Chapter 203: Guilty Conscience
As a result, before I even finished my words, I realized that what the female comrade said made sense. It was indeed wrong for them to talk about this in front of all the teachers and students in the school.
However, it was also because he saw that Gu Shian and Jiang Xiaohao were so young, especially Gu Shian, who was much shorter than the other students and looked to be only five or six years old. He had a preconceived notion that such a young child would not be able to write such a good article, so he said it directly in front of so many people.
"I'm sorry, comrade. What you said makes sense. It's us who didn't do things properly." The person in charge took the initiative to apologize.
Li Xia moved aside, revealing An An and Jiang Xiaohao, who she had been protecting behind her, and said, "The person you should apologize to is not me, but them."
The person in charge admitted his mistakes and corrected them. He said to An An and Jiang Xiaohao, "Gu Shian, Jiang Xiaohao, I'm sorry. Uncle was wrong in this matter. I said this in front of so many people before I had investigated the matter clearly. Please forgive me."
An An and Jiang Xiaohao looked at each other, with light flashing in their eyes.
The feeling of loss just now immediately disappeared, replaced by excitement. They nodded and said, "Uncle, we can forgive you, but we really didn't plagiarize."
"Uncle will investigate this matter thoroughly. We will definitely not force you to do something you haven't done, and we will find the people who wrongly accused you." The person in charge continued.
After that, he took out a letter from his pocket, handed it to Li Xia, and said, "Comrade, I also agree with what you said about whoever reports should provide evidence, but the report we received is an anonymous letter. I brought the letter here, take a look."
Li Xia took the letter and took a look at it. The letter clearly pointed out that the essays written by An An and Jiang Xiaohao were plagiarized. The letter was written with great confidence, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
Who could have written it?
In fact, Li Xia already had a candidate in mind. She remembered Zhang Quansheng, who was so angry that his face turned blue after she ridiculed him that day. Apart from him, she couldn't think of another person who would write a letter to report An An and Jiang Xiaohao!
Li Xia handed the letter to the principal and said, "Principal, do you recognize the handwriting on this letter?"
The principal took the letter and looked at Zhang Quansheng in the audience: "Teacher Zhang, come here."
Zhang Quansheng panicked and dropped the pen in his hand. He immediately retorted, "Principal, I didn't write it. The handwriting on the letter is not my handwriting!"
Li Xia couldn't help laughing after hearing this, and said sarcastically: "Teacher Zhang, the principal just asked you to come over, and he didn't say that you wrote the report letter. Why are you so nervous? Are you guilty of something?"
"I didn't!" Zhang Quansheng retorted immediately, but his eyes were a little vague.
The principal said, "The handwriting on this letter is indeed different from your usual handwriting."
Zhang Quansheng breathed a sigh of relief, and then he heard the principal continue, "But the punctuation marks in the letter are exactly the same as your usual habits, and the wording is also extremely consistent! The words on it look stiff, and it's obvious that the writer deliberately wrote it like this in order to avoid being discovered!"
"Another point is that the stationery sold outside has been revised. Only our army's supply and marketing cooperative has stockpiled too much stationery and is still selling stationery before the revision. It just so happens that this piece of stationery is from the period before the revision." Li Xia reminded.
She often sent letters to Qiao Ran, so she noticed this. Most people might not notice it.
After being reminded, the principal also realized this: "Zhang Quansheng, you are a teacher in the school. As a teacher, you must first have professional ethics.
Gu Shian and Jiang Xiaohao have brought honor to the school, but you reported them for your own selfish desires. How can you be qualified to be a teacher? Fire him immediately! Our school does not need a teacher like you who has no moral integrity! "
Zhang Quansheng's legs suddenly went weak. He never expected that he had changed his handwriting but forgot the punctuation and the writing paper...
"Principal, please don't fire me. You were the one who promoted me to the government primary school." Zhang Quansheng immediately begged the principal, "I was bewildered. I shouldn't have deliberately written a letter to report Gu Shian and Jiang Xiaohao just because I was jealous of Li Xia. Please give me another chance!"
Zhang Quansheng used to be just an elementary school teacher in the village. The principal transferred him here because he was ambitious and did not forget to study while teaching. He would even visit the homes of students who refused to study and ask them why they did not want to study.
But since arriving at the Government Primary School, Zhang Quansheng seemed to have become a different person. He became snobbish and had forgotten his original intention.
In fact, when Li Xia brought An An to register last year but was made difficult by Zhang Quansheng, the principal already had this feeling, but at that time he just wanted to give him another chance to see if he would change.
Who knew that he was going further and further down the wrong path, completely losing sight of where the right path was heading.
So no matter how much Zhang Quansheng begged, the principal still insisted on expelling him.
Not only was Zhang Quansheng expelled from the government primary school, but the Municipal Education Bureau also publicly criticized his behavior.
This means that not only will he not be able to be a teacher at the government primary school, but no school in the entire Yuncheng will hire him as a teacher.
The truth of the matter came to light, and the two responsible persons from the Education Bureau once again apologized to Li Xia, An An, Jiang Xiaohao, and the entire bureau's primary school.
After the flag-raising ceremony, Li Xia said to the two children, "Next time if you encounter something like this, you don't have to be nervous or prove yourself. Just like I did today, be bold and ask the other party to provide evidence."
"Okay, Mom, I remember it." An An nodded.
Jiang Xiaohao said: "I remember it too."
Ma Aidang ran over and said, "I was really scared to death today."
"Why are you scared to death?" Jiang Xiaohao asked.
An An also said: "Yes, Xiao Hao and I are not scared to death yet."
Ma Aidang said: "When those two people came out and said you plagiarized, some classmates asked if I was the one who reported you. They also said that I couldn't participate in the competition, so they reported you. I almost died of injustice."
If there hadn't been so many teachers present at the time, he would have fought with that guy. He knew that his writing was not good, and he would only be happy for his friends who won awards. How could he possibly report them!
Moreover, he can't even write the report. Last time, he wrote such a bad composition that he got beaten by his father, he even replaced many words with pinyin!
Hearing what Ma Aidang said, An An and Jiang Xiaohao couldn't help but laughed out loud.
An An said: "Don't worry, Ai Dang, we all believe that you will not do such a thing."
Jiang Xiaohao also chuckled: "Aidang didn't even know that this competition was held by the Education Bureau. Even if he knew, he didn't have a penny to send a letter."
The children burst into laughter, and the previous gloom was swept away.
On this day, a package and a letter were sent from Eastern Province.
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