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In December 2017, Mr. Luo’s memorial service was held in the City Funeral Home. I came with the school representative to see him off for the last ride.
President Chen made a speech at the memorial service. Teacher Luo is his early training of master’s degree, after going out to study doctor’s graduation, back to the school to teach until now, many years of friendship between teachers and students, let President Chen several times choking. Teacher Luo lies in the farewell hall in a glass coffin, under the sadness and music, a crowd slowly around the body. “Too young, too bad…” Some of the teachers who came with him sighed, and several colleagues who were familiar with Mr. Luo were wiping tears.
Luo was born in 1977 and died at the age of just over 40. He was in the prime of his life and the pillar of his family. His child was just entering the third grade of primary school, and he still had old people to support. I heard that late at night before the accident, he was working on a project alone in the office. He had a heart attack at about 2 a.m., because he was the only person in the college office building late at night.
On the first day of my doctoral study, my tutors took me to dinner. I called him “Mr. Luo” at the dinner table as usual. He waved his hand and said that now I was The doctor of President Chen, and he and I were considered serious teachers.
He and I were half townsmen. Mr. Luo’s hometown was a town on the south side of the river bordering Shandong province. He said his mother had married in Shandong, where he went to primary and junior high school, so he is half Henan and half Shandong. I once joked with him, asking himself “which side?” He said with a smile that he could do either way. The villagers in Shandong were stable and honest, the leaders valued them highly, and the villagers in Henan could bear hardships. In recent years, many important subjects of the school were done by them.
Over the years, he has certainly inherited the strengths of both places: as a young school teacher, he is among the top students in both research and teaching, and has always been highly regarded by students, leaders and colleagues. In 2013, Luo was awarded the title of associate professor, and now she is preparing for the title of “high official” again, with a bright future ahead of her.
After the memorial service, Luo’s family continued to deal with the follow-up matters, and I drove back with the teachers. On the way, someone pulled out the video that Teacher Luo had taken in class before, and he was full of spirit and eloquence on the platform.
“Miss Liu is really poor, today at the memorial service crying dizzy twice.” I can’t help but sigh with emotion — Miss Liu is Miss Luo’s wife, also in the school work, although not teaching, but we usually still used to call her “Miss Liu”.
The teacher’s facial expression beside me is very complex however, a long time just said 1: “her good day also come to an end soon.
Two months later, in the afternoon, I went to the school administration building to get headmaster Chen’s signature. I bumped into Miss Liu at the door of the office. Her eyes were red, her face was wet, and she had just slammed the door from her office.
I said hello to her. She knew me, but she gave me a sidelong glance and left. When I opened the door and went in, I saw That President Chen was still looking angry and asked what was wrong.
President Chen first taught me a lesson: “Do well in your study, do not pry about your business.” But when he turned to take something, he said again: “People should be satisfied in this life. It is your who can not take away, not your you also do not come.”
I see, he means what he says.
Mr. Luo was President Chen’s favorite student in those days. After graduation, President Chen also took a look at his scientific research ability. He deliberately broke the limit of introducing “foreign academic experience” to school teachers and insisted on hiring him, and also helped him solve his wife’s work problems.
As Luo’s widow, Liu had been hoping that the school would give her a “career establishment” in the late husband’s honor and erase the words “personnel agent” from her former position. As the main leader of the school, President Chen has this power in his hand, and he is also the master tutor of Teacher Luo in those days. In the eyes of outsiders, he should also do this favor for his love and reason. For this reason, Mr. Liu visited Principal Chen many times and sometimes interrupted our classes.
But President Chen is dead bite not to let go, is not to give Teacher Liu “transfer”.
Teacher Liu in the school make a stir and bustle, we also said behind the scenes, “start writing” things, president Chen why more than this true.
But President Chen is “more true”, not only his own insistence, and even other school leaders in the meeting to put forward relevant “suggestions”, will take the lead to reject, so that later Teacher Liu several times in the school parking lot to block him, “for his own argument”.
It was widely rumored that Chen was dissatisfied with Liu and even blamed liu for the untimely death of his beloved disciple, but Chen himself didn’t fail to tell us about it.
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When I was studying for my master’s degree, Mr. Luo was my public teacher. In the first class, he introduced himself by mentioning his wife. Later on different occasions, he often talked about the love story between himself and his wife. Over the years, he has always said that the person he is most grateful for getting to this point is his wife.
Luo graduated from a certain university in Henan province in 1998. She went to school with Liu. They have been in love since freshman year and have been doing well together ever since. Before graduation, Mr. Luo applied for the master’s degree in our school and planned to continue his study, while Mr. Liu was a junior college student. He graduated one year earlier and took part in the work in Henan province that year.
Luo failed the entrance exam in the first year and decided to fight for the second world war. During the year of revision, he had no income and was completely supported by Mr. Liu. After a year of hard work, Teacher Luo finally achieved his wish to receive the admission notice for graduate students, happily packed his bags came to Wuhan. Teacher Liu also quit his job in Henan and followed.
On weekdays, Luo studied at the school, while Liu found a job near the school.
Often say here, teacher luo will be full of affection to say, although that year took the “government-funded graduate student”, but the cost of living did not fall. His family had a heavy burden. His father fell ill and lost the ability to work, while his mother supported his three children by working as a farmer at home. After his first failure in the postgraduate entrance examination, the whole family repeatedly urged him to go to work as soon as possible to relieve the burden of his family. He himself was shaken several times, but Mr. Liu was the only one who firmly supported his academic dream and offered to support him to study.
With a 3-year master’s degree, In order to make Luo feel at ease in school, Liu changed many jobs successively. Most of the money he earned was given to Luo and he could save as much as he could.
“In her early 20s, the best age for a woman is when everyone else is being pampered by their parents and boyfriends. They can buy whatever they want, but you teacher Liu is trying so hard to skimp on yourself. During the three years when I was studying for my master’s degree, her clothes and cosmetics were all handled in a small shop in the back street of the school. When I was spending money, she never said ‘no’…” As Luo spoke, her eyes filled with tears.
Miss Liu was very beautiful when she was young, even though she wore the “three no products” in the back street of the school, it was still difficult to hide her beauty. Luo teacher said, at that time Liu teacher work of a company boss’s son in her, desperately chasing for half a year, gave her a promise “have a car have a house future wife” commitment, Liu teacher can not be moved, even the boss son gave her those gifts, she tried to change into money, and gave luo teacher.
Teacher Luo graduated with excellent results, under the suggestion of President Chen, that year was admitted to a university in Nanjing a doctoral candidate. But when he received his offer, Luo hesitated again — by then his family was even more on the ropes.
In 2002, Luo’s mother was diagnosed with a serious illness when she was admitted to hospital. At that time, luo’s two younger brothers were still reading books. At that time, Luo’s mother cried on the phone and told Luo, “Stop reading… Your father is in bed and the family can no longer support him, so get a job and make some money… I’ve finished my master’s degree. It’s enough to come out and work.”
The night he received his mother’s phone call, Mr. Luo stayed up all night. The admission notice for doctoral students was on the desk in Mr. Liu’s rented house. Mr. Luo repeatedly picked it up and put it down.
“Our major is not like science and engineering, where you can go out and find a lucrative job. Even if I graduate from college, I will have to endure the experience in the future. I may have to sit on the bench for many years and earn money by studying. I can’t even imagine at that time!” “Mr. Luo said to me once later.
In the early hours of the morning, Luo finally made up his mind and threw the admission letter into the garbage basket. Then he left the rented house and went to a nearby Internet cafe to see if there was a suitable job for him.
After dawn, when Mr. Luo returned to the rental house, Mr. Liu had woken up and was sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding the admission letter picked up from the garbage basket last night, with tears on his face, as soon as he saw Mr. Luo said to him: “You can read, you want to read, I can continue to make money to help you…”
ROM. The teacher said, the moment he is ashamed to jump down from the eighth floor about the window – the girls who are still in the competition of the same age boyfriend sent more expensive gift, who held wedding going abroad, whose fiance bought a big house in the city, and his girlfriend, waiting for three years, but also got the most out of the small salary to support themselves.
“Her family is not that kind of rich family, there is also a brother in school, her parents would not agree with the two of us together, I graduate school years, she was always hidden from the family…
That day, two people in the rental room to cry, Miss Luo has been to Miss Liu said “I’m sorry”, said he not only can not give her the life she wanted, but constantly to increase her burden, the future also do not know where, or let it go, two people broke up, before he owed Miss Liu, will double later.
Mr. Liu listened, but gave Mr. Luo a slap in the face.
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Luo studied for a doctor’s degree in Nanjing for 3 years, and Liu followed Luo to Nanjing, where he found a job and continued to support his boyfriend’s studies, just as he had done when he went from Henan to Wuhan.
“I was in school, only 500 dollars a month living subsidies, just enough for a person to have a meal, she began to looked for a job near the school, less than 3000 yuan monthly salary, then in order to earn more, in the far away from the school, although more than 800 dollars a month, but to and from work every day to sit for 1 hour more buses.”
In the second year of Bo, Luo took a job as a substitute teacher in an off-campus training institution and paid her about 1,000 yuan a month for each lesson. She worked for half a year and saved 6,000 yuan. He divided the money into three parts: 2,000 yuan to send home, 2,000 yuan to Miss Liu, the last 2,000 yuan, bought a Samsung mobile phone as a birthday gift to Miss Liu.
Mr. Luo said it was the most expensive gift he had given Mr. Liu during his schooling. That night, Mr. Liu cried with his cellphone in his arms. Mr. Luo took Mr. Liu in his arms and said he could take a part-time job while studying in the future, so that she would not have to work as hard as before. Mr. Liu insisted on returning the phone to Mr. Luo, telling him to concentrate on his studies in the future and not to think about making money during school time: “You must make money, but not now, I don’t care if you delay your time to study at this time to go out and make money to give me a mobile phone, I want the future, understand?”
Since then, the phrase “What I want is the future” has been deeply imprinted in Luo’s mind.
Mr. Liu finally accepted the phone and used it until they got married. The 2, 000 yuan she gave her was later channelled to luo’s younger brother, who was studying at a university in Henan province that year, with a student loan to cover his tuition, but the family still had to raise money for other expenses.
“All these years I felt I had wronged her. She could have married, bought a house, had a baby, had a good life while she was young and could have found a man who was far better than me in every way, but she stuck by me and had an uncertain future.”
Luo said that Liu is not not longing for the kind of rich life, but do not want to give him pressure. Other girls of the same age are paying attention to getting married, buying a house or a car. Liu has also been paying attention to the real estate market secretly, but both of them know that with their economic conditions, buying a house and getting married is still a distant dream.
Until 2005, Liu kept luo’s relationship with her family secret, telling her parents that she had been “transferred” from Wuhan to Nanjing because of “outstanding business skills and was sent to Nanjing by the company to take charge of the development of new markets”.
But her parents worry is, see her daughter rush 30 years old to go, but never heard her say love things, in the hometown to help her find a few all aspects of the conditions are good young man, one of them is said to have a, is the son of some leader in their county. As soon as I saw the photo of Teacher Liu, I liked it so much that I even said that I was doing business anyway. “If you want to go back to your hometown, you can come back. If you don’t want to go back to your hometown, you can develop together in Nanjing”.
But Mr. Liu refused, saying that he was busy with work and had no time to think about love and marriage. In the beginning, her parents still let her go, but in March 2005, Liu’s parents found Nanjing, and finally discovered her daughter’s secret.
In this case, Liu had to admit to his parents that Luo was a doctoral student and they had been in love for many years from Wuhan to Nanjing, but they kept quiet about Luo’s family situation and the fact that they had been supporting Luo’s study all these years.
At first, Liu’s parents were satisfied with Luo, but later when they asked about his family, although Liu kept winking at him, but Luo still did not want to cheat the old man, without saying a few words, together with the things that Liu had been accepting over the years, all showdown.
Liu teacher’s parents were stunned on the spot, reluctantly endured back home, immediately on the phone with her daughter turned over the face, the first teacher Liu scolded, and then ordered her to break up with Teacher Luo, immediately.
Liu’s father said, “You have been working outside all these years. You haven’t given the family a penny, and your parents didn’t ask much. They just want you to live more freely in other places.” The year before last home repair house difference 20 thousand dollars, ask you take a little, you say have no money; Last year, your mother went to Zhengzhou to be hospitalized and wanted you to come back to accompany her. You said that you had no time to go to work. This year your brother went to college to buy a computer, want to let the elder sister “subsidy” a little, you said “not to hand”, a penny didn’t give — now just know, so your people and money are “upside down” to a poor boy!
His father asked Mr. Liu, “What’s the picture?” Mr Liu said he did not want to do anything, is to see him stable, real, persistent. Her father asked her if she had ever thought about how difficult it would be to be with Mr. Luo. Ms. Liu said, “I will.”
The mother felt very sorry for her daughter, who had been living a hard life these years, and advised her not to be silly, but to find a good condition to marry her. Teacher Luo is like this, now you may not even know where the work is. How dare you expect anything from him? Liu said, “I don’t care. I believe he can give me a future.”
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In April 2006, Liu married Luo without telling her parents. The wedding room was assigned to luo by the university as her doctoral dormitory.
There were no ceremonies, no banquets, not even the blessings of friends and relatives on both sides. At that time, Luo teacher is busy with his graduation defense, two people got a marriage certificate, in a hotel near the school invited a few classmates colleagues, is the wedding.
When that daughter secretly married the news, Liu teacher’s father directly to the school. He looked for luo teacher’s doctor guide first, request the school gives him a view, went to the police station that the school is located in again, report to the police that says his daughter is by Luo teacher “cheat marriage”.
Luo’s doctor advised the elderly to “look at the long term,” and the police station, after understanding the situation, also said that Luo and Liu are free love, free combination, did not violate any existing laws, the police station is powerless to do anything about this matter.
The old man called to the relatives in his hometown, to teach luo teacher, but the school found the signs in advance, and the police station together in time to calm things down.
Finally, the old man could not swallow this tone, put words to the teacher luo, as long as they are still alive, firmly do not admit the marriage.
Indeed, Liu’s father meant what he said. For the first three years after his daughter got married, he did not recognize Luo as her son-in-law. Miss Luo accompany Miss Liu back to her mother’s home every New Year and festival, never see the father-in-law, mother-in-law although will come forward, but also have no good face to the son-in-law, even go to college brother-in-law, to his brother-in-law also like the enemy general, words are full of contempt and provocation.
Luo’s mother learned of her son’s situation, so she pulled together 30,000 yuan and went to Liu’s mother’s home, trying to make peace with her son, but Liu’s father threw the money out of the house, telling her “don’t bother”. By the time their first child was born in 2008, no one from Ms. Liu’s family had visited.
Speaking of these past events, Luo often could not help but feel sad, saying that in the eyes of his father-in-law’s family at that time, he was a “trick to get the daughter five ways three ways.”
It wasn’t until 2009 that the relationship between the two families eased — for the simple reason that Luo finally bought an apartment that year.
It was a second-hand house with a total value of more than 400,000 yuan, and he paid about 100,000 yuan down payment — including all the savings he had saved with Mr. Liu in the three years since his marriage, part of the cash out of his credit card, and money borrowed from colleagues.
With this house, Mr. Luo to Mr. Liu and his parents-in-law are finally a little account. I have been to that apartment, which is in an old residential area near the school. It has more than 80 square meters of two rooms and one hall. The old owner left behind old furniture and a few simple appliances.
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“A good starting point is half the success,” luo was delighted. He thanked his wife, his school and everything, because he never thought he would be able to take root in a big city like Wuhan.
After buying a house, the father-in-law and mother-in-law came to their home for the first time, although the father-in-law still some words of resentment, but the first time and son-in-law to drink wine, the two do a bottle of 12 years of “white cloud edge”.
At that time, I sincerely admired Mr. Luo. He returned to work at the end of 2006, earning just over $4,000 a month, when the average price of real estate near his university was around $7,000 — considering that, after three years of working, he had barely enough money on his pay card to buy a toilet in Wuhan.
According to Luo’s method, he has to pay back at least four or five thousand yuan a month, together with his mortgage and credit card, which is exactly the total amount of his salary at that time, and his parents in his hometown need to supplement. “I asked him.” With my salary repaid, what about my life?” He smiled and said, “What else can we do? ‘Raise revenue and reduce expenditure’.”
“Open source” means looking for part-time jobs outside the school. Although the school has a heavy research and teaching task for young teachers, he secretly found a training institution and went out for classes every night, earning about two or three thousand yuan a month as extra income.
Although hard work, but Teacher Luo always said that those days is the most happy time, because everything is on the right track, everything also have hope.
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In the middle of 2012, when I went back to school to attend a professor’s 80th birthday party, I learned that Mr. Luo had bought a car. After dinner in the hotel, my master guide and I were waiting for a taxi downstairs. Mr. Luo pulled up in front of us in a white car and asked us to get into his car, offering to take us back.
He didn’t drink that day, but he still looked flushed. Shuo sat on the passenger seat and chatted with Teacher Luo. I sat in the back seat. The smell of new car came to my face.
Luo teacher said, the total value of the car is 140,000, he borrowed more than 80,000, more than 2,000 per month. The master tutor joked that your home is only 10 minutes away from the school, why buy this thing? “They all have them,” said Mr. Luo. “Why don’t we get one?”
Mr. Luo added that he had recently taken a private job of compiling teaching materials in an outside publishing company and wanted to invite the master tutor to do it together. Master guide said he knew, although the publishing company to pay good, but the time is too tight, before someone also looked for him, he did not answer. Then he advised Mr. Luo to take it easy. The school was busy enough. He was already doing a part-time job outside.
Luo teacher sighed, said that there is no way, he has received the advance of the publishing company, or where the car down payment?
Master turned to blame his car to buy unnecessary, the money to keep what is better than a car. Luo teacher was silent for a while, then said, this is the wife and parents strongly requested, the son to kindergarten, “other people’s children are sent by car, his son every day by bus, can not say the past.
Master guide some do not understand, said the school’s affiliated kindergarten is not in the family courtyard, how to take the bus?
Luo said that his son went to a famous “international bilingual kindergarten”, which is far away from home. Liu decided to send his son to study abroad in the future, saying that he should lay a good foundation when he was young.
Master guide no longer answer words, just get off when patted luo teacher’s shoulder, said: “young man, refuelling.”
Send master guide upstairs, I asked him the teacher son on the “international bilingual kindergarten” name so blustery, the charge should not low? Master smiled and said that he did not know the exact amount of money, “but with the salary that the public security bureau gives you now, it should be far from enough.”
As a matter of fact, Miss Luo lives a frugal life.
In those days, I saw him about every two or three months, and every time he wore the same clothes, white T-shirt in summer and grey down jacket in winter. During a meal in 2014, he heard that the public security Bureau had given me a lot of clothes that he could not wear, so he asked me to give him some that were not marked “police”. When I asked him what he did, he said he would wear it when he was cleaning at home.
I gave him two unmarked training suits, one for winter and one for summer, only to see him wear them all the time when we met again. The master tutor joked with him that you are an associate professor and act like a school security guard. Luo teacher but said with a smile, the clothes and security uniforms are not the same, pure cotton, comfortable not to say, also endure dirty.
Master guide privately with me sigh, said I do not know you luo teacher couple with what urgent, a good day must lead so. Not long ago, the teacher come for tutors to borrow money again, a 100000 – liu heard from nowhere, it is in wind that wuhan soaring house prices will be immediately round, recently a number of colleagues in the school are trying to pooled their money to buy bridal chamber, and liu good a school teacher has been bullish on building, about liu “coupon” together.
That was in the first half of 2015. At that time, Teacher Luo had not yet paid off the mortgage, car loan and credit card. The child needed money to go to school and he had to support his parents every month, so he could not afford extra money. But Liu teacher is very firm to the attitude that buys new house, but under, luo teacher has to look for beside to want good colleague friend to borrow money.
Shuji advised him not to put any more pressure on himself. Even if he could afford the down payment, the later repayment would leave him breathless. Luo teacher says, oneself took an illicit to live again, still have now “associate professor” the name, the money that gives outside is much also, reimbursement should have no problem.
Master guide see persuade not to move, then suggest him again, really buy new house, now live that secondhand room sell, otherwise for two houses who can stand? But Luo said That Liu is not willing to, saying that the price will be raised in the future to sell, and the future of their parents to wuhan retirement, also need a place to stay.
Master guide some angry, say your wife how think what is what, she don’t see your economic situation? About her “group purchase” the new house of the teacher, parents before the government agencies work, her husband or do business, family parents can give financial aid, your family can? Do you want to work yourself to death?
Miss Luo said, Miss Liu also looked for a part-time job outside, she said while young to put together a, “the house is the preservation of value, good days in the back.”
Teacher Luo finally bought the new house, master director lent him 80,000 yuan, President Chen also lent him some, and colleagues, friends and credit card cash, finally barely enough for the second house down payment.
On that day, Mr. Luo invited everyone to dinner, and I also went. At the banquet, Mr. Liu asked me if I had bought a house in Wuhan, but I said no. “Before, I could buy a toilet with my savings in Wuhan, but now I guess I can only buy a toilet”.
Teacher Liu said with a smile, you are a civil servant, a very good loan, hurriedly with home money to pay a down payment, do not put the money “hu Hua”, or later really even can not afford to buy a toilet, see you how to marry a wife.
I joked that Mr. Luo had only a doctoral dormitory in Nanjing at that time. Didn’t you marry him? Mr. Liu gave Mr. Luo a angry look and said to me, “How can a girl look like me now? You can’t even afford a toilet. Will someone marry you?”
We all laughed, Luo teacher is also smiling, but I from his face, but clearly see the tired and helpless.
6
Two more years passed. At the age of 39, Mr Luo was undoubtedly a success in the eyes of outsiders.
In the university, his teaching and scientific research level is perfect. He undertakes a large number of undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as one subject project after another. His name appears on the bulletin board of outstanding Teachers of the university all year round.
Outside school, he often invited to open lecture, card besides “XX university associate professor, and a series of title -” XX university visiting professor, “” XX company consultant”, “XX, chairman of the association”, the title brought him a lucrative returns, it was said that he go out a 2 hour lecture, get paid more than 5000 pieces.
Once, I went to him for the exam, holding a book and asking him what he should focus on. He glanced at the cover of the reference book and told me, “Don’t look at this one. It’s not good.” I asked him why, and he said, I wrote the book, and its ideas were copied everywhere. I said that the author’s name on the cover of the book was not yours. He said that he had been ghostwritten by someone who had written the book for the title and who was just trying to make a profit.
I asked him how much money he would make writing such a book, and he said not much, a little more than 10,000.
I say you don’t look like a man short of money. How can you do such a thankless job? He just smiled and said nothing more.
By then, Luo’s health had seen a decline: her thick black hair had become “Mediterranean”; He often coughs because he is tired and smokes too much. He would fall asleep on the way to the hotel and wake up saying that he was too busy until 4am last night.
After buying his second house, wuhan’s housing price really went up again. The house he bought in 2015 has doubled. According to the current housing price, he can earn more than 1 million yuan at least.
He was advised to sell one while the house price was high, so that he would not only have less pressure, but would also be able to pay off the previous loan. Luo teacher but shook his head, said to sell where to live? After buying a new house, the wife took her in-laws to Wuhan for retirement and lived in the second-hand house before.
He said that his father had passed away a few years ago, his mother was now in Wuhan for medical treatment, and a younger brother helped to take care of him, but later it was estimated to be his own business.
With a sigh, he added that his two younger brothers were useless and had been working outside. His younger brother had not even got married yet and could not take care of his mother at all. He is the eldest son of the family, is the most educated, the most promising, in order to study in the past, did not make any contribution to the family, but now have the ability to afford it.
I said your side of the house is big enough, why don’t you just take the old lady over? Mr. Luo shook his head with a sad smile. “You are not married, and you don’t know that things at home are sometimes more complicated than things outside.”
That day, Mr. Luo did not explain to me the meaning of “more complicated”. Later, it was only in the mouth of Principal Chen that I came to understand the reason for that remark.
In early 2017, Luo approached Chen, the principal, and wanted to apply for the “target room” of the school’s family courtyard through the “back door”.
Principal Chen was very angry, because according to the policy, Teacher Luo has bought two apartments in Wuhan, he is not qualified to apply for the school’s special “target room” for teachers without housing. Principal Chen complained to Teacher Luo, when I bought a house, I advised you to wait, and also said that the school has housing treatment for new teachers, the house has been vacated, but the policy has not come out for the time being, as soon as a few months, as long as a year there will be a “target house”, but you can’t bear to buy.
Luo teacher is bitter face says, at that time it is true not to buy not to do, Liu teacher has been urging him, two people almost every day for the house things quarrel. The reason he came to the back door this time was that Liu would not let his sick mother-in-law live with his family, so that he could “have the ability to get an apartment again.” So he came up with the school’s “indicator house” — it has no property rights, but with 2,000 yuan per square meter, it is only one-tenth of the off-campus housing price.
Chen was so angry that he refused to “open a back door” for his students, and told Luo to control his wife, “there is no end to human desires.”
Later, I learned that this was not the first time luo approached Chen to “open the back door”. Not long before he ran the “indicator room”, he also approached Chen to ask him to do a “formal establishment” for Liu. Teacher Liu in those days enters a school with associate degree record of formal schooling, it is Chen president to help originally, as the school competes for the job policy with each day strict, she feels him more and more “personnel agent career establishment” the post is unstable, ask luo teacher to help her then make a point up and down, think of a way to remove “personnel agent” 4 words.
However, Chen has not satisfied his students either to become a president or to get a house. Luo teacher has no way, can only temporarily rent a house, will be out of the hospital after the mother placed down.
7
The last time I had dinner with Mr. Luo was in October 2017. On that occasion, he invited my master tutor with several other good teachers on the pretext of my “returning to my Alma mater”.
He was in a very low state that day. When the waiter brought the menu, he threw it to me without looking at it and told me to order whatever I wanted. Instead, he lit a cigarette and said that there were only two options in front of him: either buy another house which he really could not afford; Either change jobs and go to a school that will pay you better.
The second way was given to him by Teacher Liu: at that time, another university in the city introduced a system of “talent introduction” in order to build “double first-class”. According to Teacher Luo’s conditions, he could get a lot of money for “settling down” or a flat in the city. In addition, the university has promised to address the spouse’s “career establishment.” President Chen has agreed to his “job-hopping”, but only if he completes the project he undertook for the university.
Some teachers said, “President Chen doesn’t want you to leave. This is a two-year project. How can you finish it in five months?” “Another person said,” Please talk to Mr. Liu again. Although career planning is important, there is no need for the whole family to do everything so absolutely.
ROM. The teacher is bitter face, says there has been no negotiable in the home, oneself to this a few days ago already had a quarrel with miss liu, he angry like this, you two people even say not bottom go to, liu smell this, cried when they turned and went to the kitchen with a kitchen knife to commit suicide, said he was blind, good youth, austerity, for his so baiwenhang, early know now, did you should go with the rich second generation be a wealthy woman.
Speaking of the past, Luo lost his wits. He began to apologize to Liu and begged her to give him some time to think about it.
One of luo’s close colleagues could not resist, saying, “Your wife has gone too far. What the hell do you think you are now? At the age of 40, you look more experienced than President Chen. How many years have you been working? In the past 11 years, she has bought a new house and a new car just after paying off the loan. Now she has brought her parents to Wuhan and has to help her to change her job. Is this still enough? It was very touching of her to pay for your studies, but now it seems that she was looking for a long-term meal ticket, and killing the goose that lays the golden egg!”
Luo teacher never allow others to say in front of him teacher Liu is not, but that time I do not know is really tired, or see in the years of good friends on the bad face, just bow to smoke, and the colleague did not care.
Throughout the meal, Mr. Luo just drank and was soon drunk and unconscious. After the banquet, we sent him back home together. On the way back, I learned from the conversation that some years ago, When Mr. Liu’s brother got married, his father-in-law asked Mr. Luo to take 120,000 as a gift. Last year, Mr. Liu had to change cars, and Mr. Luo bought a Mini Cooper with a loan of 300,000 yuan.
Ms. Liu is now known as a “refined woman” on campus, carrying a $30, 000 watch and a $50, 000 bag on trips to Hong Kong with her “best friends.” Luo still from time to time wearing the first two sets of training clothes I gave him, appeared on campus.
“Other people’s life has other people’s way of life, you in front of the students talk about the teacher’s family affairs do what!” Master guide scruffy I in the car, back to let the few young teachers speak attention to the occasion.
The teachers did not discuss it any more, but when they sent the master guide upstairs, the master turned to me and said, “In the future, if you want to marry a wife, keep your eyes bright.”
8
The night Mr. Luo died, he was working overtime to finish the project in his hand. He was beside himself at the time, because the university that had promised him a house and offered Liu a career solution had given him an ultimatum: they would give up on Luo if they could not handle the transfer after the New Year.
President Chen gave him several times of ideological work, and advised him not to worry, and to do well in school. After he was awarded the title of “high official”, his income and salary would naturally improve to a higher level, so that the house would have other solutions. Even if you want to leave, you will have a lot more bargaining power with the new unit.
Luo teacher said he really can not wait, do not go, his wife will divorce.
President Chen, seeing how pitiful he was, could only sigh and agreed with him to hand over the project and hurried to the new unit to report. Luo said yes, but the project is still going on. Principal Chen was very surprised, after repeated inquiries, Mr. Luo told the truth — he had already spent the money for the project, because Mr. Liu “wanted to use it.”
At that time, Chen was so angry that he almost handed Luo over to the discipline inspection Commission. In the end, he paid out of his own pocket to settle the account for the master and apprentice.
Luo teacher thanks very much, promise certainly can give Chen an explanation, unexpectedly only a few days later, he causes a heart attack because of overwork, in the early morning in the office died.
After repeated negotiations with the school, Liu found that she could not be accepted as a full-time teacher. So she resigned in the middle of 2018, left her child with her parents and went to other places.
Some said she went to nanjing, some said she went to Shenzhen, and some said she opened her circle of friends, which is full of facial masks and skin care advertisements, may be done WeChat business.
“What sort of woman is she?” Then I asked my master.
Master shook his head thoughtfully, and said, perhaps only Miss Luo and her own know it.
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