The bell for English class rang, and Yu Ran saw a strange man walk into the classroom, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a striped shirt. The man naturally stood on the podium and ordered everyone to take out the English weekly newspaper.
"Who is this? Got into the wrong class?" Yu Ran asked Fang Zhao suspiciously.
"Substitute head teacher, Mr. Dai, didn't Mrs. Bai tell us that she was sent by the school to a high school in the United States for two weeks, and today she started to substitute another teacher." Fang Zhao told him in a low voice, "Such an important matter Didn't you hear?"
"Which day did you say that? I have no impression."
Fang Zhao recalled, "The day Chu Mian didn't come."
"Oh, no wonder." Yu Ran was stunned. On the day Chu Mian asked for leave, she hardly attended any class.
Teacher Dai only stays for two weeks, and after that, he has nothing to do with them, so many people are slack in class. But soon everyone discovered that Mr. Dai’s personality is much stronger than that of Mr. Bai. If you answer a wrong question by name, you will continue to answer the same type of questions; if the translation sentences are not smooth, you will be given extra homework; more strictly, He even has to take care of his sitting posture in class.
"It's already hot in summer. You will definitely fall asleep if you lie on your stomach. Sit down." Teacher Dai looked around and noticed that Chu Mian was dozing off with his head buried.
Yu Ran did not obey his instructions and explained Chu Mian's physical condition. However, after listening to Teacher Dai, he approached directly and tapped his fingers on the table, waking Chu Mian awake.
"If you're too sleepy, just stand and listen, or go out and wash your face to wake up." Teacher Dai's voice is thick and penetrating.
Chu Mian just woke up, didn't understand the situation, only heard Yu Ran in front of him saying dissatisfiedly: "He can fall asleep standing up, what's wrong with lying down for a while?"
"If you want to lie down, you can go home and lie down. No one in my class can be given special care, and it's not a big problem with him." The man's tone was unquestionable, and he turned his head and glanced at Yu Ran, "If you want to stand along Then stand."
Chu Mian could only see Yu Ran's side face, and the expression seemed to want to refute, so he reached out and pressed Yu Ran's shoulder, signaling not to say more. Then he took the initiative to stand up, took two more pills, and managed to stay awake.
Hot weather tends to make people feel irritable, so Yu Ran suppressed the fire in his heart, stepped on the ground hard, and stood and listened to the class with Chu Mian.
Chu Mian stared at Yu Ran's slender back for a long time, and then slowly lowered her eyes to look at the problem. The two stood like this for forty minutes with their heads bowed, and their necks were sore after class.
"What's so good about him as a substitute teacher? The lectures are not necessarily very good, but there are a lot of messes." Yu Ran did not forget to complain a few words during lunch, mainly because Teacher Dai was inconsiderate of Chu Mian. Sleeping sickness, "Besides, even if Chu Mian falls asleep in English class, she can still get the first place in the exam."
Yu Ran muttered to the end, with a hint of complacency in his voice.
"It's okay, he's the leader of the grade two in high school, he's just used to being strict, not to mention not every teacher is obliged to understand me." Chu Mian stirred the tomatoes in the bowl with a plastic spoon, scooped up a piece and put it in his mouth , cold and sweet.
He thought for a while, and told Yu Ran: "Remember to complete all your English homework these few days, don't let him catch you."
Yu Ran nodded perfunctorily, and scribbled on the English weekly newspaper after returning home. At first glance, it looked like homework was completed.
The representatives of the chemistry class handed out a stack of things one by one, and passed them down from front to back. Fang Zhao took it and saw that it was the CD that came with the chemistry tutoring materials. He put two in his arms, turned around and said with a mysterious smile: "Yu Ran, do you want a disk?"
"Why, you filmed it yourself?" Yu Ran immediately showed disgust on purpose, shook his head and waved his hands in resistance, "No, no, no, it's so dirty, Sadako wants to smash the TV after watching it."
The two pretended to push each other away, and finally the discs returned to each other's hands.
At the beginning, Yu Ran didn't take the CD-ROM of the tutorial book seriously, and stuffed it into the bookcase casually after playing with Fang Zhao. Unexpectedly, the next morning, the squad leader notified everyone to pay 80 yuan.
Many students were surprised "why do they charge money again", and after asking, they found out that the CD-ROM should be used in conjunction with the tutorial book issued before, and it is not an accompanying gift.
"It's just a broken disk, and it costs 80?" Yu Ran held it up and looked at it dismissively, "Who has nothing to do to review the CD, and the teacher said that the exercise book bought for 120 yuan last time was not good. There is no need to write, it means that it is not worth such an expensive price, so why are we still spending money on things we don’t need?”
After he finished speaking, many people in the class echoed him, showing embarrassment to Xuehua, and only said: "Because everything has been sent to everyone in advance..."
Yu Ran said as it should: "Then we'll return it."
"This... is unlikely." Xiang Xuehua clutched a wad of money in her hand, "The books ordered by the same grade have all paid for the other classes. Teacher Dai urged us to hurry up."
"Damn, the selling order is still forced to buy and sell." Fang Zhao complained and sighed, but like most people, he obediently took the money and handed it in. After all, this is a rigid requirement of the school, and the tutoring materials have been obtained, so no one has any reason to refuse to pay.
Yu Ran thought for a moment, then turned around and asked Chu Mian seriously: "Even the chemistry teacher said that he would not use it to review before the exam, so we have the right not to buy it, right?"
"Ok."
After getting Chu Mian's affirmation, Yu Ran had more confidence in refusing to pay the fee, but soon he saw Chu Mian wrote his name on a few banknotes and handed them over to the monitor.
Yu Ran couldn't help but said, "Why are you paying?"
"This is the rule."
"But there is a problem with the regulations. If you bought it and didn't use it, why can't everyone return it together?" Yu Ran plausibly said, "The school can't deliberately sell us a bunch of waste paper, and this CD."
Chu Mian nodded, agreeing with what he said, but still told him helplessly: "Because even if the school charges fees randomly, most people are willing to abide by the rules, so as not to cause trouble."
Yu Ran thought for a few seconds, and said seriously: "I'm not afraid of trouble, I want to return this thing, who should I go to?"
Chu Mian sat down, supported Yu Ran's arm, and advised him: "The exam is coming soon, don't waste time."
Yu Ran hesitated to speak, looked straight into Chu Mian's eyes, and insisted after a while, "No."
This was reflected in Chu Mian's expectations. He knew that Yu Ran's personality would make it difficult to swallow his anger, so he could only say, "If you have a way to make all the students in the grade refuse to pay, then the school should consider our opinion."
Mobilize the whole grade to boycott this kind of teaching aids... Yu Ran knows that this is impossible, the other classes have already paid all the fees, and my own class is about to pay all the fees, everyone should feel that one thing more is worse than one thing less.
But knowing that there is a pit ahead, Yu Ran really didn't want to close his eyes and jump in, so when the squad leader came to collect the money, he still chose to refuse.
Xiang Xuehua couldn't hold back him no matter what she said, so she had no choice but to tell the substitute head teacher the truth.
Soon, Yu Ran was called by Teacher Dai to talk in the office.
As soon as he left, Cui He whispered to Chu Mian, "Yu Ran will definitely be scolded by that man, why didn't you say a few words to stop him just now? After he is scolded by the teacher, he will definitely have to pay. Too bad."
Chu Mian looked at the empty seat in front of her, and replied truthfully, "Because Yu Ran's idea is correct, and I have no reason to convince him."
"Yes, but—"
"I think he would rather be taught a lesson by the teacher than we would deny him."
Chu Mian turned to stare at Cui He, "So I don't want to disappoint him."
Cui He froze for a moment, finally nodded, and said nothing more.
In the office, the atmosphere gradually became more gunpowder-like.
Ever since Yu Ran entered the door, the debate between him and Teacher Dai has never stopped. No matter how the teacher told him the importance of obeying the rules, Yu Ran always found various angles to refute the loopholes in the rules.
In the final analysis, Yu Ran focused on three words - why.
After arguing with him for a long time, Teacher Dai said dryly and impatiently, "I'll leave you alone after everyone else has finished their dues. Don't be an outlier here. If you don't want to pay, then I'll call your parents and ask her Bring you money."
"I'm just telling the truth, the school bought things randomly and forced us to pay, this kind of school leader is an anomaly." Yu Ran didn't show any weakness, "Even if you call my mother, she won't pay. My mother earns money very hard, so why should she waste money on me?"
Teacher Dai pinched his brows, really didn't want to spend too much time talking with this sycophant in front of him, the two of them spent two hundred dollars for this until the class bell rang.
"Okay, I'll hand it in for you!" Teacher Dai waved him back to the classroom for class.
Yu Ran is now in a dilemma, and he really doesn't want to owe the teacher. But if he paid back the money, he agreed to buy the chemistry tutorial.
After thinking about it, he still took out 80 yuan and put it on Teacher Dai's desk.
After Yu Ran returned to the classroom, he was depressed for a long time, and the low air pressure was obvious.
He grabbed Chu Mian unwillingly, and said solemnly, "No, I want to report the school, which number should I call, 315?"
Chu Mian shook her head, "It's useless, I checked just now, the chemistry exercise book was bid by the Municipal Education Department, and according to the policy, the school can directly buy it for us."
A set of tutoring materials is 200 yuan, and the total of the whole grade is more than 60,000. If the whole school is included, this amount is very considerable.
Fang Zhao couldn't help turning around and persuading him: "Forget it, Yu Ran, don't compete with this shit, many other schools are like this."
Yu Ran took a deep breath, fell down dejectedly, and whispered, "But I don't want Cheng Jun to have this kind of virtue..."
Here gave him the ideal campus environment, and let him meet many friendly classmates. The teachers also have their own strengths, and there are also cute mascots. It is precisely because Yu Ran likes Cheng Jun that he doesn't want the school's impression in everyone's mind to be ruined by such trivial matters.
If the students acquiesce to the mandatory teaching aid rules this time, they will definitely encounter the same situation in the future. Obviously everyone is reluctant in their hearts, but they still turn a blind eye and close their eyes. After too many times, they will get used to it and have no chance to resist.
Yu Ran felt stuffy in his chest and couldn't get rid of it, so he could only turn around and look at Chu Mian, which would make him feel better.
"What's wrong?" Chu Mian was a little at a loss as he stared at him silently.
"Is there any way to make the school stop ordering useless things for us next time?" Yu Ran was very distressed, "Can we only ask the whole grade to object as you said?"
"Impossible."
"I feel so too."
Chu Mian smiled lightly, and suddenly felt that Yu Ran was much more sensible than before if he realized this.
"Yu Ran, some mistakes cannot be corrected," Chu Mian said in a deep voice, "As long as we can always remember that there are mistakes in those things, that's enough."
Yu Ran rested his chin, and tilted the corners of his mouth with his palms.
He stared at Chu Mian's face for half a minute, then suddenly said, "It's not enough for us to remember."
Chu Mian looked at him.
Yu Ran immediately let go of his hands, sat up straight, and his eyes regained their brilliance, "You are right, if you can't correct your mistakes, then you have to remember them, and everyone has to remember them."
Only in this way, when the same situation happens next time, more people will be willing to ask "why".
"Where are you going?"
After class, Chu Mian saw Yu Ran hurried out of the classroom and came back after a long time, holding a stack of CDs of chemistry teaching aids in his arms.
Yu Ran put these back on his seat, went out again, asked students in other classes to ask for them, and then asked the students in the class, if anyone is willing to give up the CDs, he can give them all.
"So many discs, sell them?" Fang Zhao looked at him in surprise.
Yu Ran didn't answer, sat on the seat, unpacked these discs, and threw them all into a cardboard box.
Chu Mian had an ominous premonition, she held Yu Ran's shoulder and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Yu Ran avoided answering, and asked instead, "How did you break these discs into pieces? Breaking them one by one is too laborious."
"Smashing or sawing..." Chu Mian said, "If you want to do something, you can tell me first."
"Well, will you be together then?" Yu Ran asked casually with a smile.
"Maybe." Chu Mian looked away, "You talk first."
Yu Ran said "OK", knelt on the chair, leaned close to Chu Mian's ear, and said his plan: "I want to sneak into the school by climbing over the wall in the middle of the night..."
Chu Mian wanted to concentrate on listening, but his ears were pressed too tightly by Yu Ran's breathing, and his attention was always drawn away by Yu Ran himself.
After listening, Chu Mian only hesitated for a few seconds and said "Okay".
…
In the early morning of summer, the sun is strong.
Many students of Chengjun Middle School entered the school gate around seven o'clock as usual. However, just today, all the students who came to the school were shocked by what they saw.
The bronze horse statue, which was originally placed facing the school gate, unexpectedly changed into a new look today. The toned body no longer has a deep copper-golden luster, but shines with colorful lights in the sun, which is extremely dazzling.
When people got closer, they found that the statue was covered with fragments of irregularly shaped discs, which deformed the shape of the steed.
There is no doubt that this is an act of serious damage to the school's public property, especially the statue also symbolizes the image of the school.
When Cui He entered the school gate, he was dazzled by the light in front of his eyes several times in a row, and when he took a closer look, he instantly judged that it was Yu Ran's work.
Before the self-study started, she hurried to the bathroom to call Yu Ran, and wanted to tell him that it was best not to come to school today, which would definitely arouse the fury of the school leaders.
To her surprise, it was Chu Mian who answered the phone.
The boy said concisely: "Yu Ran is taking a shower."
"what?"
Chu Mian quickly added: "We are in the hotel."
Cui He was very surprised to hear such explosive news early in the morning. She forgot what she was going to say, and sighed softly: "You, you two have a room so soon..."
Chu Mian clicked her tongue on the other end of the phone, "I was too sleepy after sticking the disc with Yu Ran in the middle of the night last night, so I just spent the night outside."
"Oh... Ah? Last night?" Cui He couldn't believe it. "You two made the school statue together?"
"Yeah." Chu Mian is still very sleepy now, her voice sounded drowsy.
"No, Chu Mian, you, you dare to follow Yu Ran to do this kind of punishment now?" Cui He smiled wryly in disbelief, "But it's not necessary for the two hundred dollars! You two really …”
Chu Mian closed her eyes, and murmured sleepily, "I don't think it's necessary, but..."
But he doesn't want to see Yu Ran become a person who weighs pros and cons and blurs right and wrong one day in the future.
"But what?" Cui He couldn't understand his vague words.
Listening to the sound of water and singing in the bathroom, Chu Mian almost fell asleep, and muttered, "But I just want to be with him."