Director Cai was not just any principal of the third elentary school in the town; he was the head of a bureau overseeing thousands of teachers. Even the principals of middle and high schools had to behave themselves in front of him, let alone tolerate being cornered by a rural private school teacher. Hearing this, he directly picked up the phone on his desk and called the office director to have her take the person out.
Soon, the office director arrived, a woman in her early thirties.
"Director Jiang, what's this about? Can just anyone run into my office like this?" Director Cai asked with a grim face as the office director approached.
"I'm sorry, Director Cai, sorry, Director Cai, I'll take her away now." Director Jiang hurriedly apologized repeatedly, then took Xu Suya by the hand and said, "Let's talk in my office, Director Cai is very busy."
Xu Suya knew that Director Jiang was expelling her. She wanted to explode but, after all, she was a people's teacher and not prone to making a scene. Seeing Director Jiang pulling her, she held back her anger and said coldly, "Don't pull ; rest assured, I won't cause trouble, I'm here to reason."
After she spoke, Xu Suya collected the docunts she had placed on the desk, followed Director Jiang out the door, but before leaving, she turned back to look at Director Cai and said, "You don't deserve to be a director!"
"You..." Director Cai was so infuriated upon hearing this that he almost picked up the newspaper on the desk to throw it.
Seeing this, Director Jiang hurriedly pulled Xu Suya away, her face looking ugly as she scolded, "What are you doing? Even the director is not soone you can criticize."
"Why can't I criticize him? If he does a good job we praise him, and if not, of course we must speak up," Xu Suya retorted.
"You... never mind, never mind, there's no reasoning with soone like you, just go," Director Jiang said, looking at Xu Suya and was about to scold her but seeing her stern and righteous deanor, she suddenly felt disheartened.
"I'm not leaving until I have an explanation," Xu Suya shook her head and said.
She had anger pent up inside, and she wouldn't feel right until she clarified things.
Director Jiang looked at Xu Suya for a while before saying, "Alright then, co to my office."
Xu Suya then followed Director Jiang to her office.
Xu Suya laid out the docunts for Director Jiang to see and talked about the matter regarding the substitute teacher position at the third elentary school in the town.
As the office director, Director Jiang was naturally a perceptive person. Once Xu Suya spoke, she sensed that there was an issue and felt so disdain for the person responsible while also feeling sympathetic towards Xu Suya for the injustice.
"Ah, you should have co to first; I may have spoken on your behalf, and at worst, we could have tried to add another slot since it's just a substitute teacher. But with you causing a scene at the director's, this matter has beco difficult for to handle," Director Jiang said with a troubled expression.
"Thank you, Director Jiang, I just couldn't hold it in. Tell , we are teachers, role models for students, how can we engage in such ssy affairs?" Xu Suya said, her mood slightly better upon hearing Director Jiang speak for her, and she was very polite to her.
"How about this, co with to the HR departnt, let ask HR Chief Chen if we can add another slot," Director Jiang hesitated for a mont and then said.
"There's no need to trouble you, Director Jiang. I actually didn't co here just to strive for this substitute teacher position. If it were just for the position, I wouldn't have co. The salary of a substitute teacher is not important to . My main purpose here is to seek fair treatnt. We teachers are supposed to be role models, teaching children how to be decent people. How can we be otherwise in our actions?" Xu Suya gratefully looked at Director Jiang and said.
Director Jiang only then noticed the jade bracelet Xu Suya was wearing.
She didn't know much about jade, but she could still tell that the bracelet was definitely valuable. Her heart skipped a beat, and her gaze towards Xu Suya gradually revealed a hint of respect.
She knew that this was a truly dedicated teacher, one who genuinely took teaching and educating as her own duty.
"You are a serious teacher, but you can't go to the director again about this. If you really want to understand, go to the personnel departnt. For newly established mountain schools like Baiyun Town's Third Elentary School, the staffing is basically decided by Chief Chen of the personnel departnt. The director might at most sign sothing and inquire about the principal candidates, but rarely intervenes in other specific matters," Director Jiang said.
"Don't worry, I won't go to Director Cai anymore. Since it's the personnel departnt that decided the allocation, then I will go to Chief Chen of the personnel departnt," Xu Suya said.
Director Jiang hesitated, then stood up and personally took Xu Suya to the personnel departnt office.
When Director Jiang knocked on the door of the personnel departnt chief's office, Chief Chen was not in.
"Director Jiang, please go ahead with your work, I'll wait here a little while," Xu Suya said.
As the head of the office, equivalent to the steward of the county education bureau, Director Jiang indeed had many responsibilities. Moreover, from her conversation with Xu Suya she could roughly guess that it must have been Chief Chen who, at the last mont, swapped Xu Suya out to cram Hu ilin in. Just now, Xu Suya had also offended Director Cai, so rationally speaking, she shouldn't interfere in this matter anymore, but emotionally she leaned towards Xu Suya and thus accompanied her this ti. Seeing as Xu Suya has said this, she hesitated but then left.
After all, if she really wanted to help Xu Suya, she wouldn't just offend Chief Chen, but likely the director as well.
Xu Suya waited at the doorway of the personnel departnt office for a while and then saw a man in his forties, with a beer belly looking upset, walking towards her.
This man was naturally Chief Chen of the personnel departnt, who had just been summoned by Director Cai and reprimanded about Xu Suya's situation, ordered to handle this matter properly and not to let Xu Suya cause more trouble. He also specifically instructed that people like Xu Suya, who are troublemakers, must not be conceded to just because they kick up a fuss, preventing them from entering the teaching profession.
When Chief Chen saw Xu Suya standing at the doorway, his expression beca even uglier, and he pointed at her pretending not to know and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing standing here?"
"I am a teacher from Ge Family Village Elentary School in Baiyun Town, Xu Suya. I ca here...," Xu Suya said.
"So you are Xu Suya. I already know about your matter. You can go back now," Chief Chen interrupted her harshly before she could finish talking.
"I will go back, but before I do, I hope Chief Chen can give a reasonable explanation. How can a person like Hu ilin beco a substitute teacher when I cannot?" Xu Suya asked coldly, no longer bothering to beat around the bush or explain further.
"You were not a formally registered teacher to begin with. Since the village school was rged into the Third Elentary School of the town, we obviously have the authority to decide whether to continue employing you or not," Chief Chen said with a dismissive and icy tone.
Hearing these words, Xu Suya felt a surge of anger rush to her head, and she nearly charged forward to slap Chief Chen, but she ultimately restrained herself and said, "Is this how you wield your power? Do you not understand why we call teachers the engineers of the soul? Do you not realize what an unqualified teacher ans to a young and naive elentary student?"
"I don't need you to teach these things. I've seen many people like you. You just want to cause trouble and then force us into giving a spot, don't you? I'm telling you, no way! Now, you can leave. If you don't leave, I will call security to remove you!" Chief Chen looked down on Xu Suya from his high position, his face full of scorn and arrogance as he spoke.
"Slap!" Just then, a young man strode forward and slapped Chief Chen across the face, saying coldly, "What are you, to talk to my mom like that!"
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