Even in a high school like No. 10 Middle School, which advocates self-discipline, liveliness, inclusiveness and a relaxed atmosphere, one can still feel the pressure of studying in the second half of the second year of high school. However, it is precisely in such a boring learning environment that any new things around will attract attention and discussion. The news that Zhang Yu seemed to dislike Cheng Ran quickly spread.
As soon as the physics class was over the next day, a group of people surrounded Cheng Ran, which surprised the physics teacher Zhuang Shunchao who was about to leave. He looked in the direction of Cheng Ran, wondering if he was up to something again.
Everyone in the group was talking at once, all standing up for Cheng Ran.
The boy named Liu Jingrui, who was close to Zhang Ping, frowned and said, "I heard from Zhang Ping that it was Zhang Ping who called him a nickname behind his back, but he threatened you. Haha, this is the first time I've seen a teacher from No. 10 Middle School threaten students like this..."
The people around him echoed, "Sure enough, he is not from our No. 10 Middle School. This octopus is sick. What does it mean? Have you ever offended him? Why is he targeting you? It's not right."
Liu Lei, who was in the top ten in the class but was usually very active and bouncy, sat half of his butt on Cheng Ran's desk and said, "How about, Cheng Ran, how about you tell us brothers to teach him a lesson? We can still give him a surprise in the chalk box. Anyway, we just don't like him..." Several boys who were usually action-oriented and loyal immediately became eager to try.
Even some girls started to join in the crusade.
Chen Jiameng, who serves as the study committee member, always holds a cartoon water bottle. She uses it to hold medicine and to warm her hands and cover her stomach during her menstrual period. She has been standing on the edge of the crowd with two friends. At this moment, she unscrewed the lid and took two sips. She opened her soft and cute eyes and commented, "I think he is a bit perverted, and he makes it sound like teaching us is a burden to him..."
In fact, the boys disliked Zhang Yuduo because of his behavior, and the girls who were originally interested in his appearance also developed a bad impression of him. It was probably because he said something that they could not keep up with his progress, which caused everyone to condemn him out of collective sense of honor.
In addition to Cheng Ran's deeds in the last semester, his speech to Sun Xiao, his sudden improvement in grades, his relationship with Jiang Hongshao, and the power of his family background after the Lei Wei incident, Cheng Ran has a very high reputation in Class 5.
Reputation is something mysterious, but it does exist. It means the influence a person has on others. If Zhang Yu threatened other ordinary students, he probably wouldn't have stirred up a hornet's nest like he did now.
You know, sometimes when the students of Class 5 are outside, they feel proud to hear people asking about Cheng Ran. Sometimes a sense of honor is cultivated in this way. The sense of belonging to a class or a place is because there are people who care about it, or things that make people feel proud. Cheng Ran's words to Sun Xiao actually struck the hearts of the generation of students in No. 10 Middle School. It was like a spokesperson who stood up at the right time to vent their voices on their behalf, which aroused widespread resonance.
Now such a spokesperson was given to a hateful teacher who they thought was an outsider and had barely even found his feet, and Class 5 immediately united against the enemy.
Cheng Ran laughed and said, "Okay, you targeted me yesterday. If you really tampered with the chalk box, wouldn't you have exposed me directly? You are trying to trick me."
Everyone started laughing about this topic.
At this time, Cheng Ran looked through the crowd and saw the empty table and chair of Jiang Hongshao.
There is no doubt that Lao Jiang and Zhang Yu knew each other, and all the reasons why Zhang Yu disliked him were, needless to say, because he was very close to Jiang Hongshao.
But... Cheng Ran was a little confused, what was the mentality of this octopus!
Do you have an inexplicable jealousy towards young men and women in their youth, or do you have any thoughts about Jiang Hongshao
This is actually not surprising. Many people have certain character flaws. These may be childhood experiences, or some blow from reality. All aspects may cause a person to be paranoid or have some unknown dark side in his character.
This teacher named Zhang Yu fits this description to a large extent. Maybe he was subjected to some school bullying during his school days, so he thought Cheng Ran was a powerful figure who could call the shots, and subconsciously developed hostility and disgust towards him. Or maybe he once had a crush on a girl similar to Jiang Hongshao, so now he has placed that kind of emotion on her...
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At least one guess was verified. Zhang Yu seemed cold and indifferent to everyone in class, but when facing Jiang Hongshao, everyone could feel his different attitude. For example, he would directly call on Jiang Hongshao's name and ask her to answer questions during class, while ignoring other students who raised their hands. After Jiang Hongshao answered fluently, he actually uttered words of praise.
This made many people exclaim "Huh!"
Another thing is that when he was doing the test, he would stop by Jiang Hongshao's desk and watch her do the test quietly. Although he concealed this behavior very well, how could he escape the students who already had a prejudice against him? It was clearly discovered that he only stood by Jiang Hongshao's desk when he was patrolling, and he generally stood there longer than by other students.
Even after class, he took the initiative to ask Jiang Hongshao how he was talking and whether she understood. It was absolutely impossible for him to be friendly to another person.
It is true that many subject teachers have different attitudes towards Jiang Hongshao, the top student in the grade. After all, Jiang is famous, and many teachers even ask her about her study methods, so that they can use her experience to compare their own lesson preparation and hone their teaching skills. However, Zhang Yu's difference gives people the feeling that he has other intentions, and it seems that in addition to Jiang Hongshao being the top student, he may also want her because she is beautiful.
Therefore, the students in Class 5 became more and more disgusted with Zhang Yu.
In addition to the nickname of Octopus, he also began to have the nickname of "Vampire", but this time it was not the elegant earl image in Japanese girls' comics, but more like a pale, unhealthy and perverted image that matched his appearance.
Of course, Zhang Yu must have felt the hostile atmosphere in Class 5, but he still went his own way.
The resentment of the students in Class 5 had actually been heard by other teachers and even reached the head teacher Sun Hui. Sun Hui was kept after class that day and everyone started to urge him to just teach Zhang Yu's Chinese class as well.
There was some worry in Sun Hui's eyes.
The next day, after class, Zhang Yu called out Cheng Ran's name and asked him to come out.
Now the whole class focused their attention on Cheng Ran.
After Cheng Ran came out, he and Zhang Yu stood in the corridor with red pillars. Zhang Yu coughed twice. He might have bronchitis. After coughing, he stretched out his hand to comb his neck and nose bridge. After rubbing the ridge of his nose, Zhang Yu's eyes behind his hand were gloomy. "I heard that everyone in your class sympathizes with you... How come, after talking about you, the whole class knows about it? Do you think I don't know that you are colluding with others? How... Do you want to squeeze me out? Put away these little tricks of yours as soon as possible..."
"Not worthy of being on the stage!"
After saying that, he glared at Cheng Ran fiercely before leaving, leaving Cheng Ran disheveled in the wind.
The grade of No. 10 Middle School is so small, and some things between students happened in the morning, and many teachers knew about it in the afternoon. But some things were known to everyone, but they were not exposed, so that everyone could maintain a balance. Now it seems that Class 5 has a lot of opinions about Zhang Yu, and it is even possible that the head teacher Sun Hui talked to him, but it is inevitable that some rumors reached Zhang Yu's ears, and he thought that it was Cheng Ran who was behind the conspiracy!
For the first time, Cheng Ran felt a sense of injustice and suffocation. He seemed to have become so hostile to Zhang Yu for no apparent reason, and the conflict seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.
This is the original sin of pride and prejudice.
Perhaps in an effort to ease the relationship with the students, Zhang Yu moved a projector to the classroom in advance that day, announced that the next two classes would watch the English-language movie "Gone with the Wind", and asked the students on duty to go to his office to help move the projection screen. He looked around the room and asked, "Who is the student on duty?"
Jiang Hongshao and Cheng Ran stood up.
This was a prank by the labor committee member Mao Ling, who often arranged Jiang Hongshao and Cheng Ran to work together. This was a regular feature of Class 5, and people often took this opportunity to make jokes about the two great masters, "Jiang Ge" and "Ran Ge". In addition, many people usually looked up to the two and would not easily make such jokes.
At this time, seeing the two people standing up at the same time, plus it was Zhang Yu's class, the whole crowd was cheering, some were clapping the tables, some were dragging the benches, some were stomping their feet, and some were applauding, "Brother Jiang! Brother Ran! Stand up! Stand up! Together!" Then it was like the noise in a football stadium.
Cheng Ran was so helpless... As expected, looking through the noisy roars, Zhang Yu's face, which was originally as white as a vampire, was now burning with anger.
Jiang Hongshao also used her eyes to stop the most violent students in the class. As the class monitor, she naturally had to maintain discipline. Those she stared at immediately acted like good students and behaved obediently. Jiang Hongshao could not help but steal a glance at the slightly flushed face, which made her feel even more pleasing to the eye.
Then Jiang Hongshao looked at Cheng Ran. She saw that she could not stop the momentum. In order to calm down the excitement at this moment, the best strategy was for her and Cheng Ran to go out quickly.
Just as Wei Shu moved the table and chairs and Jiang Hongshao's slender body was about to squeeze out, Zhang Yu stretched out his hand and pointed, "Squad leader, you don't have to go, come and help me adjust. Over there... Cheng Ran, you and Zhang Ping go get the projection cloth!"
The crowd's cheers suddenly turned into boos.
As Zhang Ping stood up, he gave Cheng Ran a resolute look, saying, "He's obviously coming for you and Lao Jiang. He has bad intentions!"