tenth year of teaching

Chapter 88 Lost
On Friday morning, after the first class, I went back to the office.

Lao Zhang came back after breakfast and said to Chu Xia: "Your phone has been ringing for a long time. Is there something urgent?" Chu Xia took out the phone and looked at the five or six missed calls on it. What's the school number?The last one is an unfamiliar mobile phone number.

When she called back, Song Xiaoqiang's voice sounded: "Why didn't you answer the call?"

"I'm in class..."

"Okay, hurry up and go to the training academy for a meeting in 305, right away."

"What's going on? Director? Huh?" Before he could finish speaking, the call was hung up. Chu Xia looked at her phone in confusion.But he still quickly grabbed his bag, got on his bike and went straight to the training academy, panting and running up to the third floor.

305 was full of people. She looked at the back door and saw someone speaking on the stage.He hesitated, not going in for fear of being disturbed, and stood outside the front door and listened.It turned out that what I was talking about was the Young Teachers' Lecture Contest in May. The person on the stage was the dean of the training college, explaining the spirit of the latest documents one by one.

Chu Xia was listening carefully when the door was opened and a bald man in his fifties came out. The man went out and found Chu Xia standing at the door.Somehow, he suddenly lost his composure and said, "Didn't you know you were early for the meeting?"

"I——" Chu Xia was about to explain.

The man interrupted her: "You are so careless. Why are you participating in a municipal competition? Why don't you cancel your quota? Which school are you from?"

"I'm from the No. [-] Middle School. I didn't receive the notice before. I don't know--" Before he could finish his words, the man turned around and walked away in a stride.Chu Xia was a little depressed, pursed her lips, and continued listening against the wall.

On the way back, I remembered that I hadn’t eaten breakfast yet, but there were still classes in the fourth period, and Chu Xia was rushing all the way to think about the content of the meeting just now.The document requires direct recommendation at the district level in the first week after May, and in the second week, go to the city to draw lots and give on-site lectures?Most of the requirements are the same as those mentioned before, but why is there an additional district-level recommendation?Didn’t we already tell who was participating last year?it's wired.

I didn't have time to think about it, the sports meeting plus the mid-term exam, all kinds of things in early summer were so busy that I was hitting the back of my head.After the regular teaching and research activities on Tuesday afternoon the next week, Wang Liwei left Chu Xia alone. She was a little surprised, why didn't Zhang Yunru stay with him?

She walked into the researcher's office in a daze. Wang Liwei motioned her to sit down and poured her a glass of water.Chu Xia was a little flattered, "Teacher Wang, how dare I bother you."

"Sit down, I have something to tell you today."

Chu Xia took the water and half-sat on the chair waiting for Wang Liwei to speak.

"Have you prepared a lot for the competition?"

"Well, I've basically sorted out all the chapters in the textbook, and I've almost done the PPT for the lecture." Chu Xia said with a smile.

Wang Liwei seemed to be in a bit of a dilemma, forced a smile and said, "Chu Xia, look at the new document, the requirements in it are different from what was stated last year."

Chu Xia stopped smiling and showed a puzzled expression.

Wang Liwei continued cruelly: "This time we have only one quota in the chemistry district. You see, Zhang Yunru is in No. [-] Middle School, which is a key city. The leader wants to recommend her to go. Of course, I know that you are also very good and have outstanding abilities. But there is no other way. Next time, next time I have a chance, I will definitely let you go."

Chu Xia was stunned, her heart felt like she had swallowed a piece of ice, and her throat lit up all the way to her stomach.She didn't speak for a while, and Wang Liwei looked at her with a troubled expression.Chu Xia suddenly felt embarrassed and reluctantly opened her mouth: "But, I'm almost ready."

"Uh-huh." Wang Liwei was also a little embarrassed. He cleared his throat and said, "Just think of it as a learning process. Although I didn't participate in the competition, I gained a lot from the preparation process."

Chu Xia opened her mouth, suppressed what she was about to say, and stood up with a smile: "Yes, you are right. In fact, I have learned a lot from you and other teachers, and I feel that I have grown a lot in the past six months. Thank you. Please help me, I will try my best in the future."

Wang Liwei seemed relieved and said with a smile: "Okay, I will definitely recommend him next time I have the chance."

When Chu Xia walked out of the training academy, the tension in her body immediately dissipated.She stood at the door and looked at the busy traffic on the road. She was a little confused and suddenly lost her strength.

'Why are you working so hard?No worse than anyone else, even harder.Every day I'm not a student, I'm preparing lessons, and then I'm preparing for this damn competition.I thought I could get a ranking this time and wash away the shame of last year's district competition.But what?It’s not that I didn’t even get a chance to play. I made one wrong step and one wrong step. I didn’t get into the city’s key high school, even though I worked hard to get into 211.It seems that the university and others are advancing at the same time, but in the end, one is not the focus of the city, and the other is struggling in an ordinary high school?try harder?I thought I could compete in the same field, but in the end, it was a joke that I couldn't even compete in the field? Chu Xia walked blankly, "I'm just a joke." '

She walked more and more anxiously, her lips pursed tightly.The bicycle was parked directly at the training academy. She followed closely and boarded a bus.I didn't care where it was going, I went straight to the last row and sat down, looked out the window, and then took a deep breath, the corners of my eyes began to turn red and sour under the breeze.

'It's all a lie. What kind of effort can lead to success?Fart, all fart. ’ She kept scolding in her mind, ‘Today, just today, I want to vent. '

The bus turned onto the road along the river park and roared away.

Before the evening self-study, the students in Class 9 were a little uncomfortable looking at the empty podium. In early summer, before the evening self-study, they would usually sit in the class to do tests, and by the way, they would find some students to ask questions or talk about questions (students give questions to the teacher). Today Why has no one been seen?

Zhang Yan was restless and waited until 6:30 when there was still no one. He finally stood up and left the classroom.In the bathroom, he dialed the phone: "Hello? Where are you?"

"Me? On my way home." The voice on the other end of the phone sounded very nasal.

"are you sick?"

"No~ Well, I'm a little uncomfortable. I'll go home and have a rest today."

Zhang Yan frowned, feeling that something was wrong with Chu Xia's mood. "Where are you anyway?"

"Don't worry about it. Are you okay in class? Tell Zhang Huaming that you should be more careful during evening self-study. I won't go back today."

"Are you all right?"

"It's okay. I'm going home. I really don't feel well. I need to go back and take some medicine."

Zhang Yan reluctantly hung up the phone, still feeling a little worried, so he thought about it and sent another message.Chu Xia looked at the words on the lighted screen: 'Have a good rest, remember to take your medicine, and call or send a message if you need anything. '

Chu Xia frowned, always feeling that something was not right, and could not explain clearly.Looking at this text message, she was a little alert, right?Zhang Yan doesn't just have a simple teacher-student relationship with him?I always thought that I had always cared a lot about him, plus I knew about his family affairs.You always treat him like your own brother, right?It’s not possible, it must not be possible.

She suddenly remembered that during the interview, the director of the Education Committee asked: "How do you explain teachers' ethics?" Chu Xia's hands were twisted together at a loss, and she was so confused that even her previous anger seemed less important.

(End of this chapter)