Chapter 62

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

"Also..." Chai Mi lowered her voice, leaning close to Che Lianyun's ear: "Your son was in the wrong first; me, as his cousin sister, teaching him a lesson is only right. As for being a bit heavy-handed, you'll have to be tolerant. After all... with a belly that big, you're definitely capable of holding a lot."

"You... you..." Che Lianyun was so angry her nose went crooked.

Che Lianyun didn't dare fight Chai Mi, couldn't out-argue her, and not only did her threats fail but she got threatened back; in the end she was even mocked for her figure by Chai Mi — how could she not be furious.

"Don't get worked up. Your business, I haven't come to settle accounts with you yet." Chai Mi said it lightly: "But it depends on your performance. I'm a person without much of a fixed temper; if you happen to piss me off, I'll go file a complaint at the Education Bureau, saying your high school diploma is fake... heh."

Che Lianyun stared wide-eyed at Chai Mi, her whole person dazed.

Her high school diploma really was fake. Back when she was supposed to graduate, for many reasons she simply couldn't graduate; this matter only she herself knew in the whole world. But a fake diploma can't turn into a real one.

Although Che Lianyun is now at San Jia Xiaoxue, even an elementary diploma would be enough, the salary would be distinctly different.

Other teachers at San Jia Xiaoxue generally earn two to three hundred yuan a month; only Che Lianyun gets six hundred a month. In the whole township, only one old teacher at East Chili Chili Primary School, with seniority and specialty, earns eight hundred; it can be said Che Lianyun's salary is a phoenix feather unicorn horn existence among the minban teachers in her area.

And because of that fake diploma, every time the school has evaluations, awards, commendations, she's always a high-priority candidate. Even though her interpersonal relationships are terrible, she still gets priority.

Moreover in this era, also belonging to township overall planning, she already has township hukou, ate the big share, this year might even directly make her county-level planned, formally becoming part of the establishment, thoroughly an iron rice bowl for life, eating "imperial grain".

All of this is the tangible preferential treatment brought by Che Lianyun's fake diploma.

This matter of Che Lianyun's whole life, she never told anyone, not even Chai You De knew.

Not even her own son Chai Dajun did Che Lianyun tell; how Chai Mi knew, Che Lianyun was a bit dumbfounded.

"This... I still have something to do." Che Lianyun finished speaking, turned and wanted to leave.

"Wait..." Chai Mi stopped Che Lianyun: "I regret it again. I feel a person like you should go home and plow fields; being a teacher really ruins students."

Che Lianyun was terrified, legs went soft, she slumped directly onto the ground, repeatedly saying in a low submissive voice: "Chai Mi... don't be like this, don't be like this... I... a great person doesn't remember a small person's faults... I... I'll never come to your house to make trouble again."

Chai You Fu, who hadn't gone far, watched Chai Mi and Che Lianyun from a distance.

His mind was also blank; because of the distance he hadn't heard clearly the conversation between Chai Mi and Che Lianyun.

Chai You Fu just saw Che Lianyun's especially abnormal behavior today, the whole person was a bit stunned: Chai Mi must have grabbed Che Lianyun's handle, otherwise how could she subdue this shrew in just a few sentences?

But what handle does Chai Mi actually have on Che Lianyun?!

Chai Mi didn't believe Che Lianyun's ghost talk, but right now there weren't many people; some words spoken now would obviously lack that power, and letting Che Lianyun know she has the ability to finish her off, compared to directly finishing her off, would be more comfortable. This way, Che Lianyun would live every day in fear and trepidation...

Just as Chai You Fu came over, Chai Mi coldly scolded Che Lianyun: "Why don't you scram? Come find fault again, don't blame me for letting your whole family starve."

Che Lianyun ran away rolling and crawling.

Due to her overly special build, running she was like a walking mud truck, whooshing past... shaking with a rumbling boom, the village dogs all frightened into howling miserably, thinking an earthquake was coming.

Chai You Fu asked Chai Mi: What's the deal with Che Lianyun?

Chai Mi smiled without speaking, just politely invited Chai You Fu to come in again for tea; Chai You Fu saw he couldn't pry anything out, so he also declined and left.

Chai You Fu returned home, thought left and right, scratched his ears and cheeks, still couldn't figure it out: Che Lianyun even if she can't beat Chai Mi, with her arrogant domineering personality, she shouldn't be afraid of Chai Mi...

If afraid? Che Lianyun wouldn't have let Chai Dajun go pluck Chai Mi's family's crops, right?

Song Qiuping saw Chai You Fu sitting on the kang head scratching ears and cheeks, looking absent-minded, and asked: "What's wrong with you? Got lice? Why learning that Monkey King, scratching ears and cheeks?!"

"You woman, what do you know." Chai You Fu said impatiently.

"Fine, you're not much better than a woman..." Song Qiuping muttered a sentence, then said: "You go stay to one side, I need to sleep my lunch break."

Song Qiuping originally had nothing to do, liked sleeping a nap at noon, this way her whole body would be comfortable.

Chai You Fu rolled an eye at Song Qiuping, sighed: Nothing at all.

But Chai You Fu didn't dare disobey Song Qiuping, so he got down from the kang head, went to the courtyard, took the teapot, brewed a pot of tea, drank tea himself, thought about things.

Chai Min happened to have nothing to do, came out from the room; she wore a light pink skirt, looking extremely cool, wore light pink slippers, held a pink small teacup, also poured a cup of tea, then asked in a low voice: "Dad, what are you worried about? Chai Mi's family's matter?"

Chai You Fu felt stifled inside, today he just didn't hide it anymore, told what he saw a moment ago, then said somewhat puzzled: "Chai Min, you say Xiao Doubao how come suddenly feels especially afraid of Chai Mi?"

Chai Min frowned, heart slightly uneasy, said: "Definitely has a handle, got grabbed by Chai Mi."

Chai You Fu didn't raise his head: "That's for sure, the problem is what handle?"

Chai You Fu naturally also guessed that Che Lianyun was pinched by Chai Mi, there must be an internal reason, but what it was, he didn't know.

"That Che Lianyun... slippery as a loach... with her build, probably few men can fancy her... so only her identity..." Chai Min carefully reminded.

Chai You Fu froze, muttered in a low voice: "Che Lianyun is a teacher what problem? Her classes are okay, just famous for liking to clean up students, you were also cleaned up by her, but strict teachers produce outstanding students, that's not a problem either... moreover she's done it nearly twenty years, more years than me, what problem could there be..."

Chai Min also didn't say anything directly, just said: "All teachers, but Dad you and her aren't the same level... she gets six hundred a month, you two hundred forty, the difference isn't just a little bit, she has intermediate professional title."

After Chai Min said this, Chai You Fu instantly realized: "Chai Min, you mean Xiao Doubao Che Lianyun virtue doesn't match position? Unqualified to take six hundred salary?"

Chai Min's face a moment of bewilderment: People all say Chai You Fu is very smart, but looking at it he seems not smart; this maybe is why he's just Sanjiacun's Little Zhuge, can't see the big world.

But Chai Min still wouldn't say clearly, just vaguely said: "I'm also just guessing, this doesn't count. Who knows... her teaching level is just so-so, can't tell she went to high school..."

High school graduate?

Chai You Fu froze for a long time, then suddenly realized, said: "Must be Chai Mi knows some inside story. If you ask me, I'm also puzzled; you say twenty-some years ago, high school graduates, a county only had seven or eight, those who graduated with her, either went to university or became officials. Which one isn't doing better than her?"

You know, even now in the nineties, high school graduates are still hot cakes.

So, with Che Lianyun's former high school graduate education, even taking a lower position, it's too low, right...

Almost no different from low to the bottom.

High school graduate gold content ten-plus years ago, compared to the nineties, is only more not less.

Chai You Fu recalled the events of that year, tried to find spider silk horse tracks.

That year Chai You De high school dropout, stayed at home, not striving, made trouble, especially after eldest brother Chai Youqing married a wife, he made trouble even more fiercely. A thorough useless waste who can't live without a woman.

Later don't know how, Chai You De got together with Che Lianyun; that time Che Lianyun happened to be an intern teacher at San Jia Xiaoxue, not yet converted; while that time Chai You Fu had already done two years odd jobs at San Jia Xiaoxue, also not converted...

And the principal at that time was precisely Chai Zhongguo who is now County Magistrate... Old Principal Chai Zhongguo and Father Chai Zhongxiao, though past five degrees of mourning, are from one ancestor.

Back then, Chai Zhongxiao's father and Chai Zhongguo's father were both still alive, and the two families' relationship could be considered...

Chai You Fu had a bold guess in his heart: was there a possibility that Che Lianyun had taken a fancy to Chai You De back then, not only because Chai You De looked decent, but also because of the Chai family's connection to the principal? After all, without explaining from this angle, it was completely impossible to figure out how Che Lianyun, a mere high school graduate, had taken a fancy to Chai You De, such a good-for-nothing...

Of course, Che Lianyun was indeed ugly...

But back then, her eyes were set higher than the sky...

It seemed that his earlier thought was correct.

But Chai You Fu still couldn't quite figure it out, because so many years had passed, and Che Lianyun at the school had a high school graduate's education, so there wasn't really any other problem. Che Lianyun had run for principal several times, but because of her bad character and poor relationships, she hadn't been elected. Therefore, she had also offended people... but it had always been peaceful and uneventful.

Her years of service couldn't possibly be fake...

The only thing that could be fake was her identity.

In this era, there were no computers, and files were all handwritten...

Forgery was very possible.

But after all, high school graduation came with a diploma, and diplomas would have seals...

Chai You Fu thought it over and over, but didn't dare to make a definite judgment. After all, would Che Lianyun dare to carve a radish into a seal and make a fake diploma?

Moreover, others weren't blind either; they could tell at a glance...

Couldn't figure it out...

Although Chai You Fu now felt that Chai Mi's leverage should be the fact that she had caught Che Lianyun possibly forging a diploma, it was baseless, and with so many years having passed, would Che Lianyun submit?

Che Lianyun truly refused to submit.

After returning from Chai Mi's home, Che Lianyun returned to work at school in a somewhat absent-minded state.

Primary schools in this era weren't managed particularly strictly; teachers generally came when they had class, and might sneak home to rest when they didn't. It wasn't closed management, so arrival and departure times depended entirely on the class schedule.

Basically, except for the principal who would stay in the office, some teachers without class would stroll around the school, while others would go straight home for a while.

For example, Chai You Fu didn't have many classes today, so he told the principal there was something at home and went home early.

Moreover, it was originally a primary school built in the village, and the teachers were basically villagers themselves, so there weren't so many rules.

Moreover, this was the era of Reform and Opening-up. These educated people were also the first to come into contact with newspapers and news, and many teachers directly resigned to go south to do business.

In the past two years, several teachers at San Jia Xiaoxue had already resigned, and now there weren't many teachers left, and teaching staff were in short supply. Therefore, the principal turned a blind eye to such situations as arriving late, leaving early, or going home in the middle of the day when there was no class.

Che Lianyun had been holding in a bellyful of anger all afternoon, and in class she lacked energy. Apart from finding fault and criticizing a few students for no reason, there was nothing else.

After class, she hurried home anxiously. Once she entered the old house, she locked herself in her own room, drew the curtains, and began rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

Che Lianyun's high school diploma was indeed fake.

Chai Mi discovered it by accident many years later in her previous life.

Che Lianyun thought that her forging the diploma was flawless and that no one knew about it. Not to mention Chai You De, even Che Lianyun's own biological parents didn't know about this matter.

Everyone who knew Che Lianyun thought she had truly graduated from high school.

After searching for a while, Che Lianyun finally found that fake diploma...

It was a high school diploma without any flaws. The diploma was not only clear, but also bore the school seal of County No. 1 Middle School.

It was exactly like a real one.

Only...

The place where the principal's seal should be stamped had no impression, only a signature with somewhat immature handwriting.

This signature was the absolute weak point of this diploma... Of course, if it wasn't deliberately required, or if someone hadn't seen other diplomas, they couldn't tell the difference. After all, in this era it was either a signature or a seal. Since it already had the seal of No. 1 Middle School, the principal's seal didn't seem so important.

The facts were indeed so.

Back then, Che Lianyun took this diploma and smoothly came to San Jia Xiaoxue for an internship... from internship to becoming a regular teacher, there was not the slightest problem.

At that time, Che Lianyun was studying at No. 1 Middle School, but she fell into a romance that crossed age boundaries. Simply put, she took a fancy to a loafer from society... and then they did that...

Later, the school found out about this. In that sufficiently conservative era, Che Lianyun was expelled directly in her sophomore year. However, she cried, made a scene, and threatened to hang herself, causing the school to be in an uproar. Eventually, the principal had no choice but to restore her student status, changing it to probation at the school.

But she was unrepentant and continued to do as she pleased. As a result, before graduation, she was completely expelled. Even if she made a scene again, the principal remained indifferent.

However, because transportation was underdeveloped at the time, and this was also a scandal, No. 1 Middle School chose to handle it in silence and did not make it public.

Che Lianyun couldn't get her high school diploma, so she had a crooked idea...

(End of chapter)