Courtyard House: My Wife is Xu Huizhen

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He Yuzhu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Auntie, the teacher is here!"

The old woman asked anxiously, "Where is it!"

"Please sit down, ma'am. I'll conjure up two teachers for you right now."

The neighborhood committee auntie sighed and was pressed down onto a bench by He Yuzhu.

"This was really exciting today! How about we learn it ourselves without a teacher?" Uncle Niu joked.

"Don't worry, Uncle Niu, the teacher has arrived."

After calming down Uncle Niu, He Yuzhu clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, quiet down. I'm going to introduce you to two new teachers."

Everyone was surprised and stared at He Yuzhu in silence.

He Yuzhu waved to Xu Xiaomei and Cai Quanwu, who were sitting next to him, and the two of them got up and walked forward.

Niu asked in surprise, "Boss He, you didn't find a young girl to be our teacher, did you? But why did Cai Quanwu go up there too?"

"That's right, that's right, Boss He, you can't fool us. Cai Quanwu can't even fart properly after three blows, and you still want him to be a teacher?"

"Yes, Mr. He, did you drink too much at midday?"

There were all sorts of opinions circulating online.

"Everyone, please listen to me quietly."

He Yuzhu said, "Don't look down on this young girl. After graduating from junior high school, Xu Xiaomei actively taught herself to recognize simplified Chinese characters, and now she knows no less than 500 simplified Chinese characters."

“I’ve been teaching literacy classes at the Sanhai Neighborhood Committee in the north of the city for a month now. I have a lot of teaching experience. Do you think I’m qualified to be a teacher in our literacy class?”

"What? You know 500 simplified Chinese characters?" Uncle Niu asked.

"Yes, as the saying goes, you can't judge a book by its cover, and you can't measure the sea with a bucket. In any industry, the capable are the teachers. Don't underestimate Teacher Xu just because he's young. He's also giving lectures to leaders in government agencies in District 5!"

Master Niu was now convinced and said, "It's because Boss He has connections that he managed to get the teacher back from District 5. What about Cai Quanwu?"

“Uncle Niu, I also went to junior high school,” Cai Quanwu said, a rare occurrence for him.

"Yes, everyone, don't think that Cai Quanwu is illiterate just because he makes skewer. He did go to school back then, but his family fell on hard times and that's when he started making skewer."

Hearing this, the neighborhood committee auntie finally felt relieved. Since Cai Quanwu had graduated from junior high school, there was absolutely no problem with him being a teacher in the literacy class. Moreover, there was also a blind teacher from District 5 giving a lecture, so there wouldn't be any problems when the leaders from the two levels came to inspect the work today.

She was seething with hatred for Xu Hesheng's decision to stand her up.

If nothing had happened earlier or later, but now, at this crucial moment of inspection, the person has disappeared, isn't that making things difficult for the neighborhood committee?

He Yuzhu said, "Now, let's invite Teacher Xu to give a lecture."

Everyone clapped their hands, and Xu Xiaomei walked confidently to the blackboard, picked up the chalk, and began the formal lesson.

At first, she was a little nervous and embarrassed, but after a month of teaching, Xu Xiaomei has become used to it and can handle both street officials and factory workers with ease.

Xu Xiaomei was a little confused about He Yuzhu's arrangements before, but now she understands that Teacher Xu had stood him up and secretly plotted against He Yuzhu.

Instead of explaining according to the original lesson plan, he directly wrote "keeping one's word" and "breaking one's word" on the blackboard.

"A word is a trustworthy word" is an idiom that means one should be reliable in one's words and trustworthy in one's conduct.

"Now that we know about keeping one's word, everyone can understand that being untrustworthy means speaking without integrity, having no credibility, forgetting what one said before, and not carrying it out."

Everyone laughed when they heard this. Although none of them could read, they had all heard of these two idioms.

Many insightful people realized that it was quite strange that Xu Hesheng, who usually came to give lectures every day, did not show up today.

The new teacher immediately started introducing the idiom "untrustworthy," which is exactly what he meant by Xu Hesheng not keeping his word and being untrustworthy.

The neighborhood committee auntie pulled He Yuzhu aside by the hand and asked, "What happened today?"

He Yuzhu said, "What else could it be? Xu Hesheng is a despicable person. He wanted to use this ranking to get a promotion, but now that his salary has been adjusted, he's simply not coming back."

"How can this person be like this? He only thinks about benefiting himself!"

The neighborhood committee lady was furious and said, "If he didn't want to do it, he could have said so in advance. He's not the only teacher here."

He Yuzhu said, "Yes, it's fortunate that Xu Xiaomei came today, otherwise today's inspection would have been a laughing stock, and the street and neighborhood committees would have been reprimanded by their superiors. Auntie, you've really reached the end of your term as director."

The neighborhood committee auntie nodded. Normally, things are fine; even if a teacher is temporarily absent, they would only get one day off at most.

But today's situation is different. Leaders from both the city and district levels have come to inspect. If they find that all the students are there, but the teacher who gave the lecture is missing, it will be a serious incident.

No matter how well the previous work was done, the street and neighborhood committees bear an inescapable responsibility.

Not to mention that I, an old lady in the neighborhood committee, would be held accountable, many cadres in the street would also be sent home.

"This Xu Hesheng is outrageous, he's worse than a pig or a dog."

The usually well-mannered old lady suddenly swore, which really angered her.

"Auntie, don't be angry. It's not worth it for someone like that."

"Or do you have a way to find a temporary teacher to replace him? Can Cai Quanwu also give lectures?"

"Okay, no problem."

"Alright, from now on, let Cai Quanwu teach them. If possible, he can also give lectures on the streets."

Being one step ahead makes it easy to gain an advantage. The simplified Chinese character standard has only been released for a short time, and only some teachers in schools have studied it in advance. No one in society will take the initiative to change their lifestyle and learn simplified Chinese characters automatically.

Xu Xiaomei and Cai Quanwu have taken the lead and seized the opportunity.

Although He Yuzhu started this literacy class, the neighborhood also provides support and gives teachers a stipend for teaching.

Moreover, this allowance is much higher than that of ordinary employees. This is also a way of making an example of the fact that literacy work is the most important task for all leaders, from top to bottom.

At this moment, the higher-level leaders also arrived, and the neighborhood committee auntie hurriedly went to greet them and invited them into the house to take a look.

However, the leader of the team did not go in directly, but stood outside the window to observe the scene inside the room.

He Yuzhu was somewhat surprised and asked Elena, who was following behind, "Why are you here too?"

"I want to take pictures and tell Moscow, to let everyone know about the amazing changes that have taken place on this land. Our workers over there are still illiterate, this is far ahead of the curve."

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"That's not a good idea. Please don't mention my name in the reports," He Yuzhu said.

Elena said, "Why didn't you tell me about something so good?"

"Just listen to what I say."

"No, you haven't been contacting me much lately."

"Okay, okay, I'll go when I have time."

Elena then snorted and turned to take a picture.

The neighborhood committee auntie held the street director's hand from behind and recounted the thrilling events of the day.

Xu Hesheng was a teacher at the primary school, while I was just the director of the neighborhood committee, so I couldn't manage things at the primary school.

He exaggerated the story and complained to the neighborhood director.

The neighborhood director was also very angry: "This Xu Hesheng is just too outrageous."

The three of them got together and gave Xu Hesheng a good scolding.

Others might laugh it off, but the street director and the neighborhood committee auntie both knew that if they messed things up today, they would lose their official positions.

This is no small matter. Leaders from both the city and district levels came to inspect the work and found that the work had not been done well. There were literacy classes but no teachers, which is a major incident.

At this point, Xu Xiaomei finished speaking halfway through her lecture and then invited Cai Quanwu to come up and give a lecture as well.

Cai Quanwu, without any stage fright, wrote the four characters "安居乐业" (peaceful and prosperous life) on the blackboard and even invited Ma Lianyuan to sing a lotus flower ballad.

The Lianhualuo song is about begging for money at a coffin shop. Cai Quan is useless, and Ma Lianyuan is used as an example to contrast the suffering before liberation with the peaceful and prosperous life after liberation.

The lecture was delivered with such vivid stories that even the leaders in the audience led the way in giving enthusiastic applause.

After the neighborhood committee director left with the inspection team, the elderly woman from the neighborhood committee patted her chest and said:

"What happened today was so exciting! The director and I almost had to retire and go home to live a peaceful life."

He Yuzhu chuckled. Damn Xu Hesheng, he never thinks before he does something. Is he offending only me?

I'm just an ordinary citizen, so it doesn't matter if I lose face in front of leaders at both levels.

The embarrassing part is for the street director and the neighborhood committee auntie. As leading cadres, how can they make such a serious oversight during an inspection? What will their superiors think of them?

Are they allowed to continue in their current positions?

They really don't use their brains when they do things.

The school is under the jurisdiction of the Education Bureau, and neither the director of the neighborhood committee nor the director of the street office has jurisdiction over it.

However, all vertically integrated government agencies also need to communicate with local leaders, as they require local support for many things.

After returning home, the street director immediately called the leaders of the district education bureau, mentioning that some teachers in their system were disorganized and undisciplined.

He acted without a plan and failed to live up to the people's expectations.

The education bureau leaders were still completely baffled. They quickly apologized and then asked what had happened.

The neighborhood director then mentioned Xu Hesheng, a teacher who went on strike without any prior notice.

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