As March approaches, the weather warms up and the farmland begins to thaw.
The team leaders of each brigade came to the commune. Because of the poor harvest last year, the grain seeds prepared by each brigade were not only of poor quality, but also insufficient in quantity.
The Pigeon Committee invited Wu Jun, Lu Shiyi and Lin Zitao to attend as observers.
After breakfast, Su Jin rode her bike to school and handed the leave application to the dean first, so that she would not have to do morning exercises with the students at the start of the school term.
"Teacher Su, this is our first meeting. I hope we'll have a pleasant cooperation in the future." The Dean of Studies smiled and reached out to shake her hand. "You'll be teaching math to the first grade. I hope you can lead the three classes well."
Su Jin got the math book from the principal's office and filled out the meal ticket registration.
"School starts after March 10th. Here's your schedule. Just come during class." Director Jin handed her a first-grade class schedule. "You'll be in class three days a week, so you only need to be in class one day on Tuesday."
The mathematics curriculum in the first year of junior high school is very tight, and is considered a core subject together with Chinese. Most Chinese teachers are class teachers who have to be in class every day.
"Okay, Teacher Jin." Su Jin replied with a smile, "Is my Chinese partner the homeroom teacher?"
"Teacher Su, don't you want to be a homeroom teacher?" Director Jin persuaded again. Su Jin, who was only in her 20s, said, "The homeroom teacher's salary is 50 yuan higher than that of an ordinary teacher."
"My husband is a soldier, and I need to take care of the family." Su Jin declined Director Jin's invitation. "Apart from work, I will focus most of my energy on the family."
"Teacher Su, I will arrange for another teacher to take over Teacher Lin's position as the homeroom teacher of Class 2." Director Jin sighed, "Many teachers are waiting for this position."
"Thank you, Teacher Jin, for your help in making the arrangements." After receiving the meal ticket, Su Jin said goodbye to her.
Su Jin put the books and meal tickets into her bag and rode her bike back home.
She will officially start work in three days, so she has to prepare examination papers in advance based on the textbooks for the students to take.
On the way to the family quarters by bike, many children were taken by their parents to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy school supplies. Some boys were dragged away with dissatisfaction on their faces.
Su Jin had just parked the car and closed the door when he heard Yun Feng scolding the two brothers.
"Aunt Jin, please open the door for us." Brothers Lin Lei and Lin Yan knocked on the gate. "Mom is hitting us with a feather duster."
Su Jin opened the gate and found the two brothers with tears on their faces, standing at the gate crying.
"Come in," Su Jin looked at Yun Feng in the distance, winked at her, and then looked down at the two brothers, "Did you do something wrong?"
Lin Lei and Lin Yan lowered their heads: "Aunt Jin, we haven't finished our homework today, and Mom insisted that we don't want to go to school."
Su Jin leaned back in his chair and pointed to a chair not far away.
"One of you will be in the second grade and the other will be in the fourth grade at the beginning of the school year." Su Jin looked at the two brothers, "Xiao Lei, Xiao Yan, you are both older brothers, shouldn't you set an example for Huo Huo? Xiao Lei, you are the eldest brother, you should work harder."
Lin Lei looked at his brother's admiring eyes and felt that Su Jin was right. He should set an example for his brothers.
"Aunt Jin, I was wrong." Lin Lei bowed his head and admitted his mistake. "There are many things I don't know. My parents beat us because they see that our grades are not good."
Lin Yan nodded in agreement. She remembered that parents nowadays don’t accompany their children to do homework, and she also felt that talented people are born under the stick.
"Come over after school. I'll help you with your homework. If you have any questions, just ask me," Su Jin thought for a moment and decided to help them. "After we have dinner together, I'll take you home."
"Sister-in-law, let the two brothers come over. You're making too much noise here!" Yun Feng knew that her two sons were impatient. "It's already too much for us to have dinner at your place. If I ask you to take care of the children..."
"Sister-in-law, you're the homeroom teacher for the graduating class. You've been taking care of the students, so you've spent very little time at home." Yunfeng is also a junior high school teacher. She knows that the third year has the most academic workload, so she's the last one to leave school every day. "I only teach math to the first year, so I don't have to work. If you trust me, I'll help you look after the two children."
Su Jin spends more time at home. Yun Feng teaches the third grade class every year. Not only the students are nervous, but the teachers are also nervous.
The junior high schools in the military area are different from those outside. There are almost no students dropping out, and most of them rely on their own abilities to be admitted to the high schools of the school.
"Sister-in-law, I'm leaving these two brothers in your care. If they make trouble, you must tell us." Yun Feng instructed Su Jin, worried that she would protect the two children.
After discussion, from the start of school, the brothers Lin Lei and Lin Yan came to Su Jin's house to do homework after school every day.
"Auntie will help take care of Huo Huo." Su Jin touched the brothers' heads, "Just leave the two of you at my house. After you finish your meal, the four of us will go pick up Huo Huo."
Yunfeng looked at the two brothers and nodded in agreement. Even when they were on vacation, Liu Yunshan would pick up Huo Huo and take him home early. She would tell the couple that it was really boring for them, the old couple, to be alone without Huo Huo at home. It would be unkind of them to disagree.
Lin Zitao divided the family's food rations into two parts and sent one part to Wu Jun, but it was returned by Wu Jun. Wu Jun and Liu Yunshan both said that Huo Huo didn't eat much, so Lin Zitao had to take it to Lu Shiyi.
"Go clean the chicken pens behind the three houses today. You'll have egg cakes to eat today!" Su Jin directed Lin Lei and Lin Yan to work. "I've inspected them and they've passed. You can each get two pieces of egg cake."
Lin Lei and Lin Yan's eyes lit up, and they hurried back home to get a broom and started cleaning the chicken coop.
Yunfeng looked at the backs of the two brothers in surprise. When she asked them to do work at home, they always found excuses to run away. Su Jin laughed.
"Xiao Jin, this is a good idea. You have the skills to deal with them." Yun Feng spread his hands and said, "Let me teach you how to make egg cake."
"Sister-in-law, I'll bring it to you later. Each child can only eat two pieces a day. Eating too much is not good for their health." Su Jin instructed Yunfeng, "Your family will prepare the eggs for the egg cake, and I will make the egg cake."
Yunfeng agreed immediately. Su Jin placed the basket of vegetables she had picked in her arms and also gave her a porcelain basin.
"Sister-in-law, pick the vegetables. We will have hot and sour potato shreds, sauerkraut and pork vermicelli, stir-fried zucchini, and some green vegetable sprouts tonight." Su Jin took rapeseed and pea sprouts from the space and placed them in the greenhouse, so that anyone who came to the house could be fooled.
"I can do this." Yunfeng began to peel potatoes and picked up some green vegetables one by one and placed them beside them. "Is it to plant vegetable seedlings?"
"The vegetable bowl is not this big. Ayi specially prepared it this morning." Su Jin said carefully, and scooped out cornmeal flour to make steamed bread.
Su Jin and Yun Feng were preparing dinner in the kitchen, while brothers Lin Lei and Lin Yan went into the yard with brooms and water pipes.
Su Jin looked towards the wall from the kitchen and saw that the two brothers were cleaning the chicken coop carefully and then connected a water pipe to flush the yard.
"Sister-in-law, the two children have grown up and they keep the house very clean." Su Jin praised the two brothers. Yun Feng was happy to hear the compliment.
"It's you who has the ability to deal with these two children." Yun Feng sighed that Su Jin is really a good teacher.
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