"Teacher Ouyang, you asked me to come here..."

Jiang Tian looked carefully at her head teacher whose eyes were red from crying.

I thought to myself, I haven’t done anything to make my head teacher angry recently?

He studied hard and did not recruit students from his vocational school in the class. He was extremely well behaved.

The teacher was crying like this, it definitely wasn’t because of her!

Ouyang Sihai put down the student's homework, coughed, and asked Jiang Tian with a stern face:

"I heard that you introduced all the students from our school to work as bricklayers at your uncle's construction site?"

"Student He Tiantian, you must know that a student's obligation is to study hard in school!"

"Your parents work hard outside to earn money to send you to school, not to let you waste your precious weekend time moving bricks on construction sites."

"In short, as the class teacher, I don't want to see this happen again in our class. Go back and tell your uncle that he is not allowed to let students from our school carry bricks on your uncle's construction site anymore!"

Why are you moving bricks at such a young age?

To put it bluntly, if these kids don't study hard now, they will have plenty of time to work hard in the second half of their lives!

Are you in such a hurry to go to the construction site to carry bricks? Do you think your grades are good enough for getting into high school?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. After sending Jiang Tian away, Ouyang Sihai was still furious and continued to correct the remaining homework.

He just couldn't believe it. How could anyone, after all running to the construction site to carry bricks, have the energy to sit down and write an essay?

I continued to open the second book. Hmm, no wonder it was placed on a pile of homework. It turned out to be He Sanhua, the student in the class who had difficulty writing essays.

He Sanhua's father? Wasn't he the one who came to ask him at the beginning of the school year whether He Sanhua could get a diploma if she didn't go to school and studied at home by herself and took the high school entrance exam?

At that time, Teacher Ouyang was so confused by the question that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

After asking carefully, I found out that He Sanhua's father felt that the family was under too much burden and wanted He Sanhua to go back to help with housework. Also, if she didn't come to school, she could save a lot of tuition fees every year.

He has a good plan, but is the school a place where parents can bargain as they please?

If all students do not go to school and just borrow the school's academic records for the high school entrance exam, can Caoyuan Middle School still continue to operate?

Ouyang Sihai refused without hesitation and criticized He Sanhua's father.

Junior high school is not elementary school. There are more subjects and the knowledge points are more profound. Let alone someone with average talent like He Sanhua, even among the top 50 students in their school, there are not many who can complete all the junior high school courses at home through self-study.

He Sanhua's father hesitated for a long time at that time, until other classmates in the class handed him their payment receipts, He Sanhua's father reluctantly paid the money.

At that time, Ouyang Sihai was worried that He Sanhua's father might not allow her to continue her studies next semester.

After all, the cost of junior high school is much higher than that of elementary school.

Nowadays, children in the countryside usually go to school in village-run primary schools, and they usually go home for meals. The tuition and miscellaneous fees are only a dozen yuan a year, plus they can buy some notebooks and pencils, so it doesn’t cost much.

But it is different in junior high school. Many students who live far away have to live on campus and have to pay extra accommodation fees every year. Children of this age are in the period of growing up and eat more. The annual tuition, food expenses, book fees, etc. add up to a considerable expense.

Ouyang Sihai always thought that He Sanhua's father would force his daughter to drop out of school sooner or later. Unexpectedly, when He Sanhua went to Hu Dajiu's construction site to do odd jobs, she unexpectedly ran into her father!

He Sanhua had always thought that her father would sooner or later let her drop out of school and go home to help the family farm.

Unexpectedly, although her father said he was stingy with the money, he still went to the construction site to carry cement and sand to save money to pay for her tuition.

I heard from fellow workers on the construction site that He's father had only been there for two days, but he was very hardworking. After a tiring day for other workers, he would go to get two taels of liquor and buy some cheap braised tofu skin to improve his meals.

Forget about buying alcohol, He's father couldn't even afford the cheapest cigarettes. When others asked him about it, he said that the family had a daughter and a son who were still studying, and both had good grades. He couldn't just focus on his son's schooling and ignore his own daughter, right?

Fortunately, his daughter will finish junior high school in a year and a half. If she can be admitted to a high school or a teachers' college or a medical college, he will continue to support his third daughter's schooling even if he has to sell everything he has.

At that moment, He Sanhua finally understood that it was not that her father did not want to send her to school, but that the family really had no money. Her father had considered it for a long time and felt that she was smarter than her brother and might be able to learn well by studying at home, so he wanted to discuss with the head teacher to see if he could save her tuition.

The result is of course that no money can be saved.

He's father was worried for several days at home, but he still couldn't bear to let He Sanhua drop out of school and go home.

But my son still owes tuition fees for the village primary school. What should I do?

Father He could only leave all the housework to his wife, and he ran to the construction site to carry cement.

Uncle Hu is an honest man. Other construction contractors try every possible means to delay the payment of wages to migrant workers with all kinds of excuses. Although the wages offered at his construction site are not as high as those in the provincial capital, he is able to pay full wages every month.

Just because of this, many fellow villagers come to Uncle Hu to do odd jobs.

He's father had no skills and could only do the hardest, most tiring and lowest-paid job as a "manual worker". In addition to carrying cement and moving bricks, he also had to serve the bricklayers, help mix the mortar, and run up and down to transport the mortar.

Sometimes if I was a little slow, I would be scolded by the experienced bricklayers.

Seeing the elderly He's father being loudly scolded by a bricklayer who was younger than him, and having to put on an apologetic smile, He Sanhua hid in a corner, covering her eyes and crying for a long time.

At the end of the composition, He Sanhua said that she must study harder and strive to be in the top 20 in the class in this semester's final exam.

She also has to continue moving bricks at the construction site to earn her own living so that her father will have less pressure.

Will moving bricks at a construction site on Sunday really affect my studies?

At this moment, Ouyang Sihai suddenly began to doubt himself. Was what he had just said to He Tiantian too narrow-minded and prejudiced?

Let’s not talk about other courses for now, let’s just talk about composition. After this period of training on the construction site, he, as a Chinese teacher, has clearly discovered that the compositions written by students are no longer empty and boring diaries.

Even those who usually cannot squeeze out a single extra word in their writing can now write a "long epic" of more than a thousand words with ease.

Does he, as a class teacher, really want to let his students go to the construction site to carry bricks?