Chapter 83: Something went wrong with my uncle.
When Xu Heye returned to the classroom, she saw Kong Xiaoyue and Sun Hui looking at her eagerly.
"Xu Heye, what does the head teacher want to see you about?"
Just as Xu Heye was about to speak, she noticed that the students around her were listening to her attentively.
After all, there had been rumors circulating in the class that it was a classmate who had reported Wang Cai and the others. Xu Heye had reported fraudsters before, so it was possible that she had reported them to the police after discovering they were selling pirated discs.
Xu Heye smiled and shrugged, "You know how my grandpa came to school and made a scene a while ago? My homeroom teacher wanted to see me to ask if I'd had any difficulties lately and if I needed any help from the school."
"Is that so?" The students around couldn't hear any gossip, and their ears drooped instantly.
Xu Heye found it funny.
But she would never let anyone know that this matter had anything to do with her.
If she reports a scammer, everyone will sympathize with her because everyone hates scammers. But if she reports a classmate, even if he has done something wrong and committed a crime, everyone will feel uncomfortable.
Because they are afraid that they will be reported too.
In reality, if Wang Cai was simply selling pirated discs privately, Xu Heye wouldn't bother to intervene. But bullying, humiliation, and even attempted rape of classmates were things she couldn't tolerate.
Xu Heye gave a reason, and most of the students believed it. Or rather, they didn't really believe her, but were just too lazy to delve into it.
But some people are very persistent.
Chen Yuru looked up at the student in front of her and asked, "Wang Jianping, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Wang Jianping: "Teacher, was it Xu Heye who went to the police station to report Wang Cai?"
He and Wang Cai didn't have a good relationship, but they were cousins after all, so even if they broke bones, they would still be connected. If Xu Heye had really reported him, then he, he—
He didn't know what he could do either.
but--
Wang Jianping looked at Chen Yuru, waiting for her to give an answer.
Chen Yuru shook her head. She certainly wouldn't tell the students the identity of the person who called the police. Even if some of them guessed it, they couldn't get any confirmation from her.
Wang Jianping was a little unwilling, "Teacher, if she didn't report it, then why did you call her out during morning reading?"
Chen Yuru felt a little upset, thinking that she was not thoughtful enough in this matter.
But her expression remained calm. "I came to see her because I wanted to ask if she had any difficulties in life and if she needed help from the teacher or the school."
After that, Chen Yuru continued, "Student Wang Jianping, this has nothing to do with you. A student's job is to study hard. I hope you can focus all your energy on studying and prepare well for the high school entrance exam in a year. After all, this is a major event that will affect your entire life."
Wang Jianping looked at Chen Yuru. She smiled slightly, and there was nothing unusual on her face.
Unable to tell the truth from the false, he could only believe that this matter had nothing to do with Xu Heye. After all, the reasons given by both of them were the same, and Xu Heye would not have come to Chen Yuru to collude with her.
Xu Heye didn't know that she and her new head teacher who didn't like her very much would have such a tacit understanding one day.
A few days later, the empty tables and chairs were dragged away, and everyone finally believed that Wang Cai and his friends would not come back.
Everyone talked about it for a while and soon forgot about it.
After all, learning is your own.
The teaching progress in the third year of junior high school is very fast. They have to go through all the knowledge points in the first semester, and then use the second semester to review all the knowledge points of the three years of junior high school.
Every day I am busy with classes, homework, exams, and correcting wrong answers. The high-intensity study has exhausted all my enthusiasm, and no matter how big the event is, it can't make much waves.
Xu Heye is no exception.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly afterwards, and nothing unexpected happened either at school or near home.
There is one more person in Xu Heye’s study group - Sun Hui.
Unlike Kong Xiaoyue who came on weekends, Sun Hui went to Xu Heye's small rental house after school to do homework with her, preview new lessons and review old knowledge.
As for the weekends, she goes out to earn money.
She bought some pure cotton socks and silk stockings from Uncle Xu Heye, and took advantage of the weekend to set up a stall in front of a nearby university.
Both men and women need socks, but stockings are sold to female college students.
Young girls in their twenties are most concerned about beauty, and stockings are particularly popular.
Of course, while making money, she did not forget to study.
In addition to goods, she always brings textbooks with her when she sets up a stall. When there are no customers, she reads the books, memorizes the texts, and reviews knowledge points. When customers come, she puts down the books and sells goods.
But because she only sells one day a week, she doesn't make much money.
But for her, a little bit adds up to a lot.
She saved up for a year, and if she failed to get into a technical secondary school in the future, she would go to high school and take the college entrance examination.
After universities reopened, academic qualifications quickly depreciated. The talented junior high and high school students of the 1960s and 1970s were no longer considered talents. Unable to get into technical secondary school, she had no chance of changing her fate until she went to university.
Time flies, National Day is over, and the midterm exam for the first semester of the third year of junior high school was held at the end of the month.
Xu Heye, Kong Xiaoyue and Sun Hui all performed very well. Xu Heye still ranked among the top, while Kong Xiaoyue and Sun Hui's overall rankings also improved a lot, so they received praise from teachers of various subjects.
Xu Heye also received a second letter from Wu Yulan, who was in Beijing. Her study and life were back on track, and she even went to Tiananmen Square to watch the flag-raising ceremony.
This year happened to be the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Unfortunately, there was no military parade, so her uncle and aunt took her, her cousins, and herself to climb the Great Wall.
Xu Heye was a little envious and wrote back to her, saying that when she was admitted to university, she would also go to Beijing to watch the flag-raising ceremony and climb the Great Wall.
However, something went wrong with my uncle.
His sock business is failing.
With the arrival of the layoff wave, more and more people are unemployed, and laid-off workers who used to look down on self-employed individuals are also flocking into this industry.
When the poor don't have the cost of trial and error and don't know what to sell, selling socks is a good choice. Firstly, this job does not require much technical skills, unlike selling clothes, which tests the stall owner's aesthetic taste and matching ability.
Secondly, socks are cheap; ten yuan can buy a large batch, and they are easy to sell on the streets. For laid-off workers with little savings, even if their stall fails, the loss of the purchase money will not ruin them.
At the same time, people are becoming more restrained in their consumption.
In the past, when socks were torn, people would choose to buy a new pair. Now, they can be mended and worn for another three years.
Selling socks is a business of small profits but quick turnover. Nowadays, there are fewer people spending money and more people selling, so naturally, not much money can be made.
Dong Fuyun's business was failing, and naturally Sun Hui's socks couldn't sell well either. Except for the first month, every time she went there on weekends, someone else had already discovered this Feng Shui treasure land.
It can be said that the impact of the wave of layoffs is reflected in all aspects.
To make matters worse, Dong Fuyun's career suffered a setback and the Dong family also encountered trouble.
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