Chapter 3: Each of Them Has a Record

  A "serious incident" of student strike occurred at Lanzhou University.

  The students who were watching in the cafeteria did not disperse, and this unofficial "serious" news spread online early, especially after several large-character posters were photographed and circulated on the campus network and Lu Zhou BBS. According to reports, it seemed that even reporters from the city TV station and newspaper came to interview, causing quite a commotion. The school administration urgently organized a meeting with the school office, student affairs department, security department, each department's party committee, class advisors, and logistics department, with some personnel blocking interviewing reporters and others notifying everyone to gather in the large cafeteria for an emergency meeting.

  As for the unclear content, it opened for more than an hour. Several Chinese department students had just left the cafeteria door when Department Head Wang Hengbin arranged for several backbone members of each class in the department to go to each dormitory to understand the situation according to the school leaders' instructions. Just after saying a few words, someone behind him shouted at him. When he turned back, it was Student Affairs Office Director Shi Chunhua waving at him, with Department Head Ren Qun and Class Committee Member Wang Huating from Class 2 of Grade 4 following behind.

  What's going on? Wang Hengbin saw the class teacher and team leader of Class 2 looking dejected, his heart skipped a beat, with an inexplicable sense of foreboding. The fourth grade Class 2 was a disaster-prone class, in four years, one student was expelled, one jumped off a building to commit suicide, there were two cases of attempted suicide, not to mention the numerous cases of romantic relationships and bloody fights. One class had more incidents than Wang Hengbin had encountered in decades of teaching. After arranging for the younger students to leave separately, he approached with some confusion and greeted: "Anything else? Director Shi."

  "Uh, in order to prevent this matter from escalating, the school party committee has instructed the student affairs office to participate in the aftermath... There are several key classes that our student affairs office will work with your department leaders to visit one by one." Director Shi's face was as stern and serious as an old tree bark, his expression so solemn for too long that it had stretched his face. Director Wang's heart skipped a beat, glancing at Class Advisor Ren Qun, who consciously avoided the gaze of Department Director, feeling guilty about not being able to help the department with his own class.

  Nothing good will come of this.

  As expected, Old Man Shi said with a serious tone: "We've been keeping an eye on several active students in each class. You're from the second class of grade four, and we've paid visits to those who have made a name for themselves. There's that Lei Dapeng, who always posts weird notices on the girls' dormitory bulletin board, and Liu saw him stirring up trouble... And then there's that student who writes articles with dissenting views, exposing our school in the provincial newspaper - yes, it was Si Muxian... This student is quite something, even having a file at the Public Security Bureau's Information Department."

  Director Shi adjusted his old-fashioned black-framed glasses, holding a small notebook with worn edges. The notebook was as old as the man himself, and it recorded the misdeeds of students with many stains on their records. He emphasized: "The most important one is this one, called Shan Yong, who even organized a sit-in protest, what a celebrity! When students can pull teachers off the stage, I've never heard of such a thing before... Don't underestimate today's students, they don't learn from good examples, but they learn all the bad habits from society and bring them into school."

  The head of the class, Ren Qun, and Wang Hengbin exchanged a glance. This was something that had happened a year ago. It started because a certain public course teacher had sold books to students, with the author being the teacher himself. In university settings, this kind of thing was already an unspoken rule that everyone understood: the teacher made money for themselves, and the students earned credits without having to attend class, making it a win-win situation. However, there was one person who didn't buy into this, and instead exposed the whole thing outside of the department, all the way to the school, the education bureau, and even online, where it spread like wildfire. The school couldn't ignore it anymore, so they made a show of handling it, giving the substitute teacher a warning and transferring him out of his original position. And that's how the first case of students turning against their teacher came about.

  It seems that the person who started it all is actually the important target that Shi Chunhuai is aiming at, and he listed several misdeeds of this student with the surname Shan and first name Yong. Just by listening to his name, one can tell that his weight is even greater than that of Lei Dapeng and Si Muxian combined. Not only Shi, but also Department Head Wang Hengbin and Ren Qun felt a bit uncomfortable when they heard this name.

  Fortunately, his own student, Ren Qun teacher maintained a sentence: "Director Shi, hasn't our school already handled this matter? Besides, with Qin teacher's affair, this is indeed a case of good and bad mixed in our teaching staff."

  Ren Qun, a gentle middle-aged female teacher, has always had a good reputation among students, but she has been too pale in maintaining it and the object is not right. Director Shi retorted from another angle: "The teacher was wrong, no doubt about it, but on the other hand, this reflects that these students fundamentally lack basic respect for teachers. Ren Teacher, count how many of your students have bad records? You can't always protect students, and you must seriously deal with those who are naughty and harm the group. This is all nonsense, next should be a boycott of classes, right? Do you still want to drag the teacher out for criticism?"

  It's a bit too much, blaming the students of Class 2 without investigation. Dean Wang Hengbin shook his head, this was related to Director Shi's stubborn and eccentric personality and experience, which was almost a leftover from being criticized by students during the special period, afterwards he treated mischievous students more severely than class enemies, if you encountered such students, even the dean or class advisor couldn't avoid being affected.

  "This won't do, Director Shi urged impatiently: 'Go, you three are the only ones in the fourth year, investigate one by one... Little Wang, you're the class monitor, right? Which dormitory are these people in? It just so happens that your class teacher and department head are both here, let's go together.'"

  As soon as this was said, the class teacher and team leader furrowed their brows, seemingly with a special emotion, which was immediately confirmed by the department head's words, helplessly waving his hand: "No need to bother, they're all in the same dormitory."

  Shi didn't expect that either, and he was slightly stunned. He followed Director Wang's footsteps to the dormitory.

  The four of them walked in a line, each lost in their own thoughts. The department head walked the fastest, with Director Shi following closely behind, his tall and thin figure slightly hunched over as he quickened his pace. Both of them had gloomy expressions on their faces as they entered the dormitory building. All the students who saw Director Shi, who had been transferred from last century, quickly scattered to the side, not daring to stay in his sight. It was a good thing that today he was preoccupied with his own thoughts and didn't notice any students who were dressed or styled in a way that didn't meet his approval, or else they would have been scolded. He walked straight towards the second floor of the dormitory.

  The two behind followed slowly, and Class Director Ren Qun asked the class's branch secretary in a low voice: "Hua Ting, is it 222 dormitory that did this?"

  "This... I don't know either." Wang Huating pursed her lips, looking very embarrassed.

  "What class did you have this morning? Have you seen any of them?" asked the head teacher.

  "A lesson on literary theory, I don't think they've shown up." Wang Huating said in a low voice, trying to recall, but couldn't remember these few people coming, and it wasn't strange that she didn't know, by the fourth year, skipping class had become more and more common, and with several classes having large public lectures, as long as there was no roll call, fewer than ten or twenty people wouldn't be noticed.

  Teacher Ren sighed and remained silent. Wang Huating walked mechanically, glancing at the class advisor. This Teacher Ren, who taught ancient literature, had a good reputation among students for being humble, kind, and gentle, especially with that strong scholarly air about him, which made the girls in the class adore him and even imitate his hairstyle. Usually, there wasn't much going on in the class, and if something did happen, the class officials could handle it, but when it came to the 222 dormitory, Teacher Ren's furrowed brow was always a sight to behold. Those three girls from the class were notorious not just within their department, but throughout the school as well. Wang Huating felt helpless even when she wanted to help share the burden.

  "Alas... these few, they're almost graduating and still won't let people be at ease. Lei Dapeng was a prep school student who came up and was mischievous, that's fine. But Si Muxian's grades have always been good, how come he's also following them in their mischief? And then there's Shan Yong, every semester he has to stir up some trouble, really can't do anything about him."

  Teacher Ren shook his head, as if muttering to himself. The students who could give Director Shi a headache were not ordinary students. These extraordinary few had all gathered in his own class. Ren Qun thought that even if he didn't say so himself, if they really invited that educational expert, it would be a huge headache.

  Wang Hengbin, who had gone up first, took the familiar route, turned onto the stairs, walked past the bathroom, and knocked on the door of room 222 next door. When the door creaked open, Simu Xian stuck his head out and said in surprise, "Huh? Director Wang, what brings you here?"

  Apart from classes, it's hard to see the teacher's face even on normal days. The department head visiting a student's dorm is not common, Wang Hengbin was about to push the door when he was inexplicably blocked by Si Moxian. Shi Chunhuai stretched out his hand and directly pushed open the door without being polite, Si Moxian who couldn't stop him in time hurried forward, pushing the lower bunk's Lei Dapeng who was covered with a quilt and softly shouting: "Get up quickly, get up quickly, the department head is here."

  It turned out that he had slept for a while. On the bed, humming and snoring, Lei Dapeng's turning over made the bed creak loudly. His eyes were easily opened to a slit, grumbling at Simu Xian not to disturb him from resting. However, when he saw the face of the department head, he was startled and quickly got up. As soon as he got up, it didn't matter, his whole body was exposed, revealing a fat back and buttocks. This scared Ren Lao Shi and Wang Hua Ting who were at the door, making them retreat backwards. Shi Chu Zhang was really fed up with this lazy good-for-nothing and said somewhat angrily: "In broad daylight, why aren't you wearing clothes?"

  "I'm not running naked. Even if I was, it's performance art, what's wrong with that?" Lei Dapeng said, twisting his head in discontent, and glared at the dorm manager. Si Mu Xian knew better and quickly gave him clothes to wear. Wang Director urged Lei Dapeng to put on his clothes and then told him to go wash his face. Lei Dapeng reluctantly took the basin and went to the water room next door. It was only then that their class teacher, Ren Qun, and Wang Hua Ting dared to enter the dormitory.

  The dormitory of the university is a uniform layout, with double-decker beds and single desks, which are simple and crude. The four uninvited guests at the door looked at Simu Xian, but no one spoke. Simu Xian, who was thin and short, seemed to be a rule-abiding person, and even if he were placed among high school students in Fuzhong, he wouldn't stand out much. In this way, even Director Shi couldn't associate the image of him with that of a leader who had just been removed from office, but rather suspected that Lei Dapeng, who looked very villainous, was more likely to be the one. Ren Qun and Department Head Wang Hengbin let out a sigh of relief, as the most troublesome and most likely to stir up trouble, Shan Yong, was not present, and with only Simu Xian and Lei Dapeng there, it wouldn't be too serious.

  Can the truth be found here? What is the truth after all. A few people have their own thoughts, and no one takes the initiative to speak up. Simu Xian was at a loss for a moment, and he had some doubts in his heart that Lei Dapeng was being held back by something small again by the department or the student office.

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