite. A person with a mature soul is real and consistent internally and externally.
He will bravely show and express all aspects of himself, including strength and vulnerability, happiness and sadness; he will open his heart to others and will not close himself because of hurt; he will feel happiness easily, and
Empathize with the suffering of others and be able to treat yourself and others with acceptance and gentleness.”
"If that's the case, I feel like I'm not very good at it." Li Yanran's attitude became less confident.
Ning Youguang said, "In this life, the road of growth is long. There is no need to rush to achieve what you want now. As long as you are on the road, a better and better you will be waiting for you ahead." Ning Youguangmian
Lu said expectantly, "A person with a gentle, open and calm mind has gained the ability to accept all the joys, sorrows and joys in life, and find your own special meaning of life."
…
Watch the silver car slowly drive away under the street lights.
Li Yanran picked up her phone and wrote in her circle of friends:
"All the regrets of last winter are the preparation for the surprises of this spring."
At the same time, she secretly swore in her heart——
"The fairy testifies that I will definitely become a gentle and gentle person to the world in the future."
…
For Shi Wangyue, the most relaxing moment of the day is when, after a busy day at work, the first moment he comes home from get off work is to see the lights at home gently on.
Someone was sitting under the lamp, quietly guarding his home.
This sense of security is something he would not want to change even if someone gave him the world.
It was a bit regretful that when he returned home today, he found that his home was completely dark.