Chapter 147: Team-run Middle School, Zheng Family Troubles
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After Qian Gaoyun was transferred, Yue Zheng temporarily took over as the teacher of the team-run junior high school. She also had another identity: the principal of Liushutun Yangjiacun Middle School.
Yes, the school is small. Currently, it only has the newly promoted first-year students, and there's only one class. Liushutun Elementary School has only one fifth-grade class with a little over 20 students. The same is true for Yangjia Village. Even if all students were promoted to junior high, there would only be about 50 students. Everyone decided to merge the junior high classes into one.
Although the school is not big, it has two principals, one is Liushutun and the other is Yangjiacun.
Liushutun Principal Yue Zheng teaches part-time, while Yangjiacun Principal Yang Zeyong works part-time as a gatekeeper as a representative of the poor and lower-middle peasants.
In addition, there is a teacher named Shi in the school. He was originally a teacher in the commune middle school and was temporarily assigned to the team-run middle school to help.
The team-run middle school started classes like this.
Although it looks like child's play, the teachers' teaching level is actually very good. Yue Zheng is of course a good teacher, and Teacher Shi also has rich teaching experience. Although Yang Zeyong's cultural level is not high enough, he never interferes with the teaching work. He is only responsible for looking after the children, reminding them to pay attention to safety, taking the children to work, and taking on all the chores in the school himself.
The three people have clear division of labor and cooperate well.
The situation was similar in several other team-run middle schools. Some schools originally did not have suitable teachers, but with the support of educated youth and cadre school students, each middle school had suitable configurations.
Most of the students in the first class were promoted from primary schools, but there were also a few older students.
After junior high school classes started, Zhang Guangzong made several broadcasts in the team, calling on children who had graduated from elementary school but had to drop out of school because there was no middle school to attend at the time to return to school.
"Everyone has seen that we are developing faster and faster, and we are getting better and better. You should also understand how important it is to acquire knowledge and culture. Now, our middle school provides everyone with this opportunity. Children under 16 who didn't have the opportunity to attend junior high school before can now go. Those over 16 can just wait for our night school to open junior high classes. Everyone has this opportunity."
He called out several times, and a few children showed up, but most didn't. Perhaps they were waiting for the junior high class at night school. After all, that class was held at night, so it didn't interfere with their daytime work.
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Zheng family.
Li Aiyun, who heard the brigade broadcast, persuaded Zheng Lanping to go to school. She was 15 years old and it was a bit embarrassing for her to do nothing at home. Although the eldest and second eldest families did not dare to say it openly, they would hint in their words that they wanted Zheng Lanping to do some housework or go to the fields to earn some work points. At the very least, she could help take care of the children. It was still tactful to say it in front of her, but who knows what they would say behind her back.
The eldest and second oldest brothers listened to their wives' sarcastic remarks and dared not say a word, which made them feel so angry that their hearts ached.
To be honest, she actually felt that Lan Ping should lend a hand. There were too many things to do at home. Of the five children, only the eldest grandson was in elementary school. The remaining two were just four years old and couldn't even take care of themselves. The other two had just learned to crawl and were in the stage of making trouble. Her sons and daughters-in-law all went to the fields to earn work points, and the housework was left to her alone. She had to take care of four children by herself, and with some housework, she was so tired.
But no matter how annoying she was, she was still used to not taking the initiative to ask her daughter to help her. Expecting her daughter to take the initiative to help her? She might as well dream on.
But the daughters-in-law obviously would not be as tolerant as she was.
After they come home from the fields, they still have to cook, wash clothes and diapers, and take care of the children. Then, seeing their sister-in-law doing nothing, her face becomes uglier day by day.
If she hadn't protected her, would her daughter still have a good life in this family? With Lan Ping's personality, what would she do when she gets married?
And that bastard from the third brother's family has been sending her half the money every month since he returned to the army. He says his comrades are in trouble and need to borrow money for an emergency. What kind of trouble? One month's trouble, every month's trouble? He's simply unwilling to give her all the money. He's got selfish motives. Bah! What an ungrateful bastard! I raised him for nothing!
If he still acted like this after a while, she would go to the army to find him and ask him which comrade had borrowed the money, when would he pay it back, and whether he had written an IOU.
The more I think about it, the more suffocated I feel.
The eldest and second families must have noticed this as well. Knowing that the third child sent back less money, they thought of asking Lan Ping to earn work points.
How many work points can Lan Ping earn? What a bunch of short-sighted people!
She got so angry that she separated everyone and let them fend for themselves! Lan Ping didn't spend a penny on them, so what were they dissatisfied with?
Li Aiyun sighed and said to Zheng Lanping while changing the child's diaper, "You should go to school. That way, even if you don't do housework, your sisters-in-law won't have anything to say. Besides, you've only just graduated from elementary school, so your diploma isn't enough. Go to junior high school and then high school. After you graduate, maybe you'll be able to find a job. I think things are changing really fast here. By then, you'll be a salaried employee, and no one will dare to give you a hard time."
Zheng Lanping sat in the shade of a tree, watching her mother busying around. She showed no interest in helping out. Without a second thought, she said, "No. I'm 15, and those kids are only 11 or 12. It would be embarrassing for me to go to school with them."
"What's so embarrassing about this? I heard that there are other kids your age going to school. You're not the only one."
"I'm not going."
Li Aiyun said: "You don't go to school, you don't work, you will have to depend on others at home in the future."
Zheng Lanping snorted and said, "Mom, you take care of them. I'm not getting in their way. They gave birth to the child, so it's their responsibility to raise it. Don't they have to eat? Don't they have to wash their own clothes? How much less work would they have to do without me? I eat and drink from them, so why should they be so critical of me? Who do they think they are?"
As she spoke, Zheng Lanping began to cry, and she also felt very wronged.
Her father worked in the fields, her mother took care of the housework and helped take care of the children, and her third brother sent money home every month. Why did the eldest and second sisters-in-law dislike her? She didn't take advantage of them!
Li Aiyun obviously thought the same way deep down. Seeing her daughter crying out of grievance, she felt distressed and scolded her two daughters-in-law in her heart.
Yes, these two people are obviously taking advantage, so why are they picking on her precious daughter?
Thinking of this, Li Aiyun reached out and patted the child's buttocks. She didn't control the strength of her pat, and the child burst into tears. One after another cried, and the Zheng family yard was suddenly filled with howling.
Zheng Lanping yelled, "I'm so annoyed! If you cry again, I'll beat you up."
The two daughters-in-law of the Zheng family who had just returned from work heard these words as they entered the house.
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