The assembly was dispersed.

Under the flagpole, Ma Fei stood lonely with his head bowed, and the unruly pretending to be just now disappeared.

From time to time, students passed by the playground and pointed at him from afar. Mr. Koko walked over with a glass of water converted from cans, touched his shoulder, and handed him water. Ma Fei turned his head stubbornly.

In the director's office next to the playground, a debate is unfolding about him.

Xinyu and Xiao Meng trotted behind the angry Director Yan and entered the office first. Ma Haowen stood at the door and looked into the room.

On the four walls of the office hang many pictures of students, each with a description of the student's class, the year of the college entrance examination, and the ranking of their college entrance examination scores in the province. He noticed that the most obvious position was an empty picture frame.

"Even if you stay on probation, is it? Please, Director Yan. Inside the house, Xinyu pleaded in a low voice.

Xiao Meng also lowered the decibel level significantly, and begged with an unprecedentedly soft face: "Why don't you give me some face?" Really, how can I mix up in Dongpei? ”

"Why is the admission rate of Boyu College Entrance Examination close to 90%?" Director Yan said with an awe-inspiring face, "From primary school to senior high school, our cumulative elimination rate is at least 56 percent, and such backward students are advised to transfer to another school in principle. I've never been in favor of arbitrarily evaluating a student's potential, but where did his IQ come from? ”

Xiao Meng and Xinyu nodded desperately with Director Yan's first few words, but when they heard the last sentence, the two suddenly became embarrassed, looked at each other, and no one squeaked.

Director Yan continued to talk loudly: "It is not easy for people to do one thing well in their lives. If one day I die, I have a clear conscience. Because I have my children. The city's first provincial champion went out from here. He stood up and pointed to the picture on the wall: "Look. resumed the first year of the college entrance examination and was admitted to Peking University. In 1986, 1987 and 1988, they were the top three in the province for three consecutive years. The most recent, last year's top student in liberal arts. ”

"This is my treasure house, and my best children are hanging on these four walls." Director Yan's heroic tone suddenly changed, "Do you think Ma Fei may be hung on the wall by me one day?" ”

Xiao Meng muttered: "Hmm...... It could only be a car accident. ”

Xinyu glared at him, and before he could speak, the door was slammed open, and Ma Haowen broke in.

"Ma Fei is fine. Ma Fei is no problem at all. I don't allow you to say that about him. ”

Xinyu suddenly changed color, and hurriedly stood up and blasted him out: "Let you wait outside, why did you come in?" Get out and ......."

Ma Haowen walked straight to Director Yan, and said calmly: "'A gentleman knows the difficulty of learning, and knows its beauty and disadvantages, and then he can learn metaphors, can learn metaphors, and then can be teachers. 'The name of your school is taken from the Book of Rites, right?' Confucius still said that there is no class in teaching, and what you care about is only the admission rate, and the backward children are not trying to make them catch up, but quickly abandon them. ”

Xiao Meng was busy and praised: "That's a great point! What do you mean? ”

Director Yan was a little confused by the criticism of snatching the door, and he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive: "Didn't you ask who this is?" ”

"Ma Fei's parents, Ma Haowen." Ma Haowen puffed up his chest and said proudly.

Director Yan turned to Xiao Meng and asked with some sarcasm and anger, "Is there a controversy here?" Captain Meng, I agreed to Ma Fei to enter the school, but it was entirely because you said at that time that you were the child's parent. ”

"Stepfather!" Xiao Meng hurriedly stepped forward and poured the old water from the teacup on the table, added some hot water, patted Director Yan's shoulder affectionately and said with a smile, "Hahahaha, look at how forgetful you are, I have told you about the special situation of our family, how did you forget - Ma Fei is a stepson, I am a stepfather, and my wife is widowed." ”

"She's widowed, so what am I? Corpse fraud? Ma Haowen wrinkled his nose dissatisfied, looking down on Xiao Meng's flattery.

Xiao Meng was so anxious that he squeezed his eyes: "Don't talk nonsense, what kind of corpse are you cheating...... You! Lao Ma, you are the second uncle of the child! While waving his hand at Ma Haowen at the bottom, he muttered in a low voice: "Don't make trouble, it's all for my son to go to school......"

"Ma Haowen?" Director Yan's eyes suddenly looked at Ma Haowen, his mouth smacked, and a smile slowly appeared on his face, "I remembered it, I saw it on TV." I said which master was quoting scriptures to discuss education with me, it turned out to be the designer of Dongpei Bridge! Do you think you have the right to question my profession, our city hero, before figuring out your own major? ”

Ma Haowen was speechless like a bullet in the heart, and his chest, which had just stood tall, instantly shrank.

Outside there was the sound of the class bell.

Director Yan sneered and picked up the textbook and water cup from the table: "Sorry, I still have class." Engineer Ma, I'll make a special trip to ask you about the relationship between engineering mechanics and pedagogy another day. Hurry up and help Ma Fei contact the new school, don't delay the child's affairs! After speaking, he shook the door and walked away.

Xinyu's emotions that she had been holding back finally broke out, and she said angrily: "What's the matter with you, I was relieved to let you go, and I didn't let you stir up the ...... of you" All the anxiety, helplessness and humiliation accumulated this day prompted her to search for words in her mind that could better vent her anger and hit the target, and she wanted to scold the scapegoat in front of her.

She was about to speak, when she noticed that Xiao Meng was desperately pulling her sleeve. She looked up and saw the silent Ma Haowen and found that his face was already quite unkind. Following Ma Haowen's line of sight, she saw the boy standing downstairs from the window - what looked like a child in his youth? It was a shadow that had been drained of all its spirits, standing dejectedly, like a question mark.

"It's over, this kid is completely hopeless!" Xinyu swallowed all her anger, tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, and she stomped her feet, "I don't care anymore, what is the love." ”

Ma Haowen looked at Ma Fei, but there was a strange light in his eyes.

On the edge of the playground, Director Yan hurried away with his textbooks.

Teacher Xiao Gao shook his ponytail, his face was full of anxiety, and chased after him all the way from behind: "When did you make the decision to expel Ma Fei?" Why don't I, the head teacher, know? Ma Fei has a lot of shortcomings, but he is still a child, and we should give him another chance. ”

Director Yan let out a chuckle from his nose, he didn't stop, turned his head and said amiably: "Article 5 of the school rules, the school does not need to obtain the consent of the class teacher to punish students, especially the acting class teacher who is still in the internship period. If I were you, I wouldn't care about the whereabouts of this rat, I would think about how to make the rest of the soup more delicious. ”

Teacher Xiao Gao felt like he was choked, his face was flushed, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

"Director Yan!" Ma Haowen's shout suddenly came from afar.

Director Yan looked back, couldn't help but be taken aback, and stopped his steps. Teacher Kotaka and all the students, teachers and staff on the playground couldn't help but stop and look at the sand pit in surprise.

Ma Haowen stood by the sand pit, moved his hands and feet, spit twice into his palm, and then easily jumped on the parallel bars and flew up and down. After a beautiful set of moves, he jumped down and stood firmly in the bunker.

"As you say, this is the only way to be qualified to speak to you. Is it okay now? Ma Haowen smiled calmly.

This time, it was Director Yan's turn to be shot in the heart. When Xinyu and Xiao Meng chased him out, they happened to see his blackened face.

Ma Haowen said loudly: "Ma Fei's bad performance has nothing to do with the school, I should be the main responsibility as a father, even if everyone gives up on him, I won't." I want to make a bet with you - from today, he will give up boarding and change to day school, it is the credit of the school to study well, and it is our problem to study poorly, and then you think that in the final exam, how many places he ranks, the school will not expel him? ”

Everyone was waiting for Director Yan's answer.

Director Yan tightened the textbook under his armpit, shook his head, and continued to walk forward with a sneer: "Inexplicable, ridiculous. ”

Ma Haowen quickly followed his footsteps and asked gently but firmly: "This is your field of expertise. Are you scared, Director Yan? ”

Director Yan's face sank, and he stopped to look at him.

"In the final exam, what is his ranking, and the school will not expel him?" Ma Haowen asked again.

Director Yan looked at the people in the playground, and everyone craned their necks to look at him expectantly. He groaned slightly: "Okay, just do as you say...... Let's be in the top 10 in the class. ”

There was a buzz of discussion from the crowd.

Xinyu was so anxious that she shouted at the edge of the playground: "This is simply impossible." He had no idea how bad Ma Fei's foundation was. ”

Ma Haowen turned a deaf ear, and his two eyes just stared at Director Yan: "Okay, top ten!" But I'm talking about the top 10 in my grade. ”

There was an even louder buzz from the crowd.

Teacher Xiao Gao couldn't help but widen his eyes and began to look at Ma Haowen seriously.

Xiao Meng was dumbfounded and whispered, "This guy is crazy." Did you let your cellmate break his brain in it? ”

"It's not just the top 10. I'm going to bet you that by the time he graduates from high school, he's going to be the best kid here. You'll hang him on the wall. Ma Haowen said word by word, his tone full of firmness.

The entire playground fell silent, and everyone was shocked by the confrontation between the two men. The strictness of the teaching director meets the stubbornness of his father, and he finally meets his opponent.

According to Director Yan, he had taken about 12,300 students in his lifetime and met nearly 30,000 parents of students. However, at that moment, he already knew that the parent of the student who had just come out of prison standing on the edge of the parallel bars was the most special one.