vrcanaries Chapter 538 Taking advantage of my kindness! You still want to bully me, Wu Huifen?!
Chapter 538 Taking advantage of my kindness! You still want to bully me, Wu Huifen?!
Jingle bell~
Jingle bell~
The blue landline phone rang.
Wu Huifen, who was busy writing a report, picked up the receiver casually.
"Hello, who is this? What? Teacher Liang Lu is here? Then please let her in!"
Wu Huifen smiled slightly, but just as she was about to hang up, she suddenly remembered that during Liang Lu's imprisonment, she had already changed offices, and more than once.
From associate professor to professor, from head of the history department to vice dean of the humanities college, and then to vice president of Handong University.
In the past two or three years, her job rank has changed so rapidly that it has risen like a rocket.
So I definitely can't let Liang Lu go to the history department office to find me again!
"Wait a minute, could you please tell Ms. Liang that I've moved to room 304 in the administration building? Thank you!"
After hanging up the phone, Wu Huifen frowned and pondered.
"That's strange, wasn't she sentenced to three years in prison?"
"Logically, he should not be released until February or March next year after serving his sentence. How come he's out now?"
"No, Lao Gao said that the special campaign to crack down on organized crime has already begun in full swing!"
"This operation, combined with the fight against corruption, will inevitably lead to many people going to jail, and prisons will probably need to 'clear their inventory' in advance."
“Liang Lu’s sentence was not long to begin with, and she actually served two and a half years. In addition, her repentance was quite good, so she can naturally be released early through a sentence reduction.”
"How could she possibly return to Handong University after her release from prison? The former deputy secretary of the law school was imprisoned for bribery. Doesn't she feel ashamed?"
Wu Huifen was a little confused, but she didn't have time to think about it anymore.
She was busy all summer.
This year, several departments in Handong Province, together with the Huilong Charity Education Foundation, launched the "Caring for Rural Left-Behind Children During Summer Vacation" campaign for the third consecutive year.
Many universities responded actively to the call to action, organizing their voluntary college students to go deep into remote rural areas to care for left-behind children.
Wu Huifen led a volunteer team from Handong University to the four poorest and most backward counties in the province, and they were stationed in seventeen township schools.
University students act as teachers, accompanying children in reading, studying, completing homework, and playing sports, while Wu Huifen often has to travel between different schools.
With the start of the new semester approaching, the operation was successfully completed. Wu Huifen brought every single student of Han University back to school. Without taking a day off, she came to her office to rush to write a report.
Although Wu Huifen, given her current position, could easily have someone else write the report, or even simply find the summary reports from the previous two years and make minor modifications, she did not do so.
Perhaps the action itself was very educational, or perhaps she was promoted too quickly and hadn't yet adapted to being a leader.
Anyway, Wu Huifen preferred to clumsily type on the keyboard in front of the computer, so that she could recall the words while typing.
Boom boom boom!
There was a knock on the door, and Wu Huifen turned her head in response.
"Principal Wu!!"
Liang Lu stood at the door and called out with a smile.
Principal Wu's voice trailed off...
Although she said it with a smile, Wu Huifen couldn't help but feel a sour taste in her mouth.
It's no wonder Liang Lu is so sarcastic.
Back in the day, before the Liang family fell from power, Liang Lu, relying on her father Liang Qunfeng being the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Department, and her elder brother and younger brother both holding important positions, was not only arrogant and domineering at Handong University, but also quite aloof. Even the university president had to treat her with great respect.
And what about yourself?
He came from a modest family and it wasn't easy for him to become an associate professor.
Her husband, Gao Yuliang, was chosen by Liang Lu's father, Liang Qunfeng, to step out of the classroom and into politics. She was grateful to her husband for recognizing and promoting her.
Therefore, Wu Huifen had to be very careful around Liang Lu, treating her like a pampered young lady and speaking cautiously.
No matter how powerful, willful, arrogant and conceited Liang Lu was at that time, even if Wu Huifen was disgusted by her pursuing the teacher and then indulging in the student, she had to pretend to be empathetic. How could she dare to say that Liang Lu was wrong?
In particular, Liang Lu kept saying that she liked Qi Tongwei, but Qi Tongwei didn't like her. He only had Chen Yang in his heart and wanted to go to Yanjing to work with Chen Yang. However, she broke up the couple and assigned Qi Tongwei to a judicial office in a remote mountainous area.
Most people would stop at this point in their "love turned to hate" relationship, but Liang Lu wasn't done yet.
Qi Tongwei was unwilling to be mediocre, so he volunteered to become a narcotics officer. He risked his life to solve a major case and became a narcotics hero. Liang Lu still refused to let him go and once again used her father Liang Qunfeng's power to suppress Qi Tongwei.
Even if Qi Tongwei is desperate and has no choice but to come to the school to beg her for forgiveness, she still wants to humiliate him one more time. She insists that Qi Tongwei kneel down and propose to her in public on the playground before she will agree...
It's easier to change mountains and rivers than to change one's nature!
Someone like her, used to having power and being willful, is unlikely to change easily even if she goes to prison.
Especially for someone like herself, who was once far inferior to her in terms of family background, job, and appearance, but is now doing better than her, how could she not be sarcastic?
but……
Wu Huifen was not angry.
When the Liang family got into trouble and Liang Lu went to prison, Wu Huifen was genuinely happy, feeling that she was finally free.
The reason I continued to visit Liang Lu in prison was mainly to see how miserable she was there. Seeing her suffering made me feel better.
A once privileged and willful young lady is now forced to work on a sewing machine in prison; if she doesn't complete her tasks, she won't receive a good performance rating or earn wages...
It's incredibly ironic, and every time I visit her in prison, I find her looking older and less attractive than the last time, which makes me secretly smug.
therefore.
Wu Huifen's repeated visits to Liang Lu in prison were not out of concern as a "good friend," but rather to make up for all the pent-up resentment she had endured for years.
No matter how bad her mood was before she went there because she was approaching menopause and was living apart from her husband, seeing Liang Lu, who was wearing prison clothes and looking older, instantly cheered her up.
However, as her position rose and she became busier and happier, Wu Huifen gradually stopped needing to visit Liang Lu in prison for the purpose of 'healing' him.
Liang Lu arrived uninvited and, before even entering the door, sourly called him "Principal Wu".
Wu Huifen was so angry at Liang Lu's stupidity that she laughed.
Anyone with a sane mind should know that after being released from prison, losing a secure job, the most important thing is to ask old friends to consider past relationships and help find a job.
But what about Liang Lu?
That sour tone—you could practically smell the jealousy coming from a distance.
But since I'm already here, how can I not put on a show of acting skills?
"Teacher Liang!!"
Wu Huifen pretended to be surprised and got up.
He walked around the desk and greeted the person at the door with an incredulous look on his face.
"Oh my god! It really is you!"
Wu Huifen looked Liang Lu up and down, then said with an exaggerated expression:
"I just received a call from security saying that Professor Liang was looking for me. I thought it was Professor Liang from Jingzhou University, but I didn't expect it to be you!"
"When did you come out? Why didn't you tell me? I could have come to pick you up."
Liang Lu gave a cold snort.
“Since the beginning of 2003, you haven’t come to visit me even once.”
“I received the sentence reduction notice at the beginning of the month and wrote to you after I knew I could be released today.”
"Maybe it's because school is on summer vacation, so you didn't receive my letter, but why didn't you answer my calls?"
Wu Huifen quickly replied, "Oh dear, it's not that I don't want to answer, it's just that I took my students to the countryside to care for left-behind children, and there's no signal there, so I can't get through."
Wu Huifen could tell lies so easily.
She was betting that Liang Lu had just been released from prison today and was unaware that significant changes had taken place in Handong Province over the past two years.
Whether it was during Zhao Lichun's tenure or after Liu Zhendong took over, under the leadership of these two top officials in Handong Province, the province has continued to revitalize its rural areas and help farmers escape poverty and become prosperous.
Today, Handong Province still has many impoverished areas and impoverished people, but all townships have at least two-lane Class III highways, and the power grid has been upgraded and communication base stations have been built.
It's absolutely impossible for a cell phone to have no signal.
But this was the only excuse he could use to appease Liang Lu.
"What? Go to the countryside? To care for left-behind children?"
Liang Lu looked incredulous, clearly never having considered such a thing before.
"Yes, in recent years, more and more young couples have gone to the city to work and do business, leaving their children in the countryside. Their grandparents or maternal grandparents are not good at disciplining them, which makes it easy for various accidents to happen."
"Therefore, starting in 2001, multiple departments in Handong, together with the Huilong Charity Foundation, launched a summer care program for left-behind children in rural areas, allowing college students who volunteered to go to the countryside to accompany those left-behind children."
"With the companionship and care of college students, not only have the number of drowning accidents among teenagers during the summer vacation in our province been greatly reduced, but the children have also spent a happy and fulfilling summer vacation, and the college students have also gained experience in rural towns."
At this point, Wu Huifen took Liang Lu's hand and led her to the desk, where she picked up a tablet and opened the photo album.
"Look, these are students from the School of Humanities at Handong University, helping children with their summer homework in the classroom..."
Liang Lu snatched the tablet computer away.
They examined it closely, as if looking at advanced alien technology.
His surprised expression was exactly the same as when he first sat in the domestically produced luxury SUV, the Land Rover M9.
What is this thing?
"A tablet computer! Huilong Electronics' latest high-tech product. You can think of it as a miniature computer that simplifies the keyboard and is operated using your fingers or a stylus on the screen!"
At this point, Wu Huifen couldn't help but remind her:
"Hold on tight, this is a birthday gift from Zhao Ruilong to Lao Gao. It costs several thousand yuan on the market! My daughter Fangfang said it's also available in the US, where it costs nearly two thousand US dollars!"
"It's so expensive!"
Liang Lu hurriedly returned the tablet to Wu Huifen.
While in prison, he worked hard for more than two years, operating a sewing machine, and only managed to save a few thousand yuan in wages.
On average, it only costs a little over two hundred yuan per month!
If Wu Huifen were to break it, I'm afraid I'd have to empty my savings to pay for it.
After retrieving her tablet, Wu Huifen swiped to the next photo and continued her introduction:
"These are students majoring in information engineering, giving children a computer lesson and introducing them to computer, internet, and related knowledge..."
"Wait a moment."
Pointing to the photo, Liang Lu said, "This classroom is so clean, tidy, and modern. Is it a rural school? It doesn't look like the dilapidated classrooms I remember."
"Of course they're different!"
Wu Huifen smiled and said, "Over the years, based on the national budget, Handong has continuously increased its investment in compulsory education and greatly improved the conditions for running schools in rural areas. The dilapidated schools you remember have long been demolished and rebuilt."
As she spoke, Wu Huifen swiped to the left and changed the photo.
"It's not just the classrooms you just saw that are completely different; look at this sports field where our physical education students are leading the children in playing soccer, basketball, table tennis, and so on—isn't it very modern?"