Chapter 36: Heart Fight
Jiang Lihua is the class teacher, and it is obviously unwise to challenge him. After Zhang Yunqi brought up the topic, he immediately turned his attention to Zou Zheng.

Zou Zheng obviously didn't expect Zhang Yunqi to speak out their conflict in front of the head teacher and the whole class. He couldn't bear the accusation of taking revenge on personal grudges. He immediately stood up and explained: "We are all classmates in the same class. I distributed tasks for the general cleaning according to the principle of fairness. Saying who hates who will hurt the feelings of classmates."

"Then why didn't you give us rotation during this cleaning?" Zhang Yunqi seized on this point and pursued the issue relentlessly.

Zou Zheng stiffened his neck and said, "I just forgot."

Zhang Yunqi turned to Jiang Lihua and said, "Teacher, Zou Zheng himself has admitted that he forgot. This should be his problem, not our disobedience."

Jiang Lihua suddenly felt a little upset. Zhang Yunqi completely shirked his responsibility with just a few words, and even dragged Zou Zheng into trouble. To be honest, facing such a mature student, he often felt helpless. Usually he didn't have to worry about it, but once something happened, he really had to think hard about scolding him.

He held his breath and said, "Since we made a mistake, let it go. The purpose of the general cleaning is to give us a clean learning environment. Everyone should actively participate. Don't let this happen again next time. Now everyone should study on their own."

Zhang Yunqi said: "Teacher Jiang, I have one more thing to say."

Jiang Lihua asked: "What?"

Zhang Yunqi said, "I want to run for class monitor. When will the class elections be held?"

Jiang Lihua was stunned.

Zhang Yunqi's sudden attack caught many people off guard. Wang Xiaokai was the first to react and immediately said, "Yes! We demand that the class leaders be elected as soon as possible!"

This "we" is recognized by everyone.

Many students responded to Zhang Yunqi and asked to elect class leaders as soon as possible.

This situation annoyed Jiang Lihua. During the last military training, Zhang Yunqi refused to serve as the acting monitor, which made him feel a little unhappy. Now he has tacitly accepted that Zou Zhengzheng should be the monitor. But now Zhang Yunqi openly proposed to run for election and got the response from most of the classmates. Jiang Lihua knew that he couldn't let everyone know that he didn't plan to run. It was a school rule that the class cadres of the first grade must go through elections. If he brought the matter to his mortal enemy Luo Dahai, he would be embarrassed. So he said, "Why are you in such a hurry! It's already been arranged. The election will be held next Friday!"

Open elections, that’s for sure.

Everyone was a little surprised. Zhang Yunqi was like a Cheng Yaojin who showed up unexpectedly and made people look at him with new eyes. But in the next few days, everyone found that he was a giant in words but a dwarf in actions. He said that he wanted to run for class monitor, but he did not take any action.

On the contrary, Zou was jumping up and down in the class and actively canvassing votes for himself, and he had his biggest helper in his class teacher Jiang Lihua.

Before the election of class leaders, Jiang Lihua, as usual, handed over all class affairs to Zou Zheng. Sometimes during class meetings, Jiang Lihua would secretly express his tendency to say "I think Zou Zheng is very suitable to be class monitor", with the intention of asking the students to vote for Zou Zheng as class monitor.

Wang Xiaokai was very anxious.

If this continues, Zou Zheng will probably still be the monitor. Sometimes, when he sees Zou Zheng busy preparing for the class committee election, he has the illusion that Zou Zheng is set to be the monitor. But this is even more uncomfortable than letting Zou Zheng be the monitor without an election - everyone elected themselves, so there is no reason not to accept Zou Zheng's orders!
At this time, Wang Xiaokai thought of Zhang Yunqi. He couldn't understand Zhang Yunqi. Zhang Yunqi's statement that he wanted to run for class monitor was like a fart. It made everyone feel uncomfortable and then nothing happened. He just wanted to sell his broken handheld mobile phone all day long. Damn it! If he wanted to be a peddler so much, why did he come to No. 1 Middle School to study?

A few days before the class committee election, Wang Xiaokai couldn't stand it anymore. He pulled Zhang Yunqi into the toilet and said, "The class monitor election is coming up soon. If Zou Zheng becomes the class monitor, we will definitely have a hard time! It was you who first had a conflict with Zou Zheng, and it was you who made the matter so big. My dear brother, you should think of a solution."

Zhang Yunqi urinated slowly and said as he left the toilet, "Have you forgotten? Zou Zheng went through the back door to give a gift to Jiang Lihua's wife."

Wang Xiaokai was stunned. It was not until Zhang Yunqi walked away that he understood the deep meaning of this sentence.

In the following days, he repeated a sentence among his classmates without any expression, as if he was telling a very shameful secret:
"Zou Zheng gave gifts to the teacher's wife in order to become the monitor!"

Sometimes, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Yang Wei would excitedly spread the secret among their classmates, and the secret would spread quickly, and more and more people would know about it, just like a dazzling flash of lightning in the haze, instantly illuminating Zou Zheng and everyone's eyes.

People are probably born with the mentality of hating ambition. It is even more shameful to achieve one's ambition through unfair means such as using backdoors. Even if it is just for an extremely ordinary position of class monitor, it is a despicable act in the eyes of this group of inexperienced students. During those days, Zhang Yunqi felt that many classmates in the class were glancing at Zou Zheng with contempt.

This incident eventually became known to everyone in Class 168, and naturally reached the ears of the class teacher Jiang Lihua. Jiang Lihua called Zou Zheng to the office and criticized him severely.

He heard some gossip from others and found out when he went home and asked his wife. The gift Zou Zheng gave was not expensive, just some local specialties and a bottle of homemade wine. But the fact that he knew how to do crooked things at such a young age made Jiang Lihua particularly angry. No wonder his wife said in front of him several times that Zou Zheng was sensible and polite, and asked him to take better care of this student.

Jiang Lihua scolded his wife and ignored Zou Zheng, no longer assigning class affairs to him. He suddenly went from being the most popular person in front of the class teacher to a lone ranger who was ignored by everyone. He was completely doomed.

Sometimes, Zhang Yunqi would pay attention to Zou Zheng in class. Zou Zheng looked listless and listless, but when he occasionally noticed Zou Zheng looking at him, he could feel a hidden hatred in his eyes.

Soon, the day for class committee election arrived on Friday.

Zou Zheng took sick leave that day and did not come to the classroom.

The final election result was as Zhang Yunqi expected: Lin Yueying, the acting squad leader during the military training, was successfully elected.

Lin Yueying seemed a little excited. When she spoke, she said, "Thank you for your support and trust. During my time as acting monitor, there were many shortcomings and mistakes. Please forgive me. I will work hard to do better in the future."

During and after the election, Zhang Yunqi showed no emotion at all, like an outsider.

Wang Xiaokai was quite happy. He and Lin Yueying were desk mates. They didn't get along well to begin with, and they had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. As they quarreled, they actually developed some feelings for each other.

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