Chapter 181: Jiang Qing is Fired

Chapter 181: Chapter 181: Jiang Qing is Fired

"Teacher Jiang, Teacher Jiang?"

Feng Meihua was both knocking and shouting. After a while, the dormitory door was finally opened from the inside.

Jiang Qing’s face was pale. She looked weak as she called out, "Principal Feng."

Feng Meihua frowned at her. "What’s wrong with you? Why weren’t you in class?"

"I’m not feeling well."

"Even if you’re sick, you should have at least called in to request leave! To just abandon your students like that is completely irresponsible!"

Feng Meihua wasn’t a heartless person.

If it had been any other teacher, she wouldn’t have been so harsh.

It was just that Jiang Qing had really gotten on her nerves.

At the last meeting, Jiang Qing had embarrassed her in front of the other teachers. That was one thing.

But then, during parent-teacher visits, she even used the principal’s son as a bad example in front of other parents, completely humiliating her!

Seizing this chance to lash out was also a way to vent her own frustration.

"I couldn’t get out of bed this morning. I thought I’d lie down for a bit longer before heading to school, but I accidentally fell asleep."

Jiang Qing took a breath, and before Feng Meihua could speak, she added, "Principal Feng, you’re here at the perfect time. I’d like to request three days of sick leave to rest."

Feng Meihua grew even angrier upon hearing this. "You want to take three days off just like that? What about your classes?"

"You can arrange for another teacher to cover for me."

Without waiting to see if Feng Meihua agreed, she shut the door.

Peeking through a crack in the window pane, Jiang Qing watched Feng Meihua’s furious retreat with a cold smirk on her face.

...

Back in her office, Feng Meihua was about to explode with anger.

’Taking leave whenever she wants, and for three days at that! Does she have any respect for rules or discipline at all!’

After reassigning Jiang Qing’s classes to several other teachers, she called Hu Yanbang out separately.

"Mr. Hu, our school is now short a substitute teacher. You mentioned before that you have a friend looking for a job. Tell me about him."

"Ah, yes!"

Hu Yanbang quickly told Feng Meihua all about his friend’s family background and education level.

...

「At noon.」

Zhang Jia Ming waited and waited at the entrance to the barracks, but Jiang Qing never showed up. He asked Sun Jianhua to help him bring her lunchbox to her.

In the afternoon, Sun Jianhua returned to the barracks and told him that Jiang Qing was sick.

He immediately requested leave and left the barracks.

When Jiang Qing woke up from her afternoon nap, she wasn’t surprised to see Zhang Jia Ming sitting by her bed. ℯℯ𝘭.

"Jia Ming."

Zhang Jia Ming looked at her with concern in his eyes. "Sun Lian said you were sick. Are you feeling any better? Should I go to the clinic and get some medicine?"

Jiang Qing struggled to sit up in bed and said to him, "I can’t take any medicine."

"Why not?"

"The medicine could affect the baby’s development. I’ll be fine if I just tough it out."

Hearing her say this, Zhang Jia Ming was deeply moved. "I’m sorry you have to suffer."

Jiang Qing smiled, looking weak but happy. "For our child to be healthy, I’d do anything—never mind a little suffering, I’d walk through fire and climb a mountain of blades."

She paused, then brought up missing class that morning. "I took a few days off, and Principal Feng seemed pretty angry."

Zhang Jia Ming comforted her, "It’s okay. I’ll go talk to Principal Feng later. You’re sick, it’s not like you skipped class on purpose."

Jiang Qing looked at him, moved. "Jia Ming, you’re so good to me."

"You’re my wife, and you’re carrying my child. Who else would I be good to, if not you two?"

Then he asked if Jiang Qing had eaten lunch.

Hearing Jiang Qing say she had no appetite and had only eaten a little, he ran to the family quarters to borrow some brown sugar and eggs, then cooked a large bowl of egg drop soup with brown sugar for her to replenish her energy.

"Xiao Qing, you finish eating and get some rest. I’ll find someone to bring you dinner tonight."

"Mm, okay."

After Zhang Jia Ming left, Jiang Qing looked at the bowl of sweet egg soup in her hands, feeling hardly any emotion.

’He’s only doing all this for the child in my belly, isn’t he?’

After finishing the sweet egg soup, she lay down on the bed and silently contemplated her next move.

...

Feng Meihua moved quickly. Within two days, she had arranged for the new teacher to start.

The new teacher was named Liu Guoqing. Like Hu Xingbang, he was also a sent-down youth.

However, he was several years younger than Hu Xingbang, wasn’t married yet, and had previously worked at a forestry station.

When Jiang Qing learned of this, she got out of bed, got ready, and went to the school.

When she arrived at the office, she saw, just as she’d expected, the new teacher sitting at her desk.

She walked over and said politely, "Excuse me, please move. This is my seat."

Liu Guoqing wasn’t embarrassed at all. "You must be Teacher Jiang. I’m the new teacher, my surname is Liu. Principal Feng arranged for me to sit here."

Just as he was speaking, Feng Meihua walked in.

"Teacher Jiang, you’re here. Perfect. I have something to discuss with you privately."

Jiang Qing followed Feng Meihua outside the office.

"Principal Feng, I’m feeling better now. I can resume teaching."

Feng Meihua looked at her. "Teacher Jiang, given your physical condition, the school has decided to find a new teacher to replace you. That would be Teacher Liu, the one sitting at your desk."

Jiang Qing feigned confusion. "Then what classes will I be teaching?"

"I’m sorry, Teacher Jiang, you’ve been dismissed. Please vacate the dormitory within two days so I can arrange for the new teacher to move in."

Watching Jiang Qing’s panicked retreat, Feng Meihua’s face revealed a look of satisfaction.

「In the barracks.」

Zhang Jia Ming was leading his squad in training exercises when the soldier on duty came over and shouted, "Squad Leader Zhang, your wife is here with an urgent matter!"

Zhang Jia Ming hurried to the barracks gate.

Seeing Jiang Qing’s red, swollen eyes, he urgently asked what had happened.

"Jia Ming, the school fired me... Principal Feng told me to vacate the dorm within two days. What should I do? I don’t want to be separated from you! I want to stay! WAAAH..."

Seeing her cry so heartbrokenly, looking so helpless, Zhang Jia Ming grew worried.

His rank wasn’t high enough to apply for family housing, and he couldn’t just let his wife and child sleep out in the open.

Other than sending her back home, there was no other option.

"Forget it, Xiao Qing. For now, you should go back to your hometown. At least there will be people there to take care of you."

Jiang Qing was secretly delighted, but on the outside, she cried a river of tears. "Jia Ming, I can’t bear to leave you..."

Her crying was breaking his heart. "Don’t cry. Just focus on having a healthy baby. I’ll work hard to earn military honors and get promoted as soon as possible. Then I’ll bring you and the baby back here."

"But I can’t even afford a train ticket..."

"I’ll figure something out for the ticket."

Back in her dorm, Jiang Qing wiped the tears from her face and smiled, relieved and overjoyed.

’I can finally leave this godforsaken place!’

Jiang Moli had been busy writing her new script the past two days and hadn’t paid much attention to other things.

It wasn’t until she was having dinner at the Zhong Family’s home that she heard from Jiang Wenjuan about Jiang Qing being fired from the school.

She didn’t think someone as calculating as Jiang Qing would be unable to hold on to a teaching job.

Most likely, Jiang Qing herself didn’t want to do it anymore.

On the way back to the guest house after dinner, Jiang Moli specifically asked the System.

In the original book’s plot, Zhang Jia Ming earned great merit and was promoted to platoon leader for his role in the upcoming joint cleanup operation with the public security bureau.

But this time, Lu Cheng didn’t take Zhang Jia Ming with him on the mission.

Apparently, Jiang Qing had also realized that Zhang Jia Ming wouldn’t have the same bright future he had in her last life, so she had found another way out.

’So cold-hearted and selfish, yet so decisive.’

’What else would you expect from the female lead?’

Tsk.

「Two days later.」

Jiang Qing sat on a bumpy ox cart, looking back at the military base where she had lived for two months, her eyes full of resentment.

She had arrived full of hope, dreaming of living the good life of an officer’s wife, just like Jiang Moli in her previous life.

Who would have thought that things wouldn’t go her way, and she would have to leave in such a sorry state?

’I won’t admit defeat just like this!’