Just after the harvest season ended, news spread from somewhere that the primary school in Shangfen Brigade needed to hire an extra teacher.
Upon hearing this, many people went to ask Principal Zhang, and when they learned that it was true, the brigade immediately became lively.
In recent years, many people from the brigade have found jobs in the town, which has further motivated the people in the brigade, and more and more families are sending their children to school.
Sixty-nine years ago, there were only a handful of students in the fifth grade; four years later, there are now more than twenty.
Furthermore, this year's fourth-grade students were first-grade students recruited in 1969. At that time, because several team members passed the exam and became formal employees in the factory, a strong incentive for children to go to school arose, and families with the means sent their children to school.
Including the children from the neighboring school district, even if some students drop out, there are still more than forty fourth-grade students. In other words, there will definitely be no fewer than thirty fifth-grade students this year.
With more students, teachers need to devote more attention to them, and it's no longer possible to have two teachers taking turns teaching the third, fourth, and fifth grades as before.
The inevitable result was to increase the number of teachers and assign one teacher to each grade.
Being a teacher in the team also earns full work points, but there's no salary.
Even so, being a teacher doesn't mean being exposed to the wind and sun. The daily working hours are from 8:00 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon, with a one-and-a-half-hour break in between, which means you only need to be at school for six hours a day.
Grading homework takes some time, but teachers can freely allocate time to do this.
During the double harvest season, teachers would go to work in the fields after school in the afternoon, and the team would give them extra work points.
Apart from that, teachers only need to travel between school and home.
Working in the fields, you have to work at least eight hours a day, and sometimes more than ten hours when things get busy. Only a small percentage of people can earn their full work points in a day, and even fewer can earn their full work points every day.
The teacher position, which was easy and had a high work point requirement, was coveted by everyone in the team who had received an education and the educated youth. Some people who wanted to take shortcuts started to have wicked ideas, and Duoshou's gossip team brought back even more gossip.
Duoshou: "Auntie, Sanhu saw Zhou Zhiqing with Sister Yuanyuan again today."
Zhou Likang and Zhu Jiaojiao had a fight last year, which was considered a complete falling out. Yu Rujia thought that Zhou Likang would be too ashamed to go to her daughter Wu Yuanyuan, but unexpectedly, the two of them got back together.
Zhou Likang swindled two hundred yuan from Song Liyun back then, so he shouldn't be short of money. He's probably going to see Wu Yuanyuan now because of the teacher dispute.
Having witnessed firsthand how Zhou Likang brazenly extorted money from Song Liyun and then had a relationship with her, she's a typical scumbag. If Wu Yuanyuan, with her reserved nature, continues to follow him, she will definitely be cheated out of everything.
Yu Rujia: "Let's not worry about this. Aunt Zhu is a shrewd person; she'll find out about it sooner or later."
If someone makes the same mistake again after being reminded once, they are not worth saving. Her kindness should only be given to those who live life to the fullest, learn from their mistakes, and do not harm others.
Duoshou nodded: "Yes, I'll talk to Sanhu about it later. Besides, the people from the educated youth institute have been putting things in our hands these past few days, trying to get us to put in a good word for them with the brigade leader and the principal."
Yu Rujia: "Don't pay attention to them. Let me emphasize this to your brothers: you absolutely must not get involved in the selection of teachers. If you find it troublesome, just stay at home until the teachers are selected."
These educated youths are truly treacherous. They had previously tried to get Gao Shujing to introduce them to jobs, but failed. Now they're setting their sights on the children.
The oldest of the children, Duofu, was only a little over ten years old. If they were children from ordinary families, a few pieces of candy would be enough to make them say nice things.
Indeed, both boys and girls should be raised in affluent conditions. Children raised in poverty are ignorant and can be easily tricked away with a little something nice.
The reason their children aren't easily swayed by others' sweet talk is because they have access to many good things at home.
Yu Rujia thought Zhou Likang was not short of money, but in reality he was very poor. He had been working in the countryside for many years, and the subsidies his family gave him had been reduced a lot.
Even so, he still hadn't changed his arrogant attitude. He was clumsy at work, often did substandard work, and couldn't even earn enough work points to support himself.
He didn't even get the two hundred yuan he had extorted from Song Liyun.
Before getting married, Song Liyun caused Lü Guihua to have a premature birth, for which she paid 200 yuan in compensation, part of which was borrowed money, and it took her more than a year to pay it back.
She wasn't a hardworking person, and her family's annual subsidy for her was limited. She had no money and was even extorted two hundred yuan each by Li Haisheng and Zhou Likang.
Li Haisheng's methods were far more unscrupulous than Zhou Likang's. He wouldn't let go until he got the money. He had almost swindled Song Liyun out of all her money before their marriage, and even that was far from enough to fill Li Haisheng's two hundred yuan.
In their pursuit of money, Zhou Likang and Li Haisheng would ride their bicycles for an hour to the Hongzhong Brigade every month, sometimes two or three times. They were lucky if they could bring back one yuan each time.
So Zhou Likang really had no money, so he started targeting Wu Yuanyuan again.
Wu Yuanyuan was also a fool; she was easily persuaded by his words and resumed the days when she secretly sent him money, tickets, and food.
Yu Rujia guessed that Zhu Jiaojiao would find out about Wu Yuanyuan and Zhou Likang's private relationship. Unexpectedly, when she came down from the mountain that day, she saw Zhu Jiaojiao yelling at Zhou Likang, while Wu Yuanyuan stood aside anxiously.
Zhu Jiaojiao: "Great! I was wondering why things kept disappearing from the house. Turns out, they were stolen by a thief from inside the house and brought here to you."
"You're a grown man who needs a woman to support you. If I were you, I would have been so ashamed that I would have jumped into the river and committed suicide. Why would I live like you, shameless and shameless?"
Zhou Likang immediately resorted to his old tricks, shifting the blame onto Wu Yuanyuan. After all, she was too naive; a little coaxing would solve everything, requiring absolutely no cost.
Zhou Likang: "Auntie, instead of talking about me here, you should talk about Comrade Wu. I already told her not to send it, but she still sent it over."
When Wu Yuanyuan delivered things to Zhou Likang, he would indeed pretend to refuse for a moment, then accept them and say that he didn't need to deliver anything next time.
Wu Yuanyuan was happy to see that he had accepted the gifts, and she didn't take his words like "you don't need to send gifts next time" to heart. She continued to foolishly send him any nice things she could find.
This cycle repeated itself, with Zhou Likang saying that there was no need to send anything, but he still received quite a few things.
Wu Yuanyuan, unaware of his sinister intentions, actually admitted to it. People who are extremely insecure sometimes do things in an even more extreme way.
Seeing that her own mother didn't care about her or her crush's feelings at all, Wu Yuanyuan, who had been suppressing her emotions for a long time, finally exploded.
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