"Guo, Guo, congratulations!"
"You have to treat us this time, Guo!"
"Guo, could you tell us how it feels to have a son who's a deputy director?"
"Guo-no, Auntie Guo-are you looking for a daughter-in-law? How about me?"
In the senior-year teachers' office, several subject teachers crowded around Guo Dongmei, laughing and offering their congratulations.
Teacher Guo had always been kind and easygoing, and she was well liked among her colleagues. After her son transferred back to the county bureau as Public Security Brigade Captain, she became even more popular.
And after the three criminal forces-the Zeng Brothers, the Fu Family, and Xie Zhaolong-were wiped out and her son was promoted to deputy director, the way everyone treated her, from school administrators to colleagues and neighbors, had, to borrow a phrase from the principal's work report, reached a whole new level!
Yang Mei, who had just taken over as principal, had even wanted to make her dean of studies, but she politely declined.
She was already fifty-two, with only three years left before retirement, so the position held little meaning for her. Besides, she preferred to devote all her energy to teaching.
"Momo, I can't solve this one. Explain it to me, will you...?"
A tall, handsome boy holding a test paper squeezed into the seat beside Shen Mo and asked for help with a perfectly serious expression.
"Go away!" Shen Mo said coldly without looking up from the problem he was working on.
This transfer student named Li Xiang clearly had better grades than he did, yet for some inexplicable reason, he kept pestering him to explain problems all day long. It was driving him crazy.
"Didn't you hear? Mo told you to go away." Several boys immediately came over and dragged Li Xiang away without another word.