Chapter 19: Family Power
When Ai Mengmeng returned to the office again, the office had returned to its usual quietness, and several teachers greeted her with gentle expressions when they saw her, as if nothing had happened before, only Wu Hongmei lowered her head a little weakly and did not dare to look at her.
She didn't pay attention to Wu Hongmei, sat down at her desk and began to correct her homework seriously.
"Teacher Ai, these are some of my previous lesson plans, and now I will use them too, show them to you, maybe they will be useful to you," Qiu Fang came to Ai Mengmeng's desk and handed her a few lesson plans.
"Teacher Qiu, thank you so much," Ai Mengmeng stood up, her face extremely sincere.
Ai Mengmeng knew that Qiu Fang's junior high school classes had been taught in all three grades, but because she was pregnant now, the school took care of her and only let her take the first class of junior high school.
Although it was only a brief conversation I heard at the door of the office before, who was sincere to herself, Ai Mengmeng already understood very well.
After receiving the lesson plan handed to her by Qiu Fang, Ai Mengmeng's eyes were a little hot.
"Teacher Qiu, thank you, I will study hard," Ai Mengmeng thanked again.
"Teacher Ai, your English level is much higher than mine, and I still have to learn more from you," Qiu Fang said with a smile.
Ai Mengmeng was a little embarrassed to be said: "I can only speak, but I don't know how to teach."
"It's okay, don't worry, take your time," Qiu Fang patted Ai Mengmeng's shoulder and said comfortingly.
"Well, I'll try," Lemon nodded.
Wu Hongmei kept listening with her ears open when the two were talking, and when the two finished speaking, she still lowered her head, but she pursed her lips with disdain.
When school was over, Ma Jinsong happened to run into Ai Mengmeng at the school gate.
"Teacher Ai......" Ma Jinsong just called her name, but saw Ai Mengmeng retreat in a panic, and kept a few big steps away from him before stopping.
"Teacher Ai, what's wrong with you?" Ma Jinsong looked puzzled.
"Teacher Ma, do you have something to do with me?"
"It's okay, I'm just ......"
"If it's okay, I'll go back first," said Alemon turned around and walked away briskly without looking back.
Ma Jinsong was stunned, Ai Mengmeng's expression when she saw him just now was like he had the plague, panicked and disgusted, she was fine when she talked about Liu Dandan in his office in the morning, why did her attitude become like this in the past half a day?
Ma Jinsong walked all the way home and didn't figure it out.
At dinner, Ai Mengmeng had naturally sat in the position between Chen Qingsong and Chen Qingxue, but today Ai Mengmeng suddenly changed seats with Chen Qingxue.
"Mengmeng, what's wrong with you?" Her actions made Chen Qingxue look puzzled.
"It's okay, I just like to sit next to you," Lemon smiled.
"You're sitting next to me over here, too!"
"That, I like to sit on your side," Ai Mengmeng said and glanced at Chen Qingsong, his gaze also happened to be cast, Ai Mengmeng quickly lowered her head with some weakness.
Ai Mengmeng's reaction did not escape Chen Qingxue's eyes, she raised her eyebrows slightly and didn't say anything more.
But after eating, when Ai Mengmeng returned to the room, Chen Qingxue also followed.
"Mengmeng, tell me honestly, did something happen between you and your eldest brother?" Chen Qingxue opened her mouth and was straightforward.
"No, your eldest brother and I have absolutely nothing to do."
Ai Mengmeng's expression of trying to clarify made Chen Qingxue even more suspicious: "Is my eldest brother bullying you?" “
"Qingxue, what are you thinking! Your eldest brother is very good to people, how can he bully me! ”
"Also, my eldest brother doesn't look like the kind of person who bullied you, but Mengmeng, your reaction today is too strange, you tell me what happened?"
"No, it's really nothing!"
While the two were talking, Ai Mengmeng's mobile phone suddenly rang, and when she saw that it was her father calling, her nerves couldn't help but tense.
"My dad called, you answered the phone first," Lemon whispered.
"I'll take it, I won't bother you," Chen Qingxue turned around and left Ai Mengmeng's room.
"Dad, why did you call me today? Do you miss your baby girl? Answering the phone, Lemon said sweetly.
Ai Huaiyuan's voice was extremely serious: "Do you want to leave Qingfeng Town?" “
As soon as she heard her father ask like this, Ai Mengmeng knew that it was Xu Yuan calling her father.
"Did Xu Yuan tell you?"
"You haven't even been in Qingfeng Town for a month, and you want to retreat when you encounter such a little thing? I can be sure of my attitude, I will never agree with you leaving Qingfeng Town," Ai Huaiyuan's voice carried a majesty.
"I just talked to Xu Yuan, and I didn't really want to leave, I can't vent when I'm in a bad mood, Dad, your daughter is in a bad mood today, why are you still so fierce to others?" Lemon pursed her lips.
Ai Huaiyuan's voice softened suddenly: "Mengmeng, Xu Yuan told me, he said that he wanted to go to Qingfeng Town to see you, I didn't agree, Dad arranged for you to teach in Qingfeng Town, which is to train you to solve problems and setbacks independently."
"Dad, you've been training me like this since I was a child, I haven't stayed by your side for a long time in school, Dad, am I your own child?" Lemon's voice was full of grief.
Ai Huaiyuan's voice softened suddenly: "Mengmeng, Dad, this is also for your own good, you are now older, and you can only rely on yourself in the future."
"I know you're doing it for my good, but I still don't think I'm your own," Lemon complained willfully.
She actually said this on purpose, every time her dad was serious about giving her a life education lesson, she would use this way to stir up the situation, she knew that although it didn't have the effect of making her dad stop, at least her dad wouldn't be as stiff as a primary school student.
Sure enough, Ai Huaiyuan's voice suddenly became kind: "Mengmeng, do you remember what I told you?" If there are insects on a tree, if it is not cleaned up, then the whole tree may be eroded by insects, and the same is true when encountering problems, you must be brave to face them and solve them independently, I have never taught you to escape two words."
"Know, my dear father, I'll make a clean tree, and if I have worms on my body, I'll never run away, I'll use the shower gel a few more times and wash it well," Lemon laughed.
Ai Huaiyuan finally relieved himself when he heard his daughter's laughter, but he sighed in his heart, he just knew very well that his daughter was too simple, so he had to keep exercising her, but the more he exercised, the more she looked like a child.
He was both a little relieved and worried, relieved that his daughter could always maintain such a original intention, but he was a little worried that she couldn't adapt to this overly complicated society.
"Dad, Mom is not there?"
"Mengmeng, Mom has been listening to you and your dad by the side!"
"Mom, I miss you so much, I'm an adult now, can you tell me that I'm born to you and Dad? Or did you pick it up from the trash? Meng Meng asked with a smile.
"You kid! The bigger you talk, the more you look like it! Lao Ai, my daughter is homesick, so let her come back for two days."
"Dad, Mom agreed that I would come back!"
"Not allowed! You can't get used to her! ”
"Dad, when I come back from winter vacation, I must do a parent-daughter identification with you!"
Ai Meng Meng puffed up, but the two people on the other end of the phone laughed.
The strength of the family is strong, and after hanging up the phone, Ai Mengmeng only felt warm in her heart, and her previous depression had been swept away.
She didn't put down her phone, but dialed Xu Yuan's phone again.
"Xu Yuan, my dad called me just now."
"I didn't do your dad's job, isn't it useless?"
Ai Mengmeng laughed: "I said that I wanted to leave because I was too sad at noon, but I didn't really want to leave, you and my dad were right, what I encountered was just a trivial matter, and I had to solve it myself."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment before the voice rang again, but there was something strange: "Mengmeng, come to me, I've been waiting for you to come."
"Xu Yuan, thank you, except for my parents, you are the best for me, but I can't think of relying on you when I encounter things, my dad just said that I have grown up, and I can only rely on myself in the future, and I want to live a good life by myself."
There was silence on the other end of the line again, longer than it had been.
Hearing that there was no sound on the phone, Ai Mengmeng couldn't help asking, "Xu Yuan, are you listening?" “
A sigh came from the phone: "Meng Meng, when your year's volunteer teaching is over, will you come to me?" “
"Okay, you'll have to take me in then," Lemon smiled.
A soft "wave" voice came from the phone: "Stamp, don't regret it!" ”
Ai Mengmeng's face couldn't help but blush slightly, and she replied lightly: "Okay!" ”。
A storm in Lemon's world subsided, and she felt that this was the beginning of her new life, and she decided to restore the self she had worked so hard to live before.
When school was out the next day, Ai Mengmeng stopped Li Hongye: "Li Hongye, did you see Yang Hu go home yesterday?" ”
Li Hongye and Yang Hu's families live very close, this is what Ai Mengmeng learned from Ma Jinsong two days ago, since hearing what Wu Hongmei said yesterday, Ai Mengmeng has decided to keep her distance from Ma Jinsong, Yang Hu has not come to school to attend classes, she plans to deal with it herself.
Li Hongye shook his head: "There has been no one at home in the past few days, and his mother has not come back, he and his mother may have been in the mountains all the time."
"Do you know where his mother is herding sheep in the mountains?" Meng Meng asked again.
"Teacher Ai, do you want to go up the mountain to find him?"
Ai Mengmeng nodded: "It's not okay for him to stay in class like this, I want to go to the mountains to talk to him, and I just happen to see his mother."
Li Hongye thought for a while: "Teacher Ai, tomorrow is Saturday, I will take you up the mountain to find him in the morning."
Ai Mengmeng's eyes lit up happily: "Okay! “
I made an appointment with Li Hongye to leave tomorrow morning, Li Hongye went home, Ai Mengmeng went out of the school gate and was about to go in the direction of Chen's house, but she didn't expect to meet Ma Jinsong again.
"Teacher Ma, I'm sorry, I still have to go back beforehand," Ai Mengmeng didn't wait for Ma Jinsong to speak, turned around and walked away hurriedly.
Ma Jinsong looked helpless, he had learned about what happened in the office yesterday, he wanted to find Ai Mengmeng to comfort her, but he didn't expect her to see him like a plague god.
Ma Jinsong didn't dare to keep up with her for fear of scaring Ai Mengmeng, so he could only curse in his heart: Wu Hongmei, why do you owe so much!