Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 345 1 slap

The teacher thought she just had a cold or heatstroke, and asked her again if she wanted the teacher to accompany her home or to the hospital to see a doctor. Xiaomai refused, saying that she had already seen a doctor and taken medicine.

The teacher stopped forcing her and only told her to rest when she felt unwell and to come to the teacher if she needed anything.

Xiaomai nodded and sat down, but she could feel Zhiyuan's gaze fixed on her, so she lowered her head even further.

Neither she nor Zhiyuan paid attention in this class; in fact, Xiaoyuanlian kept turning around to look at her.

As soon as get out of class ended, Zhiyuan and Xiaoyuanlian surrounded him.

Faced with Zhiyuan and Xiaoyuan's questions, Xiaomai blushed and lowered her head.

Actually, I really want to cry.

She was just a child, having suffered so much injustice and beatings. She was still dizzy and had a terrible headache. She longed for someone to care for her, for her mother to hug her, but she couldn't. She couldn't tell her mother anything. Her grandmother would be angry and would make her father kick her mother out, let that woman move in, and sell her to human traffickers so she would never see her mother again…

Thinking about all this, tears welled up in her eyes.

She didn't want to cry, but she really couldn't hold it in.

Seeing the water droplets dripping from the book, Zhiyuan and Xiaoyuanlian were both startled and extremely worried.

"Xiaomai! What are you hiding from us?" Zhiyuan asked, both anxious and angry.

The little round-faced girl looked at her worriedly, "Xiaomai, are you feeling very uncomfortable? If you are, you should cry."

Xiaomai, who had been trying hard to hold back her tears, couldn't hold them back any longer after her friends said that. The sadness that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time suddenly burst out.

She looked up at them, her eyes red and tearful, and asked in a low voice, choking back sobs, "Zhiyuan, Xiaoyuan, what does 'little bitch' mean? What does 'little bitch' mean? What does 'money-losing good' mean? Why am I a money-losing good?"

This question stumped both Zhiyuan and Xiaoyuan.

The two boys looked at each other, unable to answer.

Yun Xiaoshan from the next class ran in. Seeing them all gathered around Xiaomai, he thought there was something delicious to eat and thought to himself, "They have something good to eat but didn't bring it to me! I'm going to get angry!"

Yun Xiaoshan rushed over angrily, ready to snatch the food, only to find that Xiaomai was crying, while Zhiyuan and Xiaoyuan were staring at each other in a daze.

"Are you two crazy?" Yun Xiaoshan waved his hand in front of their eyes. "Xiaomai is crying and you're not going to do anything about it? Xiaomai, who's bullying you?"

Zhiyuan couldn't help but glance at him again.

This Yun Xiaoshan is really strange. When he was in kindergarten, he would cause a huge fuss with them, but he would insist on playing boxing with them. They would also try to steal the delicious food he brought from home, and after eating it, they would say it was bad. Then they would ask for it again next time. They would even bring the things they didn't want to eat at home to eat at school.

It got even stranger after he started elementary school. Yun Xiaoshan's mother specially found him a class so he wouldn't be with them anymore, but after class he would always come to find them, still trying to steal their food and then trading the food he didn't want with them.

Zhiyuan and Xiaoyuan were also completely baffled, so they grabbed Yun Xiaoshan and asked, "Do you know what these words mean?"

"I know! I know everything!" Yun Xiaoshan immediately became smug, finally having knowledge that surpassed Zhiyuan's.

Yun Xiaoshan was just about to show off and explain it to these two idiots when he suddenly realized that he actually didn't know what it meant either. He had only heard the adults at his grandmother's house mention it from time to time when he was back there...

"This..." Looking at Zhiyuan and Xiaoyuan's expectant eyes, he felt that he couldn't afford to lose face today no matter what!

"Yun Xiaoshan, do you even know?" Zhiyuan was getting impatient.

"I know, I know..." Yun Xiaoshan coughed twice, "Anyway...anyway...that little something's little something, they're all cursing bad women!"

As for what kind of woman is a bad woman, he simply didn't know...

"Hmm... I know what a 'money-losing brat' is." He really knew it, "It's a term used to insult girls." Because his mother often said at his maternal grandmother's house, "So-and-so gave birth to another money-losing brat."

He was also curious: why were those pretty young girls among his relatives considered a financial burden?

His mother told him that because he was a girl, girls were considered a waste of money, unlike him, who was a boy, and boys were precious!

Zhiyuan clenched his fists as he listened, then turned to Xiaomai and asked, "Who insulted you?"

Xiaomai opened her mouth slightly in alarm. Oh no! Grandma forbade her to tell!

But Zhiyuan had already guessed, "Did your old witch grandmother scold you?"

They didn't just verbally abuse me, they also hit me...

However, I can't say... I can't...

Xiaomai shook her head frantically, "No, Zhiyuan, really no..."

Tears were almost falling; this time, they came out of desperation.

"Don't tell Auntie, please don't tell Auntie!" Xiaomai was so anxious she was about to cry.

Zhiyuan snorted, "Fine, I won't say anything!" But he wouldn't let the old hag get away with it!

"Zhiyuan!" The round-faced girl grabbed Zhiyuan in perfect unison, "Count me in!"

"What are you going to do? Count me in too!" Yun Xiaoshan said hurriedly.

“You guys…” Xiaomai looked at them, and a warm feeling rose from the bottom of her heart. It turned out that there were still people in this world who cared about her, and there were still people who would stand up for her.

She couldn't help but wipe away her tears, but she still couldn't let them go...

"Zhiyuan, it's okay, I'm really okay, you guys don't need to go..." Xiaomai was terrified. If this happened, Grandma would find out she had complained to Zhiyuan, and then... what would happen to her and her mother? Would her mother be kicked out by her father? Would she be sold to human traffickers?

She dared not think any further...

After the last class in the afternoon, Zhiyuan and a few boys exchanged glances, then looked at Xiaomai's seat and suddenly realized that Xiaomai was gone.

"Teacher, Du Xiaomai is missing!" Zhiyuan raised his hand and shouted.

"Did her parents pick her up?" the teacher asked suspiciously. Du Xiaomai was a very obedient child and wouldn't disappear without a reason.

"No! I saw her father waiting outside!" Zhiyuan said urgently.

"Where's her schoolbag? Did she go to the toilet?" The teacher rushed over to check the seat and found that the schoolbag was gone, but there was a folded piece of paper in the drawer with a note that read: "Please give this to my mother, Zhiyuan."

"Did the teacher see it?" the teacher asked Zhiyuan, holding the paper in her hand.

Zhiyuan nodded vigorously, "Yes!"

The teacher immediately unfolded the paper, and a sentence jumped out at her eyes: "Mom, I'm leaving. I'm going to a very far place. Don't come looking for me. You and Dad should be happy."

Your loving daughter: Wheat.

"What should we do!" The teacher was extremely anxious and immediately grabbed the note and rushed into the group of parents outside. She spotted Du Gen right away, "Xiaomai's dad!"

The teacher hurriedly handed him the note, "Xiaomai is missing. This is what she left behind. Take a look."

Dugan held the note, and after reading it, his mind went completely blank.

My daughter ran away from home? Why?

Suddenly, a hand reached out from the side and snatched the note away.

"Mom, Xiaomai asked me to give this to Auntie! Where is Auntie?" Zhiyuan also ran out and said to Lin Qingping, who had snatched the note.

Lin Qingping held the note, her hands trembling with anger.

"Zhiyuan..."

When Du Gen saw Zhi Yuan, he was about to ask what had happened when suddenly a sharp "slap" rang out, and he felt a sharp pain on his face. It was Lin Qingping who had slapped him in public.