tenth year of teaching

Chapter 271 Balance
Life is always full of ironies.It uses sadness to let you know what happiness is, uses noise to teach you to appreciate silence, and uses absence to evaluate existence. ——Kaertes Imre.

Li Zhonghong's condition became worse and worse. Sometimes when she came down from her third year of high school in early summer, she would be seen arguing with the principal at the corner of the first floor.Her face was red, her voice was trembling, and she kept repeating with a hint of begging.

"You just agree to my resignation. I'm really exhausted now and can't bear the pressure anymore."

"Keep on holding on. You see that you have reached the position of dean of academic affairs, and if you go one step further, you will become a school-level cadre. Wouldn't it be a pity to give up now?"

"Mr. Guo, I'm really not interested in this aspect. Please help me."

Chu Xia didn't want to hear too much, so she turned back to the house and closed the door.She had never thought that if Li Zhonghong resigned, she would be the only person in charge of academic affairs, and those who rose from deputy to principal might not be able to be promoted in their lifetime.In a daze, he went back to ten years ago. The scene when Song Xiaoqiang talked to him in the Academic Affairs Office was still vivid in his mind. At that time, the Dean of Academic Affairs was a superior leader to him.

She smiled bitterly. Compared with the expectation of promotion, she wanted to spend more time with her family.After the third year of high school, Shi Shi almost didn't get home until he fell asleep. Shi Shi had already gone out before he woke up. On the weekends, he was either having meetings or making up classes.Sacrificing her family to achieve her career was not her original intention.

While he was thinking wildly, Li Zhonghong walked in with red eyes. Seeing Chu Xia in the room, he felt a little uncomfortable and restrained his emotions.

Chu Xia felt a little embarrassed, "Boss, how is Auntie doing now?"

"Just dragging it on, we went to a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to take some traditional Chinese medicine and get injections to enhance our immunity. It's the same as usual."

"Then it's not getting worse, which should be a good sign." Chu Xia comforted.

"But it hurt so much that she told nonsense every day. She said it was all my fault. I was busy working all day long and no one took her to see a doctor. I would just leave the child to her and contribute to the family all day long. . Then he just cursed people, everything, no matter how hard he cursed." Li Zhonghong covered his face and said helplessly.

Chu Xia opened her mouth wide, not expecting that Li Zhonghong would be under such great pressure.

"I want to take a look after work every day, but I'm afraid to enter the house. When she sees me in pain, she scolds me, but if she doesn't look at it, she's afraid that she won't be able to see it someday. My eldest son was brought up by her since he was a child. Don't worry about me, I don't even have to cook when I go home, I eat ready-made and drink ready-made, just busy with work, until now, I really feel sorry for her." Li Zhonghong seemed to have opened up the chatterbox, and began to chatter.

"Did you know? My second son was sent to Inner Mongolia."

"Why? He's only a week old, isn't your mother-in-law watching over him?" Chu Xia was even more surprised.

"My mother-in-law is actually old, and my sister-in-law has always helped take care of her. As a result, last month, my elder brother was also found to be cancer, pancreatic cancer. In the worst case, surgery is impossible."

"Oh my God!"

"The eldest brother and his family only have a daughter who is in college and can't help with anything. My husband rushed back from the factory in Inner Mongolia to help contact the hospital for follow-up treatment."

Chu Xia was speechless. This was not a TV show. How could it be such a coincidence?
"Look at our family, what's the matter with this? Now I definitely can't take care of my second son, so my husband can only take him back to Inner Mongolia. We have found a full care provider there and he will take care of the child."

"You're still so young? Can you bear this?" Chu Xia couldn't help but feel distressed when she thought of the stone.

"I kept calling mom, grandma, and aunt at the airport, and kept crying. My husband said that when the whole family was sent to the hospital, he kept crying, crying every day, and he couldn't stand it anymore." Li Zhonghong's tone choked up, "My husband has been crying for two years. Tian came back to help his eldest brother with the formalities, and our second brother over there can only entrust his colleagues to help pick him up and drop him off in the morning and evening."

"How can you bear it?"

"The second child can talk and walk later than the eldest child. I really feel sorry for him."

In early summer, I remembered that Li Meijin’s lecture that I always read mentioned that children must stay with their parents during their childhood attachment period, so as to form a stable sense of security, otherwise it will have a great impact on the child’s growth.

"The eldest will go to junior high school soon. After graduating from elementary school this year, I have to study hard. If I am still doing these jobs, no one will be able to take care of me." Just as he was talking, Li Zhonghong's phone rang.

"Yes, Jiaqi, then go home by yourself and be sure to lock the door. When mom orders takeout for you, be sure to ask who opens the door again. Do you understand? Okay, turn on the alarm clock. Be careful when crossing the road to go to school in the afternoon. Safe." He was obviously talking to his eldest son.

"You let him go home by himself, there are so many cars on the road?"

"There is no way. My dad used to pick him up and drop him off. Now my mom is sick. They went to the city for a checkup today, so the kids can only go to and from school by themselves. I have to finish the things at hand quickly. There is no self-study in the evening, so I have to go early. Go back to cook, help with homework, and study English online.”

"You?" Chu Xia swallowed, and the steamroller kept rumbling outside the window. "If you need anything, tell me and I will help you in any way I can."

Li Zhonghong smiled bitterly: "You are also very busy, and it is not easy for you to be a senior in high school at the same time."

After a pause, she added: "But you have to be prepared next year. I will definitely resign. I have contacted School Huo. Didn't he go to be the principal of No. [-] Middle School? He said that as long as I can resign For academic affairs, you can apply to teach in No. [-] Middle School.”

Chu Xia suddenly raised her head: "Isn't this great? Going to No. [-] Middle School to just teach, what a great thing."

"Yeah, but I don't know if it's okay, so don't talk about it."

"Oh, I know, don't worry, I won't tell you."

No. [-] Middle School is the city's key point. In the past two years, due to policy reforms such as quotas for schools, it has been expanding its enrollment. Some of the teachers needed are interviewing new graduates, and some are directly selected from various schools.If Li Zhonghong can seize this opportunity, it will be a very good thing.

But what none of them expected was that after it became clear that the Education Committee had approved Li Zhonghong's resignation, Guo School suddenly withdrew her resignation application. It was not until the No. [-] Middle School teacher selection was completed that it approved her resignation application again. In this way, she The opportunity to transfer to No. [-] Middle School has been missed.

Li Yang, a senior regiment official, would always be dissatisfied when chatting with Li Zhonghong in the office.

"It means using people to face the front and not using people to face the back. If you use them, you will die, if you don't use them, you will add insult to injury."

"It's okay, as long as I can resign, at least I can have time to go back and take care of my family." Li Zhonghong looked lonely. In fact, after graduating from the position of academic director, he was somewhat unwilling to do so. Although he strongly applied for resignation, after all After working in management positions for so many years, I feel a big gap when I retire.Moreover, I have to continue teaching in this school. Everyone is a familiar face and seeing each other day and night still feels awkward.

(End of this chapter)