Give me a hopeful line.

Times: Modern

Location: A shabby little classroom in the mountains.

Character: Beibei Rice Knife

There is no one in the classroom, only Beibei doodles on the blackboard with chalk.

Beibei: (to herself) Eccentric, eccentric! Weird ... (I can't help sobbing at the blackboard)

(Rice and knife find her peeping at the door in a low voice)

Knife: (pretending to be a teacher) Zhang Beibei, what are you doing here after school?

Beibei: Huh? (I was shocked and quickly wiped the tears from my face) Teacher, I ... (I found no one in the classroom, so I went to the door)

Knife: (jumps out) Ha!

Beibei: Ah! Smelly knife, rotten knife, scare me like that again! (Chasing up) Don't run!

Knife: Haha, ok, ok, can't I admit my mistake? Stop fighting ... Hey, dead rice, help me!

Rice: You deserve it! Who told you to scare her with a wicked heart? It's not that you don't know, we Beibei are not afraid of anything, but of her teacher!

Knife: Ah! Zhang Beibei, if you hit me again, I won't teach you to write a composition!

(Beibei stops at once)

Rice: Beibei, ignore him. Why are you still here alone when everyone has left? We came running as soon as we saw you didn't come home, but we didn't expect to catch you.

Knife: By the way, what were you talking to yourself here just now? Like an idiot!

Beibei: You are an idiot. (Remembering the sad thing just now) The teacher is partial. Jony J's composition is not as good as mine, but her score is higher than mine. Isn't it because her father is the village head? Weird, bad guy!

Rice: What are you talking about? Silly girl!

Beibei: How can I talk nonsense? It's a fact! you do not get it , do you? I can grow rice all day and know nothing.

Rice: I don't know anything. I haven't read a book, I don't know how to write a composition, and I don't know what the score is, but at least I know what to say and what not to say! Besides ... what's wrong with growing rice? Isn't that uncle Yuan famous for studying rice?

(Silence)

Knife: (to rice) So Yuan Longping is famous for studying you? Then I will study you well from today, haha ... (to Beibei) I think you should call it Bai Beibei from now on, isn't it just a score? Come on, bring your composition and I'll give you some marks. (After a look at them, they still don't talk) Hey, it's boring. Is that how you send me away?

Beibei: By the way, when are you leaving?

Knife: Soon, everything is ready. Just these two days. I don't care about these things. It depends on my mother.

Beibei: It's very kind of you to study in the city. There is also a library in this city. There are all kinds of books in it, and they are free. You can take food with you and stay in it all the time.

Knife: Do you think I am you? I've been there for three years, and I probably don't even know where that place is.

Beibei: You ...

Dao: OK, OK, I know, I will work hard, cherish this rare opportunity, work hard and be a useful pillar of the motherland in the future!

Rice: I wish you an early pillar, as long as I can cook a down-to-earth meal.

Beibei: Rice, you are the best and strongest rice now. It's just my fault. I'm sorry! ]

Rice: Hehe, nothing. I'm really glad to make friends with you people who are literate and know so much. Knife, come and see us.

Beibei: It seems that the three of us never lack knives. Now that you are leaving, we are all very happy. Hehe, we are not reluctant at all. Remember to study hard when you arrive at the school in the city and study our share together. Hehe ... Then, write what you have learned in a letter and send it to us!

Knife: (a little want to cry) I know, I know, it's chattering, more verbose than my mother. (turning around)

Rice: knife ...

Knife: (turning around, holding their hands with their heads down and leaving) Let's go and take you somewhere.

(Turn into the hillside behind the school)

Knife: (panting) Come on, shout a few times, make an appointment, think of a slogan or something.

Rice: With who?

Beibei: An agreement with the future!

Knife: Yes! There are future agreements! I, Xiao Dao, want to be the first knife in the city! I want to be the best surgeon! I can do it!

Beibei: I, Zhang Beibei, want to be a good writer, write many stories in the mountains and bring hope into the mountains, and I can certainly do it!

Rice: Me, me. ...

Knife: Come on, rice, you can too. Shout it out!

Beibei: Rice, I believe you!

Rice: Ah-I, rice, want to develop the best rice for the mountain people and be the hope of the mountain people like Uncle Yuan! I can!

Knife: Haha, well done. Come on, shout with me, as long as I work hard enough!

Two people: as long as I work hard enough!

Knife: No problem!

Two people: No problem!

(Three people hand in hand against the strong wind, and make the truest vows at the foot of the mountain. )

Beibei: (monologue) How time flies! There are still two days left in your second year. Knife, rice and I are fine, but I miss you very much. After such a long time, shouldn't you get used to getting along with your classmates and teachers? Hehe, I envy you. Come on, we are waiting for you, waiting for you to come back with hope. Remember our agreement: as long as I work hard enough, there is nothing wrong! As long as I work hard enough!

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Time: two years later

Places and figures are the same as above.

In the empty classroom, Rice was the only one sitting there staring at the blackboard.

Dao: fanfan! (Rushing forward, hugging fiercely) Ah! I miss you so much, my meal hasn't changed at all!

Rice: Haha, you are not serious as before.

Dao: How can it be called indecent? That is the unique truth of nature, which city people want to have or don't want to have.

Rice: You haven't come back once in these two years. I thought you would change a lot this time. Why haven't you dyed back the temperament of a city man?

Knife: Hey, why are you criticizing me? Where's the school uniform I sent you? Didn't you say in your letter that you would wear it today? Look at me! (pointing to the school uniform)

Rice: nice, hehe, I don't want to wear it. Hang it at home.

Knife: You! Mother-in-law, I bought two more sets, one for you and one for Beibei. Our classmates laughed to death, saying that I bought a girl's school uniform and stole it at home. By the way, where is Beibei? Why hasn't it come yet? I think this snail nature is enough. Let's go to her house.

Rice: (stopping the knife) Use the knife first ... Don't worry, she will come. Let's talk first.

Knife: What the hell? I can't name three people, really!

Rice: You have a big temper, too. Maybe something happened at home, or ... she, she is dressing up, and she will definitely come soon.

Knife: I don't lose my temper, but I really miss her. Well, wait here. When she comes, I will teach her a lesson. In the past two years, she wrote me such a big stack of letters (with many gestures), but at first the words were quite good. Finally, I couldn't get a decent letter. It's either typo or stagger, which is worse than reading gobbledygook. I still want to be a writer. What a pity!

Rice: It's hard for her. ...

Knife: Don't protect her. A three-year-old child can write this word more clearly than her! Isn't this about me?

Rice: She ...

Knife: (unaware of his abnormality) I, I don't want to go back this time.

Rice: What? Not going back?

Knife: Well, I don't want to study. I'm so tired. City people are not as simple as mountain people. When you are tired of getting along, everyone studies well and is versatile. I can't keep up.

Rice: Don't want to study? Are you kidding? I don't listen to your sermon. No, you must study. Are you going to stay in this mountain?

Dao: What happened to the mountain? Besides, I can stay with you.

Rice: I tell you, don't even think about it! You must go back to school!

Knife: (I've never seen rice so angry) What's the matter with you, Rice? What happened when I returned to the mountains? You all work for Dashan, can't I?

Rice: You want to be a doctor. What skills can you learn in the mountains?

Knife: Then I won't be a doctor. I also study crops like you.

Rice: Knife! Listen, if you say that again, I will forget you as a friend!

Knife: You are completely stumped! where am I going? What are you nervous about? You look down on mountains, don't forget that you were born and raised in mountains? Is this city that important to you?

Rice: You? ...

Knife: What's wrong with me? If you think what I said is wrong, then say it. Why do you think it is?

Rice: Because ...

Dao: Because of what? Say it!

Rice: Because of Beibei!

Dao: Beibei? What's wrong with Beibei?

Rice: Beibei ... she always hopes that you can learn something in the city and become a good doctor in the future, you know? ...

Dao: Rice, don't keep it from me. Tell me, what happened to Beibei? Why hasn't she come yet?

Rice: She ... she, she is blind and can't see.

Knife: What? (silently, suddenly) Don't fool me! If you dare to joke with me like this, I'll hit you! (grabs him by the collar and shouts) Can you believe it?

Rice: I'm not lying to you. I can't hide it from you ... (feeling the knife hand gradually loosen) That day, she came back from the field and it rained heavily. She ran as fast as she could, accidentally mixing with a stone, and the whole person rolled down the mountain. When we found her, she had passed out. After waiting for three days, she finally woke up, but she couldn't see ... (quietly)

Knife: (unbelievable to myself) Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me?

Rice: Even though she can't see, she insists on writing to you. Why do you think she wants us to tell you? All the letters you wrote to him were for xu teacher to read to her. She doesn't know that you will come back today, so I can't tell her. ...

Knife: I am an idiot, I am an idiot. ...

Rice: There is no money at home, and there is no condition to treat her in the mountains. Knife, aren't you going to be the best surgeon? Don't give up, don't give up ... even for Beibei's eyes, you can't give up. She always said that she would stick to it until the day you succeeded. As long as you succeed, her light will come back. Knife, she can wait, can wait, you can't give up. ...

(The knife takes out the stack of letters from the bag and looks at the crooked handwriting, but he can't say a word. Just a silence)

Beibei: (far from the classroom) Rice, Rice, are you there? Rice!

Rice: (suddenly awakened) Why is she here? Knife, don't make any noise, you'll scare her.

The knife suddenly stands up, just standing quietly, trying to suppress complicated feelings, waiting for Beibei to appear, and the heart beats faster and faster, and the letters on the table are scattered all over the floor. )

Before their eyes, Beibei was wearing a blue and white school uniform and groping her way forward.

Rice: (waking up) Beibei, I'm here. Be careful. (Holding her hand) What brings you here?

Beibei: Why don't you make a sound? I just went to your house, and my aunt said you were there, so I came. Hehe, look, the school uniform that the knife gave me, is it nice? I want to show you before I put it on. The knife said, girls in city schools wear it like this, and I wear it like this ... Does it look bad?

Rice: good-looking, good-looking, really good-looking, better than any girl!

Beibei: Really?

Rice: Well, really, I'm not lying.

Beibei: Hehe, and you? (Reaching out to touch) Why don't you wear it?

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Rice: I ... I don't want to wear it.

Beibei: Hehe, if you find the knife, you will scold your mother-in-law again. By the way, rice, help me tie two braids, I can't see.

Rice: OK-(I was about to go forward, but I was stopped by a knife next to me. He understood the meaning of the knife and put it aside.

(The knife puts Beibei on the chair, stands behind her and braids her hair)

Beibei: Dao said that in school, teachers don't allow students to have long hair, and they must tie it up to look like students. I can't let my mother see me like this, she will be sad again. But if I stand by this knife, he won't recognize me, hehe.

(suddenly feels the trembling of the knife hand) What's the matter with you, rice? Why are you shaking?

(After binding, the knife turns back)

Rice: I'm fine. I'm busy.

Beibei: Hehe, I wish I had a camera. Now you can take my picture and show it to the knife. (suddenly calm down, go to the blackboard, pick up the chalk and write a line: as long as I work hard enough, there is nothing I can't do) rice, I miss the knife so much!

Rice: Beibei, don't lose heart. You will meet him one day.

Beibei: You forget that the knife will be the best surgeon. He can cure my eyes, and you are a rice expert, so I can not eat. Haha, how nice! (As soon as his foot touches the letter on the ground, he immediately squats down and picks it up) It's a letter, a letter!

Knife: Beibei, I'm ... Knife, I'm back.

Beibei: (The letter in his hand falls to the ground) Knife ... Knife? (Reaching out and touching the knife surface)

Knife: Yes, it's me.

Beibei: I'm sorry, I can't see you …

(The knife pulls Beibei, lifts her up with her whole body, and runs out with her back behind her)

Dao: You must see it!

The knife ran up the hill with Beibei on its back, followed by rice.

Knife: (panting, but trying to calm himself down) Beibei, did you see it?

Beibei: (yelling) I see it! I saw it! I saw the opposite mountain, the opposite tree, the people under the mountain and the birds flying in the sky!

Knife: (roar loud) I, Knife, want to be the best doctor and cure Zhang Beibei's eyes. I want her to see the world clearly!

Rice: (roar loud) I, rice, want to be the best agricultural expert, so that Zhang Beibei can eat the best rice all her life!

Beibei: (coming down from the back of the knife and crying) I, Zhang Beibei, must be strong, cheer up and be a writer … the best writer, and write the best hope for my two best friends!

Dao: Come on, (Shouting) as long as we work hard!

Rice: (Shouting) As long as we work hard!

They waited for Beibei's answer, but Beibei just stood in the middle and didn't answer.

Two people: (shouting again) as long as we work hard enough!

Beibei: (shouting) There is nothing wrong with it!

Finally, the three of them huddled together. )

(End)