The next day, the canteen owner came out to refute the rumor, saying that it was not a cabbage caterpillar, but a piece of pickled pepper. The students all expressed disbelief and cursed the cafeteria owner for calling a deer a horse. Public opinion began to get out of control. A few impulsive boys in the first year of high school went to the cafeteria to cause trouble. As a result, they were caught and severely punished by Jia Zhiguo from the Department of Education.
Just when Zhu Mingsheng and the cafeteria owner were in a panic, and Jia Zhiguo was trying to guard against the troublemakers in the cafeteria, Zhang Yongsheng knocked on the door of the principal Du Zhicheng's office. He wrote an application very formally, with the signatures of many sophomore classmates and densely packed fingerprints on it.
Du Zhicheng read the application form with a dark face, slapped it on the desk hard, and glared at Zhang Yongsheng: "I'm so worried here, you're just adding insult to injury, aren't you?"
Zhang Yongsheng said innocently: "Uncle Du, I'm not targeting you alone. The main reason is that the food in the cafeteria is too bad, and it's full of moths. Yesterday afternoon, the caterpillars were not eaten, and today at noon, I heard that someone was in the vegetable soup again. Cigarette butts were found and this became more and more exaggerated."
Du Zhicheng frowned and said, "Then what do you mean? Leave the school cafeteria and go it alone?"
Zhang Yongsheng shook his head and said: "We just want to eat some delicious and safe food. This is not too much to ask for, right? But the canteen is in a mess, and we look like we don't want to eat. Who can stand this? Anyway, we can't do it now. If I dare to eat from the canteen, I have no choice but to bring my own food.”
Du Zhicheng was so happy that he said, "I believe others when they say they will bring food, but you bring a shitty meal. Who dares to eat the food you cooked in just a few seconds? Don't act for me, just tell me what you want to do."
Zhang Yongsheng rubbed his nose in embarrassment and said: "Um...Uncle Du, I've already thought about it. It's okay if we don't bring food. Let Director Jia open the school door and we go home to eat, or go to the restaurant opposite. Canteen I really don’t dare to eat it, who knows what I will eat.”
Du Zhicheng was really troubled and said earnestly: "Principal Zhu has promised to rectify the canteen, what else do you want? You also have to give the school some time. Many things here cannot be figured out in a short while. Wait until Principal Zhu Once I figure it out, I’ll definitely give you an explanation.”
Zhang Yongsheng pursed his lips and said: "Uncle Du, if you tell others this, no one will believe it, let alone me. Lao Zhu and the cafeteria are colluding. This is an open secret in our school. You have watched me grow up. Damn it, am I going to trick you with something like this?"
Du Zhicheng felt something in his heart, and felt that there was something in Zhang Yongsheng's words, so he asked: "What do you mean? You want me to use this matter to remove Lao Zhu from power? Are you thinking too highly of me?"
Zhang Yongsheng explained: "This is your third year in office. You should know how Zhu treated you in the past three years. He originally thought that he should become a full-time official directly, but he was suppressed by you, an airborne soldier. You You don’t know how many obstacles he has put behind the educational reform, right?”
Du Zhicheng picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He was silent for a moment and said: "Lao Zhu and I do have ideological conflicts, but we won't use this method to defeat him, right? Even if we change the contractor of the canteen, what will you do? If I can ensure that they don’t have any problems, then I will still take the blame.”
Zhang Yongsheng shook his head and said: "It's not the canteen's problem now. The canteen is just a reason. Now you're facing two stumbling blocks, and it's how to move them away."
Du Zhicheng asked in confusion: "What's the stumbling block? What kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd?"
Zhang Yongsheng knew that Du Zhicheng had taken the bait, and said with a smile: "Uncle Du, you don't know that Lao Zhu and Lao Jia have reached a strategic alliance, right? One is an old principal, deeply rooted, and secretly causing trouble. The other is an airborne soldier, and the Education Bureau has Backstage, here specifically to pick peaches. How are you going to deal with it?"
Du Zhicheng frowned and his face became serious. He knew all these things, but he couldn't make these conflicts public. He wanted to carry out education reform, which required the cooperation of all teachers in the school and the support of the Education Bureau, so he could only turn a blind eye to them.
Zhang Yongsheng said seductively: "Now is a good opportunity to use the canteen problem to implicate the two of them. Use the canteen problem to force Jia Zhiguo to open the door, so that students can freely bring food or eat out. In this way, The offensive and defensive alliance between them was broken."
Du Zhicheng sipped the tea, but his heart was in turmoil. He never expected that the child he had watched grow up would actually have such a conspiracy. He is a gentleman and has never used such devious tactics. But he knew that by using this move, he would completely control the school's voice.
Zhu Mingsheng went to investigate the matter in the cafeteria, and it was clear that there was no follow-up, but the blame was definitely laid. With this scapegoat, it would be difficult for him to speak at the principal's office meeting. In order to wipe Zhu Mingsheng's butt and open the ban on the school gate, Jia Zhiguo must have hated Zhu Mingsheng to death.
The prohibition on the school gate is the basis for rectifying the school style and discipline. Once the school gate is opened and students can enter and exit freely, the new regulations to rectify the school style and school discipline will gradually become ineffective. As a result, Jia Zhiguo's plan to go to No. 2 Middle School to pick peaches by rectifying school ethics and school disciplines came to nothing.
Thinking of this, Du Zhicheng hesitated a little. He has been a teacher for half his life and has never played such tricks before. At this moment, he was asked to break his previous operating habits, and he had some psychological barriers. The tangled and hesitant thoughts were quickly written on his face, and Zhang Yongsheng could see it clearly.
"Uncle Du, I know you are an honest gentleman. But as the ancients said, a gentleman can be bullied, so they use this method to deal with you. But if you fall, what will we students do? So many classmates I look forward to you sending them to college, but you can’t give up halfway.” Zhang Yongsheng continued.
Being a good teacher, discovering the talents of students, and cultivating enough talents for the country is Du Zhicheng's lifelong ideal. Now he is getting closer to this ideal, but he faces two stumbling blocks. Zhang Yongsheng handed the shovel to his hand and it was up to him whether he would take it or not.
"You mean, you treat others the way you treat them?" Du Zhicheng asked: "First use the canteen issue to break their offensive and defensive alliance, and then weaken their right to speak in the school?"
Zhang Yongsheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, just let them be obedient puppets. You still have the final say in the school. If they are obedient, you should give them some credit and get them to be the principal of another school. If they are not obedient, , you can set up an educational reform advisory committee and put it up for use.”
Du Zhicheng fell silent again. After about ten minutes, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll just listen to you. Just keep this thing and I'll bring it to the office meeting tomorrow for discussion."
Zhang Yongsheng smiled and took out another page of paper from his pocket, handed it to him and said: "This is some information about them. It's hard to say whether it is true or not, but it will definitely be useful in critical moments."
