Before the summer, the school bought a set of popsicle production machines, which was the result of the noisy start of the new semester after the Spring Festival. After the start of the school year, the teachers talked about what they saw and heard during the Spring Festival, and they shared a strong feeling that teaching in this school was the most pitiful. Mr. Zhang said that in addition to the year-end bonus, his brother's factory also distributed everything needed for the Chinese New Year, such as chicken, fish, oil, vegetables, vermicelli, yellow flowers, fungus, pig, beef and mutton, as well as all the ingredients needed for cooking, and even a large bundle of toilet paper. Mr. Hu said that in addition to the above-mentioned food, his sister's company also distributed electric blankets, electric cups, and air pressure hot water bottles. After all, everyone thinks that the school is not as good as the enterprise, so it is compared with the school in the hometown, this school runs a leather shoe processing factory and sends a pair of fur shoes worth more than 30 yuan to each teacher...... The discussion went from private to public, and finally entered the agenda of the school council, and the popsicle machine was bought.

The two houses where the original work-study students "learned to work" were completely cleared, the walls were refreshed, and the popsicle machines were installed. Because it was clear from the beginning that it was profit-making production, it naturally could not be borne by students. So they had to hire migrant workers, so a few or even most of the teachers complained to the principal Cheng Bin about their difficulties, asking to recruit their sons or wives who were idle in the countryside to be popsicle workers. Principal Cheng Bin's lover is also in the countryside, and he wants to get his strong middle-aged lover to earn a little income, but he finally didn't say anything in the face of many teachers' requests. He said to all the applicants, "Okay, well, let's talk about it after we study it." "Principal Cheng and Director Wu have worked out the fairest way to let all applicants draw lots. The result of drawing lots is naturally that he is happy to catch the empty and has no opinion on the principal, because the principal himself has also caught the short. There is no back door, Mr. Wang did not participate in the lot, his three daughters have already married, and an only son is studying at Jiaotong University, which is the envy of many teachers.

The production of popsicles was smooth and of good quality, attracting some young men and women from nearby villages and towns to pick up popsicles. Within a few days, several teachers suggested to the principal Cheng Bin, that it would be better for the teachers to make their own money by producing popsicles but letting others make money. When Principal Cheng and Director Wu were further studying, Yang Xiaoguang, a physical education instructor, couldn't wait to bravely break through the forbidden area, took the lead in picking up a box of popsicles in the popsicle factory, and put them under the trees on the playground, so that the students could play basketball and football under the scorching sun, jump rope and flip the bars, and then announced a five-minute break: "At least one popsicle per person, pay cash if you have cash, borrow it from classmates in the same village if you don't have cash, and if you can't borrow it, you can take it with you when you go to school." "He has four or five physical education classes a day, and he can make seven or eight dollars from the popsicles he sells. Someone immediately reported to the principal, Cheng Bin, the problem of Yang Xiaoguang selling popsicles to students. Principal Cheng talked to Yang Xiaoguang, but he couldn't imagine that Yang Xiaoguang was more upright than the principal: "Do you produce popsicles for people to eat? Do you only allow outsiders to eat and not for students in your own school? Don't you see those vendors selling popsicles to students at the school gate? On such a hot day, students are so hot that they are dying of thirst in physical education class, and they rush to the gate to buy popsicles, can I still go to this physical education class? What is wrong with me serving students, caring about students' health, and supplying popsicles to students? You don't have an opinion, who has an opinion, who has an opinion, who should bring it up to me in person, and let him teach physical education! I can die of heat and freeze to death in three dogs, and teaching physical education is considered to be bad luck for eight lifetimes, who of you as a leader can say a fair word?"

Principal Cheng Bin was the first to mess up under the barrage, and immediately changed his smile and tone to explain to Yang Xiaoguang that it is necessary to treat the opinions of the masses correctly, and if there is no change, it will be encouraged. It seems that he is not looking for Yang Xiaoguang to talk about problems, but to do consolation and pacification work. It's not that Principal Cheng Bin is weak and incompetent, but Yang Xiaoguang's skills teach him that he can't be hard. He already had a premonition that Yang Xiaoguang was going to say the words that were half arrogant and half scolding: "If you don't raise a master here, you have a place to raise a master." "There is a shortage of physical education teachers. In the past, the old physical education teachers were all engaged in logistics because they were old, and the young physical education teachers were not even assigned to the school in their hometown for many years. Yang Xiaoguangyuan is not a physical education teacher, he won the gold medal in the high jump in the peasant games in the county, the county sports committee cherishes this young man who won the honor for the county, recommended to the school to be a private physical education teacher, and because of a skill, he is given priority to become a public teacher who eats imperial food, which is a hundred times more popular than those teachers who teach politics, Chinese and mathematics. Principal Cheng said: "I have praised you many times for your hard work in teaching physical education, but the problem is that the sale of popsicles has to be studied by the school. You should know the old saying, 'The world does not suffer from few, but from inequality.'" 'Do you sell popsicles?' so you don't have to think about it calmly......"

"I didn't think about it at all, and I couldn't be at ease. Yang Xiaoguang didn't admit it at all, and his attitude became harder, "You...... Just sign my report and let me go. If you sign it, I'll leave immediately. The county sports committee has long asked me to go to the ......."

President Cheng Bin didn't even have room to step down, so he had to spread his hands in embarrassment and said without knowing what to say: "Look at you, where have you got! I'm talking about selling popsicles, but you're pulling up the transfer ......."

Mr. Wang's dormitory is separated from Yang Xiaoguang by a wall, and the reed mat ceiling is not separated by a sound, and he listened to the conversation between Principal Cheng and Yang Xiaoguang. Before he could finish listening, his hands trembled with anger and he had to stop preparing for the lesson. He imagined that the principal Cheng Bin was probably going to die of anger. He imagined that if he was the principal, he would say: "Yang Xiaoguang, you want to go to heaven, you want to go to the ground, you want to go to the county sports committee, even if you go to the Olympics, you can get out of here quickly! Even if the physical education class is canceled in this school, I don't want you to be a thing that lacks morality!" He wanted to point to the guy with messy hair and coax him who didn't know the depths, "You don't talk like this and do things like this, you don't look like a people's teacher ......at all." However, he didn't say anything, but he couldn't listen to it anymore, so he walked out the door, walked around the playground, and laughed at himself, I have been teaching all my life, and I have never said a word of great words in front of people.

In the evening, an all-teacher meeting was held to study the problem of how to sell popsicles. Teacher Wang was surprised again, no one objected to Yang Xiaoguang's sale of popsicles, and even the principal and director did not mean to oppose it, but asked everyone to discuss how to sell it, so that everyone could "earn a few cigarette money", and there would be no problem of "not suffering from widowhood but unevenness". The discussion was very lively, until midnight, when a plan was finally discussed: the teachers took turns selling popsicles.