Chapter 45 An Ominous Storm

Back home, Zhang Jianjun didn't go straight upstairs. Instead, he stayed in his garage, sitting in his car, waiting for Xia Fang's reply.

He had hesitated before sending the message.

Poaching top students from other schools was actually quite common. Many mediocre schools suddenly produced top students because they had spent a lot of money to poach some particularly arrogant outstanding students from famous schools.

In the past, when he was the director of a high school in a county, there were basically no students admitted to Hua Qing or Ji Da. The county hadn't produced a student for either of those universities in five years, not even art students.

At that time, Zhang Jianjun, still the director, went to a meeting at another school. There was a student at that high school who was being criticized by the school for being in a relationship and they wanted to confiscate his phone.

Zhang Jianjun seized the opportunity and contacted the student's parents privately.

He said that as long as they could transfer to the county's No. 1 High School, all expenses for the third year of high school would be waived, they would get a single dormitory room, there would be several teachers teaching one-on-one, and there would be a high scholarship funded by the school every semester.

Then, after finding the parents, he went to find the student.

When poaching him, he only said two things.

First, I don't care if you use your phone in the dormitory.

Second, your girlfriend, who can't even reach the first-tier university entrance score, can come with you and receive the same treatment as you.

Because of this, the leaders of that school called him and cursed him for half an hour, even directly saying things like 'bastard.'

In the end, probably wanting to make his former alma mater regret it, the child was very competitive and his Gaokao score directly exceeded the top university admission line by a dozen points, and he won the third place in the entire prefecture-level city.

It was also because of this third-place winner that the source of students for the county's No. 1 High School directly took off.

Originally, children studying in the county looked down on the No. 1 High School and tried to enter the best high school in the prefecture-level city.

This situation was very common. As soon as the high school entrance examination ended, the high schools in prefecture-level cities would use their stronger strength to take away all the top students from all the counties below, just like digging up coriander.

The county's No. 1 High School could only pick from the remaining students, choosing the best from the worst.

But because of that mercenary's achievements, the entrance scores for the ace class of the county's No. 1 High School were directly more than ten points higher than in previous years, and the quality of students could be said to have improved by a large margin.

The principal of the county's No. 1 High School had just retired from being the deputy county magistrate the year before.

And at that time, he also relied on this achievement to successfully transfer to Xia Hai's establishment, becoming a teacher in No. 4 High School, and entering the administration the following year, becoming the deputy director.

That's right, Zhang Jianjun, who turned No. 4 High School into hell and strictly opposed early relationships, made his fortune by 'early relationships.'

At that time, this incident caused him to be scolded as a shameless villain by many people in the industry.

But now, do you think the mayor dares to scold me like that?

The result is more important than the means.

But this time, he was already a big principal, and still doing this kind of thing...

Zhang Jianjun was really a little worried.

It wasn't that he was afraid of failure.

But he felt that after success, He Hongtao would turn against him...

Although he wasn't familiar with him in the first place, just superficial friends, but after all, they were both principals in the same district, and they would see each other often.

Forget it.

When I get into the bureau, I'll recommend him to our No. 4 High School, and then he'll have nothing to say.

So Xia Fang, please reply quickly!

………

Hearing these words, Xia Fang's heart skipped a beat, and she felt that Chen Yuan in front of her suddenly didn't look like a child anymore.

To be honest, she really wanted Chen Yuan to come to No. 4 High School.

The learning environment of No. 4 High School was definitely more suitable for him. With the assistance of these famous teachers, the probability of winning against Shi Yi would definitely be greater.

And Xinyu's side…

She had never been very accepting of excessive help from her family relatives. If she could get a scholarship from the school and waive all expenses, and even subsidize her to go to university.

This was an excellent thing for Xinyu.

It could save a lot of 'suffering', making the child more relaxed and not having such a heavy ideological burden.

Of course, this matter all depended on Chen Yuan's own ideas, he would decide. After all, Principal Zhang was giving him face, and she couldn't stand on the moral high ground and parrot others.

"Xinyu is right, you are not a boy."

Looking at Chen Yuan, her aunt rarely showed a comforting and gentle smile, and nodded, "Our Chen Yuan is a man."

In fact, the aunt had thought of some things after seeing the two of them change houses and rent together in another community that day.

The rent was definitely going to increase, after all, it had changed from an old and dilapidated single room to a two-bedroom apartment.

And this money, could it be shared by Xinyu?

That wouldn't be the case.

Chen Yuan, or rather Chen Yuan's family, had already been subsidizing Xinyu.

So, believe in your child.

Then, confidently hand over our Xinyu to him.

"Auntie is joking, I'm far from enough." Chen Yuan said modestly.

"You're too modest, you're very good." Xia Fang nodded, then patted his arm with a smile, and said, "That matter, keep it a secret, don't tell anyone."

"Definitely, I won't embarrass Auntie and Principal Zhang." Chen Yuan nodded in agreement.

"Okay, let's go in and eat."

Just like that, Xia Fang took Chen Yuan back to the private room.

And because she had to eat with her future in-laws, she didn't have time to talk to Principal Zhang in detail.

She only replied, 'Let me chat with Chen Yuan, Principal Zhang, please wait a moment,' and then followed the table etiquette, not playing with her phone, and chatting and laughing with everyone.

"Um..." After Xia Xinyu whispered to Chen Yuan for a while, she stood up and looked at Chen Yuan's parents while holding a plastic cup of peanut milk.

Chen Yuan next to her also stood up, holding a Coke in his hand.

"Let's toast Uncle and Auntie."

Xia Xinyu was actually not good at this kind of thing, but she felt that as a girlfriend who had confirmed the relationship, she should do a little something, so she endured her embarrassment and took the initiative to toast.

Yang Junlian and Lao Chen also quickly stood up, holding tea in their hands, as a substitute for wine, and smilingly accepted the two's toast.

"Uncle and Auntie, eat and drink well." Chen Yuan also said.

Then, Xia Xinyu bit her lip and gently nudged his waist, signaling the kid not to be cheeky.

"Okay, Uncle will eat and drink well, thank you, nephew, for paying the bill." Lao Chen was not annoyed, and went along with him, taking out the scholarship money.

"Hey, you—" If Chen Yuan hadn't been invented by this guy, Chen Jianye, the husky would have pointed at him.

"Hey, hey, first time visiting Xia Hai, don't fight with me." The aunt raised her hand and said quite strongly, "In the future, when we go to He Xiang, we will trouble Brother Chen and Sister Yang."

"Definitely, we will definitely treat you well when you come to He Xiang." Yang Junlian responded with a smile.

After the pleasantries, Zheng Minghao also held up the peanut milk and said to Chen Yuan and Xia Xinyu: "I wish my brother and sister success on the gold list soon, and get married..."

"Okay, thank you."

Xia Xinyu immediately interrupted the casting, forbidding this cousin to be embarrassing.

Then, she and Chen Yuan toasted this polite junior together.

A harmonious family gathering, without any thoughts or schemes.

But outside of this dinner, because of someone, a bloody storm had already begun...

…

Hurry up, Xia Fang!

Why haven't you replied after so long?

Zhang Jianjun, who was eating, kept looking at his phone.

And his wife was a little puzzled: "Why don't you seem to be in a good mood today? Shi Yi, didn't he do very well on the exam?"

Faced with the question, he sighed and told his wife the truth.

His wife was also stunned and said, a little puzzled: "Then isn't this equivalent to falling out with He Hongtao?"

"Yes, so I think I did something wrong..." Saying this, Zhang Jianjun shook his head again, "No, I didn't do anything wrong. According to Chen Yuan's development, maybe his grades can really threaten Shi Yi. And he is from Xia Hai."

"What's wrong with being from Xia Hai?"

"If he is from Xia Hai, it means that if Chen Yuan surpasses Shi Yi, then Shi Yi won't even be able to get the city's top scorer." Thinking of this, Zhang Jianjun felt thorny, "Think about it, a person who was originally guaranteed to be the top scorer in the province, but only got the second place in the city, isn't that a pity?"

"Yes, maybe it's even the city's second-place winner with the highest score in history. It's clearly just a little bit short, but it sounds like a lot." His wife nodded and agreed, "In that case, even if No. 1 High School doesn't get anything, in terms of publicity, we can use the number of Hua Qing and Ji Bei students to compare with us."

"That's right, if No. 1 High School also gets the top liberal arts scorer, then the year after will be a complete wipeout."

That would be equivalent to a year of working in vain.

It would be even further away from Xia Hai's No. 1 High School.

"That influence is really quite big."

After thinking about it, his wife said: "If Chen Yuan comes, even if he doesn't win against Shi Yi. You can say that Shi Yi bravely won the top scorer in the province, and Chen Yuan won the city's second place with a high score."

Thinking of this form of publicity, Zhang Jianjun was directly hooked out of the corners of his mouth, and suddenly became enlightened: "That's right, this is a good thing."

With such a solid and highly valuable resume, he can take it out and use it wherever he goes.

After all, this is a result achieved through actual combat.

Good, good, good, He Hongtao, this kid, I'll offend him if I have to.

Just as Zhang Jianjun was relieving himself and then eating a few mouthfuls of food, a phone call suddenly came in.

Contact: He Hongtao!

Why is it him?!

Zhang Jianjun panicked as if he had stolen something and bumped into the owner of the house.

"Hello, what's wrong?" Zhang Jianjun stuttered a little when he spoke.

He Hongtao on the other end of the phone opened his mouth with a faint smile and said, "Principal Zhang, let's talk about Chen Yuan's matter."

?!

Zhang Jianjun closed his eyes and frowned.

He's in a hurry.

Who leaked the news?

This He Hongtao is here to question him!

There's no way.

He can only show his cards.

Zhang Jianjun thought of the past memories of being scolded as a bastard.

Feeling guilty, he lost his confidence when speaking: "You, you already know?"

Then, a confused voice came from the other end: "Huh?"

Huh?

What is he 'huh'-ing?

Why is he 'huh'-ing?

"No." Zhang Jianjun quickly changed his words and said calmly, "What do you want to say?"

"I'm saying, Principal Zhang hasn't forgotten the bet I made with you earlier, right?" He Hongtao said.

The bet…

Oh!

That's the matter!

Zhang Jianjun then remembered that what the other party said was that if Chen Yuan reached the top university admission line, he would not make things difficult for the girl named Xia Xinyu.

So, what he said at the beginning about 'Chen Yuan's matter' was not referring to the leaking of his poaching.

Then wouldn't my reaction just now have exposed me?

If he delves into it and asks Chen Yuan…

It's terrifying to think about!

This poaching is very likely to fall into a double dilemma of not being able to poach anyone and being resented by He Hongtao.

It's a big loss!

"Oh, oh, this, ah..."

Because of extreme guilt and shame, coupled with the fact that he was a little embarrassed to do this kind of thing as a big principal, he immediately became enthusiastic, and when facing a mere little He Hongtao, his tone became much more polite...

…

Something's not right, why is Zhang Jianjun speaking so politely today?

This guy has always had an arrogant attitude.

It's like he has that mask welded to his face, and he carries a very heavy burden.

If this kind of person becomes the director, what will happen?

There's a problem, there's definitely a problem.

He Hongtao was originally a sunny and cheerful principal, but today he was made a little dark by Zhang Jianjun, and he always felt that the other party had done something to hide from him, or even something that was sorry for him.

You already know?

Why would he say this sentence?

Because he misunderstood my meaning!

So, he and Chen Yuan definitely have something going on…

But, Chen Yuan is my student, how could he have something going on with Chen Yuan?

The chain of suspicion has begun.

Then,

Dark.

It's fucking dark!

Although he doesn't know what's dark, He Hongtao always feels like he has glimpsed a page of darkness.

So, in this mood, he dialed Chen Yuan's number.

After a while, the other party answered.

"Hello, Teacher, what's wrong?" Chen Yuan said while chewing.

"Are you eating?" He Hongtao asked with a smile.

"Yeah, I'm eating out with my mom, what's the matter?"

"Then can you find a convenient place to talk?"

"Okay, Teacher, I'll do it right away."

The other party agreed quickly, very cute.

How could such a simple and good child be polluted by this guy Zhang Jianjun?!

He Hongtao is thinking, guessing.

After a while, Chen Yuan said, "Teacher, I'm free now, tell me."

"Principal Zhang Jianjun, did he say anything to you?"

After He Hongtao asked, there was silence on the other end.

And this reaction also confirmed it.

There is indeed something going on!

"It's okay, tell me, don't worry, you can tell me anything." He Hongtao put on a kind smile.

"… Okay." Chen Yuan said somewhat awkwardly, "Principal He, can I ask how you knew about this?"

"…" He Hongtao endured his emotions and replied, "I just called Principal Zhang Jianjun, and he let it slip."

He Hongtao said this to let Chen Yuan know.

It has nothing to do with other people, so there is no need to worry about the matter being leaked.

And after saying this, the other party was relieved and said after hesitating, "Principal Zhang asked me if I wanted to go to No. 4 High School…"

Bang!

Hearing this, He Hongtao slammed his hand on the table, and the water glass shook slightly.

At this time, He Xuan, who came in through the door, shrank nervously at the door like a little mouse...

(End of this chapter)