Shen Yelan was late.
After graduating from elementary school, she has never been late for school again. Because she is always disliked by her relatives, she is eager to grow up, to be self-reliant, and to end this life of being dependent on others.
It's not that she didn't try to leave—
However, relatives will always try to find a way to go back.
Every time she was called back to the police, she would be reprimanded by neighbors and watchers. The crowd was full of whispers, and they thought she couldn't hear her.
"It's really going to cause trouble for adults. Relatives see that she has no parents and no mother, and they care for her with kindness, but they even make trouble for others. They are simply ignorant. If this was my child, I would have slapped her."
"Yeah, this is definitely too good for her. Why are the grassroots police officers so busy every day? It's not because these children have watched two episodes of TV now, have a big temper, and run away from home to get busy. Sure enough, Is this the only way to be born with a mother and not raised by a mother?"
"According to what I said, you should beat her up. If it doesn't matter if you beat her twice, you will learn to be honest."
When she was a child, she was too sharp, thinking that those people would have such thoughts because she was deceived by the kind words of her relatives, so she only screamed and shouted:
"It's not like that!"
"They stole my parents' stuff! They're thieves! I don't want to live with them!"
The rustling voices in the crowd stopped, and I don't know which elder came to slap her.
She was so stunned that she didn't even respond when she cried. She heard someone in uniform next to her come to persuade her to fight:
"Hey, hey, if you have something to say, don't hit the child."
"I'm sorry, I've caused you trouble, we'll take her back now. Children only talk nonsense when they're not sensible. Those are all things that don't matter. You see, we didn't short her food and clothing, and we didn't abuse- Treat her because she is too ignorant." Auntie came over, put on that hypocritical smile, and nodded to the persuader.
After all, it is difficult for a clean official to interrupt household chores.
She is still so small.
No one can help her.
What's more...
Do those who watch the fun really care what the truth is
After the crowd dissipated, the next day, when Shen Yelan went downstairs with her schoolbag on her back, she didn't know how many floors she walked to, just across a security gate, and saw a neighbor who was usually very loud dialing the child's schoolbag.
"Stay away from her. This child doesn't know who to learn from. She is very scheming at a young age. Don't play with her. You won't know if you offend her and she will miss her."
Little Shen Yelan stood there, looking at the woman across the vertical iron gate railing, dazed and puzzled.
Should she forget what these relatives did, she thought
It's not her fault, so why do these people still hate her
She thought about it for a long time.
Later, she stopped thinking about it because she was used to it.
…
"My God, was it Shen Yelan who was just arrested by the head teacher? Isn't she a student in the class? I heard that the class consciously arrived at the classroom at 5:50 in the morning, and our class's early study was at 6:20. She just started, and she's actually late?"
"Is she a school tyrant? Can she hang out with people like us? Maybe she just found a place to study for herself, and she was late because she didn't see the time."
"Makes sense."
The voice of the class woke Xu Jiao from her nap. After she made up for Su Xi's appalling homework last night, she was dragged by a small attendant to sing all night at home on the grounds that she was tired after studying for too long. , so simply come to sleep in the morning.
Now awakened by the sound of the morning reading in Class 7, Xu Jiao yawned slowly, her eyes filled with tears, and she looked out of the classroom inadvertently. Through the window, she saw a familiar figure.
Shen Yelan
She raised her hand and poked the shoulder of the small glasses in front of her.
"Sister, what are you doing?" Little Glasses, who was bought by her cup of milk tea, has a very pious attitude towards her now, as if Xu Jiao would go through fire and water as long as he spoke.
Xu Jiao raised her chin, motioned him to look out the window, and said casually, "Why is she standing outside?"
Xiao Glasses used the large and thin language textbook to block her face, pushed down her glasses, and said in a low voice, "She's late. She was just punished by the old class to stand for the whole morning reading."
"Hey, the old class is so annoying, it's so rigid, we took the first class monitor before, I heard that as long as the first class is the first class, you can ask for leave freely and not come to class, she also went to apply with the old class, but she was rejected by the old class. He cursed back in blood."
"We used to think Lao Ban was unselfish, but guess what?"
"Last time, the principal's daughter didn't do well in the exam, and accidentally fell into our 7th class. The old class directly transferred her to the same table with the monitor, and asked the monitor to help each other with her. To put it bluntly, I wanted the monitor to lead others. Study, this flattery, my real name is vomiting... "
Xu Jiao was too lazy to listen to what was said later, she just squinted her eyes and looked out the window again, and after a while, she patted the little glasses on the shoulder:
"Understood, you turn back - the representative of the class has been watching you for a long time."
The little glasses stopped abruptly, turned around obediently, went back and shook his head and endorsed it.
Leaving Xu Jiao staring at Shen Yelan's back, she slowly narrowed her eyes.
She remembered the -20 favorability rating from yesterday.
…
Early reading dazzled and passed.
During the break, Shen Yelan came in silently through the back door, pulled out the chair, and sat down beside Xu Jiao.
Suddenly-
A hand stretched out beside her, pushed a packaged bread across the seam between the two tables, and put the bread on her table.
Shen Yelan looked in the direction of that hand in surprise, and met Xu Jiao's slightly sleepy and tired eyes.
However, Fang Fu didn't seem to wake up from sleep, and he still dragged the tune and said to her:
"Have you had breakfast yet?"
"If you haven't eaten, this is for you."
Shen Yelan looked at the bread filled with red bean paste on the table with a bit of flattery. Just as he was about to refuse, his stomach let out a long "gul" in disobedience.
She lowered her head hastily, and murmured, "Thank you, thank you."
but…
Why did Xu Jiao suddenly treat her so nicely
close at hand.
Xu Jiao leaned back on the table again, and heard the system puzzled.
"Huh? Why are you being so nice to her?"
Xu Jiao yawned lightly again, and covered her lips with her palm. In her eyes, which were covered by her eyelashes, a little ripple appeared in her calm center:
"I'm nice to her, and she's less favorable to me—"
"Aren't you curious about it for you?"
"After all, in the setting, she is clearly a person who has experienced a lot of hardships, but still has a beautiful heart. She can tell what is good and what is evil, otherwise she will not be moved by the overbearing president in the future. He has dozens of chapters of sadomasochism."
"I want to know now what will happen when she has a negative impression of me."