Cheng wanted to see Huang Mei, who was crowded in front and looking around in panic.
"Sister Huang Mei, what are you looking at?" Cheng Xiang looked at Huang Mei with a smile on his face.
Huang Mei was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said: "I didn't see anything. Where have you been? Make it easy for everyone to find you."
Cheng Xiang smiled slightly: "So Sister Huang Mei also helped me find me? How can I thank you?"
Huang Mei smiled coquettishly: "It should, it should."
I glanced toward the mountain a few more times, but I didn't see the traffickers. They probably hadn't been caught. Could it be that Cheng Xiang ran out on his own?
Then why didn't you tell the police?
Huang Mei's mind was filled with doubts.
At this time, the principal came over and called Cheng Xiang: "Teacher Cheng, Teacher Cheng."
Cheng Xiang hurriedly greeted him: "Principal, why are you here on the mountain at such an old age?"
"Oh, they said you were lost. You left the school. How can I rest assured?" The principal's face was full of worry, and he asked in an official manner: "Are you not hurt?"
Cheng Xiang shook his head and looked up to see Xu Li standing timidly not far away. When Xu Li made eye contact with her, she fled in panic.
Zhou Tianlei expressed his gratitude to everyone. It was already dark, so he asked everyone to go down the mountain and go home.
He came over and hugged Cheng Xiang's shoulders: "Let's go home."
Everyone walked back one after another.
The principal walked behind, along with several teachers. Xu Li followed behind the principal, lowering her head and walking silently.
Several teachers were muttering among themselves.
"Why do you think she went to the mountains alone?"
"Just now I heard people over there talking about going up the mountain to look for children."
"Child? I didn't see her coming down with her child."
"They say there are gangsters in this mountain. Do you think she will be..."
"Don't talk nonsense, let her man hear it, and he will beat you up."
The speaker remembered Zhou Tianlei's fierce black face and couldn't help but swallowed his saliva: "But her man is really kind to her."
"Who makes parents look good?"
The principal said solemnly from behind: "Don't talk nonsense. As a teacher, your moral character must be upright. If you are not upright yourself, how can you educate students?"
A few people nodded perfunctorily, not daring to say anything more.
"Teacher Cheng is a good person. Fortunately nothing happened to her. Otherwise, my old man would be to blame," the principal said in a faint tone.
"What kind of good person is she? She is stingy and cruel." Xu Li muttered quietly from behind.
The principal heard the voice and turned around: "Xu Li, what did you say?"
Xu Li quickly shook her head. The principal was her benefactor. He helped her with tuition fees and persuaded her mother, so that she had the opportunity to continue going to school, so she has always been grateful to the principal.
She was the one who was least valued at home since she was a child. Especially after she had a younger brother, everything good in the house belonged to her younger brother. Her mother wanted to hold her younger brother in her hands every day.
And she was either beaten or scolded. She was beaten when her brother cried, she was beaten when her brother dropped her, and she was beaten when her brother was hungry. In short, it was all her fault.
Her mother never talks to her well and always looks impatient. Only her father, who works outside, brings her candy every time he comes back and secretly gives her a few more.
Every time my mother buys new clothes for her brother during the Chinese New Year, my father will remind my mother to buy her some clothes too. My mother always rolls her eyes and says, "Her clothes from last year are still new, so there's no need to buy them."
In fact, her clothes from last year were already too small. Only her father would insist on buying them for her, so she could have new clothes to wear.
It was her father who insisted that she study, so that she could reach grade 6. Her father said: "Only by studying can one be successful. Not only boys must be successful, but girls must be successful as well, in order to change their own destiny."
Her certificates are all on the wall at home. Her father will reward her every time she gets a certificate, but her mother always looks down on her certificates.
"What's the use of a girl reading so many books? Isn't it just water thrown away? Sooner or later it belongs to others."
She doesn't understand why she belongs to someone else? Can’t I belong to myself?
When her father died, the sky in her family collapsed, and so did Xu Li's world.
As soon as her father was buried, her mother shouted for her to drop out of school, saying that the family had no money for him and his brother to study at the same time.
But she clearly saw the people at the mine giving a huge pile of money to her mother. When her mother hid the money, she had a smile in her eyes.
My younger brother didn't study hard at all. He was always last in the third grade. However, my mother simply felt that my younger brother was the best among people and would definitely be successful in the future, so she let her younger brother go to school instead of her.
That day the principal called everyone to donate money to her. She thought she had hope of going to school, but she met Teacher Zhang after class.
She greeted Teacher Zhang, and Teacher Zhang said angrily: "Xu Li, you probably won't be able to get into this school."
Xu Li's heart sank and she asked timidly: "Why?"
"That Teacher Cheng is not willing to donate money to you." Teacher Zhang crossed his arms and said in a sarcastic tone: "Her man is a wealthy man from all over the country, her family is so rich, and she is from the city. Look at what she wears. The clothes she wears look expensive at first glance, but the donation is only five yuan. She is really stingy. She is so rich that she is not willing to donate, and others are even less willing to donate to you."
Teacher Zhang curled his lips helplessly and looked at Xu Li.
Xu Li began to feel a little panicked. Yes, we are all ordinary people in the countryside. Who would be willing to donate money to others without any relatives?
In the past, the school asked other students to donate money. When I went home and told my mother, I was scolded by my mother.
Calling her a loser, she starts giving money to others now, and it will be even worse in the future.
In the end, her grandma saw how pitiful she was crying and gave her a dime before she donated it and completed the task. Of course, she was laughed at by her classmates because of the dime.
With tears welling up in Xu Li's eyes, she hugged her homework book and went to the office to deliver her homework.
As soon as I walked to the door of the office, I heard Teacher Cheng's words: "Donate. Donating is a matter of affection. Not donating is a duty. No one can force you."
Only then did Xu Li realize that what Teacher Zhang said was true.
That Teacher Cheng looks very delicate and is dressed so fashionably. He must be someone who is not short of money.
Xu Li originally envied Teacher Cheng. She was beautiful, dressed in a fashionable manner, and spoke very kindly. But she didn't expect that she was so cruel and without any love.
Later, the school's donation was given to my mother. My mother looked at the money and said with disdain: "A school with so many people, only this little money? A bunch of stingy people."
Xu Li even felt that it must be because everyone was following Cheng Xiang’s example, so they were unwilling to donate.
When the class donated money that day, Zhou Tianxing took out a pile of small change. The teacher counted it carefully and said with a smile: "Six yuan, Tianxing, you are so generous."
Zhou Tianxing lowered his head shyly, and Xu Li's eyes looked at her with gratitude and a sour feeling of being given charity.
