It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

In the office, Li Hanqiang teased with a smile.

Tong Yao looked up from the pile of homework, a little surprised:

"Yes...yes."

Come to think of it, it has been a while since I last talked to the girl, or had dinner with her.

She felt a little guilty for some reason, and explained:

"Well...she's working very hard now, so I don't need to worry about her anymore."

"Haha, it would be great if other students were as motivated as Ruan Qian."

The little girl was praised by other teachers, and she was also happy about it.

That kid is really moving in a good direction.

She buried her head in correcting homework, but soon she couldn't help frowning.

Several students copied each other's homework.

Because the names were those of several boys who seemed to have a good relationship, the plagiarism chain was also very obvious. It was during the break, so she took the homework to Class 7. When she arrived at the back door, the little girl at the door was lying on the table to catch up on her sleep.

The pigtails fell from her shoulders, revealing her fair neck, which was very cute.

"Help me find Xie Yiran and Xu Hao," she patted Jiang Yiming who was sitting next to her, "If they come back, ask them to go to my office."

Jiang Yiming's bones were softened by the beating.

However, her voice woke up the half-asleep girl.

As if the radar detected something, Ruan Qian raised her head in a trance and looked around. Teacher Tong was very close behind her.

"Teacher Tong..."

she murmured.

"Go to sleep," Tong Yao raised the corners of her lips, and there was a hint of doting in her words that she herself could not even detect, "I'm not here to look for you."

"Oh……"

What followed was deep disappointment.

Ruan Qian sat up, leaned against the window, and watched the nursery rhyme fade away.

Tong Yao was waiting in the office. Soon, two boys came in and shouted "Report".

Tong Yao raised her eyes and waited for the boy to come to her desk. She spread out two exercise books and tilted her head:

"Tell me, who copied whose."

The two boys looked at each other, one embarrassed, the other annoyed.

Finally, Xu Hao lowered his head:

"I copied him."

"Why did you copy?" Tong Yao knew that multiple-choice questions were much easier than short-answer questions, so she threw out a few excuses, "Did you do something last night? Or do you think the questions are too easy to do?"

Everyone would choose to take the first step.

Xu Hao stammered:

"Last night... the student union had something going on, so we didn't have time to do it..."

This excuse was lame, like a panicked student filling out a multiple-choice question when the bell rang. Tong Yao didn't care why he copied the homework, because it was probably because he was lazy. She just wanted the student to know that she knew he copied.

"No matter what happens, you can't cheat in the future, understand? You can hand it in one day late, but it won't happen again," Tong Yao said, "I won't tell your mother this time."

Xu Hao's mother is the Chinese language group leader of the grade, so it is easy for her to make a report.

Xu Hao was obviously frightened and nodded frantically.

As for Xie Yiran who copied Xu Hao's homework... Tong Yao didn't have anything to say. They were all students, and she knew how difficult it was to refuse a good friend's request to copy homework - so, she said to Xu Hao:

"Do your homework yourself and don't make it difficult for your friends, okay?"

Xu Hao scratched his head, wishing he could burrow into the soil: "Hmm."

They were not sad to be criticized by Teacher Tong, but they felt ashamed just by being looked at. Perhaps... it was because Teacher Tong cared too much about them, and any bad behavior seemed to be a betrayal of this kindness.

The office door was pushed open again. Li Hanqiang, who had just been out, saw his two students in the office. His face changed and he asked:

"Teacher Tong, what did they do wrong?"

Xie Yiran was still okay, but Xu Hao's face turned pale. Laogai loved to make a mountain out of a molehill. If they knew that he had copied the homework, they would definitely have a conversation with his mother.

Tong Yao smiled and said, "No, I just talked about a few math problems."

After leaving the office, Xu Hao took a deep breath.

"Teacher Tong is still the best."

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It was near the end of September, and the school scheduled the sports meet at the end of the month. After the sports meet, there was a three-day National Day holiday, followed by the monthly exam.

Scheduling the monthly exam after National Day is telling students that no one dares to have fun during the holidays.

But the sports meet was different. Everyone was very enthusiastic and thought that "reviewing can be postponed to the National Day." Although it was inevitable to do homework while watching the games, no one disliked the sports meet, which was almost like a holiday.

"Sign up, sign up!"

The sports committee member had little prestige, so Ji Chen was in charge of registration. Few people were willing to sign up for events like the 1000m and 800m, and it would be embarrassing if the class couldn't send anyone, so the class monitor had to ask some students who were good at sports to sign up.

This is the first time that the newly formed Class 7 has participated in a sports meet.

Who is good at sports can basically only be seen in physical education classes.

"Ruan Xi, I heard them say that you are very fast in 100 meters, right?"

Ji Chen stood in front of Ruan Qian's desk, looking flattering. Compared with the boys' projects, the girls' projects were the bigger problem.

Ruan Qian's eyelashes drooped slightly, and she was hesitant.

She was not only very fast, but she was almost as fast as a gym student. She might be left behind in a 100-meter race, but she was definitely good at the -meter race.

But she was not used to representing her class to win honors.

Will they cheer themselves on?

It’s a bit embarrassing to have a group of people encouraging me...but I really want to experience it once.

If possible, she would like to be popular.

Many people are like this. They seem to be wavering, but in fact they have already made their choice in their hearts.

in the office.

“I don’t really want to report it.”

Tong Yao said apologetically.

There are sports programs for teachers as well.

God knows how bad she is at sports. Because of her age, she skipped a lot of military training and exercises when she was in school. The last time she ran was during the mandatory physical test in her senior year. The problems of modern people are clearly visible in her.

"But every grade group needs someone..." Grade group leader Ye Wei advised, "Teacher Xiaotong, you see, the other female teachers are all seniors who are willing but unable to do anything. You can just sign up for a relay race and just run around. It doesn't matter if you're slow. Winning or losing is not important."

The events for teachers only include the 50-meter head-on relay and fun events. Older teachers have signed up for the fun events, so the relay race has to be left to young teachers.

There are only a few young female teachers in the second year of high school, and if she doesn't teach, the senior teachers will have to do it.

After much persuasion, she couldn't resist. Team Leader Ye Wei was so eloquent and humble that she had no choice but to agree.

Looking at her thin arms and legs, she fell into deep self-doubt again.

Chapter 25: She keeps moving forward in pursuit of the light

The opening ceremony of the sports meet is the starting point of competition between each class.

It was just an entrance, but the leaders on the rostrum loved to watch and had to award first, second and third prizes. The steps had to be in unison and the slogans had to be loud. Something like "Class 7 is extraordinary" would not work. They had to come up with a more explosive show. What's worse, they had to do some fancy moves, such as stopping in front of the rostrum to dance.

There was less than a week left before the sports meet, so there wasn't much time for rehearsal. Physical education class was the first thing to do, so there was no free time to think about. The first thing we did was to practice marching in step.

"Step on your left foot when you shout one!" Ji Chen let go of the whistle in his mouth and said sadly, "Please don't make the mistake!"

Everybody burst into laughter, and some people even turned the other way on purpose to create difficulties for the squad leader.

Ruan Qian wiped the sweat off her forehead. Rehearsal was very tiring. The most annoying thing was shouting slogans. Every time, there were people who just did the job to fill in the numbers, which made the supervising inmates very dissatisfied.

Although the little girl was shy, she actually shouted very hard every time, until her throat was almost burning.

Li Hanqiang had a gloomy face, and when he heard the deafening noises from Class 4 at the other end of the playground, his face turned even darker.

"one two three four!"

Ji Chen roared hoarsely.

"one two three four."

The voices of quite a few people are still weak.

Ruan Qian felt bad for Ji Chen's efforts, but all she could do was shout it out loud. The louder she shouted, the more out of place she became in her circle, and she even felt embarrassed when she shouted. When others looked at her, she almost wanted to shut her mouth immediately and pretend that the sound was not made by her.

"Look at what you are practicing!"

After walking through the venue again, Li Hanqiang finally lost his temper, "There are so many people, but Ji Chen's voice is not as loud as his! It takes him a long time to march in step! Isn't it embarrassing?!"

No one responded.

Everyone was rehearsing with emotion.

Class 7 was unlucky as it rained lightly in the previous two physical education classes. Some people thought that they could withstand this little rain, but in the end the class was changed to self-study. This time, they finally got a chance to play ball, but they had to rehearse.

If they have to blame anyone, they can only blame their class for being particularly unlucky.

Li Hanqiang's scolding was so loud that it was heard on the other side of the playground.

"Teacher Tong, was that okay just now?" Xu Yin smiled slyly and inadvertently hugged Tong Yao's little arm.

"Hmm... very neat, I think you can move freely now." Tong Yao said seriously, then looked into the distance, "You take charge of the next step, I'll go to Class 7 to check."

As for why the nursery rhyme was on the playground, it was because the head teacher of Class 4 had a class and asked her to supervise Class 4's rehearsal.

The children in Class 4 were all very obedient and their rehearsal efficiency was extremely high. She did almost nothing but said a few encouraging words like "very good" and "everyone is great".

She didn't know that for the students, it was a wonderful thing to be able to wholeheartedly appreciate the beautiful teacher's every move during rehearsal, rather than focusing on the learning content in normal math class.

"Teacher Li," Tong Yao walked to the gathering point of Class 7 and smiled at the group of students, then looked at Li Hanqiang, "Are you rehearsing too?"

Facing the younger generation, Li Hanqiang suppressed the anger on his face and nodded:

"Well, these bastards are really worrying."

The rehearsal of Class 7 was still going on. Ji Chen continued to shout with a hoarse voice, but this time, the students of Class 7 burst out with amazing momentum.

The shouts were so deafening that even the students from Class 4 in the distance couldn't help but look over.

Everyone was holding back their anger. It wasn't that they couldn't do it, they just didn't want to do it, they were just being mad at Li Hanqiang, if Teacher Tong came, or any other teacher came, they would defend their dignity.

No one wants the teacher to think that their class is worse than other classes in physical education.

Tong Yao was surprised: "Isn't this great?"

Li Hanqiang had a complicated expression.

Ji Chen ran over at this time, panting, his voice hoarse:

"Teacher Li, let's take a break. We are all tired."

Li Hanqiang still felt sorry for the squad leader. He said nothing, closed his eyes, nodded, and walked away along the runway.

During the break, most people just sat on the grass. The boys took the opportunity to take out the basketball and started playing tricks on the spot, enjoying every minute of the exercise.

Tong Yao raised the corners of her lips slightly. She would always smile unconsciously when she saw her students.

"Teacher Tong..."

A voice came into my ears, timid and soft.

"Hmm?" She raised her voice, "Soft?"

"Why is Teacher Tong here?"