Xu Chao is the youngest teacher in the third grade of high school. Compared with other teachers who sent away batch after batch of students, this is the second senior year he has led. Of course, the first class was incomparable to them. Except for the puppy love and skipping classes, no one cared about whether they could pass the college entrance examination, so he didn't grasp the students' grades and discipline so much.
This year is different, from the grade director to the principal, they all pay more attention than before.
According to his year-long experience of catching puppy love, he always felt that the relationship between Ye Cheng and Lu Xiao was weird, especially when they posted that kind of post last time, which made people even more suspicious.
When Xu Chao treats the parents of female students, he usually does not call them to the office alone, but chooses to hang out and chat in the school.
He and Meng Li walked out of the teaching building and saw a man and a woman sticking together.
The two people were in the next class. After seeing Xu Chao, they separated quickly, pretended nothing happened, called "Hello, teacher", then lowered their heads and hurried away.
Xu Chao shook his head, hating that iron could not become steel, and said: "What time is this, there is still time to talk about love here."
Meng Li chuckled and said, "You only have the urge to fall in love when you're young, but when you're our age, you have to look forward and backward in everything you do."
"That's the truth, but enlightened parents like you are rare." Xu Chao said pointedly.
Meng Li looked at him seriously, and asked, "Teacher, why didn't you mention those two children just now?"
Xu Chao said: "Those two students are not in our class. I will remind their class teacher tomorrow."
Meng Li asked thoughtfully: "Then what will their homeroom teacher do? Ask the parents to come and write it down?"
Xu Chao explained: "Generally speaking, parents must be contacted for this kind of matter. And the two children will be transferred later, and they will not be allowed to contact as much as possible. If the circumstances are serious, they will be demerited or dismissed."
"If they do this, they will be willing to study hard?" Meng Li blurted out with a sneer.
Xu Chao's complexion was a little ugly.
She immediately apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not questioning your handling methods, but I've experienced this kind of thing myself."
"Oh?" Xu Chao was slightly surprised.
Meng Li recalled: "When I was in high school, I liked a boy in my class. After my head teacher found out, he read the love letter I wrote to him in front of the whole class, and asked my parents to go to school and take me home. .Of course, the teacher's original intention is for the good of the students, which cannot be denied, and he definitely doesn't want me to go home."
Her tone was calm and natural, as if she was chatting with a friend.
Xu Chao seldom listened to his parents' stories, so he became a little interested: "And then?"
Meng Li smiled kindly, "Then I dropped out of school."
Xu Chao: "... huh?"
Meng Li said meaningfully: "I admit that I was quite extreme at the time. I thought that not allowing a relationship would mean that the sky would collapse. This is a very, very naive idea. But adolescent children, how mature can you expect them to be?" ?Many times, the teachers ignored the gentle guidance and just suppressed and stopped them blindly. In fact, the effect of doing so was minimal.”
Xu Chao was silent for a moment, carefully savoring her words.
He understood the meaning of Meng Li's words, but he was still young and energetic, and said impatiently: "Mrs. Lu, you said that... because you noticed that Lu Xiao fell in love early?"
Meng Li stretched out his index finger and shook it in front of his eyes.
"First of all, I am not Mrs. Lu. I have divorced his father. You can call me Meng Li. Secondly, I talked to my son about this matter. He admitted that there is someone he likes in school. As for who he likes , Whether it’s a man or a woman, whether they are together or not, that’s his freedom, I can’t control it.”
When he heard "is it a man or a woman", Xu Chao opened his eyes slightly, hesitant to speak.
Meng Li continued: "Teacher, I can understand your feeling of being responsible for the students, and thank you very much for having such a sense of responsibility. But if there is a relationship, not only will it not have a bad impact on their studies, but it will make them become better. Well, then shouldn’t we intervene at will and respect their choices?”
Xu Chao was quiet again.
After a long time, I said: "Since you have said so as a parent, I can't ask any more... But I have to talk to another classmate's parent, ahem."
Neither he nor Meng Li mentioned Ye Cheng's name, as if they had tacitly acquiesced.
Meng Li sighed: "You may not know their family's situation very well. Currently, his grandma is taking care of him, and his father basically doesn't care about him. The old man is not as tolerant as we are. If an excited blood pressure rises, it will be very difficult. Trouble."
It was only then that Xu Chao remembered that he had never met Ye Cheng's father, and he knew that Ye Cheng had no mother.
"Ah, this...it's really difficult." He stumbled.
Meng Li looked at him quietly, guessing in his heart that he should not have taught for more than five years.
She suggested: "Otherwise, you should listen to some suggestions from me. I think this matter should be dealt with coldly. There is no need to report to the grade director, and there is no need to bring the elderly to the school. The most important thing is the college entrance examination that is just around the corner. , don’t let the children’s mentality fluctuate too much. Besides, if this is just our guess, wouldn’t it make it even more ugly.”
It was indeed the first time for Xu Chao to encounter such a thing. One parent took the initiative to talk to him and told him not to tell the other parent. However, Meng Li's words were reasonable. If he told Ye Cheng's grandma, not to mention whether the matter was reliable, he would not be able to escape responsibility for any bad or bad things happened to the old man.
What's more, Ye Cheng is a rare seedling in the thirteenth middle school. Well, although the thirteenth middle school has not been established for a hundred years, he is enough to be the medal of Xu Chao's teaching career.
He can't afford such a talent.
In the end, Xu Chao compromised with hesitation.
"That's fine, this matter will be handled according to your wishes." He said unnaturally, "I will pay close attention to their learning situation."
Meng Li nodded and said, "Thank you very much for your trouble."
Xu Chao waved his hands again and again, "This is what I should do. By the way, I would like to take the liberty to ask, when did you find out about their... um, what kind of relationship is it?"
Hearing this, Meng Li raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Teacher, I have never guessed their relationship, nor have I observed anything secretly. Isn't it normal for my classmates to play well?"
Xu Chao's expression suddenly became awkward, and he said at a loss: "I didn't mean that."
Meng Li smiled at him and said, "That's all right, is there anything else? If not, I'll go upstairs to pick them up and go home."
"...No, you go slowly."
Meng Li stepped on her high heels and left in a hurry.
Xu Chao looked at her back with her head held high with a complicated face.
After Meng Li got into the car with the two of them, he casually said to Ye Cheng: "Xiao Cheng, you can stay at our house tonight, and let the driver take you to school tomorrow."
Ever since she started picking them up, Ye Cheng would stay at their house for a night from time to time.
After she finished speaking, she saw Ye Cheng nodded in agreement in the rearview mirror, and her worthless son smiled until his eyes rolled up.
When did she start to notice something was wrong
Maybe it's Lu Xiao's unique gentleness towards Ye Cheng, maybe it's because she saw Ye Cheng's face flushed in the lounge that day in the old house, and then she inadvertently saw the two of them sitting by the swimming pool talking from the surveillance.
The young man's eyes can't hide what's on his mind, and it's clear at a glance who he likes and who he hates.
Every time Lu Xiao looked at Ye Cheng with that look, she suddenly remembered that many years ago, Lu Yaoshan also looked at her with this look.
She went to her father's company as an intern at the age of eighteen, and talked about business with a group of old men. If she hadn't met Lu Yaoshan, her life would have been wonderful.
Probably because she met too many messy people and experienced too many unbearable things, which made her tolerance much higher than when she was young. Ten years ago, when Lu Xiao came to tell her that he liked the little boy next door, she definitely slapped him.
After returning home, Lu Xiao wanted to study in Ye Cheng's room.
Meng Li decisively told him not to disturb Ye Cheng, and went back to his room to do his homework.
Lu Xiao lay on the bed unhappily and sent him a wechat message, [I'll go find you when my mother falls asleep.]
The other side replied quickly: [No, last time my aunt came to deliver milk to me in the morning, she almost found out.]
Suspect X sent ten grievance emoticons in a row.
At the end, there is a bonus voice, Ye Cheng clicked on it.
"But I want to hug you to sleep, I promise I won't do anything, okay?"
The low voice was full of dissatisfaction and coquettishness, and the bones of those who listened were crisp.
Ye Cheng pressed her fingers to her lips, gnawed her teeth on her joints, and endured for a long time before she could not tell him to roll over now, immediately, immediately.
Damn, who can bear this tone.
He tried his best to keep calm and type: [Good size, I don't forget what you did that time.]
As he fell asleep that day, Lu Xiao suddenly wanted to wrestle with him.
Ye Cheng naturally ignored his stupid proposal, but he insisted on holding Ye Cheng's wrist and pressing him on the bed, and he would not let go until he said something nice.
It was past one o'clock at that time, and Ye Cheng was so sleepy that he had to say perfunctorily, "Brother Xiao, you are so handsome."
As a result, Lu Xiao got more excited, pinched his chin and said, "What's your name, Brother Xiao, brother."
The two of them were tightly pressed together with only a thin pajamas between them, and Ye Cheng was hit by a page without any surprise.
He immediately wanted to turn over and push him away, but Lu Xiao held him down tightly and kept hitting him back and forth for more than 20 minutes.
Then the next morning, Lu Xiao overslept as a matter of course, and forgot to go back to her room early, and was almost caught by Meng Li on the spot.
Seeing that he rejected her, Lu Xiao groaned and buried her head in her arms, thinking that life would not be better.
A few minutes later, he took a picture of the cover of Mathematics "May 3" and sent it over, saying: [I have a question, but I can't, can I ask you?]
The phone vibrated twice, restrained: [Take a picture of the title and send it to me.]
Suspect X: [A dozen questions, how to shoot?]
There was silence.
Lu Xiao put the screen on the bed, rested her chin next to the phone, and looked at it expectantly.
Restrain it: [[白眼/] Come here.]
He let out a cry of joy and jumped up from the bed.
When I rushed to the door, I remembered to turn around and take the "May 3" with me, and I also sprayed my hair to set it.
From his room to the guest room where Ye Cheng lived, he had to pass Meng Li's bedroom on the way.
In order to avoid making too much noise, he deliberately did not wear slippers, and walked carefully through the aisle with bare feet.
Just as he was relieved to pass through Meng Li's door safely, the bedroom door behind him opened.
Wearing a nightgown, Meng Li looked coldly at his hapless son, walking forward on tiptoes, a tall man who looked like a thief.
She couldn't bear to look directly at her and coughed twice, and said, "What are you doing?"
Lu Xiao's back suddenly froze, and after a few seconds, she slowly turned around and said, "Mom... why aren't you asleep yet?"
Seeing Meng Li's eyes, he immediately raised the "May 3" in his hand, and said, "I have a question I don't know, and I want to ask Ye Cheng."
Meng Li looked him up and down, and immediately became angry. He pointed at him and said, "If you go to ask questions in the middle of the night, it's fine if you don't wear shoes, and you still spray hairspray? You're just fooling around, come in."
After that, he turned and went into the bedroom with a straight face.
Lu Xiao's heart sank, she secretly thought something was wrong, and followed in with a ashen face.
The author has something to say: Interview with magazine about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship—
Meng Li: Thank you for the invitation. I’m in a complicated mood right now. Well, I don’t have any opinions on my daughter-in-law. After all, I’m quite blind because I’m genetically good and smart enough to fall in love with our family. It’s just...just why my son looks so ugly What is it worth? This little brat doesn't treat me like that, hey, just think about it.