A majestic gray building.
If it weren't for someone's advice, it's not easy to guess that this is a school.
"Salbo school ranks first among the four famous schools in the city. From primary school to college entrance examination, the enrollment rate has been the champion of the city for several years. The most amazing thing is that the first student in the city to go to MIT came from here," sparrow said. The three stood in front of the school gate, looking back.
The school building has no sense of design, just a square cement box. The front is like a long face without expression, and the small windows are the regularly arranged pockmarks on the face. The building is surrounded by high walls, which are solid, with no railings or windows, and a row of glass debris at the top of the wall. The only gap in the wall is the school gate, which is also very simple. The only decoration is two security guards on the left and right.
The two security guards are fat, thin, black and white. Although their images are very different, their styles are quite consistent. Their love for the school is like spring, their respect for the teaching director is like summer, and their violation of discipline is like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. No one knows their real names. Generations of students call them "black bear and white wolf".
A young man with sloppy clothes and a strange look looked curiously at the school gate. "Here comes the madman again! Go!" the black bear looked impatient and drove the madman away.
Suddenly, a sharp whistle came from the campus. It's time for the school meeting.
All the students and faculty stood on the playground. The student queue is very neat. No matter looking horizontally, vertically or obliquely, it is a straight line. Nearly two thousand people were silent.
Beckett, sparrow and Norrington walked along the playground to the teaching building. Affected by the atmosphere, they could not help but light hands and feet, and their voice was weak.
"Let's go to director Thatcher first. Remember, don't walk around, let alone talk!" Beckett whispered uneasily to Norrington. Then he took sparrow and hurried away.
The wall of the teaching building is pasted with huge and eye-catching posters. The top is written in standard Chinese characters: "big red list" and "blacklist". Below the Chinese characters is a row of Public English. On the red list are the names of the winners of various competitions, followed by their awards. All kinds of "first" and "special" are marked in bold and black; The blacklist lists the names of students who violate discipline and regulations, and the words "Elizabeth swan" appear frequently.
Norrington frowned, looked around, picked up the chalk pen from the ground and wiped Elizabeth's name one by one.
"Hello!" a clear voice came from behind, with a trace of dissatisfaction.
Norrington looked back and a young female teacher was looking at him severely. The stern expression looked funny on her young face. She has bulging cheeks and high braids. Her eyes are very lively, but she deliberately wears a dark blue suit and skirt, with a pen in her front pocket. It's like a girl who steals her mother's clothes. She has an artificial old age.
Norrington threw away the chalk head, looked around and made a innocent look. The female teacher gave him a blank look and left.
The big horn beside the playground suddenly sounded like thunder: "OK, students, now look at the bunker." beside the bunker stood a middle-aged man, not tall and strong. He was wearing a blue sports vest, a white sports pants and military liberation rubber shoes.
He did a chest expansion exercise, then twisted his wrists and ankles, then spit on the palms of his hands and jumped onto the parallel bars easily.
Under the gaze of everyone in the audience, the middle-aged man's various levels of flying, fitness and flexibility are completely inconsistent with his age and figure. At the end of a set of movements, the middle-aged man jumped off the parallel bars and looked around.
The audience who had long been used to the performance was silent, and Norrington was the only one who clapped heartily. Applause echoed on the ground above the playground, and everyone else looked sideways. He put his hand down awkwardly.
"PleaseDirector Thatcher spoke. " The big horn sounded again.
A proud and aristocratic middle-aged woman came to the stage slowly, her eyes proudly swept the whole playground.
She is the legendary director Thatcher.
There is a famous saying in the school: "heaven is not afraid, earth is not afraid, just afraid that the director will lecture." director Thatcher, like the sun, shines warmly on every corner of the school.
Each classroom has its own position, which is a small hole in the center of the back door of each classroom flush with the human eye. Thatcher's eyes will randomly appear behind these small holes, pay close attention to the dynamics in the classroom, and have a panoramic view of the students' every move. The students affectionately call this position "Sagong cave".
There is no word "vacation" in director Sa's dictionary. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, she eats and lives in school. At noon, director Sa's serious figure often appears abruptly in the winding rice team in the canteen.
Whenever a master tries to please her and beat her more meat, director SA always looks up and down coldly first, and then asks fiercely, "this is to please me?"
Before the startled master gave any answer, she turned back and poured the meat directly into the rice basin of a student behind her: "these meat are for the children!" then, under the frightened gaze of the students, she overturned the whole vegetable basin and expelled the flattering master.
Director SA believes that the secret of her success is to get along with her students. Of course, she must be the winner in any contest.
On the playground, she dared to play with students of any age and was very brave. The difference from other players is that she still has a whistle in her mouth. Whether defensive or offensive, as long as the students make a big move, her whistle will ring out: "foul! Foul! Foul! This ball counts!"
She is very proud of her three-step layup technique. Even in the eyes of most students, the only highlight of this technique is that director SA clenched his fist to cheer herself on after the layup.
Director SA not only does administrative management, but also acts as a substitute in person. It is said that the wrong students she caught in her life can cover the whole playground; The paper she carved in her life can circle the earth for a week and a half
Every night, a dark shadow appears in the corridor of the student dormitory building, accompanied by a beam of hand lightning. No one knows which silent shelf bed she will suddenly appear next to. With a big hand, she suddenly lifts the quilt and catches the students hiding inside watching their mobile phones with a flashlight.
No one knows how many students she plans to catch every night. Sometimes she is in a particularly good mood. She will open the quilt again and again and make rounds, and then take the caught students to her office for punishment.
She herself put on reading glasses, while enjoying the shivering of the students who were punished to stand, and carved the paper in front of her desk with her waist straight. When it was all engraved, the sky was already shining. It was just enough to take the mountain like test papers back to the classroom for early self-study.
Every evening at the time of self-study, there will always be a melancholy and proud figure on the parallel bars on the playground... Students and teachers are all passers-by of the school. Only she is the queen here.
Director SA on the stage took over the microphone and said, "when you are 15 years old, you think your life is very long, and then you waste your time. When you are 50 years old, you will become a complete loser. I am 50 years old. I can't do any of the actions I just did when I was 15 years old. If anyone is not convinced, I'll do the same on the parallel bars first!"
The audience remained silent. Norrington narrowed his eyes and found it very interesting.
"Everyone's life is a test paper. When parents give you to me, they just hope I can help you finally hand over a standard answer! But you always disappoint me!" director SA took out a book from under the podium and held it high with four big words printed on the cover - "China Education".
"I found it under a classmate's pillow. Whose, raise your hand!"
Director SA glanced sharply at the students under the stage: "Why are you so seedless after being educated in China? I count dozens. Let's ask the great Xia to take the initiative. Ten, nine, eight, seven..." the atmosphere became tense, and the students began to whisper and point out; Some students blushed, some students lowered their heads, and some students turned their eyes. Norrington shook his head slightly and disapproved of director Sa's way of asking questions.
"Four, three, two, one... It's a pity that this student doesn't want to save his soul. By the way, it seems that his name is written on it. Let me see... It's you again!" director SA suddenly smashed the book on Elizabeth's face with an accurate arc. "The flatterer of class 16, junior high school, let everyone look at your true face of Lushan?"
Just now, the young female teacher in a suit and skirt covered her mouth in surprise and expressed great concern. Norrington followed the female teacher's eyes and found a girl lazily walking out of the crowd.
This girl! Growing so tall... Norrington was surprised to see Elizabeth step onto the podium, and Beckett and sparrow came from a distance.
Elizabeth did not know that there was a new audience today.
Since she went to middle school, she often went to the rostrum to be reviewed by the teachers and students of the whole school. At first, she felt very ashamed, just like the first time he got the test paper full of red forks. She felt unable to lift her head everywhere and was embarrassed to say hello to anyone. But slowly, there were more and more red papers and more training on the stage. Elizabeth gradually didn't care.
Life means nothing to him.
She doesn't know why she wants to stay here or what she can do without staying here. She may not like it here, but she doesn't know what she likes. Like the word even a little extravagant, no one around her uses it.
She felt that he had no say in his life.
Elizabeth looked at director Sa's blue face and felt a sense of provocation in her heart.
She planned to listen to the director's class last week, but she really couldn't understand a word like listening to heavenly books; Then she went to draw and fell asleep on the book.
As a result, director SA caught him and showed his paintings to the whole class: "what should students like you do when they go to society? They can't catch up with the hot shit."
"Can you?" said Elizabeth, half asleep and half awake. Somehow, the whole class laughed and the director was very angry.
Elizabeth's eyes crossed director Sa's face and looked out of the window behind her.
"I hope today's lecture will be shorter. What a good day!" she thought. She's going to run around for a while, running from the school gate to the hillside behind... The madman at the gate runs so fast that she wants to compete with him! Even if she meets a bad boy, she can stand out. What a beautiful sunshine! It must be very comfortable to sleep in the wheat field with a schoolbag
"Due to repeated education, the school decided to officially expel Elizabeth's student status. Have the relevant relatives arrived?" director Sa's voice suddenly rose, and Elizabeth suddenly woke up from her meditation.
She looked down at the stage like a sleepwalker. He first saw the bulging cheeks of the head teacher Xiao Gao, and his lively eyes showed an unacceptable expression. Then he saw Uncle Norrington and cousin sparrow in the distance. They both blushed angrily and pointed at her reproachfully. Finally, she saw the man next to her uncle.
The handsome and strong man raised his right hand, nodded his head with his index finger and smiled.
Elizabeth, who had a look of indifference, was stupid.
If there is anything more tragic in the world than making a fool of yourself in public, it is that when you make a fool of yourself in public, the people you care about most are unfortunately present. Elizabeth never dreamed that it would be such an embarrassing way to meet her long-awaited brother again.
