The main obstacle to the failure of the school reform is the school's dean, Mr. Xie Ruiyun. Ms. Xie is 48 years old and one of the senior teachers in this school, who has been teaching at Huanting Middle School for many years. He is a native of Huanting Village. Except for leaving Huanting Village for more than ten years in senior school, he has almost never left the land where he was born and raised. Mr. Xie is not bad at teaching level, he is a well-educated person, but since he became the leader of this school, he has rarely been in charge of teaching. Since he has taught, the students in his class have been at the top of the school. He is a high-achieving student who graduated from the city's teachers' college, and after graduation, he was assigned to Huanting School to be a people's teacher. At that time, the school was not called Huanting Middle School, but Huanting Junior High School. It was not as large as it is now, with only one primary school and about 400 students in 10 classes from 1st to 5th grade.

Teacher Xie Ruiyun personally watched the scale of Huanting School expand little by little. He has been teaching at Huanting Middle School for more than 20 years, and the teachers in other villages have changed one after another. However, the local teachers from Huanting, with Xie Ruiyun as the leadership team, have been refusing to move their ass positions to transfer to other schools, and it is incredible that teachers from other places do not like to be transferred to the school of Huanting. Since some people do not take the initiative to transfer out, and some people are not willing to be transferred here, there is a strange balance, and this abnormal balance of teachers is actually not a good thing, because the ratio of teachers in the local area is too high will affect the normal teaching order of the school. But the education committee is also very helpless, the school can't stop for this, the children in the surrounding villages must go to school. In particular, some parents value Huanting Middle School because it is close to home and convenient for everything, so they also love to send their children to such a school. Xie Ruiyun was fortunate to have been the principal of the primary school for five years during this period, when he was the principal of this school, this kind of teacher's ecological habit was slowly formed, and there was no better way to crack this ecology, so he could only turn a blind eye and let the school's teachers be freely distributed, and until the establishment of Huanting Middle School, Xie Ruiyun withdrew from the position of principal, but the power of the teaching director has been held in his hands for more than ten years and has not been taken off. He has his own faction in Huanting Middle School, and now there are 23 teachers from Huanting Village. These teachers are basically in the same boat as him, making up a little more than a quarter of the teaching force. Therefore, Mr. Xie Ruiyun has a great voice in the school. Every time the school wants to carry out reforms, as long as it violates the interests of Huanting teachers, the plan will not be passed. Teachers in Huanting Village generally have poor self-discipline in their teaching attitudes, and these teachers can change their teaching curriculum at will without being constrained by school discipline. They will put down their students whenever something happens at home, and they have never been punished by the school without having to go to their own private affairs first, and sometimes they don't even have to ask the school for leave. Of course, some teachers "hate" this kind of casual thinking, so they will be dissatisfied with these teachers, and choose to leave the school because they do not want to "go along with it".

As soon as Mr. Chen Limin arrived at Huanting School on the first day, Principal Yang Zeping said to him earnestly: "Mr. Chen, don't be in a hurry to go out to visit your home in the afternoon, you have to go to Director Xie Ruiyun's house to sit and chat and listen to his plans for the school this year." ”

Teacher Chen Limin said: "Principal Yang, listening to your tone, Teacher Xie Ruiyun is the 'pivotal' figure in the school, isn't it? Okay, after lunch, I'll go to his house first. ”

Before Mr. Chen Limin was transferred to Huanting Middle School, he had heard a colleague talk about the people and things of Huanting Middle School. A colleague once said to him in a warning tone: "Teacher Chen, don't listen to others instigating you to transfer to Huanting Middle School, there is a tiger's den in Longtan, once you fall in, it is not so easy for you to jump out, and people who have a little relationship are eager to escape from this 'land of right and wrong'." ”

"In that place, not only are there many factions of teachers and contradictions, but I also heard that the villagers there are not easy to deal with, and the villagers are very 'tough', and no one can be offended." Another teacher chimed in.

It was such a rumor that made Mr. Chen Limin's curiosity reinstated. Teacher Chen Limin has never believed in these evils, but he has never heard that 'evil does not prevail over good'. The more he felt that the school was bad, the more he wanted to go there and 'experience it'.

With his own mind and Yang Zeping's strong invitation, Mr. Chen Limin had the determination to go to Huanting Middle School.

Teacher Xie Ruiyun's home is in the northwest corner of Huanting Village, which is not remote, but it is far away from the school. Fortunately, his home is on the same street as the school, but Director Xie Ruiyun's home has reached the western end of the village. And this village road is the main passage of Huanting Village through the southwest, the road is wide, about one kilometer long from west to south, the village road is paved with black, white, yellow and orange pebbles, about three meters wide, and the whole journey can be carried by a hand-held tractor. On the side of the road are dense farmhouses with yellow mud adobe houses, and occasionally buildings with green bricks and green tiles appear in front of you. However, the adobe walls are still very high in the proportion of the house structure, which is the street characteristic of Huanting Village.

The village road is dirty and messy, littered with grass clippings and dead leaves. Everywhere you can see dry or wet goat dung and chicken and duck feces and urine, and in some places there are stains left on cow dung that have been hastily disposed of.

At this time, it is after the Spring Festival, but it is still cold in spring, the temperature is extremely low, there are still scraps of paper after fireworks and firecrackers are set off along the way, and the smell of burnt mud of gunpowder is still left in the air, and the yellow scraps of paper are flying everywhere under the drive of gusts of wind, and a variety of mixed smells float over the streets from time to time, which makes people feel like they want to vomit under the scorching sun.

This kind of village road is taken for granted, and it is like this in almost every village, or it is much the same. Teacher Chen Limin walked all the way over, trying to avoid sheep feces and chicken manure on the ground. The sheep feces the size of black beans are a little dry, and the chicken and duck feces are a little exaggerated, and the shape, size, color, shade, dryness and wetness are not consistent, and the wet viscosity is very large, smelly and common, which makes people a little unguardable.

There is another kind of animal that must be watched out for in such a very unscenic village road, and that is the owner's dog or ownerless wild dog that is everywhere in the streets. It is easy to be attacked by a living person. Fortunately, Mr. Chen Limin has never encountered such a dangerous situation along the way. Teacher Chen Limin inquired all the way and finally found the Xie family.