Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Gu Jingming's final exams were over, and Teacher Shen's school was on holiday. She, Wang Qun, and Wang Xia would go up the mountain to pick mushrooms every day. Gu Jingming would come to Ruan Ruan's place to help tutor Wang Xia's two children. Although Gu Jingming's Chinese language skills were not great, he was quite good at tutoring children.
Grandma secretly asked someone to calculate the time for Huo Haoshen and the others. They looked at two dates: July 20th and National Day. In the end, they chose July 20th. After the date was set, He Yuwei and Lu Shuyan called home. The He family father and son said they would definitely come. As for the Lu family, because Mayor Lu's status was special and it was inconvenient for him to travel, only her mother and eldest brother would come. Lu Shuyan didn't say anything about it. Grandma and Wang Qun were very happy to hear that their in-laws were coming.
It's already late June, and their wedding is just around the corner. Ruan Ruan spent three days drawing up the wedding outfits for both couples, and then, accompanied by her grandmother, she went to her great-grandmother's house. Because the designs were for costumes with some ethnic characteristics, it took some time. Fortunately, her grandmother had some embroidery experience and was very interested in ethnic clothing, so with Huo Haocheng and Ruan Ruan's permission, she went over to help every few days.
During the wedding preparations, Ruan Ruan, accompanied by Huo Haocheng, visited the scholars who had been brought back. As soon as the scholars returned, they were directly arranged to stay in the school's dormitory building. Considering that the scholars might have some difficulties in life at the beginning, Ruan Ruan was worried that directly providing them with assistance would hurt their integrity. In the end, Ruan Ruan came up with a compromise: deducting the amount from their salaries.
Everyone agreed with the plan. Their transfer order came too suddenly. They had prepared to die far from home, but they never expected that one day, several soldiers would take their transfer order and bring them to Yuncheng by train without their knowledge.
They had prepared themselves for another round of humiliation and criticism, but they never expected to be greeted with good food and their own private dormitories. Here, whether they were soldiers or villagers, everyone would greet them in a friendly manner.
When they arrived, the soldiers who picked them up handed them over to a man named Zheng Xuyang. He and two staff members arranged accommodations for them. After Zheng Xuyang and the other two told them about the surrounding environment, they told them to rest first and that they could go for a walk around the area after they had rested. This whole area belonged to a woman named Ruan Ruan, who had gone to great lengths to bring them here.
For the first few days, they were hesitant to go out. Even though they were there to work as teachers, their current status had not yet been rehabilitated, and they were afraid that too much contact with outsiders would have a negative impact on others. Later, two administrative staff members arranged by the school, at Zheng Xuyang's instruction, first took them on a tour of the school, explaining the future structure and layout to them. Afterward, they took them to the supermarket and gave them a detailed explanation of the surrounding environment.
Along the way, they encountered factory workers and villagers from the surrounding area. After learning that they were the teachers invited by Comrade Ruan Ruan, everyone welcomed them warmly. Some even held their hands and talked about their children's situations. Some said that their children loved going to school and hoped that the teachers could provide more guidance.
Some comrades also said that their children were particularly naughty back in their hometown. Now that they've come here, they were quiet for the first two days, but now they've become even more unruly. They either go fishing in the river with the neighbor's children, or a few of them, oblivious to the dangers, imitate the soldiers by going hunting in the mountains. It really makes them so angry that they beat them every three days. They hope that the teachers can discipline them strictly when school starts.
When the scholars first met with them, they were a little reserved. But as more and more people gathered around and talked to them, all hoping that the teachers would discipline the children strictly, they gradually put themselves into the role of teachers and relaxed when facing the parents. After listening to what the parents had to say, they also expressed that they would do their best to teach the children.
After receiving everyone's approval, the teachers happily returned home. On the way back, the scholars asked the administrators why the people here didn't care about their backgrounds and were still willing to send their children to teach them, even knowing they had been labeled as "bad elements." They explained that in their previous hometowns, adults avoided them like the plague, not only controlling them but also telling their children not to speak to them and to keep their distance if they saw them. If the teachers tried to talk to them, the teachers were told to run away. So, the teachers' friendly attitude upon their first meeting was something they couldn't understand.
The administrative staff understood their concerns. In other places, such a situation might not have occurred, but here, they had Comrade Ruan Ruan. Everything they saw was built by her. She provided them with decent jobs, complete families, and even helped increase the annual income of the surrounding villagers. Therefore, when they learned that she had found teachers to teach their children, everyone accepted it. In their hearts, everything Comrade Ruan Ruan did was for their own good.
After their explanation, the scholars expressed their understanding. Previously, Comrade Ruan Ruan had arranged for people to secretly deliver supplies to them, and now she was doing everything she could to bring them within her capabilities. Their gratitude towards her was even greater.
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