Chapter 97 Chapter Ninety-Six

The next day, when Zhuozhuo went to class, Shi Yan slipped out of the house and called Yao Xiaoping, but it was Yao Xiaoping who answered the phone, saying that she didn't go upstairs after sending her son to the kindergarten, and waited at the concierge.After a while, Yao Xiaoping came over in a taxi, picked up Shi Yan, and went straight to the Middle School for the Children of the Steel Factory. Steel Factory Children Middle School is opposite a side entrance of the steel factory. It happened that there was light rain and snow that day, and the ground was muddy, but there were still many vegetable farmers selling vegetables at stalls along the street.Yao and Shi got off the car at the gate of the steel factory. Yao Xiaoping saw a bus stop sign on the side of the road, and exclaimed, "It's really convenient here. You can take the bus when you go out, and the vegetable seller is right in front of you. I think this place All right, let's do it here."

Shi Yan immediately stopped and said: "The horoscope has not been written yet, so don't be too happy—" Stepping on the mud and walking through the street, after walking tens of hundreds of meters, I saw the Steel Factory Children Middle School, known as "Steel Flower Middle School". I don't know the age of the building, and I can't tell what color it is, as if it has melted into the gray world. There are some puddles of water here and there on the playground, the basketball stand is crooked, and none of the table tennis tables are intact.Standing on the playground, you can hear the commotion in some classrooms, and occasionally you can see students chasing and fighting in the corridor.

But Shi Yan can't see these things now, only sees a fairyland in the shape of a "door", hoping to find a place in this gray building, to be a steel flower fairy, and to give birth to a steel flower baby.She asked eagerly, "Should we go to the personnel department or the principal's office?" "In a middle school, it's still a question of whether there is a personnel department. Let's go to the principal's office first." When I found the door of the principal's office, I saw that the principal was dealing with a parent. I didn't know what they were arguing about. Anyway, both sides were vicious.The two of them hid outside the office, shivering from the cold.After finally waiting for the parent to leave the principal's office, the two of them hurried in. The principal said impatiently, "What's the matter?"

Yao Xiaoping showed her voice like a yellow warbler, and said sweetly: "Are you the principal? My name is Yao Xiaoping, and this is my friend, Shi Yan, from the Teachers College. I have admired your name for a long time, and I want to be transferred to your school to teach—— " Shi Yan was startled when she heard that, for fear that the headmaster would ask, "Have you heard of my name for a long time? What is my name?" That would be the end of it.Fortunately, the principal didn't make a fuss about his name, he just looked at them in disbelief and asked, "Why do you want to be transferred to me?"

Shi Yan decided to impress the principal with the truth, so she told the truth about her situation.The headmaster still didn't seem to understand: "Where is this kind of thing? The teacher's college wants to transfer us to work here? Is it a rural hukou? Only rural hukou will be willing to transfer us here. They are using us as a springboard to gain a firm foothold. Going to be transferred—I don’t think you two look like teachers—so young—” Yao Xiaoping took out all her work certificates and teacher certificates, and Shi Yan also took out all her graduation certificates, degree certificates and award certificates.The headmaster was looking at their papers like an antique appraiser when he heard the class bell ring.The principal said: "I have a class where no one is attending, who of you will take over? Otherwise, I won't accompany you, and I have to take over the class—"

Yao Xiaoping asked, "What class?" "Second year foreign language class——" "It's fine for me to take the foreign language class in the second year of high school. If it's a graduating class in the third year of high school, it's best to ask Teacher Shi to do it." Seeing Yao Xiaoping's nonsense, Shi Yan couldn't help but be terrified. He was afraid that the principal would see his flaws. He clearly said that he was from the scientific research office of the teacher's college. How could he become a teacher of the graduating class of senior high school?

Fortunately, the headmaster didn't make so many twists and turns, and only said with a little threat: "You can't just say you can teach, I will follow the class—" Yao Xiaoping said with all kinds of amorous feelings: "You are welcome to guide—where are the teaching materials?" The principal was a little embarrassed: "The textbooks are still in the office of the foreign language group. I don't know a foreign language. I'm going to let the students go to self-study. I'll watch from the side, as long as it doesn't cause trouble—" Yao Xiaoping said: "It's okay without textbooks, I have a solution." Then, she took a wooden triangle ruler used by a math teacher, a box of chalk and a blackboard eraser, and said to the principal, "Principal, please bring two stools. Go to class."

Shi Yan followed Yao Xiaoping and the principal to the sophomore class. When she reached the back door of the classroom, Yao Xiaoping made a "stop" gesture and told them to wait there. She walked to the front door of the classroom by herself, stood on the side of the door, stretched out The feet in the little brown boots kicked the door open with a sweeping leg backwards.Hearing the sound of "pass", a plastic basin filled with water fell from the door. The basin fell to the ground, and the water was sprinkled everywhere. There was a burst of surprise and admiration in the classroom. Shi Yan and the principal were dumbfounded. If the principal came today In class, he must be held on his head by this basin of water.

Yao Xiaoping walked into the classroom on tiptoe, opened the door at the back, asked Shi Yan and the principal to sit at the back of the classroom and listen to the class, and walked up to the podium by herself.The classroom was full of smog, brooms and buckets were thrown everywhere, letters and paper were dotted all over the floor, and the blackboard was messed up.Yao Xiaoping picked up a blackboard eraser from the top of the blackboard with a wooden triangular ruler in her hand, looked at it, threw it aside, wiped the blackboard with the blackboard eraser she brought, wrote a line in English: SEALEDWITHAKISS, and turned around , said that today I will teach you to sing an English song, "Sealed with a Kiss".

There was a burst of laughter below, and someone put his finger in his mouth and blew a sharp whistle. Yao Xiaoping picked up a chalk tip, raised his hand and threw it, hitting the man's forehead, and the man shouted: "Why are you hitting on me?" As soon as he raised his hand, he must have hit the target again, because the man lost his voice, and everyone below exclaimed: "A good target! Another one! Another one!" Yao Xiaoping first sang in English, saying it was an episode of a foreign movie, briefly told the storyline, then wrote down the lyrics on the blackboard, explained it, sang it again by herself, and then taught her to sing line by line.At the beginning, few people sang along. Shi Yan took the lead in singing to support Teacher Yao, and gradually everyone sang along. The student who was smashed wanted to be funny and sang in a shrill voice, but was immediately criticized by other students. .

The following classes went smoothly. I learned new words, learned sentence patterns, and assigned homework.After class, the students gathered around to ask Yao Xiaoping's last name, if she was a new teacher, and if she could teach them again.Yao Xiaoping pointed to Shi Yan and said, "That Teacher Shi is your new teacher. She teaches better than me. I'm from the High School Attached to the Teacher's College, and she's from the Teacher's College—" Everyone surrounded Professor Shi again and talked for a while, and they didn't let them go until the bell rang for the next class. The principal agreed to accept Shi Yan, and tried his best to recruit Yao Xiaoping as well.Yao Xiaoping said, "Are you going to give the teacher a house? I'll transfer the house—" The principal said: "Split, divide, why don't we divide the house? We treat the teacher very well, otherwise how can we keep the teacher? I will show you the house now. It was the former English teacher's. She never After we were transferred here, we have been regretting it all the time, there is no school in D city that can compare with ours—" A few people walked back to the side entrance of the steel factory stepping on the muddy ground. The house where the English teacher who "had regretted being transferred away" lived was facing the side door of the steel factory, next to Zidi Middle School. It takes ten minutes to walk from the dormitory to the classroom.The house is really old, the walls are gray as usual, and the concrete floor is also bumpy, but it is big enough, a living room is twice as big as the room in the South House, and there is a bedroom, which is bigger than the South House. The room was a little smaller, with a big double bed, but the brown bed was rotten, and a few bamboo mats were placed on it to make up for it. The kitchen is not formal, but it is a little bigger than Zhuoyue's. There are two desks placed horizontally and vertically, which are regarded as chopping boards. There is also a coal stove that looks like it will collapse in a moment, and some black coals are piled beside it. piece.Yao Xiaoping asked: "Principal, do you provide gas to the teachers?" The headmaster said disdainfully: "Why do you need gas? Can gas be used for cooking fires? We have cheap high-quality coal in our steel factory. I don't know how good it is for burning. It is convenient for cooking and cooking—" The headmaster kicked those black things, "That's it, just burn a few pieces of paper and it will ignite. Once it's lit, just keep adding coal and burn it for as long as you want." Shi Yan remembered that there was a big brazier burning in the principal's office, which warmed the room very warmly, and it was probably this kind of "high-quality coal". There is also a simple toilet in the house, not the usual oval toilet pit, but a long "toilet ditch", like a gutter, leading to nowhere.There is another bathroom, which is very narrow, and there is something like a shower head in it. The principal said that there is no hot water, only cold water. If you want a hot shower, you can go to the steel factory bathroom.There are no windows in the toilet and bathroom, and the inside is dark, and you can't see your fingers if you don't turn on the light. Shi Yan was already satisfied, but Yao Xiaoping was still critical: "Principal, this is the first floor, and the house is low. You see, there are windows as high as the road outside. Doesn't the water flood to the bottom of the wall when it rains? This house It must be very humid. Teacher Shi is about to give birth, and it is easy to get sick if you live in such a humid place, see if you can allocate an upstairs unit—” Shi Yan hastily pulled Yao Xiaoping's clothes, fearing that Yao Xiaoping would lose her job if she asked the party to take care of her and ask for benefits.The principal said: "If Teacher Shi can wait, I can find a way to arrange an upstairs unit for her—" Shi Yan hurriedly replied: "Principal, I will live in this house. This house is very good. I don't need to climb stairs. I like—" Yao Xiaoping glared at her a few times, but didn't criticize her anymore.Shi Yan seized the opportunity to raise the question she was most concerned about: "Principal, look at me—I wonder if you can get the fertility index?" The principal was puzzled: "What fertility indicator?" "That's—don't you have to get a quota from the unit to have a child? If you don't have a quota, you can't get a hukou—" The principal suddenly realized: "Oh, you are talking about registering? No problem, the son of the director of the steel plant's public security department is studying in our school, and we can just hand over the materials to him and take them back home. What is your first child?" "first born." "Why do you have to worry about getting a registered permanent residence for the first child? I'm afraid this is your second and third child, so you have to give me some favors—" The headmaster said it so easily, but Shi Yan didn't believe it anymore, and asked several times in a long-winded manner, which almost annoyed the headmaster, so he stopped timidly.The principal asked her to start classes no later than next Monday, and she agreed without hesitation, urging the principal to transfer her a relationship as soon as possible.Like a man and a woman who have been in love for a long time and are eager to get married, the two hit it off, wishing they could step into the bridal chamber and make a good deed happen. When returning to the teacher's college in a taxi, Yao Xiaoping blamed and said: "You shouldn't be so talkative, the house is like this, once you live in, they won't be in a hurry to change the house for you, you have to keep this close , I won’t move in until I get a suitable house—” "I think that house is good enough, and I'm afraid that people won't want me if I'm picky—" "You're making a mistake. The less critical you are, the more they think you're incapable of asking for conditions. If you're so eager to transfer in, they'll be suspicious—" Yao Xiaoping probably didn't want to make amends, so she changed the subject and said, "You Do you want to go back to Zhuo Liang now?" She didn't know whether she should go back: "What do you think?" "I think we might as well ride over to your side, take your things, and move them to the steel mill, so as not to have long nights and dreams—" "What if Excellence is at home?" "What's the matter at home? You've found a job, you've been assigned a house, and you're going to work soon. How can you still live so far away?" "Will he--be turned into a rage and mess with me?" "Forgive him now that he wants to stir up trouble, but he can't. This is a steel mill, not his city D, even if it is his city D, he doesn't have the ability now—" Shi Yan was still a little terrified, but she knew that she couldn't hide this matter. She could hide it from the first day of junior high school, but not from the fifteenth day of the junior high school. She will start classes next week, and the transportation is too inconvenient to live in Zhuoyue's place. The two of them sat downstairs in the car, Yao Xiaoping asked the driver to wait there, and the two of them went upstairs to move things.As soon as Shi Yan opened the door, she saw Zhuo Zhuo sitting in the living room watching TV, and she panicked even more. Seeing her coming in, Zhuo Zhuo asked with a calm face, "Where have you been?"