Chapter 23: Falling Out with the Teacher

  After the exam, I was caught by the school administration. Our school has always been very strict with cheating on exams. Before the exam, our class teacher emphasized that the school would catch and make an example of someone to warn others, in order to kill one to warn a hundred.

  Unfortunately, I set an example once.

  This time I took a math test, with a total score of 105. Due to cheating during the exam, I was directly deducted to zero points.

  I had just come out of the school office when I saw Zhang Kun, who was grinning at me with a big smile. I walked slowly towards him, feeling like punching him, but this was the school office and if any teacher saw us, I would be in trouble.

  Just cheated and fought, I guess the teacher will inform the parents.

  I believe that as soon as I make a move, Zhang Kun will call me teacher, this is the most shameless rascal I have ever seen.

  "You're really despicable, I've never seen anyone as dirty as you." I frowned at Zhang Kun, my anger growing even stronger.

  "You're not my brother or friend, why should I be kind to you?" Zhang Kun sneered with a smile, looking pleased with himself. "You really did cheat, and I didn't wrong you. You don't study hard usually, but during exams, you think about cheating and taking shortcuts to get good grades. Isn't that unfair to us who work hard every day studying and reviewing?"

  "There are so many cheaters, why single me out?" I retorted angrily.

  "Do you want me to say it out loud? Because I don't like the way you look at me" Zhang Kun smiled and said "I know about you and Wei Ge, and I also know you're trying to stir up trouble. You'll become my enemy sooner or later."

  "Treat your enemies with contempt" Zhang Kun smiled to himself "I will take the insults you gave me today as compliments"

  "You really have no shame" I spat on the ground in disgust.

  "Go ahead, scold me, I know you hate me now and can't wait to beat me up," Zhang Kun said with a sneer. "Come on, come on, I promise I won't fight back." "Fine, I'll fulfill your wish," I clenched my fist and punched him hard in the face.

  "You really dare" Zhang Kun came back to his senses and immediately walked into the teaching affairs office. I hadn't had time to leave when the head of the department called me in.

  He was the first one to be beaten by Zhang Kun, a hoodlum who often looked for teachers.

  "Li Jie, how can you be like this? Zhang Kun came over to apologize to you and you still hit him. You're really not a good person," the department head scolded me, scolding me until I was speechless. "Moreover, Zhang Kun didn't even do anything wrong. Cheating on the exam is wrong in the first place, and Zhang Kun exposing you was just doing his duty."

  "What? He came over to apologize to me?" I cursed, "Teacher, you can't believe this bastard's one-sided words. This bastard came over on purpose to provoke me, to get me to hit him, it was he himself who asked for it."

  "Besides, there are so many people cheating in the exam hall, and he can catch a handful of them at once. Why did he have to report me? Don't you think it's strange, teacher?" I spoke very clearly, implying that Zhang Kun had a personal vendetta against me, which is why he targeted me. Let's see if the head of the department will pretend to be ignorant or not.

  It turns out that the head of the department is still shielding Zhang Kun, saying "You said there are many cheating on the exam, you can report it, if you report more, the school will reward you"

  "I'm not that cheap," I said with a curl of my lip.

  "Shut up, this is your student's supervisory power, not cheap. Go back and write a 2,000-word self-criticism, bring it over before tonight, the content must be profound, sincere, and you also need to apologize publicly to Zhang Kun. The head of the department said coldly to me, "The thing just now, I was originally going to make a school-wide announcement criticizing you and calling your class teacher over, but Zhang Kun said forget it - look at his magnanimity, afraid you would misunderstand and come to apologize to you, yet you still dared to hit him!"

  "It was he himself who asked me to hit him" I still didn't believe it "I don't trust you, ask him to swear an oath for me to hear"

  "Shut up and apologize to Zhang Kun sincerely, and this matter will be settled. Otherwise, I'll call your class teacher right now and tell him about the fight, let's see how he deals with you." The head of the department threatened me fiercely.

  "Director, does it make sense for you to be so biased towards him? What kind of person Zhang Kun is, you shouldn't be unclear about that, right? Alright, let's take an oath together. If what I just said to you has even half a sentence of falsehood, then I'll get hit by a car when I walk out the door, and Zhang Kun will too." I stared at Zhang Kun "Do you dare to acknowledge it?"

  Zhang Kun looked at me without speaking, and cast a wronged glance at the department head.

  "You little brat, I don't believe you can't be dealt with. I'm going to call the department head right now." The department head threatened me.

  "Bring it on," I said calmly, despite being terrified inside - but I never backed down.

  I never had the habit of bowing my head to enemies, especially not to despicable people like Zhang Kun. There's a kind of depression called resentment. It's not that I have a bad temper or that I'm particularly talented. I know I'm not qualified to contend with Teacher, how can a small arm twist a big leg?

  But this grievance I couldn't swallow, even if it meant notifying my parents, I would fight it out.

  The head teacher arrived soon, after listening to it, the head teacher constantly scolded me, and even moved his hands. I bit my teeth, almost crying out in grievance. My eyes stared angrily at my head teacher, constantly restraining my emotions, maintaining the last bit of rationality in my mind.

  I was so angry I could have taken a knife and cut them all down.

  Because in my heart, they don't deserve to be a role model!

  Not only was I furious, but my class teacher and grade director were also furious. On the other hand, Zhang Kun was gloating on the side. After a stalemate for a while, the teachers saw that I still refused to apologize, so they let Zhang Kun go first, fearing that it would delay his review and affect his performance in the exam.

  After Zhang Kun left, I let out a long sigh and calmed myself down.

  Afraid, this psychological fear has disappeared from my mind. In my heart, there is only grievance and worry. My brothers have long entered society to struggle, their only hope is that I can leap over the dragon gate, take the imperial examination, and bring glory to their faces.

  In the mindset of our rural people, as long as a child is admitted to university, it represents having hope. Seeing neighbors and fellow villagers, they can hold their heads high with pride, feeling very dignified. On the contrary, if a child doesn't get into university, those parents would rather not go out at all, and even if they do, their faces are gloomy like a rainy day.

  When I made the call, I gave the class director my brother's phone number because I really didn't want to worry my parents. As soon as the class director heard it was my brother, he hung up the phone immediately.

  He then began to pressure me for my parents' phone numbers, but the home phone number I registered with when I entered school had long since been changed and never updated, so the class teacher and grade director could only ask me.

  At that time, I was very wronged and angry. My rationality had already lost more than half. I shouted loudly at the class teacher, "If you have the ability, just expel me. Stop calling my parents!"

  In the eyes of our class teacher, I was always a well-behaved student who never fought or caused trouble. But today, my outburst completely changed his impression of me.

  He gradually realized that his brother was also a man with a temper, a hot-blooded man.