night school.
"To summarize." When get out of class time came, Teacher Morris was finishing the course, "What is a symbol? Find the common characteristics, logic, and behavior patterns in two things, and then use one thing to replace the other..."
Well, this is the mean and bitter teacher Morris. He took out a piece of chalk and threw it in the direction of the desk, "Madison, what are you doing? Did I say get out of class is over?"
Madison's eyes twitched as she wiped away the chalk foam on her face, and stopped collecting the notes on the table. "No, sir." It wasn't that Madison was good-tempered, but that West had already looked sideways at his poor poor man comfortingly. A glance at a friend.
But Teacher Morris didn't stop, "Are my classes boring, Madison? Oh! That's right, symbol, isn't this what you are proud of, huh, your 'vampire' boss, a blood-sucking monster, right? ,hehe."
Madison frowned and lowered his head. Sometimes Madison would doubt herself, why did she spend money to suffer here? Writing was just a hobby, a hobby to lighten the mood. But all Madison received in this writing class was humiliation. Teacher Morris made full use of every opportunity he had to humiliate Madison.
"And the article you published in that joke-like magazine, what, shadow man, evil spirit, mirror man, werewolf, devil... are all symbols, right?" Teacher Morris seemed to be in high spirits, walked off the podium, and took the He took off his glasses and took out a handkerchief. While wiping them, he did not hide the sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, "You love symbols, right? You are a master of symbols, right? Haha, Madison, you must feel that 'that old man is here' What's the word on it? He knows what a symbol is. Hahaha, I'm sorry." He took his glasses back and said with the curved corners of his mouth, "Madison, I bored you."
The class was quiet, how should I say, everyone was numb. Numb to this kind of humiliation from Morris to Madison, sometimes everyone still feels a little sympathy. If Madison is not so close to West, maybe Teacher Morris can let Madison go.
Oh, by the way, remember that West was the proud student of Mr. Morris. Of course, he was very unhappy that his most satisfied student was actually friends with the student he despised the most, so he was worried that West would be led by Madison. Like bad. pity…
There is so much helplessness in life. Let’s take a moment of silence for Madison and then get numb together. There is no turning point in this matter, right
The silence began to make people impatient, but Morris kept the curved corners of his mouth and looked at Madison, who was looking down, saying nothing or doing nothing. I really don't know what kind of response Morris wants to get from Madison. He should just enjoy the feeling of letting everyone know, 'It's because of you, Madison, that everyone is impatient.'
Having said that, Maurice is a mean, sarcastic guy in all sorts of ways.
Finally, Madison moved. He packed up his notebook again and stuffed it into his briefcase. Then he stood up under West's helpless and comforting eyes and looked directly at Morris, "Teacher." He didn't say his name too rudely, after all. , before class ended, "Can I leave early? My staff has been waiting for me at the door for half an hour."
This is the truth.
Leon, who had been at the door of the classroom, was a little uncomfortable and took two steps back when everyone's eyes were on him, with a nervous and at a loss look on his face. Ah, Leon, it's not the devil Leon, it's... Leon, everyone knows. Therefore, he who will not go to Newton is still an employee of Leo.
Do you think Mr. Morris will let Madison go when the focus shifts? No, "employee, huh, I thought it was some guy who came to eavesdrop on the class. Madison, you are quite interesting, let's turn your vampire Did the boss bring another employee over after he brought him here to attend the lecture? Where do you think this place is?"
Madison took a deep breath and had nothing to say. She turned around and left her seat, intending to go out directly.
As always, Morris wins. He was enjoying the victory, "Humph, you finally feel a little bit better, go away, very good, we are all adults." Looking at the other students watching, "We won't mind, we will only be grateful. Finally, the class can Go back to the proper process." He didn't raise his hand to look at his watch in a pretentious manner, "Let me just pretend that the three minutes delayed by Madison didn't exist."
Need I repeat, Maurice was a mean, sarcastic guy in all sorts of ways.
Madison walked around the desk and looked at Teacher Morris gloomily under the brim of his hat. People, sometimes they really feel from the bottom of their hearts that it would be great if there was a god, and they could accept such people.
This glance was seen, and the three minutes were going to be extended.
"Are you provoking me, Madison?"
"No." Madison quickened his pace.
"It's not that there's nothing in your eyes."
"Make your own summary, Mr. Morris, get out of class is over." Madison continued to walk toward the door irritably, and counterattacked meaninglessly, "You are the one who is wasting everyone's time. We are all adults, right? Then Be an adult."
"Okay!" Morris actually agreed with Madison and raised his voice, "To summarize, how about the 'symbol master' among us make this summary! Do you people (students) know that Madison not only puts his boss "He gestured with quotation marks, "'symbolizing' him into a blood-sucking 'vampire', and 'symbolizing' his subordinates and employees into being possessed by 'demons', dragging people's souls from this world to hell. . You all know that Madison works in the funeral industry, right? Then, just in time, here is a ready-made example." Morris pointed at Madison who had walked to the door to meet Leon, "Let Madison explain it to us now. How is his symbolism…"
Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore, Ms. West said, "Teacher, forget it..."
"West, don't say anything. Today, I want all of you to know what symbolic techniques are really useful for your writing, and what are the meaningless fantasies of some delusional people!" Morris said firmly, "Maddie Sen, please!" Tanshou made a gesture of asking. In the current situation, this "please" should be sincere, "Tell us why you wrote your employees as 'devils'!"
How would a person react when someone else's malicious misunderstanding coincides with the truth? Look at Madison.
Madison pushed the briefcase to Leon, who was stunned, and turned around, "You know what, Mr. Morris! You are right! I am just delusional! All those things about sucking blood, transforming into a wolf, and what I saw before I died. The other self, the person in the mirror, the demon possessing ordinary people, these are all my delusions!"
Seems to be broken, completely opposite to James' behavior
"Are you happy? Teacher?" Madison opened her arms, "All the 'strange' creatures I have written about do not exist! They are just my boring fantasies! There are no common characteristics, no logic, and nothing worthy of comparison. The behavior pattern is completely divorced from reality and is just my random imagination. It is not a writing skill and has no merit at all. Everyone! Don’t learn from me! Are you satisfied?”
Morris's response was, "It's quite simple." He turned around and finally stopped looking at Madison, "Have you heard that?" Enjoyingly, "Madison is finally useful. Symbols cannot be divorced from reality. Everyone knows it." Is that right? Otherwise, it’s just delusion. That’s a good summary, hahaha, class is over.”
Madison's heavy breathing was immediately drowned out by the messy sound of cleaning up. The numb person was too lazy to give any sympathetic comfort. The only one who was willing to come over to comfort Madison was West, who was called to the podium by Morris. You know what you're talking about, it must be the mean guy's fault.
"Mai, Madison..." Leon spoke out.
"Give me five seconds!" Madison replied gloomily, standing in the corridor and breathing heavily, and counting with his fingers very seriously. Five, four, three…
The last breath was filled with white and turbid air, "What's wrong?"
"The people from Allen Funeral Home are here." Leon's expression was not good. He was partly frightened, but also "I, I don't know what to do. Everyone is looking at me, I, I, I ..." After thinking about it for a long time, I said, "I am not the person I was before..."
"Uh..." Madison put her hands in the brim of her hat, grabbing her frizzy head, "What does Allen want?"
"Transaction." Leon uncomfortably avoided the eyes of the people coming out of the classroom, "Private transaction. The person in charge said that Allen's funds needed to be turned around, the cremation business was suspended, they had almost no income, and Grande's business Cooperation can only fill a small gap. They need more, so they are ready to sell off some unused reserve materials."
Madison frowned. It should have been expected that it was already night. If Allen Funeral Home went to the mill at this time, nothing good would happen. "What does he want to sell? An urn? Uh."
He actually affirmed, "Well, there are many other sundries." He started to dig into his pockets and actually took out a list, "This is the list they gave." Leon hesitated, "They also said , they can also make a deal with us, they sell purchasing channels... "
When Madison looked at Lyon with a distorted face, Lyon explained, in fact, he explained for himself, "Alan said that the purchase price of various materials for our mill is twice theirs. If the mill is willing to help them this time, they They are willing to be responsible for the mill's purchase channels in the future, so that the future operating costs of the mill can be reduced by at least one-third, and then all they want is the commission for the next year, paid in one lump sum... "
Madison exploded, "What?!"
Leon shrank back in fear, "He, that's what they said..." This Leon seemed to be completely opposite to Zeng Leon.
"*!" Madison swore directly, "How can Allen be so shameless??*! They raise the purchase price of the mill!*! Now he actually comes to make this kind of deal with me!*!*Ai Lun!*Them!”
Someone is looking this way, Madison’s classmates. Surprisingly, I felt a little sympathetic. But of course, no one came to ask.
Leon pursed his lips, stared at Madison and continued to breathe deeply. After a moment, he said, "What should I do? Their people are still waiting for a reply at the mill..."
"*Them!" The effect of deep breathing is just that.
“Madison…”
"*them!"
"Old, boss..."
"*them!"
"I, we should go to the big boss..." Leon said a little cautiously, because, "I, I don't know whether you should go to Grande or Zachary first for this kind of thing..."
"*Them!*Zach!"
Madison immediately paid the price for accidentally hurting Zach. Wait a minute, it seems that it was not an accidental injury. Just like Madison had to endure Morris in order to be friends with West, the issue of the purchase price of the mill was not the same. Was it caused by Zach? never mind
"Madison!" West punched his friend on the shoulder, "Calm down! What's going on?"
Seeing Madison's gloomy face and not speaking, West turned to Lyon, who still had a band-aid on the back of his hand, "Ignore what our teacher said about the 'demons' that Madison wrote. He's not targeting anyone. It's just a bit, um, strict..." Probably because he also felt that it was impossible for Morris to clear his name, West pursed his lips and gave up comfort, turning back to Madison, "Don't take it to heart, you know the teacher, he is That way…”
Madison waved her hands, as if she didn't want to mention it.
"Then..." West glanced at the almost deserted corridor, "Did something go wrong at work again? Do you need to rush back?"
Madison was silent for a while, "No!" and looked at Leon, "Go back and tell Allen and the others that we need time to think about it!"
Leon nodded, also nodded to West, and said goodbye.
The remaining Madison and West began to walk towards the handicraft classroom at the end of the corridor opposite the exit. There were a group of guys who had gone into 'rejection' mode and were sharing writing topics. Remember, Madison wanted to touch Wes. special.
With Morris's tug, all the students in other night school courses had left, and only two people's footsteps were quiet in the corridor.
Probably to lighten the atmosphere, West said, "What happened to Allen Funeral Home?"
Madison walked a few steps in silence, and suddenly looked at West with an incomprehensible look, "How was your afternoon chat with Bain's wife?"
"Oh, it's good." West smiled. There was something not good in this smile. In her words, "She told me that Allen Funeral Home not only suppressed Grand She even went to Grande to ask for compensation for employee hospitalization." West shook her head. "She said that Allen took the lawyer to Grande because he had a restraining order and Zach couldn't get close to him. De, being so messy when Master Grande couldn't come back, in addition to the cost of treatment, Louise was also forced to pay a bunch of inexplicable mental damage fees."
Madison's unreadable eyes became clear, "You remember what I told you before, Allen's purchase price for my mill is too high, right? Guess what now? They are going to use this to trade with me, let me Buy through them and they take a cut.”
"Uh..." West shook his head, "This, this is a bit too much, how could Allen do such, sorry, shameless things."
"Yeah, shameless people do shameless things." All the expressions on Madison's face disappeared, he walked to the front and opened the door for the lady, "I prayed, but it's a pity that there is no God."
"Hehehe." West laughed, because of course, she thought Madison was making her laugh.
When both of them changed their masks in the corridor, they entered the sharing group that had been going on for a while.
The clown is laughing
"Do you believe in God? Haha! I do! To make a long story short! My friends! You should all have seen the news! Yes! Bishop is cured!" (..)