Chapter 34: A guess
The midterm exams soon arrived. Over the past few days of exams, Xiao Rihua had sat in the grade-level office listening to the other homeroom teachers casually boast about their top students. It grated on him and made him frown, but his seniority counted for very little among these people, so he was often excluded from the grade's inner circle. That was perfectly normal.
Competition among the staff of No. 1 High School was just as fierce. In the school's ever-changing environment, teachers' seniority played an overwhelmingly dominant role behind the scenes. After all, seniority and professional rank were like administrative grades in government departments: they were directly linked to personal benefits and welfare. The older, more senior teachers naturally treated a young teacher like Xiao Rihua, who had joined their ranks and wanted a share of the performance rewards, as a competitor in many respects.
On top of that, Xiao Rihua had previously clashed with Director of Education Tian Feng, so there really were not many other homeroom teachers who were close to him.
After finishing his invigilation of the morning Chinese exam, Xiao Rihua entered the office, nodded to everyone in greeting, and sat down to organize his lesson plans. The conversation the homeroom teachers had been having stopped.
Then two young teachers came in, one of them the English teacher, Yin Xiaotian. Their voices were not loud, but they made no effort to conceal them and could be heard clearly. "Wang Haoran from Senior Year Two apparently got into a conflict with someone from our first year not long ago. Mr. Wang from Senior Year Two told me about it..."
Yin Xiaotian was rather hot-blooded himself and frowned at the news. "Wang Haoran again? That kid really throws his weight around. He's a