Chapter 147: 147, Change class (5000 monthly votes bonus update)

Ren Xiaosu stepped out of the classroom, startled to see a large group of middle-aged people standing behind the homeroom teacher.

The homeroom teacher chose his words carefully and said, "These are the parents of our class students. It's like this—everyone has reported that you might be carrying pathogenic bacteria brought in from outside the barrier, so everyone hopes you can transfer schools."

Ren Xiaosu was puzzled: "Transfer? Where to?"

Once this matter comes out, probably no school would be willing to accept him, right?

However, a male parent said, "If no school wants you, then just drop out, because it's not good for the safety of the entire class if you're here."

Ren Xiaosu sighed in his heart; all this was probably within Yang Xiaomu's expectations, no wonder she said yesterday that the barrier people's subconscious rejection of refugees would be more radical than imagined.

When he saw these parents, he realized why the students had kept quiet upon seeing him—probably after the students went home last night and told their parents about this matter, the parents immediately decided to come to the school and unite to force this refugee to drop out.

To these parents, Ren Xiaosu was just a refugee; with so many of them standing out, the school would also compromise for them.

These days, if you dare to make a fuss, there's nothing that can't be done.

Ren Xiaosu looked at the parents and said, "What if I don't transfer?"

Honestly, if this were in the wilderness, these parents might already be dead.

The laws of the wilderness are simpler and more direct than here!

However, the parents didn't listen to Ren Xiaosu; they turned to the homeroom teacher and shouted, "If you don't let him transfer, who will take responsibility if an epidemic breaks out in the school? Moreover, all future medical expenses will have to be borne by you. If you don't compensate us, we'll sue you in court."

Ren Xiaosu thought; he had seen the word "court" in the settlement school, a place to maintain justice and fairness, but the settlement had never had such a thing.

He didn't expect that this was the first time he associated the word "court" with himself, and it was because of such a trivial matter.

The students quietly stepped out of the classroom, watching the conversation here because they also wanted to know how this matter would be resolved in the end.

The homeroom teacher of Class 3, Senior Year 3, was a bit troubled; the teacher from the Academic Affairs Office had specifically instructed him yesterday that this was arranged by Lu Yuyan, and no one had expected that the student arranged by Lu Yuyan was actually a refugee.

The homeroom teacher was about to pass the buck; he whispered to the parents, "This student was arranged by Lu Yuyan to come in, why don't you go talk to Lu Yuyan."

The parents looked at each other; they didn't know about this before either. If they had known that Ren Xiaosu was arranged by Lu Yuyan to come in, they probably wouldn't have been so aggressive.

But before they could figure out what to do, a figure suddenly squeezed in from the crowd in the corridor. Ren Xiaosu turned his head and saw it was Jiang Wu.

Jiang Wu looked at the parents and said, "What are you going to do?"

"We're not doing anything," a parent said, "We can't just let refugees study with our children, can we?"

"Why not?" Jiang Wu was a bit angry, his face flushing with blood: "Aren't we all human? Who says refugees will definitely spread disease—did any of your children get sick when they went home last night?"

The parent's momentum weakened a bit: "That's true, but I heard that someone inside the barrier has already fallen ill."

"You heard?" Jiang Wu raised his voice: "Can you ruin a student's future just by hearing something?"

"What future does a refugee have," the parents also got angry: "Who are you?"

"I am a teacher at this school!" Jiang Wu said.

At this point, Ren Xiaosu's homeroom teacher was silent; he was happy to have someone step forward to take the blame.

A parent said, "You're a teacher, is it worth getting upset with us for a refugee?"

"I don't know what a refugee or barrier person is," Jiang Wu said resolutely, "I only know he is a student!"

Ren Xiaosu watched this scene and suddenly found Jiang Wu's persistence a bit endearing, even a little foolish.

But if it weren't for this persistence and steadfastness on the other side, Ren Xiaosu wouldn't have helped him in the wilderness. Without Ren Xiaosu's help, Jiang Wu and her students might have died back then.

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu felt some emotion because in this murky world, he finally saw something that could shine on another person.

Before this, there were Wang Fugui and Xiao Yu Jie.

Chen Wudi can only be considered half of one now, and as for Yan Liuyuan, there's no need to mention it—there's a kinship between him and Yan Liuyuan.

A parent suddenly said, "If you're protecting him so much, why don't you let him go to your class?"

Jiang Wu said without hesitation, "I came here to say this—I will apply now to let Ren Xiaosu join our class."

A sudden voice came from the crowd: "I also apply to go to your class."

Ren Xiaosu looked and was surprised to find that the speaker was Yang Xiaomu...

The parents sneered when they heard Jiang Wu say this: "You're being irresponsible, teacher. You're willing to let him go to your class, but are your students' parents willing?"

Jiang Wu paused, his voice lowering: "My students have no parents; I just need to seek their consent."

This was actually Jiang Wu's pain point—those students who had fled the disaster had experienced the joy of surviving the catastrophe, and slowly began to miss their families. This was an unbreakable wound in the disaster, but it could only slowly settle in the heart beneath the skin and muscles.

Suddenly, the crowd outside became chaotic, and more than twenty students came to Jiang Wu's side: "Teacher, there's no need to seek our opinions—we are willing to let Ren Xiaosu join our class. We support you and also support Ren Xiaosu."

Some students on the periphery whispered: "Why help a refugee like this?"

One of Jiang Wu's students said seriously: "Help? We're not helping him, and he doesn't need our help. You know nothing about the world outside the barrier—I think that's a kind of sadness."

In the eyes of Jiang Wu's students, they were just expressing gratitude by standing up for Ren Xiaosu now—if it weren't for Ren Xiaosu, they wouldn't be alive sitting in the classroom to attend classes.

There were thousands of refugees in that great exodus, but how many actually reached Barrier 109 now?

The most memorable sentence from that great exodus for them was what Jiang Wu said: "Following that boy named Ren Xiaosu would allow you to survive."

And they really survived.

The student parents in the corridor were stunned because they all felt that this matter had deviated from their expectations.

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