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Liu Hai ran to the classroom after washing his clothes. As soon as he left the dormitory, he saw two teachers dragging Liu Xia to the teacher's office building. Liu Xia staggered several times and almost fell down.

Liu Hai didn't have time to think about what happened, all he saw were two teachers who were taller than Yao'er grabbing Yao'er's clothes and beating him, Yao'er almost fell to the ground after being beaten several times.

Liu Hai rushed over and knocked the stronger teacher Cui away, pulled Liu Xia to protect him behind him, and confronted the two teachers with staring eyes, and they were taken to the principal's office together.

At this moment, Wang Zhanjie, the other two vice principals, and a director of the political and educational department were all sitting with cold faces, looking at the two brothers standing next to each other in the middle of the room.

Liu Xia closed his mouth tightly, looking out of the window with a rebellious expression.

Liu Hai's eyes were fixed on the ground, but his right hand was tightly holding Liu Xia's hand.

Vice-principal Wu Baojun said: "Look at his attitude, oh, what you said just now means that you are justified, right? If the teacher scolds you twice, you should hit the teacher, right?"

Liu Xia sniffed, and said in a low voice: "Why does he scold my mother?"

Wu Baojun slapped the table and stood up: "Mr. Wang, what does this kind of student want him to do? He should be expelled now."

Several other people agreed, looking at Liu Xia as if they were looking at a pile of garbage.

Liu Hai dragged Liu Xia to keep him from moving, and took a step forward by himself: "Teacher, I, Xiaoxia, used to respect my teachers. If you don't believe me, you can ask the teachers at my old school. It's my fault that I skipped classes, but I really don't know." The only thing is that I can't get over the kiln slope..."

An Baocheng, director of politics and education, interrupted him sharply: "Are you saying that you went to Yaopo, and a small soil slope became the reason for both of you to skip class? What mountains and mountains did the Red Army not go through during the [-]-mile long march? Your Is the slope higher and steeper than Liupan Mountain? Even if it is higher and steeper than Liupan Mountain, as long as you are really determined, you can come over, didn’t the Red Army come over?”

Liu Hai was speechless. He had studied Chairman Mao's poems and knew that Liupan Mountain was very high, but he didn't know whether Shangyao was higher than Liupan Mountain.

Wu Baojun looked at the two of them in disgust and said, "What do you have to say to this kind of rubbish student? My opinion is to expel him immediately. Otherwise, a piece of mouse droppings will ruin a pot of soup."

Liu Xia turned his head and looked up at Wu Baojun: "Is Mr. Huang a mouse shit? He only reads from the book when he teaches me, and he can beat anyone he likes and scold anyone he wants. If it's rat shit, what is it?

My uncle and my mother said that everyone is raised by their parents, and it is difficult for their parents to raise children, so their parents can't scold them. How can Mr. Huang do it?It's wrong for me to be absent from class, I wrote the inspection, I was punished to stand, and I asked the teacher to beat me casually, why would he scold my mother? "

He also wanted to ask, if someone scolds your mother face to face, will you beat him?

But Liu Xia didn't dare, facing a group of adults, a group of people who he had been taught by his parents to respect since he could understand the language, and who controlled his destiny at this moment, no matter how young and impulsive he was, he knew his identity .

Wu Baojun got angry and came over to give Liu Xia a push: "You've turned the world upside down, and you're even questioning the teacher, tell me to listen if you say something again!"

If it wasn't for Liu Hai's pull, Liu Xia would have almost bumped into the big iron stove that was standing behind him.

Liu Hai held Liu Xia in his arms, staring at Wu Baojun with trembling lips.

If anyone dared to hit Yao'er again, he would fight it out and do his best, regardless of whether he would be fired or not.

Wu Baojun didn't make any more moves, just stood there staring at Liu Hai.

The leaders of several other schools still kept their original tone.

"Call the parents and let them take him away immediately. The young family will lose his education. We can't teach such a child."

"Ms. Huang is just your teacher who can read from the book. Why did the teacher scold you a few times? You don't know your mistakes, and you still say that the teacher is this and that. Since you are capable, then don't ask for a teacher. Go to a university by yourself and let the whole world see it.”

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Wang Zhanjie waited for everyone to finish talking, and then said to Liu Hai: "Call your parents, I have to talk to them."

Liu Hai was stunned for a few seconds before saying: "I can't call my family, I can't climb up the kiln slope.

Also, all my clothes have been washed, if I go back, the clothes on my body will also be turned into mud, my mother should be in trouble, she has nothing to change for me. "

Several teachers were impatient with Liu Hai's words: "Don't talk about your Shangyaopo, if they can't get through, you two just leave."

Wang Zhanjie stood up and said to several leaders: "You all go back first, Mr. Wu will have class later, I will talk to them, and then we will discuss how to deal with it."

Wu Baojun said dissatisfiedly: "The situation is obvious, why should we discuss it? We must be fired!"

After several people left, Wang Zhanjie said to Liu Hai: "If I talk to Liu Xia alone, are you worried?" This sentence, which was supposed to be relatively mild, also sounded harsh.

Wang Zhanjie is the principal, and he is in charge of the mathematics classes of the second and fourth classes, including Liu Hai's class. Liu Hai knows him well. He is a very strict teacher. Although he has seen Wang Zhanjie punish the students most severely Even standing at the back of the classroom and listening to the class, Liu Hai was still worried about letting Liu Xia face him alone.

Wang Zhanjie understood Liu Hai's attitude, picked up a book on the table and went out: "Liu Hai, go get a pen and paper, and write me an inspection of no less than [-] characters first!"

After Liu Hai came back with the pen and paper, he and Liu Xia stared at each other, not knowing what to do next.

Liu Xia's anger has not completely disappeared, and this tone supports him to refuse to bow his head and admit his mistakes in front of a group of school leaders.

But after all, they are still only teenagers. After the impulsiveness, thinking of the possible consequences, the two of them are panicking now.

Liu Hai was directly dragged to the principal's office. All he knew was what he heard from Liu Xia's defense with several school leaders just now. Liu Hai put his arms around his shoulders to comfort him: "It's okay baby, no You just go, you go to school in Kyoto, anyway, you go to school early, and go to school again from the first day of junior high school, so that you are exactly the same age as others."

Liu Xia shook his head resolutely: "I won't go, what should I do with the cat? No one in the village asks them to play with the cat. The boy is waiting for the day when I go home to play with him on Sunday. If I go again , the child will die pitifully."

There was a big iron stove burning in the middle of the principal's office, and the room was very warm. Liu Xia's body slowly recovered, his mind cleared up, and his fear deepened.

The two wrote the inspection for two hours anxiously, and Wang Zhanjie didn't come back until the bell rang for the end of self-study in the first quarter at [-] o'clock.

He didn't look at the two people's examination, put away a large pile of homework, and said to them: "Pull up a chair and sit by the coal fire."

After hesitating for a while, the two of them pulled up the chairs and sat down around the stove with Wang Zhanjie.

Wang Zhanjie asked: "How old is your uncle and your mother?"

Liu Hai didn't understand why he asked this, but he answered honestly: "It's more than 50."

Wang Zhanjie asked Liu Xia, "Are you the youngest in the family?"

Liu Xia nodded lightly: "Yes."

"I am the eldest in the family. My eldest child is fifteen this year and is in the second grade of Chengguan Middle School next door. My mother is sixty this year."

The two brothers looked at Wang Zhanjie, wondering what he meant.

Wang Zhanjie continued: "My family is also in the countryside. I was admitted to Central Plains Normal University in my 30s. My mother told me that I can eat commercial food and live a good life. She will be happy even if she dies."

Wang Zhanjie was tall and strong. If he hadn't dressed cleanly and had two pens in his coat pocket, he would have looked more like a farmer.

Liu Xia sniffed, and his eyes were red. He remembered Sun Chang'e crying when she heard that Liu Hai was going to study in Kyoto, and Liu Changqing and Liu Kui's eyes were red when Liu Ling got on the train: "My mother also She wanted me to be admitted to college, but she said that if I could eat commodity food and live a good life, she would be happy if I didn’t give her a penny..."

Wang Zhanjie said: "You know that your mother wants you to live a good life. If you say something wrong, you will attack the teacher. If you are expelled, can you still go to college? If you can't go to college, you say, you Is there any way to live a good life and make your mother happy?"

Liu Xia lowered his head and said after a long time: "I didn't want to hit the teacher, but I can't let people scold my mother."

Wang Zhanjie was silent for a long time before he said: "Mr. Huang is not right to scold people, is it right for you to hit the teacher? He scolded you, can't you tell your class teacher? Isn't there me as the principal? Why can't you think of a better way?" How about trying to solve it with your own hands, but hitting people with your own hands?"

Wang Zhanjie knew that what he said was nonsense, bullying children.

Can the head teacher manage the disputes between the students, and can he manage Mr. Huang beating and scolding the students?Also, which student would think of going to the teacher's leader to report the situation when he had a dispute with the teacher?

Even he himself was impossible back then.

Not long after he arrived at Rongze High School, he saw Huang Zhiying kick a student who had fallen behind in morning exercises and ran into the nursery, beating and scolding him. He was stunned by Huang Zhiying's behavior at the time.

Therefore, the old principal specially invited Huang Zhiying's father to the school, hoping to persuade him a thing or two.

Unexpectedly, the old teacher who used to have a good reputation was unprincipled in doting on his son. He defended Huang Zhiying every word, which made Huang Zhiying more and more arrogant. In the past two years, beating and scolding students is like street thugs And country shrews are still crazy.

Huang Zhiying was a regular worker in the class of his father, who had worked here for nearly 20 years and was labeled as a rightist during the Cultural Revolution. It can be said that as long as he didn't beat the disabled and kill people, no one could do anything about him.

Wang Zhanjie has not been in Rongze High School for a long time, because the grades of the classes he has taught for several years have been particularly good, and because the country is vigorously advocating the reuse of intellectuals, he has just been appointed as the principal this summer vacation.

At least for now, he has nothing to do with Huang Zhiying.

He knew that many teachers in the school who were usually strict with students also despised Huang Zhiying's behavior of beating and scolding students.

But even so, these teachers will not speak for the Liu family brothers in today's matter.

On the contrary, they will tacitly stand on Teacher Huang's side, because they are all teachers, and to protect Teacher Huang's dignity, or face, is to protect their own face.

Wang Zhanjie just took out a class time to investigate Liu Hai and Liu Xia from some students from Wangning, and what he heard from them about the situation of going to the kiln was more difficult than what Liu Hai said.

He also heard from Zhang Peng and Zhang Changxi that the Liu family brothers climbed dozens of miles of mountain roads every day to go to school in Wangning;

Knowing that Liujialing is also a poor place that is looked down upon in Wangning.

Knowing that Liu Xia picked up writing paper to save money for milk powder for his nephew who lost his mother at birth,

In order to grab the waste paper that can be sold for two or three cents a day, the two brothers of the Chu family were singled out...

He feels sorry for these two children, but he must also stick to the position of a principal, at least make enough gestures to protect the face of the teacher, so that his future work as the principal can proceed smoothly.

Liu Hai took Liu Xia's hand and said to Wang Zhanjie: "Teacher Wang, my Xiaoxia is really good. My uncle and mother taught me to respect the teacher. I never scolded the teacher behind my back. I am his elder brother. Uncle said Xiaoxia is under my supervision at school, he hit the teacher today, I didn’t manage him well, don’t fire Xiaoxia, I’ll go and apologize to Teacher Huang, and I’ll write a review for Xiaoxia.”

Wang Zhanjie said: "Liu Hai, the teacher knows that you are a good brother, but this matter is different. Hitting the teacher is a very serious matter. It is more appropriate to let the parents come. As for the two of you, before your parents come, let us first Don't go to class."

Both of them were stunned, this made them suspend class!

There are still three weeks until the final exam, what if they don't go to class, if they don't want to go to class, why should they rush back in mud.

Seeing the panicked and dazed expressions of the two, Wang Zhanjie couldn't bear it: "Beating the teacher is such a big matter, if you just let you go back to class like this, the school can't explain it to Teacher Huang, and it will also have a bad influence on other students.

How about this, Liu Hai, go back and bring both of your books, and write a review in my office these few days, no less than 800 words, not profound, don’t count, write until I am satisfied, you can read and study in the middle, If you don't understand, just ask me.

Liu Hai, since you can't go home, let's write a letter. They are all in Rongze County, and it takes at most three days to write a letter, right?After your family members receive the letter and come to the school, the school will look at your parents' attitude and discuss it before deciding on the punishment for Liu Xia. "

Liu Hai said in embarrassment: "The postmen don't go to my brigade, and they can't go to Shangyaopo. I always go to the post office to get my letters. My fourth brother goes to the post office at most once a week."

Wang Zhanjie was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly: "Then you just write, count as a few days, and you can always receive it before the holiday, right?"

Liu Hai could only nod his head.

Early the next morning, the two of them took the books and bowls and chopsticks to the principal's office.

From that day on, Liu Xia and Liu Hai stayed in Wang Zhanjie's office all the time except going back to the dormitory to sleep at night.

Liu Xia was really embarrassed by the inspection. He didn't feel that he was wrong at all, so he couldn't write it.

Wang Zhanjie didn't ask to see Liu Xia's examination two days ago. He stayed in the office as much as possible every day to give lectures to them.

Wang Zhanjie was a high school student before the Cultural Revolution. He also taught junior high school in his village for 14 years. After he was admitted to university, he cherished the hard-won opportunity. All other classes are fine.

He found that the two children were excellent in mathematics, physics and chemistry, and the worst in foreign languages, politics and biology.

He also found that Liu Xia's handwriting was even more beautiful than Liu Hai's.

Back then, when he saw Liu Hai's homework for the first time, he was amazed. It was also because of his good handwriting that he noticed Liu Hai, who was at most a middle-level student at the time.

But there was also a discovery that made him very uncomfortable. The two children only ate a vegetarian dish at noon every day, and the rest of the time they were all fermented bean curd or mustard shreds that cost a penny; the buns were also corn flour buns, even wheat and corn. Never bought Hanamaki once.

Wu Baojun and the others thought it was a punishment not to let Liu Xia and the others go to class at first, but after two days they felt something was wrong.

Principal Wang's office has a big iron stove, and the room is many times warmer than the classroom. Don't those two boys take advantage of it?

In addition, he saw Wang Zhanjie teaching physics to Liu Hai; Teacher Luo sent his textbooks to Liu Xia. Recently, I was busy producing exam papers, so I brought the books over for Liu Xia to study on his own.

Wu Baojun felt that something was wrong, so he called An Baocheng and asked Wang Zhanjie during the break.

Wang Zhanjie's explanation is: the school stipulates that students can only enter the dormitory at night. If they are allowed to stay in the dormitory, other students who also violate discipline and suspend classes can lie in the dormitory and sleep. This is definitely not appropriate;

Liu Xia's parents didn't come, and the punishment hasn't been decided yet, the two of them are still students of Rongze High School, students have to study in class honestly, don't think that breaking the discipline means you don't have to do homework;

As for being in my office, where do I let them go?

You ask the students, are they willing to study in the classroom or come to the principal's office to write the test?

The answer is clear, no student is willing to come to the principal's office, even if there is a warm iron stove there.

The fourth day of the suspension was Saturday, when Liu Hai and Liu Xia had just finished eating, Wang Zhanjie came in.

He gave lectures to them until 04:30; then he went out twice and brought back two cardboard boxes filled with briquettes and two aluminum lunch boxes.

Wang Zhanjie opened the lunch box and put it by the stove: "I just had lunch at noon, and the people from the Education Bureau came, so I accompanied them to the restaurant to eat. You two should eat this warmly. It would be a pity to throw it away."

Liu Hai and Liu Xia looked at the lunch box full of stewed meat slices and six steamed buns, and at Wang Zhanjie, not understanding what he meant.

Wang Zhanjie put on a big blue padded jacket: "It's time for my older child to leave school, and I will go back to my hometown after him. My mother and your teacher's wife are all in my hometown. I go back every week to see them and my mother. Two little ones."

Liu Xia and Liu Hai looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

When Wang Zhanjie walked to the door, he suddenly remembered something, took off the chain of keys on his waist, took a key and handed it to Liu Hai: "You two should sleep in this room in secret today, if you go out, remember to lock the door, I will leave tomorrow Come back after five o'clock in the afternoon, you two are doing your homework seriously, come back and ask me if you don't understand."

Liu Hai and Liu Xia watched Wang Zhanjie ride away on his bicycle through the window, and then looked at the two lunch boxes on the stove, without saying a word.

The two of them spent a warm night on the principal's desk.

However, Liu Hai also saw the big bruise on Liu Xia's left leg, and he wished he could kill that bastard Huang Zhiying.

The next day, apart from eating and going to the toilet, the two of them kept doing questions and memorizing books.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Hai went to bring a basin of water, heated it on the stove, and wiped all the places in the office that could be wiped.

Liu Xia swept the ground clean.

When Wang Zhanjie came back, what he saw was a neat and almost spotless office and several neat and beautiful homework books with a [-]% correct rate.

On Monday evening, snowflakes fell outside the window again.

Both Liu Xia and Liu Hai were in despair. If his uncle and elder brother didn't come, they would have to continue living through such a panic.

At eleven o'clock on the ninth day of the suspension, in the principal's office.

Wang Zhanjie was correcting homework, Liu Hai was doing math problems, and Liu Xia was sitting in front of the stove with his back to the door reciting English texts.

There was a knock on the door suddenly from behind, and Liu Xia hurried over to open the door:

Liu Changqing and Liu Kui stood at the door, both of them had muddy legs, and were only wearing bare padded jackets on their upper bodies—one of them was holding a jacket covered in yellow mud.