Tang Qinggang felt that he had no place to use his skills, so he took the bag from Wang Shuning and said, "Comrade Wang Shuning, I will take you to the house arranged by the school first. If you feel it is not suitable, there are two empty houses nearby for you to change."
Wang Shuning followed Tang Qinggang for about half an hour before entering the military family area.
Wang Shuning's identity did not allow him to live in this military dependents area, but since most of the students attending schools on the island are children of soldiers, the teachers who came to the island to provide support generally lived here.
Looking around, there are only small two-story buildings with flowers and grass planted in the yards. It seems to be a leisurely and leisurely life, not as hard as Wang Juan and her mother said.
When Wang Shuning arrived at the door of the house, he finally saw the young female teacher who had been transferred to the island for support shortly after her marriage and had suffered a miscarriage after being hit in the stomach by a flower pot.
Looking at her skinny and devastated appearance, the miscarriage happened a month ago, and she has been resting for a month, but it looks like it happened just yesterday.
Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Wang Shuning coming over. "Teacher Wang, I'll go to school with you tomorrow. I need to hand over some student information to you."
I haven't even sat down yet, but I'm being urged to work. How anxious are you to leave?
"Okay." Wang Shuning agreed.
After looking at three houses, Wang Shuning finally decided on the one where Chen Yan lives now.
The other two places have been uninhabited all year round. The dust on the ground has accumulated to a layer, and even the roof is covered with spider webs. Cleaning them is a huge project.
The layouts and orientations of the three houses are exactly the same, so I just took the clean one.
"You've already had a miscarriage, is it necessary to eat so well? It's all wasted in the toilet and it won't make up for it."
Chen Yan felt that Wang Shuning had just arrived and they were having lunch together today, so she wanted to ask her mother-in-law to add two dishes, but she didn't expect to be scolded by her mother-in-law.
I was very angry. If my mother-in-law hadn't insisted on coming to the island to take care of me, the child might not have been miscarried.
"I'm not the one eating. Teacher Wang is here to take my place. We're going back to City D the day after tomorrow, so we have to entertain our guests well in the next two days."
When Granny Chen Yan heard this, she immediately threw the kelp strips in her hand into the basket and said, "If you had told me that it was for her to eat, I wouldn't have made it. I'll be supporting the island and won't be able to return for several years, so it's all in vain no matter how good the hospitality is."
Chen Yan suppressed her anger and decided that she wouldn't have to endure this anymore when she returned home and no longer lived with her mother-in-law. She endured it for two more days.
"We are all school teachers. Teacher Wang will be back in a few years, and we will still be colleagues in the future. If you find it troublesome, I can do it myself." Chen Yan turned around and was about to go outside to pick vegetables.
Granny Chen Yan sat on a stool with her hands on her hips, "It should have been done earlier. You've wasted your confinement without giving birth. You're so beautiful."
The kitchen was not far from the living room, and Wang Shuning could still hear the two people talking. The scene of rushing thousands of miles to the island to take care of his pregnant wife seemed to be completely different from what Wang Juan said.
Chen Yan goes to work while pregnant, and when she gets home she has to face her picky and bad-tempered mother-in-law. How can she be in a good mood?
During the meal, Chen Yan's mother-in-law was shameless the whole time and even snatched the food, which made Chen Yan look apologetically at Wang Shuning several times.
It was not yet time for school to start, and there were almost no people in the elementary school, but there were still soldiers standing guard behind the door.
Chen Yan said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you these two days. Just ignore what my mother-in-law says and don't bother her."
Wang Shuning smiled and shook his head, "Every family has its own problems. I understand."
Chen Yan flipped through the student information in her hand. "Actually, life on the island is pretty good. If my husband is willing to transfer his job to the island, I would actually be willing to stay here."
After returning to Yihe Town, although I no longer lived with my mother-in-law, I still had to go back to visit her from time to time. It was different on Jinshan Island. It was normal not to go back for a year or two. The most I could do was send her a letter to complain.
Since coming to the island, Wang Shuning has felt that it is a nice place with a mild climate, beautiful scenery, and small detached houses. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a paradise on earth.
"I heard that typhoons on the island are quite dangerous." Wang Shuning asked tentatively. She really wanted to know how dangerous it was.
Chen Yan: "Before a typhoon comes, the island broadcasts an hour or two in advance. As long as you stay at home and lock your doors and windows, nothing will happen. At most, things in the yard will be blown everywhere."
Wang Shuning was stunned. Since Chen Yan would be notified one or two hours in advance, how could she be hit in the stomach by a flowerpot?
As if she sensed Wang Shuning's doubts, Chen Yan slowed down the speed of getting the information, and her depressed tone was filled with hatred. "I didn't want to go out at all when the typhoon came that day. My mother-in-law insisted that she was afraid that the chicken coop in the yard would be blown down by the typhoon, so she forced me to go out to catch chickens, and that's when the accident happened."
Wang Shuning was shocked. How could her mother-in-law have the nerve to go to the army and make trouble after such a thing happened? Wasn't this her own fault?
There was even a hint of confusion in the look in his eyes when he looked at Chen Yan. You went out knowing it was dangerous. What good can it do to be forced? Just resist. Can she force you to go out?
Wang Shuning had nothing to say and obediently took all the handover documents.
There are three classes on the island, and each class has only about thirty students.
There is one class for grades one and two, one class for grades three and four, and one class for grades five and six.
Because Chen Yan was pregnant, the school leaders thought that children in lower grades were more noisy and older students were more sensible. Also, considering that teaching fifth and sixth grades would be stressful, they let Chen Yan be a math teacher for third and fourth grades.
Wang Shuning took over Chen Yan's class and naturally taught students in grades three and four.
There are six primary school teachers on the entire island. There is no dean of studies, and even the principal has to serve as the main subject teacher.
Next door is a middle school, which is about the same size as the primary school.
There is a three-meter-high wall between the two schools. The school deliberately built the wall so high, allegedly to prevent senior students from climbing over the wall to bully junior students.
Nowadays, the academic burden on primary school students is not heavy, and the teachers are not under much pressure.
After Chen Yan and her mother-in-law left, Wang Shuning began to clean the house thoroughly.
All the packages that had been sent previously were placed in the corner of the back hall and had not yet been opened.
Wang Shuning cleaned the house, threw away everything that needed to be thrown away, and then took out all the things in the space except the bicycle and put them in order. Only then did it look like his own home.
"Is anyone there?" There was a voice in the yard downstairs.
Wang Shuning walked out of the room to the balcony. A middle-aged woman with short hair and wearing a blue coat was standing downstairs looking up at her.
When Ding Hui saw people, she grinned and waved at Wang Shuning, pointing to the house next door. "My name is Ding Hui, and I live next door."
Wang Shuning quickly came down the stairs and invited her in. "Hello, Aunt Ding. I'm a new teacher at the school. My name is Wang Shuning. I just arrived the day before yesterday."
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