In the depths of winter, widespread frost and snow transformed Yang Village into a picture of new attire blanketed by a thick layer of snow.
Outside the Yu Family's small courtyard, a group of children were joyfully running around in the snow, their laughter and chatter echoed into the house.
Suizi sat at the table in the heated brick bed, diligently marking papers with undivided attention.
The final exam had just ended, and this was the last task Suizi had assigned for her students.
With the end of this term, she would no longer be a substitute teacher at the school.
"Sister-in-law! Have you marked my paper yet?" Jiaojiao craned her neck to look.
The students' names were covered by a stapler, but whether they were concealed or not didn't really matter to Suizi.
During the two months she'd spent teaching, she had long familiarised herself with each child's handwriting.
"It's done, you've improved."
