Do not say. Qi Liang persuaded Xu Sijin to return, but he refused, Qi Liang persuaded again, Sijin, go home with us, and I will send you to Tubao Yucai School tomorrow to study.

I'm a teenager, what else do I read? Illiterate is illiterate. Qi Liang pouted, but in fact, he liked to go to school a little bit, because there were a lot of people there, and it was fun.

Silly children, how good it should be to read, and if you learn culture, you will be able to make a difference in the future. Listen to my mother and Uncle Qi, go home first, and I'll send you to school tomorrow. Hu Yingzi's heart was also warm, and he felt that Qi Liang really helped him by sending four catties to study. Xu Sijin was moved by what he said, and followed the adult back without saying a word.

The next day, Qi Liang and Hu Yingzi took Xu Sijin to the Tubao Yucai School on the opposite side of Songshan. This school is run together as an elementary school and a junior high school, and is divided into two columns, the east row for junior high school students and the west row for elementary school students. When he found the principal Tian Yucai, it happened that the school was out of class, and as soon as he saw Xu Sijin, he excused himself, saying that he was so old and in the first grade, could he save face? Usually the first graders are only six or seven years old, but your child is in his teens, like a young man.

If you can take it, I'm willing to read it. Xu Sijin said confidently with both hands holding the new schoolbag with the strap hanging from his chest.

Even if he wants to study, he can't! It's been two months since school started, and I can't catch up, so let's come next semester! Tian Yucai's eyebrows frowned as soon as he said that, and the crow's feet with freckles at the corners of his eyes also trembled slightly.

Didn't you say that he was older and wouldn't it be older to wait another semester? Hu Yingzi took what he said to his "army".

Anyway, it's already old, and I don't care about another semester older. Come back to me next semester. Tian Yucai still wanted to refuse, so he said so.

Qi Liang pulled him to a plane tree on the edge of the campus playground and said something alone, Hu Yingzi saw the principal nodding, and then took Xu Sijin and arranged for class one (four). Qi Liang also went to the school finance office to pay the tuition for a semester, walked out with the receipt, and called Hu Yingzi, who was waiting outside the door, to walk out of the school with satisfaction.

When he left the school, Hu Yingzi, who had always been puzzled, asked, how did Principal Tian agree?

Qi Liang replied, I said something that touched him, and he agreed to accept it. I said that we are a combined family, the four-pound father died early, he is very unfortunate, due to the dilapidation of the family, lost the best opportunity to get an education, now if he continues to wave outside, this child will be ruined, I don't send the child here, where to send it? Besides, if the child is ruined, doesn't the school, as an educational institution, have no responsibility? If you don't accept him, I'll have to send this kid to the county education bureau to find the director.

Hu Yingzi immediately interrupted him and said forget it! Principal Tian may be afraid that you will ask the director of education for accountability, so he agreed to accept the four catties.

It could also be yes. Whatever he wants, just take the child. lest the four pounds be wasted outside, and steal outside, and cause trouble for us. Qi Liang said, he had already walked a long way, and saw a river in front of him, this river is called Longpan River, and the shape of the area through which it flows is like a dragon coiling around the earth. On the hill across the river stands a stone pagoda.

Qi Liang touched the scene and sighed emotionally, explaining the origin of the pagoda to Hu Yingzi, saying that it was built by a local Taoist priest named Wu Fazi during the Ming Dynasty in order to suppress the river demon and raise money from the people. Since the pagoda was repaired, no one has died in this river. I hope that Tubao Yucai School will suppress Xu Sijin like a pagoda, so that he can restrain his bad habit of stealing outside and become a good person.

I hope you must be kind to him. Hu Yingzi said.

Am I going to treat him badly? I treated him like my own. Qi Liang said so, and after going home, he did the same. When his two children came home from school, they quietly said good things to them, they were really obedient, let Xu Sijin in everything, and let Xu Sijin eat anything delicious, Xu Sijin saw that Qi Bin and Qi Lin were good to themselves, so they were good to them, and they didn't quarrel anymore, and the family got along happily.

But not long after the peaceful days, another nerve-wracking thing happened.

One morning, Hu Yingzi, who was wearing an old plaid dress, was carrying water to water the seedlings in the vegetable garden, when she suddenly heard the barking of a dog from the village. After a while, a middle-aged man from her neighbor Qi Yue ran to call her with sweat. When I asked what was going on, he said that a female teacher came to Tubao Yucai School, saying that she was the head teacher of four catties, and she was looking for you to have something.

What's the matter? It's definitely not a good thing, Hu Yingzi thought, she didn't say anything, she put her hand into the bucket that had not yet been poured and there was half a bucket of water left to wash it, splashed the water again, and quickly went back with a bucket.

The Qi Yue of the letter had long since disappeared, and a fashionably dressed strange woman was standing at the entrance of the village and looking at her approaching, with a shallow smile on her face, looking polite, friendly, and self-contained. The strange woman greeted Hu Yingzi, who came over with two empty buckets, and asked, are you Xu Sijin's mother?

Yes! Go and sit in the house, have a cup of tea, if you have anything, you can tell me directly. Oh, by the way, what do you call it? Hu Yingzi was beating a drum in her heart, worried that Xu Sijin would get into trouble again, but she tried to stay calm and answered politely.

My surname is Xiong, and I am the homeroom teacher who teaches Xu Sijin. Just call me Bear. I don't have to come to your house to sit, don't be polite, there is something to tell you, Xu Sijin has skipped school.

Alas, Mr. Xiong, how did he skip school? When did you skip school?

I skipped school for two or three days, and I didn't show up for school for two or three days. He also asked two male classmates in the second year of junior high school, Xia Gao and Long Lai, to skip school together.

That's okay, I watched him go out with his schoolbag every day, thinking that he went to school, how do I know that he skipped school?

A dialogue let each other know some of the real situation. Hu Yingzi also learned from Teacher Xiong's conversation that Teacher Xiong was arranged by Principal Tian to come to her, thinking that as long as Xu Sijin was found, the other two classmates would naturally be with him, because Xu Sijin was the head.

Teacher Xiong also said that Principal Tian asked me to relay his words to Xu Sijin's parents, and if Xu Sijin did not return to school tomorrow, he would be told not to go to school in the future, and the school would remove him.

Originally, he was an older junior transfer student, with poor grades, and truant from school, and when the final exam came, he would pull the back leg of the class, and also pull the back leg of our school, the total score of the final exam results of our school students should be ranked in the whole district, compared with other schools of the same level, if the ranking is behind, it will be shameless, and even chase responsibility and deduct the teacher's bonus, so we have pressure.

Principal Tian said that he heard that Xu Sijin had been arrested by the police and sent to a juvenile correctional center for re-education through labor, and his character was not good, and our school should not accept it.

Hu Yingzi was silent for a while, and after listening to Teacher Xiong's words, she felt nervous and the seriousness of the problem, and immediately said, I will go to find Sijin immediately, and if I find him, I will send him to school today. If I can't find him, he will go home at night, and I will educate him after I go home, then I will definitely send four catties to school tomorrow, and as for the other two classmates, I also asked him if he took him to skip school with him, and if so, I asked him to ask those two classmates to go to school together.