Of course Xu Cheng understood what Mingrui meant. He was about to say something when he accidentally saw Gong Zifeng's raised ears and his little head tilted towards him.
It is normal for students to always be curious about their teachers.
After being promoted to vice principal, according to regulations, the school allocated him a separate office, which was not large.
He took his cell phone, stood up from his desk, walked to the window, lowered his voice, and continued talking to Octavia.
Later, he hung up the phone and sat at his desk again to deal with Gong Zifeng's matter.
After agreeing with Gong Zifeng on some details of next week's debate competition, Xu Cheng motioned for him to return to the classroom.
Gong Zifeng stood still, with a look of admiration on his face, and asked: "Teacher, is Senior Mingrui really your son-in-law?"
Xu Cheng was touched by his little expression, and an idea suddenly popped into his head.
He followed Gong Zifeng's words, "That's right, didn't you already know that? Why do you ask?"
Gong Zifeng unconsciously took a few steps towards the desk and asked with a curious look on his face:
"Teacher, you also brought Senior Mingrui out. Everyone said that back then he could have been directly recommended to Peking University and Tsinghua University. He had so many competition results and it was easy. Later, why didn't he accept the recommendation and had to take the college entrance examination? ?”
Xu Cheng had a smile on his face, "A strong person always challenges himself. His goal is not Peking University and Tsinghua University. His goal is: to break Wei Cheng's record of never having a provincial champion and achieve Wei City's zero breakthrough. "
Gong Zifeng exclaimed: "Wow, that's so cool! As expected of the legendary senior Octavia, he created history for the Acropolis. His record has not been broken by anyone yet. Hey, Klaas is really awesome!"
"Huh? How to speak? Civilized language."
Seeing Xu Cheng's face darken, Gong Zifeng's expression dropped and he quickly turned around, "I'm going back to the classroom. Goodbye, teacher!"
The door was slammed shut, and he ran away.
Xu Cheng originally wanted to shout "Close the door softly" at this little brat, but he finally held back.
He leaned on the back of the office chair, tilted his head, crossed his fingers on his abdomen, rested for a while, and then started working again.
Early in the morning, I received a bunch of documents, issued by the Education Bureau, to assist the Environmental Protection Bureau, the Public Security Bureau, the Fire Bureau, the Procuratorate, the Court and other related documents. I was either doing this or studying that, and they were constantly assessed and linked to the teacher's performance. .
They are all things that have nothing to do with teaching. Every day, the teacher’s energy is spent on these things, so where does he have time for teaching?
Very annoying, but also very helpless.
When he was about to get off work at noon, he never received a call from Li Zijuan asking him to have lunch at his new house.
They had a fight about the heating bill, and it seemed she was still angry.
Xu Cheng stared at the phone and clicked his tongue.
If the old lady doesn't scream, he has no steps to go back to his new house.
This is how to do?
Xu Cheng said to himself:
"Xiao An, this brat, doesn't know how to be a peacemaker. If your mother doesn't call me, why don't you call me?"
The school bell rang at noon, and students began to leave the classroom and flock to the school gate.
Xu Cheng stood by the office window, looking at the students who had a home to go back to, feeling uncomfortable in his heart.
At this moment, the phone rang, so I quickly picked it up and took a look.
Alas, it's not Li Zijuan's, nor Xu Zhian's, but his little sister Xu Hong's.
He answered the phone listlessly, "Hello, little sister..."
"Brother, my sister-in-law and I made your favorite dumplings. Come back and eat them quickly. Oh, this new house is so big and nice. This is my first time here. Come home quickly. The dumplings have just been cooked. I can eat it.”
"okay!"
Xu Cheng grabbed his coat and went downstairs, joined the group of students who had homes to go back to, and left the school gate.
As soon as he walked in, steaming dumplings were served on the table. Xu Hong called him, and the four of them sat down together and started eating the dumplings.
Li Zijuan greeted Xu Hong, but still didn't talk to Xu Cheng. Xu Zhian only kept his head down and worked, and didn't talk much about adults' matters.
The main reason is that if Xu Cheng is offended by his words, he will be scolded for nothing.
Xu Cheng secretly glanced at Li Zijuan while eating dumplings. He hesitated for a while and then said:
"Zijuan, my son-in-law called me and talked to me a lot. I think what he said is quite reasonable. Don't be angry with me. I will listen to you and won't pay the heating bill for the old house." , let’s live here.”
"real?!"
Li Zijuan and Xu Zhian said in unison.
Xu Cheng smiled and said: "It's steamed, not boiled."
This time, he figured it out completely.
It is self-evident that her daughter has found a son-in-law like Mingrui, which will bring him honor and face. At the same time, it will inevitably be accompanied by various tongues.
The good life of the people around you will make the people who are not as good as him lose their balance, and jealousy will naturally arise.
Human nature dictates this.
Back then, Wang Zhixuan's girl was admitted to Beijing Normal University, but his own girl failed. Wasn't he jealous too?
The following year, Xu Zhiyi repeated his studies for another year and barely took the second major. In the same year, Su Yingxue was admitted to Hangcheng University. Wasn't he feeling quite unhappy?
Now that others are jealous of him and say some nasty things, why is he so serious here?
What Mingrui said was right, the Ming family's influence on his family had just begun, and this would become the norm in the future. He couldn't keep screwing him like this. If he wasn't happy, his wife and children would also be angry with him.
In fact, what really moved him to let go was what Octavia said next.
He relayed what Octavia said to everyone.
At that time, Mingrui changed her name to Xu Cheng's dad, saying that if Xu Cheng ignored even his kindness, how could Xu Zhiyi accept everything he gave her calmly?
He said that only when Xu Cheng and the three of them live in the new house under Xu Zhiyi's name, can Xu Zhiyi truly feel that the house belongs to her, and she will feel confident when she comes here in the future.
The most thoughtful thing about Octavia is still not these.
His words were sincere. He said:
"Dad, after we get married, I can't guarantee that I won't have any conflicts with Zhiyi. If we have a dispute, unintentionally, I make her sad and she doesn't want to see me. At least, I have to guarantee that she has a A comfortable place to stay. With this suite, she can return to her parents’ home without worry. With you by her side, she will feel better and feel safe.”
Mingrui's words not only moved Xu Cheng, but Li Zijuan and Xu Hong were even more moved after hearing this.
How can a couple not quarrel?
When she was young, Li Zijuan and Xu Cheng also quarreled. When the quarrel was severe, she got angry when she saw Xu Cheng. She just wanted to throw away her hands and leave, throwing the two children to him to see what he would do.
But she had nowhere to go.
When she married Xu Cheng, she lost her parents. She was an only child, had no siblings, no natal family, and had nowhere to go.
At this time, even if she was itching with hatred, she could only endure it.
At that time, she was envious of married women who had family members and a place to go.
Can Octavia think of this for Xu Zhiyi's sake? As a mother, can she not be moved?
Xu Hong was even more envious and felt sad.
Every time she suffered cold violence from her husband and returned to her parents' home sadly, Xu Zhaocai and Zhang Aihua not only refused to support her, but also scolded her together.
She didn't get any warmth from her mother's family at all.
As time goes by, even if she has a natal family, she doesn't want to go back.
Can't count on it.
It would be great if she could have her own apartment. At least, when she was sad, she could hide away secretly, stay alone for a while, and heal herself.
But no.
It is better to find someone who is educated, considerate, and will love his wife.
His eldest brother loves his sister-in-law, and if he finds a son-in-law who is just like him, he also knows how to love his wife.
This mother and daughter have such a good life.
The matter of the house is settled.
One week later, the debate competition of class 1 (20) was officially held.
After Xu Cheng communicated, the debate competition was broadcast live, and other first-grade students were organized to sit in the classroom and watch the competition.
Gong Zifeng never expected that in this debate competition, he would meet the senior student Octavia whom he admired.
