Ye Lingtian looked at the crowd and asked in surprise, "Teacher Yang, Principal Gao, why are you here?"

Mijing Village is still about ten miles away from the town, so why do so many people come all the way to this small mountain village?

"You are Ye Lingtian, right? Congratulations! Huh? You're carrying a bag, are you going out?" The leading middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses and a black briefcase smiled. He said to Ye Lingtian.

Ye Lingtian looked at this person, and at the same time searched the memory in his mind, but found no impression of this person, and asked suspiciously: "I am Ye Lingtian, are you?"

Seeing this, Teacher Yang quickly reminded him: "Ye Lingtian, this is Director Wang of the County Education Bureau. Why don't you invite Director Wang to come in?"

"Oh, Director Wang, Principal Gao, and Teacher Yang, please come inside." Education Bureau?Director Wang?Hearing Teacher Yang's words, Ye Lingtian's heart skipped a beat, he faintly sensed the intention of these people, and hurriedly invited them into the main room.

At this time, Yang Sulan also came to her senses, and hurriedly moved the stool to pour tea and water, but she couldn't get any tea fruit.

Since Ye Liancheng passed away in a car accident, the number of guests in the family has also decreased, and basically no one visits the house throughout the year.In addition, the family background is inherently difficult, and except for the holidays, tea and fruit are rarely prepared on other days.

"Director Wang, Principal Gao, and Teacher Yang, you don't even know that you are coming, and the family is not prepared, so let the leaders see the joke." Yang Sulan looked embarrassed, and turned to Ye Lingtian and said, "Lingtian, hurry up!" Go to the small shop at the entrance of the village to buy some sweets for tea."

"You don't need to be so polite! Ye Lingtian, please sit down first." Director Wang stopped Ye Lingtian who was going to buy candy, and said to Yang Sulan with a smile on his face: "Are you Ye Lingtian's mother? Congratulations, you gave birth to a baby." Good son, he has cultivated a good seedling for the country!"

"Good seedling?" Yang Sulan looked at Director Wang who was smiling suspiciously, and was confused by the unreasonable congratulations for a moment, and her face was full of puzzlement.

Director Wang tapped the table lightly with his fingers, and said excitedly: "Huh? It seems that you may not know that your son Ye Lingtian is the number one student in liberal arts in the national college entrance examination this year, and has been admitted to Yenching University! This is not only your family The glory of Guixing County is also the glory of our Guixing County! This time, I was entrusted by Secretary Cheng of the county party committee, and I made a special trip to congratulate you!"

"National college entrance examination champion? Yenching University?" Yang Sulan was startled by the sudden surprise, and after a while she said in amazement: "Is this true? But Ling Tian told me that he didn't get into the university!"

Director Wang's expression darkened immediately when he heard the words, he turned his head to look at Principal Gao and Teacher Yang beside him, and asked seriously, "I didn't pass the exam? What's going on here, huh?"

"How could it be? Ye Lingtian, I personally gave you the admission letter from Yenching University. Why didn't you pass the exam?" Teacher Yang's complexion changed, and he quickly asked Ye Lingtian and explained to Director Wang at the same time.

"I...I..." In front of so many people, Ye Lingtian couldn't say it.

As the saying goes, family ugliness should not be publicized. If you give up going to college because of your poor family, it will not only be laughed at, but also looked down upon.

Seeing Ye Lingtian faltering, Teacher Yang also put on the shelf of the class teacher and asked seriously: "What am I, what's going on?"

Really forced to do nothing, Ye Lingtian decided to go all out, took a deep breath and said, "I didn't tell my mother the truth because my family has no money. Not only do I have no money, but I also owe a lot of money to others."

After a pause, Ye Lingtian continued: "I don't want my mother to continue to work so hard. Look at my mother. She is only in her early forties this year, but she looks 60 years old on the outside. This is all the years since my father passed away. In order to support the family and to let me go to school, I was exhausted. So I hid the fact of being admitted to Yenching University from my mother, and I also decided not to go to college, but to work to earn money and share the burden of my mother. Help the family pay off their debts."

As soon as Ye Lingtian finished speaking, everyone in the room fell silent, or they could be said to be stunned.

"Ling Tian, ​​you bastard, you are so capable that you dare to lie to mom, huh? You know that your dad's biggest wish is for you to be admitted to college. Your dream has always been to go to college, but you are now admitted Why did you give up! No matter how hard and tired your mother is, she will let you finish college!" Yang Sulan's face darkened, and a burst of anger suddenly rose in her heart.

She didn't expect that her son, who had been obedient and sensible since she was a child, would dare to lie to her, and it was such a big deal as going to college.

"Mom, don't be angry. Over the past few years, in order to support this family and provide for me to go to school, look how tired you are! If this continues, I don't know how long you can support! I have no more Father, I can’t lose my mother again! The debts owed to others must be paid off after all, I go out to work to earn money, and I can pay back a little bit of money, and I can feel more at ease in my heart.”

Seeing Yang Sulan get angry, Ye Lingtian couldn't help feeling a little guilty, and boldly explained.

The room suddenly fell into silence, and the atmosphere became a little dull.

After a while, Director Wang broke the silence, coughed twice, pointed to Ye Lingtian's mountaineering bag and asked: "Student Ye Lingtian, it seems that you are carrying this bag to go out to work?"

Ye Lingtian looked at Director Wang, but didn't answer, just nodded silently.

Director Wang saw Ye Lingtian nod his head in acquiescence, pondered for a moment, and said solemnly: "I didn't expect Ye Lingtian's family situation to be so difficult, and the top student in the national college entrance examination would be reduced to the point where he dropped out of school to work. This is the negligence of our educators! If today we If we don’t come, what a big mistake we will make, and the country will lose a pillar of talent!”

Then he took another look at the dilapidated house due to years of disrepair, Director Wang adjusted his glasses, and said to the people behind him earnestly: "Who would have thought that the number one student in the national college entrance examination would grow up in such an environment?" , Talents come out of adversity!"

The few people who came with Director Wang were also very shocked. They all lowered their heads when Director Wang said this.

Especially Teacher Yang, as Ye Lingtian's head teacher, he didn't know his family background at all, and couldn't help but blushed a little, and said with some shame: "Director Wang is right, it's because we didn't do a good job!"

Principal Gao also said sincerely: "After we go back, we will definitely hold a special meeting to formulate a set of plans, and conduct a thorough investigation of the students in the school, and we will never make similar mistakes again."

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