Teacher Song has always been a prominent figure at the town middle school, someone both students and teachers like to gossip about.

The old principal stepped in to protect him once again, reportedly making two requests of Teacher Song: to attend a teacher training college and then return to teach at the school and marry his daughter.

Since Teacher Song was his future son-in-law, the old principal naturally wanted to help him. If the school expelled him, Teacher Song's life would be ruined.

Teacher Sun's family was dirt poor, barely able to put food on the table. If he couldn't attend teacher training college and return as a teacher to secure a stable income, how could the old principal let his daughter marry such a poor boy? After all, marrying him would mean a life of hardship.

The old principal had no choice but to help him, especially given his plans for Teacher Song to be his future son-in-law!

In the end, Teacher Song successfully got into Jianan Teacher Training College and returned to the town middle school to become an English teacher.

With the principal's support, he quickly made a name for himself at school, standing out as he helped each cohort form a top class. The top-performing students from the town's elementary schools were always selected for this elite class.

As for the other classes, there were some students with good grades scattered around, like Yi Anguo. Though his town-wide rank in elementary school was 12th during the middle school entrance exams, he was originally not placed in the elite class until Teacher Song insisted on transferring him due to his excellent exam scores.

Yi Anguo was not very interested in English, so his English grades were not ideal. However, his Chinese and other subjects were excellent, often making him one of the top six students in the class.

This displeased Teacher Song, who felt that Yi Anguo was deliberately antagonizing him.

Teacher Song only liked students with good grades, having a strong dislike for those who performed poorly. He had no patience for them, believing these students dragged the class down.

Once, when class was over and Yi Anguo was just at the classroom door, a large crack in the cement patch on the door frame suddenly crumbled and shattered on the floor.

The classroom walls had been whitewashed with lime, and cement was probably incompatible with lime. Patching lime walls with cement eventually leads to cracks, and the patches fall off.

Teacher Song just happened to come from the next classroom and immediately blamed Yi Anguo for being mischievous and damaging the wall, demanding he pay five yuan and accusing him of deliberately damaging public property.

On Monday, when Yi Anguo went to school, Teacher Song asked him for the five yuan. Yi Anguo couldn't produce it; how could he dare ask his parents for five yuan?

At that time, five yuan was nearly equivalent to five days' wages for an adult in the countryside, and middle school tuition for a semester was only a few dozen yuan. Yi Anguo's parents gave him only one or two yuan for pocket money each week, which had to cover buying pens, erasers, ink, and such.

On the spot, Teacher Song expelled Yi Anguo from the classroom, ordering him to go home and ask his parents for money or bring them to school.

Yi Anguo was very afraid of his father, who had a bad temper and often beat him when he was young. Unable to attend class and unwilling to go home for fear of his father, he spent two days playing outside the school.

In the end, Teacher Song couldn't get the money, and Yi Anguo refused to bring his parents to school, so Teacher Song stopped pursuing it.

However, he started frequently targeting Yi Anguo after that. During English class, he would always make him stand outside at the classroom door, not letting him participate in class at all.

This led to a vicious cycle in which his already weak English grades deteriorated even further.

Later, Yi Haiyang's mother heard about Yi Anguo's situation and specially visited the school to plead with Teacher Song, but he didn't show her any courtesy.

He even told Yi Haiyang's mother: "Yi Anguo is not your son. If he were, I might consider listening to you."

In the second half of the first semester, when the homeroom teacher changed to the Chinese teacher, Yi Yang's student life finally improved.

Because Yi Anguo consistently performed well in Chinese, placing among the top in class, the Chinese teacher naturally favored him.

After all, every teacher likes students with good grades, though other teachers wouldn't go to extremes like Teacher Song, who frequently beat and scolded students with poor grades and would never make a student stand outside the classroom as punishment during class.

At that time, the class had an intern English teacher, who happened to be female and had a good personality. She was devoted and responsible toward her students.

Under the intern teacher's help, Yi Anguo's English grades began to catch up.

Then, at the start of the second semester, Teacher Song returned as their homeroom teacher, again targeting Yi Anguo.

Ultimately, he tried to directly expel Yi Anguo, refusing to let him continue studying.

In response to this significant issue, Yi Anguo had no choice but to call his father to school.

Yi Anguo's father spoke highly of Teacher Song, expressing pleasantries and smiles, but Teacher Song still insisted on expelling Yi Anguo and said to his father:

"Letting him stay in school is just a waste of time. With grades like his, he won't be able to pass any exams. It would be better for him to leave school early, find some work in society, make some money, and help with some chores at home."

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