Chapter 37 Going to School
"No, grandma, I want to go to school!"
Cheng Putao walked forward and pulled the corner of Cheng Grandma's clothes.
"Didn't my second uncle's family say they would cover my tuition? They're giving it to you! Grandma, I beg you, please let me go to school! I want to learn!"
Grandma Cheng slapped her in the face.
"Why are you going to school? Don't you even look at yourself? Are you worthy of going to school?"
The slap from Grandma Cheng sounded heavy, and Cheng Putao's cheek began to swell rapidly, with the slap mark clearly visible. He stared at Grandma Cheng blankly, his head buzzing.
Blood flowed from Cheng Pu Tao's ears.
"ah!"
Principal Liu was the first to see it and screamed.
Chen Zhu's expression changed drastically, and he turned over the table and ran up: "Look at me now, can you hear me clearly with this ear?"
Cheng Putao nodded obediently and apologized with some guilt.
"I can hear you, teacher. I'm sorry to trouble you."
Chen Zhu felt heartbroken when he heard this.
How can there be such a well-behaved child?
"Can I have the teacher examine one of your ears?"
Cheng Putao nodded.
Chen Zhuyi took his palm and started clapping against the bleeding ear, starting from small to large. After making sure that everyone could hear it, he asked about the pain and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"The excessive force caused damage to the ear canal, but not the eardrum."
Grandma Cheng's frightened face instantly turned red. She slapped her thigh and shouted, "You just want to go to school! I'll give it to you!"
After saying that, Grandma Cheng took out two dimes from her pocket and threw them on the table.
"If you go back and tell your uncle anything, I won't let you go to school!"
Cheng Putao knew that he could go to school, and his eyes sparkled.
"Okay, grandma, I know. I'll go back and say I hit myself in the face."
Grandma Cheng was relieved and took Cheng Yaozu away.
Cheng Putao thanked Chen Zhu sincerely, then caught up with his grandmother's back.
Principal Liu looked at Cheng Putao and sighed, "Pitiful child, Putao, neither his father nor his mother loves him. He is bullied every day at home."
Chen Zhu was puzzled.
"Grape is a boy, so why don't his parents like him? Is it because there are many other children in the family?"
The next woman who came to queue up to pay shook her head when she heard this. She lived next door to the Cheng family.
"Cheng Putao is the only child of the Cheng family! Old Lady Cheng is a very strange person. She used to favor the eldest son over the other two, and she was extremely partial. Everyone on the island knew about it. Even if the second Cheng family was successful and could make money, she wouldn't have cared less. But after both families' daughters-in-law gave birth to children at the same time, Old Lady Cheng seemed to have changed. She started favoring the second Cheng family and ignored the first Cheng family, especially Cheng Putao. You could even say she hated him."
The woman sighed.
"Poor Grape, she's always hungry and gets beaten. She's her parents' only child, but they don't care for her. They even wanted to name her 'Cheng Tonggong'. But when they finally decided on a name, the secretary said it sounded bad, so they changed it to Grape. And, the Chengda couple always give their goodies to the second child first. Isn't that strange? They don't give their own children to their own, but instead favor someone else's child."
The woman told it to everyone as gossip, but Chen Zhuyi always felt that the story was very strange.
But I didn't think about it too much, I just felt sorry for Cheng Putao.
I was busy until the afternoon and the payment was finally completed.
Principal Liu summoned all the teachers in the school.
Including Principal Liu, there are a total of ten teachers, each of whom is responsible for one or two subjects in a grade.
Only then did Chen Zhuyi meet up with another newcomer, Liu Kexin.
I just took a quick glance at her last time, but today I realized from a closer look that Liu Kexin has a very cute baby face, round eyes, and a smile for everyone. Anyone who sees her would feel a good impression of her.
Chen Zhuyi was no exception and took the initiative to reach out.
"Hello, my name is Chen Zhuyi."
Liu Kexin shook hands and looked at Chen Zhuyi with stars in her eyes: "Hey, I know you, the number one super invincible beauty!"
Liu Kexin is cute and has a milky voice. Chen Zhu resisted the urge to touch her head and condemned himself in his heart.
Why is it that now, when I see an obedient and sensible child, I have the urge to give birth to him?
Girls established friendship quickly. After chatting for ten minutes, they became good friends and agreed to visit Chen Zhu's family on the weekend.
When Chen Zhu returned home in the evening, he opened the door and found a letter stuck in it. It must have been slipped through the crack in the door by the postman who noticed he was not there.
Looking at the name of the person who signed the letter, Chen Zhu raised his eyebrows and went back to the room to open it.
The letter was sent by Ma Niannian, and it detailed the recent events of the Shen family.
After being fired, Zhao Anche took Chen Wantang, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law back home to live. However, he was kicked out after just a few days and now lives in a rented house.
Second aunt had been clamoring to go back to the countryside every day, but Shen Wantang didn't know what she said to her, and she suddenly became quiet and started looking for a job on the street.
That’s about the content. Ma Niannian felt a little regretful at the end. She is busy with work now, but she goes back to inquire whenever she has time, and this is all the information she gets.
After Chen Zhu read the letter, he burned it with candlelight.
Looking at the burning letter, Chen Zhuyi wondered what Chen Wantang had said to allow her second aunt to stay in the city to work?
Chen Zhu fell asleep before he could figure it out.
The days of being a teacher passed much faster than the days of farming. In the blink of an eye, it was autumn. When Chen Zhu finished teaching the homework and went out, he saw Huo Jinzhi standing at the school gate, who had been waiting for him for a long time.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"No, I just arrived too."
The two walked side by side. Tomorrow was the weekend and there was no work. The army had invited two technicians from Country A to teach, but the translators they invited were not satisfactory. By chance, the two Country A people met Chen Zhuyi who was returning home from get off work. His authentic Country A dialect shocked the two Country A people, and they went back and expressed their desire for Chen Zhuyi to be their translator.
The army immediately contacted Chen Zhuyi.
Chen Zhuyi naturally would not refuse to work for the country, so he agreed to help with translation every weekend.
Huo Jinzhi rode Chen Zhuyi's bicycle and took her towards the army.
Chen Zhuyi sat in the back seat, breathing the fresh air and looking at the endless sea, feeling particularly good.
This good mood lasted until the moment I joined the army, but it disappeared.
The entire army was filled with a serious atmosphere. When Chen Zhuyi and Huo Jinzhi went to the office, they found that Commander Lu was standing at the door, accompanied by the deputy commander and some people with high military ranks.
Chen Zhuyi immediately realized that something was wrong.
When Commander Lu saw Chen Zhuyi, he suddenly thought of something, waved to her and called her over, pulling her aside.
"There are spies on the island."
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