Chapter 1595: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity, Abandoned

Fast Chinese.

Litian wiped her tears with a pained heart: "Don't cry. What do you need me to do for you to believe me? Do you want me to swear an oath?"

"A man's mouth is a deceiving ghost; I don't need you to swear."

These words were a bit affected, but she wanted to be affected, wanted to act spoiled.

Litian was incredibly anxious, breaking out in a sweat.

"Alright, I was teasing you. I believe you. Since you were willing to risk your life to find me, how could I not believe you?" In the end, she couldn't bear it and turned to comfort her boyfriend instead.

For the past two days, the Hospital Ward had been bustling with an endless stream of people coming to visit her.

Lu Feifei's heroic deeds in saving lives had spread, reporters came to interview her, her story appeared on major television stations and in newspapers, and Lu Feifei was held up as a model and an example.

Leaders at all levels also came to see her, asking if she had any difficulties and telling her to feel free to make any requests.

Departments at all levels also wanted to give Lu Feifei commendations and rewards.

The commendations and rewards were indeed very good, and she did have a request: Lu Feifei wanted to transfer, to transfer to a place closer to her boyfriend.

This was a good opportunity; if this opportunity were missed, it was uncertain when another chance would arise.

For the past two days, her boyfriend had been staying with her.

But she still felt insecure in her heart, terrified that her boyfriend might be snatched away by someone else!

Litian was so good, so outstanding; she didn't want to hand him over to others. Just thinking about the possibility of them being separated made her heart ache as if it were being stabbed by a knife!

For public-funded students like them, it was not easy to be transferred once assigned to a school.

Students with even a little bit of family background would never have been assigned to such a remote place in the first place.

The fact that they were assigned here showed that they had no background.

It was very difficult for people without a background to get a transfer, and those who were assigned could not resign.

Because the state cultivated public-funded students without letting the students spend money, failing to comply with the assignment would result in a very disgraceful mark on their permanent record.

The leaders told her to make any request she had; such an opportunity was once in a thousand years, and now was the perfect time to bring it up.

Litian was one hundred percent in agreement; he didn't like long-distance relationships either.

It was a very good opportunity, and the two of them had already discussed it, but Lu Feifei kept hesitating to speak up.

It wasn't because she was shy, and it wasn't because she was thin-skinned, but because she couldn't bear to leave!

She couldn't bear to leave those adorable children.

After the floodwaters receded, the students came to see her.

A female student had run dozens of miles to bring her a few red dates, large and round.

The little girl presented them with both hands as if offering a treasure, revealing the dates lying in her palm: "Teacher, please eat these. My grandma said your body is weak right now and you need to nourish yourself well and strengthen your nutrition."

"Our family can't afford anything else; these few dates are the best ones on the tree."

The little girl lowered her head sadly.

She felt the gift was too meager; for the grace of saving a life, giving only a few dates was indeed too light, but her family truly couldn't afford anything better.

This was the only thing in their home they could bring out!

The little girl who brought the red dates was the best student in the class, and also the first student she had taught.

She was very much like Lu Feifei when she was young: her academic performance was excellent, but her family environment was not very good. The little girl was very sensible, yet she lacked the love of her parents.

The little girl was a left-behind child; her parents worked away from home all year round, and she lived with her grandmother, the two of them relying on each other.

Seeing these few red dates, Lu Feifei felt a heavy heart.

She shook her head and refused: "You keep them and eat them. Look at how thin you are; you need to supplement your nutrition even more. I have everything I need here, Teacher."

The little girl could no longer hold back and shed tears in sadness: "Teacher, you think it's shabby, right? I'm sorry, I couldn't bring anything better..."

Lu Feifei hurriedly explained: "No, no, that's not what I meant... How about this, let's eat them together, okay?"

"Okay."

Only then did the little girl reveal a sweet smile.

And so, the two of them, one for you and one for me, ate them with great relish!

They chewed them slowly, bit by bit, for fear of wasting even a little.

Red dates were not a rare item, but at this moment, they were the most precious, and they were the largest and sweetest dates Lu Feifei had ever eaten.

Just after eating the red dates, other students brought her a few eggs, boiled, for her to eat and supplement her nutrition.

Other students brought an ear of corn, a few handfuls of salt-boiled broad beans...

These things were usually not at all remarkable, but now, with the flood having just passed, houses collapsed, and crops almost completely wiped out, they appeared very precious.

The students were giving the most precious things from their homes to their best teacher!

Those who truly had nothing to bring out scrambled to help her wash her clothes and tidy up the Hospital Ward.

Teacher Lu had saved their lives; they had nothing with which to repay her, so they used all the goodness they could think of to repay her!

The students were simple, honest, and kind, and every bit of it struck at Lu Feifei's heart.

For the sake of these adorable students, she missed the opportunity to speak up time and time again.

Until yesterday noon, she had made up her mind.

The little boy she had saved on impulse came to see her, led by his mother.

The child recovered quickly.

Lu Feifei had just been able to get out of bed and walk, and the child was already jumping around!

The child's mother came before her, and without a word, she plopped down on her knees and began to kowtow.

"Living Bodhisattva, you are a Living Bodhisattva..."

Feifei was startled and hurriedly went to help the woman up: "What are you doing? Please, you must not do this."

"You saved my son's life, so I must kowtow to you!"

The woman did not get up, continuing to kowtow on the ground with a "thud, thud" sound.

He could not pull her up, so he had no choice but to kneel on the ground with her.

The sight of the two women kneeling face-to-face on the ground was quite comical, and just then Litian walked in, freezing when he saw the scene.

"What is going on?"

Lu Feifei hurriedly said, "Don't just stand there, hurry and help me pull her up."

Litian helped the woman up, telling her to stand up if she had something to say and not to be like this.

The woman was crying with snot and tears streaming down her face, saying to Lu Feifei, "You saved my son's life, which is the same as saving me; my son is my life, if he were gone, I wouldn't be able to live either..." As she spoke, she made her son kowtow to Lu Feifei again.

The child was about to kneel, but Lu Feifei hurriedly held him back: "Don't, if you want me to be well, then don't do this."

The woman thanked her profusely, saying that teachers are all living Bodhisattvas, saving people from suffering and hardship...

The mother and son went back.

Lu Feifei suddenly burst into tears, and no matter how she wiped them, they would not stop.

In the end, she simply wailed aloud.

Litian wiped her tears while trying to comfort her: "Don't cry, I know you are moved, and I am very moved too."

"But you still need to control your emotions; great sorrow and great joy are both bad for your physical recovery."

Lu Feifei sobbed and said, "I am not moved; I am sad for myself."

Litian:...

He suddenly had an ominous premonition, feeling that his girlfriend had made a different decision!

Lu Feifei said, "I have decided, I am not transferring away, I want to teach here for the rest of my life!"

Litian asked, "Are you serious?"