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I took a look at the alumni register, either they are officials within the system, or they are corporate executives or bosses. The most impressive one is a department head from the Jiangcheng City Government. When they signed in, they all had a big red and gold invitation card in their hands, while I was the only uninvited guest.
Several classmates who are now CEOs donated money to the school, ranging from ten thousand to fifty thousand. The ceremony was very grand, and other classmates with "Chang" in their names also came forward, some donating 1000, 2000, 500, or 800.
Lunch was arranged in the school cafeteria, but the "VIP" alumni like Gao Jiazhuang dined in the faculty cafeteria. It's not clear if the dining standards were the same.
Among the school's reception staff, I saw Moana, who was Jiang Qiuying's desk mate and our class monitor. She and Qiuying were both considered the "campus belles." Moana came up to me affectionately and said, "Hu Ruoyun, did you also receive an invitation?" She seemed very surprised.
Moana is in a bad state. In her forties, her complexion is sallow, her hair is dry and yellow, and her clothes are obviously outdated. Qiuying told me that Moana used to live in the bunk above her in high school and often helped her, who was not very good at doing things with her hands, make the bed and do the laundry. Looking around to make sure no one was paying attention, the two of us decided to have a "little meeting" on the side. "Back then, when Qiuying and I were harassed by young people in society, it was you who stood up for us and got us out of trouble..."
That was the most fulfilling thing for me in my three years of high school. That night, Moana and Jiang Qiuying went out together to buy daily necessities and were harassed by a few hooligans. I happened to come across them while strolling on the street. Although I was not good at studying, I was not lacking in being a decent person. I stood up for them, but they didn't take me seriously because they outnumbered me. We had a physical confrontation, and I was hit on the face and body countless times, but I still protected the two of them with all my might. It was only when those guys saw that I was outnumbered and, despite being at a disadvantage, I picked up a brick to fight back and threatened them that they finally left. I never expected that after so many years, Moana still remembers this incident.
After catching up, talk about the present.
"How are you doing now?" we both ask simultaneously.
alumni association ends, with the school leaders leading the reception team to bid farewell to the "VIPs" at the gate, waving to us as a gesture.
Gao Jiazhuang stood in front of his Bora and said goodbye to Teacher Jia, raising the car keys to greet me: "I have to rush back to Jinan, so I won't be able to give you a ride."
Our Teacher Jia just glanced at me and didn't say anything.
Moana shook my hand and joked, "I never thought that you, a 'poor student,' would marry our class beauty! I'll definitely come visit next month when I take my daughter for a follow-up eye check at the provincial hospital. I want to see my old desk mate and the sister who slept in the bunk below me!"
"Warm welcome! When I get back, I'll tell Qiuying that she's often mentioned by you!"
A Mercedes-Benz business car slid up to us, and the automatic door opened. I waved goodbye to Moana.
In the rearview mirror, I saw Teacher Jia quickly approaching Moana, as if asking her something.
8
Half a month later, we still haven't seen Moana, and our homeroom teacher Teacher Jia came to our door first.
Before coming, she didn't call, but instead came directly to my company, casually walking up to the front desk: "Is your boss named Hu Ruoyun?"
The young girl nodded, and he arrogantly said, "I am his high school homeroom teacher. You should have him come out to meet me!"
Receiving a call from the front desk surprised me.
The reason for the homeroom teacher looking for me was even more surprising.
Our Teacher Jia came to borrow money from me, the "big boss", and he asked for 180,000 yuan right off the bat! 180,000 yuan is not a small amount, and I can't understand how he could come to me for this. When we were in school, he criticized my poor academic performance and placed me at the back, allowing me and other students he considered to be lagging behind, like Chen Quanliang and Mou Zhenghe, to fend for ourselves. He didn't even let us take the college entrance examination... Well, let's not dwell on the distant past. This time at the alumni association, he didn't even bother to shake my hand or exchange insincere pleasantries with me!
But I still warmly welcomed him. After all, he was my homeroom teacher for three years in high school. He complained to me, cried poverty, and talked about the difficulties he had faced in recent years. Three years ago, Teacher Jia's proud student Gao Jiazhuang visited Teacher Jia with a generous gift. He was accompanied by a loan officer.
Gao Jiazhuang tells the teacher that his son is graduating from college and plans to go abroad for "research," but needs to pay a deposit. He is currently short on funds and is planning to take out a loan. The loan requires a guarantee, and he is asking the teacher to be the guarantor.
The student earnestly pleads, and the nearby salesperson also says, "After one month, all guarantee information will be returned, and you will have no relationship with it."
Gao Jiazhuang often reports his progress to Teacher Jia: deputy section-level officer at the Cultural Bureau, deputy director, and possibly being promoted to the Urban Construction Bureau, the Municipal Party Committee Office... Anyway, in the eyes of a teacher, it's a smooth journey and a bright future.
Teacher Jia signed the Guarantee information in a daze.
Four months later, Gao Jiazhuang came to borrow money again.
Teacher Jia borrowed 50,000 from the old neighbor again, also guaranteeing it herself.
He didn't take this matter to heart, after all, it was just a guarantee, and besides, Gao Jiazhuang was a "top student" back then, with a bright future ahead of him. It wasn't until later, when the debt collection calls became frequent, that he found out Gao Jiazhuang hadn't changed the guarantee information. He asked Gao Jiazhuang to repay the debt, but Gao Jiazhuang always came up with various "objective" reasons, making Teacher Jia have to agree to "wait a while." Until the eve of the alumni association, the debt collection company found him again, and he urged Gao Jiazhuang once more. Gao Jiazhuang vowed, "I will repay the money immediately, and I will also compensate the teacher for the interest!"
alumni association, he made a promise in person: I am about to be transferred to the Jinan City Education Bureau as the deputy director... It will be easy to arrange for your daughter Jia Liu to be transferred to the First High School in the city!
But after the alumni association, Gao Jiazhuang blocked Teacher Jia's WeChat and phone number.
Later, someone in the alumni reunion WeChat group reported, "Alumnus Gao Jiazhuang borrowed money from me, and now I can't reach him!"
A single stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves. Surprisingly, there are dozens of comments below the post, saying that Gao Jiazhuang also borrowed money from them! After a rough estimate, the total amount exceeds 500,000 RMB!
The most unbearable case is Teacher Jia. The debt collection company became desperate and relentlessly pursued him for the debt, eventually taking him to court. Now, his salary card has been frozen, and as soon as his pension is deposited each month, it is immediately withdrawn.
His financial situation was not very comfortable to begin with, and without his pension, he can't make ends meet.
What should I do? alumni association Teacher Jia found out that I, a poor student, arrived in a luxury car, and then learned from Moana that I, a farmer worker, became the boss of a cultural company, and is now planning to come to me for money. When I didn't immediately agree to lend money, Teacher Jia started to act pitiful: in order to repay the debt, he went to work in another city. His hands, originally used for teaching and writing, now do physical labor, building stone dams, picking potatoes, doing cleaning, and working as a loader and unloader... He travels everywhere, doing all kinds of rough and tiring work. In order to save money, he often only eats plain pancakes soaked in water...
"You are doing so well now, it's all thanks to the good cultivation and education from your teachers back then! As a person, you should know how to be grateful. Now that the teacher is asking for your help, you can't just sit back and do nothing, right?"
- In short, it seems that if I don't lend him this money, I will be considered extremely ungrateful and unforgivable, and have lost all sense of decency!
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