When I got home, it was almost dark, and after the middle of summer, the night always caught up with the pace of the day day by day, and the weather had turned cold, but the paper in my schoolbag burned my heart like a soldering iron, and I unconsciously accelerated my pace.

I didn't know when the street lamp in front of my house broke, and the slightly bumpy road seemed to hide a danger everywhere, so I rushed out and ran all the way to the door with a familiar sticker, picked up the key that I had already held in my palm, and poked it into the keyhole.

It was pitch black.

Mom and Dad don't seem to be at home.

Dad is okay, he usually comes back late, but it's a bit rare for my mother to be away at home. Even though it was a little strange, I was relieved that the room was dark.

"Zhang Ziyu."

A cold voice sounded in the darkness, and at this moment I could hear the hellhound grinding his teeth. It turned out that Ms. Xu was already sitting on the sofa, but she didn't know why she didn't turn on the lights, waiting for her prey like a patient hunter.

That unlucky prey is me.

I resigned myself to turning around and turning on the light in the living room, "Mom." ”

Ms. Xu's eyes were red, as if she had just cried, and my heart "chuckled", and the matter seemed to be more serious than before.

"Show me your transcript."

Probably because my mother's red eyes amplified my nervousness, I silently took out my report card from my bag that I had folded into small pieces, and my mother took it and hurriedly glanced at it and threw it on the couch.

"Ziyu, my mother knows that we are not prodigies, even if we are admitted to the sixth middle school, it doesn't matter if the ranking is not ideal, the important thing is to have a correct attitude."

I don't know if it was Ms. Xu's disapproval of me or slandering me for her bad attitude, which caused an endless sense of humiliation to rise in my heart, and even once scandalized her rather iconic appearance, turning into a devil's face with a sharp beak and black poisonous gas. The chills and extreme discomfort made me want to vomit all the little snacks I had eaten on the way home, but because she was educating me, I couldn't have any emotional changes except a miserable face, otherwise I would have added another sin in her eyes, and I didn't respect her.

"What are you staring at me for? Not convinced, right? ”

Her voice had changed, becoming strange and shrill and harsh.

I blinked at the eyes that I had to look at her for the sake of respect, trying to justify that I wasn't glaring at her, but that my eyes were dry, but experience had taught me that I was now quibbling as soon as I spoke, and that I had to tremble and not miss a single mistake in order to end this torture as soon as possible.

"I know you're not convinced, let me tell you, your homeroom teachers have called me, saying that your mind is useless in studying, and you are fighting with some girls who don't study, and you have too close relationships with some male classmates."

The more Ms. Xu spoke, the colder her voice became, and when she reached the last few words, she almost gritted her teeth, looking at her red circles with cold light, I felt that in the next second, she would throw the report card in my face and slap me to death.

I finally understood why Lao Qin let me go so easily at that time, and thought that Chen Yicheng's initiative to apologize and Xiang Tianlin's first-hand guarantee worked, it turned out that a teacher wanted to play with the student easily, as long as the student had a mother who listened and believed and didn't trust her child.

Unfortunately, such parents abound.

It is conceivable that this is also a skill honed by Lao Qin's teaching for many years.

"I'm so disappointed in you!"