After a busy day, Chen Fang walked home carrying a basket full of pigweed, soaked with sweat and looking tired.
Judging from Chen Fang's heavy footprints, the weight of this pigweed is obviously not low.
However, for farmers, food for feeding animals is very precious. No matter how heavy it is, they are reluctant to throw away one piece.
Just when Chen Fang walked to the door, a cough suddenly sounded from the shadow in the corner of the door, and then a man's voice sounded deep.
"Is it Yang Jianguang's mother?"
Chen Fang turned her head in confusion. Next to her, a middle-aged man wearing glasses was looking at Chen Fang with a bit of arrogance.
This arrogant and fair look made the stunned Chen Fang quickly react.
Without hesitation, she threw the pigweed that she had treasured at the beginning on the ground, and anxiously and excitedly pushed open the broken wooden door of the yard.
"It's Teacher Zhang, please come in quickly!"
Zhang Youde nodded arrogantly. As a rare high school teacher in Yongxin County, he is qualified to walk sideways throughout Yongxin County!
However, contrary to Chen Fang's excited expression, Zhang Youde's face was a bit unhappy!
There was no shuttle bus to this poor place, so he had to walk on the dirt road for more than ten minutes under the scorching sun!
Humph, if it weren't for the purpose of improving his chances of getting into college, a fool would come to such a ghost place!
For Chen Fang, a farmer, his son’s teacher is a person worthy of respect and favor more than anything else!
In the past, when Yang Jianguang was registering for school, whether it was primary school or middle school, Chen Fang would add: Teacher, please be more strict with your children. If you make mistakes, you can just punish them!
This is not a polite word from 20 to 30 years later. For most parents in this era, the teacher definitely means it. If you hit your child, you have to applaud and say that he deserves it!
As for the child being beaten, I don't think there is anything wrong. Instead, I have to hide the traces of the beating. It is not because the teacher threatened me, but because the parents discovered it, and it will be another mixed doubles beating.
What, you were beaten by the teacher? Then you must have made a mistake in school. Where is the belt of Mr. Ge...
Of course, this is all a thing for later. When Zhang Youde was led all the way to the lobby by Chen Fang, he looked at the shabby and shabby appearance inside, with a clear look of disdain on his face.
The parents he usually sees are either rich or noble, and they receive a lot of benefits. This is the first one who is so poor!
In fact, the people who fell behind the undergraduate level in this final test were not just Yang Jianguang, there were at least seven or eight people who scored lower than Yang Jianguang!
But there is nothing we can do. Those few are either leaders of their children, or they deliver shopping cards frequently, so how can we drive them out!
So Zhang Youde thought about it and finally targeted several students from poor families in Yang Jianguang.
While Zhang Youde looked around, Chen Fang diligently wiped the chair again and again with a clean cloth. Finally, she took her own sleeve and wiped it back and forth several times, wishing she could rub a layer of skin off the chair!
After it was done, Chen Fang greeted her warmly, "Teacher Zhang, please do it quickly."
Zhang Youde breathed out his nostrils and hummed casually, then looked at the chair with disgust and only sat half-way up on it.
Chen Fang on the other side also hurriedly found a tea cup that was being used for the first time and wiped it clean and shiny.
Then I found a jar from the kitchen, dug out a small plastic bag of white sugar, and poured half of it into the tea cup without feeling distressed. Then I carefully filled it with boiling water and brought it to Zhang Youde.
Hearing this, Zhang Youde glanced at the cup in front of him with disgust.
In his opinion, how clean can things in this poor place be?
From the looks of it, this cup must have been crawled by rats and cockroaches!
"Okay, I won't drink the water anymore," Zhang Youde pushed the cup away and slammed a roster on the table.
"Look at your son's grades!"
Chen Fang's attentive smile just now faltered, and her face instantly became extremely bitter.
How did my son do in the exam? Even the teacher came to look for trouble.
"Chinese 91, Mathematics 100, Foreign Language 65..." After reading all the results, Chen Fang breathed a sigh of relief.
The total score is 470. Although it does not reach the undergraduate level of previous years, it is not so far behind that it is hopeless!
The worst foreign language score is only 65, which is not enough after calculation. In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on Yang Jianguang.
These days, rural students have basically never read a foreign language in the fifth grade of primary school, and there are no professional teachers in junior high school. By the time they reach high school, they naturally fall into the same category as urban kids.
Thinking of this, Chen Fang couldn't help but speak out.
"Teacher Zhang, although Yang Jianguang's grades are a bit poor, this child is very obedient. He has not had a good foundation in foreign languages since he was a child..."
But before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Zhang Youde's unceremonious reaching out!
Then Zhang Youde slammed the table hard and shouted, "Yang Jianguang's mother, I'm not listening to you talking about the reasons why his grades are bad! There are so many students, why is he not good at foreign languages?"
"With his current grades, there is a high probability that he will not be able to go to college. If you have time, you should apply for withdrawal from school!"
Drop out of school?
As soon as these words came out, they almost hit Chen Fang on the head like a bolt from the blue, making her almost faint on the ground!
Soon, Chen Fang came to his senses and pleaded hard. "No, no, Teacher Zhang, please give me another chance! Even if Yang Jianguang fails the exam, he still can't miss this opportunity!"
Damn, this is so troublesome!
Zhang Youde cursed silently. The few companies he went to before had almost honestly agreed to drop out of school out of fear, but this guy in front of him actually refused?
He screamed so hard that Zhang Youde's stern expression just now softened instantly. He cleared his throat and said warmly.
"Chen Fang's mother, I'm doing this for your own good. The tuition for the third year of high school is several thousand yuan per semester. Now you have to pay for make-up classes before school starts. Your family..." At this point, Zhang Youde glanced at the dilapidated house of Chen Fang's family.
After a quick glance, the meaning was already obvious.
Hearing the money, a trace of despair flashed across Chen Fang's face.
The family is extremely poor, and Yang Dazhi’s salary at the construction site has not yet been paid. Where did they get the money?
But in the end, under Zhang Youde's disappointed eyes, Chen Fang made up his mind and asked, "Teacher Zhang, can I ask how much the tuition fee is in total?"
Zhang Youde's face turned dark. In order to make Chen Fang quit, he directly said a sky-high figure?
"Six thousand yuan, and we'll start making up classes the day after tomorrow. If Yang Jianguang doesn't come back, he won't be able to apply for school registration again!"
Six thousand!
The high figures almost made Chen Fang collapse.
It's easy to borrow these one thousand and hundreds, but where can she borrow six thousand?
As for what Zhang Youde said was false, Chen Fang never thought about it.
How could this teacher lie?
Seeing Chen Fang's face getting paler and paler, Zhang Youde felt happy in his heart.
It seems that this stupid woman actually believed her own words. She is so stupid!
Hurry up and agree. There are so many people going to college here, and you are not the only one left. Your family is so poor, why should you study? Why not earn money as soon as possible?
You won't be able to pass the exam anyway, so why bother delaying my undergraduate admission rate and affecting my evaluation of excellence?
But just when Zhang Youde was sure that Chen Fang was about to give up, Chen Fang, who looked clearly desperate, stubbornly raised his head.
"Teacher Zhang, it's the day after tomorrow, right? You wait for me and I'll raise money!"
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Youde's face darkened.
He stood up from his position with a cold face.
"Okay, if you can't raise the money the day after tomorrow, don't sign up!"
After saying that, Zhang Youde ignored Chen Fang's flattering smile, his face turned livid, and he turned around and left!